Chapter 4: Prologue(Part 4)
"Hm...? What the...? Where am I?" Muttered Raven groggily, his eyelids slowly fluttering open as a light breeze blew across, the sound of birds chirping and leaves rustling echoing out around him.
He let out a slight groan and squinted as rays of sunshine hit his eyes, before sitting up and looking around in bewilderment. Greenery surrounded him as far as the eye could see, with a lake in front of him.
A sense of confusion and bewilderment came over the young man as he looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings he found himself in, his confusion then confounded as he noticed that his senses were strangely sharp, much more so than usual.
His eyesight was a lot more clear and he felt like he could see much farther away than usual, he could hear every small sound in his vicinity, and he was picking up dozens of various scents that he couldn't recognize or identity.
He then let out a slight cough, clearing his throat as he noticed that his mouth was dry, turning his attention to the lake before crawling towards the edge of the body of water and thirtily leaning over to take a drink.
"Huh? What the hell!?" He yelled in alarm, hurriedly backing away from the water as he caught sight of a Monster looking back at him, before freezing as he raised his arm up in front of himself instinctively.
It was an unfamiliar sight, a monstrous arm covered in jet black scales with a streaky pattern of purple scales across it. It took him a moment to come to the realization that the Monster he'd seen in the lake...was his own reflection.
A brief moment of added confusion came over him, before all the memories came flooding back, his eyes widening as a swell of various emotions bubbled up inside him, before an immense, burning rage took over.
However, his memories of what had happened only went up to when he effectively died while in the pit of Monster corpses, he didn't remember anything that happened after that. In other words, he had no idea that he'd destroyed the church and killed nearly every single person in it, including Priest Dietre Opal.
"Those...those bastards! Wh-what the hell have they done to me!?" He exclaimed furiously as he approached the lake to get another look at his reflection, his chest tightening at the sight that met him, as he clenched his fists and snapped, "I-I'll...I'll kill them. I'll kill every last one of them!"
He then stiffened as an important thought crossed his mind, his anger and resentment momentarily fading as a sense of worry and immense concern clenched his heart.