The Witch Hunter System

623 Sealed Memories?

'I'm not sure if it counts as interesting since you should already be aware of some of them. But since the Supreme Leader asked, I will mention them,' Verun replied via mental transmission.

'Queen Henrietta had recently finished stabilizing her power at the middle stage of the Transcendent Witch rank, demon activity had been increasingly sighted near the mouth of Gehenna's Gateway, and a group of spatial-attribute witches belonging to the Great House of Caelestis appeared in Blackthorn City on the same day you left, Supreme Leader.'

'Based on our observation of their interaction, there also seems to be some relationship between Queen Henrietta and the one leading the group,' Verun added.

'The Great House of Caelestis…' Vaan's mind blanked for a moment before he started frowning.

He had long suspected he had some blood relations with the Great House of Caelestis when he first learned about them. However, he never bothered getting to the bottom of it. After all, even if he was related to the Great House of Caelestis, it had nothing to do with the current him.

It was the original owner of the body that was possibly blood-related to the Great House of Caelestis. He was just a soul that took possession of the body—or at the very least, that was what Vaan believed.

However, Vaan couldn't be certain.

There was something strange about his reincarnation – something that even he, with his genius mind, couldn't completely figure out due to a lack of clues.

From a logical perspective, he should have inherited the memories of the original owner. After all, the memories were supposed to be stored in the brain. For the higher-level existences, their memories could be bound to their souls.

However, the original owner was very unlikely to be a higher-level existence. He was just a mere mortal. That was why he could die in the slums of Blackmoon City.

As such, he should have inherited all of the original host's memories when his soul took possession of the body. Unfortunately, not only did he not inherit the memories, he didn't even receive a fragment.

It was like his soul took possession of a doll that had never been alive to begin with.

It was a clean slate.

Nevertheless, after pondering this matter thousands of times, Vaan started thinking in another direction.

What if he, himself, was the original owner of the body?

This thought opened up a list of possibilities that could make sense where the first eighteen years of memories had disappeared.

For example, what if the current life's memories in the first eighteen years were completely sealed the moment he awakened his past life's memories?

The complete disappearance of the current life's memories would make it seem like the previous life's memories had overwritten the current life's memories. Thus, it would seem like the current life's memories never existed.

Under such a situation, it would just seem like his soul immediately possessed a new body right after dying in his previous life, which was exactly what he felt when he first gained awareness of his new life.

There was no gap between the time of his death and the time of his reincarnation. There was no process of his soul ferrying through spacetime to enter this different world and body.

But assuming all that was true, it raised an even bigger question – why were his first eighteen years of memories sealed upon awakening memories of his past life?

What did he need to do to unseal it?

Become more powerful?

Vaan believed all his questions would be answered as long as he reached the prerequisite level of strength. As to what level that was, he did not know. But as long as he kept advancing, he would find the answers—or the answers would find him.

'If a portion of my current life's memories are truly sealed, it's definitely not an ordinary seal. It would also mean there's a big secret behind my origin and past,' Vaan thought.

If he started believing his memories were sealed, then it would also mean he couldn't pretend he had nothing to do with the Great House of Caelestis.

'Arrange a group of suitable dragons to investigate the Great House of Caelestis. I want to know where their ancestral home is, what they have been up to in the past twenty years, and why their members have suddenly appeared in Blackthorn City.'

'Understood, Supreme Leader.'

Shortly after Verun complied, Vaan no longer sensed her nearby presence. Thus, he had to inquire about the situation in the Holy Knight Empire from another nearby dragon hiding in stealth mode.

He soon learned Astoria was still doing well developing the Holy Knight Empire, according to the notes he left behind. At the same time, the Shadow Witch Order under Eniwse was rapidly expanding its branches throughout the empire.

Supposedly, the Shadow Witch Order had also commenced extending its network to some small kingdoms and city-states south of the empire and encountered minor resistance from the local powers.

Nevertheless, everything was on the right track, and his women all had something to do.

Vaan also listened to the Red Dragon Tribe's progress.

The dragon lords had finished designing their space helmets and building their space gate to the sea of stars. Furthermore, they had already started sending dragons into the sea of stars with the new space helmets to commence the first stage of the space station construction.

'The Great Ratholos Empire has many Perilous Lands, possibly filled with precious resources and hidden opportunities. Don't just focus on intel-gathering. Go and explore some Perilous Lands. Seek out your lucky chances and plunder everything of value. The Thousand Fog Mountains' resources will never be enough to develop the Red Dragon Tribe to greater heights.'

'Yes, Supreme Leader!'

Within moments, Vaan no longer felt the presence of the other dragon elites in the area. They had all left in different directions in search of opportunities and treasures.

As such, Vaan meditated in silence and tempered his meridians.

However, there was a limit to how much he could temper his meridians in a session. Thus, after that was completed, Vaan researched the potential of applying his unique tempering method to other parts of his body.

He decided his next focus would be his bones.