“Mmm....”

After a deep slumber Calli found herself waking up in a familiar face

“Good morning my lovely daughter” 

Hearing that sweet whisper that almost felt unreal to her ears, she woke up wide eyed

Opening her eyes she found a familiar face above her, so familiar that she can't helo but cry while shouting her name

“Mother!!! uwaa!!”

While her child, calli was crying on her lap, the mother on response hugged calli tightly

“You have it hard huh... Don't worry mother's with you now..” 

For a brief moment calli just cried her heart out as she embraced her mother tightly knowing this maybe the last time se can hug her mother like this

“It's already time...”

“Yes mom...“

“Your fate has been twisted in an unexpected way, Stay strong out there, you can do it, you may face a lot of hardship from here on out but just wait, someday your savior will come. Until then just persevere...”

“Yes mom..”

“And remember... your mother will always love you...”

After saying that last sentence Calli's mother disappeared into a mist and the calming silence was replaced by a loud sound of various fire arm and weapons, making her wake up from her lucid dream

The empire is here

“Haha.... that's not like mother at all” 

Mother would normally tickle me at that time and will banter with me and laugh it off, was that dream my ideal of her or something 

Calli said as she stand up reminiscing what would her mother do in that situation

“Never mind that, the empire's reinforcement has come i need to meet a soldier evacuate on one of their mothership” 

After packing up all my items, I left my hiding place and started to find the empire's mothership

“Charge!!!” 

“Graaaaahhhhhhh!!” 

“For the empire!!” 

Looks like they began their invation

Finding the mothership will be easy with all this loud war cry 

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After a while of walking she finally found the mothership but it seems like something's wrong

There's a lot of wounded soldiers here

And on a distance you can here two soldiers arguing “What do you mean the rifles don't work!?!” 

“The rifles ammunition can't pierce the demon's body sir!” 

“Is this true sarge!” 

“Sir yes sir, the only weapons that works are the standard mana crystal imbued sword sir!” 

“Now it makes sense that no soldiers stationed here or civilian came back alive, this monsters are intelligent and we lack a lot of information, this has never happened before, the duke's not gonna like this” 

Saying that the commander looking guy fixed his glasses and immediately handed a command

“Even so we still out number them by a lot, order the troops to use their swords!” 

“Sir yes si–” 

“Commander bad news!!” 

“What is it private” 

“The enemy... the monsters!! they are nothing like we ever saw before!! they're different from the monsters in the lowlands.. they– they're demons!!” 

“Calm down private, tell me what's different” 

“The monsters– no Demons! they know hiw to use mana and can cast spells!! they can speak the international language!! they can also use martial arts!! it's like... It's like they're on our level!!” 

“Private, what you're saying seems impossible to believe–” 

“Sir! Order the troops to retreat!! the enemies are demons! not monsters!! they are intelligent!! and specially him!! that wretched demon!! he used his ice attribute magic to slash our squad in half! LITERALLY!! I was lucky to only have one of my arms cut and escape!! We need to retreat!!” 

After that a barrage of requests came up from soldiers that the commander has no choice but to order a retreat, this operation to regain control of Navisvchl was a failure

The soldier's morale are low and on the way to fall back into the nearest city a lot of soldiers committed suicide

“After reaching the nearest city, I escaped from the mothership and became a wanderer after that i became a slave then i met you” 

“I see, you've been through a lot Fubuki, you did a great job reaching through here” 

Fubuki seems like she don't want to tell me her life as a slave yet so i didn't ask her further

“Yes master...” 

Thank you mom for telling me that encouraging words at that time, I finally met her, my saviour... 

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Author: Eyy I'm back sorry for not uploading recently I've been really busy so... anyways here's thw chapter, enjoy!