The moment you turn ten years old your existence is recognize by the force of the universe, with that your connection it’s established and you can get access to the status window, the tool that permit you observe the amount of progress you do in your life, what skills do you have and obtain points with every level you gain and modify your stats with them.

  It doesn’t matter your race, the same rule apply to everyone, gnomes, humans, elves, fairies, dwarfs or beast people.

  For that reason is that no one celebrate the birthdays of their children until they turn ten years old, doing so before that it’s a social taboo and people believe that would only attract the wrath of the gods.

  In my past life even if I was only the daughter of a servant, my father continue to be the king and he needed to put a front before the common people, that’s the reason why he organized a grand party the moment I turn ten years old.

  Things are different in this new life of mine, my father forms part of the nobility but I have never seen him in person, but for the conversations between Liam and Mateo, I know that he has visited them several times since they were born.

  Taking into account every detail, I shouldn’t expect something from this place today that I’m turning ten years old at midnight, I believe things would be different if Leonore was here with me, I know for sure she would do everything in her power to organize a small party, if not with my family at least with some servants.

  Thinking about Leonore puts a smile in my face, I decided that her memory should only be linked to good things, and I must not cry when I remember her. I wonder what that young woman can be doing in her hometown, she’s probably trying her best to make her parents happy, I really wish she encounter a good partner, maybe a significant other or a friend whit whom she can share her concerns.

  Keep rotting in bed won’t solve anything so I get up from bed, motivated to start a new day with good attitude. I must say that my previous room was much bigger than this one, after the mansion that the Viscount assigned to my mother collapsed, we were forced to move with the fourth wife, on the bright side I was able to see how upset my mother was with this arrangement.

  Everyone was surprised when that house was destroyed, after all the materials they used for the constructions were especially selected, the walls were reinforced with runes to withstand a catastrophe. Afraid that this was an attack from another kingdom, the king himself give the order to do a proper investigation, so a lot of researchers and adventurers inspect the area, but were unable to discover anything conclusive, they were unable to discard a possible attack from another nation.

  I was afraid I would be discovered but I guess I was lucky they didn’t bring any seer that serve the king, maybe the king sees them as too important to dispatch one of them to our territory.

  The mages that come to our house inspect the area with their spells and the only thing they discover was that the laws of magic were used in the area what leads to the universe responding in this way.

  The only person who can manipulate magic in House Davenport is Freya but they check her and notice how she isn’t a proper Magus, what leads to them thinking of a more complicated plan, no one thought of the small girl who watched everything from the side with a smile on her face, even though she just lost the place she used to live.

  I must say it was funny to see Freya shaking in her shoes when she was in front of the royal guards.

  Putting aside all the thoughts about the past I continue my daily routine.

  I try to get ready for my day, but before I can get a simple dress, I’m interrupted by a servant.

  “My Lady, we were given orders to give you different clothes for today.”

  “What is the occasion?”

  “That’s…” She cannot answer me and lower her gaze.

  “It’s the birthday party for Liam and Mateo, my Lady.” Another servant interject in the conversation when she notice how her coworker cannot answer to me clearly.

  “Only for them?” I question them because they must know that today is also my birthday.

  “That is what they said.”

  “And what happen to today’s training?”

  “They cancel it together with tomorrow’s training.”

  “I should be informed with time about this kind of situation.”

  “That’s not our problem.” It’s the last thing one of them say before throwing at me a dress and a pair of heels. When they complete their task, they turn around and exit my room.

  It stills perplexes me how badly the servants can treat me, it’s getting worse the more time I spend in this house. I used to think that the servants in the previous house treat me with a lot of disrespect but if I compared them to the ones in this new house it’s entirely on another level.

  They would never treat this way any of my relatives, it’s only because they know how I cannot do anything to them, or at least they think so. If I truly wanted, I could find a way with magic to make their lives miserable, but I know that they aren’t worth the effort.

  “Don’t you think we went too far with what we do?”

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  “Relax, she cannot do anything to us, everyone in this family despise her.”

  “What if the Viscount gets informed about it?”

  “I’m telling you, you’re getting too worried when there’s no need for that.”

  “How do you know that?”

  “Don’t tell the others, but the fourth wife gave me the order to treat this girl the worst possible way I can.”

  “She truly do that?”

  “Of course, you know how much she hates the fifth wife since both of them come from the commoners.”

  “But the fifth wife serve in the military and obtain a lot of honor.”

  “That’s precisely why the fourth wife hates her, she is afraid of her, and how the Viscount can place the fifth wife above her.”

  “What about the other three wives?”

  “The other three are nobles, even if they were lesser nobles before marrying the Viscount, they are entirely in a different level.”

  “So they don’t care about the fourth and fifth wife?”

  “They do care, but before they do something to them, they prefer to compete among themselves, otherwise it would be too shameful to them.”

  “You know so much Monica!”

  “I’m telling you girl, I can teach you a lot of things if you do what I say haha!”

  “I’ll do my best!”

  I can hear the voices who exit my room and for some reason decide to stay outside my door, I wonder if they are just wasting time because they are supposed to help me get ready and don’t want to do it.

  [New skill acquired]

  [Eavesdropping Lv1]

  I take the dress from the ground and start looking at it closely, I notice how it’s not a simple dress, and it’s a ball gown, it has a layered skirt that falls in gentle waves to the floor. The fabric it’s soft to the touch and know it must be crafted from layers of soft lavender silk organza and shimmering silver tulle, chosen to highlight my hair and eye color.

  I try it on and notice how each movement causes the gown to catch the light, giving the illusion of moonlight on a still lake.

  Putting the heels on and walking across the room I feel like a different person, I need to do something with my hair and I know for sure that no one it’s going to help me with it.

  Trying my best with what I have at hand and with the experience that I had from my previous life, I styled it in soft curls, with a dainty circlet of platinum filigree resting across my brow, without any accessories in my possession I need to settle for this.

  Before going outside my room I come in front of a mirror and I’m surprised by what I see, I knew how beautiful my face look but still that didn’t prepare me for this.

  ‘Entirely breathtaking’.

  I don’t want to be full of myself or conceit due to my appearance, but it’s getting hard the more I look into the mirror. I know that when I finally grow up and become an adult my beauty can bring to their knees to any man, and that’s not arrogance, it’s the pure truth.

  The moment I open my room in order to exit, I can see the faces of the two servants who deliver my ball gown and notice how they are surprised the moment they see me from head to toe.

  “How…”

  “What…”

  “Have a good day.” I say to them before departing.

  “What do we do?”

  “I think you say that she cannot look good or else we were going to get punished.”

  “Yes… yes!”

  I hear how behind me one of them start running at me with all her might, without turning around I take step aside and she falls to the ground, I can see a little blood coming from her palm for the hit she received.

  “Agh!” She screams from the pain and direct her eyes at me with a lot of rancor in them, as if it was my fault for not getting her hit me from the back and probably rip my dress.

  She looks at her palm and see the blood coming from it, realizing she just failed her plan, she starts panicking looking everywhere until she see my dress, and I know what she wants to do, before she can extend her hand and touch the dress with blood, I give take a step to the side again and this time I have enough.

  Hearing her conversation I know that things cannot go on like this, if I’m unable to do something to them with magic then I can do it with force, for the past five years my body has been train through hell and a simple servant cannot compete with me.

  With my hands I grab the lower part of the skirt in order to not ruin it, and give a kick to her shoulder.

  “Agh!” Her screams are a lot louder and I know that she’s in a lot of pain.

  I give another kick and this time it’s to her head, I can see blood coming from her forehead.

  “You! You! You!” She cannot speaks properly due to the shock she’s feeling.

  “Yes, me.” I look her directly into her eyes and see how terrified she’s to me. “I have enough of your tricks, if you want to disrespect me I don’t really care, but don’t cross the line, if you want to get physical then I don’t mind teaching you a lesson.”

  “Lady Carlota would know of this!” She screams at me with fury in her voice.

  “Then go and tell her about it, she cannot break the rules of the family, it’s forbidden to interfere in the life of the rest of the children of the Viscount.”

  “That can only apply for the sons! You are the cursed child!” She says while she incorporates herself from the ground.

  I come closer to her and slap her in the face with all my force sending her to the ground again.

  “If I’m the cursed child I can share with you my curse.” I say it activating change of atmosphere, debate and deception.

  She starts shaking from fear and cannot look me in the eyes anymore.

  [New skill acquired]

  [Intimidation Lv1]

  “Do you have anything else to say?” I ask the other servant who don’t know what to do, only seeing us from afar.

  “No my Lady.” She seems like she’s about to cry.

  I continue my path, already forgetting about them.