Chapter 55: Chapter 55- Son of Heaven: A great Harem King
"Take this. Your next mission is to kill Ryuk Von Selvius."
The moment Leader said those words, he noticed a subtle change in Yui's expression, for the first time since she had arrived here.
Narrowing his gaze, the man placed the letter on the table before retreating back, while observing Yui's now relaxed expression.
"I can't kill him," Yui said calmly, looking at the table before lifting her gaze to meet the man's eyes as she completed her sentence. "Specifically, no one on this world can kill him."
Suddenly hearing those words, both of the men present inside the room looked towards each other, feeling confused. But before they could say anything, Yui asked again, "Who gave this mission to the Assassin Guild?"
Her face was devoid of any expression, her cold amethyst eyes fixed on the envelope.
"You already know, Yui. We can't reveal it," the man said, narrowing his gaze, subtly feeling the air inside the room become heavy.
"Yes, you are right."
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"Kughh!"
Thud
"S-stop it, Yui!" The man, who had killed an unknown number of people and had seen death up close for the first time in his life, felt terror.
"Tell me, who wanted him dead?" A calm voice left Yui's mouth. The whole room filled with deadly poison; the intensity of the poison could be seen from the fact that the men's skin was melting due to the effect of the air inside.
"I-it w-was Leud Aidiac!" The man shouted, his eyes filled with terror, reflecting a lone figure standing with nothing to lose, calm posture but eyes filled with coldness.
SWISH
Yui's figure disappeared into thin air, leaving behind a poison that filled the room in an instant, melting down everyone inside.
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A cloaked figure of a girl was visible standing at the top of the tree, the moonlight revealing her eyes as she gazed into the distance with those lifeless amethyst orbs. Her lips slowly parted.
"You could have waited."
drip
A lone tear slid past her right eye, still not changing her cold expression, which was evident of a story that remained incomplete.
A small love story, which ended with the deaths of two people: one who was unaware of love and the other, who was not strong enough to reveal their feelings.
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Far away from the Heindal Continent, Ardoros stood at the peak of strength, with four pillars supporting it with their unparalleled might.
Each family's bloodline provided them with unique strength, which, despite being human, boosted their power to make them among the strongest beings on Blue Star.
The Riantains possessed a bloodline that granted them the ability to have complete control over their bodies—BioKinesis—making them one of the few families on Blue Star capable of elongating their lifespan to the point of immortality.
The Devereaux Family's bloodline, one of the inborn bloodlines existing on the planet, provided them with limitless growth.
While Riantains could manipulate their bodies to accelerate their growth only after awakening their bloodline, Devereaux members started to grow the moment they were born.
In simple terms, the Devereaux Bloodline was known for the fact that one of their ancestors had reached 〖OVERLORD〗—a level unachievable by humans.
However, there was another family whose rivalry with the Devereaux Family was known to all—the Tenebri Family.
Every family's head changed with time, but only one remained in that position.
While the ancestors of the other four families were lost somewhere in time due to old age or time, one ancestor of the Tenebri Family remained at its peak strength—present family head, Amrantha Tenebri, the strongest being on the Ardoros Continent.
Despite her peak 〖OVERLORD〗 status, the Tenebrial Bloodline, which granted the head of the family eternal immortality as an awakened ability, seemed to fade away against other bloodlines.
Some blamed it for having impurities in the bloodline, while others attributed it to a curse.
The Tenebri Family had a higher number of women, covering two-thirds of the female population on Ardoros Continent.
Each had awakened abilities, but they were not at a level to threaten anyone.
Some claimed that if not for that particular woman holding the head position, there would only be three major families.
However, the major reason for the depletion in the quality of the bloodline was attributed to a curse, though it was officially stated by the Tenebri Family as a myth.
The curse was about every woman of the Tenebri family falling in love with a person outside the Ardoros Continent, causing impurities in the bloodline.
However, this was controversial and illogical, as other families had heirs from men outside the continent, disproving the curse as a myth.
Apart from these three major families, there existed another family with a bloodline referred to as the God's Bloodline—the Abernathy Bloodline.
The Abernathy Family was considered the purest and highest level bloodline among all existing families.
Other major families never married their daughters into this family, fearing they might taint the God's Bloodline, at least according to the official statement given by other families.
The reason for referring to it as the God's bloodline was its ability—Adaptation.
This simple word was enough to make its user stronger in any environment, providing abilities like rapid learning, enhanced physical adaptation, psychological adaptability, environmental adaptation, enhanced perception, adaptive combat skills, social adaptation, and molecular adaptation.
Adaptation provided them with abilities similar to those of the other three families as well: shape-shifting according to environmental needs(akin to the Riantain Bloodline); rapid learning(similar to the Devereaux Family); and psychological adaptability, (resembling the psychic abilities awakened by the Tenebri Bloodline.)
Though not at the level of the original abilities, these adaptations were still sufficient to elevate them to the peak on Blue Star.
Normally, none of the major families in history ever married someone from another major family due to their high-level bloodlines and the animosity they held for each other.
However, if such a marriage were to occur, the Abernathy family would be the last choice, due to only one very small drawback...
"AAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!"
A heart-wrenching scream reverted throughout the whole space surrounding the Abernathy family, the agony in the scream seemed to tear the sound barrier itself, covering an expanse of thousands of miles distance over Abernathy's half landscape.
"AaaGghh....F-f-o-r" A boy lay sprawled on the training ground, his hands clasped tightly to his crotch, his face contorted in agony.
Intense waves of pain radiated from where his balls had been crushed, sending shivers down his spine with each heartbeat.
Every movement seemed to amplify the torment as if a relentless force was squeezing the life out of him.
Sweat beaded on his forehead as he struggled to regain his composure, his breaths shallow and labored due to excruciating pain.
"Now, Your turn" Edward turned towards another Eleven-year-old kid, after crushing one of the kid's balls, he called out another one, which only caused the already shivering children, to hold each other like chickens.
"H-have M-mercy, Young Master" A boy standing while already seeing what just happened to the Edward's first Male Servant, the boy who was second candidate for Male servant felt his soul leaving his body.
"I. SAID. COME. HERE!" Edward shouted already feeling frustrated enough to kill each one of them after knowing what just he got to know yesterday.
SWISH
His figure blurred and appeared in front of that kid before
"AAAAAGHHHHH!"
Another Scream filled the whole mansion of Abernathy Mansion, the same torment and experience of balls getting crushed was given to all four Male servants assigned to Edward.
After getting done with his work while the training ground had now become hell for those individuals, Edward heard a sound.
"Congratulations Nephew for finally Awakening your Bloodline" A man with Blonde hair and Emerald eyes came inside the training ground after knowing how Edward after doing day and night training had awakened his Bloodline.
'Finally, you came', Edward hearing that voice which was always there for him when he needed anything, even more than that not even Edward's father cared for him, for him, this man was his true Uncle.
Until Tomorrow.
"Why didn't you tell me" Edward firmly asked, looking down with despair shrouding his mind, after getting back his past life memories, he grew much faster than anyone around.
After knowing about how beneficial it will be for his growth and journey to become strongest, he worked hard and finally Awakened his Bloodline a week ago.
He had already understood his present situation, he was an heir of the Abernathy Family, and Ardoros Continent's strength was far enough to get him any woman on his bed whoever he wanted, just by placing a finger.
He had already decided to lose his virginity within a month once he hit puberty, no reason for him to care since he was mentally Adult.
Several beautiful Woman from various Continents were summoned at his order, a special palace was prepared for their stay, and several vitality pills were prepared.
Normally, Abernathy Bloodline awakened at the age of 25, but somehow, Edward was different.
He became the first one in the history of the Abernathy Family to awaken his Bloodline at the tender age of Eleven, Every woman he brought seemed very happy with such an achievement of his, making him indulge in celebration but in these few days, he felt something was amiss.
Yesterday, he came to know about the drawbacks of Abernathy Bloodline.
"I don't Understand, what are you talking about Neph—" Man tried to understand such expression on Edward's face, but was interrupted in the middle by him.
"You Bastard, Why don't you tell me that you were My father's Male Servant!" Edward shouted his lungs out, gritting his teeth and glaring at the man whose eyes widened hearing curses but relaxed before placing his hand on Edward's Shoulder.
"Forgive me, I guess, You already realized that I am your biological father" Man gently looked towards Edward, seeing his son whom he can't even call him due to the Rules of the Abernathy Family.
"You Fucking Bastard!" Edward was already enraged and now hearing those words, he burst out, not because he came to know that his mother cucked his father with his Uncle.
"Bastard, Why don't you tell me about the Side-effect of this damn bloodline" Edward shouted while referring to the drawback Abernathy Bloodline had, one which Was enough to shatter all his dream of becoming Harem-king and sleeping with various women.
That Drawback of God Bloodline was known by various names like Impotent, Erectile dysfunction (ED), Sterile, Infertile, Ineffective, Powerless, Inadequate, Frigid, Emasculated, and Sexually dysfunctional.
Yes, Abernathy Bloodline takes away the manhood of its User.
And, this story doesn't end with just becoming Impotent, Since, another dark side was also the reason for not any strong family sending their daughter to Abernathy.
To always have an heir for the Head position, the Abernathy Family using their Status asked hand in marriage for the daughter of low-level continents, and never once did they hear Rejection since joining hands with stronger power would not be a problem to anyone.
But the question remained, How does an Impotent person have Kids or even indulge in Sexual activities when he can't even erect?
And, there came the Use of Male Servants....
Every Male servant was a potential Awakener, who slept with their Master's Wife and impregnated her after a year of regular sex, it was also due to presence of the Abernathy Bloodline decreasing their fertility, but in the end, women always became pregnant.
According to Rules, Male Servants can never reveal them sleeping with the Mistress of the house nor to the child about them being biologically related.
This was a cycle followed since the foundation of the Abernathy family, Unawakened once impregnated wives of Awakened ones.
'No, it can't be' Edward's wet eyes visible the pain he was feeling right now.
thud
'I will tear all those whores!' Edward fell on the ground, his eyes crimson red, veins becoming visible through the white area of his eyes, now everything seemed clear why those women he brought celebrated his Awakening of Bloodline.
'No wait, maybe there is some healing, After all this is a magical world' His mind swirled to find any way to heal his weakness.
"Agh" He Clenched his hair feeling irritated, depression shrouding his mind 'But what if, there is nothing to heal this'
'Am I going to become Impotent forever' Slowly his fallen body on his knees, seems to lose his facial color after realising his situation, like a mirror all his dreams had shattered.
His mind was fallen in 5-stages of Grief— Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression and finally Acceptance.
"It's Fine Son, Now that you realised, I will make everything good" Man seeing his depressed child, turned towards some servants before giving them orders.
"Send back all those women Edward has summoned here" He firmly ordered turning towards his Son, before putting his hand on his shoulder and consoling him, " It may be hard Child but I will make sure to remove any woman from your sight"
Drip Drip
Tears broke through the boy's eyes drenching the floor, his agony visible from his teary eyes, snort mixed with saliva falling on the ground, messing his face.
He was Edward, Son of Heaven, who had lost his one hand and now, His Manhood too.