Huuu haaa, huuu haaa
Badum Badum
Boom!
Huuu haaa
As I release a deep breath, I stabilize myself and the mana within.
A few years have passed since then, and I have now created a second core.
Establishing me as a rank-two individual.
And if you're asking if I have escaped from the empire, the answer is a big fat "NO!"
Why? Two things
First, I learned how weak I was and that I needed to get more powerful to escape from dangerous situations.
And to do so, I need resources, so I must leech off the royal family as much as I can.
And lastly, the real reason and main reason I can't is because someone (my sister) destroyed the node for destinations outside the empire.
And yes, I tried to fix it, but coincidentally, she would arrive at that time.
And later I learned during her coming-of-age ceremony that she had undergone a baptism of some sort.
She is the oracle.
Fancy me that. What I thought was a coincidence was not a coincidence at all.
Man I love to put a meme here, and somehow I kind of have an inkling that she is an oracle.
This kind of thing happens during an emergency or when a dangerous calamity is about to happen on the continent.
And in every country, there would be a representative.
And among those countries, the chosen people are random.
So the chosen people are decided by the four cardinal directions.
These are the west, east, north, and south sides of the continent.
We are located on the south side, and our country is mostly made up of people who are children of the oracle, making our empire the most advanced and strongest country.
But that doesn't mean that we are the strongest country on the continent. For there are lapses in the birth of these chosen people, making it possible for other countries to rise higher.
And as I explained earlier, they get born randomly. There were times they were born in small countries or became bandits that saved people.
Which makes for a good story about fighting against evil and corrupt nobles.
I say four cardinal directions, but there are five of these people.
Four are the Sage, Saint, Holy Knight, and Oracle, which is currently my sister.
And lastly, as we all know, there is the hero. Now this one is tricky, for it was not randomly chosen.
One needs to be worthy, and to be worthy, a set of trials needs to be achieved.
How is this performed, you may ask? No one knows. Because the one who gave this trial is the traveling dungeon.
As the name suggests, this is a dungeon that travels on its own accord, and people who saw it believed that the hero was living in the area near the dungeon.
Which was proven wrong later on. Making people question the reason for its arrival.
But back to my sister, you might think that, whoosh, it was there shown on the tablet during the ceremony, but that's wrong.
Instead, it is shown based on enlightenment, and it is up to the choice of the chosen ones to reveal it or not.
But here, my sister had no choice because Lady Leticia almost died from an assassination.
Right at the cathedral, she was forced to use her ability to protect Lady Leticia and capture the criminal who later committed suicide.
It was a good call, and at the same time, it revealed something that could be used as a hidden card against our enemies.
And here, my little sister frequents my room. She's running from something she always hears from inside the castle.
"Haa first thing in the morning, and you're here?"
"Good morning to you, too, big brother."
"Okay, good morning to you as well, Fina and Dylan. Why are you two here again, or more like, how are you able to get in?"
"Don't sweat the small stuff, and let's play!"
"No! I want to train and become strong like my brother."
"That's boring!"
Yup, like this, they sometimes come here to play, and they also knew about what I can do except for one.
"Alright, let's go out."
Let's just indulge them; after all, this is the last day I will be with them.
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"How's the preparation?"
"Slow as always."
"How come? Am I paying you so little that you slow down the operations?!."
"No. You pay us well, your excellency."
"But what? Because of some brat, you choose to slow down what I have worked hard for for many years."
"That brat can turn all your hard work into dust. And it is because you pay us so well that we are trying to prevent that."
Nnggrraaahhh!
Controlling himself, he destroyed a product by blasting it into bits.
"How long?"
"Your excellency?"
"How long till I have the throne for myself?!"
"Ten years, if not eight."
"Make it three."
"That's too much, at least five. Five years, and we will guarantee the throne is yours."
"Fine, but make sure that it happens. Carlyle makes sure this operation succeeds."
Leaving, Duke Salion instructed his butler to take charge of the operations.
"He is still impulsive as always. Does he know how much resources we have to waste on a single chimera?"
"He doesn't, and he will never know."
""Hahahahaha!.""
~~~~~~~~~
"Ehhh! You're leaving tomorrow?"
"Why? You haven't taught me all your techniques yet."
"Why are you so surprised? You're the oracle.*
"Oracle or not, my power has limits, and I can't see all futures."
"And you, Dylan, you should learn from high-ranking knights in the castle; they will gladly teach you better than me."
"Bu-but."
"Hey, you can also ask our brothers and sisters, they can teach you more."
Yup, tomorrow I am going to travel to enroll in the Sage Academy.
I am going there a month earlier than the enrollment date.
"Then you got to play lots with us all day today, okay?"
"Mm, that's right, please?"
"What about those marriage proposals of yours? I bet you escaped because you were going to meet those boys again, didn't you?"
Fina made a crumpled face, and she said.
"Let them rot in there and wait for all I care. And for that mastermind who tried to assassinate Mother, I curse you to a thousand experiences worse than death."
""Pfft, haha, hahahahaha.""
Dylan and I both laughed as we heard her say that.
We continued to play until it became tomorrow and I had to leave the place.
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"Did you pack all of your stuff? Did you forget anything?"
"No, mother Leticia. I have them all."
Right now I am about to leave the place and am packing my things in the carriage.
I guess she became more selfish after the assassination attempt. After that, she requested that I call her mother, even if I had to add her name to it.
And right now Lady Leticia is nagging me about whether I have my things in my bags. Which she argued was too little.
What do you want me to do to bring a whole house? This bag has space magic enchantments. I have more than what I need.
Right now I am carrying a bag made from high-quality rune enchanted materials. And in it I can store 3 meters squared of space; though there are better ones, these are the only ones available at the market.
And I bought these because I am going to enroll not as the prince of the Saga Empire but as the rich son of a merchant.
"Don't go."
"Come on, we talked about this yesterday."
"That's right, and you have to go back to the castle. Do you understand?"
"Hik!*
"Fina and Dylan made a scared gesture as they realized what they had done."
"Cut them some slack, Mother Leticia."
"Stop, don't spoiling them; you also played a role in their escape."
"Ehehe."
"Haaa I'm sorry about your mother; she became busy after Serafina became an Oracle and your father had to completely eradicate those invaders."
"Don't worry, I understand."
"Your highness, we're ready."
"Okay! Now then, good bye everyone."
"Goodbye Dustin."
"Goodbye, big brother Dustin."
Saying our goodbyes, I left as I sat down inside the carriage. And after a few hours, we arrived at a certain transportation area.
"Do you really not need my help?"
"No, there's no need. Also, drink this when no one's around.
"What's this? "
"Something that can help you chase your dream again."
"Really, your highness, you are worrying about others instead of yourself."
"Hey, that's what you say after I give you a nice gift."
""Pft, ahahaha ""
"Take care, your highness."
"As to you as well, Kiara Shield, till we meet again."
Saying that, I walked away, heading towards the transportation vehicle.
I really hope it will work as intended. Although it had already been proven and trusted.
I just hope nothing negative happens to her. After all, I made a lot of money from it on the black market.
I am glad that Fina didn't destroy the teleportation node inside the empire's capital.
Now then, let's ride the train for the first time in a long time.