"If it was just that much, do you think you would get all the effects?" The unknown person spoke.
Arthur was surprised by the unknown person's response but tried to rationalize it.
"The pain does seem an extre cost for it," Arthur said after thinking for a bit. 'Though it was unexpected.'
"But you were inford about it." The unknown person responded.
"Huh? I was… no I wasn't." Arthur denied.
"Before you got the class, were you not told of the suffering and burden you would have to bear?" The unknown person questioned.
"That… wasn't that just supposed to be for the sake of dramatic effects?" Arthur was now in a mix of confusion and fear.
"Nothing… I say nothing, in Morpheus Online is without reason." The unknown person said in a serious tone. "Everything you do, speak, and hear matters." It clarified.
"Why… why would it be like this just for a ga?" Arthur said in frustration.
"Do you still think this is just a ga?" The unknown person put forth an unbelievable concept.
"What kind of a ridiculous question is that?" Arthur scoffed. "Of course it is."
"Then do you think just anyone can co back to life and return six years into the past?" The unknown person shocked Arthur, this ti to his core.
"How did you…" Arthur was feeling really afraid now.
That was a secret that he had decided to take to his grave, thus now that soone knew about it, he was feeling highly unnerved.
"How do you think you might have returned?" The unknown person asked instead.
"I… I… I don't know… so lucky? A God took rcy?" Arthur didn't know what to answer.
He hadn't thought much about his regression either. To him, the re fact that he was able to live again was enough. It didn't even matter to him if all he had seen was a dream. Simply the chance of being able to achieve his goals was srizing to him.
Arthur had taken everything that had happened to him as an axiom and hadn't questioned anything.
"C-can… Can you tell ? Do you know why?" Arthur now started to think that this unknown person knew a lot more.
"Of course, that is why I am here." The unknown person replied. "Let's start from the beginning… I am Zaddreus. Or rather, I was called that once."
"Zaddreus…" Arthur repeated wondering if he had heard of it before or not.
"Let tell you about your return first… The reason behind your return is your predecessor." Zaddreus revealed.
"My predecessor? Like the one who had the Dragomancer class originally?" Arthur inquired.
"Yes, him." Zaddreus confird. "His actions were what allowed you to return to your life 6 years in the past."
"B-but… how?" Arthur questioned. "And why ?" he also asked.
"How he did that is sothing you need to find out on your own." Zaddreus didn't answer this ti.
"Why can't you tell that?" Arthur questioned.
"Because I do not know… or rather, this 'instance' of that you are speaking to does not know." Zaddreus answered.
"Instance… you an there are more of you?" Arthur questioned in doubt.
"There are yes. And you need to seek them out." Zaddreus answered.
This gave rise to more doubts in Arthur's mind.
"Wait, aren't you here to answer my questions and tell everything? Then doesn't it make sense to have one 'instance' do all of it?" Arthur expressed his doubt.
"If it was possible, I would have done that too. Your words are not wrong." Zaddreus stated. "But there are limitations I cannot overco either. While I cannot tell you how your predecessor turned back ti, I can assu you can tell it did not co at a small cost." He revealed.
This gave Arthur a lot to think about.
'Just what kind of cost would one have to pay to turn back the ti? Their life? But then they would be turning back the lives of billions of people. Would that cost be justified?' Arthur continued to think, but couldn't co up with an answer.
Zaddreus read through his mind and knew that he was going on the right path.
"For now you can assu that the cost was great… Greater than you could think." Zaddreus replied.
"But then… why did he choose ?" Arthur asked.
"The answer to this is simple… he didn't." Zaddreus dropped a stunning fact.
"Wait what!?" Arthur was shocked. "But only I seem to be the only one being able to rember everything."
But as soon as Arthur thought that, another terrifying thought presented to him.
"No wait… it can't be… There are more people that rember?" Arthur asked in a trembling voice.
"I can allay your fears here," Zaddreus said in a calm voice. "You are the only one who rembers." He confird.
"But then… what did you an by I wasn't chosen?" Arthur inquired.
"The original plan was to rewind the ti for everyone, with the small hope that a few people might rember it. Rember the life that they had lived." Zaddreus replied.
"And I was the only one that managed to do that?" Arthur reckoned.
"Indeed… we do not know if it was luck, or sothing else. But you were the only one who managed to retain your mories." Zaddreus stated. "What's even better though, is the fact that you knew about Morpheus Online as well as the Dragomancers." He added.
"Yeah… even if others had their mories, there was no guarantee they would have played Morpheus Online. While a lot of people do, not everyone learns everything about the ga." Arthur muttered.
"Correct. We simply hoped that they would join the ga. As long as they did, I would naturally sense them and try to find them." Zaddreus explained. "But you made the task easy, you directly appeared to obtain the Legacy of the Dragomancer." He said, a hint of joy within his voice.
This was the first ti Arthur was sensing Zaddreus express any emotion.
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