Liu Shu suddenly woke up groggily mid-Tier Up, her Avatar's gaze groggy as she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. "Ugh… What? What is happening? Why does it hurt?"

Looking down, she felt bewildered. Her stomach was inflated, looking as if it were about to burst. As she looked at the large bump on her stomach, full of confusion, memories of her time with Cinderielle came back to her. With that, all puzzle pieces fell into place, and she understood why she was abruptly awakened. "I need to give birth to the baby."

Since the gestation period was over, her Avatar needed to push the baby out before she continued her Tier Up. Looking around, Liu Shu noticed that the torrents of energy coursing through her body were avoiding the Core Room. 'That's good. That way, I can fall asleep again while feeding my baby…' However, there was a trace of hesitation flashing in her eyes while she opened her legs and prepared to go into labor. 'But… Leaving my baby without any company as I Tier Up is truly not a good idea. I guess I can try and keep my Avatar conscious?'

She hissed with each painful contraction, but the pain only strengthened the light of determination in Liu Shu's eyes. 'If I can't even do this much for the sake of my baby, I can't call myself a mother!'

From the outside, nothing much changed. The World Tree was still surrounded by gorgeous ternary essence streams as her aura became deeper day after day. However, if one were to focus on the womb area, one would notice how an active void had been created.

Liu Shu didn't rush the matter and focused on the position of the baby inside her body. While she didn't have the ability to look into herself, she could feel the position if she focused. 'All prepared. Great, now I only need to push until the big baby is out!'

The Core Room got filled with Liu Shu's painful screams as she gave birth to her baby by herself. Of course, there was not a strand of dissatisfaction in the World Tree's heart. Liu Shu understood that her dears were occupied with other matters and that they couldn't have predicted that she would give birth at this moment. 'Moreover, I am still Tiering Up outside of the Core Room, so the violent energies around me can be dangerous to them.'

So, Liu Shu placed everything that didn't have to do with her baby at the back of her mind and just focused. "Don't worry, baby. Mommy will deliver you safe, sound, and healthy." This one birth was probably the most grueling labor she experienced compared to the other three large babies her Avatar gave birth to.

It took a whole 7 hours of pushing, her Avatar's bones dislocating, and her body stretching far beyond human limits. The reason was that, for some reason, she was giving birth to a bundle of leaves in an oval shape. That made it much harder since the thickest part was at least 30% wider than the widest section of a normal humanoid baby.

Thirty percent might not sound like much for those who didn't know about these things, but it was enough to make Liu Shu's Avatar lose so much blood and be hurt so severely that she was on the brink of death by the end of it.

Liu Shu's eyesight was blurry when she felt her baby finally slipping out, her body lost all its remaining strength, and she fell limply. 'Thankfully… This body… can regenerate… from all wounds…'

Her neck barely twitched as her gaze moved down. Since her back was slightly propped up, her sight could go past her two breasts and land on the red-colored bundle of leaves surrounded by mucus fluids and blood. An exhausted smile appeared on her lips. "Ba…by…"

A few roots appeared from the ground as they created a cradle and began slowly peeling the bundle open. Once she opened the bundle of leaves, Liu Shu's eyes closed because of a mighty blaze soaring upward. The bright light made the always faintly illuminated Core Room appear as bright as if a gentle Sun had been born. Once Liu Shu's eyes were accustomed, she finally saw the beautiful girl in the middle of the now open bundle of leaves.

The petite half-girl, half-flower was crying loudly, her body surrounded by warm flames. Not fearing for her body burning, Liu Shu placed the flaming plant baby girl in her arms. There was pain as a burning feeling penetrated through her skin, but Liu Shu didn't care as she hugged her precious baby and presented her breast to her. 'I can hear… the System?'

However, Liu Shu ignored it for a moment and focused on her baby. 'Let's… give her food first.'

When she placed the baby near her breast, the crying baby smelled something delicious, and her mouth began searching for the source, latching on quickly and subsiding her cries. Caressing her flaming hair, Liu Shu spoke in a weak but extremely gentle voice. "Good… Girl…"

Meanwhile, Liu Shu's lower body was surrounded by her own roots. Then, she split those roots open and poured her sap onto her Avatar. The constant bleeding, dislocated bones, torn muscles, and loss of sensation slowly healed away. Some of her roots also dug into herself to take out the remaining placenta, cleaning her insides.

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Liu Shu naturally felt nothing, as her eyes lovingly looked at her baby while practically doing surgery on her lower half. "I wonder…" Liu Shu breathed slowly. "...What race… are you?"

There were very few plant beings that had this girl's characteristics. Flaming hair, fleshy body, lower half similar to that of a flower, and plumes of fire surrounding her body. To put it simply, she was a flaming Alraune. However, there was something else that Liu Shu noticed only after she slowly regained sensation in her body. "Ah…" Liu Shu blinked strangely while looking at her child. "You are not just sucking the milk… but also my blood?"

At that moment, the child opened her eyes, and Liu Shu saw a pair of gorgeous, bright red-colored eyes. When she saw those eyes, her mind finally flashed with the answer to the puzzle. "Haha…" Liu Shu looked at the ceiling with amusement and helplessness in her eyes. "Am I… reviving almost extinct taboo species? Four out of four dangerous and almost extinct plant species."

First, it was an Alraune, hunted down for their ability to hunt humanoids and their dangerous methods. Then, it was a Farlune, a species even more slighted than Alraune due to their aim being females of almost any species and using them as breeding cattle. After that, a Sylphaith, a creature that spread death, mind-controlled people, and devoured them to become stronger.

"Now…" Liu Shu, now recovered enough to talk without losing her breath, looked down at her baby. "A <Sanguine Blaze>."

They were a species of the Alraune family, similar to the previous three. However, unlike Alraune or Farlune, who used aphrodisiacs to capture their prey and reproduce, Sanguine Blazes used their charming abilities to devour prey. They didn't need seed to reproduce, only incredible amounts of blood from other species. Then, using their natural fire abilities, they would sublimate the blood they got, creating one very scarce and, honestly, malevolent marvel in nature—a <Blazeblood Seed>.

<Blazeblood Seeds> could be planted like parasites inside any fleshy creature and had two distinct responses, depending on the gender.

If the creature were male, its parasitic properties would slowly take over the host, burning the nerves and rendering all the creature's responses ineffective. After all, without nerves to tell the creature that something was wrong, the body would ignore everything. Eventually, the parasitized host would become a puppet for the Blazeblood Seed to sprout, the flames cooking the meat for easier consumption as the roots that the seed grew collected all the blood.

On the contrary, if the host was a female, the seed would follow their ternary essence flow until they found the womb and drilled into it. From then on, it would remain in wait until the male seed came in. Sensing it, the parasitic seed would burn and kill all sperm, substituting itself and becoming the child of the mother. This time around, the <Blazeblood Seed> wouldn't kill the mother quickly, and instead, it would feed and eventually be born, as happened with Liu Shu.

How could they survive this way, you might ask? Well, the hormone mixing that happened during the gestation period would amplify the motherly instincts of the host several times over. There were times when the mother would fight to the death with anyone who dared touch the newly born Sanguine Blaze. Moreover, knowing this, the <Sanguine Blaze> could enhance the mother's strength several times over when they were born.

That's why, while extremely dangerous, <Blazeblood Seed> were considered marvels and taboo. Even then, there were some women who would purposely find them to become stronger, as the lingering effects of the burst of strength would remain on the woman's body after the fact. There were tales of women Leveling Up several times, or even Tiering up.

Liu Shu remembered all this information in her head while caressing her newly born daughter. 'Right… Weren't there System messages that I had yet to check?'

[<Sanguine Blaze Level 1> wants to use <Blazing Purification (A Rank)>. You've blocked the effects.]

[<Sanguine Blaze Level 1> wants to use <Love Of The Sanguine Mother (A Rank)>. You've blocked the effects.]

[<Sanguine Blaze Level 1> wants to use <Blaze Sanguine Parent Marking (A Rank)>. You've blocked the effects.]

Liu Shu blinked a few times and looked at her baby daughter's adorable suckling face. A laugh full of incredulity escaped her as she lowered her face to kiss the little one. She didn't know how to react after reading those skill notifications.

'I already want to spank you for being naughty, but you're just too cute for that~.'

She was still taken aback, though. The strength of those skills was far beyond her expectations. "A Rank? Now that I think about it… I never did check the Tier of my children. Are you A Tier from birth?"

The baby was far more developed than a newborn baby. At a simple glance, she already showed very faint feminine facial features that only children around 1 to 2 years old typically develop. Shaking her head and laughing, Liu Shu smiled. "Truly… a predator species. Such powerful skills right at birth. No wonder they almost drove a country to ruin when their queen was infected by one <Blazeblood Seed>."

Curious about her baby's abilities, she decided to check the details of the skills.

<Blazing Purification (A Rank)>: Temporarily increases the mother's stats by 500% for one hour. Instantly heals all birth-related wounds and generates a protective shield that lasts until full recovery is achieved. After the effect ends, it permanently increases the mother's Tier, Level, and base stats based on her potential and talent.

<Love Of The Sanguine Mother (A Rank)>: Amplifies the mother's affection toward you by 1000% for one hour, then gradually returns it to baseline levels. Permanently increases the mother's instinct to care for you by 200%, intensifying her protective behavior.

<Blaze Sanguine Parent Marking (A Rank)>: Forms an unbreakable bond between you and your mother. You gain a constant sense of her location (within a certain range). Your affection toward her increases by 100%. Allows the mother to carry additional <Blazeblood Seeds> in the future with reduced risk of fatal complications.

Liu Shu only had one thing to say: "...Waw. (O_O)."

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