Arran was walking through the palace hall. While doing so, he cautiously scanned the entire hall with a pair of hawk eyes... never missing a thing.
As he walked, Arran discover a few details in the palace hall that he had failed to notice before.
On the side of the palace hall, on its walls, Arran noticed that there seemed to be fine grain patterns scattered all around the walls.
Initially, Arran had not paid much attention to these patterns, merely thinking that they were simply just a unique style of decorating the walls or that it was a result of the material used to build the palace that led to it having those patterns. But when Arran used his hands to feel the walls and those patterns on them, he suddenly realized that they were probably more than what they seemed.
Back on earth, apart from being proficient in most of the commonly spoken languages, and those that were not so commonly spoken, Arran was also proficient in sign language and braille. It
Arran hung rooted in the air without being able to move a single muscle. Across from him, on the altar, that creature with the large golden eye stared silently at him with indifference as well as a mild amount of puzzlement.It was as that creature was surprised to see Arran there... almost as if it was not expecting any visitors to this palace.The golden eyes of the creature on the altar trailed all over Arran's body, causing him to tremble uncontrollably. Before those eyes that were invasive and penetrative, Arran felt as if he was being scanned from head to toe and everything about him was exposed.This feeling lasted for a long while before, suddenly, a trace of surprise flashed across those golden eyes for a moment.Following that, Arran heard a soft sound.Purr!This sounded was like the soft breathing of a house cat in Arran's ears.Hearing this and managing to catch that brief flash of surprise in the creature's eyes, Arran w
The creature that possessed those large golden eyes was a giant tabby cat.How shocking!Indeed, Arran was surprised to see the true appearance of the creature on the altar. This creature possessed a very great resemblance to the giant tabby cat that was very common on earth. There were only a few obvious differences between this creature and the well-loved household pet.First of all, there was a single horn right in the middle of the creature's head. This was the most eye-catching feature of this creature apart from its large golden eyes.This creature that resembled a tabby cat had midnight blue skin that was almost the same color as Arran's hair. The shades of their hair were so dark that they were almost at another extreme.While the creature's coat was a dark midnight blue color, it was so dark that it almost looked black. On this night, it was easy for people to miss the creature entirely, as it was almost invisible at night. In this same ma
Arran pulled his thoughts away from the random things that were going through it and he focused his attention on the cat-like creature on the altar as well as the World Essence Pulse Bracers.He was surprised by what he was seeing.Currently, both the creature on the altar and the World Essence Pulse Bracers were behaving in a rather strange manner.Looking at the two of them, Arran could see the World Essence Pulse Bracers hovering in the air at eye level with the creature on the altar. It was twinkling with starlight looking almost like a midnight star.At the same time, the creature on the altar also let out deep guttural sounds from its throat occasionally, which sounded like a rumble of thunder. Every time the creature purred, the air around the altar would vibrate powerfully and Arran would feel his insides shake, making him uncomfortable.Arran did not know what the two of them were doing, but their actions gave him the impression that they
Arran fell into a deep and peaceful slumber. In his sleep, Arran dreamt about his parents.Arran's dreamland was a place filled with purple clouds, much like the clouds that were constantly in the sky in the Etherium. But unlike those purple storm clouds, the clouds in Arran's dreamscape were not rumbling with charged lightning. everything was peaceful and quiet.Standing on a cloud, Arran was surprised...He could not understand what was going on and where he was.Arran had a feeling that he was asleep and everything he saw here was just part of his dream. But no matter what Arran did, he could not wake up. This made him frustrated... but Arran did not panic.Knowing that panicking would not solve anything, Arran calmly observed his surroundings.Using his feet to step on the clouds, Arran felt like he was stepping on a ball of soft cotton. The experience was pretty novel.At the same time, Arran tested all his powers and abilities,
Arran meeting his parents was the best thing he could ever hope to wish for. Ever since they disappeared on earth, Arran had been filled with endless worry, wondering if something bad had happened to them.Back when Arran thought his parents were just ordinary humans who at most would only be a bit odd since they were mercenaries, Arran had feared that perhaps one of their old enemies had come for his parents to exact revenge.He didn't know what to do or how he could find them, so Arran could only wait while hoping they would come back safely. It was only when he had been picked up by the Aeth that Arran had realized his parent's identities were not so simple.For the purpose of investigating Arran's background, Arran was aware that the Aeth had used their means to sneak into the earth to investigate who his parents were and where they had gone to upon their disappearance. But much to the disbelief of the Aeth and Arran himself, he found that there were no reco
The shocking news Arran learned caused him to retreat from his parents before he could even realize what he had done. It was as if Arran's ass had been set on fire with the way he shot out of his seat.After coming to a stop ten meters away from his parents, Arran was finally able to regain his senses, but he wasn't able to calm down at all.Right now, the only thing that was in Arran's head were the words his mother had just said to him."We are not your actual parents!""We are not your actual parents!""We are not your actual parents!"These words continued playing over and over again in a loop in Arran's head.Arran felt dizzy, and he lost his footing for a moment and stumbled unsteadily. Quickly catching himself and forcefully regaining his balance, Arran shook his head as he tried to remove the dizziness he was feeling.It took Arran a full five seconds to finally calm down, then he turned back to look at Azalea and Jerem
Arran was relieved to know that the people he called his parents were his actual biological parents. He didn't know how he would have taken it otherwise. But while Arran was dwelling on his feelings, he suddenly remembered his mother's exact words.Specifically, Arran focused on the words she said towards the end of her speech.'I carried you for four hundred years!!!'These were the words Arran focused on. He could distinctly remember her saying these exact same words.Immediately, Arran shockingly said to his mother, "Mom, you said that you actually carried me for four hundred years before you conceived me. That's not true, right?""It can't be. The longest pregnancy period for an Aeth is at most two years and even a Kingsman who has the longest birth time takes at most ten years before they are born. How could I stay in your womb for four hundred years before being born?Arran's words were really shocking enough, but this was the truth. A
Arran was in a daze... He kept on thinking of a single thought... that the terrifying cat outside whom his mother called Ladon was a pet. A pet! How insane was that... Just thinking about it alone was enough to make Arran doubt his life. Arran did not know exactly how powerful the Primordial Startreading Tabby, Ladon was. The only thing he was able to guess was that it was more powerful than any of the Shade Lords and Councilmen he had come across recently. The reason Arran thought so what because of the unfathomable aura given to him. Ladon's aura was much deeper and more intense than what he had felt from Shade Lord Scholler and Shade Lord Kremlin as well as Councilmen Homer and Floyd. Of course, granted, Shade Lord Scholler was only a projection with just a bit of the original's power, and Shade Lord Kremlin was being suppressed by Councilman Homer so they did not seem too powerful. But something just told Arran that the Pri