False Hero

(Thomas Hoffmann POV)

This is a peaceful era, at least compared to the era of my dad and me, this is indeed a peaceful era. 

Ever since I was a kid, I was used to hearing the news about death. Killing, stealing, fighting, every crime in the book was a normal thing. The country was falling, it was not just up to one country. The root cause of this country was an ongoing war between all the counties. 

War kept people at the edge, it was lawless, everything was lawless. The governing body of the nation was busy with their own war and fight for land and power.

The rich and royal-like me fought for land and power, while the people who were below us fought for their survival. Everyone like an animal, but i don't blame them. 

People did what they had to do to survive.

People fought and fought and fought, they never stopped. As I grew up, I was exposed to seeing dead bodies. No matter how many times I look at a person dead, I never got used to it.

But my father, the greatest king of all time. Faught and suppressed the wildness inside and outside the nation, single-handedly he showed everyone the light. The light of achieving a peaceful future. 

He was a powerful man and a powerful king, if he wanted he could have won the war. At least that's what I believe. But winning was never was his goal.

He used to say "Stand on the top and guide everyone under you towards a happy future. Show them------ show them that top is not the place to be happy. "

I initially didn't understand ----- I didn't understand what he really meant, but then I watched his life. 

He achieved the insanity of making a weak country like Frey nation into one of the strongest countries in the Seawoods continent. A human that convinced gods to leave the continent alone.

He was the best dad, the best king, and also the best human. 

He had only reason to do all this, the only reason being "I have to be king, I have to fight for the people I love."

It was stupid to me. how can a person love a whole nation, I didn't understand it at all. I don't understand that to this day, I will never be able to understand my dad. 

To achieve the goal of my dad, I became the king and worked on the foundation he laid. The foundation of peace.

I didn't have to do much fighting, but there was always tension between nations. There was never a peace treaty signed, it never happened until the marriage of Ranulf. 

I am still not aware of how he fell in love, but he fell in love with a girl that he attended the academy with. She was the princess of the Amay nation.

Even though there was temporary peace between all of the nation, it was not peace. It was a temporary truce, where each country cooperated with each other since they all saw a peaceful future together.

Heka-Maho nation was the symbol of that truce, it was constructed in our nation since all of the countries believed in the nation built by my dad. 

There he met Alice and they fell in love. It was an unspeakable thing for royal of two-nation to get married. That single act was enough to make all countries go to war. 

But among all this, Alice suggested an idea. The idea was that they will live separately away from the royal families, they will get stripped of their title as royal and also their marriage will be secret. She loved my son and she was ready to give up her royal title for it and so was my son. But in return, both of the nations will sign an official peace treaty on paper and it will be done among witnesses of other nations.

It was a brilliant idea and it came out of Alice. That single act of signing the peace treaty between the witness of other nations worked and it was done by all other countries. The peace that was never seen in hundred years came by and it was all achieved by one secret marriage.

But I didn't want my grandson will be given by the marriage between my son and Alice to not have royal status. I wanted my son to have the same privilege as the rest of us royals, he is my grandson. He will be royal.

We signed a pact, a blood pact. The blood pact stated that I will not meet Ranulf, not for the rest of my life. The same was done by the entirety of the Ormr royal family and even my family. We didn't strip them of their royal status but we made a blood pact that we will never meet them. 

{Author: Blood pacts are a curse that is put by witches, it is done only when the person who is cursed is willing to do it.}

The peaceful era that I am living in now is because of my dad and the sacrifice of my son. I am grateful for both of them, but I will never be able to thank them.

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(Grey's POV)

After my talk with Professor Blake, I got new insight into the mage circle. My current Mage circle can't amplify my power that much.

If I had to put it in number, it isn't even increasing my power by five percent which is not a lot and it's not worth taking my time in battle to cast mage circle. It would only waste my precious time during an actual fight. 

You might be wondering why I am researching so much about applying my power when I have divine and demonic energy in my possession. Well, that question would have been valid if I was fighting a normal mortal. 

But I think I can't beat a real god with the power I have, and I am not powerful enough to face one head-on. The wife of Professor Blake was on something, she had a way to beat gods. I will have to research on her and also about what kind of research she conducting, I will have to do that to find a way to beat gods. 

I was currently seated alone in the cafeteria. All of the other people were attending classes that they were interested in, whereas I was attending Professor Blake's lecture so I got free rather quickly. So I was the only person that was free currently.

I am currently going through the book written by Lisa Blake, well she is the deceased wife of Professor Blake. The book's name is "Human, the enemy of the divine."

This book touches upon the possibility of humans achieving divinity. In this, she has proposed two theories, one of the theories is that some kind of upper power decides upon who will be the god. She has named the upper power "Choice of the world". The other theory is that the capable mortal with immense strength catches the attention of the "Choice of the world" and they become gods. 

The amazing this is how fucking accurate this woman was. This theory was confirmed by Ari herself, well she is half-god, so I guess she is a trusted source.

Lisa Blake was a genius, I don't have any doubt about that.

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(Third person POV)

Rose, Thomas, and Well were on the academic premises. Their purpose of this visit was to just look at Grey from far away and go back. 

They heard that Eira was not in the academy so they only came to meet Grey. Well, not exactly meet since they plan to just look at him. It was Thomas's idea and it was better that they don't meet him with him until they invite him to the annual family meeting. 

"I missed this place, it is still the same as it used to be," said Well. 

"Ah, Well you just graduated two years ago and I don't think that it would change that much."

"Mom!! you don't have to ruin the vibe for me!!"

"Ah, sorry!" 

They were heading towards the cafeteria since they heard that Grey was still attending a lecture and he won't be free. They were planning to be seated in the cafeteria until Grey is free from his lecture. 

Finally arriving at the cafeteria, they took a seat at the chair. Well opened his mouth as he said "Do we have to wait for him and why can't I meet him? I wanted to show him his place."

"Shut up! don't scare him and it's order from dad, so we can't meet him."

"But then how long do we have to---"

As Well was going to say this, Thomas and Rose simultaneously said "You don't have to wait that long."

they turned to look at a particular boy who was seated very far away. He was a boy with white hair and all his attention was on the book he was reading. 

Looking at the boy, Rose spoke "Those snowy white hair-----" she said as she grabbed her braid as she looked at her hair. "It's the same as me."

"It's same as all of us Rose,"

"I am glad that my nephew has inherited our family hair, it is so pretty!!!" said Rose.

"So are we now what, do we wait for him to show his face?" asked Well. 

"No, that's enough. We will now go back." said Thomas as he got up."

"That's enough, but we just -----" Well stopped as he looked at the place where the white-haired boy was seated "Grandpa ---- he is gone"

Thomas looked at the place where the boy was seated to find out that the boy was gone from his place. He was nowhere to be seen in the cafeteria.

"Where did he----"

"Are you guys looking for me?" said the particular white-haired boy from behind Well.. There was an innocent yet devious smile on his face, leaning towards Well he asked "I saw that you guys were looking at me, you guys have at least come and said hello since I was getting bored. Right? Aunt and ----" said Grey as he turned to look at Rose, he continued to turn to look at Thomas as he said "Right? Grandpa?"