The Ultimate Litter: A Beast World System Tale novel Chapter 204

Chapter 204 Ten Suns and 26 Dreams

When Claire got closer, she saw that Rufus’s feathers were soaked through. Water still dripped from them His back looked huge as he sat alone on the branch, but there was something lonely and pitiful about him His wet feathers clung together, making him look even more miserable.

Clair heart ached. She wanted nothing more than to pull him into her arms, dry his feathers with a hair dry

chase away all that loneliness.

ed her arms around the tree trunk and started climbing.

ank was straight and smooth, without a single bump to grab onto.

as skilled at rock climbing, but this giant tree was almost completely vertical and had no foothold he had no way up.

couldn’t exactly dig claws into the bark and climb like an animal.

hat would ruin such a perfect tree.

Still unwilling to give up, Claire tried again and again. The lowest branch was over 15 feet off the ground She hugged the trunk tightly, trying to use friction to fight gravity, but every attempt ended with her sliding back down.

On her last try, she made it higher than before-almost 10 feet, Just as she started feeling proud of herself, her body suddenly slipped downward.

Her sore arms and legs finally gave out. Claire lost her grip and fell.

Right when she was grateful that the grass below looked soft enough to save her from breaking her tailbone, a giant wing caught her before she hit the ground.

Rufus carefully lifted her with his wing and gently placed her beside him on the branch.

“Claire, if you couldn’t get up here, you should’ve called me. I didn’t hear you come back.”

He had waited for a long time. His whole body had felt like it was about to explode, so he had jumped into the lake to cool himself off.

That instantly reminded him of the time he stayed with the fox clan. Back then, he had also taken cold baths, but only because Fiona’s drug had forced him to.

This time, though, he had done it willingly. He was afraid he’d lose control and hurt Claire if he got too impatient.

Claire sat beside

The woman

under the

their ey

ngs loosely covered her, blocking the cool evening wind.

he valley where the sun was setting. The lake glowed gold

ed the same warm light, and tiny golden sparks shone in

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Chapter 204 Ten Suns and 26 Dreams

“Claire,” Rufus suddenly asked, “where does the sun go after it sets?”

Claire bit her lip. If she tried explaining modern science to him, he probably wouldn’t understand. So instead, she smiled.

“Have you ever heard the story of the Sunfire Ravens?”

Rufus shook his head.

“Legend says the sun is actually a type of bird called the Sunfire Raven. It has three legs and shines with blazing light.”

Rufus thought for a moment.

“I’ve never heard of an avian beastfolk called that.”

Claire laughed softly.

“Well, it’s just a legend. But I remember some of your babies were actually Sunfire Ravens.”

She paused after saying that. Those eggs had been eaten before they could even hatch.

Claire nervously glanced at Rufus, worried he might become upset again. But when she saw he wasn’t too sad, she continued her story.

“There are ten Sunfire Ravens. They take turns flying across the sky. When a Sunfire Raven appears, sunlight shines over the world. When it flies back to the Dawnroot Tree, the sun sets. All the Sunfire Ravens live on the Dawnroot Tree. The whole tree glows all the time. It’s supposed to be beautiful.”

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Stories like these had been common knowledge in Claire’s old world.

As she spoke, she suddenly missed modern life and all its technology.

Then a thought flashed through her mind.

Sunfire Ravens.

Ten of them.

She vaguely remembered that among her second batch of eggs, there had been exactly ten Sunfire Raven eggs. Could it really be that much of a coincidence?

She didn’t tell Rufus about the second half of the mythical story.

When all ten ravens appeared at once, ten suns burned in the sky. Rivers dried up, and plants withered

away.

Then the hero Eryndor shot down nine of the Sunfire Ravens, leaving only one alive to escape back to the Dawnroot Tree.

She had also given birth to ten Sunfire Ravens. Could they somehow be connected?

But soon she laughed at herself. All of that litter had died young, including the ten little Sunfire Ravens that never even hatched. There was no way Eryndor would ever shoot them down.

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Claire shook her head helplessly.

Her imagination was getting wilder and wilder lately.

This was Rufus’s first time hearing such a magical story. In his world, the word “sun” had only become common in the last few decades. Before that, the beastfolk had long forgotten the original name for the sun

Still, he had never imagined the sun could actually be related to avian beastfolk.

And if his babies were Sunfire Ravens, did that mean he also carried the bloodline of the ancient Sunfir Ravens?

Maybe one day, he could shine just as brightly as those legendary ancestors.

Rufus tried hard to picture ten glowing Sunfire Ravens resting together in the tree.

“Rufus, you know what? Our babies were amazing,” Claire said softly. “Every single one was mutated. I gave birth to 26 babies total. The first 25 were all mutated bird eggs. They were different sizes and colors. When they were piled together, they looked so pretty, like a rainbow. Only the last baby was a fox.”

Since Rufus wasn’t reacting badly, Claire found herself wanting to talk more about their babies. Their lives had been short. But they still deserved to be remembered.

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