《The Noble House of Set》Ignorance is the mother of all failures
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Anne spared nobody that day, the orders were clear . Surrender or die .
She walked past the sea of corpses that she had left behind, readied her sword and prepared to fight the Boss .
“Come out now, will you keep hiding forever? Even after I killed all your underlings ? “
Since her taunts were not working she decided to push the door open with the tip of her sword but, what appeared in front of her was too unsightly.
Edgar’s bloody corpse missing most of his limbs, another bandit who had holes all over his body and a tied up Gregor without any pants or clothing on .
His throat had been slit and all of his fingers were broken .
“Did Rhaegar do this? Nah, this is not his style “
She tried looking for the loot but found nothing, no matter where she looked at.
“Help us please, save us lady knight. Please help us, my mommy will give u 3 copper pieces and baked bread if you save me, she is a baker in Lard Village “
The locked up children could see her through the holes of their ceiling.
And after hearing their please for help she decided to go and free them from the dungeon.
“You finally came, can you save us ? Please? Those uncles are mean and scary
Anne didn’t know what was going on in there, but she was now sure that Rhaegar didn’t kill the bandit leader . He would have never ignored children being kidnapped. But the question was who did it?
The woman who was the cause of it all at that moment was nearly reaching the border that separated Territory of Set from a city called Windwheel . The city was almost as big as RedRun, but the difference with it was that it was unoccupied by the 30 noble families.
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The City Lord was Baron Pilgrim , noble of the Dawnstorm empire.
Unlike the royal household of Zeus who were called Kings just in name, Dawnstorm’s Emperor Zhen actually held all the power. The nobles there only had limited authority, they all had to obey the emperor unconditionally.
In short, it was completely different to the 30 noble families where the Zeus Household could only order you if they were at war against other empires .
Other than that you were basically autochthonous, you ran your own territories without anybody interfering .
“This shitty horse ran away, tchh. If I find you again ill eat your flesh bloody you stupid animal “
“Someone sure is mad huh, I can take you there with my carriage if you want ? “
Rhaegar’s appearance startled her since it was unexpected, but when he saw him being just a little child she calmed herself.
“A carriage? Is your father a rich merchant or something? How can you own a carriage at your age ? “
“Oh , where are my manners. Sorry “
He placed his right hand on his heart, his right leg behind his left and bowed his head slightly.
“I am called Rhaegar Set Arcana , I’m the young lord of the Set Household . Nice to meet you, and the lady is ? “
The woman was dumbstruck, didn’t the bandits say the Set Lord was coming to kill them with his army? She saw no army, she only saw a little kid ?
“Well well well, what do we have here .
You shouldn’t go wandering on your own kid, you might get yourself in trouble..
...My lord” she added !
“I’m not much for bragging but I don’t think anybody in these lands is capable of harming me. Still, I’ll take your advice to heart “
-Just another noble, they all think they’re so invincible... this brat doesn’t know how vast the world really is , she thought.
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But when she stopped to really think about it, this situation presented an opportunity. The Blood Mother ordered her to find little girls for training but she failed to deliver that task . But... if she could kidnap the young lord of Set and force his knight to kidnap the girls and give it to her as ransom, she might actually complete her mission.
The woman had no idea that Edgar had already kidnapped the children she asked for, he just didn’t tell her since he was being weary the entire time .
Even a Bandit wont come out in the clear when they deal with organisations, what’s to say they aren’t just there to expose them? In this world everyone had to be cautious and viscous.
If only she knew that the children had been under her nose the entire time... she would have definitely went back to defile Edgar’s corpse even more .
“I’ll be honest brat, I’m glad you’re here .
So ill make this quick and not painful, don’t worry i will not kill you. Nobles are a hard bite and I don’t wanna mess with them yet “
Rhaegar had no idea where she was getting at until she summoned her daggers and threw them at him .
Ignorance is the mother of all failures they say, and right they were .
As part of his training, lady Clara had taught Rhaegar to continuously surround himself with mana so he can learn to control it more precisely, and with his mana being that of the ice element...
The daggers were frozen midway and fell down slowly , the woman felt stupid.
“Slow down little girl, I don’t want to kill you. I think you’re quite fun “
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