As everyone gathered at the table, they joined their hands in a moment of gratitude.
"Thank you, for giving us one more day to live."
"Thanks for our hard work and honesty to have food on our plate."
All of them spoke in unison, and even Ava followed the words line by line.
"Happy birthday to you, my devilish sister," Aur said, a smile marking his face.
"Happy birthday, daughter," Adam and Evelyn also said simultaneously.
Ava giggled, smiling with a proud expression. "I am three years old now."
With that said, they all began to dine. Adam skillfully used chopsticks, while Evelyn and Ava ate with a fork and spoon. However, Aur was the oddity, eating with his bare hands.
"Sigh, son, your habit of eating with your bare hands will never go away, no matter how you grow up..." Adam said with a frown on his face as he looked at Aur goblin down his food.
"Well, you won't get the taste of rice if you can't eat it with your bare hands..." Aur said as he took one more bite of the rice complemented with meat.
"This..." Adam was speechless.
"Forget it," he thought as he also enjoyed the tender fragrance of the meat that almost instantly melted in his mouth the moment it entered.
Just like that, the family of four spent their night happily enjoying their meals while spending quality time together. Evelyn looked at the sleeping figure of Ava with a smile on her face as she kissed her on her head before she closed the door.
"She is asleep now," she said to Adam, who was glaring at Aur.
"Son, now would you care to tell me how you got such expensive meat?" he said in a strict tone as he looked at him.
"Well..." Aur was calm and collected as he looked at them. He didn't want to hide from his father and mother, and even if he didn't tell them, they would have found out eventually.
Aur took a deep breath as he closed his eyes. Suddenly, the surroundings changed as he emitted a malevolent aura, and a red flame materialised, enveloping him completely.
"This…"
Adam's and Evelyn's eyes widened when they sensed the strength of Aur's aura.
"You can attack me, Mom," Aur said in a simple tone.
"Are you sure?"
Aur just nodded his head, which brought a small smile to Evelyn's face.
"I haven't for years…" She aimed her hand directly at him, closing her eyes for a blink of a second before opening them again, her eyes flashing with a strange glint.
Aur stood there, looking at her with an emotionless gaze without moving a single bit.
Boom!
A small football-sized water ball formed in thin air and was launched directly at Aur at a terrifying speed.
But all Aur did was simply release all his blood and Qi, creating a terrifying aura as his reflexes reached an extraordinary level. He effortlessly dodged the water ball by slightly turning his head.
With an expressionless face, he dashed towards her. However, his footsteps on the wooden floor were eerily quiet, as if he wasn't even walking.
"Do you think you can beat your mother so easily…"
Suddenly, two football-sized water balls were created, shooting towards him again. Evelyn's eyes glinted with a blue color, revealing a small circle with a star inside the pattern.
Aur's speed didn't slow down even a bit when he saw the two water ball projectiles coming at him. He effortlessly punched the two with his two hands.
Sizzle!
The water balls burned and evaporated in moments under his two fists.
Evelyn was astonished when she saw this, hesitating for a moment with an expression of surprise on her face.
The time it took for her to hesitate was enough for Aur to close the gap between them almost instantly as his speed increased again, catching her completely off-guard.
"You lost, Mother," Aur said as he tapped her on the shoulder.
"But…" Evelyn had a hesitating expression on her face before she finally accepted her defeat with a smile.
"Is that how you earned the money to buy it?"
Aur just nodded his head, and the two of them sighed almost at the same time.
"My son, you know the blood and Qi you have is limited and even if you train it to limits you can at most reach a very low level, and the real thing that matters is…"
"Becoming a wizard," Aur said, interrupting him.
"Still, this is my hobby and strength."
"Did you go to the forest to earn mana crystal to buy the tier one beat meat?" Adam said with a relatively calm expression.
Aur just nodded his head. "Yes, but only to the outer area of the forest."
Hearing this made him sigh, while Evelyn looked at her son with a mixture of feelings. However, in the end, a proud expression appeared on her face.
"How much money have you made from it anyway?" Adam said sarcastically.
Aur raised his ten fingers.
"Huh, only ten low-grade crystals?" With that much money, even buying some ordinary meat was difficult, not to mention a first-tier beast meat, which was in the same tier of wizard ranking as him.
"No, ten middle-grade crystals," Aur said with a casual tone.
However, these simple words caused both Adam and Evelyn to widen their eyes as they looked at him with shock registering on their faces.
"You earned two months of my salary…" Adam said with shock.
Aur just nodded his head.
"Still, you aren't allowed to go to the forest again, Aur. You know anything can happen in a forest, and our financial condition isn't that bad. Even if you can defeat me, I am just a mage apprentice. It is still dangerous to go to the forest," Evelyn said.
"I just wanted to earn extra money while improving myself."
Hearing this, both of them sighed again.
"How about this? We won't stop you from going. But you must do it in moderation and stay safe while staying in the outer area," Evelyn said with gritted teeth.
Aur nodded his head.