The next hour and half went smoothly, even the Empress Ymir Dé Flazer, mother of Sia and Louis, made her appearance along with 2nd and 3rd wives of Emperor.
With snow white hair and shiny blue eyes that complemented her hair, Ymir 'Icewitch' Dè Flazer was a woman of beauty any man would wish to have.
Seeing their beautiful Empress and the 2nd and 3rd ladies together in such royal lavish dresses made everyone present there cheer for them.「」
Even some bastards of Emperor Arthur joined the banquet before the ball dance began and performers started their performance.
Everyone present there were in groups, except Kale, who was completely alone.
Maids and butlers were ordered to left the banquet hall, to let these elites of the society enjoy themselves.
Adel was asked to dance countless times by noble and royal ladies.
Arthur ruled over three kingdoms and the Kings wished for their daughters to honey trap Adel, or any imperial prince at that, to climb the title of Monarch, a rank above king.
Currently there are 3 Kings of the 3 kingdom under Emperor Arthur, 1 Monarch who oversees the 3 Kingdom and then there is the Emperor himself who held the absolute authority over them all.
12' O clock hit and lavish gifts were given to 3rd prince by nobility and royalty alike.
Although it was Kale's birthday too but... none remembered it.
And to be fair why would you remember the birthday of someone who could become a threat to you anytime.
The banquet ended and the first one to leave was the Emperor followed by the Empress, then prince and princess.
Kale was not allowed to leave with royalty and thus he had to wait till it was the time for nobles to leave.
"Hey there prince Kale, your performance was so good".
"Yeah I never thought I would laugh so much at the royal banquet haha".
Kale tried his best ignore these comments from the noble kids, fighting the urge to just order his guardian to crush them.
"Just leave him alone, or do you actually prefer embarassing the royal blood, the very same blood that your father sworn to protect" said a boy with fiery red hair and brown eyes.
"Oh look this trash is defending the cursed prince" said the boy with black hair and black eyes.
"Yeah hahaha and what do you mean by royal blood, he is no royal, if anything he himself is an embarrassment to be born with dark circle on his back" said another boy with black hair and a pair of black eyes.
With just one look on these chubby black haired kids one could easily identify them as brothers.
"That doesn't matter, he's still a royalty, and besides even if I am a trash, I'm still the first born of Duke Victorian, now tell me, do you really think your father could save you from Duke Victorian's wrath if I were to tell my father that you may or may not have used a knife on me".
The Duke's son announced as he took out his knife to put it on his left forearm.
Just by the maddened look in his eyes one could tell that the boy was not bluffing.
"So the rumours were indeed true, you are a maniac".
"Let's just go back brother, why are we wasting our time on him" said the black haired boy on right pulling his brother's sleeve before they walked away.
Kale on the other hand was all but not impressed by this little performance.
'Not only he used his position as the Duke's son threaten them, he was also ready to cut his own hand in order to hurt them brothers' he thought inwardly before his eyes turned cold.
'What am I thinking, I should be thinking why is he going to such extents to defend me?'.
"Thank you for that, what's your name" said Kale with a fake gentle smile
"I am Angus Victorian your imperial highness the prince" replied the red haired boy
"No need for formality Angus just call me Kale, I will repay this favour of yours someday, but before that would you like to be... my friend?" Kale asked as he tried to bait the boy.
"That would be an honour my imperial high-- I mean prince Kale" said Angus reluctantly.
There was a look on Agnus face, only for a moment but a moment was enough for Kale to notice it.
A look that clearly screamed in victory.
"Well Angus, until we meet again" Kale walked past Angus who was bowing down after saying his greetings.
''What a fierce boy, he was definitely trying to establish a connection with me, that brat wants to use me somehow... but what can a cursed prince with no power would be good for'' thought Kale.
''My instincts are telling me whatever it is it can't be good, somehow he reminds me of me and I'm bad news''.
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Next morning was joyous for the Royal family.
The Emperor and the 2nd wife, Kale and Adel's mother accompanied Adel to the church of Sun god so the pope could bless him.
Sun God has given pope authority to bless bearer of light signs on his behalf.
As coming down to Midlands just to bless a few children would be a hassle.
Although [Light bringer]s could use the light magic as is, but after receiving the Sun God's blessing they are granted a tremendous increase in stats and that also opens the path to [Immortal] for them.
'I could not however practice the dark magic yet as I don't have spellbook for it' thought Kale while looking out of his room window.
'Not to mention I'm still not awakened, I wonder what's to feel mana like?'.
'Feeling my guardian was like having a pair of limbs attached, but since I have yet to awaken mana sense that must mean ethereal guardian are made of aether instead of mana'.
Although Kale has always been interested in magic and taught himself basic level ancient language in which incantation are spoken, he never came across a Dark Magic spellbook as something like that doesn't exist for obvious reasons.
"Are you not gonna spend your day in library master?" Haze asked seeing a rare view of Kale goofing off.
"Do something for me" Kale said in an authoritative voice.
"What do you wish for me master" asked Haze curiously.
"Do a background check on Duke Victorian and his first born blood son".
"Ho are you interested in making a friend master" asked Haze.
"Just shut with your stupid questions and do it will ya" ordered Kale in a threatening tone.
"I will" Haze said that and was about to leave immediately before she heard Kale speak again.
"Also... tell me about Aether and Ethereal guardian".
"I can't" said Haze denying Kale.
Suddenly she could feel the air changing, a feeling of dread came over and Haze could feel the pressure of something on her head, without a need to look up she knew that the pressure she was feeling was that of the Guardian's hand.
"Are you defying me, you plebeian" said Kale in a hostile tone.
Haze who was Kale's maid from his childhood was just 7 years older than him, knew him from in and out.
Because she came from the commoners background while all the maids were either low nobles or fallen nobles, she would always had to suffer their harsh treatment.
There was not a single person in the castle who treated her like a human, exception being Kale, he always treated her like his family, his big sister.
So when Aisha asked Haze to 'bully' her brother and in return Haze would be treated normally, reluctant at first, Haze agreed thinking she would make up with Kale after getting a chance.
She knew that her master is a kind hearted boy who would forgive her after understanding her situation.
Although she never got her desire fulfilled, bullying Kale became a way for venting out her frustration instead. She would always feel guilty after hurting him but everytime she decided to stop and apologise, she would always postpone the idea.
But after being called 'plebeian' by Kale, which is the lowest insult a commoner could get, it was clear to her that it is too late for that now.
The kind hearted sweet boy she knew died in the Silent Forest and all that is left of him now is this evil of a human sitting in front of her ready to snap her neck anytime.
"I really can't, I'm binded by a spell, master" Haze tried to finish the sentence in with an emotionless tone as they are taught before becoming maids, but much as she tried she couldn't stop the tears coming out, regretting all that she had ever made Kale go through, and now nothing she can do could bring him back.
"Aww come on you don't need to cry now Haze, I was only testing if you were telling thr truth or not" Kale said while retracting the black Ethereal arm back as the air pressure returned to normal and the feeling of dread subsided.
"You can go now, oh and bring some books on World's history on your way back with snacks in evening" he added dismissing Haze from his room while she could only nod and leave knowing that the testing part was a lie and Kale was about to kill her for real.
"What the fuck, why couldn't I bring myself to kill her... this never happened before" Kale held his head with his hands trying to calm down the pain he was feeling in his head.
"And this headache... it's killing me" Kale voiced his pain as a few tears rolled down his eyes.
In truth Haze was right, Kale who was a high birth in his previous life and royal birth in this life wasn't fond of takin no for an answer.
Many have lost their lives after trying to give him a 'No'.
But when earlier he was about to kill Haze, he was suddenly unable to, all the memories of her taking care of him surfaced and that stopped him.
Cursed with anti social personality disorder, Kale was never able to understand feelings properly, that's the reason he was ready to kill his lover so easily in his past life.
He could feel love, but it won't take a second to 'switch off' his feelings which made him believe what he feels is not love, but earlier it seemed impossible to turn off that switch.
"What is happening to me" Kale whispered in a crying voice wiping the tears which never stopped flowing.