Chapter 3212 Baba Yaga’s Hut (Part 1)

Chapter 3212 Baba Yaga’s Hut (Part 1)

"I hadn't thought about that." Kamila said with a pensive look on her face. "What if we ask Baba Yaga to call her Firstborns as well? With their power plus Dawn's prisms, you'd have full-red blood cores who can fight freely during the day."

"As I said, I've married a genius." Lith sat up while rubbing his hands and thinking about who and how he could manipulate for help. "Great idea, Kami."

"Glad to help, but I'm not done with the bad news." She said. "The family of travelers you saved is still traumatized from what you did to them and that's nothing compared to what happened after you reached Zeska."

Lith's eyes lost their enthusiasm as he remembered what he had done to the young boy before Orpal's arrival and to the wounded citizens after.

"Just tell me how many."

"Thousands of lives were lost and half the city was razed to the ground during the fight." Kamila replied. "Yet even if it pains me to say this, that's nothing compared to how you treated that boy, the Constable, and the men of the Knight's Guard."

"What do you mean?" Lith rubbed his forehead in frustration. "I remember beating the boy's parents, but that's it. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything else."

"That's the point exactly." Kamila sighed. "In your-, no, in Derek's fury, he brutalized those horrible people in front of their child. That poor kid blames himself for everything that happened.

"He believes that if he was better, his parents would still be alive."

"They died?" Lith's eyes opened wide in surprise.

"Dya! Dya! Dada!" She threw her arms in Lith's direction, almost falling off Kamila's hold.

"Papa!" Valeron shapeshifted into his Bahamut form and took flight, landing on Lith's shoulder before starting to nuzzle against his face.

"So much for being appreciated." Kamila grumbled. "They've never welcomed me like that."

"That's because you never went missing for days after a deadly trap." Lith took Elysia from Kamila's arms with a spark of Spirit magic and nestled Valeron in the crook of his left arm.

"I stand corrected. I'm glad they never welcomed me like that."

After the initial enthusiasm, the babies started to cry out of joy and relief, forcing Lith to use the Dragon scales to reassure them that he really was back and in good health.

"Dya." Elysia sniffled, glad that the ugly scary thing that resembled her father was gone for good.

"Dya." Valeron hadn't met the Void so he was much quicker to calm down.

He returned to his human form and started to tug at Lith's clothes for food. Now that Valeron wasn't worried about Lith's disappearing like it had happened to Jormun, the little boy's appetite reached new heights.

"I'm sorry. I can do many incredible things but producing milk is not among them." He said with such a straight face that made Kamila laugh and Elysia stare at him in disappointment.

Dads were supposed to be omnipotent.