Barghest, the Demon Hound

Good idea!

Such an answer that satisfied both reason and law immediately moved Morgan. She spread her arms forward and murmured softly.

"Left here alone, this child is doomed not to survive. Since that is the case, I will take responsibility for raising and watching over her."

"Woooof!"

As strangers approached, the little creature struggling stubbornly among the rocks bared her sharp teeth in alarm and forced a threatening growl from her throat, like a wolfhound with a fierce instinct for self-preservation.

Even after Morgan gently picked her up, she kept writhing and growling, her eyes filled with a trace of defiance and hostility.

However, as one of Britain's Children of Nature, this peerless Witch possessed an affinity that spread invisibly from her body, gradually soothing the tiny creature's fierce temper.

After a while, the energetic demon hound pup finally wore herself out. She curled up in Morgan's arms and fell fast asleep. Her little face, nourished by magical power, gained a faint flush, revealing a rare quiet innocence that made her rather adorable.

"Barghest..."

Morgan gently brushed a hand across the little one's cheek, gazing at the new life in her arms with complicated eyes as she murmured.

"Barghest, the demon hound. That will be your name from now on. Though you were born carrying sin, I hope you can live beneath the light and atone for this debt."

Fate had begun to turn once more.

The snake burdened with inevitable karma leaned against the rock wall, watching the mother and daughter before him, destined to forge a bond through this historic meeting, and could not help but sigh.

The out-of-control, corrupted black hounds nearby had already been cleared away. With nothing else to do, Samael casually raised his sword and blasted square pits into the rocky ground.

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