Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

'Galen's parents?' Zevien narrowed his eyes and sent an SOS message to Touma, then put his Digi watch in silent mode.

*Brr….*

His Digi-watch vibrated just a second after Zevien sent the SOS.

[Everything is under control]

"Zevien, right?" Lucas said as he looked at Zevien with a smile and walked toward him.

Zevien nodded with a smile, "Vernisia told me about you. I've been away for a while, so I didn't get the chance to meet you."

"It's fine. We have finally met now," Hilary said with narrowed eyes as she and Lucas sat at a table.

Zevien glanced at mother Helena, and she understood there might be a trouble.

"Alright, kids. Let's go inside. Big brother Zevien wants to talk about something important with that uncle and auntie, so we will leave this garden to them for a while, okay?"

The kids pouted as they wanted to eat more. But they were good and understanding kids, so they went inside with mother Helena without making any ruckus.

After they went inside, Helena and Lucas sat down at the table where the kids sat before.

"We need to ask you some questions," Lucas said as he gestured to Zevien with his hand to sit in front of him.

"Sure," Zevien wiped off the smile from his face and nodded indifferently before sitting at the table, "what do you want to know?"

"Where were you the day Galen was murdered?" Lucas asked, "I hope that you can answer truthfully. Also, if you have any hand in it, then tell us. We want to know the true murderer of Galen."

"We know you are not capable of killing him, but if you have any hand in it, then you better be honest about it," Hilary said coldly.

"He killed your son."

*Swoosh….*

An old man wearing a white robe arrived from the sky and sat beside Zevien at the table before saying again, "Zevien killed him."

"Old man?" Zevien's lips twitched as he turned to city lord Cargil. He wanted to ask what did he smoke before coming here.

Lucas and Hilary were stunned before their expressions twisted.

'He killed Galen? How is that possible?!' Lucas furiously thought, 'Zevien doesn't have the ability to kill Galen from how he died, according to the reports! Is this old fart trying to hide the real killer?'

On the other hand, Hilary's eyes gleamed as a tiny spiraling water bullet materialized and shot towards Zevien, a full-fledged tier-3 spell. If the bullet hit Zevien, he would die instantly.

However, the bullet vaporized and disappeared when it was thirty centimeters away from Zevien.

"You…have some nerves of steel to attack him in front of me," Cargil narrowed his eyes as he looked at Hilary, 'damn bitch! I was not expecting that attack. If I was late by a second….'

On the other hand, Zevien had also transformed into cat form when he saw Hilary's eyes gleaming with blue light.

"The debt of blood will be paid by blood and blood only!" Lucas stood up, gritting his teeth as he was now sure that Zevien killed his son after seeing Zevien's transformation and sensing the magic power coming from him.

Hilary's eyes were red and filled with hate as she so wished to kill Zevien right now. But with this old fart in her way, she was helpless. The only thing they could do now was to retreat.

"You can't leave," Cargil calmly spoke as he moved his finger a bit, trapping Lucas and Hilary inside a transparent cage purely made from condensed mana.

"What do you want?! Do you want to kill us? Humph, if you do that, my mother will not let you go," Lucas snorted coldly.

Hilary looked at Zevien and Vernisia as she clenched her fist, "you bitch! You plotted with him to kill my son. Even if your mother is my friend, I will not let you all go! Just wait for the head of the Gio family to come here."

"Plotted with him?" Vernisia repeated with a stunned expression before gritting her teeth and speaking angrily, "your bastard son plotted against me! Because I rejected this bullshit marriage proposal, he wanted to hypnotize me, have his way with me, and then take me to your rotten trash Gio family!"

"As for your threats," Cargil spoke indifferently, "that old hag Mephis can't do anything to me now. I may have had a hard time against her if it was two days ago, but with my current strength, she is no match for me. Now you have two options in front of you-"

"Kill," Zevien icily said as he looked at Lucas and Hilary, "I don't want loose ends. if something happened to the orphanage or my friends because of me, I would never be able to forgive myself."

"Is this the price?" Cargil asked plainly.

"The price is not this but absolute protection of this orphanage forever. And us four until we leave from this city and go to the Lankrena region for Skyward Academy," Zevien replied as he looked at Cargil straight in his eyes.

"Fair enough," Cargil nodded before looking at Lucas and Hilary, "I don't want to protect them at your every other futile attempt, so...I will be cleaning off the Gio family. Considering your many atrocities, I wanted to do this for a long time."

"Heh," Lucas scoffed, "half of the families on the level of my Gio family have done similar atrocities to reach where they are right now. Are you going to punish all of them?"

Cargil narrowed his eyes before speaking coldly, "if they are dissatisfied with my actions against the Gio family, then I will clean them as well."

Hilary and Lucas looked at each other with a slightly shocked expression. What is going on with this old fart? Why is he so confident?

"Now be on your way to reunite with your son," Cargil said as he waved his palm towards them.

"NO! Let us go! We won't think about revenge or anything," Hilary quickly begged as she kneeled.

Lucas also did the same as they needed to preserve their lives for now. Revenge can wait.

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan gulped after hearing such a conversation. They obviously recognized city lord Cargil and also knew he would help Zevien. But they didn't expect that he would be this through in it.

'Is he really going to kill them?' Dan, Erica, and Vernisia thought the same thing.

*Splat…*

Lucas and Hilary exploded into bits before their blood, bones, and everything gathered together inside the cage. Cargil then waved his hand again and burned their remains until not even ashes were left.

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan's stomachs churned as they felt like puking, but they tried their best to hold back. Zevien only slightly frowned but did not flinch because he had already seen such cruel sight before the time rewind, as well as the bloody mess inside the cave where the Silver Wind Parrot and other beasts fought.

"Alright, the air is clean now, and the troubles are gone. You can continue with your little party," Cargil said before he floated up, "you can now forget about the Gio family's troubles."

After saying that, city lord Cargil flew away and disappeared into the horizons.

"Holy shit!" Dan exclaimed.