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”I told you guys, he won't stay down for long.” Paul cackled as he patted Raven's shoulders.

”Seriously, so damn reckless.” Mark greeted with a grin on his face, obviously happy that his best friend is now awake.

They then take turns greeting him, Raven was a bit gobsmacked. Just a moment ago he woke up alone and then suddenly, his room his now full of people.

”Damn, you guys are making me feel so special. Is there really need for you guys be here all at once?” Raven said in a whiny yet laughing manner. Of course, his guests knew that he was just jesting.

”That's rich, coming from Mr. Popular himself.” Ellen jeered on the side.

Raven raised his brow clearly expressing his confusion, it was Anne who clarified everything for him.

”You're famous as heck, Big Bro.” She chuckled, ”You're heroic act captured the hearts of many people. You're like a living legend in their hearts now. You should know that people just won't stop talking about you, your face is even one the front-page of many newspapers circulating around, some were even making sculptures of you.”

”Oh, no.” Hearing her say this made Raven pale from fright. In truth, he should've seen this coming since he was the one who placed that damned Ruler's Vision, yet he was so focused on revealing the ugly truth to people that the chances of people misunderstanding his actions went over his head.

”Too late for regrets Dude. The dye has been cast, there's no turning it back.” Paul said in an almost dreamy tone. This caused Raven to throw water on his face and say…

”Who the hell are you and what did you do to my friend? He will never say words that he himself couldn't understand! You must be fake!”

”Fake my ass! Damn you!” Paul retorted back, making everyone laugh at their antics.

After the situation calmed down, Raven's expression turned somewhat serious. He said: ”Yael and Zelor escaped, no?”

No one spoke, a sigh escaped from Old Lee's mouth as he took it to himself to answer his question. ”That, they did.”

”Figures.” Raven sighed as well. ”I kind of saw them escaped, but I'm too far to stop them.”

”There you go again, blaming yourself and all.” Paul frowned and interjected. ”You've done enough Dude. Stop it.”

The rest of the people inside the room agreed with him. Raven smiled and said: ”Alright, I'll stop. It doesn't matter anyway. They won't have a good time in the enemy base, especially after the fact that the 'Pale Bastard' is injured.”

”Pale Bastard?” Old Lee frowned as he nor anyone in the room, knows who Raven was referring to.

”Oh, uh…” Raven was caught in an awkward position, he just now realized that he spoke carelessly, and it doesn't look like he could lie his way out of this one, so he sighed and revealed a critical information with them.

”This… might sound wrong. But the person you guys refer to as Alastair… is no more.”

A long and uncomfortable silence followed that. That information set waves of confusion specially on the part of the Golden Knights here who clearly knew this person more than they want to admit.

”Could you… elaborate more on this?” It was Balmung who asked this question.

Raven sighed once again and said: ”I've always been different in your eyes. I'll tell you why. It's because I've inherited a lifetime's worth of memories from an expert. All these knowledge didn't come from me, but from that expert. If it weren't for the fact that I swore to continue his will, I wouldn't be here.”

He closed his eyes and opened them slowly, everyone's breath was taken away when they saw how his eyes changed. It was completely golden with a mysterious rune on the center.

”My eyes see things a bit different.” Raven said, ”I could see irregularities on a person's body.”

”This person, Alastair as you guys call him. Is not the owner of his body anymore. His soul had been devoured probably for quite sometime now. The one who stole his body, is ancient enemy that once almost driven our people to the brink of extinction.”

”The child of a human and a Dragon. Vit'hum the Scaleless Drake.”