<h4>Chapter -1: The Child from the Dungeon</h4>


    ( Before Chapter 1)


    s ...


    Inside the Dungeon ...


    There exists a severed giant ck hand ...


    A hand from who knows where it came from, as the severed giant ck hand then stands inside the Dungeon.


    For years, the Giant ck Hand had slowly changed into a tree, a ck tree that produces ck fruits, a pitch-ck fruit that contains a ck liquid.


    As the fruit starts to spread around the tree, the fruit smells first attracted some of the minor beings inside the Dungeons, from insects, birds, and many others as they began to eat the fruit that grows for the first time.


    As they eat it, they consumed the ck liquid as the ck liquid then engulfs them from the inside, turning their physique as their body then turns ck like a shadow while the creatures slowly transform to their new upgraded form.


    As the creatures turn, some of them decided to stay to sated the ck fruit while the remaining others decided to go out to the opened Gate as the ck creatures rampage on the other monster territories and Dungeons using the Gates as their door.


    As it happens, many of the monsters that had regained sentience then discover where did the ck creaturese from as suddenly a Gate opens which led them back to the Dungeon where the ck Tree resides.


    When the monster sees it, they then were immediately attracted by the ck fruit''s smell which they then eat with joy as the ck liquid inside it then slowly engulfs them too, transforming them into a more advanced form.


    Not just that, for some monsters the fruit also increases their intelligence as the now sentient monsters then gather more numbers as they then make them worship the ck Tree, from the ones that already had eaten the ck fruit to the ones that just went into the Dungeon as they instead take care of the ck Tree.


    Years went by in that Dungeon where the monsters exists there from the one being cked to the ones that were still normal, they decided to worship the Giant ck Hand Tree as they worshipped it as the right hand of the ck Shadow God.


    They worshipped it, take care of it, and then praised it as the monsters create their stay there, under the tree''s shadows as its leaves cover most of the Dungeon with its blue light leaves in contrast to its trunk.


    But someday, without the monsters expecting it, the ck Tree then stops growing more fruit which slowly decreases the number of ck creatures and monsters in number as their main source of food is slowly decreasing since they are addicted to it which also makes them deny every other food besides the ck Fruit.


    As the cked ones die one by one, their corpses turn back into the ck shadowy liquid like the thing inside the ck Fruit as their ck liquids return to the ck Tree root as the ck Tree then glows for the first time, the time where the ck Tree due to absorbing back the cked ones then grow a Giant ck Fruit that shocks the other monsters who see it.


    As the Giant ck Fruit falls, the monsters approached it but only to find no ck Liquid instead of a little ck creature that is lying still on the fruit''s inner side. The monsters there were shocked as they see and touch it, only to make the ck shadowy liquid around the little ck creature''s body engulf them and absorb them into its body as the ck creature''s body is getting more shaped, revealing it to be some sort of a humanoid-like baby as the baby then cries for the first time inside the Dungeon.


    From its cries, the ck tears from ite down to the ground as it automatically summons the newly formed ck Creatures that are more powerful, more advanced, and more intelligent as the ck Creatures or Monsters then worshiped the baby for their rebirth as they called the Baby with a name.


    " Bet ... za ... lel .... "


    A name from nowhere that the ck monsters uttered without knowing its origin as they all chant it, believing that the name''s very meaning is based on shadow, as the ck monsters believed that the baby is born in their God''s Shadow, the shadow of the ck Tree that they worshipped.


    When the monsters chant the name, the baby continues to cry as it opens its eyes for the first time the Baby then sees the world for the first time as a living being.


    ........


    ..............


    ( Many times after the Baby was born.)


    " It .. It''s... " Duncan and the other Hunter say in their stutter when they see it.


    " It''s a child .....!!!!!! "


    " A baby !!!!!! " they all said as they see the ck baby crawling toward them as the remnants of the ck Monsters returns to it while the baby crawls as it sees Duncan''s eyes.


    At that very moment, Duncan was shocked as he feels that the baby is calling for him somehow, asking him somehow to adopt him while he was gifted with another feeling that tells the ck baby must be a gift for him from God as the baby was meant to be his and his wife''s first child.


    When Duncan thinks of it, suddenly, one of the Hunters decided to attack the baby believing it to be some sort of monster which Duncan then stops him from doing so.


    " Duncan what the hell !!!!!???? "


    " Why are you protecting it !!!!!?????? " the man asks Duncan then replies that the ck baby is not a threat as he then picks it up and he then realizes that the baby is a boy.


    " You''re a tiger, aren''t you? " he raises the baby up while the other hunter then thinks that the ck baby is controlling Duncan which they then decide to attack Duncan since they believe that he is now a dead-weight and some of them agree since they all want for Duncan to die to take his rank from him somehow.


    As the hunters attack, Duncan then fends them off while protecting the ck baby boy as he uses his abilities to cut the other hunters off.


    < Sharp Slicer >


    With that slice, Duncan managed to cut off some of the hunters with ease as blood sttered from their now dead bodies.


    " M****f****er !!!!!! "


    " I''ll kill you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " said one of the remaining hunters in the Party as they proceed to attack Duncan for their fallenrades Duncan then decides to murder them all.


    " That''s all of them .... " Duncan says to the baby as he hugs Duncan, holding himself tight in his arms.


    " Don''t worry, they won''t hurt you anymore ... "


    " After all these hunters'' fate is sealed when they try to cross des with me. "


    " Besides, these hunters belong to a guild that always scavenges the other hunters'' goods. "


    " So they of all people should aware that their target may strike back at them or strike them first. "


    " Right? " Duncan asks the baby boy.


    " Betzalel ... was it? " Duncan calls the baby''s name as he remembers that the ck monsters that he killed earlier mentioned that name as they point their hands in the baby''s direction as they all call the name, implying to Duncan that the monsters are calling the baby to warn him.


    " Right? " Duncan asks as the baby just looked at him with his pale white eyes.


    " My name is Duncan ...., Duncan Grimshaw .... "


    " From here on, .... "


    " I .... "


    " I will be your father .... "