I already felt the guy in front of me intention, after what i just did, he seemed to have already blacklisted me, he would throw all kinds of accusation at me the moment i gave him a chance to .
But it was a bit surprising for me to find out that king Devo asked them to hand me over, what surprised me wasn't that he asked, what surprised me was that those guys hesitation to do it, Callen in the end was nothing but an illegitimate child of this family, he wasn't involved in the family matters, nor he had even the right to comment on anything going on inside the family .
So them refusing to hand me over came to be a bit surprising to me, now wasn't the right time to ask about the reason, i was already determined to go on and do the ritual and carry on the plan i had in mind, but now that i was aware of that i could be able to reach that king Devo palace if i was to tell them to hand me over, i was reconsidering my choices, i could be able to find the identity of the slave heroine if i were to do that .
" I will do the ritual, but what exactly do i need to do .
In the end i still decided to carry on with my initial plan, soon after this, i would still be able to gain access to the palace and find out about this matter in a more throughly manner, after all, it wasn't possible that the next head of the Dorell family, a family who was in support of the Demon Emperor's faction and most likely have good relationship with the king as well .
I can tell from the fact that he hadn't swarm this mansion with soldiers and demanded me to be handed over, that was enough to tell a lot about the relations between this family and that king Devo .
The family head seeing me agreeing to do the ritual stopped exerting his pressure and all people present were finally able to breathe air again, all except for one, the people that kept ridiculing me from before, kept hanging their heads low as of hiding from my gaze, i was still close to them on the table, so if i wanted to attack, no one would be able to stop me, they understood this quite well, Elder Loon was looking at me with fanatic expression on his face .
It didn't take a genius to understand that he was surprised but most certainly happy about how strong was i, the family head first cleared his throat, then said with a booming and deep voice :
You won't need to do much, just drop a drop of your blood in the Magical circle, after that everything will become clear to all of us, whether you are a member of our family or not, ready ? .
I nodded then from beneath him a magical circle appeard and from it a shrine appeared and in front of it was a small pot, i guess that's where i will be dropping that drop of blood into .
The family head then motioned for me to go ahead, i hopped off the table and appeared directly in front of the pot, i myself was interesting to know the results of this test, i was curious about the process of checking, so i punctured my finger with my teeth and used more strength due to the fact that my skin had become quite tough, the first surprise to me was the fact that my blood was deep blue, there were still some bloodstreams of red inside, they were mixed together, my blood was more purple like due to that .
I then pressured the wound and a droplet of blood fell in the pot, nothing happened at first, but i then saw that the droplet of mine was sucked by the pot, then the pot began to flash with red light then a shadow of a creature was beginning to form out of it, i didn't recognize it at first, but something was familiar about the shape of that shadow, i have seen this shape before, but i can't tell where, something was really beginning to bug me at my continues inability of recalling some scenes from my memories unlike before and that was an irritating feeling .
The shadow didn't continue to be vague for long, the creature that stood in front of me was a blue Troll, an actual Troll, but it seemed he wasn't alive, he was like a hologram, his eyes were one of the distinctive features about him, they were golden in color, the troll in front of me was white in color, i guessed that was the totem Ludo and his comrades had taken about before, i thought that was the end of it and was a bit unsatisfied .
But then the huge troll locked on at me with his gaze suddenly, i didn't know what was going on, all i know that it seemed that something inside me was resonating with the contemptuous look that white troll was giving me, i suddenly felt that something was beginning to come out of my body, the feeling was a bit uncomfortable, but soon it was turned into excitement, the reason was the huge boost of strength that i was beginning to feel .
I heard the sound of loud gasps and turned to look behind me, but instead of looking at the people behind me, a huge shadow caught my full attention, the reason was because i wasn't even able to sense when it appeared in the first place, i was a bit guarded at first, but then as the vagueness of the shadow figure got swept away, i saw a Blue colored troll much bigger than the white troll that came out of the pot .
The shadow held an uncanny resemblance to me in my demon form but was bigger and more,umm, majestic, yeah that would be the word that fitted him the most .
The Blue troll was looking contemptuously at the white troll, exactly like the latter did before, but i felt that there was something more hiding in that look he gave, it gave an impression of challenging, yeah that look on the Blue Troll seemed to be taunting the White one into accepting the challenge .
Much to the shock of me and all the people present, the White Troll actually jumbed suddenly in the air as if accepting the challenge, he was aiming towards the face of the shadow behind me, but this action of his was quite futile .
The moment that White Troll reached the torso of the huge Blue Troll, the Blue troll slapped his hand down at him, like as if swatting a fly, the White Troll was slapped to death, he directly dissipate into light and returned back to the pot, that whole exchange didn't happen in the physical realm, i was able to tell, it was an exchange that was happening in the spiritual realm or at least an aspect of it were, or else this mansion might have had already crumbled on all of our heads, the moment that slap landed on the ground .
Soon later the pot fell down and began to roll on the ground, soon the shadow of the huge creature behind me also dissipated soon after, the boost in strength that i got with him appearing also disappeared, leaving me with a bit sense of loss .
The room was deathly quiet to the point that only the sound of the rolling pot was what disturbed the silence in the scene, i was wondering why was that, i looked behind me wanting to understand what was going on and i was surprised at the scene i saw .
All the 7 people that were present all had shocked expressions on all their faces, just by looking at them like this, i was able to understand that what i just did either shocked them to the core or they were unable to comprehend what just happened, or maybe both .
" Cough .
I coughed trying to regain their attention, but it seem their consciousness were completely gone, my cough wasn't able to bring them back from the in trance like state they were all in, the pot already stopped rolling after it crashed into a wall the shrine and the pot both suddenly disappeared, i looked at the family head thinking that he regained his consciousness, but so that he was still staring at the place where the White Troll was in before with an opened wide face and eyes and so were all the others .
Now that i had the chance to look at them, i noticed that their human form unlike mine had horns and long nails to them, but i guess they had similar facial features to humans in this form, but i do wonder if they in their Demon forms could be distinguished from one another, a Troll Demon Race, all that time, i had thought of them to be Monsters, overgrown goblins was the description i had for them .
I also saw that Rat demon earlier, so i believe Demons too came in all sizes and shapes, that guy better pray to not run into me or i will release all the frustration i accumulated towards Ludo at him, but unlike Ludo, there would be no limit to what i will do to him, becoming having a demon seemed to have changed my mentality a little, for good or worse this was very difficult to tell .
I got to the table and moved the chair that Draks was sitting on just now and relocate it to the other end of the table, opposite to the chair of the family head, i will let him interpret this action as he see fit, if his mind ever came back to him that is, why all of those guys are overacting like this, i had moved the chair and intentionally kept making loud noises while i was at, so that these noises could at least make them react a little, but all to no avail, they were all still standing in the hall like stone statues .
I was about to go and shake them up a little, but suddenly a loud voice came from beside the table as i was seated the voice came but i don't know who it belonged to, or i should say that i know whose that voice belonged to, but i'm not able to see his figure .
Suddenly i was reminded of where that guy fell just now, i tilted my head to the side a little and saw the still a bit drowsy Draks finally beginning to get up cursing among his breath, i wondered if he was still holding a grudge against me .
As i was wondering about this, i saw that the moment he seemed to have regained some of his clarity, he looked up and screamed loudly to the air, wondering about what was exactly going on here, why the other elders and the family head acting so strange .
Then he seemed to have noticed me the only one that seemed to be unaffected by whatever that was going on here, if he was suspicious about someone doing something before, seeing me looking quite carefree like this, already led him to draw circle on the person he considered the culprit, me .
What did you do, ba..., why are the elders are like this .
I shrugged my shoulder at him, but i at least noted that the beating he got from me seemed to have knocked some sense into him, he stopped cursing at least, or so i thought .
Seeing me like this, he gritted his teeth and transformed into his demon form and began cursing once more, his demon form was two or 3 times his previous height it was quite lacking to be honest if compared to my demonic form, he directly lunged at me, saying :
No one here to save you from me now, kid .
I was about to show the obnoxious demon his place, i didn't even need to use my Demon Form to teach him a lesson, but i didn't have the chance, he was suddenly bowing on the ground once again, the reason was due to the pressure exerted on him by the family head, this time a huge area of the marbled ground beneath him began to crack as a result .
I looked at the family head and saw him looking at me as well, but the look in his eyes this time had completely changed than before, he was now staring at me as if in awe, the sudden pressure, brought all the still stunned elders back to reality, the moment they regained their clarity they all looked at me with fear and awe, i was able to see 2 of them had a questioning look on their faces as if they were doubting life or something like that .
" So did i pass as Callen or not .
Finally sensing that they were at least consciousness, i hurriedly asked this question, it took all of them by surprise, i don't know if it was the question or if they were remembering the scene that happened before, anyway, at least the family head seemed to haven't lost his focus as he said :
Yes, i believe that you are Callen Loon, but let me ask you this, how exactly was you be able to do what you did ? .
" What did i do, i don't understand .
If you really don't, then it's nothing, elder Loon, everything is now clear, this is indeed your son, congratulation on his safe return .
I looked at the old guy and saw that he was still in shock, but he had a smile on his face that was quite dazzling , he nodded at the family head and then hurried to give his son an embrace .
But just as he appeared a sudden big shadow appeared behind us, yelling loudly :
He still hadn't even done the damn ritual, i'm not acknowledging this .
He said this and punched towards me, whatever the family head was using to exert pressure before wasn't currently working, it was either because the guy in front of me was completely outraged, or maybe there were some problems with the family head himself, either way i was being attacked by Draks and the family head wasn't able to stop this in time .
At the punch, i opend my palm, my opponent first reaction was ridicule, but soon his confidence began to shatter, the punch met with the palm and even though the size difference should have laid him as the winner, that didn't happen .
His fist was cupped in my hand without any chance for him to even take it back, just as i was thinking about how to hit back, the doors of the room we were was suddenly swung open and someone came in a hurry and reported :
King Devo had called all the families for a meeting, the reason is helping him finding the escapee human heroine .