Chapter 4 - Volume 1.4

The Battlefields.. Bloody, All Those Men Dead, For What? Territory? Honor? No.. For Revenge..

It Seems My Father, King Reinhardt Will Be Returning From The Battlefields, And Now Mother Is Bugging Me About Announcing My Name To The World Alongside Father, Honestly I Would Rather Just Stay Isolated Till I Can Actually Say I'm Capable of Defeating Atleast A Lower Mana User, Well Then Again I Can Just Feign Sickness, Maybe Ill Do That.. Although I'd Probably Be Caught Lying.

My Mother Called For Me When I Was In My Thoughts As She'd Excitedly Proclaim : ' William! Your Father Has Returned, Were Immediately Moving To The Capital, Your Finally Gonna Be Introduced To The Empires People! '

As She'd Stopped Speaking, I Took A Pause Before Replying 'Mother.. I Feel Rather Sick Though-'

She'd Cut Me Off 'Dont Worry The Trip Will Be A Week Long You'll Be Good By Then'

As I'd Irritatingly Replied 'But Mother.. What About My Clothing? Its None of My Clothes Are Suitable'

I Was Dumbstruck As She Stated ' Oh Dont Worry About That, We Threw Away And Sold Most of Your Clothing, Everything You'll Ever Need Will Be Found In The Castle! '

She'd Happily State As I Simply Sighed.. It Seems I Wont Be Staying Here Anymore And I Lost All Those Books.. WHY WORLD WHY!

About An Hour Passed As Mother Awaited Me In The Carriage Parked Infront of The Manor's Gate As She Yelled For Me To Get Inside The Carriage, It Seems That Today And The Days After Will Be Extremely Tiresome.

As I Got Inside The Carriage After A Couple of Minutes I'd Seen My Mother Pouting In The Carriage, As I Asked With The Softest Tone I Could.. ' Mother, Why Are You Pouting' Before I Can Even Complete The Sentence I'd Gotten Yelled Back At ' Your Father Is Telling Us That He Will Announce Your Name To The People After Three More Weeks! ' I'd Grin As I Thanked Father With My Very Soul As I'd Replied Emotionally 'Really Mother?!' As She Misunderstood My Emotional Reply With A Saddened Expression 'Oh Honey.. Ill Force That Evil King To Announce Your Name As Soon As We Get Back! No Matter What!'  As My Joy Faded Away.. What A Pain..

As 4 Days Flew By, On Our Way To The Castle We Had Made A Pitstop To One of The Cities On Our Way, We Had Stopped The Carriage Infront of The City Gate And Had It Protected By The Guards, As Me And My Mother And A Few Servants Made Our Way In The City, My Mother Had Been Wanting To Buy A Gift For Father And A New Handkerchief For Me, I Just Wanted To Buy Me Some Books To Read In The Carriage Since It Was Pretty Boring In The Carriage, We Decided To First Go To The Merchants Guild To Speak With The Merchant Head of The City, Since Mother Was The Empress She Used Her Title Despite Being Told To Be Discreet And Quiet About It.. She Was Able To Get Father An Elegant Looking Pouch, A Little Too Elegant.. She Also Bought Me A New Handkerchief Which She Said She'll Only Give After The Announcement Ceremony, As For Me I Was Able To Persuade Mother Into Letting Me Go To The City Library To Pick Out Some Books, I Decided To Pick Up Some Books On Essence And A Book On This Worlds Mathematics And Scientific Progress, All In All 4 Books For The Next 4 Days of Sitting In The Carriage And Making Small Pitstops.

As We Made Our Way Back To The Carriage A Bunch of Weapon-Equipped Men Around 6 In Total Approached My Mother As They Called Out For Her ' Hey There Miss Noble, I See Your Buying Some Gifts, Could They Be For Us Hard Working Adventurers?' As My Mother Scoffed ' You'd Better Not Talk To Me Or All Your Heads Will Be Hanged Outside of This Cities Gate'  The Cocky Adventurers Began Barking At Her While The Person Who First Spoke To My Mother Had Replied 'Really Cocky For A Defenseless Noble Women, I Bet You Were Only Ordered To Bark Around Orders Your Whole life' As The Adventurers Laughed My Mother Had Used A Lower-Intermediate Spell, Creating A Piercing Pointy Metal Under The Man, It Grew So Quickly That Before He Can Even Notice He Was Impaled From The Bottom Up, I Would Not Wanna Be That Guy, It Seems He Might Have Lost One or Both of He's Umm.. Anyways As The Man Was Dying My Mother Simply Ordered One of The Servants To Heal The Man And Let Him Stay There To Make Sure He Doesn't Follow Us, As We'd Left The Group of Adventurers Dispersed With The Remaining Few Scared To Their Wits. Really Dont Wanna Be Those Guys..

As We Finally Entered The Carriage We Continued Our Way To The Capital of Reinnersberg, The Next 2 Days Flew By With Me Enjoying My Time Reading The Books When Suddenly Our Carriage Was Halted, It Seemed Like Our Troubles Couldn't End As There Were Mana Beasts Blocking Our Way, They Were Attacking Another Carriage As The Guards Tried To Persuade My Mother To Have Our Carriage Move Around The Mana Beasts, My Mother Angerly Replied 'Your Telling Me To Walk By As My People Are Being Attacked By Those Beasts?! Do You Have No Shame As A Guard of The Empress!' The Guard Was Left Speechless As My Mother Had Been Trying To Force Her Way Out, I Decided To Look Out Through The Window of The Carriage And See The Real Commotion, There They Were 4 Wolf-Like Mana Beasts With Fur Made From Mana Infused Flames Glowing Blue, I Was Stunned At Their Beauty But Also At Their Way of Using Mana To Coat Themselves On The Outside From External Attacks, I Had Already Learned Alot From Watching So I Decided To Hop Down From The Window

As I Got Out, My Mother And The Guards Didn't Realize Till It Was Too Late, I Was Already Behind The Mana Beasts As They All Stared Fiercely At Me, I Stood There Glaring At Their Eyes, They Were About To Lunge At Me, Before They Were Even Able To Move They Were Pierced With The Same Spikes That Pierced That One Adventurer Man.. It Seems Like Mother Had Saved Me, Before I Even Thought of Looking Back I Decided To Enter The Remains of The Carriage That Was Being Attacked And Saw A Pretty Insane Image, There Were Elven Children And They Were Chained Up, Alongside Them Were A Couple of Beastkin Children, It Was A Slave Carriage.. It Was A Disgusting Sight Especially With The Fact That The Mana Beasts Were About To Eat Them, I Decided To Go Inside As I Spoke To All of The Still Conscious Children 'I've Come To Save And Free You.' As I Was Reassuring Them My Mother Came Running Hugging Me Before Opening Her Eyes And Realising There Were Children of Different Species In it, As She Spoke With A Saddened Tone 'Poor Things.. Dont Worry We'll Get You To Safety' As The Guards Soon Came By Looking Disgustedly At The poor Children, That Didnt Matter To Me As I Used A Bit of My Destruction Mana To Destroy And Remove The Chains That Bind Them, As I Cut Down The Last Ones Chains One of Them, The Eldest Who Was Still Seemingly Young Spoke To My Mother 'Ma'am Thank You Sincerely, But Wont You Get In Trouble if You Hide Us?' My Mother Proudly And Extatically Claimed 'You Dont Need To Hide! The One Who Will Save You Isn't Me But The Heir To The Empire And Your Prince!' It Was My Que To Introduce Myself But I Didnt As Mother Being Agitated Coughed As She Glared At Me.. I Had No Choice, As I Sighed I Introduced Myself 'I'm Prince William Reinhardt, The Heir To The Rein-Hart Throne And The Reinberg Empire.' As I Finished Introducing Myself My Mother Seemed Proud As She Began To Speak Again 'Thank You For Introducing Youself, Now How About You Guys Introduce Yourselves Too?' As The Eldest Spoke Again 'Im Margarethe, Including Me There Are 3 of Us, All of Which Are Girls, I May Look Young But Im Twelve Years Old' I Expected That Much, Elves Do Tend To Look Extremely Petite, What About The Rest of You?

They Began Introducing Themselves One After The Other As I Simply Waited And Watched As The Second Oldest Spoke 'Im Catherine, Im Eight Years Old, And Im A Beastkin Girl!' And Finally The Youngest Who Seemed To Be Around My Age Spoke 'Im Elisabeth, Im 5 Years Old.. And Im A Demonkin..' I Could Tell By The Horns And The Tail, I Should Probably Tell Mother About Our Lack of Room In The Carriage.. ' Mother, I Dont Think We Have Enough Room In The Carriage For All Five of Us' As She Jokingly Replied ' Why? Did You Think Their All Seating Next To Me?' As I Regretted Ever Speaking..

In The End Since The Carriage Had 2 Rows of Seats, Mother Decided To Have The Eldest Sit Next To Her While Im Seated Next To The Window With The Other 2 Sitting on My Left.. I'd Sigh As I Got Bombarded With Questions About My Books By The Beastkin And Elven Girl..

As Soon 2 Days Had Passed And We Were Reaching Close To The Capital, Mother And I Got Into An Intense Conversation.. ' Mother, I Should Get To Decide What I Want To Wear or Do During The Ceremony' She'd Reply 'William, Your Only Gonna Be Five 4 Weeks From Now, You Shouldn't Even Care About What Your Wearing, Just Let Your Mommy Do Things For You' I'd Angerly Reply With A No! As The Argument Kept Intensifying With The Children Just Watching This Bickering, And Giggling To Themselves, Soon My Mother Joined Their Giggling.. I Was So Confused, Weren't We Just Arguing??, Sigh.. I Cant Understand Females At All..