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Chapter 21 - Ch. 21 The Conquerors 1st Wish: Peaceful Days of Dawn

Alexia ArkHangel, A girl from a common background with missing birth records, she was integrated into a part of noblility specifically the ArkHangel Nobility, After her integration into the noble world she became The Inherited Ruler of The Imperial Treasury. Alexia a girl with no family name, a girl born with a disability that empeed one's eye sight, she was cursed with an illness called blindness. She was born within one of the most poverty plagued area in the imperial Capital, the slums that was within the domain of Lord ArkHangel, into poverty she suffered through what everyone in the slums also experience, injustice and inequality, in the early years of her childhood she saw the slums as a place where the weak went to die, and those still living within it are just suffering a fate of those that died escaped from, the poor are killed almost every single day just by looking at those people of higher class that pass by and laugh at every single person they come across, kicking punching and sometime Killing those that looked at them weird.

Alexia was born from an unknown mother, she was almost a month old before being abandoned in a landfill nearby the slums located at the southern part of the Imperial Capital of Eos, in the very moment that she was left in that landfill she was blessed by a force that was kind of natural, but being a newborn month old baby she was unable to save herself and was left for almost 4 days, starved and crying a loud baby could be heard if someone were able to be close enough to hear such a noise, before she was found she cried and cried, her life depended on it, and luckily enough she was finnaly heard, Alexia was found by a woman she picked her up and brought her to the inner slums, a woman that wore a violet clad dress that looked like it was made for the nobility and a beautifully red colored hair that perfectly matches her eyes that shined bright blue and aquamarine, it was a woman named Lisa that heard the cries one night just before the baby could die from starvation, this was a hard decision for Lisa she never had the financial requirements to even take care for another life, but in that spur of a moment she decided that she will raise a child for her own even if it meant that there will be a chance that the child will hate her in the future for being abandoned as a child not knowing who her true parents were.

In the place nearby where Alexia was abandoned just before Lisa left she found an iron plaque with an ingraving that said, "This Girl's Name Will Be Alexia." The name Alexia was given to the abandoned child with unknown origins marked by a small metal with an ingraving of a name that said Alexia, "Then it is decided, You are Alexia, my sweet little angel Alexia." Lisa smiled towards the baby she held in her hands dearly and the baby though starved smiled back like a child getting held by it's mother for the first time.

Days were now filled with joy, Lisa was not lonely anymore she found a reason to live forward and do better for her self, a child.

She was taken under the care of Lisa through many years she was under her meticulous care, the dangers of the slums proved to be a painful experience one time when Alexia went out to find Lisa she was walking around where they lived and passed by someone of nobility, it was a boy of the ArkHangel blood, she was kicked to the ground by this boy and thankfully the boy and his lackeys didn't find interest in the girl and left her dirted in the ground, she was scolded thoroughly after this even bringing her to the place where Lisa works and becoming someone that everyone loved within the place.

When she turned 5 the man behind the infamous gambling ring of the slums made an exception to Lisa, she was now the second in command of the entire operation, she was kind of like a handler that handles Intruders, enemies, trades, and dealings. She was one of the heads like an Honorary part of the Phates, Hugh took a liking to Alexia when he found out why Lisa had been leaving a lot and being late to some things, he treated her like his own granddaughter, though spoiled granddaughter he still was happy that Alexia treated him as one. Following this Hugh Phates decided that they will now love within the deeper territory of the Phates Family, "Assign a Living Quarters for my Grand Daughter!" When the boss proclaimed his followers moved accordingly, it looked like it was done in a blink of an eye, They were giving a new home to stay in, and it was protected by someone powerful enough to even kill nobility without reprehentions.

Before any progression of her Illness, just before her birthday just before she turned 6 she was fine and was not showing major signs of any illnesses, until some days after she turned 6 symptoms would show that she was going blind and it was attacking her eye sight quickly, she was taken to a doctor in Lisa's workplace and was diagnosed with an illness that was of magical origin and was making her go blind Hugh worried and Lisa in Shambles they didn't know what they were supposed to do if ever Alexia was to go blind, the doctor took some time meticulating any and all possible causes for this but he couldn't, even with Phates angered pressuring the doctor to do something he couldnt even if he had everything in the world, medicine in the current generation was unable to do anything, the causes of the disease being unknown means that it was something that is ahead of it's time and will likely outgrow Alexia.

This Illness is called, Artifact OverUsage Life Magic Replacement (AOLMR/Mythopia) - Magical Artifacts have a magic requirement that need the user to succumb to the mana consumption of any contracted or non-contracted personal used artifact, it will leave the user disabled in his/her senses if not supplied and is used for elongated amounts of time though the areas affected may vary depends on the type of artifact or if the artifact is conditional.

With Alexia's artifact being her eyes and of Original Class it was requiring her life force if her mana reserves were to ever be depleted she would begin Mythopia when she turns 8 and a half.

Her eyes were failing her cause she lacked the magical capabilities to power her eyes sometimes her vision not only blurs but it also turns dark, as she later found out her eyes were something of a powerful catalyst of magic when she saw her self in the mirror with her eyes glowing of a different color it was a beautiful shade of red and yellow a color that was reminiscent of the original itteration of the primordial flames, but her body unknowingly not familiar with the feeling of magic never supplied her eyes with any drop of power since the day she was born, and by the time she was 7 she was already blind, though each new reserves of magic within any living human being if it was depleted in a manner where it is specifically a constant ammount it would hold for a decade at best and if it was of higher class of an artifact it will only last for a year or two before it will begin to consume life force, if ever the user has felt the presence magic or if it was integrated within them since a user and his/her age will determine Mythopia as reserves of magic will grow within time, age, strength, type, and naturality of magic and the usage of the artifact.

Every single second of the day she did not know what is happening around her, being taken care of by her Phates held a much more difficult task of keeping her safe, 12 years since the begining of the gambling business Phates grew to have a couple of notable enemies, hateful nobility that once lost to him and was holding a deep grudge toward him and powerful figures that hated his business practices, she was confused as to why she was situated in a moment where she would be confined within a safely guarded and secluded place where no one from the outside mor inside can infiltrate, but she being unable to now live outside just accepted the fact that she can't live a normal life anymore.

A year ago Jacuess was a gambler within the slums, he was one of the seven people that defeated Lord Phates the leader and the top of the gambling ring in the slums at that point he became somewhat of a tool for Phates but a tool for winning games, he beat him in a fair match with no cheating even Phates himself acknowledged the loss he got in that situation trust grew within the man and the Lord even going as far as to include him within the ring's activities and made a deal to him to let him play with the big shots of the nobility, 10 months after becoming a big shot within the scene he was eaten broke by none other than Phates himself it was quick and decisive, he lost hard and he lost all that he had up to that point, it was one bet and he lost everything he ever had everything he could have had, he was now down and the ring leader now had Jacuess and his life stuck in a debt and they took everything he had but said that it was not enough, He was falsely acusated and was thrown out without a say in the situation, he was now broke even after all of that glory being well off by gambling he was now nothing but a shadow of his former glory, he got out of the place immediately and noticed that the woman he had met within the ring was outside taking a stroll, and ofcourse Jacc wanting to play it cool with a beauty began to hit on her trying to cope with the painful loss he had just endured, the woman that he had met a couple times around the gambling ring was Lisa, prior to this happening he usually chats and talks to a woman with brown hair during times when he played against others, It was Lisa she was being hit on by Jacc she familiar with this just let it be and ignored his flirting, she was already aware what had happened because she was the one that orchestrated the entire thing she saw something within Jacc and Phates being trustful of the man thought of a way to conceal his identity and create a safe barrier within information to avoid enemies to attack ones that are close to him, she saw the entire thing unfold Lisa was glad that she had found a man to take care of her daughter though skeptical at first she did know that he was a nice man a womanizer but a good man, Lisa being as kind to him and already trusting Jacuess based on his behaviour of being a self centered man that took favours seriously and honorably she took him in as a friend and Jacc owed her after she let him find a place to live which lead to the life of the man that was once at the top rivaling the leader of the gambling ring himself Jacuess Valentine was now becoming a caretaker for a child by the woman that he owed, later he was informed as of why they had to do it and was deeply apologizing to him even the lord himself, they said that "Since Lisa became the ring's right hand the activities of the people that want us gone has been rising and rising, just on the last month we've eliminated 52 assassination attempts on Phates Head while he had Alexia with him, it was the final straw we decided that we needed someone to take care of her not just as a caretaker but a body guard."

Phates looked him serious in the eyes and said, "You know boy sou should reveal who you truly are, your power is unmated and something I have never even seen before, and I've seen much more powerful people that can destroy the imperial Capital in a word."

He was Jaccuess Valentine, a deccendant of the Velentine Bloodline and one of the experiments to revive Jackson Valentine, there was an experiment within the Imperial Capital, Lambda-30 the revival of the strongest magic user in the existence of Humanity, it was a failed project, 30 experimental subjects 8 lived and 22 subjects died, one of the subjects that lived to tell the tale about it was Jaccuess, the Lambda-30: Original and Primordial Magic Revival, an attempt to regain the lost and unknown magic of the Primordial and Original beings, Jackson Valentine had magic of these types and this was the attempt to revive those lost magic and it was a success.

This began a long conversation and story telling session about who Jacc truly was he explained and told them everything from start to finish, even though he didn't want anyone to find out the jig was up he told them everything from who he really was and what he was capable of, in turn Lisa and Phates told everything they have done to defend the gambling ring and it's survival, the enemies that came with it and everything they needed to tell Jacc, Lisa also told him about who and where Alexia came from, the time came and began their introductions Alexia was confused at first but Lisa finnaly told her the truth, Alexia was finally not left in the dark she finnaly understood why she was kept within this unbreakable dark prison, she was finnaly accepting the things that happened and this treatment of her, after that they laughed a lot during the entire day and that was how life in the slums of Alexia and her small world became 4 and was expanded by 1.

Before she truly accepted this new life she asked him, "Jacc, I Am Counting on You.

The True Begining on this new life of Alexia has Begun.

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