It's midnight, and it's my time to search for money.
My plan is just simple, search any hospital for any patients that seem rich but have a good heart to spend big money just to save the life of that person. But of course, as a 'mortal' now, far from being a Bathala. I'm not so ruthless to take advantage of them that much. All I can say that it's a fair trade.
I stand up from my bed and released a calming scent in the house for my mother and brother's mind, it helps people that sleeping inside of the range of the scent to avoid having nightmares. I changed my pajama to dark casual clothes.
After making sure that there's nothing that I forgot. I went outside using the door downstairs, for the windows upstairs were had railings.
There's a strict curfew here but the street lamps are far enough to each other to leave a dark gap in between. I used this part to my advantage after checking the streets for some patrolling barangay tanods.
With my current powers, it's enough for me to be called the Superman of this Earth.
Flying through the sky, I'm searching for bright Faith signal that coming from the people's prayers. As once a Bathala and add the experiences of eight lives, I'm already familiar with any kinds of energy powers.
But since I'm not the Bathala anymore, I don't have any responsibility to attend and listen for every prayer that I'll see on my way... But if there's worthwhile to help that someone, why not?
For 15 minutes of flying, I already saw three individuals that seem so good for my eyes.
The first person was a teenage girl that is praying for the gods to help her grandmother to be awake from the vegetative state.
She's not the person that I'm looking for. But I saw something within her body and her grandmother's body too. If they can deduce the clues and hints that I gave her grandmother before our fates collide for the second time. I don't mind taking them as my disciples and teach them the way of their choices to reach the Saintess Level... That, if they want to be one though...
And so I helped the girl, by searching for her grandmother's soul and I found her at the place of the accident and has been lurking all this time. It's good that the accident only happened recently, about three months ago according to the girl's prayers, for this Lola not to be corrupted by evil entities.
I already have a gist of what happened from the girl's prayer and so, I tweak the light and dark elements to be distorted to make me invisible for the stranger's sights, then walked towards this Lola that has been staring for a while at the road with a deadpan expression. I copied her and stare at the road too, after waiting for a couple of minutes.
I break the silence between us. "You seem so lost, La..." Then I sensed her head turning to see me with a shock of expression on her face, but I didn't turn my head to meet her eyes... And I continued. "It's not your fault for why you're still alive instead of your son and daughter in law."
"... But I'm too old! And they were still younger than me and still have a responsibility to take care of their daughter! Why me!? Why this old bone was left behind to be alive instead of those two!? I'm tired of living and just waiting to die to be with my husband in the afterlife... Hahaha! But God play a joke with me! Why is that!? Why!? Have I done something wrong to be treated like this!?" She shouted and burst out all of her negative emotions at me, crouched then went to grab me and wailed to her heart's content.
Normally, I won't let any souls touch me but this time I let her be, and I waited for her to calm down. "Every life of people are already woven the moment they were born. They will die because of old age, in an accident, in the incident, or a suicide... And that's called destiny."
"Then how can I change that fucking destiny that you're talking about!?... Wait... You're not in a soul state! How you can see me!? And these people that passing by are just ignoring us!?... And you're a kid... Don't tell me..." She blubbers then stands up and started stepping back away from me while still in the unbelievable state.
"I was once... And that's all you need to know, child... As for what you want..." I stopped my mouth in midway and turned my head to meet her eyes. Since I'm still so small, I willed myself to float slowly until she can look at me with ease. "Why don't you go back and see for yourself for how you can change that destiny?" I said at her with a smile on my face, then pull out a talisman from my pocket. "Put this on your forehead and it will give you something that will help you to achieve that... But always remember this, child... Once you took that path, everything will be on your own as you will fight against the whole Kaluwalhatian." Then I decided to let this meeting ends here.
I controlled her spiritual energy not to interact with mine for me to disappear at her sight, then left with the last message before I'm completely gone away from this place. "You're staying here for far too long, child... The evil entities will notice your presence sooner or later, and you won't like it once if you're captured by them."
This family is unbelievably unlucky to have those things but at the right time. That unluckiness that they had will turn 360 degrees to unbelievable luck state... But still, they are strangers to me. So, I decided to let the thread of their fates to play with their lives if they will meet me or not for the second time.
After rolling over above the sky of Manila for a couple of minutes. I noticed a Faith signal that strong enough to make me curious about it and flew over there.
The second person was an old man at his last breath. A heart attack was the cause, and it happened in the middle of the street of luxurious subdivision for rich people, alone. For why he is here, is I don't know. Based on his clothes, he shouldn't be here. But I don't give a damn if he is rich or not, I decided to help him because of his last prayer before he dies.
'Please... God... I'll be your servant forevermore and I will not be included in the cycle of reincarnation! Just help me kill every person who killed my family and put them in the deepest hell to suffer!' This isn't worth it and so I thought, when I was going to leave. His will and the next sentence amused me.
"OR LET THIS SOUL OF MINE TO BE ERASED FROM EXISTENCE, JUST TO LET THEM SUFFER FOREVER IN THE FUCKING HELL!!!"
His faith for the gods is stronger than the girl... But when I opened my mouth to announce my presence, I sensed the portal for the Maca, appeared beside me. Then a young woman appeared from the portal...
I knot my forehead for my unpleasantry for seeing this little girl. She noticed me and made a shocked expression but for a couple of seconds only. Then she kneeled down in front of me, saying. "Sir Bathala... I didn't know that you're here."
"Don't call me Bathala anymore as I retired from that position not long ago."
'... Then-'
"Don't continue that thought, little girl. I still have enough power to send you back to Kasamaan, for multiple times."
"Hehehe~ I'm just a kid before you, sir. Don't mind my playfulness~ *Wink *Wink *Wink"
"*Sigh I'll take care of this one to be my servant and I don't want you to interfere here."
"But sir... Sir Sitan will punish me once if I didn't have this man's soul in my return... *Pouts"
"Even though I'm retired now, it doesn't mean that I forgot for what you're doing... Manisilat."
"Muuu~ But sir Sitan will really spank my butt again! Please, have mercy and save me or just save my beautiful buttocks..."
"So, the Sitan is still him?"
"Yes, sir..."
"Hmmm... Then tell him that I'll give him one of the things that he wants from me to save your ass. But it doesn't mean that this man's soul is enough for that thing. If he wants to have a deal with me, tell him too that he needs to go down here secretly, as I don't want to be bothered by other deities for the time being."
"Yay!~ Got it, sir!~ Bye bye~ *Flying Kiss" She went back to the portal while happily skipping.
After seeing the portal of Maca disappear. I turned my attention back to the old man that staring at me with his widest eyes that he can do while lying on the cold ground of this street.
"Nod once if you heard us." I stated which he did. "Then this thing makes us understand each other easier, no?" He nods again but this time he is having a hard time doing it again.
I waved my hand and let the light and dark elements around us to be distorted to makes us invisible, then I crouch beside his body that dying for every millisecond. "What a strong-willed man... I'm here for as I heard your offering prayer... Are you sure of that? Because once it was done, there's no turning back..."
"I... I AM... SIR... Ba-*Cough BATHALA... *Cough *Cough" He willed himself to state and not just to say it while looking at my eyes with determination to trade his existence for the revenge for his family.
"I'll accept this offering prayer but it will depend on this last question of mine, but I need to inform you first that I will say it again, I retired from that position not long ago."
"Ask... away, sir... And... It's fine..."
I smiled at him then asks. "Then here's my question... Are you mad at Manisilat after knowing that she was the reason why your happy and united family was broken, and lately your kids and your ex-wife that you still loved were killed?"
"I am... But... I'm not... Mad or... Hate Mani... Silat for... What she did... Because I know... That... She's doing what she was... Ordered to do... And my family was the... Unlucky ones to get her... Attention... And knowing that she's... A higher being... I can't do anything... At her at all!... So, I'll still stick to... My anger towards... The people who killed... MY FAMILY!... AS... THEY... CAN... BE... KILLED!!!"
"Oh~ Different to what I thoughts... Well, is not bad, child... Then... I'll accept your offer." I raised my hand and stab it towards his chest and I grasped his heart that bigger than my hand and I felt it's beating slowly and slowly. "But being a servant of mine... You need to know what, when, where to kill a person and send his soul to the Kasamaan realm, at least. So, I'll bestow you the chance to kill those who wronged you in this lifetime and teach you how to be my proper servant, forevermore."
I punctured his heart with my five fingers and send my spiritual power or so-called 'Qi' into his heart to flow within his blood veins and start healing the cells that are dead and dying, back to his early twenties appearance.
After healing him, it's time for the Qi to bind his body, and soul to my body and soul. I willed my thumb finger to open its skin and let out a droplet of my own blood within his heart. Then my Qi started refining my own blood until it became a very small golden crystal and I embedded it to the back of his heart's wall that released the crest of a man's head to the shoulder with enclosed wings and inside of the big halo that slanted from the upper right to the lower left. The said crystal is positioned within the man's forehead, and that crest is for him to be identified by other higher beings that he is my servant.
The next step is, for my mental power or so-called 'Mana' to bind his consciousness with mine. I pulled out the Qi and switched it with my Mana and started to go for the brain. After scanning every corner of his brain neurons, I compressed his whole consciousness into one place until it started to become a very small bluish crystal in the very center of his brain.
I pulled my Mana from his brain through his heart and started the last step and for me to fully bind his body to me.
I pumped out my physical power or so-called 'Chakra' from my finger into his heart and I went for his solar plexus. After reaching that part, I pulled all of his remaining life force of this lifetime and used it for me to create a very small reddish crystal, for making him my servant, successfully and officially done.
Normally, this will be done by themselves at the age of five and will create fingernail size crystals of their own, if they are genius then it's a little bit bigger than that. Most importantly, the crest of the heart is what the person identified him/her for where his loyalty is. They can create their own crest after reaching the married status for the men. While for the women, they can create their own crest too or create their own crest as the same as their husband. But if someone did it for them, it's the end of their freedom for they will be like what I did for this old man. A forevermore servant. But this thing is only known by the higher beings like me that reached the positions of known Deities and Gods.
For mortals, such known God like Zeus and others is only one person per each name. But for us people that reached the state of higher beings, those known names are just titles for us that are only positions like President, Vice-President, Senator, Mayor and such.
But having that position for a very long time, the said person that will take that title is needed to abandon his/her current identity and live like what the mortals have known for that God or Deity is.
Just like what I did for Trillions of Trillions of Years of the Void Calendar.