Chronicles of Legends

Volume 2 Chapter 7 - Realmheart

|Gary|

Darkness surrounded me once again, and I found myself adrift in its emptiness.

'Am I dead?' I thought, but quickly shook off the notion. If I had died, I wouldn't want to come back. I was exhausted, tired of life.

Then, a beam of light pierced through the darkness, dissipating it and filling my senses with its warmth.

As my eyes fluttered open, I realized I was in a familiar room.

"Gary, you're awake!" My mother's voice was filled with relief as she embraced me, her snow-white hair cascading over me.

After a moment, I pulled away and asked her, "What do you mean 'finally' woke up?"

"You've been in a coma for two months," my father answered, entering the room with his usual stoic expression. Dark circles had formed under his eyes.

My shock was palpable, even under the effects of Monarch's Indifference. I quickly inspected my body with mana and found that my primary core had broken through to the mid-silver stage, while my secondary core remained unchanged, but cracks had formed around the yellow exterior.

I couldn't help but wonder why she had helped me so much.

|Arthur|

I snapped my eyes open and quickly rose to my feet, taking in my surroundings. The room was bathed in an eerie purple light that was neither too bright nor too dim, giving me an unsettling feeling.

I noticed that my connection with Sylvie was cut off, which added to my growing sense of unease.

Suddenly, a hologram appeared before me, revealing the same woman I had encountered after clearing the illusion of Cecily and Nico. She had fluffy white hair, a pale face that exuded authority, pure black eyes that seemed to resemble the void, and a thin frame that nevertheless radiated power even in her relaxed posture.

Her commanding voice resonated throughout the room as she spoke, "You will only be free once you have achieved a high enough mastery of Realmheart."

I was left with numerous questions swirling around in my head. Who was she? How could she be so powerful? And what exactly was Realmheart?

Despite my curiosity, I knew that my immediate priority was to focus on the task at hand. The woman's power was too great to ignore, and I didn't sense any immediate danger from her.

Suddenly, a memory of Realmheart flooded my mind, prompting me to wonder if the woman had imparted this knowledge to me.

Without wasting any time, I began to analyze the information that had been given to me, determined to fulfill the woman's demand and earn my freedom.

A surge of knowledge flooded my mind as I delved deeper into the understanding of aether, the second fundamental particle of the universe. Its three branches, spatium, aevum, and vivum, governed space, time, and life, respectively. As a recipient of Sylvia's dragon powers, I inherited her ability to control aether, albeit limited to one branch.

My mind was racing with the new information that I learned about Realmheart. It was a power that allowed users to see the particles of mana and aether, granting them a greater understanding and attunement to the physical world. The higher the mastery of Realmheart, the greater the insight and utilization of ambient mana.

"Feel the mana in its purest form," echoed in my mind, and suddenly the world around me darkened. I was floating in a void, similar to the one before my reincarnation. The forces of purple aether and rainbow mana danced in harmony, but I couldn't discern their interaction's mysterious tune.