ATG: God of Shadows

Just as Alex was about to sleep, he heard whispering from Xia Qingyue's bed, Alex looked over to her side saw her muttering something in her sleep, she was saying, 

"I am sorry father....I am sorry brother....I am sorry mother..." again and again on repeat.

Alex sighed and went near her bed and went on his knees and then with one of his hand, he held her hand and placed his other hand on her forehead and started to channel his energy in her body.

His energy worked much better than the pill he had given her before.

'Even the pill which was supposed to work for sure couldn't help her. I guess, it is way too much for her. She is after all only a 15 years old girl yet, I shouldn't see her as a character, but rather for who she is. She might have been depicted as a cold queen in the novel but at the end of the day she is but a child who has lost her mother from a young age, manipulated into believing that the suppressing her emotions could help her in improving her cultivation faster than normal.'

'Damn, now that I think about it, the emotion-suppressing technique was taught to her by the Frozen cloud Asgard. She was accepted there at around 12 if I remember it correctly.'

His eyes became icy cold at thinking about that.

'Even if she was supposed to be extremely mature for a 12 year old child, such a decision of suppressing her emotions shouldn't have been forced her onto her at least before she was 16 or 18. Those damn ice bitches.....manipulating children into becoming emotionless machines and having them loyal to the sect under the disguise of protecting them from men.'

'I know that most of the men are like that, or at the very least each and every single of us guys have the potential of exploiting the women near us. But, while protecting her from getting attached to another male, they ruined her family as well.'

'But aren't I also like them? Sure, I haven't forced myself physically onto her, but haven't I emotionally exploited her as well? I....I shouldn't have done that...'

Thinking about his behavior till now, Alex understood that they were fully controlled by his own lust, no one else was to blame for this.

'Am I this pathetic? I know that I was a virgin longing for having a sexual intercourse. But would the pleasure of fucking a woman who is only with me because I have taken advantage of her situation and forced her to give her consent to me. Does such a consent even matter? '

As Alex was thinking about his mistakes, the silhouette of a middle aged woman with a smile flashed before his eyes.

'Mother...My mother did not raise me like that. Even if this is a new world and a new life, it does not mean that I forget about what my mother taught me and how she had raised me. I have simply dishonored her and disregarded her teachings.'

'Moreover, if something similar was done to my little sister.....I can't fucking imagine it. I am at fault, just a little power has left me rotten to the core. Fortunately, I still understood it right now rather than later.'

'I need to correct my mistakes. Fuck this lustful shit, I should focus on getting the power to destroy and create planets, stars, galaxies and beyond that.'

'I have the power to change how this world works. But here I am, going around and lowering myself to the levels of those fucking rapist young masters and bastards.'

'Is a world like this where strong kill and oppress the weak really worth living? I know that this is the basic human nature but it should not be as pathetic as this one.'

'I need to change this world. I know that I can do it with my abilities.'

'The Shadow Genesis project must be fulfilled. It's the only way for this world to survive, else we would only be under the constant cycle of oppression and hatred.'

'I am a part of this world now, it's my responsibility to change this world.'

Alex then looked at Qingyue and noticed that she had calmed down now.

Alex then tried to pull away his hand from her hand and wanted to go to his bed, but found that Qingyue had grabbed his hand tightly, even in her sleep.

Alex's eyes softened at this as he stopped trying to pull away and sat on the ground while keeping his hand in hers. 

Alex looked at her and spoke softly as to not wake her up,

"Forgive me for everything Qingyue, I promise that from this moment on, I will protect you from anything and everything in this world. Nothing is going to harm you as long as I am alive. I promise you this."

Alex kept his head on her hand and closed his eyes, fully unknown to the fact that the girl was able to hear his words.