Reborn as the First Boss: Book 4 - Aftermath by Stuart Grosse

Author:Stuart Grosse [Grosse, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

I whistled softly as I looked at the new stats that [Appraise] showed me. My [Polite Argument] had been upgraded into an absolute BEAST of a weapon, now that it was [Demon’s Due]. The only problem with this absolute beauty of a gun was that I now had to explain to all these onlookers why a totally not demonic human had something like this pop up when the goblin’s fangs were added to the item.

“My Lady,” Captain Lunet said, stunned. “That is certainly a fine weapon, but why does it…”

“Why does it look like something that would come from the Shadowed Continent?” I sighed, more to give myself time to think than anything. There was a way to spin this, fortunately, hidden in my memories of Mhyrsha. “The truth is that the Purehearts did not always live in these lands. As far as I know, our line once lived on the Shadowed Continent itself. During one of the Demon King’s invasions of the wider world, one of my ancestors saw a chance, and slipped away from the armies. They hid their nature, even from the lover they discovered while on the run, and eventually house Pureheart came to be, from the blood of those who fled the Demon King’s commands.”

That was the ‘official’ history of House Pureheart, at least. As for House Shadowsoul, my demonic lineage, well, the truth was much the same, only my house were infiltrators and spies, for the most part, gathering intelligence on the different lands, and ensuring that they never got strong enough to be a real threat. Not loyal to the Demon Emperor or any of the Demon Kings, but willing to play both sides.

I sighed again, for effect, and looked at the shocked faces in the room. “I will not order you to keep silent about this, but I would hope for your discretion. My line has tried to do our best to distance ourselves from our ancestry, but I don’t doubt there would be those who might jump to conclusions, if they heard this.”

Roland nodded slowly, and said, “I see. The enchantment that boosted your powers so greatly makes more sense, now. There are some enchantments, rare ones, which draw out the power of a person’s ancestry, allowing them to call upon a fraction of their ancestor’s power, at least for a while. They are said to have severe backlash to their use, just as we saw. If anyone starts whispering, I’ll let them know that it was that heritage that allowed us to win the day.”

“Thank you, Roland.”

“It is the least this old man can do, my Lady. You did save us, after all.”

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