Chapter 33: Children

The sky was covered with gray clouds signaling that it was about to rain. Pandora continued to walk in wolf form with her body covered in wounds from the recent battle, still trying to use her little strength. to carry the children inside a nearby forest.

She did not expect that the old magician would not be able to interrogate him, but instead he would activate an explosive spell to commit suicide to avoid getting information. Because she was too close to the target, she was seriously injured.

A red warning screen appeared in her vision.

This was the fifth warning she had seen and she ignored it.

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[Warning: HP is seriously low, body damage is 87.06%.

Note: Find a safe place to avoid taking damage, to automatically recover lost HP]

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Ignoring the warning, she continued to walk and pulled the wooden cart carrying the children through the mountain ditch. The four wheels of the cart rolled on gravel, making the road more difficult. Pandora's legs trembled and she could not support herself. He stood up again and fell down in pain.

Pandora was really exhausted, she couldn't go on anymore.

Baal was the first child to discover something unusual. The children's parents had just gone through a fierce battle to protect them but almost lost their lives in return, they needed to do something. But in the end, they were just children who couldn't do anything but watch, cry and panic, nothing more than a burden to Pandora.

Pandora could have abandoned them but didn't.

"What should we do now?! Mother is seriously injured..."- Agares sobbed

"Just calm down. Everyone please calm down...We need to find shelter first" - Baal

"But where can we find it?" - Marbas

"Look, there's a cave there, go in there quickly" - Gamigin

The five eldest children immediately tried their best to drag Pandora's battered body into the cave for temporary shelter. Recovery medicine is very limited, there are not many bandages left, almost all the personal items they have are made by Pandora, but they are currently seriously injured.

While he was stuck and didn't know what to do, Marbas noticed the leaves being sold on the ice bag. He saw that they were emitting a green color, the characteristic color of magic related to recovery.

"Baal, quickly help me climb up there to get those leaves!"- Marbas

"What for?" - Baal

"Just help me get them, I know what I'm doing" - Marbas

Baal didn't understand but still helped his little brother, he put Marbas on his shoulders so the child could pick leaves from the cliff. When he landed, Marbas crumpled the leaves into small pieces and placed them on the large wounds on Pandora's body.

"This way we can stop the bleeding" - Marbas

"How do you know it will work?" - Agares

"It's color, when I was a child I was able to distinguish colors through plants, based on that I could distinguish between useful and harmful plants" - Marbas

"Father will be okay?"- Valefar

"The wound is quite fatal, I don't know how long it will take, but based on the current condition, it could take quite a while" - Marbas

"While waiting for Father to recover, we should go find food and necessary items to survive. Right now we should only rely on ourselves" - Baal

"Mother won't die, right? If Mother is gone.....what should we do?"- Gamigin

"Don't say such nonsense. Father will definitely be fine, what we need to do now is to be independent without Father" - Baal

"Don't be so loud with her, Gamigin is still young. You should be a little gentler" - Agares

Looking at his little sister defending Gamigin, Baal frowned and sighed.

"Okay, I'm sorry for raising my voice to you. We better get down to business" - Baal

"It has to be like that" - Agares

While Marbas continued to stop Pandora's bleeding, while Valefar was holding Amon in his arms, the little wolf kept moaning and crying. The little girl didn't know what to do and could only try to comfort her. Valefar immediately remembered what Pandora was like the last time she was comforted by Pandora, and she immediately comforted the little wolf.

"Shh, it's okay. Everything will be fine"- Valefar

"Huu....huu...huu...."- Amon

The moans became increasingly softer, Amon fell asleep, Valefar breathed a sigh of relief and finally the little wolf fell asleep. Now all that remains is to wait for her siblings to return.

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Outside the cave, Baal and Agares were the two older siblings who had stayed with Pandora the longest, so they had some experience in finding food. In the end, they brought back some fruit. Agares was a bit worried because Vassago and Gamigin were nowhere to be found.

Then suddenly they heard a strange noise coming from behind. Baal immediately prepared to fight when he saw two shadows running towards them. It was none other than Vassago and Gamigin, they were running for their lives because behind them was a huge wild boar.

"I have to be honest, this is the worst idea of my life!"- Gamigin

"How do I know that trap won't work?!" - Vassago

Seeing this scene, Baal just sighed helplessly and Agares chuckled. When the two younger siblings ran past them, Baal used wind magic to split the pig in half and its two parts split into two to avoid them, he had learned a lot from Pandora. Of course his Father wouldn't teach him, but this magic was too early because he was still young.

"I know I can make it less scary" - Agares

"Do you need to rebuke me like that?" - Baal

Agares shrugged, Vassago and Gamigin returned and saw that the wild boar had been killed and immediately covered their mouths as if they were about to vomit. The eldest brother gave all the fruits in his hand to them and then alone dragged the boar's body back to the cave.

At the same time, it also started to rain. At least the rainwater would dissolve the blood stains along the way to the cave, avoiding being followed here by creatures or something that smells of blood. Returning to the cave, they were quite surprised when Marbas had wrapped the wounds on Pandora's body with crude leaves.

Now they just need to wait for Pandora to wake up.

Thanks to Agares' cooking skills, it seemed like the younger siblings forgot that this was a ferocious ferocious pig that almost killed them.

After eating and drinking, they immediately fell asleep, still lying close to Pandora to keep warm.

A long, difficult day finally ended peacefully.