Birth

Location: The Eastern Continent, The Crimson Castle Kingdom, Crimson-Walls Duchy.

Date: The year 2108 of the Magic Era according to the Archivist's book, also referred to as The Crimson Year 438 inside The Crimson Castle Kingdom.

A beautiful, blue-haired young girl nervously asked her father

"Dad Dad, will Mother be okay?"

A red-haired boy quickly asked as well

"Yes Dad, when will Mom come out?"

Their father tried to assure them

"Just wait a bit, everything should be okay. Your mother will come out holding your brother any moment now"

Despite his calm tone, their father was anxious as well

'It's been too long, and I can't hear any crying as well'

He nervously looked at the closed-door in front of him

'Why is Remedy taking so long ...'

' ... I hope everything is really okay'

Inside the locked room, a young-looking woman was standing with a worried look on her face ...

The woman had white hair and grey eyes. She was wearing a white robe, and she was holding a newborn baby in her hands.

She gently caressed the boy's head

'Why are you not breathing'

'You can't die after all this'

She looked at the blue-haired woman lying unconscious on the bed

'Your mother almost died as well'

'If you die it'd be really bad for my record ... Please wake up'

Quickly, the woman began chanting inaudible words ...

After she was done, white light came out of her palm and seeped into the baby's body, but nothing happened ...

She examined the baby

'The body should be fine ...'

'I can't see anything wrong ... why is the heart not beating?!'

She sighed

'I'll try one last thing. If it doesn't work, then it can't be helped'

She decided to chant one of the Forbidden Spells.

The reason this category of spells is forbidden is simple; they need a lot of experience and delicacy.

If an inexperienced Mage tried to cast them, then there was a possibility that both the Mage and the patient would die.

The rules were that this spell should either be only used by very experienced Mages, or under the supervision of one.

Luckily, Remedy here is one of the best Light Mages in Crimson-Walls city, so she didn't have any problems with using that spell.

As Remedy chanted the spell, she directly sent her Life Force to the baby's heart

'Please work'

Within a few seconds, the heart greedily absorbed all the life force it could ...

'Come on ...'

PULSE

It started beating.

"YESSS!" She shouted

Remedy stopped channeling her Life Force and inspected the baby's face ...

Slowly, the boy opened his eyes.

Strangely, his eyes seemed empty, devoid of life.

To Remedy, they just looked like two dead eyes staring forward without blinking ...

' ... Weird'

When Remedy inspected the baby's body, she noticed something

'He's not even breathing!'

Suddenly, something changed ...

The color of the baby's eyes began to change ...

The right eye from black to blue, and the left eye from black to red, then the baby started breathing.

Remedy was confused

'Huh? What even happened?'

'Things can't get any weirder, can they?'

She had no idea what was going on ...

'I never used this spell on a newborn before, maybe this is how it's supposed to work?'

Regardless, she didn't really care

'Well, it doesn't matter anyway'

'As long as the baby is alive and my record is clean, then it's fine'

'I need to rest'

It was such a hard day for her, she consumed a lot of her Mana and Life Force to save both the baby and the mother.

'But wow, 2 different eye colors? Opposing ones at that'

She looked at the baby's red and blue eyes

'It's unique. I've never seen someone like that before'

'I wonder, is this the result of Heterochromia, or could it be that he has a double Affinity?'

'Only time would tell ...'

Remedy held the baby and tried to put him in his mother's arms, but while doing that, she noticed that the baby was looking at her strangely

'Hmm? Now what is this?'

She leaned closer to the baby and whispered

*Why are you not crying like normal babies?*

'If Blaze sees him like this he will start asking me questions about why he's not crying and why he's looking like this ...'

Remedy definitely didn't want that. She didn't even have answers to these questions, and more importantly

'I'm tired, my Mana is low, and I just want to go home'

*If you don't want to cry, then Let's just put you to sleep*

After saying that, she began chanting something

Her index shone with a bright light, then she put it on the baby's temple and said

*Sleep*

Remedy looked proudly at the sleeping blue-haired beauty ...

The woman was holding her baby tightly in her arms

'Amazing... my record remains perfect!'

She checked on the mother a final time, then walked out of the room.

Outside, she found Blaze sitting on the sofa waiting nervously with both his children waiting beside him.

As soon as Blaze saw her, he stood up and asked

"How are they?"

She spoke in a neutral tone

"The baby looks unique"

"What do you mean, unique? Remedy, they both are fine, right?"

Remedy nodded

"Of course, do you really doubt the great Remedy?"

She continued with a ting of arrogance

"Trust me, without me, at least one of them wouldn't survive. It was really hard"

Blaze asked worriedly

"But they're okay now, right?"

"Yes, I put them both to sleep. I'll come in a week or so to check on them"

Remedy extended her hand forward and said

"Now pay up"

Blaze put his hand in his pocket and asked

"How much?"

She replied evenly

"3 Gold coins"

Blaze's eyes shot open

"3 Gold!!!!! Why? That's TRIPLE the normal price!"

Remedy explained in a bored tone

"It was hard, it took long, and I'm nearly out of Mana and won't be able to work for the rest of the day at least.

And on top of all that, I had to use a Life Force Spell"

"Life Force Spell? Was it really that serious?"

She nodded

"Yeah. Now hurry up, I need to go"

Blaze looked at her for a couple of seconds then went to another room ...

He wasn't pleased at all

'That's a fortune !!! 3 Gold coins?'

'Not enough that her so-called "normal price" is almost 10 times more than normal Light Mages, she's taking triple that!!'

'I don't know if I should call myself lucky that I was able to bring one of the best Light Mages in the city or unlucky that I ended up paying this much'

Blaze opened a safe, took out 2 gold coins, and added them to the gold coin in his pocket, then went back to the lobby.

There, he found Remedy standing at the door. As soon as she saw him, she took the coins from his hand and left without turning back.

Blaze could only sigh with a bitter smile

'Whatever'

'I don't mind paying my life for Viorica's good health, it's okay ...'

'Nothing is too much for the family'

He walked back to the children and spoke to them in a gentle tone

"Let me clean the room then I'll take you inside to see your new brother and your mother. They're sleeping, so don't make any noise, okay?"

Amethyst asked in a very low tone while jumping

"Daddy Daddy, how do you know it's a brother, not a sister? Why are you sure?"

Blaze smiled awkwardly

"Ahh ... an old witch said that while gobbling my money, she should be at least right about this part"

"Old witch?"

Blaze patted Amethyst's head and said

"Don't worry about that. Next time it'll be a sister, okay?"

He pointed at her brother

"Now make sure Merlin doesn't make any noise, and don't let him run around. The floor will be wet and he's ..... yeah just don't let him run around, okay?"

Amethyst replied with a bright smile and a raised fist

"Okay Daddy, count on Amethyst!!!!"

Blaze smiled, and then he went inside the room ...