87 C86 Divine Faith

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The mood felt chilly as the group stood outside for a moment, everyone staring at the door as everyone felt the same emotion of fear to actually even try and walk inside. Losing someone like this was a pain that none of them could even begin to imagine. The pain caused stronger than anything in this world.

Nathan stood for a moment before bowing his head as he took a step forward, his body carrying him past the threshold as he knew what he had to do, the fear and pain not in his heart as he was possibly the only one who could try to fix the situation.

He Passed through the doorway into the shack like home. His eyes were focusing on the darkness as it took a few moments before he finally saw the small size of the house. Three rooms which were no bigger than his old flat in the real world, every space crammed with items as everything had gotten scavenged and saved for future use.

The second room was a small side room with a bed inside made of dirty leathers and cloths which seemed very uncomfortable. The third room which held the most significance. Inside Ness was crying with her entire heart on display, cursing the world in her own heart as Nees had done everything in her might to save her child.

Two beds, one with a small boy sitting from before who looked pale and in shock, apparently not understanding the situation all to well as he looked up at Nathan as he entered. The other bed was holding the lifeless pale corpse of a young girl. Roughly around the age of six maybe seven. Clear as day that if she was still alive, Mea expression could have brightened the entire sky with her smile.

Small glass bottles were littering a table next to the bed, each one holding trace amounts of a bright red liquid which held magical properties. Nathan's eyes scanning over each one as this healing magic must have cost the poor mother an arm and a leg, which did not surprise him at the least.

Azo and Bull came in shortly afterwards, followed by the twins as they all saw this sight, both twins turning away as they left. Azo was staring at this situation with a stoic face while Bull bit his bottom lip in anger and annoyance unable to do anything.

"Bull, Can you grab Nees and pull her out of the way, Azo can you take this young man and make sure he does not come near me, please."

Nathan spoke softly, each word catching the others as both Bull and Azo just nodded, moving forward as the large man took Nees in his strong arms, pulling her away from her child in the bed, the tears streaming down his arm as he felt almost close to the worse person in the world right now.

"No, Do not touch my baby! I will kill you if you do anything to her!"

The screams echoed out the house as Nees fought against the arm, clawing, scratching and even resorting to biting as she tried to free herself from the massive arm wrapped around her to keep her away. Staring at the man who took her place, sitting at her little girl's side as she felt her heart sinking rapidly.

Closing her eyes, she prayed to whoever was listening as the tears, snot and sadness flowed down her cheeks.

'Someone save my little girl.'

She sent her prayer off into the wind as her eyes opened slowly, Azo holding onto her son as he struggled to help his mother in desperation. It was clear he was unable to do much against a fully grown man.

Her struggles stopped as she watched the man kneeling at his daughter, his hands taking both of his daughters as she saw the tears flowing from his eyes as two vibrant sources of energy flared from the man's body.

As they watched, two flame-like energy sources travelled from Nathan's eyes, crawling down his face and shoulders before reaching his arms. Each second passing as it flowed like a river to eventually reach his hands before passing into the girl's body.

The dark energy surrounding Mea like a cloud to protect against anything from the outside attacking her. Protecting her from the world trying to harm her and shrouding her with its protection.

The light energy flowing into her as her body started to grow warm to the touch, colour returning as her body shook visibly with each moment passing as a small gasp of breath became audible from her little lips as her eyes slowly opened to the world once again.

Her body voting up as Nathan grasped her shoulders, hand sliding over her mouth as the poor girl began to cough her lungs out, eventually after a few minutes she stopped as she sank against the pillow, Nathans hand closing into a fist as he stood and walked towards Bull and Azo, nodding for them to release them both.

Nees broke her heart again as she rushed towards her daughter, arms wrapping around her as her instincts made her pull the young child closer, head resting on Mea's chest as she wept. It was only when she heard the faint but soft heartbeat of her child that the tears turned from sadness to pure joy, her head raising to look at the man who had saved her child.

"Thank you. God! Thank you!"

Nees and the young brother held the younger sister together as the family cried in relief.

"Let's head outside, give them some time to rest."

Nathan spoke with a smile crossing his lips, the emotionless features no longer present as he was prideful for the thing he had done.

After exiting the home, Nathan uncurled his fingers as he held a bloody bit of flesh in his hand, it had crystallised with pure divine magic. Azo was looking down at his hand as he felt his face growing pale, he knew he had seen something similar.

"That is a piece of skin from the Death Goddess... How did you get that?"

Azo said as he stared down at the bit of flesh, openly wondering how Nathan had retrieved it without entering the tomb yet.

"It was in the young girl's stomach."

Nathan clenched his fist as he stared out into the distance, his eyes growing angry again as he bit his lip in rage.

"Someone fed it to her."