Chapter 158 - Pain Of Losing

While Aryan was trying his best to suppress his emotions and think of a logical reason for all this happening, Yui dragged him back to reality and posed the data that she had been collecting for a while.

"Master, clear your muddled head and hear me out." Said Yui. This time there was a seriousness in her voice. Just by the tone of voice Aryan became sure her data was not good news.

But he didn't say anything and kept his mouth quiet to let her speak.

"Master, when we removed that barrier from that haunted mansion, I sensed something that I had sensed long ago. Something that I had forgotten over time. But I am sensing that thing again!! And it's not good news."

Aryan had no idea what she was talking about this "sensing".

"I know, you must be thinking about whom I am talking about, right?"

"Yes…. I really had no idea what you are talking about!!"

"Sigh, it's reasonable to. All your memories are locked for now."

Aryan ��…"

"Leave it, we will talk about that any other time. Let me transfer the data I have collected," said Yui and began to transfer tons of data into his mind.

Huge amount of numbers, graphs, and bar graphs started to flow in his mind. Some minutes later she completed the data transfer and asked Aryan to sort them out, using his mental power.

Aryan did as she said, and found the transferred data in correct format. His eyes widened upon reading it. His hands began to tremble. His strength began to fade out.

He fell on the ground, and started to screech.

"Gahhhhhhhhh, gahhhhhhhhh"

Seeing his master in pain, Yui wanted to help, but she was helpless at that time. The information in the data was something that he must know and accept.

After screeching to his throat, Aryan wiped his tears and asked, "Yui, you sure your divine sense is not playing tricks on you?!"

"Yes master, I am sure. And I didn't use divine sense this time. I used the seven-star floating in the sky to trigger a planetary scan from there."

"Oh~~~!!" exclaimed Aryan. He was in no mood to ask about this "Planetary Scan," instead he asked, "So, it's empty now?"

"Yes, they are empty."

"And the reason?"

"Same as our planet. I sensed that thing here."

"I see,"

"Yes, and it's not a good thing, that thing is already awake now."

Aryan remained quiet for some time then asked, "Care to tell, whom did you sense? And who was the reason behind all this?"

"The CREATURE," replied Yui. And stopped her mouth at that. It took her more than just some sheer courage to speak out that name again.

All this time she was freaking out in her mind. Now that she had told this to Aryan, she calmed down a little and observed the Aryan's reaction to it.

Meanwhile, Aryan was pretty calm and was somewhat confused about it. Deep in his heart, he had an answer, a possibility that he didn't want to believe, but he was putting it aside and thinking of other possibilities.

"Master, don't think too much. It is what it is."

Aryan "…."

"You are just avoiding that possibility, aren't you?" asked Yui.

"Yes, because that's the last thing I wanted to believe."

"There aren't any first or last here. That possibility is the answer."

"Then you mean…" Aryan stopped for a while. What he wanted to say after that was the worst outcome that he was avoiding.

Before he blurted out another word Yui intervened and blurted it out on his face.

"It's the same CREATURE that the seven sages had sealed. And the same CREATURE that you have to defeat in the upcoming future."

Bdmp! Bdmp!! Bdmp!!!

Aryan heart was beating heavily. His heart rate was going down drastically, and each beating was getting heavier than the last time.

His limbs became numb. He was feeling a pain in his heart, even then he wasn't showing any reaction on his face.

As per the Seven Sages, the great danger, the great darkness that they were talking about was to come after he became eighteen years in his new life.

But something happened, and the CREATURE was out now!!

And to add up the frustration, he had cleaned the entire solar system, where Aryan was residing. Only Aryan and some of his friends that he saved were alive in an entire solar system!!

He had no idea what to do and what to not. Start a new life with the remaining of the friends he had. Or take revenge on the CREATURE.

And if yes, then how?

His powers were similar to that of an ant before him. Even the Seven Sages had difficulties to defeat that CREATURE. What in the world a tiny boy like him can do before him?

While he was engrossed in his thinking the increasing pain his heart dragged him back to reality and slapped the current situation on him.

He was not sure what to do by living. Life was useless for him without the support of his family members.

He stood up with some difficulty and looked towards the red sky above him. The signs were similar to the day of doom. And the two red glowing suns were like the signs of the apocalypse.

But Aryan wasn't interested in them. He was looking all around and searching for something in the sky. After looking here and there for a while, he found the thing that he was looking for.

The constellation of the Seven Stars, the star of guidance, and the last hope of his life. He was putting all his hope on that constellation, if it failed him, then he was ready to end his life, which was meaningless without his friends, family, and relatives.

Abruptly he joined his hands and started chanting some sutras. The source of the spell was unknown as it was not available in his grimoire. It was taking him some time to achieve what he was doing.

Yui understood what he wanted to do and helped him in it by mobilizing all of his chakra energy to his forehead.

Aryan appreciated the help and continued to chant the spell and gather the purest form of his mental energy at his forehead. After gathering enough mental energy, he started to combine his chakra and mental energy into one and created something new called Sage Energy.

It was something that cultivators can dream of making after ascending the seventh stage of cultivation. But Aryan was doing it on the first stage with his second stage chakra half-opened.

The chaos beasts too helped him from his soul sea by accumulating more chakra from the surrounding and sending it to his forehead.

The sage energy began to erupt from his body and covered his body in golden light. Like the previous time, while fighting with the ancient ghost, a pink overcoat appeared on him.

He started chanting the spell faster, and the surge of sage energy increased. Just within a fraction of a minute, a golden holo appeared behind him. With seven symbols of the Seven Sages engraved on it.

Aryan entered into his sage mode finally and looked at the seven stars constellation above him.

He reached out his hands towards the night sky and made a grabbing motion towards it.

Suddenly, his legs left the ground, and Aryan began to levitate in the air. Aryan was flying towards the direction of the seven stars at a rapid speed. Yui knew he was trying to activate his sage mode, but after that she had no idea what he was trying to do.

After flying for some minutes, Aryan was already out of the planet and was on his way to the seven stars.

Yui thought he would travel light-years of distance to reach near the stars. But Aryan abruptly stopped in a place and started looking around.

"Master, is there something wrong?"

"No, it must be somewhere here," said Aryan, and started looking around like before.

Suddenly, he stopped looking and went near a meteorite floating in space. Yui had a confused expression on his face for why did Aryan go near a meteorite, it wasn't even emitting any special energy.

Aryan went near and created a small ring out of his sage energy. The ring had the seven symbols of the seven sages engraved on it. The moment he released the ring, the meteorite started to glow and absorbed the ring inside.

The meteorite changed its shape into a small box and placed itself on Aryan's hand.

Till then Yui was confused as she didn't have any record about that ring nor about the meteorite event inside her mind.

Aryan opened the box and found a small blue orb inside it. Yui was about to ask something when

Cruch!!

Aryan broke that orb without a second think. 

Yui shouted out in panic, "Master, just what did you do know?!!"

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Don't forget to drop power stones.. >.<