"How did you do it? Why did you do it?" Damien asked. He had many questions in his mind, but he only asked the questions that mattered to him more than anything right now.
"Because I could do it. And you also wanted it." He answered vaguely. Sensing the impatience brewing inside Damien.
"You know, it's not the first time we have met. I know what you are trying to do."
"Come on, entertain me a little. Show me those little bursts of anger, annoyance that you used to show me." old man said while making a disappointed and begging face.
"Try some new methods, same tricks might work first few times but they lose their charm." Damien replied.
"Tell me how is this humanly possible, there has to be some explanation." he asked.
"You are right, it is not humanly possible...."
"If you are not human, then what are you? Are you God?" Damien interrupted him before he could finish talking.
An amusing laughter left old man's face. "Some things don't change, still as curious as you were in the past."
Damien did not say anything just looked a little embarrassed.
"I don't know anything about being a God." He muttered; his voice filled with uncertainty. "But... I do have some powers. If I think about it, I could be passed as Deity or maybe not." He added.
Damien at first has asked jokingly that if he was a God. But hearing old man entertaining the possibility of him being a god. He was surprised and was curious to know more.
"What's with that answer, you sound like, you also don't know whether you are a God or not." Damien inquired. "But you have the power to reincarnate a being, which to my understanding should make you a God. Make it make sense to me why you are not a God."
Old man listened to Damien and when he was finished, without answering Damiens questions. "Do you want to listen to a story? "
"You are messing with me, aren't you?"
"No, I am serious, this is my story and how I came to be." Old man said, his voice heavy. His serious eyes met Damien's. "And you will get answers to some of your questions."
Hearing that Damien's heart started beating faster with excitement and some nervousness in the anticipation as to what old man's story might contain. And he simply nodded his head up and down in a gesture to silently convey his agreement.
Old man took a deep sigh. "You know how essence works?"
"Yes, I have read about it. Its strands aid you in becoming proficient in the art that essence and your bloodline has given you." Damien repeated what he had read about essence in the books.
"Exactly, it makes you stronger while also becoming stronger. It is kind of like a give and take relationship. And it only strengthens you in one of the art. Like this body that I reincarnated you in is suitable for body arts." Old man sensing the turmoil that was happening within Damien, "Don't worry, he was dead before by the time you took over his body."
"Anyways, where was I? Oh, you can become master in one art that your body and essence find compatible. There is or was a tribe, it lies in the south of the continent, cut-off from the rest of the population. Their only motto was to satisfy their senses in all kinds of pleasures. Their activities throughout the day involved eating and drinking, looking and making beautiful things, having sex with various partners. Men and women alike could have sex with anyone, without any restrictions. Only restriction there was to not have kids with a direct member of his or her bloodline."
"In the tribe no one was above another, all the people shared everything with each other and worked in harmony. They did have defined work for people, like some used to hunt and some cook. They enjoyed doing these things together but what gave them most enjoyment was sexual pleasure. Since it was their main art, they had refined and perfected all the techniques, and all the positions for sex. In this tribe there was only one school, the school of sexual arts. Where they had stored generational knowledge related to sex. This education was given to their young ones after the age of twelve."
"There were all kinds of techniques and remedies there for everyone. For example, there were techniques there for people born with small penis, there were remedies there for people with premature ejaculation. And, everyone there enjoyed this art of pleasure in some way or another. But it all changed after essence."
"As the tribe was proficient only in indulging in pleasures, essence started to give them strength in the area where their talent lied before the Leap-Time. It created a massive fallout within tribe and formed a hierarchy. On top of the hierarchy were people who could dominate other from their body strength, like hunters. And since their main art was sex, unlike here where you could only store essence in your hearts, some members of the tribe, who were gifted in sexual arts could also store essence in their lower stomach between naval and their groin region."
"This intensified the pleasure and these members male and female both, who could store this extra essence could feel heavenly pleasure, but only among themselves."