The problems came one by one.
First, when the Royal Academy staff found that she and William were conspiring with Dorian to kill Magnus in the secret realm, they were doomed. The academy expelled both from the academy.
It means that there was no way that they could gain a foothold easily in society.
The nobles wanted their children to graduate from the Royal Academy because it was a very prestigious institute. Graduating from that means that you are one of the best.
There are many in the society who graduated from the Royal Academy. They are the elites of the society and the pillars that support Glessaria. Though their allegiance doesn't belong to the academy, as alumni of the academy, their decisions would probably be in favour of the academy as long as it won't conflict with their interests.
Elisha and William are small fries, and that means that they can't find anything good in society as they were expelled from the academy.
No one would go on their way to make it easy for them in the future. After all, these two were expelled from the academy for the crimes of being in conspiracy to kill a student of the Royal Academy.
Since they were not the ones who tried to kill the student directly, and the one that they tried to kill was alive, these two were only expelled after having talks with the families of the two accused.
This was their punishment. If they ever want to reach the sky, that may not happen in the kingdom of Glessaria. They have to leave this kingdom, which would be their only chance unless something big happens that can cover what happened.
For now, the topic of the town was the conspiracy of Elisha and William to kill Magnus.
In the noble's circle, conspiracies to bring one another down are common but they are always done in a fashion such that no one points out at them for that. Everything should be done in shadows and leave no evidence of what happened. If there was any evidence, they would be done, and that was what happened to those two.
Even though they were clever and didn't directly plan to eliminate Magnus, they did leave some breadcrumbs for Magnus to follow. Whatever he was able to find, gave the staff of the academy a way to dig out everything that happened and caused their expulsion.
The only reason why those two were still alive was that one of those two was an heir to the Count's house, while the victim was just a son of a Viscount. If he was the heir, then the outcome might have been much different.
The outcome of a prosecution depends on your ability, either your direct ability or your background.
If Magnus was in a higher position when compared to William and Elisha, then the punishment would have been severe. The highest punishment would have been dealt if they were of common origin. Luckily those two are of noble birth.
One was from a Count's house and the other from a Viscount's house.
When compared to Magnus's position, either they are on the same level or a higher level. So the punishment from the academy stopped with expulsion.
One may think that it is not fair and the punishment for a crime should be equal but that was not the case.
There is no fairness, no matter what world you look at.
Even on Earth, someone with a lot of wealth can get out of trouble just by paying some fine instead of going to Prison for the same crime that imprisoned some poor man.
Normally in Ragos, one can only become a noble if they have made any achievements that would help the kingdom or the empire.
It means the higher the family's noble Rank is the greater the contributions they made to the kingdom or the empire.
Even her father is facing backlash.
No one would welcome a backstabber into their circle. It was one thing to cause damage to a stranger but to harm someone who was once closer to you, who would believe in you afterwards.
The Frostwolf family came to the aid of the Siren family, while no other responded. They even took a lot of hits in that disaster but gained nothing in return.
The idea of marrying Magnus and Elisha came from the Siren family.
Now they found some rich thigh and wanted to hop ships, they tried to get rid of Magnus, who was not only Elisha's fiance but the son of a friend.
No one would believe that Elisha did everything behind her family's back.
So, the blame shifted onto the Siren family.
What they didn't know was that the blaming game was started by someone, someone that they thought would do something like that.
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One thing that can be said for sure is that Elisha didn't have experienced a good day since that day.
What her future holds, no one knows, not even her.
For now, all she could do was work hard to recover from the recent devastation to the family's treasury.
What was supposed to be the capital for their family's future, now belonged to someone.
Since she was the reason for the family's misfortune, she had to do her part in improving the family's situation.
She has no reason to say no and she didn't either.
Elisha decided to undo the damage that she caused to her family for her selfish reasons.
She could have just stated that she didn't like Magnus and her heart belonged to someone else.
There was a chance that she could have gained what she wanted without losing anything.
To Elisha, she lost a potential powerhouse as her husband, and also, there is a high chance that William left her to dry.
If that was not the case, he would have contacted her a long time ago but didn't.
Even if she knew that there was nothing that she could say or do about it.
It's time to move on with her life.