Chapter 395 (1/2)
Y’zaks spoke about his past, but maybe because things happened too long ago, his memory seemed a little messed up. Nonetheless, he could still remember the strange old man’s reaction when the demon guards captured him.
“He wasn’t afraid of me, not even when I stood before him in my true form.” The incredible feeling still lingered in his mind. “His robe was ignited by the flames on my body, but the old man just put the fire out with his bare hands. He then demanded for me to let him go so that he could continue his experiments—I’ve never seen anyone like him and it was interesting. Hence, I gave him two choices.
“I told him that because he was an interesting human and that I was thrilled, he earned my clemency and I’d give him two choices. One, I’d spare his life. He could leave but without taking anything with him because everything belonged to the demonic army. Two, I would allow him to continue his experiments but he would only have one year lifespan and after he would died and his soul belonged to me.”
Suddenly Y’zaks made a macky face, or he could be rolling his eyes—his face always looked the same no matter what face he was making. “Now think back of it I feel ashamed of myself. But then I was still young and wanting to do the in thing—being cool and mean, scaring the humans, satisfying a wish, collecting soul and stuff like that so to make myself looked like a king. So I was thinking, normal human beings would have chosen to live but that old man surprised me once again.”
“Let me guess: he chose to stay to continue his experiments?” Hao Ren had guessed that, it was a preditable story. But to Y’zaks back then it was something new. “By the way what was he doing with the experiments?”
“Studying the universe, things outside the bubble zones and stuff like that.” Y’zaks nodded. “Back then I didn’t understand a thing about it and just felt that the old man was interesting, mad, and having no fear of demons. So I let him continue his research. That old guy just said thank you before he turned around and back to his research lab continuing his research in the ruins of the kingdom. I was curious. So I followed him inside to see what he was up to.
“He then told me about his theory of bubble zone like he was teaching his student. He never treated me like a demon as he shoved a book in my hand before standing in front of his test bench and lecturing. He mentioned a very novel idea no scholar of any races had ever thought of; do you still remember I told you that the structure of the spatial dimension of my home town was different from the rest of the universe? Our entire universe is made up of many individual bubbles. These bubbles contain nothing like The Milky Way but mostly space from as small as a continent to as large as a star system. The old man called the structure ‘bubbles’ and divided them into different categorisations. He spent his entire life studying it and coming up this theory: the bubbles weren’t the true face of the universe but just a distorted, abnormal star system. He discovered that the law of physics in the bubbles was unusual, so he theorised that the bubble zone wasn’t formed naturally but byproduct of a distorted and shattered star system. He thought that the bubble zone was like a tiny oasis in the real universe—it was unstable and abnormal. And the real universe where billions of stars resided existed on the outside of the bubbles.”
Y’zaks let out a sigh suddenly. “Just like the starry sky of your world.”
Hao Ren thought for while and said, “…but this place has been shrouded in fog for a year, could you still see the stars?”
Y’zaks rolled his eyes and smacked on Hao Ren’s shoulder. “So I guess Vivian was right; you always say the wrong thing at the wrong time!”
Hao Ren smiled embarrasingly. “Don’t bother about me… you may continue.”
“In our world, there’s no starry sky like yours.” Y’zaks gulped down the shaojiu and continued. “Looking up in the spatial pocket or bubble, all we see are planets, aurora, phantoms of the nearby dimensions, and sometimes a few stars if you’re lucky but not a starry sky like here. We saw everything was normal. The old man was the only one thought that everything was abnormal. He figured out the theoritical size of the universe and found that it was amazingly huge as he frantically searched for the edge of bubble zone. He would be a scientific genius here but a lunatic in our world. Perhaps also the fact that he was born in a tiny human kingdom ruled by some dumbasses had further reinforced the notion that he was a lunatic. So that might be the reason why he was so down and out when I first met him. Any alchemist who failed to produce useful weaponry for the country or luxury products for the elites would be deemed a failure; the old man who only knew about stars and dimensions would certainly be excluded, or expelled if not for his father was an elite.”