The deception and the curse

My body began to get up, I could feel my muscles, my veins about to burst out.

Sweats formed all over my body, trying to cool the heat that was producing in me.

I clenched my fists in rage, as the realisation hit me.

How stupid can I be? But there was nothing in it i could do as well.

In this world, a child doesn't awaken a mana core before the age of 10, normally at the age of 10 because the body before that is underdeveloped.

That body cannot handle the mana and can burst out.

People in past has tried to plant a mana core in their child to give them an early advantage, but the result was something they have never expected in their wildest dreams.

They all died.

Am I going to suffer the same fate as them?

This woman, was her intention to kill me from the beginning?

"Huh? I understand why you are being so untrustworthy of me, but you really think I will kill you after waiting for you for thousands of years?"

She sounded sad, but what am I supposed to do? I am in this state because of her.

The pain only got more and more that it became harder for me to keep my eyes open, they had already turned red.

If I was able to look at my stomach right now, I would have found that it had formed a strange pattern right now.

A dark irregular pattern with veins like tentacles around it. It was actually my body trying to reject the core and ghe demonic energy that I had just been injected.

Then suddenly, I felt a gentle touch on my belly and the woman holding me slowly begn to speak.

"A body of a child shouldn't be able to handle the spiritual mana or the demonic mana. When you were about to die, I protected this core of yours and injected this into you when you were getting reborn."

As she began to twirl her fingers on my belly, the pain slowly began to subside and I was able to finally open my eyes.

"It was a risky attempt, I admit that. But i had faith in you, my dear husband. You can win against any adversary you face. So forgive me for this one. I had no other choice that time."

That dark pattern disappeared and I felt that my body has been stabilised. Looking at her calmly explaining, a forgotten feeling was slowly growing inside me. A feeling of longing and loneliness.

I stayed silent, I didn't want to forgive her, but I cannot bring myself to blame her either.

This core would have disappeared with my death that time, so in a sense it's good for me, but why does it matter if I have this core if I can't gather mana in it?

"You can do that now, you won't feel the same pain as before now."

She said again without me asking anything, this really made me wonder...

"Are you reading my thoughts?"

"I am a goddess, it's not that hard for me to read the thoughts of a newborn child especially when they have no resistance to it."

That's a hassle.

"Well, if it's uncomfortable for you then... just bear with it, I am not going to stop."

She looked sideways, with a grumpy pout on her face.

'Especially when so many woman are eyeing on him... hmph, eye candy.'

Well, i can't do anything against it now, so let's just let it be.

But there's something I have to ask her.

"Hey, why did you protect this core? I would have awakened it when I reached the age, there was no point in doing so."

She stayed silent for a while, answer after a thoughtful consideration, she hummed and said,

"Well, do you remember when you stepped on the stairs of ascension? You must have felt something, right?"

During my ascension?

I remember feeling very powerful presences, not just of one but many. They all stared down at me, suffocating me and the only intention I felt from those stares was that they needed me dead.

"Exactly." She chimmed in with a good nodd of her head.

It's annoying when I know someone is blatantly reading my thoughts.

"Those were the gods from heaven. Some of them are even worshipped here on this planet."

But why would they want me dead? I don't remember ever doing something against them, i might have killed a few saints or saintessess though.

"Well, that wasn't it. It was their hatred from long ago."

And she spoke again. Maybe it's better if I don't open my mouth at all. But...

From long ago?

"Yep, from a very very long ago. You were quite the headache back then for them, dear husband." She added, feeling proud of what she said.

Is she sick or something?

"I am not. That time, the whole world was in war, every race participated in that, it was the war to gain supremacy."

Don't tell its that cliche trope again? Those from the novels?

A cold ass mc fights against all of his enemies and wins over them, and then attains supremacy.

"Well, it wasn't like that at all. You were the weakest then. And also you were born without a core."

The fuck?

"Yep, but still. You managed to pull feats that nobody did. A demon born without a core, it was shameful. I was a demon queen at that time and I took you in as my advisor because of your brains. But you pervert... hmph, let's not delve too much into it, I do not know what you did at that time, after many years of that war, it ended abruptly, before that you captured me here, so I don't even know how and what you had done. The anger and rage from that time must be driving them crazy till now."

'A tactic of deception, something that you taught me. I will tell you the whole truth later, but bear with this for now, dear. What you couldn't do before, i will make sure it happens this time.'

Hmph, so a past self of me, huh? Well, after fighting such a war and ending up with nothing... anyone would be furious to see that.

"Exactly and that still hasn't died till now. So they placed a curse on you."

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