Fate's Dark Side Chapter 542

Many pregnancies were lost this way, but soon they succeeded and gave birth to the first Stepanov success.

He wasn't immune to silver, but he had a tolerance. He wouldn't stay down like others and would recover faster than everyone. They were happy about this and stuck with the formula. By the time the children that had developed tolerance started having children by outsiders, they realised it weakened the genes, so they made a very drastic decision," she said and paused because it was difficult.

"They started inbreeding to concentrate the gene in the next generation and the ones after them," she said, and Tamia gasped.

"First, it was between siblings, then cousins, and it widened until it was no longer incest.

This practice created a wedge between the Volkovs and Stepanovs, but each bloodline did what it could to survive.

The success and incest practice came at a cost. They lost their alpha genes and eye pigment. Their wolves' dark eyes were white too. Where ours flashed black in our hominid form, theirs flashed white.

It was bearable, but the Alpha gene was the worst sacrifice.

Whereas the Volkovs had an abundance of strong Alphas, the Stepanovs had none.

The highest were Deltas, with the strength of Alphas but no command. Desperate to have an alpha gene, a distant relation to the Stepanov's inline of succession travelled to the east to mate with an Alpha female. The experiment was unsuccessful, and she ended up birthing a Beta. It was the closest to Alpha they could get. I do not know the man's name; I am just telling you history based on how my father told us, and his father told him, and so on. Back to what I was saying,

they had a beta, but he did not have silver eyes and was not as strong as the Stepanov Deltas. He was tolerant of silver, but that was all. The child had no immunity, so his father dumped him and returned to the north.

He reported the outcome of his experiment to their family head, and they decided they would embrace their Delta genes and immunity.

That is the history of the Stepanovs.

One you will never read anywhere because Dimitri decided to wipe them away along with their story," She said, and Tamia and I were stunned.

I did not like that they did not teach this in school, but my grandfather might have been worried that others might follow in their footsteps. Seeing what they tried to do to my people, I believed my grandfather was right.

I could not fault my grandfather for taking that step. I had nothing against Amelia. She was a good woman, but the others were scum. Seeing the blood that might run through their veins was that of mutiny; I couldn't expect less.

"I guess grandfather did the right thing because they are scum," I said, and my mother looked worried.

I knew she wanted to say something and was afraid to speak up, so I sighed and looked at her.

"You know you can say whatever you like," I said, and she nodded, but it seemed she was trying to arrange her thoughts.

"Do not take offence with what I am about to say, Sylvester, but I am telling you the truth behind our families. Your grandfather was in the wrong. Adrik was the one in the right, but history is always told by the winners," She said, and I frowned at her.

"The mutation happened over six hundred years ago. The families lost their power and were demoted to council members, but the arrangement wasn't good for our world.

There was a lot of chaos and mutiny. Decisions were slow because it was a form of democracy. Mind you, before the people's revolution that took the monarchs out of power, the Stepanovs and Volkovs had the same power. They alternated succession between themselves. Power always switched hands every hundred years.

We live longer, so waiting for one to die before handing it over is unnecessary.

The longest a king was allowed to rule was a hundred years.

Rarely did they stay that long because of war and mutiny, but that was the order.

Gregory Volkov reached out to his cousin, Adrian Stepanov, so they could seize power again to save our world.

It was a great combination of powerful Alphas and Delta-like alphas immune to silver. They knew they would win and take over, but their unwillingness to force the hand of the people made them settle for Lordship.