Chapter 221 (1): Darkness Knight Wayne
“Back then, Silvia and I were on the verge of breaking up. She left Londan for faith and obtained a position in Palis...” Auston lost himself in the memory.
“Did you anger Master into leaving home because you were messing around with other women?” Wayne said sarcastically.
“Do you want the story or not?!”
“...”
“As a member of the Tulip Families, I was raised to feel great aversion for churches. Faith makes one resolute, while religions make one foolish. All followers are lunatics.”
Auston bluntly expressed his derision for religions. “However, they control the greatest power in the Chosen Land—magic, and only magic can defeat magic. To get Silvia back, I have to acquire greater power through faith.”
There was something he had left unsaid, such as his life essence. Silvia had dragon blood, while Auston was only a regular Silver-ranked mage with average talent. He would never reach Gold rank normally. While he was dating Silvia and during the years of their marriage, his weak physique had been pushed near the breaking point.
To make his wife happy and to earn himself a voice, he fought to climb up the ladder and broke down the barriers of the magic monopoly, becoming part of the leadership of the Ministry of Magic through his bright mind. And with the benefits granted to high-ranking officials, namely, creative accounting, he took a great many magical items to strengthen himself.
It wasn’t ineffective, but it lacked impact. Facing his dragon-blooded wife, he was still unable to put up a fight.
Other men felt cockblocked when their girlfriends’ relatives visited before marriage, and after getting married, they saw those monthly visits as salvation[1]. His wife’s relatives were always his saviors before and after marriage.
Good news: the magical items did help, and by putting more and more stat points into his constitution, Auston had successfully improved his ability to take a beating.
“The root cause of my conflict with Silvia is the fact that she is a devout disciple of the Goddess of Nature, while I’m a free mage with no faith to speak of...”