Unholy Player

Chapter 551: Revealing the Secrets (Part 2)

Another researcher frowned and stepped in. “Nephilim, as far as we know, is a race born of God and humans. That means our lineage shouldn’t connect directly. This Arbiter race might be a God race. Maybe they met humans long ago and, through mating, created the Nephilim race.”

That single correction lit the room up.

More voices joined in. People started throwing out guesses over one another, trying to stitch together a past that existed only in scattered fragments. Everyone wanted an explanation that could make sense of their identity, their history, and the name now written on their Players’ panels.

Adyr watched the discussion spiral.

Seeing their blind guesses getting out of hand, he finally decided to give them more hints, revealing his secrets as well.

“Let me fill some gaps in your information.”

He began with his past life. He told them he came from another Earth. Then, before they could even react, he moved straight into everything that followed, the Primora Path, the recent events, and the strange dream where he met the Creator.

He shared every detail he could, including what he remembered clearly and what still felt incomplete.

It was a rare shift even for him. The mystery had already worn him down, but letting the room drown in blind guesses would only waste time. If they were going to solve anything, they needed solid ground first.

The room fell silent as Adyr spoke.

No one interrupted. No one even tried. The moment the truth started to unfold, they simply listened.

Even after he finished, silence held the room for several minutes. Not a single sound rose. They processed everything slowly, weighing each sentence against everything they thought they knew.

Selina and Victor took it the hardest.

For them, learning Adyr had been living his second life did not seem like a simple explanation. It landed like something heavy and personal, something that changed every memory they had of him.

Adyr had always been different, even as a child. But that oddness had never been so extreme that they would think of reincarnation or anything close to it.

Yet now that they had heard the truth, they accepted it more easily than they expected. Maybe because it explained too much to ignore.

Victor swallowed and stared at Adyr as old memories flashed through his mind, especially the day he was kidnapped.

The day Adyr came for him to save his life.

“What were you in your previous life?” Victor murmured.

That rescue had been the first time Victor realized Adyr was not normal. Only now did the pieces begin to line up in a way that made sense.

Maybe Adyr had been a veteran soldier in the field. Maybe something worse. Someone with the kind of experience that could pull a child out of the hands of armed terrorists.

As for Selina, she just stared at Adyr’s face without blinking.

The memories she shared with him were different from what others had; their relationship was shaped more like that of a teacher and a student she had always looked up to.

Adyr had been the one who taught her how to survive in a world full of madness. He had also taught her how to kill someone without being detected, leaving behind no trace or clue.

She had been born into a powerful, wealthy family on Earth. That family was also the one that showed her how dark the world could truly be.

Her father was influential, the kind of businessman the media only ever praised. In public, he always seemed kind.

Behind closed doors, there was a darkness in him that not even his wife knew. Only Selina and her older sister, who was no longer alive, had ever seen it.

Selina had carried that secret her entire life. She had lived in fear of the monster wearing her father’s face.

During those unbearable times, Adyr was the only one who found her in that darkness and pulled her out of it, giving her a new life and a new identity.

Even back then, he had seemed to see the world without any filter. He did not divide it into simple white and black. He understood that both existed only because the other did.

While Selina and Victor kept their emotions to themselves, the main discussion in the room began moving again.

One of the researchers finally gathered his thoughts and leaned forward. “By another Earth, do you mean a parallel world, a completely different Earth, or did you come from the past?”

“It could be the future as well,” another added quickly, realizing how deep the question of time itself was becoming. She looked straight at Adyr. “Can you give us more details about the Earth you came from?”

That opened the floodgates.

More and more researchers joined in, their questions stacking up as they tried to understand time and space through pure logic and pressure.

Adyr listened as the questions came one after another, fast enough to blur together. Then someone finally asked something he could answer cleanly.

“So you died in another world and returned to life as a baby?” one of the City Managers asked. “Isn’t the day you were found the same day the Mad Scientist appeared and revealed Beyond to us?”

According to the records, the day baby Adyr was found in ruins outside Shelter City 9 was the exact same day the Mad Scientist emerged and announced the discovery of Beyond.

“That sounds like more than a coincidence,” Adyr nodded thoughtfully.

The direction of their thinking made sense.

It was difficult to ignore the possibility that some kind of power had pulled Adyr’s soul into this Earth, or into this timeline. The Mad Scientist looked less like a random event and more like a trigger, or a catalyst, for reasons still unknown.

“And there are also the words of Primora, the creator of Beyond,” another City Manager voiced his thought. “If we assume your dream was real, it leads us to the idea that you came from an entirely different dimension.”

Adyr nodded, showing that it was possible, even if it sounded unbelievable.

He had already told them everything that had passed between him and that being. He described the exchange in full, every line that mattered, until he reached the part that had changed the meaning of the entire dream.

Primora had called him an Arbiter. Not as a title, but as an identity.

Then Primora revealed why Adyr had been brought there in the first place. A single purpose: to kill Primora.

But that revelation raised a new problem.

If Primora was truly that old, the kind of being who could create Beyond itself, then why was Adyr tied to him so directly? What did that imply about Adyr’s real age or what he actually was?

A City Manager’s voice cut in, suspicion sharpened by the silence. “You really don’t have any memories from before, apart from your memories from your previous Earth?”

Adyr shook his head, then added after a moment, “I’ve had other dreams besides meeting him. Most of them were meaningless. Ordinary dreams.”

Most of them felt like fragments of mundane lives, disconnected scenes with no clear thread.

Still, that caught the attention of one person in the room.

Rhys leaned forward, impatience showing in his face. “What kind of dreams? Tell me as much as you can remember.”

Compared to his usual self, Rhys looked unusually tense.

Adyr noticed the urgency and began describing a few of the dreams he could recall.

By the time he finished describing the 6th one, Rhys’s expression had darkened. “They’re all very similar to mine. The last one is even exactly the same.”

Ever since his awakening, Rhys had been seeing dreams every time he fell asleep. They were not normal dreams. They felt like watching someone else’s life from the outside.

Now, listening to Adyr, he finally understood what that might mean.

“This life may not be the first time you’ve reincarnated,” Rhys said.

In his dreams, there had been too many lives. Some of them were not even on Earth. Some took place in worlds with different races and unfamiliar concepts.

Rhys exhaled and looked at Adyr with a strange half-smile that did not fully reach his eyes.

“So what are you?” he asked, half-joking, half-serious. “Some kind of world walker?”

However, not everyone in the room saw it as a joke.

“A method, an ability, maybe even technology that lets someone move freely between dimensions and time,” a researcher murmured, already intrigued by the concept. “It sounds believable.”

After all, Adyr had already revealed he was an outsider from another Earth. The idea that he might have done this many times before, without remembering, no longer sounded impossible.

“So if we put all the information together, Mr. Adyr is actually an Arbiter. Arbiters are a race with the ability to travel through the multiverse. Primora summoned him, so he came to this dimension. Then, with some twists, the Nephilim race was created through Arbiters mating with humans. Is that the truth?”

One of the researchers laid out the entire story in one breath, as if it were the most ordinary conclusion in the world, only realizing at the end how absurd it sounded.