Above the courtyard, dark clouds churned thickly, with faint streaks of lightning glimmering within them.
The ground trembled from time to time at irregular frequencies, leaving all manner of destructive scars in its wake.
Protective magic arrays had long been set up nearby to keep the power from spreading and harming innocent people. From the outside, there appeared to be nothing unusual about this block.
Everyone waited outside the house, their faces mostly filled with anxiety and anticipation. Chen Rui was naturally the most anxious of all, pacing back and forth through who knew how many laps, drenched in sweat.
Half an hour had already passed. Catherine, Isabella, Lola, and Ben Hong still had not emerged; only Athena's suppressed groans of pain could be heard from inside.
By the time Athena went into labor, her strength had already soared to the early stage of Demigod, and the power of destruction erupting from her was extraordinarily terrifying. Thus, only those few could enter, lest there be danger.
"Does giving birth hurt that much?" Alice tightly clutched Shea's hand, her face tense.
Shea shook her head. "I don't know either. I only know that this moment alone is enough to show that all mothers are the greatest."
In truth, it was not just Shea. None of the ladies present had any experience, and the only one who had been a mother, Catherine, was currently inside helping Athena deliver the child.
The lightning in the sky grew ever more violent, as though drawn by some force, pouring down upon the residence in unison. The lightning seemed to contain incomparably pure power of destruction. Even though the area around the house was covered in barriers, they could not completely shut out its might, and large cracks began to spread across them.
A flash gleamed