15 Zena Before
"ZENA" Zena name rings in Belus head, thunderclapping his very soul.
Belus feels his sons soul in the soul orb, a soul that he is very familiar with as his mind digests his memories from the past.
"Why is Zena here?" Belus asks while choking on his voice as tears start to form while speaking.
"No need to ask any questions to me, you will find out when you see the memories of the soul orb that has recorded." Leviant Quin said calmly.
Belus looks at the soul orb on his hands, he couldn't help but start shaking and shivering as he held onto the soul orb.
A spell formation technique flashes in Belus mind, the formation is called Soul Trobe. The Soul Trobe technique allows one to move their consciousness to the soul orb to see the last moments of a persons death. Belus seeing that this technique popping up in his mind couldn't help but even be more thankful towards Leviant Quin. Belus knows that this isn't from his memories and that they are from the memories that Leviant Quin imparted to him.
"Thank you again, if it wasn't for you i wouldn't be able to see how my child died" Belus said tearfully as he looked at Leviant Quin.
"Don't worry child, the techniques that you can master will flash before your eyes as you get stronger alowing you to comperhend more of my memories. The Soul Trobe technique isn't that bad just follow it exactly how it showed you, you should be able to master a simple technique like this. The only downfall to this technique is that your body will be very vulnerable as your consciousness goes inside the soul orb so if someone wished to kill you they can kill you simply with a butter knife. Lucky for you, you are here with me so no one will be able to take advantage of you while you are in your most vulnerable state." Leviant Quin said explaining the effects of the techniques as he was able to guess why Belus thanked him again.
"Please watch over me i want to see every second of Zena life and death, i dont want to miss a single second of it, i only blame myself for not being able to protect him, its all my fault that he got into this mess, its my fault for being a cripple. Leviant Quin thank you again for all the help and generosity you have shown me, ill be leaving my life in your hands" Belus said as he is looking at the soul orb in his hands.
Belus casts the Soul Trobe technique exactly the same way it was shown in his mind, he hoped he will be successful moving his consciousness towards the soul orb that is in his hand.
"Success" Belus consciousness moves into the soul orb, he enters a world that is very familiar to him, the world where he previously was before he had died.
Belus is able to see everything from the perspective of Zena, what he hears what he sees. He sees a familiar scene from the perspective of Zena, when he was on the roof top talking with his son, this was five days before the war had started. Belus still remmbers the conversation clearly, he feels a pain in his heart as he listens to the conversation they have had.
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"Daddy what are stars?" Zena asked Belus while laying down on the roof top.
"Stars, well they are the creations of the element God's, it's meant to illuminate the dark night" Belus replied smiling at Zena.
"Daddy, i just want to be like you when i grow up" Zena said seriously.
"Be like me?, no don't try to be like me, you wouldn't understand even if i told you being like me is not the wisest of decisions, i only hope for you to have affinity towards magic like your older brother. What father doesn't wish to see their son surpass them, im i right?" Belus said while rubbing Zena head like a child.
"But daddy i admire you and only you" Zena said saddened.
"I never said you couldn't admire me, i said dont be like me when you grow up it's just not good ok Zena" Belus said.
"Daddy, carry me im sleepy"
"No you aren't a baby anymore you should start becoming a man and do things yourself"
"Please daddy please" Zena said pouting to Belus.
Belus rolls his eyes as he sees Zena pouting adorably to him "ok"
Belus carrys Zena off the roof, he heads to Zena room to put him in bed.
"Daddy i knew you are always the best" Zena said smilingly when Belus tucked him in bed.
Belus gets up smiles at his adorable son he steps out to leave.
"Daddy, I love you" Zena said as Belus is leaving the room.
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"Your father is the trash of society you should just drop out of school you son of a cripple"
"Your father is a cripple you should just go die"
"Don't come near my kids you might infect them with somthing that your father has."
"He has the blood of a cripple running through his veins you shouldn't hang out with him"
"Get away from me, all your family is a disgrace to the village"
"Get out of here"
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Belus gets to see how Zena was bullied in school , it was all his fault that Zena was getting bullied in school, strangers would pick on Zena beat him up or shun him from school activities. The teacher's would tell him he has no future.
Belus finally understood the hatred that Kenlus used to have for him. Kenlus would always avoid his dad no matter how loving and caring he was for him, it turned out that if Zena got bullied this much in five days imagine how it was since he has entered school.
Kenlus would have most likely went through the same thing, the hatred in his heart would grow as he got bullied more. After the talent ceremony when everyone in the village found out he has a rank 6 talent people tried to get on his good side. Zena wasn't at the age where he could have his talent tested and for that people didn't know if he was a cripple or not.
Belus found out that the parents of the kids who would attend school with Zena would look at him with mockingly gaze as if looking at dirt, Belus knows that feeling very well as he had gone through the same when he was growing up.
Belus feels what Zena is feeling in his heart no matter how much people put down his father he would always have the same love for him in his heart. Knowing that Zena still had love for him even after everything he has been through Belus gets really touched.
(Sobbing, sniffles) "Im sorry i couldn't be there for you to protect you, im sorry at how incompetent i was, its all my fault Zena that you have to go through all of this only if you didnt have me as your father, your life might have been alot better" Belus thinks to himself as he crys about Zena as he sees what he was going through.
Everything looked fine on the surface he didnt know that things would go this far. The same villagers and students would ignore him all the time, he never felt that his son's were getting bullied in school because of him, if he had known that he would have moved out of the village.
Selins would always heal Zena before Belus got home so he wouldn't know that Zena was getting hurt at school, he felt that he has truly let his family down.
Belus sees everything that Zena went through all the way until the fifth day, the war had started he made Zena and Kenlus pack everything up in a hurry Belus remmbers everything all the way up until the point where the camp was attacked by the cloaked people.
Selins used the transfer stone on both Kenlus and Zena to transfer them when they were sleeping as they were getting attacked by the cloaked people.
Belus sees how Zena woke up in the forest alone and scared.
Belus can hear the thoughts of Zena as he is scared and alone, Zena thought that his parents abandoned him, as kids in school would always tell him how cripple poeple get abandoned and left alone if they dont have any affinity towards magic qi or spiritual qi.
Zena truly thought that was one of those situations where his parents abandoned him, he couldn't help but think these thoughts as he was alone in an unknown forest.
"Mommy, Daddy where are you" Zena shouts at the top of his young lungs in the forest.
Belus couldn't help but start crying to himself more than he already has, seeing how helpless his son is in this situation, being alone calling for him for help, Belus heart starts to tear apart seeing his son in this situation.
Zena sees a red cloaked person aprocaching him.
"Hey you must be lost here, what are you doing in a place like this?" The red cloaked person asked Zena.
Belus sees the red cloaked person from Zena perceptive, fear strikes his heart immediately recognizing the red cloaked person infront of Zena, it was the same person who held Selins down while he was being choked.
Belus takes a real good look at the face of the man who is speaking to Zena, he engraves all of his feature's into his mind as rage starts to build up in his heart.
"Mommy and daddy told me not to talk to strangers" Zena said
"Well where are mommy and daddy" the red cloaked person asked Zena
"I dont know" Zena answered.
Belus feel the doubt in his son's heart as he was asked where his parents where as if he had lost somthing important to him, in Zena mind he was abandoned by his parents and left in the forest.
Belus sees as the red cloaked person catches his son as he was running away from him, he grabs a black pill shoving it down Zena mouth. Belus can feel the struggle his son tried to put up as he was trying to get away from the red cloaked person.
"YOU GET AWAY FROM MY FUCKING SON YOU BASTARD" Belus shouts not knowing that this is the past and nothing can be changed, he started losing his rationale.
Belus can see that Zena is transforming in a demonic being after he consumed the pill he sees his sons hands turning into that of a demonic being.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SON" Belus starts to panic as he feels the heart wrenching pain his son is going through as he is transforming.
Everything went pitch black as Zena lost consciousnesses from the pain of transforming into a demonic being.
Belus nose gets stuffy, he can hardly breath as the rage starts to build up in his heart seeing what his son is going through as Zena lost consciousnesses from the pain of transforming into a demonic being.
"I WILL MAKE SURE YOU ARE DEAD WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU" Belus shouts angrily as he engraves the fearures of the red cloaked person who did this to his son.
Zena wakes up from his unconscious state only to find himself chained down in an unkown room to him. Zena tries to speak yet can not make out the words he wants to, when Zena transformed into a demonic being his vocal muscles have also changed making him incapable of speaking the human language.
Belus looks around from Zena perspective in the unknown room, Belus looks up to only see a man smiling towards him or more like smiling towards Zena.
The man was sitting on the chair had long black hair, looked old aged and had white clothes on.
Belus was looking at the badge the man had on the right side of his shoulder he recognizes that badge from anywhere, it's an elder badge for the temple of Heavens.
"I see you have finally awoken you beast"
