The Tales of Draconic Warlock

When I was thinking about leaving, a voice interrupted me, actually, it interrupted everyone in the academy.

"Students, and the Staff of the Royal Academy, please be at the Central training Grounds in fifteen minutes", the headmaster ordered us.

Why was he summoning everyone from the academy to be at the grounds?

Did something big happen?

No need to fret about it. All will be revealed in a few minutes, let's wait and see what this is all about.

I went directly to the grounds to find out why the headmaster summoned us all.

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By the time I arrived at the grounds, there were already a few people. A few minutes later the grounds were filled with people. All the students who were in the academy were present at the grounds, along with the academy staff.

"I hope that everyone is here", the headmaster spoke as soon as he appeared.

"Even if they weren't, I believe what I say now would be spread to all. A few months at the beginning of the year, there was a rumour that students from other academies killed five students from this academy. At first, we didn't think that it would cause any problems but we were wrong".

"The rumour spread like wildfire. This led to a few minor clashes between students from this academy and the other four academies. So we immediately started to investigate the deaths. The investigation results regarding their deaths, have already been public for months".

"The issue was the rumour. We believed that someone spread this on purpose with malicious intentions. We found some evidence in the beginning but we wanted to be through and had everything to bring the punishment to the culprits".

"When we investigated the deaths, we came upon an intrinsic conclusion that this was done to trap a single person. I believe you all know who I am referring to", the headmaster said and the students that were near me, turned towards me.

"Yes, we followed the lead and we came upon a conspiracy. The boy Dorian Halter killed two boys because he hated those two boys. He had clashes with them from the beginning. Those two belonged to the nobles while he was a commoner".

"Though we say that everyone is equal, but I know that wouldn't always be the case. He also had a clash with Magnus, not because he was noble or commoner but on a different issue. Someone decided to use this and tempted Dorian into attacking Magnus while in the secret realm".

"When Dorian didn't return from the secret realm, they checked who killed him and when it was known that Magnus was the one, they conspired again spreading rumours. This cost a lot to the academy and damaged many students".

"The ones who conspired was William Rutgurd, a fourth-year student at present. He was in love with Elisha Siren, a second-year student now and she has the same feelings for William. The problem was that Elisha was bound to Magnus by the marriage contract".

"The only way to get out was either to get rid of Magnus or defame him. First, they tried to use Dorian, though I should say that he might have willingly accepted that and when that plan failed, they spread rumours in order to make sure that the academy would find who killed the students and hopefully punish Magnus, but their plans failed".

"I, Arathos Odium, headmaster of the Royal Academy, hereby declare that William Rutgurd and Elisha Siren were expulsed from the academy for conspiracy to attempt murder, defamation and damages to students and the academy".

"That's it. You can return to whatever you were doing", the headmaster said and disappeared.

Once the words of expulsion were heard, the entire grounds boiled. Everyone was discussing about, but I slipped away. There was no way that I would want to get caught in that.

Forgetting that, this is the best day of my life.

It shouldn't be. This was because my idiotic father agreed to a marriage contract without the permission of the parties involved.

People change after a few years. The ones that agreed to something at this moment may not agree to the same thing after a while.

My father shouldn't made this deal.

Let's return home at once and see what was going on there. I believe that the headmaster should have informed the concerned families before declaring it publicly.

I wonder how pissed Mother would be Father after they learned what happened.

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After returning home, I went straight to my father's office. The servants informed me that they were inside the office.

"So you have heard father?" I asked my father who was in his office. My mother sat beside him fuming because of what happened.

When she saw me coming, she appeared near me and checked me once over, "Are you alright? Why didn't you tell us that someone attacked you in the secret realm?"

I should have guessed that would be their first set of questions.

"I am alright Mom. You can clearly see that and this is why I didn't tell you that I was attacked. Moreover, that fool overestimated himself and got himself killed. I came out without a scratch", I said with a smile.

She nodded to me but she turned around and spoke to my father, "All of this was because of you. I told you not to accept such outdated traditions, especially as a payment for help. Now we made enemies both internally and externally for our child".

Father didn't utter a single word but kept his head down.

She should be blaming him for the things that happened, which almost took me away from her permanently but I don't blame him. The blaming should have started a long time ago but there was nothing that could be done. He made a mistake that almost cost his son's life.

The Siren family is where his grandmother came from and more over the head of the family was his friend or so he thought till now. He made a few enemies to strengthen that small bond between the two families because he might have thought that the family might need their support one day.

He should have never thought that it would backfire in such a way. As I thought Mother was pretty pissed at Father. Though it was a mistake on his part, he did that to probably to strengthen famly ties between the two families.

I should rescue him so that he would implement my plan and not some other stupid plan that might cause trouble for me again.

"It doesn't matter what happened in the past, mother. The Pertinent question is how we deal with this issue", I calmed my mother.

My mother nodded in agreement, "What you said is true. Joseph, I want those pay for what they planned to do to my son", she said as she stormed away from the office.

Neither I nor my father stopped her. She needs to cool off and it's best to leave her alone to do so.

After she stormed out, there was only absolute silence for a few minutes.

"I have a plan Father", I said after standing awkwardly in front of him for a few minutes.

"I am listening", he said.

"Since Elisha has joined hands with William to get rid of me, there is no way that this marriage would happen. Tell her parents that we would let it go, as long as they cancel the marriage and offer compensation both for the losses that happened in that battle and for conspiring to kill me".

"Send this compensation to the families of the ones that died that day helping the Siren family. Also, add an apology as a bonus when you deliver the compensation to them. You can cool most of them by doing this, as you know that they were angry because they thought that you held a major profit for yourself by arranging marriage with Elisha".

"Though they may not forgive you and support you again Father, I believe that they won't make it difficult for you unless you give them a reason to. It means the internal stability of the house increases", I pitched him the perfect plan.

Now it is his decision to make.

Whether he agrees or not, the marriage is not going to happen. What he had to do was how to deal with the situation and make it beneficial for the family. Only this way the problems inside the family would be reduced and he can easily eliminate the filth that was living in the family.

While I was at the academy, he didn't disclose any information regarding the traitors. I handed him a lot of information regarding the traitors of the family and where to collect this evidence.

Was the collection of the pieces of evidence not over?

I have no idea.

Whatever the reason might be, I may have to make sure that our house wouldn't be screwed up.