God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

"Why you ask? It's because you picked that idiot for an older brother as your successor! What am I lacking, father? I'm smarter than him, stronger than him, I'm better with socializing... heck, I'm the best among the three of us and yet! And yet, you picked that dumb bastard instead of me!

You were the one who betrayed me first, father. You were the one who cast me aside, so I decided to join those who would support me."

Hamstero stared at his son with a pained expression on his face as he stammered, "I- I see, go back. I don't want to see your face anymore."

"Nuh uh." Keith interrupted right as Mikey took one single step back, "Wait bitch, you're done talking to your dad but I'm not done here."

Mikey grit his teeth and even though he wanted to scream at Keith, he didn't. He was one among the people who were present in the event and he had seen Keith's abilities. If there was one thing he wanted the least to happen right now, then that would be to see Keith pissed off.

"What is it that you want, sir Keith?" Mikey asked, but even though he didn't want to aggressive, he couldn't help but glare at the guy in front of him.

"Just wanted to praise you, that's all. It was a smart choice, to give information to the people of neighboring kingdom I mean. If things go well, you'll be able to flee to Morose and life a good life there."

Mikey was surprised with the sudden turn of events and gave Keith a confused look as he nodded, "Yes... that felt like the most logical thing to do. I don't have any intention of living my life under my brother."

Keith nodded and turned to look at Hamstero, "Not everything goes the way we want things to go. I don't know about your reasons to pick the eldest son as your successor, but it's foolish to expect your other kids to be happy with it.

Your family problems aside, you do know how big of a crime it is to betray the empire right? Mikey will get executed publicly in the capital for this offense... as long as I spread the word."

Hamstero understood what Keith meant and even though he wasn't happy with his second child right now, he couldn't stop himself from doing what he could to protect his son's future.

"What do you want... I don't think I can take your side completely. Not when I already promised to support the second prince." the marquess said before he let out a soft sigh.

Keith grinned and pointed at Mikey, "I'll become a duke once the war ends and I'll be able to appoint your son as one of the Marquess under me. So, I'll be taking him and this option is way better than him licking the shoes of our enemies.

On top of that, you still have the second offer left. Give me half of your soldiers and with our current scenario, you can always make a reason they they followed your son and came over to my side.

What do you think?"

The marquess took a deep breath while Keith turned to look at Mikey, "You're fine with that right? Support the third prince and fourth princess and in return, you'll be able to become a Marquess under me."

"You're going to forgive me just like that? I mean... I literally tried to betray the empire you know?"

"Tried. Didn't do it yet, did you?" Keith asked.

Mikey nodded, "Yeah, they've been asking for sensitive information and I've been telling them that I won't give them anything unless I get something in return."

"Yeah, and yesterday they sent out a letter stating that they'll give you four kilos of gold but I killed the messenger and kept this letter with me." Keith grinned as he said this and took out an envelope from his inner pockets before giving it to Mikey.

The young man took it, but instead of opening the envelope, he looked at Keith, "What's the point of reading this when I'm joining your side?"

"You give them the information obviously and take the gold." Keith said as he poured himself some tea.

"What?"

Both father and son were absolutely bewildered with the command that Keith had just given. Wasn't he just preaching about betraying the empire? And now, he was telling them to share important information?

They just couldn't understand the logic.
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"Write a letter stating that the grand duke Marcello Von Cruz is having problems with food shortage and is mostly reliant on neighboring territories. They have good iron ores, a wide river where they can fish in, but they have a huge shortage of grains.

This is very important information but it's fine to share since Marcello is on the second Prince's side. The worst case scenario would be that the Morose Kingdom getting into an open war with the Grand duke, but as far as I can tell, he should be able to hold his own ground for at least one year."

Hamstero nervously looked at his servants and knights who were silently standing near the walls of the room. They had mixed expressions on their faces but before he could say something, Keith spoke.

"You don't have to worry. If any of them even try to speak about this outside, they'll find their entire families murdered. And I'll make sure that they'll be dead too. All I need is one person spilling the beans and everyone connected to them will be killed mercilessly." Keith said.

He then looked at the knights and servants before giving them all a warm smile, but to them, it looked like a devil himself was smiling at them.

"You don't have to worry about them. I'm sure that they'll keep everything a secret."

Keith turned to look at the marquess with one eyebrow raised, "I'll be the one to decide that, Marquess Roberto. Not you."