102 Talk With Qingyue

"….<Deep breath>…Ohh boy. I knew this would happen sooner or later, but not this soon" Muttered Mesa to himself before he looked at Xia Qingyue and opened his mouth.

"You know, normally I would just kill anyone who saw me using these powers in order to keep this a secret…" Said Mesa coldly as he looked at Xia Qingyue. Though barely noticeable, he saw her expression change and get herself ready to fight him.

"But I have no desire what so ever to hurt you in any kind of way, so you can relax." Said Mesa, noticing Xia Qingyue relaxing again.

"But I want to ask you a question."

"What is it?" Asked Xia Qingyue who was still a bit on edge.

"I can tell you what is going on. I can tell exactly who the Lich King is and where he came from. I can tell you why nothing I do, seems to make any kind of sense. But my question is: 'Do you really want to know?' I mean really, really want to know. Because once I tell you the truth, nothing will ever be the same again. You will never look at the world in the same way again and you will have to make some sacrifices for it." Said Mesa in a very grave tone of voice, while looking Xia Qingyue with very serious look.

"Why? Why would you to such extremes? What could this secret be that it would require me to make a sacrifice for it? Asked Xia Qingyue.

Looking at Mesa, Xia Qingyue saw that he was completely serious. More serious than she had ever seen him be. During the times that she knew him, he always had this nonchalant attitude. He had an attitude wherein nothing that happened could faze him. Yet now, he looked at her very seriously. At a loss of how to respond to him, she ponders for a while about his question. But just as she was about to open her mouth, Mesa interjects.

"Alternatively, I can offer you a second choice: 'I can manipulate your memories for you, making you believe whatever you want and keep you in blissful ignorance.'" Said Mesa.

"But how than? And what sort of sacrifice do I have to make?" Asked Xia Qingyue.

"Do you remember the first time we met back at Floating Cloud City and I told you about the Sharingans?" Asked Mesa with Xia Qingyue nodding to him.

"The one thing that I didn't tell you about it, was its ability to manipulate other people's memories. So that's how I will do it. And the sacrifice that you will have to make, is having a curse seal placed upon your tongue. This will ensure that once you speak about my secret to anyone else, that curse seal will activate and paralyze your body and you will die a slow and horrible death due to asphyxiation." Said Mesa. Listening to him, Xia Qingyue was started to get fearful hearing this. Meanwhile, Mesa held out his hands towards her.

"So Xia Qingyue, I offer you this choice. Take my left hand and I will manipulate your memories for you, I will ensure that your life stays the same as it was before and you can live on in blissful ignorance. Take my right hand and I will tell you the truth and show you just how deep this rabbit-hole goes and why everything I did makes no sense. But in return, you will have to live with this knowledge, knowing that you can never tell anyone else or risk dying a horrible death."

"So, what will be your choice?" Said Mesa.

After he said this, Xia Qingyue was stuck making her decision. She looked at Mesa, who looked back at her stoically, not moving a muscle and then to his outstretched hands. Conflicted with this, it took Xia Qingyue a long time before she finally came to her decision. Holding up her hand, she carefully tries to grasp Mesa's right hand.

But just before she could, Mesa tells her in hopes of discouraging her to take his right hand: "Remember, once you do this, your life will never be same again and you will have to live with the knowledge that death is always next to you, ready to strike you down. There is no shame in taking the easy way out and keep living your life the way you have been doing up until this point. Only if you are absolutely certain that you want to know the truth and you are willing to live with the specter of death on your shoulder at all times, should you take my right hand."

Hearing this, Xia Qingyue stopped her hand and hesitated once again. But after a few moments, she still went and grabbed Mesa's right hand.

(A.N.: Wow, I am really feeling a Matrix vibe right here, am I right you guys.)

(A.N.: But anyways. I wanted to tell you that I have a plan with Xia Qingyue for the future chapters where her knowledge of Mesa's secret isn't a bad thing. This is mainly for those who feel it is either a too draconian measure to take or those who feel I should have erased her mind and replaced it with something else.)

"Very well. I can see you've made your choice." Said Mesa to which Xia Qingyue nodded.

"So, what is your first question."

"Who are you really, and where did you get all those powers and treasures?" Said Xia Qingyue resolutely.

"…<deep breath>… Tell me Qingyue, how much do you know about this world?"

Looking at him weirdly, Xia Qingyue was a bit taken aback by him answering him with a question for her. Pondering over his question a bit, she soon came up with her answer: "I know that we live on a continent called 'The Profound Sky Continent' and that it is one of two continents with the Illusory Demon Realm on this world. According to the story that we have told, the Four Sacred Grounds imprisoned a demon from the Illusory Demon Realm beneath the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa's Sword Management Terrace several hundred years ago. Originally, this story was kept a secret. But 20 years ago, the relatives of this demon managed to sneak into the Profound Sky Continent without alerting the Four Sacred Grounds. After that, they asked all over about this demon's location with the intent to rescue him. In the end, they had discovered the Blue Wind Empire. Eventually the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region's found them and killed them. So goes the story."

"But that's not all. Father and mother's meeting was very magical. When father met mother outside of the city, she was in a coma and her entire body was covered with blood. After she woke up, she did not have any of her memories, and her body was extremely weak. Then, mother married father and because her body was weak, giving birth to me was very difficult, and I narrowly escaped death..."

"When I was four years old, mother suddenly regained her memories... She left, like a fairy she flew away and left. When she left, she hugged me and my brother while crying profusely, saying that if she didn't leave, she would bring calamity to the whole family. She said that where she was going, was a place called the God's Realm. It was a place that we could never get to. So, even though I had searched many, many ancient books, I have never found anything about the God's Realm. But I am still convinced that this place exists somewhere. So that's why I have committed myself to the Profound Way." Said Xia Qingyue with a sad look on her face.

"So the reason you pursue strength is to be strong enough to see your mother again and reunite your family. Am I correct?" Said Mesa.

Nodding slighty, Xia Qingyue looked up at the sky with a melancholic look on her face: "I only want my family to be reunited. Even though this goal is very far, I believe that if I climb higher and higher, I will inevitably be able to see my mother one day."

Standing up from the Vimana's throne, Mesa walks up to Xia Qingyue and Articuno, who has been snuggling up to Xia Qingyue this entire time and being petted by her. Sitting down next to her, he starts speaking to her: "I see. That is a very admirable goal you have. Unlike nearly everyone else that pursues the Profound Way for the sake of strength and having power over others."

"But let me fill in the blanks you have missed. For starters, this world is called the Blue Pole Star and it has three continents. It has the Profound Sky Continent where we live, the Illusory Demon Realm where that 'demon' that the Four Sacred Grounds captured came from and lastly the Azure Cloud Continent." Said Mesa with Xia Qingyue hanging on to every word he said.

"And to answer your question on whether the God's Realm exists. Yes, it exists. It's just that we are incapable of perceiving it for it is a place where their strength has far surpassed anything on this planet. It's called the God's Realm for a reason, for the strength that they have is Divine Strength and surpasses that of the strength of the Blue Pole Star. If you look at it this way, the way people from the Profound Sky Continent worship the Four Sacred Grounds as gods. Well, to those people from the God's Realm the Four Sacred Grounds are nothing but ants. Their strength far, far surpasses that of the Four Sacred Grounds and every single person on the Blue Pole Star combined."

"So, your mother came from the God's Realm and somehow ended up on the Blue Pole Star. When she had regained her memories, she had most likely also regained her Divine Strength. And that is most likely the reason she had to leave abruptly. For if she stayed, then those of the God's Realm would have sensed her and located this planet. Seeing as how you told me your father found her covered in blood and in a coma, it would be fair to suggest that she was attacked. And if she stayed longer with you, then those who attacked her would have found you and your brother and you would have definitely been killed. So in order to protect you and your brother, your mother had no other choice but to leave." Said Mesa.

Listening to his story, Xia Qingyue overcome with sadness and crying profusely on Mesa's shoulder. For years, she couldn't understand why her mother left them. The only clue she left them was the name of the place where she was going, the God's Realm. And yet after researching for many years, Xia Qingyue hadn't been able to find a single clue on this God's Realm. And now after many years, she finally realized why her mother had to leave so suddenly. But after a while, she was left with many questions: 'Who is Mesa? Where did he come from? And how does he know all this?'

Looking at Mesa, Xia Qingyue couldn't help herself but ask: "Mesa, how do know all this?"

"What do you think the answer to that question is?"

Thinking about it for a moment, Xia Qingyue's eyes went wide as the realization sunk in. With trembling lips, she stuttered out: "Y-y-you're from G-G-God's Realm."

Smiling at her for coming up with this answer, Mesa told her: "Almost, but not quite. I am not from the God's Realm. But from a place much, much farther away."

Understandably confused at his answer, Xia Qingyue than asked: "Where did you come from then?"

"Did you know that there exists an infinite amount of universes. And every single one of them has its own rules of nature, its own lifeforms, its own planets and stars and galaxies that all exists within one giant overarching realm of existence, never to able to come in contact with one another." Said Mesa.

"W-w-what are you saying Mesa? Are you seriously telling me that you're…you're…" Said Xia Qingyue as she was getting more and more nervous with each passing second.

"Yes. I am from another universe. I died in my own universe and I have been reincarnated in this universe."