Is this really a Game?!

The great hall that was used for the banquet shone splendidly as the tens of chandeliers gave a splendid light to it, each of the chandeliers was actually powered by mana and one mana crystal could keep it going for a very long time.

The banquet hall was about 100 meters long and about 30 meters wide, many giant tables could be seen inside the hall and they were filled with food and drinks. Reign went to one of the many tables and took a glass of wine from it, he had seen that nobody was currently eating any food and didn’t want to stick out by being the only one doing so.

In many novels, the protagonist or his friends would start gorging on the food on such occasions and it would leave a bad impression on everybody that was present, most would look at them like they were country bumpkins that had no manners, the last thing Reign wanted to do was to leave such an impression, his mission and the summoning happened at the same time and Reign knew that it was no coincidence. The system had probably already formed a plan to send him here 2 days ago since it coincided with when the king sacrificed the resources in order for the system to bring reinforcements over.

He still didn’t get any tasks that he needed to do for his evolution and before he does he needed to make a good impression on everybody, of course, he had already made a mistake with how he behaved in the throne room, but that was only a minor inconvenience. The king and his right hand were obviously not displeased with him and that was the most important thing, Reign showing his power at the very beginning would give him more freedom and authority early on which was what he needed.

The stories where the protagonists acted low-key and allowed everyone to spit on them and underestimate them were one of his least favorite ones as most of the time there would be no real reason for the protagonist to lay low and keep quiet except for his own idiotic way of thinking and wanting to be left alone to do miscellaneous things. Those kinds of things always frustrated Reign and there were some times when he even dropped novels simply because the protagonist would always act like a doormat for everyone even when everyone else is a weakling compared to them.

So Reign’s goal during the first meeting with the king and the others was simply to show his power in order for others not to underestimate him, of course, he didn’t go all out as there was always a need to have a few cards up your sleeve. For the banquet, however, Reign simply wanted to act accordingly and meet the powerful members of the kingdom.

Right now Reign was standing alone near a pillar, even though many nobles would glance over at him from time to time nobody got close to him. Some of them were present in the throne room while others heard of what had happened, they still didn’t know exactly what the king thought of the boy and didn’t want to risk befriending him before learning that. If everything was well then most of them would flock to Reign in order to get better acquainted with him, a powerful man was always welcome anywhere, especially during war.

There were some however that didn’t seem to mind about what had happened in the throne room and they actually took the incentive to walk over to Reign and start a conversation, those either had powerful backing and weren’t afraid that the king would do anything to them over simply talking to Reign or they already knew that the king didn’t mind Reign’s actions at all.

To their surprise Reign was quite easy to approach and talk with, they had learned that his power was immense and that barely a handful of people in the kingdom were his match, those kinds of people were usually arrogant, especially when they were so young. Reign however wasn’t like that at all, he cheerfully talked with anyone that approached him and never boasted about anything, even when people complimented him about his strength he merely brushed it off by saying how there were always stronger people and that compared to the truly powerful in the kingdom, he wasn’t much.

Somebody that was humble when so young and strong would usually mean they came from a modest upbringing, of course, everyone knew that Reign was from a different planet and perhaps things were very different there compared to here. Others didn’t think he was humble at all, simply a smart and tactful person that knew not to boast too much in order to let others have a good opinion of him, no matter what was the case it was a good thing, someone like Reign would be easy to befriend and during battle he would probably be someone that followed orders without getting caught up in emotions or his own arrogance.

As time passed a loud bell was heard as a loud voice echoed throughout the great hall.

“His Majesty, King Ordel II!”

The king had entered the hall with the queen and children coming right after him.

“Her Majesty, Queen Galea!”

“His Majesty the Crown Prince Ian!” ｂ𝚍ｎｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏｍ

“Her Majesty the Princess Ilena!”

The entire hall grew silent for a moment as everybody bowed to the royal family, Reign of course followed suit and bowed as well, what surprised him was that nobody was bowing all the way down or kneeling like in many movies or shows, it was a simple, short bow that people did out of respect for the royal family, it seemed that compared to how most royal families were, they were much more relaxed when it came to showing off their authority.

As soon as the king arrived he first greeted the many ministers and high-tier officials of the kingdom while Ian and Ilena actually went to Reign. Even though they had already met, they didn’t even speak a single word to one another in the throne room.

“I do believe we never had the chance to talk earlier, I’m Ian.” Reign shakes Ian’s hand as the two starts a conversation, the prince was similar to him as he didn’t seem to mind talking with anyone and didn’t seem arrogant in the slightest.

“Ilena.” The princess proclaimed as she extended her hand in front of her, the tradition here was pretty much the same as back on Earth when it came to greetings, Reign gently took her hand before bowing down and kissing the back of it.

While the king and queen were busy chatting in the distance the three slowly hit it off, both the prince and princess were easy to talk to and Reign quickly found himself talking about various topics with them. The three quickly started talking to each other so much that the other guests that were there and others that planned on approaching them slowly backed off, it was clear to them that there would be nothing they could do in such a situation as it was clear that the three had forgotten all about the banquet and other people during their conversation.

It was fine however, this had shown everybody that the relationship between Reign and the royal family was good and that the king nor his children took any offense to what Reign had done in the throne room, there would always be another time for the other nobles and merchants to get acquainted with Reign but for now, they were going to let him and the other two enjoy the evening.

Of course, that was until the king suddenly raised a glass and everyone grew silent.

“My friends, for the last year we have been fighting non-stop against the coalition, many of our people have died and so did theirs, as all of you know in order to close the gap when it comes to our top combatants we have asked for help over the system multiple times, sometimes we would get more than what we asked for, sometimes less, but thanks to that we were able to stand strong and fight evenly against them.”

“As you are all well aware of, we have recently used a large number of resources in order to employ the help of the system once more, till date that was the largest amount of resources we have ever used and thanks to that we have managed to summon a powerful young warrior who will be of great help in this war.”

The king turned around and looked at Reign, the prince and princess all took a step back and allowed everybody to look at Reign as they wanted to see his reaction. His reaction however was quite normal, Reign merely smiled at the king before taking a glass of wine and nodding gracefully at him and the other guests.

“Drink, feast, and talk my friends, tonight we celebrate!” The king finished his speech and everybody applauded him, including Reign, even though the whole speech seemed to be quite forced and out of place he simply went along with it. It seemed that morale was not that high since the king needed to hold a banquet simply because Reign had joined their ranks.