Eve finished reporting to Matt, he had a grim expression on his face, a swirl of self blame and guilt rotated inside his mind completely blocking out the happiness he should be feeling, he blamed himself for not being there for Lily, he asked once more to be sure
“She’s pregnant… With my child?”
Eve nodded and spoke
“According to the information I’ve acquired, she was showing signs of it before she left the city… The former Lord thought so too, that’s why he force-fed her abortion medicine en masse… Which caused her physical and mental health to deteriorate”
Matt didn’t register what Eve was saying at once, it was like there was a part of him that refused to believe anyone could do such a thing to their
The road stretched ahead of them, the group of 3 were on horseback as they rode out of Kel, Matt was a little awkward on horseback, but he figured that he would get used to it… Eventually that is“God, I am glad I was born into an age where the primary method of transportation wasn’t fueled on hay… This is awful”Eve quickly reprimanded him on his mutter however“Don’t talk, Matt, you’ll risk biting your tongue”Matt nodded as he focused on the road ahead instead, the group rode the entire day before they made camp in the evening, then Matt slept, he was the only one in the group of 3 that required sleep after all, then at first light they set off again, this continued over the course of 12 days, that’s when t
Matt woke up again, he began failing around space while trying to move as the old skeletal dragon had, after a few hours of struggling around under the watchful eye of the old skeletal dragon Matt eventually found out the trick, and soon his short wings carried him around space as he flew around the old skeletal dragon a few times while letting out cute sounding roars, eventually he became hungry and ate some of the remaining sun with glee, then the old skeletal dragon spoke“I see you’ve managed to move around space with your wings, let’s get you moving on the stellar plain”Then the old skeletal dragon looked over towards the destroyed sun, Matt followed his gaze and felt there was something special about that point in space and let out a growl before he looked over at the old skeletal dragon that nodded, then Matt flew ove
The old nun sighed before she introduced herself“I am the Abbess of this cloister, I am currently responsible for 553 nuns and brides in training, if you don’t tell me which one is “your woman” How am I supposed to know which one you refer to?”Matt narrowed his eyes slightly before he stated a name“Either you hand over Lily Kel or I’ll burn down your cloister”The Abbess eyes twitched for a moment before she responded to Matt“Suppose I hand over the coming wife of the 2nd prince of Helkempf, how am I going to explain it to Helkempf?”Matt shrugged before he answered honestly Matt apologized to Lily“I am so sorry, Lily…”Lily showed a pout before she complained“You better be”Then her pout crumbled into a happy smile, then a concerned one as she asked Matt“But Matt, how did you survive that?”Matt made a proud expression as he spoke“I am a mighty skeletal dragon avatar, why would I die from something a simple as being stabbed?”Lily tilted her head slightly as she asked“A Skeletal dragon avatar? What’s that?&rSkeletal Dragon Avatar Recovery
Matt glanced at the horizon and confirmed that the sun was about to rise before he spoke to Margret“We should return to Riva’s manor”“Yes, Lord”Matt summoned his wings before he took flight, then a few moments later Margret appeared on his left, she was flying through the air like him‘Well, she did say she had become a Spector…’Soon the two of them landed in the courtyard inside Rive’s manor, both of them touched down silently, thus the servants of the manor didn’t realize that they had landed, Matt spoke to Margret as they walked through the hallways“Your duty will be protecting Lily Kel”
The old guard soon returned with a message from the new Lord of Kel“The Lord has accepted you as guests”Eve looked back at Matt, awaiting his decision, he nodded, then and only then did Eve respond to the old guardsman“Please escort us then”The old guardsman nodded and gave his command, soon the group was walking through the city of Kel on their way towards the center of the city, Matt was walking with Lily’s hand in his while his other arm was taken up by Michelle, Matt was silent but still he showed a smile on his face‘Finally, we’re back in Kel… I should go check in on Go and the Illgas soon though, as it looks like we should greet the new Lord first…’
Times passed as it always did, soon Matt and had spent another 2 months in Kel, though he did not spend that time idle, he trained his combat abilities and solidified his knowledge base over the 2 months Lily’s stomach gradually grew in size, which was understandable since she was now only 4 months away from a hopefully successful birth, as for Michelle, she was gradually getting used to her undead form and while she used to spend as much time with Matt as possible she gradually began forming friendships with Eve and Lily too, speaking of Eve, she took it as a personal responsibility to train Matt and spend most of the past 2 months training him as well as Michelle, as for Margret? She fulfilled her duty and quickly became Lily’s shadow, though the two of them still had a rather awaked relationship-Mat
Matt’s core body woke up, he didn’t remember what he had dreamt, only that it wasn’t a pleasant dream, still he could not lie around in bed forever, so he got up, still the unpleasant feeling remained for a bit before he glanced over at the bed and saw Michelle still soundly asleep, or maybe hibernation was the right word? Undead didn’t normally sleep, from what Eve had told him they hibernated for about 4 hours a year, there they would enter a suspended state that sometimes was like sleeping, that or simply staring into space while standing upright, people apparently called the standing upright part the ‘void’s whispers’ state anyway there she was, curled up like a cat at the end of his bed, she was properly worried about waking him since she slept like that‘I really wish I had my cellphone so I could snap a picture… Oh well, I will soon…&rsqu