Chapter 644 - Dwelling on Memories (1/2)

Eisen turned over toward Gran with a surprised expression on his face, ”You want to reincarnate?” The old man inquired, ”Can you even do that, although you were basically 'employed' by Gonor?”

Gran slightly shrugged as he leaned back, placing his hands behind his own head, ”Gran want fight more. Want fight stronger. Gran only fight weaks for longs.” The warrior explained, and Eisen sligthly raised his brows as he looked at the man in front of him.

”I mean, are you sure that you want to do that? You should have the best chances of meeting strong people here instead of anywhere else.” Eisen pointed out, but Gran just started to laugh a bit as he looked at the old man in front of him who was preparing to head to sleep for a while, ”Gran not smart, but Gran still knows. Can be strong when not fighter. Eisen not fighter, but Eisen beat Gran.”

”Hm, you do have a point there. And I don't really know what it was like during the time where you were alive, but at the very least now, magic can be very, very strong. You know about Xenia, the peaked of magic, right? I've heard that she managed to summon aster- huge rocks that were falling out of the sky. Wouldn't that be something interesting to fight against?”

”Huge rocks... Aye, Gran thinks fun!” The Warrior exclaimed with a loud laugh, ”But Gran no do rebirth yet. Want to use weapon and armor Eisen made for Gran and Buldor first.”

With a smile on his face, Eisen nodded his head as he leaned back against one of the large pillars with a loud groan, ”I'm glad that you like them that much... Well, I think we should keep speaking later. I can't heal just as easily as you can here, after all. I'll be back in about an hour at most.”

Gran slowly nodded his head as he stretched his arm out to rub his hand over Buldor's snout, as Eisen just smiled and chose to log off for now.

But then, before he saw the inside of the capsule, Eisen found himself in the deep-black space where all his memories were gathered, surprisingly.

There was one new white glowing sphere floating in front of him, and the old man wasn't entirely sure what this dream could be about. Maybe it was going to be a memory about fighting, although Eisen figured he would have recovered his memories otherwise if that was the case.

Thinking that there was only one way to really find out what this dream was about, Eisen stared deep into the white sphere, and soon found his surrounding changing.

Instead of the deep-black, empty space he was just in, Eisen was inside of... a deep-black, empty space. But it was different, somehow. Eisen could feel solid ground under his feet, at least, and the air had a certain metallic, sulfuric scent to it, giving the old man a few rough guesses of where he actually was right now already.

And then, he turned around as he heard footsteps approaching, foosteps that were soon paired with a relatively dim light. Soon enough, Eisen saw the source of the light, which was just a floating, glowing orb.

”Urgh... It doesn't move how I want it to... Did I mess up with the inscription somehow?” Eisen's voice, albeit one that came from a version of him that was, physically, quite a bit younger than he was right now. And as if answering him, Eisen heard a light screech, and the younger Eisen spoke again, ”Oh what, as if you could have done better.”

Just a second after the man spoke, another bright light was added onto the other one, before the younger Eisen groaned loudly, ”Trygan, I told you not to do that in caves like this. I could use my element as well if I wanted to, but I don't, because I don't want to blow the place up with us inside.”

Soon, the old man was able to see the actual younger version of Eisen, as well as a quite young Trygan, walking past him. At this point, Trygan had grown quite a lot, and standing on his hind-legs he would probably be larger than Eisen when he was in his 'regular' size. His scales had something slightly metallic to them, although it seemed like they were just somewhat ore-like instead of actual metal. They were quite unrefined, but more precious than the rock that Eisen had initially seen on the newborn Trygan.

The young Dragon once more opened its mouth for a slight cry, and the similarly young Eisen rubbed the bridge of his nose, ”I know we're in a volcano, that doesn't change the fact that there might be something flammable here.” He said, and slowly turned his way over toward the current Eisen, ”Kids, eh? Don't worry, this memory is gonna make sense soon. It's just a bit longer because, well... You already know about part of this.”

The old man slowly looked at Trygan as he tried to recall this. And the memory-Eisen was right. He did remember this to an extent from when he remembered Trygan himself. Although he didn't remember everything about this perfectly, it seemed a bit familiar at least.

But then, something that Eisen didn't expect happened, ”Did we suddenly turn mute or something? It's pretty rude not to answer when spoken to, right?” The young Eisen asked, and the current Eisen turned his head toward him.

”Wait... I can actually lead a proper conversation with you?” He inquired, and the memory-Eisen just shrugged a bit in response.

”Somewhat, I guess. We've already spoken in your dreams before, remember? Now that you've started remembering, it's become a bit easier to replicate that time again.” The memory-Eisen explained, ”Ah, and don't worry, we could have a teaparty here during the time your 'actual' memory is going on, but you'd still remember it perfectly.”

”That's not necessarily what I was thinking about just now, but that's good to know, I guess.”

”Well, yeah it is, cause this memory is a pretty important one. That's why we're heading toward the place it's happening anyway so that you can experience it like this first-hand. I just pulled the actual memory back a bit so that he can get the chance to speak like this before then.”

Eisen looked back at his memory version and sighed a bit, ”Fine, then let's just get this done. First, to make this clear, you are the exact version of myself of before I... you... Erm, we got rid of our experience, right?”