A man wearing a white robe stepped out from the shadows upon hearing the woman's words.
He was a tall man with with short, messy, black hair and red eyes. One of his notable features is a black sun-like mark on the right side of his forehead.
Beneath his robe, he wore a pair of pants and dark-colored boots. A black fur cape and light-colored fur mantle are draped over all this and held at his neck by another black strap with a circle in the middle.
"Looks like I have been caught. Forgive me if I'm being rude but I was waiting for this guys here before you caught them. Really, I didn't expect to meet of one of the magic saints, Elena Void here." He said with a playful voice.
"Stop being so over dramatic, Lucius Chronos." Elena said with an annoyed look.
"Don't need to be so formal with me, we're friends after all." Lucius said with a bright smile.
"Anyway, what were you doing here? You don't usually handle small fry like this." He added with a curious look.
"Well, I just wanted to stretch out a bit. It seems I've gotten a bit rusty." Elena said with a calm voice.
"With an Op magic like your Void magic, I don't see beating you. Seriously that thing is too broken" Lucius said with a playful voice. Although it was a joke, there was truth in his words.
Elena rolled her eyes and said, "All jokes aside. Do you know what that thing is?" While pointing to the huge stone tablet Infront with jewels arranged in an strange manner.
"No, it's my first time seeing such a thing. Why don't you try asking this guys you captured, it's the reason why you left them alive, right?. Lucius asked.
"No, they can't answer any questions in their state so we just have to wait until we get back." Elena answered his question.
"Something is approaching." Elena thought and faced back as she felt a presence at the stone tablet.
All of a sudden a blinding light spread across the area, causing both Lucius and Elena to cover their eyes.
They saw a black silhouette standing on top of the stone tablet as the light brightens. Then it vanished, not only the light, the rogue mages and the stone tablet as well.
"I was tricked! light magic faster than me, huh. This is getting exciting." Elena said with a slight smile.
"He's most likely their leader. It seems that his only goal was to save his captured subordinates." Lucius analyzed.
"But he didn't save all of them." Elena said with a smirk as she raised up a black bubble that a mage was trapped in.
"As expected of a magic saint." Lucius spoke out with a smile.
Then, he felt a vibration in his right pocket. He removed the small orb in his pocket and tapped it twice, causing a small hologram of a person to appear on top of the orb. The orb appears to be a communication device.
"I finally got through, where have you been sir?" The hologram of the man known as Logan Faust asked.
"Hey, there Logan. Sorry about that, i was on a stake out so I cut off all communication." Lucius replied nonchalantly.
"(Sigh) You always do that. Do you know the amount shit that went down in the capital since you left. In any case, we need you to return to the hospital at your earlier convenience." Logan said before his hologram disappeared, marking the end of his call.
"Looks like I have to go." Lucius sighed and said before turning to leave.
Remembering something, he turned back and said, "I almost forgot, do you mind if I take that guy from your hands?" Lucius suddenly asked.
"Sure, he's all yours." Elena said she handed the prisoner to Lucius while undoing her magic and Lucius immediately trapped the prisoner using his magic.
"Then I will off, see you later." Lucius vanished after leaving this words.
"I hope not." Elena said as she made a wryly smile.
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After ten minutes, Lucius appeared at silver city and gave the prisoner he carried to some group of magic knights to take him to the cell for questioning.
He is currently inside the hospital, within a room with brick walls. A certain individual with long blonde hair was laying on a bed, sleeping while lucius was talking to the several magic knights.
"Is that so... to think that someone of Leon's caliber would.... be in a situation where we don't know if he will ever wake up again... I made a huge blunder by leaving." Lucius said with a slight frown while crossing his arms.
"No, we were also to blame as well. Sir..? From what I can see, the pendant that he usually wears is missing. Is that what they were after? and who are they exactly?" A female magic knight spoke out.
"Hmm, from my knowledge, they're known as a group of terrorists that hates our kingdom but I don't think it's that simple." Lucius explained calmly.
"For starters, that's that weird stone tablet and the stones imbedded in it. Apparently, Leon's pendant was one of the stones they required. But there was still some spots that were missing jewels, is that their goal? The reason Leon was targeted was because of his pendant and they decided that his power will be troublesome for their plans, but how were they able to render the regenerative powers of his phoenix fire magic useless? I have been investigating this guys for a while now on my own but this is the first time I have gotten solid on them. I never would've guessed I was something this big with someone this powerful, behind it." Lucius thought with a serious look. There were too many questions that was left unanswered. There was only one solution.
"We will get more information after we interrogate the prisoner that we captured. But in any case, you should go back to your duties till further notice." Lucius spoke out.
"Yes, Sir!" The magic knights voiced out with a salute as Lucius made his way out of the room.