Chapter 4: Eternal Wealth and Basic stages of a warrior

"I wonder how powerful the Holy church of the middle continent is to force the four Empires to sign a peace treaty, probably the Holy church won't be a normal church at all maybe it has huge influence? But the sudden death of one of the fronts line generals is too suspicious maybe he was assassinated I guess" Because of lack of information Xavier wasn't able to find out anything.

"I should figure this later on but for now I should focus on my current problems" Xavier got up from the bed and opened the door. When Xavier opened the door he found the same maid waiting probably waiting for him. Xavier asked, "I forgot to ask but what is your name?"

The maid replied "My name is Lily mi lord."

"Don't you have a surname or last name?"

Maid said "No only people with noble status have surname unlike people with status like mine"

Xavier didn't say anything and kept quiet and after some silence he changed the subject, "Tell me how did our family end up like this?"

lily said, "Before the death of your grandfather he sold 95% of the land to royal families, nobles, and dukes, and obtain a vast amount of wealth comparable to old and powerful dukes, but secondly to the royal family, and then he distributed 80% of the wealth to his four most trusted subordinates to safeguard the wealth and gave only 20% to our family. This information wasn't known to even your father. In the family only me and your grandfather knew this information but after your grandfather died I am only the person who knows this information"

Xavier was shocked "How is it possible for person with a maid status like yours to know this much information" this words didn't offend the maid even a bit because it was simply amazing a maid status like her knew such information other people may even have suspected her as a spy. She just smirked and said "I was the personal maid of your grandfather"

For her to know such information this meant his grandfather must have trusted her the most and his grandfather without a doubt was a wise man because he knew his family would be targeted by other nobles, so he sold all the lands and distributed all his wealth to his trusted subordinates which would make other nobles take a lot of time to figure out this information and obtaining those wealth would even be more troublesome and considering they may offend the royal family they would

drop the idea of stealing the wealth "Lily how much loyalty did they have for my grandfather?"

Lily said "Mi lord you don't have to worry even the slightest about their loyalty. They have more loyalty towards your grandfather than the Empire itself because they had sworn eternal oath In front of the God"

Eternal oath aroused curiosity of Xavier "What is the eternal oath?"

"Eternal oath is an oath which is taken in front of the God itself to say the least if either side takes eternal oath but one of the sides violets the Eternal oath, they will face the wrath of the Gods so Eternal oath is taken very seriously."

Xavier sighed in relief "If that is the case then I wouldn't have to worry about them for the time being

and focus the current problems. Now the tell me about the current military power of our family"

" Our soldiers number up to ninety, soldiers many of them are ordinary soldiers while some of them have reached Bronze stage and a single person has reached Iron stage" lily explained

Xavier asked "So, you mean soldiers have stages?"

lily nodded and replied "The soldiers class are divided into 11 stages- Bronze stage, Iron stage, Silver stage, Gold stage these are the basic stages of a warrior. And above all of them are Combatant lord which is uncommon even in Vertex Empire. Most of our soldiers deserted to other nobles or were poached by other nobles when your grandfather died otherwise our military power was a hundred time stronger than now and those who weren't poached are people who have only ordinary talent or have no future at all to tell the truth some baron family are even stronger than our family"

Xavier kept quiet for some time an asked "Weren't there any loyal soldiers in our family"

lily said "There were but most of them left our family and became mercenary to this day, but they often come to our family pay respect because they knew if they stayed in our family, then their family would also be implicated, and they feared they may also harm our family"

Xavier felt sorry for those soldiers because he knew it wasn't their fault, and they didn't desert the family for wealth but merely to protect their own family and only if the titanblade family had their former strength and a capable leader like his grandfather then even a Duke wouldn't dare to poach their men.