The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Things didn't go as planned for Elisha, which caused a lot of damage to her life.

Everything started with her stupid family bargaining her away with someone that she never met. This was done when she was just an infant.

To save the family, she was used as a tool by having a marriage contract with another noble family.

However she understood that these types of things were common and if it had not been done, her family might have been in ruins. Since she was enjoying the family benefits, she had to pay back to the family.

So she accepted her fate but things changed when she met William, the heir of the Rutgurd family. Unlike her fiance, who belongs to a Viscount family and is not even the heir, William is the heir of a Count family.

Things changed when she met him at his birthday party. They fell in love at first sight with each other.

Though she liked William, she couldn't express herself due to the marriage contract with Magnus. So she stayed silent at first but the persistent pursuit of William couldn't be ignored. Soon she expressed her interest in him but there was a problem, Magnus.

Her supposed fiance could cause trouble for her and her family.

Before that, she has another hurdle to cross first, her parents. Even if there was no Magnus, her parents had to agree to her marriage with William. If not, nothing would matter much.

She can run away with William but she knows the noble circle well enough not to make such a mistake.

William might be in love with her now but that won't matter if she doesn't have her family behind her. No one in William's family would respect her if she just ran away from her family to be with William.

As long as William was the heir and became the Count, there won't be any problem but things never go as planned. If something happens to him in the future, she won't have a place in either of the houses. It would be bad for her.

William might himself change and don't love her anymore one day. It happens from time to time. In this scenario too, she wouldn't have a happy life and no other life to return to.

She knows these things because of her mother.

The noble wives formed a tea club kind of thing, where they would discuss things with other members about the current issues of what's happening among the noble circle.

There was always news about some noble who would seek out pleasure from younger women, sometimes even abandoning their wives. Elisha's mother informed her about these matters to her, so that she would always keep her future husband in her hands.

She didn't want her daughter to feel the same pain that those wives would when they were abandoned by their husbands.

Since Elisha is not naive to believe that William's love for her is not eternal, she doesn't want to waste her life on what she believed was a short-lived crush. So she suppressed her feelings at first but when William won over her with his persistence, she truly wanted to be with him but she needed her parent's consent.

So the first part of the plan was to let William meet her parents on their terms rather than his terms.

The first time they met each other was when they attended William's birthday party along with Elisha. So it can seen that they met him on his terms and that means they are below him.

Though Elisha's father is just a Viscount, a rank lower when compared to William's family, he would have his pride. So Elisha made a plan to introduce him to her parents in a perfect way.

It was the same way as she came to know William.

Her Birthday Party.

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Elisha invited William as a courtesy after William invited their family to his birthday party. The Siren family is only a viscount family.

Though they have a lot of land in terms of area under their control, the profits are too low when compared to the Inner areas of the kingdom.

The land they control is mainly unhabitable land filled with rocks. The best feature of their lands is that they have a lot of Iron mines. It means a lot of Iron would be produced every year.

It was not like magic metals, which are high in demand when compared to ordinary Iron, that the viscount produces.

On top of that, the monster tide that tied her and Magnus caused a lot of population and resource loss. The mines were damaged and the family had to spend a lot of gold for the repairs.

The population decreased and that means the number of miners decreased. Many miners died when the sudden monster tide appeared, especially when they targeted the mines and caused the collapse.

It would take a few years for the population boom and train new miners. Though mining looks simple it is not. When compared to a skilled and unskilled miner, the quantity of the ore changes.

Skilled and experienced miners mean they know where to mine and get maximum output for their efforts. In a mine, there would be a lot of metal traces but that doesn't mean to mine every inch of the mine.

Those are for when the mine is about to be emptied out. When there is still a lot of ore, it means to mine where there is a large deposit. A person would hire a lot of miners to gain maximum benefits in a short time.

Anyway, with the insufficient number of miners, there are almost no profits from the mining business. This made their family status much lower than before.

The only good thing that happened was that most of the Siren family was wiped out, except for Elisha's father and uncle. This made division of properties easier between them.

The issue was that Elisha's family status was lower than William's. So she could only make her parents send an invitation to William, though on the surface it was intended for William's family.

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The plan worked. Her parents liked William very much. Even though there was a marriage pact with House Frostwolf that Elisha would marry Magnus, they were more than accepting of its dissolution.

Only this way can Elisha could openly be married to William.

Though the Frostwolf family are family friends and are related, which noble family isn't. Moreover, the one that made the relation possible was missing. So in a way, they are not relatives anymore.

There was the issue of them helping the Siren family and for that, they made a marriage agreement. The problem was that belonged to the past. As of now, as a close family to the Frostwolf family, they know that there are a lot of troubles lurking in the shadows of the Frostwolf family.

There was a high chance that they would fight among themselves and that could reduce the overall strength of the family. If they disappear in a few decades, it won't be a surprise.

So Elisha's parents started to seek a way to dissolve the marriage pact without causing losses to their family.

There were only two ways that could be possible.

The first was that Magnus gets involved in a scandalous situation, and that would give them a chance to dissolve the marriage pact, with the least compensation possible. It would be just to give their old friend some face.

The other way was to get rid of Magnus. Dead men don't get married and have families.

The issue was that implementing either of the solutions was not as easy as it appears.

While Elisha's parents didn't think that they had to do either of that. They wanted to ask their friend and try to dissolve the pact without causing any trouble but for that, they needed good leverage. It may take some time.

While Elisha's parents were busy coming up with an idea that didn't revolve around making the Frostwolf family their enemies, William and Elisha had other ideas.

If something happens, there is a chance that they would be at the top of the list and they needed a scapegoat.

They found one, a commoner who hated nobles, Dorian. They wanted to use him to eliminate Magnus in the secret realm. It was the perfect plan.

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The plan seemed almost perfect but it has failed and she has no idea why.

She knew that Magnus was suspicious of her and William from her birthday party that he attended just before joining the academy.

Even then, there was no way that he could have about William and her.

Dorian didn't know about them. What he knew was that William wanted Magnus to disappear. Unless Dorian said so, there was no way for Magnus to make the connection between them.

Even then, the academy found much incriminating evidence of their conspiracies and that was more than enough to expel them from the academy.

The problems didn't end there. That was just the beginning.