When Mormo woke up he was in his bed, and he felt great. He tried to concentrate and feel the essence in his body, unlike before, he could command the essence. He tried to move it in his skin, it was as easy as moving his hands.

"How come the people of this world are so stupid? Could it be that they never tried to discover anything and just kept living their life like a group of animals?" He thought he was very smart compared to the other beings surrounding him.

His control was perfect, it was kind of scary. For some reason, he could control and feel the essence that was outside of his surroundings. "HAHAHA, I must be a genius" he thought to himself. He tried to collect all the nearby essence, but none of them entered his body. He could only manipulate it. It was nothing close to what was written in the book.

Mormo couldn't cultivate for some unknown reason, no matter how hard he tried to command the essence, it will do as he commanded just until they went near him. It indicated that he was full of essence, in a bottleneck before he ascended to the next god level, but that couldn't be, he just entered the first-god-level.

Mormo went to the shelf and searched for the book that held the record of all the known gods, he never even opened it before. As far as he was concerned, you need to care about stuff only when it's the right time to do so.

He read through the book. What made him worried was that all the god’s power in this book had the same discovery process.

Enter a new essence into your body and watch which color sparks when the essence is entering the organs, or which phenomenon happens while the essence is cycling in your blood vessels. "Nothing in this book either", he went through all the books on his shelf. Then he found what he was looking for and almost died out of shame. In the book named "How to manage your slave", there was a line that explained that if you get a slave who is capable of cultivation, you can trick him into entering all his essence into his skin. If he will do so, it will be impossible for him to lose his power unless someone will pull off all the skin out of him. He will not be able to use any god powers, but he will be able to manipulate the essence near him better than anyone else. His regeneration ability will be astonishing. And in exchange for 3/4 of his life, he could give another person a chance to be recognized again by any of the gods, and from this moment onward he will be under that person’s perfect control.

Mormo became pale, he hated himself for being so stupid. Didn't he laugh about this whole world all the time for being a world containing only morons, idiots, and himself? He thought himself to be very smart and destroyed his future in months because of his arrogance.

"WHY DIDN'T THEY WROTE IT IN THE MANUAL!" he was really upset. He fell on the floor and looked at the ceiling for a long time. He suddenly heard his mother coming over. His mother may not know it, but anyone who read this book will immediately understand what state he entered.

"If they will see, who knows what kind of life I will have? Maybe they even have a method to force my hand in this matter" never in his two lives he was as depressed as he was now. His eyes were the eyes of a dead man. His mother saw it and run to him. "Mormo what happened?? MORMOOOOO!!!!!".

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Mormo looked at her and tried to force a smile, but eventually, he felt so weak and lost. He walked lifelessly towards her. She hugged him as strongly as she could and for the next 10 minutes, he didn't talk to her no matter how much she tried to talk with him.

"Mormo, it doesn't matter what happened, you know mother will always love and protect you" Opal said.

Mormo looked at her with a face as pale as that of a ghost. And then he said to her "Mother, it's just …. part of my transformation. After I achieved the first god level, I found a way to help you gain recognition from the gods".

"MORMO, STOP THAT, I DON'T NEED IT!!! PLEASE, YOU NEED TO LAY DOWN A LITTLE, WE CAN DISCUSS IT LATER" Opal screamed hysterically.

Mormo talked with a weak and lifeless voice "Mother, you know that I love you and I will never do anything that will hurt you. It is the only opportunity that I have to help you. After today I probably will not be able to do so. It is your only chance to get a real opportunity to protect me, will you take it?".

Opal didn't know what was happening, she saw her child with a dead expression. He was sad and miserable, all she could do is to keep up with this conversation. "Yes of course I will take it".

"Please, think as hard as you can about your wishes and ideals" he spoke softly. Mormo put his hands on his mother’s head and started to manipulate his essence inside his body. It took the life force from his blood and move through to her head, the essence entered her blood vessel and was consumed by his mother. Each year he lost, has been gained by his mother, and, each essence particle he lost entered her small intestine by his guidance, he will not make the same mistake again, and he will make her do exactly as it was written in the book.

At this time Opal understood nothing about the situation, she could feel her body lighter as if she didn't have any weight, and she felt full of life, she understood that it was a critical situation, so she filled her mind with only one sentence.

"I WANT TO PROTECT MY CHILD".

Over and over again she was thinking only about that. After the last particle left his body to enter his mother’s, her skin turned blue. Out of nowhere, a bubble of water surrounded her. Her skin, face, and body turned much more beautiful, it was like a complete transformation, completely another person.

It was Opal that gave Mormo his flesh, so he wasn't a beautiful child. Compared to her right now he looked like a beggar. The contradiction was too great. The water that surrounded Opal left as quickly as it came.

Opal picked Mormo up to her hands, he was lifeless. Mormo just lost 3/4 of his life force and was completely under his mother’s control. With a thought, she could kill him, as easy as that. If she will let him, he could collect again his lost essence, but if she would like to, she could take it from him and make him lose his power again. He was under her absolute rule and all he could hope for was that her will to protect him will never extinguish.

He got very tired and desperate. He hugs his mother a little bit tighter afraid out of his mind. Of course, she loved him, but after she got her power and good looks Mormo was afraid that soon she might just forget about him. It's normal behavior for humans, good and loving when they need you, and when you are not needed anymore, they will just drop you. All he wished was that his mother will keep loving him and protect him. Until now he was her only mental support. She had never been successful or liked by others. He was truly afraid of the future right now.

"Mother, congratulation, you managed to do it and get the god’s recognition".

"Mormo, why do I feel like I am much more connected to you than before?" she looked at him in the most confused state she had ever been in. She was feeling that she could somewhat control the water around her.

After hearing her question, he couldn't stop himself as he started to cry without a voice inside her embrace.

She had a very bad hunch. At this exact moment, his "father" entered their home for the first time after he took his mother as his wife.