The World Of Demons And Gods

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As Cyrus had killed the leader of the bandits in few exchanges, many people who watched him were all amazed at Cyrus. They could not believe that this youth was actually powerful despite his looks.

From this, many people had now believed the idiom "One shall not judge by its cover."

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Meanwhile, Cyrus was looking at the dead leader of the bandits. He slowly approached the body as he tried to examine him briefly.

"He has a weak cultivation technique, maybe it's a low grade one..." Cyrus sighed in disappointment.

Soon, Cyrus had noticed something on the hands of the leader of the bandits. He kneeled down and saw that it was a silver necklace tied on his fist, the shine of it had already diminished due to bloodstain from the owner.

"..."

Cyrus returned Lynae back to his dantian as it dissipated in a blink of an eye before he reached his hands in silence towards the silver necklace and took it.

What he first saw and noticed, the necklace was a locket and it was carefully had been taken care of this man that he had killed, meaning, this locket is important to this person.

Seeing this, Cyrus started to feel uneasy, as he slowly opened the locket in between on the center.

Soon, what Cyrus saw is the two images of a woman and a female child. They had a huge smile on their faces and even from Cyrus, he could feel the love of them radiating inside that picture.

"..." Cyrus' hands have tightly held the locket in silence.

I-I killed a man who has family waiting for him from his home... Cyrus bitterly thought to himself, he could not sigh softly but dryly, "This is the consequences of killing someone... No one knew who are waiting for him or her back on their home..." Cyrus muttered in silence as he held the locket for a couple of minutes.

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Seeing their son, the couple stood up and slowly walked towards him. They are also aware of the harsh reality of killing someone, if they had family there will be someone waiting for them to return and it was the source of hatred of someone due to losing their loved ones.

To those lone wolves, despite they had separated from their family, they will be always loved even if years had gone past as they will be always be remembered by their loved ones inside their hearts.

All of this, the harsh reality of killing is that it creates hatred no matter how good your reasons are, human emotions had been always like that...

Tonight, Cyrus had felt that the twenty people that he had killed had given him a huge burden as he feels sorry for them yet they are the ones who did horrible things to people.

*Pat*

Cyrus suddenly felt soft hands touching both of his shoulders as he saw Shane holding both sides of his shoulders.

Shane had temporarily removed her mask, as she looked at Cyrus on his eyes, "Son... The people you had killed; don't let it burdened you down as for there will be always a no good result." Shane softly yet worriedly told Cyrus.

"..."

Hearing this, Cyrus did not speak as he carefully returned the locket on the man's cold hands.

His mother was right, as she has clearly experienced horrible things and she had been aware of the reality of killing at such a young age... However...

Trying to avoid the people that you had killed and its family and let it go easily was easier than done.

"Sigh..."

The feeling of killing someone had made his hands quivered, he did not know why he does not feel regretful as for he did not know if he had killed people back then on his life before he died.

However, the feeling he had was as if something he had gone used to, he just came to get aware of his actions right now, it just made him feel a little horrible.

While looking at the corpse, Cyrus silently yet faintly muttered, "No matter how good your reasons are, how good your intentions and your choice that you had taken in your path to destroy evil, there will be always darkness coming along with you... Mother is my dream of purging the evil and remove its existence was impossible?" Cyrus faintly asked.

Both James and Shane had their eyes widen as they heard this in silence. They never asked so they never knew what their son's dream, but hearing this... The couples are both disappointed as they sighed, as they did not answer his question.

However, James took his mask off and walked three step forward,

"Is that your dream and greatest goal in your life, my son?" James asked.

"Mn..." Cyrus nodded as he turned around to look at his parents; soon, what he had seen was a bitter look on the faces of his parents as they tried to hold their tears back.

"Cyrus... What I can say about your question, is yes... It's impossible… A world without evil is hell, and there will be always Sin even if you tried to remove the sources of evil. Even in peace, there will be always pride, greed, envy, and hatred. The path you will take is pointless, my son. As you will kill people in the name of peace but it creates hatred towards you and harm the people you yearn to protect."

"The more powerful you become, the higher your pride can get, and because of that, it creates envy for your people below you as they look up to you. In this world son, we are all greedy in our hearts, it what makes us drive to move forward just to obtain what we wanted to accomplish in our lives."

"The goal you have will cause the opposite that you had wanted to have, son. That goal creates imbalance and peace is can be done in short term, but not in a long run. If you wished to follow these 'childish' dreams that you wanted to have, then, can you kill me and your mother as for we are the same root of evil?" James bitterly yet coldly explained to his son as he asked.

"I..." Cyrus' eyes contracted as he clearly heard this, the things that James had said echoed in his mind...

"Both I and your mother had killed far too many people than you could ever think of, we had created hatred that could cover the entire skies and space with it. We killed people because we wanted to protect ourselves and obtain peace for only our selfishness, and those people that we had killed had an innocent family, friends, and loved ones behind them... Cyrus, the burden in our shoulders, is heavier than this planet, and that was just to survive as we kill, the hatred of people grew towards us... Now, I want to ask you again. Can you kill me and your mother for the sake of your 'stupid' dreams that you want to take?" James bitterly asked.

Cyrus is a kind person who has a kind heart. However, his kindness is not suitable in this barbaric world, he would not last long if he keeps this kindness that he had, and his parents are aware of this as they thought early on that Cyrus had only placed his kindness to those people who are close to him.

However, after hearing that he wanted to purge and remove the root of evil, they now know that his kindness had taken over his mind that he wanted to take out people's suffering due to his kindness and the only way he could do this is to take out evil itself...

Now, both James and Shane are aware of what their son's greatest flaw…

It was Love.

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"I... I thought it...." Cyrus stuttered as he realized that his dreams are full of flaws, his heart was palpitating as his hands were shaking, "Haha... I don't know what to do now." Cyrus sighed as he was facing an identity crisis.

Seeing her son as weak and pathetic... Shane softly spoke, "Dear, if you are confused and uncertain about your path in this life. The only thing I can help you is to give you an advice."

Cyrus looked at his mother; he knew that the only one who can find his path was only him. His kindness to others are not suitable in this world and because of this, his kindness blocks him taking on the common goals of the people in this world because there are no good goals using only kindness in this wild and barbaric world, because, one would not last to survive in this life.

With a nod of his head, Cyrus agreed to take his mother's advice.

Seeing this, Shane faintly smiled, "To find your greatest goal, you have to have short-term goals... Meet new people and friends, put your goal at them and when you realized something for helping them, you might actually able to find your greatest goal in your life. Also, try not to worry about other people, they have their own lives, and it was for them to solve their own problems..." She explained.

Short-term goals...

Meet new people...

Create friends...

And after that, try to learn everything that I had experienced.

Cyrus had silently recited those words as he kept these words in his heart.

"Okay... Thanks, mother." Cyrus nodded as he faintly smiled. He slowly stood up followed by Shane.

"Son, I guess thinking you as a m.a.t.u.r.e child is not suitable for you yet... You have this uniqueness that I feel whenever I saw you, my dear. It was a feeling of an imm.a.t.u.r.e yet m.a.t.u.r.ed aura; it almost looked like you have a past self that contradicts your current self." Shane sighed as she joked.

However, her words made Cyrus startled deep in his thoughts.

Past self huh... I wonder what personality I had before I died...

Cyrus mused to himself, however, for now, his parents' words made sense to him. I first need to have a short-term goal.

The problem I had currently... Is this cursed tattoo I had.

Cyrus touched his c.h.e.s.t as he tightly clutched hands into a fist.

I need to find an answer what is this tattoo and I want to know its secrets... However, currently, I do not know where to find these answers.

I don't need to change who am I, as for I can't change myself by doing it myself, I can change if the course of my life had change that forced me to change without knowing.

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As Cyrus clutched his hands on his c.h.e.s.t, he knew at this moment of his life. He had to find the answers that he had been finding in this life he had... I will ask Lily, Indra and if possible, Hephaestus about these secrets and the facts about this tattoo I had.

I want to know it's purpose for why I have to suffer from it because I refuse to believe that this yin-yang tattoo is cursed when it tried to help me, not only that, the spirits inside had made Indra convince to become my supreme elemental spirit.

If this is cursed, then, long before, it shouldn't have prevented me from getting crippled.

But for now, I'll solve these problems I had in the future and gather information for now, before doing anything recklessly...

With that, Cyrus' eyes had once again had brightness within, he couldn't and he shouldn't be depressed if he failed to find the correct path he should take, his life is still long and young, and he will meet people that could alter his life and most of all, there will be always a correct time when his fate had given him something for him to take to find his goal on his life.