Hartage kingdom is situated at the middle part of the great Illaryian Sub-continent.It is a landlocked kingdom with no connection with the sea.
Amongst western illaryian 33 kingdoms, Hartage kingdom is a medium sized power.Illaryian subcontinent's western and middle area is mostly under the controls of humans.
Southern sub-continent is dominated by various elvan races, eastern sub-continent is the home of various giants , draconic races who are each others mortal enemies.
Last but not the least, the northern part of the sub-continent is mainly a mountainous area, which is home of various species. Among them dwarves are the ones who stand out most.Every 100 years or so,numerous beasts from northern territories invade human settlements in the west and middle continets.This is commonly known as a "Beast Tide". Humans put aside their grudges and unite to against the invaders.
The great Illaryia subcontinent is just a small peninsula in far east of the great Arcadian continent.
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Colos school 8 : 06 am .
After finishing roll calling, Teacher got up from his seat and picked up an alchemy pen.
This is called 'mind writer'. It is a common alchemy artefacts which is quite similar to a modern pen.
The main deference is that it uses liquid alchemy instead of the ink.It can write exactly what its owner command it or Imagine to write.
Amazingly, its words are not written in the white board or papers, It writes in the air. Its written words float in the air for around 1 minute and then slowly disappears.
'The user gives it mental commands and it writes exactly the same in the air. Writer doesn't have to touch it at all.This is the kind of events which reminds me that i am living in a world of magic now !'
This alchemy artefacts are considered luxury magic artefacts. It costs 100 gold coins at least!
The teacher name is Baden. He is 31 years old. He teaches us mathematics.
General education starts at the age of 10 in this kingdom and has only 3 years of basic education for all of kids who are more than 10 years old .
In class 1, students are taught how to write alphabet, numbers, simple summation,divide,multiply,minus and some basic general Knowledge.
In Class 2, The study material increases and In class 3, it is increased a little bit more.
Thats it. this is a world where countries are always at war with each other, backward scientific development, high mortality rates ,close to zero globalization, magic thrives and monsters loom around .So this is not like my past life where someone have spare time or energy to think out of the box!
This final years basic educations of mathematics only consists of some simple mathematical formula and problems with solutions.
Most of the maths are widely used in businesses. I thought of spreading some mathematical formulas and solutions from my past world but quickly rejected this notion.
There's no way, if i were to be asked how I know this, what will gonna be my reply? Can I reveal that i am from a world where kids of 7-9 years old can easily solve our class 3's math problems with ease? Impossible! It will reveal the fact that my soul doesn't belongs to this world!
Even if i spread this vast knowledge secretly, some magi who are expert in mystery solving will definitely catch me. It is a world of magic.
There are countless path of the magi journey . There are a lot of magi in mystery solving and detective area. If they discover that I am from another world, they will pack me to the magi continents.
There they will torture me, cut me,boil me,....they will separate my soul from the body...they will make pills from my body.....They will quarrel to decide who will cut me first.....they will take lines to tore a piece of flash from this body...they will force me to have sex with all kind of animals to see what my descends will be like...
they will do me whatever they seem to be necessary in the name of science, no not science, In the name of magi!
Thinking this, Aetius started to sweat heavily. Actually magis are both famous and infamous for there research. They buy slaves from the slave merchants and send them to their Laboratory for their 'research '.
There are a lot of horror stories among mortals against magis. My transmigration is my biggest secret. I must never reveal this fact to anybody, ever!As for the contribution to the human kind, I don't care.My life is first then everything else!
Todays math class is about simple business maths which i didn't bother to look at.I did many difficult calculus maths during my university studies. For me, these maths are too childish to even bother with at.
Soon the class is over and the teacher left the class.
While i was in deep thinking, a student came close to me.
He is 'Augusto Lima Possa' . We grew up in the same orphanage together. But unlike me, he had parents about whom he knew, They both died during an uprising in this region, when he was only 4 years old only. His parents were poor serfs under colos family. They only had a small dilapidated house in the name of colos family . He had no relatives.
After his parents were deceased, he was sent to the orphanage.Yeah serfs own nothing not even themselves, so his tattered home was also taken away.
The life of the serfs are quite miserable. they work hard in the fields to grow crops only to give it to the landlords.They live on the whims of the landlords.
He and Aetius are good friends. Even after passing the mana tip-off, he always regarded Aetius as a close friend! He advised this body's past owner a lots of time to forget about celine.
He would told him that she didn't recognize Aetius anymore as a friend nor a lover. She is like a venomous snake. But this body's past romeo would always pay no heed to him.
Augusto is 5.6 foot tall muscular 13 year old boy.He loves to exercise a lot.
He would say that if he can't be a mage, he will become a knight who will protect innocent people from the bad guys.Maybe it is a shadow of his deceased parents which motivated him.
Orphanage officials say that he got a high chance of becoming a magi of the earth or steel type. He doesn't like to study at all.
His motto is simple,' Eat,sleep and exercise.' He only attends the class for the attendance. If he doesn't attends the class for 3 days in a row without any reasons or notice he will be punished . So he only attends 2-3 days a week only.He would run the whole town and do some simple exercise outside of the school boundaries.
He is infamous in the school as a
' muscle head ' who would always fight and damages schools property. So school official forbade him from practicing inside the schools borders.
He came infront of my bench. He is white haired boy with a very fit body. You could easily see the bulging muscles and big wood like veins in his exposed hands and throats. I think he will look like the 'Gigachad ' when he will be in his 30's.
From the past owners memory,he is a nice guy with a very simple mind.He and Aetius are good friends since they were 5 years old.
Aetius would always stay in a bad mood after the breaking up. Because of his behaviour, all the former friends of him left him one after another. Only Augusto is left who would come and talk with Aetius regardless of his bad manners.
He said aggressively, "Aetius i heard that class 3C's bastards dare to beat you? How dare they harm you inside the school even though they know that you are my friend! Lets go and beat them together! "
I replied, " Don't worry about this, I will take my revenge one day. How's your exercise ongoing recently? " He seems to be quite burly then the last month!
Hearing this, Augusto face lighten up and said,
"Ha ha ha, really? well to tell you the truth, I am doing 100 push ups a day since yesterday and running around the countryside for 5 hours a day since the beginning of this year! I feel like i can beat 9-10 boys of class this with ease,hmmm."
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Adriana subcontinent, Hall of the white magi factions great sages.
In a pitch black spacious room.9 people's are standing in a circular position. Their faces can't be seen because of the clothes unique to the magi . However, each of them have a certain personality which can easily distinct them from one another.
"It's been 129 years, 3 months, 20 days since the last time we all gathered here together . Looks like none of you old fellows died yet! How sad! I wish one of you old timers would have died and made a sit for a delicious, hot blooded young mage! "
Saying that, she started to bit and lick her lower lips. Even if her Face was hidden under a beautiful rose depicted hood, Everyone could easily guess what this notorious beautiful mage was doing now.
A maze in red robes said in disdain,
"Old hag, If anyone were to die first among us. It will definitely going to be you! "
Another female mage in golden butterfly imaged white robe added,
"I will not stay here,whether this seductress bitch will stay or me! "
The female mage in rose illustration robe laughed coquettishly and said,
"Ohh...It's our pure holy maiden sama! I almost forgot about you ! my my .... how can i ?
The flower of our mage continent, the holy maiden who's cherries are yet to be popped !"
The female mage in golden robes eyes turned red.
A mage in green vines illustrated robes couldn't help but say in anger ,
"I didn't participate here to witnesses this nonsense. I am going to my laboratory now, I am almost close to success in one of my research."
Another one echoed in yellow parrot illustrated robe and said with a mischievous tone,
"Its been more than 100 years and you are still close to success on your research! "
Another mage purple robe which had a salamander illustration couldn't help but laugh out loud and pointed his finger,
"If I were you I would have long been succeeded.A great men ones said true, [Fate and Destiny doesn't gift a men with both brains and brawns ].
You are better suited in dealing with dark magis not with lab rats !"
A mage in white elephant printed robes shouted loudly,
"Silence, We are 9 important figures of the hall of sages. We lead white magus faction in this continent.If outsiders knows about your nuisances, It will ruin our reputation! Especially those despicable dark magis. "
A mage in blue robe which had a eagle illustrations asked solemnly,
" Lord , 'ironrusty mana blessed of the great Aragon' Why we are all called now all of a sudden? "
A mage in a tattered clothes with a lot of stitches around his mage robes opened his eyes.suddenly all of the mages felt a lot of pressure surrounded them.There's no way, he is the highest ranking mage in the white magi faction currently.
He eyes swept across every magi present and started to speak slowly but seriously ,
"Sorry for disturbing all of you suddenly. But i have an information to tell you in person. Few great astral influence path magi calculated a strange phenomenon recently. They belives that something extraordinary has happed recently, which will cause a huge distortion in our worlds collective fate , destiny and future .They are arguing among themselves about this since yesterday . Some saying that another strong world has discovered our planets location and are preparing for an invasion. Some strongly felt that a new apocalypse level demon lord will appear, some saying that the elves will start a war against humankind's , some saying that it is a sign that anti mages so called 'messiah' will finally descend, Some even saying that the dark mages will defeat us in the next war, Some saying that the great Peloponnesian continents mages will initiate 3rd magi world war, there are some believes that this is a sign of the end times coming, some believe that sacred holy flame will strip the humans from the blessing of mana!
Hearing this all of the magi present started to get worried. If any one of this predictions become reality,than it will be a catastrophic event!
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Augusto is a perfect ally for me. He is a person who is a readymade friend for a calculative person like me. during the journey to the mages continent, he will be the person who can help me in times of danger. And from the memories of the past self, I can saw that he is a simple muscle headed guy. So it will be easy to manipulate him with my own ideologies .
When i was thinking of the benefits of making friends with Augusto, he asked me,
"Hey buddy, i am hearing some rumors about you, are they true?"
"Rumours? " I become a little confused and a bit anxious.
'Did i done something that will reveal my secrets? '
He narrowed his eyes and said,
"They are saying that you were in the library yesterday up to midnight. They believe that you were looking for a way to break a vow in the name of sacred flames? Are you stupid? why did you even take this oath in the first place for a bitch like Celine.
I thought you would be dead by now!Thanks to goddess of the white moon that you are still alive ! Some are even starting to say that you were looking for the aphrodisiac making formula? "
Hearing this Aetius was shocked! what is this situation? I was downloading books data from the library yesterday. They all indicated that i was looking for a way to start loving with that damn bitch Celine?
Wait a second, it may be not a bad thing but rather a good opportunity for me!
If it is revealed that I didn't had my mana tip-off, but still showing mana awakening ability,they will suspect me!
A man who didn't had any mana tip-off can't store mana in body from his surroundings.Mana tip-off or mana berserk is the first step in a magi journey. Because of mana tip-off event, they can use a particular types of mana in their body !
Without mana you can't perform any ability or miracles at all. My system doesn't need mana power, it can perform superhuman ability without using mana as a fuel !
If they discover that I don't have a lick of mana in my body but still can perform superhuman ability, they will capture me and send me in mage continent as a testing subject!
Thinking this, Aetius gulped a mouthful of saliva and become panicked unknowingly.
Seeing Aetius worried expression, Augusto confirmed that those rumours are true.
Augusto said,
" Buddy just give up on that bitch.There are a lot of more beautiful and sexy girls out there! Do exercise like me and gain some muscles . I can guarantee you that if you regularly workout with me, a lot of girls will open there legs for you and welcome you into their paradise to plow! " He said with a sly,mischievous smile.
I looked at him with eyes of shock. What's wrong with this guys brain. I know that in this world mortal mens in averages marry at around 14-16 years and women's marry at around the age of 13-14 years old.But he is only 13 years old and talks like as if he already had lots of encounter with various womens!
Am i making a mistake boarding this guy into my chariot?
I told him,
"Augusto i will workout with you from today right after dinner. Before going out of the school boundaries, take me with you, okay?"
Hearing this white haired, red eyed muscular guy become happy and started pat on my shoulders heavily and said loudly,
"Really ! this will be great! Goddesses knows how many times I asked you to join me in workouts but you would never agree.Today you finally agreed. I finally have someone to workout with me...!"
This guy just give me a few pat on my shoulder and made it ache.
I decided to start workout with him so that i can fit my body. I am helpless, system didn't gift me with any offensive or defensive abilities at all.
This system upgrade mission is to collect a total of 1000 gallbladder of level 1 magic beasts! That's ridiculous! I don't even know what will happen after system upgrade. Whether it will come with a good abilities are unknown.
You must know that a rank 1 magic monster gallbladder costs 1-100 gold coins in average !
I have only 1 gold coins and some bronze and silver coin .I will need at most,
100×1000= 100,000 gold coins to complete this mission !
In this Hartage kingdom , average commoners only earn 1 - 3 gold coins per month in villages and 10 - 100 gold coins per month in city depending on their job !
So you can understand how tough it is to upgrade this dumb system .
Childrens who grew up at the orphanage must join the army if they had no mana tip-off . The orphanage system is just a scam of this kingdom to increase their armies size !
Even if you become a magi , you must work for your kingdom for a long time .
If I can have my mana tip-off before being pouched in the military is also not known! So i am left with only one way to strengthen my self and it is to exercise! Though not much affective but it can slightly increase my survival chances. Something is better than nothing.
But, why am i having a hunch that i will regret for my today's decision ?
While i was talking with my new friend in this world, next class teacher entered the class 3E.
"Good morning, teacher. " all the students echoed together.
madam replied with a kind smile,
"please sit down. "
All of the students sat down. She started to speak loudly ,
"Today we will learn how to draw a magic beasts. Roll 1 of the class 3E,Julie. "
Julie, a girl with black hairs and black eyes. She is a slim beautiful girl with a shy and timid nature.
Aetius look at her and thought,
'Why she seems to be a trap to me? I used to read a lot of manga in my previous life, so i had read about a lot of girls who turn out to be a trap as a surprise or plot twist in there.So my experienced eyes can't easily misunderstood.That women is a real trap!'
Julie, " ye...y...yess madam m...mulie."
madam Mulie act as if she didn't mind her stuttering and said,
"Tell me about a magic beasts you have encountered or have a deep impression off."
Hearing madams word, she become nervous and said,
"Ye....yess mam. When i was 9 years old, my whole family was going to Novgord Empire to watch the Zhombamn festival which only being celebrated every 12 years there.There were a lot of people like our family also going to participate this grand festival. When we were on our way, we encountered a snake, a very big one.It was a ti...Titanoboa. A level 4 titanoboa. It was at least 30 meter long !"
Hearing this everyone was shocked including madam Mulie. Titanoboas are recognised as one of the most dangerous magic beasts in the Illayrian subcontinent. And it was a level 4 magic beast!
Aetius was also shocked hearing this. In our colos city's eastern thar mountain range, There used to be a level 2 Titananoboa 200 years ago, which would enter the colos city's outer villages and kill thousands of people every year. Colos city's hunters would run away as soon as they saw one.It is believed that this kind of huge snakes are the direct descends of the legendary snake 'Magaraj' which was an apocalypse level (level 13) magic beast millions of year's ago.
Because of the array formation, this magic beasts can't entered the main city so the city's noble family didn't take it seriously at first. They don't care if some poor humans die, anyway lots of people die every year because of beasts attacks. But things gone out of the hand when that snake was reported to raising dozens of little snakes. The city noble family finally become scared and immediately request to the capital for this snakes extermination.
Rank 2 magis doesn't like to deal with this species snake as it is very dangerous and arduous task. Only expert level 2 magis or level 3 magis can kill them.
Colos family squander a lot of wealth to lobby a rank 2 dark magi in the blood path to kill it.The magi killed it after fighting 1 day's 2 night straight.
The magi told them that this beast was a pseudo rank 3 tinanoboa. It would become a complete rank 3 within 1-2 years at least.The magi caught its all of offsprings alive and took away the titanoboas dead body.
Though Colos family wanted the dead titanoboas body and her childrens to be left to them, but the magi strongly rejected them. He justified his cause saying that he fought a pseudo rank 3 magic beasts not a rank 2 beasts as mentioned in contract, so the spoils will be his.
'This Illayrian subcontinents giant titanoboas are famous not only in the the Arcadian continent but also in the whole world.I wonder how her caravan survived from a level 4 titanoboa!' Aetius thought with great anticipations.
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What is a magi? That's a very complicated question but briefly, Magi or mage is a person who manipulates mana in their
body to release energy in his surroundings.
The steps to become a magi is very confidential. Only magi students who enters a magi academy are permitted to know this secret.
Adriana subcontinent is full of this kind of magi academies.They monopolized arcadia great continents beginning magi knowledge.
Once a student joins them, he or she must make a oath in the name of sacred flames that they will not divulge any information they will learn in magi academies without thier consent or approval.
Before becoming an official magi, there's a stage called 'disciples' which has 9 levels.
In this disciples stage they are taught how to store mana in their body,how to compress mana to store more mana, how to release mana, how to use mana powered weapons and objects,how they can control thier mana inflow and outflow etc.
After passing these 9 stages , you will become a rank 1 mage of your path .
Unlike our Illariyan subcontinent, which is connected with the great arcadia continent in the north of this subcontinent, Adriana subcontinent however is not connected with the great arcadia continent. It is seperated by a narrow sea called 'mages bathtub'.
It takes around 2 years to go to adriana subcontinent from Hartage kingdom. After reaching there, they will test if you have a potentials to become a magi.
If they think you have a future,they will let you join as a disciple.Of course there are also many magi new , poor , weak academies who are always in need of student , so they will let you join with minimal checking.
Because our Hartage kingdom is situated in almost the middle of the Illariyan subcontinent. It will take a year to reach a sea port from this country, another year will be gone by in the sea journey.
As you might expected, there are teleportation circles in big cities. But only mages can use them. This is not because mages despises non magi. But for their own safety.
Teleportation circles uses a lot of mana to work, which may cause death to the normal peoples.
Mana tip-off successors or awakeners are also normal people's who have future prospects of becoming a official magi! So they are also vulnerable to die while using these mana empowered machines. So the students must use non-mana methods to travel.
There are also many mana powered vehicles for magi . But for above reasons, those vehicles are also not used by normal peoples.
Adriana subcontinent has the most mana particles concentration in the entire Arcadia continent. So there is no doubt that, Adriana subcontinent is full of magi and mage academies.
During students travel to the adriana subcontinent by ships, The more closer the students get to adriana subcontinent, the more they get in contract with high amount of mana.
So their bodies will starts to get used to it with the mana rich environments.Mages calls this
'Mana espouse ritual!'
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colos school ,class 3E :
The lively class 3E suddenly become silent all of a sudden. Everyone of the class including the teacher was now staring at julie attentively.
Julie, who all of a sudden attracted whole classes attention grew fear-stricken. Her mind was very complex right now.On one hand, she is feeling nervous but on the other hand, she is feeling proud that everyone in the class wanted to listen her.
She took a deep breath and continued, "
4 years ago,
When we were on our way to participate in the zhombamn festival in the novgord empire,our caravan encountered this huge titanoboa. In our caravan there was some snake cultists who called themselves 'melodious rattlers' they told us..."
"Stop....!" not letting Julie to continue , madam shouted loudly at her .
Madam said seriously,
"julie, you must be aware that in our kingdom it is strictly forbidden to talk about these heretics. "
Julie started to shake in horror and replied, " y...yes mam."
Madam mulie understood that she unintentionally shouted at an innocent student. So she got near julie and comforted her saying,
"Forgiven me dear for shouting at you but you know that it is a taboo to talk about those heretics, right?"
Julie nodded quickly. The whole classes students got disappointed including Aetius.
Madam smiled at her warmly and continue, " Okay no need to talk about that event.just touch this magic artefact and imagine that snakes appearance. "
Julie nodded and took the pen from the teacher.She hold it for a few second and released it in the open air . Soon it started to float in mid air and stated to draw a snake.
It looked like an ordinary a dark-green anaconda from the earth. It had a small horn like object in its head. Looked menacing and domineering.
Class teacher told the students to draw it. Some enthusiastically draw but most of them started to talk with each other. Aetius looked at it for a few second and lost interest in it.
'This looks just like an ordinary anaconda except some slight deference . '
Aetius doesn't wanted to draw. He doesn't care about the class at all. Even if he score horrible in the class or in the exam, he will still pass anyway.
This world doesn't give mortal educations much of a value, so no need to burn midnight oil to work hard on studies. Thanks to the past self, i am not a diligent student so I don't want to stray away from this situation either.
Nonetheless, only 3 or so month left before the last exam after that all will come to an end.
So he started to search information about the heretic inside his mind.
In the Illariyan subcontinent, there are 5 religions which are regarded as the main religions. Other than this 5, all other religions are declared as heretics. This snake cult are also referred as heretics.
In Hartage kingdoms most of the people are the believers of the holy moon mother goddess.The holy sun brilliance and the eternal one religion are minority groups in this kingdom .This is because of the Novgord empire.
Novgord empire is known as a cradle of the 'Holy moon mother goddess'. Hartage kingdom is a autonomous kingdom of the Novgord empire.This empire has 5 kingdoms like ours as 'little brothers' which is known as 'Novgord alliance'.
If possible, moon mother goddesses followers can't help but declare these 4 religions heretics too.But if they really do so, It will cause another great religious war.
Although no one admits but religious wars are more deadly than the normal wars.This subcontinent witnessed 7 great religious wars since last 600,000 years,resulting in extinction of numerous old religions or rise of the new ones even full of countless kingdoms and empires tragic ending.
One thing is common in the big religions in this subcontinent, that is they worships existence which has more or less human shapes.Those who warships magic beasts or vague existence are always in minority.
The main question is how they survived that fateful day? were those snake cultist did something?
If they really did, what they did? After helping them, did they asked for something in return or not? If they really asked for something, than what was it?
Did they asked for money or food or some valuable items or cloths or what? If i guess it was money, than much? How much it cost to hire a snake cultist to get rid of a giant snake?
Aetius mind was full of questions. He really wanted to know about religious other than the White moon goddess.In the orphanage they were taught that white moon goddess is the true god.... blah.....blah.
The library Doesn't had much books about religion.Why library Doesn't have religious books? well the answer is quite simple.Religious books are all written in ancient language that is dead long time ago. Only priests and nuns can read those sacred words.The religious leaders want to monopoly the knowledge , so that thier churches can always be full packed with the peoples who want the help from them.
The books language are only taught to the churches peoples not to the ordinary people under the pretext that this sacred language are only allowed to be learnt by the ' chosen ones '. Well they are very good at controlling ordinary people through their propaganda . No one can mess with them easily.
'Looks like i have to strike a conversation with julie the may be a 'trap' .
Aetius was determined to know about this incident from the mouths of Julie.
Aetius is not from this world.From childhood, he was not brainwashed by those priests perches. He has no belongings for any religions in this world. If joining snake cult can benefit him, he will switch side without any hesitations.
Soon the class come to an end. Madam collected finished or unfinished drawings from the students.After collecting, she cleared her throats and started to speak,
" Thanks to the students who are hardworking. They will surely be rewarded for their knowledge seeking spirits by the loving 'moon mother goddess' not only in this world but also in the afterlife.
But for those who doesn't like to study will be rewarded for their due crimes.In next class, it will be a class exam so be prepared ." Saying that she looked at the students who didn't write and left angrily.
Of course, this class 3E is full of the students who hate studies. They are all accustomed to hearing this kind of nagging since three years. As for goddesses anger, they didn't care.
They think that Religion is for the mortals who have no hope of becoming magi. It is well known that mana tip-off event mostly [90℅] happens between the age of 6-14. others who didn't have it doesn't give up their hope of becoming a magi. They want to become mages who are infamous for loathing religions and lives the path the are destined with .
Mages not only hate religions but if they can they want to erase it from this world! They believe that outer entities uses the power of the religious people's prayers and fears to get stronger. They argue that the so called gods,goddess or other deities fools the mortals to worship them and manipulate them from behind the scene.
There were many great wars fought between mage and religious factions since the time they came into contact with each other .
One says that mana is the root of all evil and chaos . While other says that their religious deities are aliens who came from different worlds to manipulate and trick this worlds people from behind the scenes .
After madan Mulie left then came the history teacher Alexobo.
He is very tall among the teachers i saw so far. He is 6.9 foot tall. Standing in a podium feels like he is overlooking all of us as if insignificant little bugs.
'How this guy waste his life behind books not swords ? It seems to be perfect for this giant like figure.' Aetius thought amazingly.
However, the moment he entered the class, he started to teach us about history solemnly . Aetius lost his interest and didn't mind hearing anything at all.
Who knows how many lie they added in those history books.The only way to know the true history is to learn your country's history from other country's perspectives and compare them.
After history teacher,then came the teacher of the etiquette class, madam Mesina.
Mesina walked gracefully to the podium like a proper noble lady and motioned the students to sit down with a lovely smile stuck in her face.
Etiquettes classes, as the name suggests, it teaches the students about noble circle sophistic behaviours and traits. Which will help them to get mix in those elites society like a pro.
Nonetheless, in this school around 90 percent students has a nobel background or a rich family which has some connection with with nobel family's. Children's of the noble family are taught about a proper noble behaviour from an early age. There are a lot of nobel family rules and regulations. From waking up to going to the bed, a proper nobel will follow his or hers life following these rules and sophisticated behaviours.
This colos city has three general studies school . This school is used by mostly elites of this city . Few poor family's childrens read here who had mana tip-off before the age of 10 . Only a few lucky orphans got admitted here by chance including this bodies last owner .
Though this etiquette class very arduous and seemingly nonsensical from the perspective of the Aetius, but to the noble and rich family's childrens eyes the seem to loves it !
They considered it as a sign of classy behavior . This helps them to draw a line from them to the lowly peasant who has no sense of etiquette at all.
Ordinary people have to live thier life working hard for their own survival all the time. They have no time to focus on this etiquette which will not feed thier hungry stomachs.
While lost in those Miscellaneous thoughts, he heard a sweet but moderated voice.
Mesina :My dear students, How you all have been?
Students shouted in unison : Thanks mam, we are fine.
Mesina smiled and said, "Okay, Yesterday we learned how to pour wine in a bordeaux glass or simply a wine glass and swirl it like a professionals do. So today we will witness how to hold a wine glass like a proper nobles do ! Are you excited to witness ?"
"Yes" all these brats looks as if they can't wait and replied affirmatively.
She motioned outside the class and a servant came to the classroom with a silver tray. This tray has a chilling wine bottle, some ice cubes and a bordeaux glass. After placing the tray in front of the madam, he give salute and left.
'Hmm it is a coldriver ant wine. This wine is very expensive . It costs around 300 gold coins per bottles . This wine is made from a giant ants blood. I wonder when i can have a taste of this kind of luxury wines.'
Mesina looked at all of the students and called a student, " 'Malena von kursk habss lorn arum de steins', come forward and do exactly what i did yesterday. "
Melena is roll number 4 in this class. She is part of a very powerful noble family known as The Steins family.
Steins family has a tragic past. Just 40 years ago, they were a powerful marquis rank family of this kingdom. But they fell from to the bottom rank of the noble family rank known as baron family.
The reason for their current state is a mistake to choose a king participant. As you can guess, their family back then decided to support a prince who failed to seize the throne from his brother. As a result after loosing their bet, they were demoted to the baron rank.
In this worlds noble family rules, barron's can have a town and its surrounding villages as their fief to rule. Whereas viscount family can have a city and its surrounding towns and village under their control.
Current Steins family is adjacent to the colos family, so they reluctantly follows them. Even so they still has the arrogant marquis behaviours to this day.
Melena's father is the son of a elder of the side branch of the Steins family. She had a great arrogant aura around her. You can hear her boast about her families glorious past all the time.
Melena came to the wine bottle with a ugly face and speak loudly,
"This low quality ant wine is something i would never even bother to smell. I personally prefer high-quality rose skin tortoises blood wine known as 'Hardborne bloodrosa wine ' not something you can buy in this poor city." saying so she puffed her small chest in a domineering manner.
Hearing this some students who have noble family background and elite background in this city , become angry. How dare she look down at a viscount family city even though her family at the bottom of the ranks of the nobles who owns a cheap town?
Aetius was feeling laugh but he suppress it with sheer will. Melena noticed it from the corner of her eyes.
Even though Steins family has fallen from the top to the bottom, but they still had a lot of previously accumulated wealth and connections.
It is also rumored that they are secretly planing to support a prince for the upcoming new king selection as the current king is seriously old now.
This current king is the reason for their misfortune, so they are definitely praying for his death!
Melena looked at the madam and said, " Okay madam i will start to demonstrate."
Medam mesina nodded to her to continue.
She poured the wine in bordeaux glass and filled one third of glass and swirled it gracefully.
A simple procedure but this nobles make it as though a important noble etiquette.
What bullshit are those noble up to! Aetius who came from a world where you just go to a bar and pour wine and swallow it without thinking much about etiquette, couldn't help but feel weird and mused in disdain.
Madam mulie congratulated her for her perfect demo and told her to go to her sit.
" Holding a wine glass is a very important act in a party. It will easily tell others about your noble etiquette and classic behaviour. There are mainly 4 ways to hold a wine glass.
First is holding a wine glass as if a normal glass.It is strongly prohibited to do so. If you really do like this, it will seem not sophisticat but rather seem like a poor behaviour. It will make you a laughingstock in the noble class. They will tell you that a lowly peasant had entered in their party. so never hold a wine glass like this! "
Except Aetius , all of the students present started to laugh. Madam than continue on her teaching,
"Another way to hold the wine glass is to hold it from the bottom curvy glass part in your palm, where the stem will be inside in 2 of the your 4 fingers . This way of holding is done mostly by the aristocratic women's . But i warn you, if you want to drink your wine cold, you must not hold it this way as it will increase the glass temperature."
She demonstrate it while telling.
I rolled my eyes and started to think, god knows what else will come next.
" The next style of holding a wine glass is to hold it in the stem. It is very famous which will make you look like a professional. I personally prefer to hold this way."
She demonstrate it like this and took a small sip of the wine.
The students who didn't bother focusing on the last classes ,they are now listening carefully to not to miss anything .Some even writing it down quickly !
"Last way of holding a bordeaux glass is to hold it from the base. Some professional like to hold it this way to stand out amongst the crowd of nobles."
After that she talked about her last ballroom bordeaux glass holding experience and then left.
These nobles makes me wonder how many classy rules they have!
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Ding..Dong....ding....
Hearing 11 bell continues low chimes, madam finally stopped continuing telling her life experiences in the noble circles and left.
In this school, every class duration is 45 minutes. The last class was language and literature study which i spent by taking a quick nap.
My sleep however didn't break because of the bells chimes nor because of the students cheer but by the getting drenched in cold water.
My sleep gone instantly like a punctured balloon out of thin air. Because of this sudden water splash, i jumped out of sit and looked around in shock. Only to see a purple haired girl angrily staring at me. I asked in disbelief,
"Melana...?"
"Yes, this miss is Melena of the great Steins family. This young lady don't like to talk with the people likes of you, but this humble lady was forced to do so because of your inappropriate behaviour.
Why were you suppressing your laughter while this gracious lady didn't seem to telling a joke. What were so funny? were you mocking our great Steins family? If you really did so, I must challenge you to a life and death duel!" With a blood red eyes, she stared at me.
I unconsciously gulped a mouthful of saliva. What the hell is going on? Why all of sudden i was challenged in a life and death duel battle? Why she has a water attributed attack type mana ring in her right hand?
You must know that, attack and defensive magic items are strictly forbidden by the government in all of the kingdom.
Not to mention that you can't own any type of magic item inside the school boundaries. Now she is openly using one in the classroom. I must get out of this quagmire immediately.
I Smiled respectfully and replied to her in pleading tone,
" Honorable young miss of the great Steins family, I think there is a slight misunderstanding .This lowly orphan will never dare even in his dream to mock the great Steins family."
After hearing Aetius sweet talks, Melana finally calmed down a little from her rage and asked solemnly,
"Then this miss wonder why you were suppressing your laughter during this esteem lady's small speech?" She firmly stared at me to judge my facial expression.
Calm down Aetius, you got this. I comforted my self and replied humbly,
" Young miss, I have a very peculiar habit since yesterday.I happen to suddenly laugh for no reasons. I will never dare to laugh at a beautiful young miss of the glorious Steins family!"I replied pitifully to her.
Reviewing my facial expression and my bullshits she nodded in affirmation.
Don't tell me this kind of illness really do exist!
" One of my distant relative also have this kind of problem. Looks like you are like him too! hmm, well this miss will go on her own way then." Then she left the empty class leaving behind a drenched boy.
That was close.I am finally relived of my anxiety. I was sleeping peaceful in a class but i suddenly woke up and was challenged by a noble bitch for a life and death duel out of nowhere. What will be your expression will be like?
Also, She was wielding a very expensive magic prop in her hand as if an ordinary ring! That magic tool was definitely an attack type prop for sure. Not only that, it can even control its attack range and power as its owners wish. If not i who is an ordinary mortal would have long since been dead for sure.
Attack and defence type magic items are not sold anywhere legally in this kingdom. Only noble family,high ranking officials and magis can have them normally. There are many auction house and illegal underground markets sold them to the mortal people in exchange for gold coins or valuable treasures.
Luckily, I kept my shit together and didn't panicked unknowingly. The way that hoe was looking me as if i was an suspected criminal by the police.
She can use a magic artefacts in the classroom as she pleased. If she were to be an ordinary mortal student , she would have long since dead. She used an attack type prop but the principle didn't noticed? I Don't think so.
For your information, This schools principle is a rank one wizard of the sound path. An official magi could easily feel the mana fluctuations in his surroundings.
Even though he was a rank one magi, he didn't bother stoping that aristocrat girl from her magic item as she pleased.
Was that he was scared of the steins family? Maybe he is scared to offend a nobel family which has lots of connection throughout this kingdom. Not every nobles would dare to participate in the royal family succession turmoils.
This family ones owned many time bigger citys than this colos city and not one or two's but many for thousands of years.Their accumulated wealth,connection, friends are myriad. Even though they fell to the bottom noble rank for the failure to success in the royal succession race, but the foundation was always there.No wonder, there are always a rumours that they are waiting for the next king selection as a means to rise again! Although they always denied this as a hoax and falls accusations against their family but these rumours always there to this day.Who knows how many magi they had ones they were a marquis family!
A rank one magi would rather watch silently to not anger a family of this caliber. so may be he acted as if he didn't noticed ?
whether he were really scared or he simply didn't care if a talentless mortal died it doesn't matter to me. The thing is that i have successfully avoided this crisis.
Thinking these miscellaneous thoughts, he came out of the classroom. He see that julie that may be trap was talking with Amon of our class in the school field.
Oh, i almost forgot to befriended with julie and learn more about snake cult!
I get closer to them i said,
"Hi, what's up!"
Both of them looked at me as if they are seeing a clown?
Oops, i forgot that i am wet from head to toe because of that melena!
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Julie's POV:
Today an ordinary day like most of the day's I have spent in this school.But this seemingly not so out of the ordinary day turned into a strange one.
If Julie were to have any regret in her 3 year school life, it will be to fail to befriend with a male student. She has a lot of female of her classmates as her friend, but no boyfriend. This is the reason both for her appearance and her timid nature.
Contrary to that, today 2 boys intermittently came to her to have a chat with her!
One is roll no. 3 of her class Amon. Amon is very mysterious boy in her class. He is a sleuth, who loves to solves mystery and puzzle. He continuously asked me to tell him about that titanoboa.
But i refused multiple time as madam forbade me to do so. Even so he will take our conversations to this topic anyway. When i was talking with him about next class drawing exam, another boy of our school came to us. He was drenched like a wet cat all over his body. Both me and Amon laugh out loud at this!
Today is not an ordinary day , is it?
...
Aetius POV:
I was embarrassed very much at my appearance. I forget that i am wet head to toe. Shaking my head in dismay, I smiled at them and said with a sad face ,
" hahaha, sorry for my current state, someone woke me up from my sleep using water."
Amon stopped laughing and take a look of me. He fixed his glass and looked at my wet cloths and said,
"Hmm, this is not common water but water made from mana particles. Don't tell me Melena drenched you using her magic prop like she wanted to attack me too, thanks to the principle, she didn't succeeded back then ! "
'Oh good to hear that i am not the only one to have a grudge against that purple mad women good good good.'
Naturally, i was subconsciously feeling comfort to share my misery with a fellow victim!
He fixed his round glasses and told me,
" I wonder what you did to being attack by that daddy's little Princess! "
I replied without a second thought, " I was just laughing slowly during madam Mesina's class because of an illness , a rare illness i receive just yesterday for no apparent reasons. "
He thought something and started to bombard me with a lot of questions. I answered some but suddenly i heard a system warning ringing and suddenly I realized that I have fallen for his investigative quirks. Or else how to explain why I am answering all of his questions without thinking a second! If not for the system warning i will be in real trouble !
Now that I remember, Isn't a student of our school is mana awakener of investing or similar path!
Don't tell me he is infront of me, Amon! I must avoid answering all of his questions or i will keep revealing everything about my self unknowingly!
This path is both famous and notorious for It's abilities. Kingdom will hire this type of wizards for crime investigation or questionings.Secret dark organisations use these paths magi to question and torture peoples. They can erase or instill info into a person brains. It is rumoured that religious factions use this path magi to brainwash their followers!
Seeing that i broke free from his spell he laughed and told me,
"How rude i am! I totally forgot , let me introduce to you, I am 'Amon von der baeid oran de Hollezime '. I am from the Barron family Hollezime from the Hollezime town.
There is nothing in me to introduce ,so I didn't bother to do that.
Most town and small city's have thier name associated with a noble family that live there but It's not the case with the big city's.
As for Hollezime family, it is a barron ranked family. Hollezime town has a population around 20 to 30 thousands peoples. It is close to the colos family both in distance and in friendship.
Even though he may not reveal but i am very confident that he has a magic artefacts that is related to interrogation or similar kinds.
What a messed up day it is! First that Melena now this Amon all using their magic prop on me as if i am a Guinea pig or something!
Julie was standing there awkwardly for a few minutes. She was feeling dumbfounded. They just simply came to her but now they are talking to themselves for a long while. Completely unaware that she was there. As if she didn't exists at all!
Looks like i should go on my way. With a heavy heart she was going to her school bedroom.
Seeing that julie, their main reason to gather was about to go, both of them stopped her and talk with her for a few minutes and returned to their rooms intermittently.
Both Amon and Aetius was determined to know the incident that day so they started by making friends with julie.
Aetius knew that julie has a rich father,so for this reason , this bastard Amon didn't dare to use his magic item against her . Because if he uses it against her, the principal will definitely interfere and punish him .
On my way to my room, I was immerged in deep thoughts about today's incidents. These aristocrat brats are the source of trouble. Even if they kill me, these school officials would not bother to show themselves rather than save me from them. Even if a rootless guy like me die or not, they simply don't care.
I was attacked 2 times by forbidden magic items but they didn't interfere at all. As if i didn't exist in thier eyes . Wait for me to become a powerful mage , I will collect this due hatred with blood as an interest .
There are a lot of investigation and soul searching type magic items. Which can kill a common people easily as they do not have any protective measures against them!
First , I thought, Melena is from a prominent family , that's why they won't dare to face her wrath, so they simply ignored. But now, Amon, who is from a small barron family used an mind attack type magic prop, but they still didn't come forward to stop him.
That amon think himself smart so he believe that no one knows about his magic artefacts. But in reality it was always known to them. Fool thinks himself sherlock Holmes,the man who never lived nor died. Hahaha he thinks that secretly using it won't reveal about It's existence! Wait you son of a bitch , I will give you a taste of your own medicine soon . Start counting your dog days , because this transmigrator is an ANTI- HERO .
Now it is clear that this school authorities sucks butts of even a lowly barrons . Even though they have backing of a viscount family , still fear a baron family ! I must avoid these aristocracy bastards in the future.
No wonder, in 3 year school experience, previous owner didn't talked much with these aristocracy seedlings. It's best to avoid them lest call for a disaster.
When Aetius was about to open his rooms door he felt a small tap in his shoulder, he looked behind to see round glasses wearer boy.
"Amon...!"
"Let's see who will be the first to hear the snake incident from her, you or ME hahahaha."
He whispered in my ears and go away laughing his lungs out.
Aetius also felt challenged and replied,
"Challenge accepted. "
...
In a spacious corridor 3 maids are
are carrying tray full of medicinal herbs and alchemical bottles.
Alongside, they were talking as silently as possible in a freighted manner.
One of the maid was weeping in pained expression and said,
"Yesterday I was sure that they will guillotine me, like my childhood friends. They killed all most all of the maids. Luckily, Her royal concubine Mulleina vouched for my loyalty. Or else my fate would be like them too."
Another maid added sadly,
"My childhood friends are almost all dead too. This royal palace has become lifeless like a graveyard all of a sudden. I can still smell blood in the air even now !
Bless the mother goddess for her benevolence, me and a dozens of other maids were with 3rd royal prince in a month long tour in the kingdom of Rize . So we are saved from beheading. "
Thinking back those maids and soldiers beheaded corpse piled up in a form of a small mound infront of the gate. She unconsciously wanted to caresse her neck to make sure if it was intact!
But she shook her head and focus on her trays in her hands.
These trays are full of rare and precious medicinal plants, medicine,alchemy delicate glass props.
If she mistakenly damages any of these, the consequences will be severe. Even if she works for her whole life without a pay, she will certainly fail to compensate. Without a doubt this debt will be carried down by her next generation to generation until due debt in paid.
She personally knew an old genitor whom she often talks with of this palace . He is repaying his great -great -great grandfathers debt for breaking a valuable magic mirror to this day! He said to her back than that after him, his son only have work for minimum 45 year to repay this ancestral debt. I hope he is not purged."
She prayed in her mind
Thinking so she unconsciously become careful about the contents she is carrying.
An old maid in her late 60s said in a weak voice,
"Stop talking nonsense. We are all under suspicion of being in acquaintance with that vicious maid who poisoned the king . They are monitoring every living being of this palace. If they have a slightest doubt, they will kill them without any hesitation."
They finally arrived at the kings bedroom.
The bedroom was very luxurious and specious. It was specially enlarged by using a very rare space magic item.Which make this room many times bigger than it should be.
Everything in this room is made of rare and strange materials. for example, the mattress of the bed is made by the wood elves of the south .
Now this room is full of many powerful nobles of the kingdom who seem to be busy talking with the bedridden king. dozens of nobles are standing besides the king and busy in discussion.
To not disturb them, the three maid silently keep standing with the trays full of medicinal contents.
Duke kropp said angrily to the head maid,
"How careless you are! How can an assassin women faked to be a maid and success in poisoning his royal majesty! How you allowed someone to came near his majesty without properly checking !"
In the face of dukes anger she only lowered her head. The maid is an old lady in her 70s. She has served current king Ronald Hartage since he was 16 years old.
If current king can trust anyone blindly, than she will be placed in the top.She accompanied him throughout his almost all life.
The investing and prophesying magis had confirmed that she is innocent.
Seeing that duke continues to badmouth his personal maid, king Ronald mustered strength from his dying frail body and said weakly,
"Cough... Duke Kropp, maid Martha I...is not involved, stop this and let's talk about.... who may be the real cul....culprit."
Duke Kropp take a look of the maid and thought,
this maid is following the current king since the king was one of the 12 prince . There are always rumours about her and kings romance. Some say that because she is a lowly peasant born ,the king failed to marry her. This story is very famous among ordinary peoples.
Duke kropp replied solemnly,
"Your majesty, we are conducting various investigation throughout the capital. We have already imprisoned and beheaded many suspicious subjects. We already identified the assassins origin. That women is related to the infamous 'Shadow of melodious raves'."
Hearing this, everyone present become shocked.They knows about this assassin squad. They are notorious throughout arcadia continent. They are believed to be from the belfry subcontinent. They become known in all of the arcadia continent after a successful assassination of a rank 7 mage.
Hiring this "Shadow of melodious raves" is not easy.It can be imagined that some people wants the king dead so earnestly.
marquis kannis added,
"No wonder she can pass through so many defensive measures and quickly disappeared after an unsuccessful attempt as if air ! She killed 3 magi and injured dozens of magi bodyguard of his majesty. can we caught her? "
Duke Kropp shook his head and added,
"Mages under my lead tried their best but didn't succeed. They confirmed that she had some internal help,but we are not sure."
Earl Grey touched his chin and said,
" Lord mage 'Salmis of the pill containing mountain of Tasan' did you find out about the type of poison in his majesties body?"
Rank 4 medic mage Salmis shook his head and replied frustratedly,
"Lord Grey, I tried my best, but I still failed to identify this poison origins. But i have come to some conclusion. This a type of poison which will slowly corrode internal organs little by little. It has a high resistance to medicines. Blood letting or fluid release method is also ineffective.If not for the fact that she failed to properly inject this poison in the blood system of his majesty for the valiant sacrifice of the bodyguards, his majesty would have died within a day or two! I believe a mage above level 6 of the poison path is behind It's creation.
I have already sent a sample of it to my teacher who is a rank 8 magi of the life-death salvage path. But. "
Seeing that the medic magis hesitate expression, duke kropp asked him to say.
The magi took a deep breath and replied loudly,
"He said to me that he can heal his majesty but as fees, he need magi treasure worth at least rank 7!"
Hearing mages word, Everyone present was stunned. Marquis salter blurted out loudly,
"Rank 7 magus treasure! This price is too much. We must find another medic magi."
Medic magi twitched his mouth and thought,
'Hmph, you think medic magis are like cabbage found randomly at streets ! medic magis are rare compared to the common magis. Even my teacher who is a rank 8 magi of the medic related path lived for 48,000 years but only met 1000 medic magi who are higher rank then him. Even though my medic aptitude was mediocre, but I successfully become a rank 8 mages student because of the rarity of this path.'
The founder of this kingdom Hartage lived around 33 thousands of years. He was a rank 8 magi before dying. In the history of this kingdom after the founders death there were only 3 rank 7 magi born in this royal family.Current high rank magi of this family is only rank 6. However, this kingdom has a rank 7 magi from the Dukedom of Seismic family .
So naturally they have a lot of rank 7 treasures. But they are not some random treasures that can be brought out at any kings need.
They have both strategic and historic importance. They work as a deterrence force to the internal and external foes.
A single treasure lost may invokes this kingdoms enemies to have some malicious intents.
Even if king wants, he can't take them out for his personal use. king is but an mortal human who is not a magi. As religious faction won't allow a magi to be a king.
King ronald is also helpless regarding this matter.He understands that his end is nearing soon. So he asked the medic magi,
"No need to use those magi treasures for this old man. I am just an ordinary mortal human. Living to the age 70 is considered rare in this world compared to the ordinary mortals who's life expectancy is only around 40. "
All of the people present become sad. Maid Martha come near to the king, touched kings old hand started to cry.
Duke kropp broke the silence,
"What did the archbishop of the church of the moon mother goddess of this kingdom said? can they do something? "
Marquis Mebner shook his head and said,
"I have already contacted the archbishop of this kingdom who is in capital's Hartz diocese.He said that their holy priest don't have the ability to heal such high level evil mana poison, so he will ask the cardinal of the church of the mother goddess for assistance . But the problem is that they are now entangled with the issue of the hersey of The principality of Antioch. They are busy in a crusade against the heretic king of Antioch and his supporters.So I doubt if they have any spare energy to focus here."
King of the principality of antioch has ordered to destroy all the churches of the mother goddess in his ruling area. Which completely angered the church. They are now leading thousands of the crusaders in a war against the heretic king.
From the battle report, things are not going well for the both church and the king, as they are facing huge resistance from both local, noble and pagan population.
Hearing the mention of church, medic mage salmis said in a mocking voice,
"Those followers of the evil entities ( gods) are as reckless as always . In the name of god,they force peaceful people to believe their teachings forcibly. If they do not listen, they kill innocent mortals. After killing they fake a cry to their evil entities to forgive their sins, ha ha ha. "
No one commented in response to the mages mockery of the gods.
Magus and religious faction are at odds since the time they came in contact with each other. One respects (magus) mana whereas other loathes (religious) it as root of chaos.
Throughout the known history of this world, they fought countless small battles against each other.
They even fought 7 great world wars in 1 millon years of this world history. Which almost flattened this egg-shaped earth.So they reached an agreement not to interfere in others activity.
This kingdom mostly favours magus faction, so they may not help the king Ronald in the face of an important crusade.
Mage salmis added,
"Even if i can't cure this poison. But i can slow down its spreading using medicinal herbs and time related magus treasures. "
King Ronald asked,
"How....cough...how muc..h timee... i... have?"
salmis replied immediately,
"If i can use a lot of magi materials and get help from at least a rank 4 time or clock path and a poison path magi , I can guarantee that your majesty can last at very minimum 6 years. But if you choose to get treatment from the church, then no magi will come to treat his majesty. So i will ask if his majesty want to get treatment from us or them?"
King Ronald asked to get treatment from magus side without a second thought.
He always admired mages since he was a child. He was very sad when he turned 14 but discovered that he had to magi aptitude, but the admiration was always in his heart.
His ruling policy was always inclined toward the magus faction.In his 40 years of ruling, he received many help for various magus faction.The church always knew that. So the church didn't liked him that much. But he never provoked them, and they also didn't.
Duke kropp said,
"Your majesty, the Hussar kingdom is secretly mobilizing their troops in our border areas. Our spies informed of a possible invasion. Duke Remus is currently heading there with his army and requested for the permission of additional conscription of the young peasants."
Mage Salmis gestured the standing maids to put down the trays. They obeyed mages order and bowed and left.
Mage Salmis used mana to mix different kinds of medical treasure to create a pill instantly and helped the king to eat it.
After swallowing the pill king finally felt normal, but he knew it was temporary.
He replied to the duke,
"Hmm, these Hussar kingdom bastards really know when to make a move. "
Marquis salter said solemnly,
"Isn't it is a bit suspicious that they started to make a move when his majesty faced a failed assassination attempt?Why do i think that this is not a coincidence! I think they must have something to do with this assassination attempt!"
Hearing marquis salters question, everyone present become angry.
Earl grey added,
"I have also the same feeling like lord salter. They started to activate their war machines when our king faced an assassination attempt. So there are a high probability of their involvement."
marquis Mebner said making an ugly face,
"Even if they are not directly involved, but they may be in a pact with those 'losers' ."
Hearing this everyone present become a little restless. More than 40 years ago when the 12 prince of the royal family fought for the crown, various noble families supported these warring princes.
Current king Ronald succeeded in defeating and killing his brothers thanks to the all the nobles family's now present besides his bed. During those chaotic times, murder,blackmail,backstabbing was a common thing .He was lucky back then to receive the support from the Novgord empire.
After successfully becoming the king, he showed mercy to most of the nobles. But few were so stubborn that they denied to recognize him as their ruler. So he naturally punished them very harshly.
Many powerful old nobels were demoted overnight. Most famous among these noble families are,Ducal family Nort-Marto family which was demoted to the viscount family , marquis family known as steins family was demoted as a barron family, Elsorn family which was a very old marquis family became a Barron family ... etc.
Regarding this matter king is helpless.
If king Ronald could, he would have long since eradicated these troublesome noble family's .But king can't break the feudalist rules set by ancestors of not killing a noble.No matter how much heinous crime they commit, if they don't do something that endanger the kingdom or royal family, they can easily survive from the punishment at exchange of some compensations.
feudalism is like a double edge sword.
It one way helps royal family to rule the big kingdom and helps to collect tex from the people of their ruling area.
On the other hand it also causes decentralization of power, which forces the king to maintain good relations and appease the nobles. Nobles do not pay tex from their own pocket but forces the people living in their territory with a huge taxes.
So ordinary people have no participation in the ruling the kingdom, all government posts are in the aristocrats gripes.
No matter how much a noble torture It's subjects in his territory, if he do not commit big crime, king can not interfere in their territory management .
If King Ronald kills those loser nobles, he will lose support from all of the nobles.
Nobles family's has relationship with many other aristocracy family's not only in this kingdom but also outside ones.So you never know what will come next to bite you.
These nobles team up, back - stab and marry among their families. This is a very big circus show.
King Ronald said sternly,
"Whether it is those 'losers' from back then or the Hussar kingdom or other , it doesn't really matter.The important thing is to how to turn this situation in our own advantage. What if we release the the information about the assassination attempt and tell that Hussar kingdom are the orchestrator. the ones behind this hiring of assassin women ?"
Duke kropp's eyes lit up and he said enthusiastically,
"His majesty is wise as always. Since 3 day's we are secretly enforcing a lot of magi about this matter, which attracted a lot attention.If we reveal about this assassination attempt and point it towards those bastards(Hussar), that they hired an infamous assassination group to harm his majesty. Then they will suffer a lot of public image and reputation . It can also make our people to want to have revenge against them!Which will greatly help to make a massive conscription! "
Earl grey also nodded and added
"Your grace is right, it will greatly help us in this upcoming war. But according to our spies , we came to a conclusion that Hussar's are receiving a lot of material and financial aid from thier backer the Auspice empire.So will our backers do the same? "
Hartage kingdom is the protectorate kingdom of the Novgord empire.So they have moral obligations to help their ' little brother ' in their time of need.
Marquis song replied,
"I have talked with the duke Lenor via magic communication prop yesterday regarding this issue. He affirmed me that Novgord will support us at any need. He will start sending aid as soon as emperor Ulrich of Novgord empire gives a nod.According to his information, he will meet the emperor today for this matter ."
King narrowed his eyes and after thinking he said,
"Give permission to the duke Remus that he can conscript peasant young mens from age 20 to 30 from any aristocracy family's territory west of this kingdom. He is authorized to command all the noble families west of this kingdom to participate in this due war .Those who do not obey, will be punished according to the law.
Order duke Redford to send one-third of his standing army from east to the west in aid to the duke Remus.Anyway east side is a friendly territory, so they can lower the number of manpower's there.
Inform duke Carzon of north region and duke Cilic of south region to be ready to send help to duke Remus at any time.
Although we share most of the this 2 region with novgord alliance,so there's almost no risk of getting attacked from there. But they can wait for the war to start.
Earl Gery, lead 1/10 th the mages and knights from capital to the duke Remus aid. Also contract Hartz maze tower for their assistance and Hartz diocese to send at least some of thier holy knights.
Before i die i want to see that hussar king kissing my legs for mercy. We will pay back for the humiliating defeat which caused us to lose ⅓ of our territory to them 100 years ago. "
After giving orders he told the nobles them to leave. Only the medic magi and maid martha stayed in his bedroom.
....
The young maid who carried the tray of medicine to king's bedroom was now telling what she heard the noble's are discussing with the bedridden king to the 3rd royal concubine miss mulleina .
She had a life saving grace to her excellency, so she hide nothing from her.
After hearing the maids words, she understood that the king luckily survived but will die after 6 years.
"Thanks to the mother goddess that his majesty is safe! maid from now on forget everything you heard there, and also warn those 2 maids to do so too. or else... "
Saying so she throw a small clothes bag full of gold coins and ordered her to leave.
Before leaving, maid happily accepted the gold coins and promised to forget about this incident.
Her and king Ronald's marriage was a political marriage. They were never in a love relationship.
She doesn't care if king lives or dies, but her only concern is her son, whom she want to see as a king of Hartage kingdom.
Royal concubine mulleina called the butler. The butler is a middle-aged men. He takes care of the lily palace where she lives.
The butler give a salute respectfully and said,
"Your royal highness, is there something you are looking for this butler?"
She nodded and said,
"What is that useless son of mine doing now?"
The butler started to sweat and said with a fake smile,
"Your highness, young prince is now hunting deers in a nearby mountains."
Mulleina twitched her mouth and said harshly,
"Butler Hans, I know you pamper that Habsnar a lot. Stop lying to me or else you know my anger issues. "
Butler Hans sighed and said,
"Your highness, I don't know if it will be appropriate to talk something like that... "
She narrowed her beautiful golden eyebrows and said sternly,
"Say do not measure my anger."
Butler Hans said in red face,
"The prince....is in a famous brothel right now for about a week ."
She furrowed her eyes in shock and anger, She shouted loudly,
"All other six princes running to the nobles door to door nonstop for their trust and support and that stupid son of mine is busy fucking whores? "