Chapter 194 - The Truth Behind Wang Huang

"So, what did you understand from all those texts?" asked the empress.

"Mind clearing," Aryan replied in a single line. 

"Good, though it has one more meaning, but your meaning is still fine." After that, she told Aryan how the sage of illusions got frustrated and fed up with life and thought of a new way to heal his soul and mind.

Aryan already had a hunch about what was that way and what she was going to reveal. But even then he kept his quiet and kept on listening to her narration.

"You are guessing it right, Sen. Let me tell you what he did to heal his body and mind."

"Mhm, please tell."

At this point, his heart was already beating faster. He knew the answer; he had already guessed the answer, but he didn't want to believe it.

At last the empress broke the silence and told him the thing that he wanted to hear, "It is as you have guessed. He unlocked the seal to the lower realms and took birth on earth as Wang Huang."

Bdmp! Bdmp!! Bdmp~~~~!!

His heart began to beat faster and stopped at one point. It was hard on his part to digest the thing that he was listening from the empress.

His entire life as Wang Huang was a lie. A complete lie, and his life as Sen, the eighth sage also one of the knights of the yang emperor was a true!!

"Sigh~~" Aryan exhaled out a heavy breath and asked her for some water. 

The empress waved her hand and brought a glass of water from somewhere. Aryan drank it in one go and began to run his forehead.

He was having a headache, a headache big enough to tear down his head from inside.

The twist of the story was unknown to him even then he wasn't aware it will bring him that much of a headache to him. After taking some time to rearrange his thoughts, he looked towards Yui and asked, "So I am the Sage of Illusions, right? Tell me how can I make this power mine and how to revive my parents and the other peoples of the earth?"

"Mhm… For the very same reason, you have been sent here." Empress commented.

"What? How?! Couldn't understand!!~"

"Telling, telling" added the empress and cleared the doubt that had been killing him from inside from the very first day after coming to the sage world.

She revealed that on that day when he went to space and used that artifact, his soul along with Yui's soul was sent to a nearby parallel dimension.

The purpose was to make him feel the illusionary powers that he had sealed himself and forgotten long ago. Upon listening to this one more question raised in Aryan's mind, and without any hesitation he asked it out, "Then my real body is still floating in space, and here I am stuck with this Sen?"

"Yes, this world will have the same history as the original sage world, that happened trillions of years ago. After some years the dark side will try to attack it, and you will be the one who will save it from them."

"Oh~~"

"Yes, the Sen of this world, I mean the sage of illusion of this world will be pretty stronger before that time, and will successfully save this world. It will follow the same history like that of the old one that happened trillions of years ago."

"Oh~~"

"Then where was the problem? What was the problem?! I think I should have returned to the sage world after dying in that life as Wang Huang. Then why did I take birth as Aryan again?"

After hearing this question, the smile on Yui's face faded. Her face became gloom and somewhat serious.

Seeing the sudden change in her facial expression, Aryan became sure the real problem started from that point.

And as expected, this time too his hunch was right at the point. After staying quiet for some time, the empress told him the rest of the part. 

Trillions of years ago when the Sage of Illusions, or known by the name Sen was leaving for the lower realms the Sage Empress of that time asked him to stop and stay there with them in the sage world. Not only he was a powerful ally, but he was also the lover of the empress.

For the lover part, he wished to do something but was unable to do so. But for his absence in the sage world, he found out a way to deal with it.

With the help of his magic, he created a divine beast, called the Cx50, which had the same powers as him. It was a creature with a human body and the head of a boar.

The sage of Illusion was of the idea that after he left for the lower realm, the divine beast will fulfill his absence in the sage world.

But little did he know at that time, though the darkness had been defeated, it was still lurking inside of the sage world, and had already taken roots in it.

After he departed for the lower realms, the sages of the sage world who had allied with darkness did some conspiracy and corrupted the divine beast, and that was the point where everything started.

Since it had the same power as that of the sage of illusion, it destroyed half of the sage world and took life of many. To stop it the empress and the other knights of the Yang Emperor stood up again and fought fiercely with it. But even then they were unable to defeat.

Since they couldn't defeat it, they sealed it in one of the mid realms of the universe. But darkness interfered again and set it free from its seal.

And this time instead of going above it went down to the lower realms of the universe.

Aryan stopped her at once and took the narration from there, "Then it started devouring planets, and the Seven Sages emerged to save them in time of need, right?"

"Yes, right. Most of the souls were completely destroyed, so we used the power of the reincarnation gate and gave them a new life. But one such soul was there, which wasn't affected even after the attack of that Beast."

"And that soul was mine?" 

"Yes, it was yours. We took that soul and put it on the re-modified earth. At that time we were thinking we have successfully sealed that beast. But time and again our assumptions were proved wrong. The creature rise up again and again to devour the energy of the lower realms."

"One question," Sen intervened, "How come he was that powerful that not even you and the other jointly couldn't defeat it?"

"Good question," said the empress with a pissed off smile on her face. 

Aryan instantly realized he set his foot on a landmine, but it was already later for him. The empress kept that same smile on her face and told him the reason.

The reason they were unable to defeat the creature because, Sen, the sage of Illusion had transferred his all powers to the creature before going to the lower realms. And to add up the trouble the dark side too had given that creature some of its power to fight with them. 

Aryan gulped hard and began to stare the walls of the other side. Now that the empress told her the reason she called Aryan in a sweet voice and asked, "My dear husband Sen, now you know the reason why we were unable to defeat it?"

"Cough, yes."

"You better remember this reason. And during the last fight, some us of even got wounded and returned to the sage world for healing."

"Wait, wait, wait," Aryan stopped her and asked the reason why didn't they unlocked his memory and told him about all this. Till some moment ago empress's facial expression was normal, but when he asked this question like the previous time this time too she began to smile in a pissed-off manner.

And like the last time this time, too Aryan understood he stepped on a land mine.

"Let me tell you the reason why couldn't we tell you about it. It's because the great sage of illusions had sealed his memory in such a way that not even the empress wasn't able to unlock it."

Aryan "…"

"And to loosen off your seal we had to send you on another reincarnation with the memories of Wang Huang."

Aryan "…"

"All this time I have been trying to unlock your memory seal, by staying inside you. And got success just after entering this parallel world. Where my power got a boost thanks to the Will of the Sage World."

"I see."

"Yes, you just see, useless hubby. That creature of yours has already sensed my presence here. You have to do something about your power and gain it back somehow.. It will enter the sage world in a few months or maybe days to take revenge on me."