"We cannot give you one of the new skyships, you are too weak. What if sothing happens?" Kaldrek said to Maike.
Maike and her new friend had desperately tried to get one of the new ships, but so far with no success.
"Oh, co on, Kaldrek! You know I am one of the best scouts," Maike said in a sweet voice while leaning forward, showing more of her cleavage.
"Stop that! I won't let you go out alone with the newcors. You are all too weak. What will you do when you get attacked by a beast over level 60?" Kaldrek argued his face turning red.
"Why can’t you co with us? I checked, and you are not in the group that is heading for the mountains," Maike said.
"What beast will dare to attack us when you are protecting us?" Maike said with a smile.
"Please, can’t you help us find that man?" Sachiko asked. "This ans so much to us."
"Ah, okay, fine, but only this once. There will be no more exceptions," Kaldrek exclaid already regretting his decision.
"Thank you, Kaldrek; you are the best," Maike said while hugging the warrior, who tried to shy away.
"This is so cool!" Hanako cheered while they were shooting into the sky with the small boat.
It looked like a dieval sailboat. The only thing that was different were the golden runes all over the boat and sail. Within hours, they reached the spot where Thalion had saved the family from certain death.
"Wait here; it won't take long," Maike said while jumping to the ground.
The boat was hovering a hundred ters over the tree canopy, waiting for her.
"You have ten minutes; I will co down and get you if you take longer," Kaldrek shouted from above.
Maike was searching the ground with her skill scout's tracking. It was wind-based, and soon after she activated the skill, clouds ford. They soon transford into the form of a giant scorpion biting Hioshi. It started switching forms into a spider and then into a man with a black mask. His whole equipnt was covered in red runes. She watched as the masked man defeated the beasts and then took off into the sky. Maike didn’t see the fight in detail, but well enough to say that Thalion was far stronger than most anticipated. She saw how a threat made out of wind hung in the sky and then turned to the side and disappeared.
"Got him!" Maike internally celebrated.
"We need to go that way," Maike said to Kaldrek when she was back on the boat.
"So how can you be so sure?" Kaldrek asked, puzzled, while the boat picked up speed and shot in the direction of the threat.
"It's my skill; we are on the right path. I am sure," Maike said confidently while happily nodding.
"This is the wrong path," Kaldrek said eight exhausting hours later.
"No, I am sure that the direction was right," Maike defended herself. "Look, those trees are very dark; wasn't he always taking those midnight sun roses?"
"You could actually be right," Kaldrek muttered reluctantly.
"I believe in Maike," Hanako said, and I would like to thank Thalion for saving our lives.
"Oh, this isn’t going to end well," Kaldrek thought. Didn’t the guy know that Thalion was a wanted man? They were lucky; he wasn't hunting that guy; otherwise... yeah, no use in thinking about it."
"Does this part of the jungle feel weird to you too?" Hioshi asked when they were almost over the darkened parts of the jungle.
The darkened jungle was only a few hundred ters wide until the normal green with bioluminescent glowing jungle started again.
"Yes, now that you say it, is soone screaming over there?" Kaldrek said, with sweat running down his back.
He felt fear emanating from that place. This must have been how Luke Skywalker felt before he jumped into the black hole in episode six.
"Maybe we should turn around; I don't feel safe," Sachiko slowly said, clearly afraid of the place.
No one had ti to answer as, with a loud crash, the boat exploded into two pieces.
Kaldrek turned around in fright and saw that a man had flown straight through their boat, breaking it in half, and ti slowed down as Kaldrek started to assess the man.
Everything about that guy was off. He wore a black shendyt like the old Egyptians in the movies. His skin was white, like he had never seen the sun before. His body was slim and not very muscular, which would lead to a mage or light warrior class. On the contrary, those couldn’t just smash through a ship like it was made out of paper without getting hard.
He had a black spear in his hand and a black crown on his head that looked like sothing Sauron would wear, with five large black spikes reaching up. In one of the spikes was a black crystal embedded, which humd with a terrifying amount of power.
Then there was the disgusting, powerful aura the man radiated, which awakened the urge to just run from that man. It was not just the strong aura; there was a presence in it that was pushing against his mind, making him shiver in fear.
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Ti reversed to normal as both halves of the ship were falling to the ground; thankfully, they had all been in the front half. This would make it easier for Kaldrek to protect the others, but he had a feeling that he had no chance against that man. The others scread loudly in surprise and fear, holding on to the falling boat while Kaldrek and the man started their fight.
Kaldrek summoned his armor and drew his sword to block the black lightning the man shot at him. The power of the skill was imnse, and he crashed into the others as he was thrown back after slicing at it with his sword.
Before he could do sothing else, the man was in front of him, piercing his sword arm with his spear and grabbing him with his other hand by the throat. Kaldrek watched how the boat with the others crashed into the ground below him while fear was seeping into his body from the man's hand to a point where he couldn't move at all.
Sachiko had summoned plants around them to shield them from the impact as the boat smashed into the ground.
"Who was that man?" Sachiko shouted in fright.
"We need to run; there is no way we can fight him," Hanako said, wide-eyed.
"Maybe Kaldrek is strong enough to defeat that guy; he was one of Kael's best fighters," Maike said in a low voice.
At that mont, a body slamd into the ground in front of them. It was Kaldrek, he didn't look badly injured.
"Co on, Kaldrek, we need to run!" Sachiko said while running over to him.
Then they saw his eyes. They were wide with fear. He lay on the ground, his whole body shivering, unable to move.
"Greetings, my new friends; we will have a lot of fun together," the man who destroyed their boat said in a hissing voice, now floating ten ters above Kaldrek.
Maike wanted to answer sothing as black smoke shot out of the man's hand, hitting all of them.
The smoke entered their minds, rendering them all unable to move.
Maike couldn't move while the man carried her. Her whole body was stiff as a board. She wanted to move, to scream at the man, but it was like the signals her brain sent never arrived in her limbs.
They arrived in a clearing where a giant black pillar was rising twelve ters into the sky. Her eyes widened as she realized that people were stuck in that pillar. Over forty people were trapped in the pillar; only their heads and sotis their shoulders were outside of the massive structure. All age groups were represented, as she also spotted a few children trapped in the massive pillar.
All of them looked on in fear as the man ca closer and pushed her body into the pillar, with only her head sticking out. The pillar gave way like water, but the mont his hands stopped touching her, everything beca solid again, and she was stuck.
The fear not only mounted; it was like all their minds were connected in an endless spiral of fear. She helplessly watched as the man carried all her comrades over and pushed them into the pillar one by one.
"That was a very rude interruption. I was in the middle of my cultivation session," the man hissed after putting the last of her party mbers into the pillar with only their heads outside.
Maike felt the fear of all the others trapped in the pillar spike to new heights. She had to watch, unable to do anything, as the man shot black lightning at the pillar, and they all started to scream in pain and agony.
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