As Hilda walked slowly to her daughter's room, she felt as if time was passing more slowly, fearful of the shame of this situation.
But for her daughter not to become a woman who gets lost in her own pleasures, she had to intervene and teach Elke about the importance of saving herself for her future husband.
Self-knowledge was good, but Elke seemed to be going a bit overboard in her discoveries...
That's what Hilda thought!
So, she soon reached her daughter's room, quickly entering there since the entrance door was open, not closed as perhaps it should have been.
'How careless...' Hilda shook her head in disappointment.
And then, it did not take her long to come face to face with what was happening there!
The moment Hilda entered Elke's room, such a mother saw her daughter's head going up and down with her body while her eyes were closed.
At the same time, an expression of pleasure spread across Elke's beautiful face while her mouth was slightly open, letting out the sounds of her breathing and cries of pleasure.
"Ahhhh~"
Hilda walked closer to her daughter's bed, shocked to see Elke like that.
However, when she did, she nearly had a heart attack at the sight of a male hand on her daughter's right breast, with the other holding one side of Elke's slender waist.
"What? What's going on here?" Hilda asked as she took an extra step to finally see the silver-haired young man beneath Elke, sweaty, with a lustful expression on his face.
"Ahhhhhh!" Elke cried out in surprise as she heard her mother and looked at that woman who was already less than 5 meters away from her. "Mom!"
"Oh, damn!" Lothur looked at Hilda in amazement as if a bucket of ice water had been thrown at him.
Upon realizing this, Elke jumped off Lothur, momentarily revealing his oiled sword, before she quickly covered the bodies of the two with a sheet.
"Mom, I can explain... It's not that what you're thinking..." She said with nervousness, not knowing what to do in that situation.
Hilda continued watching the two in amazement, not believing that she had just caught her precious daughter in the act with Lothur!
'What is going on here? Shouldn't Lothur cut the other way?' She continued with her mouth open, and her face was pale like a sick person's.
But not only was she pale, being caught in the middle of their fun, but those two on that bed were also nervous, swallowing their saliva in anticipation.
'That doesn't matter now... The most important thing is what was going on here!' She shook her head and glared at the two.
"Girl, how is that not what I think it is? You weren't by any chance having sex with Lothur?" She looked first at her daughter and then at him. "How dare you! You have defiled my daughter! Now she can no longer marry!"
Elke jumped on Lothur, standing between him and her mother. "No, mom, you don't understand. I love Lothur. I chose to be his and stay with him. He has not defiled me, and I will still marry him!"
"What are you saying?" She looked incredulously at her foolish daughter. "Have you forgotten our conversation a few weeks ago, Elke? You will marry one of the young men on the list I gave you!"
"No!" Elke shouted in a determined tone. "I would rather die than marry one of those people! I choose Lothur, mom!"
Hilda looked strangely at her daughter and then at Lothur. "You have corrupted her, brat! Don't expect us to forgive that easily!"
"Madam, I'm sorry I got involved in your plans, but Elke and I will stay together. I was already going to ask you and the patriarch's permission in the next few days, but this situation happened..." He said, looking into Hilda's eyes.
"Stay together? Only over my dead body!" She felt like teaching Lothur and that foolish girl a lesson.
"No, mom! I have given my body and soul to Lothur. He is not to blame for anything. So, don't be angry with him." Elke said in nervousness, feeling that her mother might want to hurt her man.
"Elke, be quiet! Maybe we can still work this out and get you a husband..." She was saying but was interrupted by Elke.
"No, I won't be with anyone but Lothur. Plus, we've had sex so often that it's impossible to change how I am now."
Hilda began to turn red with anger upon hearing that such a thing had not been the first time. "Brat! You fooled us! You behaved as harmless, but you were a hungry wolf!"
"Uh? Madam, I didn't fool anyone. I just didn't reveal the truth!" Lothur defended himself.
"It doesn't matter! I will not allow you to be together! Even if I have to arrest my daughter, I will do it." She jumped toward the bed to get Lothur.
But then Elke shouted at her. "Then be prepared to sacrifice me, mom! While Lothur and I were doing our mission, I was seriously injured. I'm only alive because of him and our things!"
Upon hearing this, Hilda stopped her movement and looked strangely at her daughter. "What are you talking about?"
Elke then explained, as her eyes became watery. "I received a sword blow to my heart, mom. Luckily Lothur had an ability that made me recover in time. But not without serious aftereffects being left on my body."
"You can feel it. My soul is wounded because of my time on the brink of death." She showed her pulse to her mother.
Assessing the soul or the physical were different things. But both could be done if cultivators wanted to. Because of this, in the previous days, Hilda had not found out about Elke's injury when she assessed her daughter's body.
The soul was fragile in the 1st stage, so usually, someone assessed the strength of Mortal Warriors through a physical examination.
Hence the reason for Hilda not assessing Elke's soul!
But in this situation, she immediately did what she should and realized how wounded her daughter's soul was.
"Elke..." Her voice became thin as concern filled her heart. "Why didn't you say anything to me? Do you know the risk you are taking?"
She smiled bitterly and explained. "Because Lothur and I can handle this on our own. Our things make me strong, mom. Remember I told you I'm getting stronger by training with him?"
Hilda swallowed her saliva upon hearing that.
"Well, the training I was referring to is what you saw we doing just now."
"What? How can that be?" She looked in astonishment at Lothur.
"If you don't believe me, let us finish what we were doing, and you will notice the difference between the before and after," Elke seriously said.
Hilda frowned at that idea. "Does this affect your soul? Will it heal you?"
"No, it only affects my body, mom. But as long as I advance to the 4th Transformation, I will absorb the Soul Bone that Lothur gave me to heal my soul."
"What? He gave you a Soul Bone?" She looked in even greater shock at Lothur.
...