33 Risen#re

When Lirian awoke again he was greeted by a melodious song, he had heard his mother sing many times before but this song was a new one and he could hear the sound of loss in every somber note, and he could feel her hand stroking his head while it rested on her lap.

Listening to the words of the song, Lirian could tell from the lyrics alone that it was one of the songs from her homeworld Scavanour.

The people lived in colonies, during the exploration period of the world, and asides from the exploration teams, the only other people brought to the planet, were ordinary people and all of them were kept in small areas to produce food and tend to the soil.

Her parents were farmers and they lived in a small village, most of the ordinary fook weren't cultivators and the wolves were a big problem for them every year.

Sometimes the children would venture too far into the forests during the day when they were playing, and occasionally the wolves that would stalk the livestock of the villagers would snatch the children.

"...don't venture far in the dark woodlands...",

Lirian heard her tone turn somber as she reach that line of the song.

Taliyah had told him a few stories like that when he was small, to try and frighten him from time to time.

The stories could never frighten him, obviously, but he would play along from time to time because she would always hug him close and spend extra time with him if she thought he was frightened.

The song soon came to a close, as it turned it was a song made by a mother who lost her child to the wolves in the dark woodlands.

Lirian could hear her grief in every note after all she had lost so many children already that she seemed to embody the lyrics of the song.

He lightly grabbed onto her hand and whispered, "I promise I won't let anyone take me from you," he tilted his head back and opened his eyes to meet her warm loving gaze.

Instead of the warm bronze smile, he was expecting to see, he was greeted by a swirling world of strange light but oddly enough, he couldn't see anything around him.

As he swiveled his head around with a heavy breath, he noticed that the intensity of the light kept changing but he still couldn't see anything around him.

Lirian found it hard to understand what was going on with the light, because even as he looked around, he wanted to say that it felt like a hundred flashlights were striking him all at once.

But the same time, the light didn't look like it should, almost as if some foreign substance had mixed into the light.

Taliyah smiled when she heard him speak and a few tears formed in her eyes, she had been spending every free second she could with him over the last month.

After his condition stabilized on the podium at the press conference over a month ago, she noticed that her saints grace energy had been rejected by his body, and even more miraculous was that the parts of his body that had flaked away returned to normal.

However, since then she had been filled with worry because in the last month he hadn't moved a single muscle, despite Antanasia reassuring her that Lirian condition was perfect, she could help but fear that his body had been paralyzed.

Seeing him move and even speak, she felt a sense of relief wash over her.

She looked down to meet his eyes but she froze as she looked at his eyes, that beautiful silver radiance was nowhere to be seen and a black murkiness had taken its place.

"Mom is there something covering my eyes?" Lirian asked as he reached up to feel his face but nothing was blocking his eyes, he rubbed his eyes but the murky light was still the only thing that he could see.

He swiveled his head around and sniffed the air, he could tell that he was in his room but why could he not see anything, he felt Taliyah shiver slightly and could smell fresh tears forming in her eyes.

"Mom what is it?", Lirian asked he had a bad premonition.

Taliyah looked at his unfocused eyes and looked at his pupils that were not changing or reacting to the light and felt dread, "You're blind," she forced the devastating words out of her mouth.

"System...", he murmured, before he could finish it already told him what he wanted to know.

[Hosts over usage of Samsara's Vision has put a strain on the hosts body that it couldn't handle.]

[As a defensive function, Host's body completely severed its connection with the optic nerve until Host's body can handle the strain... estimated time is 200 hundred years however with life hierarchy ascensions the time can be significantly reduced.]

Lirian sighed in relief, it wasn't like he needed his eyes, he had trained his every sense but it certainly was nice to be able to see things.

That said this certainly a unique experience, he remembered when went in search of the Dao of all sounds he had to severe his every sense and really solely on his ears for everything in life.

It took him over a thousand years to learn all he could about the nature of sound, but in all that time he knew that he could restore his sight at any time he wanted.

"It's not too bad mom," he said quickly reaching out to her grab her shoulder, but as he moved he could feel that his entire body was stiff.

"It's just temporary, in two hundred years at most my vision will return, and if I reach the third-grade it will come back completely," he spoke with a reassuring smile but the worry lines only deepened on Taliyah's face.

She didn't bother trying to understand how he knew what was wrong with himself, she knew that he wasn't the type to make something up just to reassure her, but her face was still tied into a teary frown, as she thought of all that could go wrong with his disability.

"Lirian that's as long as your trial how are you to survive without your sight," her eyes suddenly flashed with a bit of inspiration.

"Lirian you'll stay here for the next few weeks and I'll have Antanasia create a new pair of eyes for you, we'll transplant it before you return to the public that way no one will know what we did."

She knew that it was completely breaking the rules but she had to do this it was the only way to increase his odds of survival, even if he was a god, it didn't make the current him almighty.

"No mom," Lirian replied with a frown, ", it's not worth the risk, and like I said I'll be fine, I've trained to ensure I can get around without relying on any of my senses."

"Mom even if we had proof that this was Efrideet's doing which would allow me to receive the treatment I wouldn't do it, I can't afford to have a fake body part it will completely mess up my future."

That was one of his main concerns, his body had to remain purely his, he couldn't afford to have so much as a splinter in his skin when he began his cultivation let alone a fake body part.

Before he used the Nirvana Body esper technique, he would also have to starve himself for two weeks, to ensure that there was absolutely nothing in his body, even the smallest of things could mess it up.

Taliyah's worry didn't lessen but she knew that she couldn't force him, as for Efrideet she felt her blood rage at the mention of her name and she could barely suppress her desire to storm the Capriska home-world and turn it to ruins.

The mics had clearly caught his every word that day and the footage of him on the verge of death had even become a sensational piece of news.

It was playing throughout the empire and many were labeling it as an assassination attempt on the prince candidate but no one could understand how it happened.

One minute he was sitting and looking around at the reporters with an innocent expression, and seconds later he was on the verge of death, crying for his mother and cursing Efrideet.

His words had made a large part of the civilization focus on Efrideet but she had maintained her silence, not even making any attempt to defend herself of the accusations.

To the empress's outrage, Efrideets silence had made many people believe that she was innocent in this matter and that it was just the prince candidate attempting to stir up trouble.