About a week later Jason Flint and Adam Knight ( Since adoption is cancelled his name was reverted back to Knight) and Clara Pierce were travelling towards Western Duke castle located in the Border of Warg kingdom.
They were travelling with the 10 Guardians teams travelling from Tulip town to their towns. Which caused a small stir in the EA. They have news reports stating Tulip Guardians was an emerging team who performed tasks that pleased the EA of Tulip town.
Now nearly another 10 towns have The Guardians mercenaries. All 10 teams registered their team name, along with their town name in front of them, and their guardians in back. They have formed a mercenary alliance that collects funds monthly and helps injured members of the alliance. (This news was leaked to not alert higher ups)
Adam reached the Mermaid City. And travelled to the Duke's castle. Mermaid House's butler warmly welcomed Clara and the other 2 merit holders.
Western Duke aka Mermaid Duke. They are bloodline holders of mermaids and they possess control over water and aquatic creatures weaker than the user. The current Duke is Linda Mermaid. Mermaid family is always led by women as the mermaid bloodline is stronger with women.
Since it's a women-dominated family. Because of their bloodline their offspring will always be female. This helped them maintain their strength. For stronger offspring, mermaid women like to have children with strong men.
Normally Clara will not come to Duke Castle just for the Baron promotion. But this time she can't leave Adam alone in the magical mermaid castle. If he caught the eye of some girl and had a fling. If it was a one time thing its ok but he was stolen she cant accept it. As well as being her love, Adam is a treasured possession of the Pierce family.
After entering the castle, they were taken to the waiting room. After waiting for a few minutes a slender woman scantily dressed appeared the room. She was Lana Mermaid. She is second in command in the mermaid family more like personal assistant to the duke.
Based on the information Lana received, Jason Flint exceeded the expectations and performed well during the war. He is Tier 2, which means he could marry a family member to strengthen our bond.
Based on what they received, Adam was an anomaly who couldn't cultivate. On the basis of the report, he should be tier2 as well. Clara Marquee came along with them and the report says Clara is betrothed to Adam.
Lana First addressed Jason Flint and talked about retaining the barony and inheritance for 2 generations. His degree granted him the title of baron. And by Duke's degree he will be betrothed to Meg Mermaid. Jason received the title and smiled and bowed and left the hall along with the butler.
Lana looked at the two remaining people. She looked at Clara and took a report from the butler and read the information out loud. "A week after Adam was adopted by Dino, the Pierce family began selling upgraded weapons for cheap. And a month later they started selling enhanced potions. And all the enhanced items came from Dino Castle till Adam moved from the DIno castle".
Clara's face turned pale while Adam was preparing to escape with Clara if needed. Although Nobles have the authority to recruit anyone they want only on war time. They do not have the authority to hire family members of other noble families unless they possess a royal degree.
Clara began emitting pressure from her body, and Adam also started emitting pressure, to Lana's surprise Adam was not in tier 2 but 3 instead. Smirking, Lana emitted Mid Tier 4 pressure that suppressed the auras of both of them. Adam's shadow thickened as he planned to use it to escape.
Lana then said i wont do that if i where you. At your level of ability do you think you can escape? As she spoke the pressure increased pressing down on them as she started to walk towards them. Adam placed his hand on Clara and she vanished to the Ring world. Adam started to enter his shadow. Adam planned to enter his shadow and reach the ring world from there and leave at night.
When he entered the shadow, Lana was shocked to find out clara vanisheding in front and adam submerging in the shadow. She was planning to use intimidation first to make Clara black down. Linda , Lana , Clara all three of them studied together in the royal Academy where only Viscounts and above ranking noble children can study. They can be considered friends at a very young age. But grew apart after they started caring for the family.
She planned to play a prank at first. I checked their responce and from clara's face its clear adam is enhacning the weapons. Clara started to emit pressure, as well as Adam, making her want to play with them. But the next thing was unexpected. Clara vanished and could not find out how she left and Adam entered the shadows. In Lana's knowledge, Shadow merger is a secret unit of the Pierce family. And Adam was supposed to have some enhancing ability.
Adam almost entered his shadow. When his head was about to enter the shadow when someone grabbed his head from behind and pulled him out. He metarilized a sword from the ring world to swing backwards to free his head. His sword came into contact with the water and stopped moving.
Then he heard a voice from behind asking him to calm down. And scolded Lana for being unfriendly today of all days. We honor Baron Adam for his contribution to the kingdom not making an enemy out of him.
The voice belongs to Duke Linda Mermaid. She looked at Adam and asked him to release Clara. Lana did not see what happened but Linda who was hiding noticed Adam touching Clara before she vanished.
Adam then looked into the ring to see Clara asking him to let him out.
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