ARCHDEUS

NISHASHOP(2)

Later that night, Alex invites the two children to eat together in his room. It is unfortunate that the count and countess look still disliked Merry and this time a boy named Alpha who out of nowhere eats in the same place as them. Obviously they were getting disliked so it was better to eat in a separate place.

After Alex adopted Merry, until now he did not eat in his family's dining room. Fortunately, the lords did not blame him too much. They actually thought that Alex's actions were right because it kept the slave girl away from them.

Harol had finished dinner and went straight to his private room. Having two wives so as not to cause jealousy for his two wives, Harol decides to sleep in the room alone. Let him schedule when he will serve his two wives.

In his room, Harol did not go straight to sleep, he sat on the sofa and read some books that he recorded himself. As a count he had so many tasks that sometimes he wrote some small notes so as not to forget.

In the last few pages he read his notes on the reports about Alex. Harol immediately recalled some of the reports given to him.

Maybe Liana didn't care how Alex felt, but Harol obviously felt worried lately. After he got a report of Alex's grades in the barracks which looked very good, seeing with his own eyes how his first son was practicing the family sword technique, he was, now he had reports from Cathan and Rockie that their Oldest Young Master could already use the method of conduction of aura to a stone.

The aura has quite unique displacement characteristics. Unlike the mana that can use various objects as its introduction, the aura is more specific. The aura has two conveying objects, namely conductors such as various metals and water, while the second conveying object is an insulator that is difficult to be flowed by the aura, such as wood and stone.

Harol was clearly amazed by the talent of this first child. Even by the time Harol was the same age as Alex, he couldn't do that.

Harol is not a bad father. He loves his three children fairly. But his position as a count should encourage him to pay special attention to his talented children. In the history of the Fertiphile Family, all the count were people who were gifted as swordmasters of aura.

Harol is not old. She was only 43 years old while Liana and Clara were only in their mid-30s. When Harol was 22 years old, he married Clara. For people here, age 22 but still single is taboo. Usually when men are 15 years old and declared to be adults, they will get married at that age. But Harol kept waiting, because he had fallen in love with Clara who was 7 years younger than him. When Clara was 15, Harol proposed to her.

Unfortunately, they have not had a baby for 5 years. As a result, encouragement from a large family forces Harol to marry his second wife, Liana. Liana is the only daughter of the Viscount of Alchera.

Many suspect that Clara was a barren man. But just a few months after Harol married Liana, it turns out Clara has become pregnant. Clara gave birth to Alex at the age of 21.

For Harol, he has high hopes for Alex. Even among his three children, he was most hopeful that Alex would be his successor. There are many obstacles that they go through to get a child named Alex.

So isn't Alex now living up to Harol's expectations?

Isn't he talented?

Harol smiled wryly at the thought of all the pressure he put on Alex. This child must have survived a lot of pressure and ridicule. Harol is not ignorant, he is well aware that Alex has long been labeled as trash due to his untalented use of the sword. But Harol turned a blind eye to that.

But now has Alex not proven talented?

Harol starts to feel that maybe he can treat Alex a lot better. Maybe he can accept Merry as part of the family for Alex's sake. However, his assessment of his first child was much better than before.

***

Alex was very satisfied that the two little children with him had a good appetite. Merry and Alpha are currently in their infancy so they should get enough nutrients.

"Do you like it?"

"Yes Dad, Merry really likes it!"

"Heh .. Eat slowly. Look, the food's on the straw."

Alex took his handkerchief and wiped Merry's face full of sauce.

Merry smiled happily. He did deliberately eat aprons when he was with his father. It was because his father would always patiently clean his face. For Merry, as long as he could always get his father's attention, he would do anything. No matter how stupid he looks as long as he can be spoiled for his father, why not?

The alpha who saw the intimacy of this relationship between father and son could only envy in his heart. He wants it too. Alpha always wanted someone to love him so much as a family.

After finishing cleaning Merry's face of all the sauces and oils, Alex saw Alpha who seemed to be eating more slowly.

"What's the Alpha? Is the food bad?"

"No sir, this is delicious. But I feel full."

Of course it's a lie. I don't know why Alpha's appetite is gone. He just wants to go to sleep soon.

"Is that so? Yeah ... if you're full don't force it to keep eating. That's not good" Alex said.

Although Alex looks calm but actually his brain is roaming to find a way how to give a good impression to Alpha. Alex is planning to become Alpha's adoptive father. As for the future obstacles such as from Harol or Liana, he better not think about it, better find a way to adopt this child as soon as possible.

"Alpha, how old are you?"

"8 years, sir."

"ah! Is that so? You're a year older than Merry. You can be Merry's sister."

Merry agreed too. He had no idea of his father's intentions. So he only approved of his father's words. If he knew that Alex wanted to adopt Alpha, Merry would have been very angry and probably cried loudly while kicking the table.

"Yes, Brother Al is so good! He's like a big brother. Dad, we were playing together on the field."

"Is that so? Good, good, you're so familiar now."

Alex thinks that Merry may need another figure besides him (father). He thought that it was the position of an older brother who would always look after and play with his younger brother. Alex knows he can't always be with Merry so the position of brother is very important.

Yeah ... I don't think Merry would mind if I adopted Alpha, Alex thought.

"No, no, I'm not like that."

Alpha tried to deny all the praise given to him. Although he rejected all the praise, he was actually very happy because there were others who praised him sincerely.

Bang out!

The sudden explosion at the door obliterated the warm atmosphere between the three people. Everyone reflexively looked towards the door that had been shattered. Though Alex did not lock this door but which fool kicked the door as hard as he could to the point of destroying the door leaf.

The three people simultaneously stood up from their seats. Alex stepped forward and hid these two children behind his back.

From the door, they saw a group of black-robed people enter. One of the people in black robes was a man who was blond and had a beard and mustache of a similar color.

Only he did not cover his face while the people who were with him were mouthing faces using masks or cloths like a ninja.

All those black-robed people carried swords that were engulfed by aura.

Merry and Alpha are obviously terrified. They knew that these people who entered without permission did not have good intentions.

"Dad ...."

Merry shivered in fear. He held Alex's shirt tail tightly. Alpha is hiding behind Alex. He was very familiar with the blonde man's face.

Simon's!

Alpha never thought that those people could know where he was.

"Stranquil, don't panic."

Alex won both the boys behind him. This was definitely not the normal atmosphere he had experienced.

"No moving or shouting!"

Simon loudly warned the three people who were in this room. Thanks to the oracle's divination magic, he and his group were able to easily find the location of the A-25. He led his most elite group to capture the A-25.

Simon and all his subordinates threatened by pointing their aura swords towards Alex.

"I hope you have a good reason to enter without permission to my place!"

Alex is obviously angry with these guys. He was certainly not afraid of these people. It was impossible for a noblest god to have such a frightened mental tempe just from seeing a group of people aiming weapons at him.

Alex cannot overdo it. His opponents were aura users. In addition, their numbers are much more. Only Alex could fight to protect these two boys while the opponent numbered 10.

"Shut up! Leave the boys behind you and I won't hurt you all!"

Simon obviously did not think carelessly. Although only one person, he knew that this tall man was a descendant of Fertiphile. Whoever this guy is he must be a swordsman even if he's young.

Besides, they can't stay here too long. Sooner or later the guards of the Fertiphile house will gather. If that happens, they will lose. Although he brought more than 100 men to storm the House of Fertiphile, he was pessimistic about winning. Not to mention that out of the 100 people only 20 people had roles as warriors or assassins. The rest are soldiers without roles.

Whatever price he had to sacrifice, he should be able to bring the A-25 back!