NOVEL NEXT Chapter 40 Valac?
After hours of being carried by Uriel, he stops running.
"Ayla, let's rest here for the next few hours... I'm tired, my power has dropped by more than 80% without magic to support it," he says, carefully placing me on the ground.
"T-That's fine, it's still amazing to run this much even with the reduced status." The distance we've covered is absurd, I'm surprised he didn't get tired sooner.
He takes a tent out of the inventory and starts setting up a camp.
"Uriel is well-prepared... he has everything in the inventory," I say, watching as he always has something to pull out of the inventory.
"I'm not that well-prepared... I'm just slightly disorganized, so I leave everything in the inventory so I don't forget," he says, finishing setting up the tent.
"But wouldn't that take up unnecessary space in the inventory?"
"I have infinite inventory." What he says surprises me.
"I-Infinite space!!!"
'HOW CHEATTY' I only have 5 thanks to the demon lords, otherwise it would be 0.
"And thanks to the holy sword, it provides me with various buffs and special characteristics in my status."
"Wow, that sword must be amazing" It seems impressive to receive power just by having a sword with you.
"...It's not that much... a lot of responsibility comes with it."
"I-I see." I forgot that he is practically obliged to be the hero just because he has this sword.
'Since we have time... and I can't sleep, I'll read the book.' I may have lost the Tome of Indifference, but I still have the book that talks about ancient civilization.
I take the book out of the inventory to read.
"What's this book, Ayla? And why is it blank?" Uriel approaches and speaks as he sees the pages of the first chapter.
"Blank?"
'Uriel can't see what's written?'
"Yes, it's with the pages blank... Ah, I understand, it must be some kind of relic, it seems I can't see it, I'll let you read it in peace, but read it inside the tent, I'll stand guard out here," he says as he walks and sits on a rock.
"Hello, Aetheris, it seems it'll just be the two of us here," he says to Aetheris, who was also sitting near the rock.
"Roaarrrww," he growls at Uriel and turns the other way, ignoring him.
"Hehehe," I chuckle at the interaction between the two and enter the tent to read.
Soon I'm in a new place, completely different.
[Welcome to Chapter 3, I'll be your guide, you can call me Chapter 3, for greater immersion of the reader this chapter will allow you to share your feelings with one of the characters in the book]
"Sure..."
'A new mechanic... but with whom would I share feelings?' I decide to put that aside.
"So what will we see today?" I ask Chapter 3, who looks like Aetheris.
[We will see the Aurora's Son being born, grow up, and... the continuation of his life with Aurora]
"AURORA HAS A SON???" I'm shocked by this discovery, Aurora has a son, the chance of her having a son would be as low as mine, so it must be the influence of magic.
Soon we are teleported to a room, I see a pregnant Aurora, it seems she's ready to give birth, so we'll see it from the baby's birth.
"Chapter 3, who's the father?" Who would have the ability to catch Aurora's attention?
[There is no father, Aurora used magic to do all the processes of pregnancy alone, she used semen from various races as a base and created a synthetic version to self-inseminate.]
"So she's both the mother and father... magic is so complicated." Soon Aurora gives birth, what I see is a cute little baby with pink hair, the top of the hair being dark purple to black.
"L-Lie... i-it can't be what I'm thinking..." This baby reminds me very much of someone I didn't want to remember.
Soon I see Aurora putting a purple sphere into the baby, it enters the baby's body, and that's it, nothing else happens.
"Valac... yes, his name will be Valac," Aurora says with a smile to the baby.
"..."
[The baby of Aurora had the sin of Lust implanted in his body, as well as carrying part of Aurora's essence, so he is technically perfect.]
"Valac... is Aurora's son..." Now I know why there was a statue of Aurora in Valac's garden. Soon time passes, I see Valac's age progression slowly.
Aurora seems to be a great mother, she takes good care of the baby, gives affection and never leaves, although I didn't like what she did to Leviathan.
During all this time, she simply ignores Leviathan, I even saw Leviathan having to hunt rats to not starve to death, Aurora doesn't even feed Leviathan.
"Chapter 3, why doesn't she do anything to help Leviathan? At this rate he'll die." Leviathan seems to have malnutrition, hunger, and constant fatigue, and the more time passes, the worse it gets.
Meanwhile, Valac grows up perfectly, a healthy and well-cared-for child.
[Aurora doesn't see any use in Leviathan, caring for him would be a waste of time, she already has Valac.]
"What race is Valac?" I'm curious about what race he is.
[Valac is a mutant God equally to Aurora]
Now 5 years have passed from the perspective, I see the child Valac feeding Leviathan, the sight is cute.
Valac has become a beautiful little boy, with pink hair and noble clothes. If it weren't for Valac, Leviathan would have starved to death.
"Doesn't Leviathan see any problem with Valac trying to get close like this?"
[No, because Valac is Aurora's son, and as Leviathan is loyal to Aurora, he won't do anything against Valac, although he is jealous of the love given to him.]
I see how Leviathan and Valac play together, they don't even seem like they'll become those monsters in the future. And with that, it's already clear to me that Aurora created all 7 demon lords.
Another 5 years pass and it's now Valac's birthday, Aurora has thrown a celebration for him.
In a well-decorated room, there are several gifts, as well as several tables covered with different types of food.
"Happy birthday, son, today you turn 10, and I will gift you with my personal garden," she says as she hands Valac a key, which he happily accepts and gives a big smile.
Leviathan is also at this celebration, but only because Valac brought him, since Aurora simply ignored that he existed.
"Chapter 3, I saw that Leviathan never went to the kitchen even though he was starving... why?"
[For him to steal food from Aurora is an unforgivable crime, so he prefers to starve to death rather than steal anything from her, naturally to try to survive he started hunting rats, insects, and even worms he could find, but this shouldn't be his proper diet since he's a dragon, but that's all he could get before Valac started to give him real food.]
The situation with Leviathan is very sad, and knowing this also saddens me a little.
[Now the second failure of Aurora will begin.]
"I imagine Valac can't be immortal either..." Valac is opening one of the many gifts when suddenly he writhes in pain.
He screams and kicks on the floor while clutching his heart, Aurora rushes to help him, and just like Leviathan, a purple mist comes out of him and goes to Aurora.
Aurora freezes, has an expression as if she doesn't understand.
"W-What..." She says with a voice of disbelief, Valac hugs Aurora's leg while crying.
"..."
"..."
"Valac... shut up, your crying irritates me."
"!!!" I'm surprised by the coldness with which she says this, her attitude has changed completely from one moment to the next, she doesn't even call him son, just Valac. Aurora puts her hand on her head as if it hurts.
"Valac, let go of me, or I'll kick you." She says calmly while taking a deep breath.
"M-Mom?" The little Valac doesn't understand the sudden threat. He took too long to let go of her, so she kicks him away, he couldn't even react and is thrown against the table.
He cries while asking if he did something wrong and says he doesn't understand, it's quite obvious that he wouldn't be able to understand this sudden change from the person he loved the most.
"What don't you understand, Valac? You are a failure, that's it... I don't have time to waste on a failure that doesn't serve me." She says as she walks to the door.
"M-Mom w-wait, I-I'm not a f-failure, I-I..."
"Valac, don't say anything, I don't need to hear anything you have to say... Tsk." She closes the door and leaves, I follow her to a room, soon she loses her composure.
"..."
"DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT, WHY DID IT FAIL? HE WAS PERFECT, FOR 10 YEARS EVERYTHING WAS FINE, WHY NOW? WHY IS HE ALSO A FAILURE? WAS IT THE BODY? MAYBE HIS SOUL? IS IT BECAUSE HE'VE NEVER COMMITTED THE SIN OF LUST?" Valac hears everything through the door.
"Tsk, I just wasted time with that useless one... now I only have 5 more attempts... and I don't even know why he's a failure, I worked so hard to create him... and now my 500 years of hard work have been wasted."
[Aurora created the "Perfect" synthetic semen in 499 years and had 1 more year to get pregnant with Valac, so a total of 500 years of testing.]
'I didn't need to know that.'
"Now I have to waste time with another failure wandering the castle, if at least he disappears from here it will be better, I hope he's not like Leviathan who follows me everywhere."
"..." Hearing Aurora say that about her own son fills me with rage towards her, how can she be such an unnatural mother?
Soon Valac leaves the door, I follow him, his expression is calm, different from what I expected.
He soon reaches the celebration room and sits on the floor, Leviathan comes to him and stays close, probably knowing exactly what happened to Valac when he went to listen to Aurora.
"Could you share Valac's feelings with me?" I don't understand his calmness, soon I start to feel the same as him.
"H-Huh?" Tears won't stop falling from my eyes, while I feel as if my heart is breaking, Valac is sad, very sad, he just doesn't know how to express his sadness, he was so well cared for that he doesn't know how to express sadness, that's why his reaction is silence.
It's painful to have his feelings, to feel exactly the same as him, it makes me feel like the world is crumbling, as if everything was false, soon the feeling ends.
[The sharing time is over]
'Aurora... THAT FUCKING BITCH' I think angrily.
I'm very angry with Aurora, how can she do this to her own son? It's not enough to have used the son as a guinea pig by doing experiments on him before he was even born and putting the sin of lust in his body.
She still treats him as if he were just another failure, where is this woman's empathy?
Soon we return to the area where Aurora is.
[The reader can interact with the world]
When this warning sounds, I go to Aurora...
Plaft
I slap her in the face, she looks at me without understanding anything.
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT TO YOUR SON?" I yell at her, after having over 2,000 children, even though they were monsters, my maternal instinct has increased.
"...I don't know who you are, but don't interfere, as you said, he is my son, so I'll do what I think is best with him," Aurora's voice is as cold as ice.
"YOU'RE A MONSTER, AURORA, HE'S YOUR SON, WHY DID YOU TALK TO HIM LIKE THAT, AND EVEN KICKED HIM?" She treated him very badly, to the point of being impossible to say that she is fit to be a mother.
"The answer isn't obvious? I treated him that way because..."