Chapter 18: Mother's Background
Father's gaze began to grow interested.
"Will, why would you think that? Great Archmage Anna is one of the best magic teachers. She probably will be interested in your talent."
"Father, do you remember five years ago?"
"Are you talking about your attempt to awaken your magic when you were three years old? Is that accurate?"
"Yes, if I ask Great Archmage Anna to test me, Jennifer will definitely know about it. If I really can't awaken my magic…"
"Jennifer will beg Great Archmage Anna to make an exception and admit you to the academy?"
Father's words hit the nail on the head.
"She will owe the academy a favor as a result."
I could only nod.
My relationship with Jennifer was still very good. Every time we met, she would still pull me into her arms. Nothing had changed as I grew older.
If I was really eight years old and didn't know anything about the affairs between men and women, it wouldn't matter.. But I wasn't. I had an adult soul.
The precocious Jennifer had already grown into a beautiful young girl. Her body had also begun to develop. Every time I was held in her arms, others would think that we are close siblings, but to me, it was too charming.
As a rare genius mage who only appeared once every two hundred years, a treasured student of the Glei Academy, as long as she was willing to speak, the academy would definitely accept me, even if I didn't have the qualifications to enter.
In my previous life, I didn't know much about the ways of the world. However, I knew that favors were the most difficult debts to repay in the world. After all, I had also killed people for his friend because of the favor that the President owed.
"Yes, Will, it's good that you can think of this. However, our family is the closest to the Glei Academy. If we go to the other two academies to invite teachers…"
My father thought for a moment and smiled at me. "Perhaps you can ask your mother for help."
"Mother? Is someone in Mother's family also a teacher of an academy?"
I was surprised.
I originally thought that my mother was just a genius mage, but from my father's expression, that was not the case at all.
My mother's family also seemed to have considerable influence. And in all these years, I had never heard my mother mention it. Not once.
"Haha, you can ask her yourself. This might be a good opportunity!"
His father laughed heartily and walked out of the room.
I followed my father out and decided to seek my mother's help.
…
"Will, don't you want to go to Glei Academy?"
"Yes."
I repeated what I had just said to my father to my mother.
"I think you may be worrying too much, Will, but Mother appreciates your thoughtfulness."
Mother nodded slightly and glared at Father. "Davis, given your relationship with the King, it shouldn't be difficult to have the capital's magic academy to send a teacher over, right?"
"Hehe, my dear, after so many years, the people sent by my father-in-law to apologize have all been chased away by you. You never returned to your maternal family and you didn't even let them know that you have given birth to Will. Do you want Will to never know who his maternal grandfather is? That's impossible. Will will eventually become the head of the Reinhardt Family and inherit the Sword of Damocles. The Laurence family will definitely know of his existence."
Father's words rendered Mother speechless.
"Okay, I can contact the Laurence family, but this is all for Will!"
"Yes, that's right. It's all for Will, darling."
"Will, I'm sorry I haven't told you about your grandfather all these years."
My mother hugged me and continued, "My name is Lilith Lawrence, I am the eldest daughter of Marquis Laurence of the Northern Territory. Your grandfather is the Principal of Olgus Academy, one of the three major magic academies in the kingdom…"
Only after listening to Mother's account,
did I realize that I had such an illustrious background. Father really wasn't lying.
Mother was dissatisfied with the Laurence family's decision to marry her into the royal family. She ran away from the marriage and went to the Glei Academy where she met Father. Moreover, she successfully passed the Great Mage Assessment and became a dual-attribute Great Mage.
When Mother became an adult, Father took her as his wife and that was how I was born.
All these years, Mother had always held resentment against my grandfather's decision and had never mentioned her family to me. My grandfather had sent people to invite my mother back every year, but my mother had chased them away.
This plot from the novels of my previous life had truly appeared before my eyes.
Mother's letter was quickly sent out.
However, it took the Laurence family nearly a month to send someone over.
"Miss, Earl Reinhardt."
A middle-aged Mage stood in front of Mother and Father and bowed. Then, his gaze shifted to me. "Is this Young Master Will?"
"Yes, Viscount Bateman. I hope you can test Will's talent seriously. If anything goes wrong, I won't spare you."
Mother pulled a cold and stony face, and her words were not polite. This person in front of me is probably a servant who has served the Laurence family for many years.
"Hehe, Miss, you haven't changed after so many years. Even without your orders, I won't be careless. This is the shared bloodline of the Laurence and Reinhardt Families. Young Master Will, please extend your hand and recite these magic incantations."
The Mage named Bateman squatted in front of me and took out a Test Crystal. A few incantations appeared in front of me.
Like the magic incantations I'd read when I was three, they were the simplest spells to awaken magic.
The first was a water-type incantation.
"Oh pure protection of water, answer the call of the sincere. Descend here."
I read out after him.
The magic crystal did not show any reaction.
I saw Archmage Bateman's eyes flicker. Maybe he thought I should have inherited my mother's water talent, but I didn't.
"Don't worry, Master Will. Read the next line."
"May the protection of the winds…"
"Keep going."
"Fire…"
Just like when I was three years old, the crystal still didn't react when I finished chanting the three incantations of water, wind, and fire.
I could even hear my mother's rapid breathing.
Archmage Bateman frowned and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"Please wait a moment, Young Master Will. Let me examine the crystal."
Bateman extended his hand, and the transparent crystal immediately turned into a small world of purple and lightning.
"Young… Young Master Will, continue!"
"Oh thunder from the sky~"
…
The incantations of Water, Wind, Fire, Thunder, and Ice were all chanted by me.
Looking at the transparent crystal, the anticipation in Mage Bateman's eyes was completely shattered.
"Miss, Earl Reinhardt… Young Master Will…"
"Aren't there still two attributes that haven't been tested? Bateman, go on. I don't believe that my Will can't awaken any kind of magic."
Mother's voice was calm but firm.
"Yes… Miss…"