During the following few hours, many things happened at an extremely rapid pace.
At first, Oliver stood beside Isaac in front of a gathering of the village residents.
Together, they recounted the entire truth from beginning to end, hiding nothing. They spoke about the old man, about his secret cooperation with the mythical creature, and about the agreement between them to extract life energy from every living being in the village.
At first, everyone fell silent, but that silence quickly turned into anger. Almost no one believed them. Voices of protest rose, and some of the villagers tightened their grip around their tools, ready to attack.
That was when the masked man intervened.
His eye glowed instantly, and fog spread in all directions until it covered the entire square. From within that fog, scenes began to appear before the villagers, memories taken directly from the old man's mind.
