Ancient Imperial Calendar Year 1809
A week has passed since the arena, Ricardo has rapidly become popular among the students, for a week the only topic that the boys and girls have been talking about was Ricardo, many people wanted to meet Ricardo and learn how he was so strong, as a result of this process, he gathered all the students on the first floor into his group and surpassed his two brothers who were his age in the battle for the throne.
In the dead of night, Ricardo was lying in his bed, lost in thought, like a victorious commander who had achieved his goal
"The first step of my plan is complete"
Ricardo had shocked his class by manipulating Tristan with magic and making him harass Mariline and killing him in front of everyone, he had gained popularity throughout the Academy by defeating monsters in the arena and managed to form his own group
"Fine, from now on I have to train my group and strengthen myself as well as them, I can already see my brothers Ferlas and Karlmen as defeated but it was a bit dangerous to show my other brothers that I am a threat already but I don't care, these kids are nothing but scarabs compared to my enemies in my previous life"
Ricardo fell asleep a few hours later he heard the footsteps of a few students and drew his sword
"Did I scare the assassins that much from the first few months?"
As the footsteps slowly approached his room and they started to push on his door, he was sure that they were assassins. As he prepared to shed some blood with his sword, he remembered the rules of the academy; duels, tests and murders outside the arena are forbidden except for self-defense.
"Hmm right, the rules are then they should attack first"
Ricardo sheathed his sword with a slight smile on his face and waited for his opponents to enter the room. When the doors opened, two students entered with poison-coated daggers in their hands. Seeing Ricardo with a huge smile on his face, whose silhouette was made scary by the moonlight behind him, was enough to terrify them. Ricardo thought of provoking his opponents to attack.
"What happened, you froze like a mother-fucked bastard"
One of the sycamores went crazy
""Better die than be left under this word"
He said and attacked Ricardo drew his sword and took his position
"Now this is self-defense"
Ricardo shattered his opponent's dagger with a single move, then punched him hard in the stomach. The assassin lost his breath, took deep breaths, coughed violently. The other assassin lost his courage and tried to escape, but Ricardo grabbed the assassin who was trying to escape in a split second with his acceleration spell, threw him into the room, then closed the door and made a soundproof barrier around the room so that no one else could hear him. He clenched his fists when the two assassins looked at Ricardo, they saw an expression on Ricardo's face as if to say, "Haven't you eaten your mint yet?" Ricardo cracked his fingers, fixed his hair and looked at the assassins.
"If I were you, I would start hooting."
The assassins stood up and took up positions for battle, Ricardo, who was expecting this to happen
"I thought so too, do you know what a Turvig proverb says, beat those who don't understand words, it is a very beautiful and meaningful saying"
After these words, Ricardo started punching the assassins quickly and hard, he punched them so much that he punched them seven or eight times in a second, both assassins fell to the ground
"I really wonder which stupid brother of mine sent these two pieces of garbage"
Ricardo turned his aura into a rope and tied the assassins, then used a healing spell to heal them both and cast a water spell to wake them up, pouring cold water over both of their heads, the two assassins woke up in shock
"W-what's going on"
Ricardo grabbed the two by the head
"You seem to have come to your senses"
Ricardo took his desk and sat across from the two
""I won't go on too long, which brother sent you, don't even think about loyalty, this, that, nonsense, I put a soundproof spell on the room, I tortured you both until morning, no one would be able to hear you"
When the young assassins heard the word torture, the cat Mirsali who spilled milk started telling everything.
Haaa I thought the idiots would at least resist a little, Ricardo thought.
Okay, let's review what we learned, Ferlas sent these two idiots, my mother said Ferlas was extremely jealous and couldn't stand anyone who was even slightly better than him, apparently my success in the arena and the attention he wanted to bring to me had driven me crazy, anyway, on the bright side I had an excuse to get rid of him, Ricardo thought
Ricardo looked at the two on their knees, shaking with fear, both of them had dark blood-red hair and eyes, just like the rest of the academy, they were his blood grandchildren
It is out of the question for me to leave those who tried to kill me alive, but killing my own grandchildren... he thought to himself
What should I do, if I kill them, I will not receive any punishment for protecting myself, on the other hand, if I want to ascend to the throne, I will eventually have to kill my brothers as well, Ricardo thought
When the assassins saw Ricardo's indecisive state, they thought they had a chance to survive
"PLEASE FORGIVE OUR LIVES, YOUNG LORD"
"WE BEG YOU FORGIVE US"
"WE WILL DEVOTE OUR WHOLE LIFE TO YOU, BE YOUR LOYAL DOGS–"
With one move, Ricardo cut off both their heads, no more words were needed
""I knew that such things would happen the day I decided to join the throne war. I can't act like a child. Not when the God of Heaven and Earth has given me a new chance"
Ricardo lifted the silence spell, destroyed the aura ropes that bound the headless corpses and left the room to call a Master.
The next day, everyone was talking about the assassination attempt. Although Ferlas, the perpetrator of the incident, denied it, everyone believed Ricardo due to his popularity. Ricardo was making moves to provoke Ferlas through his men.
Ferlas was furious and had lost a few people with him.
"Sons of bitches, the day I take over the dynasty, I will wipe out all of you, I will slaughter your families in front of your eyes"
He heard a few people talking as he passed by
"Young Lord Ferlas assassinated Young Lord Ricardo and failed"
Another person
"Well, if he's doing this, why didn't he give the job to someone who could do it properly"
Another person
"With this intelligence, how will he take over the dynasty"
Hearing these words, Ferlas drew his sword
"You sons of bitches, how dare you talk about me like that, do you want to die?"
The children there drew their swords to protect themselves, but there was no sign of fear in their eyes
"Did we lie, you are not even worth a fingernail to Young Lord Ricardo"
Ferlas could not tolerate these words any longer, he attacked those standing in front of him, Ferlas' sword, who swung his sword in anger, was repelled by someone's sword
"You want to kill me, brother, come on, kill me if you can"
Ferlas' face was red with anger, he was trying to kill Ricardo by increasing the intensity of his attacks, gathering all the aura in his body into his sword and strengthening his arms with his mana, trying to break Ricardo's bones and bones, he was hitting Ricardo's sword hard and fast.
Ricardo was not going to let Ferlas kill him either, he transferred enough of his aura to his sword to be able to withstand Ferlas' aura, he strengthened not only his arms but also his entire body with his mana, he dodged all of Ferlas' blows.
Ferlas' power was slowly starting to wear out, the first years surrounded them and watched what was happening with curious eyes.
"Do you see Ferlas, all these people have gathered to witness your death, be happy because you will not die alone"
Ferlas stood up with his last strength and prepared for a finishing move
"I did not survive all those assassination attempts to die in your hands, I swore to my mother, my master, and the others that no one would be stronger than me, no one can be stronger than me"
Ricardo made a mocking face
"Hahaha are you stupid in this whole world, do you have any idea how many people in the world have done what you did at this age, while they were still in their cradle, you would have sent my assassin to all of them like you sent me"
Ferlas went crazy after these words, he attacked Ricardo, Ricardo added more aura to his sword, cast an acceleration spell, made his first and last attack, everything happened in seconds, Ricardo was behind Ferlas, those who saw him couldn't believe their eyes
"What happened, wow, he was so fast"
Ferlas's stomach was cut from one end to the other, he fell to his knees and complained that he didn't want to die. Ricardo stabbed Ferlas's sword into his heart to end his pain and killed him right there. The Academy Masters arrived at the scene, without saying anything, they lifted the body and cleaned the blood that had splattered on the ground with magic, turning to the curious eyes watching them in the square.
"Everyone will be interrogated, don't even think about running away"
When the investigation was over, the Masters made a final statement
"Ferlas attacked to kill his brother Ricardo, Ricardo killed his brother while defending himself, the incident was recorded as Self-Defense, the student Ricardo will not be punished, disperse "
As a result of this incident, one person was removed from the throne wars, leaving nine people. That night, Ricardo called his childhood friend Marco to his room. When Marco entered the room, Ricardo literally covered the room and created a soundproof area so that the conversations could not be heard by anyone from outside. Ricardi went straight to the point.
"Marco, I have almost taken control of the first classes. I want you to assassinate my brother Karlmen, who is the only obstacle in my way."
Marco was a little surprised by what he heard.
"Young Lord, I understand your request, but I do not think I am suitable for such a task that requires silence and meticulousness."
Ricardo stood up
"Come here Giskar"
The surroundings suddenly become pitch black, then the darkness disperses and Ricardo's contracted Shadow Spirit Giskar appears
"It's been a long time Sir"
Ricardo smiled slightly when he saw Giskar, whom he hadn't felt the need to call for a long time
"It's been a long time my old friend I want you to meet someone this is Marco my childhood friend Marco this is my contracted Shadow Spirit Giskar"
Marco saw a Spirit for the first time in his life, he stood up in surprise and admiration
"I see a Spirit for the first time, this is even more wonderful than I imagined"
Giskar was thrilled with the young man who praised him, hm, they seem to get along well, Ricardo thought
"Okay, guys, look here, I'm explaining the details of the operation, Giskar is a professional in hiding and research, so even if you kill someone in front of hundreds of people with him, no one can see you and Giskar, as a Spirit, you cannot kill anyone, you are aware of this, I don't want you to kill him anyway, just hide Marco, that's enough"
The plan made sense to both of them, they nodded in agreement and took action. Giskar made Marco invisible with his Spirit Art. The two secretly entered Karlmen's room. Giskar covered the room with dark energy. This Spirit Art was a technique similar to the spell Ricardo used to soundproof the room. Marco drew his sword and approached Karlmen with slow and silent steps. Just as he was about to stab his sword, Karlmen woke up. Marco tried to stab his sword, but Karlmen threw Marco off him by casting a wind spell.
"Who are you? Ricardo sent you."
Marco quickly got up from where he fell.
"You don't need to know, you're going to die anyway, Young Lord Karlmen."
Karlmen drew his sword, transferred his aura to his sword, then spread his aura to his body and tried to make armor while Marco attacked Giskar pulled a curtain over Karlmen's eyes with his Shadow Art, Karlmen, who was blinded for a moment, went into shock
"I can't see what's going on"
Marco didn't miss the opportunity, he stabbed Karlmen in the heart with his sword while Karlmen was taking his last breath in pain, Giskar secretly took Marco to Ricardo's room, after they arrived at his room Marco knelt
"My young lord, I have completed my duty and removed all evidence"
Ricardo stood up from where he was sitting, put his hand on Marco's shoulder, a proud smile on his face
"You did a great job Marco, with this I will have control of all the first classes while the upper classes will be divided among themselves Marco if there is anything you want let me know and if I can I will give it to you"
Marco bowed his head
"My lord when you become the head of the House in the future take my sister as one of your wives"
Ricardo was upset
"If I were to marry Marco Marilin, you know where this would end up, don't you? There will come a time when their sons will be targeted by assassins. They will watch their sons die. Do you realize what Marilin, who is so emotionally affected by the deaths of her relatives, will become when her own child is killed?"
Marco didn't know what to say when faced with these words. He only wanted his sister to marry Ricardo, who would be the next Dynasty Lord. However, when faced with these words, he was slowly starting to give up on this dream. When Ricardo realized that he could finally convince Marco to give up, he reached out his hand and said
"Stand up my friend if you have another request don't hesitate to say it I also value Mariline that's why I'm drawing a line between us anyway it's getting late go to your room Giskar will secretly take you to your room get some rest"
Marco stood up greeted his Lord Giskar used his Spirit Art to make Marco invisible and escorted him to his room Ricardo put on comfortable clothes and went to bed
"My two brothers are my two grandchildren from my own lineage so it seems my destiny is to be the killer of my grandchildren huh"
As his eyelids closed and he slowly fell asleep another bloody day at the Blood Academy had ended and a new one was coming.