-On that same night in the Radcliffe family.
Seeing the body of his son Beaten with his legs broken was a man looking about 40 years old with a noble robe that had a fierce expression, this man was the patriarch of the Radcliffe family, Trier Radcliffe.
An old man in white robes was checking Aswer's wounds, Then, he furrowed his eyebrows at the groin as he shook his head.
"Can he recover?" asked Trier.
"His whole body is badly beaten, but his legs are crushed even with an advanced restoration spell if he can stand up, it is impossible for him to continue cultivating, but the most serious wound is in his groin... there is nothing that can be done... he is simply destroyed" said the elderly medic with regret, as he retreated into the distance.
Bang!
Trier smashed the wooden table with his fist, the hard wooden table turned to dust as small particles of them flew around the room. There were many people in the room and they all remained silent, not daring to say anything in front of the furious patriarch, with fear in their hearts.
"Patriarch, the Guild leader has gone overboard this time, we can't let him live or our family will be looked down upon by others."
The one who spoke was a brother of the patriarch, he too felt angry. That boy Paul humiliated them by killing patriarch Jack's younger brother, they didn't think much of Paul , But the Guild leader was a thorn in their side, with him alive the Radcliffe family felt a little threatened, hurting Aswer like that was a big blow to them and a humiliation, the commoners would start spreading rumors discrediting the family's honor badly.
"I'm afraid all my suspicions were true Azriel is a descendant of that family!" Trier sat down once again trying to suppress his fury.
"Patriarch what do you mean could it be that Azriel is from some noble family that we have offended?" an Elder of great authority asked.
"Yes and no, do you remember the Lórien family?"
Everyone hearing that family couldn't help but be surprised and feel fear at the same time, the Lórien family is one of the 4 most powerful noble families in the capital, in terms of power it was less than the four, But this family had its roots quite deep in the entire Kingdom, so despite being the least powerful of the other four, it was able to quietly position itself in the capital and now this guild leader Is he from that family, is this a joke? Is this a joke? But seeing the serious expression of the Patriarch they had to believe.
"The Lórien family may be a powerful family in the capital, I think everything is due to my son, a few months ago I received a letter saying that my son offended the Patriarch's daughter, I do not know very well the details, but I think everything is linked" That was Trier's conclusion he could not find another reason, for this super family to be bullying them.
"Patriarch if so, then we are in grave danger!" said someone in alarm, and everyone in the room was panicking.
"Don't worry, they would not mobilize their forces to destroy our family, being a large family of the capital, it limits them to mobilizing their forces on a large scale, not to mention the fact that my daughter successfully managed to get engaged to the crown prince, with that alone it would be an offense to royalty for them to do something like attack us, this guild leader must be one of the outer descendants left in charge of this place, although he is strong, he is at the fourth rank, no stronger than me, and we have many Elders at the third Rank so we are safe."
The patriarch was completely calm, he didn't want to tell his suspicions to the Elders before so as not to unsettle them, but now that things developed suddenly, he had no choice but to tell them.
-in a residence on the other side of the city.
There were two people sitting at a long table, one of them was in the main chair and the other on the side of the table next to that person, they were none other than Azriel and Paul.
Paul tasted some tea, as the other person was in no hurry to talk, when they had finished Azriel said:
"having confused thoughts, lead to confused actions, drinking tea is a good practice to calm the mind and heart!"
A young girl dressed as a maid took the glass cups away as she saw they finished drinking tea.
"I thought you were a person who acted and then thought, I didn't think you were a philosopher!" Paul leaned back in his chair, acting casual.
Seeing this Azriel couldn't help but laugh:
"If I acted that way, who knows how many times I would have died! But getting into the subject, I'll answer all your doubts regarding today's stuff."
Paul had a few varieties of questions, it wasn't that he distrusted Azriel but there were unexpected variables that benefited him a lot, and Paul has always been lousy at luck, so there must be other things he doesn't know and wanted to find out.
"For now I only have one question, why on earth help me? If you have a grudge with the Radcliffe family you could have acted at another time."
"With that question, I pretty much answer all the others" Azriel said with a smile and continued.
"You see I forewarn of the Lórien family of the capital one of the 4 strongest families in the whole kingdom, but recently, the son of the patriarch Triel of the Radcliffe family tried to rape the only daughter of our patriarch, this was a great humiliation but the daughter of our patriarch is smart and did not say anything about these things until her mother who was with her parents returned two weeks ago, only the patriarch, his wife and I his younger brother who does this mission know these things, the reason he does not mobilize the Elders is that they do not want the rumor to spread as it would affect us greatly, so you can say that it all seems like a coincidence."
Paul didn't think there would be such an undercurrent to all this, but he couldn't help but think it was very believable considering what this family was like.
It seems that this Radcliffe family doesn't know its limits, But even so shouldn't the son that bastard son of the Radcliffe family , tell his father everything and seek to remedy things?
As if he could understand what Paul Azriel was thinking he revealed:
" It is impossible that this can be remedied for many factors, the first reason is that your family is of low status, so a compensation of your caliber would not draw our attention, and the second but more important reason is the dignity of our family and my niece, you are a young man who has not left here, so I understand that you do not know how these families move in the capital, if it spread what happened it would ruin the image of the daughter of our family and no one will want to marry so much with her, as with a family that does nothing to save their own do you understand all this now?"
Azriel's expression was one of regret, Paul could imagine the mess he has to fix because of that bastard, for cultivators living in peace while cultivating is a good way of life, dealing with mundane problems that do not help cultivation is a delay for them.
"I understand, but something doesn't add up, why reveal all this to me?" Paul noticed her expression and Azriel sighed.
I seem to underestimate this boy's intelligence. Azriel thought but he didn't mind in the least, it rather suited him.
"Because the problem is, that destroying the Radcliffe family is not the real problem, the real problem is Trier's daughter which is engaged to the crown prince, not to mention that even though that boy is a son of a bitch, you can't underestimate his talent, and that's why he was able to take the opportunity to take refuge in royalty and if we destroy his family do you know what that means?"
"all the effort will be in vain and the honor of his whole family and your niece's will be destroyed" Paul said calmly, now all his doubts were revealed, no wonder she tells all that to him as she got an idea where it was going to go.
"exactly! Unfortunately in our family the only person more talented enough to defeat that guy in one move is my niece, but she is not the best suited for the job, I want someone else to openly challenge that punk and kill him on the spot, that's where you would come in, a character with unknown background and skills, you could be our family's guest in the capital and you could establish yourself, not bad this deal what do you think?" Azriel looked at Paul with anticipation.
*The guild leader Azriel proposed a deal*.
The Lórien family in the capital has been humiliated by a young man who does not know his limits, Azriel has seen your talent and wishes to recommend you to first eliminate the young man of the Radcliffe family in the capital in order to destroy his entire family….
Reward:
Full support for the Lórien family
Experience multiplier by two at the end of the mission.
Unknown factor.
Possible failure:
The Lórien family will view you with disdain.
Unknown factor.
Paul was surprised by the contract notification, as it had never been activated he thought it was useless, even in front of Rhys it did not activate, so Paul had completely forgotten about it.
And to think that a contract would activate, but this mission?
It was impossible that Paul did not realize the consequences of accepting this mission, if I did it successfully I would have the full support of the Lórien family whose strength in the capital rivaled the other powerful noble families and the experience multiplied by two was very tempting, but failure was no small thing, having a powerful family behind me was not good at all.
But the most worrisome thing was that whether I fulfilled it or failed, there were unknown factors.
"I'll do it, but only if I can take the others with me, otherwise forget it!"
Azriel was glad to hear that, the reason why he was trying so hard, was to be able to end all this trouble as fast as possible and leave this town, so if Paul solves that they could crush the young man from the capital and the whole Radcliffe family once and for all.
"Of course, you are free to take them, take this seal it will give you my authority in the family, after all I am the only one who knows about your abilities but anyway I will explain everything to my brother in a letter!" Azriel took out a gold medallion from his tunic and placed it in front of Paul .
Paul did not decline and kept the seal, he was determined as he wanted to leave this small town, for Paul this was too small, as he was someone who traveled everywhere on Earth.
Now it was time to discuss things with my aunt Helen.