Catherine returned ho and imdiately glanced at the jar of Silver Honey. The golden-silver liquid inside glead under the dim candlelight, untouched.
She sighed in relief and smiled.
"Ah... I thought you would eat the honey without ." She chuckled and patted Tyler’s head. "Haha, aren’t you a good boy?"
Tyler simply nodded, his face distant, lost in thought.
Catherine frowned, noticing his unusual silence. "What’s wrong? Are you feeling cold?" She reached out, touching his forehead gently.
Tyler shook his head. "No... I just need so fresh air. I’ll go for a walk."
Catherine studied him for a mont before nodding. "Alright. Don’t be out too long."
As he turned to leave, she caught sight of the copper pot strapped to his waist. Her brows furrowed slightly, but she didn’t question it.
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"Take left..." Mana said.
Tyler walked briskly through the village, guided by Mana’s voice in his mind. The village was quiet, with only a few villagers heading ho as the sky darkened.
He stopped before a small house with a wooden sign reading "Fresh Dairy" hanging above the door.
"This is the place?" Tyler whispered.
"Yeah... This is it," Mana’s voice responded in his head.
Tyler knocked on the door.
After a few monts, the door creaked open, revealing a middle-aged man with a thick beard and gentle eyes.
"Yes?" the man asked.
Tyler hesitated before speaking. "Xing Zhao?"
The man’s face twisted in confusion. "I’ve been living in this village for years... There’s no one by that na here."
Tyler studied his face. There was no sign of deceit.
"But sohow the na seems familiar." The man laughed and continued, "You must be the new outsider. There are so records that so outsiders like you falls into our forbidden land. But no one ever leaves."
Tyler forced a smile. "Right... I was just curious. I heard the na sowhere."
The man shrugged and invited him inside. After so small talk, Tyler exchanged so herbs for a bottle of milk and left.
As he walked away, Mana’s voice echoed in his mind.
"He’s not lying. He really believes what he said is true. He is one of the Grandmaster who ca with us. He is the first one who went to investigate this village and got trapped into its illusion."
Tyler’s grip on the bottle of milk tightened. "Then... he really forgot everything?"
"Yes. Just like you."
Tyler stopped in his tracks. "Wait... So everything in the Village is just illusion?"
Mana sighed. "No... so are real. Like you. Not just you. Mathilda... and even Catherine."
Tyler’s breath hitched. "Catherine too?"
"You sound happy. You don’t want that Chick Catherine to be an illusion huh?" Mana chuckled mischievously. " But Mana wonders if she’ll still be happy when she rembers."
Tyler frowned. "What do you an?"
"Nah, you’ll find out soon enough." Mana’s voice was playful yet cryptic. "Now let’s find a secluded place."
Tyler arrived at an abandoned cowshed at the edge of the village. The wooden structure was old, the roof barely holding together. He slipped inside and shut the entrance behind him.
Taking a deep breath, he pulled the copper pot from his waist and placed it on the ground.
"Good. Now, say the words."
Tyler nodded, his voice steady.
"Big... Grow Big."
The copper pot expanding in size, becoming large.
Mana’s voice was firm. "Now take out the Silver Honey."
Tyler reached into the copper pot and retrieved the glimring jar of honey. The mont he held it, he felt a strange warmth spreading through his fingertips.
Tyler stared in awe. "I still can’t believe sothing Magical can exist."
Mana chuckled. "Of course, it belongs to you. Make sure no one finds about it or even immortals will kill you just to snatch this."
Tyler looked inside the pot. There is another jar of Silver Honey inside.
He took another one out. There is still another one inside. He was shocked when he used this Magical pot for the first ti. That’s why he was absent-minded when Catherine returned.
"Now... What?"
"Now eat... Eat as much as you can..."
Tyler hesitated.
"Are you sure this will bring back my mories?"
Mana’s voice softened. "It’s the only way to fight the village’s influence. It has ntal Consciousness enhancing ability."
Tyler took a deep breath and dipped his finger into the Silver Honey.
The mont it touched his tongue, he felt that unforgettable sweet again.
The taste was divine—not overwhelmingly sweet, but perfectly balanced, like liquid sunlight.
He began to take handful of honey and started eating it
A few minutes later.
Tyler stared at the Silver Honey, feeling both anticipation and hesitation. The sweetness lingered on his tongue.
"I don’t think I can eat any more," he admitted, wiping his mouth.
"Then mix it with the milk and drink it," Mana’s voice instructed.
Tyler glanced at the bottle of milk he had gotten from the milkman. He swirled it around, realizing the quantity was far too little to dilute the remaining honey.
"The milk isn’t enough," he pointed out.
"Then make so copies," Mana said casually.
Tyler blinked before realization struck. "Oh... right."
He used the copper pot again and made so copies of Milk.
With a deep breath, he lifted the jar and drank.
The warm liquid slid down his throat, filling his body with an imdiate surge of energy. His heartbeat slowed, and his breathing beca steady.
After few minutes of repeating the sa process.
A perfect calm settled over his mind.
Then—
The mories returned.
Visions flooded his mind—fragnted yet vivid.
mories began to surface one after another...
Tyler as a re mortal in Zi Continent. The countries he used to travel Ligma Country and Sigma Country. Obtaining the Copper Pot. His ti at the Frozen Heart Sect. eting Mana. His abnormal luck. The World Tournant - Cultivation CC. Stomping an Immortal.
Arriving in a new world. eting Silvia. Joining the Crimson Blood Sect. Encounters with Lily. The Phantom Pirates. The girls he had intimate relationship. The Beautiful southern End. The Elite Academy of Magic and Science. Joining at Starfire Academy. The chaos of the Abyss Breakout.
And then—betrayal of Grandmaster Silver, Ayla and Kyla.
"Holy moly... Mana!" Tyler shouted, his voice filled with shock.
"Tada! It’s , Mana!" Her voice rang in his mind, cheerful and teasing. "Looks like you got your mories back."
Tyler took a deep breath, steadying himself. Everything that had been hidden from him was now laid bare. The village, the people, the truth—it all felt disturbingly wrong.
"Crap... This village is so ominous," he muttered, his instincts screaming at him now that his mories had returned.
"Of course it is," Mana replied with a knowing tone. "This Abyss floor is definitely dangerous, but in a different way than you’d expect. It doesn’t just threaten your life—it sses with your mind, alters your very sense of reality."
Tyler frowned, gripping the edge of the copper pot in his hands. His heartbeat was steady, yet his thoughts raced. "Now that I’ve got my mories back... what do I do?"
Mana chuckled. "That’s for you to decide. But Mana assu you’ll want to bring back the mories of the others, right?"
Tyler nodded without hesitation. "Yeah... I can’t leave them like this."
Mana humd playfully. "So, starting with Catherine?"
Tyler flinched at her teasing tone. "Crap... No. She’s the last one. I didn’t expect that to happen between us..." His face twitched, rembering the intimate monts they had shared under the illusion of a peaceful village life.
He sighed heavily, rubbing his temples. "I wonder what kind of expression she’ll make when she regains her mory..."
A pause.
Then, as if the weight of realization fully settled on him, he murmured her true na under his breath.
"Catherine... No. Astrid."
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