On his way home the system sent him an alert, and he saw a bunch of fate particles pour into his pool.
[Telamon Dao has begun to take precautions against you +500 000 fate particles]
[Your actions have made an impression on Hinata +50 fate particle for making an enemy]
He silently contemplated the two notifications, Telamons's reaction was something he eagerly anticipated and it turned out as he had hoped, it was Hinata's notification that puzzled him or rather the timing of it.
If she had taken him as some form of an enemy it should have happened when he harmed the class, but only appeared now, a thought suddenly occurred to him and he chuckled as he put it in place.
Hinata must have gone to get a cultivation technique, and Telamon must have used the opportunity to make her into one of his pawns, and from now onwards she would report his every action to the headmaster, he thought with an amused grin.
He thought on it for a bit, someone like Telamon would never put all his eggs in one basket so there would have to be others he would plant to keep an eye on him. He was pretty confident that the only ones in his class that could be controlled were the scholarship students the rest were too high profile and the resources he could offer them were not enough to tempt them.
When he got home it was very quiet, the servants all nodded to him respectfully and took his bags up to his room as he made his way to his mother's study, he knew that he was going to be hearing an earful for what he told the headmaster, he couldn't control what came over him when Telamon spoke badly about his mother and a piece of the old him came out.
When he reached the study, the doors were sealed and two of his mother's aides were standing guard as usual, "I'd like to speak with my mom," he told them.
"Sorry she's in an important meeting it's been going on for hours," Antanasia said to him with a friendly smile, since the duel with his mom, Lirian had noticed a big change of attitude in the aides especially, usually they treated him indifferently, but after witnessing his skill they became slightly warmer towards him.
"I'll let her majesty know as soon as she is done, but you shouldn't wait meetings like this one can sometimes go on for weeks if not months." he nodded silently it wouldn't be the first time something like this happened, "How was your first day of school, I hope you left a good impression?" she asked curious about the event of the day.
"I'd rather say that I left a lasting impression on the entire school," he answered with a chuckle, after a few exchanges he headed up to his room and began his research.
So far, he had only pointed out the families of the students in his class and for the next few days he had to compile data on all the members of his class and slowly gather more data on the people in his school, this was the basic procedure for anyone from an influential background.
Every star zone is controlled by a super world, a star zone is comprised of multiple star domains which are controlled by the advanced world, and these star domains are comprised of star clusters that are controlled by higher worlds, below high worlds are the lesser worlds that control solar systems, and lastly are the lower worlds that rule over a singular world.
This is the natural hierarchy that all the universal civilizations use and at the very top of the hierarchy is the home-world of each civilization, within the Clovis empire there are over 1200 super worlds, each super world holds between 3-8 advanced worlds.
In total there are over 6 million planets belonging to the Clovis empire, currently, Lirian found himself in the Opal star zone currently ruled by the Eden family, that is the family that the princess candidate Edith belongs to as well as Karen Eden in his class although they are distant cousins at best, the other member in his class from a super world is Lucas Kluts, he is from Garo Star zone the Opal stars zones closest neighbor.
The girl class rep is Sarah Jane she belongs to the Jane family and is from one of the higher branches in the family, the Jane family is in control of the star domain they are residing in incidentally the Jane advanced world was one of the first supporters of his mother when she was building her influence to become empress.
Part of the reason he offered to support her to become the class rep was that he knew that with her home field advantage, she would have used it to become the class rep and the system viewed her fate string and determined that it would have been hers even if he didn't help her.
As for Shen Xia and Shen Lim their parents were business partners marked in the top ten most wealthy businessmen in the entire Opal star zone.
The rest of the class had similar backgrounds and most importantly was their positions within their families, the branches they came from all had a middle class standing within the family it meant that they had the potential to rise to high positions in the family but they could also sink in the family.
The more he looked at it the more certain he became that his entire class was designed with a very specific set of people.
He sighed softly and turned off his computer, he had spent hours to find all the relevant data and he even used his mother's clearance to get some of the information, if anyone found he would get into a whole world of trouble, but he doubted it, he'd be willing to bet money that he could hack a system designed by a god, and to his knowledge, the main databases of the six civilizations were granted to them by the gods.
There was an entire epic story about it called 'God's Greatest Gift', every night for four months his mother would spend at least half an hour reading parts of the story to him. His lips curled into a smile as he remembered simpler times.
He tapped his watch and looked through his messages, his class had already made a group and he could see their childish banter filling the hologram, he swiped it away to check his messages from his mother but when he opened it there was nothing.
He frowned as he looked at the empty hologram, in the past whenever she was stuck in a meeting Taliyah would be sure to wish him a good night in a message, but it was already late and the sun would be coming up in just a few hours, and yet there was no message.
He could feel his mind suddenly exploding from the inside as a hundred dark thoughts started to creep through him, and the voices, he could hear them starting again, and their whispers grew louder and louder in his ears, telling him what he feared most.
'You lost her trust and now she doesn't want you anymore.' he could number 4 cackle like a lunatic.
'Mother doesn't want us anymore because you broke her heart.'
'Antanasia was lying about mom being in a meeting because she didn't know how to tell you that mom can't stand to look at your face.' said number 6.
'I don't think she lied about the meeting,' number 4 said while wearing his spectacles, ', the meeting is probably her talking to the emperor and them deciding on how to dispose of us now that she knows the truth.'
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UUUUUP," Lirian roared at the top of his lungs and smashed his head with a fist.
He sat with clenched fists and took continuous deep breaths to calm himself down, but despite minutes passing the voices continued to speak drive him mad.
He walked to the glass case on display in his room and took the small wooden sword out, he ran his hand through the engravings of his name that ran in a circle.
As he felt the emotions poured out by Taliyah in the engraving it managed to calm him slightly, "She will not abandon me, she will not, she won't..." he began to mutter to himself.
He continued to clutch onto the sword and sunk into his bed, he rocked back and forth with the sword held tightly in his embrace saying the same words over and over again until he managed to fall asleep.