The stubborn Amilios didn't want to listen to Moon and leave him stranded. Before he could react, something pulled himtowards Raiz. Raiz looked towards Moon and said. " We will be back before you even know it." Before dashing into the sky and disappearing along with Bolt and Amilios. Amilios scream faded away as they got further away.

" Now it's just us. Nobody will help you now."The Teran's head family looked at the cloud only to be ignored. Moon currently wasn't in the mood to talk and just stayed silent. The head family commanded the guards to take Moon away but no matter what the guards tried they couldn't touch Moon, let alone move him.

" He must have a core somewhere in his body, locate that " Teran, the young master finally showed himself up and spoke up. Just as Teran said, every beast had a core in their bodies. No matter how tough their bodies were, once the core was destroyed. They would vaporize into the air.

The guards searched but it was useless as the core was nowhere to be seen. Moon who was quiet all this time just closed his eyes ( which he technically didn't have) and decided to take a nap.

Since they couldn't move the cloud, the Terans decided to build around him. When the situation became passive, the commander returned back to plan for future mishaps. Today she was clearly surprised by the artifact and the monsters attacking the Terans. She could tell from what they spoke. The beasts obviously had friction with the Terans and so they came to get revenge, unexpectedly the Terans had hidden an ace up in their sleeve.

As it was getting late evening and the sun was getting ready to conceal itself. Somebody came from the sky. It was none other than Amilios, Moon couldn't help but ask the idiot " Why did you come back?"

" I thought you would be lonely and came to entertain you"

" They can't attack or injure me at all, but they are able to use all kinds of torture methods on you. You can still return, go!"

" It took me quite a few tries to hide from Raiz's eyes, I can't just return. It's just a little pain, I can take it." Amilios proudly declared

Amilios surrendered, and the guards didn't know what to do as this had never happened before. Was there an enemy, idiot enough to surrender themselves knowing they might die? Somebody informed one of the protectors about the situation.

The one that the guards ended up informing was the First. She didn't know how this happened but there was a fool who had surrendered and even blatantly asked her" I won't be escaping, so can you put me next Moo...I mean the Cloud" She was honestly confused as did the guy even understand what he was getting himself into. Getting a room next to the cloud was the last thing he should be worried about. Knowing he was an enemy, he was gonna suffer torture.

This wasn't a game but real life, for some reason First almost felt bad for this one called Amilios. Nonetheless, he was an enemy. She drew a clean line, having sympathy for an enemy was an idiotic act. She handed Amilios to any random guards, telling them to inform the family head. Amios was taken underground prison, under the family's mansions. It was pitch dark but for Amilios, it wasn't a problem. He saw as brightly as day, even when this was called an underground prison. There were just 10 prison rooms. Obviously, the family didn't use them often as the dust was gathered everywhere.

Amilios decided to stay still until the rescue party would arrive but even if he didn't want to do anything. He was currently captured and perfect for time to interrogate him. A duck was thrown into the wolf's den.

-----------------At Claustar

Raiz had already expected Amilios to escape and didn't chase him. Even though this time he looked like he wasn't thinking, he was sure Amios had his thoughts. He might as let him do what he wants. Now was not the time to argue but to work together. He knew nothing of the so-called artifact which was a clear mistake from today's incident. The ones that knew more about artifacts than him were the Thundersons.

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" And that concludes what happened. Now Moon and Amilios are both captured in the enemy's territory" Raiz explained all that had happened.

" I can't believe Moon was captured of all peoples. That artifact must be a powerful one. Wait to talk about an artifact...don't we know where we can get an artifact?"

" Even if we can get an artifact, we would need one that does give the counter effect of the one sealing our manas" Raiz had to act with a clear mind, blindly jumping into something and hoping for the best wasn't an option now. He was obviously shocked that the Thundersons knew where few artifacts were. A copy of an artifact was that powerful, just how powerful would a real artifact be?

" We don't have much time to go and retrieve any artifact in the mountains of the Veor. Since our Claustar used its energy to free us, it reduced the time we can stay here, which is less than 5h now" This was truly a crisis and Raiz didn't know what he could do, the situation looked hopeless.

" It's true we are in a difficult situation. If somehow, we could unseal the Moons mana.....I will go investigate exactly what is that artifact and if there is a hidden method to unseal it. With my concealment, I can easily sneak in " Neon confidently said and was about to disappear but Skele decided to tag in.

He was also confident with his stealth. With both of them working together, they would have more chances of finding something out.

This was currently their best chance. Hopefully, Neon and Skele would find something useful. They had just under 5h, which wasn't as nearly enough as it seemed.

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Moon who was still laying down dispiritedly sighting. He couldn't find any solution to his problem. No matter how much he tried tapping into his mana, it didn't respond to him. He found something interesting.

He could use his other energy, Ki. He decided it was better not to use it until it was truly an emergency. What if someday, all of his energies were sealed? he had to find a solution for this situation to use as a reference for the future.

Since Moom didn't know what did the artifact actually do, it was close to impossible to find answers to a question you don't know. Thanks to his Ki he could sense Neon and Skele who were sneaking around.

" I will start from the front and you start from the back. This way we will be able to look faster."

" Got it, be careful"

The two shadows belonging to Neon and Skele swiftly went in different directions. With Neon's ability getting caught was a slim chance. He walked confidently into every room. Sometimes servants saw the door opening and closing itself, but they only thought of it as a hallucination.

Who would even think there was an actual wolf going through every room?

--------‐--------- Underground

Heels rang as they slowly descended the stairs into the pitch black. It was none other than The First. She couldn't help but be curious about the one monster who was loyal without any benefit. This act was highly unlikely to happen in human society. It was always whether one had something he could benefit from the other. Trust or loyalty didn't even exist between siblings in this disgusting world. Then why was the guy loyal to a monster cloud? What exactly did the cloud offer him?

In the dirty cells, amilios stood clearly not affected by the chain that bound him to the wall. Amilios looked to see the young girl holding a shining stone, closely watching him.

" What can do for you "

" You will be tortured as soon the sun rises tomorrow'"

" Is that all you came to tell me"

" I have a question, why are sacrificing yourself to that cloud? Are you perhaps bound to his life?"

" I would do that for any clan of mine. They are to me what you would call a family"

" A family. ahaha, I didn't expect that coming from your mouth. Monsters and beasts making a family huh"

"There are also humans in the clan, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Forget what I just said now."

" Humans? Why are humans working with monsters? Did you perhaps threaten them or did you make them your slaves"

" Why would we do such a useless thing? They are also part of the family. Anybody that would threaten them, would be an enemy to all of us "

" No matter what you do now. you will be in this prison, only brought out to be tortured until you spill everything. After you have given everything, you will be killed "

" Why? Are you worried about me?"

"... no..."

" Don't worry. I am fairly strong and the cloud that's outside is outrageously strong. Nothing will happen"

"The exact same cloud, that can't even move one inch anywhere. The cloud who can't do anything while you will be tortured, that cloud. "

"Yeap, that's the one" Amilios smiled, which made her come to a conclusion. All the things he did now made sense. This Amilios guy was a hopeless idiot.