"Oh you killed my fa..... Wait, you did what?!" Vreth asked in shock, looking towards Rose who was still looking down...
An awkward silence spread through the room.
He knew that he was already killed once by this woman but it seemed like it was not intentional but now that he got to know that this new step mom of his actually killed the past soul's father, he knew he was in the cave of a demoness....
"Why did you kill him..." Vreth asked in a silent and calm tone.
"Uh what-" Rose lost her words and couldn't find an answer to give to Vreth.
Another silence dripped down like rain.
"If you can't tell me then I guess, I don't need to talk to you anymore..." saying that Vreth put his tea cup down and started to go towards the room he was in, ten minutes ago.
It seemed like Vreth was really moved by this new revelation but....
"Bullshit! I don't care how or why she killed this guy's, I mean my father! I just want to make a distance from her or, I might end up dead again and lose another inch of my horsey and what could be worse than a 4 inch caastlevenia...." Vreth thought in his mind while slowly trying to skip the talk with Rose and go away from her, like he was upset from her.
Vreth almost reached the door of the room but before he could open it, a voice from behind, startled him. It was Rose, who stood up from the chair and was radiating a dark aura now.
Seeing the dark aura around Rose, Vreth was horrified. He thought this was just the end...
"H-hey, if you do-don't want to tell me then it's okay! You don't nee-" just as he was fearfully speaking to Rose, suddenly, Rose collapsed on the ground...
She passed out....
*swish*
Vreth uncontrollably caught Rose from collapsing on the ground.
***
[30 Minutes later...]
Rose opened her eyes...
A strange feeling hitting her forehead.
It was Vreth's hands.
He was patting her forehead.
[A/N: Don't expect for a step-mom ducky ducky thing in this story. Mc thought of doing it at first but it was because he didn't know who she was in this new world! But, don't worry guys, this is the build up before absolute monstrosity that's even better then hunting step-mom... Just wait for a few chapters :)]
This feeling was something Rose didn't feel for hundreds of years....
She has been cultivating for five hundred years straight... to protect someone she loved... Vreth Golemsi, her son!
She remembers the time when she was just 32 years old. She was married to a man who was already married but his 1st wife died and he was now left with a kid.
No one knew why his first wife died.... Actually not only Vreth's mother was dead but also every other young lords' mothers were dead. Even the Main Lord's wife died in a very young age.
People thought it was some kind of curse on Golemsi family but Rose didn't believe in those rumors and still married the third lord of Golemsi Family.
But when she thinks again about it... It looks like, sometimes rumors aren't that false....
***
[Flashback]
When Rose first entered the Golemsi House as the Golemsi family's third lord's second wife, she entered a whole new universe. A universe filled with dirty politics, dirty cultivation methods and a universe filled with some crazy maniacs and one of them was Vreth's father, Elijah Golemsi.
Rose on the other hand, unknown to all these dirty things, adapted hersellf with the situation and became really friendly with everyone, including Vreth too. Although Vreth still missed his real mother, he still accepted Rose as his new mother as he accepted the reality that his mother was no more....
Everything was good, except for the fact that every night, Elijah used to go to cultivate in seclusion, at least that's what he told to Rose, but she didn't ask much about it since being one of the lords of kingdom's one of the 100 biggest families, is not something easy...
It was all good, until, six months after Elijah and Rose' marriage, one day, when Rose was playin with Vreth in the garden, she was suddenly called by Elijah.
As she was told, she went to the backyards of Golemsi House and there she found some people waiting for her.
Those people were the 5 lords of Golemsi Family, Including Elijah Golemsi and the Main Lord of the Golemsi Family, Griffith Golemsi...
They looked a bit suspicious but Rose didn't care about it much since they were her in-laws..
That's when Elijah called out to her.
"Hey Rose, come here!" Elijah called out, waving his hands toward Rose.
Rose thought it was some kind of family meeting so she didn't hesitate and went near them.
Rose greeted them all.
"Hello father and in laws! Hope you had a great day!" she said with a bright smile on her face.
In response, the second lord said,
"I don't know about the past day but the incoming time is really going to be great..." he said with a creepy smile appearing in his face.
It made Rose feel even more uncomfortable but she didn't say anything.
Immediately after the second lord, Elijah started to speak in hurry, like trying to change the topic.
"Oh Rose, ignore that deadass! He's just very dramatic... Today, we called you to show you something important related to our Golemsi family!"
As Elijah finished his sentence, the Main Lord started speak.
"Yes, Rose needs to know some important matters related to Golemsi House to become a 'helping figure' to the Family in future...." he said in a serious but mysterious tone.
Rose thought since she was the wife of one of the lords of Golemsi Family, she needed to perform some kind of ritual or soemthing to fulfill her duties.
She was still a bit uncomfortable and looked towards Elijah, who gave her affirmative sign even after seeing her nervousness.
Rose thought it was okay, afterall, throughout these six months of their married life, Elijah has acted like the best husband in the world and she respected Elijah as a husband for that.
Getting her husband's affirmation, she agreed to proceed with the people.
"Yes my lord! It'd be my pleasure if I'd be any help to Golemsi Family..."
Seeing her agreeing, the lords and the main lord laughed evilly in secret but they didn't show it to Rose.
After that, they all started to gather their aura around themselves.
Their aura was so fierce that the sky above them, filled with bright clouds, instantly cleared by their aura pressure. It was very normal for entities of 'Immortal Emperor' realm, the eleventh realm and the main lord was even stronger, an entity of 'Transcendent Sovereign' realm's 8th stage!
Their bodies started to float as they looked at each other and gathered their energy in their hands and hit the ground beneath them....
Shockingly, even though they were very powerful cultivators, the ground beneath them, didn't even budge!
Rose was shocked to see this.
That's when, the ground beneath them started to glow and slowly a portal appeared from it.
That's when Rose understood what it was....
The ground was made of Zlettan Stones, a kind of stones that are so expensive that one of them was sold for millions of spiritual coins.
"Only a big aristocratic family like Golemsi, can afford to make a whole backyard out of these expensive Zlettan Stones!" thought Rose.
Zlettan Stones were either used to make teleportation portals to teleport to a place, but this passage will be very secure and even the 15th realm cultivators can't access it forcefully, or they are used to transport power.
Only the original owners can access the portals made of Zlettan Stones.
"This much security? What could it be that's so important and secret?!" Rose thought as she looked towards the portal.
Then, everyone started to enter the portal, even though Rose was still a bit insecure about it, she still entered the portal because she didn't want to create a problem for the family.
Everyone entered the portal... But little did anyone knew, Vreth, who was trying to find Rose, also happened to find the portal and when he saw Rose and others entering the portal, Vreth also entered it.
Vreth was only 10 years old back then.
In general, in this age, other kids could cultivate but Vreth couldn't because of his seals. He could only start to cultivate when he was 30 years old.
So, for now, he was just a mere human...
Anyways, when Rose entered the portal, she was in a cave looking passage.
Elijah instructed Rose to start flying because the cave is quite a long passage.
So, Rose and others started to fly and after flying for a bit, they arrived in a room.
This room was....
"Wh-what is this?!" Rose asked in shock when she saw what was there in the room....
She looked at others, who were slowly surrounding her and their face looked like that of psychopaths.
Scared, she looked at Elijah, but he was also looking towards her in lust, gulping his saliva, like a demon in anger.
Before she could say anything, suddenly the first lord used his technique.
The next moment, Rose's whole body couldn't move. Her whole body was tied by lightning ropes.
She was merely a second realm, Dou Tian's 9th stage, cultivator. She could never even touch the hair of people of eleventh realm and twelfth realm! The gap between one realm and another was infinitely vast and can only be closed by cultivating!
As Rose was now tied up by spiritual ropes of lightning, the Main Lord of the family spoke out in an evil tone,
"My dear daughter in-law, see those whores, they are now totally useless for us and we need something new to become powerful and grow our family even powerful!" he said while pointing to the straight direction, where Rose saw five women tied up with spiritual bindings to pillars made with Zletten Stones.
Their womb was looking very big, like they've eaten too much and now they are looking fat.
But this wasn't the case... This is something Rose understood when she looked towards the down body of the five women.... They were dripping with white liquid..
Even their mouths were dripping with white liquid.
They were alive but they didn't look like they were in a good state of mind. Their expressions were looking nauseatic, like some drunk people, but this time, they were drinking something else....
"Yeah, that's how you are going to 'help' our family, my darling!" said Elijah while grabbing the jaw of scared and confused Rose....