Chapter 130 - 12 Jewels

Even though he was telling all these to Aryan, he himself wasn't sure about the genuineness of the things mentioned in the records. But since the event before his birth had something to do with this he was stating them all to Aryan for his information.

With each passing minute, Aryan's mind was getting chaotic, and with each passing second, he was losing ten to twenty of his brain cells. The mystery around the Seven Sages was sucking him dry of his brain juice.

After processing every information with that tiny brain, Aryan asked Grand Elder to tell him more about them. Like what happened to them? Why did they vanish? And are they alive or already….

Grand Elder nodded and started again.

"Before I tell what happened to them, there is another thing that you must know about them," said the Grand Elder. 

"One more thing?!"

"Yes, one more thing and Jean will tell you about that," said the Grand Elder and cunningly shifted part of his work to Sir Jean.

If it were any other time Sir Jean wouldn't even obey his order rather he would have started a revolt against Grand Elder. But this time the situation was something different, so he gritted his teeth, cursed Grand Elder twice in his heart, and started.

According to the part told by Sir Jean, years ago Grand Elder, and Sir Jean's dad went on an expedition guided by a map of the Aizawa family. It was a map that Grand Elder found in the treasure vault of his family and roped Sir Jean's dad to come with him.

The map guided them into an ancient cave filled with treasures and magical artifacts. But those were the secondary things there. What they found alongside these treasures was a historical finding and that too on a universal scale.

While he was narrating this story Aryan intervened him once to ask the meaning of 'Historical Finding on a universal scale.' But Sir Jean didn't answer his question and instead continued his narration. Aryan understood from his response that he would find out its meaning soon, so he hung on to that question and listened to Sir Jean's narration.

The historical finding that Sir Jean was telling about was a wall painting and some manuscripts found inside the inner end of the cave. These paintings and that manuscript told them about the origin of the Seven Sages and the reason for their disappearance from the world.

The narration was getting excited and Aryan's heart was getting excited.

Till a day ago he was of the idea that it would take him another two to three years before he found out about the origins and the whereabouts of the Seven Sages, but the clock of fate ticked faster for him and the time came earlier than expected.

First, he got to meet the Seven Sages and know about their seven attributes, and now Sir Jean telling him the rest of the part that he wanted to learn.

Everything was going in his favor, but with that came a slight fear in his mind. 'If the time to know about them came earlier than expected, then the time of dark rising will come earlier than expected?!' 

He wanted to contemplate more on that topic, but Sir Jean's voice dragged him back to reality and made him hear the rest of the narration. 

According to Sir Jean, only two people, namely Grand Elder and Sir Jean's dad, were the participants of the expedition, and no other members were included in it. Since they can't keep up with their pace, it took them a month to shift the entire cave below the sea level to the surface of the earth.

Aryan gulped at the thought of it and stared blankly at his gramps. 'The person before him used to do that in his youth days!! God knows what he will do at the age of a grandparent!!'

After shifting it to the shore, they asked the forensic and archaeological team to examine and interpret all the data of the cave. It took them six months to decode and interpret everything, but finally, it was a success. 

After saying that much Sir Jean stopped and asked Yoshino for some refreshment, since it was a long narrative he was feeling dry and thirsty at one point.

While he was revitalizing his dry throat with some freshly prepared chocolate shake Aryan was pondering about the result they got after six months. He was calculating and preparing many possible answers, but all of them got crushed when Sir Jean started again.

The forensic team confirmed that the cave was two millennia old and the archaeology team discovered and interpreted the meaning of those manuscripts and the wall painting.

The wall painting was showing the origin and the disappearance of the Seven Sages, in a pictorial form. And the manuscript was telling the same in a written form. Sir Jean told him the exact words that the archaeologists translated from the wall painting and let him understand its meaning.

Aryan was smart enough for such things, so he asked Sir Jean to continue and fire it towards him

"The dark infinity was cold and empty

Only 12 jewels were adorned on it.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo, 

Violet, Purple, Silver, Olive, Gray, Brown, and Blue were their colors.

Time was passing peacefully and the souls on 

the jewels were passing their time peacefully.

Until one day when the infinity trembled, 

Trembled the jewels, and a rift appeared in the dark.

A rift connecting this world to another.

Many souls were looking at it when emerged a creature from

inside and looked towards the Violet jewel.

The dark infinity trembled again, and the violet became

Black. He slept in the infinity for some decades and woke

up again to devour the power of Purple and make it black.

He continued the same till a single jewel was left alone, and

That was the jewel of blue. The last jewel containing the souls

Of many.

No hope was left, their end was near. In the time of blue ornaments despair,

the infinite dark trembled again, and another

rift appeared.

Seven bright stars emerged from it and sealed off that creature.

The damage done was irreversible, so as a compensation

to the dark infinite, they created many ornaments for it.

And the departed souls were embedded in it."

"That was the translated version of the first page of the manuscript," added Sir Jean and gave Aryan some time to understand it properly.

Aryan on the other hand was somewhat confused about some things and was wrecking his brain to connect all the clues and hints.

Seeing the lil boy's serious expression, no one made a sound and left him alone to think about it.

Since it was past 1 PM Granny Kotori ordered Takeru and Yoshino to serve lunch for them.

They nodded as a response and rushed toward the kitchen. Since the morning everyone was seated there so all of them stood up one by one and left the room to refresh themselves and get ready for lunch.

Aryan was the only person who didn't even budge from his place and was lost in his thoughts~~~~

Half an hour passed and everyone returned back. Lunch was already served and everybody had started eating, Aryan was the only one who hadn't touched his plate and was still contemplating about it.

As usual, countless questions were popping up in his mind, but this time something more was going on there. As far as he remembered his gramps told him once that Seven Sages introduced the chakra energy after the great flood because they got enlightenment in that flood.

His gramps had also told him once that they came from seven different continents from the world…. 

And now half an hour ago Sir Jean told him that they appeared from a dimensional rift. This new fact was contradicting the things that his gramps had told him earlier.

And one more thing that Aryan pointed out was his gramps intervention. Even after Sir Jean finished telling him about the translated version gramps didn't rectify his past mistake, nor did he intervene in it.

'Then both of them must be true,' thought Aryan and got out of his deep thought by the smell of curry-rice before him.

He looked around and saw everyone was staring at him like he was a creature from another planet.

He looked them back and asked, "Why am I the center of attraction here? And why am I the only one who was served food, what about you all?"

Aditya "..."

Anisa "...."

Grand Elder "...."

"Hopeless case," commented Sir Jean.

"Confirmed, hopeless case" added Granny Kotori.

"Hopeless case for sure, the duo of father and son is the same species," added Grand Elder.

Aryan couldn't understand what they were talking about. He was about to ask when he felt a sharp pain from his lower part of the body.

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