His eyes fluttered slightly, and suddenly shot open.
Ren jolted awake with a pounding heart, but it soon subsided after looking around and finding out he was sowhere safe.
’My personality...’ The scenes were still vivid in his mind. The way he killed the pet of that abomination only after decapitating it and how he handled the fight and ignored Kade when he asked unnecessary things.
"Did I make a wrong choice?" Looking at his own battered body, he was astonished once again.
"Hah, even though I am still alive, it looks like I went too far this ti." With a sigh, he left the room in search of Kade, and it didn’t take long after he exited the building.
The reason being that as far as his eyes could see in this huge spherical do, the only thing visible was destruction.
The stalls that he had seen were not present anymore.
As he moved towards the residence where he had t Kade the first ti, hundreds of gazes landed on him.
Ignoring their reactions, Ren kept his pace while analyzing his current situation.
’Kade trusts now, but my plan to escape this place has gone down the drain.’ He had gulped down the potion of regeneration for himself.
’Well, not exactly ... but yeah, at the end of the day, isn’t that also my own personality?’
Now he seriously wanted to just leave this place for good and forget about recovering Caleb’s arm.
Pondering, Ren glanced back at the tis when his personality changed.
He could still rember the things that took place and he also recalled the pain from all the bruises, yet it felt as if the steering of his body when he fought was in soone else’s hands.
"And the Integration..." It was his second ti using the Integration ability.
And it was different from the previous use because he didn’t lose consciousness.
"To be exact, my... alternate ego didn’t lose consciousness?" Muttering, he reached the exact sa place where he had first t Kade, only to find two familiar faces.
Carter and Cooper.
The duo was astonished to find him, the man who had helped their leader and was keeping up with his prowess.
"Sir Kade is inside." Nodding, Carter glanced at his brother and allowed him to go inside.
’Their eyes have respect for , not admiration.’ All that trust he gained, only for the thing he ca here for to be wasted by himself.
Kade sat in his chair, his left hand bandaged and slung around his neck for support.
"Did you break it?" Ren didn’t stand on ceremony and sat down opposite him as his focus rested upon his broken hand while keeping an eye on the shelves beside him.
"Yeah. But I have drunk so potions, so it should recover soon enough." Kade decided not to tell Ren about the hole in his chest and ordered the others not to ntion it either.
A strange silence fell in the room, making it awkward for Ren.
Thinking to distract himself, he soon rembered that the vermyrex that he had kept outside all this ti should be still alive, hopefully.
’Don’t tell it died too?’ After losing consciousness, he didn’t rember any further incidents.
’I-I am fine, prince.’ And it didn’t take long for a weak, rough voice to surface within his mind.
’Do you know sothing?’ Clearly, the current Kade didn’t look to be in the mood to explain what had happened, and he wasn’t familiar with anyone else besides him in this place, except for those two people who had ambushed him.
’Did they survive?’
The vermyrex’s response ca soon enough, "Y-yes. That being exited from the sa place it entered but it didn’t have one of its hands and was bleeding rapidly."
His eyes widened and he imdiately stood up, only to feel a sudden sharp pain in his back.
"Is sothing the issue?" The faction leader appeared quite confused by Ren’s actions, yet he didn’t press further after seeing the lack of response from the teenager sitting opposite him.
"It’s good that we didn’t have too many casualties." Kade finally spoke, even though it was about the aftermath of the battle.
’What about the old—’ Ren bit his tongue before the thought could settle.
He was reminded of the ideals and morals Kade had talked about, and it imdiately reignited the sense of caution he had held after arriving here at the start.
’I was too complacent.’ It was a lot to take in.
After fighting with Kade, he had started to lower his guard and trust him, but the sad truth was that Ren didn’t see the world in the sa way the person before him saw it.
’I couldn’t care less about what he wants...’ although those were his thoughts, his heart still held a soft spot for the abandoned kids due to his own past.
Yet even this didn’t make him change his goals to do sothing like saving all the children and such.
Kade, finally not able to take the silence anymore, asked him.
"Do you want to say sothing?"
"Where will I live?" He had agreed to join the faction, and more than that, Ren couldn’t fight in his current state and not to forget he still needed another vial for Caleb, so he decided to stay.
"Ask Cooper. He is responsible for managing the housing facilities." The faction leader cleared his throat after he finished speaking.
"Oh, okay." Nodding, Ren t with Cooper right outside the building and he started to take him to his new abode.
’So this is where I am gonna live now?’ A wry laugh escaped his lips as he realized that he still didn’t have a place to call ho in this foreign world.
’First, the village. Then the citadel which was followed by the residence in the outer keep and finally, the base of the third faction.
Let’s see how long I last here before my luck screws up again.’
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