Chapter 193: The First Time The Baby Meets His Two Fathers

"Draven, are you sure drinking this thing will not kill people?"

Kaelen stared with a face full of vigilance at the bright green medicine bowl bubbling right before his eyes. This thing looked exactly like the poison bowl used by the witch to soak the apple for Snow White to eat no matter how one looked at it.

Draven patted his chest to guarantee: "Rest assured, I have tested it. Rabbits drinking it not only heal from their injuries immediately but also become so energetic that they jump around wildly!"

Sane spoke hesitantly: "How many rabbits have you poisoned to death before that?"

Draven spread out his hand to count, giggling afterwards: "Not that many, just thirteen~"

Sane and Kaelen: "..." Please do not emphasize the word ’just’, truly, it sounds terrifying!

It was hard to believe this was the once timid Rabbit clan Sub-Beast in Obsidian. Previously, he would cry until losing his breath just having a rabbit die in front of him. Now he could blatantly use rabbits as experimental animals without blinking an eye, science fanaticism being truly terrifying!

Draven saw the couple still looking at him full of suspicion, running back to carry the rabbit jumping around randomly in his room over:

"Here, look. This rabbit previously suffered from leg necrosis, being about to die, yet its leg immediately grew skin and fur upon drinking my medicine, currently being extremely happy."

He dropped the rabbit onto the ground, causing the rabbit to immediately jump from place to place as if proving Draven’s words. Kaelen and Sane looked at each other, looking at the medicine bowl again to secretly tell themselves to just close their eyes and cover their noses to drink, healing injuries being more important. Sane took a deep breath, picking up the medicine bowl to prepare to drink. Sane had just brought the medicine bowl close to his mouth when Kaelen panicked, tightly grabbing Sane’s arm.

Sane paused slightly, turning his head to look at his mate, seeing Kaelen’s two eyes bulging out as if wanting to pop out, looking towards Draven... Ah no, exactly speaking, Kaelen was looking towards the rabbit twitching under Draven’s feet. The rabbit that was just jumping around was now lying on the ground foaming at the mouth, its four limbs twitching continuously, lying completely motionless after twitching a few dozen times.

Draven was stunned: "Huh, why did it suddenly become like this? Did I give it an overdose? Kaelen, tell me why..."

Draven just looked up, no longer seeing the shadow of Sane’s family. They had long hugged their children to run away, leaving two bubbling medicine bowls on the table alongside a flock of crows flying past cawing loudly.

Draven: "..."

Kaelen carried the two little ones while Sane carried Kaelen, the family of four having already run straight out of the guest housing area, currently arriving at the common living area of the Golden Lion tribe. After being placed on the ground by Sane, Kaelen handed the two little ones to Sane. He panted heavily, patting his chest: "Fortunately we ran fast, otherwise we would have become Draven’s white mice. Hm? Why are you not saying anything?"

Kaelen turned his head around, seeing Sane bowing his head to stare intently at the two children.

"Is there something...?" Kaelen’s words stuck in his throat, looking at the little mouse in Sane’s arms.

The little mouse was blankly tilting his head up to look at Sane, Sane bowing his head to look down at the little mouse, while Kaelen also stood nearby to stare intently at the little mouse. This family instantly turned into stone statues, causing the people of the Golden Lion tribe who were working to glance over.

Moisture rose in the eyes of the little mouse, teardrops rolling down like beans, falling onto Sane’s sturdy arm. Burning hot...

"Daddy... Papa..."

Sane felt his nose stinging, his eyes turning slightly red, blooming a gentle smile: "Mhm, welcome back, Edward."

Kaelen stretched his hand to hug the little mouse, the three of them crying into a messy state. The people of the Golden Lion tribe stopped the work in their hands, leaning their heads into each other’s ears to whisper to discuss:

"Why is he crying like that?"

"He must be too happy meeting his son again. I heard that child had been sleeping continuously since last night, so the baby must have just woken up now."

"However, one person belongs to the Snake clan while the other belongs to the Spotted Leopard clan, how could they give birth to the Field Mouse clan?"

"Have you not heard the Crimson people say, that child was adopted by them. They love him like their own biological son."

"Wow... then they cannot be blamed for being so emotional."

"Stop discussing other people’s family matters, hurry up to work. I heard the chiefs of the Peacock clan alongside the White Lion clan and the Silver Snake clan will come over to this side tonight, we must take the chance to finish dinner before they arrive."

Everyone immediately scattered, everyone doing their own work. This magical atmosphere did not affect the happiness of reuniting after many days of separation of Sane’s family.

Looking at Kaelen and Edward hugging each other while sobbing, Sane placed Finnick, who was also sniffing emotionally, onto his shoulder, bending down with the intention of picking Kaelen up:

"Alright, we will return to the room to continue talking. We are in the middle of someone else’s tribe."

Kaelen sniffled: "I can walk by myself, no need to carry me. Be careful lest the wounds tear open again."

Sane also did not force himself, no longer carrying Kaelen to let Kaelen walk by himself. The whole family immediately walked towards the guest housing row of the Golden Lion tribe, softly talking to Edward while walking.

Just stepping into the room, Sane immediately turned his body to slam the door shut, carefully wedging an extra horizontal wooden bar. He dropped Finnick onto the ground, gently carrying the little mouse in Kaelen’s hands onto the stone bed that had been lined with a soft animal skin layer afterwards.

The two people did not say another sentence, only silently standing there, gazing at the tiny form carrying the soul of the eldest son they thought they had permanently lost.

Edward inside Ryder’s body slightly twitched his two round mouse ears. The yin-yang eyes—one side being deep blue like the ocean, the other side being pale yellow like golden sand—blinked to look at his two fathers. Losing the usual timidness of Ryder, those eyes exuded a calm, deep, alongside mature look.

Kaelen felt extremely sorrowful. Their eldest son was the same age as his younger brothers, having just broken out of his shell for a few months, yet being forced to mature this early. He still remembered the mischievous snake egg frequently leading his younger brothers to sneak outdoors right after birth, the boy being so carefree at that time.

The little mouse hesitantly opened his mouth, his voice slightly hoarse: "Papa, Daddy... why are you looking at me like that forever?"

Kaelen sat down flat on the edge of the bed, stretching his hand to stroke the fine fur on the top of the little mouse’s head, his eye sockets reddening again: "Papa’s son, you had to suffer. It must have hurt a lot when being struck by lightning, right?"

Edward shook his head: "I do not hurt, Papa do not cry..." The boy’s voice suddenly choked up, because this lie was too clumsy, how could his two fathers not know.

Sane sat down next to Kaelen, stretching his sturdy arm to embrace both father and son into his chest. The Crimson Chief took a deep breath, his deep hoarse voice carrying a rare tremble: "You did very well, Edward. You are just a child having newly broken out of your shell, yet being able to destroy the Temple, even dragging a God into mutual destruction. You are Daddy’s greatest pride. However..."

Sane tightened his embrace, articulating every single word: "Next time, you absolutely must not use your life as bait anymore. If you truly disappeared, how do you want me and your Papa to live?"

Edward rubbed Ryder’s chubby cheek into Sane’s solid chest, wrapping his two front limbs to hug his Daddy’s finger, choking out:

"I am sorry... I had no other choice at that time. The array of the Temple was linked to the life of Uncle Wofu alongside tens of thousands of people, so if I did not borrow the pressure of the upgrading Heavenly Tribulation to perish together with the Temple Master, the entire Northern continent would have been sacrificed to the God of Decay."

Kaelen felt his spine involuntarily turning freezing cold upon hearing the name "God of Decay". The danger of the Temple turned out to far exceed what they imagined. He hurriedly checked the little mouse’s body: "How is your soul condition now? What about Ryder? Is he affected by sharing a body with you?"

At this moment, a sparkling white light stream emerged from inside the fur layer on the little mouse’s chest. Spatial Spirit with transparent dragonfly wings staggered to fly into midair, looking fearfully at Sane. The pressure from a level 8 warrior exploding with emotions caused this little spirit entity to tremble, not daring to approach. She timidly clasped her two hands in front of her chest:

"Greetings... greetings to the two great masters. The current condition of Master Edward is very stable thanks to being nourished by the spatial source. Meanwhile, Master Ryder is entering a deep sleep state to merge the upgrade power, absolutely not being negatively affected."

Finnick snorted coldly: "Daddy, Papa, this is exactly the culprit who brought us here. Fortunately she still has some uses, otherwise I would have definitely told Chloe to devour her!"

Spatial Spirit fearfully shrank into an empty wooden cup, clinging her two tiny hands onto the cup rim afterwards to timidly poke her head out to look at the two adults in the room. Both of these people were very strong, especially that person with a cold expression, whose original spiritual power also carried a chilling murderous breath, suppressing people to the point of being unable to breathe.

Sane rubbed his chin to evaluate Spatial Spirit from top to bottom once with a cold gaze, saying to Kaelen: "Does she look like Tinker Bell?"

Kaelen laughed between tears, once again marveling at Sane’s transcendent memory. He only opened this Tinker Bell fairy movie for Sane to watch once, yet Sane clearly remembered both the form and the name of this character.

He replied: "All Spirits of nature are like this. Evolving from a Spirit to an Elf takes a lot of time, also requiring the Nature Tree of the Elf clan to gestate."

Chloe emerged from the spiritual spring water cup, muttering: "If I drained Finnick’s spiritual power dry, I would have also entered the Evolution 5 stage like her already. It is just that I am a very sensible Spirit, never biting back at my master like this thing!"

Spatial Spirit was very unconvinced: "I already said my inheritance was lacking at that time! I would lose tens of millions of years again to find a new master if my master died, I am not stupid!"

"Tsk!" Chloe snorted coldly: "Only dogs would believe you!"

The two Spirits started quarreling noisily again, causing the temples of Finnick and Edward to twitch. Sane and Kaelen found the two of them quite interesting, looking at them arguing for a while but not actually rushing in to fight each other, feeling quite satisfied for their children’s contracted Spirits. Kaelen waved his hand, causing two vines to break the ground to emerge, gagging the mouths of the two of them.

He pulled Spatial Spirit over, placing her in front of himself. Spatial Spirit was scared to the point of trembling violently, two streams of tears flowing down. She wanted to beg for forgiveness but could only emit ’mm mm’ sounds in despair.

"Do you have a name yet? Just calling you Spatial Spirit does not seem very smooth, right?"

Spatial Spirit shook her head. Kaelen only remembered at this moment that he had not untied her yet. He lightly flicked his finger, causing the vines to automatically withdraw, saying to Spatial Spirit afterwards:

"Let me give you a name, alright? Chloe’s name was also given by me."

Spatial Spirit’s eyes lit up, saying ’yes’ repeatedly.

Kaelen rubbed his chin to think for a moment, saying: "You are Spatial Spirit, representing space. Your whole body has a sparkling white light resembling a newly risen star in the sky. I will call you Nova, alright?"

"Nova... Nova~ Hahaha, I finally have a name! My name is Nova, hahaha~"

Nova happily flew a circle in midair. She pressed her face against Kaelen’s cheek, giving him a kiss before soaring up again, rubbing against Edward’s cheek once, plucking Finnick’s head fur twice, then flying over to Chloe to show off.

Chloe rolled her eyes, snorting coldly before dropping herself into the water cup, not bothering to talk to her anymore.

Nova had just been named, rarely being generous for once. She flew in a circle over the water cups once, filling them all, including Chloe’s cup, with the spiritual spring water in the space. She also picked a pile of strange spiritual fruits to place in front of Kaelen, the intention of currying favor being clearly visible.

Kaelen raised his eyes, spreading out the pile of fruits to pick up a hand-sized yellow fruit, a strong fragrance intertwining with sweetness. He pulled out the stem of the fruit, using his fingernails to peel the skin, revealing layers of neatly arranged orange-yellow segments.

Finnick, Edward, alongside Sane were all stimulated in their sense of smell by this fresh fragrance, their noses sniffing continuously. Finnick cheered:

"This scent is so similar to the scent on Papa’s body!"