Chapter 7 - Broken

"Adelard"

"father you.. "

"enough neoll canas, he is a mortal, and that's what he will be for life, if he wants to eat and live in a roof he better work or leave the clan. "

Adelard spoke with a pale a sad face looking at his little son tearing eyes, adelard felt his heart shattering.

"Maria.. Take marco teach him how to serve in this place, and show him servants rooms, he will be staying there from now on. "

"O.. Okay master. "

Maria is name of a servant

"Father.. I.. I"

Marco felt pain in his heart.

"no more marco leave now. Maria take him now. "

"yes master"

Maria sighed and took marco with her, she knew this is what awaits mortal people in this clan.

After marco and maria left, adelard was about to collapse, he felt as if he aged instantly.

He walked into a nearby chair and sat down on it, and sighed.

"adelard why did you do this to him. He must feel betrayed like this, he is only a child. "

"sigh.. Neoll don't you understand.. This is what awaits mortal people in this clan... "

Adelard spoke with a soft tone.

"you are the clan's leader, you can do it at least this time for your son, and save him from this rough life that he has to face. "

Noel said.

"didn't you see 1st elder out there, he spoke in front of everyone, if i changed the rules for my son, they will 100% rebel on me, the least i can do for him is to make him serve us not the others. "

Adelard looked down and stayed silent.

From that day on marco's life changed from a loved young master to a lowly servant.

13 years later, he faced all the pain and hunger, even if he only served his family, but the pain and hard work was like if he served strangers.

His 2nd brother will always ask him to bring food, then he hit him with it, and ask him to clean the floor, sometimes he beats him, celri and lildra even if they don't hit him, they mock him and laugh at him for being a servant, and ask him to do some hard work personally.

Sometimes he bumped into elders by mistake then they beat him and scold him, and sometimes they throw themselves on him just to beat him.

Everyone is selfish by nature, everyone wants to be a king in his land, so they are, they're trying to make adelard angry, and wait for him to make a mistake to take him down in front of the whole clan.

But unlucky for them, adelard was always cold whatever happened to his son.

In a certain day, the 2nd elder came to marco and asked him to go clean the dragon hall. Marco was kind of scared he told the elder that a servant isn't allowed to enter it, and he'll get in trouble.

But after the 2nd elder threatened him by if he doesn't do as he said he'll get thrown out from the clan. After these years knew that his family doesn't care about him anymore since he is a mortal, so he was scared.

Finally he agreed, and went to the dragon hall, but since it was already clean, he left after a few minutes.

Next day, the door of his room opened with a *Baaam*, marco got scared he jumped out of the bed looking at who entered his room like a wild boar, he find out it was 2 guards behind them his father and the 3 elders looking at him with a cold face and evil smiles.

"patriarch, he stole the dragon jade, i saw him with my own eyes entering the dragon hall, and he was the only one who entered it yesterday. "

"…"

"marco.. Did you steal the dragon jade? "

His father with a cold face, it seems he got used to this face.

"F.. Father, no i didn't, why would i do that. "

Marco was scared of his father he couldn't even look at his eyes.

"the 3rd elder saw you entering to the dragon hall who gave you the permission to do so then. "

His father spoke again.

"th.. The 2nd elder asked me to clean the dragon hall so i did as he ordered me. "

Adelard's eyes flashed with a cold light, then turned to the 2nd elder and said.

"is it true? "

"No no, patriarch we all know servants aren't allowed inside the dragon hall, and even i was with the 1st elder the whole day. "

This time 1st elder spoke with a cold voice as he wasn't scared a bit.

"patriarch, 2nd elder was with me the whole day, are you accusing us, elders, for this mortal servant? "

Adelard looked at 3rd elder and said.

"are you sure, that you saw him entering? "

"Yes. "

This time 1st elder didn't wait for adelard to speak, he said to the guards.

"take him, lock him inside the dark room, we will find where he took the dragon jade to. "

The 2 guards looked at the elder then looked at the patriarch, as if waiting for his orders, 1st elder got so angry but he knew it wasn't his time yet.

He spent 2 weeks inside the prison, the first week they left him starving ,they would give him a little bit of water and bread just to keep him alive. The 2nd week they kept torturing him by breaking his fingers, hitting him in his head, at his back.

Eventually marco couldn't handle it and died, at that time when li qiye took over his body.

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