The new formula ring was dull and lifeless, like dried-up, dead blood.
The general activated the formula ring, and the divine tree with five leaves swayed, its roots surging like a flood, plunging into the surrounding sea of fire.
A fruit the size of a fingernail slowly grew from the branches of the divine tree at the center of the formula ring.
Blood Fruit, a magical fruit that can enhance the formula of the Ring Clan.
When the spaceship emerged from the sea of fire unharmed, everyone was startled to see a single, deep red eye staring menacingly at them.
After the initial shock, they realized that this was the culprit that destroyed the planet Divine Tree—a star.
On the scale of a colossal celestial body, the tiny spaceship carefully turned its bow and sped away into the distance.
Like an ant passing by a human who is contemplating the scenery, thinking that the human is about to attack it, it carefully avoids the human by a few centimeters and escapes at a ridiculously slow speed.
The spaceship finally left the area directly covered by the star, turned its back on the single eye, and plunged into deep space.
"Alright!" Kurt breathed a sigh of relief, even with the willpower of a second-tier warrior, he was feeling exhausted at this moment.
“Next, we’ll enter autopilot mode,” Taina said, flicking a few levers and pressing a complex array of buttons. “This ship is very outdated; it can only accelerate using light pressure and the gravity of the planets. It will take about two hours before it can completely escape the star’s gravity.”
The general concealed his enormous size, stepped into the spaceship, and casually picked up a spacesuit to put on.
He held a blood-red gem the size of a fingernail in his hand. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a fruit with delicate flame patterns on its skin.
There is light flowing on the pattern.
A perfect work of art.
"What is this?" The princess glanced at what he was holding, her tone still indifferent.
The general was about to speak.
"Ah! Ah!" The baby cried out meaninglessly in this direction, its hands reaching out to grab at the air.
The general glanced at the fruit in his hand and walked towards the baby.
The baby's big eyes were fixed on the fruit, and glistening drool dripped from its pink lips.
"Tsk!" The guard moved the baby a little further away, disgusted by her drool.
"Give it to me." The spaceship didn't need cooling, so the person in charge freed up his hands.
The guard quickly handed the baby to her.
The person in charge held the baby in his arms and took the fruit from the general's hand. The general did not resist.
The baby grasps the mother's hand as if grasping a branch, trying to reach the fruit on the branch.
"Ah, ah!"
The baby is giving its final warning: "If you don't give it to me, I'll cry!"
Buzz!
The formula ring unfolded, and a strange vessel floated in the center of the ring. The person in charge ignored the baby's anxious cries and put the fruit into the vessel.
The pristine white utensils turned blood red.
"Ah—" the baby cried loudly.
"This..." The general hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped himself.
The person in charge pointed his long, slender index finger at the baby's bangs, and a gentle, cool breeze blew from his fingertip, causing the baby's bangs to flutter.
The baby giggled again, reaching out to grab the person in charge's finger, with large tears still clinging to its face.
The general nodded, revealing an expression of appreciation for his soldier.
Suddenly he felt a chill run through his body. He turned his head and saw the princess staring coldly at him.
The general chuckled: "This is the first time I've ever seen a baby outside an incubator."
"Do you intend to keep her?" the princess asked.
"What do you mean by 'staying'?" the general asked rhetorically.
"You could destroy me and your child, and now what?"
"It was just an embryo without flesh and blood, without thought, and the reason we said we had to destroy it was because it was in your way."
"..." The princess took a deep breath and composed herself before continuing, "So, you want to adopt this child?"
"Adoption? The child was always mine."
"...Have you taken a fancy to that woman?"
"It has nothing to do with who the child's mother is. I will naturally keep my child. As for women, you are the only woman I have."
"Then why did you have a child with her?!" the princess demanded.
"It's not me, it's another possibility of me, and another possibility of her. As for me, Zhou, the youngest general of the Huan Clan, I will only be with the princess."
The princess's anger subsided slightly: "I don't like that child, and I will never allow her to stay by my side."
"Aren't you all being too arrogant?"
The general and princess looked in the direction of the sound and saw the person in charge staring at them coldly. The baby was in her arms and was still trying to grab her mother's fingers.
“This is my child, I will take her away,” the person in charge said.
"If you can do it," the general said with a smile.
The general's smile vanished in an instant, and he opened his hand: "Give it to me."
Tina and Kurt approached the person in charge and the guards slowly, like hunting wolves.
The guard stepped forward and stood in front of the person in charge.
The princess's eyes flickered as she quietly observed the tense situation unfolding before her.
The general lowered his hand, his voice turning cold: "Move..."
"Ah, ah!" The baby, who had been unable to grasp the fingers, suddenly cried out, drowning out the general's order.
The person in charge also stopped giving him the cold shoulder.
She did not offer her finger to the baby.
The strange vessel that had glowed red behind her turned back to its cold white color, and some blood-red liquid flew out of it.
The person in charge took out a strange bottle from the animal skin clothing. As soon as the bottle was taken out, the baby immediately stopped crying and eagerly reached out to grab the bottle, smacking his lips as if he were eating something.
The Ring Clan had long since abandoned baby bottles, but the person in charge had read ancient texts on the subject.
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