The meeting with the council members ran on until very late into the night. All thirteen members of the royal council and Arran discussed the next course of action after Arran’s appointment. By the time Arran arrived in his room, he was dead tired and quickly slumped into bed before dozing off into unconsciousness.The next morning…Arran woke with a frown on his face. On a very rare occasion, the morning sunlight managed to peek out of the thick clouds and decided to shine strongly on Arran’s face through his open window and interrupting his slumber.Arran tossed and turned on his bed, wanting to return to his dreams, to no avail. Finally, he annoyingly groaned and got up from the bed. Glancing outside the window at the bright ray of sunshine, Arran gave it the finger in disgruntlement, showing no princely qualities in doing so.Feeling better, Arran prepared to tackle the day ahead.Just as he took his first step of the day, Arran froze. There was another update in the Akashic Recor

Inside the room, Arran entered. There were already seven occupants present. Arran’s eyes swept through the lot of them unfriendly in search of the one that had just spoken. With a single glance, Arran took in the faces of everybody in the room and a look of surprise crossed his face. Among the seven, Arran was surprised to find he actually recognized a few of them. On the left side of the room, a group of three people sat together in what was an obvious separation from the others. Among these three, Arran recognized all of them from the chosen ceremony that took place five years ago. They were participants who had made it to the contest's final round. That is why Arran could still remember them, even now. One of them was Joyner Wellington. He was the unfortunate person who had faced off against a corrupted Carrum during the second round and got defeated, much to the surprise of everybody watching. Back then, Arran had been particularly interested in the fight and had watched the ba

The room was silent. Deadness pervaded the air in an uncomfortable stillness like the approach of impending doom long foretold. Only the sight of Arran and the others sitting side by side assuaged the gloom and barrenness of the room. There were eight people in total in the room, including Arran. Among them, seven of them were seated, while one remained standing before them like an authoritative figure. He was the oldest looking among them, appearing in his late twenties, and was the one who had previously put a stop to the altercation that could have possibly taken place between Bernard and Beatrice. With the young man in the lead, everybody finally got around to having an effective communication between themselves. “Since we are all here, let’s get straight down to business, shall we? First of all, let’s ignore what happened before and start again by introducing ourselves. I’m sure some of you might already know each other but for the sake of those who don't, we will still do it.

Kasack sat on a blood-red throne emblazoned with pitch-black abyssal flames all over it. He was bored. The air around him distorted with waves of terrifying heat the source of which originated from the molten core of the small world he owned.Five years… it had been five years since he became the apostle of his master and inherited unimaginable power. It took five years to adjust to his master's power and only recently did he awaken, but it only took a few months for a lot to change for Kasack, the most obvious of which was the power he currently wielded and the corresponding increase in status it brought to him amongst his race.Not only had Kasack successfully become an exalted Shade Lord of his race which was a position that stood for absolute power and authority among the Shades, but he had also gotten revenge against his enemy, Shade Lord Kremlin, who had once humiliated and brought him despair not so long ago.It wasn’t so long ago that Kasack couldn’t withstand a single blow fr

Arran looked around the place, his eyes stopping on the two other people that were not among their little group, Aku and Bernard. Although they didn’t join them, Arran knew there was no way they couldn’t hear what was being said in the group. That means they surely heard everything when Arran was introducing himself.Focusing especially on Aku who was the leader of this little expedition, Arran was hoping to get confirmation from him about explaining the mission. But Aku had his head down in silence as if he was not paying attention to them at all.Taking this as a silent agreement, Arran proceeded to talk about the details of the mission.“The mission we're are about to embark on is pretty straightforward. It is related to the mysterious incident that happened four hundred years ago which I’m sure you’re all aware of.”As soon as Arran started speaking, everybody’s attention was placed entirely on him. Even Bernard who was a short distance away from them visibly perked up to pay atte