77 Old Friend from Previous Life (1/2)

Yale was shocked after hearing those words; he was sure that he never heard that voice on his whole life, but at the same time he felt that it was familiar and gave him a nostalgic feeling.

Yale decided to grab the sword; he felt that he would understand all after he did it. That voice also seemed to have relation with his past life, the enticement of knowing more about his past life's lost memories was something Yale couldn't resist.

After Yale grabbed the sword with his right hand, he felt a similar sensation as teleported to another place. However, his body remained in the same place; only his mind entered into a special space inside the sword where an old man who looked exactly like the statue in the altar's room.

”Welcome, my old friend.”

The old man spoke to Yale in a friendly way; Yale had no doubts about that both had met in his previous life.

Yale wanted to say something, but he wasn't sure if saying that he lost almost all of his old memories was a good idea.

”I remembered to put your sword in this special realm to let you recover it after your reincarnation because I died before meeting you again. Everything is as we planned before, you are the only one capable of crossing the barrier, and I have set dummy legacies in the whole realm to entice kids from entering the realm making it easy for you to sneak out inside.”

The old man didn't notice Yale's doubtful expression, but it wasn't that the old man didn't care about Yale's attitude, the old man wasn't alive or a ghost, it was only a record of himself left inside the sword. The old man couldn't speak to Yale was just saying the words the old man had recorded for Yale to hear.

”I still remember when I helped you to forge that sword...”

Yale understood the meaning of the words the old man was saying, the sword in the altar was created by both the old man and his previous life, and it should have belonged to him because the old man said that Yale would recover it.

”We risked our lives and obtained all the strange material to make a sword that followed your weird ideas. At that moment I was barely the best forger in the continent, and I was skeptic about the creation of such weapon, but at the same time, I felt the necessity to try forging it.”

The old man smiled as he seemed happy of remembering old times, Yale had already concluded that it was only a record left by the old man, but it seemed too lifelike.

”After forging this sword, I reached a whole new level in forging. In few years I managed to become famous in the whole world, and even powerhouses from other worlds came to ask my services. My whole life changed thanks to crafting this sword of yours. That is something I will never be able to repay you.”

Yale couldn't believe that the old man was such a famous forger. Moreover, Yale didn't know anything about the outside of the empire, but the old man mentioned other continents and even other worlds.

”When you appeared hundreds of years later to ask me for taking care of your sword after your death I didn't know what to say, your soul was dissipating, and you were doomed to death without having the chance to reincarnate. However, even in that state, I was unable to tell the realm you reached.”

Yale was paying attention to the old man monologue, he didn't remember that his soul was dissipating, but he remembered that he suffered a lot before dying, Yale thought that the suffering should be because of the dissipation of his soul.

Furthermore, by the old man's words, Yale was very powerful in his past life, but he didn't remember having strived for power. After all, Yale's memories were extremely lacking; the fact he didn't remember such things wasn't strange.

”However, your ideas were as weird as the first time we met. You lead me to the place you had chosen to die, and then you simply killed yourself with your own sword, the same sword you asked me to safeguard after your death.”

Yale couldn't open more his eyes from the shock, he understood that he was slowly dying due to his soul dissipation, but he didn't understand why he killed himself in the end.

”You wanted that your sword's main special function was to punish wicked souls with endless torture until they were dissipated, erasing any chance of reincarnation from those killed by the sword.”

Hearing the old man, Yale started to have few ideas of how to use the sword's ability after leaving the old man's space. Yale liked that function a lot.