Chapter 3

[Six months later]

"Come on Grant, come on you can do it! Mommy believes in you", A beautiful lady with long blue hair said as she clapped her hand and anxiously looked towards Grant who was going through his first crawling session.

Slowly moving his tiny legs and hands, Grant crawled towards his mother, But perhaps the strain was too much for him as there was an almost crying expression in his face.

"Just a little more my baby.....just a bit more", Spreading her arms wide, the lady unconscious moved forward a little without realising it.

Using all of his efforts, Grant finally made it to his mother, just as he was taking the final step his hand slipped but just as he was about to fall the lady quickly picked him up and pulled him in a heartwarming hug.

*Clap*

The servants around the room started clapping with smiles on their faces.

Although it was a simple thing as crawling, the lady had an expression of pure bliss on her face.

At the same time right outside the window of the room a person in black dress was also looking at the scene and noting down every single detail regarding the baby in his notebook.

[Sixth month after birth,

Target has shown no sign of any special power or anything out of the ordinary so far.

But it is still too early to judge, continuing observation for any new development.]

After writing down today's observation the man quickly disappeared from the window like he had never been there in the first place.

But what he didn't know was that a pair of baby eyes were staring straight at the window he just vanished from.

Feeling the presence of the man disappear, Grant finally removed his sight as he buried his face in his mother's shoulder.

If anyone was to see his face right now then they will be shocked as the previous crying expression has vanished, replaced by a calm one.

'I wonder just how long they are going to keep watching me......', Grant thought as he closed his eyes.

It's been six months since he reincarnated in this new body, it was just three days after his birth that he felt the presence of multiple people watching him from the shadows.

Although he wasn't sure at first thinking that he may just have been paranoid due to his previous life but as he grew up his senses sharpened at an inhuman rate, due to this he was able to spot a multitude of presence watching over him almost 24 hours a day.

'I'm getting tired of acting like a baby all day long.....', Grant released an invisible sigh as he felt a headache coming over him.

'Well atleast I know that they aren't trying to harm me or anything.....', Grant was very sensitive to killing intent and after months of observation he was able to deduce that none of the people in black had any bad intention towards him, if anything it was like they were there to protect Grant from harm instead.

And how did he know that they were there to protect him? Well a month ago he purposely fell out of his baby carriage but just as he was about to fall a strong wind came from the window, enveloping him and gently putting him back inside.

On that day he was able to determine that these guys weren't there to harm him.

'But just what exactly are they after? I know for a fact that they weren't send by my dad to look after me as I also felt a multitude of presence around his room and it definitely did not felt like he knew anything.....',Understanding the awkward situation he was in, William shaked his head as he stopped thinking about the stalkers

'Theres no point in overthinking things...... it's not like I can do much about them anyway as I am right now.',

Releasing his breadth, Grant called out in his mind.

'Show me the amount of divine points I have.'

[Divine points-> 5677]

Six months ago Grant discovered this new power.

Although it's description was quite vague [Bend reality to your will]........At first Grant tried to give some extreme commands like change the weather or make an magnitude 7 earthquake appear but all of these request were met with one message.

[Not enough divine points.]

Which surprised him quite a lot as he understood what the status meant.

It said 'not enough' instead of ' not possible' which meant that if he had enough divine points then he could possibly make such huge changes in the environment of the world.

But then another question came to his mind.

How do I get more divine points?.

A valid question but all that he met with was silence, this time the status did not gave out a new message which also confirmed his doubt that the status can only give very basic information about anything but if you want to know detailed information then you will have to look for it yourself.

'But these divine points are really something else....", A glint passed through William's eyes as he remembered how he used the divine points to solve one of his major problems.

Language barrier.

Yes with the help of divine points he was able to instantly learn an unknown language.

'But the cost was was very high as well........1000 divine points just to learn a new language...'

Although Grant complained in his mind, he still thought that the deal was worth it as it saved him years of effort.

Because of that he was also able to get a general idea about his situation.

'Apparantly I am the son of Marquis Cyric Ashdown, one of the major nobles in the entire Empire.....'

'.....And the name of my mother in this world is Aline...Alina Ashdown first and legal wife of the Marquis.'

Which means that Grant was Marquis Cyric's first son as well as the legal inheritor of the Ashdown family.

'Well being born in a rich family is definitely a plus.....'

Turning his head, Grant once again sneekliy looked at the and was able to see that the black shadow has returned.

'If only these stalker would let me have a moment of freedom......'.

Many times before Grant has tried to sneak out of his room and visit his father's library to gain the general knowledge of this world but no matter what type of excuse he tried to come up with he would always be sent back to that damn baby carriage.

'Well I am atleast able to train my mana everyday.'

Since he couldn't do anything else, William decided to try doing different things with magic like completely depleting his mana pool everyday and covering his bedsheet in mana and lifting it's corners a little.

And surprisingly depleting his mana everyday actually worked, it increased his total mana capacity everytime he did it.

Although lifting the bedsheet wasn't really useful in anyway.....

"Let's go take a bath Grant", Alina said with a smile on her face as she carried Grant towards the bath house.

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[Marquis Cyric Ashdown's office.]

"Just what is the meaning of this.....", Marquis Cyric said in a trembling voice as he read the letter in his hand using all of his willpower to not tear the piece of paper in his hands apart.

"Why is the royal family stopping me from leaving the royal capital", Calming himself down, Cyric placed the letter sent by the royal palace on top of the table as he started thinking about the motive behind the royal families actions.

'I am one of the nobles who supports the current Emperor so what are they trying to achieve by putting me under house arrest?.', The more he thought the more confused he became.

Unfortunately he wasn't able to some up with a valid reason behind their actions.

"Hans use our channels to find out why the royal family has decided to take such an action, there must be some hidden reason behind it that we are unaware off", Turning his head, Marquis Cyric sais to the old butler standing by the door.

"As you wish master", Bowing slightly the old butler quickly left the room to gather intel for his master.