Magnus unknowingly created competition among his children, at first he favored Donovan because his the strongest of the twins then¸ Donovan's first son who got married to the royal family of Green Shed. But then his favoritism changed to David and his amazing children Fiona and Robert.
Robert was finally happy, he was now his grandfather's favorite, since the first son of Donovan was to become the king he could not become the head, Donovan took down his frustration on Cyrus.
And now that Cyrus is all-powerful Robert is scared of losing his grandfather's love for him.
Tears rolled down his cheeks as he looked at his speechless uncle. "I am sorry, I didn't know.." he sighed. "Our father is a terrible person but everything he does is for the clan. When I saw how amazing you were and how elegant your younger sister was, I wished that both of you were my children."
David was stunned by his brother's confession. "I mean look at Cyrus, he was weak, can barely use his power, then he decided to work for HOJ and he wasn't the best, then he worked with the rogues and got demoted."
"yeah that happened, Robert chuckled. "then look at my daughter Sabrina, no ounce of elegance in that girl; she's dumb and loves to stuff her face in food."
They all laughed. "and then me. Competing with my younger brother, when I found out that your wife wanted to get her son engaged to one of the princesses, not long after her daughter got engaged to the second prince, I got jealous and furious. I tried my best to get father to get you engaged to the king's oldest daughter."
"But the whole engagement happened because the princess saw me and begged her mother to get me engaged to her," Robert said.
"I didn't know about that, but I planned to get Cyrus engaged to Ariadna because she's the strongest of the two."
Robert now understood his uncle.
"I am sorry for being a terrible uncle."
"and as your father, I will advise you to not do anything stupid or fight for someone's affection."
Robert bit his lips.
"Or marry the woman you're not in love with, don't be like me," David added.
"What do you mean?" Robert asked.
"I was in love with a young girl named Esther, she was a child of a maid and one of the nobles from the ice clan, so the clan didn't accept her."
David clenched his hand, and his entire face turned gloomy.
She found out that she was pregnant with my child and asked me to marry her. "at that time I was furious for failing to win Cyra's hand in marriage."
Deceived into believing I would marry her, Esther kept the pregnancy, Two months in, I got a marriage proposal from your mother's family, after all, we both went to the same school and your mother has always been in love with me."
David couldn't continue.
"So, you abandoned Esther and married my mother." Robert completed it for her.
"I tried to pay her off but she refused to collect the money, she left the house I gave her and disappeared, I paid some people to search for her." Tears flowed down.
"Two years after you were born, I got news that Esther killed herself and our unborn child."
He sat on the ground and cried like a child, Robert had never seen his father cry.
Trent and Ephyrus were still battling Trent was now in his rage mood a black knight with smoky wings and a sword in his hand, he built a giant earth monster and sent it to Ephyrus. On the ground Cyrus was fighting what seemed like a human puppet, he tried to conjure the dragon flame but nothing happened and his ability couldn't work on the guy.
The guy was fast and strong and he kept owning him, on the other side, Evan was fighting a man with water ability whilst Acher was fighting a man with earth ability.
"Yo, guys! Let's switch." Acher shouted. "I cannot fight death!" Evan said to Acher while he dodged the water bullet thrown at him. "
"I also can't fight Earth's ability, but I cannot switch with Ev.." the puppet guy swung Cyrus across the room. He landed on Lady Amorah's body. He groggily sat up while hissing in pain and his hand felt something in the sleeve of her dress." Cyrus pulled it out and saw their family crest\ contract pact.
"how in the world did it get here." Cyrus whispered to himself. "are you done, looking at a dead worm body." The voice of the puppet sounded so normal. Cyrus pushed the contact into a pocket in his pants.
Ella was still running when accidentally bumped into her family member and of course Fiona.
She was so surprised to see them there. "Grandpa, Ellis, Eli.." her pupils dilated. Elijah walked towards her with a smile on his face. "You are here.." Tears involuntary fell from her eyes. "Yes, I am." Ella jumped into his arm. She cried heavily as she hugged her brother so hard that he felt like he would die because of a lack of oxygen.
"Who is he?" Ariadna asked Simon." "Her older brother." The violent vibration happened again and debris from the ceiling fell to the ground. Ella pulled out of the hug and wiped her tears.
Fiona was staring at Ella with murderous intent. "Die you bitch!" both her hands were facing Ella and nothing happened there was no flame.
"What's with you?" Angel asked. "I want that bitch!" before she could finish her sentence. Ellis the bottom of her grandpa's rifle to hit her hard on the head. Fiona passed out cold on the hard floor. "I knew she was up to no good!"
"That's my girl," Simon whispered to Chen. They saw Velder coming towards them at full speed. "Looks like they failed, Simon and I will take care of this, Pheleps should escort you from here." Chen prepared to morph into his wolf form.
"Let me handle this, Simon if you get an opening teleport me to face his back," Ella said a spell and summoned blue justice at the same time. She used her sword to parry his attack and quickly stepped back he came at her again, Simon used his gold dust portal to teleport her to the other side where she got access to pull out his soul; all of them were shocked by this.
"Velder, I command you to go and assist, Trent and the others!" Velderwho was now back to his senses, bowed to her, and left.
The fall made Cyrus realize one thing, he had a weapon. He summoned his metallic gloves. It wrapped around his arms, he dodged and parred the puppet's attack, he did a side step and even jumped up to stop the puppet from packing his legs.
When he got an opening he punched the puppet and the puppet completely shattered.
"Use your weapons wisely!" he mocked the others, then he found himself on a volcanic mountain.
"Welcome Cyrus." The dragon spoke to him.
"Aren't you supposed to be with my grandfather?" Cyrus asked.
"Your grandfather is dead." Cyrus stepped back. "How? You were supposed to protect him!" Cyrus yelled at the dragon and the dragon's face darkened.
"I did what I could do, death is inevitable, your grandfather told me personally that you will be the next head and my master after his death." Cyrus clenched his hands. "He changes his favorites so easily, and so is now me." Cyrus couldn't say he felt sorry for the man.
"He told me this since the day you were born." Cyrus's eyes widened. "I will assist you today, but after this war, you must pass all my tests before I accept you as my master."
Cyrus opened his eyes, and saw Acher and Evan staring at him, "We thought you were dead." Acher said jokingly. Cyrus sat up and looked up, he could hear Ephyrus groaning and the demonic black smoke holding Ephyrus's head.
"What do you think he's doing to him?" Evan asked.
"I am sure it has to do with the mind," Acher replied. "How did you kill the men?" Cyrus asked. "He made a mega wind and destroyed the giant wall and killed the earth user, while I was assisted by a soul."
Cyrus frowned. "The bad guy ghost helped us." Cyrus saw Velder floating behind Acher and Evan. "There's so much that you two don't know." They curiously looked at Evan.
Ella got to the room they locked her in. She sent Phelep to go check on Varris and the bone clan.
"Ella answer us." Ellis Poked. "I promise to answer all your questions after I am done with this." Ellis's eyes fell on Genesis. She gasped and stepped back, Simon quickly held her. Ella ignored them and continued to search through the book, she needed to find a way to send all these souls back. "Ella" she heard someone whispering her name.
"He's the one that tried to rape me." Elijah's eyes turned red in anger.
Ella's surroundings changed, it was a beautiful forest with fresh water and flowers. She saw Elfira standing in front of her with a smile.