409 A Moment of Peace (1/2)

”Wha.. where am I?!” Asked Edmund with confusion while looking at his surroundings, almost as if unable to remember why the four walls of the room, as well as the two men who were standing in front of him, looked so familiar.

After listening to Edmund's question, Daniel stepped closer to him, and said, ”Edmund. This is your home. You have a wife named Emelnie, a daughter called Alesia, and a son called Tigue. I am Daniel. You've taught me spatial essence a few years back.”

”Em.. yes.. I have a family!” Said Edmund with realization after finally being able to fish these memories out of the infinite number of images he had seen in the past few months. He then turned to look at Daniel, and added, ”Dan. We were coming back.. What happened? I remember that I was doing something. I was raising? Thinking? NO! I WAS ASCENDING!”

”Yes. You were ascending, and obtained a gift that allows you to visit other dimensions. Unfortunately your mind was unable to withstand that power, and you fell unconscious. We have only managed to help you wake up.” Said Daniel in an attempt to help him recollect his memories, and find a meaning to what he had gone through.

Still slightly confused, Edmund turned away for a moment, then asked, ”Where is my family?”

This time, it was Daniel who remembered something important. When he and Aeron had entered into Edmund's mind, they did not expect to have to stay there for months. So with hurry, Daniel stood up, and said, ”I'll go call your wife and son immediately. They have been waiting for a very long time to see you.”

However, before he could walk out of the room, Aeron grabbed his arm, and said, ”I did not know this before going in personally, but the time inside his mind was highly accelerated. It has only been a few minutes in the normal passage of time.”

This revelation had been received in two different ways by Daniel. At first, he was relieved that in the precarious situation in which his group was in, they hadn't been missing for six months. Secondly, he was shocked by the increase in Aeron's powers which, from the perspective of someone that was observing him from the outside, had increased his power from a level comparable to the first phase of high immortality, to one comparable to a fiftieth phase in mere minutes worth of real time.

By locking Edmund's powers, Aeron had given up to a miraculous training ground for himself, in which he could have grown to be an impressive individual in little to no time. That simple action, more than each instance when he was helped by him, had shown to Daniel how good of a character Aeron truly possessed.

Before leaving the room, Daniel muttered, ”Thank you for helping him.” then left.

Once alone, Aeron stepped closer to Edmund, and said from behind his mask, ”I cannot keep your mind and consciousness locked in your body forever. After you recover, I will help you get used to your powers, and strengthen your mind.”

Suddenly, before Edmund could process what Aeron meant, the door burst open, and from behind it, walked a blonde teenager followed by a woman with platinum blond hair. On their faces, were expressions of joy, relief, and worry.

”Father!” Said Tigue emotionally, as he had not seen him in years. He then sat on the bed next to his father, and embraced him.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

”Tigue.. Heavens, you are so big..” Said Edmund with shock. Behind his son, was the serious figure of his wife who, as always, was keeping her cold composure. Yet, it did not take long for him to notice her eyes start to well up.

As the family reunited, Aeron quietly disappeared from the room, and reappeared next to Daniel, who was now walking down the corridor that lead to Heimart's room, where Alis, their two children, and Ligart were waiting, while looking at the unconscious state of their relative.

Before taking care of Edmund, while Heimart's situation was less severe than his, since Daniel was not sure how long treating Edmund would take, he had decided to explain what had happened to Heimart to his family first.

Technically speaking, there were no problems with him. However, there was no certainty that the method which the Mindhive had used to brainwash him into becoming a bloodthirsty warrior, would not have permanent effects on him. That was the reason why, after breaking the mental loop, Aeron had changed replaced it with one formed by Heimart's real memories, in hope to brainwash him back into being his former self.

The Mindhive's methods were to make the warriors remove any attachment to their old lives in order to become bandits, and with the scenes he had been exposed to, if Heimart had been awake now, he would have likely seen his family as enemies, and tried to kill them.

Now all that was left to do was to wait for him to embrace this memories before being forced to wake up by Aeron.

Unable to do anything for him, Daniel left their family alone, and walked past their room with a look of dejection, and hatred. In his mind, was the faceless figure of the Mindhive, which had almost forced him to kill his own friend.

After a few minutes of pacing in silence, Daniel finally muttered, ”You have helped me more than I have helped you. Your enemies are my enemies now.”

Aeron did not respond, and instead stopped walking. He had understood Daniel's words, and yet, he knew that at the moment he would prefer to be alone, so he went back from the way they came from, leaving Daniel to walk by himself.

Buried in his own thoughts, Daniel mindlessly walked out of the castle, where a large number of young men and young women were grouped up. In the middle of this group were the seven who had participated in the event, and all around them, were the students of Hiel Academy who since they had come back, hadn't stopped asking them about the details of the competition.

Standing by the side, while looking particularly confused, were Virgil, Hannah, George, Josh, James, Alex, and Felix. While they had seen the magical side of the world of cultivation, they had never seen elementals, people that floated in the sky while using wind, or even humanoid beasts.