Epic of Vampire Dragon: Reborn As A Vampire Dragon With a System Chapter 144 - Emotional Encounter Between Mother And Daughte

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Chaos had felt a strange artifact within the underground area of the city, he didn't knew exactly what it was, but it was definitely sothing special. It emanated a dark aura that seed to transcend within the boundaries of mortals and seed even deeper and profound.

If it wasn't because of this artifact, this old pig wouldn't had died in the most unexpected way possible, crushed by debris suddenly falling over his head. Indeed, he just died when he and Natalia ca here.

Chaos looked at the man's crushed body, as he took away the eye-shaped artifact on his hand, the only part of his body that ended saving itself from him.

"Oh, shiny…" said Chaos, looking at the item with great detail. The item in specific held a powerful dark aura from within, making it seem mysterious and powerful.

He tried to appraise it but wasn't able to find any other info about it other than this thing being nad "Eye of the Forbidden One".

"No! My artifact! It is very important! Give it back to ! Give it back!"

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However, the soul of this pig whose na Chaos didn't knew about began to protest against him.

"No, it's mine now. Finders keepers." Said Chaos.

"What?! B-But it was mine!" cried the man.

"You're annoying…" sighed Chaos, his tongue extended out of his mouth to an imnse length, wrapped itself around the man's soul, and slurped him into his mouth!

"GGUUUAAAGGH…!"

Crunch, crunch, crunch…

Chaos munched the soul and swallowed it. The soul was barely nutritious, it didn't gave him anything. But he did gained the old man's secrets, his mories, which erged like files or docunts inside of his mind he could take glances at. He saw several awful things too, horrible things the old man did to the won he had, but thanks to Chaos ability to be immune to ntal damage, which included traumas, he seed fine.

"W-We killed him? Was this a civilian?!" asked Natalia concerned.

"No, it was the one behind this entire thing, like the Mafia Boss." Said Chaos.

"O-Ohh… Is my mother here?" wondered Natalia.

Chaos had already seen soone very similar to Natalia in appearance, and nodded.

"I think so, co with ."

Chaos led Natalia across the underground facility, all the servants that tried to run away were stopped by an hypnosis attack, forcing them to sleep.

After reaching the depths of the underground there was a dungeon where he went inside. In there, there was a single woman resting over the cold and mossy floor.

"I think that's her…" said Chaos.

Natalia looked at the woman, she wasn't recognizable. She seed to have grown old in this little ti, dehydrated, and she was on the bones already. Her hair seed nasty and dry, and her lips were just as dry as a mummy's.

She seed to be looking at the ground, lost on her own darkness. Her eyes were devoid of light.

"Are you… my mother?" asked Natalia, slowly walking towards her, breaking the jail open with her claws and looking at the woman's face. She seed too weak and was in between conscious and unconscious states…

"Mother?" Natalia asked, as she raised the woman's face. Her face seed scarred, one of her eyes was missing, and a few of her toes too… her body was scarred and filled with painful marks.

She was most likely used as so kind of torture toy for the fat pig when he realized she wasn't pleasing him enough…

But that face… she recognized it.

Even after this whole ti. Even with her empty eye socket.

Her only eye looked at Natalia, a faint light erged from such a despairing glare.

Her mouth moved a little bit, faintly… a slight voice began to co out of her, barely being able to muster a word or a sound.

"Na…"

"Ah…!"

"Nat… Nata… Natalia…"

Natalia's eyes began to flow with tears, her lips started to tremble, and her oppressive presence faded away quickly, a vulnerable girl erged from the shell she had created for herself, she hugged her mother while crying desperately.

"MOM!!!"

Natalia hugged her mom as she cried, her tears touching the mossy floor, as his mother faintly mustered so words…

"You've… grown…" she muttered.

"You will be okay from now on, okay? I will help you recover… I-I… I will never let you go away! I will… I am strong now… I can fight… I can defend you…" cried Natalia.

"My daughter… I wanted… to see you… for all… this ti…"

" too!"

Natalia's mother eye suddenly began to release a tiny tear, the last tear she could muster.

She recalled all the suffering she had gone through, without even deserving any of this, just because she was captured and used… just because of the whim of another person.

Used, ravaged, and even tortured to entertain a completely rotten human being…

Many tis she felt like committing suicide… many tis she felt like dying. The pain, the suffering, the despair, it consud her heart.

At so point… the only thing keeping her from dying was her daughter.

"Natalia…"

Chaos slowly walked towards the two.

"Natalia, she's in a critical condition. She will die if we don't do sothing now." Said Chaos.

"Eh?" asked Natalia.

"I inspected her while you were hugging her. Her vital signs are incredibly faint, her body is falling apart, and her brain… it is traumatized to the point of being broken. She… the only thing she can say is your na… Apparently, her entire being has been broken, but the only thing that keeps her from becoming a vegetable is… you." Said Chaos.

"M-Mom… You didn't… deserved this…! Sniff… Why? Why?! Who did this?!"

"I devoured his soul, the man we crushed to death when we arrived was the one behind it." Sighed Chaos.

"Ah… I-I see…" sighed Natalia.

Chaos used the Light Magic Spell "All Heal" and began to bathe Natalia's mother with warm light.

However, although it alleviated her pain, it was far from a full recovery… she was way too weakened. Healing magic wasn't able to rejuvenate and heal such old wounds, scars, dehydration, nor malnourishnt.

"Natalia… Na… talia…"

"S-She's not recovering…?"

"Hmm… There's another thing we could do…" said Chaos.

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