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Chapter 4 - [ JOURNEY: 004 ]

If a female successfully conceives a child they will do anything to make the mother and unborn survive and live until the day the child could receive the blessings of their chief. The mother has to carry her child for twelve months it'll be hard on her part since the risks and danger was high enough to either kill them both or their child. The children that have made it alive still have low chances of surviving considering the situation they had to face.

The males need to hunt and tend the vegetative they need to survive and it was also their duty to protect to fend off wild beasts and the people who are hunting them for the sky-high bounty resulting in to decrease in their numbers. If they were captured they will be forced to be a birth machine to the greed of the human that successfully captured them.

The Quietus Race have otherworldly aspects in many ways; be it on their faces, body figures, strength, etc. that make them perfect. This is the reason why they were sought out by young maidens and young noblemen. Maidens and noblemen who don't know it but their parents smell success with power to rule the weak.

The women of their clan are fragile like porcelain glass they can't handle any kind of heavy labor or labor that will make them exhausted so if they might be one to be captured death might be their way of escaping.

Since humans believe that if they succeed to have a descendant with the Quietus race they will be blinded that they have the power to rule and make their name known to the world of living it was comparable but lower with the rank of their royalties. This practice was not known by the royalties to have a falsified peace.

Making them submit will not work much likely to bind them with a slavery contract. Before even the capturer can touch any of their hair they will resort to killing themselves with an unknown method that baffled many witnesses it.

The possessions that they have will mysteriously vanish.

A sunny morning with loud cheering and noise. Each way has its resident brimming with joy and excitement. Celebrations are coming to cheer for a lucky female that got pregnant and it's halfway for the new blood to see the world. They enjoy every second that had passed like there's no tomorrow.

All is well and everything seems perfect for the couple but then it was disrupted by screams, shouts, running, and fire. The once happy and loud celebration turns into a massacre of those who survive run into the forest.

Together with her husband and others they run to the forest intending to hide but her luck seems to seep away from her grasp. Seeing there is no choice, others who are with them stop and turn to fight their chasers willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the couple's safety.

She watches how each of them fights to stall time even her husband joined to make both the mother and child could run away. She saw how powerless and mercilessly killed each of her kind by the enemy even her husband only she could do was run, far away.

While she was running, fatigue and hunger is accumulating. The enemy was also catching up to her. An arrow struck her stomach. Barely mustering strength, she still runs, she chooses to run to not be in vain the sacrifices of her clanmates and also her dear husband which makes her filled with many emotions. These emotions burn to fuel her will to live and survive.

With her newfound strength, hopes to stay alive, and give birth to her child so she could raise it. But this is not enough to make it through with little strength she drags her exhausted body to an enormous tree she sat between the protruding roots to hide.

For a little moment, she feels at peace and serene but knowing that the perpetrator is still chasing her a hardened resolve took place in her eyes. Gathering all her strength altogether with her life force (soul) she gave a seal and protection to her child in her belly that will protect it from any harm.

An ancient spell was evoked bursting with great power that surrounds all of its surroundings with golden lights. Its center is the woman who was sitting and leaning towards the sturdy tree.

Before closing her eyes and leaving the world to join with others, she had a tender look etched onto her face and caressed the belly as if touching a newborn soul and carrying it to a field full of blooming flowers. The faint sobbing can be heard through the dense forest but just like the passes, it had already faded leaving a tranquil forest.

Root-like branches emerge to her own body directly connecting to the tree and the dirt as if it has its own life.

Bearing a child could bring you unfathomable experiences that only you and your partner will know. Seeing your child be born in a world full of mysteries, how they would grow, and thread the path of their future is a different feeling if you don't see it because before your child be aware of all things you both already left in this world.

The soldiers who are chasing after them to capture them alive pass by a big tree as they chased. The woman whose appearance no longer bored its former otherworldly beauty when she was alive turned into a bark root-liked with different kinds of flowers blooming around. It exudes an imposing aura with majestic beauty letting people who might see it become an entrance.

A soldier was standing in front of a big tree curious when the soldier saw the bolt of an arrow stuck on it with a trace of mysterious blood. Noticing it the soldier shouted that their target was near the area. Casting another glance at the bolt of an arrow that was pierced into a human-liked bark with many kinds of blooming flowers that shines magically when the sunlight rained down through the gaps of trees above, painting the surrounding with gold colors. The mesmerizing sight creates a scenic view that the soldier admires.

The soldier's expression was painted suddenly of forlorn, longing, and pain. The soldier fell into deep thought, but the soldier himself will know what it was before the soldier joins the others to search.

After all, this will be left behind the past, it was covered in dark pitch, and it will only slowly unveil when the consciousness of the chosen one awoke from a deep slumber. Every life starts with pure pitch black, with no knowledge of everything, and only if one's regained consciousness and awareness will only be aware of everything; in the age, it has full of the grasp of it.

Now Let us set sail on a journey, and discovery, and bring a new beginning of a new life and story.

Will you be tagging along still?

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