Zeno was ordered to enter the family's main hall.
He was always denied to enter the main hall, and during any function, he was either locked up in his room or made to wear a mask during it.
And his birthday was celebrated in a common hall, and his parents only waited with him until the guests leave.
"Why are they calling me... They never allowed me to enter..." Zeno asked the messenger who brought the news to him.
"I don't know, maybe it's something important." Messenger closed the door and waited for his reply.
"Ok... Tell them I will be there within a minute." Zeno replied and started preparing to meet his father.
"Wait! Will the mother be present?" Zeno hurriedly rushed towards the door and waited for the messenger's reply.
"I was not notified, and please be quick, or I will be punished." The messenger rushed back to the main hall and notify his arrival in Taurus.
"Oh..." Zeno grabbed his robe which had Dane embroidered on it. The symbol of Dane on Zeno's robe was bordered with a bronze thread.
In Dane's family, all the family members had these robes which showed their rank and position in the family.
The robes were made of red dragon skin worth more than a million gold coins, only available exclusively to the Dane family, these robes emitted a Red aura, and were a perfect match for the Danes as they all had red auras in the highest concentration. And the embroideries decided their rank:- Bronze the lowest, Silver Three, Silver Two, Silver One, then Gold Five, Gold Four, Gold Three, Gold Two, Gold One, and the highest one made of Red Gold, found on Flare continent and contained red mana, also known as the Master Robe.
Zeno had bronze, whereas his sister had gold five, his mother Gold Two, and Grandpa Hyun used to wear the Master Robe, but since the day his son Taurus took over it, he went back to Gold One, and Taurus wears the Master Robe.
Zeno holding the least power can't say before anyone else and can't pass any judgement even in the case related to him.
Soon Zeno arrived at the family's main hall, and the guards asked for identification.
Even though he wore the robe he was denied entry, so he placed his hand in his pockets and took out a small gold card it had the signature of his father, ut was given to him by the messenger.
"Let me confirm it." Guards went in and showed the card to master Dane.
After a few minutes, he saw the guards coming back.
"You can go in." Guards opened the door.
A massive amount of rose smell escaped when the guards opened the doors wide open.
"Thank you." Zeno bowed and moved forward.
The walls were red, though the light was dim walls shined like gold, and there were roses in the whole room.
There was a pond in the centre of the hall, and it was surrounded by bushes of rose flowers.
The pond was built in a circular pattern.
There was a big round base at the centre, and three rings around it.
The closest ring to the base had 5 small bases around its circumference. And the second ring had three bases around it. And the last one had ten bases.
In the centre, his father sat with his eyes closed, on the first ring there was an elegant woman sitting with her back facing Zeno, it took him less than a second to find out it was his, mom.
'Mon...' Zeno felt a sense of happiness.
Beside her sat his father's brother Scorpio and beside him was his sister Aquarius, and at the end of the first ring sat Alisha having a smirk on her face.
On the second ring, there were two daughters of Scorpio and one son of Aquarius.
And on the last ring, the only person sitting was Zeno.
'So the rest of them were not summoned.' Zeno slowly moved to the ring but all of them were glaring at him as if he was trash.
Zeno's heartbeat rose higher and he started shivering, he slowly went forward and sat on his seat.
"Why does this trash still gets to wear our prestigious robe!" One of the daughters of Scorpio spoke up in rage.
"Calm down Reina." Scorpio gently spoke with his eyes closed.
"Yeah, but still! He does not deserve to be here!" Another one of his daughters spoke up.
"Both of you Reina and Veronica calm down..." Both of them were calmed down by their father.
"Hmm... So, Zeno how have you been." Taurus opened his eyes, a red aura exploding from them.
"F... Fine..." Zeno shivered and replied.
"Why in the world are you shivering, dam it! He's insufferable!" Max son of Aquarius spoke up after seeing him shiver.
"He has never been here we can't expect him to know anything," Alisha replied with a grin on her face.
"Honey, can we just finish his matter, being in the same room as he makes me suffocate to death." Christine groaned in disgust.
"Mother..." Before Zeno could say anything a high-pressure red aura smashed his head into the water.
"You are not allowed to call her that, she is the queen, Dane." Aquarius used her aura tk crush, Zeno.
"I... I'm sorry." Zeno started coughing blood.
"How long do you plan on staying there..." Taurus stood up with his red aura thicker than usual.
"Sorry!" Zenoqhickly jumped back on his base and sat on it.
"Now tell, have you learned any new ability?"
"No... I tried-" before Zeno could complete his sentence he interfered.
"You have only a month left, and I have observed all of your training results, your progress is stagnant, you haven't improved even by a little, and I don't think you will ever get any second ability.
'Gulp.' Zeno kept his head down and sweat started dripping from him.
"You can just quit being Dane, and be sold right away." Taurus started walking on water and walked closer to Zeno.
"I don't want tk to give up... At least not yet..." Zeno mumbled under their breath.
"Ok if you wish that, but remember one thing the people you are going to be sold to have already been decided and they are eagerly waiting for their slave to arrive, don't make them wait or it will affect your price." Taurus went back to his base and sat with his eyes closed.
"C... Can I talk to Queen Dane..." Zeno asked with a trembling voice.
"I will only meet you during the night before the day you leave to give you my last present, but if you test my patience I will kill you right away." Christine stood up and unleashed her red mana, crushing Zeno's whole body.
"Aaaahhhh!" Zeno got covered in blood.
Soon all the injustices disappeared and the only left was blood.
"B... Blood!!" Zeno puked and puked until he fainted.
"He's worst than garbage..." Max and Veronica commented.