《Rise of the Sovereign from the North (Trial)》 Chapter 1: Memories (Trial) === Chapter 01 === THIRD PERSON POV: A fierce adult Red Dragon the size of three house spread it bats like wings and spat out his fiery breath to a human knight, the wind whistles as it swung its razor-sharp claw to the knight direction its thick metal like red scale glisten as the light from the sun reflected on it. The knight, wearing a blackened steel armour with golden eagle engraving wields a reddish colour long sword as he masterly dodged and counter the Dragon attack. As the two fight the grown beneath them crack, claw mark and sword slashes were littered everywhere on the battle ground, the grown burned by the fire left no plant in its wake setting up a fiery ring for the two creatures to fight in. Sir Raven withstands the onslaught of the dragon flame head on then he quickly counterattacks, his sword has been coated with his Mana as he slashed at the Dragon chest cutting a shallow cut to the hard scale of the Dragon, none the least it manage to enrage the Apex Behemoth as it was an insult for him to be cut by what it thin as an inferior species. ROOOAAAARRR!!!! The Dragon let out a loud furious roar and look at raven murderously, the air whipped as it whipped Raven with its tail throwing Raven to a nearby wall of the Dragon lair. ¡°HUMAN!! you come to my Lair uninvited and now you plan hunt me down? I will grant you a torturous and painful death for this insolence!!¡± The Dragon said arrogantly as it prepared to launch another attack. On the other side Raven has already stands back to his feet, his helmet was thrown off revealing an aged old man, his white hair, his wrinkly yet handsome face that can still pull the string of young maiden hearts. He holds his sword tightly as a glowing particle coated the sword, unlike mana, the glow gave off a sharp and oppressing power on it, raven sword is now being coated by his sword Aura. The legendary Sword Aura that can only be wield by a Sword Grand master. Sword Grand Master is someone who have reach the peak of the sword path and can freely manipulate the mana around them and turn it into sword aura. Sword grandmasters are rare, and raven is one of the three sword grandmasters exist in Findel plain. The old grandmaster start can be said to haven¡¯t been one of the greatest, his house was sweep by the monster tide, losing his family at an early age. he was then pick up by a mercenary band as a porter. his talent with the sword would then notice by a wandering sword master who took him as disciple. he then joins the kingdom knight order at the age of twenty and fought against the empire invasion. for his service Raven were granted the rank of margrave and was given a fief by the king that he may restored from the devastation during the war. Many look down on him after he was given the baren fief. Raven painstakingly brought his fief into prosperity more so than the other regions in the kingdom. during those years raven also have miraculously reach the legendary rank of Sword Grandmaster. He became the hero and sword of the kingdom the commoner cheer for him, and the kingdom status globally have risen. But even after all he done for the kingdom, he still garners the envy from other nobles and lord while the new king who didn¡¯t like his popularity with the common people despise him even more. So, to get rid of him, the new king sends him to a dangerous task to slay an adult red Dragon that live inside the kingdom border, a region that while in the kingdom sphere of influence was inhabited by beast lead by the red Dragon. Raven have already had some suspicion but still receive the new king order as prove his loyalty to the kingdom. This is how raven end up fighting the red Dragon alone in its lair. Hours passed and the red Dragon is slain. Raven breathes heavily, blood from himself and the Dragon stained his armour, his sword still embedded in the Red Dragon¡¯s chest. The dragon¡¯s final breath had left as whisper of smoke, curling away into wind. Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. Raven wipes the blood and soot from his brow, staring down at the beast he had fought so hard to vanquish. Victory, at last. His armour, now worn out from the scorching blaze of the Dragon breath and its razor like claws, he took off his armour as he felt it would be useless to wear a worn-out armour, beside it only hinders him from now on. As he was about claim the Dragon head as his trophy a barge of arrows assaulted him He dodges and deflect some but unfortunately for him two bolts of strange arrows still struck him piercing his left thigh and right arm. He looks toward the source of where the arrow come from and spotted the enemies who assaulted him, they¡¯re surrounded him with archers pointing their arrows at his and knights quickly rushing at him, the leader of the assailant approach him, he wore the same armour as the other, the kingdom royal guard armour, but his was adorn with more decor. ¡°Sir Raven, thank you for your service of slaying the Dragon, we come to retrieve the Dragon treasure for his majesty the king, I suggest you to not resist¡± The knight leader said with a bit of mocking in his tone, he raise one of his hands and signal his men to begin the looting. Many soldiers start entering the lair and gathering the dragon treasure, while the leader himself go to the slain Dragon and began to search for something. Raven on the other hand was surrounded by the other royal guard with their weapons pointing at him. After some time, the leader of the royal guard come back after not finding what he¡¯s looking for. ¡°Sir Raven where is the Dragon Heart?¡± He asks as he unsheathed his sword and point it at Raven direction, this heart was something that he was saving for himself as he deems that the heart will be useless for the king, and he consider this as his payment for with the Dragon heart could possibly ascend to the level of grandmaster. Raven tries to move his hand to defend himself but quickly found something wrong with his body, he felt his body began to fail him and unresponsive to his command. The leader knows this and sneer as he said toward Raven. ¡°it¡¯s useless old man, the arrow was lance with poisons! It capable of dispersing your mana and it also have the capability of killing a grandmaster, so stop resisting and tell me where the Dragon heart is! Maybe then, we can give you the antidote~¡± The knight said under his helm, he approaches raven cautiously. At this point Raven didn¡¯t even resist the poison anymore, he has lived his life only to serve the kingdom and the former king, but the successor of the king never like him. Now he is but a lonely old man at the edge of his life expectancy, he looks at the sky, all the comrade and people who are close to him already passed, with this he accepted his fate. But before that as one last act of defiance raven took out a red gem like stone, it sometime gave out a weak pulse like vibration, this stone is what Raven collected after slaying the Dragon. ¡°The Dragon heart!¡± The Royal knight captain exclaimed in excitement, but before he can even demand the heart from raven for him to hand the heart over raven hand already move to swallows the Dragon heart. The leader of the royal guards tries to move as quickly as he can to intercept raven action, he aims the blade at raven chest. With a thrush the leader blade pierce Raven Heart, unfortunately for him raven have already achieves his goal and swallow the heart. ¡°This is my win¡± Raven said his last word before he fell to his death. <><><> Earth, USA, Ohio. An old man was sitting on a rocking chair in front of his home, he was reading a book about agriculture. Wiliam is a veteran of the US military, he is now in his 90s, he has serves in WWII and in both Korea and Vietnam war earning him many experiences and story. He currently waiting for his grandchildren to visit him, they usually ask about his experience and would proudly tell them about it until they fall asleep. As he waiting the wind blow upon the humble terrace, he reminiscent about his life an how he got to this point in life. Born in the US William inherent his parent German heritage, his parent moves from German to US after WWI looking for better life. His grandparent serves in the army of the kaiser and would sometime visit and told young William story about their past when they fought for the kaiser and the fatherland. His father starts from scratch in America, after accouple of years of work he eventually has the capital to set up a small workshop for himself and provide for his family. When WWII happened, he enlisted as a soldier and fought in the Europe theatre before voluntarily enlist to be transferred to the pacific theatre, after the war end, he stayed in the military. When the war broke out in Korea, he fought in it and when Vietnam erupted, he also fought there. Later he was discharge with various medal for his feet and achievement during his services, when he gets back home, he inherits his father workshop. he gets married and have two children, he spends time with his wife until her death. During his later years he would inherit his workshop to his eldest son and enjoy himself in books just like when he is young, he could remember all the content of books he already read at least once as he have the rare photographic memory. History, war, Mechanics, agriculture, he even began reading light novel his grandchildren would enjoy and share with him. In his retirement nothing beat spending time with his grandchildren within the country that he helps to defend, he has watch with his own eyes as how his country from year to years began to change technology, Culturally, environmentally, and event politicly. Though he saw many positive things appear he also saw how the country he has serve began to fall apart bit by bit and how their action and inaction slowly shaping the world environment. He was worried about what kind of world will his grandchildren be left with. As he continues to reminisce about his pass and future, he fails to realize that an out of controlled truck have made it course toward him in high speed. BIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!! The last thing heard and seen was the sound and sight of an oncoming truck toward him, he saw the driver trying his best to change the truck course without any result. ¡®Ah, I haven¡¯t finish telling my story to those brat¡¡¯ That was William last thought before his death. <><><> Inside one of the many cold stone camber of an impoverished castle, a handsome black-haired young man lay weakly on his bed, his handsome visage was slightly ruin by his shallow cheek because malnourishment and prolong coma, this young man¡¯s name is Wulf Vou Eisenerz he is the eldest son of the Vou Eisenerz Margrave household. After falling into a coma state, he has been laying on his bed for the last five years with no sign of waking up. But on his 18th birthday something happened when no one was present in his room, two glowing orb like light slowly descended toward the unconscious young man, the two orbs of light began descended and enter the young man body and an invisible change happen to the young man. A couple hours after the phenomenon happened Wulf finger which had never been moving in the last eight years began to slightly move. Chapter 2: Waking up (Trial) === Chapter 02: Waking up === WULF POV: ¡®I¡¯m back?¡¯ I slowly regained my consciousness after a long sleep, I tried to open my eyes, but my body seemed to refuse to listen to my command, I didn¡¯t know how long I had been asleep, but it affects my body greatly. This all began after I received that strange ¡°system¡± thing as it calls itself. [Checking for host Compatibility with the system] As I was deep in my thought, I heard the same mechanical voice of the system that I heard before I passed out. [Detected two Foreign Soul remnant are residing on the host body!] [Commencing integration sequence] After some time, I can finally manage to open my eyes to an unfamiliar stone ceiling Then I could feel the coldness slowly seeping into my skin. ¡®Look like my body slowly beginning to regain its control and sense¡¯ My body felt as stiff as a rock and the joint felt rusted from not moving for a long time. ¡®How long have I been out?¡¯ As I turned my head to look around, a skull splitting headache struck my head like it been hit by a truck. [10%...] [25%...] [50%...] [75%...] [100%...] [Soul and Memories integrating sequence successful] When I heard the system voice again the headache stopped with some remnant of the headache still swelling a little on my head. After calming myself I regain my memories as Wulf Vou Eisenerz, along with it I also retain the memories of Sword Grandmaster Raven, and War Veteran Wiliam. Just as I was trying to sit and look through the foreign memories, I was interrupted when I heard the door opening. Looking at the direction of the sound a little girl or loli from earth term was standing there while holding the door, her expression was that of shock when she sees me. ¡®Do I know her? Why does She look so¡ familiar?¡¯ This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. Hic... As I thought about what to do, I saw the little loli began to tear and eventually cry profusely. She rushes in my direction and lunges at me crying at my chest making me fall back to my sleeping position, she holds tightly at my pajama as the water work start to wet my pajama. ¡°Hey there little girl, why are you crying? There, there¡± I didn¡¯t know how to react to this as I tried to calm her down as best as I could, eventually she began to calm down and look up to my face. After I took a good look at the girl¡¯s face, I finally found out her identity. This girl¡¯s name is Blanche Vou Eisenerz. She is my little sister and the youngest daughter of the Eisenerz family, the last time I saw her was when she was about 5 something years old. ¡®She looks much older than the last time I saw her, really how long have I been laying here?!¡¯ As I thought this the little girl looked at me with her teary eyes look at me with concern. ¡°Big brother, are you alright? is your illness healed?¡± she asked timidly, her voice was barely heard. I was about to answer, before a thought came across my mind, I looked at her with a confused look. ¡°Can you tell me your name little girl? My name is Wulf¡± As I said this, she looked at me blackly, after a couple second tears began to fall again. WAAAAA¡ <><><> A couple minutes after my little mischief I tried to calm my sister down and told her it was a joke; it seems I¡¯ve gone too far with the joke, and she did not appreciate the ¡°joke¡± I played on her very much. As she began to pout, I saw some maids come over with the same shock on their face before they began to leave and call for the rest of my family. Looks like the commotion caused by my sister gained the attention of the whole household. And about a minutes later two beautiful women stand before my room doors they both look at the situation in both shock and happiness. This is of course my mother Maeve Vou Eisenerz and eldest sister Blair Vou Eisenerz ¡®Come on guys, is me waking really that shocking?¡¯ Looking at the two women closely people would see an eerily similarity about their face with the younger one of the cans pass on as the older one younger self. ¡®Seriously, both of you can pass as sisters if they meet you guys for the first time¡¯ As I muse about this in my head, I fail to realize that both my mother and sister were ready to pounce at me, unfortunately I was too late. ¡°MY SON!!¡± ¡°WULF!¡± ¡®¡shit¡¯ <><><> 3rd PERSON POV: After suffocating for a couple of minutes under his mother and eldest sister bosom, Wulf start to gave up on resisting. ¡®I don¡¯t think this is a bad way to go¡¯ Maeve, noticing that her dear son was suffocating, quickly let go of him to let him breathe. ¡°Oh my, Wulf! I¡¯m sorry dear, I¡¯m just too excited that you finally awaken!¡± Maeve Vou Eisenerz, Wulf mother is the current head of the Eisenerz margrave household, after the death of her husband his brother count Deiter Vou Aryris, forcefully took over their fief by using some shady politic. He also uses that opportunity to exile her and her children to another less important territory that belongs to the Eisenerz. Fortunately for her many of the loyal servants of the Eisenerz family decided to follow her along with their family and move to this new territory with her. Now she, helped by her eldest daughter and loyal servant, tries their best to survive in this baren land. As she was starting to lose hope the news of her eldest son finally awakening from his coma ignite the dying spirit within her heart, with her son awakening from his sickness it strengthens her resolve to protect the family ensuring their survival. ¡®I will protect my babies!¡¯ As Maeve was busy with her own thought Blair and little blanche still held their brother tightly fearing that if they let go their brother will go to a long sleep again. ¡°Come on guys, I just go well after a long time, are you guys want to send me back to sleep?¡± Wulf said jokingly, the two just pouted as they reluctantly let go of him. ¡°Big brother, you won¡¯t go back to asleep again, would you?¡± Blanche asks innocently, she hated it when she saw her brother in that condition and now that he was awake, she was very happy, but the concern didn¡¯t fade away, what if he wouldn¡¯t ever wake up anymore? Looking at her scrunching her brows and concerning over his health bring a smile to Wulf handsome face. ¡°Don¡¯t worry little Blanche! Your big bro now all heal up, nothing can bring down your awesome big brother now¡± Wulf looked lovingly at blanche while he pats her little head and scuffling her hair making it a total mess. ¡°Mou! Big brother you are messing my hair!¡± As the two started to bicker with one another, a pair of eyes was looking at both closely, she bee there with them the whole time but they just ignoring her and didn¡¯t involve her in the fun?! ¡°Stop ignoring me!¡± Blair can¡¯t take me anymore and throws herself in the middle of the two begging for attention from her younger siblings. ¡°Oh, sister you¡¯re here too?¡± ¡°Sis since when are you here?¡± ¡°How Mean!!¡± Seeing her sibling bluntly bullying her like this makes her eyes teary, she quickly seeks comfort from her mother sizable bosom. ¡°Mom! My younger siblings don¡¯t love me anymore, they¡¯re bullying me~¡± Maeve looking at her eldest daughter being messed with by her younger siblings can¡¯t help but shake her head and giggle at her children¡¯s antics. ¡°Now, now let¡¯s give your brother some space, he just woke up after 5 years let¡¯s give him some space, and Wulf, if you felt better come join us for dinner okay sweety? For now, just rest up and get better soon okay¡± Maeve said as she drags both Blair and Blanche with her, she wants to give her son some time of his own now that he is awake, she hopes that Wulf would get used to his condition soon and join them after he is ready. ¡®Thanks mom¡¯ Looking at the leaving figure of his mother while she dragged his unwilling sisters brought a smile to Wulf lips. Without any more distraction Wulf focused back to his previous intention. ¡°Open System!¡± Chapter 03: First look into the System (Trial) === Chapter 03: First look into the System === WULF POV: ============================================================================= Name: Wulf Vou Eisenerz Age: 18 Race: Human Occupation: None Vitality: 2 Magic Capacity: 120 Combat Power: 10 (Regular adult humans with top stat would have 10 points vitality, magic capacity, and combat power. ascendance would have 100 point each at least) Traits: Sword Prodigy/ Dragon Heart (Haven¡¯t been integrated) / Photographic memories/ Magic Prodigy (Usually, an individual will only one trait in their life with the rare double traits occasionally appearing or the lucky few who obtain a mean to procure another trait for themselves) Active Skill: Basic Elemental Magic (Fire, Electric)/ Extreme Sword Aura/ Advance CQC/ Peak Sniping Passive Skill: Extreme Survival Instinct (Skill Proficiency was divided to Basic, Intermediate, Advance, Peak, Extremes kill with Extreme proficiency can evolve to a higher tier Skill. Some skill didn¡¯t fall into the 7 category and fall to the Unique Skill) ============================================================================= Ooh!! ¡°So, this is what William memories was talking about?¡± As I look at the system panel, I realize that from the two foreign memories I have assimilated with, William knowledge is far more advanced and unfamiliar out of the two. Compared to Sir Raven memories which took place in a similar era called by William as medieval era, his memories took place in a world technology and science. Where he comes from, they deem magic as mare fantasy because of the lack of magic in that world. But with earth advance technology it will help me rebuild the Eisenerz family or even raise it standing in this world! For now, I will settle with keeping my family survival as top priority. After musing about the future for a bit I look back at the system panel ¡°According to Wiliam granddaughter, in game vitality represent the player health¡± But looking at the measly two points I don¡¯t know if I have to laugh or cry about it. ¡°I got a pretty weak vitality eh. Is it because of my illness or am I just that weak? I¡¯m not particularly lazy or anything¡± Though the sight was disappointing the same disappointment cannot be said toward my magic capability. This is because my magic capability points have exceeded the average adult human magic capacity by at least 10 times. ¡®How the hell did I get such a high magic capacity?¡¯ Looking below to the section for traits I have noticed that I possess 4 traits, this happened after I integrated with the soul of Sir Raven and William. On one of the traits is the Magic Prodigy which is a trait that I already have even before the integration of Sir Raven and William soul. Focusing on the trait, I manage to get some explanation from the system. The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. [Magic prodigy: Owner of this traits have the highest level of compatibility with magic and will have their magic capacity multiply by 10 time] Interesting! So, my real magic capability was 12 points, but it got multiply by 10 to a total of 120 points in magic capacity. ¡®So that¡¯s why even from a young age I always thought that I have a much larger mana reserve than those court magician, and even with magic prodigy I already surpass the top magic capacity of an adult human making me a genius!¡¯ Next! Excitedly I look at my combat power, at a first glance I was quite proud, it has the same value of an adult human peak stat, but upon a closer inspection, my smugness was wiped clean from my face, all because of The Sword Prodigy trait that I obtained after I integrate with Sir Raven soul. [Sword prodigy: Owner of this traits have the highest level of compatibility with Swordsmanship and will have their Combat power multiply by 10 time] ¡®Tha¡that mean¡¯ My real combat power was 1 point before being multiply by 10 to a total of 10 point. ¡®Damn it! I guess you can¡¯t have all the good thing in this world¡¯ After sulking for a bit, I look through the rest of my traits. The Photographic memories trait was a trait I obtain from William soul. [Photographic memories: owner of this trait will have perfect memories that will never forget, the owner will also learn any skill instantly after they see it at least once] ¡®Wow! First time seeing it I thought it was quite mediocre but turns out it was quite powerful¡¯ The power to learn any skill by seeing it once was crazy but not as crazy as the last trait, the last trait was a surprise even for me. [Dragon Heart: The hearth of the legendary dragon race, owner of this hearth will possess the power to use draconic mana, the mana used by dragon is the strongest form of mana, every magic that use draconic mana as its power source will be 10 time stronger. Dragon heart also strengthen the owner body by 10 time in vitality and combat power. (Dragon heart can be upgraded by certain mean, an upgraded dragon heart would increase benefit and improve existing benefit)] ¡®Holy¡ That¡¯s why those damn lizard has such a strong magic capacity and combat power¡¯ Their heart alone propels them to be far superior then most other living creature, not to mention they have other crazy organs that will enhance them further. ¡°That didn¡¯t sound fair at all¡ and it upgradeable too?!!¡± ¡®*sigh*¡doesn¡¯t matter anymore, because now I too have that same heart as them!¡¯ As I thought of this, I notice that the Dragon heart trait haven¡¯t been integrated to me yet. ¡®I wonder why it haven¡¯t been integrated to me yet?¡¯ Suddenly I heard the voice of the system after I been dormant this entire time. [integrating with the dragon heart will cause immense pain for the host, it is why the system are waiting for the host so he can prepare himself, the integration process can begin now. Do you want to integrate with the Dragon Heart? (Y/N)] ¡°I think your just exaggerating, I mean how painful can it be? Yes!¡± Oh, past Wulf, fuck you! ¡°AAAAAHHHH!!!¡± I felt as my heart explode and my blood burn, wherever the blood went in my body it felt like being burn by lave from the inside. My exploding heart felt like it began to slowly reform itself but each second felt like years of my heart being mould like clay into a different shape. ¡®Damn it! I underestimate how painful it would-¡¯ Before I can even finish my thought another wave of pain surge within me. ¡®G... Got to stay conscious¡.¡¯ I try my best to stay conscious I felt like if I fell now, I would lose out on the benefit. Time felt like it passing very slowly, after awhile the pain subside and I can feel the huge difference to my body. [integrating sequence with the Dragon heart is successful! Obtain the passive skill of Dragonic Aura and Active skill Beast King Intimidation.] [Note because host integration with a magical organ belonging to a higher-level species a slight change might occur to the host body] ¡®Change! Damn system didn¡¯t say anything about change before!¡¯ [Host didn¡¯t ask.] I hurriedly goes to the nearest mirror then for the first time in 5 years I finally see myself. ¡®Damn¡ I look good!¡¯ Seeing myself in the mirror I thought I was going to see my weak and feeble self, but it turns out I see my healthy self. My skin looks healthy, a can be considered tall, and I could tell that underneath my clothes I was quite buff, my hair is black with some reddish tip and reach my nape. ¡®The reddish tip on my hair was not there before¡ is this all the change after I merge with the dragon heart?¡¯ Looking inside my clothes and around my body I finally sigh in relive. ¡°Huff, at least there no other change to my body, I¡¯m glad I didn¡¯t grow a pair of wing or tail or something¡ but now, how do I explain my sudden change to my family? They just saw me this morning?¡± After admiring myself for a while I just let it on my future self to handle and change my clothes so I can join my family for lunch. ¡®I let future me handle it for now I¡¯m now famish, merging with the dragon hearth really took a huge portion of my energy!¡¯ Before going out I look at my stat first and see the difference. ¡®Shees, look at that stat~¡¯ ============================================================================= Name: Wulf Vou Eisenerz Age: 18 Race: Human Occupation: None Vitality: 20 Magic Capacity: 1200 Combat Power: 100 (Regular adult humans with top stat would have 10 points vitality, magic capacity, and combat power. ascendance would have 100 point each at least) Traits: Sword Prodigy/ Dragon Heart/ Photographic memories/ Magic Prodigy (Usually, an individual will only one trait in their life with the rare double traits occasionally appearing or the lucky few who obtain a mean to procure another trait for themselves) Active Skill: Basic Elemental Magic (Fire, Electric)/ Extreme Sword Aura/ Advance CQC/ Peak Sniping/ Beast King Intimidation Passive Skill: Extreme Survival Instinct/ Dragonic Aura (Skill Proficiency was divided to Basic, Intermediate, Advance, Peak, Extremes kill with Extreme proficiency can evolve to a higher tier Skill. Some skill didn¡¯t fall into the 7 category and fall to the Unique Skill) ============================================================================= There`s many things I haven¡¯t check from the system yet, but I¡¯m too hungry to care so ill looked into them later. ¡®let¡¯s go eat with my lovely family~¡¯ Chapter 04: Dinner I (Trial) === Chapter 04: Dinner === After styling himself, walk out of his room and was greeted by one of the maids of the castle who escort him to the dining room where his family already waiting for him. As he enters the dining room, Wulf look at the seat of honour that his father supposed to occupy, but after his death 5 years ago, weeks before he himself fall into coma, the seat have been vacant since then. Wulf saw his mother and sisters already seated and are happily conversing with one another about their days, when the three finally realize Wulf presence Maeve Beautifully smile and greet Wulf to sit. ¡°Wulf! You arrive~ it good that you are healthy enough to eat with us, come now, take a sit the food will shortly be serve~¡± Maeve Vou Eisenerz, this beautiful mother of three have age gracefully, though she already enters her forties she didn¡¯t look pass her thirties. Maeve has a wavy long black hair and blue eyes, a characteristic of the Germia People, her motherly aura calms the turbulent hearth every time one saw her. As for Maeve figure, after she gives birth to three children the remaining baby fat on her waist enhance her mature charm, beside that her figure is like those of the sand hourglass, prefect in all the right spot. Though her beauty is fame among the noble society of the Trias Kingdom and even the Gaiser Empire, her true worth lay in her ability to lead and manage the house internal and external affair, she has been leading the Eisenerz house internal affair even since before her husband death. Sitting beside her is blanche the youngest daughter of the Eisenerz house and the doted princess of the house, she is fifteen years old, she inherits most of Maeve characteristic such as wavy black hair but hers are shorter only reaching her shoulder, blue sapphire eyes. Listening to Maeve word Wulf sat at the dining table with the rest of the family. He sat across Maeve while beside her is blanche and beside him are Blair. These two sisters of Wulf have a beauty matching that of their mother, Blanche is just a mini version of Maeve with shorter hair and the same Sapphire eyes, though no doubt she will grow up as voluptuous as her mother for now she still in the growing phase having a petite body and a modest bust for her age. As for Blair, she can be said as a splitting image of Maeve in her twenties, her hair, figure and bust, the only thing different is that Blair is has heterochromia with one her left eyes being sapphire blue and her right eyes being Ruby red. Typical medieval world Blair faces many persecutions from other kids especially girls who envy her beauty, but with the Eisenerz statues in the past and the love she receives from the family and servant she didn¡¯t develop any self-deprecation or insecurities and was brought up as a kind and smart woman. She helps Maeve run the household on her father absent leading her to be the second in command of the house. Now that Wulf is seated Blair could clearly the change happening to her little brother The family notice Wulf change of appearance. ¡°Wulf! You look different? You look healthier!¡± As soon as Blair said this Maeve and blanche also finally noticed and exclaim ¡°Big brother also looks more handsome than he already does!¡± ¡°Dear, your hairs! Did it always have that reddish colour tips?¡± The three women start interrogating him, but Wulf just fakes ignorance and say he himself didn¡¯t know, that he already like this when he woke up or that because of the castle bad lighting the three just noticed now. Fortunately for him his family are very trusting in him and with the food arrival the three stop their interrogation on him. the servant began to serving food on the table and after some prayer lead by Maeve the family began to eat except for Wulf who is looking at the food with a frown on his. ¡®What is with this food course?! The Small portion and the low quality? How can my family eat like this?¡¯ Its not that Wulf is acting ungrateful or acting spoil it¡¯s just that as a margrave household Wulf thought that this kind of food are not acceptable in a nobility household especially in a margrave household, even a baron eat well than this. ¡®Now that I think about it there¡¯s been many things off since I¡¯m awaken¡¯ Wulf look around on the dining room, it lacks any mean of decorations befitting their household, and he can also see some cracks on the stone wall and ceiling of the castle showing how ill maintain the castle is. Thinking back Wulf also notice on his way on the hall on his way here he also notices the same problem, no decoration and unmaintained castle wall and ceiling, he also notices that there have been fewer servant and guard in this castle as well. Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. As Wulf keep think more of the off thing around him the frown on his face deepens and it didn¡¯t miss Maeve watchful eyes as she notice her son frowning while not touching his food. ¡°Is something wrong dear? Is the food not to your liking? I can ask the kitchen to get something else for you¡± ¡°Oh, no, it¡¯s just, I¡¯ve been noticing that our house seems to be lacking its decoration and are lacked maintenance, is the house having some sort of¡ ¡®difficulties¡¯ that I should now?¡± Hearing Wulf question the three women flinch and put down their silverware, it seems his question hit right on the mark. It¡¯s not like the three women try to hide fact as the clue were spread everywhere in the castle for anyone to see. But with Wulf questioning this obvious fact it just pains them as they are reminded of how low their family have fallen. To this question Maeve sigh as she can only answer her eldest son question trustfully. ¡°*sigh* Wulf, you are now an adult and as the eldest son of the Eisenerz I guess it¡¯s time I told you about our family history and the relation it had with the current state of our family, Blair and Blanche can stay too¡ ¡° Maeve began to unfold their family history to her three children. It began in the founding of the Trisha Kingdom, the founding king build Trisha Kingdom with the help of his three loyal retainers. These three retainers would then establish their own noble house to help the Trisha Royal family, commonly they are called the three-founding noble, the house of Gaul, the house of Frank, and the house of Eisenerz. The house of Gaul helps the founding king incorporated the lesser noble under the rule of the Trisha royal family through politic manoeuvring, while the house of Frank help manages the financial and economical affair of the newly established kingdom, as for us the house of Eisenerz preside over military affair of the kingdom as field marshal. Whenever a war broke out with other kingdoms or with other races Our house was always been tasked by the founding king to lead the coalition of army sent from all the noble houses. Under the Trisha royal family rule and with the help of the three-founding noble the kingdom of Trisha flourish, experiencing this level on prosperity so early in its formation the fledgling kingdom caught the Gaiser Empire attention. A decree by the emperor of Gaiser was sent to the Trisha royal place demanding it to join the empire as a vassal or perished. Obviously, the founding king decline and war was declared upon Trisha kingdom. An army of 50.000 was sent by the empire to take over the fledgling kingdom, expecting an easy fight the empire was doused by cold water when the news came that their army was repelled by Trisha kingdom force lead by yours truly, the Eisenerz. What they thought as an easy conquest turn into 5 bloody years of skirmish between the empire and Trisha force, as the war prolong the empire keep sending more and more force to overwhelm Trisha force. Though Eisenerz expertise and genius the kingdom still faces huge casualties, this prompted many noble to advice the Founding king to sue peace with the empire for though the kingdom has repelled the empire many attempts they can only last for so long and with them initiating the negotiation when they are still having the upper hand they¡¯ll benefit more than when they didn¡¯t. And so, the king proposes to negotiate peace with the emperor, a delegation as was sent by the emperor. The result was that Trisha would join under the empire as vassal but keep it autonomy and didn¡¯t have to pay tribute, the empire wouldn¡¯t meddle in its affair but when need they must head to the emperor call for war. Trisha only needs to answer to a call for war in return for protection from the empire and without even needing to pay tribute too? too the kingdom this negotiation was a big success! But the empire stated that they only agree to this term if Trisha fulfil one condition. The Eisenerz must relocate their territory to the north most point of the empire. In Yuropa continent the north is a unique environment, eternal winter and mountainous range make it almost unsuitable for settlement. But Gaiser Empire is especially worse because it is where the Glaser Mountain pass located, a path that connected the Glaser plain to Yuropa. The Glaser Plain is directly connected to the north pole though a strait and both are controlled by the beast race, with the Glaser plain being surrounded by the Glaser Mountain range the Glaser Mountain pass became to only path for the beast race to invade outside its territory. That mean the north most part of the empire was especially beast infested and if the Eisenerz was to be put on the north most point of the empire they¡¯ll be the first to face any form of beast invasion to Yuropa. The emperor intention of doing this is clear, vengeance for the grievances they cause to the empire. The founding king and the two other founding nobles want to refuse but the Eisenerz agree to the clause to ensure peace and with the other nobles insistent of accepting the peace the founding king with heavy heart agree to let one of his close¡¯s aides to the north. With the Gaul and Frank help the Eisenerz establish it territory on the north and thus the current Eisenerz house was form. Hundred of years later the Eisenerz are now renowned for their capabilities in hunting Beast and protecting Yuropa from Beast race invasion. Wulf father was especially legendary amongst the pass head of Eisenerz household and are very close with the former king of Trisha, he fought to beast and stand by the king side with loyalty, this please the former king the same cant be said for his son Lucien Vou Trisha who was not only lazy and dim-witted but incredibly petty and spiteful. The king always been disappointed at him, and this did not go unnoticed by Lucien himself, but what he did even after knowing this? He did nothing and kept indulging in his vanity while this time looking at Wulf father spitefully, he didn¡¯t like how he always being compared with the fame Eisenerz head times and again and was looking for an opportunity to take him down. That opportunity came on his father, the former king death, after his crowning he immediately suppress the Eisenerz family with his power. Supply such as Food, Clothes and Weapon that the Eisenerz rely on to survive and fight the beast race was stop being shipped, even then the Eisenerz prevail, that is until one faithful day. The beast from Glaser Plain invade but unlike the previous invasion the beast come in waves forming a beast tide. Wulf father along with his loyal retainer and knight fought the beast tide head on, he sends many requests for reinforcement and supply to the capital, but none receive any reply. Weaks pass after the beginning of the beast tide as the last beast are slain by the Eisenerz knights, Victory was reach but at the cost of most of the Eisenerz force, unfortunately in this battle even Wulf father have fallen. The news shook the entire kingdom, after the funeral Maeve took her husband place as the head of the house to the disapproval of many of the house old retainer, what¡¯s more days after the Eisenerz head death, Wulf, the eldest son of the Eisenerz family have succumb to coma and his fate was unknown, this cause many of the dissatisfy retainer of Eisenerz to take back their support. Seeing the Decline of the Eisenerz house many noble families set their sight on Eisenerz land, after decades of development the north became safer without beast roaming around and it was revealed that the territory was rich in metal ore. Using this opportunity of a weaken Eisenerz and with king Lucien encouragement in the background many of the Eisenerz land was taken by other noble family, even the Gaul and Frank participate because the head of both families have long envy the close relationship of the former king with the late head of the Eisenerz. With many of their land taken the Eisenerz was left with only their capital that they have build on the other side of Glaser Mountain on the Glaser plain. The territory is originally set as a foot hold against beast invasion and the city, Bieststadt, is design as a Fortress city which would defend against beast invasion and garrison soldiers while providing home for their families, it high and thick wall provide sufficient protection to it inhabitant. Since then, Meave have ruled the land with the help of loyal retainer and her eldest daughter to ensure their families survival. The past 5 years that Wulf was in a coma have been hard for the Woman in his family and his awakening was the best news they got in the past 5 years. After Recounting the past Maeve stop talking and looking at her children reaction, she wants to let them sink in what she has said in the past hour. LORE AND World Building (idea) Characters