opened his eyes to find himself lying on his back in a vast green forest. His gaze remained straying in that clear blue sky until his consciousness slowly began coming back to him with memories .. suddenly torrents of arrows and spears flying above him back and forth from all directions, with body parts of humans and other creatures flying with them .. screams of warriors , the clanking of swords and the smell of dead corpses that invaded the forest; He realized that he started the first stories of ALUCARD in the midst of a bloody battle that has been going on for a while and he knows nothing about it..

  But the real wonder that he could not describe in words was not only his sudden ability to understand all different languages of all those strange fighters but also his body condition himself .. He is now a baby who is only wearing a wet diaper!!! ...

  A few minutes ago he was unable to move because he was very old and now he is unable to move because he is very young.. Now he is starting to realize the meaning of the magician's words that he will have to finish the stories with his soul and not by reading or writing them...

  "How did I agree to sign this magician's pact?!! What did I put myself in?!!.ALUCAAAAAARD!!!"

  Had he not been afraid that his voice would be heard by the warriors, his cries would have filled the echoes of the forest... He only could hope that those strange warriors will think he is already dead and leave him .

  Two kilometres away in the countryside next to the forest, there was a hard-working young man (ALEX) standing in front of his humble house, waiting for his beautiful wife (Olivia) to finish saying goodbye to their little sweet daughter (Mira), and then going out with him to work.. It was a contented family and their lives would be satisfactory in this way were it not for the fact that they are slaves despite the intensity of ALEX's intelligence and that if he were free, he would have been able to work in high jobs and become rich.. But slave families continue to descend from slaves, and families of nobles continue to descend from nobles , and that will not change.. Nevertheless, ALEX was content with his life among his little family

  ALEX : "Come on, Olivia, we're going to be late."

  Olivia: Coming, my dear.

  They had to rush early every morning to take the shortcut through the forest to the merchant village where they sell their products .. and fortunately the fighting in the forest had stopped when they got there.

  Olivia wondered : "Didn't the league of fighters in which everyone compete for the fruits of the sacred tree end two days ago!! Why is there a fight here now then?!"

  Alex : "After every fighting tournament there are still some fighters who still hold grudges toward each other and insist on settling their scores in secret here in the woods to death."

  Olivia: "That's so awful! And yet are all these dead because of some League Fighters still mad at each other?!"

  Alex : "You're right, my dear. It's exaggerated and catastrophic this time. I'm afraid someone has taken advantage of the situation to do something more terrible this time and for..."

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  Alex's speech was interrupted by the sound of a baby's screaming.. They hurried to the place where they heard screaming to find a human corpse and next to it a crying baby and around his neck a precious necklace with the symbol of the kingdom of Elves..

  As we here live in ZENITHIA .. The continent that has 3 kingdoms around a big holy tree in the middle..

  Human kingdom

  Elves kingdom

  And beasts kingdom in which lives creatures who have both human and animal forms they can shape shift to ...

  ... [Alex : "How can a human child possess the necklace of the kingdom of Elves?!"

  Olivia: "Oh, my heart, what a poor child! ... It seems that the man who was killed next to him died in his arms, trying to protect him; there is no doubt about that, his father is very similar to him."

  ALEX : "Then where did that necklace come from?!...Wait!..that kid must be a hybrid; from a human father and an Elf mother!!!"

  Olivia: "What..what are you saying?!..isn't marriage between humans and elves forbidden?!"

  ALEX : "Of course I know, Olivia.. but this is my only logical explanation after I saw the child's eyes; they confirm that he is an elf even if his ears were human.. and also why was his father killed here even though I didn't see him participating in the fighting league at all!! "

  All thoughts and possibilities about the reality of this infant rippled inside their confused heads for several minutes..

  Olivia: "Please, my dear, let's adopt that child. We haven't had a son. I want my little girl, Mira, to have a brother to protect her.. Please, my love, please."

  This is what ALEX was afraid OF and expected her to say.. He remained silent for a moment, thinking how to persuade her to refuse her request.. Until Olivia interrupted his thinking, but she did not interrupt him with words .. one sincere look of Olivia's wide eyes was able to make Alex's heart feel that time had stopped For a moment, and that his wife now derives her beauty from the whole universe .. those winds that seemed to dance with her silky hair, its golden color, as if her hair was drawing its light from the sun's rays, and those blue eyes that could contain the ocean waves inside them .. immediately he remembered at that moment his eternal weakness; He can never, ever say "no" to Olivia as long as she looks at him with those eyes... especially whenever time stops in Alex's eyes to see his wife as the human embodiment of nature's beauty!

  Finally, Oliver inhaled and exhaled heavily , and when he began to feel that time was moving again, he put his hand on her head and said with a smile, "Okay, Olivia. We will adopt him as you command, my Queen." she jumped of joy and hurried to print a soft kiss on his right red cheek in a warm hug to thank him...

  They took the child with them and walked together towards the merchant city to sell their products .. Oliver kept silently thinking about what the consequences of that decision will be on the future of his small family and also on that child who will have to live his life with them and share the bondage of slavery with them!!

  "I'll call him Zero," suddenly said Olivia without warning .. ALEX marveled at that strange name that had no meaning in their language, but he found it a nice name and agreed to it .. In his opinion, the most important thing now was to hide that necklace .. The only person who remained amazed was The little boy who didn't understand how Olivia knew that was his name in his previous life before he signed the pact by his blood with ALUCARD ... And thus , three of them left the forest together with each one of them having their own troubling thoughts ...