Chapter 353 - 353. The realization and atonement

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Out many creatures, small wiggly worms came out and started connecting to the body of the creature until it looked just like that creature she saw on Talak plane.

''This is actually our true form. If you see a big worm... That is only our basic form not main. The big worm is calm and mostly dumb. But at the same time lives comfortably and never attacks anyone. We were like that as well, but the more we were attacked them more babies were born with fear that gave birth to aggression and new form. Evolution. You humans call it evolution.''

''I heard the story. But why did none of you ever asked for help when you came out dark realm?''

''At that time it was a great war. Who would have believed us? And sorry, but your realm is using the different form to speak to others. We didn't want to look like humans and wanted to have our own form. But after few of higher beings thought we were dangerous they started rotting us out even tho all we wanted is only one world just for us where we could calmly live. We had no other option than to escape to the millions of worlds your Grounding Fairies made. After that many of my kind became dumb and dangerous...''

While it spoke it would occasionally move one of its six arms but never even one of the worms tried to jump onto her body. Strange, why did those before?

''In this world, except you, are there others form your kind?''

''Not that I know, why?''

''Then tell me, why did you come to attack me and my home?''

''I got called as one of my babies called for help. It said someone is mass murdering us. I just... wait, you said to attack your home?''

Kendra chuckled. ''Tell me, when you contact your kind and your babies, they have the same voice, same actions and everything else same, right?''

''Of course, we are all big family.''

Kendra suddenly turned her head and saw a woman standing in the crowd on the blood-red pillow and smiled at her. ''Tell me something else. If one of your people is using you to destroy this world, how would you feel?''

''Betrayed. Unhappy. No, I would get furious. But our kind doesn't have such emotions.''

''But their bodies have. Usually, they are how their first body is. You went into saint animal of this world and healed it from injuries, didn't you?''

The saint animal came closer and nudged the strange creature with her wing. ''Thank you. After I got hurt by the creatures of this plane you arrived and healed me. Thank you so much.''

Kendra saw the woman's face becoming hateful and her eyes turning dark.

''That woman...'' The holly animal and the creature looked at the woman she was pointing at. ''that woman is another of your kind and became jealous of you as you lived good. So it started destroying everything you build up. You gave these humans powers, didn't you?''

The creature chuckled. ''Yes. When I arrived these people had only small powers and didn't know what to do with it. I knew that sacred animal would need a long, long time to heal so I sent one of my worms into one of the humans and gave it the knowledge that taught others.''

''Discaraceful!!!'' The woman screeched and pointed at the creature. ''So disgraceful. They are our food! How can you teach them to become so powerful? Why, why?!!!''

The creature waited that the woman stops talking. "You forgot."

The woman spat towards the creature and few of worms wiggled inside that soon died. she didn't even bat her eyes at their passing making the creature roar.

"You are killing your own offspring! How can you? They are part of you, your soup and your body. humans have eyes, ears, mouth and do many body parts and when even one nail is missing they feel incomplete. Killing babies is like cutting your toes. You idiot!"

The woman chuckled. "You have only a few hundred worms so you feel pain losing them, but I consist of hundreds of thousands of them. Few die here and there and its no loss."

Kendra started laughing making both creatures look at her with astonishment. "Stupid..."

The woman looked at her with hatred in her eyes. With low growling voice, she asked. "Who are you calling stupid."

Kendra suddenly stopped laughing and from cheerful child became scarily ice cold while talking with a strange voice. "You both are stupid. One for trusting his own kind that changed and the other, who is you."

Actually their conversation was heard by everything and they saw that three of them were strangely surrounded by something that looks like a shield, but from inside the two creatures couldn't see.

Kendra slowly floated in front of the woman and picked up the few worms with her hand then with sigh incarnated them right there. "Your babies really have bad luck having you as their main body. You hate everything. Including yourself."

Looking slowly disappearing creatures the woman just shrugged while Kendra stared at her. "Tell me, you have a bunch of them like humans gave hunch of hair. But the difference between these two is that after you cut hair it will grow back if you kill a bunch of worms it like cutting your arm or leg. Now, what happens then? You have many worms bit they don't even have a strong connection to you."

She blew away the ashes of her hand and looked at slowly floating particles. "Your body is made out of power that is turned into a simple worm form. But the more you stretch the energy, the harder is it to control. And the less you notice your mistake. Tell me, if I asked you to gather your original form, would it be this stable as his?"

The woman looked at the creature than at Kendra with despise. "As it matters? You will die, all of you will die."

Kendra looked at her cutely and chuckled. "What about me?"

With a growl, the woman spoke. "You will be the first to die. I hate pretty things especially if they don't belong to me."

Strangely as soon she finished woman rose her hand to grab Kendra but her hand just bounced at the invisible shield. 

With a roar, she jumped at Kendra and tried to grab her with both hands but bounced back. What everyone could see is every time she would attack Kendra few of her worms would crawl out some of the creature's and fie while the creatures would run away.

In her blind rage, she didn't realize that her army became less and less until just a few next to her were left. Suddenly a painful scream escaped the woman's lips. 

With scared eyes, she turned her head around and saw just a few people standing around like puppets. 

"How is this possible?" She stared at the few people that just stood there, unmoving. "Why do they not listen to my commands?" 

The other creature slowly came closer and just made one strange sound. The few people turned their heads and walked towards him then stopped and few worms inside climbed out and jumped at the creature's body readily, like seeking for protection. 

The woman shook and suddenly more and more of the worms started coming out her ears, eyes, nose even mouth, making her mute. 

All she could do is shake until one last worm came out, screeched and jumped off her body like a passenger from sinking boat.

Like a lost vehicle in the storm, the woman shook and suddenly it all stopped. With pure rage and hatred, she stared at the creature nature that slowly walked away.

"You came to this world and started helping them. But who helped us? No one. What is wrong with using these creatures as food for our own babies, for our selves? Why are you so conceited?" She wanted to move but realized she couldn't move.

"Let me go. Uncle, please. Uncle help me. Just one more time, help me." A young voice could be heard from the woman's mouth.

She could see Master Toma floating in his fan. Kendra waved her hand and his words could be heard.

"My niece, my beloved Mak died many years ago. The woman that you are now is not who you were when you were just little happy child. I don't know when it started. You deteriorated. Did you change because the creature in you or did creature change because of your own messy soul? Who knows. But you are no more the one I cherished as my own blood."

He looked at Kendra that nodded and slowly floated down. "To stop this mess and end this painful circle of fate, I will personally destroy you. Of course, with Goddess Kaia help."

He knew he was not powerful enough to kill this creature alone. She flicked her finger and in old language started summoning trigrams. 

"What are you doing?" Fear could be seen on her face and suddenly everyone realized why this child made such a shield. Since she stopped shield immense power started emanating from her body and suddenly she clapped her hand's strange light pearl appeared.

The pearl grew big and suddenly enveloped the woman inside. In pearl, woman floated again freely and looked at Kendra and Master Toma in fear. "I am scared."

Master Toma pressed his hands onto the bubble and started crying. "It's my fault. Sorry child. Close your eyes soon everything will stop. All the bad emotions and pain as well. Goddess Kaia, can her death be a bit less painful. That is my only wish, please."

Seeing him cry deeply from inside Kendra nodded but stopped as Man pressed her hands on the same spot where he was and smiled.

"Uncle, the creature let me speak. Don't be so hard on yourself. I lived the most wonderful childhood any mortal could have. So know that we both, the creature and I know we did wrong. It knows it is wrong, and I know I could have stopped it, but I didn't. So stop being in pain. Keep the picture of the little girl with a happy smile and flowers in her hands, like the memory in your head." 

She then turned her head towards Kendra and smiled. "Thank you for stopping me, we both lost a sense of the fine line what is right and what wrong. We crossed that long ago, and neither one of us noticed. But there is one more thing you need to know..."

Her face distorted as she argued inside. "...no, we must repent. They need to know it. Your friend as it seems doesn't know about it, as it was enclosed in a holy animal body. He could feel the creatures in this world and a few of his friends, but not everyone. They need to know. We both owe them that much."

Everyone could see out her back two tentacles coming out. The woman looked at her uncle and pointed at tentacles. "Uncle listen well. It is important... To speak to you I had to fight this consciousness. Now my powers are waning as he lost most of his powers. He doesn't have much time to speak so I will give him left of my soul to let him go on as long as possible. Thank you for your love uncle. Thank you and goodbye."

She smiled one more time and gently closed her eyes as two more tears dropped out her eyes as her body slumped to the floor.

He looked at Kendra and she sighed. "She really connected her soul as a power source for this creature. Let it speak, font waste her last atonement."

He turned his head and looked with blood-red eyes at the creature that slowly left his nieces body and showed its real form while the woman's body slowly started turning into specs of dust and disappearing.

''This time, you really died. At least the death was not so painful for you... my child.'' His words were filled with so much love and pain that every cultivator could feel it. And they mourned with him...