Chapter 89 - A Very Real Dream

When Emery opened his eyes and looked around carefully, he quickly realized that he was no longer in the room, which was quite strange, since his last memory was trying to save Arabeth from eternal death in one of the rooms of the high-ranking clerics.

Now he was in an open field feeling the lawn at his back, he looked at the clear sky with few white clouds, the sun rays had a gentle warmth and he felt the wind pass through him.

He sat on the lawn and looked at himself, the outfit he wore was a blue tunic with gold embroidery on the cuffs there were cufflinks with diamonds, on the long pale fingers were two sets of platinum rings, with ruby ​​stones, sapphire, emerald, and onyx.

"Not gems" the thought came to Emery's mind suddenly, as if he realized that those gems weren't gems.

They were magic stones each one had a rune engraved, the red one was strong, the green one was speed, the blue one is the stone to store MANA and the onyx is a magic shield.

Emery shook his hand and the black stone glowed, unfolding a shield made of dark mana around his body.

He looked around and in the middle of the open field there was a simple stone water fountain that looked abandoned, there was moss and fungus in the structure, he approached and the water looked strangely very clean.

The bluestone sparkled on his finger and the water also sparkled to match the stone, which surprised Emery, he looked at the clear water and saw its reflection, which showed the face of a much older Emery.

This surprised the young bishop who now looked over 30 years old, he touched his own face, the lines were smooth, luckily there were no wrinkles, but it already put a maturity that wasn't there in the Bishop's expressionless face.

"Are you going to keep admiring yourself?"

A male voice sounded behind him, startling Emery who immediately looked back to find a strange man with long green hair as pale as summer grass, with antlers similar to adult deer white as clouds in the sky, and the tunic he wore was from a soft lavender it looked like there were vines on the man's clothes and arms.

"Who are you?"

The man moved closer, Emery thought of pulling away, but the open field left him nowhere to hide or flee.

The mysterious man's face was handsome and quite inhuman, with the long pointed ears and the overwhelming beauty, the long green eyelashes, and the bright colored iris eyes already told him that this person was far from human.

Of course, the stag antler should have been even more striking for the man's lack of humanity.

"I am the one who gave you the gift of nature"

The man responded by stopping walking, leaving enough space for Emery not to feel too frightened by his imposing presence.

Emery looked at the man before him in confusion, it didn't mean anything to him.

"Each gift is given by a god, I am the god of nature"

The man responded to the human's confused look, he wanted to sigh and wondered if there was any problem in that human's mind.

It wasn't Emery's fault, a lifetime without religion and suddenly he's a Bishop, angels and demons come to fight before him, he only knew about the existence of the god of light and Satan, because it was in the memories of the original owner, the other gods he had no idea.

"Oh hello lord god, nice to meet you... Lord God? Where am I? Did you bring me here?"

Emery was very simple-minded and as he had recently learned of the existence of gods, he didn't have a very strong impression of the so-called gods, he just greeted the other party politely, soon questioning what was most important to him.

For Emery, if that God of Nature had told him he was a Baker, he would have been treated the same.

"What a funny human"

The Nature God thought amusing Emery's casual manner, usually people had strange reactions between fear and adoration, some even had the daring to show greed and ambition.

"It's not that I brought you here, you're having an experience… as humans say… Ah, a transcendental experience. Memories of a dimension that no longer exists, which is very strange"

The Nature God said noting Emery's older appearance and the rings on his hand.

"Memories of a dimension that no longer exists?" Emery repeated the god's words, but he still couldn't understand what the phrase meant even though he spoke a few more times

"In life, the mortals make many decisions, some decisions make them succeed in life, others can make them fall into destruction. Each decision creates a different future for each mortal and the set of all these decisions end up creating a parallel reality..."

"A parallel reality? That's not right, does it mean that if we all change our minds at some point in life it will create a parallel reality for people who have decided not to change their minds?" Emery didn't believe in such nonsense. He could believe in parallel worlds, off-planet lives, and different worlds, after all, the universe was gigantic and could encompass it all.

However, the idea that just a few small decisions would create parallel dimensions or alternate timelines he couldn't believe.

"Well, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. The parallel reality is much more fragile than the main reality, so anything can end up with a parallel reality, a war, a natural disaster..."

"Let me get these straight, parallel realities exist for a little while and disappear while the main reality keeps creating more parallel realities?"

"A good placement. Your appearance and the memories you will recover in this place are of a parallel reality that has already been destroyed..."

"Wait a minute... if these are memories for me, what are you doing here?" Emery interrupted the Nature God with some dismay.

"Well, I was drawn to this mental field and I was curious" the God of Nature smiled beautifully at Emery, but that didn't let down the human's guard.

Emery was silent for a moment, he was still quite confused, how could memories of a parallel reality be sent to him and why?

"I was curious since it's not often that I give my gift to a human if it wasn't for your mother's request…" the nature god began to speak when he saw the thoughtful human.

"My mom?"

"Well...Your mother wanted you to have a gift that could automatically protect you...She seemed worried and would often repeat something about slaves and prostitution, but when I asked further, she kept silent saying that I wouldn't understand. Anyway, as your mother had an item I wanted, I could fulfill her request "

As soon as the God of Nature finished speaking, Emery felt a strange chill and shivered at the words "slaves" and "prostitution", as these were the memories he inherited from the original body owner.

"Do you know how these parallel memories got to me?" Emery asked this after a long moment of silence. The God of Nature noticing Emery's lack of expression.

Emery wanted to know more about the mother of the body's original owner, but he feared arousing suspicion for himself, as he should have known the mother well. However, the memories about his mother were more impressions than really a clear vision of her.

The vision of his father and grandfather was clearer, he remembered their looks and personality very well, as well as his brothers, despite the sudden embarrassing memories that surfaced hours ago that took him by surprise.

Since he couldn't ask about his mother, he could clear some more questions about the subject of parallel memories, which for him was hard to believe.

"My name is Ailill, so don't call me you," Ailill said a little helplessly. He as god had never been in such a disrespectful situation, but as he was a guest (intruder) in Emery's mental field he couldn't complain too much.

"Mr. Ailill, can you answer my question?" Emery became a little more polite. Being called to attention by such a god, he had to at least maintain a superficial education.

"That depends. Parallel memories often appear as visions of the future for some big decision a mortal might make. The parallel realities end up being destroyed and fragments of them wander around the Main Reality... So it's possible that this fragment was attracted to you for some reason... Have you had any experience other than normal?"

Emery was silent for a while thinking about the events that took place in a few days, he met the protagonist of the world, he met a great Boss who calls himself an angel, he met tsundere Arabeth and made a contract with a manticore... Well, there were a lot of unusual things happening to him all day.

"Now that I think about it... Could it be that the memories I inherited about the future were some kind of fragment of a parallel reality?"

He thought for a moment and it made perfect sense, if so, these parallel memories must be coming to him because of the transmigration he'd done to the original Emery's body.

"Apparently you already know the cause of such commotion," Ailill said seeing Emery in silence.

"Yes, I know. But…" Emery wanted to say that he had already received other parallel memories and it didn't go that way.

Emery didn't understand why he was brought to this particular place and met Ailill at that moment.

"Sometimes these memories come with some problems like absorbing individuals into it and making them live the experience... Oh, but don't look at me with such concern, this will only happen if your body is too weak to handle receiving the memory. directly..."

Emery: (...)

That's the situation! Ah, I don't want these parallel memories!