"Nightmares"?
"Yes"
"Can you explain further, I'm having trouble following". Igor's clone said.
"Whenever I sleep, no, once in a while that i sleep i have this dream-like truance. in it, it feels I'm in a dream myself, but all my senses are pretty much alive unlike a normal dream, so i want to know what it is and why I'm having it". Iode said.
"Hmm, let me guess in that dream it feels like you are in another time right ". Igor's clone asked.
"Yes, exactly like I'm in some sort of another time or era". Iode said relived that Igor's clone seems to have an idea of what he is going through.
"Well that is not a dream but a vision of a distant future ". Igor's clone said.
"Dream of a distant future"? Iode asked.
"Yes, but you are not the only one having it, all successors including the original five have them ". Igor's clone continued saying.
" you have them quite fast considering the time when the original five and most successors have them ".
Iode was listening to Igor clone words but a question crossed his mind, how does he know about the successors of the other four of the original five not like someone is telling him or he is going out freely, he asked:
"How do you know of the other successors"
"... Well i do go out from time to time to know the current affairs of the world, and i use that chance to meet with the other four successors".
"What! You do go out from time to time" ? Iode said stunned. He was trying to process what he just heard and something flashed his mind.
"Wait don't tell me you are that stranger that came to my father's shop when I was young". Iode questioned.
"Well you caught me, I'm the one". Igor's clone confessed.
Iode froze with a widen eyes he shouldn't be surprised but he is.
' so he used transformation magic to alter his face because of his semblance with Igor, how devious, no matter the investigation the towers make they would never find the culprit that gave me the advanced level book '. Iode thought.
"I can't believe i just stumbled on an answer I've been searching for years, anyways let's forget about that, why are we having such visions". Iode asked.
"Well that i don't know, not even the original Igor knows, but it probably to make him and the others feel indebted to Valier who knows ".
"The book I gave you should have Igor's past experiences in it too " Igor's clone answered.
Iode was not given the answer he wanted, this is just equally disappointing.
He was later enveloped by the white light and woke up to the real world, only to find himself lying on the floor.
"So it was my consciousness that was taken inside the orb...".
Iode went silent for a moment, he thought of the secret he just learned about the original five, he couldn't be angry at them but he was greatly disappointed.
He looked at their hologram statues and gritted his teeth, it would have been better to be ignorant about their source of power, now he can never look at them the same way ever again. On top of that, he is the successor of one of them, he's also now like them.
He really wish not to be the successor of Igor, no, he wished he hadn't learned of the undocumented secret, now he truly agree with that saying 'ignorance is bliss'.
He sighed, he looked at the purple book in his hands. On the book cover was written "magic research guide".
He furrowed his eyes looking at the book, he suddenly remembered a question he thought of learning about their connection with a celestial _ well devilish celestial.
' why did the original five have successors '. Well he'll ask the question later, another time.
Right now Iode doesn't feel like reading the book in his hands or doing any research in the library or thinking too much of what he learned.
He got up, ready to leave the library, he was mentally exhausted with the revelation of secrets his ears listened to as well as the various emotions boiling within him.
He got out of the library with darkened face and went straight to his room, laid down flat with his face on the bed. Hillford knocked at his door to bring in dinner, but Iode who doesn't have appetite refused to open and went on to slumber.
The following day came, Iode's face was particularly grim and rough like a mad man. His eyes were cracked red, his face was sloppy and huge dark bags under his eyes. Obviously he couldn't sleep well or to say, he couldn't sleep at all.
Each time he closes his eyes he would dream of being in the underworld dancing and playing with demons.
Of course, he dreamt what he was thinking and as a result he had insomnia, he couldn't sleep and doesn't want to sleep, afraid of playing with the demons.
"That stupid secret is now haunting me in my dreams, as if been burdened by the visions isn't enough, now this has added to it, how annoying".