"I love you." A young girl with long black hair and blue eyes said it with courage. It was clear she had gathered all her bravery just to confess.
"Haha, that was a really good joke, Athena."
A young man with short black hair stood in front of her. Of course, he could not believe this young girl was serious.
"Well, let's go. It's time to go back, the others are waiting for us." Reinh turned around and wanted to walk, but Athena suddenly grabbed his hand.
"I— I am not joking. I really love you."
Then she let go of his hand and started running quickly.
'Huh? She was not joking?'
'Wow, so this is my first confession? And it is from a very beautiful girl? And the girl I am in love with?' A smile appeared on Reinh's face. He couldn't control his happiness.
Athena was the girl he had fallen in love with after being exiled from his Clan. Who would have thought this girl also had the same feelings?
"Hey, Athena, wait!" Reinh also started running after her.
"Huh?" But the space around him suddenly changed. He found himself tied to an execution pole.
"Why?" Blood started flowing from his mouth. His heart, the heart that only beat for her, was pulled out by her own hand.
"Haha, isn't it obvious? All of this was just an act." A man's voice was heard. He was one of his five teammates, the one who always liked Athena.
"All this time we two loved each other. But so your little heart wouldn't break and you wouldn't stop trying to get stronger, I was ordered by the Grand Bishop to enter a relationship with you."
"But now me and Athena can be together, right, my dear?"
When Reinh saw the two of them being intimate, his eyes became bloody. He wanted to tear both of them apart with his own hands, but sadly, he could not.
His desire for revenge manifested and his killing intent was released completely. But this dream world could not handle this much killing intent and it collapsed.
...
"Huff… hmm." Inside a rather luxurious room with an ancient European style, a ten-year-old boy opened his eyes.
"Again this nightmare." While breathing heavily, he grabbed the glass of water on the table beside the bed and drank it.
He was a ten-year-old child with a beautiful face, dark blue eyes, black hair, and a height that looked too tall for his age.
"One month left until my tenth birthday." He stood up and walked toward the window. He looked outside.
It was raining. Even from behind the window, he could feel the cold and the strong wind.
"Everything is moving too slowly. I wasted ten years because of this family's stupid rules."
His eyes were cold and indifferent, something completely abnormal for a child.
Of course, he was Reinh. Ten years ago, he was born again. He was born as the illegitimate child of one of the most powerful families in the world.
One could say he had returned to the past, something that even he himself could not believe. A miracle he never expected.
The Vorhelm Clan, the Clan known as the rulers of the north and the madmen of the battlefield. The Clan that had exiled him in his past life.
In his past life, because of having no talent, or at least that was what he and everyone else believed, he was exiled from the clan and wandered different lands for years.
Until, by a miracle, he found a drop of blood from an ancient dragon inside an old ruin. After absorbing it, one of the five stars of the Star of Eternal Ruins started shining, even if only a little.
That was when he understood he had one of the most forbidden and dangerous talents in the world, a talent said to be feared even by the gods.
The Star of Eternal Ruins, a star that could absorb the blood of the five Divine Beasts and give their abilities to its user.
And he was lucky enough to obtain the blood of one of the five Divine Beasts, the Ancestral Dragon, and gained his abilities.
"Even though in the end I was killed." His cold eyes flashed with killing intent. He clenched his fists a little and pulled his gaze away from the window.
"But I did not expect the first head of the star to still be shining." He whispered to himself and relaxed his hands.
Even though he had returned to the past, the first and only head of the star he had activated was still shining.
He could still use the abilities of the Ancestral Dragon.
"In my past life, I could only start absorbing mana and forming my second ring after the age of thirty, and I wasted so many years. But in this life, I can do it at the golden age."
"And I can even obtain the blood of the other four Divine Beasts. Reaching the level of an Immortal Knight, or maybe even higher, is not impossible."
"And more important than that… I can take revenge and paint the world with the blood of those bastards." A smile appeared on his face, a crazy smile with no human emotions in it.
Knock knock!
"Young master, may I come in?" The voice of an old man from behind the door pulled him out of his thoughts.