The wedding ceremony was slowly taking the desired shape that Lady Mito has envisioned for it, first the venue was a new part created by the core of the bright palace, it was 100 by 100 as in 10000 square meters of s.p.a.ce, all built by the same magical granite and decorated with the same type of mind-boggling murals that filled the entrance hallway of the bright palace. Lady Mito had forgone the existence of any external sort of lighting other than the magical granite to avoid any unnecessary shadows and shades, as for the paintings and wall decoration it was left for the core to design a suitable murals depicting the union of the awakened that once dwelt in the bright palace, thus the murals had a theme of union, joy and peace where men, demi-humans and monsters shared the happy blissful day of the wedded.The guest list was rather extensive, with the help of guild master Martin and the head of the church of light pope Markus, Lady Mito made a list of over 1000 guests from all over the continent, all of those royalty known to be on the good side of both the guild and the church were included, some isolationists and purists were also included simply because they were asking for an invitation, yes, there were people actually begging for invitations because Leader had made sure every corner of Burkan knew about the marriage between the youngest adventurer on the 50th floor (this only includes those who fought their way there) and the chosen one of the kitsune tribe, an isolationists tribe wreathed in as much mysteries as the groom himself.
As the emperor of the holy sun islands and father of the bride, emperor Hoshi was suddenly the man to befriend if one wanted an invitation, let"s not talk about how his daughter and her husband were both chosen to study under the catastrophe level B party, one of his wives and mother to the bride was the only one who could produce invitations, most of these were more precious than the kingdoms of the guests and would be national treasures after the wedding, but that is another case altogether.
Among the invitations sent the earliest were those for people who had the best relationship with both the guild and the church, and the first batch among those were the good friends of emperor Hoshi, that was why the diplomatic relations officers in the holy sun islands got a sudden flood of missives and requested meetings and joint cooperation, emperor Hoshi told his officers to make use of this situation to see who is just asking for an invitation and those asking for an invitation to find a chance to get closer and work with the empire. As an isolationist tribe, the holy sun islands had very few ventures outside of the dungeon and a few trade deals here and there, so cooperation with them was something that is as rare as could be, and the smartest would disguise their contact with the islands among the hordes who just wanted to witness the bright palace and the bright king.
Lady Mito was rather flabbergasted when Yunan introduced to her the one and only Hephaestus, a G.o.d so famous he probably was more worshipped than the actual creator, what Yunan wanted was to include a few of the awakened as guests, Lady Mito who had no idea about the subject went as far as dropping everything in her hands and just went away for a week with Hephaestus to meet and interview candidates from the population of the awakened, she even took the time to find a few cute children to kidnap and use as part of the wedding ceremony, most of them only had to smile as cutely as they could while spreading flower petals and gems and pearls all over the venue and the guests, she even got herself a ring bearer.
Most of the awakened she chose were either humanoid or were completely beastly, she opted to stay away from those in transition or with weird unconventional body shapes to keep the uproar to a reasonable minimum, inviting the werebeasts was already considered an insult to some of the guests, inviting the awakened was nothing short of s.h.i.tting in their mouths, while to some, it was far better to violate half the kingdom than to have them be in the same venue as an awakened.
Thus those who were cla.s.sified as cute, lovely and fluffy were the main invites from the awakened, not that the awakened actually cared about joining the celebration, they just wanted to see the bright palace that was built by their ancestors, most of those who joined the interviews were researchers and diplomats who had an interest in the bright palace, as for the kids that Lady Mito chose they were escorted by heavyweight champions because the awakened did not trust the humans with their future.
Other than the royalty and the most influential people in the continent also came the old families, these families may have started as n.o.bles once upon a time, they had deep legacies and deeper links with major organisations, these people were the embodiment of kings in the shadows, they had influence, power and money to back them up, and a very long history to boot. Most of the invited among the old families were those powerhouses from Tartarus, some were as strong as Martin or even stronger, and all of them were beyond the 80th floor.
The last group of the invited were those people whom Yunan himself asked for, and they were five in total, a nun he called mom, a barber, a tea maker, a certain chef and Leol. These five were not the people you would invite to your wedding when the roster included the pope and the guild master, and the leaders of three worlds, but that list arrived from more than 10 people as their requested guests, thus she had to concede to the popular demand, what made her think these five were some hidden monsters were the nods she received from Martin, Hephaestus and Markus when she asked if these were okay to have around such bigwigs.
Mito could understand that Yunan wanted to have his adoptive mother by his side, and his best friend as well, but what did the other three have to offer to be invited as well, fun was the answer no one wanted to say out loud, the barber and the tea maker and the chef were there for the after party, not for the ceremony itself. What Lady Mito did not know was that the barber would be exclusively used to make others look as silly as possible guided by the hands of Fae herself.