In the year Yale's group lived with the Dragon Race, there were three major events, although most people only knew one of them and it was that the child of Serka and Kermu was born.

It was a girl that was called Sammie by her parents, but neither of them expected the news Yale gave to them.

"This girl is a reincarnation."

Yale was completely sure of that, but he couldn't determine the girl's identity just with the Divine Death Eyes, so he entered to the Storage Space with the three of them. Yale wasn't willing to extract the Condensed Essences from the Storage Space given that there wasn't any need for it, and the four of them entering the Storage Space together was equally effective.

Moreover, Yale felt that there was something strange when he checked the girl's soul before, so he wanted to be sure of the reason for that problem.

When Yale examined the past of the girl's soul, he was left without words. It was indeed a weird situation and extremely weird situation because that reincarnation wasn't a coincidence it had been forced.

Seeing Yale's face, Serka and Kermu started to think for a possibility that they had thought a long time ago and would be really weird for them despite not impossible to happen.

"Is this girl the reincarnation of Hyrk?"

Kermu was the one who dared to ask the question despite the fear of knowing the answer. If it had been a son, it would have been easier to accept, but thinking that his daughter was the reincarnation of his male friend was quite weird and difficult to accept.

"No, she isn't Hyrk's reincarnation."

Both of them sighed in relief because although they hoped that Hyrk managed to reincarnate, they didn't want him to turn into a girl and less into their daughter.

"She is the reincarnation of Hyrk's sister."

Yale's words were like a bomb for the couple because both knew about the existence of Hyrk's sister and how she had suffered all her life and even ended as a slave. Moreover, they knew how much Hyrk cared about her, so they couldn't avoid feeling that it was fate.

"You should be thinking about something like fate... Sorry, but stop with that, this isn't fate at all."

Yale didn't need to use his divine eyes to understand what those two were thinking.

"Hyrk's soul was the one who interfered into his sister's reincarnation forcing her soul to reincarnate as your daughter."

Even though Yale had seen it personally with the divine eyes, he still had difficulties to believe that scene while Hyrk's soul was forcing itself to enter into the cycle of reincarnation to look for his sister.

Hyrk's soul had self-destructed to erase the memories of his sister's soul. After all, those were extremely sad memories, and Hyrk wanted her to start from zero and not carry any burden of the tortures she had suffered.

Moreover, while self-destructing, Hyrk's soul also forced his sister's soul to link with Serka ensuring that she would be reborn as her child.

Technically speaking, Hyrk's soul was doomed to dissipate as was unable to survive the cycle of reincarnation even if he didn't do anything, but he still wanted to help his sister's soul and endured the pain that only those who suffered the dissipation of a soul knew.

After all, if he hadn't acted, his soul would have disappeared without more pain without entering into the cycle of reincarnation but forcing the way into reincarnation in his state was asking for torture.

Moreover, even for a normal soul, it would still be difficult to act like Hyrk's soul did because the freedom of movement was restricted while reincarnating and finding a specific soul was nigh impossible.

"She had her memories erased, not sealed, so there is no way she could remember anything. The only difference between her and other newborn soul is that her soul is a bit more powerful than usual and she may inherit some traces of her previous personality."

Kermu and Serka didn't know exactly how to react when hearing that, but anyway they just decided to love their daughter and forget about anything else.

As for Hyrk's soul, they just accepted that there wouldn't be the next life for Hyrk, but since he decided to give it his all to ensure a good future for his sister, Kermu and Serka were determined to ensure their daughter's happiness.

Only Kermu, Serka, and Yale knew about the fact that Sammie was the reincarnation of Hyrk's sister, and they decided to let it remain as a secret since it wasn't too much difference with a normal newborn. Of course, Hyrk's matter also remained a secret for the others.

The whole tribe was interested in Sammie because the lizardmen and the members of the Dragon Race had never seen a human newborn and she caught their attention.

Serka and Kermu had all the help they needed to grooming Sammie, so both were quite happy with how the others had acted, and both of them were really grateful with them.

The second important matter was only known by Yale, Aiwai, and Wyba and was about Wyba reaching the age to break the seal of her human form letting her level up normally.

At the start, Yale and Aiwai told her that if she wanted to continue growing up, it usually was better to not breakthrough to equal her level in both forms, but she ignored it and not only equaled both levels, she even became a 5-star Grandmaster in one go. It seemed that Liye had left a small gift hidden within the seal to help Wyba to improve faster after breaking it.

"I don't want to grow more, and I can use Shape Shift even if I want."

Usually, a beast didn't need to worry about the stop of growing, but due to her synchronization of bloodlines with Yale, she would be affected by it if her human form advanced in ranks.

Moreover, once both levels had been equaled with each other, they would grow together, so she didn't need to worry about doing the same effort two times. That was also the reason Wyba could advance directly so much after breaking the seal because it was just normal for both forms to be at the same level.

Yale truly didn't mind about Wyba's aspect nor in what form she was as long as she was powerful enough to defend herself in case of danger because he knew that it might be impossible for him to protect her eternally.

Although Yale planned to leave after Wyba finished her breakthrough after breaking the seal, Aiwai didn't let him do that and told him that since was the birthday of the both of them they should stay behind with her.

In the end, Yale ended taking that day as a relaxing holiday with Aiwai and Wyba, and he needed to admit that sleeping on Aiwai's beast form's fur was extremely comfortable, especially when hugging the beast form Wyba at the same time. He knew that Nurvey would have killed to change positions with him, but Aiwai only let Yale and Wyba sleep on her fur, anyone else didn't have a chance.

Yale hadn't had any good rest in that year, so that day was extremely useful for him to rest.

The effects were so good that Yale advanced to the 9-star Grandmaster when finished his training the next day even though he had advanced to the 8-star grandmaster recently and he shouldn't have advanced again even with the remnant energy of his power-up which turned into his great nourishment to increase his power.

Yale's body and soul had been too tired from lacking rest for such a long time, so as he had managed to rest his body and mind his efficiency with everything improved a lot, he even started to make huge progress in Shirk's bloodline upgrade. He needed to admit that relaxing oneself was also quite important.

The last major event was just related to Shirk, or to be more exact to Shirk and Driwna.

Both of them had started dating and were officially a couple, even though they never left the room where Shirk needed to wait due to the experiments.

That matter was only known by Yale, Sebe, and higher-ups of the Dragon Race because there would be a scandal if the young ones discovered that Driwna had turned someone else's girlfriend. After all, she was quite popular, and almost a legend since almost no one managed to see her in a long time.

Yale approved that relationship and was quite happy for Shirk, since finding a girlfriend had been one of his objectives in the travel, but the chief of the tribe, Driwna's father, wasn't happy about it.

However, he couldn't do anything since the orders to Driwna making company to Shirk were from Ronragruk, and the latter didn't mind about who was dating with who. In fact, after discovering it, he was secretly happy because that would help to have a better relationship with Yale's party.

In the end, the chief could only swallow his grief and understand that it was normal that someday his daughter found a boyfriend, although the fact that the boyfriend was the one suffering experiments to upgrade his bloodline wasn't something he liked.

The life had been quite peaceful that year, but they were unaware that someone had started to move in the shadows with the eyes put on them.