Mia

In the next few days, there was not even a single moment Elora left Nile alone, she always held him close ,she was afraid she might lose her baby boy who was currently the most important life for her. Elora was a beautiful woman 5'6 feet in height, thin, delicate and graceful appearance with waist length brown hair and hazel colour eyes. Even though she was 35 years but she looked to be in her 20s. She was the daughter of a merchant in Withlock town, and she married her childhood friend Drake. There were many nobles who tried wooing her when she was unmarried, there were even rumors that she was approached by a noble of a mid size family but she humbly rejected them all and married Drake.

"Mia" Elora called out.

"Yes master" Mia replied while getting on her knees and lowering her head.

"Oh Mia, how many times do I have to tell you that , you don't have to kneel, or call me master. Just call me lady or Ma'am and a simple bow is enough, you are not a slave anymore." Elora said while looking at Mia and wondering what difficult life she would have had lived through to have such eyes .

Mia was 23 years old , 5feet 2inch , with a feeble physique and a pale skin which made her look almost ill. She had a stoic face which was incapable of showing any emotion and she had hollow lifeless eyes. Eyes of someone who has seen and lived a life of a slave and knew how cruel this world can be to those who lacks power or influential backing.

She was just 12 when she was abducted and sold as a slave. Since then she had been physically abused by men regularly. She would have had killed herself on the very first day she was sold to an old guard, who brutally raped her and then tortured her just to vent out his anger as he was having a bad day. To a slave death was a blessing, and that blessing was forbidden to them. Slaves had no control over their lives , they could not even harm themselves because of the slave collar and the contract held between the slave and his master. They were like objects used and then thrown or sold to someone else. In her 11 years of slavery she was sold dozen of time and every following master was crueler than the preceding one. She was hoping, that someone would free her of this life until some months back, when she and her master were travelling through a small town on the outskirts of the Ablon Empire. She mistakenly dropped her masters sword , seeing her drop his sword he was enraged and started beating her with his club. Mouth bleeding, nose broken, face disfigured she was almost dead when a guard stopped the man and brought him to the town's Lord Drake. Seeing Mia's condition and hearing to her 'Crime' which led the man to almost beat her to death, Drake was furious but he was bind by the law of the Ablon Empire. This law states that the slave is the personal property of the master and he/she has full authority over the slave. To end Mia's further suffering Drake bought her from the man at the price that was 5 times the man had paid for her. Later her injuries were treated and she was allotted with her duties as a maid to attended to Lady Elora.

(Current)

"Okay Mast… lady I will keep this in mind" Mia said while bowing her head.

"Mia, I have to run some errands and I will be back in a few hours. Kaya is busy preparing for the feast so I would like you to look after Nile" Elora said, while gently putting Nile on the center of huge bed which could easily fit a family of 6.

"As you wish Lady" Mia said bowing while taking a glance at the boy who was a few feet away from her.

'This baby is so beautiful, he looks like an innocent divine being of heaven.' Mia thought as she was mesmerized by the beautiful baby.

If she would have known the baby whom she is calling 'innocent divine being' was an Asura Lord who had butchered many divine being in his previous life, even her stoic face would have twitched.

Reaching the door to leave Elora turned slightly and took a short glance at Nile and then at the young maid who was standing some feet away at the side of the bed and left while remembering the state in which Mia was when she was being treated by the doctors. There were cuts, bruises and burnt marks of all over her body. Even the town doctors were stunned seeing her so inhumanly treated and even imagining of life she would have lived till now could bring tears to someone.

'Finally I can try cultivating, if I would have cultivated in presence of my biological mother she would have known as she herself is a cultivator and this girl Mia have no cultivation base, so I could try cultivating' Nile(Hecate) thought to himself as for the past week her mother Elora has not even left him alone for single moment. Secondly his body was weak and at most he could wake for just couple of hours in day.

'I do not know how do people cultivate in this world but let me try absorbing energy from my surrounding itself just like in abyss.' Closing his eyes Nile started absorbing energy and it had not been even 5 minutes, Nile felt exhausted and fell asleep. Even though he had vast knowledge and had a brain of someone who have lived a long life but his body was that of an infant and for now he could just take baby steps in the world of cultivation. As for energy absorption he was able to absorb energy but it was just small quantities. The children who were called prodigies in this world started absorbing energy at the age of 6 years old and became cultivators at 9.The Average age of becoming cultivators in this world was 12.

Mia was standing there the whole time watching Nile sleep. Watching him sleep she somehow was at emotional peace with her past.