In the afternoon, Ilario went to the library to read the history of The First Empress as the recommendation from Count Henestus.

“The history of Empress Stella De Sapientia”

Princess Stella (later The Empress) was born on 19 April 282 AE. She was only child of King Caelum, The King of Aurum Kingdom.

The identity of Royalty of Aurum Kingdom was ruby red hair and ruby red eyes. Princess Stella also inherited the royal identity as same as her father, King Caelum.

She was excellent in many ways; many people called her a genius.

When Princess Stella was 8 years old, she had practiced the swordsmanship with the knights regularly. With her talent, she had achieved the swords master at the age of 12.

When Princess Stella was 15 years old, she led the army of 20,000 to suppress the Antique army of 50,000 in the war; she won the war by using her strategic plan, the talent of her swordsmanship and the elite knights. The Antique army were trapped in her plan. She used herself and a group of elite knights to bait the Antique army and gave the order to the archery team to shoot the Antique army from many blind spots, with the new developed iron arrows, made badly damage to the Antique army and reduced their number incredibly. The Aurum army could fight easier and won the war at the final, the Antiqua Kingdom suffered so much after failed.

Princess Stella developed new weapons and strengthen the army force ever since.

When Princess Stella was 18 years old, she had encountered a monster for the first time; The wild animals from 'Tenebris Forest’ had invaded to the North area of Magnus Forest, they were aggressive and killed many villagers nearby. — Princess Stella and the 6 knights surveyed the area, they found a big hound, 3 heads and red eyes. Later, Princess Stella had given its name ‘Cerberus’ to describe this kind of monster in the record. Princess Stella and the 6 knights could kill Cerberus but 1 knight had died from serious injured.

Note 1: The details of monster’s suppression had recorded in the book name ‘The history of Sapientia Empire’

Note 2: The details of monsters, 4 monster lords and Diabolus had recorded in the book name ‘How to kill monsters’

Aside from the heroic history, Princess Stella had also known as of her intelligent and carried out all of her duties to develop cities, military, magical products, and brought peace and wealth to the citizens of Sapientia Empire.

When Princess Stella was 26 years old, she married Prince Ventus and ascended to the thorn as The First Empress of Sapientia Empire in September 1 SE. Later, she had 2 children, a daughter and a son.

In the year of 2 SE, Empress Stella invested on jewelry business to create fund for developing Sapientia Empire. It required a lot of money and materials to develop the empire. The jewelry business was succeeded by the unique design but the great success had come from the innovation of Artificium that developed by Empress Stella and The Fortis Family, they had also succeeded to develop many Magical Products ever since.

In the year of 5 SE, Empress Stella had managed the new plan of lands, water supply system, roads, villages for all over The Empire; The developments were spent the period of 30 years until it completed as her plan. As the result, the empire had grown rapidly; the citizens lived with the happy life and less of utility problem. It had increased the chances of business to the empire, the citizens got more job and create their wealth. It was the beginning of the prime period of the empire.

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‘It’s amazing to think that she was great with both of fight and manage the empire. She even developed magical products that resemble the home appliance in his previous life. It’s true that she got rebirth with her previous memory. I wonder where she came from.’ Ilario thought to himself after read the book.

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1 month passed, all the activities have become part of his daily routine. He was learning with private tutors, training the knights, teaching magic to both of Letitia and Beatrice.

The Knights have improved their skill rapidly since they were being trained by Ilario. Letitia could mix her magic power freely, her fight abilities has improved so much in short period of time, it could say that she was a real talent. Beatrice has improved her magic control, she could do very well at her age, she will be outstanding when she reached to the age of 8.

For the new training ground, Curtis renovated the old arena by installing iron walls and made it an ‘arena dome’ (later, Ilario called it The Training Arena), he also separate area for training and fighting inside arena dome. He prepared training tools as the order from Ilario. Everything was ready within a month.

Ilario went to Lucifer’s working room. Lucifer told him that he was able to recruit people who processed cursus power.

‘Knock’ ‘Knock’

“Come in” Lucifer said.

There were 8 people inside Lucifer’s working room. Ilario could detect their magic powers lightly, there were 2 people who possessed cursus power higher than the other people.

“These are all of their profiles,” said Lucifer, he handed all papers to Ilario.

“Thank you, Father” Ilario said.

“This is my son, Ilario H. De Fortis. You will work under him,” Lucifer said.

They all surprised. Ilario saw it clearly on their faces. It was understandable, who would think that they must work under the command of a child.

“My name is Ultima. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Ultima, who was in her mid-twenties, tall, cool, charming, short light blue hairs, yellow eyes, lean muscle body.

“My name is Marbel. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Marbel, who was in her early twenties, long brown hair, brown eyes, lean muscle body.

“My name is Rose. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Rose, who was in her in her early twenties, long pink hair, brown eyes, lean muscle body.

“My name is Violet. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Violet, who was in her mid-twenties, short purple hair, violet eyes, tall and lean muscle body.

“My name is Julia. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Julia, who was in her twenties, tall, beautiful, long blonde hair, green eyes, lean muscle body.

“My name is Volante. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Volante, who was in his mid-twenties, tall, cool, handsome, blond and skinhead, green eyes, high muscle body.

“My name is Calton. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Calton, who was in his early twenties, short brown hair, brown eyes, high muscle body.

“My name is Horace. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Horace, who was in his mid-twenties, tall, big, neat brown hair, brown eyes, high muscle.

“It’s nice to meet everyone too,” said Ilario, he explained the purpose to all of them, “as you might not know the purpose of hiring you, The Fortis Family are looking to team up with the talented people to do the special missions under the name of ‘The Draco Knights’ and the key mission is to kill monsters, not only the low level of monsters but the medium to high level of monsters as well. You might think that there is no medium to high level of monsters in the present time, you probably need a rethink. There is even a mysterious monster lord. You have never seen it because there are secret forces (=the elves) who were fighting with it and killing the medium to high level of monsters. We needed to form ‘The Draco Knights’ because their numbers will be increasing in the future and they will harm the people. It’s a tough job that might risk to your life and you need to train hard before doing the missions. If you think that you don’t want to risk your life, you can leave now.”

Ilario needed to check their intentions firstly. They were looking at each other, rather surprised with the information.

“We determined to serve and loyal to The Fortis Family since the beginning, Young Lord” said Ultima firmly.

“Are you working together?” Ilario asked her curiously. It looks like they know each other. He has not read their profiles yet.

“Yes, we are. I’m a leader group of ‘Aquilae’ one of a mercenary group. Marbel, Rose and Violet are in my group as well. We have no objection to any condition, Young Lord” said Ultima determinedly.

“All right. So, the others applied this job individually, right?” Ilario asked.

“I and Julia applied together, she is my sister. We admired The Fortis Family since we were young, we had intention to work with The Fortis Family faithfully, Young Lord” said Volante firmly.

“I will join the team and loyal to you, Young Lord” said Calton firmly.

“I will join the team and loyal to you, Young Lord” said Horace firmly.

“All right, take a rest for today. Ultima and Volante, you two will fight a duel tomorrow, a winner will be a team leader and a loser will be a vice leader. If anybody is curious about my decision, you can challenge a winner tomorrow,” Ilario said.

“Curtis, lead them to their rooms,” Lucifer said.

Ilario went back to his room. He read the profiles of The Draco Knights.

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Name: Ultima

Age: 26 years old

Hometown: Mercatura

Family: My family was running the inn business. My grandfather had worked as a royal knight but my parents chose to run the inn business.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a Mercenary since I was 18 years old. I established a group of ‘Aquilae’ at the age of 20. Most of jobs were to escort the merchants, kill monsters and hunt.

Verify information: All information above was verified. The group of ‘Aquilae’ were trustworthy group. They had strictly worked under the law, there was no record of illegal work and bad rumor.

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Name: Marbel

Age: 22 years old

Hometown: Artis

Family: My parents were farmers, they have grape & strawberry orchard in Artis.

Work Experiences: I had hunted and sold wild animals since I was 15 years old because of the family’s situation. I joined the group of ‘Aquilae’ at the age of 18.

Verify information: All information above was verified.

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Name: Rose

Age: 23 years old

Hometown: Artis

Family: My father was working as a knight of Artis. My mother was working as a tailor at a dress shop in Artis.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a Mercenary since I was 18 years old. I joined the group of ‘Aquilae’ at the age of 21.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was no record of illegal work and bad rumor when she worked individually.

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Name: Violet

Age: 26 years old

Hometown: Scientia

Family: My father was working as a knight of Scientia. My mother was running own trading business.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a Mercenary since I was 18 years old. I joined the group of ‘Aquilae’ at the age of 23.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was no record of illegal work and bad rumor when she worked individually.

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Name: Julia

Age: 21 years old

Hometown: Capital

Family: My father was running own trading business. My mother was an owner of Dressing Shop in the capital.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a knight in Royal Knight Army since I was 18 years old.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was a rumor that she might be illegitimate child of Viscount Pluvia, who is a famous knight among Royal Knight Army.

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Name: Volante

Age: 26 years old

Hometown: Capital

Family: My father was running own trading business. My mother was an owner of Dressing Shop in the capital.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a knight in Royal Knight Army since I was 18 years old.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was a rumor that she might be illegitimate child of Viscount Pluvia, who is a famous knight among Royal Knight Army.

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Name: Calton

Age: 21 years old

Hometown: Scientia

Family: My father was working as a knight of Scientia. My mother was working as a maid.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a mercenary since I was 18 years old. Most of jobs were to escort the merchants and kill monsters.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was no record of illegal work and bad rumor.

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Name: Horace

Age: 25 years old

Hometown: Scientia

Family: My parents were working as a knight of Scientia.

Work Experiences: I had worked as a Mercenary since I was 18 years old. Most of jobs were to kill monsters and hunt.

Verify information: All information above was verified. There was no record of illegal work and bad rumor.

Most of them were working as a mercenary. If they hunt and sell wild animals, they can get a lot of money. His father might hire them with high salary as he had told him.

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