A/N : Nico is my goddess!

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'Uhh, how could something be that painful!! Anyway, where am I? According to Cronus, as of now I am probably residing in some kind of unborn fetus.' After getting sucked by the black hole, Raven regained his consciousness.

Surrounded by the darkness, Raven found out that he couldn't move. However, he could felt some kind of energy hovering in his surrounding. That energy seems... different. It doesn't felt like his divine energy or his demonic power. Even so, his instinct said to him that this new energy wasn't something harmful to his soul.

Raven tried to manipulate his innate divine energy and reached out to those new energy. When his divine energy touched it, to his astonishment, his divine energy literally swallowed those new energy.

'What kind of energy is this? I really hope that these energy wont bring some bad effects to my soul.' Raven carefully watched as the new energy flowed through and merged with his own spirit orb. At first, he didn't feel any changes, and so he tried to gather more of those energy. Sometime later, when Raven absorbed more and more of those new energy, he discovered a good surprise. His spirit orb was actually getting bigger and bigger!

His spirit orb, originally had the size of a human eyeball, was currently as big as an adult's head. And the bigger the size, he also felt more stronger and comfortable, 'Ah, this feels really good! The amount of my divine energy and demonic energy seems to be fixed, but this new energy keeps increasing... I should've given it a name. Right, it strengthen my soul, so I will name it “Soul Energy”!'

By this point, Raven really didn't care anymore, and he just started to absorb every last bit of the Soul Energy available in his surrounding!

Oddly enough, the Soul Energy in his surrounding didn't decrease one bit. Each time Raven absorbed a part of the Soul Energy, a new batch of Soul Energy immediately appeared and filled in the previously empty spot.

Eventually, his current orb's size is that of an adult body! By manipulating his Soul Energy, Raven successfully created a humanoid body, complete with a pair of hands and legs, with his spirit orb acting as the head.

Suddenly, when he's busy absorbing the Soul Energy, a tiny hole with the size of an eyeball appeared in the darkness. From that tiny hole, a bright light could be seen. Raven curiously gazed at the bright light from afar, when abruptly...

“Shooo—!”

Countless white lines of divine energy, similar with those in the Heavenly Ritual, appeared from the tiny hole and wrapped Raven's spirit orb!

Afterward, without any prior warning, those white lines dragged Raven's orb towards the tiny hole. For a while, Raven didn't do anything and simply allowed his soul to be dragged. When he get closer to the hole and could clearly saw the size, however, he suddenly had a bad premonition, 'Wait, isn't that hole seemed like a bit too... small? Am I supposed to go through that tiny hole?'

Then he remembered about his original size, which is about the same size as that tiny hole...

''Damn! It's not that the hole is too small, but as of now, my soul is already too big! Uh, ooooooh!' eventually, Raven tried to resist with all of his might, but alas, his soul didn't even budge an inch. 'If it's like this, then I will change my form into that of a long needle. Yes, I will... huh? I can't? What is this!'

When he tried to change his form, he suddenly discovered that actually, the white lines which were currently dragging his soul to the hole, were removing his control over his soul!

Unimaginable pain, just barely lower than what he felt in the Heavenly Ritual, attacked Raven when his huge soul got forced to goes through the tiny hole. Unable to bear the pain, he... cried, 'Uuuuuuuuuuu.......

***

….....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Baby cries could clearly be heard from the inside of a huge room. In front of the door, just in the outside of the room, a middle aged man could be seen to be nervously walking around. The man had a huge body and seemed strong, with a gentleman-like mustache in his face, dressed in an elegant clothes, and had an aura like those of a nobleman. However, as of now, his whole body seemed to be drenched in sweats, and his face was so pale. Both of his legs and hand arms were trembling hard. But when he heard that cries, he suddenly stopped in his track.

His eyes widen, and his body had stopped trembling, “This... oh my God!”

The man immediately barged to the room with excited face, only to be greeted by a punch by an old woman in his face. Though the punch seemed to had some effect, as shown by the bloods flowing from the man's nose and mouth, the man didn't seems to care about the pain and keeps walking toward a beautiful woman with long blonde hair, which was currently resting in a huge bed while carrying a small baby in her hand.

Ignored by the man, the old woman who punched him before shouted angrily at him, “Edward, you crazy son of mine! What are you doing, barging inside the room like that! Have you lost your mind!”

The man, Edward, as if he didn't heard about what had just been said by the old woman, who was supposedly his mother, approached the woman in the bed. His eyes keeps moving between the woman and the baby in her hand.

“This baby... Elena... and, me?” asked Edward nerveously.

Elena, the woman in the bed, chuckled and smiled at Edward, “It is, dear. Would you like to hold him?”

Edward reached his hands toward the little baby who was still crying and picked him carefully and began laughing, “Oh... oh, my son, haha, this is my son! I did it! Hahaha, look Elena, he has your blonde hair and my blue eyes!”

He laughed so hard that the baby in his hand stopped crying and only stared at him confusedly. Seeing that scene, Elena just laughed, while Grandmother in the side shouted at Edward, “You brute, don't laugh like that, look at that boy, he seemed to be in huge shock to the point that he stopped crying and just stared at you!”

“Hahaha, don't worry, my son is definitely a strong baby! After all, look, he has... huh?” when Edward glanced at the baby, he couldn't help but felt greatly startled and stopped laughing. The two maids, who helped Elena in her labor, Grandmother, and Elena herself, looking curiously at Edward, and then at the baby.

To their astonishment, a round crystal with the size of a gold coin appeared from within the baby's chest. Unbeknownst to the other people in the room, the baby somehow also looked rather shocked at the sight, as if actually knew about what was currently happening in the inside of the room. The round crystal shone so brightly that everyone had to close their eyes for a moment, and when they opened their eyes, the sight in front of them made them felt even more shocked.

The little baby in Edward's arms suddenly floated up and hovering in the air, while the round crystal, which also floated in the air, began spinning wildly. Suddenly, a sound could be heard within their mind.

—.......me... R…..ven...—

“Huh?” All of the people present seemed to be confused and looked at each other. Edward then asked to the others, “Did any one of you just said something?”

Grandmother shook her head and answered, “I didn't, but I also heard something. I thought that was just my imagination?”

Elena and the two maids also said that they heard something, however, the three of them also claimed to not be the one who said that. The five of them looked at each other confusedly, and then at the floating baby and the spinning round crystal in the air.

—......Name... Raven...—

“It's the baby!” said one of the maid. While the other people also had the same thought, but they're still unwilling to believed it. They looked at the baby, and then they immediately felt surprised, because the baby is actually looked back at them with confused face and furrowed brows.

Did the baby understand about what they were talking about? Impossible, they thought. However, not long after that, they once again heard the same sound in their mind. Only, this time, it was a bit longer and clearer.

—The baby's name... is Raven... worry not... he is indeed, your... own son... however... the name is... ours to decide...—

When the 6 people, including the baby, was still dumbfounded over the event that had just happened, the round crystal had stopped spinning in the air and swiftly went back to the inside of the baby's chest. The baby then started to drifed down and slowly approached the still wide eyed Edward, whom also forgot to close his opened jaw.

For a moment, silence had descended upon them. Only the sounds of ticking clock could be heard inside of the room.

Elena muttered, “Oh my...” and suddenly fainted in the bed. The two maids hugged each other while trembled and cried hard, while Grandmother seemed to be unable to process whatever it was that had just happened in the room, and could only stared blankly.

In the midst of the chaos, only Edward who seemed to be unfazed. In fact, he had an excited expression on his face while grinning widely. He raised the baby in his arms and laughed loudly, “My son has been blessed by a God! Hahaha, when was the last time I heard about a baby being blessed by some God? Not even once! Haha, what did I say, my son will definitely become a great person in the future!”

Edward brought the baby to his face and directly gazed at his eyes with a hint of excitement, and he said while licking his lips, “Raven, is it? Don't worry, daddy will definitely help you to be a great person! With some training here and there, you'd be perfect! Hahahahaha!”

Unknown to the laughing madman, the baby seemed to instinctually shudder when he heard the word 'training' from his dad.

On this particular day, a boy, who will shake the world with his many deeds, had just been born anew!

***

In another realm, 10 figures could be seen sitting in a huge round crystal table.

“I think, what you did just then was a bit overboard.” said a mysterious voice to a particular Archangel.

The Archangel mentioned above just chuckled and said, “I actually thought the same, but that's okay. I like that boy, and I could feel that there are huge potential hidden within his soul.”

“That doesn't justify your conduct,” said another mysterious voice, who then continues, “I know that he is one of the Chosen Ones, but your involvement could directly effected his life, Gabriel.”

Gabriel just smiled and doesn't answer.

One of the mysterious voices sighed and said, “Whatever, we're already busy enough here. You go deal with your own problem.”

The other 9 figures immediately vanished from their respective place, and now there was only Gabriel sitting alone. He stared at a distant place, as if directly looking at something, or someone, and then he grinned and said to himself, “You won't disappoint me, wouldn't you?”

And with nothing but a thought, he also vanished.