Legacy of The Arcane Lust Mage-Chapter 31: Exposed?

When he first cultivated after activating the rune, while wholly focused on guiding the refined mana and observing the rune, he had also noticed the commotion the mana converging toward him was causing.

Unfortunately, he had already started cultivating and couldn’t stop. Fortunately, though, it appeared no one in the family noticed it and he was safe.

After that, he had decided to cultivate very late in the night but after returning from Amara’s place, he didn’t want to waste a few more hours doing nothing, so he just began cultivating, hoping that since he wasn’t caught the first time, he wouldn’t be caught this time either, especially since around an hour had passed and night had deepened.

But as they say, luck is not constant and he was caught. However, he wasn’t too worried. At worst, he could just reveal he was now able to cultivate earlier.

So, at ease, he walked over and opened the door.

Upon seeing who it was, he relaxed a bit more.

In front of him was standing Simone, dressed in a beautiful red dress that enhanced her beauty and elegance with one of the female Knights who guarded her door.

"Hello, Aunt Simone. How come you are here at this time?" asked Lukas after briefly admiring her, a curious and puzzled expression on his face.

Simone stared at him, speechless seeing him act as if he was unaware.

Then she said, "Aren’t you going to invite me in?"

"Oh, sure. Please come in." said Lukas, stepping to the side to give her way.

"You wait here." Saying this to the Knight, Simone entered the villa and Lukas closed the door after giving the Knight a nod.

A few moments later, the duo arrived in the living room and sat on the sofas facing each other.

"Forgive me, Aunt. I’m unable to offer you any wine, but I can try making you some tea if you want."

"It’s alright." Simone shook her head and without beating around the bush directly asked, "What were you doing just now?"

"I was cultivating." Lukas casually answered.

Simone stared at him and he met her gaze. A moment later, Simone heaved a deep breath and asked, "You underwent a second awakening? Those things you bought today were for that purpose?"

"Yes," nodded Lukas.

"That fierce mana convergence... was it you undergoing awakening or normally cultivating?" Simone the last and most important question.

"First convergence was due to the awakening and second because I had activated a one-time use treasure to increase my cultivation speed." Since he couldn’t tell her about his legacy and the rune, he had no choice but to make up a believable lie.

Simone was silent for a while as she stared at him. Then she stood up while saying, "Congratulations for the successful awakening! However, you shouldn’t have wasted that one-time cultivation treasure like that.

Mana concentration in Neera city is very thin. It would have been better if you had cultivated in your cultivation chamber using a few dozen mana stones. That way, not only would you have absorbed purer and more mana, you wouldn’t have alerted people either."

By the time she finished speaking, she was already out of the living room.

Then he heard the door open and then close—she had left.

Lukas sat there in silence. He understood a few things from this encounter.

First, he should cultivate in a sealed cultivation chamber using mana stones. That way, his cultivation speed would be even faster as the rune wouldn’t need to exert itself to gather ambient mana and thus there wouldn’t be a commotion.

Second, while she might look out for him, she would not meddle in his affairs nor would she advise him. If he wanted to keep his awakening a secret or reveal it, it would all depend on him.

Third and last, he didn’t need to worry too much about people and even Raymond coveting his secrets as long as he was prudent.

After a while, he stood up and after locking the door, he went to his room to sleep.

...

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"...Fourth Young Lord..."

’Hm? Who is it now?’ Lukas thought in his sleep when he heard the sound of the door being knocked and the faint voice.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Come out, Young Lord Lukas!"

"Fuck!" cursed Lukas in annoyance and was about to sit up when he felt weight on his chest.

Opening his groggy eyes, he saw it was Oriana’s head and one of her legs on his thighs as she slept peacefully, looking so sweet and innocent that he wanted to continue gazing at her if not for the incessant banging on the door.

Gently prying herself off him, he sat up and left the bed.

Before going out to see who this annoying bastard was, he went to the bathroom and washed his face.

Now fully awake, he headed out and amidst the banging of the door, he pulled open the door.

Clack! 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Seeing it was a servant, his expression turned cold.

Normally, not even Knights would knock doors so loudly when they went to summon a young lord or young lady—of course, they didn’t need to either because they could just have their personal maid wake them if they were asleep—but this guy, just a servant dared to bang the door without any hesitation or fear.

Even now, facing Lukas, he showed no fear nor did he apologise and directly said, "Lord Viscount has summoned you. Go to the main hall quickly."

"I understand." nodded Lukas before taking a step forward and swinging his hand toward the servant’s face.

Slap!

A crisp sound echoed.

The servant cupped his cheek in a daze.

For a moment, his mind couldn’t comprehend what just happened but when the burning pain on his cheek hit his nerves, his eyes reddened in fury and his fists clenched tight. He looked as if he was about to attack him.

But then he took a deep breath and said through gritted teeth, "You are lucky you have to go meet Lord Viscount, otherwise I would have thrashed you so badly that even your mother would have difficulty recog—"

Slap!

Before he could finish, Lukas once again slapped him, this time on his other cheek.

"Shut your trap and get lost. And don’t you dare ever show me your face, otherwise I’ll kill you." Lukas said, his expression frighteningly calm despite the murderous intent welling up in his heart.

He absolutely abhorred the feeling of being looked down upon by even servants. Even when he went through his inherited memories and saw how original Lukas was bullied, he would feel uncontrollable rage.

So, how could he endure it when a servant showed him such an expression and threatened him face to face?

If it wasn’t for the fact that he still didn’t know whether Raymond would stop targeting him after he revealed himself, he would have killed him at this moment.

Bang!

Slamming the door shut on the dazed servant’s face, he grumbled to himself for a while but then fell into deep thought.

’Has he already dealt with the bloodflame energy? And why is he summoning me? Did he already find out about me cultivating?’

He wouldn’t be surprised if he saw how much disturbance he caused last night, but when he headed to the main hall after washing up, he realized he had guessed wrongly.