The World Of Demons And Gods

◈Week has passed◈

A week has passed since Cyrus had been struck by divine retribution, his bloody terrifying appearance had now returned to normal. The deep cracks in his skin had now returned without leaving any scars.

It has now returned to white jade skin and soft as baby's skin, returning into his handsome appearance once again.

He was laying on his bed in his room with his eyes closed; he had been unconscious for a week now.

During those days after he had been struck, his father and his mother were both busy as they try to do their things as they had used to but take most of their time checking on their Son Cyrus.

Since he is a cultivator, having not eaten for a week is just like skipping a breakfast in the morning to them, meaning, he is still healthy as he had always been despite having an extremely terrifying injury that he had when he was struck by the lightning.

Not long after, his eyes twitched before slowly opened. He pushed his body forward sitting on his bed, W-where am I? Cyrus woke up dizzy as he touched his head; he then looked around wondering where he was.

"This is my room..." He muttered in a daze as he realized.

Soon, his body shook as if he had remembered something just now.

That divine retribution!? What happened!? My wounds? Eh?

He looked at his body checking his terrible wounds.

"I-I have been completely healed..." Realizing that there are no more wounds and was completely fine, he was lost.

"What happened?" He asked himself silently as he looked at both of his hands.

*Creek*

The door on his front slowly opened and a beautiful woman came in, soon when it saw Cyrus its body shook, then she hurriedly ran towards him, "Son!" the woman cried as she called him.

This woman is no other than Shane, his mother.

"Mo-" Cyrus was interrupted suddenly when he stood up calling his mother.

A warm hug spread on his body as his mother softly hugged him, "You made us worried so much!" She mumbled in pain.

Tears slowly fell on his shoulder, when Cyrus had felt the wetness on his shoulder.

Mother... You...He realized that his mother was crying. Bitterly smiling, he too, gave her a soft hug.

"Mother, Son is unfilial making mother and father worried so much, I-" Cyrus said as he burrows his head on Shane's shoulder.

"No! You're a good child, a good child... it wasn't your fault, I'm glad you're safe." Shane immediately interjected as she softly said to her son, comforting him as she c.a.r.e.s.sed his hair.

"Mn..." Cyrus silently nodded.

...

Soon, the two separated slowly. Then they sat on Cyrus' bed and looked at each other, Shane was holding Cyrus's hands waiting for him to speak.

Right... I still have to tell everything to my mother and the truth... That I too knew something about the tattoo... Cyrus thought to himself as he mustered all of his courage as he faced his mother softly.

"Mother, the Yinyang tattoo on my body acted on its own as if it was controlling my own body. It suddenly or even madly absorbs a massive amount of nature's essence and lightning essence and because of that, I created a divine taboo as I faced two divine retribution and on the second one almost killed me." Cyrus explained as he recalled and told what happened during that time.

Hearing this, Shane was startled especially when she heard Cyrus talking about his tattoo on his c.h.e.s.t, she had never known that Cyrus could also see it and knew about it, but she did not respond and let Cyrus continue to explain.

However, when she heard a second explanation of what happened. She was utterly shocked!

"Mother, when I faced the first lightning, the tattoo forcefully absorbs the lightning of the heavens not affecting me... When I faced the second divine retribution, there's a lightning spirit appeared and looked at me angrily. I was already afraid that I would face death, so I tried to make an oath with the spirit, but it angered him even further. It even personally attacked me with more power. After that, I had lost my consciousness as his last attacked had affected me." Cyrus explained silently with his brows knit together and no longer spoke.

What... kind of spirit is that...? I thought he was an elemental contract spirit... Cyrus was baffled.

Looking at her son, Shane finally speaks to him.

"So, you're hiding the fact that you knew about that tattoo," Shane said seriously, as he stared at her son. "That's-" Cyrus was startled and immediately looked to his mother, but he was interrupted as Shane interjected.

"It's okay, you don't have to explain. Your mother understands." She softly smiled.

She c.a.r.e.s.sed his hair fixing Cyrus' bed hair, "You don't have to worry about the Yinyang tattoo, dear, not long after healing you it had been sealed by some strange power that I or even your father couldn't look through it to find the mysteries."

"S-sealed?!" Startled, he looked to his mother in shock but he did not speak longer.

"Anyway, more importantly, do you feel fine?" Shane asked him softly.

"Yes, mother... However, I remember I had a breakthrough and now I am now a paladin rank. Yet... I did not expect that nothing really happened; it did not feel like I had ranked up! No, it feels like I had been a lot weaker now." He was baffled as he cannot recognize or sense easily his strength.

Looking at his baffled expression, Shane had a pained expression on her face and with a single soft sigh, she finally spoke:

"Son... There's something I had to tell you... and please, don't be dispirited immediately okay?"

"Hm? What is it, mother? That you wanted to tell me?" He stared at her waiting for her answer.

"Son, the reason why you feel like that... is that your cultivation base had been... crippled..." Shane had a difficulty to tell him completely, as soon as she had told her, she only stared at Cyrus.

C-crippled? Wha? How?

When he heard that, Cyrus stared, he did not move, he did not flinch, nor he said anything. He was sitting, in front of his mother looking at her with a blank look on his face.

The word 'crippled' had echoed in his mind, soon, the light on Cyrus' eyes had dimmed and became quiet.

He could not help to get dispirited immediately.

He had a lot of things that he wanted to do here in this second life, he had a promised with his sister that he would get stronger, stronger than her, and meet up with her on the academy, he wanted to adventure the world and save countless lives.

Yet, right now.

He is simply a trash right now in this world.

Fear, disappointment, and despair had taken over his mind.

"Me... A cripple... Huh..." He muttered in silent...

Seeing the changes on his face and sensing his aura had turned gloomy, Shane gritted her teeth, "I said don't get dispirited!" she shouted in anger!

Cyrus was startled as he looked to his mother with fear.

This is the first time Shane had shouted at him with an angry look on her face.

"I-I'm a really sorry mother! I-I wa-" He began to stutter in fear, but Shane quickly interjected once again.

"You're jumping to conclusions way too quickly!" She shouted once again

Hearing this, Cyrus had finally felt that there a glint of hope, before quieting down.

(A.N: Shane is such a troll -_- )

"You're only a half-crippled, and it doesn't mean that it couldn't be healed either! Your mahika strength had been reduced to 60% but your physical strength had remained the same, especially when you are already a paladin rank! It has 24,300 tonnes of strength! 24.3 million kg!" She explained.

When Cyrus had heard this, his lifeless eyes had turned brightly once again and even went shock in an instant.

"24.3 million kg!? That's absurd!" A freaking million kilograms of strength!? Who would not be shocked by this!

(A.N: Want to know how heavy his single punch he could release? Imagine a supertanker ship slapping at you. A... FREAKING... SUPER... TANKER... SHIP!)

Even if his mahika talent had been reduced to dust, but if he had this raw strength, then that's fine for him!

Shane continued, "And son, don't worry... Fifteen years from now on, you will be completely healed." She smiled at her son but there was a trace that it was a faint smile.

"Eh? Already been healed? By who?" Cyrus was startled then asked her.

"By your father, he spends his remaining life force and blood essence to heal you completely."

Cyrus complexion suddenly turned pale, "Father did?! And he used his blood essence and life force?!" He exclaimed.

He too knew how important for cultivators a blood essence and life force!

Blood essence could not reproduce! While life force could be obtained by having a breakthrough, it would still be difficult and they might not be able to have a breakthrough if their life had been reduced!

Such pricey method to heal him...

Cyrus tightly gripped his hands...

"Son, you don't have to worry about your father, he could still live a thousand years! So relax... Both your father and I would do anything for you and your sister to have a bright future ahead of us, such things as this is not a trivial thing. Even if I cultivate Divine Sun, I would have done the same thing." She said, softly. She also hides the fact that James had only half a thousand years of life.

(A.N: The Divine sun is a Yang cultivation technique suitable only for man, while the Divine moon is a Yin cultivation technique suitable for a woman, both are the same but the effects on the body is different. )

"Son, remember, your cultivation technique is powerful which could give you a unique massive amount of strength which no other cultivation technique could do! If you had practiced other cultivation technique and then got crippled like in your case, it would only difficult and hard for you to fight, and you had no other choice to stay inside the house." She said, with a slight smile on her face, making her beautiful.

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