Onlookers [First Update]

The Colchis royal banquet was about to begin, and the more than thirty invited Argonauts had now arrived before the palace gates.

This time, having received a formal invitation from the royal family, the heroes were naturally greeted differently from when Jason and the others had visited at noon.

The palace gates stood wide open. Soldiers clad in ceremonial armor lined up in two rows, welcoming the heroes in formation.

Of course, at the entrance, the heroes also saw many others dressed in splendid formal attire. They were Colchis ministers, generals, nobles, and their families, all guests attending the banquet.

The Colchis Kingdom was merely a kingdom from the era when human civilization had only just begun to rise in the Age of Gods. Naturally, it did not truly possess clearly defined etiquette like the various kingdoms and dynasties familiar from later history.

Thus, at this moment, all these people had gathered outside the palace gates, waiting with curious expressions for these distinguished guests said to have come from beyond Colchis, from the mainland.

Having heard that these guests were all renowned great heroes of the mainland, with no shortage among them possessing divine blood like King Aeetes, the upper class of Colchis was naturally quite curious about these visitors.

In this age when civilization was still in its infancy, information traveled poorly, and even ocean-going ships did not exist, only mages had the ability to travel between Colchis Island and the mainland of Greece. Yet the mage community was relatively closed off and had virtually no contact with these upper nobles, making the arrival of visitors like the Argonauts quite a novel event for the upper class of the Colchis Kingdom.

Rather than admiring the Argonauts' illustrious reputations, they were more here to watch the spectacle.

Of course, regardless