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- Freya POV -

What are the chances that the very day I decided to let everyone know I was pregnant my own daughter tells me she is also knocked up?

I sigh and massage my temples as I try and compose myself, Kia is going on and on about her problems and how scared she is. Meanwhile, I still need to break it to her that she is going to have a brother or sister that also is kind of her own daughter or son depending on how you look at Harem relationships...

"Kia, stop talking for a moment." Her jaw drops and her brows scrunch up as she looks at me in shock.

"What?" She weakly asks and I feel a tug in my heart seeing her so distraught, it's like punching a puppy or something. But the puppy needs a good punch so I need to slip this out quickly and get it over with.

"I am also pregnant." Her wide eyes widen even more as she looks at my eyes and then down at my lower body.

"You too?" She weakly asks once again and her shoulders slump. "This is not what I was expecting..." I pull her into a hug and pat her back as she whines.

"Don't worry baby, it's easy you just lay down all the time and wait for the bun to finish baking, and then you're good... hopefully Nova can do some magic teleporting and just yoink the baby out of us. Giving actual birth is a pain like no other and if you have to do it that way then you can start freaking out." She pushes away from me and looks back into my eyes after breaking the hug, her face shows betrayal.

"I came here to be cheered up, maybe a little encouragement." I snort and slap her shoulder.

"Baby girl you can't lie to me, you came to rub it in my face but I also got prego and you cant flaunt Infront of me anymore." She rolls her eyes and sits back and crosses her arms.

"I am kind of worried as well, what if Nova doesn't care or doesn't want a baby?" It's my turn to roll my eyes as I also sit back.

"He can prevent it with magic if he wanted but since he hasn't then he likely wants a baby, worst case he is caught off guard but will still be happy. I doubt he will be angry or anything like that with how easy he could prevent it and doesn't." She nods hearing my words and relaxes a little more.

The room descends into silence as we both take in what just happened and I can't help but wonder a few things.

"You thought of any names yet?" I ask.

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- Nova POV -

The room is silent after watching the stored data on Abyss, real ancient battlefields of the Alchemy civilization battling the Abyss. It paints a dangerous picture when someone so powerful was brought so low by 'mob' characters and swarmed to death.

They didn't even have time to combat the real threat of the three 'bosses' at the end, they got smacked down in a never-ending wave of destroying drones. They don't even leave anything behind as they devour everything and grow their numbers. It's like watching antibodies or something but on a lot bigger scale.

"This is coming soon?" Raizen speaks up with an unreadable tone.

"Sooner than we would like, before the next time, the gate between the human and demon world will open. The gate is actually the Abyss working to weaken their seal and demons and humans have been playing into their hands. Each death is more fuel for them to use to power their altars so they can descend and destroy everything." I speak up and get straight to the point and Raizen's stone face reacts a little with a frown forming.

"This is why you have built Nova company? You are trying to get the resources to stop this, you also secured two of the three empires to support you. If I wasn't concerned about what I just learned I would respect you quite a bit for your means and methods." Shea looks displeased by his comment but Catherine just snorts.

"What is it you plan to do? We need every moment to prepare and if you try to hold us back we will have to neutralize you." Catherine narrows her eyes at the man and he nods his head while stroking his beard.

"I will join you in fighting the Abyss, but I need help with a few problems." We don't respond and wait for him to continue. "I need to train myself for the coming battle and to do that I want to pass on the empire. I have a plan, all of my sons are in conflict and scheming but I feel I need to move things along. I would like the Bloody empire to have the same privileges as the other two empires and to do that I have to go to the source, Nova." He sets both hands on the table and looks into my eyes.

"What is it you want from me?" He shakes his head and looks back and forth between Shea and Catherine.

"Marry my daughter and I will name her my heir and then I will step down and make her empress. Doing this will unite the demon world by marriage and the future rulers will all share blood, your blood." Shea sputters but Catherine looks interested as she leans forward, a peaceful outcome with minimal deaths is right up her alley.

"Your sons will unite to oppose this, they will resist." Catherine spoke with a bit of hesitation or maybe apprehension.

"I will handle my boys, whatever the cost." He leans his head back and looks back at me once more. "What do you say, Nova?" I bring out a contract I prepared in advance for this exact situation and slide it toward him.

"I say sign the dotted line." I smile wide as he eyes the paper with interest.

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Forming a contract with Raizen and officially making him one of my people with a Knight piece put all worried away in my mind. I will marry his daughter and solve all her problems and ease his concerns about her, he almost flipped a lid when I told him what I knew she was going to go through.

His blood went cold when I told him about his son Teris and how he is holding onto an artifact that Lord midnight suns soul is inside of. They are sharing a body and scheme to take over the world and rule it as its emperor and its god respectively.

"Bloodfall is Teris work? I would have never guessed, it was right under my nose but I didn't see it. My old rival is inside my son's body and controlling him at times and I never saw it." His voice carries a deep sadness and his eyes go empty as he looks up at the ceiling.

"I can handle it, he is tottering on the line of becoming kingdom and I have the means to trap the soul and separate them." Raizen shakes his head and looks back at me.

"I will be there, I will send off my rival in person." He shakes his head. "I will deal with Teris once they are separated, he is my son and I need to handle it." I nod and the two empresses also agree.

I plan on using Lord midnight sun as a snack for Shea to power up, she is his descendent so he will likely be a compatible power-up for her. She might get to peak overlord all said and done and then she will be waiting for the breakthrough method I am studying to get us to the kingdom.

I am starting to believe we have a unique way of kingdomizing as devils.

I should of saw it coming...

"Let's get the details hammered out and we can also plan our defense efforts against the Abyss, I will leave my daughter's problems to you Nova. She will take over for me once you get her side cleared up." I snort as he shoves a pile of problems on my lap but I also know it's for the best, lots of False god nonsense she is involved in.

Can't have Raizen stirring the pot when I am planning on robbing all the false gods blind.

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"I AM HOME!" I announce my entrance and am about to scan the house to see who is here but stop seeing Athena sitting on the couch looking tired.

"Hello Nova, you are back sooner than I thought." She puffs her lips and I lean over the back of the couch to kiss her and then stand back up.

"Things went well, should all work out for the most part." She grunts in acknowledgment before covering her face with her arms. "Tired?" I ask and she nods and I slide onto the other side of the couch from her and grab her feet.

"What are you doing?" She lifts her arms and looks down at me over the top of her breasts.

"Massaging away the fatigue." She smiles and lays her head back and drops her arms back over her face.

Rubbing her feet I spot Kia and Freya walking in with nervous looks and I raise a brow at them as they take the couch across from me.

"Hello, Nova." Kia looks around like she is nervous after breaking something.

"Welcome back Nova." Freya sits up straight and pushes her breast up.

"Hello, what are you two up to?" I feel Athena's toe pop as I roll my finger over it and she moans.

I look over at her and see her face turning red but she bites her lips to remain quiet.

"We need to talk to you, it is important." I nod and ready myself for some huge reveal.

"You knocked us up and so you are going to be a daddy." Freya cuts her daughter off and I feel my mind go blank.