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Khan slowly woke up from his mental shock with his head feeling like it was splitting in half. In front of him the skeleton was still in sitting the same position staring at him with its empty eye socks.
“I hope you give me a better answer than that stupid face you gave me earlier. Now let me ask again. What do you lack?” The skeleton voiced echoed into his head.
“I lack power?” Khan replied without delay to avoid being attacked by the dark energy again.
“No.”
The skeleton sent another black energy from his hand to attack Khan’s mind.
In his mind Rin’s death kept replaying over again, but this time he was ready. The attack still mentally exhausted Khan, but he was able to stay conscious.
Khan was on his handsand knees with sweat profusely dripping off his face. He looked at the skeleton with an expression full of rage.
“Fuck you!” he screamed at the skeleton.
“That was a better answer this time, but not what I wanted.”
The skeleton sent more black energy at Khan. This time in Khan’s mind, he was standing in front of Rin’s dead body. She got up from the bed and stabbed him in the chest with a dagger blaming him for her death.
This horror scene for Khan repeated over and over slowly breaking him down. He finally collapsed from mental shock.
This cycle just kept repeating itself over again. When the skeleton hit Khan with the same vision he would be able to barely resist it, but every change up would send Khan into another mental shock.
He resisted as much as he could against the skeleton, but in the end he laid there on the cold hard ground, broken.
This is the first time after completing his basic training with Master Yaza that he was broken mentally.
Khan just absently stared into the darkness in front of him. It felt like years had gone by since he’s been in that room.
“Not bad. Even the strongest people I fought against only were able to resist 2-3 [Shadow Mind] used on them. You were able to resist up to 154 before being broken. That’s a start.” The skeleton voice echoed in his head as if he was impressed.
Khan slowly dragged his face through the floor with all the energy he could muster to take a look at the skeleton. Those dark eye sockets just kept looking at him as if the eyes were really there.
“Now let me ask you once more. What do you lack the most?”
“….”
Khan didn’t give a damn anymore, he decided to give up. It’s not like he had a real reason to stay in this world and continue a new life.
He did make a promise to protect the young girl to see where it would take him, but the truth is that there was nothing that actually motivated him to keep that promise beside his new found strength. That happiness he got from his new strength would’ve just faded away within a short period of time anyways.
“The only thing I lack is my love, Rin!” Khan screamed with all his might at the skeleton.
“At least you’re loyal. I respect that!”
Before the skeleton could hit Khan with the [Shadow Mind] attack, Khan was able to enter into [God’s meditation]. He released the control on the inflow of the energies allowing all the mana in the air to flow into his body.
Since his body wasn’t releasing anymore Ki he no longer had the capabilities to suck in Ki from the air, but that didn’t matter as his body was now the Ki center so all he had to do was refine it from within or train it physically.
The mana around Khan was extremely dense. If you were within a certain area of his body you could feel the mana moving in the air being sucked into his body.
Because he was not refining the mana, the amount of mana inflow was much greater than before. He felt his Ki center fill up instantly and the pain in his body was rapidly increasing.
The Ki in his body fought back with all its might to push back the mana center from expanding anymore, but the influx of mana was too much. His mana center felt like it could rupture at any minute, but he fell unconscious before that could happen.
When he opened his eyes, Khan found himself in a large field of beautiful white roses with a crystal clear blue sky. No matter where he looked there was no end to the roses. In the distance in front of him he saw an unmoving figure.
Khan walked toward the figure looking for some answers. Once he got closer to the figure he saw that the figure was the beautiful lady that was within the crystal holding her daughter.
She was sitting on her knees on top of a white blanket laid on top of the roses. The young girl was laid down with her head on her mother’s lap. They looked to be asleep as they kept their eyes closed even when Khan approached closer to them.
The only thing that was moving was Khan himself as he got closer to them. There was no breeze and sound to disturb the peaceful atmosphere. It truly looked like a masterpiece painting when Khan looked at them.
Khan stopped in front of them, but they still didn’t open their eyes when he approached them. He reached out his hand to see if he can wake her up, but he felt someone pat his shoulders before he could do so.
Looking behind him there was a tall, blonde hair, blue eyes man with a large build suited for a warrior. He resembled the man in the designs of the stories from the tomb.
In one of his hand he had a large basket made for holding food. The man gestured for Khan to sit on the blanket next to the women and her daughter.
The man got on his knees to gently touch the lady and her daughter on their cheeks to wake them up. Their eyes slowly opened revealing gorgeous baby blue eyes that would easily seduce most men.
The little girl got up energetically jumping into the man’s arms.
“Papa!” The girl screamed out.
The man dropped the basket in the middle of the blanket to give the girl a bear hug. He then leaned toward the lady and gave her a kiss while the little girl was peeking through her fingers.
The scene was extremely heartwarming for Khan after only seeing dark visions from the [Shadow Mind] attacks. He couldn’t help, but put on a smile.
They nudged the young girl toward Khan. She blushed and looked back at her parents, then back to Khan after they gave her a nod.
She grabbed both sides of her white one piece and with a shy innocent look she planted her left leg forward slightly bent with her right foot following behind in the same way to respectfully bow to Khan.
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“Hello my name is Yuna Romati; I heard about you from my parents, it’s nice to finally meet you. May I ask for your name?” She said to Khan with her face blushing darker with a deep shade of red.
Khan had his breath taken away from this sight of this extremely adorable young girl introducing herself to him. He already felt confused when he first woke up in this dream-like place, but now he didn’t even know what to think anymore.
The girl just stood awkwardly waiting for a response from Khan who had his mind just blown up. Behind the girl the parents had a big smile from the reaction Khan had just given to their daughter’s introduction.
The blonde man walked behind Yuna patting her on the shoulder.
“He’s just shy; hopefully you’ll be able to have him feel more comfortable as we eat. Let me talk to him first so be a good girl by helping your mom set up the food.” The man said to Yuna.
Yuna nodded with a smile to the man and happily went back to her mother go help set up the food from the basket on to the blanket that was laid down for them.
The man approached Khan gesturing for him to follow the man into the field of roses to have a private chat while the girls set up the food.
“Little man, nice reaction you had there to my daughter’s introduction.” The man said with a smirk.
“You! What did you do to me!?” Khan angrily replied.
“What I did to you? More like what you did to yourself before you came here.”
“What do you mean?”
“You attempted to kill yourself by bursting your mana center, but because of that I was able to gather a larger supply of mana. I was going to use only my own mana that I stored up, but because of this unexpected event we can use both yours and mine to extend the time we can spend in this illusion as a family.”
“Family? What do you mean?”
“Congratulations I’ve chosen you to be my daughter's fiancé. You see I’ve been waiting for a man who can protect my daughter in my place.”
“No. Didn’t you think of the possibly of me rejecting you after you tortured me with your magic?”
“I only attempted test you and to break down the mental wall you created to protect yourself. The reason was so I can freely connect your mind to this world to open the link between us four, I didn’t expect you to resist for so long. Also you can say that was punishment for the innocent people you killed blindly while following the orders of your country. With shadow magic I can read your bits of your memories and current thoughts.”
Khan wasn’t sure on what to think anymore, he couldn’t deny that he did indeed deserve punishment for the crimes he had committed. He knew that he was always on the wrong, but that didn’t matter because all he had to do was just follow orders unconditionally.
He looked back at Yuna and her mother. Yuna was happily setting up the picnic while occasionally trying to be subtle with the glances she was giving Khan. He caught her eyeing him; she immediately looked away while blushing again.
“If you answer my questions, then I’ll follow along. What happened to my comrades, why did you choose me specifically, what are your reasons for needing me to take care of your daughter in your place, and explain in detail how this world really works?” Khan said to the man.
“I created an illusion world using mana to connect our minds into one location with my shadow magic. Your comrades are completely fine; they’re just asleep from my illusion magic that seep through the crack of the door through the fog. I’ll tell you the reason why I choose you and need you to do this later.” The man replied
“Ok I’ll accept the first two answers, and then in place of the other two you won’t answer let me ask one last question. What am I lacking?”
“That’s a rather easy answer that I was hoping you will find out yourself, but I promise to tell you before this illusion ends.”
“….”
Khan thought about his answers deciding on how to proceed from here. The more he thought about the options he had to proceed with, the more he realized that he had none.
He was stuck in this illusion magic with no control over his body that already has gone berserk from releasing his control over his inflow of mana. He would be dead without the help of the skeleton, but he also was the one who pushed him in the first place.
Khan felt a sense of helplessness and his rage boiling up from this situation. This skeleton had been playing with him the entire time. Even when he began his training with Master Yaza he felt he still had control of what was going on because everything was very straightforward with Master Yaza.
He was in a unknown world with very little support and knowledge. Khan decided to give in for now to see where this would take him and find out what he is lacking.
“Ok I’ll follow along.” Khan said.
“I already know that you realized that you have no options either way so just drop the act already.” The man replied with a smirk.
He gestured for Khan to head back to the picnic spot. The food was all prepared with Yuna and her mother waiting patiently for them.
As they walked back Khan looked at the crystal clear sky. The world felt so real even though it was just an illusion.
He thought about how his life became extremely complicated in such a short period of time after Rin’s death.
‘My life was comfortable and easy when I was alone with Rin.”
Khan suddenly stopped, the answer hit him hard as if a brick was smashed through his face at full force.
The answer was so simple yet complicated for Khan because this was something he never thought about. This was something that most people assumed he had and even he himself believed that he had it or more like he just accepted that it was true.
‘Could it be that what I’m really lacking is …….?’
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