Chapter 149 - 148: Three Weeks.

"I love how direct you are------- I can't help but remember hero Alice, you are just spitting image of her. Your face and also the way you behave, you are very much like her even to the smallest details. and I don't mind teaching you, since that's the least I could do to Hero Alice and brother Ranulf." 

"There are various parts of him that you haven't seen yet, the parts which make her too similar to Alice," said Dad who was seated on the sofa. he continued "He is as cynical and prideful as her mom, I don't know if that's good or bad quality." 

"Hero Alice's cynical nature was very much attractive. She is the only other person that I have ever looked up to," said Aunt Ronia. 

Looking at her I asked, "Who is the other person that you look up to?"

"That -----" she slightly shifted her attention toward Grandma Lozen as she said, " That's a secret."

It is obvious that she is trying to make it obvious, does she want Grandma Lozen to acknowledge her or something?

"By the way, I will only train you on one condition." 

"and that is?"

"I want you to teleport me to places, like the places that you have been. I want to see where you have been, the places, every part of your life. I want to see the struggles and tragedies that you went through, I want to see it all."

"Why?" I asked.

"I want to see what kind of life the future king has led up until now."

The reason was bullshit and there is definitely something more to her reason, but I don't see any kind of harm in her words. So I guess I can show her, "Fine, but your training better be worth it."

"You don't have to worry about that, I know various people that can help you in getting stronger."

Well as I was conversing with Aunt Ronia, there was something that was really bothering me at that time. 

A particular girl was revealing all my secrets to my family, she ------ this girl is not even embarrassed to say those things.

I was hearing a burst of loud laughter that was coming from the other side of the room. The other side of the room which consisted of Rai, Emilia, Aetna, Annie, and my dad seem to be laughing about something.

That something was my secret...

"Are you serious?!!" asked Emilia as she couldn't control her laugh.

"I am serious! I still remember the first time Grey had to shit in the forest, he ------- HE WAS DISGUSTED BY HIS OWN SHIT!!! his face ----- his face!! it was the face of a rich brat who had to take a shit in an open jungle for the first time. It was so funny!"

"Stop!!! I can't ---- I can't my stomach." said dad as he was holding his stomach, he wasn't able to stop laughing.

"Well, he did get comfortable with shitting in the forest, more comfortable than any of us. He mastered the art of shitting in open, I was proud of him."

Dad burst into a burst of louder laughter, he was in tears with laughter. 

"You all seem to get along well," I said as looked at them with a sharp look, well I can't lie that I did put some murder intent in that look. 

Suddenly everyone quiet down, and Rai was trying to look away from me. "What happened Rai, you can continue. But well ------ but I can't guarantee that there will not be blood spilled today."

She looked at me back as she said "Threat accepted!"

Well nothing else happened that night, Rai kept teasing me for the rest of the time and I teased her back like usual. We had dinner and then slept for the night. 

Rai and Aunt Ronia spent the night in the guest room. Aetna had her own room and Illya prefers to sleep with me. She is still a kid, so I think I can do that at least for her since I don't want her to miss her parents. I can try to make her not feel lonely.

Just like that days went by and the time for my academy was growing closer. At this time, I made several decision to grow our brand since it would serve as a good source of money.

Kirsa looked for the various dealer who was ready to provide us with the material at cheaper prices, together I and Kirsa reviewed the offer of various dealer and in end, we decided to give the contract of supplying the material to the deal at the Queen's port. 

We bought the abandoned temple of the Nyx and made it the factory that will manufacture the goods. The goods are still in production, but once done, we will head to the next part of the plan. The next part of the plan is to launch the product in the market and gradually we will have to build the name for it.

On the other part, the gambling center was pretty easy to set up. Apparently, the men at my Lenton house gang were pretty shady enough to procure every kind of thing that is needed to run a gambling center.

Along with the gambling center, we attached a fancy bar to it. I was very much tempted to add a prostitution center where men and women can pick up whoever they want since gambling, drugs, and hookers are a pretty good combo.

But well there were many moral obligations so I decided not to. 

For now Gambling center was making a ton of money, along Lenton city was becoming the new capital for every kind of organization. It was normal for a meeting to be held in our gambling center and well, I was able to observe the hierarchy of power form in front of my house.

If necessary I am willing to naturalize any threat if needed, I will have to maintain balance in Lenton city.

Being attached to Celestia is helping me in keeping the threat away from Lenton city, it's like people are avoiding taking on Lenton city. That includes the church, it seems like the church is getting weak. 

How do I know that church is getting weak? because in past they never used to think before starting a war. But now they are very careful in choosing their opponent.

Celestia was growing in power very rapidly and inferno was also in its move. The blood bath between Celestia and Inferno will be inevitable. 

Recently princess seems to be eying on Zalo. Well, that's the place which is hardest to bring under our control. 

Zalo is a lawless city, where only one person rules everything, he is known as the king of the way to hell. A cool name right?

Zalo is an underground city, beyond Zalo there is hell. Hell is home for demons and various other things like vampires and stuff. 

{Author: Hell is not very hell-like, it will be a proper civilization. A civilization where many demonic entities and races live. By the way, the vampire is a demonic race. Not exactly demons, but they are demonic races. It will make sense in a further story.}

There is only one passageway to hell in the continent of the seaweeds and the city of Zula is situated in the passageway. Due to geographical and various other advantages, no organization or country was ever successful in capturing the city of Zula.

I will have to go to hell, I have something to do over there, that's why I need to go through Zula. 

The time that has passed since the time I took the entrance exam was about three weeks, and today was my first day at the academy. 

We were assigned a dormitory to live in, for now, I was given the dormitory with two random guys. But I was free to change the room according to my convenience. 

Aetna and Rai apparently took a room together with Lily and Agata. Apparently, they were given the room of four-person. I haven't met Lily and Agata yet, so most probably I will meet them later.

There was actually various small building, the girl's building was separate, in a place separated from the boys. We were each assigned a wing, the whole building was like one house. We even had a shared hall, training room and there was also a kitchen.

Currently, I was actually walking to the classroom with Aetna and Rai. As soon as I entered the classroom, I was able to see various new faces. But there were very few faces that I recognized.

Even though I knew very less people here, most of the people looked at me and some even showed some kind of irritation towards me. Well, what did I do to them?

I guess there is definitely a hierarchy here and I definitely pissed some people off at higher hierarchy.. But it's not like I care.