Chapter 576: Meeting (1/2)

”Yo, 9th! We meet again!”

A deep voice echoed within a large hall, taking Raven's attention. He looked towards the man who greeted him and nodded:

”Nice to see you again Taotie, Sir.” Raven greeted.

”Oh you, drop the formalities! Specially when addressing this goofball.” Levi who's sitting beside him said.

Raven didn't reply and instead took a seat amongst them. Within these table are some of his acquaintances, mostly War Gods. There's Henry, Logan, Theo, Julia, Jessamine, Celestine, Levi, Charles, and Paolo.

There are also some people whom he haven't met before. There's four of them who wore the same uniform and badges as the War God, which means that they are War Gods too. As far as Raven knows, there are a total of 13 War God positions available each generation, which means that all War Gods are here. This was an incredible line-up already.

Aside from them, there's also other people here. He could see Anastacia, Grand Elder Gin and his Wife Emma, Sect Master Lucas and his wife Alwina, Elder Fallon and others that Raven hadn't met before.

Raven was feeling a little bit pressured inwardly due to the presence of these giants. He was even starting to wonder why he was summoned here in the first place.

It was Kyrie who informed him about the meeting. Although he never thought that he'd be meeting the others here as well. Amongst the crowd, Raven could feel some certain presences which bore some familiarity with him but he knows that he never met them before.

It was an intriguing feeling yet Raven didn't show any signs of discomfort nor curiosity on his face. He remained calm and just chatted with the people he knew.

After quite sometime, everyone fell a stir. They all looked ahead and saw the Sect Master walking towards the center of the hall. The whole place became quiet, all of them waited for him to speak.

”I'm sure all of you are wondering why you were summoned here.” Sect Master Lucas said, ”We'll get to that in a bit, but before we proceed, I'd like to remind everyone that the contents of our meeting today would be extremely confidential. None of you are allowed to tell it to another soul. Am I understood?”

”Yes, Sect Master!” Everyone replied solemnly. The Sect Master nodded, he then looked back to his wife and nodded to her as well.

Alwina walked forward and said: ”There are some recent developments that we discovered. We were fortunate to have gain wind of it this early, any later than this might spell the doom of our sect.”

Faint murmurs could be heard from the people around them. Raven who's sharing seats with the War Gods, looked quite calm since he had an idea what they're here to talk about.

”It all started at the 'Prison of the Apocalypse'...” Alwina stated, silencing the crowd. She then began re-telling the story of how they managed to deal with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse the sudden development and all.

In Alwina's stories, Raven's was nowhere to be found. It was as if he wasn't a part of any of that at all.

Though Alwina glanced at Raven shortly before starting the story. Raven didn't have any complains. In fact it was better this way. At least there's still a faint veil of mystery is still shrouding him.

”...we recently did some inspection and we can confirm that the seal is intact and perfectly working. Which means that the Devil Emperor had managed to really find a way to bypass the seal. I don't think I need to explain what this spells for us, right?”

Once she was done re-telling the recent events and how the Devil Emperor managed to attack them despite being sealed in the prison. Everyone felt cold chills running through their spine.

The atmosphere turned heavy. Everyone's faces were solemn, even the ever-so-lively Paolo the Taotie had a serious look on his face.

Raven sighed faintly. He couldn't blame them from feeling pressured. Wasn't he the same as them? As soon as he woke up from that event, he had been adjusting his plan and began amassing resources in order for him to become stronger faster.

Although the sect had never been idle all this time, the same could be said with the Devil Emperor too. In fact, it might've even been working harder compared to them. It has been imprisoned for so long, and the fact that it remained searching for ways to regain freedom is frightening.

Don't forget that the Devils are born from the Devil Emperor itself. They carried it's will and unless there were killed in a special way, they'll just return to the embrace of the Devil Emperor itself along with the memories they have before they were killed.

This means that the Devil Emperor knows them more than what they expect. Meanwhile their forces had little to no clue as to what was going on with the Devil Emperor's mind. Who in the right mind would dare to trace the connection between the devils and Devil Emperor itself? Isn't that just suicide?