Set-up: Hollie and Ashley

The system told Seth that Maya was still at her manor, so he walked to Hollie’s class, where he waited in front of the door for her to be done with class. It was almost noon and there was no point in disturbing her class.

In less than five minutes, the door to her classroom opened and students started walking outside. They bowed toward Seth one after another, before continuing on their way.

Hollie was the last one to walk out and gave Seth a questionable look when she noticed the serious look on his face.

“Let’s talk inside.”, said Seth as he walked past her and sat down on one desk. Hollie looked even more curious as she walked back inside and locked the door behind her. The last time Seth looked like that, he rode to a neighboring kingdom to break someone out of prison.

Seeing Seth just staring at her with a smile and not saying anything, she frowned for a moment before creating a small air shield around the two.

“I’m leaving the kingdom.”, said Seth right off the bat, making Hollie’s expression turn even more curious as she sat down on her desk as well.

“I suppose you don’t mean like your visit to the Wrath Kingdom.”

“Indeed.”, said Seth with a nod before adding, “I’m leaving and going to the Blood Kingdom in the south.”

“Blood?” asked Hollie with a frown before her eyes widened in surprise and she exclaimed: “You want to claim it?”

“Indeed. It’s barren, infected with criminals, basically the garbage dump of the continent, but it’s still a kingdom. One easy to take over as well.”

Hollie nodded with a pondering expression before asking: “So, are you here to say goodbye?”

“Not really. I was hoping you would be interested in joining me.”

Hollie sighed with a frown before taking a few moments to think about it. Raising her head, she asked: “So, what are you offering?”

“Knowledge, answers, and a place by my side.”

Hollie took a moment to think before nodding back. “I’m in. The knowledge at the academy has long all been read by me. Just let me know when you’re ready to leave.”

‘Exactly how I expected it to go.’, thought Seth as he sat back up and walked in front of her. Bringing his face close to hers, he grazed her lips gently on his way to her ear.

“Good choice. I’ll let you know when we’re leaving. Continue as always so that the kingdom won’t suspect anything. I still have some more stuff to take care of.”

Hollie’s breathing became slightly ragged as she moved her legs around his waist, her intention clear. Seth chuckled and brought his head back in front of her face before closing his eyes and taking her lips for his own.

Hollie’s eyebrows rose in surprise, having never kissed someone before, not even Seth, but eventually, she closed her eyes as well and followed his lead.

Feeling her hands make their way to his trousers, Seth pulled back and smiled at her. “I still have some things to take care of today and don’t really have time for fun.”

“A quick one.” Replied Hollie, not bothering to stop undressing him. After releasing his cock from his pants, she placed it at her entrance and pushed on his back with her legs, letting Seth slide right in by the side of her panties.

“Ah~~” she moaned lightly as Seth started kissing her again while thrusting deep inside her. Since he had more things to take care of, he let his lust energy seep inside her.

“Ahh~~ Ahh~~ Ahhh~~” Hollie started moaning with every thrust, the pleasure slowly building up and pushing her over the top. After two minutes of constant orgasms from Hollie, Seth released his own seeds deep inside her and pulled out.

Pecking her lips again, he laid her flat on the desk so that she could rest and said: “That should hold you for a while.”

Hollie opened her eyes to look at him and said a simple, “You cheated”, before closing them again and falling asleep.

Seth smiled wryly and teleported out of her classroom into the empty hallway. Looking at all the classroom doors ahead, a thought came to him.

‘Any fourth shell earth teacher I could convince to join me?’

<Weak chances with the time you have left.>

‘Figures. Look for an opening until we leave. If you can’t find any, I might just have to steal one.’

<Acknowledged.>

Walking towards the exit of the academy, he asked the system: ‘Give me General Ashley’s location.’

A map reappeared in Seth’s vision and he saw the general was inside the knight's training grounds of the inner ring. Seth continued walking out of the academy and entered a secluded alley.

Not even one minute later, out of the same alley, a completely different-looking young man made his way out. Seth had used the system to copy the look of one trainee under general Ashley.

He easily passed by the guards on the inner ring and walked into the training grounds. In there, he found the general directing a mock battle between two platoons of rookies. Approaching the general, Seth bowed and said: “I wonder if the General can grant me a few minutes of your time.”

General Ashley didn’t even spare Seth a single look, his eyes still focused on the battle happening ahead of him. Frowning slightly, he asked: “What for? And why aren’t you taking part in the training?”

“Because I need to speak to the general about the letter you showed me in my office quite a while ago. The one about the ascended knowledge of the kingdom.”

General Ashley frowned even harder until his eyes widened in surprise and he turned to look at Seth. “Ascended Seth?” he asked in uncertainty.

Seth nodded to confirm his identity before looking towards a small office in the back and asked: “A moment of your time?”. He didn’t bother explaining his ability to change his appearance.

The general nodded and said to the others: “Everyone take a break. I have some business to take care of.”

Having given his orders, he took Seth towards his office. Once inside, he locked the door behind, thinking Seth might have considered his offer, and didn’t sit down as he waited for Seth to speak first.

Seth changed his looks back to his normal one, amazing the General completely before he sat down on a chair and said: “I know what General is thinking, but I didn’t come here to accept your offer from the last time. I came to propose a new one.”

General Ashley nodded and moved to sit down as well, curious what Seth had in mind.

Seth looked straight into the general’s eyes and said: “I’m planning on leaving the kingdom.”

Seeing that the general was about to decline, Seth lifted a hand to stop him and continued: “Don’t be so quick to decline. Listen to all I have to say and you can tell me your opinion after.”

“In the future, an alliance will form between the surrounding kingdoms. The alliance will hire ascended from the far north and wipe out the entire kingdom to get their hands on the knowledge locked inside the academy.”

“The general must already suspect this would happen eventually, but I am sure the kingdom has less than ten years left to exist. The king has no way of dealing with this at the moment, and neither has the academy.”

“There are many ascended in our ranks, but they have no chance of fighting against the enemy threat once that happens.”

“My original plan was to slowly take over this kingdom and grow its strength so that it might fight back, but I had some differences of opinion with the academy headmistress and now I have to alter my plans.”

“I plan on heading south and taking over the Blood kingdom. A power takeover would be quite easy in that rotten place. With the Blood Kingdom as a starting point, I’ll start expanding north, towards the Wrath Kingdom, taking them down as well in less than four years.”

“This would lessen the threat on Oath and also put me in a position to protect it, but to manage such a large territory, I’m going to need people I can trust by my side. I also want to take my students with me since they are powerful ascended in their own rights, but to do that, I need to take their families as well to prevent the king from using them as leverage.”

Having said a small summary of his plan, Seth fell silent and let the general think.

General Ashley kept frowning throughout Seth’s speech and asked: “Do you still want to take over Oath as well?”

“Of course. I plan on gaining as much power as possible and forcing the royals into submissions. As the general said the last time, I do not need the knowledge in the academy, being quite capable of building one on my own.”

“In a few years, my power will outgrow that of the Oath Kingdom and I would be able to easily control all the southeast of the continent.”

General Ashley pondered for a while longer before shaking his head with a sigh. “I understand your plan, but I don’t even know if it will succeed. Abandoning the kingdom my family has died to protect for so many generations is not something I would do lightly.”

“I understand, but general, you must understand this is the only way to protect the kingdom. What would it take for me to convince you to join me?”

“We don’t know what will happen in the future. What you said might indeed be the truth, but as long as there’s a chance things will not end up as you said, I won’t even consider deserting with you. I’m sorry. The same thing you said to me last time, I will say it back to you; Go home, Ascended Seth. I will forget this conversation ever happened.”

Seth smiled and sat up. Creating two small books out of creation energy, he placed them on the table and said: “Read these books. You know where to find me if you change your mind.”

Once Seth’s words ended, he teleported out of the office. He already did his best to convince the general to join him. Everything else was up to him.

General Ashley picked the books from his desk and looked at their title. He ignored how Seth created it, how he disappeared, how he changed his face. For a man with a plan as grand as he did, it was obvious he had some sort of confidence in being able to succeed.

<Journals of a rewritten history: The end of an Oath.>

<Journals of a rewritten history: Fall of the Ashley knight family.>