RISE OF EROS

Spigas was scared to death. His move of trying to take advantage of Andrew upon hearing that he had relations with the royal family and the Caltu family without investigating him thoroughly had put him in a difficult situation.

His greed had led him to seek benefits, but it was his shortsightedness in sending people to kill Andrew when he was rejected that had him scared right now.

Since he ordered his death to the men he hired, he immediately began to investigate Andrew, to see how he would handle the situation after the assassination and then he realized that Andrew was more powerful than he seemed.

Spigas' haste was not only due to his arrogance and greed, but he also thought that Andrew was not very strong, as he only traveled with one guard. Spigas assumed that Andrew who only had Oliver as his protector, looked like the typical rich kid who thinks he can do whatever he wants.

Just think about it, in Spigas' mind, Andrew was traveling with two beautiful women and only one guard. He has connections with the royal family and the Caltu family, so ignorant as he is he would look like any rich kid who boasts of his status.

However, when Spigas was doing business, he asked some nobles who are clients of his about Andrew and was shocked to hear that not only does he have master-level experts, but rumors say that even a demigod protects him.

Even among the nobles, few know about Andrew's hidden card. Only the royal family knows that Andrew can acquire the power of a powerful demigod. The demigods of the royal family who saw it decided not to tell anyone.

Not because they wanted to have this information only for themselves and take advantage of the situation, which was not out of the question, but they also did it in order to show the confidence they had in Andrew.

They hid everything, so Andrew could still keep his hidden card from everyone else and that was something he appreciated. It's true that rumors of a demigod protecting him spread, but thinking that someone protects you and knowing that you are that person are two different matters.

Regardless, the point in this situation was that Spigas didn't even have the confidence to surpass the expert masters below Andrew, so thinking about the demigod was just seeing death.

It was for this very reason that Spigas didn't leave his inn much after learning this information. He hadn't told anyone about what had happened, because he knew that if he did, he would be expelled from this place and it was the only place he was protected at the moment.

Being the property of a noble, Spigas knew that they wouldn't attack him, as it would cause a lot of political problems, but that was because the owner of this place didn't know that he had tried to kill Andrew or Spigas would be out on the street right now.

The perception of the people in the city about Andrew was that of someone who shouldn't be offended and no one would give Spigas an inn after what he did. Ironically, Castor and the others thought the same and that's why they just watched him and didn't attack.

What they didn't know was that if they approached the noble owner of this inn and explained the situation to him, that noble would even capture Spigas and hand them over on a silver platter trying to gain the approval of Andrew and his collaborators.

Now with the situation so problematic, Spigas didn't know what to do. He was sure that a calamity awaited him the second he left this city and he was thinking of solutions, but nothing came to his head.

It would be one thing if the men he sent had managed to assassinate Andrew, but seeing that the day was almost over and none had returned to report, he assumed that the mission failed and that he now had a fearsome enemy.

Being at the limit of his wits and sanity, it occurred to him to go to Dunnas Palace with gifts and blame one of his subordinates, but seconds later he denied this idea, because of how stupid it was.

Who would forgive an attempted murder or believe such a story? Tearing out his hair, Spigas drank a lot of wine trying to drown his worries, but it seemed counterproductive.

His caravan employees, guards, and experts, began to suspect that something had happened because after the morning of sales, they had not gone out to negotiate any other business deals for the rest of the day.

If it were anyone else, everyone would think it was normal for a traveling merchant to take a break after the trip, but the people who worked with him understood him better than anyone.

They knew he was greedy and always did his business quickly. To be more precise, he did not last more than 3 days in a city. He always sold everything on the first or the morning of the second day and on the afternoon, and third day he would stock up and leave for another city to continue his business.

For this reason, they thought something strange was going on, but they didn't know what it was. They were unaware of his plan to kill Andrew and even more so they didn't know Andrew's identity, otherwise they would all have quit.

Unfortunately for him, his hired experts weren't as inactive as his employees. Since they are in charge of his security, whenever they arrive in a new city, they look for information and they have heard about what had happened in Dunnas in the last few weeks.

They knew about Andrew and immediately classified him as a character not to be offended, but they still didn't know that their boss had done precisely that which they feared so much.

Spigas' second day in the city was the same as the afternoon of the first and that worried everyone even more. At this point, the experts protecting him understood that there was a problem, but they didn't know what it was.

However, these men, like all experts on the continent, fear death the most, which is ironic, since their lives are always at stake, since those who are affiliated with an organization or family are always on the front lines of battle.

Curious about what was happening to their employer, these experts began to investigate. First, they asked the employees, especially Spigas's trusted employee and right-hand man, if he knew anything, but they were more lost than the experts.

Unable to find out what was happening, they approached Spigas himself, but seeing him drunk and disheveled, they couldn't get anything from him. Well, almost nothing, since the very fact of finding him in that state showed them that whatever was happening was more serious than it seemed.

Now they were not only surprised and worried, but scared. If their boss, even with them, was in such a bad state, it meant that these experts were no guarantee and that was scary.

With no sources of information, one of the experts made a rather bold assumption and told his companions, "Could it be that that stupid fat man offended that young man who is on everyone's lips?"

When his companions heard that, they immediately denied the possibility, because they knew what that implied, but now the doubt was planted in their heads and they decided to find out.

They had noticed Shadow agents spying on Spigas. These agents, although good in stealth mode, are not experts, so they cannot hide from the experts, but the experts never thought it was strange, because whenever they arrived in a city, there were always some spies watching them.

It is normal for many people to be interested when someone new and high profile arrives in the city and although not so famous, Spigas was a moderately wealthy merchant.

With this in mind, the experts protecting Spigas approached one of these spies. The Shadow agent who was captured, so to speak, had nothing to do, as he was powerless against the experts, but he was not afraid either.

First of all, since he trained for this profession, he knew that he was always in the danger zone. Second, he knew that if something happened to him, the other party would suffer greatly, and lastly, the experts who captured him did not really restrict or intimidate him.
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Rather than a capture, it was better to describe it as the experts forcing a conversation with him without letting him escape. The Shadow agent looked at them with a calm expression, although it was hidden under a mask.

Despite not being able to see it, the experts could sense that this man was not worried and that alerted them even more and they decided to approach him with kindness instead of arrogance, as they did not want to offend anyone.

"Sir, we don't want trouble, we just want to know, did our stupid boss do something wrong?" one of them asked, demeaning Spigas so that in the event that it was true that he offended someone dangerous, they could part ways with him and not suffer the consequences.

Shadow's agent is not stupid. He quickly picked up on this expert's subtlety, but he didn't say anything regarding it and decided to answer honestly, as he believed that things could be resolved more easily.

"Yes, your boss offended the young master of our family," Shadow's agent said in a calm tone, even though he was clearly declaring that he was their enemy.

Worried, the experts asked again, "May we ask, who is the young master of your family?" to which the agent answered with the same calmness and frankness, "The fiancé of the Caltu family, friend of the royal family and master of the Heavenly Palace, Andrew."

The agent added all these titles because he wanted the experts to know who he was. If he only gave his name, they might not know who he was, but there is no one in the city who does not know who Andrew with all these titles was.

Upon hearing this, the experts' eyes widened, because the hypothesis they had, had been confirmed and it was the worst possible scenario, so all five of them simultaneously cursed their boss, "That fat fucking idiot!"