A sharp pain run over all Mormo muscles, he abruptly waked up and screamed a soundless roar, his muscles hurt so much that he couldn't keep his consciousness for long and after a short moment he fainted again. There was no essence to rebuild the muscles so after every tiny move they destroyed themselves with no real way of repairing.
This process repeated itself again and again until his body started to consume his muscle tissue for energy, it's a normal process that happening when the body doesn't get any sources of "fuel" to keep itself from dying.
After unknown amount of time Mormo could stay awake, his mind and sanity were a little bit damage but after a day or two he could perform basic tasks.
He couldn't really understand much or remember everything that occurred perfectly, but the never-ending pain was embedded deeply into his mind. The other thought that constantly floated in his mind is "WATER" he wanted to drink, the problem was that even moving for a meter was too much for him, let's not talk about going to find a lake or some kind of water source. On Earth he studied about some trick to gather water in the wild, but now his mind didn't function as it used too, so he crawled slowly from bush to bush and lick the water that accumulate on them every morning.
It wasn't that he wanted to keep living or that he was afraid of dying, he didn't put too much thought into stuff, it wasn't wrong to say that he was living on instincts alone.
He didn't eat anything, and his body didn't require any food as it wanted to devour the extra muscle.
Time passed slowly, every day felt like a week for Mormo. He felt constant pain and uncomfortable sensation all over his body and in the night, he felt extremely cold because the lack of his skin, it was a miracle that he managed to stay alive by buried his body under the soil.
He didn't know it but not even scarp of his skin was there, he couldn't feel pain on the surface of his body because all of his nerves have been burned out but the abnormal sensation of his body touching the world around him didn't let him a chance to just relax and rest even for a little bit.
with each day he could control his body better and his mind became clearer, while the weird sensation kept growing stronger.
When his mind grew clear to a certain point Mormo find out about something terrible, his life force is running out. He had less than a day until he will fall into eternal rest. Maybe the only reason his mind became so much clearer in the past few days was only because of his nearing end.
He hated this world, his hate burned inside of him. He didn't want to leave this world before he will bring it to ruin.
"I WILL KILL THEM ALL!!!" Mormo said with the strongest determination he ever had.
Then he looked at his body which were behind recognition he looked more like a monster that a human being. A self-mockery laugh escaped his mouth, he is going to die before the sun will descend into the night.
He just thought about how pathetic his last death was, he left his sister alone. She did have a lot of money but no real friends or family. combined with a lot of people who will try to steal her goods and belongings.
And now his mother, which by this point he truly loved, will be stayed alone again. He did give her a lot of power and position, but he knows that she too didn't have any real friend or family, she had everything but in the same time had nothing exactly as his dear sister.
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Two times he had a huge potential and two times he lost it all. He barely managed to stand, a sad and tired expression on his face.
He slowly began to walk into a random direction, he didn't have any essence in him, so he had no way to control the essence around him or even sense them. As he kept walking, he started to feel himself getting older and older. It was a weird sensation, but he could feel his body growing old. It was as if something very important leaving his body every now and then.
He couldn't feel any pain. His body was old and deformed especially his face, He had no skin on him and he looked like a living mummy.
He looked sad and lonely, but his brain never stopped to work, he wanted to find hope! to be able to overcome this despaired situation.
It was only an hour before sunset, Mormo eyes was bloodshot while his whole body spatter the aura of decay.
Abruptly a strong light could be seen emitted from Mormo eyes, he was feeling this whole time as if something was constantly escaping his body. If his theory was correct it was his life force, if by any chance he could control them in any way maybe he could even temporary hold his dear life with him.
He sat cross legged and tried to feel the little particles that still moved inside his body, his years of training and exception ability to control the essence combine with his sharp mind immediately started to operate. He started to probe every part of his body, there wasn't any essence but even so his control over his body was not a laughing matter.
To Mormo horror even after half an hour of trying didn't produce much, he managed to get familiar with this "life force" that he never heard about, but it was as if his own life force didn't recognize him as its ruler as if they abandon him and wanted to escape, so was fate.
Mormo looked like he was about to die at any moment, if you were looking at him from the side you couldn't determined whatever he was uglier or older or even if he was still alive.
After a long moment of silence, a ferocity expression appeared on his face.
"I will not abide to fate anymore, I will not abide to this fucking world. ME AND ONLY ME WILL DECIDE MY FUTURE. IF MY FUCKING LIFE DON'T WANT ME ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TO STEAL SOMEONE ELSE LIFE!!!" he was so determined to stay alive that it was all that mattered to him at this moment. He was too weak and knew that he wouldn't be able to kill anything.
Thanks to his unique circumstance, body that craved for this "life force" element combined with his superior control over the essence made it so that he easily managed to determine that essence wasn't that different from his life force they were two different sides of the same element!!
Based on his calculation he didn't had more than half an hour worth of time. He extracted some life force out of his body with reduced his remained life length into something around 20 minutes and created some kind of radar around him which searched nearby life force. The exact same way he created a radar out of essence that finds other essences.
The life force struggled and tried to escape his control. Eventually they dispatch into the air, but their value already has been paid off.
he found a mouse like creature that was sleeping near one of the huge trees around him.
he didn't have enough life force to perform another search and his control was really limited it was already a miracle that he managed to find a pray and control his life force with the first try.
He slowly walked to the tree, the mouse liked creature waked up and looked at Mormo but out of instinct it knew that he was about to die and didn't put much thought into the matter.
Mormo knew that he has only one chance and very limited time. When he closed the distance between itself and the mouse to only two meters he just fell on the mouse, the mouse panicked and started to run into a random direction. Mormo hands was already dead and he had less than a minute before his life force will drain completely. He fell on the mouse with his chest and it in return bite as strong as he could and tried to force his way out.
Mormo closed his eyes and try to feel the mouse. To his delight it wasn't much of a challenge and he immediately feel the life force inside the mouse, he started to try and manipulate or cutoff the life force of the mouse from it and steal it.
The mouse didn't feel anything out of the ordinary and after it opened a big wound on Mormo chest its managed to escape while creating some more wounds on Mormo chest.
Mormo lied down on his own blood looking more miserable than he ever been, an ugly and old man with scars all over his body. At this exact moment the last particle of his own life force left him, contrary to that his eyes shone with a weird light.