NOVPUB"Are you sure?" The winged devil asked with a frown. Normally, any warlock would jump at this opportunity to enter the good graces of the soon to be level 5 existence.....it was a chance to truly climb up, but Leon didn’t want to?
"Yes, I have some prior engagements up here and can’t throw it all....I hope senior Bartholomew understands" Leon said confidently as if this in itself was not a big deal.
"Okay, then I wish you luck on your endeavor" after a brief moment of confusion the winged devil nodded in understanding. Leon was independent in all honesty.
There was really nothing he had achieved that could be attributed to the warlock alliance or even his very own blood serpent clan. He was his own person and was to be treated as such.
Even Liana didn’t try to control the kid, who was he to do so?
"We will meet in future old bird" Leon smiled. The old monster the winged devil was the first true show of power Leon had seen in this world and he couldn’t lie that he admired him. But right now he was to busy to accommodate him.
And so the old winged devil left the faystone household silently leaving no trace.
—click
Not too long after he left another group of people entered the hall....this time with looks of dissatisfaction.
"Where’s the warlock?" In the lead of this group was the former lord to the faystone household, Alvin. And behind him were armed guards in golden yellow amour ....clearly showing that they were from the royal Palace.
"Which warlock?" Leon frowned and asked with concern...
"Don’t place dumb with me!!! You invited a warlock to our household....where is he?!!!" Alvin shouted angrily at Leon who was seated at the helm of the hall.
This entire situation was weird for the royal guard.
When they were here previously Alvin was the Lord of the household...at least until the faystone ancestor took the reigns of power, so who was this kid on the throne?
"Ah, you must be seeing things again Alvin, you need to rest" seemingly coming to q realization Leon pulled back into his seat and said with a slight shake of his head.
Over time, Alvin had come to hate Leon deeply. And for good reasons....Leon had come into the faystone household, pretended to be of good will and brought assassins to destroy the house. In all common sense, he was a bad person.
But even with all he had done, His ancestor....vlad had deemed Leon more worthy to represent him in managing the house than Alvin himself. It was frustrating....
(Hm? That old trick? You think it will work now?)
Alvin thought in his mind....he hated Leon and everyone knew, so when he tried to get Leon into trouble with the faystone ancestor, he was seen straight through and Leon even managed to turn it over on his head by labelling him crazy.
he had spread a rumor that the slaughter in the faystone household was caused by Leon, to which Leon refuted by spreading that Alvin was insane upstairs and prone to seeing things.
This seemed unbelievable to the remaining residents of the faystone household....but Leon was able to systematically create situation that made his claim seem more and more believable to others.
But Alvin knew he wasn’t crazy and now he had the evidence to prove that he was right about Leon all along.
"If you’re positive that there are no warlocks here, then let us search the place ourselves!!" Alvin suggested.
He saw Leon let the warlock in with his own eyes, there was no way they wouldn’t be able to find him here.
"This kid...I’m sorry for letting him distract you from your sworn duties as royal guardsman, he’s not okay upstairs, but I’ll humor him.....check around. By yourself." Leon after a brief moment of thought said to Alvin.
If Alvin wanted a witch hunt, he would have to do it himself.
"Makes sense" the royal guard at the lead said firmly. He too didn’t want to go around looking for some imaginary warlock. He just wanted to get this report over with so ge could be on his way.
"Hm??" Alvin frowned, was he suppose to search the hall all by himself? What were the guards here for? Alvin had forgotten that when he was the Lord of the faystone household, he had forced many royal guards to fight for his entertainment.
Most of them didn’t like him and were only here to fulfil all righteousness.
"Hmp!!" The head guard harrumphed before Turing his head away. Alvin didn’t have the status he had previously....they didn’t need to take his orders.
"Fine!!! I’ll do it myself" Alvin said with annoyance before proceeding to search the hall.....he checked high and low left to right even going as far as Checking behind the chair Leon was seated on.
But at the end it was fruitless, the winged devil was long gone.
"Hmmm, are you done?" Leon, while staring at Alvin asked slowly. For this past 10 minutes they had watched the overgrown 12 year old search the hall looking for evidence to pin on Leon.
It was exhausting and frankly painful to watch.
"Shut up!!!" Alvin became incensed at Leon’s snide remark. There was a problem, he definitely saw the warlocks eyes and how he used life energy....there was no mistaking it. But there was no one here and Leon was being a distraction.....he had to....
"Okay that’s enough, we can see there’s no one here, I’m sorry for wasting your time caretaker...." The guard in the lead shook his head and spoke to Leon.
Even though a few things didn’t add up about the shift in dynamics in the faystone household, they didn’t see a need to pursue the matter. A family problem was a family problem, they had no business meddling in it.
"No!!! You can’t go, this isn’t right!! Can’t you tell something is horribly wrong??" Alvin tried to stop the royal guard from leaving, he had been deposed of his position and turned into a common servant to someone who wasn’t even family.
It didn’t make sense.
"Kid!! Disturbing the royal guard from their duties is an offence!! You are no longer the lord of the faystone household, get your own men to do your bidding!!" The guard turned back and barked at Alvin. He was sick and tired of all this bullshit. The royal guard wasn’t family court.
After saying this he turned around and left annoyed.
"Fucker!!" Alvin cursed. He felt helpless, everyone loyal to him had been slaughtered during the attack on the faystone household and now the royal guard was expressing this kind of opinion.
Did he have no choice but to stand there and take it?
"Hmmm, Alvin....look at me" While Alvin felt the pull of helplessness overwhelm him, a cool voice sounded from behind him.
He slowly turned back and matched gazes with Leon.
"You’re beginning to become too much of a nuisance kid...when are you going to stop all this rubbish?" Leon asked Alvin from his seat.
"Until I get justice and the spell you placed on the ancestor is broken" Alvin replied begrudgingly....he would concede to the likes of Leon.
"Hmm, is that so?" Leon smirked before standing up from the chair and proceeding to walk downwards towards Alvin.
"You really think anything you try will work? Almost all the able bodied faystone family members are dead...your ancestor doesn’t trust you and now the royalty thinks you’re crazy....do you need to die before conceding?" Leon, who was now standing before Alvin spoke into his ear...
There really wasn’t anything he could do.
"You’re lucky I don’t kill you on the spoke kid...it wouldn’t take much, as you know I’m very good with words. The Royalty won’t lift a finger" Leon said with an evil smile.
"You? Kill me? That’s rich!!" Alvin mocked while Looking directly into Cotten eyes holes that was the faceless mask Leon had on.
Till now, he didn’t even know what leon looked like. He hated him with all his being, but he didn’t know how he looked like.
"Hehe, I guess it has been boiling down to this from the very start...let’s fight it out kid" Leon shook his head and said loudly as If it was an announcement.
A fight, the tension had been there since Leon got here...Alvin had wanted to throw down with him forever, that need to fight had slowly turned into hatred, but it was still there.
"I win, you keep your mouth shut and play the little lapdog you really are.....but if I lose I live this place once and for all" Leon placed the stakes.
Both were massive.....if he won, Alvin would have to sit back In a dungeon and let leon go rampant all over the household and officially take his place. This stake wasn’t just him, it was essentially placing the faystone bloodline on the line as Leon would do all he could to replace them slowly whilst the ancestor stayed in seclusion.
As for the other, Leon was basically throwing away his access to the Palace....of course, Alvin didn’t know this.
