Chapter 7: Departure and Confusion

"Well, how did I end up here?"

When he woke up, North wondered why he was lying on the square of the town, because it was still night, why he was lying outside, and it was some distance from his home. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"That guy just said the town was unsafe and told me to leave? What the hell happened?"

North remembered what the man had said in his dream, and he couldn't figure it out, so he decided to go home first and see what was going on.

"Where's my storage bag?"

When North stood up and found that his storage bag was missing, he was kind of convinced that something was really going on in the town that he didn't know. He looked around, he couldn't make out what was in the dark night, but thankfully, the bag had fallen to the ground not far from him, and North could barely see the shadow of the bag.

North picked up the storage bag, put it in his arms, and ran to his home.

"Mom and Dad?"

North stood in front of his parents' door and called his parents softly, but after a while, he didn't hear his parents' answer, and North gently pushed the door open.

"Mom and Dad?"

North entered the room and looked at his parents' empty bed, he panicked, he didn't know what was going on. He wanted to meditate right away, to ask the man who had appeared in his sea of consciousness what was going on and why his parents were gone.

But he remembered that the man had told him to get out of town quickly, it was not safe here. North thought about it and decided to do as the man said, he went back to his room, took a few of his own clothes and put them in the storage bag, and went to the kitchen to get some dry food and jerky made of beast meat and put them in the storage bag, and then ran out of the town without looking back.

North left the town and ran in the direction of the fortress of Polux, and continued along the road leading to the fortress of Pollux until it was slightly light, when he stopped.

Seeing that it was almost dawn, North rested in the roadside woods. When he had rested, North began to think back to what had happened to him the previous night, and though he was tempted to ask the man what was the matter, he was not in a position to do so at once.

When North walked towards the fortress after resting, he deliberately walked a little slower, and besides, he kept walking in the woods. He knew that if he entered the Bolux Fortress now, he would definitely be remembered by the soldiers of the fortress, and if the matter of the town was investigated, his only possible living mouth would definitely be investigated. He wanted to stay outside for a few more days while he quickly figured things out.

In the evening, North lit a fire, and after a brief meal, North began to meditate, wondering what was going on in the town, where his parents had gone, and who the man who had appeared in his consciousness was. He had so many questions to ask, he couldn't wait, he didn't want to wait.

"Hey, are you still there? ”

After entering the meditative state, North couldn't wait to yell in his sea of consciousness.

"No need to scream, I'm here. ”

Ahriman appeared behind Noth when he called, and he had been waiting to sign a pact with Noth.

"You, who are you? Why are you in my consciousness? Also, where are my parents? What happened in the town? Why is the town so unsafe?"

When North saw Ahriman appear, he asked all the questions he wanted to know at once.

"You have so many questions, what do you want me to answer that question? ”

Ahriman didn't expect North to ask so many questions as soon as they met, and he felt a headache.

"Okay, I asked slowly, who are you, why are you in my consciousness. ”

"I—my name is Ahriman, and I am the god of death—Ahriman. As for why I'm in your mind, it's because you're an ascetic who made a contract with us, and of course we're in your mind. ”

"Sign a contract, ascetic, what do you mean, and you just said we, who else ?...... you?"

"Stop, I'll answer your first few questions. ”

Ahriman didn't expect that he had just solved a problem, and as a result, more problems had arisen, so he could only decide to explain the matter to him briefly.

There are a few others like me, who, like me, are also tarot spirits waiting to sign a contract with you, and we are partners who signed a contract with you tens of thousands of years ago. Ten thousand years ago, after the war of the gods, we were reincarnated with you. The only people who can summon us in this world are you and one other person.

Ascetic, that was who you were 10,000 years ago. That's what we call you, but it doesn't matter, after all, you don't have that name in this life, and ascetic is just a code name.

As for where your parents have gone, and what happened to your town, that's one thing. There were a few professionals in your town last night, and they wanted to advance their pets in order to get more resources from the forces they joined, so that they could cultivate to a more powerful realm, so they killed all the people in your town.

We saved you when they wanted to kill you. Your parents and the townspeople were all killed by those three before we could save you, and their corpses, because they absorbed the breath of death while they were alive, were all purified by the Holy Angel when he purified the breath of death in your town. So, you can't find a single carcass, not even a raised poultry.

"If you can save me, why don't you save my parents?"

North was angry when he heard Ahriman's words, and was angry that they hadn't saved his parents, and why they hadn't saved the townspeople.

Ahriman was silent when he heard North's words, for he remembered the already dead Arabella and remembered why they did it.

"Why don't you speak, you can save me, why don't you save my parents?"

When Noth saw that Ahriman did not speak, he thought that he had nothing to say, so he became even more angry and yelled even louder.

When Ahriman heard North say this, he was very angry, he didn't expect them to try to find a way to save him, and he didn't appreciate it, not only did he not appreciate it, but he actually blamed them.

"Do you know that in order to save you, our partner Arabella died? We are in your consciousness, but we have no way to communicate with you, we have not met the conditions of the contract with you, and we have no ability to directly affect reality. ”

"Everything we can perceive is within the scope of your body, and we can't perceive it even if we are too far away from you. We only learned that someone was using dark magic when your body began to absorb the breath of death, but we couldn't do anything about it. As I said before, we didn't meet the conditions of the contract with you, and we can't save you.

We want to save your whole town, but we don't have the ability to do so, and when your body begins to absorb the breath of death, we start to think about how to save you, but we can't do anything. I can absorb the death qi from your body so that you don't get into your body and die, which is all I can do at that time.

Until they tried to kill you, Arabella saw that there was nothing we could do and decided to sacrifice herself to save you. Moreover, although I have absorbed some of the death qi in your body, it is not enough to make a contract with you, and we are not sure if I will be able to meet the requirements of the contract with you before they kill you or after Arabella has eliminated the three of them, if not, she will actually die, but I can't stop her from doing so.

Although we can save Arabella as long as you sign a contract with us, as I said earlier, if I don't meet the conditions of the contract with you, or if I die before you sign the contract with us, then she will be dead. Moreover, we are not sure that if we sign a contract with you in such a situation, what uncertain things will happen.

We can't just think about it, we have a mission. When we do that, it can make things worse, and we do it with a lot of determination. ”

Ahriman had been saying everything he was about to say before he stopped, and he was afraid that if Noth interjected, he would not have the courage to say the rest of it.