Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 773: Xavier Family

When the Domain Emperor was alive, no power in the Terron—the strongest continent of the entire world—dared to offend the Imperial Domain Family, or now more commonly called the Domain Emperor family, casually.

In fact, even several thousand years after his death, the family held strong and ruled over a large part of the continent.

During this period, the family slowly became arrogant and started looking down on everyone, which offended many powers, which then became their enemies.

Unfortunately for them, the Domain Emperor family was too powerful for them to deal with. Knowing they could do them no harm, they had no choice but to suppress their rage and indignation and wait for the opportunity.

This opportunity took several thousand years, but it arrived when the family gradually stopped producing extraordinary talents and fell into a decline.

At this time, they acted with impunity and launched an all-out war, determined to annihilate the family.

Unfortunately for them, they underestimated the measures left behind by the Domain Emperor, who had already expected something like this when he established the family, and were unable to accomplish what they set out to do.

Still, the war hastened the decline of the family, and the suppression they faced afterwards ensured they wouldnʼt be able to recover.

Now, after thousands of years of suppression, the family went from standing at the peak of the world and ruling over a large part of the Terron to barely being able to keep a few cities and ensure they werenʼt completely annihilated.

The enemies they once saw as ants didnʼt even deign to personally do anything to suppress them and instead allowed their vessels to keep them in check.

One of these vessels was the Xavier family.

It ruled the territory that neighbored the Domain Emperor familyʼs territory and had been keeping watch over the family for more than a thousand years now.

Whenever any young member showed potential, they would have them assassinated and had been suppressing the family in the economic area.

When the Domain Emperor family showed unusual movement over a month ago, even though the family tried to keep the news confidential, they quickly found out that someone had awakened the Imperial bloodline.

Immediately, they went on an alert because it was very bad news. They knew if someone with the Imperial bloodline was allowed to mature, they might not be able to suppress the family any longer. This was something neither they nor their lords were going to like.

After putting in quite a bit of effort, thanks to the Domain Family trying to hide it from their spies, they found out that, ironically, the family didnʼt know who this person, who had awakened the bloodline, was and were desperately trying to find him or her.

This news was both good and bad for the Xavier family. Good, because this person might not know he was related to the Domain Emperor family and therefore wouldnʼt have any familiar feelings. In this case, although the chances were low, he wouldnʼt return to the family, which means the family wouldnʼt be able to protect him.

It was bad because they most likely wouldnʼt be able to find him before it was too late. And if at that time, he returned to the Domain Emperor family, they wouldnʼt be able to do anything without causing another war.

Just when they were thinking what they should do, they got the news that the family had found out the whereabouts of the person in question.

They were ecstatic.

However, when they came to know where this person was—the Forsaken Land—there was absolute silence in the Xavier family.

Although the forsaken land wasnʼt a taboo topic, it wasnʼt well talked about. In fact, over the thousands of years, most people avoided mentioning it.

Because of this, currently, most people didnʼt even know what the forsaken land was. But the Xaviers, being a Bronze rank family, were privy to quite a bit of information about it, including the fact that no one was allowed to go there, not Bronze families like themselves or even Silver families like their lord family—the Silverthorn Family.

Since they couldnʼt do anything about it now, they had no choice but to relay the information to the Silverthorn Family.

They knew the Silverthorns wouldnʼt be happy with the situation, but they had no choice but to relay to them the information as it was and hope the Silverthorns wouldnʼt be too unhappy to punish them.

Days passed, and they didnʼt get any reply, which made them feel uneasy. But then they suddenly got the news that the Silverthorn family had issued a bounty on the head of the newly awakened Domain Family member.

Surprise and mostly confusion!

This was what the Xavier familyʼs higher-ups felt when they heard the news because logically, the Silverthorn family, after realizing the person in question was out of reach and, being in the forsaken land, wasnʼt a threat, should drop all thoughts about him.

But they were issuing a bounty?

What was it if not strange?

Their confusion, however, didnʼt last long because the next day, a group of five from the Silverthorn family arrived.

…

Right when Max had the premonition, in the sacred grounds of the Xavier family, Patriarch Xavier and three ancestors of the Xavier family, who held the highest authority in the family, were looking at the large group standing at the center of an ancient-looking formation with expressionless looks on their faces.

”Activate it!” One of the five clocked figures, standing in front of the group, looked at Patriarch Xavier and ordered.

People standing at their back were surprised when they heard this.

Did this person just order Patriarch Xavier?

The next instant, they became shocked when, instead of seeing Patriarch Xavier get angry, they saw him nod his head and proceed to do what he was told.

Then their gazes, filled with shock, confusion, and wariness, shifted to the five cloaked figures. Just who were these people for Patriarch Xavier, a high-stage Monarch, to obey them?

While they were trying to figure this mystery out, a guy standing at the very back of the group, with almost no presence, thought, his eyes flickering, ʼAs I thought, they are from the Silverthorn family, and most likely, they are Emperors or maybe even Monarchs?ʼ

Then he frowned and got lost in his thoughts.

…

Patriarch Xavier took out five finger-sized crystals that had milky white energy swirling inside them.

He stared at them for a few seconds, his eyes flashing with various thoughts, before he took a deep breath and threw them into the five nodes of the formation.

Rumble!

Immediately, the formation thrummed to life, and the space around the group rumbled and started twisting as if it was going to crack.

Everyone held their breaths and stood unmoving.

Then…

”No–”

”Ahh–”

”Sto–”

Several cries rang out, but they were cut short because the space had shredded them into pieces.

Whoosh!

Before anyone could react or feel anything about their sudden deaths, the group vanished.

The next instant, the formation fell silent, the energy of five crystals having been completely exhausted, and the space slowly stabilized.

Patriarch Xavier and the ancestors were silent for a while before all of their expressions turned ugly and their enraged roars rumbled through their sacred grounds.

”Damn you, Silverthorns!!!”