The Growth of a Titan
Chapter 134- A Shared Pain

Chapter 134: Chapter 134- A Shared Pain

"Wait, so this Legacy Rune is not the Inheritance of Su Moon?"

"No, but if you can reach a certain level of cultivation you could study the methods used to create it. But it’s not like you’ll get that chance, you won’t be you in a few days."

Sol looked at the Nian beast and asked.

"How are you planning on resurrecting Su Jin?"

The Nian beast paused and met Sol’s gaze. It realized Sol was too calm to ask such a question, though it still explained.

"The Formation Array stores all of Su Jin’s memories from when he was a child. After whipping your soul and memories clean, this Legacy Rune will fuse with your soul and replace Su Jin’s memories with your own."

"That’s not a resurrection. Do you really think you’ll get back your friend like this? What kind of memories would the Grand Formation Array have? Was it not when Su Jin was suffering the most?"

"I can just make new memories brat, and enough with your questions."

The Nian beast then walked over to place his soft paw on Sol’s forehead to whip his memories from his soul.

"I’ll try to make it as painless as possible, but nothing is painless about this process."

"That’s fine, my tolerance for pain is extremely high."

"You can still smile in this situation?"

The Nian beast said when he saw Sol smiling.

It ignored this weird child and went to send its Spiritual Energy inside Sol’s head to whip his soul.

However, as the Nian beast sent his Spiritual Energy inside Sol’s head, a black and golden light burst forth to repel his Spiritual Energy.

The Nian beat lept back before looking at Sol’s forehead with a shocked expression.

Its hair was standing on end and its heart was racing with dread.

When some enter the Spiritual Realm they gain access to their Spiritual Energy, an energy source connected to one’s Soul and mind.

During that moment when the Nian beast sent its Spiritual Energy inside Soul mid, it saw a dazzlingly golden sun and a pitch black crescent moon.

They were protecting his soul, and the power they unleash to repel his Spiritual Energy would have likely caused its mind to crack if it hadn’t retreated in time.

That sun and moon were presently on the brat’s forehead, and the Nian beast couldn’t take its eyes off them.

’It’s not unheard of to have another God or Goddess’s Holy Crest appear on someone other than Keres, but what is that sun? The Holy Energy it’s releasing is far stronger than what Su Jin’s own released. But more importantly what the hell is that crescent moon? It’s not a Holy Crest, the energy it’s releasing is tyrannical and almost barbaric. That is far from being Holy Energy.’

"Brat, who are you? No, what are you?"

The Nian beast had retrieved his arms pinning Sol down, so Sol was able to sit up and crossed his legs.

"I don’t know, that’s what I plan to find out when I get stronger. But can you tell me more about Holy Crests? Is this one?"

Sol asked as he reached up and touched the sun at the center of the crescent moon. Though the two soon fade away.

The Nian beast looked at Sol and it seemed to frown.

"Brat, that’s not a normal Holy Crest. No wonder you weren’t unconscious when I came here. This is the strongest suppression area of the Grand Formation Array, but you’re fine."

Hearing this Sol’s eyes widen in realization and he recalled what happened to him before he enter this room.

"Perhaps I did feel the suppression force of the Array, but it only lasted for an hour."

The Nian beast’s frown deepened before a sinister aura suddenly began radiating from its body.

Sol’s shoulders slum from the pressure and he felt like he was being suffocated.

"It matters not, that Holy Crest and moon only passively protect your soul, so just using my remaining power should be enough to wipe your soul completely."

The Nian beast was reading to attack, but Sol suddenly smile and tap his storage bag.

He took out some more dakkochi and said.

"Little Abdu I never got to feed you, so here."

"What?"

The Nian beast froze, but soon it glared at Sol.

"You brat, who do you think I a-"

Before the Nian beast could finish its sentence Sol said.

"I know what it’s like to lose someone dear to you. First, you deny they’re actually gone, but immediately after rage takes over. You feel this deep sense of hatred towards the person responsible, but when you realized you’re too weak to do anything you start to think to yourself, ’I should have done this,’ or ’I should have done that.’ Maybe we wouldn’t have lost the people we care about then. But that sort of thinking won’t bring them back, nothing would. Their souls have already passed on to the afterlife."

"You don’t know what-"

"I do, this time I do. I say these things to you but I myself haven’t moved on, and I don’t think I ever will because it’s too hard. Why should I move on and accept their deaths? Why should I forget my hatred or stop loathing my pathetic attempts to justify why I wasn’t able to protect them? Just why should I when the person who caused me this much pain, the one who killed my father and my entire village is still alive?"

Tears well up in Sol’s eyes, but he quickly wiped them away.

"Little Abdu my arm is getting tired."

Sol said holding out his hand that held the piece of meat.

"I can’t let go of my hatred but I won’t forget to live by the values my Father taught me. He always said having a friend is better than making an enemy. Little Abdu I need friends, but considering how long you’ve lived like this you need one more than I do."

Sol chuckled to himself after he said.

The Nian beast’s threatening aura suddenly dwindled, and it stared at Sol in a daze.

An image of a little boy seemed to overlap with his smiling expression.

"Little Nian you should stop disguising yourself as those missing children. If you need someone to love you so badly then why not get a friend? Alright fine! I’ll just be your friend then. But you should really feel grateful, I’m not someone that has many friends, ah, but that’s by choice! My Father says I’m his heir so I should be careful of people trying to trick me..."

The Nian beast unknowingly walked over to Sol as he recalled what Su Jin had said to him when they first met.

"Brat, don’t get the wrong idea, it’s not because I give up on my plans. I just haven’t tasted something like this in several millennia. After I’m done I might just continue."

Little Abdu said as he snatched the piece of meat from Sol’s hand.

"I know, haha."

Sol said with a laugh before he sneakily tried petting Abdu’s head, but he immediately got a bite and a scratch in return; which agitated him quite a bit.