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"Of course, as the inning of it Thus, when you hear this e, you will find that you have been transported to the very core of the Ascension Ruins, toRooe&8221;
Dorian looked around the roo about everywhere taking on newe I have left behind to catch up and seek out that which I could never achieve&8221; Yukeli’s voice took on a passionate fervor, crazed and wild,
"That of perfection itself&8221;
WHOOSH
The tre air stilled and then vanished as the voice finished speaking, the energy that was flowing in the air fizzling off into nothingness
Leaving Dorian alone in a quiet, aged room, his eyes pensive
"Well&8221; Hehis hands
"That was a bit ave the air a thu to take over h&8221; He flipped his thumb over to a thuely drawn to one particular spot in the rooe, near the entrance of the roo else was on the desk apart fro past it, either
"Huh&8221; Dorian muttered as he slowly stepped up to the desk
‘Read… It…’ In Dorian’s head, an aged, wavering voice appeared A voice Dorian hadn’t heard in a long time
The first voice of Yukeli that he had heard, apart froe that had been yelled at hiain, huh?&8221; Dorian said aloud as he heard the voice, clenching his fists tightly He was on full alert, not letting hi
‘Read… it… You will finally understand the truth…’ The aged voice faded away into the farthest corner of hisback into the darkest recesses
A stiff froas frozen on Dorian’s face as he looked down at the notebook, waiting a few seconds to see if the voice would return
He slowly reached doith his hand, resting it on the notebook
It was bound by soical book As he picked it up, he noted that it had a nice weight to it, not too light nor too heavy
He felt the world around him seem to slow as he touched the corner of the notebook, as if to open it up The air see
"Nah&8221; He threw the notebook down and stepped backwards, shaking his head
"Honestly, I don’t care that much If you want me to read it so badly, I probably shouldn’t&8221; Dorian shrugged and walked away fro it as he walked to the doorway
thunk
When he tried to open the door, however, he found that it was sealed shut As soon as he touched it, the door itself lit up with dark blue light
A trail of blue energy could be seen visiblyfrom the door all the way to the notebook
Instinctively, somehow, Dorian knew that the door would only open if he actually opened and read the notebook As if it contained soe that the Yukeli of the past decided he needed to know
"Really? You’re going to make me do this?&8221; Dorian frowned in consternation He looked around the rooe instinctively came to Dorian
This rooth There was no chance that he could successfully break out of it using his oer He didn’t kno he knew this, but he just did
"Fine…&8221; He shrugged and walked back over to the desk, picking up the notebook
"The Journal Logs of Yukeli Shorn&8221; He opened the book to the first page, reading the title aloud
"No way! A personal journal?&8221; He quickly opened to the next page, feeling a strange coan to look at the notebook seriously, wanting to read it
If he could learn more about the personal life of this man, of Yukeli Shorn, Dorian felt like he would have awhat he was and why he was here
He flipped the journal open, slipping past several pages Each page was full of tons of , but Dorian felt drawn to some spot further in the book
The world around hie in particular, as if Fate itself wasforward, as if this was an i effect was beneath Dorian’s notice, however, as he looked on at the paper with interest
He read the personal entry, left behind by Yukeli himself, one that wasn’t as neat as the other entries It seemed to have been written with more emotion, more haste
‘On this day… I have failed’
‘But I have also succeeded’
‘I have failed in achieving perfection I have realized that oal that exists I are of this thedead upon that cross, so h perfection can this reality be saved’
‘Alas’
‘I have failed to achieve that perfection’
‘Not through any fault of h Thiselse’
‘My dearest love, Ausra, has worked withhas intersected with my own desire to track the traits of every creature, to find that which perfection may be found in’
‘Alas, even then, after all our efforts, we still ca oal that those around me see as the ultimate achievement’
‘I have refused to What point is there in a life in the realm of Gods if I cannot even achieve perfection in the land of o, I started to work on one of my newer projects’
‘If I cannot achieve perfection inanother form?’
‘Reincarnation The Great Cycle of the Heavens The circle of life and death Legends speak that every being that dies will one day be borne anew, in a different body or different for’
‘Perhaps a being with a form that CAN achieve perfection’
‘Such an inore it?’
‘And so I beganevery avenue possible Fate Scries, Ti, Universal Trances Meditation on various new, old, or distorted Laws’
‘And after all my years of effort, I achieved some small measure of success’
‘Success that left me only more disappointed’
‘When I reincarnate, despitethe sae as the memories that shaped me, the experiences that molded my heart and mind, vanish’
‘The determination I have now to become perfect and achieve the culmination of life… it is entirely possible that I will lose this’
‘I know this to be a fact’
The next lines that Dorian read caused hi as he read them over
‘For I have awoken the memories of my previous, reincarnated life’
‘I was not an elite Swordon nor a terrible Phoenix’
‘I was merely a weak, worthless huth, a hu the love of victory’
‘In fact, I don’t even think I was a native to the 30,000 Worlds’
‘My past life lived on a rather strange planet, not on any World I am familiar with’
‘In that life, I had a different naertips as he stood frozen, his entireas the last line in the journal burnt itself into his head
‘My naht, from an odd planet known as Earth’