The Kingmaker System

Duke Arthur Aurelius was a sincere and kind-hearted man, he had grown with the love and care of his parents that’s why he had developed the nature that only sought good in the people.

But such a nature was bound to be bruised by the coarse and hard minds of the people who only sought their own interests in the world.

Arthur’s kind and meek nature was loved by his wife Serene who unlike him was a strong-willed and fierce woman. She wasn’t scared of speaking her mind and would do what she wanted even if it displeased her father.

Arthur loved his wife dearly and losing her had crushed him but he still gathered himself for his son and his newborn daughter. He knew he was the only one for them so, he had to do all he could for them. They were everything for him, his son, Rune was a gentle and kind boy who would fulfill his responsibilities well and loved to take care of his ailing sister.

Reina was born with a weak constitution which made it hard for her body to withstand any stress. Upon diagnosis, it was realised that the amount of mana that she was born with was too much for her body and that rampant running mana was the reason why she was constantly in pain. It was a miracle to see that she had recovered from that, but even he had noticed that the soft-spoken and sweet child had somehow changed after recovering.

Yet, Arthur blamed himself for it, he blamed his incompetent nature because of which his children had to risk their lives to solve his problems.

After that, it was like Reina was become more and more like her mother. The exceptional intelligence, the courage, the maturity was something he had only seen in his wife. If she were alive, he wondered how the picture would be.

He often fantasized the life where his wife were alive and they would be living happily together, he wondered what his wife would think if she got to know of their daughter’s feats. She would have been proud and would have been supportive if not asking for some tasks herself.

But he was still quite lacking. He couldn’t calm his heart whenever he would hear of his daughter being in some dangerous place or being hurt. It would break his heart and remind him of the darkest moment on his life when he had lost his wife. He didn’t want to go through that pain again, but he couldn’t even bring himself to stop Reina.

Amidst all this, there was only one person who could empathize with him. Never in his life had Arthur thought that the man whom he was so scared of could become the only person to whom he could confess of his worries. It was his father-in-law, Serene’s father, Marquis Desmond Fairisles.

"I know I can’t stop her from doing what she is doing," Arthur said as he sat before Marquis Fairisles.

It had taken him a lot of courage to come up to him, and also a couple of glasses of strong wine.