"W-What? How did you know that?"
Asia looked at Basil in bafflent as her long eyelashes trembled delicately. She didn't expect Basil to ask that question, and she didn't know how to react properly.
"I have t him—Matheus."
"No, I an, how did you know the Lord?"
Basil quirked his eyebrow in wonder as he didn't expect the ntion of the Lord got such a reaction from her. He didn't even ntion the Lord's na, so it was clear that Asia was surprised Basil knew of the Lord's existence.
Asia lowered her head, muttered so incoherent words to herself, before eventually looking at Basil again right in his eyes. Basil imdiately knew that he wouldn't hear the full truth of what he asked about when he looked into her eyes.
"Yes, what you think is right. It is still too early for to tell you about everything." Asia briefly sighed. "Matheus was my husband's, the Lord's most trusted subordinate. Matheus was his right hand, the person who he entrusted the Fragnts to."
"I heard from Matheus that the Fragnts were originally the Tablet of Truth. Does this an that your husband had purposely destroyed it to pieces before giving it to Matheus in Fragnts?"
"You learned well, but no, that wasn't the case. The Fragnts weren't handed directly to Matheus. My husband was killed by those ungrateful betrayers, and he destroyed the Tablet of Truth to prevent it from falling into their hands."
"Is that the origin of Fragnt Bearer?"
"Yes. They exist to collect all of the Fragnts scattered around the world to rebuild the Tablet of Truth. On the other hand, they also have to destroy it, and scatter the Fragnts when it is about to fall into the wrong hands."
Basil humd to himself at the information he had just gotten from Asia. He finally understood why there hadn't been a single Fragnt Bearer other than Matheus who had managed to collect all of the Fragnts.
Considering how powerful the Pacifer Clan had been in the past, and how fearso the power of the Lord was, it was normal for people to also hunt down every Fragnt Bearer the mont the people caught the wind of their existence.
Still, Basil wasn't really sure how many this cycle was repeated since Matheus told him nothing about the Fragnt Bearers, other than him being the first one.
"May I know why none of the people in Pacifer Clan knows about Matheus?"
"You are asking the wrong person then. He was the only male child ever born into Pacifer Clan, and also the strongest human at that ti. We couldn't just announce the identity of our strongest person, so only Maha Dmitras should know of his existence."
"Does that an—"
"Yes, you are the second male child ever born in Pacifer Clan. Unlike him, who supported our clan from the shadow however, I want you to stand in the front line..." Asia caressed Basil's cheek as she recalled about the past.
"We learned it late, but hiding what we truly were capable of was the worst mistake we made at that ti. Letting them know that we were harmless was a mistake; it was better to conquer them with our power."
Asia frowned in displeasure and her aura beca fierce. Despite so, Basil was unbothered as ever, because none of the rage was directed at him.
Asia widened her eyes the mont she realized she had digressed, then cleared her throat to get rid of the silence. She nodded her head at Basil afterwards, prompting him to ask another question.
"Why were you surprised that I know about the Lord?"
"Well... What happened to my husband was our Clan's darkest history. We, as his servants, failed to protect him, and he died protecting us instead." Asia's eyes turned lancholic.
"I am pretty sure I had banned every Maha Dmitra from talking about my husband before I died—it feels like insulting him—so I was surprised that you, who awakened your Seal independently, could know about my husband."
"Can I have my Seal awakened by soone else?"
"Of course—that is the norm." Asia giggled at Basil's cluelessness. "Your Seal should have been awakened by a Maha Dmitra since you were just a baby, but I can't feel any trace of a Maha Dmitra's Divinity from you."
"Divinity?"
"The power of the Gods. Mana that we use to fuel Magic is derived from Divinity, or rather, Divinity is the purest and most potent form of Mana."
"Can I—"
"Hush! You don't need to think about such things now." Asia put her finger in front of Basil's mouth. "You are too weak to mind about such things, but yes, you will eventually be able to gain Divinity."
Basil put Asia's hand down to remove her finger off his mouth. He had another question for her, and he didn't want her to prevent him from asking it.
"Do I have to be a Maha Dmitra to be able to gain Divinity?"
"What? No." Asia looked at Basil weirdly. "Although Maha Dmitras are mostly talented, other than , none of them have ever developed Divinity. The Divinity they have belongs to the Goddess that is a good friend of my husband."
"Is she the one whom Pacifer Clan serves nowadays?"
"Our Clan doesn't serve that howrecker—we ask for her help."
"I see..." Basil nodded his head. "Thank you for confirming that the Lord is really a God."
"W-What?! You sneaky child!"
Asia seed indignant from her face, but her tone was completely the opposite. It seems to Basil she was amazed at his way of extracting information, but she was amused at how loose her mouth was.
Basil didn't care about it in the slightest, so he imdiately opened his mouth to ask another question. This ti however, Asia shook her head, showing that she really didn't want to answer him this ti.
"I haven't even said anything yet."
"I know that you are going to ask about my husband's na, but I think it is not the ti for us to talk about that. Although I have never gotten out of this place for 2000 years, I know that sothing is going on outside."
"Indeed."
"You have better things to do then. Knowing everything at the cost of losing everything is not a good bargain in my opinion."
"That is... Correct."
Asia smiled at Basil then caressed his cheek warmly. She looked at him as if she was looking at the most precious jewel in the universe, and he had to close his eyes as he couldn't stand her intense gaze.
Not even Iliana had ever seen him like that in his past life, so receiving that gaze from soone who looked like the person he had bullied—treated coldly felt slightly awkward for him.
"Judging from your tone earlier, I can see how much you despise the Gods for what they can do. I can assure you however, our eting is fate, not sothing that the God who gave you the chance to return to the past has orchestrated."
"While I acknowledge their existence, I don't believe in both. If they who possess Divinity are Gods, that ans, you are too, no?"
"Possessing Divinity doesn't always make you a God."
"Can you—"
"Geez. You really are a curious one, aren't you? Let's talk about it so other ti. You've been here for two hours. The ti rate here is just four tis faster than the outside, so you have wasted your half an hour standing like an idiot."
"Does that an you have spent 8000 years—"
"I don't know! I have been sleeping until I summoned you here."
"I see..."
Asia sighed in exasperation at Basil's extre curiosity, and couldn't help covering his mouth when he was was about to open it again. She didn't know if he was about to ask her sothing again, but she still did it to prevent it from happening.
Basil, of course, couldn't let her cover his mouth forever, so he pried her hands off. She was pretty adamant on keeping her hands on his mouth, so he had a pretty hard ti prying them off.
He could just use force to do it, but he weirdly didn't feel it was right to exert force on her. It took a second for him to find an alternative way to pry her hands off his face, and he didn't waste his ti to do it.
"Kyaa! Pervert!"
Basil briefly grasped one of Asia's bountiful breasts, and she imdiately reacted by swatting him. She, of course, missed her target, and due to her choice to swat him, Basil was now free to speak again.
"No, no, no! I don't want to answer your—"
"I am just going to say a farewell. What got you so riled up?"
"O-Oh, is that so? Then, say it from the beginning!"
"You should have let ."
Basil clicked his tongue then looked at Asia in slight dissatisfaction. He couldn't fully disrespect her due to her status of being his ancestor, so being sarcastic was the worst thing he could do to her.
He picked Asia in his arms as he stood up, then put her down to let her stand by herself. The earthen bench he had made returned to the ground as he stared deeply into her eyes.
"Can you extend your hand, Lady Asia?"
"Oh my!" Asia covered her mouth in surprise. "If you want to propose , ring is not enough to—"
"I don't like soone's wife."
"Kahak! It is right, but why does it so hurtful hearing it from you?"
"Just extend your hand."
Asia pouted, but extended her hand in the end. Basil softly sighed in exasperation at that, as now he could see the resemblance between this Asia and the Asia he knew.
Both of them beca more irritating the more ti he spent with them.
"What are you going to do, my descendant, Basil?"
"I want us to resu our talk in the future."
"In the future? How? Wait, are you..."
"I am looking forward to our future conversation." Basil smirked at Asia.
"This sneaky child!"
Asia could feel it—Basil was binding his soul to her. Not only was he binding his soul to her, he was also in the process of combining her soul to the other half of her soul inside his Mindscape.
She was amazed at how wicked her descendant was, but she couldn't help clicking her tongue now that her plan to destroy herself after Basil left the space failed splendidly.
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