The news of the incident spread throughout the kingdom and even reached King Barry Norton. The king sent a warning letter to the Earl regarding the incident. Earl Harvey had to deal with the aftermath and had to spend a lot of money to quiet down the incident and luckily for him no one demanded Donald to step down as heir.
The reason is simple because Donald had a rash mentality whereas Kelvin and Calvin had brains to think about the situation. They definitely did not want either of those two to become the Earl because they would become formidable opponents to even rival the dukes of the kingdom.
Even the way Ash executed the goon cruelly and the way he dominated the market also spread throughout the kingdom. Everyone's assumption that he was a trash have completely shattered. Some even came to know that the illegitimate son is a master of spear through spies.
This brought a hope to all the illegitimate children of nobles who are treated as trash by their family. They also came to know how a child with just 50 magic power increased it to 200 in just a few weeks. Many tried to meet Ash to get hold of the method but they could not meet him.
Ash kept a low profile during these 2 weeks and only concentrated on blacksmithing. He did not train during this time.
Name: Ash Randell
Level 1
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 500/500
Experience: 0/500
STR: 46
AGI: 48
VIT: 50
INT: 56
LUCK: 44
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active).
Hidden quest: Become the master of Black smithy and forge a unique weapon for yourself with rare ores.
Black smithy Mastery (75/100) Unique Weapon: To be forged Grade (--)
Reward: Experience 300
His Black smithy mastery reached 75 in just two weeks. He was able to use all types of ores to forge high grade weapons. But he could only forge up to grade 4. When it comes to grading of weapons they are graded from 1 to 5. Grade 5 weapon is the top class weapon in this world.
The rumors' of the illegitimate child's talent even reached the royal palace where King had 2 wives and 2 concubines.
He has 6 children from the legal wives and two illegitimate children from concubines. The eldest was 17 years old and his name is Prince Edward. The first 6 children were 3 princes and 3 princesses.
As for the illegitimate children they were a boy and a girl. The boy's name is Quinn and the girls name is Rose. When those two came to know about Ash they felt hope for the first time because they were bullied by their siblings from legal wives. They always felt low due to their continued harassment. After getting to know that an illegitimate child is pursuing combat arts and also increased his magic power to 200 using a mysterious method they felt overjoyed since they had very low magic magic which is just a little high compared to Ash when he is five years old.
The siblings wanted to learn the combat arts from Ash and increase their magic power to prove that they are not useless. It is not only them that are thinking like that. Every illegitimate child of the noble households felt like that due to unfair treatment in their families.
Ash received summons from Earl Harvey to speak about what happened. Ash knew that he was being summoned for a verbal thrashing but he didn't give a flying fuck.
"May I come in?" asked Ash from outside Earl's office. "Come in" came the voice from other side.
Ash entered the room and looked at the Earl's table and it is filled with letters and papers. Ash smiled inside because he has messed with the Earl which increased his workload. He also saw the posh furnishing of the room with red carpets spread over the floor.
"Sit down" said the Earl pointing the sofa on the side. Ash went to the sofa and sat there silently. Earl was writing and after few minutes he stopped it and looked at Ash.
"Do you know what you have done?" asked the Earl with eyebrows furrowed. Ash looked at him with amusement but did not answer.
"You have caused a lot of problems for the Earl's territory with your actions. Even the king is threatening me because what you have done" shouted Harvey.
He has been patient until now but he has lost his cool after this incident. "You are just an illegitimate bastard who is born by mistake and you should know your place" threatened Harvey.
Ash looked at the warnings as tantrums and kept silent. "If you do this again your mother will pay the consequences, do you understand?" shouted Harvey.
Ash who has kept quiet until now opened his mouth.
"My Lord did you forget that Donald is the one who sent goons to kill me?" asked Ash with amused expression.
"So what? As the successor of this household he has the right to do anything" said Harvey with a sarcastic smile.
"Oh anything?" asked Ash with sarcasm. Earl nodded shamelessly.
"Then what about the misuse of king's relief funds sent to the territory for his own purpose" said Ash.
"What?" shouted Earl standing up. Ash took out some papers from his coat pocket and showed the Earl.
For the first time since Ash entering the room to now Harvey has been arrogant but now fear appeared in his eyes. He gritted his teeth due to frustration.
"In the kingdom misuse of king's relief fund by anyone is punishable by death My lord" said Ash waving the documents
"Give them to me" shouted Harvey and about to cast a spell but Ash reacted quickly by vanishing the documents by putting them in the inventory.
Earl was surprised that Ash had dimensional magic. ''What did you do?" shouted Earl.
"Don't worry my lord they are safe with me" said Ash sarcastically. "What do you want Ash?" asked Harvey calming himself down.
"Now can we talk in civilized way?" said Ash. Earl Harvey nodded and sat down.
Ash took out an agreement and placed it in front of the Earl. "Let's make a deal My Lord" said Ash.
Earl took the agreement and started studying. "You need not worry about me becoming a rival to Donald for the Earl's position as I have no interest in it" said Ash.
"You can see it is the first clause. As soon as I reach 12 years old I will voluntarily relinquish my right's to the position and house's name. I will leave the household and will not use Randell house name as my surname anywhere. On failing to do so the Earl can ask the king to punish me" said Ash.
"The second clause is where I need monetary compensation of 50 million gold as soon as I relinquish my rights to the position on that day" said Ash.
"The third clause states that me and my mother will be left alone and will not be harassed or bullied or threatened by anyone in the household during these 5 years of our stay in the house. I will go on with my trainings on different things I want to do." said Ash.
"The fourth clause states that half of the documents on Donald's misuse of funds will be given back as soon as this agreement is signed. The other half will be given back on the day I relinquish my surname" said Ash.
"The fifth clause states that if the subject fails to meet any of the first three conditions the entire agreement becomes void and the documents will be sent to royal family".
The Earl felt mixed feelings towards the agreement because he is happy that Ash is going to relinquish his right to Earl's position but the second and third clauses made him uncomfortable.
Ash understood his feelings and said "You can announce about this agreement to all of your wives and sons so that they can be relieved that I am not a threat to them. Tell them about the conditions they need to follow until next 5 years and everything will be alright".
The Earl thought for a while and felt that signing this agreement is the best way to get rid of Ash as an obstacle to Donald. The Earl also understood that this is a trap if the third clause is considered. But he decided to put his wives and sons on leash for 5 years.
Ash has already signed the agreement and Earl took the feather pen and signed the agreement after some pondering. He is also thinking how Ash came with an agreement like this because even his other sons except Donald doesn't have knowledge on these aspects.
Ash folded the agreement and put it in the inventory and brought out half of the fund misuse documents and gave it to Earl.
"Happy cooperation My Lord" said Ash with a sarcastic smile and went near the door without a word.
"I know you are eavesdropping Kevin and Calvin. Don't you have manners" said Ash playfully and completely opened the door revealing Kevin and Calvin.
"What are you two doing?" shouted Harvey. Ash winked at them playfully and left.
"Father we could no.. not hear properly" said Kevin stuttering. "Yes father we could only hear a vague conversation" said Calvin with confidence.
Earl massaged his forehead and said "Bring your mothers here and I will tell you".
They both brought their mothers and Earl explained everything about the agreement. Both of his wives and his children felt happy as one of the obstacle completely moved out of the way on their own.
"But I am warning you guys if anyone tries to interfere with Ash and Jasmine the agreement will be void" said Earl.
They were startled. They started discussing among themselves and after sometime they replied "From now on for 5 years we will not harass or bully or threaten both of them in any way".
Everyone had their own plans that hey want to put in motion after the issue with legitimate child has been resolved.