Chapter 792: Chapter 790-Meet It Up.
The funny part of it all will be that I just can't go ahead and make up the full corruption. I need to keep it with the balance of order. Now, the order is the one that holds the reason in your mind, the main component that stops you from just simply going ahead and completing all your desires without caring about others.
In a simple sense, it's not emotions; it's more of reasoning, perfect reasoning that will keep you at bay and stop you from doing things that are 'foolish' or useless. It's the basic thing that keeps everybody from just fulfilling out their whole desire and living like animals, just like how it's done in Rehte.
The funny part here is that even though all the members are brimming with corruption, they still have order within them. Just like how in Ether, there is a small amount of corruption in everyone, in Rehte, there is a small amount of order in them that keeps them from just going and turning into full animals.
'Leaving aside that, there is still the bomb of the bloodline women that I will have to deal with.'
And that won't, in a sense, be fully fun at all cause I have come to understand many things about the one that had gone forth to lead this bloodline in the past. That man in question could have been said to be a hidden mastermind in a sense, similar to what I am becoming
now.
He just didn't go around getting the women; no, the man went around getting the most influential women and binding their souls and love for him forever. And along with it, the man had grown to build a powerful secret empire within that timeline, a timeline where Gods roamed the land and legends that could break reality strived to reach the gods.
And in a sense, what he had done in the past has now only gone forth to help me. After all, it's with the gift of receiving Vena that I was able to do a lot of things I wouldn't have been able to normally do. And what the fun part of it is the fact that among the ones that I have to seduce now, the many that still exist, some of them fall under my bloodline hit.
That means some among the many girls left will automatically fall in love with me when we meet, just like Nathalia, which is a huge help to me and also opens up the picture of why Austin had died so early in the game. Because if he had existed, the full cycle of getting the women would not have succeeded at all.
After all, the bloodline call only works when I activate my bloodline and am alive to use it. When I'm dead, the hold of the bloodline making a certain hole in the woman's chest, as if their life is not complete, won't happen. And thus, fate had pulled the strings to help the protagonist, such that 'I' had died early in the game without even being able to awaken my bloodline.
'Fate also went forth to place a lot of bad things in my life, too.'
A powerful will and a strong mind are needed to awaken; it also comes with being able to complete the restrictions placed on the bloodline, and 'I,' in a sense, wouldn't have been able to complete it, seeing how fractured my family was in the beginning and my father died protecting my life. Everything was done, in a sense, to stop my bloodline from awakening. 'At least that's how it was in the game.'
But reality turned out to be different the moment 'I' awoke as Austin and fate's hold on me disappeared completely, allowing me to change the future and attain this level of power and prestige that should not normally fall into the hands of any one single individual.
'In a sense, it's helping me, so it's alright.'
I still have the strong suspicions I have about that past ancestor of mine, and I know just some ways to get the full answers. Thus, pushing away all my complex thoughts, I focused on Luna, who was just lazily enjoying herself in my embrace, her actions making me chuckle as I spoke out again.
"The world is shifting into war; a lot of dramas that shouldn't appear are appearing, and I could feel the shift in peace. And somehow, my heart tells me my son would be in the middle
of it all."
As Grace spoke of this, her aura blasted forth, the mana around shifting, a sign that Mira didn't miss, causing her eyes to widen up. The phenomenon is only being done by those extremely blessed by mana and having the ability to reach the heights that only the greatest mages could, something which Mira is only blessed with.
And seeing her reaction, Grace understood that she had let herself be free a bit too much. As she regained her calmness, her gaze met with Mira's as she spoke.
"Let's just say one day, I just woke up with this talent."
A mixed smile filled with many emotions as Grace said this, making Mira take her at her word
as the two of them just went on to focus on the main issue at hand.
"I, too, feel the same; not all heroes get the best end, and I don't wish for Austin to be a hero,
too. I just wish for him to be happy and safe."
Her words were accepted by Grace with a nod as she spoke.
"It's the same for me, too; I just want to cuddle him in my arms and not let him get out into the world, but I know I can't do that. He fought his loneliness to get where he is just to protect us, and I can't lock him up. I know that will only destroy him."
Though weirded out by the first words, Mira agreed with the rest as she spoke.
"I feel the same way, but just because we can't hold him down doesn't mean we can't go out of our way to help him. After all, we are not just some damsels in distress. When Austin is in true trouble, all of us will be with him, and we will make sure he is safe."
Mira's words had more power to them because it was coming from an Imperial and the next head of the mage tower. Even without that, Grace had a small security in her heart, her sister —or in this case, her mother?-leaving aside the confusing matter, the legendary hero will surely take care of her son; she knows that deeply in her heart.
The connection between them shows the fact that their love for their son/grandson won't
fade at all.