3 days later after the entire thing happened, Lilly got used to sleeping with Maddie that she often goes to her castle just to sleep. The two are currently in Maddie's office and no they're not making out, Lilly just wanted to stay with Maddie. It seems as if Lilly is waiting for Maddie to do something but she's too busy so she instead called Gabriel to bring Lilly to the pool. The only problem is that Lilly refuses to do so as she wants to stay with Maddie.
Maddie: "You're too attached"
Lilly: "Can you blame me? I'm deeply in love with you Maddie."
They stayed like that for a long while. Very long after, Lilly needed to leave because of duties. She hated doing so and hated every moment of it. It was unusual for Lilly to be called to her duties since she mostly doesn't do anything around. Suddenly she has to sign paperworks because she wanted to implement a idea. Her father liked it so much that he actually let her. It was to make a hunting guild. It would not only boost their food supply but also give jobs to unemployed werewolves. Of course Lilly couldn't sign all of them so Ronnie helped her.
Lilly: "Hey Ronnie, I was just thinking. Do you have a mate yet?"
Ronnie: "I told you Lilly, I would not have a mate if you didn't have one first."
Lilly: "But I'm here now and I have one now so why don't you have any yet?"
Ronnie: "Look Lilly, it's complicated. You don't just run into them like Oh hey I'm your mate what's up. I'm afraid that's not how the world works.".
Lilly: "I want to help you find your mate."
Ronnie: "Thank you Lilly but signing these papers are what's on my mind right now."
Lilly sighs in boredom and made herself fall at the couch. She waited for a very long time around 4 hours until her brother finished. Even after signing all of the papers though everything was still pretty boring. Having the mind of a seven year old, Lilly wanted to play with someone. Lucky for her Casella visited though unprecedented. She wanted to request for an added supply for the recon team as they've seen more vampire attacks these days.
She walked to the king's office with Lilly and William in there. You might be wondering why Lilly is there and that's because she was giving the papers to her father. Casey's eyes were fixated on Lilly.
Casey: "Greetings your Highness and hey bestie."
Lilly: "Since when am I your bestie?"
Casey immediately switched the topic.
"Your highness if I may, I want to request something and it's urgent."
William was intrigued and wondered what it was.
William: "If it's urgent then of course I'll comply. Tell me what it is."
Casey: "I'm dispatching a recon team. We needed to do this because of the vampire attacks recently. You know how fatal it is if a wolf was bitten by a vampire, our blood do not mix well so it would kill us. I'm trying to search for these vampires and probably identify what is it that they want."
Both William and Lilly looked surprised. They just made peace with the dragons and there's now possibly a new enemy that they couldn't have foreseen. Vampires would be hard to negotiate with since they're separated into multiple kingdoms. They're also spreaded out around the world.
William: "Vampires? That's something I did not expect. Why would they be attacking us? Could it be something our people did?"
Casey: "No your highness, this seems too coordinated. It seems they're being lead by someone."
Lilly suddenly steps in.
Lilly: "Then the first issue must be to find which kingdom attacked right?"
William: "That's right but we also need to fortify our defenses for the next attack. Of course they would be expecting us to do so but if we play this correctly we might be able to capture one."
There was a sudden silence as all three of them started thinking of another plan. William looks like he has something in mind but is looking for a way to explain it. Casey has an idea but doesn't know how to explain it while Lilly is still trying to think of something.
William: "In the meantime let us prepare for fortifying our defenses. Lilly, tell Ronnie to grab men with him to gather wood from the Holy Forest and create a bunch of weapons with it and give stakes to civilians. We must be ready for the next attack."
[Meanwhile in the Redwing Kingdom]
Maddie is doing more work related things. Suddenly a knock on her door can be heard. She thought it might be Lilly but to her disappointment it was the last person she didn't want to see, her father.
Maddie: "What do you want?"
A disappointment and angry tone can be heard from her.
Quentin: "Stop this nonsense, it has gone far enough Madeline."
As Quentin finished his sentence it was followed by a disappointed Madeline rolling her eyes.
Maddie: "I do not care what you think. You're no longer king, I am!"
Quentin: "Oh Madeline, you think so small. What would you suppose do if a civil war breaks out because of this whole engagement with that sobby little princess!? Can you prepare for such situation? The wolves would certainly take advantage of that!"
As Quentin said that, he was talking in his mind saying "I will not allow you two to get married no matter what!" As Madeline marrying her would certainly be a problem to his plans.
Maddie: "Of course I'd risk it! I'd risk everything for our love with each other! If I can't handle simple disputes with our people then that means I'm not only not worthy of the title of Queen but I'm also not worthy with our love for each other. That just tells me to protect them all and be stronger."
Quentin: "Fine then! If you insist to stay in this false reality then I won't do anything! Your own people will wake you up as everything collapses upon you!"
A moment after he finished that sentence he thought to himself "I knew she would refuse anyway. Everything will fall under my plan just you wait."
Quentin left as soon as he finished that thought. A gust of wind followed him from Maddie's window along with all the pain staking though he left her with. She started to ponder about what he said.
[Switching the story to Ginmaru's Kingdom]
The air seems dense and an ominous aura can be seen around one person. Of course it is Ginmaru but his mere presence even affects the ones around him.
"My Lord, we have successfully infiltrated the northern part of the kingdom. We have sent spies around the area now."
As a vampire talked to him he pauses and stops moving. It scared the living hell inside them but he turned around his head and looked at him with only his eye for 3 seconds. Afterwards he turned his entire body with a wine glass he's holding.
Ginmaru: "Good, if that's all you have to report to me then leave."
He walked back to his throne afterwards. The vanlires just left and the air lightens up. Ginmaru left out a huge sigh with a slight disappointment.
Ginmaru: "Gurimu, I know you're watching like always."
Gurimu dropped down with a funny look on her face.
Gurimu: "Do you have to put an act on every time you talk to your men?"
Ginmaru: "It's not an act my daughter, it's what I am. I just lighten up when I'm talking to family members."
Gurimu: "Aww you have a soft spot for us"
Ginmaru rolled his eyes afterwards but he secretly smiles.
[Back to the Darkmoon Kingdom]
Casey is looking for someone and she seems to be alert. She heard a lot of sounds around a certain area and went there. That is until the door closed.
Casey: "Lilly! Open the door! This isn't funny!"
Lilly just laughs and runs away as Casey is trying to bust the door down. She instead uses her magical ability and sucks the door down. She then runs after Lilly.
Casey: "Damn it, I was told to make sure she doesn't go anywhere why this is all happening but it seems to be impossible."
Casey: "Lilly where did you go!?"
She continues her search for Lilly but it turns out she was listening to her the entire time on the ceiling. Suddenly she sensed something behind her and scared her shitless.
Valeria: "What are you doing here?"
Turns out it was her mother.
Lilly: "I could ask you the same thing"
The conversation never continued as Valeria dragged Lilly with her. She dragged her in one of the chambers.
Lilly: "What exactly are we doing here?"
Valeria: "You're clearly hiding from Casey so I brought you here to train since you clearly aren't doing anything."
As she says that she was adjust her clothes and Lilly thought it's so it doesn't rip apart and they might be doing something that requires to move around a lot.
Valeria: "You're familiar with the Alabama stereotype from humans right Lilly?"
Lilly: "Yeah I- wait from humans?"
Valeria: "Well you see, for werewolves having a relationship with ones own family except it being your parents and siblings is legal."
Afterwards Valeria's clothes fell off and Lilly is shocked speechless.
Valeria: "Hmm... Dear your entire life you've known nothing about the true nature of werewolves"
Lilly: "What do you mean? I know I didn't get any teaching from school and only got my knowledge from literature in the library b-but I-"
Valeria: "That is exactly what I'm talking about. You've read literatures made by humans and not werewolves. Though that might've been my fault for keeping you in the castle after all these years but also because of your coma. For example, think of all of the literatures you've read so far."
Lilly: "Well they're from uhhh... Shakespeare, Grant Morrison, Tom- okay yeah you're right, but can you put some darn clothes on?"
Valeria: "'fraid not dear, this is on for your lessons today. Originally werewolves usually stay in their wolf form to avoid other races and disguise ourselves as regular wolves. We never wore any clothes until our civilization had to evolve. After the Great Magical War, all of the packs were ordered to unite into one nation. All that does not agree would be treated as rouges and therefore be fugitives of the law."
Lilly the entire time was trying not too look at her mother to avoid herself from acting up.
Lilly: "How many refused? I mean, being the third most populous race we'd have to have a lot of them missing."
Valeria: "I'm glad you asked. Out of the 34 packs, only 21 agreed. The nomination of the first king was held through a tournament. It was either the alpha or the strongest warrior in the pack would fight in a tournament and whoever comes out on top is king. Originally the king is able to pick who'm they'd be marrying and they shall grant the title of queen."
Lilly: "Originally? Did it change then?"
Valeria: "These days it's complicated. At one point they held a competition for it. For me though it was an arranged marriage but me and your dad loved each other. Oh I almost forgot! The next kings are chosen throughout a ceremony wherein the heir of the royal bloodline is tasked to fight the chosen warriors of the other packs. The packs fighting the royal bloodline is optional though but the heir cannot choose whether they want to fight or not. It's either they surrender or die and that rule hasn't changed since then."
Lilly: "Wait that means I'll have to do that?"
Valeria: "Not really since you're engaged with a Queen therefore Ronnie is the one who'll do that."
Lilly finally looked at her mother and instantly had a nosebleed and also fell back to a table behind her.
Valeria: "Oh my you little pervert, but I will continue teaching you about basics that you should know."
Lilly: "I'm going to stay like this for a while, keep your distance from me."
Valeria: "This is about mana Lilly. The source of mana is from our Arcanium. The Arcanium is where our mana reserves are stored and gets released from our mana network when you cast magic. The mana network cannot be seen by dissecting someone, in fact it's invisible to the naked eye. Mana constantly flows throughout the network on a regular basis just like how a heart pumps blood, your mama gets replenished too overtime. Some people have larger mana reserves than the others, in fact the older you are the larger it becomes. However it's also based on your health so even if you're old but if you're sick, your mama reserve may not be that much."
Lilly: "Just say decript, also there must be a limiter towards the mana right? I mean if there isn't wouldn't they explode?"
Valeria: "Correct, there are certain limiters placed throughout the network. As you know mana can also increase our physical attributes depending on the amount you have. If one were to have these limiters removed, their physical attributes would increase exponentially. The only problem is the chances of surviving is in the infinitesimal of decimals. These limiters are called Network Seals and there are about 12 of them. Removing one of them increases your physical attributes and the amount of mana you can use to cast magic. Removing all 12 will make you rival Ultimate Primordials or even go head-to-toe with gods."
Lilly: "Ultimate Primordials? What is that?"
Valeria: "Right, I haven't taught you about the ranks. Each Arcanist have their own ranks based on their power. It doesn't have to necessarily be having more mana reserves but most of the ones on the top have huge amount of them. There are 7 ranks in which I'll state them all in weakest to strongest; Rookie, Adept, Expert, Master Arcanist, Elder, Grand Elder, and lastly Ultimate Primordial. There are merely a handful Ultimate Primordials in this world."
Lilly: "What rank are you in?"
Valeria: "I am a Semi-Ultimate Primordial. I'm close to achieving that title but I lack something even Grand Elders have"
Lilly: "Which is what?"
Valeria: "It is my lack of techniques, you see I'm more on brute force and pure power and managed to be called a Semi-Ultimate Primordial with it but I'm merely a commoner with no particular talent honey. Unlike your dad who is an Ultimate Primordial, he was born a genius with latent talents from his bloodline. You're also his daughter, you will also receive those talents. You are bound to surpass me one day."
Lilly: "I highly doubt that, I can't even match you in a fight and I know you're holding back."
Valeria: "Come on Lilly, did you really think I attained this title in a few days? No, I had to climb the ranks slowly. It takes patience and hardwork even without talent. To me, talent without hardwork is wasted potential and that's why I will train you no matter what."
Lilly: "Hang on, what talent does dad have that you don't?"
Valeria: "It is the Moonlit Eye, it has the ability to automatically dodge anything that your body senses as danger. It also gives you new abilities by the way. Theoretically it makes you faster and stronger too however I'm not really sure, you should ask your father about it. Anyway enough of that, strip."
Lilly: "What!? No I won't, even after hearing that history lesson I still think I-"
Valeria: "Did I say you have a choice?"
Lilly: "Wait no- I-! I wasn't ready-!!"
She stripped her naked but she didn't do anything out of the line because like she said earlier, relationships of a werewolf are still limited and cannot be from siblings or parents. That does mean however Aunts, Uncles and cousins are allowed. Anyway, all Valeria did is press her body against hers. If Lilly had found her wolf already she'd be in her wolf form as well but since she hasn't, they're in their human form. After a very long time they get dressed again and return to their regular work and hobbies.
It was a new day and everything was great until Lilly visited Maddie only to find out that Maddie was missing.
To be continued...