Zeno left Diana deep in her thoughts rushing back to his inn where he left Alice sleeping.
He thought she must have fallen asleep but to his surprise, Alice couldn't sleep for more than an hour, she cried hugging the pillow.
"A... Alice..." Zeno slowly walked inside and sat beside her.
"Big brother...? *sniff* you came back..." She grabbed Zeno and then buried her face into his chest.
"*sniff* why did you leave me... *sniff* I thought... I thought even you left me here to die... I thought... I would be killed..." She was completely broken crying her heart out on a random stranger she barely knew, the only thing she knew was he fed him hence he is a good guy.
"Ah... Alice... I had some work hence I left you... As soon as my work was done I rushed back to you." He patted her and gently wiped her tears.
She raised her head and saw Zeno, her cute golden eyes and small cheeks looked like a little fairy.
"Don't worry now, big brother is here right? And he promises he won't ever leave his cute little Alice ever..." Zeno hugged her and rubbed her back.
She closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.
Her sleeping face made all the thoughts in Zeno's mind fade away and cherish the moment with her.
"Haha... I don't have to forget I have to return to our hideout..."
Zeno simply teleported out of the window using his shadow teleportation.
"Huh... I can't just keep on teleporting with her, or she will get affected by my mana..." Zeno sighed as he summoned Millieous.
Millieous crawled out of his sleeve and then soon began expanding in size until it was of its original size.
"Goodie, we don't have time, so let's just slither at full speed to our destination!" Zeno jumped on Millieous and sat on its head.
"Hissss~~~" Millieous hissed and then dashed forward like a torpedo, destroying everything in its path.
Alice gently laid on Zeno's lap unknown of things around her.
It had already been an hour since they began their journey and they were halfway to their hideout.
"Hisss~~" Millieous hissed telling something to Zeno.
"Just dash forward, and I will take care of them." Zeno placed Alice below on Millieous and then began forging some of his mana into a human figure, soon that figure turned into Zeno.
"You stay with her, I will take care of other things." Zeno began stretching his body by doing some warm-ups.
"Alright let's go!!" Zeno tells din excitement, as Millieous dashed forward into the massive Sea kf Darkness, a place where some of the strongest and slightest Beast dwelled.
Millieous slithered through the water, due to its incredible amount of speed it splashed the water around itself and was able to slither through the water.
"Millieous, be on your toes and notify me when you notice something, we can't mess up." Zeno clenched his fists and then waited patiently for Millieous's signal.
They travelled a few miles through the ocean of Darkness and encountered many small beasts but none of them was strong enough to come on the surface to face Millieous.
So far nothing was scary and everything was calm.
But after some time Zeno felt a weird surge of energy and so did Millieous and then everything turned silent, Millieous slowed its movement and began floating on water.
The water splashing through its muscular body was audible.
Suddenly they felt something slide below them.
Soon it returned and swam below them.
"Milli, get ready... It's coming..." Zeno closed his eyes and tried to read the aura which was coming through the water.
Millieous was a little bit scared because of the aura which came from the water, it was deadly enough to make him lose control of his mana flow and shake in the water.
"Don't worry... It is alright... We are going to be alright." Zeno stood up as he felt the aura getting stronger and closer to them.
"Milli... Move to your left."
Millieous without wasting a second dashed to its left, and the place where Millieous was before a giant Turtle jumped out, a massive Silver Turtle with golden eyes.
Emitting some really strong mana, its shell was made of pure silver with some symbols on it.
His eyes glowed like gold, the same colour as Alice's.
"Milli... Do you know this thing? I can't recognise it..." Zeno quickly went on his defences on seeing it was an unknown species.
"Grrrrrr..." The massive silver turtle was violently moving his head seemingly confused.
"Rooooaaaaarrr!!!" It smashed its head on the mountain beside it.
"Dam... This thing..." Zeno quickly changed his manas shape into chains and tied the silver turtle in them.
"Roooaaar!!!" This made him more aggressive it began splashing water here and there, shooting a grey beam of light which pierced the dawn and blasted somewhere far in outer space.
"What the fuck! That thing is insane!" Zeno jumped do to the water and ran towards the turtle.
*Bam* it released another silver beam opposite the place where it first shot and it blasted into outer space.
Zeno jumped on top of it and began rushing through some mantras.
But doing this made this being go crazy it broke the dark chains and tossed away Zeno.
Millieous quickly rushed to him and grabbed him.
"This thing... It is strong..." Zeni coughed a mouth full of blood and sat on Millieous.
The giant silver turtle swam to him and continued, "Who are you... Why did you wake me up? Has it already been ten thousand years??"
The Turtle started to slow down but what does it want?