“We have arrived.” – Triple B said to his comrade and friend.

“Let’s hope this is the place.” – Bull Vaskar stood next to him. His gaze was serious.

“Our boys said so, although…”

Both looked at the building in front of them, but, despite lower-ranking members warning that this was the base of Shadow Gang members, there were no signs of any member of their enemy gang, or traces of a fight.

“Something is not right.” – Vaskar said, feeling eerie by not seeing anything, nor even his men.

Triple B nodded, even so, the two entered the building, going through the first floor, finding nothing, and going up to the second floor, where upon opening a door, the terrible smell invaded the nose of both men.

“This…?” – Triple B shuddered upon seeing inside the room, the corpses of eleven members of the Ice Fairy Gang, all having scary faces, clearly, their deaths were not fast, they have suffered a lot.

Before they could analyze more about what was happening, they heard an explosion on the first floor.

“Arrest everyone you find!” – a voice said, soon, people go upstairs, and then, Vaskar and Triple B saw some men in green cloaks appeared, and when the green cloaks men found the two members of the Ice Fairy Gang, next to corpses.

“Murderers!” – shouted one of them, as the others prepare to attack, with Magical Attacks!

“No, wait.” – Triple B tried to stop them, but they were attacked, without any of the two to be able to explain what happened.

“My flames will bring peace to the world with the death of my enemies.” – a fire spell was cast, a fire arrow headed for Triple B.

“Move.” – Vaskar managed to save his friend, then, pulling him, running away from there immediately. The two jumped from the window, despite being on a second floor, nothing happened to them, and they continued to flee.

But they heard people following their steps, they were being chased by a dozen green cloaks.

“Don’t stop!” – Vaskar shouted to his friend. – “They are Magical Warriors!”

“I know!” – scream Triple B to his friend.

“Don’t lose them!” – order one of the green cloaks with higher standing.

The two continued running, until they ran into two young men.

“Vaskar?”

“Yra?”

Vaskar couldn’t believe that he was in front of his young neighbor, then he saw next to him the youngster who many times has visited him.

‘Surely friends.’ – though Vaskar.

Meanwhile, Yra was in shock to see Vaskar, not expecting to see the fierce-looking man to be escaping from the people that Yra sensed.

Yra had quickly sensed several people with mana, and decided to come investigate, and upon seeing Vaskar and his partner, he immediately knew that they were fleeing from the men with mana.

“Don’t make any noise.” – Yra said seriously. – “Great Concealment.”

And, to prevent Vaskar or his friend from moving.

“Paralysis.”

Unable to move, Vaskar and Triple B were surprised, while Logan and Yra also stood still, while beside them, the cloaked men left.

“Where did they go?” – shouted the leader of the cloaked men, as they moved further and further away. – “You fuckers! You lose them!”

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Yra undid the two spells, leaving the two older men free.

“This?” – Vaskar approached Yra in disbelief.

“There is no time, there are many of them around the city, we must hide.” – Yra announced.

“My house is close.” – Logan said, seeing that it was important to not be found by the Magical Warriors.

“Good.” – Yra nodded, then looked at the two men. – “Let’s go.”

The four of them crossed the streets to Logan’s house without problems, and when the three of them saw Logan’s “house”, they were a little nervous when they entered.

‘I should have expected it.’ – though Yra.

It was one of the most luxurious districts of the city, the four of them entered the Seris Mansion, home of the Seris family in Akademy.

Servants greeted Logan with a smile, and gave refreshments to the young master’s guests, not caring how Triple B and Vaskar were dressed, looking like thugs.

“Huh?” – being in a spacious room, relaxing a little, Yra looks at Logan who finally finished talking to the head butler. – “And your family?”

“In Morningstar City.” – Logan replied as he sat on the main sofa.

“How sad, and they left you here, don’t you want this older brother to come live with you and bring some joy here?” – said Triple B, who instantly loved the place.

“Triple B don’t be rude.” – Vaskar reproached, looking at Yra. “Thanks for the help.”

“You’re welcome.” Yra said, looking seriously at his neighbor. “Tell me, for what reason, the Magical Warriors of Sakura Island were chasing you.”

Hearing Yra’s words, Triple B turned pale, remembering the corpses of his lower-ranking members.

“Our enemies set a trap for us.” Vaskar said.

“Your enemies?”

“Yes.” – said Vaskar as he looks at his Identification Bracelet.

Vaskar sent messages through his IB, announcing the trap, and that lower-ranking members should always be accompanied by at least one high-ranking member.

Soon, Vaskar and Triple B received a message in the Akademy group chat created by Edwin and managed by Eileen.

{You weren't the only ones, many more of our members received notice of Shadow Gang members, only to find themselves in traps, many of our men have died, and unfortunately, we were at the point of having to kill Magic Warriors... the casualties on both sides will mean that we will have to face them in an all-out war if this continues.}

Upon reading the message, both Triple B and Vaskar were worried, this was the worst thing that could happen to them right now, a confrontation against the Magical Warriors of the island.

“Seeing your faces, things must be going very badly.” – Yra said, as he stared at the faces of the two men. He wasn't just looking at their faces to see their emotions, but he was also looking at them to see how much mana they possessed.

'The two of them... must possess at least one star with the amount of mana they now possess.’ – though Yra, looking surprise as his neighbor. – ‘Months ago, Vaskar possess little mana inside his body, and now… someone in their gang must be teaching them magic…’

“Hm, it’s very bad.” – said Vaskar. – “So, we should leave now.”

“But it’s dangerous, there are a lot of Magical Warriors in the city right now.” – said Logan.

“My friend is correct, also, where are you trying to go now?” – Yra asks.

“Where the bastards who did this to us are!” – exclaimed Triple B.

“And where are they?” – asked Yra.

Neither of the two men had an answer for the question of the young handsome men who helped them.

“I didn’t know you have such skills.”

Yra smiles at the words of Vaskar.

“I like to surprise people.” – said Yra.

“Thanks for the help.”

“We are neighbor, neighbors should help each other.”

Vaskar nods at Yra words, as he smiles, causing him then to frown, understanding that he smiles after so long, many days of worries and anger.

“We’re looking for the kidnapped women, do you know anything about that?” – asked Logan.

“Kidnapped women?” – Triple B looked at Vaskar.

Vaskar nodded, so Triple B told them what he knew.

“Well, we think our enemies were responsible for this.”

“Enemies?” – Yra’s eyes turned cold, once again asking the question.

“Shadow Gang.” – answered Vaskar.

“It seems our paths have come together because of fate.” – announced Yra. – “We will help you search.”

“But where do we start?” – asked Logan.

“We will tell you that information.” – a soft voice was heard.

The four men turned to see two people who had appeared.

“Who are you?” – asked Logan scared.

“Young Seris, we did not come to do anything to you.” – said a dark-skinned man, with an attractive face. – “On the contrary, we have come to help you.”

“Help us?” – asked Yra, getting ready to attack at any moment.

“Our master has sent us.” – said the youngest of the two, he had short green hair, and brown eyes, just as attractive as his companion. – “My name is Rohan, and he is my friend, Sterling, and we know the location of two of the most important Shadow Gang bases.”

“In which, one of those must be the girls that you are looking for.” – continued Sterling.

“And your enemies, the Shadow Gang high ranking members.” – finished speaking Rohan.

“How can we trust your words?” – asked seriously Yra, who was prepared to fight.

“We are not your enemies.” – raising his hands in a sign of peace said Rohan, who approached Yra. – “My master is interested in helping you, and he gave us the necessary information to help you.”

“If we wanted to attack you, we would have already done so.” – said Sterling, as he ate some grapes that were on the living room table.

‘Damn, I felt their presence the moment they spoke, they are very skilled…’ – Yra still did not trust all of them and was surprised by their sudden appearance, but thinking about Alyssa, he accepted.

“Well, where is their closest base?”