( Max's POV )
Inside the calm and quiet of his underground cell, Max used the Agni-Astra as an oil lamp and read the book of the Primal God Of War in peace.
The first page of the book talked about the pathway of moving beyond tier8 and the mental state of the primal god of war as he began writing this book and Max could feel that his mental state was clearly not as centred as it was supposed to be and he seemed to be very disoriented.
The language he used to write the book was not Bipedal English but rather ancient Draconic, a language Max was fluent in by fate.
The first chapter read -
" I am writing this book so that my successor can avoid making the same mistakes that I have made on my journey up till here.
The perfect warrior, he's waiting for his challenger in the celestial realm. The one that can rise from the mortal universe and be his match, and I intend to be that person.
For my successor to understand the contents of my book, I need them to understand the basic concept that in the universe there is no ' Luck ' and there is no ' Destiny '.
If as a child your favourite toy is a purple ball and it is suddenly snatched from you with years passing and you forgetting about the object.
When it is suddenly reintroduced in your life, you will still feel an attraction towards it even though you don't understand why.
Instinct and intuition are not merely tools of destiny, but are threads of fate that shape one's future.
Currently, we have all forgotten.
We have all been living in a dream that the controlled universe is ' free ' when we are all programmed by it.
Pain, Joy, Suffering-
These are all tools they use to program us and our bloodline.
The sorrow we feel at losing our child, the joy we feel at seeing them born.
Emotions are the tool they created to control us and for one to ascend beyond tier8, one needs to master their emotions.
Only by breaking free of the imprint of the celestials can one become a celestial, but apart from the perfect warrior there has never been a celestial that has been born from mastering their emotion.
They have all taken the second route, the seemingly insane but still easier route of killing a celestial to become a celestial, and it is the same path I'm going to choose to become one.
But if you - my successor and you are reading this book before reaching tier1, then you must go to the caves of fravella, there I've hidden a legacy class that will help you become a master of your emotions as well as the next god of war.
But if you have found this book after, then unfortunately, all I have to share with you is my story, hopefully it helps you understand your own journey to Celestial Hood faster ".
Max read the first page and felt goosebumps run up and down his spine.
This was the first time he had ever read a book that talked about reaching the pinnacle beyond the pinnacle and the method of becoming a celestial, but the other stuff it talked about emotions being a form of control tool that coded genetics, was something that was deeply disturbing to read for Max.
Just thinking about it made Max question if life was even worth living, if every high and every low he felt emotionally was all just a lie, so he closed the book after reading just a single page as he knew he needed to take a rest and build mental fortitude before continuing to page two.
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( Meanwhile Rudra )
Kartikeya was different from Jake and Amy and his talent seemed almost scary to even Rudra.
Although he had not been training the boy since he was too young to be trained, Kartikeya watched his swordsmanship lessons closely and picked up his movements much better than Jake or Amy did even though he was much more clumsy, because of his bones not being fully fused.
When the 3 year old accidentally manifested sword qi, it was at that point that even Rudra had goosebumps on his skin as the attack that Kartikeya launched with his wooden sword was strong enough to slice a cabbage in half from five metres away.
Although not enough to cut through tier0 bone, the boy was 3 and untrained, he wasn't supposed to be this strong, yet his progress from just pure observation was uncanny.
As Rudra looked into his observant blue eyes that looked just like his own, he knew that the little devil was the one who was the sharpest of all his kids and that he needed to shape all that talent properly so that it wouldn't go to waste.
Deciding to include him in the same lessons as the bigger kids, Rudra made a call and started to train him as well much to the dismay of Ruby who protested his decision.
But having spent a few days with the kids now, Rudra was more accustomed to the house and how it worked and there was one thing that he had clear in his mind and that was the fact that the women were raising his kids to be soft.
It wasn't necessarily a bad thing and he had no right to complain since he was never around to raise them before now, but now that he was there, Rudra knew that he could make the lessons more kid friendly and fun, but in the end he needed to raise warriors and not weaklings.
The kids could cry to their mothers if they felt that their father was being too rough, but Rudra knew that someday they had to leave this safe abode and face the actual harsh universe.
Rudra also knew that it was better for them that when that day came they were rough and mentally hard and not easily walked over as there were sure to be thousands of people willing to pounce on that opportunity.
So despite the opposition of Ruby, Rudra's judgement was supreme and he began Kartikeya's combat training as well.