New Life, New Task: I'll Be A Mom Then!!!

Leon's vision distorted from traveling through the spatial void, breaking straight into the barrier.

But it only took him a few seconds to see the new environment around him.

He immediately maximized his senses and found Eli who was currently in a pinch because the beasts slowly regaining their freedom from the obstacles.

"Eli!" Leon cried out as he immediately dashed while his sword cleared the path neatly.

Swoosh!!

In just one swing of his sword, a third of the beasts were already eliminated. But his eyes never left Eli's direction and his speed never faltered to go on her side.

When Eli heard Leon's voice, her heart felt a sense of relief.

Nonetheless, she still concentrated on dodging the beast's attacks because she knew that Leon might be trapped as well.

Around them was a swarm of oversized beasts with strengths several times stronger than the average hell wolves and they can even cast spells too!

Leon also realized the situation sooner and so he did not hold back.

He was the Mad Blood Prince after all. Engaging in pure carnage such as this is always his specialty!

Soon everything around Eli became a rain of purple blood. Inch by inch, Leon was getting closer and closer to her.

Eli was doing her best to defend and approach his side as well. The earlier they regroup the higher the chances are for them to be safe.

Brandishing her short sword, Eli took advantage of her small size and agility to occasionally strike and poke the beasts around her.

Her target - the eyes!

Since she could only wield a short sword, her power was not as explosive as the normal knights.

Leon and the blades, however, saw to it that she had the agility and stamina to last long in situations like this.

Eli was gaining a lot of first-hand experience at the moment, realizing what she lacked and how she increased her drive and instincts to survive.

If a minute earlier her goal was to stall the enemy until reinforcement arrives, her goal the next moment was to keep her dear life alive.

Now at Leon's arrival, her objective was to try to hold on while not causing a fatal distraction for Leon who was on his way to rescue her.

Then a few moments later, she worked towards doing her best to deal with the beasts with all the deployable resources she had at hand.

In the far distance, the pair of amethyst eyes were observing the two people struggle. Her eyes, showing a great sense of gloating earlier, suddenly dimmed with frustration and disinterest.

"I've seen enough…" A voice came from the communication stone affixed on her like earrings.

"Come back before the Third Prince tracks you…" The voice said once again. It was none other than Crown Prince Ranon.

"Alright…" The observer, Arabella, who watched in the dark answered coldly, but her eyes looked at Eli with great hatred.

With the last spiteful look, she blended into the shadows once again and her presence disappeared from the area, not minding what would happen to the beasts she had just deployed.

Even at the busy battlefield, Leon and Eli both felt the change of Arabella's presence disappearing.

That was because, suddenly, the beasts acted aimlessly and purely by instinct. If it was before, Eli could say that they were more like puppets being in control by a powerful being.

Now they were merely savage beasts seeking blood without regard for the situation around them, not even their bodies.

With this though, Leon and Eli were able to regroup and a few minutes after that, Mishael and Nathan came in with their own troops.

"What in the…" Nathan could not help but curse at the sight of Eli and Leon, bathed in a dark purple mud pool with their hands wielding their weapons as they crawled back to earth from the depths of hell.

"Let's go… Leon and Eli must have been exhausted holding on." Mishael pulled Nathan and the troops out of their trance and helped with the cleanup.

In an instant, all of the beasts were completely wiped out.

"Good heavens… this is madness!" After clearing all the monsters, no one could stop Nathan from exclaiming his thoughts about the situation. "How could there be such monsters inside the Empire?! How was the enemy even able to smuggle these many!"

"I have no clues either… but he has to swiftly get to the bottom of the matter…" Leon replied rather calmly.

There was a trace of exhaustion in his voice, but it was mainly due to tapping the Spatial King's power rather than dealing with the beasts earlier.

However, in his hands, he held Eli carefully. The moment he carried Eli, he felt that her limbs were already trembling.

Eli could no longer count how many times she used her shadow steps and struck her short sword into the monster's eyes.

Her hands had already lost their strength to keep a grip on the short sword and her legs were already feeling numb.

With that, she obediently laid on Leon's arms, not after ensuring that he did not have any injuries hiding behind the thick layer of monster blood around his body. Feeling relieved that they were finally out of danger, her eyelids turned heavy and a great wave of exhaustion made her vision blackout.

"I'll call on the rest here and take over. The two of you should quickly go back to the palace to take a rest." Mishael opted to not say his theories about the matter at first.

What he needed was to be able to converse with Eli and Leon properly when they got back.

For now, he and Nathan should move to clean the area up and gather enough specimens for Dr. Einz to check as well as find initial clues of the matter.

It was already late at night when Eli woke up from losing consciousness.

The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was the glamorous unfamiliar ceiling around her.

She moved her throbbing head and found that lay beside her was an adorable plump of cuteness, with the corner of his sleeping eyes slightly moistened.

It was Little Han who slept beside her clung to her clothes like he was afraid that his mommy would not wake up. From the puffy reddish slits of his eyes, Eli knew that her son cried a lot.

Her heart broke, realizing how much Little Han cried once again. Little Han had a habit of wounding his throat every time she was in distress.

She thought that it was because of the shared link she had with him, through Baobao and Wisey.

Now she was once again reminded that her motivation to survive was not only for herself but for Little Han who would also be hurt a lot.

Eli tried to move her hands to caress Little Han's sleeping face, but she felt like her hands were numb and heavy.

This startled her a lot. She knew that she was not injured in any way but how could her hands and even her legs feel like crap.

"Don't try to move yet… your body was not used to prolonged fights." Suddenly she heard Leon's worried voice beside her.

She turned her head and saw Leon dressed in a thin white sleeping robe.

He was sitting on a cushioned chair, with the moonlight striking his slightly pale face.

"Leon, are you all right? Your face is pale." Eli was a little bit regretful because she was in no position to go near Leon to check his situation so she could only figure out his well-being through her sight.

"It's fine, I just happened to use a lot of mana from summoning the Spatial King's powers." Leon stood up, a gentle smile blooming on his pale yet devilishly handsome face.

He stretched out his hands to caress Eli's forehead, planting his lips on it before doing the same on Little Han.

"hmmmuu.." Little Han felt her parents' warmth and snuggled comfortably on Eli's side. Ease appeared on his adorable face.

"I'm glad you are safe," Leon whispered while he met Eli's midnight eyes warmly.

"I'm glad you came…" Eli smiled and answered back. She knew that she would not survive if Leon did not come on time to help her get out of the situation.

She would not even see Little Han's lovely face nor heave a breath of relief if not.

"Stay here with Little Han, I'll get you some food." Leon stood quickly and remembered that Eli did not have her meal because of losing consciousness.

Eli did not protest and just bobbed her head in a nod. It is not that she wanted to inconvenience Leon, but she could not afford to let the enemies know that their attack had been effective.

She had to quickly regain her strength by the morning and act as if nothing happened.

Only that will make the enemy act cautiously before attacking once again.