The hut is surrounded by several beasts that headed to the towering beacon of light from the ritual.

Their footsteps crackle branches and leaves and the new family of three still remains in the hut and is left alone.

"Via, you ready?" Conrad asked.

"I've been ready since Tolly left, my lord," she replied.

Dante still in the arms of his father pouted his lips and thought, "Wait? She just gave birth! What do you mean ready? And I can hear things out there. Growling and creeping things! Am I going to die this early?"

Conrad smiled and said, "Were you healed during the ritual?"

"Yep. During the ritual, the blessed light began healing me right from the beginning, my lord."

Conrad rolled his eyes and sarcastically mumbled, "Wards. As expected. All right. Let's go."

Marvia nodded and stood up like she had just woken up and a fresh new day was ahead of her.

"Yow! She just gave birth?"

Dante sighed and just told himself, "Magic... tsk."

Marvia wore her light armor, over her leather clothes and pants, and she picked up a big book with golden hard-bound covers.

Conrad passed to her a make-shift baby holder strap and put their baby in it. She put Dante on her back and said, "Don't worry, my little light, mama and Papa are gonna protect you."

Surprisingly, Dante sort of understood what Marvia was saying.

Conrad wore a huge backpack twice his size, held an iron sword in his right hand, and another golden book in his left. But his was a lot smaller than the book that Marvia was holding.

Dante saw them holding the books and thought, "What are the books for? Oh... Right... Magic. Seems like my parents are ready to go.

Either we all die when we go outside, or Mom and Dad are what I think they are... Either way, there is nothing I can do now."

Conrad posed with his sword, ready to kick the hut's door open, but then turned to baby Dante and said, "Have some faith, son."

Conrad kicked the wooden door and it smashed into a beast's face.

The beast called "bongrel" which looked like a giant brown dog but had thick spikes over its back and big green nocturnal eyes, was pushed back by the impact but growled in response, but before it could retaliate, Conrad had already thrust his sword with both hands and slashed through the beast's face.

Marvia began praying while holding the book with both hands.

Conrad smirked and said, "Seems like we have several friends that wish to congratulate us, Via. Did you invite any of these bongrels?"

Marvia kept praying, and Conrad with his peripheral vision, had seen three more bongrels. And one of the bongrels leaped straight to Marvia and Dante.

Dante turned his head to the left and saw the giant beast's fangs almost bite at him.

"Oh shit! Dad! Help!"

Conrad didn't even turn around. He just headed for the other two bongrels.

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"Dad? What in the-"

The bongrel had leaped with great force that when it was nearing impact on Marvia and Dante, it suddenly smashed into what seemed to be an invisible force field that showed ripples, and crushed the bongrel's skull.

Marvia kept repeating the prayer, "Oh Blessed Holy System. Provide your servant with Divine Protection against evil and those who seek to obstruct your will. The Holy Shield that you provide those who have unwavering faith will never be overcome."

Dante watched the bongrel's bloody and crushed face as it bounced off of the invisible force field.

"A magic force field? And it didn't just cancel the attack damage, but also returned it with a double multiplier."

Dante then focused on his father Conrad, he slashed through a pack of bongrels like cake.

Conrad was smiling the whole time he was killing all of the bongrels.

Dante looked even closer, but he thought it was weird that Conrad's lips seemed to have been moving the whole time he was fighting as if he was mumbling something to himself.

"That movement and strength are not human," Dante thought, "And my father's power and mass aren't supposed to be that strong. Not even the Earth's greatest bodybuilders could have had that power, strength, and speed. Magic? Some sort of physical stat enhancement?"

After Conrad defeated the last bongrel, Marvia stopped praying and said, "Well, you want to get cleaned up, or should we just go?"

"It's fine. Just some blood. Nothing like a wash in the river up ahead won't clean up."

At that point, Dante had already accepted that he was in a world of magic.

With the whole ritual, and different races.

And though the pack of bongrels that were attacking them was beaten, he still didn't feel safe in the forest yet.

It was like he knew someone was watching them. And knew this wasn't the time to let his guard down just yet.

Conrad and Marvia walked side by side and headed for the river at the end of the forest.

There were still a few more hours till dawn, and the two knew that the danger was not yet over.

They followed a hidden path in the forest.

And did not risk creating a light that would attract more wild beasts and reveal their location.

The two walked in the darkness and could only see the small path ahead of them by the small glimpses of moonlight that passed through the forest trees.

"How are these two able to see through the darkness. I can't see anything. What if there are more of those beasts out there or someone waiting to ambush? What if there is a cliff ahead of us?"

Amid the darkness of the forest, Conrad and Marvia kept following the path and figured it out as it was cleared of shrubbery and weeds.

"Mom and Dad are really built differently. Shouldn't they use some magic, to light up the path, or use a torch at least?"

Marvia started humming a lullaby in the darkness, but quiet enough that only Dante would be able to hear as she held Conrad's hand.

Dante's eyes slowly closed as his exhaustion finally settled in.

The recent events surmounted a huge strain on his mental state, from his death at the park while saving the girl, to dying and changing his soul's cosmic current, to the ritual and his parent's trying to survive in the forest.

Marvia's voice was like a good warm shower of relief for Dante, as he rested in the warmth of the cloth that he was in, on his mother's back. In the darkness of the forest, his mother's voice was the only thing that he could hear or sense. It reminded him of his time during jungle combat training as a cadet.

"Mom's lullaby is so soothing. She reminds me of the constellations of stars in the sky that night. I was still a first year in the academy, and on the third month of the academic year, we were sent to the jungle.

It wasn't much of a jungle really, since we were always near the rural towns. But we did stay in the mountains. I remember my struggle with diarrhea during guard duty and I was third posting.

"I had munched on all those dairy cupcake snacks that I brought, and added with the unsanitary drinking water I kept in my bag, I sure as hell didn't have a chance.

It was my first time, being away from home. I was 18 already, but all my high school days, I would always come back home within a month. Homesickness never hit me like this before.

There I was in the darkness of the woods, taking a shit, holding up the toilet paper, and making sure it doesn't get mud on it or else be wiping myself with wet dirt. I was alone up there, while the squad and upperclassmen were sleeping soundly.

"When I looked up, I saw the three stars that I had always been looking at my whole life. I knew home was just out there. Hundreds of kilometers away but still, I knew that I was just a plane ride away from my family if I really wanted to drop everything here and start all over again."

So whenever I felt alone and scared in the darkness of the night, I always look up and search for my three stars. Then I know, home is close."

Dante felt a shake and woke up, as Marvia and Conrad were descending down a cliff, and the crashing waves of the river could be heard nearby.

Dante looked up and saw a stranger in the night sky. He did not know it, nor was the moon familiar with Dante. His infant eyes glimmered, kept looking, and hoped that behind a cloud, he would find his three stars.

"This isn't home. This isn't my world anymore. I will never be able to see them again."