Chapter 4: Both Parties Shocked
Bella sniffed a little as she asked, "You will?"
Amelia just smiled at her and said, "That's why I'm here."
She then stopped hugging Bella and made some space between them. An emerald vine appeared in her hand. It was her Anima, Emerald Demon Rose Vine. She closed her eyes as she focused. The vine in her hand started elongating and divided itself into multiple threads. She opened her eyes and looked at Bella. She said, "Don't get surprised and don't resist. I will not hurt you."
Xander, who had been standing behind Amelia, gave Bella an encouraging nod. He had already experienced what was about to happen. The vine threads in Amelia's hand, moved toward Bella, and wrapped her in a cocoon like structure. Then, ruby red roses bloomed on the cocoon. Bella instinctively wanted to resist, but she suddenly started feeling sleepy. Before she could do anything, she fell unconscious.
Outside the cocoon, Amelia said, "She's asleep."
Xander knew that his grandmother would never hurt her family but was still a little worried. He asked worriedly, "It won't harm her, will it?"
"No, it won't. It won't bring her any harm. In fact, she's probably having a nice dream right now. Now shut up and let me do my work."
Xander obediently kept his mouth shut after that. Amelia, on the other hand, started circulating her Anima Essence into Bella's body. It circulated through her blood vessels along with her blood. This went on for a few minutes allowing Amelia to carefully examine both Bella and the baby.
A smile broke out on her face. Then, one of the roses on the cocoon withered and turned into pure life elemental Anima Essence and started nourishing both the mother and the baby. Xander looked at her and asked, "What is it?"
"Both mother and baby are healthy."
"And?"
"And... it's a boy."
Xander was about to say something but the expression on Amelia's face suddenly changed. The reason for this change was Nyx. When Amelia had been circulating her Anima Essence inside Bella's body, it had woken him up. He realised that his Great Grandma had arrived. Although he had known that she would be arriving at some point, he didn't remember when.
But this was a good thing for him. With his Great Grandma here, he wouldn't have to use much Innate Essence to open his mother's Body Dantian. Her life elemental Anima Essence would work wonders. His mother was a peak level 29 Anima Soldier and was very close to breaking through to level 30 and opening her Body Dantian.
He used his Innate Essence to create a small vortex in his mother's Essence Dantian. The vortex started absorbing her Anima Essence and also the life elemental Anima Essence. It fused the two and refined them, increasing their purity. Then the refined Essence circulated throughout her body and returned to the Essence Dantian. The vortex once again absorbed the Essence and the cycle repeated.
Outside the cocoon, the roses had started withering one by one. Xander asked anxiously, "What's happening?"
Amelia was also panicking a little in the beginning but then calmed down. She said, "I think Bella is breaking through to level 30. Like me, she also has a Plant Anima. So maybe my Essence triggered her breakthrough. Whatever it is, she is growing healthier so don't worry."
Back inside the cocoon, the Essence in Bella's Essence dantian had almost completely liquified. Usually, with her talent, she would need to break through to level 31 before her essence liquified but Nyx's Innate Essence and the life elemental Anima Essence provided by Amelia helped her complete this step beforehand.
Finally, her Essence completely liquified. When the liquid Essence circulated inside her body, it started grinding against a barrier near her solar plexus. It was the barrier that locked her Body Dantian. After a few more circulations, the barrier finally broke down. A projection of her Anima, Spirit Willow appeared. It started absorbing her Essence and the life elemental Essence.
This continued until it turned solid from a mere projection. It then melted down and became a drop of ruby red blood. Almost 90% of this drop merged into her bloodstream. The remaining 10% merged into Nyx's body. At first, it wanted to assimilate into the forming Anima inside him but he acted quickly and built a wall dividing the two with his Innate Essence. If one looked inside his incomplete Essence Dantian, one would find that it was divided in two. On one side was an egg and on the other, a drop of ruby red blood.
Just as Nyx thought that it was finally over, another change took place. The egg melted into a drop of dark red blood. It resembled his mother's Anima Bloodline but it was much bigger and darker. He focused and realised that both drops were sticking the the wall of Innate Essence as if they were attracted to each other.
Despite the drops' best efforts, the wall remained firm. They separated from the wall. The dark red drop forced a smaller part of itself apart from it. This drop was emerald in colour. As soon as it appeared, the dark red drop calmed down. It once again started solidifying into an egg. The ruby drop, on the other hand, went crazy. It was as if it was a starving man who had seen a feast in front of him.
It started slamming into the wall. Nyx knew that if he didn't do something quickly, then he could kiss his second Anima goodbye. He carefully made a small opening in the wall, forced the emerald drop to the other side, and closed the gap. The ruby drop calmed down and started assimilating the emerald drop. By the time it was done, it had started turning into an egg, similar to the dark red drop.
Nyx waited for a few more minutes, but nothing else happened. He finally sighed in relief. Now that everything had calmed down, he focused on recovering the lost Innate Essence and reviewed everything that had just happened.
Outside the cocoon, most of the roses had withered away. Amelia was a little worried that they wouldn't be enough, but thankfully, the speed at which they were withering slowed down until it completely stopped. Amelia said, "Put the cocoon on the bed." Xander stepped forward and carefully placed the cocoon on the bed. The vine in Amelia's hand disappeared, and with it so did the cocoon.
It revealed Bella with a blissful expression on her face. She even seemed a little younger than before. Amelia said, "I'm going to rest. Call me once she wakes up." Although she didn't show it, this whole process had taken a lot out of her. Xander nodded and escorted her to her room.
Inside Bella's womb, Nyx had finally come up with a theory that could explain what had happened. Although it was somewhat outrageous, it was the only thing that made sense. To explain it, he had to go back to the founder of the Ironheart Clan, Invictus Ironheart.
Invictus was an orphan who didn't know who grew up in an orphanage. When he awakened the Iron Heart Anima, he decided to make it his surname. Although he had low potential, he was very smart and ambitious. After he had reached the peak of his potential, he returned to his hometown. He got married and started a family.
Unfortunately, she died during childbirth. Scarred by this incident, he didn't think that he would ever love again. That is, until she appeared. Annabeth Crimsonborne. He had saved her life from bandits when he was travelling, and she had fallen for him. She had thought that she would never meet him again.
Fortunately, she did. She was the head of a small merchant family and came to his city due to some business. It was as if their fates had been intertwined from the moment he had saved her life. She confessed her love to him, only to be rejected. No matter what she did, he would always reject her advances.
She didn't give up and in the end, Invictus also fell for her. According to the journals that he had left behind, he had only allowed himself to fall in love again because Annabeth had a Plant Anima. After they got married, her family settled in the city and they formed the Ironheart Clan. Not wanting his descendants to experience the same pain that he had, he created a rule for future generations. His direct descendants could only marry people with Plant Anima.
This happened about 1200 years ago. His father was the 25th Head of the Ironheart Clan. Each Head had married a person with a Plant Anima. As a result, his father's Anima Bloodline contained a shocking amount of Plant Anima bloodline along with Body Anima bloodline. Perhaps a few generations later, a natural Gemini Anima User would have been born.
He had created his second Anima using his mother's Anima Bloodline, meaning that it was also a Plant Anima. That Plant Anima attracted all of the Plant Anima bloodline from his father's Anima Bloodline and assimilated it. Due to this, even he couldn't imagine what his second Anima would be, except for the fact that it would be a Plant Anima.
He once again started feeling sleepy. This whole process had completely tired him out. And he could feel that his Anima were slowly absorbing the excess Spirit Energy inside him. This caused his adult soul to weaken a little and made it more compatible with his fetal body. He could feel that this would be a long slumber, and he would only awaken after his birth.
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