The priestess dragged Ivan’s body and threw him at the foot of the statue.

She returned her staff to where it had appeared, and her wings also disappeared back into her body; she placed both palms together and began to mutter chants under her breath.

Peng!

With a burst of soft light, a large glowing sigil appeared on the ground around Ivan and the statue. The sigil had two points, Ivan and the statue were on both points.

She continued her chant even after the sigil appeared, soon, layers upon layers of runes began to appear on the surface of the statue while black tattoos crept up from the sigil on the ground and entered Ivan’s body before spreading over his skin; his body was soon covered completely by these tattoos.

After the tattoos and the runes appeared on Ivan and the statue, they began to stretch out like limbs in each other’s direction.

The runes on the body of the statue and the tattoos on Ivan’s body stretched and connected in mid-air.

Woom!!

A low sound rang out immediately after the two made contact, a mysterious black energy began to rise from Ivan’s body and enter the body of the statue through the tattoos and the runes.

Slowly but noticeably, the stone body of the statue began to change.

Starting from its wings, they started to change from their rock-like form to snow-white feathers.

The speed was very slow but apparent.

“Yes! Yes! Finally, the world will be saved by the only one worthy!” The priestess pressed her hands together like a devoted worshiper as she screamed at the top of her voice with an excited look on her face.

She suddenly paused and turned to look at the projections that displayed the situation of Ivan’s cohorts, they were still being held in place by her champions.

“Kill them!” She said in a low tone.

But nothing happened, none of her champions reacted to her command.

The single eye of the priestess narrowed when this happened; she was about to issue another command when she suddenly felt a presence, and her head swiftly turned to look up.

There, she saw the reason why her champions, who had been under her command for years, were refusing to listen to her orders.

Sitting on the 200-meter-tall blood wall of the labyrinth and the red mist just a few meters above his head was a teenager with similar features to Ivan, just that his hair was of a different color and his eyes were purple.

“Oh, it’s another of the Vons. Didn’t think I would see any of you so quickly.” The priestess voiced out with a small laugh that was mixed with nervousness as she stared at the teenager.

The latter glanced bad at her before moving his eyes to Ivan, he stared at him for a few seconds before shifting his gaze to the projections.

“You promised to let his friends go if he helped, why do you want to kill them right after he’s unconscious? Thought you detested those who go back on their words?” The purple-eyed teenager’s tone was soft, his voice reaching every part of the labyrinth.

The body of the priestess trembled slightly.

She knew that she wasn’t a match for the teenager so she didn’t dare to argue with him and could only stay silent.

“A monster of equal strength with a True Supreme, picking on those weaker than you should be very fun,” The teenager added after the priestess didn’t respond to his previous words.

“It can’t be that you’re going to interfere, right?” Her head snapped straight and she immediately got into a defensive stance while moving in front of the statue.

The teenager stayed down at her expressionlessly.

“You should be glad that ‘She’ didn’t come here personally and no…I don’t plan to interfere; he can take care of things himself,” he said as his eyes landed on the unconscious Ivan.

The eyes of the priestess showed confusion at the words of the teenager, her nervousness increasing as she continued to lock her eyes on him.

While the two continued to stare at each other, in another space…or state.

…

“..An!”

“..N!”

“IVAN!”

A loud angry voice thundered, followed by the bang of someone hitting a table violently rang in Ivan’s ears.

Immediately waking up his drowsy consciousness.

Ivan sprang to his feet with a jolt as his eyes swept around the place with great vigilance; a strong sense of danger filled his mind, but he was unable to recall what had made him feel in such a way.

Clang! Clang! Find your next adventure on empire

A chair and a study desk were knocked to the ground because of Ivan’s sudden movement, his eyes showed great confusion the next moment after he calmed down and realized where he was.

He wasn’t in some dangerous place or anything of such, rather, he was inside a classroom. Dozens of students his age stared at him with weird eyes as if he had gone crazy, while in front of the classroom was a big-bellied man who seemed to be the teacher of the class.

He was glaring angrily at Ivan with both palms placed on the desk in front of him.

Ivan was really confused at the change of events. Although he wasn’t able to remember what had caused him to react so desperately or filled him with a sense of urgency, he was able to recall a few things such as his friends, the dreamscape, and his time at the training tower.

“Hmm?” Ivan’s eyes flashed, the memories he just recalled were turning blurry and he could barely recall any of the things he just thought about. Soon, new memories soon appeared in his mind as if they had always been there.

“Gate? Dreamscape? Was it all a dream?” Ivan mumbled to himself, temporarily forgetting the situation he was in.

As for the new memories that had formed in his mind and seemed to be there all along…

“Mr Ivan, I presume you have a reasonable explanation for this?!”

The angry voice of the big-bellied teacher woke Ivan from his thinking; he turned to look up.

The face of the man was red and his face trembled from anger. Ivan’s classmates were also looking at him with various expressions. Contempt, ridicule, pity, various gazes were thrown at him.

Ivan ignored all of this for the time being and faced the teacher.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Dredo, I slept off,” Ivan voiced out a word of apology; he was surprised that he even knew the teacher’s name.

The teacher shook even more after hearing Ivan’s words of apology, it looked like those words had pissed him off instead.

“Not only did you fail your Ki examination, you even dared to sleep off in my class; I can see you have no regard for your future and intend to turn into a scoundrel for society instead of trying to study hard to get a good life as an ordinary person, off to the principal’s office!” Teacher Dredo barked furiously, spit flying out of his mouth.

“Just look at that, truly a disgrace to us normal people”

“It’s embarrassing enough that we have to be in the same class as someone who dared to take the Ki examination but failed, but he even dares to sleep off; does he think he’s better than us because he took the examination?”

“He’s the reason why Ki users have no regard for ordinary people”

“He should just get kicked out, I hate seeing his face!”

“Don’t worry, we’ll teach him a lesson later”

Ivan could hear the whispers of his fellow classmates as he walked to the door of the classroom which was in front.

‘Seems like I’m not welcome here’ Ivan thought to himself as he left the class.

Later that day, Ivan’s parents had come to get him after receiving a call from the principal of the school.

‘Parents…why does this concept feel strange?’ Ivan mulled his thoughts as he stared at the middle-aged couple sitting in front of the car that he was riding in.

A serious-faced man who looked like he was in his forties with a neat beard and short brown hair controlled the car in silence while a beautiful woman with long white hair like Ivan’s sat next to him in front and mumbled soft words to the man in an attempt to calm him down.

For all Ivan had concluded, this serious-faced man was his father, and this beautiful woman was his mother.

For some reason, he felt like he had seen his mother before…somewhere else and she had looked different.

‘Maybe it was in that strange dream that I had in class?’ He wasn’t sure either, as he could barely remember anything about the dream; everything had flown out of his mind immediately after he remembered his new memories.

“We’re home,”

His mother’s gentle voice announced as the car came to a stop. Ivan was pulled out of his thoughts as he realized that they had arrived inside a huge compound.

His father silently opened the door of the car and came out before walking off while his mother stared at him worriedly from her seat.

” Are you ok, honey? You’ve been spacing out a lot recently; you were even barely focused during the meeting with the principal,” she asked, her tone filled with a familiar yet unfamiliar love and concern.

Ivan stared for a while with his mouth open before responding softly that he was fine.

His mother didn’t nag him anymore and came down before going to open the door for him even though he could open it himself.

Ivan came out and saw a huge, magnificent house that looked like it had popped out of a sci-fi movie. His father stood in front of the metallic black door without any handle or frame to hold onto.

A static voice rang out at this moment.

[Identity verified, homeowner. Welcome, defense protocols turning off]

The static voice announced before the black door made clanging sounds before lifting.

Right behind the door was a young, beautiful girl who looked so much like his mother. She had long white hair and blue eyes, just like Ivan but was sitting in a wheelchair; she was crippled.

But her condition didn’t stop her from flashing the brightest smile immediately after her blue eyes landed on Ivan.

“Welcome home, Junior brother. Did you miss me?”

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