Because of the incident last night, the private tutors were postponed for one week.

Lucifer punished all the traitors by cutting their head. Their bodies were sent back to their families with a notification of treason by The Lord of Fortis.

Cornelius’s family and 2 maids were executed for treason.

Lucifer was working in the aftermath of the revolt, he must recruit more knights because more than half of the knights were executed. Augustine has been promoted to a Knight Commander, commander in chief of The Fortis Knight Army.

Beatrice cried her eyes out when she knew that her mother did not wake up for 2 days after she fought with the bad guys. Ilario soothed her and attracted her by playing with her and teaching her magic. She was obedient and concentrated with the practice because she thought that she could help her mother after she trained hard.

Ilario checked and cleaned up the blood from the bodies of Sicarii. He found out that an experimental Sicarius had 2 dark magic stones inside its bodies. He had cut its hearts at that time but it transformed into Lycan by another dark magic stone. He will report the information and hand all the dead bodies to his Father.

3 days passed, Ilario went to Lucifer’s working room. His parents called him to explain everything.

‘Knock’ ‘Knock’

“Come in,” Lucifer said.

They both were waiting for him inside. He could not explain all the truth to them without breaking a promise that he had made with Queen Agnes. He decided to tell them some of the truth instead.

“I apologize for not telling you the truth since the beginning,” said Ilario, he started with an apology to make them feel less angry.

“Did you not trust your parents that much? You even risked yourself,” said Bellatrix angrily, although she worried about him.

“It’s not that I did not trust both of you but I had been missing for many years and I just came back recently. It might be hard for you to believe my words,” said Ilario reasonably.

“You’re right. It’s hard to believe that uncle had betrayed us. It’s all my fault. I trusted him too much,” said Lucifer sadly.

“When did you know about your great uncle’s intention?” Bellatrix asked curiously.

“I could feel his killing intent toward me since I returned here. So, I told my spirit to follow him,” Ilario said.

“What? How?” Lucifer asked surprisingly.

“I made contract with Light Spirits, there are 2 spirits. I told one of them to follow great uncle and another one to protect Bia. You’ve already met her, Mother. She helped you on that day,” Ilario said.

“Aha, I’ve met her. She was a great help,” said Bellatrix, she has softened.

“Tell us the truth. What did you do when you had been missing in the past years?” Lucifer asked seriously.

“As I told you, I lost my memory (=I’m not your son) and I got help from the elves (=They trained me hard). I had to hunt for surviving (=if I’m not strong, everyone might not survive). That’s why my instinct and sense were sharp. I met light spirits by chance (=I met them in the world of practice but I could not tell you) and they taught me how to use magic (=They taught me the advance of magic because I had learned the basic from the elves),” said Ilario, he told them some part of the truth.

“And…I heard from the elves that King of Monsters will return within the next 10 years, or faster than that. Even the present, there are many monsters inside Tenebris Forest and Magnus Forest. Moreover, there is a Mysterious Monster Lord who can experiment the monsters,” said Ilario seriously, “like these Sicarii.” Ilario took the dead bodies of Sicarii out of his bracelet. He told them about the experimental monsters and the Sicarii.

“I’ve never heard about A Mysterious Monster Lord before, is it real?” Lucifer asked seriously.

“Yes, it’s real. She was like human but she possessed dark magic power at high level. I had fought with her once but I could not kill her at that time,” said Ilario seriously.

“What? Did you fight with monster lord?” Bellatrix asked frighteningly.

“Yes, I did. I had to protect myself at that time,” said Ilario, he told her a lie, he did not want her to worry. “As I reported you last time, the incidents of kidnap were related to Count Proelium. His servant was a person who prepared these Sicarii. It has high possibility that they were working with a mysterious monster lord.”

They both had a great shock, they turned pale and looked seriously. They said nothing and lost in their thought.

“We should prepare ourselves and cooperate with the trustworthy people,” Ilario said, “to tell you the truth, our knight army cannot fight with the monsters. They were lacking of skills, they could die, just fighting with the low level of monsters.”

Ilario used this chance to request his father, he wanted to get a special knight team. A team that could help him fight with the monsters.

“If you’ll just allow me to have some knights, I could train them to be able to fight with the monsters, Father” Ilario said, “and those knights must be possessed cursus power at least.”

‘Cursus’ was the low level of magic power with no type. The people who possessed cursus power can use magic booster to any medium for example, physical body, weapons, magic stones, etc. The cursus power can make the medium stronger than usual.

‘Bellator’ was the description of the people who possessed the medium to high level of magic power in any type and great for fighting by using weapons. They fight like warrior, use many kinds of tactic to fight by using both of magic power and weapon.

“All right. I will recruit those kinds of knights for you but it might take more time,” said Lucifer, he got back to his sense after he managed his thought with all the information.

“Thank you, Father” said Ilario gratefully.

“I apologize for making you worried, Mother” said Ilario, he hugged Bellatrix. It was the best way to make her calm.

“That’s all right,” said Bellatrix gently, she softened after Ilario hugged her.

“I will manage all of these bodies. I have to report everything to The Empress,” said Lucifer seriously.

“Yes, Father” Ilario said.

***

After the incident of revolt, all the servants changed their attitudes toward him. They admired and respected him sincerely.

Beatrice came to play with him in the living room.

“Brother, Bia would like to practice magic today,” said Beatrice energetically. She enjoys activating magic power as her imagination.

“Okay. I will teach you how to use magic to protect yourself. I will show you,” said Ilario kindly, he activated “Wind Shield”.

“Wow…Bia would like to make it too,” said Beatrice excitingly, she fancied the wind energy that moving around Ilario’s body.

“Okay. Think of the wind. There was air moving around you when you played outside. Do you remember that feeling?” Ilario asked her kindly.

“Umm…” Beatrice seemed a bit hesitant.

“Feeling like this,” Ilario activated wind magic power moving around her body gradually.

“Kyaa…haha” Beatrice screamed with laughter.

“Activate wind magic, and try to move the air around yourself slowly,” said Ilario kindly.

Beatrice activated “Wind Shield” as her imagination but her wind magic power was so strong, she made the storm instead of Wind Shield.

‘Bang’ ‘Bang’ ‘Crack’ the loud sounds of breaking things. The storm blew away everything inside the living room to hit the wall and fell on the floor, some scratched, some broken. The storm scattered everything all over the room.

Vita had drained her power before it exploded. Ilario used “Inactivate” to cancel her magic power and activated “Wind Shied” to block sofa, table and other decorations that were circulated by storm. He made sure that Beatrice did not get hurt from broken things.

Beatrice was teary after her power inactivated.

“Did you hurt yourself?” Ilario asked Beatrice, he worried that she might get hurt from magic exploded.

“No, Bia did not hurt. But Mom will scold Bia,” said Beatrice tearfully. She feared that her mother will scold her for breaking things.

Ilario knew very well that their mother was very scary when she scolded them.

“It’s all right, I will tell mother it was an accident. It can occur to everyone who have magic power. Don’t worry,” said Ilario kindly, he held her in his arm and tried to calm her.

“Really?” Beatrice asked interestingly. She relieved her worry after heard Ilario’s words.

“Actually, I had hurt myself from magic exploded once,” said Ilario kindly.

“Did it hurt?” Beatrice asked curiously.

“It was hurt but I healed myself instantly. We have power to heal ourselves. Bia has this kind of power as well, you can heal yourself when you got injured. I will teach you next time, Okay?” Ilario talked to Beatrice kindly.

“Okay,” said Beatrice cheerfully.

Ilario activated wind magic to clean up the mess but most of the furniture and decorations had broken, he gave up and called the servants to do it instead.

After Bellatrix knew what had happened, she scolded Ilario and Beatrice for playing something dangerous inside the living room. We said nothing and accepted our mistake.

***

3 days passed, Ilario went to the training ground. He helped Augustine to train the knights.

Ilario was fighting a mock fight with Augustine everyday since he had been promoted to a Knight Commander.

Ilario fought with Augustine without using magic. Augustine continually attacked him hard; he has a great swordsmanship skill and his tactics were outstanding. However, his skills could not compare to the elves. Ilario blocked his attacks and hit him at weak spot.

Augustine requested Ilario to fight with him many times and he lost every time. He admitted defeat and requested Ilario to train him. Augustine was quite different from Cornelius. He was not arrogant, admitted himself and had a good spirit to improve himself. He intently requested a child to train him, even though, he was a knight commander.

After finished the training, Curtis came to meet him.

“Lord Lucifer called for you, Young Lord” said Curtis politely.

Ilario went to Lucifer’s working room after he changed his clothes.

‘Knock’ ‘Knock’

“Come in” said Lucifer.

Ilario saw a teenage girl inside the room. She was sitting on a sofa. Her appearance could describe that she was one of Fortis bloodline, long black hair, blue eyes, tall, well-trained body and pretty. She was wearing official suit and trousers for noblewoman.

Ilario felt her magic power. She has the same kind of magic powers like Beatrice but slightly different in level, especially, light magic power. She inherited wind, water, and healing magic power at medium-high level and light magic power at low-medium level.

“Eli, I’d like to introduce your distant cousin, Letitia Hasta, the fifth child of Count Hasta. She will be your knight escort from today onwards. More importantly, she inherited all types of magic power from her ancestor ‘Selena De Fortis’. It would be a great help to your plan,” said Lucifer proudly.

“Thank you, Father” said Ilario.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Young Lord” said Letitia.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, too. Just call me Ilario. I would like to call you Sister as well,” said Ilario friendly.

Letitia looked at Lucifer, she thought that it would be rude to call a name of Young Lord even she was one of distant relative to The Fortis Family. Her family’s status was lower than The Fortis Family.

“It’s all right. We are relative after all,” said Lucifer kindly.

“Yes, I will do so,” said Letitia, she was polite, calm, and dignified manner.

“I will be in your care, Sister” said Ilario friendly, he wanted to make her feel comfortable with him.

“…Yes,” said Letitia, she was not familiar with the intimacy.

“The recruitment of special knights might take longer time, most of qualified people were applying to the royal knight army. Their families were working as the royal knights from generation to generation.” Lucifer said.

“Do they have to pass school or something before they applied to the royal knight army, Father?” Ilario asked curiously.

“Yes, they have to. It was one of the requirements, they must graduate from ‘The Eques Institutional’ before applied to The Royal Knight Escorts or The Royal Knight Army,” Lucifer said.

“Is this requirement effective to our family as well, Father?” Ilario asked.

“No, it’s not. Why did you ask?” Lucifer asked curiously.

“I think that there might be some people who possessed cursus powers but they did not enroll at The Eques Institutional. Maybe we can get the talent people to join us with higher salary,” Ilario said.

“That’s a good idea, I will process the announcement,” said Lucifer gladly, he was proud of his son.

“Could you please recruit the blacksmiths as well, Father?” Ilario used this chance to request his father.

“Of course,” said Lucifer happily.

“…I mean Dwarves,” Ilario said.

“Umm…Do they have to be dwarves?” Lucifer asked hesitantly.

“Yes, they have to be dwarves. They have more of skills than human race. We need the great weapons to fight with monsters, Father” said Ilario firmly, “and we should prepare the smithy for them.”

“All right, I will prepare everything for you,” Lucifer said.

***