Chapter 17: Tai Ieren story

*knock knock knock*

The sound of knocking on the door cut his thoughts.

"Brother, a man in strange clothes is moving around the house suspiciously." Mai opened the door to her brother's room and yelled at him.

"The magician has finally arrived, Mom. We have a special guest. Prepare yourself." Jin said.

Jin left his room to welcome his guest. At the exact moment when he stepped out of the room, the blackbird talisman that had transported Jin's soul into the past shone with a bright golden light inside his ring. The book of the Holy Magician moved towards the talisman, responding to it. The whole matter took only moments before everything returned to normal.

Unfortunately, Jin didn't notice what had happened inside his ring.

Jin walked towards the door, and before opening it, he stopped, staring at his mother strangely. "Mom, what are you wearing? How can a bride welcome her fiancé in such clothes?"

"Mom, who is the bride?

Mai called her mother, but she did not answer, as her son's words shocked her. Although he had mentioned the topic before, it did not reduce the suddenness.

She assumed his words at that time were just a stupid joke, she went silent for a few moments before exploding in his face, screaming.

"Shut up, you little moron. What have you done now? Who, who is that stranger you brought, you... you... you... what am I going to do with you... shit! shit!"

Jin faced his mother's anger with a smile and said.

"There are many curses words in your talk in front of little Mai."

At this moment, the man in the cloak broke into the house. He heard everything from outside, then stared at Irene and said with a warm smile.

"Only one person I know curses like that. Even after all these years, you haven't changed. You still repeat the same word every time you get angry."

Irene's expression changed when she heard the guest's voice, she closed her mouth, afraid to scream from surprise, but despite that, the tears that spilled down her cheeks exposed her, and in a voice choked with tears, she asked.

"No way, is that you? This is really your voice."

After checking her face, the man was surprised by her words to find that she had become blind.

"Ieren, what happened to your eyes? What about your training? What happened to you? How is that possible?" the man shouted as he looked at Ieren in disbelief.

"Mom, why are you crying?" the little girl asked nervously when she saw her mother crying; then she grabbed her mother's dress tightly and looked at the guest who made her mother cry with angry looks.

When the man entered the house, he saw the little girl, but he did not look closely at her face, but this time when he saw the big brown eyes and brown hair, he noticed something that would change his whole life.

The mother wiped her tears and hugged her daughter, saying.

"Baby, this man here is your father."

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The Han family, one of the oldest noble families, the main family members are characterized by their white hair and green eyes. Most warriors and the strongest of them have either a fighter or weapon spirit form. But in this family and every generation, one is born with a strong and rare spirit form, which combines the fighter's spirit form and the weapon's spirit form. Hence, it is called a weapon-fighter spirit.

Jin's mother's name is Han Irene, but she did not have an ordinary spirit form. Instead, she was born with a different and distinct spirit form known as the Priestess' form. This form has high-grade magical healing power. At the Magic Academy, she met a young man from a well-known family who loved her and proposed to her. But her life was turned upside down when Sao Bi from the Sao family decided to marry her.

The Sao family was the ruling family at that time. They arranged a conspiracy for her fiance, he was charged with treason and executed.

After they executed him, the Sao family kept pressuring the Han family to accept the marriage proposal between Irene and the young man from the Sao family. In the end, Irene, who had lost her fiancé, surrendered to them and agreed to marry under pressure to save her family from the war against the Sao family.

Several weeks after her marriage, the truth came out that shocked Irene and the Sao family together. A young woman who claims to be the real daughter of the Han family appears and has managed to break through the fusion realm.

The best way to trick the enemy is to trick your friend first, and the Sao family has completely fallen into the trap of the Han family. Irene was never from the Han family, she was a girl from the common people born with white hair who was adopted by the Han family and raised as one of them in the place of their real daughter, which they carefully hid.

While the Sao family was wasting their time preparing plans to marry Irene to give birth to a powerful heir in a rare form (weapon-fighter form), the Han family was empowering their real daughter and increasing the power of the family.

Unfortunately, the husband, who considered himself fooled, did not believe that Irene was also a victim of the Han family's plans and vented his anger on her, leaving the poor woman drowned in her blood. Of course, the Han family took this incident to declare war and seize the throne.

Everyone thought she was dead, but with the strength of her spirit Priestess form, she was able to escape death. But her spirit form was not strong enough to save her and the baby inside her, so she sacrificed her spirit form and her eyes to heal the baby and herself. Then, with the help of a friend of hers, she was able to leave the capital for a quiet little village and then changed her name to Tai Irene and gave birth to her son Jin, slowly getting used to her new life there.

Things remained the same for several years until the day when a wounded man appeared, holding a little girl in her first year. The man was a friend of hers and Si Mar, her ex-fiancé, who was supposed to have been executed.

Before she could ask any question, the man put the little girl in her hands, saying, "She is Si Mar's daughter. I'll leave her under your care for a few days."

With these words, the man disappeared into the darkness of the night, days and months passed, and no one asked about the girl. She tried to contact her friends to help her find the girl's father. However, they all said that the man had been dead for years, and in the end, she surrendered to the idea that her friend had lied to her and that the little girl had nothing to do with the man she loved.

Despite Ieren's poverty and blindness, she did not mind keeping the poor girl. After the war between humans and the Oris, her only goal became to escape to a safe place far from the horrors of war and the eyes of the Sao family. But what made matters worse was the disappearance of her son Jin, who was considered one of the prisoners whom Oris arrested.

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Tai Irene

Her first husband's name was Sao Bi, and he was the eldest son of the Sao family, which was the ruling family at the time.

She was a victim of the throne struggle between the Han and Sao families.

She decided to escape from the capital and chose the surname Tai, the original surname of her real family. That surname was all she could know about her real family.

After losing her eyes and strength, she lived only for her son and the daughter who was left on her doorstep.

She was not waiting for any thanks or reward in return, But Jin saw that it was unfair to her and planned to change her future.

He wanted to compensate her for what she had suffered in the past and the future, and an ideal mother like her deserves a good husband who will compensate her for her suffering.

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Mai ran away from her mother's embrace and hid behind her, her fist tightening on her mother's dress.

" My daughter .."

Si Mar's eyes filled with tears. But, they were tears of joy, tears mixed with laughter and smiles. The joy of finding his daughter ignited his desire to embrace her, but seeing that the frightened girl was hiding behind her mother, made him turn to hug Jin with all his power. Jin was surprised by his reaction, but he did not resist and only said.

"Man, if you hug the little girl like this, you will break her bones."

Si Mar wiped his tears, apologizing.

"Sorry, I was overwhelmed with happiness and swept away by feelings. Thank you for taking care of my daughter."

Jin smiled and looked at him."She is my sister, and the only way you can get her back is to become a member of this family or forget to see her again."

"Jin.."

The mother shouted at her son, but he answered her directly as if he expected her reaction.

"What? are you going to let him take Mai away from us?"

Then he turned to Si Mar and said "From today on, you have only one goal, to make them happy and protect them, but if you fail..."

Jin said coldly as he ran his thumb across his neck, letting his killing intent escalate.

Si Mar, who had faced death many times before, was not a man who would be so easily terrified. However, he could not prevent the chills that swallowed his entire body.

'He's not joking about killing me. How could a fourteen-year-old have such intense killing intent like this.'