"It has to be in Eleris,I want the burial to be held after we win the war. "
"I had told Casper to state his view, as he can be considered quite close to the empress after her deceased family, I hope you all have no objections, as this is a sensitive topic and we cannot discuss it among ourselves without considering the views of someone close to the deceased. "
They all nodded, but there was a sense of confusion and unfamiliarity in the room, as a few were not aware of the kind of relationship they had. It was not important though both Melania and Casper were loved by all, they are still loved by everyone, as they saved the ones they could and won the war.
"I agree with you Casper, I also had the same thoughts as you."
Danver had thought about it before to share this idea with everyone during the meeting and he was happy as everything went according to what he had in mind.
"Lady Dani, it was a brilliant plan pretending meeting was over for them to leave and then regroup again to discuss about the important things."
She nodded as she was relived that Melania's funeral can go on peacefully and they actually reduce the loss of their men during the war.
"Yes, it worked out properly, now since we are going to get additional support we can reduce the number of knights to half from our side.
So we are going to leave tomorrow afternoon.
Casper, I want you to check if the armament for the knights who are accompanying tomorrow is functional or any changes are to be made.
You can hand those over to Danver…."
She looked at him while saying this and continued…
"Danver, firstly I want you to take care of all the things required for the funeral of Melania, her family and the knight.
Secondly, you will stay here at the castle and look over it's security along with the majority of knights who are going to stay here with you."
"My lady, most of the preparations are finished regarding the funeral, I was only waiting for everyone to decide when it will be held.
And as for your decision of me staying behind here in Insaria, when you all fight, I would be disheartened, but I wouldn't disobey too."
Dani smiled, as Danver was responsible and loyal, the exact same person she had met during the war.
"Are we left to discuss about anything, or for everyone to report something?"
Casper stood up, "Let us just revise the pattern of their movements.
We are facing tier 2 cruelmancers, two in number, speed is their main factor along with the swift movement of their hands but as we all have noticed their abilities are proportional to the number of horns they posses and finally the way they gradually can mimic and look like us is also dependent on that.
By mimic I am talking about their ability to comprehend and speak like us.
There is one tier 3 cruelmancer which is equivalent to someone destroying a city, he is 3 times powerful as compared to his tier 2 subordinates and his ability to mimic us is also better thank them.
During the great war, when we were in formation our main goal was to evade and slow their speed, remove and destroy the horns and finally kill them with massive mana.
This time too we would be focusing on the same strategy since they do not posses much intelligence, they would not notice any similarity in the strategy.
And to make things easier for us, we have the runic magic device , which Sir Jospeh and his team have researched and understood it's properties.
This will be the final keystone of our war."
"I would like to say one more thing, we still need so many of us to defeat only three of them , we still cannot go one on one with them, so let us not think it will be an easy win for us but instead, we need to give our best."
"Yes, I agree with you so I think it would be better for me and my disciple Rachel to come along as healers."
"No, Sophia, I think you should stay here in Insaria and be with the citizens ,Rachel can come along with us."
"But…"
"Sophia, listen to me it would be better that way, I would feel safe leaving all citizens in your hands."
"Understood, lady Dani, but take care of yourself ."
"My lady I would like to report something, the necklace is almost ready."
"Great, hand it over to Sir Jospeh after finishing it and Sir Joseph keep it safe with you."
"Sophia, I would like you tell once again to everyone about the stone you found in Morquine."
Sophia told them and started explaining everything.
They were stunned even Danver, but Sophia had told Captain Luke to tell Joseph and Danver both.
"I expect Sir Joseph to find as much information about it as possible as it can tell us some more clues."
"Yes, Lady Dani, I am working on it, it can take some more time though, it is something new, never seen before, hence it is taking time for everyone on our time to discover it's properties."
"No worries, if we can extract even a little information it would be helpful."
There was silence in the meeting room for quite a long time.
Dani stood up from the chair, " I guess all the agendas have been discussed.
Let us end the meeting with…
Everyone put their hands on the hand of Dani and said it together…
FOR THE UNITY OF MEMORIA"
Everyone present there had fired up after this only one person was in low morale and different from usual self.
"You all can take your leave and start with the preparations of the war. Sarah stay behind, I would like to discuss something with you."
Everyone left, except for the two of them.
"Sarah, I noticed the whole meeting you were not your usual self, did something happen?"
She smiled, "Lady Dani I am absolutely fine."
Sarah did smile but Dani immediately noticed that it was a fake one.
"You are lying, is it related to lady Sera."
Yes, dani hit the right spot, as Sarah's eyes widened when she took Sera's names.
"Lady, how did you know ?"
"What else can it be then, now tell me what happened between you two?"
"Nothing happened."
"Sarah…."
Dani was furious now, she wanted to help Sarah but Sarah was not willing to tell, She thought Sarah had become close to her after Melania's death, she also considered her as someone close which broke her heart, seeing Sarah in such a state.
"My lady, after my master's death, I have always admired you and looked upon you, you are quite similar to her. If it was my master, I would have shared everything with her. I think I can talk to you about it then."
Dani was really happy, she literally had a glow on her face after listening to Sarah's words.
"Well, I was in the training room training my spells and increasing its efficiency, someone knocked at the door.
I opened to see a knight but ....behind him was that lady.
I did not want to meet her but since I couldn't express my hatred to her in front of the knight, I called her inside.
She was asking me how was I feeling, am I okay or not and whether I was taking too much of tension or not.
I , initially thought she was genuinely looking after me…"
"As far as I know lady Sera, she is really a nice person."
"Lady Dani, she proved it, she was not asking about my welfare but ….
…..But wanted to meet that traitor….she indirectly asked me about how she was feeling and I guess she wanted to meet her."
"Sarah, she genuinely cares about you otherwise she wouldn't had requested me about it and about that traitor she could have asked about me without requesting to meet you personally."
Knock..knock
Someone knocked on the door
"Lady dani, it is Joyce and Robert."
"Sarah, give it some thought, I hope you will find your answer."
"Yes, you may come in."
"Robert wanted to meet you, my lady."
"Great, I was about to go meet you, How was the response from the crowd?"
"Lady, they were quite curious about the announcement and were glad that they are being timely informed about the situation with the traitor."
Hmmm…
"Well, I guess everything is sorted out now, you all can go rest for the day."
It was night time and silence roamed everywhere & everyone was taking rest.
The spherical object kept on the table in Dani's room glowed….
"ELERIS.....?"