The moment this question was asked, the content expression on the family head Dorax disappeared and instead a frown took its place, his eyes began to check me up and down, seemingly wanted to see something through me .
But my poker face which I used to deal with everyone since I first woke up in this place was still the same, whatever he was trying to discern through looking at me, it seem that either it was hidden deep enough, or it didn't exist at all .
And this was exactly what I wanted him to feel, I wanted him to find a great difficulty with recognizing what right and what's not, only then will he truly and finally decide to tell me the truth .
The silence continued between us for 6 to 7 minutes minimum, in that period of time, I kept trying to see how to entice the book using mental energy, surprisingly it was working, unfortunately working .
I was able to get it to react alright, but its reaction was a bit aggressive, hostile even, dangerous enough to cause my heart to palpitate, I sensed the book actually devoured the mental energy I was using to try and entice it with .
It wasn't simply absorbing some of it to nurture itself, no it was directly cutting the amount it devoured from the source which was me, the moment I felt this happening, instantly stopped using mental energy and cut the connection between me and whatever was that book .
How much did your father tell you about that strange method ? .
After severing that weird connection with the book, my mind and Mental Energy both suffered some kind of a backlash, I felt my thoughts become a bit sluggish and every second or two, a headache so strong that made my whole body go numb would apper .
The most troublesome thing that I was currently dealing with, was the fact that even after severing the connection with that weird book, I was still hearing what appeared to be the soft and sweet whispers of someone telling me to resume feeding the book with my mental energy, it promised me riches beyond my wildest imagination .
It even began showing me images of Hana and myself acting more affectionate with each other, then as if feeling that this wasn't already enough, I suddenly saw a complete harem that consisted of girls that I know and girls I never even met before, women of all shapes and ages, laying around me .
A harem of beautiful, loving women, the dream of any male, then the visions I was seeing were that of my parents returning to live, no to be more accurate, it seem that was the one who went back in time, back to when I was happily living with my parents, but seeing the face of Callen Loon reflected into the mirror, I understood that this was nothing but an illusion, but even then I still relished the ability to hug the two of them .
It seem that whatever or whoever was responsible for these visions I was seeing, was actually trying to send me a message, continue to feed the book, not only will I get what I saw in these visions, but even more, I will be able to even make my parents come back to life .
Like devil's whisperers, these thoughts and vision kept on repeating and flashing in my mind, relentlessly time after time, telling me that by feeding the book my Mental Energy, all my wishes will come true,
Even though I was beginning to imagine all the things that I had seen coming true, no, I hoped them to be true, I was beginning to see myself becoming a successful man back in my old world, marrying Hana, living a happily ever after kind of life with my parents alive and those who humiliated me dead .
As I felt myself giving up more and more into temptations, a sudden entity appeared in my happy life in the vision, or more accurate to say that it had infiltrated it, the blue clear sky in the vision I was having was suddenly split apart by the pulling hands of a familiar Blue Gigantic Creature, his hands tore through our world with ease and in less than a second, the perfect life this I was having a glimpse of and quite enjoying suddenly turned into arduous hell .
That creature in the sky cast his eyes at me, that look, that look in his eyes was a look that I hadn't forgotten about even after some time had passed since I saw him for the first time and since the last time I forced myself to remember that look he gave .
That damn look of his that showed how insignificant my existence compared to him, it was that damn look that made me start to tear this damn perfect life of mine apart, I vowed to my parents, Hana, myself, that I would get much stronger than him and will take revenge against him one day .
I vowed to be someone so strong that no one would be able to control my life and death, yet here I'm, accepting to live a peaceful life as a weak nobody who is hoping just to be able to hold my life together .
Now that this damn thing is right in front of me, I wonder if praying would work, what about hope, will hope allow me to protect myself and my loved ones, if such a threat were to appear, nothing can help me wining against such a creature, at least nothing that I hadn't paid my sweat and tears for .
Wanting to live a happy life, that was something I certainly want to do, but what kind of a happy life, a happy life retired in a world that everything in it was completely in my grasp, retiring in Palace that was built on clouds, retiring on a beach with people who I love, this my call and mine alone .
As for this ideal life, I don't want anything to do with it, I couldn't help but look around me and see that death was in every corner I looked at, cars destroyed, buildings destroyed, houses destroyed, lifeless corpses laid down and stretched to as far as my eyes can see .
Torn skies, fire scorching through the ground, killing any sign of the color green, silent, deadly silence spread across the world, no screams, no noises, just silence, even in this cursed situation where death was in every path and way, I still find myself smiling from ear to ear .
Even though my happy life ended up turning like this, I still couldn't help but be more happy to have find myself, my real self in this weird sea of madness, this creature still tearing the sky apart appearance and remembering the insignificant look that this creature had given me before, all helped me realize this, the temptations regard staying in this current hellish place weren't no longer as strong as before .
Allowing me to finally let go of the temptations that I gave into before, I could get out of this vision any moment now, but there is one more thing that I needed to do, I looked at the gigantic creature in the sky above me, his face was as obscured to me as before .
Maybe I still don't have enough strength to even look at how he actually looked like, the only look I was able to catch of him was across how many light years across the space, so it's no wonder, still even though I'm not still able to see what he looked like clearly, but I'm certain that we will still able to recognize each other some day, thinking like that I wanted to pent-up some of frustration, so I said looking at that blank like creature face, only his eyes were there for some reason, I said :
" Hey you big blue curse, get the hell out of my vision this instant, I'm not sure what are or where are you, but my intuition is telling me that you might still hear me, so you better wash that neck of yours, you did help me greatly this time, I appreciate you for that, but I still need to have my revenge, so wait for me to come and take your life, but for now, get out .
With that resolve, I saw myself punching toward the sky where that creature was there, whether it was my imagination or this vision settings, my body began to glow with a dark glow, my punch was delivered towards that blue giant in the sky, it was driven by dark like energy .
Once the punch landed on that creature, his head was directly blasted open, then his body began to disintegrate into dark colored particles that seemed to be made of the same weird energy that I used to punch out just now, but I didn't dwell too much about it .
The big hole torn in the sky above me began to mend itself and the corpses began to rise up, once again alive, in a minute, everything in the vision returned to how it was before and it seem that the vision or whatever was responsible for making me go through all this become aware that his grasp on me was loosing, that's why the vision become even better, I was now able to actually fly with my base form .
I felt that I have the same amount of strength as in the real life, but I was no longer interested in whatever that vision gave me, I had already laid a tight plan for myself, that Northern Devouring Star was one move I'm intent on making to make sure that my plan come to fruit .
Even though the book seemed to contain something evil, but good and evil to the current me lost their actual meaning, all I care about is growing my strength as fast as possible, if there was a method that can help me with achieving that, then this method was good as long as it can be used by me .
In these visions, I came to understand how dangerous this book and technique was, I'm beginning to doubt if it was actually a Battle Aura Training Manual at all, but it was how dangerous this thing was that had caught my attention and interest, if I'm able to get some of the power contained in it under my control, then I might achieve my target in becoming stronger as quickly as possible .
But only if I managed to control it, if I failed to do so, then I believe that even my life would be at risk, but it was nonetheless worth it, at least that what my heart and intuition were telling me, if I succeeded then I'm promised glory, if I failed then I'm promised disappoinment and death .
Only one thing I felt my current self in the vision seemed to be missing, Mental Energy, either this was on purpose to prevent me from trying to escape or Mental Energy wasn't usable in the vision, either way I don't need it to get out of here .
The only disappointment I had was because I'm not able to use my Eyes and inspect what exactly those visions were, but since that was the case, I believed that there was no longer a reason for me to stay here .
Just as I was about to destroy this illusion and escape, I saw that there were two hands laying on my shoulder all of a sudden and a body pressed to my chest, the hands belonged to my parents, one was standing behind me on each side .
The body belonged to the only girl who I cherished more than anyone in this world and who I only understand her value to me after we were split apart from one another, Hana, seeing them holding me like this filled me with peaceful feeling, if I hadn't already made up my mind, I had no doubt that I would have preferred to keep staying here with them forever .
I don't know about my parents, but the real Hana is still waiting for me outside, waiting for me to save her and meet her again, after all I did promise her that we would meet again and at that time I will be strong enough to protect her, I gave my parents a deep hug, then I saw that them dissipating on their own .
The same dark particles appeared again, but I was focused more on saying goodbye to Hana, the girl was looking at me with a pouting expression on her face, similar to the one she made when I didn't text her all summer, the face was familiar, but the feeling was not .
The person in front of me wasn't Hana, but it was weirdly enough the closest thing that reminded me of the real Hana and my mission which had already been delayed for more than enough time already, before I held the girl in my embrace again, I saw that she closed the distance herself and spoke for the first time, she said :
Let's stay here forever, what do you say ? .
She put her arms around my neck and kissed me, I was surprised at this current transformation, but I still followed suit, for I don't know how much time did we spent like this, all I know was that when we were finally done, I already made up my mind and found the words that I needed to tell her, I said :
" How about we stay there forever instead ? .
I pointed towards the sky and see seeing my gesture actually smiled more sweetly than ever before and nodded her head, then like with my parents, she gave me a wave and a smile, before she finally dissipate as well, letting go of the temptations should have allowed me to break free already .
But it seem that whatever was at work here seem to think otherwise, since that seem to be the case, then I will tear what is left of this perfect life apart and see how will it continue to keep me trapped in here .
With the same resolve I used to deal with that Blue Creature, I used it again with this world around me, turning into a demon form, I spread my wings and tore this place apart, then after I saw the scene turn hellish as before, I pierced a hole in the sky and break free through it .
No shock, no taking deep breaths, no discomfort from crossing the illusion and coming back to reality, all that I felt was that my strength seemed to have increased a bit more, I came back to my senses and time seemed to have been distorted, I heard family head Dorax still saying :
How much did your father tell you ? .