Reincarnated as the fourth son of a noble and tamed an SS-rank dragon-Chapter 30: After the War

The King changed and with it the position of Lucian and the other nobles would also change. Some would receive higher positions, others money. Some could even lose their title, especially those who didn’t accept Kael as the new King.

But there was a problem: when Kael became ruler, he asked the former King to confess his plan to dominate and annex another country before the agreement, then to confess what he was doing to some nobles, all the sabotage of crops and trade. Many nobles revolted and some who were against Kael wanted to make amends, but it was difficult to change everything they had done.

However, the worst thing was that the Kingdom was almost bankrupt, it had little money, the former King had spent it all on military force. It would take a few months for them to recover. In this situation, Kaly thought of something: improving some of the crops and offering new services. She wanted more money so that Darius could get more status.

He didn’t think so, but he liked her idea. In his past life he lived a routine, not that his life isn’t a routine now. But it’s not a boring, emotionless routine; every day he has something new.

Three weeks have passed since the events. The former King was executed, something heavy coming from his own brother, but that was the law. What the King did was wrong, not wanting to invade another kingdom, that was allowed, but the means he used, because in the process he damaged the whole kingdom with the sabotages.

Darius was using less mana to prepare the potions and now they could make more than 50,000, but they didn’t sell them all, they kept the surplus potions. They only sold 20,000 healing potions, 150 nana potions, 5,000 energy potions and 50 impotence potions.

This number was totally random, they had a monopoly, at least in the Capital.

Elara asked them to produce more of the others, they were producing, they just weren’t selling. But she didn’t know that.

The training of Nyme and the others was progressing, now they could defend themselves against attacks. But Kaly wanted more, so she sent the adventurers and them to carry out Guild missions, she wanted them to go through the whole process, but without shortcuts, she wanted them to start with the easiest missions and work their way up.

They accepted. What they didn’t know was that Darius had skipped a few levels with her help. But they didn’t need to know that, it was better that way.

Kaly was naked in the shower room, Darius was with her, and Amanda came in and started bathing him. Orphelia came in next and the three of them were fighting over who would bathe him. Orphelia winced and began to caress her breasts and suckle Darius, she liked the feeling of someone sucking on her breasts especially if it was her son.

Amanda looked on with envy as she discreetly slipped two fingers into her very moist vagina. The scene of Orphelia breastfeeding gave her pleasure. Kaly and Darius could smell the pleasure. But Darius preferred the smell of his mother in the morning.

He was slightly aroused, and his penis was hard, Orphelia stopped breastfeeding and started bathing him. At one point she kissed him.

"It’s been a long time since I kissed my son," she said with a flushed face and a slightly drooling mouth.

Amanda kissed him too, and it was Darius who blushed.

"In two months you’ll be taking the Academy exam, are you nervous?" Amanda asked.

"In parts, yes, even more, so the pressure of being first in something."

"You’ve got it wrong, you first enter the Academy, you study for two years about economics, the history of the Kingdom, some laws, and how to manage land and trade. The second stage is what you’re thinking, in this phase, you’ll study magic, fencing, and other subjects. As well as advanced economics. That’s why many merchants put their children through the Academy, it teaches them a lot."

"I’ll only start studying that after two years?"

"That’s right," replied Amanda. "But don’t worry about it, it’s part of learning, everything takes time, so relax and don’t worry so much."

Darius thought about it and then realized that it made sense, so he decided to continue studying so that he would have a better chance of being the first. But the thought of him not showing his full strength to other people right away was frustrating. Not that he wanted attention, he just wanted more people to see his potential with swords and magic.

After the bath, everyone went to eat and chatted in the dining room. Aeris was asking Kaly for more lessons, and Kaly agreed. Zenith was already looking like a 15-year-old adult and she was doing better at the table. Lucian introduced her as Darius’ servant, and by being a servant it was understood that she was pleasing him in various ways, something normal in the nobility.

He had no idea what to say when he was asked. He thought of servant, it was the first word that came to mind.

In any case, it’s a good justification and avoids questions even the most insistent would accept.

In this world, people come of age at 15, but some people consider 14 to be adulthood, depending on the culture of the country.

"I want Zenith to go to the academy too, it would be interesting for her to learn a bit about our culture. But I think the appearance of adulthood might cause some discomfort."

"I can get younger if I want to."

"Can you?"

"Yes, I can return to a more youthful form, I just can’t get any older."

"Then that’s settled. I also want Nyme to come in."

"For what reason?" Kaly asked.

"Since she’s in charge of potion production, it would be interesting for her to learn economics. Then she can continue at the Academy if she wants to."

He was right, Kaly had already thought about it, but at no point had he made a decision about whether or not to put Nyme in.

"Another reason is that it’s always good to have qualified subordinates, the better they are, the better whatever you plan to do will be."

"That makes a lot of sense," Darius said.

"I also have another warning, I don’t know if this is the best time. But the new heir will be Soren, Elion decided to leave the family after what happened, so Soren will be considered my first son and you will be the third son. It doesn’t change much, but it’s better than being the fourth, at least I consider it that way."

He was right, the closer to the line of succession the better, even for relations with other nobles, being seen as the fourth son is much worse than being the third, since most nobles would never marry their daughter off to nobles with no prospects of a promising future. So these sons start looking for some form of conquest from an early age. But Darius was different, he didn’t care about that, he actually just followed Kaly, he didn’t want everything she wanted for him, but he accepted it since he found it amusing. But at the same time, it’s without much effort on his part.

A few days passed, potion production fell into a routine, they were able to produce potions faster and the training continued. Lucian’s money was used to increase his military strength, and now he had at least the size of an army that a Baron could have. The new army was bigger, but it was still small for his position.

Nyme’s training began to get heavier, she now had more than 6,000 mana points and Darius had more than 30. They were very strong in terms of mana, but still lacked a lot of practical training, so every day they went into the forest and slaughtered monsters in various ways using magic. Zenith also tagged along.

They were curious about the element they each had an affinity for, so they went to a grimoire store and took a test, as well as buying wands for themselves and the others. Mythril wands amplified their power too much and that was a problem, even the potions came out too concentrated and none of them could be used, even after diluting them they could still cause a problem.

Darius has an affinity with the elements of light, earth and darkness. Nyme has an affinity with water and air. Zenith only with fire.

Kaly proposed that they stop using the element they had an affinity with and use one that spent more mana, as this would help to strengthen them. But he also wanted them to train in the element of their affinity, in case of an emergency.

Light magic is related to alchemy, the preparation of healing potions and protection and healing spells. Dark magic was magic that had no relation to the other elements, such as magic that creates bags of items or moves objects.

They left the store with their wands and returned to the mansion, where they continued their training until nightfall.

"Now you need to study to get into the Academy."

At dinner, the butler interrupted and handed Lucian a letter. It was an invitation to a meeting that would take place in a few weeks, finally the rulers of the Central Continent would sign the agreement of the Kings and he was invited to the reception.