The End Of The Dazx Family

"It's done!" Ace exclaimed.

"Hmm? It took you longer than I expected" Maeve answered without turning towards Ace.

"I made some special arrangements" Ace answered.

"Oh? Then why don't you show us?" Maeve proposed.

"I was waiting for you to say that" Ace smiled.

"Please, my Empress," Ace bowed dramatically, showing the way towards the door.

"As you command, my Emperor" Maeve replied with the same dramatic expression while Gracie just giggled.

Ace took Maeve and Gracie towards the door and opened it gently.

"!!!" Maeve's eyes went wide when she saw it. The house was nothing like what it looked like before. Red carpets, painting on the walls, and all the inscriptions made it the most expensive house in this world.

"You did well" Maeve responded with straightened chest, acting like an empress.

"It was my pleasure serving you, your majesty" Ace bowed again.

"Your majesty, please, let me take you to your bedroom" Ace suggested and Maeve nodded.

They walked to the second floor and entered Maeve's room.

Immediately, Maeve recognized all inscriptions that were activated. The floor was, of course, covered with soft, red-colored carpet, there was a huge painting of Ace and Maeve on the well, the room had a crib, along with a huge bed with red bed sheets.

"Your majesty and the princess shall be safe all the time, I was only able to find this bed in the whole house, but don't worry, once I get enough money, I will buy the most comfortable bed available" Ace explained with a sincere tone.

"This bed is alright…" Maeve suggested, coming out of her role.

"Ha? No way! It may be alright for you but it won't be for me!" Ace answered to which Maeve smiled.

"Alright, it is night, Gracie must be tired, let her sleep in her crib, I will take my reward when I return" Ace informed.

"Hmm? You are going somewhere?" Maeve questioned.

"It won't take long, just a little problem" Ace replied and Maeve nodded.

Maeve placed already sleepy Gracie on the crib carefully while Ace left.

"Now, let's sleep?" Maeve muttered softly as she patted Gracie's belly.

Under the soft and loving pats, Gracie quickly closed her eyes while Maeve hummed a sweet tone.

…

Not long after, Gracie entered the dreamland and her breathing calmed. Maeve smiled when she saw that and continued patting Gracie's belly.

"I am back~" Ace sang.

"Shhh" Maeve shushed, silencing him and Ace quickly turned silent.

"Your majesty, about the reward…" Ace muttered softly.

"You will get what was decided" Maeve answered as she stood up.

Ace walked close to Maeve, hugged her from behind, and carried her to the bed.

"But I will be taking bonus along with it~" He sang as he jumped to the bed, carrying Maeve.

"Ace! Gracie's sleeping!" Maeve complained.

Ace waved his hand and sealed the sound around the room and Gracie's crib.

"No worries!" Ace answered with a smile and turned around, his body, now on top of Maeve's.

*Slurp*

Ace licked his lips seductively and Maeve blushed.

"Thank you for the meal, my empress~" Ace sang and sealed her lips.

~~~

The next morning, inside sect master Kalm's personal courtyard.

"Sect master! Sect master!" Elder Stolz shouted as he rushed towards the courtyard.

"What happened? Why you are so agitated, elder Stolz?" Kalm questioned calmly while taking a sip from his tea.

"Sect leader, the D-Dazx family… t-they… they were wiped out!" Stolz exclaimed in fear.

"Well, that's unfortunate… but what does it hav-…" Kalm answered before he abruptly stopped and looked towards Stolz, trying to confirm something.

"Yes, his full name was Flink Dazx" Stolz answered, confirming Sect Leader Kalm's suspicions.

*Gasp*

The always calm sect leader took a cold breath.

"Was it elder Ace?" Kalm asked after calming down.

"It doesn't look like it, everyone inside the house just had a minor slit on their neck and their cores were taken out. The treasury was empty too.

It is clear that it is a work of a wind mage while Elder Ace is a fire mage, so I don't think he did it, but I speculate that he is somehow connected to it, as the Dazx family doesn't have many enemies" Stolz answered.

"When did it happen?"

"Yesterday night"

"Anything that seemed weird?"

"There is, the bodies, from their facial expression it looked like they don't even know how they died. Some were on their bed, some relaxing on their chairs, it was completely normal until they died" Stolz informed. He personally visited the house after he learned about the news.

"Anyone survived?" Kalm questioned.

"All the servants are alive, but they don't know what happened as they were not with their masters when this happened.

But there was one maid who knew something.

She was with her master during the night as they were doing 'things' at the moment. She suddenly felt the air around her getting dense. She informed her master about it, but he just shrugged saying that she was having trouble breathing under him. Soon, the maid lost consciousness and when she woke up, she saw her master's dead body on top of her" Stolz informed.

"…" Kalm remained silent.

"*Sigh* Just don't offend elder Ace…" Kalm sighed after a long time and Stolz nodded beads of sweat still rolling on his forehead as he still remembered how he tried to pick on Ace a few days ago.

…

"See? I told you this bed wasn't comfortable" Ace complained as Maeve woke up.

"I didn't know you were talking about that…" Maeve blushed.

"Hmph! I will buy a new one, my reward isn't completed yet!" Ace complained to which Maeve just smiled.

"Wait… how will you buy a bed?" Maeve questioned.

"Well, I did manage to earn some money yesterday, I think it should be enough to buy a good bed" Ace smiled.

Suddenly, Ace's body shook as he got alerted. Maeve noticed the change and questioned.

"What happened?"

"Someone's here" Ace answered and waved his hand.

A screen appeared in front of them and it showed their garden, there was a person wearing white-colored robes who just entered their courtyard.

The attacking inscriptions were activated and with Ace's single thought, the man would be turned into ash within a millisecond. The man didn't even know that his life was hanging with a thin thread as he walked towards the doors, and knocked.

"He must be one of the elders" Ace muttered and he quickly stood up and wore the robes provided by the sect as he walked towards the door.

"Kid, can you call your father? I have some things to talk about" The elder spoke when he saw Ace opening the door.

"Do you want to meet Elder Ace?" Ace questioned.

"Yeah, is he here?" The elder nodded.

"It is me" Ace answered.

"Sorry?"

"It is me, I am elder Ace"

"Please don't joke around chil-" The elder was about to continue but he stopped when he felt the temperature rising suddenly.

He looked down and saw scorching flames surrounding both of them.

"It is me, I am elder Ace" Ace repeated but this time, the elder quickly believed him and nodded. Ace called back the fire and smiled.

"I am sorry about that," Ace spoke.

"Appearance can be deceiving sometimes" the elder muttered with a smile.

"My name is Ryan Silte, I was the elder assigned to help you if you face any troubles in the sect"

"Ace Vorste" Ace replied with a smile.

"Now, shall we go? I was told to bring you to your class today, I heard and just saw that you are very proficient with the fire magic so I will take you to a class consisting of disciples who have awakened the Fire element" Elder Ryan informed.

"Let's go then" Ace nodded as they both left the courtyard.

"In our Inferno Sword Sect, the disciples are divided into 4 categories.

The new disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples, and core disciples, there is another category, the personnel disciples; they are treated as core disciples regardless of their strength. Most of the elders have personnel disciples as it is a great way for an elder to earn respect.

When a personnel disciple performs well, the elder training him earns respect and recognition from the sect, increasing his or her status; I would also suggest you find a talented one soon.

The new disciples are the ones who were selected yesterday, they are allowed to wear whatever they want in the sect and they are given the least resources, then comes the outer disciples who wear white-colored robes are they get more resources than new disciples.

Then the inner disciples, who wear blue robes, and finally the core disciples, they wear purple robes and are provided the maximum number of resources.

Just like core disciples, personnel disciples also wear purple robes and receive the same amount of resources, sometimes, even more, if their master allows them to.

The elder in this sect wears White-colored robes and receives resources monthly, the more their status, the more the resources they can receive but even the elder with the lowest status receives more resources than any disciples.

And lastly, as you have already seen, the Sect Leader Kalm, he wears black colored robes, and he is the one who manages the whole sect," Elder Ryan briefed.