Before becoming a proper god, Deus, having gained divinity.
Long before the time when I would sacrifice to fend off the invasion of “Chaos.”
In a very distant past, I was just an ordinary human girl.
Without any powers whatsoever.
Just a plain country girl.
The village I lived in was a quiet rural village.
So peaceful that worries and troubles felt worlds away…
Until they came.
“The map only showed a forest. Who would have thought there was a village here?”
“Fortunately, the soldiers are getting tired, General. This is a suitable village for supplies. It’s enemy territory, so the Prince won’t say anything if we loot it.”
“Perfect. Our soldiers haven’t tasted a proper woman’s flavor in ages; I believe we’ll have a feast tonight!”
A massive number of soldiers and their horses entered our village.
“What… what are you doing?!”
“Get lost! We’re not here for men!”
“Ugh!”
“Dearest!”
They indiscriminately slaughtered the men of our village.
“Ahhh!”
“Such soft skin! Mmm! Yes! The scent of a female is different!”
They looted and assaulted the women of the village, who had lost their husbands.
“Deus, hide down here.”
“Mom…”
“Shh. Quiet. You have to listen to your mother. Don’t make a sound, okay?”
My mother hid me in the basement and went outside.
I curled up inside, covering my ears and hiding.
Days passed like that.
Creeeak
“Well, well. Looks like there’s one hiding here too.”
“Let go of me!”
A soldier with a scruffy beard and a foul smell opened the basement door and pulled me out.
“Hmm? This girl. Quite pretty.”
“Should I take her to the General? He might reward us.”
“Oh, great idea!”
And so, I was dragged in front of the soldiers’ leader.
“General! We have something magnificent!”
“Something magnificent?”
A muscular brute.
A man who radiated an oppressive presence just by being there.
“Check this out!”
“You won’t be disappointed!”
“Let’s see here…”
He grabbed my face and forced me to look at him.
“Oh. Quite a beauty. Not someone you’d expect in a rural village.”
“What do you think, General?”
“Very nice. I will grant you my merit for this.”
“Thank you, General!”
“A girl this good. Hm? By the way, she resembles the girl who rejected my advances yesterday.”
“Are you talking about the one who died trying to confront the General?”
“Yes. Quite a pity. That’s why I just cut her head off and hung it up.”
He pointed to a long pole.
At the end of that pole…
My mother’s head was hanging.
Seeing that made me scream in horror.
“Huh? Do you know her? Oh, it seems you are mother and daughter.”
The man chuckled at me.
“Did you know? That woman was a witch. She was a filthy witch who tainted the world’s logic, deceiving the innocent. It seems she hid herself in this rural village, plotting to assassinate Lord Hanuman. I killed her without realizing it. Quite beautiful she was… but I have no interest in corpses.”
My mother… is dead.
Because of this man.
“In exchange, she left behind such a beautiful daughter! Now this is quite pleasing!”
My mother was a witch?
What’s that supposed to mean?
I don’t know anything about that.
If it wasn’t for this man…
If it wasn’t for this man, my mother would still be alive!
“I will have my fun tonight… huh?”
Grrrrrr
“What! How is there this level of magical power?!”
As my anger towards the man peaked…
I lost consciousness.
“Ugggh!”
What happened in between, I don’t know for sure.
I just felt like I was dreaming deeply, with my vision tinted red.
Now looking back, it was probably the witch’s blood inherited from my mother awakening within me.
My father, who never told me who he was and always created things in our room to make a living, my mother…
I didn’t know when I was young, but our mother was a witch.
When I woke from the dream.
When I came to my senses, all that remained around me was blood.
The soldiers who burned down our village.
The scum who killed my mother had turned to blood, leaving nothing behind.
Even though I carried out the act of revenge, I couldn’t remember the revenge itself.
I took my mother’s revenge.
But the young me, who didn’t even know what the awakened power was, wandered the continent.
Having nothing.
Aimlessly wandering without any sense of purpose.
I could do nothing.
I had nothing left.
The target of my revenge was gone.
The awakened witch’s blood kept me from dying even when I didn’t eat or drink anything.
I wandered without aim, drifting around.
Until one day.
“We found her, Prince!”
“Hmm. Is that really the girl?”
“Yes. The girl who annihilated the Third Legion created by the wizards through an illusion spell.”
“That little girl… whoa.”
“What shall we do, Prince? Should we bombard her from a distance with magic to eliminate her?”
“No. That would be a waste of such beauty. Deploy skilled warriors to capture her.”
“Understood!”
A swarm of knights came to find me.
“Everyone, don’t let your guard down with appearances! She’s the beast who wiped out the Third Legion!”
“Understood!”
The Empire’s knights surrounded me, overpowering me.
No matter how powerful I became with the awakened witch’s blood, I couldn’t match the knights of the Empire.
I fell under their attack.
“Target has been successfully subdued!”
“Bind the target with magic chains!”
The knights wrapped me in thick iron chains and took me before a man dressed in luxurious clothing.
“This girl… whoa.”
He looked at me with eyes glistening with desire, similar to Hanuman, the man who killed our mother.
“Quite… delicious.”
“Prince, what shall we do with this girl?”
“Put her in a prison and move the prison with the wagon. This search ends here! Let’s return to headquarters.”
“Yes, Prince! We will follow your orders!”
They imprisoned me in a massive cage.
A prison that moved along with the wagon.
“Hey. Be careful! If those chains come off, we all die!”
“Huh? Is that girl that dangerous?”
“Didn’t you hear?! She annihilated the Third Legion!”
“That girl? She’s that strong?”
“So be careful while moving. If those chains come off, we’re all dead!”
Where are they dragging me off to?
What will happen to me now?
Am I going to be violated by that man like I am back to another brutal death like my mother?
Days passed while being transported in the army’s procession.
Creeeak
Suddenly, the wagon stopped.
“Ouch. Where is this again?”
A beautifully radiant adult woman appeared at the front of the procession.
“I remember passing the divinity to Erika and saying my last goodbyes… and then Erika landed the final blow on Alburzoa… Lastly, Alburzoa struggled and grabbed my soul? Why am I in such a place?”
She was a stunningly beautiful and mystical woman.
“Is this an enemy’s ambush? Warriors of the Empire!”
Soldiers and knights immediately took a battle stance, surrounding the woman.
“Is that woman also going to be captured like me?”
Such a beautiful lady.
How unfortunate.
“Hmm… Empire, huh.”
She met my gaze as she scanned through the knights.
“The Empire that harasses and abducts young girls. What a nasty feeling.”
The surrounding space felt like it was being consumed by her energy.
-It’s disgusting, feeling like I see my past self.
BOOM
I didn’t even see what happened properly.
The Empire’s knights collapsed one after another.
All those who captured me lost consciousness in an instant and fell.
And then, she walked through the opened prison door.
“I am Lily. What’s your name?”
That was the start of my…
No.
Our first encounter with my son.
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