Kyle watched the scene in silence.
'Is this what the advancement is about?' Kyle thought as he looked at his mother and his younger self.
'Even though he was looking at them, he was paying more attention to something else.
The Karmic Lines.
'My powers have not vanished. I can still see the Karmic Lines. Since they are Mortals, their Karmic Luck doesn't change, but the Karmic Lines are still there.'
Just by looking at the Karmic Lines, Kyle learned a lot about his mother. Additionally, Mortals were not very complicated, and compared to a Seeker, their minds were slow. Even the smallest twitches of their facial muscles were unmissable to Kyle.
Every wrinkle and faded scar had a story. The composition of her body told Kyle how she had lived her life. Even more, since Kyle's Divine Consciousness could easily encompass all of Earth, he could also follow his mother's Karmic Lines to their origins.
He could see her teachers, acquaintances, friends, family, and all the other people she had been in contact with. Then, by reading their Karmic Lines and compositions, Kyle could recreate the majority of his mother's past life with reliable accuracy.
'It's strange that I can sense all of Earth. I thought that I could only see what I remember, but that's not the case. This means that this scene hasn't been recreated by my memories. Instead, it seems like I'm viewing a recording of Earth.'
Kyle felt the Elemental Energies of Earth.
'There's barely any Energy,' he thought. 'The Primordial Forces have been changed and locked, forcing the Elemental Energies into realized states. The Primordial Forces are taking their potential away, locking them into unchangeable states.'
As Kyle looked at his mother, a complex expression appeared on his face.
'Sure enough, no human life is uncomplicated and clear.'
Kyle could see a big part of his mother's life. She grew up in an above-average, suburban family. Her own mother had been at home all of the time, but she hadn't truly put in any effort into raising her three children. Most of the work had been done by a nanny. Her father had been busy and distant. Instead of asking how his children were doing, he was asking about their grades and behavior. If they were not up to par, he coldly criticized his wife, who was forced to take the criticism. She had often dreamed about running away from home and divorcing her husband, but that meant that she needed to get a job, and she really didn't want to do that.
'Kyle's mother woke up in a cold home, and when she became a teenager, she started to act out. She tried to find a community, but the only group that accepted her was made of teenagers and young adults who had their own problems. Bad influences spread, and when she became 17, she got addicted to meth.
Her mother found out a year later and used her addiction as a weapon to criticize her husband. According to her, her daughter had turned out like this because her father was never home to discipline her.
The resulting argument broke the family apart, and both of them admitted to cheating. The father got custody of the two younger children. Kyle's mother had been the oldest, and her father had immediately forbidden her from contacting her siblings. He didn't want a druggy to negatively influence his two children.
She landed on the street and worked as a prostitute. Eventually, she met Kyle's father, and they made a deal. Drugs in exchange for sex.
Sadly, that didn't help her get off the streets, which was why she came up with a plan. She had realized that her new friend had an interesting mix of morals. His values were very traditional, and he valued children highly. Due to his own troubled past, he abhorred parents who divorced while raising a child. They had made a choice to have a child, and it was their job to stick together until the child was an adult, no matter how much the two hated each other.


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