Chapter 105: the moment when amateur mystical creatures and mortals use personal world
The scorching sunlight baked Sunkiss Fortress that stood in the middle of a sea of desert sand, dryness occurred not only around the fortress but also in every throat of the living creatures staying in Sunkiss Fortress.
Alex walked toward the kitchen to quench his thirst, he gulped down cold mineral water as if he had never drunk water before, a relieved sigh came from him as he wiped the traces of water from his lips, the veins protruded on his forehead as if he was not satisfied. But the real reason was because of Krystal’s voice that kept talking in Alex’s head.
’Forgive me okay? Okay? I really didn’t know...’ a tired sigh came from Krystal ’I swear I didn’t know, I ended up showing something bad...’ Alex started massaging his forehead while Krystal kept talking ’you know this is my first time being an angel...I don’t know why my room changed and suddenly became like that...’
Alex drank his cold water again while speaking in his mind ’first, you’re not becoming an angel for the first time, but you’re just an angel...’ Alex threw away his bottle which was now empty ’second, stop apologizing all the time damn it!! I’m not blaming you, you’ve been like this for three days...’
Krystal’s voice sounded softer ’still...I...I couldn’t even bear seeing it. Forgive me okay?’ Alex stroked his chin, he leaned against one of the cabinets ’just forget it...besides I got to see them again, I also got to know what happened...yeah honestly, those kinds of things are what sometimes make me curious.’
Alex bit his lip ’don’t apologize again okay? Let’s just enjoy these holidays before-’ something shining stopped Alex from speaking to Krystal in his head, Alex turned to the right, there a door with golden light on its edges suddenly appeared.
A familiar voice came from behind the door "oii...looks like you’re already healed huh? Are you talking with my angel?" Alex swallowed and let out a sigh of relief "Saint Azara? Shit...I thought it was an ambush? What’s this? Did you turn into a golden door now?"
Saint Azara clicked her tongue "come in...I think you’re already better, let’s find out about yours and Krystal’s personal world...while studying of course."
Alex scratched his forehead "isn’t there supposed to be at least a week of vacation? You know my condition was pretty worrying right?" Saint Azara exploded and the golden door looked like it was being pounded from inside "just get in bastard!! Or do you want me to send you back to the desert?!"
Alex chuckled and grabbed the door handle and turned it "hey...a saint isn’t supposed to be evil you know?" Alex opened the golden door, a gust of wind immediately hit him together with the smell of old books.
Alex narrowed his eyes, he peeked slightly and his view was immediately greeted by rows of gigantic bookshelves, Alex opened and closed his mouth several times, he also saw a collection of clouds as the ceiling of the room, he immediately entered the room and the door that brought him there disappeared.
Alex walked between the gigantic bookshelves, several times he looked at old books that were still well-maintained and dustless, eventually he arrived at a table where Saint Azara sat while raising both of her legs onto the table.
"What is this?" Saint Azara picked at her golden tiger ear "this is the Saint Library...this library was inherited from the previous saints..." Alex looked at the gigantic bookshelves behind her, he never stopped being amazed.
Saint Azara rose from her seat and stood in front of the gigantic wooden table while slightly sitting on it and looking at Alex "have you never been to a national library? This place is nothing compared to that actually..." Alex shook his head and looked at Saint Azara "never..."
Saint Azara nodded several times "what a country bumpkin..." Saint Azara pointed at her own head "what were you talking about with my little angel?" Alex scratched the back of his neck "she keeps apologizing after that incident..."
Saint Azara crossed her arms, her golden tiger tail moved however it wanted "so it really wasn’t intentional huh? What exactly did you see? I mean, convulsing is normal...I’ve experienced it too."
Saint Azara’s golden eyes looked at Alex seriously "but what you saw wasn’t something light either right?" Alex nodded several times in agreement "yeah...it wasn’t light."
Alex scratched his nose while looking at Saint Azara "I can’t tell you what it was, what’s certain is that it was something I shouldn’t have been able to see." Alex stroked his chin "and Krystal’s room also changed before that incident..."
Saint Azara nodded "I actually have several guesses, but we also have to check it, are you ready?" Alex looked at Saint Azara seriously "will it hurt?"
Saint Azara smiled faintly, her golden predator eyes did not smile "depends..." a sigh came from Saint Azara’s lips "I think the uniqueness of Krystal’s personal world is being able to see the truth..."
Alex’s black eyes widened "the truth?" Saint Azara nodded several times, she tapped the large wooden table she was leaning on "I don’t know the mechanism...but maybe it’s like that. Is what you saw something you wanted to see?"
Alex tilted his head and scratched his neck "maybe? Sometimes I’m just curious..." Saint Azara frowned "then try it, this time use me as the object, let’s see if it can work..."
Saint Azara pointed at Alex with her chin "Krystal...flow your holy energy...if there are changes in your room or something happens you have to tell us first..." Alex nodded in understanding on Krystal’s behalf.
Meanwhile Krystal flowed her holy energy into Alex, his body was once again covered by golden light that warmed him, Alex took a deep breath and released it slowly, his black eyes fixed on Saint Azara.
But after several seconds, the place he stood on and the background between him and Saint Azara began to change, in the reflection of Alex’s eyes the entire room began turning white as if becoming a canvas that had not yet been painted by its artist.
Alex’s heart beat rapidly, he raised his hand "Saint azara!! In my eyes everything besides the two of us is turning white!!" Saint Azara let out a sigh and nodded, she looked around where her library still existed "that means your personal world can only be seen by yourselves..."
Alex looked in every direction, he spun his body as if curious about what was happening, Krystal’s voice stopped Alex’s movement ’I’m suddenly surrounded by a lot of words!!’ Alex immediately looked at Saint Azara after looking around the white room he now occupied with his glowing body ’Krystal says she’s surrounded by many words.’
Saint Azara’s forehead furrowed while Alex communicated with Krystal again ’what’s there?’ Krystal fell silent for a moment, she looked like she was choosing the words she wanted to convey ’hmm there is past, weakness, love relationships...’ Alex’s expression became confused while Krystal continued reading what she saw ’...favorite food, injury history, when she last brushed her teeth...’
Krystal kept speaking words that made Alex even more confused, he even forgot the first word Krystal said, Alex finally tried stopping Krystal ’wait wait...don’t continue anymore.’
Krystal immediately fell silent while Alex looked at Saint Azara who had been staring at him with a strange look.
Alex let out a sigh, he shook his head to refresh his brain "there are a lot of words she sees...starting from the past, weaknesses, even small things like favorite food or when you last brushed your teeth."
Saint Azara chuckled, her golden tiger ears shone "are you joking?" Alex also chuckled hearing Saint Azara’s words "how could I be joking..."
Saint Azara massaged her forehead "then press anything and let’s see the result..." Alex nodded and wanted to tell Krystal, but his ears suddenly rang ’hey hey...what’s this?’
Krystal’s nervous voice was suddenly heard together with the ringing in Alex’s ears ’I chose her past...’ Alex gritted his teeth ’why not just choose favorite food instead?!’
Krystal wanted to answer but Alex could no longer hear her voice, he looked at the white ceiling that resembled a canvas, slowly the canvas began painting itself, when the entire canvas finished painting one scene, the canvas immediately changed into another painting, the change happened quickly and kept repeating hundreds of thousands of times.
In the reflection of Alex’s black eyes various painted scenes kept changing, he saw how Saint Azara was born, how Saint Azara grew up in poverty, how she first walked, how she first met her first friend, he also heard the first word Saint Azara spoke, he also felt the first pain she experienced when her parents died, he felt her happiness again.
Alex’s body trembled violently every time the paintings changed, blood came out from both of his eyes with everything he saw, blood also dripped from both of his nostrils as he smelled hundreds of thousands of scents in an instant, his ears also bled as various sounds continuously visited his ears, he slowly coughed blood as his tongue tasted everything Saint Azara tasted.
Alex screamed loudly as hundreds of thousands of pieces of information entered his brain and his body experienced decades of Saint Azara’s life.
Saint Azara, who felt no changes whatsoever to herself, could only be frozen by Alex who was now convulsing again, she gritted her teeth and immediately dashed toward Alex, she flowed her holy energy and wove Alex’s holy energy that was beginning to go out of control.
"KRYSTAL!! STOP IT!!" Saint Azara’s shout made the library where they were shake, slowly Alex’s body began relaxing again, both of his knees fell to the ground while blood still came out from every hole in his head, cold sweat came out together with the blood.
Saint Azara immediately took out dozens of potion bottles and forced them into Alex without stopping until he vomited them because his body rejected more potions, Alex slowly supported his body with both hands, Saint Azara held both of his shoulders when she saw blood dripping onto her floor "shit! What did you see?! You were supposed to see something light!!"
Alex vomited blood from his mouth, his body slowly weakened and he lay sideways on the floor beside the pool of blood he had made while looking at Saint Azara.
Saint Azara looked at the pale Alex, she took out a small towel and gave it to Alex, her face was filled with worry while Alex smiled faintly as blood still came out from his face, Alex’s breathing was ragged as he tried speaking "I...didn’t expect...you and Kong were...a couple...?"
Saint Azara’s face froze "seriously? That’s all you saw?" Alex slowly chuckled weakly while wiping his blood-covered face "I...I saw your life journey..." Alex smiled faintly "I heard your first cry." Alex’s smile became wider "I saw your first step..."
Alex’s smile slowly disappeared "I smelled the bad smell of your first cooking..." Alex’s body slowly trembled, this time tears and snot came out together "I also felt your first loss..."
Saint Azara only stayed silent seeing Alex’s sudden change, she only sat cross-legged while listening to Alex’s crying that sounded exactly like her own crying when she lost her parents.
Saint Azara’s golden tiger tail slowly lay on the floor, pain spread through her heart as if remembering memories she wanted to forget while seeing Alex cry. ’This is dangerous...’
In the end Saint Azara comforted Alex who would not stop crying, she helped Alex sit upright, the two of them now faced each other.
Saint Azara looked at Alex who was now calmer "why did you choose the past?" Alex raised both of his shoulders, he let out a sigh "Krystal chose it...what could I do?" Alex pointed at his own head "even right now she keeps apologizing..."
Saint Azara scratched her forehead "so you don’t just see it but also feel it huh?" Alex nodded several times "that was completely insane...I mean, taste, hearing, sight, and smell kept changing hundreds of thousands of times..."
Saint Azara let out a sigh "you know that’s very dangerous right? If the situation was a battle you could die..." Alex swallowed and nodded, while Saint Azara’s golden tail started moving "now we’ve confirmed it, and next is probably figuring out how you and Krystal can use your personal world to complement your fighting style..."
Alex scratched his temple as if the headache he experienced earlier had returned, Saint Azara crossed her arms "I’ve never seen a personal world like that..." Saint Azara swallowed "I mean, usually a personal world lets us drag enemies into our world...while yours can only be seen and felt by yourselves..."
Saint Azara brushed her rough golden hair, she chuckled "but it’s terrifying you know? When you cried earlier, I unconsciously felt like I was seeing my own crying from back then. It was really similar..."
Saint Azara smiled faintly "from now on don’t seek complicated truths during battle I think-" Saint Azara’s words were cut off by her smart bracelet vibrating and ringing.
The room was now livelier, Saint Azara glanced at her smart bracelet and pressed it, a heavy voice was immediately heard speaking without being invited "we’ve lost contact with the Dragon Queen and Miss Mata Hari..."
Alex who heard that immediately turned his face away to pretend he didn’t hear anything, while Saint Azara stood up and looked at Alex "rest for a while..." Saint Azara immediately walked away from Alex.
She walked past several gigantic bookshelves, she spoke to the figure calling her "that means they’ve already met, Dhoryn..." Saint Azara leaned against a gigantic bookshelf "don’t worry too much, that’s normal...for mystical creatures like them..."
The conversation between Saint Azara and Dhoryn continued for a longer time, and in the middle of it Alex fell asleep soundly after seeing the glimpses of Saint Azara’s life.
