Several days have been passed, since the dissappeareance of Magnus. An meeting has been held secretly in underground temple between the caretakers of temple and Ivy,
"its been several days since his dissappeareance, you really don't know about this phenomenon"
"we have checked all the previous records of challengers but nothing like this happened before"
"if he doesn't make it back, how will I face demihumans from Bartos"
"wait, Bartos I think we still can get information about this"
After an idea stuck in Ivy's head , she immediately left for Bartos city. Giving her orders to Glen and other officials, with her secret escort she left for Bartos. But she wasn't aware of an enemy under her nose who has been keeping his eyes on King's castle and its activities.
As Ivy left Ledia's border, she immediately sent her messenger forward to inform the leaders in Bartos.
Since Bartos was located at the outskirts, she has to cross few kingdoms to get to city, last time due to Magnus's flight magic they reached Ledia in about 2 days. But as they were heading with horses it would take about 7 days.
While in ruins , even though in outside world several days passed but in that space, time move much slower and he had spend several months training himself to bones. Magnus has seen polishing his skills for the preparation of battle with Sword Saint.
Even though Magnus was demigod, but he can't kill a hero without Durandel as heroes themselves were otherworldly, just like Magnus, their power can't be underestimated.
"its been several months and you are still training"
"Since you, yourself have told me about his skills, I can't take risks"
"indeed his skills are devastating especially his phantom arts"
Sword Saint was an living legend in human's history. Due to his mastery in different types of techniques, and years of training. After the end of war of heroes, he travelled around the Arcadia searching for new techniques and new swords,He trained himself with every sword he can get his hands on, except for two swords, first one was Durandel itself and another one was Hellfire sword, which was sealed in demon realm.
Phantom arts, there was the old story about Sword Saint in which he teared down an whole town with one strike of his sword. Sword Saint was currently holding the most powerful sword of continent second to Durandel that was Scimitar. Scimitar is king of elemental sword, and purest form of magic sword.
All elements under heavens can be controlled by Scimitar, with help of Scimitar he developed his phantom arts. In phantom sword art, Sword Saint can summon about 10 different elemental swords and can weild them altogether. Many heroes tried to overpower Sword Saint during the war but they can't.
As all this was occurring, High officials of Vestry was becoming impatient. Since its been several days but they haven't noticed any action from Sword Saint. Hero's association wasn't giving them any answer about Sword Saint's whereabouts but from inside they were eagerly waiting for his duel which would be one of greatest event of the century.
In next few days, Ivy finally reached Bartos. Its been several days since her departure, after meeting the representatives. She head out to meet Diaz and invited him to work for Ledia but Diaz refused her offer due to his great debt of favours, he owed Citylord.
After meeting Diaz, she immediately headed towards Phoenix temple. And infront of sacred flames , she presented her worries,
"O great spirit, I am here to thank you "
And in next moments, Ivy again found herself in enchanted forest,
"you don't have to be chessy, I know you are here for another purpose"
"Its about Magnus, he just disappeared during trial and we haven't heard of him for several days"
Phoenix laughed on Ivy's worries,
"he is alright and currently training under an master"
"He will return soon, so don't worry about him"
"what about trail?, is he able to pass it"
"offcourse, he beat down the trial"
After hearing the good news from phoenix, Ivy's heart calmed down. As she was been imagining future events if Magnus was to dissappear. The first Vestry would annihilate them because the share of Golem knights has yet to be delivered because of its complex mechanism, the delivery could only be made possible after 3 months.
After verifying the whole situation, Ivy made her way back to her but she with her escort dissappeared out of thin air.