75 Agenda

-That night-

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make." Maria standing up in front of all the villagers who were attending called out as she wore her battle armor with her weapon by her side.

In this moment, she looked like a beautiful warrior who did not even need to use a weapon, in order to kill her foes. Rather, all she would need is to look at them with her bright eyes in a seductive way.

"I have spoken to the Chieftain and he informed me that from this moment onwards, the women of this village will also be able to train in their elemental affinities."

As Maria had said this, everyone listening including Leo, were stunned by the recent development as cheers started to appear throughout the citizens.

After the male warriors of the village became stronger than ever before from what Leo had donated to the village, everyone felt that if the women of the village were also able to train, that the village itself would be more formidable.

In the back of the banquet hall, several women with strange auras around them nodded in agreement as the woman in the middle of the table stood up to leave the banquet hall after locking eyes with Maria.

At the table, were many of the women who held a large portion politically speaking within the village. The woman who stood up was the leader of this small but formidable group.

As the banquet continued with many of the male warriors talking more to their wives and sisters and even their daughters about training, Maria sat next to her father while many individuals went to greet her.

Now that Maria made such an announcement, all of the focus was now on her, and her father allowed this. Although it would still be difficult to convince the council to hand over the Chieftain role to his daughter, the Chieftain still wanted Maria to grow her influence so she would never be bullied.

Being responsible for the whole village was not an easy task. Even if it was giving up their solidified foundation within the village and its politics, the Chieftain at the bottom of his heart always wanted his daughter to never become the next in line for his position, and only to live a long and happy life.

After several hours, the women from the back of the hall started to approach Maria and to show their respects to her. At first, Maria was only invited into the group thanks to her affiliation with the Chieftain. However, now, her foundation would grow and surpass them all very soon.

"Maria darling, Joanna wanted to speak to you at her residence after you finished eating your food. You have done very well, and we all pitched in to give you a big present." one of the women said as she also began to bow towards the Chieftain out of respect.

"Maria, you should go now. It is getting rather late, and I was planning to end the banquet itself very soon." after seeing that Maria was being invited over by a group of her friends, the Chieftain allowed Maria to leave the banquet early.

As Maria left, Leo actually took her place next to the Chieftain and they spoke about many topics for the rest of the banquet before sending everyone back to their residence. However, the Chieftain brought Leo and his advisors back to his building so that they could discuss something extremely pressing.

"Chieftain, I sent a small squad out that specialized in offensive techniques to scout out the Spider Queen's territory. They unfortunately all perished, but one of them was able to notify us about new developments before passing away." one of the advisors told the Chieftain as the rest of the room listened respectfully.

"According to him, the Spider Queen has started to take in more and more land and is slowly drawing closer to our village. There are no signs that she and her children are receiving any outside help at this moment, but it is very likely that within the year, she will be fighting us with her army of spiders."

"If I may cut in, I also have something to report." another advisor respectfully cutting in said as the Chieftain nodded his head in approval to hear what the other advisor had to say.

"Right now, it is safe to say that if the Spider Queen does not personally enter battle against us, that we have a chance to repel her forces."

"Due to the new training regiments that every warrior in this village has started, if we also see a similar type of growth with the women who we now allowed to train, we may be outnumbered, but the quality of our warriors versus the average spider is rather vast."

"If it were up to me, I would say that we should attack the bandits in the mountains very soon so that we could add their strength to ours. If we were to do this, our village would have a chance to annihilate the Spider Queen, instead of them killing us all." the advisor explained as the Chieftain dismissed everyone except for Leo.

"I agree with them, but we both know that unless we are able to take that test my ancestors left for the village, everything else would be meaningless." the Chieftain told Leo before continuing.

"If we took over the bandits before we were to take the test, it would endanger the whole village with me not being present. And if we were to meet any unexpected danger from the Spider Queen and her forces, the bandits would more than likely take advantage of the situation and enter our village without any resistance left."

"I am counting on your plan so that I can save my people from annihilation. Though I would be willing to put myself in a dangerous position if it meant success, I appreciate that you are willing to be gravely injured just to help our village further."

WIth that, the Chieftain discussed some minor problems that the village was still dealing with before sending him back to his residence for the rest of the night.