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Chapter 1 - Vol. 1 Chapter 1 - Cao Bu, Youngest Son of Cao Song (1)

Year: 170 A.D.

Location: Eastern-Han Empire, Yu-Province, Pei-State, Qiao-County, Caojia…

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The ancestral-lands and fiefdom of the Qiao-County branch of the Cao-Family…

A village known as Caojia, which is owned by the current Colonel-Director of Retainers serving in the Imperial-Court of Emperor Ling, of the Eastern or Later-Han Empire named Cao Song, courtesy-name Jugao…

Is the location of our Main-Character Cao Bu, whom is currently being spat-out and birthed-into the world at this moment…

During the first-days of spring, of the year one-hundred and seventy after the death of Christ…

Cao Bu is now the youngest brother of Cao Cao, courtesy-name Mengde…

Cao Cao, the Historical-Warlord who rose to prominence during the Three-Kingdoms Era in Ancient-China after the inevitable fall and demise of the Eastern or Later-Han Empire, that followed after the short two-decade or so reign of Wang Mang who usurped the throne of Ancient-China from the Western or Early-Han Empire…

The Three-Kingdom Era kicked-off or began around the last-decade of the second-century, during the same time the Roman-Empire would currently still control most of Ancient-Europe….

Cao Bu has been conscious for the last two-weeks at the least, that he has been waiting and biding inside his mother's womb…

Waiting to be birthed into his new and second-homelands, living for a second time, after spending a brief period as some sort of astral-entity crossing time and space itself…

Following his long first-life's death, his pitiful and glory-less death of old-age, after spending years upon years searching for a valiant death upon the field of battle, searching for a chance to die a death as a true warrior should die, all in vain…

Till now, the time for his second-rise, his second-coming… The two-weeks or a fortnight's time our Main-Character has been conscious for inside his mother's belly, he has bided and waited…

Meditating and concentrating, learning all the knowledge he can about his new-body, after finding himself trapped within a womb as a fetus of a gifted or blessed-child, once his soul or spirit arrived within his new vessel…

Before Cao Bu died, he was a famous general and mech-pilot serving in a interstellar-empire known as the Zulan-Empire, that controlled hundreds of planets, where hundreds of billions of citizens lived and knew of his name and his many battles or wars he fought in, til his death of old age after living and fighting for the Zulans for hundreds of years thanks to the technological or scientifical-breakthroughs on research into increasing the longevity of mankind on that side of the universe, galaxies-away from the Milky-Way galaxy…

The mother of Cao Bu, Concubine Bai was a dancer who was purchased by Cao Song in Luoyang to celebrate his promotion to the official-position of Minister of Finance, Cao Song noticed the paler and exotic skin-tone as well as the blue-colored eyes and blonde-hair of the dancer causing him to wish to have possession of her…

Cao Song fell in love with the dancer, making her one of his concubines, resulting in the Concubine Bai becoming pregnant with Cao Bu shortly after purchasing her slave-contract from the brothel she was sold to by the slave traders who captured her once her noble family was executed by the now royal-family of the current Kushan Empire to the west of the Han Empire…

"Push Concubine Bai! The child is ready, now you must push with all of your might!" The midwife spoke, urging Concubine Bai to push with all her might…

"Argh! Ahh!" Concubine Bai shouted and screamed, as she did as the midwife bid her to do, where Concubine Bai pushed with every bit of strength she had or could muster forth, birthing our Main-Character into the world he will live and thrive within…

"It's a young master! Congratulations Concubine Bai, you have given birth to the fourth-son of the Cao-Family, the master will be most-pleased…" the midwife said, as she took the clean linens and went to work cleaning the fourth young-master of the Cao-Family, based in Qiao-County of Pei-State, located not far from Runan or Xuchang, only a few week's horse-ride time away from the current capital-city Luoyang….

"Why is my baby not crying? He makes no cries midwife Ursa…" Concubine Bai asked Ursa, the elderly and wise-woman who has given birth to all the main-family's descendants, as she found strength from nowhere once she realized her newborn had not made a sound yet…

"I have never seen eyes or hair like this, look at him staring at us…" Ursa the Elder replied, as she handed Concubine Bai her firstborn and eldest-son…

Whom, was currently very-busy looking around the room, with emerald-green eyes…

Sharp-green eyes, that almost glowed magically, as the child's eyes moved around the room, almost as if they were searching or scanning around for something or anything or everything….

"My beautiful child, you are most-perfect, please inform Lady Ding of the birth…" Concubine Bai spoke, staring into her child's deep and mesmerizing eyes, before asking the midwife to inform the main-wife of Cao Song, Lady Ding of the successful birth….

"No need, I am already here, let me see the newest son of my Cao-Family…." Lady Ding said, as she entered the room, stopping her words as she locked eyes with the magical-eyes of the different looking child…

Whom, already had bright and healthy-looking silver-colored hair growing upon his infant skull, as well as wide-opened and intelligent-appearing eyes of a color, just like his hair as in they are colors that have not been seen before or are most of rare to see around this part of the world, but different where his eyes are a magical green-color whereas his hair stands silver…

Cao Bu decided after looking over the newest visitor to the room, she must be an authority-figure of the family he found himself born-into, as he noticed the way she carried herself and spoke, as well as the expensive-looking clothing she wore…

So he stretched out his little baby-arms towards her, whilst shouting little baby noises, like "Ba!" Or "Ga!"…

"By the gods and all the spirits, just look at you! What a handsome boy, if I could not see his little male-parts, he is so pretty I would believe he is a daughter …" Lady Ding replied, as she picked up Cao Bu who has not been named yet, whom just giggled a little as she picked him up from Concubine Bai's grasp…

"I will write to my husband in the capital, he must send us a name for his youngest-son, rest now Concubine Bai, I will have a servant wait upon you whilst you slumber, you must focus on recovering your strength…" Lady Ding responded handing the child back to Concubine Bai, so the child could feed before his mother must rest and he has to be given to the servants to take care of whilst she recovers her strength…

"Thank you Lady Ding, I shall rest soon as I feed the babe…" Concubine Bai responded, as she placed a nipple of one of her breasts in her child's mouth…

To which he took and latched on proceeding to drink milk from her as he also wished to recover his energies, from his torturous and valiant bout of combat, fighting to escape that cave commonly referred to or known as a womb…

As Cao Bu drank the milk from his mother's teat, Cao Bu focused on feeling the nutrients and sustenance enter his body as he drank, running the breathing-method he had learn in the mech-pilot acadamy he studied at in his previous and first-life…

As the breathing-method circulated inside his body's pathways, Cao Bu's insides are being strengthened and refined or tempered in a way, whilst increasing the capabilities of his senses as his organs are strengthened from the energies being absorbed by them using the imperial breathing-method taught to the warriors of the Zulan Empire, the galactic-state Cao Bu hailed from in his first-life, where he was known far and wide as General Darth….

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