Above The Sky
Chapter 667 - 667 611 Only the Fortunate Can Understand 5600 Second Update_3

667: Chapter 611: Only the Fortunate Can Understand (5600, Second Update)_3 667: Chapter 611: Only the Fortunate Can Understand (5600, Second Update)_3 Given that, Ian was in no hurry; he simply decided to stay at the Huai Guang Church’s base to rest up properly.

After such an intense Subspace exploration battle, he was genuinely a bit tired…

The burden of the Dead Lord’s Power was quite substantial.

Had it not been for his real strength being Dual Second Energy Level and his possession of the Domain of Extremes, someone like Adalbert at the First Energy Level might have suffered numerous aftereffects.

When Ian initially intended to send Adalbert to the Huai Guang Church, it was to have the church help check for any aftereffects that needed resolving.

Money was not an issue; researchers of Adalbert’s caliber were indeed rare in the world.

As for now…

it was merely one more procedure to have the Dragon Worship Cult send him to the Huai Guang Church.

Adalbert was blissfully unaware that he had already been scheduled for admission into a professional medical facility for convalescence, while Ian had made a note of this in his memo and then lay down on the blanket prepared by the rescue team, gazing at the grain of the wooden ceiling, and slowly closed his eyes.

He needed a real rest to alleviate the mental exhaustion caused by multiple Prophecies and signs.

To ease his heart, which had been too excited and anxious over glimpsing the course of the future.

But before that.

Ian once again heard the voice inside his own heart.

[Monarch?]

It was a voice originating from the depths of his heart, residing within Ian, acknowledging him as their Deceased Monarch…

the voice of the Lost Souls.

“What is it?”

Ian’s figure appeared in his own Soul World; in front of him was a swarm of vague white Lost Souls.

The souls surrounded the youth, but he felt not fear, but a sense of warmth instead.

With vengeance completed, and Ian’s fulfillment of his promises to the Lost Souls, they fully acknowledged him as their Monarch, thus constantly residing within him, ever ready to serve the ‘Dead Lord’.

This was a contract.

[Monarch]

A woman’s hazy voice emerged, it was that of the former carpenter woman.

Her voice was somewhat urgent, but she deliberately softened it: [You have fulfilled our wishes…

Although the real culprit, Duke of Sorin, Fiery Flame Land, and the Spirit Wisdom Institute have not paid the price we desired, we understand…

that all this is not realistic]

[We…

do not understand Star Prison Tianyu, or any other disasters.

They are too far, too remote, we cannot comprehend these things…]

[You killed Viscount Avak, killed the master of this laboratory, that is already enough—so now, it is our turn to fulfill Your wish]

[Monarch…

We…

or rather, we Lost Souls who still retain our sense of self, want to know]

[We want to know, your true wish]

At this moment, the gathering of souls gazed intently at Ian.

These Lost Souls, who died in Avak’s laboratory, their resentment had now quieted down a lot…

They had not even thought about seeking vengeance against Duke of Sorin from the beginning because it was an impossible feat, even considering it seemed a waste of their hatred.

After all, their direct enemies were the Spirit Wisdom Institute, and the souls that saw Fiery Flame Land and Duke of Sorin as enemies were with Adalbert.

So by now, they were already content—Avak’s laboratory had utterly collapsed, Duke of Sorin had not completed his plans, and Ian had killed all the people in the laboratory from the Spirit Wisdom Institute.

Today, it was their turn to fulfill their oath.

—They hoped that their existence could be of some help.

Such sincere emotions, no one could ignore.

“He will pay the price.

Duke of Sorin is also waiting for the day he will pay the price, and I will be his retribution.”

Ian looked around at the souls, feeling their sincere hearts.

He was silent for a while, and then gently said, “As for my true desire… haven’t I already spoken of it?”

There was no need for the young man to lie to these soul spirits who entrusted their existence to him.

So, Ian lifted his head, gazing at the high dome of his Soul Space, “I just want a world that is forever unknown, forever fresh, forever with room to move forward…

It may be a bit embarrassing to admit, but to put it bluntly, I’m someone who is very afraid of having an ‘end’.”

“Even if I haven’t finished what’s in my bowl, I panic when I see nothing left in the pot.

When I’m not yet done with a book, the realization that there are only a few pages left frightens me.”

“A planet this large, to say nothing of traversing all of Terra, I haven’t even traveled the whole Empire, yet I feel despair over the Star Prison Tianyu five lightyears away…

Sometimes, I also find it strange, wondering what exactly am I concerned about?”

“What exactly am I afraid of?

Why am I in such a hurry?

Why am I so desperate to seize the possibility of traveling to a distant place?”

Closing his eyes and feeling the gaze of the many souls, Ian took a deep breath and then frankly said, “No.

In fact, I haven’t been desperate at all.”

“I just do what I want to do.

That’s not desperation, I’ve never seriously thought about this question from the start because to me, this is the meaning of my life.

Do you ask why you eat brown bread?

Because that’s all there is – if this world has no stars, I can only go out and find them.”

“To all lost souls, I don’t ask for your understanding, because I am an abnormal person; I am not an ordinary person that you can comprehend, but a madman to be called insane…

I just want, want to ascend Above the Sky, without needing a reason, without needing any emotion, just like how people don’t need to feel overwhelmed when they look up at the stars.”

At this point, Ian even started to smile, “Because the stars are up there, why do I need a reason and thoughts to simply look up at a star?

That question is too foolish.”

“Since there are no stars in the sky, then I must take them back.”

[We don’t understand…

Your Majesty]

The lost souls responded blankly: [But we want to understand, Your Majesty.

We can sense the sincerity of these emotions…]

[We… want to understand you]

“Thank you.”

And Ian, smiling, reached out to touch those soul bodies.

The feeling was cool but not at all terrifying.

Touching his ‘subjects,’ he earnestly said, “Of course you don’t understand.

It’s not your fault, it’s mine.”

“In this world, there are so many people suffering.

They worry about tomorrow’s breakfast, their children’s future, the harvest for the next year.

Forget about the fate of Humans a thousand years from now, forget about the distant skies and stars, even the Star Prison Tianyu…they can’t even predict the world’s change a few years ahead, how could they be concerned about these things, how could they understand?”

“Like you, who were earnestly living yet died inexplicably in the conflicts between the Empire and Fiery Flame Land… dying confusedly, dying unprepared.”

“In such a world, no one would think to look up at the sky because the sunlight hurts their eyes, because there is work to be done, because they need to earn money for the family, because tomorrow is uncertain, and because heading to the sky is indeed a very boring thing.”

After a pause, the young man softly said, “That’s not romantic at all but a vast emptiness, an endless nihility.”

“You are the right ones, you are living with your feet on the ground.

Why should you have to understand me?”

Saying so, it seemed that Ian was speaking to the group of souls but also to himself: “Inega II was too hasty about many things and made many mistakes… but there’s one point I believe was not wrong.”

His tone grew firm, “We must teach the people knowledge…

we have to let them live happily and worry-free.”

“Only then will you become Alchemists, Astronomers, Sublimators, become…

those who can think about things hundreds and thousands of years ahead, become someone who is bored enough to look at the stars.”

“My subjects…

only when you are happy,”

“Can you become someone able to understand the wishes in my heart.”