If I face him head on I will for sure lose. Fighting him from behind the shadows won't help either since he is supposed to be an evil, cruel and cunning man.

The only way to destroy him is to destroy him from inside and when he is weak and vulnerable, I will then make my move and make him regret that he was ever born.

At this moment I heard the door opening with a 'creak' sound and light footsteps approaching me, I can easily recognize them, its Shilfa.

When I open my eyes and look at her my eyes are merciless and cold as ice, I don't care for much people but if someone dares to mess with those whom I care I will not hesitate to destroy them.

But for the time being for me it seems my eyes are lifting boulders weighting tons, if it were not for my will power they would quickly shut and I would instantly faint due to severe lack of sleep.

This young maid had already suffered enough because of those stinking nobles yet still she took care of me from when I was young, it was her obligation to serve me but what she does for me far exceeds that.

Seeing me looking like that, Shilfa stops on her tracks at once but then once again regains her usual cheerful air and reminds me that its my time for training by saying 'young master here you are slacking off again, its time train'.

With this we head off to my training grounds but before that I tell Shilfa to go there and wait for me while I myself head off to the garrison through my secret route, this time around I don't have time to waste so I make haste.

When I hear the familiar sound of swords clashing I realize that I have arrived at my destination. Not too far away from there, I settle down focusing on their movements.

Their movements at first seemed weird to me but after taking some time I realized there was a clear pattern. One step back, two steps to the side and rush in front, it was but basic footwork.

I etched this scene deep into my memories then I focused on their stances, these warriors had many aggressive stances but no defensive stance, it seems it is another one of their honorary ideal or their stupid warriors pride.

After carving these scenes in my mind I rush to the training grounds, there I see Shilfa, who is grilling meat while humming some song happily.

I let her continue her hard-work and start doing mine. First there is foot work, side, back and rush to the front. With this I imitate their movements but what if I rush first then suddenly move back then go to the side and rush to the front again, with these thoughts I start to improve my footwork.

As for stances, from my fight with that brawn guy I know the importance of defensive stance, in one clash he pushed me back two steps. It seems I have to devise them on my own so I decided to practice aggressive stances first meanwhile if I have some insight I can start practicing defensive stances.

The basic attacking stances are very simple, eased grip on the sword, use the momentum to slash. Second is a tight grip on the sword and use your strength to cut the opponent. The third is to use speed to pierce.

I am not planning to become muscle man so improving in the second won't do me any good, I have gained quite the agility from my daily regime but I won't always have the space to imply this either, so I decide to practice my attacks based on momentum.

When I was finished with this, my body was covered with sweat, breathing was unnatural but a hint of joy could be seen in my eyes which were constantly blinking under the great heat

As soon as I sat to rest for a moment, I gained the insight for a defensive stance suitable for me, it seems God really is against me having rest, I can't force stop an attack because I will be needing strength to do that. I can't block the attack with another attack since my attack is based on momentum but what I can do is use my opponents strength against him, much like in judo.

After some practice in it, I find that to improve in this I will be needing to improve my flexibility and balance so I started walking on ruins and tree branches to improve my balance and I do stretches before meditating for better flexibility.

With this I conclude my early morning training, I inform Shilfa who is still working really hard eating that delicious grilled meat while watching me as I am some kind of show with her eyes wide open in amazement.

'Shilfa its time to go, pack your bags' I say while looking at the grilled meat she is currently eating.

'whaat? isn't it early' she mumbles some word in dissatisfaction but in the end does what I said. She has a poker face on as to annoy me and would time to time say 'hmph!'.

Now its time, I remind myself as I rush towards my secret passage leaving Shilfa behind eating grilled meat in dust.

I check up on father first, there are two women with him once again but wait this time they are different, how do I know this? isn't it obvious? their bodies off course. At times like this I praise my memory and regard it as a gift. Burning their hot bodies into my mind I move towards my next destination.

The guest room, it seems Igarnes is living in the guest room at the moment, as for why? we will know soon, thinking this I laugh in my mind, an evil smirk is clearly visible on my face.

I have to say moving through this secret passage is really convenient, I reach the guest room, finding Igarnes wasn't hard since he is a man third in power naturally his room should be best of these.

Peeking in his room, I say while laughing lightly 'huhu, as expected, keep on the good work'.

Igarnes is currently doing some serious corruption, there are two ladies with him, wait on further inspection these two ladies are the same ones that I saw with father.

'What a pleasant surprise' I tell myself.

It should be known that royal harem is there only to meet king's needs even though princes can have their needs fulfilled too but other than them no one is allowed there.

But this Igarnes dares to do this, so now if I modify my plan a little I can wreck him, pull him from the skies and smash him into the earth.

The things I have to do first are, create a bigger suspect than Shilfa so if Igarnes dies suspicion doesn't fall on her. To do that this scheme should work like a charm.

I investigate these two women of royal harem, after a thorough investigation I come to know about their situation. I can't afford any mistakes so I double check my sources, it seems that these two women are in heavy debt until that is settled they are slaves here.

But what is their heavy debt to me? it isn't even light, its non-existent that is the amount of wealth I possess.

I secretly arrange a meeting with them through Shilfa. She was quite hesitant at first and tried to say things like.

'But..?' with confused expression but in the end she still did what she was told, I decided not to tell her, the more people know my plan the less chances it has, to succeed.

'No buts, Shilfa if you trust me, do what I say but do it with absolute secrecy' I order her seriously, in the end she follows.

When I meet these two ladies in front of me, I see their expressions, the lady on the right is playing with her hair while the one on the left is staring at the ceiling and then to the exit as though planning how to run?.

Their gazes finally land on me. But I quickly realized what they were thinking 'fear not, I am on a diet, I won't eat the two of you'.

Well it worked with the people in the garrison but here it made the situation even worse, they were on the verge of crying. Tears were forming in their blue sea like eyes.

When I was in the middle of my thoughts that Shilfa interrupted 'what is up with you two? if young master becomes hungry why would he eat the two of you, am I not here?' while moving her hand to ask the question.

'thank you Shilfa' I mockingly say in my mind while staring at her with serious eyes but what was this, the air suddenly became light, the mood became bright.

Now at least these two women were openly looking at me and not towards the exit, I relieved myself.

'Women, I don't know how they think' saying this I resigned and moved my gaze back to these beautiful women in front of me.

'The..n perhaps young master wants to have some fun' says one of the two women playfully.

I recognize this expression, I see that she is eager to have fun with me so a prince can grant her a huge amount and she can get her freedom back but still I need to confirm their desire for freedom,

Birds that are locked for too long in their cages forget how to fly.

The women in front of me then suddenly tears a part of her clothes that are covering her breasts, slightly revealing her huge chest. She then looks at me to see if I am staring at them intently but what does she know, I am already familiar with every corner of her body.

I don't move my gaze from her eyes and I say 'No need, you have a love bite right under you right breast, am I right?'

The women was staring at me with her mouth opened wide in surprise, she asked 'how do you know this?'

To be honest my own father gave her that mark and I was the witness but I can't tell her that so I say 'because I am all knowing and all wise'.

She doesn't believe me at first but when I go a little more into the description of her body she quickly believes me.

Shilfa who is standing behind me becomes furious, tcch such idiots, she thinks I played with this woman but to even do that I have to reach puberty first.

'Shilfa I know you don't believe me but I say the truth, you have mole at your right butt, correct?' hearing this Shilfa too is caught in the net.

To trick my enemies I have to trick my allies first that is the rule of deception.

who knew that these dark arts I was forced to learn from scholars would prove this useful to me.

Anyways with this now these two women know better than to betray me, I hand them the money and give them instructions on what they have to do.

Their expression show disbelief as they keep staring at me without even blinking once when they hear I am going against Igarnes but to my surprise they quickly accept the proposal.

When I ask them to tell me the reason out of curiosity they reply 'because he embarrassed us too much and too many times'.

I know what they meant by that, Igarnes is a big fan of S&M and since he has to be the dog of my father, he likes to be the king when he can. I take a mental note never to practice such plays or outcomes like these will happen far too often in my upcoming future'.

Now only one thing remains, my father's sister Isabella off course, I can always have my father catch Igarnes in the act but what good will that do me? My father will kill him himself.

If I use his wife, once she discovers the affair, she can at first lecture my father and I am looking forward to that. My father at first will not mind it but when he finds that his personal favorites are being tainted by his own dog, thinking the outcome makes me feel excited.

Isabella, she is living not too far away, if she leaves now it will take at least one day for her to arrive. I can't invite her or I will fall into suspicion and Shilfa can be linked from me when it all falls so I need to think of something again.

I bribed a messenger, gave him a royal seal and told him to tell Isabella her husband is critically injured, medics are nursing him to health in guess room#1 and he urgently needs you.

As expected Isabella comes rushing, to my surprise she came in half a day it seems like she took no break in the way.

But thank God that Igarnes is a man of such stamina and seeing those two women are motivated in doing their work today he is introducing even more innovate plays.

'Good!..Good' I say while I can't conceal my vicious smile.

I quickly move to the gate to welcome her, with my head slighly bowed and right hand on my back while left on my stomach, this is supposed to be the noble greetings, she doesn't even ask me who I am? much less greeting me back.

she is really worried about her husband, I am going to show her just how much of a good work those medics are doing to nurse your husband back to health.

'Quickly follow me, he needs you' I say while giving a hint of worry in voice.

Without saying anything she follows me as I take her directly to the guest room. Through the windows everything has been shown crystal clear.

I too see the scene in front of my eyes, Igarnes really is motivated today,

'Good have fun while you can' off course I say that in my mind. I then move my hand slowly towards the door knob, Isabella grabs my hand and stops me.

'The response is even better than I imagined' I say to myself.

We watch the show until it ends, all this while we could see Igarnes back turn towards us even though those two women could see us they were pretending they never saw us and continued their business.

Then the business finally came to a conclusion, I had respect for this man in terms of business, such stamina and efficiency when handling two women, he is only second to father.

Then Igarnes say to them loudly 'Today my lovely maidens preformed really good, if you had done the same in our past plays I would have rewarded like this' as he says this he throws towards them a small pouch, it seems its full of coins.

'Say more, say more' I am cheering for Igarnes while watching the scene but he doesn't say anything more, as soon as he turns around he receives a great shock, a shock big enough that he fell to the ground.

Seeing my work is done I sneak out of here and hide in my secret chamber, I have to see this to the end, failure is not an option, I remind myself.

'Igarnes you bastard, scum, worthless piece of shit'.

Isabella who was so quiet before is not so quiet now, her voice echoed through the hall, I quickly told a servant to call father here. A simple tip of one gold coin made him run his way to father as though his life depended on it.

And soon our guest of honor, my father, the king of the world was here too. He watched her sister cry and consoled her by saying 'I will scold him, don't you worry'.

But as soon as he saw those two naked beauties his attitude changed quickly, Igarnes's face looked white pale, as though all blood was drained of it.

His body was constantly shaking while he was producing weird noises through his mouth 'haai, hi, haiii'.

In front of his own sister he can't explain the reason for making her a widow so he has to let him live, he rids him of his rank,reputation and wealth. Now he is no more than a beggar who is married to king's sister.

Even she can't divorce him in the instant, they have to plan it out to give public reasons to save their face.

As soon as they leave in their luxurious carriage, I order the assassin I previously prepared to get me Igarnes alive and I told them not to hurt anyone else or there is no pay.

Now I have already played my cards, if anything goes wrong now, chances are we will be caught.

I am waiting in the ruins with Shilfa, meditating to calm my mind.

Shilfa asked me countless times about what I was scheming but I kept my mouth shut to the end, it was for her own good, if push comes to shove, I will take all the blame.

Soon I hear footsteps, people in tattered robes with their hoods on, mounted on horses are approaching.

I already gave them a royal seal, though it was a copy no one other than true masters can distinguish between this copy and the real one. So passing by the castle and coming here to the barren lands wasn't that hard.

The third man was shaking violently, the man in front removes this man's hood revealing his face, his mouth is stuffed with leaves and tied with clothes, his hands are tied behind his back but when the hood is on, he looks just like any normal person shaking constantly under the hood. On horse back even that shaking can't be seen.

I throw a coin bag towards the man in front, without even checking he turns and just like that they disappear. Now we are the only ones present here.

I really want to kill him but someone wants to kill him even more than I do, so I give the honors to Shilfa who is patiently waiting behind, she is astonished seeing this man crouching on the floor in a miserable state.

When Igarnes sees Shilfa he tries to smile but all those leaves stuffed in his mouth stop him from doing that. I remove that cloth covering his mouth and he spits out those leaves as he says 'I think you want your children dead, huh?'.

Shilfa looks at me, her eyes are full of concern, as I say 'Your children are already secured, when Isabella left her manor she brought along most of the army guarding their palace, my sources long ago told me your children were held captive in his palace'.

'Long story short, I have confirmation, your children are on their way to my castle, rest assured' I say this, I am proud of the grand scheme I hatched.

Hearing me say this, Shilfa's face suddenly changes, all that hatred and anger she suppressed for all these years erupted just like a volcano.

Every man is a killer, the deeper the killer is hidden the more dangerous it is when it reveals itself.

Shilfa slashes him wildy using daggers I provided her with. Igarnes is screaming in pain but I already arranged a performance company to give a grand performance near my castle, so no one can hear him screaming.

Her previously gentle beauty and cheerfulness is nowhere to be seen, her eyes are absolutely ruthless and not a shred of mercy can be seen in her eyes.

But despite all that, seeing her like this, she is still a beauty, a cold merciless beauty that came from heaven.

Soon he dies after one last howl in pain, Shilfa is still slashing him wildly while crying, not willing to stop.

I then move towards her and hug her, her white dress is covered in blood when I hug her I too become red with thick blood as I say 'Don't worry its going to be alright'.

She just cries for a while, I am still in her embrace, I can feel her warmth and smell her scent, my face is buried in her chest which gives off an even softer sensation then my fluffy bed.

For two days I was in a war with my body, using my mind to the limit, denying myself the right to sleep. I was already past my limit, now when the tension was gone I was about to faint in this embrace when I heard something.

'WAAOOOH!'

Judging by the howl, I would say that it is a wolf and is currently not too far away from us, to be more precise it should be behind those ruins that are in front of us.

I take a deep breath, my body is literally begging me to let it off but I ignore all its calls. Headaches are there to pester me too, it seems to be the result of overusing my brain.

I push Shilfa aside gently, she is scared stiff by this howl unable to even move. It was the same for me when I first saw that leopard. Anyways I move in front of her, I will not allow the same thing to happen twice.

With my mind focused, I know this, it is possible that the wolf managed to come here by following those assassins, if that was the case, guards wouldn't be able to spot this wolf in the crowd.

Now because of the performance I arranged, guards won't be coming here to save us, not even our loudest screams will be able to get their attention.

I slowly and cautiously move to where the sound is coming from. My eyes are wide open and all my senses are heightened due to possible danger, even one blunder by me can cause us both to die.

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