Linus sat in his chair in front of the fire, still kind of confused why nothing happened when he used the card, a moment later there was a knock on his door.
" Enter" Linus said
The door open and Alaric bowed "My lord there is a visitor here for you, she says you are expecting her"
Linus raised a brow "let her in"
The butler bowed and stepped aside for the quest, a tall women stepped in dressed in a black robe, she had jet black hair, and brown light blue eyes. Her face was beautiful.
She bowed in front of Linus and said "Hello master, I've come to serve you until my death"
"What's your name?"
"My named is Astrid, master" she said still bowing
Linus thought to himself asking if he could trust her…
[You can trust her, she is your summon as soon as she is summoned the only thing she will do is what you tell her to, no questions asked] Yrsa said in his mind.
Linus nodded approvingly
"Stand and tell me about yourself"
Astrid stood and started telling Linus about herself, Astrid had been a student a Durmstang magical institute. She was a very skilled witch in both combat and politics as she had worked for many different official magical organizations, she couldn't answer what happened before she was summoned. When asked if she knew who I was she knew every detail even about his family. This made things a lot easier then having to describe how my whole family is now dead.
"Astrid what would you do if you were in my situation?"
Astrid didn't hesitate
"I would first make sure the surrounding families knew that there still was a Gray alive, and that they know that gray family is still the most important family in Scandinavia, of course there will be hesitation from other important families and those who want power, they will most likely try to get rid of you so they can have the gray family's wealth"
All this was very true, even before the assassination on the gray family, there were a lot of people who wanted them gone, and one of these families was probably the family that assassinated them.
We needed to show them that the Gray was still standing and it was not weak.
"Alaric, when is the next family meeting of Scandinavia?"
"In two weeks, my lord"
Two weeks wasn't a long time, way too little time for what needed to be done
"Astrid starting tomorrow I want you to make sure that the family business are still loyal to the Gray's, make sure no money has disappeared, if any of them are showing signs of betrayal, write them up and bring me a list of them"
"Yes, my lord"
Linus stood up from his chair, cane in hand he went towards the door
"Alaric follow me to my father's study"
Linus entered the study, it's been a long time since I've been in here, Linus looked at the desk that his father had sat behind so many times, he approached the desk and sat down in the black leather chair
I've never sat in this chair, but I quess its mine now.
Alaric went to one of the bookshelves and waved his wand, a secret compartment opened and he pulled out a box made of pine tree.
The box contained the Gray's family wand, its was an ash wand with an ice phoenix feather as the core, its length was 13 inches. It was beautiful. I picked it up and felt a connection.
Alaric stood in front of the desk, he had a proud smile on his face but in his eyes, there was sorrow.
In the following days, Linus worked with Astrid to patch the damages of not having a functioning house for 8 months, first steps was to see if the family owned businesses were still loyal to Gray or if they were controlled by another family now, the results were better then expected, most businesses still paid there shares to the gray house, some just had stopped sending money because they haven't heard from the house but paid the owed sum as soon as word came.
This of course was a good thing, but Linus had planed that the family that had attempted to wipe out the gray family would have made bolder moves, in this way it would have been easier to find. They are smart or do they have a mole in this house sending info that I was still alive.
Linus gave Alaric the mission to find out if this was a possibility, Alaric may be old but his skill is that of an SS tier wizard.
During the days Linus also had time to train more with his Gray family spell book, this proved very useful as he learnt the basic spells like Accio, levitation spells, transfigurations spells and protections spells.
Now then, some attack spells would do me good, how about this one. He flicked his wand and chanted
"Bombarda" what followed was a big explosion that shock the training building and left a big crater in the wall.
"repero" and the wall repaired itself like it was never damaged.
Linus kept training some normal attack spells like confringo, diffindo, incendio. He also trained some Gray specific spells like Cryostrius that would form multiple ice spears and shoot towards the enemy. There was also one very interesting spell.
"Protego diabolica" as soon as the words left a ring of fire was formed, the fire was white and didn't burn, this could do some serious damage if I'm surrounded. I think this is enough, now I just have to wait for that meeting the other families.