Chapter 2

The world in the novel originally had two fundamental elements, light mana and dark mana. Every creature was to contain either of them to sustain. While light mana was considered sacred, the dark mana was taken to be destructive. Humans together with other creatures contained core in their bodies which was the basis for mana.

As soon as a baby is born, it is immedietly made to undergo a test to recognize the compatibilty of core with light mana. By chance, the core responded to the latter, it was immedietly killed. There was only one clan which was holder of dark core, which has managed to thrive till now, having a history as deep as an abyss.

The lord of the Demon Clan was the second male lead, who had never been known for mercy. He had been inflicted with a "Curse" since birth. Rather than calling it a curse, it was better to say that it was poison. Although Vanesse, didn't know the details, she knew for sure that it was 'almost' cured by the female lead, which picques his interest.

Calling it a "interest" was only to put in a nice way. In reality, it was more like taking fancy over a doll. The second male lead, Lucian Calisto, was the type to get what he wants, even if it means using illicit ways. If he couldn't get his hands on it, he would rather destroy it, such was his twisted personality.

That's why in the end of the novel he brutally tortures the female lead, pushing her to the brink of death as she chose the Male lead over him.

Although, Vanessse wanted to aviod running into main character, it would be an impossible feat, with her being the Royal Master of the two male leads.

Seeing herself in the mirror, she roughly guessed her age to be sixteen, meaning it was only few months since she had become the Duke of Savine family. Therefore she estimated that she was yet to become a Royal Master in The Academy of Agracia.

Being lost in her thoughts, she had forgotten about the guy kneeling in front of her. Not knowing what to do with him she decides send him out of the room for now.

"Hm. You can leave now."

The man got up and opened the door halfway but halted, after he heard her voice.

"Wait, bring me all the books on history of Savine family, Petro family and the Castilo clan". She wanted know more about herself, in addition with " Lucian Calisto" and " Austin Petro".

The man nodded, and went out. Within a few minutes a huge pile of books were delivered into her study. Vanesse, who was now Violet, sighed at thoght of having to read all of it. Violet spent her days gathering information on all the characters of the novel she could think of, while performing her duties as the duke. In a blink an eye, a year passed by.

In this period she managed to learn to control her mana. Just like the novel stated Violet had an unique core. Her core was not attracted to light mana nor dark mana. Instead she could use both. While light man had three types, Fire, wind, water, Dark mana had two types, puppetry and necromancy.

After a few years, Violet becomes one of the influential figure in her kingdom because of her ability of using both types of mana.

As the duke of Savine family, she should've already been able get rid of unwanted pests in the family. Yet no matter how much she tried, she was unable to gather courage to kill even the assasins, who visited her almost every night, let alone the members of her family. She only disabled them from using mana, leaving the cleaning work to her aide, Ana, who became close to her during the past year.

Violet knew she had to confront her life as the duke, who should've been able to kill a human by now. Nevertheless, after living in a lawful world in her previous life she couldn't bring herself to harm a living person. As a consequence, she had been pushed to the cage full of monstrous beasts, by her tutor, everytime she refuses harm a living soul.