Chapter 494 - Waking Up (1/2)
”You're still here? If you don't wake up soon, you'll forever remain useless.” The handsome man suddenly said.
”I don't quite understand… Even if I want to wake up, I cannot wake up until I finish this dream. It's been like this for many weeks now.” Yuan said.
The handsome man sighed and snapped his fingers, suddenly changing the scenery from the jade tablet to the peak of some unknown mountain.
On this mountain, there were countless swords stabbed into the ground, looking like a graveyard for swords or something of that sort.
”Where are we?” Yuan asked.
”You don't remember?” The handsome man asked him.
”Why would I remember something I have never seen before?”
”...”
The handsome man silently looked at him with a pondering look.
He then spoke in a sighing voice, ”Looks like the curses had affected you worse than I'd anticipated.”
”Huh? You know about the curses?” Yuan's eyes widened with surprise.
”Of course.”
”Then can you tell me more about it?”
However, to Yuan's surprise, the handsome man said, ”Nah.”
”Eh?”
”Learning about the curses in your current condition won't do you any good. In fact, it might even harm you. Therefore, I won't say anything for now.”
”Then can you at least tell me who you are?” Yuan asked for his identity again.
The handsome man smiled, and he began approaching Yuan.
Once he was standing right in front of Yuan, he said, ”You really have no idea?”
Yuan frowned, and he proceeded to stare at the man's face while trying to figure out if he'd seen this man before.
However, no matter how hard he thought, he was unable to remember anything.
He eventually shook his head, ”I don't know you.”
”You don't know me, yet I somehow appeared in your dreams. You don't dream about people you have never seen before, you know? Somewhere deep in your mind— your soul remembers me. That's why I am here.”
”Even if you tell me that, I can't remember what I don't remember.” Yuan sighed.
”Then why don't I nudge your memories a little?” The handsome man suddenly retrieved a beautiful sword from thin air and pointed it at Yuan.
”Fight me.”
”What?” Yuan looked at him with wide eyes.
”Fight me.” The handsome man repeated.
”I don't even have a weapon.”
”This is your dream. Just imagine one.”
Hearing his words, Yuan imagined the Empyrean Overlord.
When the handsome man saw the large sword in Yuan's grasp, he smiled and said, ”So you decided to use his sword, huh?”
”You know this sword?” Yuan asked.
”Of course. You don't?” The handsome man asked him, once again implying that he should also know about it.
”I—”
However, right as Yuan opened his mouth to speak, the handsome man suddenly stepped forward and attacked.
Yuan quickly reacted to the strike, blocking it.
”Not bad… But you're still too weak.”