The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Eritrea had a simple life when she was a kid, when she didn't know anything and the world around her was good. It started to change after she went through the awakening ceremony.

The profession that she awakened was called Shadow Dancer. This is a rare assassin and swordsman hybrid class.

Moreover, she inherited her mother's bloodline, the bloodline of a black dragon.

Until that moment she had no idea that her family had bloodlines of monsters.

She only read in stories that monsters are bad and humans are heroes of the world but after awakening, she learned a lot of things that changed her perspective.

Humans aren't always the heroes as described in the stories and monsters in stories aren't monsters as these stories describe.

Humans always say families are important and they should serve their homeland when they grow up so that the young generation would have a chance to grow up without seeing disasters at a young age.

This was just propaganda that appeared only on the surface but was not followed.

She saw the cracks in her own family.

The kingdom of Glessaria states that the firstborn would have the right to inherit their parent's titles and lands. It means that Eritrea would become viscount after her father and rule over the Winterland province.

When she was young and alone, she didn't see anything but as time passed, she started to see a few things. Some people in the family supported her brother, who was born after her.

At first, she didn't understand anything but she saw that her parents were concerned about this.

It was only after the awakening that she started to slowly understand what was truly happening around her.

Many members of the family were trying to break the family apart, though that may not be their goal. What they wanted was a puppet that they could put on the Viscount chair.

As long as there are descendants of the direct line alive, whether it was male or female, they would inherit the title and lands. So when there was a girl and then a boy, what did they do?

They supported the boy.

This was because as the firstborn, the girl would inherit the title, unless they marry into another family. If not, the title and lands would belong to the firstborn child, that is Eritrea.

Her father already said that she would be her successor unless she chose not to. So these worms that vie for power even at the cost of destroying the family, decided to support her brother who was born after her.

It backfired of course. The one that they thought could help, gave them the middle finger.

He followed Eritreas's steps and joined the military after graduating. Everything that they had planned to do after he returns home after graduation, went down the drain.

This was also a factor that made them attempt to assassinate Magnus when he was in the forest, as a training.

The third child was in the academy at the time when they learned that what they did was in vain. The fourth child was a girl and matters not much to the family. She would be married into another family.

It was only when Magnus appeared, they made an attempt at assassination. They failed at that and that attempt is going to be the cause of their end, which would be in the near future.

The important thing here was that their lives would turn for the worst as soon as Eritrea's wedding happened. This they have no idea.

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Eritrea knew that some family members were trying to use her. So she decided to become stronger and more influential.

There are two ways to become influential. One is to invent something but her profession was a combat category profession. So the only other choice was through the military. As long as she makes waves against monsters or enemy nations, she will gain a lot of military merits.

Even higher noble families wouldn't be able to easily touch a person who has a very high status in the military. There are consequences that they may not be able to face if such a thing happens.

Though it is the Royal family who rules the kingdom and there is a Royal Army that serves them, the military is not like that. They don't serve the royals or the nobles, rather they serve the kingdom.

They protect the kingdom from monster tides and foreign invasions. It was their duty and even the royals respected them. This was because the Military was the only powerful faction that wouldn't seek their throne.

In the beginning, there were some suspicions but the Military never involves the internal matters as long as there were no monsters. They always have eyes against the exterior troubles.

There was one exception though.

If a hero of the military was humiliated or if something happened in that manner, then they would take action.

They kind of did. Once a noble killed a military war hero. This person was a retired general, who was in his waning days. This noble prick one day crossed this old man and killed him after an argument.

The Next day, the military made camps outside their city. No one was allowed in but were allowed out, except the noble family members.

Everything that came to the city was turned away and this continued for months. Slowly the city became a deserted place.

It was only after the noble was killed and the noble family was stripped of their title and lands, did the military left the lands.

So seeing it as the only option, after graduating from the academy, she joined the military, escaping from family affairs for a while, but she could only run for so long. One day she has to face the politics of the family. There was no other way.

She knew that but she wanted to find her own way to live before that and she did.

As the graduates from the academy, many would serve in the military. Though it was said to be mandatory, rich kids don't follow rules. They can escape enlistment using some donations to the military.

Of course, when there is war, they would too receive orders. In those times, they can't escape their duties. They have to report to the military but with enough connections, they can still escape from being a cannon fodder.

Eritrea, of course, to escape family drama joined the military. Since she would be busy with military affairs, no one caused problems for her for years.

They might have thought that they had time for that.

In a world where people live for hundreds of years, a decade doesn't matter. They chose to wait, as there was no option available for them. They can do anything inside the family but touching the military would cause severe backlash.

While in the military, she found herself a permanent solution.

She fell in love with a fellow comrade, who graduated from the royal academy, same as her. Back then, though she had a crush on him, she didn't make a move. She was more involved in improving her rank and knowledge.

While in the military, they became close, as they did missions together many times.

Eritrea proposed to Essan, instead of the boy proposing to the girl. He agreed on conditions that she would become his family, rather than he become her family and also she has to retire from the military.

She agreed to the terms.

After the contract with the military was over, she didn't renew it and the marriage ceremony is near.

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In two days she is supposed to get married and no need to worry about the family politics, which would be her brother's burden from then on.

Though she felt a little guilty for doing this, she was not that interested in the viscount's seat.

It was when something interesting caught her eye.

The youngest of the five, her youngest brother, Magnus, started to greet everyone enthusiastically. She had never seen him greeting someone with such enthusiasm.

At first, she thought that he was making sure that her wedding was going well but something caught her eye that changed that perspective.

He only showed such a manner when he spoke either with Frostwolf family members or the Black family which was their mother's family. He didn't show much interest in interacting with others.

Then she saw him holding a small device whenever he interacted with the relatives. After speaking for a few minutes he leaves them and writes something down in his phone.

What he was doing, she had no idea but she didn't ask him or make him stop what he was doing.

This is her time of joy, other things don't matter at this time. So she decided to ask Magnus what that was at a later time. For the next few days, only her soon-to-be husband, Essan, would be in her eyes.

What everybody else does, has nothing to do with her.