"It's your bad luck that you found me when no one else could," Astralious said, but he quickly corrected himself. "Looking at my condition, maybe it's indeed my bad luck that I found you."
"I had been waiting for such a long time for someone to fall there and be corrupted by me. When it finally happened, I thought I could finally return to life. But who would've thought that I would end up with someone like you?"
He still didn't understand what kind of abilities Elias had, which had helped him restrict the consciousness of a Constellation, and not once, but twice! He had never heard of anything like that.
If he had succeeded in corrupting Elias, then he could have stolen his memories along with his body. It would've helped him understand this boy's abilities better. Unfortunately, that ship sailed before he could even get on it.
"Now tell me how do you know him?" he asked Elias, who was looking at Silas Ashborn with a very peculiar gaze.