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nChapter 42 The story behind the Heart City's downfall

nAuthor: M_W Cancer

nGrammar Checker: M_W Nomral

nSeeing that Elizabeth was showing a face full of interest to hear his story, Leo slowly looked up at the stars in the sky, breath to calm himself, as he finally began telling the story.

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"The Heart city wasn't really going to fall after my parent's death. In fact, it was supposedly going to flourish and really become an actual city! Unlike now where it could barely be able to feed itself and the title of the city just being an advance-promotion from the Silver royal family of the Silver Kingdom, or otherwise be called as a mere decoration.

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"After my parent's death, my brother was supposedly going to return from the battlefield to rule and manage the Heart city, too. I was just 8 years old, and even though my brother doesn't really want to become the next ruler and had always insisted to give me that position, I was still too young to be able to manage a city back at that time.

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"However, my brother wasn't able to return to the Heart city as I received a report saying that my brother was unfortunately killed on the battlefield. Battlefield? That was obviously a cover-up since I'm sure he wasn't killed on the battlefield! Someone among the Humans had killed him! The latest report that he had given to me before he was killed was that he was already returning back and was just a few more Kingdoms away before he would finally arrive back at the Silver Kingdom, and henceforth the Heart city afterwards.

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"I, as a kid back at that time, was excitedly jumping around after reading the letter. I indeed had lost my parents, but knowing that my brother was coming back home, I realized that I still have another family member. What was more, he was quickly running back to save me, too!

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"Unfortunately, my brother didn't make it back either because he died. Despair covered my whole world at that time after knowing that everyone from my family has died, no one to rely on, and has become alone in this cruel world.

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"Now you might be wondering, if you know such a thing, why didn't you dare report it? The story would of course reached that part of the story.

" Leo can't help but pause.

nAt the side, Elizabeth was currently wearing a confused expression. She was feeling confused as to why Leo was telling her this. But she kept on listening, nonetheless.

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"I was 8 years old when all of them died. Only Butler Xiao, Fatty Ben, and General Kevin had remained and stayed by my side to help me defend my family territory, Heart city.

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"Forced to change and mature early through cruel and forceful methods. I was finally able to become the rightful ruler of the Heart city when I became 10 years old at that time.

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"Naturally, after I was able to stabilize the Heart city, I immediately brought up the case of my brother's death to the Royal family of Silver Kingdom, secretly. I used all the proofs and clues that I had collected through the 2 years as I opened up a secret case and had asked the Royal family to help me find my brother's murderer. Gratefully, they agreed. And I was finally able to catch the tail of the killer through their help after some time. I was finally going to be able to bring justice to my brother's death.

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"However... The Royal family suddenly stopped the support all of the sudden. All the tails that I had found disappeared out of nowhere in a matter of one day, and I was immediately forbidden to investigate the case any further.

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"The reason was simple, it was because they can't destroy those people who had killed my brother as it would be the same as cutting a strong pillar of support from the Silver Kingdom.

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"Hahahaha! A pillar of support? Who cares if they were a pillar of support! Since they had killed my brother, a fellow human, then they should also be killed in return!

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"It enraged me! I didn't follow what the foolish Royal family had said to me as I finally allowed the Head of the Logistic Department, Fatty Ben, to secretly collect information. Hence, the establishment of the Scout Department of the Heart city.

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"After 2 years of collecting information. I finally found out something really interesting. I actually had a fiance that was supposedly going to be married to me the moment I reached 10 years old. Curiously though, no family had even reached out to me at that time I had reached 10 years old, which was supposedly the agreed aged.

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"So, I was immediately curious about who this family was. I wanted to find out who were these people. Hence, I quickly started a different investigation about this secret fiance of mine.

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"Unexpectedly, through this investigation, I found out something really interesting...

" Leo suddenly paused as he turned to look at Elizabeth,

"Do you want to know what it was?

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nElizabeth quickly nodded her head multiple times in reply as she found Leo's story really interesting. It has a lot of twists and turns, and when she finally thought that it was going to become a happy ending, a sudden turn of events would suddenly unfold. In her opinion, his story was something worthy to be made into a novel.

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"It's about the Snow Noble Household of the far Northern region of Silver Kingdom. One of Silver Kingdom's strong pillars of support, a Noble Household so powerful that even the Silver royal family was feeling afraid of them, and a family that the Royal family wouldn't just casually offend!

" Leo can't help but take a glimpse at Elizabeth.

nHearing what Leo had said, Elizabeth's eyes suddenly widen before stopping from her step and staring at him. She had finally understood why he was telling her this story.

nHowever, Leo wasn't planning of finishing the story yet.

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"The woman that I was agreed to marry was a daughter from this Noble Household. A woman the same age as me, born the same year and the same day as me, and was also said to be destined to marry me accordingly to both our family.

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"However, the most interesting part about this was, Fatty Ben's investigation had also pointed out towards the Snow Noble Household!

" Leo suddenly let out a loud laugh.

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"What a small world, right? The family of the woman who had become my fiance was actually the killer of my brother. And the most interesting part about it was, it wasn't actually the intention of the Snow Noble Household to kill my brother, at all. In fact, they even really wanted to marry their daughter to me! So, why would they kill my brother? Someone who was going to become a part of their family, soon...

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"In fact, it was no one's intention, at all. However, it became one through the order from the woman that was supposedly going to marry me! Killing my brother has unexpectedly become the intention due to that!

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"How did it happen? Simple! That woman doesn't want to be married to me, hence she asked some people to do something to stop the marriage. Unexpectedly, those people that the woman had hired actually thought of simply destroying the Heart city in order to revoke the marriage. Apparently, the reason was because a Noble with its own territory destroyed would have its title revoked due to having no capability to protect its own territory and people. So, me turning into a commoner would automatically revoke that proposed marriage.

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"However, destroying a city openly would surely enrage the Silver royal family, hence it would surely become the reason for a war between the Royal family of the Silver Kingdom and the Snow Noble Household of the far northern region.

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"Unexpectedly though, those people had found out that there was actually one way that will destroy the Heart city without enraging the Silver royal family. And on top of that, it only requires one single person's death. So, after hearing the proposal, without any hesitation, the woman chooses to immediately execute this said plan, without even knowing who this person she was going to kill.

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"That person was my brother! By killing my brother, they thought that the whole Heart city would go into downfall due to the lack of a capable ruler.

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"Isn't that right, Elizabeth Snow, or should I call you, my dearest future wife?

" Leo finally finished his story as he quickly pulled Elizabeth towards his body.

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"But too bad, right? The young man that you don't want to marry had unexpectedly become a capable ruler of the Heart city and had even earned the affinity to become a Mage! Your family must be really joyous right now, right? Since after knowing it they had quickly proposed to marry you to me at your 18th birthday, again, which is going to be in the next month.

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"So, what is your reason for walking around the campus at this hour, Lady Elizabeth? Are you really here to really kill time? Or perhaps to kill me? Or maybe just to investigate me further in order to decide whether you should kill me right now or a bit later? Make me enjoy my life for a bit, and before your birthday, you will then order some people to kill me just like what you did to my brother!

" Leo quickly pulled Elizabeth's face closer towards him as he showed a mischievous smile on his face.

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"Unfortunately though, you are no longer capable of killing me like the last time. Unless, of course, if you openly use the power within your Noble Household to kill me. But unfortunately, you can't do that because your family will surely not agree with that.

" Leo soon after pushed Elizabeth to the ground as he turned around and walked away.

nSuddenly, Leo stopped as he said,

"By the way, the person who you should have really killed back then should be me! Because right now, I'm already capable of fighting against you on equal grounds. Moreover, I'm not allowing anything to become the reason for my death. I will be sure to marry you on your 18th birthday and make you suffer afterwards! I will make you pay for my brother's death in your entire life! Your body and soul will belong to me and you can't do anything to change that!

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"Unless, of course, you kill yourself at that time! But, will I even allow you to do that, HAHAHA!

" Leo said with a loud and full of evil laughter before finally walking out of the Silver Mage Academy's gate.

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