A PARENT!? WHAT?!

What...

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Did she just...

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Huh?

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(Cythistia POV)

Looking at my new love's face right now was too much for me so I just burst out laughing.

"Hahahahahaha!"

That managed to get her out of her stupor apparently.

'What do you mean father of your child!?' She asked frantically in her usual flaming words.

"Simple, you impregnated me last night with how much you inseminated me."

She stared at me with a face that said, 'That's not possible.' But unfortunately for her, it happened whether she liked it or not.

I then saw her rewrite her flames into something else.

The words spelled out, 'But I physically am incapable of doing so at my age, so how?'

I shrugged and said, "Must be some sort of racial skill or something, you have one of those 'soul scroll' thingies so maybe check there?"

She then looked off to the side slightly, I presume to look at her scroll, and then her shoulders droop down, as if they've lost all life in them. Her face too looked as if it wanted to lose all its colour as if it had just lost its soul.

Chuckling I said to her, "Don't worry, I can take care of the child by myself if you want to continue going home, but I would at least like for you to come back at some point to see me and the child of your seed." Finishing that last part with a sombre tone in my voice, knowing that she likely won't be coming back.

We all sat there in silence after I said that. 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that last part.' I thought as the mood turned from befuddled to a bleak one.

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"You still haven't had anything to eat by the way." Dorrak said to me, which then made my stomach growl as I realised that I still hadn't eaten yet since waking up.

"Ahaha, yeah I'll take that leg then." I said as Dorrak passed me a shank of somethings leg, not sure what but who cares, I certainly don't.

Munching down on the leg I took a peek at what the other two were doing, Dorrak was doing the same as me but Traytora was downing another charred body whole.

"Why are you scarfing that down so quickly?" I asked her

And as usual, she replied in mana infused words, 'I did most of the work last night.'

Oh, I guess that's fair, she probably didn't stop until her energy was nearly empty. We then continued on with our breakfast feast, although it was more like a lunch since that's how late it was.

Soon enough we managed to get through all the food that was cooked and fill our stomach. We then sat there in silence once more, but this time it was because we didn't know what to do next.

"So... are we just going to wait here until my brother returns or what?" I asked the two. They looked at each other with the same bland face that said "I don't really know." Which was the face I also had right now.

"We, we could start to head towards your nation, it'll save time as your brother won't have to come as far to collect us, meaning we don't have to wait here longer than we need to."

"Hmm..." I gave what he said some thought and came to the conclusion that that would be best for both sides, it also means that I get to reconnect with my brother and tell him the good news!

I smiled and said, "I think that's a great idea, we should probably do that then."

And so we set off on our journey towards my home.

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(Traytora POV)

Riding on the back of Cythistia's equine half, I reflected on the events that happened earlier; one my new skill called [Potent Seed] is clearly what made me capable of impregnating someone, thankfully it's something that can be turned off so I don't need to worry about that again. Second is the fact that I unlocked a new skill section called [Racial Skills], which is very self-explanatory, what isn't explained is why I got this so late? And then there's the fact that Cythistia demanded that I ride her back, which I tried to turn down but she was quite adamant about it so I soon gave in.

We had been traveling for about three to four hours now, which gave me time to come to the conclusion that I should stay here, and take care of this child that I had created with the woman I was currently riding. I didn't want to abandon them as I knew what it was like to not have parents, and I don't want them to experience that also.

After contemplating all of that, I decide to move onto the dreaded skills tab, which had been crowded with the new [Racial] section. It had also taken some of the [Bloodline] skills and put them into the new [Racial] section also. Still don't know why I didn't unlock this feature sooner but that's not something I think I'll ever figure out so oh well, no use thinking about it.

Now I actually need to look at all my skills again and give them all a proper read to know what they all do.

'[Status]' I called out in my head to open up my Soul Scroll so that I could look at my skills.

As I was reading, I noticed something that I glossed over when I read my current [Condition], which was the mute thing.

[Condition: Tormented, Mute (32328:14:30)]

The timer had gone down, and by a lot, even though it's only been what? A day? Since I last checked it, so how has it gone down by over eighty hours?! I then spent the next half an hour not being able to come to a conclusion and just gave up.

Going down to the skills section I saw another section that I had glossed over which was that I had another [40] Stat points available.

'Oh, those must be from that stag ranger I killed and the bunny I ate as well.' After coming to that deduction, I now had to spend said stat points.

'What was the conversion rate again?

[Ding!]

[3 = +1,000 HP]

[2 = +250 MP]

[2 = +750 SP]

[1 = +350 Strength]

[1 = +1,000 Defence]

[1 = +500 Magic]

[2 = +400 Magic Defence]

[1 = +250 Agility]

[3 = +20 Speed]

[3 = +800 Stamina]

[3 = +750 Charm]

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Ah right. Seems to not have gone up at all, which makes sense considering the last two times it did that, it was because of more mystical factors and not levelling up or anything. 'Uhh... let's not overthink and just put 20 into agility and the other 20 into Defence.

[Ding!]

[+20,000 Defence]

[Defence: 43,700 (3,500)]

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[Ding!]

[+5,000 Agility]

[Agility: 10,600 (+3,500)]

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There, that should about do it for stat points, now onto skills...

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Again...