Chapter 38 I'm Not Your Mother

  "Thud!" Aiolos knocked a two-meter-high wild boar to the ground, his strength well under control, merely stunning it without killing it! "Indeed, this is the kingdom of magical beasts! How many magical beasts have we encountered today?"

  "Who knows? I've already forgotten!"

  "This is probably around 6th rank!" Aiolos took a glance at the wild boar on the ground, sensing the magical power within its body.

  "Come on! Aiolos, it's just a sixth-order magical beast! Let's move forward for a while, and the next magical beast will be our lunch!" Since the four of them entered this forest yesterday, they have encountered countless magical beasts. However, since they were still in the outer area, the level of the magical beasts that attacked them did not exceed the sixth order, so the four of them did not plan to stay in the outer area and prepared to enter deeper. With the current strength of the four, if they want to achieve any results in their cultivation, they must at least encounter a sacred-order magical beast!

  "Alright!" As soon as the voice fell, the four people vanished into thin air.

  After Francis and his three companions disappeared, a small figure flew over from behind in pursuit.

  "So fast! And didn't even wait for me!" The figure stood on the tree, rubbed its belly "And I'm so hungry too!" Looking at the direction Francis and his group were leaving in, it gazed longingly at the wild boar again, then flew up to chase after them once more.

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  "Roar!!" Before the eyes of the four appeared a tall figure, a bear. From its body emanated waves of earth-based magic power, and the four could sense that this was a seventh-tier magical beast.

  "Oh! That's the one!" Francis drooled, staring at the bear's two paws. He muttered to himself: These paws are as big as a bathtub! It's the one! It's going to be today's lunch!

  Under Francis's gaze filled with hunger, the giant bear's instincts told it that this guy in front of him was very dangerous and should leave quickly. The giant bear let out a symbolic roar twice before turning around to prepare to leave.

  "Lia, you start a fire, Aiolos, go find out if there's any water source nearby, let's settle our lunch here today!" Francis said, taking several steps forward to stand in front of the giant bear. "You're the main character for today, can't leave early now!"

  "Roar~~" The giant bear let out two loud roars and charged straight at Francis, who felt increasingly endangered!

  As the giant bear charged over, Francis didn't rush, directly releasing his own aura. The overbearing aura of the Overlord directly concentrated on the giant bear, and its seven-stage strength couldn't withstand Francis' aura, directly foaming at the mouth and fainting to the ground.

  "How convenient! Now we've got our lunch ingredients settled! Dee's, it's all up to you guys from now on!"

  "Ah!" Dis let out a helpless sigh, looking at the giant bear in front of him, which was as big as a small mountain. Every day, he had to spend a lot of time solving the problem of food. "Aiolos, take this guy with you and go find a water source!" With Dis's small universe, it was easy to sense where there was a water source nearby.

  "Alright!" Eryndor Thorne directly carried the giant bear and followed Dis to find a water source.

  "Lia, go and find some firewood."

  Francis nodded slightly and the two of them split up to find some firewood. Francis was no weaker than Saber now, and Saber wasn't worried that he would encounter any danger either.

  Along the way, whenever Francis encountered any withered branches, he directly stored them in his spatial ring. After all, the space inside the ring was vast, and he didn't need to hold them in his hands!

  "Hmm? Who?" Feeling someone's gaze, Francis turned around cautiously to look behind him. The forest behind was quiet and empty, with no one in sight. Although there was no one in front of him, a strong intuition told Francis that there must be another living being here besides himself!

  "Hmph!" The overbearing aura of the Overlord burst out, pressing down all the surrounding shrubs.

  "Thud!" A heavy object fell to the ground on Francis' right side. With a narrowed gaze, Francis threw a punch, his fist condensed with armed aura. Staring carefully at what was in front of him, indeed there was nothing, it seemed that the enemy could turn invisible! However, Francis still had some confidence in his own speed, this punch would definitely hit its mark.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, Francis punched a hard object with one fist and directly sent the enemy flying out.

  "Ow!" Francis rubbed his slightly sore fist, amazingly able to make me feel pain under the armed and domineering aura.

  "Ow! It hurts so much!"

  Francis looked towards the direction of the sound in surprise, this voice... was a little girl's!!!!!

  A beam of light twisted, and a little girl appeared on the ground in front of Francis. The girl sat on the ground, looking no more than ten years old. With golden hair as bright as Francis', she wore a white long-sleeved dress, her pale face looked very cute. The girl held her head with both hands, her sparkling eyes were filled with tears, staring tightly at Francis, her eyes full of grievance.

  Francis stared at the girl in front of him in surprise, how could there be a little girl in the Beast Country, and the girl's eyes... Francis was stunned by the girl's silver eyes, silver eyes, which were not common among humans. Or rather, the one in front of him was not human, this was the Beast Country, could it be a divine beast! Thinking of this, Francis immediately became vigilant and looked at the girl with caution, ready to fight.

  "Mom! You hit Dolores so hard!" The girl's words were astonishing, and Francis was stunned on the spot.

  "Mom... mom... what are you calling me..." Francis's eyebrows twitched, not to mention I don't even have kids yet, even if I did, shouldn't they be calling me dad?!

  "Has Mom forgotten about Dolores? She left me there all alone, saying she'd come get me soon, but she never did! Now that Dolores has finally found you, you don't want me either! Waaahhh..." The girl started crying, and Francis couldn't bear the pitiful sight.

  Taking two steps forward, Francis pulled the little girl up from the ground. Looking at the crying girl, Francis wanted to comfort her with a few words, but didn't know what to say and stiffly said: "You've mistaken me for someone else! I'm afraid I'm not your mother!"

  "It's the same, it's the same! Exactly the same, even the taste is the same!" The girl hugged Francis tightly and climbed up to his chest, wrapping her arms and legs around him.

  Francis looked at the girl on his body, her breathing was very strange, and it could be certain that this girl was absolutely not human...

  "Hmm! Is it okay if I come down first? Are you Dolores?" Francis was quite helpless, although the girl was lovely, but this title of "Mom"!

  "Does Mom even remember Dolores' name?" The girl looked up at Francis, her tears welling up in her eyes!

  Francis touched his forehead, standing there at a loss, this title is really... He glanced at the girl in his arms, a demon beast that can transform into human form must be of divine rank. The girl in front of him probably doesn't have the cultivation of the divine rank, so how did she transform into human form? Is it just what she said about her mother? Francis suddenly thought, could this girl be the descendant of some divine-ranked demon beast?!

  "Hey! Is that Dolores?! Come down first, okay?" Francis looked at the girl in his arms, anyway, let's coax her for now!

  "No!" Dorothea replied promptly, burying her head in Francis's bosom. "If I let go, Mother will run away again!"

  "But you're like this, it's very inconvenient for me! Listen, come down first! Be good, or else... Mom... mom won't like you!" Francis' eyebrows jumped straight up, using his killer move to say these words that put a lot of pressure on him.

  "No!... But Dorothea doesn't want to come down!" The girl tilted her head and looked at Francis for a moment, then suddenly seemed to think of something, using her hands and feet to climb from Francis' chest to his back. "This way Mom will be more convenient!"

  Francis's mouth twitched, who told me kids are easy to fool!

  Helpless, Francis had no choice but to carry Dorothea back, and now he didn't have a good way out either. Seeing the girl's eyes behind him, Francis always felt that he couldn't refuse her request.

  "Oh, young master! You're back! How come you've been gone for so long? We've been waiting for you for half a day!" Dais and Eriol had already taken care of the bear, roasting it over the fire with some seasonings on top. Saber was helping out, which Francis once commented that her cooking skills were very strategic for a king.

  As Francis approached, Dis said "We have enough firewood, Aiolos just went..." Dis's mouth opened wide, pointing at the head that suddenly appeared behind Francis' back "What...what...is this?"

  Francis looked at Dis with a helpless expression "Ah! As you can see, I'm in trouble, young master!"

  "Mom! This blue-haired guy looks really scary!" Deloris pulled her head back behind Francis' back and whispered a sentence in Francis' ear. But the people present were what, this whisper was like a thunderbolt that resounded in the minds of the three, Mom...

  "What a joke! Could it be...?" Saber thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened in surprise "Could the young master really be a girl?!"

  "......Francis, has your stupid hair influenced you to this extent?"

  "Mother! What is a girl?" Dorothea popped her head out again and caught Francis' golden hair "Is Mother a girl?"

  "Absolutely not!" Francis said with emphasis.

  "What's going on, young master! Who is this girl?" The first to calm down was Aiolos. How could there be a girl in this forest? There should only be magical beasts here!

  "I don't know what's going on either! She suddenly appeared and said I'm her mother! I couldn't do anything!" Francis recounted the events that had just transpired.

  "Goodness! This thing is really strange!" Aiolos glanced at the girl, "Maybe it's because her mother and young master look alike, who knows!"

  "So the young master isn't a girl after all!" Saber let out a sigh of relief, she had just been really startled.

  Francis's mouth twitched, and he glanced at the silly hair on Saber's head, swallowing back what he wanted to say. Looking over, Dis, who had been staring at Dorothea all along, said, "What's wrong, Dis? You haven't spoken since earlier! Don't mind it, kids' words are harmless, after all!"

  "No! What I'm concerned about isn't this!" Dis's gaze never left Dolores "This girl, she doesn't exist at all in my little universe!"

  "What......"