Soon Grover found himself in another space; this time in front of him was a huge bird.“Bloody hell, you are the Raven?” Grover asked.The huge bird had red eyes, but they were shot when Grover was pulled in.“You are not going to say anything? So much for a smarty pants like sensei said you would be. Look, big birdy, I do not have all day, okay?” Grover angrily added. “Hahaha, welcome to the Dark Clan,” the Raven replied as it finally opened its eyes.“Who gave this shithole such a name? Too solid for what I am seeing in here, if you ask me,” Grover said.“That is the point; no one asked, and no one will. Why does the universe keep sending fools to die at my talons?” The Raven retorted.“Now you are wrong; no one else out there was able to access this ‘dark clan’ of yours, so I think the universe knows what it is doing,” Grover replied."Oh, really, we will have to find out about that real soon,” the Raven added.“I bet we would,” Grover said with a grin on his face.“I cannot wait t

Grover began to change his expression as he compared all four rules in his head. He suddenly burst out, saying the rules were unfair.“Why are the rules so unfair? This should not be this way,” Grover began to complain as he saw no way out of the mess Raven had just created. At first, he thought he could win the big black and corny bird, but that was no longer the feeling he had after summing up the four rules he needed to abide by in order to win and conquer the spirit of the Raven. Now he wished he had to fight the Raven instead of facing it on a board game with his opponent giving the rules.“You are in no position to tell me what to do or what not to do, human! Now we are going to start the game, and there is no turning back. Besides, there is nothing unfair as long as strength is involved; if only you were strong, these complaints of unfairness would not have even come up,” Raven said, as he was already becoming pissed.Grover knew and had to accept that this was a test of his p

Grover had to survey the idea that came to his mind slowly and carefully so he would not make any silly mistakes.The idea he had was that the main challenge was not to play the game but rather to outsmart Raven at its own game, which meant he just had to distract Raven from his initial plan of distracting him and get into his head.After he realized this, he began singing and did not think much about it again.“Are you ignoring me, little human? Why are you not playing?” Raven asked. “Do you want your three hours to run out and you die?” It added.“Relax; I have gotten used to the rules. Let us play now,” Grover said as he noticed that Raven was trying to hide something from him. His instincts to be right began tinkling, and he smiled as he made a silly-looking move that even a novice would not do.“You think you are going to win by making silly moves? Or you think I will pity you because you cannot play, which I know you can do quite well?” Raven said that it looked like Grover wa

Grover was pleasantly surprised at this and was very happy. “I thought you would want to do more for the fact that you are a cunning spirit, or your pride would not let you be straightforward,” Grover muttered to himself, even though Raven could hear him.There was no need for him to do anything. Even his first artifact spirit seemed to have accepted the Raven's Spirit.“That went quite smoothly; Vladimir's bond was not like this. He had to fight both spirits to get a settlement, but here I am with a very smooth bonding,” Grover muttered to himself as he saw a bright light rushing towards him, and the next moment he found himself back at the Crypt with everyone's eyes on him.“That was quick!” Vladimir exclaimed, getting up to his feet.“How did you do it, man?” Krystal asked, as he was also stunned at how fast he bonded with the beast artifact."Well, I spent close to two hours in there, though,” Grover said.“That might be true; the timing of the spirit realms is very different fro

Shambala laughed as he saw the look on his face.“I do not know what to do, Sensei. I am confused,” Grover said.“I can see that young lad. You just have to summon the Raven spirit to assist with the outsmarting aspect, and you are good to go. Since you are already its master and it resides in you, all you have to do now is call on it, and it will answer,” Shambala explained.“Is that all, Sensei? And I will be able to have the outsmarting ability.” Grover asked."Yes, lad,” Shambala retorted. Grover stared at the ground for quite some time, a mixture of confusion and frustration swirling within him. Shambala had just revealed its unique property: bonding with the user and allowing them to summon the Raven spirit. But for Grover, the spirit remained stubbornly silent."Don't fret, young Grover," Shambala chuckled, his voice a dry rasp. "The bond takes time to settle. Patience is key."Patience, however, was a scarce commodity for Grover at that moment. The weight of the unknown and t