‘I will kill you,’ Edward’s widened emerald eyes, holding red veins, glared at the floor, his lips bitten harder, as he made his decision to shred that man at all costs. “I will kill you, RYUK DEVEREAUX!”
“EDWARD!” The man shouted the moment his ears caught his son’s declaration, revealing his hidden intentions out loud without thinking about consequences.
“Huh?” Edward exclaimed blankly.
Suddenly, a momentary feeling of everything slowing down, like a serene wave hitting his mind, caused it to become numb and slow enough to not process things at its usual pace.
‘What is he doing?’ His mind was numb with only his eyes capturing the image of his father’s hands stretching while his body reaching towards him.
SWISH
“Lady Drishti! Please, he has a reason!” The man instantly came in front of Edward, blocking him from the sight of the approaching woman, whose sharp amber eyes were gazing towards the young man.
“What is it?” Without any trace of emotion on her face, Drishti slightly tilted her head, her eyes glaring at the man whose body instantly got hit by an unknown force, shrinking down every bit of his being yet withstanding it due to his ZENITH Rank.
“Y-yes,” the man maintained his posture amidst the bombardment of energy, hearing those words repeated, feeling the force on his body weakening as if the woman withdrew it.
“Give me a valid reason, or prepare to collect his pieces, just like you did with the previous head of the Abernathy Family.”
‘!?!’
It was a clear threat.
thump thump
Both the man and Edward’s heartbeats accelerated due to the situation only experienced by themselves.
There was an unknown concentrated energy field around their bodies, somehow suppressing their own energy to their soul level—a feeling known only to them.
One was a LEGENDARY Ranker, and the other was ZENITH, yet both of their strengths seemed to fade away in front of the woman who arrived.
“Lady Drishti, you cannot look down upon the Abernathy Family,” the man retorted, hearing such mockery of one of the major families on Ardoros.
Even if she was stronger than him, there was a limit.
Unlike Edward, for whom it was the first time, the man had already experienced such a situation where he had to meet someone of this much strength, experiencing its suppression firsthand.
“Heh, but it doesn’t mean I can’t kill your son here,” Drishti threatened, her eyes turning towards the chair placed in the middle where the young man was seated, slowly approaching it with calm footsteps.
Technically, she was strong enough to kill both of these people here, but when it came to going against a whole major family, there were consequences, and severe ones at that, even for her.
And above all those consequences, her interest played the major role.
After all, it would be boring for her in the future if she removed a leg out of all four, which kept moving the beast called Ardoros around the whole Blue star, even among other monsters, added with the removal of any future interesting person born in this family.
Also, killing Edward Abernathy, who had the blessings of all the Heads of major family, would just cause things to become even messier, unlike the previous time she killed the head of the Abernathy Family.
So, this time, she will not go to really kill someone until she finds it necessary.
“L-lady D-drishti, you cannot forget about our agreement,” the man’s eyes were fixed on the woman who just took a seat in the chair, folding her legs and relaxing as she looked back at him.
“What agreement?” Raising her eyebrow, Drishti feigned ignorance about anything of the sort.
When dealing with strong people, you just need to find an opening, something that will bend them to the point where their rationality freezes.
Like this man, who was the battle strategist of Abernathy family and also knew about the Quadappeal, yet was intimidated just because he prioritized the safety of his son.
“You can’t forget the treaty we signed regarding Edward five years ago!” The man lost his composed posture, seeing such an uncaring expression from the woman.
“Do you think anyone would know if I killed both of you here?” Drishti directly threatened, causing the man’s face to instantly turn pale.
Of course, she had not retracted her energy from Edward, since his haughty personality would ruin what she wanted to achieve.
‘Special, huh,’ sitting on the chair with her palm supporting her chin, with her elbow resting on the armrest, she gazed at the young man who was very special to the Abernathy family.
Making them go as far as to use the Quadappeal, something which was given to all four major families to use a single time to put forth any request which had to be followed by the other three.
This was made by mutual consideration of all four founding ancestors, where this single request was valued more than any asset a family held.
Due to being passed down from the foundation, all four major families never used it, since it was what created the balance of power.
Meaning, if a major family used Quadappeal and asked for the land and all assets of another family, then they had to provide it, no matter what.
Sounding ridiculous, but this was made for even more valuable things held by all the major families—their pride.
So, of course, no one used it until now, because if one major family asked for the assets of another, then that family could also use their own Quadappeal to cancel it, making both of their Quadappeals nullify.
And once both families lost their Quadappeal, the other two could use theirs to claim or put forth any proposal they had, which can’t be rejected.
A simple word, Quadappeal, made by the founders to always keep each other in check, was one of several factors keeping all four major families from engaging with each other on the land of Ardoros.
Of course, there were many more reasons, but the smallest among them was this one-time request one.
Drishti couldn’t help but once again realize the stupidity of the Abernathy family to use such a valuable thing as if it were nothing, only to propose a single request:
Edward Abernathy should be provided guardian protection from all the major seat holders of the four major families and be exempted to enter any of the family’s territories as he sees fit.
These were just mere words, but the weight behind them was heavy enough to make all the strongest ones agree to provide protection to this young man, who became the most special individual on the whole Bluestar with just those words.
It may seem that the appeal could be broken, but in truth, the ones who break it would have to face the fury of existing monsters inside the four families who followed the traditions passed down by their founder as if etched inside their soul.
Even though one of the founders laid lazily on the chair, looking at the young man who was special because of his luck.
‘It will be an interesting battle,’ a smile formed on Drishti’s face, already anticipating watching a battle worth enough.
A battle between a special one blessed by luck and an interesting one whom she found appreciable.
This will be explained further in future….for now this could clarify the reason for Edward or son of heaven being Special and his luck providing him the strongest plot armour since, noone can kill him or would have to be prepared to offend, All strongest beings on Ardoros, including Amrantha Tenebri
