Chapter 103 - 102: House Lenton

"I have a suggestion." said a particular young man. 

The young man wore an elegant and form-fitting attire, consisting of a purple shirt dress, above the shirt he wore a black and indigo waistcoat. On the bottom, he wore slim black trousers and a pair of black boots. 

The young man's rich sense of dressing made him seem like a royal. The young man was Grey, beside him sat Ray and Rin while Aetna was eating food across the table

"Who you might be sir?" asked the son of the Saphed organization, he was overwhelmed by the young man's dressing sense and he didn't want to offend anyone powerful. 

"Just a traveler. Sorry, I overheard you conversa---"

Before Grey could speak any further, Cowar interrupted him saying, 

"I remember where I have seen this young gentleman from!!. He is the son of miss Alice, he is one of our princes," said Cowar proudly. Proud because he recognized the prince first. 

In an instant, without wasting any team everyone kneeled on the ground. As Cowar was still standing, Ebony dragged him into a kneeling position.

"Our Prince!! please forgive our rudeness, we were foolish to not recognize you!!" said everyone simultaneously. 

With a gentle chuckle, Grey spoke, "It's fine, there is nothing to forgive. I don't blame you all to recognize me since my mother's marriage was secret among the royalties. You shall get up and proceed with your dinner."

Everyone got up, but they still hesitated to be seated on the chair. They didn't just want to be seated in front of Grey, without his permission.

"You have my permission, you can be seated."

With his permission, everyone sat on the chair. 

"Now that I take a close look at our prince, you do closely look like hero Alice. My prince, you are incredibly charming!" 

A tender smile curved up Grey's lips, as he said "Thanks! that really my day!!" 

Ebony found that smile very attractive and alluring, she wasn't able to take her eyes off him. 

The son of the Saphed family, his name was Clay, Clay opened his mouth saying "Prince ---"

"My name is Grey."

"Prince Grey, the thing you have heard about drugs was done by my dad, we were just discussing abolishing the trade of drugs from this city. We took care of our dads so that all the evil dies with them, we have promised that we will lead this city into a new era."

Clay lied, he lied as naturally as he was breathing. 

"That's noble of you, I would love to support a noble cause. Let's see, you need a source of money that is not related to drugs or any other morally wrong activity such as extortion, robbing, stealing, and other things. Right?"

"Yes, Your majesty."

"Royal knight, what do you say? Can these crimes be pardoned?" asked Grey. By Royal knight, he was referring to Ray.

"According to the laws of the nation, such crimes cannot be pardoned, it is punishable by death," said Ray, sincerely. 

Hearing the words of Ray put the gang member in a state of panic, kneeling down they begged, "Your majesty, please overlook this crime! we promise that we won't do it again."

Grey turned to look at Rai as he asked "What do you think?" 

"Well, as your advisor, I have an idea. It is simple, The prince will overlook this matter, but it will come at a price. The price is to swear absolute loyalty to the prince."

Without thinking twice, Clay kneeled down saying "I swore my absolute loyalty to the prince!!!" So did everyone else in the Saphed gang. 

But Ebony was still hesitant, as she stood, she was still considering many things.

"I don't want blind loyalty, I want my followers to also get benefits from following me and the benefit you all will get is that you will get more money than the church could ever provide, double the amount of it."

Curious, Ebony asked, "How are we going to do that, your majesty?" 

"We won't take from the poor, we will take from the rich and also we will provide things that the common people need the most in a considerable price, they will buy from us."

"Can you elaborate further, your majesty?" 

Grey raised his index finger as he said "First we will open a gambling center but with a twist. We will let everyone in on the thrill of gambling their money, but we will set a limit on how much a person can gamble per month. So that none of our customers go bankrupt yet they visit us every month to spend their money, they will wait every month so that they could gamble again and yet they won't feel cheated, it's a win-win situation for everyone."

Grey raised his second finger as he continued "We will open clothing lines, we will give it a brand name and sell it among the rich. We will sell normal clothes to a stupidly high amount of money and brand it like a thing that only the rich can have." 

"Apologies your majesty, but why would rich buy something so pricey when they can buy it for cheap?" asked Ebony, curious. 

Grey chuckled as he said "You are thinking from a perspective of a commoner, but rich don't think about things like that. They will buy our clothing line simply because it will be sold as a symbol of status and richness, they will not buy our clothes they will buy our brand name which will be the symbol of richness."

Ebony couldn't help but laugh as she said "I was indeed thinking about it from the perspective of a commoner, now that your highness puts it that way, I can't deny that how amazing the idea is."

Ebony crouched down before kneeling down to her knees, "Your majesty!! I swear my absolute loyalty to you!!"

Grey looked at Ebony as he said "I have taken a liking to you, I will give you the leadership of the clothing division."

He then turned to face Clay as he said "You will be in charge of the gambling center. How does it sound?"

"No problem here!"

"No problem here either, your majesty!"

"Ah, by the way, since we will be starting two businesses that will quite possibly be very successful. naturally, we will catch the attention of various people. We will start having enemies, but I don't want to entertain any enemies. We need power and of course, it would be politically not right to let people know that you work under the prince." 

"Then how will we operate your majesty?" asked Clay.

"You will focus more on the business aspect of our plan. The power will be provided by the organization that I know, the Celestia organization. You will be part of the Celestia organization."

"Celestia organization?" questioned Ebony.

"They will be here in this city soon, you will see for yourself. We will have to eliminate our enemies and create a ruthless image for ourselves, for that we will obviously have to be ruthless ourselves. We will start with the church, no, I will start with the church. I will eliminate the church from this place since they will be a very big hindrance."

Everyone's face twisted in confusion as they heard that Grey would be eliminating the church, it was an impossible task as far as they know. No one with a sane mind ever said that they will be eliminating the church, this fact of course created doubt in the mind of all the people present in the Inn.

Grey realized the doubt in their eyes. He closed his eyes as he sighed.

But as he opened his eyes, his eyes had a different expression from before. The air itself around Grey was different from before, a sudden aura of untamed energies burst out of Grey.

It wasn't just mana, it was every type of energy he had at his disposal. 

"I can do it," said Grey, his words carried so much weight that every other truth seemed like a lie.

Being in his presence was suffocating for everyone in the Inn, their body couldn't stop trembling on their own. Grey later stopped the burst of energies and with their body wasn't trembling anymore. 

Ebony quickly regained her posture as she said "Your highness, I am ready to gamble everything on your cause. If you want to take on the church I will gladly walk beside you!"

Clay joined her saying, "Your highness, I too am ready to walk behind you!!"

"Then from today, you will be called as House Lenton, since you will be representing all of Lenton City. House Lenton will be the subdivision of the Celestia and we will discuss the future of House Lenton tomorrow. But one thing is for sure, you will personally be led by me and I have high hopes for you all."

"We will not betray your hope, your highness!!"