The Ancient Heir

- Deep inside the Ancient Country forest, The sacred mansion of the imperial birthplace -

Felicia Lee had been away from her husband for eight months and missed him crazily every second of her life.

At the moment, she was feeling a great stressful pain unceasingly on her surrounding stomach area like multiple knives stabbing her nonstop with vengeance. Cold sweat dripped on her temple like dew in the morning.

"Aunty..., I think the baby is coming!", she said nervously to the beautiful middle-aged lady that was sitting right in front of her to enjoy their daily breakfast times.

"L-let me called the sacred midwife!!", nervously her aunt called her private guard to relay her message.

"Right away, empress!!"

Her aunt, the empress of the ancient country in name only, took her to the sacred bedroom where all the imperial ladies of the ancient court had giving birth to their heirs.

"Aunty..., I am scared! My Mama died from childbirth! Please take care of my baby if I died!"

"Shush!!! Your mother was a bonny one, but your voluptuous hips were born for childbirth!"

The Sacred midwife was entering the room with calmness and in the middle of the room, in an instant, warm water was filled inside the round wooden sacred tub that was only as tall as her knee and with the size of the dinner table for four people.

"Please, remove your clothing princess and enter the warm sacred tub!", asked the sacred midwife politely.

Felicia Lee complied and amazingly the warm water that immersed her naked body up to her breasts was able to take her vicious pain away.

"Breath slowly to regulate your inner chi, princess!!", the sacred midwife asked gently.

Then the midwife was touching Felicia's stomach while administering her chi power.

In the speck of time, Felicia's body was opened to the invasion from within. Her baby was coming forth out the way without any difficulty, in a push, her baby was out floating inside the water and immediately the sacred midwife took her baby out from the water - 'A beautiful baby boy' - and gave his naked body to her warmth.

In a blink of an eye, her baby boy latched on her strongly and greedily suckling on her nipple.

"Ohhh..., what is he doing?!", she asked confusedly without a clue.

After watching the whole birthing process in silence, her aunt chuckled and answered softly, "He is eating. Your milk is the best nutrition for his growth!"

Felicia's face turned red like a plum blossom of the information. After her placenta stopped pulsating and drained all of her birthing blood, the sacred midwife cut her umbilical cord with her chi power, in another push, Felicia was giving birth to her placenta. Picking up her placenta from the warm water, the sacred midwife said with great care, " I would make a birth nutrient pills with your placenta, princess! Please drink 3 pills a day for a month to nourish your health!"

She nodded weakly while her baby boy still latching on her breast greedily for his healthy nourishment. The suckling motion inflicted a great feeling of motherhood inside of her, she was very tired but joyful with the new addition in her family.

Succeeding her midwife duty, the sacred midwife bowed with her knees on the ground and said respectfully," Congratulations princess Felicia for the birth of the inheritor of the ancient kingdom!"

"Thank you for your contribution, sacred midwife! You may rise up now, I am thankful for the loyalty of the sacred clan and I promise to award the sacred clan handsomely when I claim back the ancient throne !!"

"Thank you, princess Felicia!!"

The sacred midwife thought inwardly of the promise.

Of course, the princess would be so generous toward the sacred clan service, after three generations of only females, finally, a baby boy was born to be their ancient king. The premonition from the sacred priest indeed came true after she followed the sacred priest's well-known proposal to seek the dragon seed from the faraway country.

"What would you name him?!", her aunty asked while holding the beautiful big baby boy. It seemed in a couple of hours, her baby boy had been furiously doubled in size.

Laying in the big bed inside the sacred guest room that she had occupied for the last eight months, Felicia thought was flying to the beautiful powerful man that she had left behind and subconsciously she answered, "Alex.., Alexander!!"

For the longest time, she had decided to name her baby Alexander for a boy or Alexandria for a girl - in case if the sacred priest premonition was not coming true -. She felt guilty that Alex Lee might never know that he had become a father. She sighed at the desperation thought.

Her aunt's voice brought her back to reality.

"In 6 years, we could claim back our throne from the traitors! We won't have to hide secretly in this old sacred mansion anymore!", exclaimed her aunty, Elizabeth Titan, the second generation queen that was dethroned due to the treacherous act of her deceitful husband, her third generation cousin from the Titan tribe.

"Aunty..., I want you to assure Alexander safety. If for any reason I believe that his safety would be compromised, I would return to my husband's side. He is a powerful warlord, he could protect us!"

Elizabeth Titan's eyes were widened in fear of the outrageous idea. With anguish, she said, " Men are treacherous, Felicia! Look at my cunning husband, for power, he dethroned me and married the ancient country enemy of a thousand years, just to strengthen the ancient kingdom and gained heirs. I was a barren queen! The deserted woman! My only reason to live now is just...vengeance!"

Felicia was looking at her aunt with mixed feelings. And with a soft voice, she responded, " They will kill us if they found out I had given birth to the rightful owner of the ancient throne!"

"Don't worry Felicia! We are safe! The sacred land is only open to the direct line of the ancient inheritor! The Sacred priest's powerful physic power would protect us! In the next five years, we would train your son with martial arts and ancient wisdom! Then we would reclaim the throne and get rid of the traitors!"

At the moment, unaware of the importance of their conversation, her son was glancing toward her while suckling his thumb.

Felicia smiled when her aunt gave him to her side.

Such an adorable hungry son!

She would protect her son with all her might even if she had to sacrifice her life to protect him.

In the same moment at the Emperor's country...

Alex Lee had immersed in his work to train the new batch of soldiers when a white dragon cloud appeared on the distant sky. He paused to look at it in scrutiny, however, none of his soldiers aware of the weird phenomenon. In the ancient scroll that he had read during adulthood, he knew the sign was particularly special. It marked the birth of the ancient ruler of the ancient country twas hidden from the modern world.

By why he was seeing this?

The sign was only shown to the closest relative of the rightful ancient ruler. His mother's family clan had moved out a thousand years ago from the ancient country. They had even changed their family clan name into 'Lee' and disconnected any contact with their inner family direct bloodline. His uncle never disclosed him their original ancient clan name. Maybe their blood was associated closely with the ancient ruler, thus he was able to see the dragon mystical sign on the sky.

He ignored the special feeling that was rising deep within him like a whirlpool from watching the dragon sign.

He was still numb from his wife's death.

And, he was blocking all of his senses of feeling.

Like a dead man, he continued to train his soldiers with the complicated drill practice.

While he shouted out inwardly like a mantra...

No more pain...

No more gain...

Merely a dead man walking...

Affection was just for the weakling, to be a strong powerful warlord, he had to cut off his emotions and affectionate nature.

Gone was the warmth Alex Lee, replaced by a cold unemotional warlord.