The surprise is the strange power

After almost an entire day in a state of convalescence, Sanryu regains consciousness. "Mhh my head." When she wakes up she feels a severe headache, she finds it difficult to get up. "Am I in the middle of a forest?" Sanryu sees trees and bushes around him, understands that he is no longer in Deria. "How did I end up here?" The boy has many questions in his mind.

"I see you woke up, it's about time." Sanryu hears a familiar voice, a voice he hasn't heard in over a day. She turns in the direction of the voice and there, sitting on a piece of log, is Lurue.

"Lurue! Where were you? You were no longer in the room when I returned to the inn." Sanryu exclaims the goddess's name in surprise, demanding an explanation.

"I'll tell you everything, but now come here and sit down." Lurue tells the boy to sit next to her, moving to the side a little, to make more room for the boy. Sanryu does as he says, and walks towards her, and then sits on that piece of tree, Lurue seems to have already lit a fire, to warm up.

"So, where did you go?" Sanryu basks in the warmth of the flames, warming himself from the cold of the night.

"Out of town, here in the forest." Lurue says where she went.

"And why?" She asks the boy, still with a question in mind.

"What you said bothered me... it's true that I'm a goddess, but I'm first of all a woman, I know that I'm not the most delicate woman in this world, but I have feelings too. What you you said I didn't like it, how can you say I'm not your woman, after you got me pregnant?" Suddenly Lurue drops a bomb on Sanryu.

"Ah, you're pregnant, I see... WAIT WHAT?!?!" Sanryu doesn't seem to realize the news right away, and in fact he arrives soon after.

"Why are you so surprised? You came inside me so many times I lost count, not to mention how much you unloaded in my womb, it was inevitable that this would happen." Lurue caresses her belly.

"Pregnant…I can't believe she did that, but like you say, it was to be expected." Sanryu seems upset, but he doesn't want to be insensitive to the matter. "I don't know how to react, after all I'm still eighteen years old, and I've already gotten a woman pregnant... of course I'm already an adult, but usually this event happens a little later in relationships." Lurue glares at Sanryu, with an accusatory look. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not sad about the news, but I can't even say that I'm bursting with happiness. I have to metabolize the issue, being a child means responsibility and maturity... I have to live up to expectations, oh at least I'll try. " Sanryu just has to accept the fact of becoming a father.

"So you want to raise him?" Lurue asks with an anxious tone in her voice.

"Of course, I won't be ready, but it's still a responsibility that I have caused, I certainly can't pretend nothing happened, it's abandoning my son." Sanryu doesn't feel ready for a child yet, but he can't leave everything in Lurue's hands, it's stupid to do something like that.

Lurue seems to be holding back a smile of joy, hiding it from the boy. "Of course you will take responsibility, he is our son." Lurue also seems intent on raising him.

"So our son will be born in nine months." Sanryu is already starting to count the time. "So you need to watch your body Lurue, I think we should postpone the promise to deal with the threat, you'd better avoid confrontations for now." Sanryu doesn't want anything to happen to Lurue, and therefore to the child.

"What are you saying? Ahhh see, I was right when I said you know nothing about the gods." Sanryu tilts his head, not knowing what Lurue means. "We Goddesses take years to form the embryo, and then our nine-month cycle begins to form the unborn child." Sanryu's eyes widen at Lurue's revelation.

"If you haven't developed an embryo yet, how do you know you're pregnant?" Sanryu asks a simple question.

"Because we perceive it, our overdeveloped senses understand that the uterus has been successfully fertilized, but as I said, to form a child of a deity, it takes a long time. In itself it is difficult for a goddess to get pregnant, here because our species has few members compared to others in the world. If a god dies, it is a huge loss for the planet, that's why we are always careful not to die." Lurue explains the process of the birth of the gods.

"I see… so our son will be a god?" Sanryu doesn't know how to feel about this.

"Not really, first of all, there are two ways to give birth to a god; The first is the belief of the mortal races, if there are millions of individuals who believe in an imaginary divine being, linked to some existing concept, those hopes come together all together, giving life to the god in question, it will be a true God. Then there are the minor gods, simply gods, born between the union of two divine beings... I am part of this category. Before ask me, I am the daughter of Diana, the Goddess of nature and animals, she is of Thor, God of lightning and thunder." Sanryu is stunned to hear all this news flow, but stays to listen. "And finally, there are demigods, beings born between a god and a mortal, our son will be part of this category. Demigods, unlike Gods and minor gods, do not have their nature linked to a concept of this world, for example my concept of existence is the wild nature of man, if ever on Ethia there were no longer even a human being left who embraces wild life, I would stop being a goddess, and I will become a mortal. If one thing happened to of the Gods born from the belief of mortals, they would disappear from existence, since they were born only thanks to mortals."

"This is all incredible, so you mean to tell me that besides you gods, there are also demigods scattered around the world?" Sanryu became even more curious from this news.

"Yes, there are definitely, but they will be very few, given even just enough time to give birth to one, and then it almost never happens that a god bonds with a mortal, we are part of a very small category, it's like I said before, it's hard for a goddess to get pregnant...it's just that you're a beast, so it was easy for you." Sanryu doesn't know whether to take this as a compliment or an insult. "Speaking of demigods...Sanryu, most likely, you are one of them." Suddenly, Lurue says these sentences, taking the poor boy by surprise for the umpteenth time.

"I-I'm a demigod?! Where do you come up with that assumption, Lurue?" Sanryu can't understand how he is a demigod, he grew up in the middle of a village, and he doesn't even have any particular power, at least from what he knows. The only thing he knows about is the fact that he was adopted by the Ayanokoji family, nothing more. 'But thinking back, my father told me that when he found me in the middle of the forest, there were golden flashes that night.' Sanryu thinks about some things.

"I see we've reached the point that interests me." A voice comes from above the heads of the couple who are currently arguing, Sanryu looks up, she is sitting on a tree branch, he finds Fenrya. "Well woken up sleepyhead, you took it easy, don't you know that those who sleep too much will never become strong?" Fenrya jumps off the branch, landing in front of the two.

"If I'm not mistaken it was different, "He who sleeps never catches fish", the saying goes like this. But I'm happy to see that you're alive and well, Fenrya...by the way! How could I forget, the news that I will have a child it got me distracted...Deria? The city, what's happening to the city?" Sanryu had forgotten to ask about the fate of the city.

"Forget about Deria, it's gone now. The Skaven have conquered it permanently." Fenrya sits on the piece of log, where Lurue and Sanryu are already sitting, putting Sanryu between the two.

"Fall..." Sanryu starts thinking about a girl.

"Don't worry, Zaria is fine, let's say I gave her group a little hand, they are now safe and sound in the forest. I think they are heading towards a city." Lurue already knows what she is thinking and the boy reassures him, saying that the girl is alive.

"Ahhh I'm happy with this news, thanks Lurue." Sanryu is happy to have a woman like Lurue by her side.

"Now that we've cleared that up...can we talk about that strange power?" Fenrya is not very interested in the fate of the human city, she is she asks the two to return to the main conversation.

"Strange power? What power?" Sanryu doesn't understand what the two women are talking about.

"Your power, Sanryu, you manifested it in the battle in that mansion... don't you remember anything?" Fenrya tries to see if the boy remembers anything.

"No, I don't remember using any power. The last thing that comes to mind, before I lost consciousness, was the powerful beating I received from that monster, then everything went dark." As the two women expected, Sanryu was unconscious when he was using that power, most likely his body reacted on its own. 'I can't believe I used a power, so there's still hope for me!' Sanryu seems to rejoice at this news.

"As I imagined, you weren't yourself at that moment, in fact you seemed very strange...more than usual." Sanryu can't understand Fenrya's words, that she means more than usual?

"Sanryu that power you used wasn't mortal, but it had a hint of divinity in it." Lurue gets the boy's attention. "I don't think you're a God, or maybe yes, maybe the God of sex, but I wouldn't be so sure. They usually have a more majestic aura that they radiate from their bodies, superior even to mine, and I don't feel nothing like that from you." Lurue explains the rationale for his hypothesis. "Do you happen to feel a strange sensation?"

"Strange feeling? Mhhh couldn't you be more specific?" Sanryu doesn't fully understand what Lurue says.

"I don't know, like a drained feeling in your body, like you've run out of energy." Lurue specifies his question.

"Now that you point it out, yes! Oh right, I feel like something is missing inside, it's strange I've never felt anything like this until now, what is it?" Sanryu doesn't fully understand this feeling he feels.

"You simply unlocked your power, the emptiness you feel inside is caused by the fact that you used that power. Most likely, after using it all together, both your body and your spirit were affected, and you fainted without strength ." Lurue is trying to clarify the matter.

"Sanryu, can you channel that power into your hands?" Fenrya tries to ask. "Actually, no, wait! Since you've never used your power, I bet you don't even know how to do it, right?" Sanryu nods at the tabaxi's words. "Good, then open your hands and close your eyes. Imagine a torrent of power forming in that hand, concentrate on it and imagine a sphere." Fenrya instructs Sanryu on how to manifest her power.

The boy follows all the instructions of the female tabaxi to the letter and concentrates. 'This foreign sensation... it's the first time I've felt it, as if a strange power was flowing through my body and moving in my hand.' Sanryu manages to take his first steps, but just as a small sphere, the size of an insect, forms in his hand, it disappears soon after. "Ahhh ahhhh I can't! It's like I'm missing something." Sanryu is exhausted just manifesting that little orb, and he tells the women that he can't do it.

"You can't because you've exhausted that power, but it's strange, usually when you use a power, it regenerates over time... and even though it's been almost a day, you still haven't recharged some of it ." Lurue finds it strange that Sanryu couldn't recharge his body with that power. "Most likely to recharge it, you need something, the question is what?" Lurue begins to think about various ideas, but only one takes precedence over the others.

Sanryu is Fenrya, they wait for Lurue's guess, and as they observe her, the goddess smiles with a mischievous look.

"Sanryu, start undressing, tonight we'll make fire and flames." And with these words, this night will also be very eventful.