When I woke up the next day it was only because I sensed immense danger heading right for my head. Pushing off the bed using my ki reinforced arms I threw my self to the ceiling and hid in the shadows. Looking down I was expecting to find an powerful and extremely high level assassin but instead I just found my sister with a slight pout on her face as she looked around for me. As I dropped down from the ceiling I let out the breath I hadn’t realised I’d been holding in and glared at my sister, who was now whistling innocently like she hadn’t just attempted to murder me in my sleep. Still mostly asleep Elizabeth stretched her arms out and sat up rubbing her eyes sleepily as she mumbled, “what’s going on? It’s far to early to be waking me up my lord!”
My sister who hadn’t noticed Elizabeth before held her hand over her mouth in shock as her eyes darted back and forth between us. “Brother! Why is the princess in your bed!?”
I rolled my eyes at her theatrics and rang for my servants to come dress me. As the butlers and maids worked to get me presentable for the first day of school I talked to my sister to calm her down and try to keep her from gossiping about this to everyone in the entire school. “There was a slight mess up in the student dorms handouts and we got assigned to the same room by mistake. As for why we were in the same bed... I have no idea I was so tired I kinda just fell asleep without looking.”
Sweat rolled down my back as I pleaded with lord Chaos that she would accept my lies. I looked her in the eyes as I spoke trying to convey my sincerity and finally she stopped glaring at me and urged me to hurry up. She was already in her electric blue dress and she was so adorable that as her older brother I couldn’t help but worry that she might attract to much attention from lustful mortals. I’ve always been extremely overprotective of my sibling even when I was a primordial and that hasn’t changed. Even with most of my memories and powers locked I remembered that I had locked all most all of my emotions away. The only ones I considered essential were anger, love and vigilance. Family is very important to my species and there is no bind stronger then blood. Or at least that’s what my parents taught me and then my sister goes and betrays me! I have to take deep breaths so I don’t loose control of my powers again. Coming back to reality I start buttoning up my shirt because the servants are taking far to long. Every time I look at my sister I get a fuzzy feeling in my chest and just thinking of other nobles trying to woo her makes me want to rip this invisible bastards to shreds. In my head I know I shouldn’t be getting this attached to a mortal, even if I manage to save her from her fate as a hero’s follower her life span would possibly be 100 years maybe a bit more with the help of magic. Even if all my plans go perfectly I wouldn’t be back to the level of divinity necessary to give godship before she was dead. Even if the current world god has more divinity then I believe and I was able to collect it all once I killed him. I couldn’t give out immortality to my family just because I wanted to, They would have to earn it and my sister who was most likely going to side with the hero when this war started would be the last person the world would allow me to grant immortality. That thought is enough to make my entire quake with sadness.
Coming out of my daydream I shake out my body, these damn mortal emotions are influencing my mind again. When I was a primordial I would not have hesitated to kill her even if she was the sister of one of my incarnations. She was a threat to my future and I should treat her as such but I couldn’t. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t bring myself to give the order.
Finally done with getting dressed I make sure my cape is in place and straighten out my tie. Elizabeth had gone back to sleep and I left her servants to deal with her. If she was late that was her fault. Me and Casi set off heading towards the auditorium where all new students had to go. With us we had two guards each and I brought one of my butlers just in case I got hungry. Which considering I didn’t eat last night and I didn’t have time for breakfast was very likely and I’d been told by the elders back in Eden city that I was a monster when I was hungry. As soon as we arrived some of the 6th year students were directing everyone to their seats. There were a couple teachers spread out along with the students and one of them came over to lead me and Cassandra to a separate area for nobles.
As soon as we got to our seats which were elevated slightly above the rest and were far more lavish the other lesser noble students swarmed us and it took all four of our guards to hold them back. All the students here were lesser nobles who were trying to get into our families good graces, most weren’t even from our country and were trying to either tie our kingdoms together or just get access to the riches my family controlled. Cassandra was swarmed by many of the male nobles who were either the third or fourth sons of their families had no chance at becoming the heir or the sons of other dukes who were trying to form alliances through marriage. I on the other hand was the heir to house Arbor so many of the girls approaching me were flaunting their beauty or other such assets to try and become at least a concubine of mine. I ignored it for the most part which definitely seemed to piss a lot of the other males off. I could feel the blood lust from commoners and nobles alike and I could hear the commoners whispering forms their seats below us. Things like, “what a bastard he’s got all those girls just throwing themselves at him and he acts like it’s normal!”, “If I was a noble those girls would be all over me.” And, “I wonder if he’d like me?” That last one scared me cause it came from some guy in the crowd who looked like he’d taken body enhancement pills since he was born. In this body I was undoubtedly only into females but as a primordial I could change my gender and appearance at will and so could any other species from the 20th dimension to the first which was why gender doesn’t normally matter to me. Well not that I had time for love when I was a primordial I was in constant wars and even when I wasn’t I had to take care of the law of Death. Finally after just about every noble girl on our continent from every different species except the dragon born had introduced themselves/flirted with me other higher ranking noble sons from both humans and dwarven nobles walked over and we chatted about politics, new inventions and military tactics until the principal walked onto the stage. Once she tapped on the sound enhancing artefact in front of her we all headed back to our seats, where Elizabeth had finally decided to grave us with her presence, looking like she wasn’t fully awake even with all the makeup that was on her face. Her chair was next to mine so once she sat down I sent a slight electric shock through her body which woke her right up. Startled she turned towards me and glared while Casi lightly slapped me on my arm to get me to pay attention.
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The directors speech was pretty boring and standard for a school, she introduced her self as Celia Goldstar the principal of the academy as chosen by the dragon kin emperor Nero Vestuvious the third who had won this territory after defeating an allied front of 3 human countries that had tried to steal a newly discovered Meanadrite mine in a contested border area. It had been a crushing defeat for the humans blah blah blah. The dragon kin in all their wisdom formed an academy were race, religion and social status held no meaning and was meant only to educate the next generation without prejudice. The speech went on for almost an hour and after laughing at the first little bit because we all know how the no bias policy is going I tuned the rest out. As I was thinking about what I was going to eat after this was over I heard the director say something about a student council and then stopped listening again. I was planning on going to sleep but then a familiar voice resounded through out the hall. And it was not familiar in a good way. Sitting up in my seat I locked my eyes on the stage and I could see that I wasn’t the only one many of the nobles from our country glared at the girl who had just walked onto the stage. She was the reason I’d almost died when I was five years old, when her mother’s clone had nearly killed me in the ballroom. The princess of the Elves Ava Yggdrasil, her mother was despised in our country due to their attempt at Elizabeth’s life. Elizabeth was a national treasure in my opinion, she was so loved by the commoners due to her constantly badgering her father to enact policies that would improve the lives of daily citizens that when they found out the elves nearly killed her and that I had been put in critical condition trying to save her there was almost a riot where they tried to convince the government to go to war with the elves. My reputation among the commoners had also shot up and military recruitment for our country and immigration to my territory shot through the roof. Many nobles blamed her for sneaking out of their castle and getting captured by slavers. A lot of guards had died that day and even some nobles who hadn’t reacted quite fast enough to the threat.
Ava’s POV: Looking up from the cards I’d spent all night preparing for my speech I couldn’t help but let out a small squeak as I realised how many people from the nobles section were glaring at me. I knew I would probaly have a hard time with humans as their church taught them to despise any other race and I knew that the humans of Centurion would especially hate me after all the trouble I’d caused them but the amount of power behind those stares was terrifying.
I couldn’t see into the crowd due to the lights but I knew that the one who’d rescued us from the slavers Leonidas Arbor was most likely there and he was probably one of the ones trying to kill me with their gazes. I wanted to run off the stage now but as the student council President I had to welcome all the new students so picking up my speech I hurried through it as quickly as I could. As soon as I was done I bowed to the audience and walked off stage. Slumping down in a chair I watched as the director made her way towards me. Sitting down next to me she sipped delicately from her tea cup as she turned a questioning gaze to me, “what went wrong dear? Your were perfect when we rehearsed your speech yesterday. What has caused you to become so flustered?”
The director had seen great potential in me when I took the test for the school entrance exam and she had taken me under her wing when I became student council president this year. Setting me tea cup on the saucer I let out a sigh and glared at her, “don’t pretend like you didn’t feel the killing intent they were bombarding me with! That was far more nerve racking then you told me it would be!”
She only chuckled and shook her head, “I didn’t expect their hatred of you to be this strong after so many years have passed, but on a different note the delegation from Centurion including their princess and the Arbor twins looked like they were ready to kill you at the drop of a hat. Their guards weren’t much different their hands rested on their weapons during your entire speech. I would be far more careful around them if I were you. Make sure you never go any where without at least a couple guards. I doubt they’d try anything with the dragon kin empire patrolling the island but I’ve heard tales that Leonidas Arbor has a group of assassins capable of killing even dragon kin under him, please keep your guard up and try to relax the tension of you can. The demons are becoming more active and if the rumours are true Yggdrasil and Centurion will need to make up if we want to survive another demon lord attack.”
Finishing off her tea she started to walk away and I dipped my head in a show of respect to her. Pulling a Crystal from my jacket I channeled mana into it and called my guards to me. Hopefully it was just the director being paranoid but it’s better safe then sorry.