After the immense bloodlust directed toward me. Without any trace of anyone or presence, I proceed to what i was about to do which is to get my Calling.
I place my bloody hand onto the statue's feet, since it's the only place that human can reach.
But unlike what I felt before...
This time it feel... weird?
It feels different from what I used to from my past life.
Normally for every living being in this world called Alzeta. After they imprinted their identities to goddess, the statue of the goddess would slightly glow as her blessing past through our body, a warmth and soft tattoo would be sketched on the body of the believers bringing euphoria as a pleasure to those who believe.
But right now, the statue don't give off any light even the slightest, the eyes of the Irene instead shattering tears of dark crimson.
I feel an intense burns all over my face, sticking my hand at a burning bar of steel wouldn't come near to the pain that I am feeling right now.
The scorching pain almost made me lose my mind, my consciousness fades aways slowly, but I could grasp it back at the last moment.
With the pain gone, I feel surge of power flowing and coursing through my body.
Similar yet very different kind of power, though questioning this difference might prove to be difficult. But a test could prove to be most effective in this situation.
I raised my hand spread my fingers and directed at the old man's lifeless body lying on his own pool of blood.
In my past life my unique calling is to be able control the blood of every living being hence the the era of my ruling and conquering.
This time not only my etching of tattoo is different, the feeling itself is not to how how i normally used to.
I've killed many priest of my neighboring kingdoms to monopoly the calling of my kingdom. Their screams and bloodshed is nothing but common annoyance to my ears. Every single one of them cursed me with the divinity of that dead lifeless corpse that gives power of destruction as a mean for peace.
As of this moment, nothing made sense. My priority isn't to get my unique calling, but the ability to use mana itself.
My knowledge is my greatest weapon right now.
" [Precise Shock] "
My hands get a tingley feeling like a small current run through it.
pointing at my temple and give myself a shock at the pain receptors of my brain.
though this might be a very hard process ,but nonetheless I've been doing this countless of times.
" this takes me back to the old time "
By doing this my body is unable to feel any pain for a period of time.
" It's good to not feel any pain for quite awhile but more than that it would bring chaos to my sensory, without pain i wouldn't feel a sense of touch or the gust of wind from an arrow behind my back"
Weirdly specific because it happened once and I've learned my lesson.
" [Teleportation] "
I arrived back at my room during the night.
In theory [Teleportation] should be very impractical, since in order to travel from one place to another; one must been to the exact location for the brain to set a location to, then destroying entire cells in the body causing extreme pain, finally using mana to construct new cells to form an entire body again in a new loaction that the consciousness of the brain remembered.
[Teleportation] didn't use worldwide because if the user loses control of their consciousness during the process of teleportating caused by extreme pain then the result of reconstructed new body will be nothing but a pile of blood and flesh mushed.
Thank to my technique, I can use [Teleportation] to return back home leaving no trace of me leaving the bloodied church's crime scene.
I should get some rest since I used up alot of mana tonight.
*morning comes*
" Wake up brother!"
There she goes again with her morning routine of waking me up sooner than needed to be.
" y-yesss I'm awake.."
*yawn*
I get up from bed to the bathroom getting ready for the day, and getting ready to explain to my family about the tattoo etched on my face.
In some rare occurrence, some genius with great affinity with Irene can receive a Calling without going to the church. In those cases, the user will have power beyond normal people, and we called them either 'Hero' or 'Calamity'.
But to my surprise...
The tattoo dissapeared
It's like I've never received any Calling Tattoo at all.
Last night I was quite disappointed that tattoo was on my face leaving no choice for disguise or cover.
This phenomenon also never happened or heard ever in my past life but I should be thankful for it because no spell can distort the appearance of the tattoo since Irene is petty even when she's dead.
I can still feel the mana around me.
" Who would have thought that this kid is more powerful than any adult in this town? "
I boasted as I look at myself in the mirror.
After I'm done prepping for the morning, I walked outside to Mary.
" Mom? "
"Yes?" she replied while making medicines.
" You know I tell you last time that it is a bad idea for Annie to study at the capital because we all study the same basic principles everywhere, right? "
"Uh huh"
"Well I think we should send Annie to the Capital right now."
" Huh? why? what's with the change of mind?"
" I think it might be easier for her to adapt to the capital right now, I heard from many seniors they said that the high-schoolers from the capital always bully us country bumpkin from not knowing the culture there, so if we send her now we might be able to save her from the bullies in the future "
She looked at me in suprised.
" I'll consider it "
Eventhough she said she'll consider, but most the time she will make it happen especially if it's for the goods of both of us.
With Annie sent to the capital, I'll atleast solve the problem of her disappearance during that night of the goblin raid.
Now i just have to focus on saving the village from the goblins.
" AHHHHHHH! " A scream from the church heard through the town.
Soon after that that people start to gather and check out what the commotion was.
A young man around eighteen holding the corpse of the priest outside and yelled.
"The priest has been murdered!"
He wept while other people from the village gather around and mourn.
Soon after, the guards came and investigate the scene.
Many people I know from the village cried around the the corpse that has been covered by a white blanket.
The young man from earlier sits on the floor and cry on top of the body
I know for sure that if this happened during my first life, I would be extremely saddened and devastated by the cruelty of this action
But right now I felt nothing.
No sense of sadness at all, not even a sense of guilt that I've just killed an innocent man.
I know that this is wrong, but no one can be right without losing something.
Mary always taught me to be good to others so karma could also brings me back the happiness that I deserve.
I did none of that. if I did, I wouldn't be able to count the knives that could've backstab me.
Killing the priest was just a stepping stone to rebuilding my life again.
I can lose my humanity, but I can't lose those whom I treasure.