"Oh my god"

"Unbelievable! This can't be!"

"Haiizz!"

"I knew it! The patriarch would never let a nobody marry our Young Mistress!"

The people gathered around became restless since this was such a big and unexpected reveal. After all, how could they imagine someone of such extraordinary yet controversial origins be the one who was going to marry their Young Mistress?

After all, the difference in their clan's status was just too much. Even if they worked hard in increasing their clan's status for thousands of years, it wouldn't still be enough to catch up. In fact, the gap in status between them would only increase.

At the same time, they had heard of the famous Icemoon Dynasty since they were one of the most powerful werewolf dynasties that even ruled over other werewolf tribes.

Sage Han had a stupefied expression since he knew best how immensely powerful the Icemoon Kingdom and the Hellborn Dynasty were, especially since their standing was far above even the upper-class clans!

They were not even a clan but more like entire nations who were also not living in this world but another higher realm!

No one among them had ever gotten a chance to visit this realm, thus making it hard to get more details about them, other than the fact nobody should offend them.

Nyissa felt flabbergasted but didn't change her expression on the outside since she speculated that Viktor was spouting all this nonsense to trick Sage Han.

She knew this could not be true since she was the one explaining things about the Icemoon Kingdom and the Hellborn Dynasty when Viktor asked her which clans were the strongest among the vampires and werewolves.

She explained about these two since there were some rumors about a prince of the Icemoon Kingdom eloping with a princess of the Hellborn Dynasty. But this all happened around three thousand years ago, and nobody knew if these rumors were just slander or true even to this date.

Still, it was quite a juicy topic, even if the rumor didn't make sense since vampires would never mix themselves with werewolves and vice versa. Their bloodline naturally makes them abhor each other, so a union would seem very unlikely.

However, Sage Han himself was quite knowledgeable about many things, including the fact that in the past, there had been very rare incidents where a vampire and a werewolf got together and even had children to give birth to rare half-bloods.

But all or most of them wouldn't even live past day 1, and even if they did, they would be very weak to the point that even ordinary humans can hurt them since their bloodlines abilities won't function properly, and they would die out within a few years. It was a sad and harsh fact but a true one that proved the universal truth that beating the natural order was impossible.

A union between these two races was thus seen as blasphemy of their own sacred bloodlines, and those who were caught would probably face death as punishment.

That was why those who got themselves involved in a situation like this would obviously run away, no matter what their statuses were. That was why Sage Han had always believed that there was some truth to this rumor in the past of a prince of the Icemoon Kingdom and a princess of the Hellborn Dynasty running away together. Nobody had any whereabouts about them, including their own people.

However, there was also the rumor that the prince and the princess who ran away together had given birth to a son together. And now Viktor was claiming himself as the son of the controversial couple.

Voroz knew this was not true since he knew Viktor's background, especially the fact that he was the Blood Demon that had been like a nightmare to them in the past. Now that things came to this, he felt that he absolutely could not reveal the truth now lest he foils Viktor's plan or whatever he was trying to achieve here.

Brad had no idea of these names, but he knew Viktor and his talent in bullshitting people without lifting a finger. He could see that Viktor babbled out some big shot names by the looks of everybody's expressions, including even Sage Han, whose expression seemed frozen.

Karn's eyes were twitching as his expression became dumbfounded, trying to remember what Viktor said just now, wanting to know if he heard him right since it was just too much to take.

Even though Sage Han was momentarily shocked to hear Viktor's words, he was experienced enough to know not to easily believe whatever comes out of anyone's mouth.

So he asked with his hands behind his back, "Do you know the kind of claim you are making right now and the repercussions you might have to face if you are lying? It won't be from my clan or me. You would be facing punishment, but the very two names you mentioned would be coming after you, especially since you just indirectly hinted that the infamous rumor surrounding them was true. I will ask again. Are you claiming that you are the son of the First Prince of the Icemoon Kingdom and the princess of the Hellborn Dynasty?"

Sage Han mentioned these two people since they were the ones who ran away together after supposedly falling in love, and to this date, nobody even knew if they were alive or dead. Some say that their respective families caught them and had them executed silently to prevent any further defamation to their sacred bloodlines.

The higher the status was, the more severe the punishments would be. This was something everybody knew.

Viktor maintained his confident expression and said, "I had no choice but to reveal this since things have come to this. I didn't want anybody to know about my background for obvious reasons, but I am not afraid to face my own people."

Sage Han pulled his brows together and asked in a serious tone, "Even if you claim so, how can we know if you are lying just to save your own skin right now?"

Viktor chuckled, "Save my own skin? I just revealed myself and exposed myself to a lot of dangers, which you know very well. So if you really want confirmation, why don't you go and ask them?"