Chapter 18: Children?

"Well tell us Dux no need to be shy!!"

"Hey, what are you guys talking about? And whoa what's wrong with your face Dux?"

Celer sat beside Callidus. This caused Dux to sweat even more, and he was speechless. Additionally, he was unsure of how to explain to the others, who were staring at him with wonder.

"Umm anyways, the goddess has sent me a message to check Lenta.."

Dux left the other swiftly. He went to Lenta's hut, and when he arrived she was eating food.

"You should eat more, there is more meat if you want I can get you some…"

Lenta didn't glance at Dux as she kept on eating without batting an eye at him. She was beyond shy, she couldn't muster the courage to look at him.

"What you said earlier?….W-Was that the truth?.."

"Do you think I'm the type to lie? Every word I said is the truth…"

"T-Then fine…."

"Fine? What do you mean?"

Lenta glanced at Dux.

"I said fine, let's become mates and raise our children for the future.."

"I-I didn't know that you would accept…thank you...truly"

"Now leave!! I want to eat in peace! Your only annoying me!"

"Oh ok, if you want to eat more just tell me and I'll fetch more"

"Just leave!!"

[Dux and Lenta have now become mates!]

[From now on Dux and Lenta will be the backbone of one another, they have become one. Their souls have become intertwined, as such from now on Dux and Lenta can know and see how their mate is doing]

[The three babies have felt the love of their parents, their stats have increased by +1]

Meanwhile, Callidus was heavily sighing, he was bey0nd disappointed. Not only has he not found any information regarding how children are made, but Dux also wouldn't share any information at all.

This made him a huge burden, as a genius, Callidus wants to know everything about their world. As such due to Dux not telling him, Callidus had become stagnant.

Cedric decided to leave the Beastmen alone with the system.

Cedric was back inside his apartment, it was already night as such Cedric decided to rest up for the night.

As morning came, Cedric got ready to go to work. With a quick trip to check on his creations, knowing that they were safe and sound. Cedric left and off to his Jon, meanwhile, inside the game, a notification prompt arrived.

[The host can now add five more members of the Beastmen tribe!]

[Does the host want to create the new members now?]

[.….]

[To speed up the process of the world, the system will automatically create five more beaten according to the Host's original creation.]

"Hmm?"

"What's wrong Callidus?"

"Nothing I just felt something…."

Inside the forest five newly created Beastmen woke up. They all had strange expressions on their face, not only that they glanced around the area. Three women and two men were present.

"Goddess…"

"Dear goddess Lux can you guide us away from this forest?"

Unlike the Beastmen who had trouble speaking at first, The system had automatically made these Beastmen with higher intellect.

The system entered the wolf's body. The other Beastmen were confused as the wolf suddenly left their camp.

They were still busy rebuilding their camp, they were continuing to make other houses for each of them to live on.

While Lenta and Dux shared the news with the others that from yesterday on they were going to live with one another.

Not only that, ever since the two became mates they had a tattoo on their right neck. It was the apostle's tattoo in the shape of a wolf, it was marked that the two of them were now mates.

"What's going on with the apostle?"

"Maybe his hunting for food, let's leave him be for now and continue our work"

The others continued their jobs, and Hnung was also helping them rebuild their homes.

As the five of the new Beastmen glanced at the sky, they looked around the area.

"What's your name?"

Red short hair green eyes, and a devilish smile. They all had animal ears and tails.

The one with brown hair, and eyes, glanced at the one who was asking.

"My name is Tardus, and you?"

"Magna's my name!"

"Umm hello, I'm Mollis.."

"Well, I'm Dulcis by the way."

"I'm Frigus…"

Magna was tall and had a muscular body, Tardus was somewhat smaller and had a few freckles on his face.

Mollis had blue short hair and black eyes, Dulcis has yellow hair and green eyes, whilst Frigus has pure white hair with yellow eyes. Tardus was smaller than the other females and wasn't muscular.

"The goddess will send her apostle to bring us to the others…"

As the five of them got to know one another, they all saw the wolf. Upon seeing the wolf they followed the wolf to their destination.

As they followed the wolf outside of the forest they all could see the houses from afar and a bonfire.

"Hey Callidus what are those?"

Callidus glanced at what Celer was pointing at, and currently, the wolf was walking slowly at their destination with other creatures.

"Wait aren't those?"

Callidus was at a loss for words, they all glanced at the others who were slowly getting closer.

And when they were face to face with these creatures, they found that these creatures looked like them before transforming into full Beastmen.

"These are?"

"These are the new creations the goddess had sent, everyone you will help them become accustomed to everything, and teach them as well."

"This camp is awesome! So what should we do first?"

Magna with a grin glanced around the camp, currently the others were creating the third house.

"Yes, umm since you are new to the camp my name is Callidus.."

"Hi there, I'm Celer!"

"My name is Fortis nice to meet you.."

"Hey, what's going on here?"

"Dux these are the new members of our family.."

"Oh well hello there, I'm Dux.."

As everyone got to know one another, they were quite perplexed to see that everyone had tails, unlike the first time they got here. But they quickly dismissed such an idea and began opening the others with an opening hand.

Callidus was also teaching everyone the job, Callidus wanted them to help so they can speed up the building and create more houses for them to live in.

As the others quickly understood and helped, Lenta was inside the hut watching them from afar whilst eating some berries.

Dux fetched the berries and gave them to Lenta for her to eat. As such Lenta was sitting at the edge of the house, eating while looking at everyone working.

The others forbid her from working, from Dux's description and Hnung's babies are very fragile they can die and get sick easily, as such Lenta was forbidden to do any work.

Lenta was also getting better as days pass, she wouldn't throw up a lot anymore, and recently had overwhelming cravings such as eating fruits, and she started to hate eating meat.

This was hurtful for a meat lover such as Lenta.

"They're working hard.."

The new Beastmen were also wearing new clothes given by Callidus.

Lenta glanced at the bulging stomach she had.

"Hmm…"

"How could three babies fit inside me?…"

"Are there three of you in there?"

Lenta poked her stomach. She felt chubby since her stomach was slowly bulging.

"I just hope that giving birth doesn't hurt….."

…

Meanwhile, Cedric was once again at another boring shift.

"Hah…"

"This is boring…."

While cleaning the shelves, Cedric trudged to the counter where the old man was sitting eating some peanuts.

Cedric took a wooden chair and sat, he was resting his head on the counter.

"Old man? Isn't this store too barren?"

There were hardly any customers, and the place was barren from any life.

"Well, do you want the store to have tons of customers that you'll drown?"

"Well no…but still can there be one or maybe five people coming to this store? Maybe you need some renovating old man.."

"This store is already amazing as it is.."

Cedric groaned in response, he glanced at the picture frame beside the counter, this was the first time he saw the picture frame.

It was the old man, with a black and blue-haired boy smiling in the picture.

"Is that your grandson old man?"

"Hmmm? Oh, you mean that picture? Yes, it's my grandson.."

"When was it taken?"

"He was ten years old at that time….now has a grown-up, I think he's younger than you.."

"Where is he then?"

This was the first time that Cedric found something the old man likes to talk of. Normally the old man would shoo him away whenever he asks something.

"He's working in New York…"

"He must have had a great job?"

"He does…"

Seeing the affection in the old man's eyes, made Cedric remember his family.