Chapter 521: Tempting Benefits (1/2)

”Hold on, wait a minute.” Raven raised a hand and frowned. ”What do you mean?”

”The House of Zeus will need a Lord soon. And I, along with the other Battle Maids, hope for you to be the one who will inherit this mantle.” Kyrie stated in a straight forward manner.

Raven was stunned. He looked at her expression and saw that she was dead serious about her words, which caused Raven to feel really conflicted.

”…I don't think you've got the right person.” Raven stated weakly, not because he thought that it's a shame to not become the lord of House Zeus but because he's dreading the fact that he'll be in debt.

He shouldn't have taken a sip out of that tea.

”Young Lord, there's no way that I, nor the other Battle Maids, will be mistaken.” Kyrie stated simply. But Raven still shook his head.

”Look, I really don't think you've got the right person.” He stated, not even waiting for Kyrie to say something he continued: ”I'm convinced that you must've been monitoring the people who arrive at that room - the one that has the three chalice. I don't know if you saw or felt what I did but I'm pretty certain that neither Poseidon, Hades, or Forefather Zeus, deemed me worthy.”

”When I filled the chalices with my blood. I only saw blurry images of the three ancestors. When Poseidon appeared, he pointed a trident at my forehead, aside from feeling warm, I felt nothing else before his chalice disappeared from my sight. For Hades, I just received a short flashback of my life, nothing else.”

”As for Zeus, I can't recall anything. I lost consciousness before I could even see him. When I woke up, his silhouette had already dispersed.”

”I was so confused but I can't do anything about it. I am new to the sect, there's many things that I don't understand yet so I just exited from there. And then you suddenly arrived, you know the rest.”

Raven unhesitatingly revealed his experiences to Kyrie, being as transparent as possible to hopefully, lessen his future debt.

”If I truly am supposed to be the 'Young Lord' of the House of Zeus, then wouldn't you think that something else, aside from losing consciousness, will happen when the Forefather passed down his mantle to me? But nothing else happened. I just lost consciousness and that's it. I don't even feel anything changed within me, so I really think that you've got the wrong person.” Raven finished explaining while wearing a wry smile.

Hopefully she won't get too pissed about this and bury Raven in a massive debt. Raven nervously wait for Kyrie to speak, he thought that the woman was probably making calculations on how many Merit Points he owe her. But when she spoke, her words truly stunned him.

”This, is even better than I have imagined.' Kyrie bloomed into a jubilant smile. ”As expected of the Young Lord, formidable. Truly formidable.”

”What are you - ”

”Take a look, Young Lord.” Kyrie interrupted him by waving her hand. She controlled the moisture in the air and formed a mirror out of it, allowing Raven to see himself.

At first, Raven was confused about why she wanted him to look at his reflection but when he saw himself, he couldn't help but raise a brow.

Raven looked just like how he expected himself to look like. What surprised him is the tattoo on his forehead which looked like a thunderbolt.

That caused him to raise a brow. He can't remember having this tattoo before. His memories were intact and he's pretty sure that he wasn't the one to placed this to himself.

Sensing his confusion, Kyrie explained: ”A Thunderbolt Mark, a unique mark that only appears on the Forefather's 'Chosen' people.”

”You've said it yourself, Young Lord. Forefather Zeus is the King of Gods, Ruler of the Skies. Lord of Thunder and Lightning.”

”Back when he's still alive, Forefather Zeus carved his legend accompanied with golden thunder and lightning. He stood at the peak and every enemy of his dreaded his ability to command the ever-so-powerful element.”

”You possessing this mark means that you are his 'Chosen', and that I indeed have not mistaken you for someone else. Forefather's vision and wisdom is capable of transcending even Time itself. There is a high possibility that he was the one who left this mark on you.”