Mae studied the book Grayce gave her, he said a friend of his passed it along and it was very helpful.
When she first received the book in her hands, Mae seemed to feel a great source of magical power leaking from the book. She asked over and over again, but Grayce only gave her a friendly smile.
So Mae sat in her room to study.
Luckily, Eri's system had recovered and was able to guide her.
The book wrapped in iron chains looked very suspicious, if not too dangerous.
[The danger level is high. If you remove the sealing chains, your stats will increase]- Eri
"It's still dangerous, isn't it? Is there no other way?" - Mae
[That's impossible]- Eri
"Isn't that okay?"- Mae
Staring at the book, Mae looked around but couldn't see any locks that could remove the chains.
She raised her hand to touch the cover of the book, and felt a sharp pain on her finger. Mae raised her hand and saw a large cut on her palm, red blood flowing from her palm. Her blood fell on the book.
The chains began to move, they became loose and fell to the ground, the book automatically opened in Mae's confusion.
"Okay, this might be a way to open it"- Mae
The cover of the book is quite hard, inside are pages that have turned yellow, the languages written on the pages are written by the author's own hand.
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[If anyone can open this book and read these lines of the will, then you are worthy of receiving the knowledge of this book]
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Suddenly, Mae's hands touched the words of the will and then used fire magic to burn all the words in the book without regret.
She looked at the burned will and didn't understand what had just happened.
[The will is so cumbersome that it's annoying]- Eri
Only then did she realize the situation just now.
"Eri?!"- Mae
It turned out that the Eri system took control of her hands.
"What are you doing? The book hasn't finished reading the will yet!"- Mae
[I'd rather read the main part of the book than have to read those wills]- Eri
The Eri system spoke as if a will was the most troublesome thing in the world, and Mae had no choice but to continue reading the book.
Opening the next page, there was an illustration of a dragon that looked very scary and mysterious, followed by the shape of an egg, and her eyes widened in surprise. The dragon egg's appearance and size were identical to the dragon egg she had.
Mae looked for the page in the book that showed how to incubate eggs. Mae knew at a glance that dragon eggs could not be incubated normally like chicken eggs. It needs to be incubated in a special way.
{The egg hatches only when it absorbs a large amount of magic power, depending on the size of the egg. The larger the egg, the more magical power it absorbs. Continuously transmitting magic power without stopping}
After reading this part, she was a little curious.
"Erm, how much did I infuse into the egg"- Mae
[14.78% of magic power was transferred to the egg]- Eri
Already, she felt hopeless.
She couldn't just inject a little bit into the egg every day, the book noted that she had to continuously inject magic power without stopping.
"If that's the case then...I have to try harder!"- Mae
[What?]- Eri
So from that day on, Mae always stayed in her room, every day, every hour, every second.
Holding the egg tightly, the longer she held it, she felt the magic in her body erode little by little. In order to regain strength, Mae still has to add recovery food to her body.
Day after day, the dragon egg absorbed more and more of her magic power, and her body became tired and withered. My mind sometimes feels dizzy.
The servants were all very worried about their master but there was nothing they could do.
In the room, Mae gently rubbed the egg, the image of when she was pregnant appeared before her eyes.
This reminded Mae of when she was pregnant with her first child, feeling very heavy and uncomfortable. Sometimes getting angry is quite normal for pregnant women. But after giving birth to that child, Mae couldn't describe what it was like at that time, she was simply so happy that she burst into tears.
Many years later she was pregnant with her second child, the feeling was no longer as heavy as before, her son was happy to know that he would become a big brother. When Sophie was born, Heli was so curious to meet his little sister for the first time, a big smile appeared on his face.
So the child in this egg is the same, the child is looking forward to hatching and seeing what the outside world is like.
At dinner time, it was Fifi's turn to bring food to Mae. Recently, Mae's health had deteriorated seriously. Her owner had told her that they didn't need to worry about her imparting magic power to the egg. They just needed to regularly give her three meals.
One day it rained heavily, the atmosphere in the inn became heavy.
Fifi knocked on Mae's door.
No response.
She knocked on the door again.
Still no response from anyone inside.
The cat maid knew it wasn't right to enter without permission, but Fifi felt unusual.
"Madam Mae, I brought a meal for...you..."- Fifi
*Crash*
Seeing the scene before her eyes, Fifi dropped the food tray on the floor and screamed loudly.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!"- Fifi
Hearing the cat maid's scream, the others also ran up to see what was going on.
"What's wrong? Is something wrong?!"- Belle
Fifi tremblingly pointed inside and they looked inside.
Inside Mae's room, she was lying on her bed, still clutching the egg in her arms, but her body was withered.
Realizing that his master's condition was not good, Grayce told Fifi and Belle to call a doctor while Loya assisted him in keeping Mae alive.
'Her life is fading faster, I have to give her the medicine he sent quickly' - Grayce
The specially made potions were kept in a separate cabinet nearby. Grayce took the potions to restore magic power and let Mae drink those potions. Seemingly feeling the liquid pouring into her mouth, Mae tried to swallow it but very slowly.
But when she first drank the magical recovery water, the egg drained the magical energy from her.
Grayce felt that this egg was too dangerous. He was about to take the egg out of Mae's hand when she held it tighter.
"Don't...don't take it"- Mae
"Madam Mae, if you don't let go of the egg, your life will be in danger!" - Grayce
"It'll be okay...the baby is almost out...Just a little more..."- Mae
She gradually lost consciousness and fainted, everything became cold around her. The sounds of the servants gradually disappeared, then only silence remained.
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"Hic...hic...hic..."
She was in this dark space again, that light had now taken the form of a small lizard. Now he's crying again.
"Please stop...Don't give me any more magic power..."
"Why? You don't want to be born?"- Mae
"Of course I want to, but..."
"If so, I will continue to give you magic power until you are born" - Mae
"You will die!"
The light screamed, startling Mae.
He began to cry harder, as Mae poured magic into it continuously without stopping, he could see that what he was doing was slowly killing its owner.
When he realized his own existence more clearly, because of his greed for more magical power to expand, he killed countless of his fellow dragons. That's why his fellow dragons abandoned him.
"I won't die" - Mae
"What?"
"You may not know the power of "motherly love". The moment I was about to give birth to my child, it was very painful, so painful that it felt like death could come to me right before my eyes. But...I fought, fought with death to see the child I gave birth to"- Mae
Mae held the light in her arms.
"And I can finally see my children. This time too, when you are born I will name you" - Mae
"You're an idiot...you're really super idiot!!!"
The lizard hugged Mae tightly. She smiled gently and let the child cry loudly in her arms.
"Your name...your name will be...Abys"- Mae
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In the outside world, the servants are praying for Mae to wake up. She was injected with a healing magic water solution by a vampire nurse, and the egg in her hand glowed.
The light shines straight into the sky, forming the illusion of a stellar dragon. It flew everywhere, looking at everything from high in the sky.
Those who witnessed the star dragon were amazed by its beauty.
"For my master. The one who sacrificed her life, allowing me to be born into this world, I am Abys, the dragon who will become above all" - Abys
Abys shot an energy beam into the sky, dispelling the dark rain clouds, revealing a starry sky.