"Reinhardt… Who is Reinhardt?!"The questioning look from Princess Diane lasted only a moment before it was replaced by a look of remembrance and recognition."Reinhardt...", Diane called."Your Highness, it is so nice to see you. We stayed and looked all over for you and him, but we did not find a trace of you", Reinhardt said as he pulled off his disguise.The moment he took the disguise off, he vanished from where he was standing and the next moment he appeared, he had two people punching at him.Their attacks were just as sudden as his dash, and this drove him to a halt before he retreated."He might need a beating", Raven said with her usual wicked smile wiped off her face."Indeed", Andrew echoed a response.Both their expressions showed that they meant business at that moment, but so did Reinhardt's. His gaze was locked onto Aiden and it looked like he was ready to tear Aiden apart piece by piece."Okay, everyone, please try to calm down", Aiden said. "Raven, Andrew... Put away
"Miss Deirdre, I told them that the third-order shadow elemental potion had been bought... They seemed disappointed when I told them that"Deirdre who was sitting in a lounge chair just as Aoife would, gave a nod and dismissed the girl.As soon as the girl left the room, she said randomly, "you know what to do".It appeared like she was just speaking to the room until the sound of the door closing was heard.Over at the inn, a whole different situation was underway. Lively and loud inside while everything remained as quiet as can be outside.Gadiel screamed many times, in bouts of sharp screams that pierced into every ear around him because breaking and reassembling so many of his bones was hardly an enjoyable experience.This sight pricked at Zakari but he steeled his heart, knowing that if he did not go through this, he would stay in the same rank forever.Of course, Diane isolated Gadiel in a space warp to keep his screams from tearing through the blocks that held up the building.
"Behind you…"A swift turn and the briwyn was punched straight into the ground before it exploded into a million pieces and faded away.She looked at him, picked up a stone, and threw it. He bent his head to the side and what followed was the shriek of a beast as it got hit by the stone… It was in the air when the stone hit and that momentum continued to carry it until it passed by the guy, who grabbed its neck with one hand and used his other hand to pull the briwyn's insides out.This move killed the briwyn, and the millions of glowing pieces it exploded into faded away before they touched the ground.There were three more briwyns there and seeing as their mates were just killed so leisurely, an escape was the move because they turned and ran before, they turned to look at them.From the sidelines, Diane said a comment, "seems like you are getting used to your new strength… That's good but we need to hurry""Yes, Miss Diane", Gadiel responded."Come on… Don't be a buzzkill", Raven c
["You mean to dilute the fourth order potion into a third order potion… That is very dangerous…"]"It is just an idea and while I don’t know if it will work just yet but if it does it will solve a lot of our problems", Aiden answered without raising his head from the book he had his head buried in.["Be careful, that is all I am saying, and make no mistakes, they could be disastrous"], Zarek warned.Aiden raised his head when he heard this and said to Zarek, "You know that Darwyn was the spirit of the chronicle of time?"; to which Zarek nodded with a bit of confusion shown on his face."Well, he forced me to take a crash course in alchemy… I had to learn about more than a thousand plants and their uses… How they would react in a potion versus another…"Zarek understood what Aiden and nodded… ["I hope you find what you need because your friends seem to have returned, and I sense they are coming straight for you"]This warning sent Aiden spiraling out of his mind and he opened his eyes
"Thank you for meeting me. As you might have guessed, I need your help on something, and my quest for information was only to confirm what I think I know", Deirdre started.She gestured to the guy beside her, and he pulled out a potion vial and placed it on the table in between both their groups."A token of my…""What exactly do you want from us?", Aiden interrupted with a question.Deirdre was silent for a moment before she said simply, "it would be better to show you… Tonight, the forest outside the city, north of the waterfall… You will find way markers to lead you to a meeting place"After saying this, Deirdre stood up with the guy following her and left the restaurant, leaving behind the potion. Props to Zakari, because while the third order potion he so desperately wanted was sitting on the table in front of him, his thoughts were on the credibility and risk Deirdre would bring to the group."She looks like she is afraid of something…", he said to Aiden, a moment after Deirdre
"Now we become the hunters… We watch and observe their actions and reactions", Aiden said to Diane.Diane turned to look at the two groups for a moment before she said to Aiden, "let's go". She led the way to another spot where the two parties could be seen much more clearly.Both groups were well hidden, but where Diane and Aiden stood made it quite easy to see them both."Your highness, what exactly did you do?", Aiden asked when he saw the indecision on Deirdre's face as well as the worried look on the face of the guy with her.Diane was silent for a moment before she answered, "You know that it is bizarre to have you talk to me like this after you told me what you thought of my behavior"It was Aiden's turn to be dumbfounded and he fell silent. He did not know how to respond to what she just said and he stared at her for a few seconds until she broke the silence."Maybe because you did not try to understand my actions before you hated me? You're a princess… Too much of a royal… Us
Amid all the uproar, there was one person who stood in the window of a tall tower looking up at the name shining in gold on the giant scoreboard projection.He was absorbed in his thoughts when the door opened and a man walked in… He stood a few paces behind the man and looked up at the scoreboard whose cracks were repairing themselves right there and said…"The emperor is waiting for an explanation to what happened", he said."Gaia… What do you think of what we saw?", the old man looking out of the window asked."I think we should only accept facts as we see them", he responded, but the old man followed up immediately after that response with a question."I am asking you as a friend… What do you think?", he said.The man called Gaia fell silent for a moment before he answered in a voice that felt different when compared to the way he spoke moments prior."Lord Ajax… I believe the world is changing… These changes are beyond our control but we have a choice when it comes to what we cho
After clearing out of the cave, Aiden and Diane began a long walk, trying to look for some sight insight into the damage that Aiden had done, but all they saw was a charred landscape... The remnant of a disaster caused by fire. As they walked even further, it became clear to them that they could not enter any cities. Heading for any city at this time was simply suicide because after walking for tens of kilometers, they came across cities with the gates shut tightly and no one outside those gates. It would be quite bizarre to have survived the disaster and come trudging back to the city like that... After coming to this conclusion, Diane pulled out her gold coin and used it as a compass to find their way back to the central city... The central city was not difficult given the impeccable directions of the coin, but they did not go near the city after coming within viewing distance of it... What they did was to stay out of sight and to find the highest landform near the city. Looki