"How are Veronica and Hutton?" Pearce asked as he approached along with George and Robert towards where the others were.
"We ar… are fine Cap… Captain" Veronica replied timidly as she slowly got off the ground along with Hutton. When Pearce saw this, he nodded his head slightly as he said.
"Good, then let's finish off our mission"
"Ok Captain" said the Monster Slaying Squad in unison before they dashed towards the eerily looking castle at the distance. After some time, Barnes suddenly asked.
"Captain, I have a question to ask"
"Speak" Pearce said as they continued on their movement.
"Once we get into the castle, what exactly are we going to do next or is it just to wipe out all the monsters in this area?" Barnes asked with a curious look on his face. The mission the headquarters of the Monster Slaying Regiment gave to them was just to infiltrate the monster's base in this city to confirm how many Djinns were in it, but they didn't specify what next they should do once they have confirmed the number of Djinns here.
When Pearce heard this question, he had a puzzled expression on his face as he said "Do you plan on just retreating once you have confirmed the number of Djinns here?"
"Of cause not, I plan on wiping them out" Barnes said in a resolute tone.
"Good" Pearce said as both him and the others finally arrived at the entrance of the castle.
"Looks like we have already wiped out all the monsters in the area" Bridget said as they all saw that the entrance of the castle was wide open with not a single monster in sight.
"Let's go in" Pearce said solemnly as both him and the others got into the castle. As soon as they got into the castle, they felt an extremely dark and evil aura pressing down on them
"Ok, this is rather surprising" Daniella said with a shocked expression on her face. The interior design of the castle was actually in stark contrast to the exterior design as the former was covered in a bright light which was coming out of a chandelier in the middle of the entrance hall they were in. Not only that, but there were star shaped objects floating aimlessy at the top of the hall which was actually exuding the dark and evil aura pressing down on them.
"You can say that again" George replied to what Daniella said earlier.
"Everyone be on guard, we don't know what hidden dangers might be in this castle" Pearce said solemnly as two sabre's suddenly appeared in his hands. But before the others could reply, something unexpected happened.
Rumble!
Rumble!!
Rumble!!!
"What is happening?" Robert suddenly asked with an alarmed look on his face. Right now, the whole castle that Pearce and his squad were in is shaking violently as the dark and evil was going towards an open door at the upper part of the castle.
"Guys! Look at what is happening to the dark stars at the top of the hall!" Hutton quickly exclaimed as he points at the top of the hall. When everyone looked towards the top of the hall, they saw the dark star shaped objects moving towards a certain direction at the top of the castle.
"Quickly! Follow those objects" Pearce commanded as he began to follow the star shaped objects along with the others. When they got out of the entrance hall, they saw stairs facing them as it stretched out in a round manner till it reached the top of the castle.
While in a certain direction at the top of the castle, Pearce and the others saw all the star shaped objects found in the castle going towards the that direction.
"I wonder what is going on their?" George asked with a solemn expression on his face.
"Well we are about to find out. Let's go" Pearce said as he began to climb the stairs along with the others. After some time of climbing, they finally reached the top of the castle.
"Hey look!" Robert exclaimed with a shocked expression on his face as points towards the direction the star shaped objects were go to. When Pearce and the others looked towards that direction, they all had a shocked expression on their faces.
What they saw at that direction is that they saw the five Djinns sitting cross legged silently on top a huge devouring matrix while the matrix is absorbing the star shaped objects. These Djinns were completely black in color as a red dot were found at their brow chakra. Not only that, but a crown like objects were found at all the five Djinn's head. These Djinns were all in the first stage of the Qi King Rank.
"Wait, are my eyes deceiving me or am I really seeing a girl at the center of that matrix?" Goerge asked with a doubtful expression on his face.
"You aren't seeing things, there really is a girl at the center of the matrix" Pearce replied as he thought with a doubtfull expression on his face…
'But what is a girl doing here. Did the headquarters fail to notice a girl here?'
«Wait, did you just say there is a girl at the center of the matrix?»Di Kun suddenly asked as a bad feeling began to rise in him.
«Yeah there is» Pearce answered quickly. When Di Kun heard Pearce's answer, his expression became grave as he quickly exclaimed.
«Quickly destroy that matrix! That matrix is a Qi Transferring Matrix which the Djinns are using to transfer all there qi to that girl in the middle»
«What!» Pearce exclaimed with a grave expression on his face as he came back to the outside world.
"Hutton, quickly destroy that matrix" Pearce quickly commanded with a serious expression on his face.
"Ok Captain" Hutton acknowledged as he brought out his bow in other to attack. But before he could launch an attack at the matrix, the latter suddenly brought out a brilliant dark glow that covered both the Djinns and the girl in the middle.
Quickly after, the matrix quickly turned into a gigantic dark beam as it shot out of the roof of the castle and went further up into the clouds.
"Be careful guys! Watch out for the falling rocks" Pearce reminded as he covered him with a red colored barrier. Not only him, but the others also covered themselves with their qi. After some time of rumbling in the castle, everything began to settle as the light beam gradually faded away along with the matrix as a girl was seen standing right in front of Pearce and the others. When Pearce saw who this girl is, he had an incredulous expression on his face as he thought.
'What is Maxim Caroline doing here!?'