Karna was walking on the muddy road; both sides of the road were just forest trees.
He had already left the village. It didn’t take long for him to convince the ladies.
After spending some time, around half an hour, with them, he heard a foot steps, so he thought others were came looking for him, so he ran away. Priti tried to stop him, but she was stopped by Lysa.
Lysa supported him. She said something like, We can’t keep holding him back in this small village, she was the most understanding and sensible of them all.
But it wasn’t even ten minutes when Karna left the village behind, and he started feeling an ache in his chest.
It wasn’t easy to leave when he had never stepped out of the village before.
Maybe this type of feeling they also felt?
Karna wasn’t sure of it. In truth, he wanted to return, right now. But he knew he couldn’t.
He was worried about them.
They were just normal humans, not demigods like him. So, he was afraid of them dying.
Taking their life didn’t require any godly thing; normal humans and animals, or just one accident, would be enough to kill them.
He also knew this worry was needless. They would die in one day anyway. It’s not like, even staying in the village, he could protect them for twenty-four hours.
But...
This, but in his heart, wasn’t leaving him. He wants them to live longer.
That’s why he left the village in the first place.
In this world, there was no complete immortality.
At least that’s what he read in Indian mythology. But this world wasn’t the same, so maybe it was possible here to achieve immortality and make the others stronger too.
There were many different things he noticed to conclude that this was a different world than mythology, with similarities.
The proof was a he himself. He himself was reincarnated as a well-known character, though he was nothing like him.
Thinking about it, Karna chuckled.
The Karna in mythology was picked by different and good parents, not by some random thief.
And he was also born with divine armor and earrings, and abandoned by his mother in a river. Well, in the story, his mother was unmarried when he was born, so afraid of what society would say about her and her parents, she abandoned him secretly without telling anyone.
And Karna wasn’t born like a normal child through sex.
The story was that his mother got a divine spell from some sage, and with that spell she could call any God and ask for divine sons from them, and they couldn’t deny her wish, but there was a limit: she couldn’t call the supreme gods.
And that’s how she got her six demigod sons. And the eldest of them all was Karna, who was abandoned by her because she was afraid of society.
Not including Karna, her five sons were great heroes of this Era.
In the story, Karna fought on the wrong, evil side in the war and was killed by his third younger brother, Arjuna.
Or you could say he was indirectly killed by God, fate, and his own bad Karma- the bad choices he made, the some heavy bad deeds he did.
As he said earlier, Karna in mythology was a great character.
Every morning, when the sun rose, he prayed to Surya Deva– his godfather, the sun god. And after that, he donated money and food, cows, etc., to poor people, and he also took a vow that after his prayers for one hour, if any Brahmin(scholar caste) asked him anything, he wouldn’t say no.
And Karna never broke vows or promises, and he was a loyal friend; he could die for his friends. And yet the whole world cursed him and said no to him, because the person adopt him and took him from the river was from the lower castes, so he got a tag that he was from a lower caste, since his adoptive parents were from the lower castes, and no one knew in reality he was the eldest prince.
So people insulted him and didn’t teach him archery or many things he wanted to learn.
So, build kind of thinking that he needed to prove to the world how capable he was, that he could become the best archer in the world, better than Arjuna, and at this point he was better in every way.
Since he was hard-working and learned from one of the best, of course, after telling some lies about his caste.
So at this point he was a good, struggling character whom the world was looking down on, just because his parents were from a lower caste.
But everything changed from here; before, he was down to earth but still was shining like the sun, while fighting against the small view of society.
But here he committed his first mistake; he lied to his Guru to learn; he lied to him that he was a Brahmin,
Since the sage who was his Guru only taught Brahmins, and when his Guru found out his lie, he cursed him that Karna would forget his teachings when he needed them most; here he received his first curse.
The second curse he received was from a poor Brahmin: Karna killed his cow while practicing archery, so the Brahmin cursed him in anger that, as his cow died, Karna would also die helplessly.
The third and final curse, and it was hilarious.
The story was that he pressed the earth too hard with the wheels of his chariot, and the earth goddess felt pain, and she cursed him like this. Because of you, I felt pain. I will leave you at your final moments, and your wheel will strike me.
"Like seriously!"
Remembering it again, Karna scoffed and kicked the tree branch in front of him like a football.
He understood the first curses, but the earth felt pain because a single man pressed the wheel too hard. Seriously, writers write anything.
Well, yeah, it’s possible it was possible when the modern vast population is drilling the earth for endless blind consumption to fulfill greedy hunger and desire that would never be satisfied, and there was no end to it. So, in a sense, the author might have been teaching you that Earth will curse you: she takes revenge, in the sense of climate change, floods, hunger, etc.
But it didn’t make sense here; Karna wasn’t even the heaviest or physically strongest character to hurt Earth. It was more like the Brahmin curse wasn’t enough for him, so to strengthen it, fate added the curse of a goddess.
But at this point, things were going wrong with Karna. He wasn’t doing wrong.
But he started doing wrong when he made the wrong friend and felt indebted to that wrong person...