POSTED ON JANUARY 19, 2023 BY JACK RUSSELL

Nonetheless, when Dmitri and Annan simply began to plan for the subsequent step…

Ivan Austere-Winter found the 2 brothers who have been secretly planning.

So Grand Duke Ivan had crushed up Dmitri.

Firstly, it was as a result of Dmitri dared not ask his father’s opinion on such a major matter because the eldest son. Secondly, he didn’t set an instance as an elder brother and led his youthful brother Annan to fiddle. Thus, he needed to take the second beating in Annan’s place.

Dmitri didn’t care about his fertility, and he didn’t even take into consideration having kids.

Although he didn’t care about this matter, the truth that he was infertile would make the Dukedom unstable. That was just because he was the primary inheritor.

At the moment, Maria had determined to take the trail of the Daughter of the Storm.

Thus, the Younger Annan was the one one left to inherit the throne because the Grand Duke.

This resolution incited Maria’s panic. Not like her elder brother Dmitri, Maria didn’t significantly belief the Younger Annan. Quite the opposite, she was frightened and overly caring for him.

Their mom died within the second yr after Annan was born. There have been supposedly six brothers, the sixth of whom died earlier than start, and the remaining two died of [Winter Heart] energy earlier than they have been three years outdated. Thus, they didn’t get their identify.

Annan was the kid earlier than final.

Maria was the third youngster earlier than final.

Dmitri took care of her since start, and she or he would handle Younger Annan.

She was extra like a mom than a sister.

Although she knew that Annan was proficient, she didn’t belief the kid she raised together with her palms and was intensely frightened. In contrast with Annan and her father Ivan, she believed Brother Dmitri could possibly be a greater Grand Duke.

Nonetheless, Ivan’s lifespan had not been efficiently prolonged due to the Rotten Man, and he may die at any time.

—At the moment, brothers and sisters would rely upon one another for his or her lives.

In contrast with abnormal individuals who solely wished to “stay life”, the three nonetheless had the folks of a rustic to be taken care of. Not lengthy after the warfare, international enemies have been round, and the nobles within the nation appeared politically unstable. On the similar time, they nonetheless needed to handle and shield the widespread folks.

Dmitri’s brother, whom Maria trusted probably the most, misplaced his proper of inheritance.

The long run Austere-Winter Dukedom would fall into the palms of Younger Annan.

How might she bear it?

The initially calm Maria deliberate to get pleasure from her life and wait to die. She would then inherit the Daughter of the Storm when she was 40. Nonetheless, she made up her thoughts to grow to be a formidable transcender as quickly as potential.

This was additionally why she had participated in Grasp Michelangelo’s succession ritual.

She was the Edict Wizard from the Storm Tower, the longer term Daughter of the Storm.

Nonetheless, the Daughter of the Storm was mortal and would die at some point.

Maria was not afraid of dying, however she was frightened about Annan.

Might Annan actually handle himself with out her?

She additionally felt that Michelangelo’s sudden summoning of eight younger wizards have to be a conspiracy. Most definitely, he was performing some ritual. However at the moment, she couldn’t care about that a lot anymore.

Identical to when Dmitri and Annan acted privately, she did the identical to their father.

It is perhaps revenge, or it appeared like a wierd comparability. She didn’t inform Ivan and Dmitri about her going to Howling White Tower.

Maria had at all times been upright, saying and doing what was in her thoughts.

She was agency and unyielding, taking duty on her shoulders and transferring ahead in silence.

In contrast with ladies of the identical age or the heirs of the emperor who grew up in a world surrounded by conspiracies, she was extra like these Austerians of abnormal households who owned a household enterprise.

It was additionally due to her integrity, Maria virtually died within the taboo ritual of the Twin Towers [Overlapping Death and Life].

At the moment, Maria didn’t perceive how this ritual took impact. Solely after they have been preventing one another till solely 4 of them left did they hear Michelangelo’s message, telling them that this was the primary half of a ritual.

It was not till not way back that they realized this was an ascendancy ritual.

Michelangelo, the host of the taboo ritual, had efficiently sublimated and achieved true deity not way back.

Michelangelo was pronounced as “the Man within the Mirror”.

So when Maria got here again that yr, Dmitri acquired one other heavy beating.

This was the insufferable weight of the eldest son.

In any case, it was he who was crushed up.

But in addition, due to the beating, Dmitri remembered it clearly. In line with Maria, solely 4 folks survived that ritual.

Apart from Maria, the remaining three have been all harmful people. After all, the few who died have been much more troublesome.

The Man within the Mirror’s pope, Benjamin Foster;

The Black Wizard from Swamp’s Black Tower, David Gerald;

The Man within the Mirror’s scholar, Ghirlandaio Buonaro of the Prophet College.

And the identify, Ghirlandaio David Buonaro.

It occurred that the names of the 2 survivors have been blended on this ritual.

Though Dmitri didn’t know why “David” was added as the center identify, it was undoubtedly the individual “Ghirlandaio” who Maria talked about, judging from his look.

That innocent and docile Prophet Wizard maintained peace till the tip. Maria didn’t know what he did or what methods have been on his sleeve. Presumably, he had already used the Prophet Magic to rewrite the whole lot that may have an effect on his future.

The aim of the Prophet College had by no means been simply to “see the longer term”.

What they practiced was the ability of “rewriting the longer term based mostly on the previous”.

Dmitri as soon as met a Prophet Wizard from the Twin Towers.

When Dmitri requested him, “Prophet faculty can instantly receive the outcomes of their research by way of spells, then what precisely do they should be taught”, the individual replied by throwing a query again to Dmitri.

“If ‘yesterday’ has grow to be ‘tomorrow’, it is going to grow to be two days in the past. So is ‘the day after tomorrow’ ‘as we speak’ or ‘yesterday’?”

Dmitri was dumbfounded.

Though he didn’t determine it out in the long run, he was satisfied that the Prophet Wizards have been a witty bunch.

The silent, low-key, and unobtrusive Prophet Wizard will need to have laid many methods, and undoubtedly the “Prophet” on the highest stage.

The witty brains have been continuously working. Each one in all them was good and scary, and everybody had a future imaginative and prescient. A Prophet Wizard, who might modify the longer term from the previous, seemed so abnormal that folks would neglect it if they didn’t listen.

When you noticed this, would you consider it?

Anyway, Dmitri didn’t consider it.

His feeling on the time was, “The Prophet College is a wily bunch.”

The extra low-key the individual seemed, the extra doubtless he was calculating everybody he might.

Dmitri glanced on the mild and cheerful middle-aged man in entrance of him.

As predicted, he noticed a silver ring within the individual’s hand.

Have I fallen into the plot of those nagging Prophets once more?

The thought got here to Dmitri’s thoughts.