3155 Unsettling Answers (Part 1)
"Okay, and what's an Elysia?" Heartache and longing were the only replies Derek received.
Even with the life forces wounded and split, the Void could still feel Elysia's presence in the distance.
He turned around until he could feel something calling unto him. freёwebnovel.com
"Dya! Dya!" Back at the Verhen Mansion, the baby girl felt his call too, but no one understood why she started crying and flaying her small limbs in the direction her father was.
Back on Mount Malana, Derek had now even more questions and one answer he didn't like one bit.
"Okay, I want to make another experiment." He tried to take the Voidwalker armor off but before he could look for latches, the artifact turned into a silvery liquid and slipped off him.
"Fuck me sideways, is the armor a living symbiote?"
"No." Ragnar?k answered. "Just metal."
"What about you?" Derek asked.
"No." Ragnar?k repeated, this time with a hint of sadness in the sound produced by its straps. "Just metal."
The Void took his time studying the armor and its design, finding it familiar.
Derek recognized many details that matched exactly how a long time ago he had imaged his custom armor in Dungeons & Looting. There were even a few etchings that came from other franchises he was a huge fan of.
"By the Emperor, only someone from Earth can have crafted something like this. Does it mean I'm not the only one? Have I possessed the body of another human or what?"
As he passed his hand over the breastplate, a silvery and sweet laughter echoed through his mind. He saw long flowing hair of a brown so light that it looked golden, a warm smile that never left him, and the playful banter between friendly rivals.
"Solus." The word came to his mouth by itself, followed by another pang that he managed to repress. "What's a Solus and how do I know this name?"
More longing, more emptiness. Derek had no way to know Solus' position, but he felt her absence deeply. He felt that something was missing and he needed to take it back.
"This confirms my suspicions." He said once he managed to stand up again. "I know what's happening. I know how I got here."
'About time!' The Voidfeather clenched his fists in triumph. 'That jackass of George did it. He followed the trail of breadcrumbs I left him and understood that he has amnesia! Now he only has to go out and ask for help to-'
"A powerful being, probably the Lith Verhen of the completion bar, died and is now using me as a life vessel for his essence." The Void said, following the reasoning conjured by his wild paranoia and the too many fantasy novels he had read back on Earth.
'The fuck?' The Voidfeather thought.
"The memories I'm experiencing since I woke up here belong to him. This is why I'm able to master so many unknown skills so quickly. I'm not actually learning so much as remembering Verhen's skills.
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