The Hero of Hypnosis-Chapter 560: It’s all about life

A whole month passed by, and Kai still couldn't form a star properly. It was a lot harder than he expected it to be, and it wasn't like he could just use his status window to create it.

When he asked Leo for help, the guy just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.

'Useless bastard.' Kai thought to himself as he continued to create a star, or attempt to create one.

He had most of what he needed to know and do down, but maintaining the star was the hard part. Kai had double checked his work, and he saw that he made the star with every component it needed, so he didn't understand why it wasn't sustaining itself.

So, he said fuck it and created a brown dwarf star perfectly. Why a brown dwarf? Well, they were considered failed stars, so since he kept failing, he just did what he was used to already.

"Seriously, dude?" Leo shook his head, and Clarisse burst out laughing.

"You said to make a star. You never specified what type of star I had to make."

Kai wasn't wrong, but that didn't make Leo any less annoyed.

"Listen, brown dwarfs are failed stars. So even if you succeeded in making one, you still failed the task. Do you know why you keep failing?"

"No, because you wouldn't answer my questions. This is starting to annoy me."

"I wanted you to figure this out on your own."

Kai looked at Leo, and for the first time in his life, or second life, he became as serious as he could be.

"Bro, I'm going to be honest with you. I love who I am, and I love what you've shown me. I'm grateful that you're my father, and I wouldn't want to have it any other way. I truly do love you, bro. But when I tell you that I genuinely don't give a fuck about any of this shit, I mean it. I don't care about Aion, I don't care about ruling the universe, I don't care about helping you recreate it, I don't care about Divinity City, and I don't care about making a fucking star. I only care about my family, that's all. I only started on this path because of you. You said you wanted to help me reach my full potential, so I went along with it. I didn't want to disappoint you. But man, I just don't care, bro. So tell me what to fucking do, or I'm going home."

Leo knew how Kai truly felt; this is why he acted the way he did. He was friendly, happy, and was always there to push Kai in a good way. But it seemed that everything was finally getting to him.

"This is your future, man."

"Says who? You?"

Leo thought about that for a bit, and yeah, it was him who said that.

"Do you wish to leave?"

Kai shook his head. "No. But I want you to stop acting as if I care as much as you do. I like being a primordial, but I had more fun during my adventure days than I do now."

Clarisse didn't think she should butt in. She also couldn't believe that Kai didn't find what they were doing a great honor. She didn't know if he was too prideful or if he genuinely had a lack of interest.

"It's the latter," Leo said to Clarisse. "Kai isn't one to care about pride."

"I see." She nodded.

"What?" Kai had no idea what they were talking about.

"Don't worry about it." He sighed. "Fine, I'll show you what you're missing."

"Yay."

Leo created a star the same way Kai did, so he could see that he wasn't doing anything wrong in his steps to create the star. But there was one thing that caught his attention.

"Life," Kai said.

"There you go. That wasn't so hard, was it?"

"Actually, yeah, it is. You don't need to give life to something when it produces its own energy. I'm sure the electrical currents that power my phone aren't alive."

"That's because you're looking at this from the perspective of a person who grew up in a technological society without the aid of a deity." Clarisse clarified.

Kai didn't know if she was being serious or stupid. Probably both.

"Uhh, yeah. How else would I look at it?"

"Can you not feel the life coming from celestial objects?" She asked

"I don't know, nor do I care if I'm being honest."

She shook her head. "Being a primordial is all about being in tune with the frequency of the universe. As beings who are no longer bound by its laws, we are able to see and sense things that others could not. Even more with you since you have the spark inside you."

"Do you know about worlds and how they have wills?" Leo asked

"Vaguely."

He nodded. "Well, worlds are alive. As long as a planet has life or is developing life, it is alive. Rocky planets, not gas or ice planets, that is. This is how inhabitants can use mana, or whatever they wish to call the energy."

"So I'm assuming that stars have the same thing?"

Leo nodded. "Exactly. Now, it's not to the same extent as a planet, but stars are just giant balls of heat, gas, and radiation. To prevent this from affecting worlds with life, planets form their own wills and give mana to the people. Have you even seen any type of radiation sickness back at your home? No one got skin cancer."

Now that Kai was thinking about it, he hadn't. "I'm assuming this doesn't apply to radiation that's applied via tools like X-Rays or nuclear bombs and shit like that, right?"

"Of course not. At that point, it's self-inflicted."

"I see. Okay. Let me try this again." Kai started to create a star the same way he did previously, but this time, he imagined giving life to it. Instead of looking at the star as a giant ball of burning gas, he saw it as a little heartbeat in his hand, something that gave life to others.

Once it was formed in his hand, he threw it as he had before and watched as it grew into a yellow dwarf, but instead of blowing up within a few moments as it had previously, the star maintained itself, and when Kai reached out to feel it, he could sense life.

"Good job. I knew you could do it."

"Yeah, yeah, cool. What's next?"

Leo smiled. "Now, create a planet."