System Ascension: The Vermillion Legacy

CHAPTER THREE

“Oh, I recognize the man in bed with my wife. ‘Final Nevadale’ from the upper house of Nevadale', it was him my wife chose to be with, and all this time I thought she was having a hard time but she was actually with another man.” 

Aiden said to himself as he stood up from the chair he was on.

“What are you going to do now?” Finral asked as Aiden kept his head bent still trying to hold back his rage and pain. 

Elizabeth got up from the bed dressed herself and ordered Finral to do the same, as they kept dressing up Aiden walked up to Elizabeth and touched her but she retracted and then pushed his hand off her shoulder. She turned looked at Aiden with a mischievous smile and asked, “What are you thinking?” 

Aiden looked at Finral and then back to Elizabeth as he said, “I was expecting an apology, maybe an explanation. Probably your father set you up for this, I know.”

With a hysterical laugh, Elizabeth looked at Aiden straight into his eyes and told him, “This wasn't my father, it was me. I don't love you Aiden, I only used you and I can't be with you. This thing between me and Finral has been going on for months if not a year now so stop acting dumb. Aren't you the smartest in the land as they say?”

That was the moment it dawned on him that his wife never wanted to be with him or ever loved him, he was only a stranger and a lost cause in the presence of the woman he found himself loving. 

The pain in his heart intensified as he stepped back and his heart pounding kept increasing, he placed his hands on his chest while he glanced from Finral to Elizabeth and trembled to his feet. 

Final who always saw Aiden as a pest walked up to him as Aiden went down on both knees shaking to the core of his soul and bent over on one knee as he told him, “You have no place here, you never had a place here. You'll always and forever be a rag to be used just like your father and his father before him.”

Those words sent a striking pain and rage to the heart of Aiden as he stood up he took two more steps back and deepened his left hand into his side pocket. 

He brought out an amulet that his mother gave to him then he raised his face after some silence and said, “This is the crest of my family given to me by my mother. I swear on this crest that I would expose your father and his lies to the king, I'll make sure I take everything to the king and your father will lose all he has. I swear it's on my family's name.”

Aiden kept on as he spoke in pain and anger, “I'm tired of covering up for your father, I'm tired of being his dog and I'm tired of letting him control me. The king will know everything and I'll expose your father for the miscreant that he is.”

As Aiden was about to turn and step out of the room Elizabeth unleashed a mana attack which sent a huge wind of mana that knocked Aiden to the wall, as Aiden tried getting back up she sent another wave of mana wind which sent him across the room. 

Aiden was trying to get up while in a grunt of his voice as Elizabeth walked up to him and bent down as she spoke to him in a whisper of terror, “I'm not gonna let you harm my family or soil the name my father has made for himself and his family. I'll bring you down before you can bring us down and I'll do it right here, right now.” 

Then she walked back to where she and Finral stood as she looked down on Aiden with an evil smirk on her face.

  

“What do we do now?” Finral asked as he turned to Elizabeth. Still with a smirk on her face, Elizabeth went over to the room and began scattering the things in the room.

The guest rooms were in a separate building from the main family mansion and it was a bit distant from the main building which made it difficult for anyone to notice the chaos that was going on in the room of incident. 

This made it harder for Aiden to call for help and he couldn't defend himself because he was weak with no mana in him, people always said that was how he was born but it was a story that not even he knew about. 

Helpless on the floor coughing as he saw Elizabeth as she scattered everything in the room he sat up and asked her, “What are you doing Liz?” 

  

“You're smart Aiden, you know what I'm trying to do. Pin him down Finral.” Elizabeth replied as she continued and Finral stomped on Aiden's face which made him fall on his back. 

Finral kept hitting him while Elizabeth continued her actions, after she was done with everything Finral beat Aiden so plum that he couldn't be recognized by his facial looks. 

He stopped and walked back to where Elizabeth stood as they looked at Aiden in disgust, Finral spat on the floor and asked Elizabeth, “What is the next step now?”

  

“We burn the whole place down” Elizabeth replied as she looked at Finral with all seriousness in her eyes. Looking at Aiden and then back to Elizabeth Finral gave a look of doubt and fear while he asked again but in fear this time, “What if they find out that it was us? How do we cover our tracks?”

Elizabeth, who had already gathered everything flammable in the room and made the whole thing look like an assassination work in progress turned to Finral and replied, “Burn it all and leave those parts to me.”

  

“I dunno where this is heading but I don't like this plan, we should just threaten him or put him under a spell, something like that,” Finral spoke back as Elizabeth continued her actions. 

With an angry groan, Elizabeth turned and walked up to Finral pointing to him as she said in an angry voice,n“Do you know which mage around that could concur with our actions presently”. Finral shook his head in reply as she walked away to continue what she was doing.

After she was done she pulled Aiden who was already beaten to the brink of death and dropped him in the middle of the room close to the bed to make it look as though he struggled to get off the assassin but was killed not then she took a knife and handed it over to Finral and said, “Stab him close to his right chest, above his lungs.”