Chapter 437 - Events After Death
"The only two observers in this world?" Aria mumbled with a frown before asking, "Who's world is this? Did you bring me here?"
"This is the world of my memories. Everything that happened here, has already happened. They are all past events. As for you are here, I do not know why. I did not bring you here." The person explained.
She slowly descended onto the soft snow with her jade white feet and slowly entered the courtyard. Aria quickly followed her blindly.
"If this is the world of your memories, then there should be another you in this world, right? Where were you when all of this happened? And why do we look so alike?" Aria asked.
The person shook her head and said, "I do not know why we look alike, but it seems that there is some profound and inseparable connection between us. The answer to your other questions lies over there."
After the person pointed, Aria glanced up the top of the building adjacent to the courtyard. On the very top floor, the other person in the world of memories was quietly glancing into the distant kingdom below the mountain.
Aria wrinkled her expression.
"You were this close? You should have overheard everything then. Why didn't you stop them from going?" Aria queried.
The person gave a despondent sigh.
"If I knew, I would have. Look again carefully. We were all young back then. How would I have known that the so-called gaining confidence was to go sleep with cheap women in a brothel?"
When Aria heard this, she glanced at the other person on the top building's balcony more carefully.
The person was much a much younger version than the other talking to her. In fact, this younger person was almost identical to her.
"How can there be two exact same people in this world?" Aria could not help but bring up this question that had been pushed in the back of her mind.
"This world, huh? That's an interesting point. Actually, I'm not too confident in this place being the world of my memories." The other Aria said.
Aria was confused by the other Aria's words and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Before you came, I did believe that this was the world built by my memories. But now, I am not so sure. It is impossible to replicate events that I have not seen before. Let me show you."
The other Aria waved her hand, and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.
They were now standing on a bustling street within the kingdom. Not only that, but it was also within the Red District.
Aria saw the two boys, Judas Gahfrit and Leon Escladus entering one of the buildings with flirtatious women in revealing clothes standing on the balcony, waving at ongoing crowds of people passing through the streets.
"This is…"
"The Red District."
After Leon entered the building with Judas, he was taken aback by what the place really was. He tried to persuade Judas to leave the area, but it did not work.
Judas assured him that they were only there to drink.
Nevertheless, after being peer pressured into drinking many wine shots, Leon got drunk according to his friend's plan.
When Leon woke up the next day, he was surrounded by beauties in his arms, naked, and the night before slowly became vivid to him as he tried to recall.
The other Aria shortly fast-forwarded this scene before she confusedly said to Aria, "I was not around to see when this happen. As such, it should not have existed within my memory now that I think about it."
Aria was surprised.
This person, who seems so strong and knowledgeable, also had times when she felt lost and clueless about what was really happening.
"What kind of world is this, really? I have never seen magical places like this before. How are those islands floating in the sky?"
"Oh? Are you not someone from the Divine Realm? The Desolate Region outside the Divine Realm, perhaps?" The other Aria tried to guess.
"So, this place is called the Divine Realm…" Aria mumbled before she wrinkled her brows and asked, "What is the Desolate Region?"
"The Desolate Region is referred to places that exist too far from the Divine Realm's central region, which gathers all the power in the universe toward its center. The Desolate Regions have next to no Spirit Energy to sustain effective Divine Cultivation."
Perhaps, because the other Aria had been too lonely in this world by herself, she was incredibly talkative, answering all of Aria's question.
Aria matched some of the knowledge she found from the fragmented dreams with the other Aria's words and gained a clearer picture of the Divine Realm and Desolate Regions.
The Human Domain seemed to be precisely the same as the Desolate Regions the other Aria describe. It also had a scarce amount of Spirit Energy—that was until the World Tree came into being.
"Eh, it seems my world might be in one of these Desolate Regions you mentioned. Spirit Energy used to be scarce, but now we have the World Tree to provide for us." Aria said.
"Your world has a World Tree?"
"Yes."
Aria nodded.
The other Aria immediately shook her head and said, "It's impossible to give birth to a World Tree in the Desolate Region. You… should not be in one of these Desolate Regions. Another world, perhaps?" The other Aria guessed, but she was not too confident.
"Perhaps the world outside has changed since my death." She added.
Aria was immediately confused by this line.
"What do you mean 'after your death?' Are you not alive right here? Can you not get out of this world?"
"I have been trapped in this place by myself for many years, unable to get out nor kill myself. I would hardly call this living, don't you think? I cannot live, but I cannot die either." The other Aria said.
She waved her hand, and the world rapidly changed once more, fast-forwarding by many years into the future. In this new timeline, the Divine Pill Kingdom was on fire.
"In this timeline, everyone I loved is already dead. I made my way back as soon as I heard the news, but it is already too late." The other Aria slowly explained.
Buildings were on fire, and battles broke out in every corner of—not only the kingdom, but the entire Divine Realm. It was a grand battle between numerous Divine Practitioners, but also myriads of races!
"Why is everyone fighting?" Aria asked, confused by this scene. It was not included within her fragmented dream.
"News of the Divine Medicine King's death caused grief and outrage throughout the entire Divine Realm. You see, Leon's father, Heinrich Escladus was a saintly doctor who treated everyone equally, regardless of their race and background.
"This made him beloved by all races, including the demon race from the Northern Devil Region. The entire Divine Realm was thrown in turmoil after the Demon Empress launched an attack on the other three Divine Regions."
While the other Aria was explaining, they soon arrived at a specific open area within the palace, atop the snowy mountain.
In this spot, two corpses were seen lying in the cold snow, stripped of anything valuable to them except their clothes.
Aria soon saw the fairy-like Aria of the world arriving at the scene shortly with a frosty divine sword in her hand.
The person did not see her and the other Aria.
The person's gaze was fixated on the two cold corpses before rushing forward to hug one of the bodies dearly to herself, heartbroken as tears began flowing her cheeks.
"Why did this happen?! Is there no justice in this world?!" The person cried towards the heavens with grievances.
How could two people who accumulated karmic virtue by saving lives all their life come to such a miserable end?! Do they have no divine protection from garnishing so much good karma?!
The heavens also seemed upset that things had come to this. It thundered with streaks of powerful lightning in the skies. Its power was enough to even annihilate Divine Kings, but no one was hit.
"Aria! It's great that you're back! But we cannot stay here anymore! The demon army is about to overrun this place! Come with me. We need to get out of here!" A person shortly arrived pulled the fairy-like Aria's tender white hands.
However, the fairy-like Aria simply looked at the person coldly before flicking her wrist with an outburst of Divine Energy, causing the person to loosen his grip and flew away like a cannonball, slamming into a wall.
"Judas, I have misjudged you! What kind of heartless friend are you to leave Leon's body here in the cold like this?!" The fairy-like Aria said hatefully with tears and anger.
"I… It's not like that, Aria! I've just got here! I have been fighting the demons on the frontlines until now! I would never leave their bodies like this if I were not tied down by the demons!" Judas Gahfrit explained.
The fairy-like Aria shot the person a ridiculing look and said, "Then why are you here? What about before the demon army even reach the borders of our Divine Pill Kingdom? What about then, huh?! Save your sugary lies for someone else. I won't believe a single one of your words!"
Aria and the other Aria both watched this scene and felt deep sadness gushed out of deep within their hearts. They were mournful of the losses.
The other Aria had revisited this scene many times, but it saddens her greatly every time.
"The people dearest to me have already left this world. What meaning do I have left to continue living in it?!"
"Stop, Aria! Don't do it!" Judas barked.
However, he could do nothing against the fairy-like Aria's powerful Divine King-level cultivation suppressing him.
She severed her own heart veins and sent power Energy Palm Strike to her own forehead to annihilate her soul before her body collapsed on top of the other two bodies.
"Nooo!" Judas roared mournfully before rushing over.
The other Aria sighed and waved her hand to end the scene before looking back at Aria.
"Now, you know why I should be dead.... Yet here I am stuck in this strange world."