The God of Cataka

25

"Teacher, is it by defeating the Demon King Emperor that we can expel the demon clan from our continent?" Shen Zhu asked as they walked down the path in the back yard of their college.

Bao Yu turned to him and nodded. "But this is a very long and difficult road" he said. "Although I've broken through the High-Level Galaxy Realm is still not enough."

Shen Zhu frowned. "So how do you beat him?" tanyanya is impatient.

"Patience!" his teacher answered as if to insinuate his impatience. His gaze was straight forward with a flat expression.

Shen Zhu looked at his teacher's face. Next to his eyebrows raised high.

"Whatever height a mountain is, as long as you climb tenaciously, you will definitely reach the top," Bao Yu said fixedly looking straight ahead with a flat expression.

Shen Zhu blinked and bowed. I was a little dissatisfied with the teacher's answer. Patience, his mind is bitter. I've been patient for too long!

"You still thinking about your brother?" Bao Yu's question made Shen Zhu feel pinched in his heart. More than that, Bao Yu even shot out every single point of wound in the recesses of his heart. "You can't stop thinking about how your village was destroyed? Imagine yourself unleashing the devastation that causes everyone you love to die until your own brother fears you and hates you? Then now you can't forgive yourself either?"

Shen Zhu gulped and bowed deeper and deeper.

"You must be thinking.. How can I see so much when I'm not a magi?" Bao Yu glanced towards Shen Zhu through the corner of her eyes.

Shen Zhu gulped once more.

"I'm not a magistrate. But you mustn't forget I'm a theorist!" Bao Yu added. "Magicians get ideas based on what they see. Theorists dig into what is invisible based on his ideas."

Shen Zhu glanced at his teacher with a look of admiration.

"Xie Ma saw you too much that he was too confused to judge," Bao Yu retorted at Shen Zhu with a sinister look. "And you... stubbornly trying to see what he might see?"

Shen Zhu blinked and gasped.

"That's not your realm, Liu Shen Zhu!" Bao Yu added in a sharp whisper.

Shen Zhu suddenly dropped himself, knelt down and bowed with both shoulders hanging limply on his sides.

Bao Yu stopped her steps while trying to restrain herself from looking back. It was not until the heart to see the young man slumped down to humble himself. "You don't have to be blind to know the world of the blind" Bao Yu said.

Shen Zhu was still unmoved. Still don't know what to do.

"You know what your weakness is?" Bao Yu softened her voice. "Having love is a good thing" he said, eventually looking back. "But bitterness will take you nowhere. Bitterness can't help you get stronger. Bitterness will only make you lose judgment. Bitterness is the deadliest poison that can kill you slowly. Gnaw you from the inside, then slowly shut down all the senses until you're blind, where you can no longer see your purpose."

Shen Zhu began to understand. But still not sure where the teacher's direction to talk.

"You will end up horribly haunted by the false shadows of your past. Bitterness will kill you!" Bao Yu added. But it still hasn't got to the point.

"A few days ago, you were very determined to become stronger" Bao Yu said, finally starting to lead to the point. "Then now, once you have it, you don't want it anymore."

Shen Zhu felt stupefied in his heart.

"You know, how many people want your power?" Bao Yu twisted her body and crossed her arms. "Trust! You won't be able to count it!"

Shen Zhu looked up at his teacher's face with a frown.

"Other people took decades to achieve what you have now" Bao Yu said. "And you broke through it in a matter of days. You know what that means?" He bowed to look at Shen Zhu with his brows furrowed. "You have a gift of talent that no one else has!"

Shen Zhu clenched both of his hands on his sides, trying to motivate himself and strengthen his determination back in his heart.

"Don't you know that every gift always comes with a curse?" ask Bao Yu.

Shen Zhu was bowed again.

"As the saying goes: With great power comes great responsibility!" bao Yu— quotes moral message of a box office movie. "And that means, your responsibilities are bigger than ordinary people. You will be required to protect more people weaker than you, placed in the vanguard as both a sword and a shield. You will be tested more than anyone else on earth. But look at you!"

Shen Zhu blinked as his teacher glanced at him, with a reproachful attitude.

"You become careless just because you hear someone yelling. And you almost lost your life because of that!" Bao Yu reminded. "How can you protect more people if just one person makes you unfocused?"

A re-design of the scene when he was halfway in front of the enemy and was distracted by the panicked screams of his brother flashed through his mind, then realized it was a fatal mistake.

"Then now you're also punishing yourself just because someone you care about judges you, stays away from you" Bao Yu continued. "You become discouraged just because someone hates what you have until you yourself want to give up what you have."

The air in Shen Zhu's lungs rippled out. Both eyes widened. His consciousness unfolds instantly.

"So many people want what you have right now" said Bao Yu. "And you just so easily want to give up. Either you're stupid for not knowing, or rash for not caring!"

Once again, Shen Zhu felt stupefied in his heart.

"If this continues.." Bao Yu sighed and shook his head. "It won't take long, you'll lose your power as soon as you get it!" It's underscoring.

"Teacher.." Shen Zhu finally opened his voice. "Many things I still don't understand" he confessed. "Knowing myself is the cause of the destruction of my own birth village. until the death of my parents. Knowing myself is the Heirloom of the God of Catastrophe. Knowing that many people want Pusaka Dewa Petaka. I don't even understand why humans are so eager to become gods?!"

Bao Yu let out a short sigh once more, then drew closer towards Shen Zhu, bowed and snatched the two young man's shoulders, then pulled him to his feet. "We can't dive into the human heart" he said. "But every one of us is blessed with the knowledge to understand the will of God!"

Shen Zhu blinked and gulped. Staring at his teacher without being able to cover his admiration. Stung by a high degree of respect.

"Just do your part" Bao Yu advised. "The rest is God's part!"