Family system

Chapter 145 Dream or reality?

I began walking down the hall, looking around for clues to find out why I knew this place. While everything seemed real, I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head that I shouldn't be here. Ignoring that feeling, I continued walking forward, searching for an answer. The strange feeling returned as I knew where everything was in this hallway.

I knew how to navigate my way out of here, but I felt like I would miss something if I left now. I continued walking while looking around, and I felt like this place shouldn't be this empty. It should have been filled with people. Looking around at the walls, I recognized some paintings and sculptures.

I walked until I was at the end of the hallway. I knew that the exit was behind the door on my right, but the door that stood there was something that I didn't recognize. It was out of place and didn't feel like the reason I was there, so I slowly opened the door to see what was behind it.

When I opened the door, a white blinding light shone in my eyes, and I closed my eyes to protect them. I wanted to take a step back and close the door, but like a vacuum, I was sucked into the room. I lost my balance, and a strong force pulled my body forward. I wanted to fight it, but every time I did, I felt like a bigger wall was being placed between my mana and me.

I felt my powers weakening as I used them, so I stopped struggling and let it up to fate to where I was going. My body was still being pulled by something, but the blinding light faded, and a normal amount of light shone on my face. I slowly opened my eyes and was shocked by the sight.

I was flying just beneath the clouds on a planet that I recognized. Those tall buildings, the fast-moving cars, the traffic—everything hit me all at once. This was the planet where I lived before Ella called my soul after my death, the place where my cycle of pain ended. I was flying through the sky on that planet.

I admired the view and the reminiscence of my old life. While I hated it and had a lot of bad memories of it, I was grateful for it. While I was cocky at the beginning of my reincarnation and just recently changed, I felt like I would have been much worse if I didn't have my memories of this life.

The struggles I had and how I faced them were not pleasant, but it was good to know that even at my lowest, I still accomplished something. I flew over the city where I grew up and went to school, where all my struggles came from, and where my source of happiness was.

But as soon as I flew over it, I was flying by it, and I just let the wind take me. I had seen enough of my old life and had thought about it enough. I closed my eyes again, and this time, instead of breaking free from the force, I forced myself forward to get this over with.

Surprisingly, when I began propelling my way forward, the limiter on my power began to disappear, and I began to have access to all my power again. I felt the space around me shift, and a blinding light met my face again. Luckily, I had my eyes closed already and kept them that way.

When the blinding light vanished, I was standing somewhere, but from sound alone, I had no idea where I was. The surroundings were silent and didn't give me any hints. The only thing I felt was the grass waving against my legs due to the wind.

I slowly opened my eyes and first ensured there wasn't a blinding light that would make me blind. After making sure that there wasn't one, I opened my eyes and began to look around. I was standing in a big open plain where I couldn't see the end of it. There was only grass, nothing else. No tree, no animals, only grass.

The only other thing in this plain was a round table with an umbrella covering the table and the seats. The table wasn't big. It was made for about four to five people. What looked like a young lady drinking tea from her teacup sat on one of the seats. The grace in her movement had to be taught, and she had a lot of experience doing it.

I slowly began to walk over to her as I knew that she was the one who called me here. The woman ignored my existence entirely as I walked closer to her. She only looked up at me when I was about five meters from the table. "Welcome, what brings you here?" The woman's voice came out of her mouth.

I was stunned for a bit by its beauty but quickly calmed myself. "I don't know why I am here. I was just sleeping, and the next thing I knew, I was here," I answered truthfully. While I had a feeling that she was the reason that I was here, I didn't want to question her if I didn't know what she was capable of.

She managed to sneak me here while I was in the presence of three God-kings so she wouldn't be underestimated. "Don't be so stiff. You should relax a bit. Take a seat and drink some tea. It should help with the nerves." I slowly began walking towards the seat right before her and sat down.

When I sat down, she snapped her fingers, and a teacup appeared before me. The teapot in the middle of the table began to fly to me, and right in front of my eyes, I began to pour tea into the cup. When it was about ¾ full, it stopped, flew back, and landed in the middle of the table.

"Thank you." I needed something to drink, and this was perfect. While drinking, I looked at the woman and finally noticed something weird. While I knew that a woman sat before me, I couldn't see any of her features. I couldn't make out her hair or skin color, and I couldn't even make out her three sizes.

"Pff hahahah." When I was stuck in my thoughts, the woman before me laughed like crazy. I looked at her strangely until a realization hit me. "Can… you read my mind?" I questioned it was the only reason she would laugh like that. The woman composed herself a bit and looked at me amusedly.

"Hahh hah yes I can." It looks like she was still recovering from laughing so hard. I didn't know why, but I could see her expression on her face while I couldn't see her face. This whole thing is weird. "Now, now. There's no need to get so deep in your own thoughts. Even though you can't see me now, a pretty lady is before you, so you can't let your thoughts wander like that."

Her words made me come out of my thoughts, and I began to look around again. "So where am I?" This place was really beautiful, but it was lonely. It was a plain with only grass and a blue sky with some clouds above your head. With this tranquility, it looked like a paradise to many, but I found that it was missing some things if I wanted to live here.

"Oh, what would you add if you lived here?" I forgot that this woman could read my mind. Not that I would think anything offensive about her. I looked around again and began to formulate my answer. "It is too silent for my taste. It would be fun in the first couple of years, but with no companionship or anything to communicate with, I would go crazy after a while."

"While this place looked like something for gods, it would be too lonely for me to be here. If I had my family here, I would likely be really happy to live in a place like this, but alone is impossible." While I hadn't noticed this before due to the shock of being brought here, now that I had calmed down, I was startled to find out how dense the magic energy was here.

I was so dense that if I didn't have permission to be here or weren't brought here, I would be killed by the density alone. 'No wonder there is no life here. I think that even Kali would have trouble living here for more than a year. How would other people survive here?'

I looked back at the woman with shock in my eyes. This place is unhabitable, but she lives here as if it wasn't a big deal. Now that I knew what kind of place this was, I looked around again and saw that every blade of grass could be used to split a planet in half.

I looked up at the clouds and saw that even the densest treasure in known existence couldn't compare to the rich mana in the cloud. I looked back at the woman seated before me and asked the same question as in the beginning. Read exclusive adventures at empire