The Fabricated Truth..

"You're telling me that you're the Northanrey's pure blood heiress, instead of dad?" I ask.

"That.. is a long story. Come, I'll tell you when we're home." Mom say. I hop on the carriage before looking back to see that the Six of Spades members has disappeared.

As we travel through the woods I couldn't held back my curiosity and asks her a few questions, just a few.

"The driver witnessed everything, is he 'one of us'?" I ask.

"No, that driver is a doll. An artificial doll made by Brooke and is controlled using a little bit of magical tweaking by Cory." She say.

"So, you previously said that you didn't do all of the things I accused you, which are the things that you actually did?" I ask.

"Dylan works for me. All the Selvyks do, it's actually quite forced since they can't do anything about it. All the Selvyks are born, cursed to always obey The Northanrey's pure blood." She say.

"A multi-generation slave crest? And so powerful that the second most powerful man in Acasti Empire couldn't break through? How could such thing even exist in the first place?" I ask.

"In The Olden Eras, even the commoners are strong because almost all of them are former warriors. They strive and always held on to their last fragment of life. They are trained from when they are a child to survive. Swordsmen, strategist, blacksmiths, even slave traders are sly, because if you're not evil and sly, you will die before knowing what hits you.

That's why many archaic weapons are considerably stronger than the newer ones. Slave crest is one of those things which are stronger in the past than the newer versions." She explains.

"I actually noticed that there are no records of what Northanrey's aether skill is. If you truly are a pure blood, you should know what it is. Can you tell me?" I ask.

"Oho? An interesting question. There's actually a major reason why Northanrey's aether skill is not recorded. Northanrey's aether skill is that every-time we take a life our strength increases. That's why the 2nd generation leader is significantly stronger than the first, because she is born in the eras of war. Can you imagine how a group or two could take advantage of this information, especially us who is born in a peaceful, war abundant society. This single information could lead to the fall of Northanrey, so keep it secretive okay, dear?" Mom say.

I'm surprised. Not because of how strong the skill is, but because of how my mom openly explains it to me, who is only 8 years old, and is probably unable to keep a secret.

I wonder why my mom trust me so much.. Is this motherly love?

I returned my gaze upfront, staring at the artificial rider doll that Brooke and Cory made.

Everything went normal, however when we passed the gate I couldn't help but notice a thing or few different.

The guards guarding the gate, the maids doing laundries, errand boys running around delivering the latest news paper, they're all.. gone. This area in front of the mansion where it's often used for activities of many people and they're just gone?

"*sigh* It's that stumblebum, isn't it mom?" I ask.

"Yes, but no.. something is weird. Hasell's guard, where are they? They are disloyal to Hasell." Mom say. I quickly realized what she was talking, there is a powerful individual that defeats all the guards and drags them inside, but how could that stumblebum acquire such individual. I have faced a guard myself and that stumblebum nor anyone in the noble family couldn't have forced them physically.

However, there are no traces of blood nor war. This is weird.

"Should we contact Dylan?" I look besides me and my mom is.. gone?! "Mom? Ah! Shit." I jumped through the window of the carriage silently. I jumped towards the wall of the mansion and jumped again to reach the roof.

I see mom, she's there with a sword and 3 knocked up guards. She's fast! I walked besides her and looked down to where she's looking.

I saw the maids and butlers in the middle of the open field that this mansion has to offer, standing up doing absolutely nothing. I see the guards surrounding them and patrolling the area, robotically.

"They're movements are too mechanical, I think they're being mind controlled or.. brainwashed." My mom says while gazing upfront. There's a woman using an ordinary mage's coat, her face is covered, however I can feel it she's very strong. She's not even bothering to hide her bloodlust, it's even more immense than mine.

"Long time no see, Malvis. How have you been doing? How is your little scar? Has it healed?" Mom ridicules her. They seems familiar with each other.

Welp since it's a reunion I shouldn't bother them. I stopped time, chanted "evom" and went down one floor to look for that stumblebum. I replayed time.

I speed through the floor, trying to go to the master's bedroom. I look outside the window besides me and widen my eyes, "HOOOOLYY SHIIT, A FUCKING DRAGOON!"

Adrenaline rushed through my veins, my blood pumping. I see my mom picking another sword for her left arm. She's dual-wielding and she's.. grinning? She's grinning like she has finally met a worthy opponent for years.

Who in the world is this Malvis?

I see mom taking the Siltra Dance stance but with two swords. She launches to Malvis that is riding the big fucking dragon. Malvis then, made a blue flaming sword out of thin air and launches from her dragon to mom.

They clashed in the sky and the impact for their first hit made a gigantic shockwave which wind made earthquakes around the mansion.

They are both knocked out from the impact and landed at the wall of the watch towers on the corner of the mansions, destroying it.

Then, the dragon charges up his fireball and shoots it into mom, blasting her into the forest outside the gate walls.

Malvis suddenly got out from the rubbles, her body is surrounded with flames and the rubbles crashing her is melting like lava. From her back, 2 sets of flaming wings protrudes. She flies straight to the forest, breaking the sound barrier in the process.

Her dragon followed her and shoots flame all over the forest burning half of what I can see. The dragon stops its fury, Malvis with her mage coat all burnt I can see that she has a very revealing dress worn. Her face is revealed to be gorgeous and her eyes are fiery yellow craving for revenge. She stares into one position and flies towards it.

I unfortunately cannot see what else is happening, however then I see Malvis got knocked back towards the mansion's gate walls, flew right through it. Before landing my mom suddenly appeared taking the stance for the 2nd slash of Siltra dance. She slashed her sword towards Malvis, but she blocked, creating a huge shockwave in the process.

Malvis then was launched right back towards the watch tower she destroyed. She soon regained composure. She took a stance, however it's no ordinary stance, my eye widens, it's The Northanrey's traditional sword stance, The Siltra Dance.

Both my mom and Malvis launches towards each other. Malvis having the high ground uses it to hit knock my mom on the ground. Dusts and boulders of rocks started flying out of the ground destroying the hallway.

Mom jumps high into the air appearing next to Malvis and kicks her into the forest. Malvis, fortunately for her, happens to block the kick at the right time.

They clashes with each other in the forest so that the dormant workers are unharmed, I cannot see their movement however I can see the traces of their battle.

I only see their flickering after images and every-time an after image appears it will soon be followed by a shockwave. The shockwave is so strong that each of it creates a big crater around 5 meters in perimeter.

I- is this what Knowledge meant by not underestimating this world?!

I ran through the hallway then I met a guard who's facing backwards from me, I unsheathe my sword.

The guard still not looking at me, stops, and his head spun 180 degrees staring at my eyes directly, then his body twisted 180 degrees and headed straight towards me.

I ran towards him, jumped, spun in the air, using that momentum to slice the guard.

*CLANG*

He blocks it with his shield but the impact is too strong for the floor to handle so it forms a crater.

I blinked behind him then his body splits into two vertically. I stopped time and sliced him but somehow it now feels easier to cut a person's body than previous times.

I realized something. My mom said that each kill grants a Northanrey an extra strength. What if, since the whole theory about void is proven wrong. What if, I still inherit The Northanrey's aether skill since my mom, a pure blood Northanrey, gave birth to me.

My thought was interrupted when I heard 10 guards marching towards me.

"Shit! I couldn't kill all of them!" They still held some value to The Northanrey!

"Raeppa" I chanted and my body turned invisible. I matched my marching with theirs. When the guards are no longer to be seen, I ran.

Finally, I reached it.

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