"Tell me more. By the way, things changed a little bit from my plans," Aion said and then explained what happened.
"... That long in the past, and people were trying to interfere, huh," Seris furrowed her eyebrows. "At least things ended well, and you got another ally. Still, it seems that you aren't able to understand what Arlana said."
"I am waiting for the explanation," Aion said.
"Basically… those who can use time magic at their time and can't do so freely in this current period of time found a way to ignore the seals by sending their souls to the past with their memories and powers sealed," Arlana explained. "Basically, let's say that you can't swim out of fear, but you can learn if you use magic to forget about the fear."
"I see… so they sealed their memories and powers to bypass the seal of the relics," Aion rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "I take it that they can recover those over time, am I correct?"
"Most likely, yes," Arlana replied. "I only checked for traces of that in the last one hundred years, and that happened a couple of times… tremors that people felt all over the world. Days and nights that they felt that had been way longer than they should have been. These are signs that time magic being was used beyond the power of the seals. The difficult part about this is the fact that there are no registers of such things, and I only found a few people with memories of that. Most people forgot it since they assumed that it was just their imagination."
Did they forget, or were they forced to forget it? That would explain why no books mentioned such events… if anything, some people would investigate that, mainly Seris' family.
"We are aware of those signs, but pinpointing their origins is close to impossible…" Seris said when Aion looked at her. "As if that isn't enough, Arlana found those signs in other timelines but not in this current one."
Things were getting hard to understand again… thanks to his encounter with Fenhair, Aion could tell that they still had a small understanding when it came to the full scope of time magic. He gets carried away when he assumed that he knows the problems of time magic based on his modern knowledge.
"Well, let's not worry too much about all this… it will be an endless tiring exercise," Aion shrugged. "We should just focus on gathering Intel and increasing our forces, which the last mission helped us a lot. By the way, did you guys notice anything weird happening twenty years ago? Fenhair said that time magic was used during that time."
"I didn't find any records of that," Arlana replied.
"Me neither," Seris added.
"Did you say something? I can't hear a single thing when you talk about certain things regarding time magic," Artemisia said when Aion looked at her.ραпdα `n?ν?| сom
"By the way, mom," Aion said. "Grandma finally talked with me and agreed to help as long as Fenhair stays in the castle, which I already repaired. She sounds like a pretty serious person who whipped grandfather."
"She was exactly like that," Artemisia laughed. "Things weren't only dark and gloomy in the castle when father tried to get on her good side."
"Urgh," Arc groaned.
"Hahahah, I can easily imagine that!" Aion laughed while showing a refreshing smile. "Anyway, I need to rest my head a bit, so I am going to hit the sack a bit earlier. See you guys tomorrow."
Aion was tired to the point that he couldn't even think about his next step clearly, even though it was fairly obvious. In any case, although he wanted to rest, as soon as his body got a bit better, even while sleeping, Aion's mind was still in the game. While not as clear as he would think when he was awake, he began to consider several things. Like, if someone could use time magic to send their soul to the past or to other periods of time, could it be that he was actually Malon after being reincarnated and the memories of the man known as Adam were just fake memories or perhaps fragments of a lost life used to keep his awareness even in his youth to make him work harder?
That would make sense, considering that he leveled up the samurai class when he saw the memories of Malon when he was a kid… it wasn't time for Aion to have an identity crisis. Still, when he woke up, he stared at the ceiling for a while, contemplating that idea.
The more he heard about it, the more Aion felt that time magic was more terrifying than anything… Only some insane people would think of controlling that freely for their own plans since they wouldn't care about how much they could destroy the lives of others.
"... Anyway, I guess I should look for the other guardians that Fenhair said," Aion thought after he shook his head. "He said that he was the guardian of the West, so there might be four more of them… his total mana pool seemed at least fifty mines bigger than mine, and while that alone isn't enough to determine the result of a fight, it is a good asset to have."
There was the possibility that something would happen again, and he will have to deal with something in the past in order to obtain the help of the creature in question, but it was a problem that Aion was willing to face.
"You should take those two with you this time," Artemisia said once they were having breakfast, and he explained that he was going to continue on the plan to gather more allies. "You were caught off guard due to the strength of the enemy. The same thing can happen again since you don't know who was behind that."
Aion sighed, but Artemisia had a point. Besides, gathering Intel will be easier with help, and he will look less suspicious if he isn't alone.
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