Vine Silk Green
Hela smiled, her usual haughty composure returning. "I was only saying. If anyone's going to visit, it should be Lincoln coming to see me, not the other way around."
Vivian nodded in agreement. "Of course."
Aier's pregnancy lasted extraordinarily long. Even after a full ten thousand years, her belly had only begun to swell slightly. Even divine beasts born from heaven and earth rarely took this long to gestate.
Since Aier had conceived in the Water Divine Plane, she hadn't left it once in all these years. She had stayed on Aier Island, afraid that leaving might hinder the little one's growth.
Daniel gazed at his mother's belly, sensing the faint aura within. He frowned. "Mother, did it take this long when you were carrying me?"
Aier smiled and shook her head without answering. Lincoln, too, looked worried. "You were only ten months from conception to birth. How could this one take ten thousand years? If it stays in there so long, won't it endanger the mother?"
Aier glared at Lincoln, then scolded him with a laugh. "Who talks about their own child like that? Besides, do you think I'm a mortal woman? I've never heard of a Deity-level powerhouse having a difficult birth, let alone a Chief God giving birth."
"Perhaps it's because we're both Chief Gods that this child needs more time to accumulate strength. We really are the one and only Chief God Couple."
"With such a long gestation, she'll surely be exceptionally gifted when she's born. She might even surpass you."
Lincoln's worry vanished, and he laughed. "Yes, yes. She'll be the most gifted child in all the world."
Just then, two maids dressed in pale blue entered and knelt respectfully. "Chief Sovereign, Chief God, the Nether Sovereign from Nether Mountain has come