The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family by Pegaz (good books to read for young adults txt) 📗

“There’s no investigation into what happened in town. None of his knights back home can be ordered to kill me or your mother, and he also tried to kill the princess and her knights before you arrived, but your mother saved them.

“That’s why I asked if you were finished screwing around with your fishing expedition.”

“What happened to the knight that attacked you?” Kelly asked.

“Dead,” John replied without hesitation.

He had used a hundred threads to hit the knight all over his body. Each thread had a strength potential of up to five hundred pounds, and he used everything they could give. John had hit him with the force of twenty-five tons which caused whatever was left of the knight to fly for more than a mile.

John looked at the next knight that came inside the house before speaking to Kelly. “I’m sure you’ve got loads of questions to ask me. We were going to tell you everything on your twenty-first birthday, but we decided to tell you everything when this is all over since you went with the prince for answers and out of concern for us.

“I’ll let you deal with the knights. Whether you kill them, cripple them, or just disarm them is up to you, but I’m going to get the prince to tell us what he really had planned.”

John then used his threads to push the knight out of the house as he walked towards the exit. Kelly followed to see what he was going to do but was amazed the knight got pushed out before her dad even got close.

Outside the house, John walked up to the prince while pushing away the knights that were protecting him.

He used the threads to push on the prince’s body to stop him from running away, and when he got close, he lifted his hand which only had his index finger pointed up.

At the tip of his index finger, he created a small ball of light for visual effects and touched the prince’s forehead. In reality, he used the Soul Manipulating skill through the threads.

John asked questions and the prince answered honestly.

He revealed how he tried to shift the blame for the princess’ death to John and make it so John would blame the king of Bahan for Kelly’s disappearance and eventually her death, causing a civil war.

After the prince explained everything, John turned around to face Kelly. “So, how are you going to deal with the knights that helped him in this plot?”

Chapter 25: The Truth

“I…” Kelly couldn’t find the words to speak.

John laughed. “Now you know how I felt when you asked to kill the bear all those years ago. However…” John’s face turned serious. “You need to make a decision just like I did. I decided to let you kill the bear because killing is a necessity in this universe.

“You heard the prince’s plot. These knights were going to kill you and try to start a war. The knights aren’t the mastermind, but they didn’t try to stop it either and they would’ve done the dirty work for the prince.”

John crossed his arms over his chest as he waited for Kelly’s response.

Kelly tilted her head a little while she was thinking.

“Cripple them,” she declared after a few minutes.

“Oh?” John was surprised.

They’re not the mastermind so they don’t deserve to die. Is that her way of thinking?

I kill sinners and enemies without hesitation while Sarah saves them at least once and only kills them if they try it again, wasting her good graces.

Now Kelly is split between us and cripples the enemies. Did that ‘big argument’ between me and Sarah have any effect on her judgement or is this her honest choice?

I’m not sure if that’s crueller or kinder. Kept alive, they might suffer for years but at the same time, could hope for a full recovery which will slowly disappear.

Not sure if it’s a smart or dumb move either. If they remain alive, then their hatred for her will grow. If they’re dead, then it ends with no chance of them exacting revenge.

“If that’s your choice, then do it.”

John watched his daughter walk up to the first knight. Without hesitation, she broke his bones, tore his tendons, and mutilated his muscles, crippling him instantly. She was good at it, thanks to Sarah teaching her everything she knew about human anatomy.

She proceeded to do the same to the other knights.

John smiled when she was finished. “Time to show you how awesome your father really is.”

Creating a few threads, he wrapped them around everybody and then lifted them in the air. He then started floating in the air before gaining altitude.

Everybody but John screamed, though Kelly only screamed for the first few seconds.

As he picked up speed, Kelly closed her eyes because of the wind, so John used his wind element to stop it hitting her eyes as they travelled while telling her she needed to get used to it.

It didn’t take long for John to arrive above the Gralux Kingdom’s capital.

When he arrived, he used his water, wind, dark, lightning, and ice elements to replace the blue skies with a quickly forming storm that was ready to hit the capital.

Tornadoes formed around the capital wall, lightning hit some of the houses, and rain and hail pelted everything while the entire capital went from a sunny day to pitch black storm clouds in seconds.

John decreased his altitude with the group and soon entered the castle. Kelly was walking at his side with the prince behind them and the knights floating since they could no longer walk.

Kelly was still in shock about her dad being able to fly, change the weather, and alter the wind, but she kept a poker face while watching everything.

Stopping a few dozen feet away from the throne, John let the prince walk past him and stand still in front of the king.

John then explained what the prince had done and sentenced the prince to death.

Raising his hand,