Illyan was very confused, this was not right! Something isn’t right!

Why is this monster nice to her all of sudden? And why is he getting her new clothes and feeding her some potions?

She wanted to ask him like a thousand times, but she didn’t want to be punished. So she kept her mouth shut and only followed his orders.

Sitting in her bed in the cell that she started to call her room, she started to remember her family. Her always smiling little brother Jon, and her strun older brother James. He took over the family business after their Father died. So he changed a lot from the laid back relaxed person Illyan loved. She still loved James, but sometimes he was just unreal with his expectations for their little Jon.

Jon was 10 this year and was showing an outstanding wit and cunning for a person of his age. Their Mother said that the merchant blood was strong in Jon, which always made her Father laugh.

Thinking of her Father she got depressed, he was her hero. A man very honorable for a merchant, he was kind, generous, loving and much more. But when business time comes he will be the coldest person you could ever see.

That nature of his made him a lot of friends and much more enemies. And one day when he was visiting a prince’s wedding in a kingdom they supplied with goods, in the middle of the wedding he was ganged on by all the lords and the king himself and was stabbed over a hundred times.

But he didn’t die without a fight, he killed half a dozen of the lords, kicked the prince so hard in his gentiles that some people swore they heard the popping sound echo all over the palace. And finally killed the king by chopping off his head.

That accident happened almost 5 years ago, and people called it The Bloody Wedding.

The magus in her family didn’t even react when the news got to them, even some of them sneered and said that her Father Haron was a weakling from birth, but he had ambitions. And that ambition got him killed.

She didn’t understand what they said about her Father, The Trant magus were kinda weird. Each was over 100 years old and is technically her grand whatever. But they didn’t care about the family, and she thought it was evil of them to not care about the family.

But when she started to cultivate herself she discovered that they were right by not caring about mortals.

Why would she care about mortals if they will slow down her cultivation with all of their mortal problems?

But she was not like the magus in her family, no! She will care for her family when she is an official magus.

But something the Trant family magus said always nagged at her: “ He had ambitions. And that ambition got him killed”.

So she started to investigate when she had enough power and when she was safe in the raven academy. She discovered something that made her understand the whole Bloody Wedding incident. Her Father wanted to marry her to The Wolf King, the king of The White kingdom. The White kingdom is a powerful kingdom in the south region of the magus world. The royal family are descendants of a rank two magus, and there is currently 7 rank one magus backing the royal family. If the marriage succeeded then her father would have an impressive amount of power. And then it hit her! The reason why the king has killed her father. The White kingdom is a neighbor to the king’s kingdom.

But then another idea hit her, an idea that if it was true then it would shake the whole Trant family. What if… a person inside the family orchestrated the whole thing. What if they leaked the news of her father’s plans and planned with The Bloody King to kill her father.

But who? This question has been bothering her for 3 years now and she couldn’t find an answer to it.

Breaking out of her thoughts Illyan started to think about why would Adrius Caseo be nice to her? The man was a demon, if they weren’t extinct she was sure he would be an emperor in their world.

She thought first that he was preparing her so he could have sex with her, but then she discarded the idea. The man doesn’t look at her like a woman, but as an ant. Something that should be proud that they are in his eyes.

She was never given such looks, never gave one either. Her Father taught her that every person is important in their own way, so you should not look down on anyone no matter how little they are.

Clearly Adrius doesn’t agree with her father, he made a suit of human skin. That alone will make half the mortals of the south region scared shitless.

Another idea was that he is preparing her to be a test subject, like his maid Mary. Mary was very nice to her and she sat with her, talked and even laughed when she wasn’t tormented by guilt.

Mary also told her about her forced pregnancy, she said that she hated the child at first. But now she feels like if something happens to it, she will kill herself before the day ends.

“ Maybe the pregnancy was forced upon me, but the child is innocent. And I will admit it, I hated it at first because it reminded me of Master. But then when I felt it grow in my stomach everyday for the last 7 months my love grew with every passing second. It will be my only family, my father is dead and my sister was killed by Master. My mother is dead too, so my child is all I have. So I will love it and raise it to be a gentleman or a lady.” Mary was wiping tears that fell when she started talking about her family.

Illyan really liked Mary, she thought if she ever got out of here she would try to take Mary with her.

Her train of thoughts were cut again, but this time it was a person who cut it. A person she hated and feared more than anything else in the world. Adrius Caseo entered her room with his black robes floating behind him, and his signature mask on his face.

The only thing on his face to show were his eyes, his goddamn black eyes. The same thing that got him the name Dark Eyed Demon. A name that was feared throughout the raven academy, and even some neighboring academies heard about him.

Illyan broke eye contact immediately, she knew he doesn’t like it when an “Ant” looks at him like an equal. “ What can I do for you?” Illyan asked in a voice that was almost a whisper.

Adrius didn’t answer her, he just waved a hand. She noticed in one of his fingers was a plain looking ring. But for some reason it drew her attention like a moth to a flame. Then her mind was blank! The only thing that she thought about was Adrius and what was under these robes. She started to feel the inside of her thighs get wet and every bit of anger and hatred she had against him started to disappear like water in a volcano. And a strange emotion took over her, it made her think of Adrius like he was a god and if she was only his lowly slave.

She saw Adrius’ eyes smile by her reaction to the ring and the wetness in her thighs got worse.

‘ His eyes are beautiful’