33 Risen#re

When she came to, she was lying on Lirians bed it was a complete mess, the bed had been shredded to pieces and Lirian was watching over her with worried eyes, his body was covered in golden-red blood but the glass shards had all vanished as soon as the tribulation passed.

Lirian grabbed her head and examined her blue eyes, they were trembling wildly like a pond that had a rock suddenly smash into it, "What did you see?" he asked worriedly from her reaction it was not something simple.

As Taliyah sat up, she couldn't find it in herself to feel amused at Lirians actions, he was like the parent getting worried about a child, she leaned over to the side and she felt her stomach turn and as she leaned over acid, food, and bile raced up her throat and spilled all over the floor.

She looked at Lirian weakly and understood what he meant when he said that his memories could drive even gods to madness, she had barely even seen a few minutes and she felt unstable.

"What did you see?" he asked again, this time his voice was gentler and he held her hands tightly.

Taliyah struggled to find her voice for a bit, but she slowly began to describe the events in as much detail as she could handle, she spoke of the battle and the gods she saw do battle and finally, she spoke of the things she had seen Lirian do.

Lirian nodded along and listened to her story, "Those weren't gods," he finally said when she finished, "Gods don't ride the laws, you could say that the laws beg the gods to step on them, it's a world of difference and if you ever see it, you'll be able to tell the difference in a heartbeat."

"What was going on there why were you in such a situation?" she managed to ask.

Lirian stopped to ponder on it for a moment but gave up very quickly, "I honestly can't remember the number of times I've been such a situation is countless."

"You erased an entire star zone in a flash!" Taliyah cried out, how could one possibly forget doing such a thing it was insane.

Lirian sighed, "Forget about it, I've done more than destroy a few star zones in an instant on multiple occasions, but you got lucky mom, if that was an actual battle of gods your mind would have collapsed," he said severely.

"I remember saying that no one is to enter my room until I come out on my own," he spoke with a little anger in his voice, so far, the visions he accidentally shared were still okay.

If it was anyone other than his mom that saw this one they would have died, witnessing all those laws was too much for a mortal and if she was not a half immortal she would have become brain dead from that scene.

"Hey, young man remember who the adult is over here, and if I hadn't come in you would have ended up cultivating, do you even realise what would have happened had you done that?" Taliyah yelled at him as she recovered, 'god my ass', she thought 'no child of mine is going to raise their voice with me.'

Lirian froze up and glanced at her, "You're kidding right!?" he asked in surprise.

Taliyah shook her head, "Just after I entered you started to laugh like a crazy person and you were moving your energy points to begin cultivating, I absorbed the energy before you could but that's when you..." her voice trailed off and she saw Lirian sink into a chair.

"I managed to open my last energy point, but it was the first time I succeeded in doing it while still an ordinary mortal, so I couldn't use my energy to suppress the tribulation, not to mention that I was using external energy to complete opening the energy point," he said thoughtfully.

"At that moment the purity of the energy that was created was so potent that it was more like a drug to me and it made me lose my rationality." he quickly came up with a theory.

To have lost control like that scared even him, if not for the system shocking his mind at the moment before he went out of control, he didn't want to think about what he would have done.

"Thanks, mom," he whispered softly.

She climbed onto her feet, but almost instantly staggered and sunk to her feet, the experience left her drained, Lirian jumped to help as soon as he saw her falling but almost immediately fainted himself.

The cuts were quite deep and there were many he lost a lot of blood during that tribulation but now that it had passed all the wounds healed but that didn't mean that he got his blood back, without the worry his body lost its tension and he passed out on Taliyah's back as he tried to help her up.

She pulled herself up and caught Lirian before he fell to the floor, 'he's still so small," she thought as she lifted him up, 14 years old and he failed to reach that five-foot mark.

She touched his face and rubbed the dried-up blood on his fair skin, it always amazed that such a cute face could get into trouble so often and she still found herself in disbelief that she was raising a god.

His hands were so tiny and his body small, but most of all he always did things to get her attention, 'A god in need of her attention,' it sounded like a joke in her head, over the years Lirian had shown her very little of his past, he tried not to unless she pleaded with him to do it but even so she knew that the only things he showed her were the more pleasant ones, but from her perspective they were miserable, he was always alone.

Alone trying to learn new things, he'd celebrate his successes by himself, he'd pour goblets full of champagne and wine and toast himself until he'd collapse from the alcohol, he'd seen the mortals do it when he spied on them so he copied their ways.

The main thing that he'd do is show her the memories of every time he solved a new impossible question, they were his favourite activity to pass the time, they took long and distracted him for long periods of time but he'd never give up until the answer was found.

He always skipped to the final part and he'd describe the many mistakes he made along the way, until finally he had his eureka moment, that was the part he'd show and excitedly tell her about it.

She could hardly imagine sitting still for an entire century to solve a single riddle of the universe and yet he would sit for tens of thousands of years working on a single problem all by his lonesome self.

No one to speak to, no one to compare his notes with, no one to pat him on the back when his work ended in failure or a little bit of encouragement from a peer, it was just him and his research, truly he was a lonely god.

When her strength returned, she carried him in her arms like she did when he was just a baby, she took a glance around the room and was reminded of his dedication to knowledge, he told her of how he was killed in his fourth life for trying to learn how to read.

It was an ordinary class for children and he hadn't accepted that he couldn't be around others at the time, but he tried his best to avoid people if it was unnecessary so he hid in a tree and listened to an old man lecture a few children and made them draw the letters in the sand, he'd been doing it for weeks and he felt that his work was better the other children's so he tried to show his work to the old man, hoping that he would be willing to make him his student.

But the old man and the students didn't like how good he was so they tried to beat him, and in his rage, he killed all of them, but when the people found out they hunted him for months until he was exhausted and they killed him.

His room was a representation of his dedication to knowledge, on the one wall there were a bunch of devices he had built, a quantum computing device that didn't lose out to the ones used on advanced worlds, and he built if from common parts found on Xelia, the sheer value of such a device was equivalent to several hundred million credits and he built it with a little over 200 000 credits.

The most impressive device of all was the energy condenser, he built twelve of them and according to him in a hundred years each one would produce a vial of seventh-grade energy, when she checked it the first time it only had first-grade energy and yet now it was on the cusp of entering the third-grade.

The two other walls were filled with boards and a hundred different calculations all being done in a specific order or simultaneously to achieve one answer.

She understood all of it, Lirian did say it was simple and only done based on the limited materials he could afford but it was still impressive and she had no doubt that one day his genius would benefit the entire empire.

She carried him away and left him with Antanasia to get some rest, she just said that one of his experiments went wrong again and left her to take care of the rest.