Marcus was still deep in thought even as he arrived home,he didn't respond to any of the maids greetings and just continue walking until he got to his home office, immediately he sat down he sighed in regret.
He was still thinking about what would have been when his wife walked in after she knocked twice.
Marcus what happened why did the king call for you, she had more to say but after seeing the state he was in she moved closer and asked,are you okay what wrong with you.
Your parents lied about our son and they hid him from us,they took my heir and left me with that nothing,they cheated me Amelia and made a fool out of me.
What do you mean they lied and cheated you, in case you forgot you conspired to cheat my father even after i begged you not to and our second son is not nothing,he has been doing everything just to get your attention and this is how you feel about him.
Please the boy is nothing compared to his brother and the truth is if Dante chooses to stop progressing as he is now the boy would never catch up to him for the rest of his life,tell me why i shouldn't feel cheated.
Immediately Marcus finished speaking he received a slap, sure he saw it coming and could have stopped it but the fact that it was his wife that raised her hands at him left him in shock that he allowed it to happen.
After slapping him Amelia said with anger. Lucas is his name and you will call him that when you refer to him also don't ever call my son nothing ever again, it's not his fault you are a short-sighted bastard that couldn't bring himself to love his first child for who he is.
After the shock of the slap pass anger immediately replaced it. How dare you hit me, Marcus shouted angrily,he almost raised his hands at her then he remembered what his first son said.
(I have Mark you if you so much as breath a word about what happened here,we will be having a different option)
That means the boy might be listening or at least he should be aware of what Marcus is up to so if he so much as hit his wife what was stoping the boy from coming to defend his mother.
Immediately that taught settle in his head Marcus put both hands on his face and sat down while thinking to himself (what have I become,I actually need the fear of my child to stop me from raising my hands on my wife).
Please leave me alone, Marcus said after awhile. Amelia stared at her husband for a while before turning around and do as he requested.
Marcus was left alone and he taught back to the reason he married his wife, not just love but the other reason the one he hid from everyone else the one that truly sealed the deal for him. Powerful descendents.
You see Marcus was an orphan, though his parents were rich after all they were powerful awakened (off cause by humanity standard),both were A rank with the potential to reach S rank. They always told him what they suspected to be the way to strengthen humanity, that was "The strongest should marry another person of equal level" or both potential should be the same in other to produce something greater.
They believe he was going to grow up powerful and his potential would be better than theirs, well they were proven correct when he attended the academy and discovered he had SS rank potential,so he had always put it in the back of his head that who ever he was going to marry must have the same potential has he does.
So when he met Amelia and found out she was his match he pursue her with everything and ended up falling in love with her, though the fact still remains that power was what attracted him to her.
When his parents died, that put him in a bind, because he was their only child and he must continue their name (off cause he didn't plan to change his name anyways), but Amelia was also the only child of her parents and they refuse to let their name end with them.
Well by they it was really only Victor making a fuss, though it didn't change the fact that he had a point and as much as Marcus had become powerful he was no where near the level of Victor he was still at the S+ rank so he had no choice but to compromise.
Then came the deal he taught about,he promised Victor that if he got his daughter hand in marriage he would give him his second son,that child would take the Portia last name and become their heir.
Victor couldn't find fault with the deal especially when his wife told him to agree, so you might be wondering why the second, well his parents told him the first child his usually the one that gets most of the potential from both parents while the other children bearly get half.
So he knew that it doesn't matter the order his children came the older ones will always be stronger than the others,so he would get to keep the stronger boy.
You couldn't measure the joy he was feeling when he found out how special his first child was even while it was still in the womb, his parents had prove to be right again all he had to do was believe in them, but obviously he didn't.
When the boy was born he couldn't contain himself after he felt what the birth cause he knew he had something special as his but the Gods decided to play a cruel joke and test his faith in his parents.
When he first picked the boy up he immediately wanted to know how far along his core has come but when he found nothing his world view was shattered he couldn't understand what went wrong, still he wanted to believe because he couldn't change what has happened.
That until the king gave him a way out, well in hindsight that was where he started to lose his way and began doubting his parents,he really shouldn't have.
Marcus sigh and said softly to himself, I'm sorry father, mother i should have listened and continue our line the right way, our family would have been the strongest in the human domain if not for my mistake.
I guess it's time to go back to listening to your teaching, you said the second should have half the talent off the first so Lucas should at least be able to amount to something, it's time i start behaving like his actual father.
While Marcus was busy making up his mind on how to treat his second son the boy in question was crying in his room,he had heard his father call him nothing and he could feel the regret in his father voice when he talked about his older brother.
Though he never met him he sure as hell hate him, even though the coreless bastard has been away on God knows where for so much of his life he still made sure Lucas would never have the love of their father and now that he is back apparently he decided their father hating Lucas was is next move.
He will pay for this and everything else he has put me through,i will awaken my core and grow stronger than he ever could and i shall destroy him in front of our father and prove i should be his rightful heir, Lucas promised himself.
Though he doesn't know it yet but his hate for his brother would only continue to grow as he begins to actually realize he was never in the same level with his elder brother in fact no human will ever be, this hate would make him do something that would make humanity hate the Miles family and he will be the one to bring his family to the ground.
Priscilla got to the royal palace even then she didn't feel safe but she had to get herself together and give the queen a reasonable reason why she came back with her husband in her arms.
What the hell happened in kiaza, queen Regina Celeste asked with rage and fear mixed up in her. Why rage, well she loves her husband very much and would like nothing more than to destroy what ever put him in this condition,then why fear, well she knows even if the others don't agree that her husband is the strongest human alive he is so whatever can do this to him would most definitely do worse to her.
Well we sense a SS rank beast on our way to the mountain and something else in the mountain so he decided we should split up,he and Marcus went after the beast and he asked me to go secure the mountain without getting too close or he would kill me. Priscilla said
That can't be all, there is no way he lost to a SS rank beast, even on his own he should have won but you want me to believe he lost even with Marcus there, Regina said with growing suspicion.
Well you are right they did win against the wolf and managed to drive it back but he did most of the heavy lifting and when he returned he wasn't in top shape so he wasn't prepared for what attacked him when he tried to go to the mountain.