Section 12: The Conspiracy of the Princess's Stepmother

Okay, now let's move on to the Stephens, a large and important family in the Griffon United Kingdom. Their family has produced high-end alchemists for generations, and Raft Stephen is one of them. And alchemy is undoubtedly an extremely important thing in this era, and a large part of the country's armament must come from the hands of alchemists. For example, the equipment of the Wizard Mage Regiment, as well as the various equipment of a few elite legions, etc.

Therefore, with the alchemy advantage of the Stephen family, coupled with several generations of painstaking management, it is natural that their family will eventually become the most important producer of high-end alchemy products in this country. The head of the family has been serving as the country's Minister of Industry and Production, responsible for all production and manufacturing matters in the kingdom.

Undoubtedly, this is an extremely eye-catching location, especially in the Stephens family's production plant, which makes people drool. You must know that in this turbulent era, every country will spare no expense to buy equipment, and the orders for the Stephens family alone account for almost 5% of the country's tax revenue! Needless to say, this is definitely an astronomical amount!

However, despite the fact that so many people were angry, because of the powerful deterrent existence of the old mage who was a law saint, no one dared to fight the idea of the Stephen family. Even the current emperor of the kingdom is nominally a student of the old mage, so he naturally does not dare to offend the old mage easily. So in order to entrap the Stephen family, the emperor even did not hesitate to marry his sister to the only grandson of the old mage, that is, the obscene fat man in front of him.

However, this incident made the old mage very dissatisfied. Because in this world, they don't care too much about the defense of men and women, and the royal family is even more indecent, so that when this princess got married, she was actually two months pregnant, and the father of the child was obviously not this fat man. Rather, it was a little white-faced guard in the court. Of course, in order to maintain the common face of the royal family and the old saint, this white-faced man was finally secretly executed, but this still can't change the fact that the eldest son of the Stephen family has impure blood.

Obviously, it is absolutely impossible for such a bloodline to inherit the unique lightning talent of the Stephen family, in fact, this eldest son is an idiot like an idiot at all, with no magic talent or fighting talent, but he is oily and powdery, and he is very eloquent, and he is a little white face! Undoubtedly, this is the surname Bing inherited from his own father.

Such a guy may be okay in the eyes of other families, but in the Stephens family, he is undoubtedly a waste-like existence. The old mage had never treated him as his great-grandson, and if it weren't for the royal face, maybe he would have secretly killed this disgraceful guy.

In order to maintain the continuity of the family's bloodline, the old mage strictly ordered his precious grandson to mess with flowers and grass everywhere, and he must have an heir who can inherit the talents of his clan. With the support of the old mage, the obscene fat man is naturally like a fish in water, and he lives a pig every day, even the princess and his wife can't interfere.

However, to the old mage's dismay, the fat man had worked hard in the circle of noble ladies for several years, but he was stunned that he had not planted a single grass, and the old mage was so angry that he almost went crazy. In the end, the fat man got what he wanted in an affair in the barbarian wasteland.

At that time, the fat man went to the wasteland to buy a batch of precious materials, but he accidentally fell in love with the daughter of a tribal chief. The fat man, who was tired of playing with aristocratic women, was suddenly attracted by the wild surname peculiar to the barbarian woman, so he exchanged a hundred steel battle axes for the chieftain for the woman.

The barbarian's female surname is tall and strong, much stronger than the fat man. The fat man got unprecedented pleasure from her, and finally succeeded in having a child of his own, and successfully inherited the family's lightning talent.

The old mage was overjoyed at that time, and positioned the child as the heir of the family on the spot, without the slightest hesitation, and no one could interject. He doesn't care who the child's mother is, as long as he can give birth to a family heir. At that time, he wondered if the people of his own family could only give birth to children if they were to work with strong women?

However, the old mage was happy, but the princess was not happy, and seeing her son change from the status of the first heir of the family to the second heir, her heart was naturally very angry. The jealous woman is terrible, and soon after, she secretly manipulates and quietly poisons the child's mother.

She even wanted to attack the child at the same time, but unfortunately she was discovered by the old mage who had been paying attention to her. Finally, the old mage, who had long been disgruntled, was really angry, and not only personally killed all the hundreds of guards around the princess, but even imprisoned the princess for more than half a year, giving her cold water and bread every day. In the end, it was the emperor who personally interceded before letting her out.

Later, although this woman restrained a lot, the resentment in her heart grew all the time. As time passed, the princess gradually controlled some of the real power of the family again by virtue of her identity. Although she didn't dare to deal with the poor child openly this time, she used a lot of tricks in secret. Although the old mage and the fat man were aware of it, they didn't have real evidence after all, and it was not good to attack her as a princess again. So, in the end, it led to such a tragedy.

It turned out that the fat man's youngest son was discriminated against by the people around him because of his mother's bad background, and he was really unlikable and a little stupid. In fact, speaking of which, his magical talent is very good, and he is willing to work hard, and he became a junior mage at a young age, which is the best among his peers. However, because of her mother's barbarian blood, he was extremely strong, and his appearance did not look like a thin mage at all, but resembled a strong warrior, so his classmates called him Orangutan Mage.

At the instigation of his princess's stepmother, intentionally or unintentionally, the noble children around the child took pleasure in bullying him. Because doing so is tantamount to helping the princess to vent her anger, and you will get various rewards from the princess. In such an atmosphere, this child's childhood was naturally filled with a dark atmosphere. Although no one dared to beat the first heir of the Stephen family under the intimidation of the old mage and the fat man, verbal abuse was always indispensable, and this humiliation accompanied the child almost all his life.

As the child grew older, and more talents for magic were revealed, the princess became more and more unable to sit still, for the child's existence had seriously threatened her son, and indeed her own position. So, under her conspiracy, a conspiracy against the child unfolded again.

Just three days ago, a group of noble children had barricaded poor little Stephen in the school at someone's behest, and then several strong noble guards stopped him, while the other nobles rushed up and beat his attendant, a poor little boy, to death. The so-called attendant is the playmate that the nobles find for their children, and the commoner children who accompany the children of the nobles to study. The children of the general nobles have this kind of attendant.

Since little Stephen is also a nobleman after all, and he is also the heir of the Stephen family, of course those nobles do not dare to do anything to him, because it will cause great trouble, especially the anger of the old mage. But if it was only a commoner next to little Stephen who was killed, then these noble children would have no worries at all, even if they were investigated later, at most it would be just a small amount of money. The old mage can't just trouble the nobles for the sake of a lowly commoner, right?

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