The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Things have changed for better and worse at the same time.

The best thing was that I could finally get rid of the marriage contract. I don't like to be bound by anything. What I want to do with my life should be based on my decisions, not someone else's.

My father agreed to my plan.

He too understood that making a marriage contract between me and his friend's daughter was the cause of all these problems. He shouldn't have agreed in the first place. Never mix personal with business, it would only cause troubles in the long run.

The Siren's family head was my father's friend, so helping him when he was in trouble was not a bad thing. The Siren family has married a girl into the Frostwolf family. So helping them when in need is a good thing but the pay should not have been set in personal terms.

Due to this, some elders who were either on my father's side before or neutral turned against him. This made it difficult for him to implement things that he wanted smoothly.

With the emergence of this scandal that involved Elisha and William, my father can get the Siren family to cancel the marriage contract and at the same time make them compensate for the losses that the Frostwolf family had to suffer when they came to aid the Siren family and also for trying to kill me.

He too understood that by using this compensation, he could bring a few back into his faction or at least to the neutral faction. This would smooth his road whenever there was something that he needed to implement.

Moreover, there were a lot of traitors in the family. With less thorns in his path, it would be easy for him to get rid of the traitors easily.

I want those bastards to pay for what they did but I can't go off and kill my own family members. I don't have that power and when I say power, I don't mean personal power, rather I am talking about political power.

Since my father is the head of the family, it could be only done by him. Moreover, if he was the one who punishes them, then his place as the head would be strengthened and the next one would have a better chance at being the head.

I could search for sudden riches elsewhere.

I left my father in the office and returned to my room to rest for a while.

At dinner, my father was absent but my mother told me that he was still in the office. He probably was thinking about how to present my plan without bringing trouble back home.

I didn't think much about it.

After dinner I returned to my room to sleep, well actually to enjoy some time with Inari. She would be leaving soon, so I decided to spend much of this month with her.

Training could wait till the academy starts. Though I would keep up with regular training during day time just for the show, the real training has to wait till I return to the academy.

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The next morning my Mom told me that my father was away to visit the Siren family and demand an explanation and compensation for what happened.

She praised me for the idea that I presented to my father. It looks like he told her about what he was going to do withe the issue brought by the Siren Family.

For the Rutgur family, I have no idea what to do with that.

They are a Count family. Even if their child just conspired to kill me, we can't directly go to them and demand William's life or something. First, let's deal with the Siren family and how to deal with the Rutgurd family, it has to wait for some time.

One issue at a time.

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Three Weeks Later...

"Are you sure about this Inari?" I asked her one more time with reluctance.

Inari was supposed to have left for her home months ago but due to my sister's marriage ceremony, I couldn't send her back. The reverse summoning ritual would burn a lot of resources and there are too many people.

Normally they shouldn't feel any fluctuations as I would put on the formation that stops the energy leakages but there are many weird abilities and skills in this world.

Who would know if such a person is in the compound and finds out about this matter? So I had postponed that matter and I got to keep Inari a bit longer but it is now time to say our goodbyes.

Though I felt wrong to keep her here from her home and family, I couldn't send her away. As the time we spent increased, the relationship between us is improving by a lot.

"Yes", she said, "Don't make a sad face. We will meet again".

I merely nodded, "We will do the ritual tomorrow. Tonight, you belong to me", I said as I tossed her onto the bed.

Inari chuckled but they turned into pleasant moans a few seconds later.

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The next morning, I sent Inari back to her home, or at least that was what I hoped I did.

Though it said that the reverse summoning would send the summoned being back to where it was summoned from, I am not entirely sure about it. So I prepared for the worst-case scenario.

I placed a lot of food, potions, protection talismans and other resources that were required for survival and to fight back in a space ring for her. If this ritual doesn't work as advertised and sends her to someplace else, she can use it to survive.

There are other items that I want to buy from the Cosmic Market for her but they are too costly and I can't afford them at this point.

There were items that can alert me if she was in danger and I would appear beside her if want to but those items were way too pricey for my range.

Though now I have a Nexus and a secret realm, I am still poor if I open the damn Cosmic Market.

I mean even though I have access to the secret realm, it was located within the academy's boundaries. So it should be considered as their property.

The birth of monsters inside is much more than outside and that means that I can access various products that can be obtained from their carcasses but there should be a limit.

I mean, I killed a lot of Tier-3 and above monsters because the core areas were untouched for years. There are still a lot of monsters but if I kill like I did in that month, the realm would be emptied out in a few years.

I can't let that happen. A dungeon or a secret realm is a point of resources that supplies goods regularly.

Extracting too much at once would empty these resource points and that means there would be no resources after a short time.

Only idiots would deplete them completely or damage them without reason.

A constant supply of resources is way better than a huge influx of resources.

Anyway, since I couldn't send her the best items, I made sure that she had a good amount of resources that I could supply her so that she could get out of any bad situation.

Only after giving her these resources, I did send her back home.

It may be the last time before I can see her again in a few years. Only by reaching Tier-9 can I move as I wish, even ignoring national boundaries or even racial boundaries.

The one who has a bigger fist would always be right.

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It took almost a month for my father to get the compensation or at least some sort of security that sufficient compensation would be paid in full.

After that, he distributed the funds that he gained through this to the families of the people who died in that battle. There were a few that died and left no family. In honour of them, my father decided to give the money as a bonus to all the soldiers who fought and survived that battle.

Even the Rutgurd family came to our house and paid a huge compensation. This became my personal wealth. When Inari left, almost all my wealth was depleted. Except for some rare items, I gave them to her or sold them to buy items for her survival.

The conditions that the Rutgurd family placed was that we shouldn't seek revenge for William's actions. We agreed, but also told them our bottom line. As long as he stays away from me, I won't seek him but if he decides to come after me, then that would be a different matter in its entirety.

Now that those idiots were dealt with, and father would now have better support than it did before, my work here is done. I am off to the academy early in the morning.

Woo..

"Ah, I know Asya, I too miss Inari", I petted my fox. It looks like she misses her. After all, they were kind of roommates for half a year and Inari always cuddled her.

It would be my first time at the academy without her. Without knowing, I spent almost two years with her. I hope that I will be able to meet her again under better conditions.

"I hope that I will meet her sooner than later", I sighed as I fell into sleep.