Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol 2- Descent of Darkness

Episode 94: Obstacle Course

*Kun*

"Good luck!" Yen and Lei yelled, waving at me from a balcony in the interior of a stadium within the water park grounds.

Nyima had gotten silver on the bubble race. I had heard from Hika that H.E.H. was starting to turn the tables after a lackluster start.

I didn't want to see them win. Not after everything I'd heard about them from Sarah. They were colonizing her country, depriving it of the autonomy granted to it by the 3rd Xelerian Empire.

Not to mention what they did to Alto the other day. Then there was the high possibility that they were the ones behind the attack we endured on our way here. If that turned out to be true then H.E.H. would eventually face my wrath... No one was going to take my little brother and turn him into a test subject or worse!

"Is something bothering you?" Tahoma asked as we stood at the starting point.

I continued to glare at the muscular guy in the white wetsuit and that Aida girl.

"That girl..." Tahoma said, narrowing his eyes. "Do you feel it too?"

"Feel what? That there's something off about her?"

"She's similar to us."

"Wait, what do mean 'similar'?"

"I'm saying that she might be one of the ones we're looking for."

I gasped. "What?"

"It's merely a possibility. Ashynna has identified two others during this event. If those two and that girl do end up being Shard of Light then that will bring us up to ten. Once we've gathered all of the shards, we can begin searching for the reincarnations of the Rulers of Darkness."

I looked down at the floor. At least two of them were children... and another was our age. The fourth one none of us anything about.

"I don't blame you for being frightened by what we're going to do. Though it's for the greater good. Four lives in exchange for saving billions, if not trillions."

I clenched my hands into fists. "For the greater good? Is that really the case? Our past live said the same thing and... look how that turned out," I said, shaking my head.

Tahoma sighed. "Right now isn't the time, nor the place to discuss this. We can debate this another day."

I felt blood drip down my hands. I didn't want that... I didn't want to relive the past. I had enough with those haunting memories. Were we truly the 'good guys' or were we just a cult intoxicated in their own self-righteousness?

If not for them taking me in when I had nowhere else to go, I probably would've rejected their offer to return...

Then again... I had seen firsthand the terror of the abyssmals as a child and most recently they had hurt my little brother and countless others. If we didn't take down the rulers, those events would eventually happen at a much larger scale...

"Focus on the race for now," Tahoma said with a stoic look in his eyes.

Tahoma, did he have any regrets over what his past-self did?

I sighed. Rhys' sure was lucky not to have remembered his past-life. Then again, the poor boy had already suffered enough in his current life...

"Kun?" a voice called out. I turned around and saw Sarah standing near the startling line.

I smiled. "Came to watch me?"

Sarah averted her gaze. "Well, my knights were also participating in this event, so I figured I might as well come and see it in person."