Chapter 293: Admiration. (1/2)

Back in The Wolf's Cage which was littered with the scars of the recent explosion and the tremors of the massive light pillar, Ozul looked around with an unreadable face—nothing Raven would've found strange, but this time she had a feeling that something had changed.

When Ozul's eyes swept past Raven and Blaze, they couldn't help but hold their breaths unconsciously.

After a few moments of silence, a small smile broke out Ozul's face, instantly brightening the atmosphere with it.

Blaze wasn't so bright to notice anything amiss, but Raven pursed her lips. She felt her throat dry at the sight of that smile. It was all because she could easily notice the difference between how Ozul used to smile and how he did just now.

'Why the forced smile...' Raven thought to herself in worry. Others might have missed it, but how could she?

”What... happened?” She asked softly to which Ozul raised his brows a little before relaxing again, his smile disappearing along with her words.

It was almost as if he was surprised that Raven could tell the difference.

Meanwhile, Blaze was clueless. He thought that Raven was inquiring about the recent events.

”I'm fine. Don't worry,” Ozul tried to reassure Raven but it had almost little to no effect as he didn't go into any details.

Raven wanted to speak. She wanted to ask him what was going on, but words were struck at the back of her throat.

'He will not answer what he does not want to answer...' she thought before nodding her head reluctantly.

Ozul ignored the looks on the duo's faces and instead focused on his hand.

Repeatedly stretching both of his hands, he wondered how reattaching his limbs felt so normal to him. He didn't even feel an ounce of strangeness while moving his limbs as if they were never severed from his body in the first place.

”Again and again... it is not the time for this,” he muttered before shooting a glance at the tall mountain temple which had half disappeared now, replacing it was the gaping pit that seemed to be leading to the deepest depths of the ground.

Following his eyes, the duo also moved their eyes towards the pit in which the Rank-10 Beast was supposed to be in right now.

A silver of worry flashed past their eyes but they immediately calmed down afterwards. There was no way it could have survived the massive light pillar. Even if it did, the current appearance of Ozul gave them enough confidence to stand without any concern.

Just then, the ground started shaking furiously.

The sky was clear by now, the Beasts had long fled and only the half dead corpses remained in this wasteland. Raven and Blaze didn't quite get the reason behind this earthquake now.

Before they could act though, the earthquake grew larger and before their eyes, a shower of burning hot lava shot out from the pit.

”What-”

Realization dawned upon Raven and Blaze, but they didn't have any time to cast Spells.

Before they could think of anything to protect themselves with, they felt a little light for an instant and their eyes unconsciously blinked.

”...What?!” Blaze couldn't help but mutter again with a dumb face. All because now he was standing with Raven to watch the same rain of lava pouring out of the pit but from hundreds of meters away this time.

On the small hill, near the few remaining members of the Rogue Crew, the duo moved their gazes towards Ozul with surprise visible on their faces.

They had known Ozul was strong and understood just how powerful he had to be to survive what a Rank-10 Mage and the Rank-10 Beasts couldn't, but it still shocked them since they had only blinked once!

The surprise gasps of the members of the Rogue Crew a few feet away woke the duo up from their daze. Raven immediately stood up and took out a white shirt and black pants from her Spatial Ring.

Ozul took the clothes and calmly wore them, not concerned about his naked body being exposed in front of everyone.

Everyone just kept their eyes on him, awaiting his orders when Ozul pointed his finger to his side and spoke, ”Bring her here.”

Following the direction in which he pointed in, everyone was startled to see that they were not alone here. There was someone on the ground, soaked in blood!

”T-t-this-... She is the ancestor of the Church of light!” someone from the Rogue Crew suddenly shouted as they recognized Darcia's face.

Immediately afterwards, looks of admiration and shock were thrown at Ozul. After all, he had just defeated one of the strongest people on the continent!

Ignoring their overly respectful stares, Ozul continued to look towards the rain of lava that didn't have any intentions of stopping anytime soon.

After a while, as if he got bored of it, he turned around and crouched near Darcia's corpse who was brought next to him by one of the Rogue Crews.