Chapter 22 - The Answer

"Do you seek revenge on Tresguys' ?" Serlin leaned towards and looked me in the eyes like he was staring into my soul.

What do I even want now I was thinking at that time,

I neither have a home nor somebody besides me what could I even do with the strength I have now, should I give up should I forget everything they did to me,

everything they did to my mother,

making my and my mother's life a living hell what should I do?

but there is one thing for sure they won't be forgiven for their deed, I looked at Serlin and said

"I don't seek revenge for my mother."

"If that's what you want then-" Serlin,

"But I can't sit idle and see what Tresguys' is doing, exploiting with their riches and betraying the country and everything-"

"What can you do about it?" Serlin stood up with a jerk and yelled at me,

"They are the one of the highest order of Nobles they have superiority over Raven sect and not only that they have camaraderie to the imperial family they are much more powerful than you could ever be."

When Serlin said this I felt like standing in deep an abyss at looking at those scums looking down on me I started to feel scorn for Serlin at that point 'cause everything he said made me realize how much worthless I am and trying to act all high and mighty with few golds in his pockets.

"Not just even I am worthless most people see Ravens as their guardians but in the end, we are nothing but puppets moved by the silver strings and for you" Serlin was clenching his fist and then suddenly grabbed me by my collar of the shirt,

"You think you can justify your vendetta as for the sake of the country they are nothing but excuses for a weak, I understand I was wrong in the end you are also like me,

pathetic and naive" Serlin put me down and moved his from my collar and looked down in his eyes there were tears but they never slipped down from his eyes,

"look brat I am giving you one chance give up on your revenge I will take your guardianship and let you stay here and take care of everything but if you still persistent for your 'justice' then it will bring nothing but despair to you and I won't help you in that neither-"

"It's alright I won't ask for your help and also I do realize that I am weak now and worthless...

but that doesn't mean I am using this excuse to justify my actions" I shouted

"Yes I do want them to be punished for what they did to me and my mother but what they did to everyone is more sinful they betrayed the people who trust them as their protector everyone I know I can't do anything by myself that's why I ask you to help me, I know you also want then to be revealed for their crimes but sitting here and giving up won't do that may be we alone won't make any difference however until you try hard enough, then

even a small amber is enough to turn a forest into dust

that's what my mother said and I don't your mercy and your sympathy for what you did to me in the past, so plea-"

"HAHAHAHAHAH" Suddenly Serlin started laughing hysterically,

"If that's what you want then I am sorry I can't help you, I will ask an orphanage to take you in there you can find more like you then you will understand what helplessness feels like what is the difference between fantasy and reality"

I kept my silence I knew he had already given up himself and I wanted to thank him for staying here a bit more but also I didn't want to give up yet,

"Aright," I said.

"Fine then I already asked your belongings from your cottage to be delivered where they will be arriving here in the evening, then you'll be ready to go until stay here and don't worry Tresguys' won't bother you now as they are not interested in a weak twerp" I could easily understand the frustration I opened once again that he was outweighing him.

"You are free to do anything till I come back I have to report to the headquarter today and tell me if you want something," He said while putting on his black cloak and mask,

"No thanks I don't want anything just take care of yourself," I said while bowing to him, and before I knew he vanished into thin air, I was alone again.

I didn't know what to do so I went back to the room I was sleeping in and found the same box I found in the house I opened it took out the bag of muras and put them aside then I saw three books with a leather book cover they were certainly written by my mother but they were somehow different and the letter also I wanted to read, so I tried to open it but couldn't it had a wax seal and maybe menued with some kind of Sealing spell so I put it aside also, I tried to look into the books.

They were clearly not ordinary, every book I read until now written by my mother was about the basics of magic and general history and everything they teach in school but a but different my mother used to co-relate every with magic with their Ruler element and the Mana pattern it was easy and elaborate but these books it had only magic that either was forgotten, forbidden or existed in mythologies but my mother explain every one them with possible reasoning and a theory like she was writing this book with the liberty of her own intuition also I could imagine her smile probably had on her face while she was writing them, there were three books in total,

1. Magus Ruinas,

2. Magus Princeps Vetiti Artis,

3. Quod Magus Godcraft.

These three Books were inside the box, the books that were here were probably the best thing I could ever ask for.

I wanted to read them so I put everything back except the book 'Ruinas' and slid them under the bed again and open the first page of it but suddenly there was a knock on the door I thought Serlin came back I closed the book and went to the door.

I opened the door and found a man in formal clothes in front of me,

"Is this the residence of Sir. Serlin Quill?" the man in his rugged voice,

"Yes," I answered,

"And who must be Sir. Aaris Ralkier then?" He again with a piece of paper in his hand,

"That would be me" I answered with piqued curiosity,

"We have your belonging sent by the Lord Nulim to Aaris Ralkier, so we would like your thumbprint on Libra Talisman here"

"I see, alright" I put my thumb on the Talisman,

It worked on the simple principle of truth and lie if I were not the same person whose name was written by the sender with an image of the addressee in his mind the Talisman would've been burned or if I lied about my name too.

"Thank you for your co-operation your belongings are here"

He handed me a small crate probably a Void-box in which you can store many things but limited depends on the box to make it easy to carry around during transportation this crate was looking nice and beautiful it must be Silver grade, as expected brought from filthy rich it probably had my everything but still had more than half of the space unoccupied for more.

I thanked the man for his assistance and took the crate inside the house I thought it would be best to open it after Serlin came but again the door was knocked, I went opened it and the same delivery man was there huffing,

"I apologize for my carelessness there is also a letter for you please take it" he handed me the letter with Eagle Crest on it it was from the Tresguys,

I closed the door and opened it...

" 'Ello Brat! "