"What I would want is ..." Lily intentionally dragging her words so as to keep them at suspense. "To enroll at the magical academy." Andrew was expecting a more unreasonable wish but seeing that it was something his father could easily cover ,"Consider it done." The party continued till it came to an end. They all slept and the rest of the days were pretty mundane with nothing out of the ordinary happening though since there were no friends of her's close, she would play with Andrew as he was available most of the time regardless of their age difference. Ernest was enjoying his job compared to his last one as he was closer to his family who were well protected though it did have a lot more paperwork than he expected but just as long as his family was happy, he didn't mind. "So when are you going to enroll at the magical academy Lily?" Andrew asked during dinner. "Next year. Obviously you dummy. Everyone knows this." Ernest was rather afraid since Andrew would definitely kill you if you had insulted him but seeing how he had gotten along with Lily, he calmed down since they had gotten along pretty well
'Instead of twelve months, here they have fifteen but the cycle repeats itself after they are done similar to earth. That's why the luck in this world has been increasing nonstop for the last two months but it seems it requires one more month for the otherworlder to make his/her appearance but the chances are higher of it being a male since that's how it usually is in these situations.' Andrew figuring out something then excused himself ,"Excuse me, I'll be heading out tomorrow." Everyone seated was surprised why but Lily was the one who asked sheepishly ,"Why? Don't you like it here? Who am I suppose to play with if you're gone?" Andrew giving her a small smile ,"You've already made so many friends since we moved here Lily. Besides I wasn't going to stay forever as I had my own plans." He stood up before leaving heading to his room. The next day he was bidded goodbye by the family but Lily was the only one who was sad to see him go. Ernest and his wife were internally glad that he was leaving since nothing prevented him from killing them except their daughter. Once he was out of the compound, he was swarmed by hundreds of soldiers. Bruce with a cautious look on his face ,"Aldritch, you are hereby wanted for disturbing peace in several kingdoms and for disrespectful behavior infront of her majesty's daughter."
Two heavily armed guards came from behind (Author's note- Ayoooo) and forcefully grabbed his arms placing mana restraining cuffs on his wrists and started heading off to the palace. Lily saw the sight of this before bursting into tears ,"Dad, why are they arresting my friend." Seeing how bad the situation was,he decided to come clean and tell her most of the truth about him and she went back inside the house in disbelief refusing what she had been told. The person who she had been playing with was a killer certainly wouldn't be what she expected.
Andrew looking at Bruce as they were heading towards the castle ,"You should really tell the royal family to stop spying on me. It's actually quite annoying." Bruce's vice commander looking at Andrew with his signature mocking smile on his face
"What nonsense are you spouting? Why would the royal family pay attention to a guy like you? You have no background whatsoever and charged with multiple crimes against you." He went on with his insult spree but Bruce wondered ,'From the Intel of the first spy that we got, this guy should be very powerful as he was to spot them rather easily for quite some time. But it seems that he knew about the spies sent after him and that family moved in.' The spies had the best artifacts from the royal treasury given that they were the most powerful human kingdom out of the five others not considering the elven today
and other kingdoms. The guards present guarding the castle seeing their arrival quickly opened the gates and went in. The arrived at a well furnished council adorned in gold and expensive garments and purple linen cloth.
The most obvious attraction in the huge room was the raised king's throne as it was rather well furnished and next were the respective seats of the other members of royal family. The rest of it was for the nobles and barons present. An announcement went through the entire hall as it came from the head butler spoke welcoming the royal family. From the king, queen, princess and princess well adorned in their respective lavished garments. Bruce Goldeneye went onto a stage stating the crimes Andrew had committed. The king was well aware of this but as always he first asked ,"Why didn't you kneel?" Looking at Andrew who was standing amongst two soldiers behind him kneeling in place. Andrew looked at the king and didn't expect anything different from what he saw. He had a bearded face with golden brown hair. There were small scars on his face and wore as a king would, with his golden crown and sceptre adorned in luxurious robes. "Because I don't have to." Andrew spoke in a firm and resolute voice looking at the king with a lazy expression. His daughter chimed in ,"See, I told I wasn't lying." The king went to another pressing matter ,"You were the one who summoned that dragon earlier,did you not?" Andrew replied positively and the king proceeded ,"You have been charged with multiple cases of bad conduct in two kingdoms and it is punishable by death." Looking down on Andrew who had a nonchalant expression on his face. Andrew knew where this was headed with the king proposing an offer for him, to be an asset of this kingdom showing unwavering loyalty towards it and the king would oversee this spectacle. "I refuse."
He spoke surprising everyone present. The king looking at Andrew asked ,"Why so? After all this is your chance to redeem yourself." "Would you serve someone who is weaker than you?" Andrew asked looking around the council before his eyes resting on the king. He knew that the protagonist would befit that role so he didn't want to change the order too much before the protagonist got here. That also meant he couldn't kill the king and the rest of the royal family. "Are you suggesting that you are stronger than me?" The king smiling with a smile on his face and exuded his SSS rank but most of the audience being nobles and high ranking in power, they had artifacts to shield themselves though most of it was different at Andrew.
The soldiers who had already stood went on their knees with distorted faces but Andrew calmly looked at the king. The king was surprised,"You are strong but not strong enough." He started to increase his density of his aura at Andrew till he reached SS rank as he had started at A rank. Still Andrew stood unbothered and just as he was about to cross the threshold and increase it to SSS rank, his wife stopped him. "That's enough James." She said in a firm voice before looking coldly at Andrew. The king retracted his aura and the two guards stood up with flushed faces. "You should really listen to your wife. Perhaps if you had continued, this kingdom would have to be ruled by her." The king frowned ,"Don't push your limits." Andrew looked at the mana restraining cuffs and tore through them with ease much to everyone's surprise. He threw them on the floor before looking at the king with a mocking gaze. "Halt your actions or you will be immediately executed." Bruce ordered seeing that Andrew was much stronger than he thought. Looking at his position he noticed he was then a slapping sound resonated through the halls. Looking at the source everybody was shocked beyond belief. Andrew's hand was lowered but by judging it's position,one could tell the trajectory of it's curve and it's victim. It was none other than the king who wore a bewildered expression.
The pin drop silence was suffocating till Andrew broke it ,"You couldn't even dodge that. How are you still able to maintain your position as king?" He mocked James but James having his pride shattered infront of his subordinates jumped at Andrew who was starting to walk away. He was confident in taking down such a shady character would be no problem as he was SSS rank. The sight of Andrew crawling on the ground as they had hoped never came to be as expected rather Andrew stopped abruptly and James froze in place. He couldn't move a single muscle in his body not to mention he was a few inches away from Andrew.
Looking back at the king, he wore a sadistic smile and once again he slapped him hard. Again and again till his wife unable to withstand it ,"Stop. As the queen of the kingdom of Astria, I command you to release him." Andrew smiling at James whose cheeks were turning red from the slapping looked at her with a nonchalant face and brandished Bruce's sword and started to make a cut on James's forehead. He started to trail downwards going to his left eye then his cheek before running it along his neck though not deep enough to kill him till he stopped it at his heart. James knew that he wouldn't face death immediately as he had formed a small barrier around his heart with his mana though if the sword was kept there for long, he would die as the sword was made of Ytterbium. If it was constituted from any other material, his barrier would have been able to crush it. Andrew looked at him and suddenly shifted the sword stabbing him in his leg and said ,"It was an honor meeting your Majesty but please look over my sudden departure." With that he disappeared from his position before appearing outside of the kingdom. "Father are you okay?" His son asked with a worried expression. "I'm fine Leonard."
Then removing the sword in his leg and removing a high grade healing potion from his inventory using it on himself. With his injuries healed, he looked at his officials gesturing them to leave at once. He took his leave but gesturing Bruce to follow him to his study room in which he was followed by his wife,son and daughter. Closing the doors of the room with his mana he gestured Bruce to take a seat ,"I want to know who that person is?" He couldn't believe that with his SSS rank,he was badly embarrassed infront of his subordinates not to mention he couldn't use his mana when he was suspended by Andrew as it was forcefully stopped. Bruce giving a short sigh told them everything of what he had been told by Ernest.
"Revival and time manipulation not to mention forceful advancement is absurd. You are telling me that he can't die not to mention he has a formidable shadow as his puppet." James frowning in thought couldn't believe what he was hearing. They decided to leave matters rest for now before a messenger appeared infront of them sweating profusely before kneeling ,"I come bearing news from the kingdom of Darwarke."
They all wore apprehensive expressions before the king gestured for him to continue ,"The king of Darwarke is dead. He was killed by a vampire and now she rules over it after making a sudden appearance with her little sister and mother." Reminiscing what Bruce just said a few minutes ago, they were visibly sullen and the messenger withdrew back. 'This is bad. I have to warn the other kingdoms about this.' James thought before rushing off. From then on, they knew that it was Aldrich's doing and later on,they summoned Ernest from Bruce's report but he gave a similar story to him. 'It seems that it is about to get more chaotic.' James wondered though since the king of Darwarke was also SSS rank similar to him though slightly weaker since he had mastered it before he ascended to the rank. And to think that he would fall at the hands of a vampire though the other kingdoms will not approve of this. 'Why did all of this have to happen right before his retirement.' Cursing at his luck and resumed his duties.