The Hero of Hypnosis

Chapter 556: Becoming a Primordial was this easy?

"Haah! Huff! B-Break! Please!" Kai collapsed onto the ground, passing out.

Clarisse shook her head as she looked at Kai, passed out on the ground. "Pathetic. It’s as if he were a mortal his entire life. Where’s his divine grit?"

"That’s because he was." Leo appeared.

"My lord." She took a knee.

"None of that nonsense, please. Get up."

She nodded. "Understood. May I ask what you mean by what you said earlier?"

"Yeah. I’m sure you know the story about how I took Kai as a fetus from Cassie, right?"

"That’s like, the most famous story around here, my lord."

"Ugh, I don’t know how or why it is either."

"Well, that’s because Lady Cassieopia kept crying about what you did to her, and it was turned into a song, then spread around Divinity City!"

Just looking at Clarisse’s face, Leo knew that she loved the song.

"Ahem, anyway. The reason why Kai is the way he is is that he was never raised as a god. I used a lot of ’is’."

"Never raised as a god? But he’s a primordial, right? I can sense that his power is pocked away, begging to be released, and I know it’s your doing, but what does that have to do with being raised as a deity?"

"My sons, they all turned on me, wanted the universe for themselves. Cassie got it into their minds that they were my successor, but I’m not going to deny my bad parenting as well. So when I realized that she was pregnant again, I took the child, sealed off all of his power, then raised him as a mortal."

Something clicked in Clarisse’s mind. "So that’s why the Lady was upset every time she called you."

"Yup. I raised Kai on Earth, you know, the planet where Zion is from."

"Oh! Zion! He’s great."

"Yeah, cool kid. Anyway, he got hit by a truck, destroying the mortal shell I created, so I just sent him into a world filled with magic. Slowly, I introduced him to the realms of power, where he eventually made his way up the ladder and became who he is now. I was there every step of the way, making sure he didn’t fall like his brothers."

"I see." Clarisse was born and raised as a Deity, so she couldn’t understand what it was like to have your identity taken from you and forced to work for it back. She changed her opinion of Kai, not thinking he was pathetic anymore.

"So, now, since Aion is breaking out of his prison, you want Kai to become strong enough to kill him."

Leo nodded. "I came to this conclusion over a billion years ago. I wanted to see if raising a child in the exact opposite environment would change how they acted, how they viewed the universe. And as a friend, I helped guide him along the way. Heh, Kai still doesn’t even see me as his father."

"Yeah, I can tell. I was shocked when he started cursing you out. I nearly fainted from shock."

"Hahaha! That’s a lot of people’s reaction."

As the two of them continued talking, Kai had slowly gotten up and lunged at Clarisse with everything he had. It was a sneak attack, but no one said that he needed to play fair, and he didn’t care about fairness anyway.

The moment his fist connected with the back of Clarisse’s head, he celebrated.

"Hahahaha! Rule number one of combat - Never let your guard down! Woohooo! Let’s goooo! Suck it, btich!"

However, Kai heard no impact, saw no dust or dirt rise into the air, and most importantly, his fist was still touching something.

"Oh." He gulped.

"Did you seriously think I wouldn’t sense that you were awake, child?"

Kai looked dead serious. "Yes."

Clarisse grabbed Kai’s arm and wound up her arm for a punch.

"WAIT!" He did an X with his arms for a timeout.

"What?"

"I have something to tell Leo."

"No, he doesn’t."

"Yes, I do!"

"No, you don’t."

"Wanna bet?"

Leo chuckled. "Dude, I can read your mind, see the future, know what’s going to happen before it even happens. You don’t have anything to tell me. You just want to stop training for the day."

"Oh yeah? Then say what I’m going to say on 3...2....1...."

"Nacho Popcorn."

"Nacho Popc—SON OF A BITCH!"

"Punch him."

"Wait!"

Kai was punched.

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"999,999....1,000,000! UGHHHH!" Kai dropped to the ground after doing a million pushups. The way his arms were feeling were like those blow up baloons that are always in front of car washes or dealerships.

Normally, he could do that many pushups with ease; he was a deity after all, but there was something about the air he was breathing in Divinity City. It was...well...divine. It made him feel normal, as if he were mortal again.

But that wasn’t all. Clarisse had him wear a training outfit that put him in a state of constant agony. She said it was to make him stronger, but Kai assumed she just like wathing him suffer.

"This is probably how Dark Vader feels. Fucking hell, this outfit is killing me!" It felt as if millions of needles were poking into his body. Thankfully, his face and dick were untouched.

"When you become a primordial, your senses are super enhanced, and how you’re feeling right now is how we all feel," Clarisse informed him.

"Sure, but the thing is that I became a primordial once. I didn’t feel like this."

"Hahahaha! Oh no, honey, you were only in your spirit form, nothing like having a physical body. It’s hard to explain what it’s like to be a primordial, so let me explain it to you the best way I can."

She allowed Kai to take a break, and he instantly pulled out some orange juice.

"When you become a demigod, you can feel divine forces. When you become a god, you can use divine forces. This is like how you can use divine energy. Your mana changes, but you can still use lower levels of power. When you become a titan, your whole being changes."

Kai understood what she was saying because he expierenced it. When he became a demigod, he simply felt like a stronger mortal. When he became a god, he felt like a true deity, seeing mortals for what they truly were, mortal.

The power increase was also drastic, but overall, the major change was how he saw everything. When he became a Titan, the major change was how he interacted with everything.

To Kai, taking one step felt like walking on thin ice or glass. He had to limit himself so much so that he wouldn’t destroy something. Even having sex was hard, as he could accidentally pound his women to death with one thrust, but he was a god at sex, so that was never an issue.

"But a primidals is different." Clarisse continued. "Each previous deity changes in accordance with the universe, but as a Primordial, the universe changes in accordance with you. Meaning, you shape who you are, the universe doesn’t."

"That’s the stupidest shit I have ever heard."

"You say that, but it’s the truth."

"How do you mold the universe? That’s like giving Leo a handjob. I’m not trying to give Leo a handjob."

"Heh, no. What I mean is, you define how you wish to be a primordial, and the universe will try and fight back, not wanting you break free from its control, but if you manage to, then that’s when you become a primordial."

Kai thought about what she said, and he couldn’t wrap his head around it. Sure, he could get behind the concept, but seperating one’s self form the universe was like trying to create something out of nothing, which was impossible.

Energy and matter exist in all forms. Even the Law of Destruction and Creation are Laws the universe allows, meaning that even when you destroy something, wiping it from existence, it was destroyed by something that existed, so when it was fully gone, it actually became destruction itself.

That’s how Kai saw it, at least.

And even then, Leo could bring what was wiped from existence back into existence, so that didn’t help what Clarisse was trying to convey.

"Let me ask you this, then."

"Go ahead." Clarisse nodded

"Can you live, can you exist outside of the universe?"

"You mean the progenitor energy void that the universe expands into? No, I can’t."

Kai nodded. "Yeah, then your explanation is shitty. How can you separate yourself from the universe but still need to live in it? That’s dumb."

"Is it? You can detach yourself from worldly desires, but still require money to live." Leo appeared.

"Yeah, but that’s like a mental, spiritual, or metaphysical thing."

"Kai, you’re in the land of gods, anything goes."

Kai then looked at himself, then back at Leo. "Then, by that logic, I’m already a primordial because that’s who I am. Why should I be a Titan? Just because you said so?"

And boom, Kai was a primordial.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"