1st person Pov:
"I understand targeting and robbing the Heraiz faction, but why target the Messiah faction?" Cynthia is awfully curious. Well, she is always like this, so I guess there is no helping it. "What's there to not understand? I just wanted to visit my fiancée's territory. I just happened to see some gold coins lying around. Thought I should pick them up."
They really were lying around. Just in safes. Cynthia's eyes are looking at me like they are looking at a scammer. Waah… I'm hurt. To think she would think of me like that. "The reason is simple. The rumors about me must have reached them by now. They will come and use my injury and inability to manifest mana as a reason to break off my and Sierra's engagement."
"But how is that connected with robbing them?" She still asked not understanding the link between my actions. "That's simple. To make John Messiah desperate." She still looks confused and a little unconvinced by my cryptic explanation. This perverted maid, if she thinks about these matters even half of what she fantasizes about doing with me, she will understand everything.
"Tell me this, what do people do when they are desperate? Or what do people do with desperate people?" I asked in return. She thought for some time and answered, "They do stupid things like turning to someone who takes advantage of them. And people will definitely take advantage of such people."
"Exactly. Though Blake Messiah is alive, he will sooner or later abdicate his position, and the one to inherit it is John Messiah, his son. But he is incompetent. Everyone knows that. And because of that, his hold on the territory is not that firm."
"He is trying to use his Children to ally himself with someone of higher status. Like the King for example. But there are many more parties. Like the Heraiz family, the largest faction of the Kingdom." I explained a little.
"Or the Frozen valley sect," Cynthia added to my explanation. She caught on. "Exactly. I can say with a guarantee that one of these parties will request or outright demand us to break our engagement. John Messiah will rely heavily on them. And since the Nobles of Messiah territory that were on his side are robbed, he has lost a major chunk of support."
"He is most vulnerable as of right now. Or should I say he is most desperate right now? He will do more stupid things. Like threatening our family. The frozen valley sect, the King, or the Heraiz faction. They will also do that." I explained in detail.
"And what if they don't?" The possibility she is talking about exists, but they won't act like that. Humans are like that. "They are all people of high status. Do you think they will just settle with requesting us politely? It would be like bowing to us. They won't. They will show arrogance, power, and authority."
"But what would that entail?" Her questions are so predictable. I turned to her and said while smiling, "It's not just John Messiah who is desperate. Andreas, who is at war with the Church. The King, who is worried about his authority. And Frozen sect whose status can't afford to let go of Sierra, a future mana lord. They are all desperate. And in their desperation, I will make them bleed. Bleed their wealth, bleed their resources, and most of all, bleed them of their authority."
As I said I looked up at the sky that was just brightening and said, "The only authority that will remain will be ours. The Revsteins." Just the world has changed. I haven't. Those who show any hostility to me are destined to be destroyed. That won't change. "You scare me sometimes young master." I heard Cynthia saying. "Hahaha" I couldn't help but laugh. "Use the word frightening Cynthia. Use the word frightening."
Cynthia did not say anything, and I wasn't much keen on continuing this conversation either. "How is the training of the technique that I taught you going?" I asked as I changed the topic. "It has been progressing smoothly young master. I have only mastered the first seven techniques. But I must say that it is a terrifying technique. I feel my power increase little by little since I have started using it."
I taught Cynthia a breathing and sword technique of the Cang sword clan. It was a Clan that existed back in Kunlun. They were known for their sword techniques. Their sword arts and breathing techniques were graded as supreme transcendental. One level higher than the sword technique of the Judgment sect. I obtained these techniques when I helped them in a war of clans.
For me, these techniques are not so perfect since I already have many others, and also the fact that I am saving my chance for my own divine-grade sword art. But Cynthia is perfect in every way for this art. It's proven by how fast she is progressing in it. It took me 18 years to fully master it's all 17 forms, yet she has mastered seven of them in just less than two years.
"Cynthia, how are you distributing your stats?" I asked another thing that was on my mind. When we became adventurers and visited dungeons, one day a message showed up by the system that said:
[Would you like to create a temporary part with Cynthia Holbein?]
I was startled by this message, but something else caught my eye instead. Temporary. Does that mean there is a permanent party as well? When I asked another message appeared.
[Permanent party is the creation of a contract. Both parties are branded by the system and cannot harm each other in any way.]
[Both parties share the exp gained with 70-30 distribution with the user having 70. If the other party gains exp, 40 percent will be transferred to the user.]
Whoa. These perks are amazing. I can gain many things from this. First and foremost, allies. Faithful allies.
[Would you like to form a permanent party with Cynthia Holbein?]
[Yes\No]
When I said yes, there was something I never expected. For her to get a system as well. At first, she was freaked out but when I explained everything to her, she calmed down and started looking at me like I was some sort of divine being. Well, of course, something like that was not possible so there is a chance she would think that way.
She hasn't benefitted much from it though. The system she has is an inferior version of mine. The only stats she has are Strength, Agility, Stamina, Int, and Sense. She also gets three stat points per level. But since she was already level 67 before, her increase in level is not much. In these two years, she has only leveled up five times. Well, it is understandable since all we have hunted are D-ranked beasts and some C-ranked.
There are two reasons for that. when I formed the party, a thought struck me. What if Cynthia kills an A-rank monster? Its 40 percent exp would not be small. But, as always, these universal laws are not going to let things go so smoothly for me.
Reason one:
[A limitation has been applied to the user.]
[The user will not gain exp of monsters that are 15 levels higher than the user]
Reason two:
[The user has reached the limit for the current realm]
[The user's level cannot increase anymore]
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