"Demon nature will attract demon nature. He is destined to stay away from ordinary people's lives. He will find his own abnormalities, which are beyond his control." The Supreme Mage looked at the bright star in the eastern sky and said to his disciples, " His talent is far higher than yours, which is not necessarily a good thing. He will also encounter weird things that you have never encountered in his future life. There is no need to envy him, Mordo, Casillas. I will He suffers when responsibilities that do not belong to him are imposed on him.”
Jezebel suffered from abdominal pain—she had been abandoned, or rather, she had abandoned herself.
She has no one around her in this huge city of New York.
When she fled her country for the marriage arranged by her father, she only had a few U.S. dollars with her, but now she has paid them all to the smuggler who smuggled her there. If it weren't for the small hammer she picked up on the boat, she might not have been able to maintain her virginity.
But she did not regret it. Even though the small space on the stowaway boat was only enough for everyone to stand, and even excretion was difficult, and people kept getting sick, had fever, and were thrown from the boat, she never regretted escaping from that country.
She didn't want to marry the old Cora next door, who was already bald. From the time she was ten years old, Jezebel would always tremble when Old Korah's sticky eyes slid over her body, but when she was nineteen years old, Old Korah proposed to her father that she should When she was offered 100,000 new shekels to marry her, her father agreed without hesitation.
Not only does Jezebel’s brother who has not served in the military need a large enough wedding house in the future, but a large group of younger brothers and sisters in the family also need enough money, not to mention that a pilgrimage to Jerusalem also requires a large amount of money. .
She almost wanted to scream - there are very few Haredi families as poor as theirs, but the community they live in is full of poor people. The men in the family can only nod and recite sutras, and all the sources of income are women. And their family could not afford for her to study mathematics and natural sciences.
Jezebel didn't want her future to be like those women standing in a daze on the dusty streets with their children in their arms. She had seen their appearance before, and it only became alive the day the government subsidies arrived. Jezebel could imagine that if she married old Korah, she would definitely become a lifeless puppet like those women.
It's not that she didn't resist, but all she got was a beating from her father and double the labor. Her father hoped that she would be a docile wife in the future, at least... a wife who could make Old Cora pay.
During that time, she kept chanting the holy name of Jehovah, hoping that a prophet would take her away from this place - and then suddenly one day, the water flowing out of the faucet turned into blood. Such a phenomenon It happened for seven days in a row, but her father said it was just rust in the pipes and didn't take it to heart.
Jezebel, who had only studied the Torah, was pleasantly surprised and thought it was a revelation, just as Moses had convinced Pharaoh. So she did not hesitate to steal the dollars her mother earned while working, ran away, and came to this country that flaunted democracy and freedom and was said to flow with milk and honey, looking forward to a new life.
However, how can a young girl who has only learned basic religious knowledge and knows nothing else find a job? No matter how hardworking her hands are, she cannot sign any contracts without identification.
Jezebel could only survive with a meager daily salary. For this reason, she even had to disguise herself as a pagan and wear a gauze scarf to cover her fair beauty to avoid harassment by street gangsters. But suddenly one day, she felt nauseous - a sister who was also an illegal immigrant who worked with her told her that she was pregnant.
She couldn't believe her ears, she was still a girl!
The more she thought about it, the more panicked she became. After checking her body, she confirmed her chastity. But as her belly grew bigger day by day, she also dreamed of a man immersed in light who said to her: "Give birth to him, and you will be called a saint."
This frightened her because this was a god from pagan stories. Even if this god was real, she didn't think she could be blessed by him. She was not Mary either. Jezebel didn't know if this was an illusion or an illusion. The real Holy Spirit.
But she was indeed a little reluctant to give up. This child was destined to be a child without a father, and she would not go to a Joseph to get married in a hurry. In any case, the teachings did not allow her to have an abortion, so she gave up seeking help from a doctor.
So Jezebel dragged her burdensome body and worked diligently, but the meager salary was not enough to support the nutrition of the mother and fetus. She lost weight day by day, her hands and feet were weak, and it was even difficult to work. Losing her job also caused her to lose her place to live, but fortunately, a priest took her in after hearing her story (although the priest didn't believe it, but out of sympathy), allowing her to wipe her hair during the day. She wiped the pews and obtained some bread and wine left over from communion to survive. She could also live in the parking lot behind the church, and the priest provided her with bedding and hot water.
Jezebel was very grateful for the priest's help. As the child in her belly grew, she became more and more unable to move, but she still forced herself to eat food just so that the child could be born healthy.
She had a premonition that her child was about to be born on this cold starlit night, but her body was already in terrible condition due to long-term malnutrition. The child in her belly was like a parasite, greedily sucking the mother's body fluids. nutrient.
When the Ancient Master in yellow robes appeared in front of her, she could only shed tears, barely get up from lying down, and plead with the Supreme Master in a weak voice to save her child.
"I followed the stars." Ancient Master squatted down next to Jezebel. She pointed to the star in the sky. She told Jezebel, "Your child will be born, and he will become mine." disciple."
The Venerable opened the box in his hand, placed the gold, frankincense and myrrh inside beside Jezebel, and used magic to maintain the vitality of Jezebel like a candle in the wind. When the child was born, Master Ancient One saw circular wounds on the ten fingers of the crying baby. Red light flowed from the wounds, but Jezebel did not see it.
"I can no longer save you. Your life was too bad when you were pregnant." In the eyes of the Supreme Mage, Jezebel was surrounded by soft white light. It was these white lights that made her collapse. The body stabilized, but when this different child was born, the positive energy dissipated, and even the Lord's magic could not support Jezebel's body any longer. On her deathbed, she closed her eyes with tears.
"Salomon," she said.
"Salomon Damonet, he will be the one who creates miracles." Ancient One Master said. Jezebel nodded with her last breath.
"Your soul will go to heaven."
Then, a huge white beam shot up into the sky, hymns inaudible to ordinary people rang through the sky, and Jezebel closed her eyes. The Supreme Mage wrapped the child in a red holy cloth. The wounds on the baby's fingers healed immediately, leaving only ten circular marks. His Holiness opened the portal and brought the lifeless Jezebel and her newly-born child back to Kama Taj.
When the priest of the church woke up due to the huge beam of light, he came to the parking lot and only saw gold, frankincense and myrrh left on Jezebel's bed. The young woman was missing.
After the Supreme Master returned to Kama Taj, the young disciples immediately gathered around him. They had noticed something strange in the city. But His Holiness stopped them from asking questions and instead handed the child over to them and buried Jezebel in a mausoleum near Kamal Taj.
On the night Salomon Damonet was born, the number of abyssal creatures that invaded the earth suddenly increased. Although they were all spontaneous actions of low-level demons, it was enough to keep the magicians of Kama Taj busy for a while. . In the end, the Supreme Mage personally went to the abyss and visited several abyss lords to end the riot.
Regarding the wound on Salomon Damonet's finger, the Supreme Mage called it a stigmata. After the ancient mage wrapped it in a holy cloth to stop the bleeding, and then used magic to heal it, the stigmata disappeared. Salomon Damonet himself was deeply trapped in overlapping memories. After he was brought back to Kama Taj, he was handed over to the care of several female mages with childcare experience, but when he opened his eyes... After opening his eyes, he no longer cried, but showed confusion.
There are many different memories in his mind. Sometimes he is a dead man who stays in his room all day, living an ordinary and uninteresting life; sometimes he is a mage favored by the gods, Later, he fell into madness due to paranoia and was turned into ashes by another god. After another three hundred years, he became a lich and was finally killed by twelve paladins; sometimes he was also a great warrior from Golarion. The memory of the mage became the lackey of the Old Ones.
Not only that, as the Supreme Mage left, the holy marks on his ten fingers emitted uncertain light, but before the soul finally fell into madness, all the holy marks were extinguished.
Salomon Damonet can finally rest in peace.
