Thunderous galloping of horses boomed all over the rocky plains. Men shrouded in black cloaks mounted these horses, as they continued moving forward only leaving thick dusts behind them.
The cavalry was composed of ten men, assembled like a spearhead, with one man leading the way.
Moments later, another group of cloaked men in black cloaks joined their group from the west.
"Milord, we apologized!" The leader who was in front of the second group of cloaked cavalry men yelled. "We failed to secure the cursecreep!"
"I can see that clearly, Melchor."
Melchor, the leader of the second group, shivered at the cold voice of their lord.
They failed to eliminate the monster. And there would be greater consequences coming to that.
All the cavalry cloaked men came to a halt with one gesture of their lord. They were on top of a hill, where they could clearly see the chaos that would unfold. The monster, the cursecreep, a giant flower with vines, was heading now to the town of Rhoda. It was half of its' size of the city. And if they were one more moment late, they couldn't imagine the catastrophe that it would cause.
"Melchor, secured the civilians," Their lord charged downwards of the hill. That was how they saw why he did such an act.
In the path of the gigantic monster was a group of people, wind was strangely surrounding them. However, whatever it was, the monster was still a threat to their lives, if they got swept within it.
The moment they could reach it, a huge explosion occurred. Stopping all their movement including their lord. They raised their arms, to cover themselves from the wind and dirt of the blast.
It was then followed by a loud shrilling cry of the monster being hurt. It was a high pitch tone, that was ear piercing.
As they all looked up, another explosion occurred to the monster.
There was someone else. Someone else was fighting the monster all alone now. Though they couldn't see that person clearly, they were hovering in the sky.
"Milord, what shall we do?" Melchor asked.
"Go around. Prioritized the people."
Melchor was surprised, he thought that they would charge in to attack the monster.
"Go around!" He shouted and everyone turned around.
As soon as they did, the strongest explosion occurred.
***
Ether continued to laugh like a madman, as she continued to barrage the monster of explosive magic.
"Let's wrap things up." She said with a huge grin on her face. She raised her right palm to the man-eating flower, and flames creeped towards it. As she closed her palm into fist, these flames concentrated to the middle of the man-eating flower and…
Boom!
A loud explosion occurred, sending a tidal wave of blast of wind everywhere.
It took a few moments, before the smoke and dust was fanned out by the wind.
"So that did the job." Ether said. From the place where the man-eating flower only a huge crater remained. "Did I overdid it? It's been a long time since I had a fight like this after all." Another grin escaped her lips. "Oh, and it seems I will have more fights like this hehehe."
She slowly descended towards the ground.
But as soon as she landed, spears were now pointed towards her. Unknown men, wearing black cloaks surrounded her.
"Ah, who are you people?" That was when she felt a warm sensation in her hand. As she glanced down, she saw her ring sparkling.
She understood what it meant, 'that was unexpected. Who knows, I will meet him this early. Definitely meeting and fighting this monster is not a coincidence noh Ruth? Are you perhaps watching out there somewhere in the sky at this ridiculous turn of events?'
"You are in the presence of Lord Clarence Deven Vernon!" One of the cloaked men screamed as he removed the hood he was wearing. He had orange hair and eyes, and somewhat stupid expression. "Who are you?!"
'Ah this man, surely he loved to shout.'
"Slavery has long been banned by the kingdom." A cold voice resounded. "Capture her."
"Eh… wait…"
***
A few hours later…
Ether didn't expect to find herself in jail. That was not definitely one of her plans. She was now currently confined in one of the cells, where there was only one bed, table and chair. There was only a single door out and no windows. 'Hah.' She let out a heavy sigh as she brought out a crystal clear orb from her space ring. She flicked her fingers, and a faint glow surrounded the whole room.
It was an anti-sound barrier. Wherever she does or speaks, no one would hear her outside.
"Hey dragon," she called out as soon as she brought out the orb.
"Ether! Where are you?! How can you leave me like this?!" She distanced herself to the orb, due to numerous screams and retorts of Yuu, resounded.
"I'm in jail." Ether said dryly, as if she was merely stating facts.
"Eh, jail? What happened?! I knew it, you just leave me here alone, only to bring yourself more trouble."
She tapped the orb and footage of what happened earlier passed through the orb.
A few moments later, she heard the heavy sigh of Yuu on the other side.
"How long are you going to play, prisoner there then?"
"Hmm… a few more days perhaps?"
"Ether!!!"
Ether, distanced the orb once again. "I'll bring you some delicious snacks when I'm back!" She immediately turned off the orb and returned it to her space ring. She then dispeled the anti-sound magic. As soon as she did, the door opened, revealing the young man who kept yelling at her.
"Milord, wanted to see you." He said, and two guards wearing metal plate armour, walked in behind him.
"Alright." Ether said as she stood up. They put handcuff chains in her hands. 'Oh, another magic nullifying device, the same with the collar they put in my neck.
As soon as they handcuffed her, they walked outside the cell, and after a few moments, they entered another room. More like an interrogation room. It only had one table and two chairs. Where one person was already sitting there, looking at her with cold eyes.
Ether didn't need to look at her ring, to see it was shining.
Clarence Deven Vernon, the unfortunate second male lead of this world and the subject of her main mission in this world.
And it seemed this would be a long interrogation for her.