MasukBy the time they returned to the academy, the sun had already started going down. Raymond went straight to his private residence with the others. He had barely stepped inside when his communication device rang. He looked at the screen and his father's name appeared. Raymond answered the call and the large screen on the wall came to life.The Alpha King appeared on the other side. “Where have you been?”Raymond walked toward the table. “Outside.”His father narrowed his eyes. “Outside where?”“Handling something at the academy.”“You're going to have to be more specific than that.”Raymond sat down. He didn't want to argue about his situation with his father but he knew that he didn't respond much, his father would stop talking about it and talk about the reason why he called. His father studied him for a few seconds before continuing.“I received another report about suspicious activity around Moon Academy. We've had too many incidents in the last few weeks. I want you to increase th
The voice came again, clearer this time.“The one who carries the King's blood has finally returned.”Raymond stared at his hand. The cut on his palm had already stopped bleeding, but the silver light spreading from it had not disappeared. It moved slowly across his skin before fading into the lines of his palm.He had thought the ruins opened because his blood had touched the stone. Now he wasn't so sure.“What does that even mean?” Vince asked.Raymond didn't answer right away. He looked around the room again, taking in the old paintings and carvings. The white-haired woman was still there, standing beside the man who looked exactly like him. He had spent so much time trying to understand Vera that he hadn't paid enough attention to himself.The voice had called him the King's blood, the ruins had opened for him. And the man in the painting had his face. Something inside his head was driving him crazy. Raymond shut his eyes. For a second, he was no longer standing inside the ruins.
Raymond hesitated but he didn't want to tell them that he indeed had seen it before. There was a restricted part of the royal palace that he had entered when he was younger. He had found old paintings there, paintings of the same white-haired woman and the same man who always stood beside her. He had never understood why the man looked so familiar, and he had never cared enough to investigate it, not until now.“Raymond?”He realized everyone was looking at him.“What?”Henry pointed at the carving. “You know something.”“I've seen the symbol before.”“Where?”“In the palace.”Vince frowned. “I've never seen it.”“Because it's in a restricted section.”Henry looked at him carefully. “And what else is in there?”Raymond didn't answer immediately.He didn't want to tell them about the paintings yet. Not until he knew what they meant.“Old records,” he said.Henry clearly knew he wasn't telling them everything, but he didn't push. Raymond touched the carving but othing happened. He frow
The stone wall moved slowly after Raymond’s blood touched it, and the sound of stone scraping against stone made everyone stop what they were doing. Raymond kept his eyes on the opening as it became wider, revealing the darkness behind it. His hand still stung from the cut, but he barely noticed it anymore. He was more interested in the fact that the ruins had opened for him after refusing to open when he came here alone.Vince was the first to speak. “So that worked?”Raymond looked at him. “Apparently.”“You cut your hand by accident, touched the wall, and the entire entrance opened. You know that's not normal, right?”“I know.”“Then maybe we should talk about that before you walk inside.”Raymond looked back at the entrance. “What exactly do you want me to talk about?”Vince opened his mouth, then glanced at Xavier as if expecting him to explain it better.Xavier sighed. “He's asking why the place reacted to your blood.”“I don't know.”Henry stepped closer to the entrance and loo
"And where do you think you're going now, Your Highness?" Brian asked him.Raymond looked at his friends standing outside his door and sighed. He already knew that they were going to make this difficult for him. He didn't have the patience to explain everything to them, especially when his mind was already filled with everything that Jason had told him about Vera."I told you, I have something important to do. I don't need any of you following me."Brian folded his arms. "And we told you that you're not going anywhere alone. You're going back to those woods, aren't you?"Raymond looked at him for a moment before looking away. There was no point lying to them because they already knew him too well."Yes, I'm going back there.""Why?" Brian asked immediately. "You already know what happened the last time we went there. You almost got yourself into serious danger, and now you're telling us that you're going back there again like nothing happened?""I'm not going there because I want to g
Raymond couldn't believe what he was listening to. After the conversation he had earlier with Jason, and he tried so many times to hear him talk about who Vera really was, but he refused to say anything about her identity, and he just showed him off. This feeling was biting deep in his heart. He didn't know how to explain it. He hated the one goddess for giving him this kind of life. Even though it was a good life on the surface, being worshiped by everyone and being feared by everyone, it was nothing good or what he wanted. The mom goddess made him into the moment he was born. He was supposed to oversee the entire realm and protect everyone, but no one cares about his safety. All he needs to do is to make sure that he was strong enough to fight anyone that was going to attack. He has to wake up very early everyday and go to bed late. He has never had a moment of rest until he came into the school. That was when he started to do whatever he wanted. Even so, he was still having to pro
Vera tried to compose herself as her hands were shaking. She stumbled upon something that she wasn't supposed to see even though she had heard it in the rumors. This was her first time of ever encountering something like this. It was her last year in this school and she needed to survive till the e
“Get him! Don't let him leave!” Those people chasing each other ran through the school again while the students weren't concerned. It wasn't the first time something like this was happening, they were used to things like this already. Vera watched this in the a corner as she was trying to study s
Vera already knew that even though she was trying her best to stay away from rumors, people would still come after her anyway. At this point she was already getting used to students staring at her everywhere she went.Whispers followed her constantly around the academy now. Some people looked at he
Vera tried her best to listen in class and also work well on her test. She still didn't believe she was reliving the day and she still thought that this might be a result of her death. She still had lingering attachments in this world and school was one of them. There's no way it was possible for







