The Eternal Family



Today, the evenibg discussions between the servants and even ministers were particularly lively and vibrant.

"The Null Prince has come out of nowhere and completely thwarted the Monkey Prince."

"It was not a one-sided battle until the Null Prince suddenly got bored, he was actually the strongest prince."

"Oh god! Prince Harry is so muscular and his looks are so immaculate, I wonder how he would look without those pesky clothes."

"No way you would get to see it, the Prince only like women, but you are just a fat ugly man."

And some conversations like those were even beyond Harry's control. He would have gone on a short killing spree if he heard everything.

"Do you think the Null Prince and the current Dream Princess Lilly are in love?"

That was also a question many asked.

Such questions and equally spicy answers were all around. Praises were in everybody's mouth.

But if someone was even a bit, a teeny tiny bit conscious of the importance of Gifts and their significance, they weren't part of these dumb conversations. They were instead part of a much deeper conversation.

"The Null Prince has more than one gift! Damn! A Multi gifted Null! Damn!"

"His eyes turning multicolor is very much like DreamWalker! And his skin seems like jade, and his body is strong enough to fight the best body gifted! Even his vision is strong!"

"Even his resilience is good for an untrained Gifted, not to mention his instinct. His leg movements were quite good today."

"...aren't most of the Gifts we mentioned Gifts from his mother and sister? What is going on?"

Valeria had earlier erased their memories, but she didn't erase the memories about such things, Harry needed them to know this.

Hearing some of the talks and words through the walls as he walked around one of the palace's hidden tunnels, Hugh Vincias had a fear-filled face.

The time ticked by but he couldn't calm down. 

The monkey on the side was also quite jittery as it waited.

Phew... The wind whistled and a man in shady clothes walked out of thin air from behind them. 

Hugh turned around and faced him. With a suddenly calm face, he said, his voice dark, "If your Mistress doesn't have an answer for me, she better be prepared for war."

"Calm down, Monkey Prince," The man in the black cloak said, hiding a chuckle, "You are too jittery."

The monkey growled at them and the Prince calmed down a bit. As long as the Monkey was alive, he won't be killed by any side. It was only loyal to him.

But it was true, he couldn't afford to lose people from his side.

Breathing out, he said in a slightly apologetic tone, "I was too nervous, the Null Prince is as dangerous as you mentioned. But the Concubine — your so-called 'Mistress' — seems to know more about his situation." 

He was quite wary of this invisible man and was equally wary of the woman behind him. As for Harry, Hugh was even more wary of him.

He couldn't even resist at all. Even now, he didn't feel like he even stood a chance.

DreamWalker was too terrifying.

Moreover, what his monkey came to know later was even more disgruntling if nothing else.

"You know what the game is the first prince," said the man, his voice hoarse, "My Mistress and you share a similar motive. Both of our goals align well, so why don't you tell me what you found out?"

Hugh frowned and said, "Sincerity is not a one-sided game, Assasin... your Mistress seems to still find me unworthy of a face-to-face conversation."

"Her identity is special after all..." The Assasin chuckled darkly.

Hugh gritted his teeth. Was his own identity not unique? Special?

If someone came to know of his motive, he would also be doomed. Then why?!

There was no way he could trust this woman. As long as he was useless, he would die.

Sure, he was interested in Lilly, sure, he wanted to marry her. But the main reason he had gone ahead to battle Harry was to know what kind of Gift this new rival of his had. And he was stunned enough – he couldn't even understand how many Gifts the prince had.

But an enemy's enemy was a friend.

Information was supposed to be spread around when it came to enemies. "In between the duel, Stage 5's of the palace came out and Valeria removed the memories of almost everyone in the audience about what they heard."

"The mistress already knows, she is not someone easy to have her memory erased that simply."

Hugh's heart trembled. 'A Stage 5 like Valeria couldn't do anything against her?'

Stage 5 were supreme beings, rarely was there ever a Stage 5; and this woman was that... capable?

Scary...

But that made him equally as determined. His Monkey should analyze her once more.

The Monkey was not some ordinary monkey, it was a Born Dragon with Greed Bloodline and it even had a Gift of its own. Such animals were rare – almost non-existent – but his monkey was one.

Its Gift was extremely unique too.

It could see what someone's Gift was and analyze it to find its deadly weakness. It was such a strong Gift that he had been stunned when he first found out.

And every Gift that he came across had such a deadly weakness, even his own.

There were only the three Great Gifts that he now cared to know the weakness of. All others, he knew the weakness already.

As long as it was not from someone like Stage 5's or it was not someone close to them.

He didn't know the weakness of Lilly, Harry, or Emma.

But there was a very big requirement to see someone's weakness. The Monkey has to be a meter away from them and they must not feel subconsciously wary of the monkey when it looks at them. But even if they were wary, it was okay, he will still be able to understand what their strength was at least.

But on Harry, the monkey only felt as if he was looking into the empty depths of a bottomless ocean. No weakness, no strength, nothing.

Only three people before him had come to see the specialty or fight against the Monkey's special Gift directly until today. They were the King, Queen, and the Concubine.

All three of them had easily warded off the Gift, that was how he came to know about the concubine in the first place.

'Why am I thinking of all of this in the first place?' Hugh frowned.

The Assasin smirked under his hooded cloak. A smell of fine roses and a unique coldness started to expand from all over.

A leg, as soft and pure as a flower and as clean as ice landed on the floor and walked closer to the prince.

He couldn't move, he was frozen still out of nowhere. And a gentle hand hugged him from the back. "You were defeated, First Prince."

The voice spoke sensually but Hugh could only feel a freezing fear.

"So even your monkey couldn't find what kind his Blasphemous Gift is huh?" Asked the childish voice.

"How..How! You read my mind!" Exclaimed the prince weakly.

"No, I have no such powers as mind reading. Your face just said so."

"But First Prince, I am here to warn you."

"W..warn me?" He didn't dare to turn around to see the face. It was better that he didn't.

She had warned him once to never look.

"Yes, warn you," he could feel some added coldness in her tone, "Don't mess with the Null Prince for a while, he is dangerous for us. Someone else would take over for now."

Gulping, he asked, a bit afraid of triggering this crazy woman: "A new ally of ours?"

"No, a new enemy of ours. Another one that has to be taken care of just like the Null Prince."

"Who is that?" He asked.

The crazy woman chuckled, her voice like that of the bell, and murmured, "Who else could it be other than your filthy..." She paused and then asked, "What is the Null Prince doing at the moment?"

"I don't know," Hugh said with a heavy heart, why was he being defeated all around?

"I see," the Concubine muttered, "I just heard he and Lilly went to meet the King and Queen, do you think he will get trained by them?"

"...By Father and Half-mother? No way, Father might as well just kill him."

"I also think the same, he should murder him if he is the King I know," The voice pondered, but then shook her head, "But you also know how loyal to the Kingdom he and the Queen is."

"You underestimate Selfishness too much. And you overestimate Harry's potential too. Just 3 or four Gifts on a single man... He isn't worth the kingdom bowing to him."

"That is true if he wasn't a Blasphemous Child..." The concubine sighed and gently breathed cold air into the prince's ears, and Hugh felt his mind grow blurry.

And seconds later, fell asleep.

This was his reward for doing her calling, the one Gift that helped him grow Stages much easier than his peers.

A support Gift that lets him move up Stages easier. 

Had Harry seen it, even he would have been utterly scared.