698 Reunited
It was a good thing that they cleaned because it seemed that every Ancient in the area wanted to see the visitors the very moment they arrived. What sounded like a few sets of feet didn't account for the ones that were flying, the ones moving silently, and the multi-tentacled ones whose movement didn't make a traditional footstep-type sound.
From their thoughts, Cain could tell they didn't care that he had transformed into a World Dragon and that the system didn't count him as an Ancient anymore. In their thoughts, it was once an Ancient, always an Ancient. He didn't lose any of his abilities when he transformed, and he wouldn't lose any of the World Dragon abilities if he changed his shape back to that of an Ancient, so the point really was moot to them.
He simply was what he was, and the important part was that he was a father to a large number of half Ancient children.