Godfather

"Sir, forgive me for asking, but who is the young master's mother?"

Alfred smoothly changed his form of address, leaving Bruce somewhat speechless.

His butler was excellent in every way except for being overly concerned about his lifelong happiness. Alfred was always worried Bruce would grow old alone and that the Wayne family line would end with him.

Bruce sighed before answering, "Her name is Talia al Ghul."

Du Mu stroked his chin. "You mean the daughter of Ra's al Ghul, leader of the League of Assassins?"

"You know the League of Assassins?"

"I know a little."

Ra's al Ghul, codenamed Master Ninja, was said to have lived for seven hundred years.

The reason he had lived so long was because he possessed a bug known as the Lazarus Pit.

It was a magical pool. Soaking one's entire body in it could heal most injuries, restore youth, and even bring back someone who had only recently died. It was practically a respawn fountain.

Of course, such powerful effects did not come without a price.

Anyone who soaked in the pool would go through a period of extreme mania, confusion, and aggression. Even afterward, their personality would grow increasingly extreme.

Bruce's father-in-law, Ra's, had relied on the Lazarus Pit to revive himself time and again, until he had completely gone insane.

He believed human civilization had become irredeemably corrupt and needed to be purged on a massive scale to restore nature and order. Thus, he formed the League of Assassins in an attempt to destroy human society.

Of course, this League of Assassins was not the group of assassins who loved performing Leaps of Faith and mowing down enemies with Hidden Blades, nor was it the sort that specialized in American-style Iai and fired bullets that could curve. They were a