Two decades.
Their son had been alive for two whole decades, and yet Emperor Xavian and Empress Gisella only encountered something like this after twenty years of their child's existence.
See, it wasn't that there had never been problems concerning their son Xavier. There were plenty. But most of them were your run-of-the-mill assassination attempts, the usual kidnapping attempts, and the typical probes into their child's hidden identity. Nothing surprising there.
Not that any of it ever succeeded.
Especially not when, soon after learning how to walk, their child decided to start handling such matters himself.
And how did they know he had made that decision?
Because the assassins were often found dead before the guards could even arrive.
Killed by raw spiritual ability. Without much of a fuss.
It was the bizarre case of someone learning how to wield spiritual energy before they had even learned how to talk.
