7 The love of a mother
In the middle of the night, when Mormo was about to stop running for a little bit, he heard a sharp scream. He dropped the huge boulder to the floor and started to dash to the location he heard this scream coming from. Partly because of some "earthly instinct" and partly because he was trying to find an opportunity to test his strength.
A little boy was running, he looked hysterical, afraid out of his mind. Mormo could see that 6 big creatures like wolfs were chasing after him. The only difference between them and earthly wolves was that from their joints long and sharp bones were growing.
Mormo looked at this scene with a cold face, he came to look but he never thought about helping without any reason.
The wolves managed to cycle the little boy, they started to play with him. They bit his flesh over and over again playfully.
The same as this world they were disgusting, enjoying the misery of others.
While watching this kid being toyed Mormo fell into deep thoughts, this world had a bunch of rules that depended only on luck. If god recognized you, you may be considered valuable, and you can demand respect. If not, you are nothing. Even if you are recognized by a god, you can't choose your own power but only wish that you would like it.
What a shitty world I was reborn into!
As he looked at this kid, he could tell that he is nameless, approximately 7 years old, without any essence, and can only be a slave. How did he even manage to live till now? In Mormo's clan, he would be dead long ago.
This kid was afraid, but he didn't cry, he bit his lips and closed his eyes, he understood his state and knew that he couldn't live past this day. Mormo could see his own experience in this world through this kid's state, he felt very sorry for him.
Then outside of anything he believed in, Mormo vanished and appeared near one of the wolves. He didn't think much and just kicked the wolf as strong as he could. When his leg hit the wolf, it was sent flying to the sky. Afraid that it wasn't enough, he jumped into the air and hold with his two hands two random exposed bones. He wasn't a skillful fighter, so he didn't think about their sharpness and got cut by them. Still, he had so much adrenaline that he didn't really care. He just made his grip on the bones stronger and then kicked the wolf again in the air while keeping his grip on the bones.
When the kick landed, his hands got hurt and he let the wolf go while his hands bleed nonstop.
He cycled his essence inside his body as fast as he could while making the essence from outside fly near his wounds, which made the healing process visible.
While he was falling from the air three wolfs jumped and started to swing around themselves.
With these sharp and exposed bones, they looked like a meat grinder that flew over to his location.
As he fell to the ground, he jumped to the side. Unfortunately for him, the wolves didn't collide, but just flew near each other and then changed their direction to Mormo again.
Mormo was as fast as a car, but the wolves probably hunted like that for their whole life. It was hard for him to evade them, and as time goes more and more wounds could be seen on him. His healing process couldn't match up with the rate wounds appeared on his body. He even started to feel his essence escapes his body, which made his healing process slower. If too much essence escapes his body, he wouldn't be able to sustain his muscles!
Under this situation, Mormo tried to keep his cool as much as he could, and then it hit him.
A small smile appeared on his face as he punched a nearby tree. Half of the tree disconnected from its roots. Mormo took it and threw it into the wolfs. When the wolves saw it, they merged together into a deadly meat grinder. When they hit the tree, they broke it apart, but stopped in the air, when that happened Mormo just appeared behind one of the wolfs and dropped a huge boulder into him.
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
The poor wolf was crushed to death between the earth and the boulder.
The other wolves stopped. They glared at Mormo for the longest moment of his life.
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Then they turned around and run away, just like that.
Mormo took a deep breath and tried to locate the essence that left him. It was much stronger than normal essence, it took him to develop it for 5 years.
He couldn't find it anywhere. He could just collect new particles and develop them again and hope that it will not take as much time to develop them to the same level as the previous one.
He walked slowly to the kid who looked at him with big round eyes.
"Please don't kill me, I will do anything. I was hiding here for the past 3 years, I can do nothing to hurt you, and as you can see, I have no backing, please spare me", the kid said while bowing to Mormo.
Mormo almost didn't talk to anyone in this life, so he wasn't willing to leave this boy alone so quickly.
"Why are you here anyway?" he asked the kid.
"I run away from home, in the big cities they let all the commoners who aren't part of any clan test themselves, if they could not collect any essence they will die on the spot. My mother and father knew I had no recognition, so they told me to run until they managed to conquer the sixth god level. Then they could ask the city lord to keep me alive as a slave. Until then, they didn't have the right".
"Your parents didn't abandon you? It's kind of unique in this world" Mormo said.
"Yes", the kid agreed happily, "My parents are the best".
Mormo looked at him and said, "Follow me".
They walk inside the dark forest for 3 hours. Mormo showed the kid his cave and told him that he could live there for the time being. He didn't have any good reason to do so, maybe he was just too lonely.
Time passed quickly, they turned into friends relatively fast. Mormo tried to insert essence into this kid's body. It took one year, but eventually, he managed to force some essence to stay in the kid's body, but after only 1 week it left on its own. During this time, he also managed to restore his essence power.
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"Mormo you are always traveling outside, you are almost never staying at home these days, I will not permit it anymore! What are you doing there anyway???!!!" Opal asked Mormo again.
Mormo looked at Opal with a cool expression and said "Mother, I love nature, I always feel like I'm one with it. I dislike the people in this clan, and I don't want to have any interaction with them".
"Opal you are too soft with him. Your status now is different, you must educate him properly! He is not the same boy, he is the son of the future chief. I even got him a respectful girl to marry. He may have a great future, but he is too disrespectful to his mother. He never even looked at his other brothers, you are spoiling him too much! You must steel yourself for his own good and teach him his lessons".
Opal hesitated, she looked at Mormo and with a resolved face she walked to him. She used her control over him, he couldn't move at all. A little panic could be seen on Mormo's face. He was afraid, really afraid.
Opal stood over him. As her husband whispered to her, she pulled his pants off and put Mormo on her legs, she lifted her hand and then drop it out into his butt. An extreme pain filled her mind. She was shocked at how powerful his skin is. Her mind was already set as she used her god power which was, thanks to a lot of treasures, already at level 7. The next flick into Mormo's butt made a strong sound Assaf was dumbstruck, isn't his skin a little bit too strong?
A sharp shout could be heard from Mormo's mouth, he intentionally screamed to make his mother stop. How could Assaf not understand, of course, he pointed it out. Opal firmed her mind and started to flick his butt with a lot of power. Power as strong as the second god level with her white recognition. It was a truly fearful power for him.
Mormo started to shout for real at some point, but Assaf kept telling her that he was just making it up. At this point, Opal believed completely in Assaf and kept hitting Mormo. As Mormo raised his head, he could see the ridiculed smile his father wore.
Opal harmed her child for the first time in her life. She was believing that she is doing it for him, to protect him as Assaf told her.
She stopped only when she saw blood on his skin which made her terrified. She lifted her control over him, and he stood and walked out of the room without looking at her or saying anything.
"Stop now!" she screamed at him, his two brothers were long ago watching the "fun".
Assaf put a serious face and went to Mormo to lock him in place with his essence.
"Mormo, you are under house arrest", he said as he lifted Mormo into the air, then dropped him into the dungeon of the house.
Not long-time passed before his mother went inside.
Mormo couldn't move, he was under her absolute control.
"Look at me", she told him quietly, but Mormo didn't seem like he can hear her.
"I TOLD YOU TO LOOK AT ME!!!!!!" she screamed at him.
Silence, dead silence.
"Mormo, please, look at me".
He still looked at the floor.
"You rarely talked to me these past few months, you are always running from home into the forest. Don't you understand I can't sleep properly at night, your two-other brother always behave like two sweat angels, they always listen to me. You, on the other hand, forgot about me, am I not your mother? You are my child! I have neglected your education for too long! Now, LOOK AT ME!!"
Mormo kept his stare fixed on the floor, Opal couldn't take it and eventually came to him and lifted his head with her hands.
When she looked at him, she saw the coldest face he ever showed her, it was the coldest expression he ever wore in his current life and in his time on earth. Not even the tiniest emotion could be seen on his face. It was the scariest face she ever saw.
Opal took three steps back and fell on the floor trembling. She stopped her control over him. Mormo stood up and walked outside of the house. Of course, Assaf did nothing to stop him. This night Opal cried herself to sleep in Assaf's arms while the other comforted her.
Mormo was too proud for his own good, he could play his role as a weak kid and make his mother forgive him. He just couldn't bring himself to do that, maybe because he really loved her, he felt hurt by her actions. He gave his mother everything, and now she just left him to be with this Assaf who cares only about her power and nothing more. He loved her because of what she was and not because of any benefit, but she still chose Assaf. It was the first time in so long that he couldn't stop himself from crying.
