Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 176 Darkness Falls IV : Tragic

The idea of Victoria staying at his tower didn't really sit well with her subordinates, Louis's elder brother had a look on his face that said he would rather eat shit than see such a thing happen, but it was not as if he had any choice, and neither did Alex really.

Victoria was quite adamant about this, and not just that she was also his Fiancé so asking for things like this from Alex was not something he could say no to. But this was also for the sake of the child, and Anya was all too happy to help, the headstrong woman had a soft spot for children.

Victoria had barely been settle into a room when Anya had dragged the little bit with her to go play, leaving Alex and Victoria alone in the room. Obviously they had a look at to talk about, Alex wasn't really shaken by the fact that she has a son, but he knew they had to be more to that story. The princess having a child can't exactly be information that would have been kept under wraps, so he was pretty much caught off guard from finding out like this.

Never the less, Victor was more than willing to tell him everything he needed to know, she just very much wanted to avoid prying eyes. She pulled out a metal ball the size of a strawberry and threw it into the air. Immediately a thin satin like curtain seemed to spread from the ball to cover every square inch of the room. The curtain was in constant flux, and even though it seemed a little fragile with how thin and transparent it was, Alex was sure it was more than capable of fulfilling it's reason for existing.

"I'm only going to speak once, so please do pay attention to me. Trevor is my son, but I didn't give birth to him, I guess you can say he's adopted. When I first came to the Academy almost twenty plus years ago, I met a young married man who worked as a caretaker in my tower. He was nice, full of life, and did everything he could in life for his wife. But at the time they were unable to have children and this was something that really out a strain on their marriage. It was very hard for the both of them, as neither had anything wrong with them biologically.

Fast forward to 10 years ago, his wife was finally able to give birth, they had a daughter. The little girl was so full of life and joy, and she had so much talent for the martial way of Qi. She was really special and her father loved her very much, and then his wife got pregnant again. But it was in the midst of her pregnancy that a very terrible secret came out, her daughter was born out of infidelity, a child born to an elder in the academy. Even worse was when it turned out that said elder was the best friend of our tower's caretaker.

The knowledge completely broke him and left his heart in shambles. He loved his wife, but this was a betrayal he couldn't deal with. He wanted to leave, but eventually he chose to stay until after Trevor was born. And it was after a DNA test that he didn't have so much faith in, that he realized that Trevor was actually his son, his own flesh and blood, and beyond that the child had a talent that by far surpassed his elder sister.

Trevor's Father got a divorce and lived with his son in our tower, his wife ashamed of what she had done had left to go live with the elder who impregnated her at first. She had nowhere else to go, it even in the midst of that all, it was obvious she still loved her husband. She visited the tower every chance she got to see her son and brought her daughter Tina along to come see the only man she considered her father, though he was now a lot more different.

He couldn't look at Tina the same way after everything he had learnt, he tried to overlook it as it was not the child's fault, but the betrayal was too deep. And the young girl also noticed it. Eventually she fell sick, apparently her unique constitution had developed a QI disease very similar to Leukemia, and she needed a transplant to survive. What she needed was a cultivation root transplant from a direct male relative. Her father was not willing to make that sacrifice, in the first place he had only slept with her mother out of lust and not because he loved her.

The only option left was Trevor, and honestly his father was also not willing to sacrifice the future of his child for the daughter of the woman and man who betrayed him. But as they say, might makes right. On one of my routine travels for training in the Albion empire, the elder had Trevor's father brutally murdered, and Trevor kidnapped to take place in a ritual that would transfer his cultivation root; his entire martial talent to his ailing sister. That ritual was taking place on that platform where you found him, should never have let him go there in the first place, there's too much of his family's blood on it.

His mother was driven mad with grief at the death of her husband, she armed with only a simple kitchen knife went against the elder, determined to save bother her son and daughter from his clutches. It didn't turn out as she had planned and an accident occurred.....she accidentally killed her own daughter, causing the ritual to reverse and her son ending up as the one to receive his sister's cultivation talent. It was so painful for her she was driven made with grief, while the elder had been hiding within the depths of the academy ever since, scared of me and what I'll do once I catch him.

I've been taking care of him and his mother since then, he's not really adopted either, but I had to use such a method when the elder had tried using the fact that he was together with Trevor's mother and was once friends with his father to take custody of him and his mom. The Academy was able to keep the entire story under wraps, and no one other than the people involved know anything about it, so as long as this is kept a secret, the elder is still pretty much untouchable.

Normally I wouldn't care, but the power the academy wields is quite extensive, enough to rival that of both empires.

They do have the best assassins in the world after all, so all I can do is watch and wait for an opportunity to deliver justice for my friend. It's a complicated and heartbreaking story, but his mother had done something wrong out of her loneliness and her need for a child. I can't say I can relate, but this three years where I had to look after Trevor has at least shown me what being a mother feels like, so I can understand why she would go to any lengths to achieve it, I just wish things would have been different."

Alex blinked as he took a seat on a wooden chair, for some reason he felt exhausted. This story was quite tragic to say the least, it was a case of the sins of the father being visited upon the children or in this case the sins of the mother. But yet the person suffering is not the insane mother or the adulterous elder, but the innocent boy who was just in the middle of all these drama. Alex had an inkling suspicion that the reason the little girl was going after Trevor was an extreme case of sibling jealousy. Which is why her father is also in the equation, trying to make up for the times he was unable to show her love when she was alive due to his pain from her mother's betrayal.

The girl felt neglected and unloved, young as she was she only knew and recognized one father. Yet he no longer loved her and would only ever see her brother as his true child. And then she died in the process of her mother trying to save said brother, so in the end she blamed him. She felt that it was his fault that she had to deal with all of this pain, his fault why her father no longer loved her, and his fault why her own mother killed her. The jealousy of a child can be pretty powerful, and given how unreasonable children can be at times, they could hold on to a grudge for a very long time.

And after life, in death, those negative feelings would be increased exponentially. They would become hate, and they would be driven by vengeance and an almost insatiable hunger to go after the people responsible for the pain they felt during their lives, and the people they felt were responsible for their deaths. They would become vengeful spirits, and they would not stop, or does down until they got what they came for. Alex gave a sigh, and opened his mouth to speak, but in that moment the door to the room was pushed open and Anya barged in, tears all-over her face.

"Alex...…you have to see this."

Chapter end