Vesper turned around to see Aurora, who walked past him and towards Benjamin, Benjamin stepped back in fear as her steps drew nearer.
"I would not repeat myself Benjamin, apologize now or else…."
"Or else what?" A male voice interjected.
Aurora raised her head and saw a young man walking towards Benjamin.
"Aurora you still side with a bastard, and shun your own flesh and blood, what a disgrace." The man said,
"Mind your words Theo, I scold my own blood brother and you should handle your own affairs and not butt into mine." She said as she raised her gaze towards him.
Aurora was kind but Vesper was her reverse scale, he was the only one who truly cared for her after her mother passed away, even when he was adopted.
"Benjamin is my brother as well, so scolding him for a bastard who freeloads on our fathers grace is something I can not look at." Theo continued
Vesper on the other hand was still comprehending what Theo had called him the first time and when he heard it for the second time something snapped inside of him.
"You should be careful of what you refer me as Prince Theo, your father is his majesty but that won't save you if you disrespect me one more time." Vesper said, his voice wasn't so loud but everyone in the hallway heard it and the aura around him was chilly and scary.
Theo wanted to open his mouth to mock him again but when his gaze met with Vesper's, he felt like he was a sheep in the presence of a tiger.
Vespers eyes glowed with purple light and his gaze was filled with silent wrath, daring him to say one more word of mockery.
"Big brother please calm down, you are scaring everyone", Aurora said in fear.
In all her years she only saw Vesper serious during training but never had she seen him angry, and his murderous aura was so heavy it felt like the reapers scythe was placed at her neck, even if she wasn't the one, the aura was directed at.
Vesper composed himself and the pressure vanished as he looked at Aurora with an apologetic smile and patted her head, "Let's go Aurora, I am going to visit the treasury." He said as he walked.
"Benjamin, prepare yourself for the battle, unlike the trainings you have been through you might actually die in that field. I understand you don't like me, so I would do my best to erase my presence from you soon." He said as he left with Aurora.
Theo on the other hand was sweating and hadn't uttered a word, he felt embarrassed and angry that he was scared of that gaze, he swore in his heart to get revenge as he walked away.
Catherine stood at a corner in the hallway as he hands crossed over her chest as she muttered, "Seems you have finally gotten tired of ignoring huh." Then she turned and walked away.
Marcus stood in his study and watched the whole scenario play out and just looked away.
In another part of the castle a woman looked at the scene from her room and stared at Vesper who was walking with Aurora.
Feeling a hostile gaze on him, Vesper turned and looked at the window where the woman was and stared back for a few seconds before he turned and kept on walking towards the treasury.
"Brother, please do not antagonize Theo again, you know he is at the adept rank, what if he decides to antagonize you outside the palace?" Aurora said as they were walking.
"Don't worry Aurora, I will be able to prevent that from happening, for now I want to select a weapon from the treasury, my halberd got destroyed in battle, hence I need a new one. A very good one too." Vesper said with a smile.
As they walked into the treasure an old man stood at the door and opened his palm, as if asking for something, Vesper the gave him the emblem and he took it and said, "Only take one treasure nothing more, and no more farther than the two first rows, alright then, you may head inside."
Vesper and Aurora walked inside the room, and it was very large, Vesper was surprised a bit when he saw the glittering and shining treasures in the room, there were weapons, shields, some scrolls, some herbs all placed in different locations.
Sadly on the two first rows were only weapons and armours, the only good point was that they were ranked weapons.
In this world there were 6 known ranks, Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Master, Grandmaster and Transcendent ranks. The ranks were divided into three stages, early stage, mid stage and peak stage, and these ranking was used for both beasts, humans, weapons, armours.
The weapons and armour placed in the first two ranks were Apprentice ranks and Adept ranks, Vesper and Aurora looked around scouring for a nice halberd.
Aurora's gaze fell on an obsidian halberd, and she picked it up and appraised it with the appraising stone, it was a peak grade Apprentice rank weapon.
"Brother, why don't you take this, this is the bets halberd here in the first two rows, and it is quite suitable for you." She said.
Meanwhile, Vesper was staring at a dull looking silver halberd at the bottom of the racks, he used the appraising stone and it clearly didn't have a rank, meaning it was an ordinary mortal weapon.
'Father are you sure about this weapon?' Vesper asked Erebus who spoke to him in his mind.
'Foolish boy, not everything can be rated, take that halberd, it is a fortune no one discovered this great treasure all these years, damn, even these foolish mortals dared put it at the bottom rack.' Erebus replied with contempt in his voice, clearly he was looking down at the stupidity of humans.
"I think this one suits me best Aurora, you know I can not channel mana into that weapon so it would be useless for me." Vesper said.
Aurora dropped the obsidian halberd with a pained expression, her big brother's inability to access mana, was something that pained her a lot.
"Alright, let us go, don't carry that expression, someone might think I have bullied you." Vesper said with a teasing tone.
The two of them walked out of the treasury with Vesper holding a silver halberd, when the old man at the door looked at it, he asked, "Are you sure that is the weapon you choose? You will not be able to change it even if you begged young man."
"Yes, Lord custodian, I chose this halberd."
"Alright then, off you go."
With that Vesper and Aurora walked towards the training ground, he wanted to test the halberd in his hands, as he personally never used one before, it was the previous owner of this body who actually wielded it.
As they got into the training ground a voice sounded.
"Well, well, look who is here, why don't we spar Vesper, of course I wouldn't use magic, what say you?"