Chapter 2: Beginning Of The Conquest

Five minutes passed by as Lucius kept on writing. The letters were now changed to constructs as he started making some diagrams on the wall as well. While the others didn't know what he was writing as it was beyond the purview of their knowledge, they could very well see that it was a spell construct.

The only person here other than Lucius that could somewhat understand what he was writing was none other than Mira. While she wasn't an expert like Lucius, she still knew about a quarter of what Lucius had learned. Even Lucius was unaware that Mira had learned this secretly.

She still remembered the day clearly when they had first met. It was the second assignment that she had ever been on, and it had been twelve years since then. It was similar to the one they were doing right now, except with much lower risk and proper supervision from the higher ups of the clan.

Lucius was the only one who was not a true blood in that group and thus received the usual treatment of a low born. Mira though could not be bothered with what others did and only kept to herself focusing on the mission, which was the retrieval of a few tomes that had been stolen.

Lucius's position in the team was that of a researcher and would be the one to verify the authenticity of the tomes. The other people in the group were not pleased that a mere low born would be given the position of the researcher and despised him, taking advantage and bullying him every chance that they got.

But Lucius was not one to take it without fighting back either. He didn't directly fight them though, no that would be stupidity. The others were not only much stronger than him, but also had a higher rank.

While the Barrom clan was a place where the strong thrived and suppressed the weak, they still had a set of rules that they followed. Blindly fighting and eliciting enmity would only lead to their doom. One such rule was that while might was right, the clan was still the highest priority.

Thus during missions, while they could bully Lucius, they couldn't straight up kill him no matter how much they wanted that. Neither could they injure him greatly nor cripple him. Lucius knew these things clearly and took his revenge cleverly, or rather one could even say effortlessly.

What Lucius did was merely not inform them about the danger that was in front of them. They had casually walked into an area filled with traps and all those that had opposed him had come out injured except for one, Mira.

He pretended as if he had only discovered the trap after it was activated and blocked it when it was about to harm Mira.

It was from that day that she had started noticing him. Eventually, they went on more missions and she realized what a smart man he was while also being ruthless. She was after all, a Barrom woman and there was no way she would reject a quality like that in a man.

Eventually, they got closer and closer and Lucius opened up to her, revealing his plans to her. She knew that he had been looking for the Lost Amulet of Barrom. It was said that it came from the Great Demon King Barrom himself, whom the clan was named after.

But there were very few people that even believed that the amulet existed and only considered it to be a myth now. In the past, hundreds of missions had been commissioned to find the amulet, but not one had come close to it.

Yet an unassuming low born like Lucius had discovered the clue to it, that too right under their noses. It had been with the Barrom clan all along.

Still, just this clue was not enough, and they needed to find a lot more documents to cross reference the location of the amulet. Then they had to find more documents to verify those documents. It was a nearly endless cycle of repetition that spanned fifteen years.

Most people would have given it long ago and would have just accepted it that it did not exist and that the clue they had found was merely a mistake. Yet, Lucius believed it completely, and it was that unyielding personality of his that made Mira fall into love with him.

It was during that time to read these documents Lucius had to learn a lot of ancient languages and dialects along with spell scripts. To help speed up the process and to give him a surprise, Mira had started learning them on her own.

But before she could even reach half of his level, he had already completed his research and had found what he needed. It was a rather bittersweet moment for Mira as the surprise she had prepared for Lucius was wasted, but she was also happy that he had found one of the final clues.

The true goal of this mission was only known to Mira and Lucius, with the others being in the blind about it. They had been only told that they were here for some lost relics and not for the amulet of Barrom himself.

That is why Mira was so shocked upon seeing what was being written on the wall. It was a complex spell construct that combined multiple spell scripts. But the thing that she recognized was a name, 'Ivalos'. This was none other than the true name of the man called Roy.

True names were assigned to every true blood member of the clan at birth and were their source of power. It was their link with hell and each of them was named after a fragment of a demon's true name. By doing this they would be able to channel demonic energy and mana, allowing them to use demonic magic.

This was what made the Barrom clan one of the strongest in the world.

But Mira didn't know how Lucius knew the true name of Roy, even she only knew the name because Roy was technically her cousin by birth. Then she saw the other two names that were written next to it in a triangular construct.

She couldn't read the other two but knew that they were true names as well, belonging to Michal and Luke.