Shmidt family fortune

While Leo was exploring the Rufus city Elly arrived at the residence of her family. She felt like a big rock fell from her heart. She could finally relax. She felt safe. The residence of their family was a an average looking stone build medium sized mansion. For a baron noble family inside the city it was nothing special. There were barons with their domains but in big cities noble families lived a mansions of different sizes and controlled only a small portion of land from the area that the city was build on. There were places where nobles could have a domain allocated to them but generally they were not habited by many citizens and were isolated from the outside world. If those nobles pay their taxes and don't cause to big of a trouble no one really cared what would happen to the people serving those families.

The Shmidt mansion had two floors in total. On the first floor they had a kitchen, rooms for servants with bath facilities and a big hall for social events. The second floor was the Shmidt family members residence. It had few big rooms with all the necessary furniture needed for a noble. The family was not big and more then half of the rooms were vacant on the second floor. The elders already died from old age. Elly's father planned to have a big family here but his plans were in vain. Like Elly mentioned to Leo her fathers name was Elen. He was a forty years old man with blonde hair with some parts of it starting to turn white. He had wide shoulders with a height of 1.9 meters, he had a stern look most of the time and exuded the aura of a true warrior. He was a third circle knight. People on a level of a knight were respected in town. Generally other citizens would have to give them the respect they deserved. Elen's wife Kaily had died during labor. Elen had three children. A girl and two boys. Elly was the youngest of the three. She was only twelve years old. In a couple of days she will turn thirteen. Her two brothers Greg and Felix were eighteen and twenty years old respectably. Both of the brothers went after their father steps and became apprentice knights. They both were at the 8 circle and it was not bad for their age. Felix was a little stronger and closer to the ninth ring because he was older by two years. With the rise of the level of any profession in this world it will become harder to advance. Both looked very similar to their father externally. Such amount of children may look good in our days but in this world of sword and magic having multiple children is the norm. No one will be really surprised for a family to have around seven children. The Shmidt family was still an average family in the rank of barons because it was not common to have 2 children with a talent to become a knight. That's why this little family was still on the flow. Recently Elen had a fortunes encounter and got his hands on a magic crystal. He was on a mission to protect high ranking nobles. They were attacked and a lot of people died in the process from both sides. One of the people that died dropped this magic crystal. Elen quickly took a hold of this magic crystal and hid it in his bag. He knew that this could cause his death but it was worth it! Back in the Smidt residence he was waiting for his daughter to take a chance. To try and make a lip of faith. After the death of his wife he felt that he wanted to help his daughter to try and live a better life or a least to have a choice in life instead of becoming a wife and basically becoming a property of her husband's family. Even if she would go to other noble family he knew that there was not a small chance for her to encounter misfortune and abuse. When he got the news that his daughter returned he was rejoiced. She wanted to explore the danger zone and maybe obtain some sort of decision of what she wanted to dedicate her life for.

Some nobles started to try and marry her to one of their offspring's in a hope to get a strong backing of a family with a future three knights. It was a good deal for someone that did not have any magic bloodline. That's why Elen wanted his daughter to try different things in life before she come to some sort of conclusion. After he got the magic crystal he was resolute on giving her a chance to check her magic aptitude. He knew that they needed to proceed with the check quickly before someone will get the news of him having a magic crystal. Other families with similar power will not hesitate to try and attack him and his family to get the magic crystal. When he heard that Elly, his daughter was attacked on her way back his heart sank. He rushed to see what happened. When he saw that only some of the guards were dead he felt relived. It was a big loss but the guards could be trained again. He had only three children he was not ready to lose.

"Elly are you alright?" Elen asked, looking very worried.

"Father you will not believe what happened to us. We were attacked in the danger zone by bandits. It was a sneak attack and because of that half of the guards were killed almost immediately. My maid and I were ready to end our lives to not end as play mates for all the bandits but we were saved by a mage. He helped us to annihilate the bandits. Then he escorted us to the town for a pay after he took all the possessions from the bandits." Elly said.

'It sound like some story of a princess that got saved by a guy on a white horse. What the hell..' He thought.

"Is that really what happened?" He asked.

"Of course it what happened Dad. What do you mean?" Elly asked.

"Okay, Okay. I believe you. What type of mage this guy was? Did you like him?" Elen asked.

He wanted to tease his daughter and he succeeded really easily.

Elly looked dissatisfied with all the questioning but still answered. Her father acted strangly.

"Dad that guy was very strange. He was younger then me but he controlled earth magic on a very high level. He even killed a huge burly guy using multiple different spells. He also shot more then thirty earth bullets at the other bandits and killed most of them solo." Elly said.

'What the hell?' Elen thought.

"Are you sure? Is he really younger then you?" Elen asked.

"Of course I'm sure Dad. Why do you ask me? Why should I lie? You can just ask the guards if you don't believe me." Elly said while pouting.

'That's a great idea' Elen thought.

"Of course I believe you sweetheart! Go and rest. After dinner come to my office. We have a very important thing to discuss." Elen said.

"Okay Dad. I will take my leave first" Elly said. After that she hugged her father and went to her accommodations to rest.

After Elen talked with the four guards that survived the incident and confirmed that his daughter was not telling things because she got over exited he began to plan how to get this guy on his side and maybe even into his family.