Xasha was a prince. Technically, he's the king's younger brother's great-grandson. His mother had relinquished her title as a princess and married Xasha's father before he was born. So it is more accurate to say that Xasha had royal blood in him, but he was not a prince.
Xasha was dreading his meeting with the king because he knew what it meant. A soul contract. The king knew of Xasha's talent and he also knew of the magic compression techniques that he developed.
The party ended after midnight. Most people went home, those who will stay the night were still in the venue drinking and dancing. The king was one such person. Xasha sat at a table talking with Megan, who was also staying the night when an attendant came to summon him. He gave Megan a kiss, then followed the attendant.He was calm; he had prepared himself for the conversation with the king. The attendant took him to his father's study inside the mansion.
The Moment Xasha entered his mansion, he could tell something was off. He turned to Megan who had entered the Living room behind him and said, "someone was in the house". 'I need a security system' he immediately thought. He brought out Storm Caller and got into a defensive stance before Megan to protect her.He checked the rooms on the first floor one by one. Though he found nothing out of the ordinary, he did not drop his guard. Moving on to the second floor to check those rooms, he heard a faint sound, like a girl's scream coming from somewhere on the second floor. Pinpointing where the screams were coming from,
Verra was made the head of the alchemy department with her deputy being Dixon, a 3rd-year Alchemy student. Xasha was the head of the enchantment department with his deputy being Eloise. Gin was the head of the hunting department with his deputy being Fredrick, a 4th-year combat magic student. Megan was in charge of sales, distribution, and marketing with her 3 deputies Cecile on sales, Dana on marketing, and Stephen on distribution.Megan and her team of deputies were in a meeting with a large trading company that moved products all over the continent. They were in a large warehouse filled with magic devices, large
The sound of leather boots tapping against a hard work floor echoed in a long and empty hallway. Xasha kept looking at the walls that were covered in expensive-looking weapons, artifacts, and paintings. The King by his side introduced him to the more important pieces and ignored the rest. None of these were particularlypowerful, but they were symbolic and had powerful histories. Epaulets worn by generals into war, Swords used to exterminate powerful energy beast tribes. The materials they were made of interested Xasha, but he could buy those anywhere on the continent, no point in taking them from here.Xasha
For the past two months, Xasha and Megan had been living in the imperial courtyard. The courtyard was not a palace, far from it actually. It was just a collection of what amounts to a few hundred mansions. The king's mansion was not even the biggest among those in the courtyard. There were energy chambers, labs, workshops, training arenas, hospitals, parks, a warehouse district, etc.It was a small city spanning hundreds of Mile's built solely for the descendants of the Devos family to live and train. Nobody was allowed inside
Thousands of Luxurious carriages decorated with priceless jewels and rare mana crystals being pulled by all kinds of domesticated energy beasts came to a stop outside the courtyard. Well-dressed men and women descended those carriages and made their way inside the courtyard. These were all important guests from all over the continent, rich, powerful people, all putting on their most expensive clothes and riding in the most expensive carriages. Having the most beautiful date on their arm, this was a competition. There were even carriages on the backs of Giant Birds. They flew in and landed in style.
Ash and Meg spent their honeymoon on a private beach, reserved for the Devos family on the coast of the Devos Province. There was a lone mansion on the secludedbeach, surrounded by steep cliffs. It was just the two of themin the mansion and this gave them licenseto become professional nudists for two weeks. They would swim in the sea, dive underwater to look at the coral reefs and the interesting aquatic energy beasts. They hunted down these energy beasts for food. Xasha had a secret love for cooking, when he was younger someone told him cooking was the same as alchemy, he began learning theskill as he thought of it as alchemy practice.
Even though everyone was looking at Verra, Xasha was the one who answered the question, "We are not strong enough to found our own province. If a bunch of Gold Realm kids can go off making provinces willi nilli, why hasn't there been a new province in Lithuania in over 300 years?""Moving now would be a waste, it is peaceful here and in other places, we will have to fight for resources with guilds much stronger than us. We are the big dogs here and can run around as we please, I think we should use this peaceful time to get stronger." He paused for a few seconds to arrange his thoughts.