Chapter 224 - 224.Palcca's story

Isaa stared at him with disdain as he suddenly stepped back from them. ''Are you really God of Strenght?''

He nodded repeatedly that Kendra just had to stop him. ''Fine, fine. As you are somewhat stronger than we are, you need to use your body power to deal with this field. You will gather the pods on this site and the two of us going that side. Do not dare ripping whole plants from the ground. They give pods two times. If we make sign we could come back in about moth and the one more time.''

She bowed slowly and started plucking the pea pods one by one with a swift motion, but without ripping the plant out. Of course, his first couple times he failed, but the more he did, the faster he became. The bag of pea pods was filled and suddenly something magical happened.

A small cloud floated down and went close to Kendra. ''Palcca, could you please put the pea bag here and let us gather more.'' She was actually planing anyway to gather wild plants and check surroundings. This was something amazing.

The pea pods were actually so big that she could comfortably pluck it one by one. Soon the whole mountain of peas appeared on the small cloud and he flew away as they continued to pluck. They needed a whole day to pluck the field and the Cloudy actually went back and forth many times. 

On the end, just before sunset, they stopped. Kendra wrote on the bark of one tree that they needed one more sleeping bag and one more tent so the Cloudy brought that for Pallca. He was curious and excited as well. 

When he was a child he was seen as prodigy so all he did was cultivate and cultivate. Luckily his family let him go into nature to cultivate as well so he knew different kinds of cultivation methods. But he never stayed outside just for fun. but it seems these two enjoyed having fun like this.

Isaa could see his excitement and chuckled. ''Next few years we will stay here. After finishing the task we plan to travel this world by foot. There are no dangerous animals here. No, we are dangerous animals here. So the only thing we should fear is other people. If you want, you can come with us.''

The two started calmly talking about the cultivation and methods while Kendra silently sat there and listened. Isaa grew up so much that she felt a bit strange. Did she skip her childhood? She felt sorry for Isaa. At that time she didn't even think when she made Isaa cultivate for a couple of years. That child chose to grow up to be able to be by her side, but she chose shamelessly to stay a child. 

There must be a change. Somehow she knew that she couldn't grow up in this world, but when she goes back she wants to stand by Isaa's side and walk together. Just like in old times. Now it felt like she was her mother and she was a child. That feeling didn't fit with their situation at all, and she felt uncomfortable all over the body.

But then and idea bloomed in her mind. What if...?

Isaa could feel gloomy and dark feeling that Kendra had around herself, slowly dissipate and with relief she could see that her face became relaxed. In her mind, Kendra was always the big sister, the strong one. No matter the small body or not. But if she knew that Kendra gnawed in her heart on such ridiculous bone for so long she would have laughed.

''Isaa, you stay here with Palcca, I will be right back. Cloudy will help me with something.'' She was feeling too excited to stay calm and wait. ''Help me put the rest of the bags on Cloudy.''

The two hurried to do that and with a huge smile on face and naughty wink at Isaa she flew away.

Palcca shook his head. ''No matter how much I look at it, this way of flying no one ever used. This child really has some ideas.''

Isaa chuckled. Indeed Kendra had many ideas, but better not everyone should know about it. From sides, she looked at his body and just shook her head. 

''Take off that disguise, it is annoying. I will have to look at you the whole time when we are in the village. Right now just take your original form. Tell me more about your world and your people.'' She was curious.

''My people come from a clan of woodworkers. Just simple people. But when they found out that I am cultivator by birth whole clan worked itself to death to make the money for me to grow steady my powers.'' With a deep sigh, he sat down on the floor and he stared at the crackling fire. ''From all the children in our family, just I had the power. Many decades later I came to the realization of how much they gave up just to make me grow. Unfortunately, I grow up pampered until the end so I felt that is how it should be. But when my family started getting sick and dying because malnutrition and I still stayed cold, they chose to kick me into the world and asked me to live by myself.''

Isaa shook her head. ''You leached on your family in your impertinence?''

He nodded. ''After I was kicked out one large cultivation group took me in and I thought I could continue just living as before. But soon I realized something big. Between them, I was just a small cultivator and as a beginner, I had to work all the od jobs no one wanted. Clean, wash, tend the precious herbs. After just one year in that place, I completely lost wish to become a cultivator. But when the one year passed and the head came to me to give me the spirit crystals as my payment I felt so happy. The listed just a moment as he told me that I am the laziest apprentice he ever had and they can't keep me. If I do not change my mind soon, they will kick me out.''

Isaa could literally imagine him working only halfheartedly and lasing around whenever he could. ''You probably just got used to sit around and do nothing. That I not the way for true cultivation. Oh well, continue, please. I wish to know how you changed.''

''After I came back and just used the power crystals for my own needs I still felt that I was good enough. But I choose to work harder. I would wake up early in the morning, rush to tend herbs, then would scrub al the halls and rooms by midday and then would tend the animals until evening. This was my day by day doing. I thought if they asked me to change I will just work harder. But when again another year came and I met the gain head of a clan that just stuffed bit more crystals in my hand with a long sigh. You still don't know what you are doing wrong? Then stay and do what you are doing forever. Those powers in you are just wasted on someone like this.'' He blinked ta the fire and just poked it with the stick making few sparkles fly around.

Now was Isaa more curious. ''They gave me few days off as I worked hard without one day off whole two years. I planned to use this time the spirit crystals for my family as I realized that they had not much energy in the first place. So I packed my stuff and went back home. But when I got there only few of my clans were still alive. When I asked what happened they chose not to tell me and just asked me to go back to the sect I joined.''

''As stubborn as you are, you probably just left, right?'' He just nodded.

''The biggest mistake I made. I wanted that time to see the close town and used the rest of the stones for...'' He glanced at her and flushed red. ''... to have fun. Anyway. When I was playing around some people sat next door and talked about something that made me forget fun. They were talking bout my family that had cultivator in their family, but that cultivator was so selfish that he let the whole clan die. They couldn't understand. How could such a person even be called a cultivator? What is the point of cultivation if you don't use the powers. Then one of the men sighed and shook his head. He told everyone that the last of that man's clan will be taken in as servants just like rets of the family did. To survive and make that cultivator grow, they even sold themselves into slavery, but he didn't even appreciate it. Not worthy of being cultivator at all. Many dirty remarks and curses flew towards me and at that time I just felt it somehow uncomfortable. To ease my mind I went back to my clan and wanted to give the last bits of the spirit stones as they are in the mortal world worth riches when I found a devastated house and emptiness. Nothing was there. The house was burned to the ground. I couldn't find even one of my clan's people.''

Isaa just waited that he continues but she could see him sighing so she wrinkled her eyebrows. ''Don't tell me you didn't go to find them?''

He shook his head and hit the fire with a stick making whole fire burn higher and sparkles fly around, making his clothes burn here and there. But he couldn't see anything as he was in deep thought.

''I went back to the sect and continued my work, day by day, month by month. One day one young woman came to me while I was scrubbing the floors and threw the dirty water over my head. But as she was one of the seniors I couldn't even fight her. She was much stronger than I was. So from that day one, my days of simple scrubbing and working became horribly bad. Whenever she would finish her classes or would come back from her cultivation room, she would come and for days sometimes weeks would make my life harder. After months of torture, I couldn't stop myself to snap at her and ask her why. She just laughed. Do you know what she said to me?'' He looked ta her and wanted to continue when he heard her answer directly.

''She said that you are the biggest sc.u.mbag she ever met and you don't deserve anyway anything else than to work the lowest job for the rest of your life,'' Isaa said with a shrug while he stared at her with big eyes.

''Wow, almost. She said I was not worthy even being in that cultivation group as a slave. Calling myself a cultivator and not cultivating my mind is something that made her feel dirty. She even asked the head to strop me o my cultivation but he still had hope that I would change. But as time passed and years as well, I not only didn't change, I started resenting him and her. No matter how much she tried to explain to me how wrong I was for living the way I lived, I just ignored it. Stubbornly. After a while, she gave up completely even talking to me. New apprentices came to the sect and went. Five years after I became apprentice the head came to me and just asked me to leave the sect. He just couldn't look at me anymore.'' He chuckled self-deprecating thinking what happened next.

''After leaving I started realizing how wrong I was after meeting one old man. He was pulling a big log and looked at me with his half-blind eyes. He didn't recognize me but I did recognize him. It was my granduncle. He sold himself for me just like the rest of the family. The family that bought him, used him as a mule to work like an animal. Some things became clear somehow. I sat in mid of the forest and suddenly remembered this old man always coming to my cultivation room and bringing me my favorite candies to eat. I hated his rough hands to touch my face so he just would look at me with big smiles and leave after I send him away. Now he was there, almost broken under the huge tree. The STrange feeling started appearing in my heart. I had no idea what it was but I felt quite discomfort seeing him like that. I took the log from him on one shoulder, him on the other shoulder and asked him where we are going. After going to that place and seeing some of my family members working hard jobs I felt so angry that I almost destroyed the whole residence of those people. On the end, under my family's begging, I let those people live, gave them small spirit stone as payment for my family members and took them back home.''

With his own hand, Palcca builds up everything back as it was in his mind as before. Maybe even better and then started buying off the rest of the family. In the end, most of his family members he found except his own little sister that went missing many years ago. So after giving them the spirit stones and asking them for forgiveness, he went into the world to look for her. 

Isaa sat down next to him and shook her head. ''You learned about human feelings late. But better late than never. I and Kendra met so many people that never wanted to change, ever. I think if we met you in your days in the sect we would probably do everything to make your life hard, do you know why?''

He shook his head. Isaa poked his head. ''You still have no idea why the sect head kicked you out?''

He blinked at her and shook his head again. ''I worked so much that I have no idea why...''

Isaa had a sudden urge to flip him over and start spanking him. This is the first time in her life that she wanted to spank someone so badly. Seeing her fierce expression he winced. ''What?''

''Idiot. He wanted you to cultivate and use your powers, not your muscles to do those works. Like that, you could get used to the process of using the powers and could even stabilize your base. But have you cultivated in those years ever your powers?'' She couldn't handle the dumb expression on his face, does she has to explain everything to him?

Sudden realization appeared on his face and he suddenly hit his head, making even angry Isaa stunned. ''I was so dumb.''

''But how did you even grow your powers and did you find your sister?'' She was now curious how he became so strong even after these things happened.

''I searched for her almost for two decades and when I realized that no matter how much I search I couldn't find her, I went back home and explain my clan. They at the end gave up on the search as well and I started cultivating furiously. I found out that in the nearby cave we had a small spirit vein. But a steady one. I asked my family members to keep quiet about it and close the door to the cave. As a cultivator, I didn't have to eat, drink or anything else. So for years to come, I just stayed inside and cultivated. Then one day when I felt that I am almost on breach of my top cultivation and went out, I found out that most of my family members were dead and those that were born afterward were old people themselves. I used my powers to find precious metals and stones so the rest of the family can live comfortably for years to come and after that, I ascended. But when I came to ascension I met the woman again and she just ignored my existence. But I had no time to think about her. I wanted to become stronger and stronger. And since then I never met neither her or anyone else from my world. I found out much later that my country became prosperous, my clan had more cultivators so I planned to go back and help them. But my head of that sect I cultivated stopped me and promised me he will send someone to help my family members. My job is to ascend to become a deity and help guild members. At that time I felt it was right. Soon afterward I ascended and the warrior clan became big under my help.'' He stopped talking a sit was the end of it making Isaa feel angry again. 

He could feel his anger and just stared at her. ''Why are you so angry, I saved my family, got their blessings, became high cultivator, deity, senior God and I am about to go to the highest regions. Why do I feel like I did something wrong again?''

''Because you are an idiot. Even I could see that. I think I need to teach you many things or you can forget your ascension. Or should I teach you if you ascend? Does God have to be so emotionless to become God? That can't be right. The two of us ascended just fine. And I am sure we can ascend to deities and even to the highest echelon with our set of mind. I still have no idea how you could become God with your mind. I really have no idea.'' All she thought she knew before fell into water only because of him. the only thing that held her mind properly was the belief in Knedrs teachings.

''Luckily, oh I am so happy, that luckily I met my Kendra. Who knows what would I have become if I didn't.'' A smile spread on her face while she stared at the twinkling stars. 

Kendra, thank you for making me into a person. Sitting next to someone so powerful she felt absolutely no fear, as he was so little next to her big sister. Yes, God's should have consciousness, emotions, feelings, sympathy, empathy, but being stone hearted is not really God's real side. 

To become God, you need to use everything you learned before. Everything...