Hero of Darkness

Kahn's words sent shivers in Kassandra's body as he suddenly said that he was disappointed in her right when both of them were in the heat of the moment. 

She was frozen on the spot and her mind went in awry. Kahn on the other end, still had Kassandra in his embrace. Other than the thin layer of her lingerie, there was nothing else that separated their warm upper bodies. 

Kassandra suddenly returned to her senses and quickly pushed him off. She scooched over to the other side of the bed and covered her exposed body with her hands as she had finally understood that Kahn wasn't buying her act. 

As for why Kahn suddenly acted the way he did?...

After noticing the changes in her behavior… Kahn inferred the situation at hand and figured out that once admirable Kassandra was now behaving like a completely different person. 

But he also realized that directly asking her won't help. So he decided to play along. 

Kahn acted like that because he knew that asking politely won't help. Rather a sudden confrontation and shock in the spur of the moment would yield a truthful answer. 

And that's why he decided to become intimate with her and caught her surprise. 

Yet as he looked at her… Kassandra's face now had a plethora of complicated expressions. As if she had been wronged and yet felt guilty at the same time. 

But soon… 

Beads of tears amassed in her eyes and her countenance turned to that of someone ashamed of themselves. 

Sob! 

"I'm sorry." she said. 

Sob! 

In the following moments, the tears dropped from her cheeks as if a welled-up pain and agony were finally being let out like a broken dam. 

Her expression turned crestfallen and she looked away from Kahn. Feeling angry and disappointed in herself while she clenched her fist tightly. 

Kahn was no longer a narrow -minded man who would start throwing blame and scorn at others just because they did something. And in the current situation… he felt like there was more than met the eye. 

Kahn quickly got up and brought his black and gray longcoat. He covered Kassandra who couldn't dare to look him in the eyes. 

Yet Kahn didn't intend to act like an ignorant and moody teen and start badmouthing her. Instead, hs calmly tried to asses as well as resolve the problem. 

"Can you tell me… why you tried to seduce me?" he asked in a gentle and understanding tone. 

Kassandra kept sobbing with puffy eyes… 

Her fingers scrubbed off the eyelids and nose as she was doing her best to hold her tears inside. 

"I was… I was ordered to." spoke Kassandra with a scared and embarrassed voice. 

Even her words and voice felt like she could barely talk while the stream of tears kept falling. No matter how many times she wiped away her tears… one could tell that she was deeply hurt. 

Just then, the system notified Kahn. 

[System scan complete. 

The individual named Kassandra Mikealson has no traces of mana in her body. She is no longer a magician or has any rank. 

Now, she's a normal human.] reported the system. 

Right when their half-naked bodies were in close contact, Kahn ordered the system to scan Kassandra's body through his physical touch. Like how he could scan other people's rank and levels before he became a semi-saint and an intermediate mage. 

To see whether she was under the influence of some sort of spell or mind control. 

But just now, the system reported Kassandra had completely lost her magic and her ability to use mana. 

In other words… she was no longer a prodigy of the Rakos Empire or even a normal sorceress. 

She was just a normal individual. Like the majority of the people of this empire. 

Suddenly, a realization struck Kahn… 

"Who did?" he asked Kassandra. 

"My… my parents, the clan, and our faction's main council members. They… they forced me to do this." she replied with an aghast expression. 

Even talking about her own family made her body shudder in fear. 

"But why?" asked Kahn with a befuddled face. 

"I don't know why… but they're under the impression that we both are very close to each other." she replied as he covered herself under his longcoat. 

"But why did you agree? Could it be because…" spoke Kahn. 

But before he could finish, Kassandra interjected. 

"I don't know the reason… but after the incident with Caladrius, I have not been able to recover my powers. 

My body's mana reserves have depleted and I can no longer absorb mana from cores or ores either. 

I have fallen in ranks and I no longer…" said Kassandra as the words stopped in her mouth. 

He took a deep breath while the tears didn't stop. With a sobbing tone, she continued…

"I can't use magic anymore!" 

Exclaimed Kassandra with a voice filled with defeat and hopelessness. 

She kept crying and wailing as the grief she had been holding inside for over a month had burst out. 

Kahn, who was still half-naked, didn't interfere or speak a word. He understood that Kassandra needed to let out all of the sadness first than forcing answers out of her.

If his assumption was right… then Kassandra was suffering from self-doubt, sadness, anxiety and desperation for the entire past month. 

A dozen minutes passed and finally, she regained some composure as she finally raised her head and looked at Kahn. 

Unlike what one would expect… even in this room, where both of them were in a steamy situation not long ago… Kassandra noticed that Kahn's eyes had nothing but genuine worry for her. 

"I… I'm no longer the heiress of the Mikealson clan." said Kassandra. 

"What?! Is it because you no longer have your magic?" asked Kahn. 

Kassandra nodded and spoke again. 

"Everyone has partially made Veronica the new heiress to the position of the clan leader. 

And I have been discarded. Both from my position and as a member of the head family." she revealed. 

"And even my father and mother have stopped acknowledging me as their daughter. Treating me as if I'm some sort of a burden." she explained with a heavy voice. 

"And the reason they sent me here…" spoke Kassandra as her expression turned resentful and she revealed the truth… 

"To become your woman."