Chapter 78: Illusions of Despair - My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World - NovelsTime

My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World

Chapter 78: Illusions of Despair

Author: CaracasM
updatedAt: 2025-06-21

Chapter 78: Illusions of DespairAfter I stabbed Armaros with the lunar sword, he grabbed my face and began showing me an illusion.

    At first, we appeared in End Forest, and in the distance, I could see a shadowy figure talking to a hobgoblin.

    He was showing me the moment he created the Goblin King and how he gave him the mission to attack End Town after infusing his blood orb inside the monster’s body.

    Then, we warped to another memory where Armaros led a group of goblins to kidnap the two women that we ended up saving after the battle.

    "So, it was all you..." I muttered with anger, as it was all because of him that those two women had to endure that horrible experience.

    Armaros simply laughed and warped us to another memory. In it, I saw him infusing his blood orb on a wyvern, then commanded it to destroy a village.

    Coincidentally, it was the village of Guano, whose residents ended up going to End Town after the wyvern razed their village. But in reality, it was always Armaros who ordered these monsters.

    I clenched my teeth with resentment as the illusion warped to a different memory where we found ourselves underwater.

    Right before me was the massive body of the Kraken that we had defeated, and Armaros stood right next to it, infusing his powers into the monster.

    "Why?" I asked. "What’s the point of all this?"

    Armaros laughed mockingly. "Why? To take the entire kingdom for me, obviously..."

    "And then?" I asked again.

    "And then?" Armaros repeated my question, moving his head laterally as if he didn’t understand me.

    "And then I would have used all of the citizens as slaves! Use them as cattle to feed my beasts and sacrifice them to the Lord!" Armaros exclaimed before laughing maniacally.

    I was annoyed at the devil, but I kept a blank stare since I knew that all of the illusions were just his final attempt to mess with me.

    "Ah, but I’m not done..." he muttered, warping the illusion and sending us to a completely different scenery. sea??h thё n??el Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    "What!?" I loudly asked as I found myself in the living room of my childhood house from my past life.

    My mother was sitting on the couch talking on the phone with someone, and I couldn’t help but notice how much older she looked from the last time I saw her.

    In my past life, I left my house as soon as I was able to and lived with my martial arts teacher. A few years later, I moved to another country to study, met my wife, and just lived my life without ever talking to any of my parents again.

    My mom never treated me right, and I always thought she hated me and wanted me gone, so I complied with her wishes and left without ever talking to her again.

    From how my mother looked in the illusion, I could deduce that it had been a few years since I left.

    "Why did you bring me here? Do you know who I am?" I asked Armaros, as he shouldn’t have a clue about any details of my past life.

    Armaros laughed, saying he didn’t need to know me to use my past experiences against me.

    However, this wasn’t a memory of mine as I wasn’t present at that moment, making me wonder if the illusion I was seeing was even a real memory and not a fabricated story by the devil.

    When I focused on my mother again, I could hear her words when talking on the phone.

    "Any news?" she asked with a desperate tone.

    "I see... So he got married..." she said with a sad smile.

    "I’m glad..." she continued, tears rolling down her cheeks.

    ’Could it be that my mother was looking for me after I left? No, no, that can’t be. She said I got married, so this must have been a few years after...’ I pondered.

    "Huh? No, I’m not mad. I’m happy he found happiness. I just... regret not being there for him..." she said, answering someone’s question on the phone.

    "A picture? Uhh, yeah, sure!" my mom said, looking quite excited—a side I had never seen from her.

    Looking down at her phone, she smiled. Prompting me to peek at what she was looking at and noticing the picture that made her smile like that.

    It was a photo of me and my wife on our honeymoon that she posted on her social media. I was never a fan of those apps, so I always just let my wife Melina handle that, but I never knew that my mother had seen those pictures.

    I clenched my fists with anger and turned to look at the devil, who sneered at me with his unsettling smile.

    "Why are you showing me these fake illusions?" I asked.

    "Fake?" the devil asked mockingly.

    "How insulting to think that my power is a mere illusion... Boy, I’m here to fill you with despair." he continued, his smile growing from ear to ear.

    "Wha-?" I asked, but before I could finish my question, Armaros cut me off.

    "Shhh. Here comes the best part," he said as the scenery around us got much darker.

    We were still in my mother’s living room, and she stared at the picture with a smile and tears rolling down her face.

    Suddenly, a loud bang on the door could be heard, and the voice of my father, yelling from outside as he tried to force the door open, making my mother recoil in fear.

    When my father broke through the door, he began demanding money from my mom while holding a small pistol under his jacket and blamed her for being taken to jail.

    My father looked utterly out of it. He was a drunk and an abuser that I reported to the police as a child.

    He was taken to jail, which saved me and my mother at the time, but she always blamed me for it and treated me even worse after those events. That’s why I left.

    However, in this illusion, my father looked even worse than before, making me believe that he must have been doing drugs too.

    As my mother tried to explain herself and raised her hands to cover her face with fear, my father pointed the gun at her.

    "STOP!" I yelled from the bottom of my heart, but as soon as the sound of the pistol went off, the scenery changed.

    After receiving several shots, my mom was dead on the ground, and my father was running away with a few bills and my mother’s wedding ring.

    I couldn’t move. My eyes widened with perplexion and shock as I witnessed the final moments of my mother’s life. An event I didn’t even know had happened back then since I was so engaged in my own new life with my wife.

    I felt a tear roll down my cheek as Armaros began laughing and pointing at me.

    "Yes, yes! That’s the despair I was looking for!" he exclaimed.

    I stared at the devil with my eyes full of hatred and released a massive wave of energy to erase the illusion around us, bringing us back to the present moment where I had stabbed through his chest.

    Armaros sneered once again as his body slowly turned into ash, leaving me standing in front of a pile of dust, looking down in reflection.

    However, I couldn’t control my emotions after what I had seen.

    I couldn’t tell if the illusions Armaros showed me were real, but there were signs that told me they could have been.

    For example, the photo my mother was looking at. That picture of me and my wife was real, so it couldn’t have been faked.

    With the memories of my mother’s last moment, I broke down and began crying like a real kid.

    It had been a long time ever since I cried, but at that time, I truly couldn’t contain myself.

    My mother had treated me horribly throughout my life, and seeing her trying to mend her mistakes just to end up the way it did. It broke my heart.

    ’Maybe... If I had just called her...’ I thought before sniffing.

    "Ichiro!" The princess yelled as she approached me with my companions.

    I wanted to stop the tears so they wouldn’t see me crying so embarrassingly, but I just couldn’t do it.

    When they got closer and noticed my sobbing, none of them asked the reason or what had happened. They all just embraced me tightly.

    "I don’t know what happened to you there, Ichiro. But we are here for you now..." Melina said, softly patting the back of my head as she embraced me.

    But I couldn’t say anything. All I could do was weakly grasp onto her poncho.

    Feeling the warmth of the princess and my companions made me cry even more, embracing them all and letting my tears flow out.

    That night, I shed the most tears I had ever cried in my two lives.

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