Refining the Heavens (炼天)

Chapter 72: A closure and a new beginning

Behind them, the husband of Xuan Xian stood up angrily. His face is now a bloody mess after trying to rub the glass shards off his skin.

"You SLUT!" Seeing how the boy held his wife's arm to keep her upright, he roared angrily and charged over.

Without a second word, Kairos turned and palmed him in his chest. The man flew off like a swine struck by a carriage and crashed heavily into the floor, laying there unconscious.

Kairos had no spare energy to bother about this nasty person. Just by infusing soul energy to protect the lady's heart is already taking up all of his focus.

Xuan Xian however recovered quicker than expected. She woke from her unconsciousness and looked up weakly. Seeing how the young boy struck her husband, she felt nothing at all in her heart.

It not because of how useless her husband is that she doesn't feel anything but because her world has already crashed down with no way of returning to before.

Her heart is dying. She feels that there no longer is a meaning to live. To die is to better, and she craves for the relief it offers.

But as the warm energy infused into her and healed her, she gritted her teeth and pulled her thoughts out of the abyss.

There is still a promise she had made to her son.

"Xiao Zhu De, remember, mommy promises you, I will always live strong no matter what. So no matter where you are, you must try your best to stay strong alright?

We are not blessed in this life, so we need to be tough.

If you ever feel that things are too difficult and you are too tired, just think of mommy. You can come home anytime, and mommy will always be here for you."

She had promised her young child ages ago. And now, even after he was gone, she will keep it. If her son is in another world now, then he will be there alone and frightened without her.

She felt a need to stay strong and live well so that Zhu De can also be strong no matter where he is now. Not only that, there is still one more good reason for her to live on.

A tiny face probed out from behind the door. A small girl that appears to be about five.

She peeked at Xuan Xian and gave her a large endearing look that easily spoke of her concern.

"Ling'er, mommy, is alright," Xuan Xian says as she forces herself to stand upright.

When Kairos saw the little girl and her love for both her children, he understood how this woman can be so strong.

If her son is her hope, then Ling'er is her support, and they are both her strength.

Twelve years old. That is how young the students that just enrolled in the academy are. Although everyone in Saint Empire was already normalised to the militant state's method of conscripting all the children once they reach the age of twelve, there is no doubt that they are still young kids precious to their parents.

A single woman will not be able to survive alone in a slum such as this. Even if her husband is violent and jobless, the reason she is unmolested going in and out of this place is still thanks to him.

Admittedly, the reason she could tolerate him and this place is because of those that depend on her.

"Madam, your son is a hero. Do not only cry for him but remember him as one."

"T...tell me what happened...," she spoke, her voice hush like dry hay rustling in the air. What she needs now is not consolation, but the truth.

"We were raided by Orcs. Someone named Calculus had stirred up their nest and led their armies to us for his personal gains.