“Not her.” Amon shook his head. “I don’t believe that Sonia is my real mother.”
This was a shocking revelation.
Amon didn’t seem to be kidding or saying it out of revenge for what had happened in the past when he was abandoned by his parents.
“Amon… What do you mean?” Maisa was looking even more confused than before.
Amon was calm even this time. He stopped eating and looked around the table at everyone until he stopped at Maisa.
He said, “There were signs that Sonia and Maicon are not my blood parents.”
“Wh-What signs?” Maisa asked.
“You know that most of my life I was raised by my grandparents, right?” Seeing them nod, Amon said, “So whenever my grandparents would talk about my mother, they would say that I shouldn’t blame ‘her,’ that ‘she’ had her reasons and things were more complicated than they seemed.”
“But, that doesn’t necessarily mean they weren’t talking about Sonia, right?” Julia said.
Amon nodded, “You’re right. However, whenever they spoke about my mother, whether to tell me to understand her reasons or whatnot, they never mentioned her name. Another thing, they never spoke of my dad… Or almost never. Just once my grandfather had a lot to drink and he said, ‘Amon, be careful with your dad. He only sees things as fun, no matter what they are; everything becomes a tool to amuse him. He is dangerous!'”
“Wait!” Maisa tried to relate this information to Amon’s father, Maicon, and in fact, she couldn’t. “So, it could mean that they know who your father is and are hiding you from your father?”
“I also think so. Especially if he is an Invincible Overlord,” Amon said, “My grandparents said that if I want to see them… I would need to become an Overlord. This was the prerequisite. But why that? And what happened that forced them to leave me behind?”
“Maybe a war?” Bianca offered, “I don’t know much, but it seems that some Invincible Overlord Tier factions are in battle right now. But this war has already been going on for almost 20 years, and no one knows when it will end. After all, wars between Invincible Overlords can last an eternity.”
The Invincible Overlord title itself was not mere decoration; they could fight for years without managing to kill each other.
“So you mean, could it be that Amon’s grandparents were called into this war between factions?” Barbara looked at her mother.
“Well, it’s just a possibility,” Bianca replied. 𝒃𝒆𝙣𝒐𝒗𝙚𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝒎
“Amon, that’s not all, right?” Ariel turned to Amon. “Those aren’t the only reasons you suspect this, am I right?”
“Yes, as you said, that is not reason enough to think that my parents are not Sonia and Maicon,” Amon replied, “There’s also Teacher Kaia.”
“Mm?” Most of the girls frowned upon hearing Kaia’s name mentioned.
Amon didn’t keep them curious for long.
“She told me that ‘someone’ had asked her for a favor. Or rather, they had called in an old favor they did for her to train me,” Amon said and then asked, “However, why did Teacher Kaia never say who that someone was? And who could Teacher Kaia owe a favor to?”
“Your grandparents?” Although Maisa was the first to respond, the others thought of the same response.
“Yes, that is an option, however, again, there was no reason for her not to say it was them,” Amon denied, “They are not secretive like that. Or at least she could have hinted that it was them, however, when she said she was teaching me at someone’s request, she didn’t seem to want to or was unable to say who it was.”
“Perhaps your grandparents cannot afford to be linked to her?” Bianca suggested, “Could there be a possibility that someone might find out about you and come after you, using you as a hostage or something?”
Amon categorically denied this. “It still doesn’t make sense as my grandparents sent me something after they faked their deaths. I think Teacher Kaia telling me if it was them wouldn’t have been that dangerous, since she’s an elemental genetic rune master and could easily make our conversation go unheard. So it doesn’t make sense for her not to have said it was my grandparents.”
“Why do you say that?” Maisa still didn’t understand.
“Because my grandparents like to please me,” Amon said, “Whether it’s the little things or the big ones, they like me to know that they’ve done things for me and to see me happy. It’s been like that since they started taking care of me.”
Julia understood. “So, asking someone like Teacher Kaia to teach you, would that be something they would want you to know they did?”
“Exactly,” Amon nodded.
“But, that still doesn’t explain everything,” Maisa asked, “Why do you mean that Sonia and Maicon are not your parents?”
“Do you remember what you said to me when you returned home?” Amon asked. “Apart from Sonia being different, training you to get stronger and get used to your current strength- whenever she talked about me, she never called me her son, and she spoke with respect when talking about me.”
Julia frowned, “Yes, it was quite strange, but could that have not been because she felt guilty about what she had done in the past?”
“I do not think so,” Amon answered her, “Remember, this is just a hypothesis. Sonia treating me with respect… She has changed and seems more powerful after I became Innate. If you look at it from a different angle, she seems to be more like an employee of my family than being my mother. Another thing, she don’t say anything like, ‘How could I have been so stupid as to treat young Amon this way?'”
Everyone’s breathing started to accelerate as they thought about what Amon said. Yes, if the one helping was an Invincible Overlord, obviously there would be people serving her. They would also be able to seal someone’s memories down to their powers and have them become unlocked after X thing happens.
Another thing, only Sonia had stopped being a jerk to Amon as he grew stronger… If his becoming Innate was the requirement for Sonia to remember the mission she was given, maybe that explained the guilt she had shown the last time that the twins had returned home.
It was different from before. It was as if she had committed a federal crime. Yes, she had already shown guilt, even going so far as to cry and apologize, however, she didn’t show as much regret as she had the last time they saw her.
“The next thing I’m going to say, you need to promise me to keep it a secret,” Amon told the rest.
“Amon, since you want it to be a secret, I won’t say a single word.” Barbara pounded her chest with a closed fist as she made her promise.
“Me too,” Ariel said seriously, “I would never betray your trust!”
“The same goes for us,” the twins said in unison.
Bianca looked at Amon. She doesn’t show that playful look anymore and got serious. “Amon, if it’s something difficult, you don’t have to tell us, but if you still want to say it, I promise to keep it secret.”
“Mm,” Amon flashed a rare smile, then said, “Thank you. Hearing that makes me happy.”
Being able to sense people’s emotions better because of his genetics, Amon seemed to be able to usually tell if someone was lying or not. Although his ability was not entirely foolproof, he decided to trust them.
“Besides the lightning genes, I have other genetics,” Amon said slowly, “I call them the genetics of emotions. For now, I’ve created Fury’s genetic factor, and I’m currently creating Calm’s. Before, I needed to always keep myself contained, not being able to show emotions because I could lose control like what had happened sometimes in my childhood, and…”
“This, this…!” Maisa and Julia were paralyzed. They know very well why Amon was abandoned by his parents. One of the reasons was that he was furious and had beaten the other children who were bullying Elijah.
“Is the fact that you haven’t shown very much emotion since childhood because of that?” Ariel asked rhetorically. She had been there for a good part of Amon’s childhood, so he remembered how aloof he was and how he hardly ever showed his emotions.
“Yes, if I don’t remain indifferent, I could be dominated by my fury gene,” Amon said, “You four must have already noticed that I have strength which is superior to that of a level 1 Innate, even though my Genetic Factor is level 1. That is to say, even the Secret Realm that limits one’s power to level 1, for mine which has always been level 1, I wasn’t truly limited even though my power output may be equivalent to a level 2 Innate.”
This was an entirely shocking revelation for all the women sitting at the table. This kind of thing was something they had never heard of before, mostly because this kind of information was never made public. It was rare enough for someone like Bianca to exist, who had managed to merge her Genetic Factors and move forward with both… However, two in the same core, not as separate cores, yet they functioned as two sources of power?…
Now they began to understand many things. Amon’s strength had always been out of the ordinary, far beyond other people around his level. That was because he had always had the benefit of two Genetic Factors in a single person’s body.
“Wait, emotion genes… Calm and Fury, that’s… Something from the Norse Gods!” Bianca could no longer stay calm. She was shaking from head to toe as the hairs on her entire body stood on end.
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