Author's Rant:
Hello everyone and thank you for your support. I read your reviews and comments and they help me see my mistakes. I'm trying to fix them but I'm also not wanting to stop the story's advancement. I appreciate your criticism as they help me be a better author. This is the first time I'm doing this so I think mistakes are bound to happen but I plan to not make as much as I can.
Thank you for reading my rant and bearing it so now I introduce the next chapter. Things are heating up some more and I hope everyone continues supporting me and enjoy reading.
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That day started the same way as yesterday. Breakfast with Arthur then heading to class.
Lunch was different though. Sasha, Kaiser, Alex and I went to the mansion to eat our lunch. Kaiser had a happy expression on his face as we went there.
Arthur was out somewhere so Alex went to the kitchen to cook. Sasha went with him saying that she wanted to have her brother eat something she made.
Kaiser and I sat at the dining table. He sat across from me wearing a satisfied expression and said, “Thank you for this Prince Zed.”
“Its nothing,” I answered, “How’d you know you were a prince?”
“My mother told me,” he said looking somber, “she’s taken care of me since we were chased out of the palace. We fled to a small village on a tiny island. There, we weren’t troubled by the aristocrats and we lived our lives peacefully.”
He continued, “When we found out that I could use magic, my mother was ecstatic and told me then that I was a prince. At first I was mad at my father for leaving us to that state but my mother kept on insisting that my father wasn’t at fault. She loved him.”
I listened very quietly at his answer. I tried to understand how it must have felt to live life like that.
“How did Sasha know that you were her brother?”
He lifted his head to the right and showed me a tattoo. It looked like a three pointed crown. “All members of the royal family are engraved this tattoo whether they are of common birth or not. Its engraved with magic so it is not easily reproduced.”
“Does Sasha have one as well?”
He leveled his head and said, “Yes, I caught sight of it when she brushed her hair when we were talking on the first day. I wasn’t sure of it was her so it took a while before I finally told her that we were siblings.”
“She was happy when I told her,” he said grinning, “but then she said that she would give the throne to me.”
He became somber again and he said much more quietly, “I want to tell her that I don’t want to take the throne. It’s the nobility’s fault that my mother was forced to leave.”
His eyes became filled with anger when he said, “Its their fault that my kind mother was forced to reduce herself into a prostitute!”
I was shocked to hear this. Who would’ve thought that I would know someone personally who was a child of a prostitute. I didn’t look at Kaiser with disdain but rather I looked at him with pity. I couldn’t do anything for him… I was powerless…
“I’m sorry, I don’t know why I told you that,” he said recovering, “not even Sasha knows.”
“Don-” I started to say when Sasha and Alex came to the dining room bringing in the food with carts and saying, “Lunch is ready!”
There was an assortment of vegetables and greens. Ribs were made for us to eat and there also was a specialty dish from the Lunaria Federation. It looked like fried rice made with some sort of soy sauce and I could see chicken, crabs, and more vegetables on it.
“I’m really surprised that your kitchen has a lot of ingredients,” said Sasha placing the food at the table.
“Our kitchen has a special magic device that gives you any ingredient that we may not have specifically,” Alex said as he placed plates and silverware, “Its useful for when I’m just missing one ingredient.”
After they finished placing the food in front of us, we all began eating. Kaiser seemed to get in a better mood as lunch started when I heard a knock at the door.
“I’ll get it,” said Alex standing up.
“So Sasha, I hear your engaged to Zed?” asked Kaiser as he took a bite from the fried rice.
Sasha blushed a little and said, “Yes.”
He closed his eyes and said, “I approve.”
“Zed looks like a nice guy, I’m sure he’ll take good care of you,” he said when he opened his eyes and smiled approvingly.
I was about to say something when Alex came in with a frightened expression and interrupted me by saying, “Prince Zed, we have visitors. Its King Vayasu Imadul of the Lunaria Federation.”
We all froze and looked at Kaiser. He had a scared look on his face and I pointed to the kitchen and he instantly ran inside.
After confirming that Kaiser was well hidden I stood up just in time to see Vayasu enter the dining room.
“It’s an honor to have you visit us, King Vayasu,” I said bowing down along with Sasha.
“No need for formalities,” he said laughingly, “after all we are pretty much family.”
I motioned for him to a seat and as he sat down I asked, “May I ask why you are here?”
“Can’t a father meet his daughter at school?” he said looking at the food, “My what a nice assortment of food you have here, may I partake?”
I motioned for him yes and Alex went to the kitchen to grab him a plate and some utensils.
That is how the King of the Lunaria Federation joined us for lunch.
As we were eating he said, “So Sasha, how is school?”
“I-its fine father,” she said trying to calm her voice and face.
“Is that so? And there hasn’t been anything strange that happened? Like for example a love rival?” he said accusingly.
“N-no one, Zed is all I care about!” she shouted grabbing my right arm and hugging it.
“Is that so? And you Zed, are you taking good care of my daughter?”
“Yes she is in my perfect care,” I said hugging her tighter, “I’ve already set an excursion for us this weekend.”
Sasha looked at me and quietly said, “Really?”
“Is that so,” he said nodding and took another bite from the rice.
“I will set some of my guards around you at that time. You won’t be able to notice them,” he said finishing up his food.
“This has been a wonderful lunch, Sasha your cooking has improved,” he said smiling at Sasha.
He stood up and said, “If you’ll excuse me I have to meet with Artemia.”
With that he left, leaving Alex, Sasha and I at the table. Alex had a frightened expression the whole time but he made sure not to look at Vayasu as to not reveal it. Sasha hid her face behind me and tried to keep calm. I had no way to block myself so I had to fake my expressions.
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Once the door closed, we waited for one minute before we started moving. Alex opened the kitchen door and Kaiser went back to his seat. Kaiser looked like he sweated a lot during our lunch with Vayasu.
We acted this way because we knew about their relationship. If Kaiser was found by the Lunaria Federation’s nobles, he would no doubt be assassinated. We had to make sure that he wasn’t seen.
During that lunch, I had a feeling that he knew that Kaiser was here and so he placed his guards as well under the guise of protecting Sasha. It might work but for how long, I thought.
We didn’t touch the rest of the food then and just cleaned up before it was time to go to class. We said goodbye to Kaiser and Sasha. Kaiser looked like he had seen a ghost but with Sasha at his side he should come back. Sasha was able to calm down when she led her brother with her to class.
The afternoon and evening was the same as yesterday. Ralph had us run up the mountain until we were exhausted and Arthur made sure that we memorized the movements from last night.
We did a little bit of our magic training but since we were tired from the events of the day during lunch we went to go to sleep early. Just then the door opened and Arthur came in and saw us.
“What are you two doing?” he asked in a grave low voice.
“About to sleep?” I answered trying to play it off as natural as possible. Alex was frightened next to me. His face looked as if his secret stash of things was finally found by his parents.
“I get that but..” he said trailing off and pointed to the both of us.
“We train together every night and its just easier this way. We can both go to sleep as soon as possible,” I said with a smile.
“Every night… Training…” said Arthur trembling.
“Yes every night, magic training.”
“Magic Training?” he asked stopping his trembling.
“Yes,” I said demonstrating the exercises we usually did.
He stood there dumbfounded and after I showed him he said, “Alright I understand but you have to stop this when you get older. Prince Zed has a fiancée, as his knight you are to stop anything like this from happening.”
Alex nodded shyly hiding his face and said, “Yes.”
“He understands,” I said, “Anyway why are you here?”
“Oh yeah right,” said Arthur as he recovered back to his usual self, “this message came for you.”
He walked towards me and I turned on the lights of the room. The room’s lights are made from magic and so with just a thought I can turn it on or off or just dim it a bit.
He handed me a letter with a wax seal of the Rigel Royal Family, a Ravenex, bowed and left closing the door behind him.
I opened the letter and began reading it said:
Dear Zed,
I’m sorry to hear that the class was like that but there is nothing we can do. The fear of magicians is something we can’t just get rid of within our lifetimes. We can do things to alleviate it but we can’t get rid of it. Your refusal of the Magus shocked me but if that is your decision I will support you. Know though that since you refused, all the human mages outside of the school will hate you for it. The Magus is a respected group that is almost a guarantee of becoming a member of the Magic council. By disrespecting them, you disrespected all the mages in the human lands. The situation in the southern lands is being taken cared of by Rico. I understand your concerns about Rico and will look at them but I don’t think they are true. I have known him for a long time and I entrust you, my children, to him if something ever happens to me. I hope you and Sasha get along well. She needs someone like you to protect her and keep her safe.
Your loving father,
Aaron Rigel
Father does not believe me about Rico but then again I may just be jumping to conclusions. The fact that I disrespected the whole mage community made me worried as I didn’t mean for something like that to happen.
The last words that my father added about Sasha tells me that he seems to know something about their issue. He probably won’t tell me but since she was my fiancée I would already, without a doubt in my mind, protect her.
I placed the letter next to Malakir and started to sleep. Alex was staring at me when I was reading the letter but after seeing me put it away and started to sleep he also did too.
Many things happened that day. Vayasu visiting us just after we met Kaiser. Getting my father’s reply and within it telling me to take care of Sasha. Arthur barging in was a small issue but I should remind him that he needs to knock before entering tomorrow. I’ll be lenient as the message came from my father and he probably thought that it was urgent.
In any case, something was going to happen soon. And it would involve Kaiser and Sasha in the middle of it.
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Answers to some questions I received, copied and pasted the question :
Q: Blessing of Julia increases regeneration by 200% isn't his current regeneration really low?
A: 200% just means that he has twice the regeneration increase.
Q: About Blangvina and Magus blessings that is just with stats where a normal person gets 1 stat he gets 3 right a 200% increase? for Intelligence and wisdom strength and Agility/vitality? correct me if im wrong but i think with those blessing he should have way higher stats in comparison to his fellow students even alex i mean take what alex has and then add 200%
A: He would get 2 as 100% of 1 means 1 and 200% of 2 means 2. His stats are high but not as high as Alex's right now because Alex had training from before.
Q: What you are implement already he has a tallent in both magic and combat from those blessings too right? he learns that stuff much faster? and how you gonna increase the stats by age and lvl?
A: Yes, he will learn it much faster and the increase in his stats will be by adding age and level and then dividing by two. An average of the two numbers.
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