The next day, Draxus had his breakfast over at the main hall. It was somewhat empty as Remuel's group and Arlesk's group aren't around as both their groups are eating with together on their stations. It was only the Draxus, the party members that were assigned, Matilda, Lily, Julie, and then Serkyrio alone. After taking breakfast, they made one last check of their equipment before setting off to the Dimensional Laboratory for a warp. While walking through the hallway and leading the party, Draxus and Serkyrio had a light and important discussion regarding Draxus's abilities. "Draxus, I know that you're powerful, capable, smart, and resolved, but I'll warn you. If you snap and lose control of your power, I'll seal your power. Understand?" Draxus nodded in acceptance and decided to not complain as he understood Serkyrio's intention. In his mind, he felt a little disappointed in himself due to his instability, but he shrugged off the feeling of disappointment and resolved himself for further improvements. After arriving to the Laboratory, Serkyrio noticed the two swords that are sheathed on Draxus's waist. "Those two weapons, they seem nicely detailed." Draxus twitched in reaction from Serkyrio's words. The sword on the left side of the waist has a gentle curve and is designed like a standard katana. While the other seems to be a double-edged sword designed with a deep-blue to purple color. Draxus then asked Serkyrio in hopes that the radio wave signals to connect online are completed. "By the way, do you think Arlesk's group could finish before I come home? I don't want to miss that banner after all." Serkyrio then realized something. "Depends, but don't you think that those two weapons are quite similar to what I saw in [Genshin]?" Draxus twitched once more and turned his gaze away to begin whistling it off. Serkyrio facepalmed as he the entire group entered the Dimensional Laboratory. "Yo Harold." Harold was drinking some coffee alone as he took a bit of rest. He returned his greeting lightly and waved his hand after lowering the cup. "Morning everyone, is it time for the warp?" Draxus nodded which got Harold to open up a portal near the entrance of the capital of Santuria. "Have a safe trip!" With a smile, Harold and Serkyrio gave their regards to Draxus and his party for their mission. Draxus wore his white headset, and prepared his jacket and entered the portal last with Olivia.
After arriving to the outside area of the capital the group brought out a horseless, wheeled carriage which was made by Draxus as a hobby. It's a manually controlled vehicle that's similar to a car in most aspects. The design was nicely done and it had an otherworldly look into it as if it's a work of art. Draxus drove the carriage while Olivia sat on the back along with Pauleen and Juniper. At that point, Draxus manipulated his phone a little and began queueing the song [Running in the 90s] on his headset. He then simply drove up until the gates where he hit the brakes. The guards stood up from their posts and asked for the ID of Draxus. "We're from the empire of Preeliance, we would like to enjoy our field trip for training of [Order of the Crystallized Sentinels]." The guards then sent one of themselves to the headquarters behind the cathedral in hopes to notify the arrival. They then allowed the group to pass through the gates after asking for the identification. "I'm Draxus Heimdal, leader of the order." After Draxus introduced himself, another guard was sent to the headquarters. Draxus then parked the vehicle on a public parking area and told the others to enjoy the sceneries for a while. He asked Audrey if she noticed something. "Audrey, when we entered, did you feel it?" Audrey nodded while giving a whisper that was only audible to Draxus. "Yeah, it's an interference barrier, it's most likely we're going to be unable to use magic while we're inside." Draxus sighed in exasperation and gave orders to her in a mutter. "For now, just enjoy the city, let's meet back here in the parking area in one hour." Audrey nodded and immediately left the area with Maria and Jay. "Livi, going to walk around with them?" Draxus called out to Olivia while she was talking with Pauleen and Juniper. "Ah Drax, I just told them that I will be coming with you." Draxus smiled as he turned his gaze to Pauleen showing a teasing smile. "Enjoy your date~!" Draxus held the bridge of his nose while blushing a little. Olivia was affected by the teasing which caused her cheeks to turn red. "Be back here in an hour ya hear me?! We're likely gonna get an audience soon enough!" The two simply walked away after nodding and understanding the situation. "Well then Livi, let's go?" Olivia smiled as she took the hand Draxus offered and they walked side by side while holding hands.
In the underground facility meeting room, five men were looking at the screen that was displaying Draxus and Olivia enjoying their date. The five men had varied expressions and continued watching. "So, what is your plan here? Leader of Council of the Skies? Cronus?" The other men were showing grinning faces as they turned their gazes to the leader. "For now, we standby, we're only going to release the experimental subjects to the surface after the last batch of our collection on her 16th birthday. But since we got ourselves another royalty in the mix, why not double the collection batch? It wouldn't hurt to get some extra supply of it right?" The leader then pondered for a bit before giving his quick analysis. "I'll remain here with one of you guys to volunteer as to kidnap the royal girl with him. Be sure to do it quickly while he's busy fighting against me. As for the three of you, you guys can go ahead and return to our floating continent. It's finally useable once again due to the war incited by our dead friend, Begona. She followed our instructions quite well." The five of them then discussed their plans on how to separate the group members as they took out items that allow them to use magic while inside the barrier. After the meeting, three members instantly disappeared from the meeting room. "Boss, when will the plan start?" Cronus pondered for a bit before giving an answer. "Don't get excited Iapetus. Our hatred in that old world was harsh for us, so we transferred here and used our powers to manipulate this world. We got defeated once, I don't have plans on losing a second time now that those generation of heroes are dead. Our goal here is already complete, we haven't got a good test of their limits because the homunculi we made from transferring reproduction cells with our [Baptism]. We now have an army of hundreds of millions of them. Disposing a few as a test won't put a dent to our army, and it's a good way to test their limits as the weaker heroes can't even handle them one on one." Cronus smiled menacingly as he turned his gaze to the screen. "Five common-blood and one royal blood homunculi would be good enough as a test. But we'll send them the day after the final ritual." Behind Cronus, was a door leading to a spacious room. Iapetus opened that door and watched over the extremely wide space that goes through the horizon. "Space magic sure is nice." In the room, was more than a hundred million capsules stationed there.
After fifty minutes, Draxus and Olivia returned to the parked carriage and found a person wearing templar uniform with two guards behind him. "Ah, are you Sir Draxus Heimdal and Princess Olivia? The pope asks you to come to the office in the headquarters to welcome you." Draxus waved his hand lightly before giving a reply. "Understood, but please wait until the rest of my team are here. We came here as a group of seven." The templar bowed down while responding politely. "Very well, we will await their arrival." After a few minutes, the rest of the group arrived with short delays. Pauleen and Juniper arrived just before the one hour mark. They were then led by the templar as Jay and Audrey drove the carriage in walking pace. After a quick walk, they finally arrived to the headquarters behind the cathedral. What greeted them was the woman who had white long garments which resemble both formality and a presence of a servant of god. Draxus had an internal scream as he instantly knew that he's facing the pope as an atheist.