Chapter 1657 Potential [6]

Chapter 1657 Potential [6]

By the time she opened her eyes again, the crow-masked man was on the mountain peak with her.

She looked at him from the ground. He stood there, unmoving, waiting for her to stand up.

She did. She looked at the boulder next to him and she looked back at him.

Her voice was dull as she spoke.

"I did it."

"You did," he responded with a nod.

"And for that, I applaud you."

Melania nodded. She didn't really care about any of that.

She had taken on the challenge not for affirmation, but for the rewards she had been promised.

Now that the crow-masked man was back, there was nothing in her mind but the desire to gain those things he promised.

The crow-masked man could sense her impatience.

"First, I will show you who you are."

Damien had preserved Melania's ego for the past two years to make sure that the weight of her actions didn't weigh on her too much.

She wasn't stable yet. Her mind was still in the state it maintained to help her climb the mountain.

Perhaps she wasn't ready to go back to her usual self yet. Or, maybe getting her memories back would be the perfect method to bring her mind back to peace.

Whatever the case was, she had earned her memories back, so Damien wasn't going to withhold them based on his own judgments.

"Khhh!"

Melania gritted her teeth to prevent a groan from leaking out of her mouth. She clutched her, feeling the same dull ache that she had when she first arrived in this place.

Everything that was taken from her was returned. The source of her desires, the experiences that made her unique, and all else contained within her memories flooded back into her system, melding with the memories of the past two years.

Melania's eyes had been cloudy ever since she lost her memories, but now, they had regained their clarity.

She looked down at her hands in shock.

"I...what have I been doing?"

She looked up at the crow-masked man, clamping her hands together to see if any of this was really real.

She remembered now. The reason for her arrival here was the creature she saw in the cavern earlier.

That happened in the real world, but this was not there.

"Was everything...a lie?"

The crow-masked man shook his head.

"It was not."

Melania was handling the fusion of memories far better than he expected. She didn't question their validity or anything of the sort. Rather, after comparing her past two years of memories with the ones that existed before it, she was more concerned with the supposed futility of her efforts.

However, nothing she did was futile.

"Do you remember why you started climbing this peak in the first place?" The crow-masked man asked.

"Because you promised me power if I did it."

"That is correct. I did promise you power, however, I did not promise it immediately."

The mountain started to break apart. The sky started to crack.

Melania's vision went black. She found herself standing again, but her knees still couldn't support her.

There was something on her body, keeping her in this position.

It was suffocating her.

CRACK!

She pushed her limbs outward and shattered the material that cocooned her.

GASP!

She took deep breaths as she fell back to her knees.

Crumbling pieces of dust and debris fell beside her. The damp smell of an underground space flooded her nose, and as her eyes found their sight again, she realized that she was back in the real world.

She stayed on the ground, still feeling the rolling waves in her bloodline that affirmed all of her experiences.

'It happened.'

It was an illusion, but everything that happened inside was real.

'Then...'

She didn't question how. Just as she didn't question the events that happened in the illusion, she decided to just go with the flow for her own health.

She staggered to her feet, ignoring the voices of August and Valerie who were calling out to her in concern.

'He said to punch something, right?'

She dragged herself to a nearby cavern wall and raised her fist.

She didn't have proper form, but it didn't matter.

All he said was to punch something, so that was all she was going to do.

Her fist slammed forward and made contact with the wall.

Perhaps that was the first time Melania realized just what she'd gained.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

An unbelievable sound.

And...

A wall that was now more of a tunnel.

With a fist alone, Melania had destroyed the entire cavern wall and created a ten-meter-deep hole that a person could easily walk through.

August and Valerie immediately went quiet.

Their jaws dropped to the floor.

"You...that..." Valerie stammered.

Melania grinned.

'It was worth it.'

Everything she had done was rewarded.

That was all she needed to regain her happiness.