"Mom! Look what I hit today!" A sturdy boy wearing an animal skin coat shouted happily as soon as he entered the door. Although he is called a boy, in fact, he is just an eight or nine-year-old child. Not even out of the realm of children.
"Big-antlered deer? Claudes, you are so good!" The plump and tall woman also looked very happy: "I will stew venison soup for you tonight!"
"Hehe..." The boy named Claudes laughed happily. He placed the dead big-horned deer in the center of the courtyard, then took a knife and started to process it. After a while, his mother came out and was ready to help.
Although they call each other mother and son, in fact, they are not related by blood at all. The woman's name was Flanda Torimia, a mixed-blood barbarian. Her real son's neck was bitten off by a pack of wolves during the barbarian hunting. She was expelled from the group because she was unable to provide productivity. And that young boy, Claudes, was the son of the Barbarian King Rego. However, because this child had been thin and thin since he was young, he also became an object of abandonment by the barbarians.
Back then, Regnar saw that the two of them were really pitiful, so he used his own power to settle them into living in human society. But later, an orc who arrived unexpectedly broke their original life. Frenda and Claude were forced to live in the mountains and forests, relying on hunting and trading down the mountains to make ends meet.
"The teacher has been out for almost a month, right?" Claudes asked casually while skinning the big-horned deer.
"Yes, he should be back soon." Flanda replied. The two of them were not worried about the dangers that the orc, whom Claude called his teacher, would encounter wandering around in the human world. In fact, it was simply a humanoid dragon. Who would worry about the dragon being harmed by humans
"Oh? The big-horned deer can barely be considered a mid-level monster. I haven't seen you for a month, so you have grown a lot." Just as the two people were busy, the wild and rough voice of the orc sounded in the courtyard. .
"Teacher!" Claudes was overjoyed when he saw the orc. He didn't care about the blood on his hands when he peeled off the big-horned deer. He directly put down the skinning knife in his hand and rushed to the orc's side.
Although Clodes is already over 1.7 meters tall, he is still a tiny person in front of Clayton, who is 2.5 meters tall.
"You are back, Lord Clayton." Flanda was also very happy to see the orc. She raised her head and looked away, and then asked with some confusion: "What are you holding..."
"What? It's only been a few years and you don't recognize him anymore?" Clayton smiled widely, then turned the face of the man in his arms to Frenda.
"This is..." Flanda was stunned for a moment, and then she shouted in a loud voice: "Lord Regnar?!"
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"I didn't expect that something like this would happen..." After settling Regna, Clayton briefly told Flanda and the others what Regna had experienced in recent days. Flanda burst into tears immediately upon hearing this. She stroked Regnar's cheek with her trembling right hand and said, "It's really hard on this child. Those humans can really do it..."
"Child?" Clayton smiled nonchalantly: "I remember Clodes said that one night you almost got naked into this child's bed and slept with him."
"..." Flanda couldn't help but blush when she heard Clayton's teasing, but at this time she was in no mood to joke with Clayton, she just sighed and said, "What should we do next?"
"His life is his own. What should he do next? Let him decide for himself. Of course." Clayton grabbed a piece of roasted and oily venison from the fire, took a bite and then said: "First of all, we must Wait until he wakes up."
"Wake up..." Flanda murmured.
Clayton couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw Frenda's expression. He asked tentatively: "I said, you don't like him living here, right?"
"What are you talking about?" Flanda couldn't help but get a little angry when she heard what Clayton said: "Lord Regner is the savior of Claude and I. Now that he is in trouble, Claude and I will naturally I won’t sit idly by! From now on, Lord Regnar won’t bother you, and his daily life will be taken care of by me and Claudes!”
"Why are you so angry?" Clayton scratched his head and muttered, "I saw you were in a daze and asked casually."
"Are you in a daze?" Flanda trimmed Regnar's hair and said, "At that time, I just thought that perhaps it would be the best for Lord Regnar to sleep like this forever. After all... reality is too difficult for him. For me, it’s basically hell…”
"Hell..." Clayton took a deep look at Regnar and whispered: "If reality is really hell, you have to face it. No matter how heavenly the dream is, it is still fake after all."
In this way, the unconscious Regnar settled down in the mountains where Flanda and Claude lived. In fact, according to Clayton's estimation, even if Regnar was seriously injured, he would be in coma for at most ten and a half months before he would wake up. But maybe Frenda was right. Compared with the physical trauma, the serious injury to Regnar's mind might be more serious. I don't know if he has been escaping from reality or something, but Regnar has been in a half-dead coma.
While he was in a coma, Flanda and Claude had been taking care of him meticulously, feeding him three meals a day with liquid food, and asking Claude to clean his body regularly. I will go out to collect herbs and prepare ointment for Regnar next week. That was the ointment formula given by Clayton, because a long period of coma would lead to a significant decline in body functions, and the ointment formula given by Clayton could prevent this from happening. So all this time, Claudes and Flanda have been going into the mountains regularly, rain or shine, to pick the medicinal materials needed for the ointment.
"Isn't it enough to keep him alive? Why do you have to do such troublesome things?" Clayton once asked Frenda in confusion.
Flanda replied at the time: "I don't know exactly when he will wake up, sir, but I know that when he wakes up, he will need enough strength to face all kinds of difficulties in reality. So I I must ensure that when he wakes up, he is still the same powerful man, and this is my responsibility."
Seeing that Frenda and Claude were both so stubborn, Clayton didn't bother to persuade them. His visit to the Kino Continent this time was originally guided by Olgar Rock's prophecy. At that time, Olgar Rock foresaw that Regnar would suffer such a fate in the future, so he sent Clayton to the Chino continent in advance to prevent the worst from happening to Regnar. In the end, Clayton really saved Regnar's life.
But after saving Regnar, Clayton had no reason to stay in the Chino continent. Finally, he bid farewell to Flanda and her son, and returned to Orgrimmar in the Lance continent. And Flanda and her son also had the capital to return to human society after they no longer had the conspicuous alien race of orcs by their side. They returned to the human town where they once lived shortly after Clayton left. Although their lives had changed in all aspects, their care and consideration in taking care of Regnar never changed.
In this way, day after day, year after year, Regnar never woke up. Frenda just felt that in the blink of an eye, Claudes, who was originally of average height among humans, had turned into a tall and muscular boy nearly two meters tall. The little girl in town that Claudes had been talking about also turned into a slim and beautiful girl. Only when comparing the changes in these children can Flanda realize the passage of time.
"Unknowingly, it has been ten years." Flanda said to Regnar while feeding him: "Sir, a lot of things have happened in the past ten years."