Chapter 189 - Sage Empress Yui

"I see, so that's what it meant!"

This time Aryan was able to understand some things and compare it with his current situation. And according to it he hadn't done any time travel or a time jump to the past.

"Sigh…" After knowing what he wanted to know he was no longer interested in giving that test. All he wanted then was to get out from there as soon as possible.

While he was pondering about it the great goddess of luck smiled upon Aryan and fulfilled his wish. Suddenly, something happened and his soul returned back to his body.

After sleeping for an unknown duration of time, Aryan slowly opened his eyes, and on a soft comfy sofa.

"Aghh," Groaned Aryan. His head was still spinning and aching from the transfer of his soul, twice a day.

Since he was feeling somewhat tired he didn't wake up immediately and lazed around for some minutes before waking up and sitting on the sofa.

On a gaze around his surroundings, Aryan found himself in a closed white room with no decorations or furniture inside it, except the white sofa, on which he was sitting earlier.

Thinking of a way to get out of the room and to face another test, Aryan was pondering about all these when a creaking sound came from his rear.

Aryan turned around and found a door was wide open behind him.

Some moments ago when he was taking a look around him he was unable to spot any door or windows inside the room. But now he was seeing a door opened behind him.

"Well, let's go out. I don't have enough brain cells to think about anything now." Muttered Aryan, and followed the way out of the room.

After walking for some distance in a white tunnel Aryan found another door there leading him outside of that place.

A giant hall, decorated with golden ornaments and flowers. A crown at the end of the room. And on top of it was a lady with a veil on her face.

"Welcome, welcome to my palace Sen, Zenzeng." Greeted him a voice.

Aryan heard the sweet voice of the lady sitting on top of the crown and shuddered in astonishment. The face behind the veil and the owner of that voice was someone with whom Aryan had been acquainted for the longest time.

Only one name was popping up in his mind. And the name of that person was none other than "Yui"

On hearing her first "Welcome" Aryan was taken aback. Since he was expecting her in the first place. And when he heard her for the second time he became sure that this was the last person that he was missing in the sage world.

The Supreme Guardian Spirit, and the Sage Emperor, or rather Empress of the Sage World, Yui.

From the last few months, he had been wondering about it, that he was meeting all the characters of his old world in the Sage world. Starting from his parents, to his grandparents, followed by the maids, butlers, and some other characters.

But till then he hadn't met some characters who were very close to him. And one of them was his Supreme Guardian Spirit, Yui.

She had been with Aryan since the time of his awakening, and she was always there to help him in time of need. When he became aware that somehow and for some reason all the characters of his old world were there he tried to search for Yui, but no matter where he searched he was unable to do so.

Her elder sister Rikka could have been Yui, but that was not possible at all since she was totally different from her, both in physical appearance and internal characteristics.

Some days ago when the name "Sage Emperor" began to appear frequently in his daily life, and that too more than twice or thrice, Aryan somehow got the idea that Yui must be someone related to the sage emperor or maybe the sage emperor himself. But he rejected the second idea since it was an emperor, not an empress.

But when Aryan went through double ascension and his powers increased by several folds, he was able to sense Yui, even though he was way much farther than her.

After seeing Yui he wanted to ask, "Yui, what's going on? Where am I? Reincarnation or a parallel universe?" But he didn't dare to do so. As she was the sage emperor of the sage world. Also, he wasn't sure if she was the same Yui he knows or the Sage Empress character of the sage world.

The silence in the room became deeper and deeper. No one was striking the conversation. Listening to their convo from the outside, or rather ear dropping I should say, Nagarin barged into the room and began to shout at Aryan.

"You impeccable fool!! You didn't pay her respect at that time, nor are you giving her this time. Who do you think you are?"

Aryan snapped back to reality and had a look at his current situation.

Nagisa was shouting at him for not paying respect, and the sage empress was laughing behind her smile for some reason. Though Nagisa was not aware of this, Aryan could clearly see that she was laughing at Nagisa for some reason.

"Empress, why aren't you telling him anything? He is becoming arrogant after going through a double ascension." Nagisa complained at the top of her throat.

Observing the atmosphere of that hall was getting ruined Aryan finally decided to open his mouth and give Nagisa a solid reply.

But this time he didn't do it directly. Instead took a roundabout way for it.

"Ahem, Miss Empress, if you may, can you make her understand?" asked Aryan.

The empress nodded and eyed Nagisa to tell him something. Nagisa was taken aback when the empress nodded and looked towards her.

She was her number one retainer of her majesty. Everything she does is known to her. 'Then why in the world did she turn towards me?' pondered Nagisa.

"You know it very well right, who are the ones who can talk with me like that?"

"Um… The other knights of the sage emperor, Aria and that nerd Nex of the research division."

"Yes, then why are you shouting at him like that?" asked the empress in a sweet voice. Not a single drop of anger wasn't present in her voice, and instead, she was enjoying that conversation for some reason.

"Because he isn't Nex or Aria. Nor he is a knight of the Yang~~" She stopped at that by biting her tongue.

The thought never crossed her mind that Sen could be one of the knights of the Yang Emperor. Now that she thought about that she also remembered that only one out of many can go through a double ascension.

Not only that when Sen heard the voice some hours ago for the first time, but he also mentioned "emperor or empress should I say" something like that before her.

She didn't know what to do anymore. In the sage world, the eleven knights including the sage emperor are treated like gods. Though the sage emperor, who has inherited the strongest attribute of the Yang emperor is revered as the king of the sage world. But the other ten knights were the ones who overlook the matters of the world and protect it from any calamity or danger.

And talking rudely to one such person~~

She didn't know how bigger her offense was at that time. Deep inside she wanted to apologize to him and ask for his forgiveness, but her pride as the number one retainer and the preimage of Sen as a lowly cultivator was stopping her from doing so.

When her brain was overloaded with what to do and what to know she couldn't make a proper decision and ran out of the room.

Both Aryan and the empress laughed at the childish behavior of Nagarin and looked towards each other while doing so.

The empress clapped twice and the hall was enclosed with a sound preventing barrier.

Now they were ready to talk about some things that they wanted to do for a while.

"Tell the meaning of time jump." Ordered the empress.

"Time travel is the concept of moving backwards or forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space, and different from the normal "flow" of time to an earthbound observer. In this view, all points in time (including future times) "persist" in some way. Time travel has been a plot device in fiction since centuries. Travelling backwards in time has never been verified, presents many theoretical problems, and may be an impossibility. Any technological or magical device, whether fictional or hypothetical, that is used to achieve time travel is known as a time machine."

"Good, and what's the central problem with it?"

"A central problem with time travel to the past is the violation of causality; should an effect precede its cause, it would give rise to the possibility of a temporal paradox. Some interpretations of time travel resolve this by accepting the possibility of travel between branch points, parallel realities, or universes."

"Nice, you have learned it by heart, I guess."