Rise of Myriad Magic Emperor

Chapter 170: Happiness And Sadness

[Filon City, City Lord mansion]

Since the changes made in the administration system and work distribution, the workload of Roland has increased instead of getting decreased. The past three months have been hell grinding with no sleep and only work, work, and work. He still can't believe that he somehow survived under the burden of documents that would arrive every day without stopping. And the nightmares about that have yet to vanish.

Finally, a week ago, everything started to become moderate and he had time to take some rest.

Currently, he was going through the document about the overall production of the magic crops in past months.

Reading the report he was smiling brightly as he stamped the document.

'Three million tons of magic crops and three million tons of rice and pulses are more than enough to sustain the entire population of 9million 536 thousand people of Buraford Kingdom. But it's just the production of a single month. Aside from the sales of C, D, and E grade, I also had to increase the storage facilities for F grade magic crops eaten by ordinary citizens. So much work still remains'

Thought Roland and looked at the picture on his table with his daughter Lily.

'It's been already four months since I had last seen her. Have you really forgotten your father my lovely daughter...'

His thought was suddenly interrupted by a knock on his office door.

"Come in"

Getting Roland permission the guard entered the room and bowed.

"Lord Roland, Miss Kaya is waiting outside"

Hearing that Roland stood up.

"Please, tell her to come in," said Roland politely.

The guard nodded and went outside to inform Kaya.

Within some seconds Kaya entered the room with a bright smile "How have you been Roland?"

"I am doing well, Miss Kaya thank you for asking. May I know what brought you to Filon City? Any command or order from King or Almon city?"

"You're really quick to come with a conclusion that I have come to pass on a command"

"It's because whenever miss Kaya is visiting, it is always related to official work or business"

Kaya smiled "No, this time I have just come to tell you about your daughter and how much progress she has made in her cultivation. Also, I have come with some people. They were swallowed by various space crack throughout the continent and currently waiting in the hall room"

"Then, this is not an official visit, miss Kaya?" said Roland as he stood still and waited for Kaya to reply.

"No, I just took this task upon myself as I had to visit Forbidden Forest anyway"

Roland nodded. He already knows that recently the kingdom has constructed new teleporters in various villages in the outer boundary of the Forbidden Forest.

'Aside from that, how did they reach the city so fast?

"Miss Kaya about Lily, how is she?"

"About her? She is doing very well, not only is her talent in wind magic understanding and control on the level of extraordinary geniuses. Her cultivation speed is also abnormal; she already reached the last stage of the Magic Knight stage within a short period of four months. Moreover, I am a hundred percent sure that by the end of this month she will reach the Magic Champion Stage. So you don't have to worry about her and she will surely visit you soon after becoming a Magic Champion"

Hearing that, a thin smile appeared on the face of Roland as he glimpsed at the picture of Lily.

'So within a small period of four months, she is already closed to becoming a Magic Champion stage expert. I never would have thought that my little daughter will become one of those renown experts; who I have admired since my childhood days'

'I still remember how Lily had almost died during her birth. Can you see Linda, our little daughter had grown so much in such a short period of time'

Thinking about past events, Roland's eyes started to become tearful and turned around to hide his joyful tears.

Kaya on the other hand had not expected such an extreme reaction from Roland.

Five minutes later, Roland regained control over his emotions and looked at Kaya with a grateful expression as he bowed.

"Thank you, thank you. Miss Kaya for guiding my daughter"

"No, Roland. I am just completing the order given by my lord to guide her. It's her own hidden talent in cultivation that, she was able to reach her current cultivation so fast" said Kaya

"Talking about talent, Roland in your family or Lily's mother family Lineage ever had any powerful magic-users? Do you know about any inheritance from your ancestors?"

Roland shook his head

"Both her mother and I are just ordinary citizens. I got this position of city lord after many promotions in the last 30years and as you can see I am already 55years old. While her mother and I had a large difference of ten years but against all odds we married and lived together for 20years. She died three months after giving birth to Lily. Before the birth of Lily, her mother was pregnant three times. But sadly, every time our child would die within two to three days after birth. The mysterious thing was that all of them were girls with deep green hair and golden eyes"

"Child with golden eyes and deep green hair?" asked Kaya.

Roland nodded in response

"We had almost given up and I was also considerate about the declining mental and physical condition of Linda after losing three children. Doctors had already declared that she does not have much time left and at least can live for three more years and still wanted to leave behind a child. When Lily was finally born, she too had green hair and golden eyes, and just like the previous cases her health also started to decline. Miraculously, a young man visits our mansion giving us a strange herb telling us to keep it and feed it to Lily if we had no other choice to save her life. Before we could ask about the details of the herb and its use. He had vanished like he was never there before. I and Linda finally decided to use the herb and Lily was saved after drinking a soup made of it. Moreover, her hair and eyes color slowly started to change from green hair and golden eyes to red hair and blue eyes. As you can see, that is the current appearance of my cute little daughter. I was quite surprised when she suddenly demanded to become the sworn sister of Kai. I was first against it but due to mysterious reasons, I saw the happy expression of Lily, I agreed. The other reason was Alfred, I had known Alfred for many years and we're aware of his eyes of judging people and after hearing all the praise about Kai from him. I agreed to Lily's demand"

Hearing that entire story, Kaya was doubtful.

'Was Lily born with some special physique for cultivation. But that cannot explain how her dead sisters had the same physique and that herb and the mysterious young man who came to deliver it. Who was he? Was it due to the effect of the herb that her special physique was suppressed and her recent growth is the result of that hidden special physique?"

Learning about Lily's past raised many questions inside the heart of Kaya but there was nobody present to answer them.

'Maybe who can answer all of my questions will be that mysterious young man.'

"Roland, do you remember the appearance of the young man"

"No, I have no memories of his appearance. I just had a fuzzy image of that young man in my head. It's like somebody has erased his very appearance of that young man from my mind"

'It is definitely weird, just who is he?'

Thought Kaya for some time and looked at Roland.

"Thank you, Roland, for telling me so much about Lily's past and sorry that I have you remember those painful and heartbreaking memories"

"No need to say sorry miss Kaya. I had already gotten used to these memories and they are not completely sad. They are a mix of wonderful memories which I share with my wife and my daughter" said Roland with a gentle smile"Just take care of Lily for me and make sure she is happy. It's all I have demand from you miss Kaya as a father"

"Don't worry Roland, She is doing well. Lord especially is very fond of Lily and treats her like his real sister. She is definitely an irreplaceable position in our family, so are you, Roland. So, if you face any problem you can reach out to us without any hesitation"

Roland nodded and gave her a file.

Kaya: "Hm?" 

"What is this file?"

"Documents and report of this month's crop production as well as my application for construction of a new storehouse to store crops for preservation. I believe Miss Kaya had no plan of staying here and will be returning to Utopia city through the teleporter in Almon city. So, please do me a favor and ask them to approve the construction of Storehouses as fast as possible"

Looking at the sly smile on the face of Roland, Kaya shouted in her mind.

'This guy is trying to take advantage of my position!'

"Miss Kaya, please don't be displeased. After all, you already know about the complicated process one has to go through to get an approval of any new construction within the city. If Miss Kaya requests it, it will be approved within a week or so, on the other hand, it's for the people and me. Are we not family?"

Kaya sighed "I will see what can be done. But are you not taking advantage of your connection?"

Roland laughed and answered with a smile.

"It's a skill of a person to have a good network and will be a waste not to use it. Especially, when I am doing it for the people, and not to satisfy my needs"

Kaya can't deny Roland's words. Looking at the file. Kaya turned around to leave for the capital.

It had already been a day since she had left the capital and had no idea about the situation there.