Chapter 533: The ssed-Up mory
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The manuscript was not a record of any ancient magic, or lost treasure. In fact, it was only a simple and highly compressed log. Vivian began recording intermittently thousands of years ago. The main content was what she saw and did before she went into hibernation each ti and also after she awakened. There were also stories of her activities in the world. Since the manuscript contained so mory recollection in the beginning, its record could actually be traced back more than 10,000 years ago, or even more. Due to the appearance of the Quaternary Ice Age at the beginning of the manuscript, 10,000 years was a conservative estimate.
However, Vivian had completely forgotten everything. If it had not been for her fortunate reunion with Pavel, the precious non-duplicable information would have been lost forever. Cold sweat trickled down Hao Ren’s spine as he though how close Vivian had co to that. The maiden’s lack of mory made him uneasy.
Ti after ti of hibernation and revival, with various key events as nodes, the manuscript recorded the experience of an immortal over the past 10,000 years along a blurry tiline. The primitive appearance of the earth’s Prehistoric Period could be seen in the text. Ancient demons that vanished following the end of the Mythical Era were frequently ntioned in the manuscript.
Hao Ren’s thoughts seed to drift back to the age of human ignorance age with Vivian’s voice—to the earth, it was a recent mory, but to the humans, it was an unsearchable era. At that ti, humans were just wild creatures who dwelled in the caves while ancient beasts and the invincible nature ruled the earth. The ancient otherworldlings with godlike powers ruled the entire world. Most of them did not even think of establishing theocracy in human society, but their activities had deeply affected the primitive humans at that ti. Hence, the humans produced the most primitive and ignorant belief systems in the primitive gods. They were confused between the various natural phenona and the otherworldings, who could summon nature. Humans deed them as primordial gods. While Vivian road the world aimlessly, she was also deed as one of the primordial gods on specific occasions and ti.
But every single ti, she did not roam the world long enough: the inexplicable drowsiness always haunted her.
The records on the manuscript continued, and human civilization began to erge. This was an interesting phenonon for Vivian.
“…Awakening in a subterranean crevice, the stone chamber in which I slept in had completely sunken deep into the earth as if there had been an earthquake during my hibernation. Fortunately, I did not fall into the underground magma. It’s spring on the surface, and once again everything has beco unfamiliar. The place where a big lake was supposed to be has now beco a grassland. The soil around it has also beco very fertile. Humans have been found to raise herds in the pastureland. They no longer wear animal skins, and their villages have undergone great changes—houses built of stone and wood seem to be sprouting fast. The clothes on my body are worn out. It is getting increasingly unnecessary to use magic to maintain them. Perhaps, sothing can be sourced from the humans…
“Additionally, I found the lithograph I left near the place where I hibernated. It recorded the bad feelings I had before going dormant. It is weird. I have no impression of it, but I have still decided to copy it down like I used to. Perhaps, it might be useful in the future.
“Advancing along a river, more fertile lands and larger human settlents appeared before my eyes. They have increased in large number in the wilderness. It was amazing. There must be sothing helping them resist the threats around them. Humans can deal with beasts, but not my fellow beings… Upstream, I found a human asylum run by my old friends, Amon and Osiris. They were protecting a human kingdom. This was a very strange, but pleasing encounter. Their attitude towards humans was better than that of my other peers… I think of Zeus, whom I t in the past and… um, was it Hella or Hera? The couple seed to have similar thoughts, but I have no idea where they are living in now. Perhaps I should go to them. My physical strength is recovering, it is a good ti to embark on a journey.
“…I could not find the Zeus couple, because I was lost in a strange place under the red moonlight, feeling irritated. There were hostile villains who hated . No matter how much I kill, it could only make you even angrier… Maybe there is so kind of illusion here. Anyway, the drowsiness hits again, I must go to sleep.”
Hao Ren’s brows were pulled together as he seed to have found sothing suspicious in between the lines while Vivian continued to translate.
“…waking up in the water, I might have been soaked for a long ti. Looks like there was changes during the sleep as water from underground river had poured in. This world is always changing, no matter where you sleep, there is no absolute safety. Even if you bury yourself in the ground to escape the harassnt of others and beasts, it is difficult to deal with geological changes. I found the notes I had left before I slept, and it was written about the fighting with people and emotional problems. But as always, I have no impression on the strange emotions of that ti, and I can only believe that they really happened. I now have a new way of taking notes and I can have those records on the slate and rags be transferred to the soft yarn that Horus had given .
“Rembering the previous plan and setting out to find Zeus and Hera, I rember that they have settled on a high mountain and I should be able to find them referring to the position of the stars. I hope the change of the stars will not be too great.
“…I found Zeus couples and we were happy to et each other. The humans they sheltered were also very prosperous. The humans have even built huge cities and wonders of stones. Although the buildings have no magic power, they are almost as large as the temple. As if Poseidon was dissatisfied with this, he does not like to see that mankind has the ability to build the sa wonders as God.
“…I compiled so previous records in my spare ti. I was puzzled by my sleepiness and awakening. Others— including werewolves and wraiths—do not experience the sleepiness like I do. Then I found so patterns…”
“So patterns…” Vivian put down the manuscript, her face gloomy. “Mr. Landlord, I feel weird.”
Reading between the lines, Hao Ren had long felt a bizarreness, but those things were vague and difficult to grasp. He looked at Vivian, scratching his chin. “You can’t rember about the manuscript at all?”
“Not at all,” Vivian frowned. “But according to the sporadic mories of the manuscript, I had forgotten so of the things recorded in the past, but would always leave behind a fragnts of mory so I was only later be able to recollect the bit and pieces and add them in the manuscript. However after the last hibernation… I simply forgot everything, even the manuscript itself.”
“The last ti you slept… it was after fighting with the vengeful spirit three hundred years ago,” Hao Ren looked at Vivian. “That was the most serious because you had lost the most important part of the mory: You forgot the fact that you had been writing dairy for the last ten thousand years.”
Vivian looked at the manuscript. The simple drawings recorded what she saw on earth during a certain period, but more of all sorts of bizarre monster-like creatures. Every ti before Vivian hibernated she would be irritated and angry and exterminate the monsters in battle. Then she would fall into a deep sleep. Before that, she would draw an image of her own enemy as if she wanted to remind herself during the next wake-up to stay vigilant when she t these monsters again.
Looking at those weird drawings, Vivian whispered while thinking. “In summary, there were two kinds of sleep: one was when I was doing nothing, or when I was about to starve to death because of poverty I would actively choose to sleep through my hard days. This kind of dormancy is controllable, and it looks like there are no sequelae. After waking up, I would only lose a fraction of my mory or did not lose anything at all and without significantly weakening my physical strength. But the manuscript had recorded exactly the second scenario: I would have to sleep when drowsiness hit.”
Hao Ren looked into Vivian’s eyes. “After this uncontrollable drowsiness was over, you would lose a lot of mory and your body will be abnormally weak after waking up?”
“I’m not really sure,” Vivian said, waving and forcing a smile. “The most difficult thing for a person with amnesia is to recall what one have forgotten in the first place. I don’t really have any impression of the many details in this manuscript. And after a few tis of waking up from deep sleep, I did feel unusually weak…”
“Including the last ti,” Hao Ren tapped the table with his knuckles. “Your last sleep happened after you destroyed the vengeful spirit. And it was an uncontrollable sleep caused by the sense of drowsiness, so you are now in a state of weakness?”
Vivian looked at herself and said, “But I still feel energetic.”
“Don’t be kidding. People always feel energetic before they die.”
“…Mr. Landlord, you’re being caustic.”
Hao Ren hemd and said, “Well, I an figuratively. In short, I don’t know if you’ve noticed a minute detail: you would experience the sa thing every ti before you fell asleep!”
Vivian was wide-eyed. “Now I got it; arrogance, anger, getting into conflict with people for no reason, and… the unknown fights I’d gotten into. I’ve no clue of who are the enemies the manuscript ntions. And the drawings look unfamiliar to .”
“But you were the one who authored the manuscript,” Hao Ren stared into Vivian’s eyes. “Are you sure you can’t rember the contents of this part? The last ti you had slept was three hundred years ago. Can’t you even rember the phenonon?”
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