Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Days and months have passed like normal. In a blink of an eye, Leo and Elizabeth got closer and closer until eventually they finally decided to accept each other's presence together.

Their predestined marriage 13 years later was still kept as a secret, with only a few people knowing about it. Aside from the higher-ups of the Snow Noble Household and Elizabeth's men, only Reinhart, Patriarch Red Heart, Lady Rose Heart, and Butler Xiao knew about such a thing.

But unfortunately, that happy moment seems to be close to over now...

"Father, please don't go!" Leo tearfully hugged his father's waist, not intending of letting him go.

Seeing this, Patriarch Red Heart smiled before bending down his knees to reach the same height as his son Leo. He patted Leo's head a few times before saying, "What your father and mother are doing is only for your own good. How about this, I'll make it up to you by bringing you different things that I know you would like? I know you like books right, especially those books written by the Mage Kaiser? I'll bring you a lot of his books! Oh, I'll also bring you different toys to play with, or even different kinds of food, and maybe stuffs related to Mag... I mean many more other stuff!"

Hearing Patriarch Red Heart's words, Leo finally decided to let go. He wiped his tears off from his eyes as he asked, "Promise?"

"Promise!" Patriarch Red Heart replied with a smile on his face. He then rubbed Leo's hair one more time before standing up and looking at his older son Reinhart right after, and saying, "You take care of your younger brother just like we promised, okay?"

"Don't worry, I will!" Reinhart nodded his head. Truthfully speaking, even if his father didn't say those words, he would definitely still do that. What no one knows is, the tribe of that Forest Rat King that had attacked his younger brother Leo before was already eliminated by him, with all of their bodies turned into dust and becoming fertilizers under their new small hut.

"Then I'll go now!" Patriarch Red Heart said before getting inside the carriage first.

Next was Leo and Reinhart's mother, Lady Rose Heart, a very beautiful and kind woman that even the King of Silver Kingdom, King Erskine, wanted to court prior to her becoming Patriarch Red Heart's wife. Her pupils were similar to Leo's and Reinhart's in color and form, specifically looking a bit cold, similar to the look of her face. Despite being cold looking though, Rose was actually warm-hearted.

Unlike Patriarch Red Heart, Rose picked up Leo from the ground up before saying, "You'll still be my good boy when I returned, right?"

"Yes!" Leo replied with a bright smile on his face. A striking contrast to how his reaction was with his father. There was no other reason aside from that he is closer to his mother compared to his father.

Rose nodded her head before taking a glimpse at the little Elizabeth at the side and saying, "You also take good care of your little fiancée, okay?"

"Of course, I would! No one would be able to harm her as long as I'm by her side!" Leo proclaimed proudly.

"And remember what I said before? No other wom-"

"No other woman aside from Elizabeth, because having a lot of women means trouble. Women are the epitome of trouble, so it's much better to only have one, rather than having many." Leo interrupted his mother's words to finish her words instead.

Hearing Leo's words, Rose can't help pinching his cheeks and saying, "That's my boy!"

Rose then slowly put down Leo on the ground and soon after turning to look at her older son Reinhart, and saying, "Just be sure not to let me see a single scar or anything of the likes to Leo when I come back!"

Unlike Rose's treatment of Leo, she was much tougher and stricter to Reinhart. This was because she doesn't want to see Reinhart thinking of doing something bad to Leo like those children of other Noble Households, which then became one of the reasons why Reinhart became so overprotective of Leo because he doesn't want to see his mother being angry at him. Rose really hated families treating each other like enemies, that's why she was doing this.

"That would be impossible... He is receiving training every day, so it's hard to-" Reinhart wanted to explain that it was impossible to avoid that, but was immediately interrupted by Rose.

"That's your problem as his older brother!" Rose said coldly before turning around and getting inside the carriage.

Reinhart could only heave a heavy sigh of helplessness after hearing his mother's words. What could he do? As an older brother, it was indeed his responsibility to protect his younger brother. That's why he could only resign to his own Fate..... Oh, maybe he should think of asking Leo to help him changed his destined Fate of always being scolded by their mother.

After bidding farewell with each other, the carriage with Patriarch Red Heart and Lady Rose Heart inside finally left to begin their travel.

The exact goal of Patriarch Red Heart and Lady Rose Heart for leaving was to look for the holder of the Fate Strings and gather them together in preparation for them to fight against the Gods of the Celestial World.

Although they should not have been able to see Fate Strings of the various different colors, consider that they aren't Special Mages, but with the help of someone who can, it became possible for them.

This responsibility should have actually been Leo's mission the moment he begins walking his destined Fate to fight against the Gods. However, since they have finally agreed with Reinhart, they both then volunteered to do it instead, since although they both want to save their son Leo, at the same time they also don't want to just forget and abandoned their Ancestor words.

Anyway, compared to their plan before, which was to train Leo first before letting him embark on his destined Fate, for them, looking for the holder of the Fate Strings instead was a lot better. Not only were they saving their son Leo from harm's way, but they are also doing their preparation to fight against the Gods while the Gods themselves were still clueless of what's coming to them.

In other words, their advantage could be used to the maximum potential at this point in time, because the only people in the Celestial World that know about the meaning of the Fate Strings were the Heart Noble Household. Even the Gods themselves don't know the meaning of the Fate Strings because they were incapable of seeing anything related to Fate the moment they became Gods. As to why is that? It's because each God of the Celestial World could only harness a single power, and the capability to see Fate was given to the God of Fate.

Although it was still possible for the Gods to know about Fate by simply using their forces in the Celestial World, since inhabitants of the Celestial World can harness all sorts of different power as they haven't yet become the likes of the Gods that can only harness one power, but those forces were also clueless of the meaning of those Fate Strings even if they can indeed see them.

At this point in time, the only thing the Gods knew about the Fate Strings was that it had appeared the moment the God of Fate fell.

To be honest, the Gods don't even know whether this was actually a scheme of the God of Fate or was instead the aftereffect after a God fell. The Gods haven't seen a God fell in the past. In fact, the God of Fate was actually the first one.

All the Gods were immortals and the term 'fell' was actually only used to describe that a God has fallen from grace and that although they are still Gods, they no longer have the right to call themselves as one since they (now) don't have similar power as the other Gods anymore.

The God of Fate is undoubtedly still alive somewhere they don't know since he's still an immortal, but he unfortunately no longer has any power to fight against them. So, even if the Fate Strings was the God of Fate's scheme, the majority of them still didn't bother about that as they have deemed it as the last struggle of a fallen God.

Some Gods even believed that since the God of Fate has lost his power, then the Fate Strings should be that so-called lost power, scattering across the entire Celestial World, maybe waiting for someone to harness such power and use it to become powerful.

This was the so-called advantage that Patriarch Red Heart and Lady Rose Heart had thought about.

As to how they knew about it?

Just like what was mentioned, the God of Fate is still alive, hiding somewhere the Gods don't know about.

They learned all of those important information through communicating with the God of Fate, which includes the method why they can see the various different colors of Fate Strings despite not being a Special Mage.

As to where is the God of Fate? The answer is actually very simple, the Red Cube; because the Red Cube itself was the hiding God of Fate.

After seeing off the carriage, Reinhart then carried Leo back inside their manor. Elizabeth also closely followed at the side, thinking of making Leo happy so that he will no longer be sad after seeing his parents leaving.

What a caring fiancée Elizabeth was, but unfortunately, she was going to be forgotten by Leo soon, just like what was agreed by Reinhart and his parents.

The other plan aside from gathering the holders of the Fate Strings was to make Leo forget about everything related to the Red Cube and Magic that he has interacted with in the past, and unfortunately this includes Elizabeth because from the very beginning the exact goal of marrying Leo to Elizabeth was to achieve the fullest potential of the Full Moon in a Burning Sun Cultivation technique, which would allow the both of them to grow fast by doing Dual Cultivation technique.

If Leo doesn't forget Elizabeth, then with her Snow Noble Household, he would definitely come into contact with Magic once again, which will certainly make the Red Cube choose him and at the same time make all of their plans useless.