" I have decided my wishes "
" state your wish boy "
Was he always there or has he been observing me since then?
anyways all i need to state my wishes .
"my first wish , all the karma whether it is good or bad will be converted to positive experience points until i die"
"my second wish , i want to master all creation and production skills"
"My third wish , I want you to give me a mind and soul which cannot be controlled by any means by others or by my own feelings."
With these I think I can live a peaceful life but why am I feeling chills everywhere in my body? Did I ask too much or did I ask something wrong ?
" boy do you really want these useless wishes, asking me such mere wishes you are taking me too lightly""I am existence above all mortals , you could ask anything like immense power, immortality , bottomless mana pool, divine weapons ,name,fame etc but you…. "
before he could say more " oh please i just want a peaceful life where i can create whatever i want and i don't have to fight "
"Why don't you seek power, don't you want to take revenge for your grandpa or don't you want to know why your parents left you ?"
is he being serious or is it a trial , what a pain !
" Nope, i cannot change my past even not you, so just give me a future where i don't have to lose anyone "
"Ha ha ha … "
what a loud way of hurting my ears, just stop laughing already !
" Then I am granting your wishes and be ready for your curses as well ."
" Your first wish is to convert all your karma, whether good or bad, into positive experience points , I can grant this easily. All I need to do is to bypass the system for you. This is a small wish so your curse will be light as well. Whenever you earn exp points with bad karma, your soul will be exposed to hell fire until all your bad karma is purified and changed into positive points. The higher you earn the higher you burn but your soul will heal itself so don't think about too much. all it will do is to give you immense pain "
"Hahaha"
"Your second wish is to master all creation skills ,well this is a small wish as well for me to grant you. All I need is to guide you in the right path at the right time. but creation skills are extremely dangerous. weapons even if they are meant to save one can be used to destroy others. Mastering all creation skills can turn you into a threat that even gods have to notice. but all it needs is someone's creativity. Anyways , listen carefully ,all the things that you create will either be blessed or cursed and it depends purely on luck and chance. All your creation will always rank less than a divine weapon."
Now I am feeling seriousness in his voice, is he taking my wishes seriously now ?
"and your third wish is to gain a strong and unwavering mind and soul. It is a small wish , I can grant you a mind that will not waver even in front of God of death, but this will not satisfy you. I am granting divine will, a skill that makes your mind and soul nearly impossible to control. but i don't need to give u a curse because this wish is a curse itself."
" since i granted you your wish ,my work is done here and i don't want to see you again. one more thing don't do something that makes me kill you. Bye bye "
I am shivering with fear and anger. all his curses are too much bad. leave living peacefully with these i can't even leave.i want to scream but i don't know why my voice cant come out. What did I do wrong ? I don't think I ask for any excessive things ?
"And…"
Once again I can hear his voice but this time his voice has a concerning temperament. Did something happen ?
"Boy, a good friend of mine, sent a gift do you. take this, this is the only part of the soul of a long forgotten warrior. this soul doesn't have any memories or desires, it will integrate with your soul and give you a portion of that warrior's power.but i made a little changes, its power will be released as proportional to your own power so that you will not get drunk with pseudo power."
Suddenly I feel a liquid droplet dropping on my head and I can feel like my body is burning.
it is too much, i am screaming loudly.my body is burning and itching. It's like a cloth made of lava is surrounding me and I am trying to tear it.but what i was tearing is my skin, my hands are red with my own blood.my vision is turning blurry. i can feel anger but i don't know for whom. I tore my hair ,I broke my nails, I can't bear it anymore, I will die with this pain. my brain feels like it is disintegrating and reconstructing. my veins and blood feels like it is vaporizing and condensing. my vision turned red.the darkness coloured with blood. I will die , I feel like the strength to bear this pain is leaving my body. is this all i get for a wish to live peacefully.why cant i live as i want ?
Anger, anger and anger, it is burning my heart, but this new flame is cold and soothing and then my whole body suddenly turns cold. Suddenly everything disappeared and There is a castle big and beautiful enough to put capital in shame and in front of the castle there is a man full of scars all around his body with blood pouring out of it.he looked at me .I can see anger in his eyes, extreme anger for everyone.
he said ," if you give up easily ,you will not able to see how much potential you have.your desire should be strong enough that can make death a minor thing"
with a sharp pain one more time i came back to sense.
"You endured it boy"
wait, wait, i am trying to say something but all i can is whisper.
with all my remaining power, i tried to call him loudly ,"Wait"
"Wait….."
"Again a nightmare " when i opened my eyes there was a woman with a concerned face.her voice gives my heart a healing feeling.
"yeah mom, same dream every time but when i open my eyes i can't remember most of it "
she patted my head and smiled " its ok dont mind much of your dreams, it is just a replica of your fears "
Then I turned to look outside the window. We are in our house's carriage. It is my 15th birthday and we are going to the royal palace.
"It has already been 10 years since we found you , Aarav. i don't know what you have been through before this but you will not have to face this alone from now on" her smile is assurance for me.
The first memory of mine is her face full of tears. She said that she found me 10 years ago when I was injured while fighting with a Spirit wolf. I don't have any memories of the first five years. After she adopted me ,she took care of me as her real son. Apart from her ,there is my younger sister too. Both of them love me, I think but I don't know why I can't make up my mind to accept this. Her husband or the lord of 'Keshawa county' , Arman keshawa and my dad lives in capital with his another wife and his two sons. he left my mom because she was not able to give him his successor. my mom lives in county and managing it . so i only consider my mom and sister my family. my so called brothers hate me , so i don't waste my time thinking about me. She taught me a lot of things like warfare strategy and management. She also insisted on me learning swordsmanship and magic arts. I always tried my best but the thing I like most is to create things. The first thing I created was a necklace of colourful stones and flowers. but Appraiser of my county said that it was cursed and my mom wore it everyday. Later I learned that she asked craftsmen to create a necklace of the same type and wore it so that it doesn't hurt my sentiments. It was funny how she endured my cursed nackess for weeks. I respect her a lot ,she is a strong woman with a strong heart. She hides all her pain and always smiles. Even though I don't feel any love toward her , I want to do everything for her.thats why I am going to the capital with her to give the successor exam of king.
It is the rule of our kingdom that the strongest warrior with royal Lineage will be the king. My mom has a long distance relationship with the last king so I am chosen to give this exam. honestly i don't think i am able to clear this exam since i hated fighting most but i agreed because i want to make her happy. Because she is my mother.
In the last few weeks I worked hard on my fighting skills and I improved but not much.
In the last few years I earned a lot of creation skills but most of them are at an intermediate level. I earned a lot of skills other than creation skills, I have some fighting skills too.
we reached the capital in the evening ,since all the hotels are full we have to stay at my father's house and i hated it most. There were a lot of maids there to welcome us but their eyes were on me and my sister . I know the reason because we both are adopted and called cursed, we are the reason for her and her husband's sour relationship. isn't my story full of tragedy?
I held my sister's hand and she was grabbing it tightly. i looked in her eyes and smiled , she smiled back but i can see the uneasiness in her eyes.
No one in my other family came to see us so we guided directly to our bedroom and food was served there. Both me and my sister ' Imaya ' have the same room and mom was in another. i knew our relationship with others so i too feel uneasy about not seeing mom. I pour my mana around and thin it like air and expand it to surround the whole building. I use it to detect presence. i found mom easily , she is in one of the drawing rooms with others . The mana fluctuation in them is too violent. i think they are arguing badly on something. In my creation, I created a magic item named "spyBird". It is an item to spy on people, it looks like a small bird. When I poured my mana in it ,it turned on and with my instruction it went there. but the feedback I'm getting from it is too distorted. There must be magic applied on the wall of that room but still I can hear voices and they are really debating hardly.
" Why have you brought them here? I gave them our name because you begged and begged but bringing them in the successor exam only dirty our name. Those cursed useless garbage."
"they are not garbage or cursed, they are children with good hearts and skills. they always try their best to make me smile."
"But it didn't change the fact that they cursed lady Aria."
"It's a matter between me and my husband, you don't have to put your nose between our conversation, countess Mohini."
"Stop it aria , she is family member too,she has right to say"
" you left me not because of them, but because of her seduction"
"Stop talking nonsense about my mom, father left you because you were not able to give him a successor ."
"Is it only Arman, I sacrificed my everything for you, I left my family my prestige as a warrior and of all sacrifice you gave me this.?"
"was my love lost to someone's seduction? "
" It's not that I stopped loving you, but I too have prestige. How can I call some cursed child my successor?
i will still accept you if you leave those childs"
"they have no one except me ?"
I cut off the connection, I don't have the strength to hear it anymore. The pain in her voice shows how much she loves him and we are the reason for her to feel the pain. tears came out of my eyes and i can't control them. life is so mean isn't it ?.
I looked into my sleeping sister ,caressing her head . countless reasons are tarbulating in my mind for running away from her, but i don't want to give her more pain. I will make myself known enough that everyone has to accept me.