Ashalain together with her companions Garrick, Mishel, Baron gathers at a secret room. Magic faints the chamber, and a circle was drawn as shimmers of blue light illuminates the room. A man appears like a hologram being project through a magic circle.

"I see that you all are gathered." The man says, in a slow tone of voice he continues yet hurries as he was.

From there they were discussing something about a conspiracy from other nations.

"How are the things going for Starhim?" Says the man in a robe projected like a ghost a wizard to be said.

"They didn't seem to be bothered by our situation. But somehow, they have something growing. When we found out that they are somehow strengthening their armies from the help of an unknown people." Garrick said. He was the one who let out the conversion since he was more capable than his other companions.

"And what would that be?" The wizard replies to Garrick.

"I don't know… but somehow we were almost exposed by someone that we couldn't do our mission properly, I'm sorry," Garrick said.

"It's okay it is better to be safe than being exposed... you did a good job."

After the wizard spoke, he went silent for a while.

With a little moment of silent Garrick talks again questioning the wizard.

"If I may, I thought General Darren would be the first to arrive than us."

The wizard who was King Reigal IV's advisor holds his chin and replies to him.

"I too suspect that… but I contacted him, and he seems to be in good condition. though his investigation is somewhat similar to the ones you just reported at Starhim"

"I understand. So how was the discussion with the king." Garrick said.

"Well, to think that even the kingdom of Aghraim is somehow involved in this."

After a long discussion, the man quickly vanished. So too the magic circle slowly rotates counterclockwise decreasing its diameter. And there the three of them left the room except for Garrick who is somehow thinking, crossing his arm and closing his eyes minding his own business.

Before Ashalain could exit the door, she notices Garrick still sitting. She couldn't understand what he was thinking so she let out a breath and said to him.

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"Well, we'll be going first.",

"Mm-hmm… A word of advice Ashalain… stay away from him that's all the thing I could say."

Before the meeting with the kings' royal advisor, Garrick holds Ashalain from asking some questions. He knows that she's still investigating her lovers' death.

But what they didn't know was Garrick had more hidden knowledge than the king and his royal advisor even before the death of the previous king, but that would save from later on.

For Ashalain, she was still in the chain from the past she was told to leave her past behind but that didn't stop her from knowing the truth behind the death of her love.

A true love? Yes- but still a naïve girl.

Once outside she was met by Mishel reading her grimoire waiting for her. Though, Baron had already left.

"Where's Baron?" Ashalain ask.

She took her presence of words and closed her grimoire.

"I don't know, he already left before I came out, he might be at some bar drinking," Mishel replies.

Ashalain sighs not knowing what to say.

"So are you going to continue?" Mishel said to her somehow curious.

Ashalain smiles changing the topic. "Well, why do we first have some treatment."

Mishel didn't continue to interrogate her since Mishel had already known Ashalain.

"Fine, but you will be the one to treat me." Mishel shrugs, closing the grimoire.

-Back at Ravalind-

Near to a building a circle appears, and in seconds it glows and shines like a morning sun. After the golden circle was drawn it expands and suddenly Sheila, Chifya, Reith, and Akatosh appears. Reith quickly grabs his arm lifting him and hastily they went towards the temple of a god also known as the temple of Azarus. The god of power, the god that symbolizes the fire of power.

Upon arriving at the foundation of the temple. They didn't let a second to spare and time was crucial as life was slowly taken away. The front gate was guarded by two paladins clad in reddish and white armor. Without even speaking with the two paladins guarding the door the party deliberately barges the door entering the first room. Opening the double door, they ignore the two guards chasing them and went to open the second door.

As they finally unfold the door they stop midway. Priests and other maidens are in a state of worship. Upon opening the door, Sheila and her friends were stooped at disrupting the priests and maidens. But the group couldn't care less as one of their companions is dying. They didn't feel embarrassed to storm the temple for a dying person they had just recently met.

One priest seems to be in his mid-seventies but with fair young skin. With hair and a long beard as white as the snow.

When the group burst through the door. The priest takes notice he could see Akatosh's lifeless body like a person being strip out from his soul leaving only a shell. He could see the tainted blood dripping coming out from Akatosh's mouth. The two paladins that were chasing them quickly stop as soon as they see the priest waving a sign to let them in.

The priest servants quickly take action, and they were afoul by the Akatosh's smell that was tainted from the rotten corpse. Ignoring the smell, the two servants quickly take Akatosh to where they will heal his wounds.

Sheila and her companions wanted to follow them, but they were stopped by three knights. All they could do was watch him being taken away. Sheila could only do was hug Akatosh's spatial bag while Chifya holds his weightless sword.

The door slowly closed by the knights shutting them out. The two paladins that were once chasing them guide them outside the temple. All they could do is look back and pray for his life.