The Hero League, Star City.
Bai Xian Ming worked all night to catch up on the paperwork he had neglected in the afternoon while playing the game with Old Man Dazekh and Old Kim. Now his two friends were asleep, but he had to finish his work.
"Sleep is for the weak!" The old man held a can of energy drink to his mouth. He took a big gulp and threw the can in the trashbin. Fortunately, his granddaughter was kind enough to accompany him.
Just as he was about to continue his work, his office door was opened with a bang.
"Grandpa! Grandpa!" Bai Shuang'er rushed into Bai Xian Ming's office.
The old man lifted his head to find his granddaughter in a state of panic.
"What's wrong?"
"The Regal Kingdom... The Regal Kingdom..." Bai Shuang'er ran out of breath, unable to finish her words properly.
"Here!" Old Ming handed the water bottle to his granddaughter, who immediately grabbed it from his hand.
A long gulp was heard and she drank half a bottle of water.
"Take a deep breath and exhale slowly..."
Bai Shuang'er followed the instructions. Only then did she calm down a bit.
"The Regal Kingdom just sent a red notice! They wanted us to send reinforcements to the kingdom!"
"What? What happened?" Bai Xian Ming rose from his chair.
"The specters! They attacked the Crown Prince's wedding. Now the kingdom is in chaos, the specters attacked the capital of the Regal Kingdom! They are asking us to help them deal with the specters!"
In one breath, she recounted what had actually happened to the Royal Kingdom.
The Knight's Regiment tried to fight the specters, but the result was a disaster, so the Regal Kingdom asked the Hero League of Star City for help.
Thanks to SES, the Hero League of Star City was known to the world as the only force that could kill the specters.
"Send the SES to the Regal Kingdom! No, I will go myself!" Bai Xian Ming rushed to the SES office.
"What? You can't go!" Bai Shuang'er blocked her grandfather with her open arms.
"Huh!? How can I not go when your sister is in danger?"
Bai Xian Ming was panicking because his other granddaughter was in the Regal Kingdom. As someone who had once experienced the terrifying power of the specters, he had to go and help his granddaughter himself.
"Urgh!? Have you forgotten who she was with?"
Bai Shuang'er's words made the old man realize something he had overlooked. Yes, his granddaughter was with her husband, a man who was probably stronger than him.
"Do you think my brother-in-law will let anything happen to my sister? Besides, I heard that he is a bit overprotective of his family, so she should be fine" Bai Shuang'er convinced her grandfather.
Heero, remembering that his granddaughter was with him, left the old man with ease.
"Hooo... It was all because of you! Why did you get fluttered earlier?" The old man suddenly remembered that he had panicked because of his granddaughter. The panic was contagious.
"Hehe," Bai Shuang'er stuck out her tongue, "I just remembered! I will call Zhou Yi now!"
After that, the girl silently retreated from the room.
*** ***
Martial Hall of Heero Academy, Xing District.
It was a place where all SES troops were currently gathered.
"The Regal Kingdom is under attack, Executive Bai asked us to leave!" Sun Zhou Yi informed the others of the mission they had received.
Even though they had just returned from Desolate Fort, no one complained about the new mission.
"Master is in the Regal Kingdom, we should hurry..." Musashi Hirata nodded.
His focus was not on the specters they had to destroy, but on his master. He remembered that his master was there on his honeymoon, they had to go and help.
"Then it's decided, let's go!" Sun Zhou Yi stood up and did some light stretching.
The internal injuries he had suffered from the previous task had healed considerably. It was thanks to the golden pill from his master.
"No, you go, take all the teams with you. Squad 2 will stay!" Suddenly, Musashi Hirata decided to stay.
"Why?" Lyera could not believe that she was not going on a mission.
"If you want to go, you can ask your people to replace your place in Squad 2!" Musashi Hirata did not give the reason, but he insisted on staying.
In the end, Lyera backed down and stayed in the district.
Sun Zhou Yi nodded to Hirata and left. He led Squad 1 and the other six squads to the nearest military hangar. Seven squads would fly to the Regal Kingdom as reinforcements.
*** ***
"What actually happened?" Benjamin stood in the window, dazed. He was on the third floor and could see the chaos below.
Groups of knights were clashing with groups of black cloaked figures. Even the main hall was in chaos as Morphers attacked everyone in sight.
"Probably because of me".
Everyone in the room was surprised by Heero's assertion.
"After they discovered my presence, they decided to attack the capital. They abandoned plan A and went to plan B. Plan A was to quietly replace the Crown Prince and all the nobles attending the banquet with Morpher. They want to secretly take control of the Regal Kingdom!"
"But they did not expect me to come. As head of the SES, they must know that I have my own way of discovering the Morpher, so they decide to attack the kingdom instead of continuing with plan A".
Heero told them what was on his mind. He felt it was the most likely scenario, because the moment he returned to the main hall, the Morpher stopped disguising themselves and started attacking the others. He guessed everything based on those little clues.
"But why? Why did they want to take over the kingdom?" Benjamin asked in an excited tone.
There was no animosity between Specter and the Regal Kingdom.
"Stupid question, my student! Control your emotions and get this right on your head! specters are not just the enemies of Star City or Hero League they are the mortal enemy of humanity, they are parasites!"
"They need another living being to reproduce themselves. They are a defective life form that can't reproduce!
War is a way for them to reproduce, and they will never stop until either they become extinct or all other living beings become one of them!
Prepare yourself, child, the eternal war between humanity and the specter has just begun, there are more of them hidden in unknown dungeons!"
Morpher, it was a new type of specter that appeared on Earth. This meant that a new dungeon containing such a creature had been opened. The first three dungeons known to the Hero League were not the only dungeons in the world.
"Let's stop talking and move! Let's go to your father, he must be in danger as well! The Crown Prince is not the only target if they want to take over the kingdom!"
Hearing this, Benjamin snapped out of his stupor. He realized that the king was also in danger.
"The King is in the main castle, the King should be fine, right?" The knight guarding the door chimed in. Their duty was to protect the Crown Prince, so they did not join the battle.
"Who knows? The specters even slipped into the wedding, they might be able to sneak into the castle. We must hurry!" Bai Xin Yue urged Benjamin to lead them to the main castle.