Elis: "What's the damage so far?" Leo said, "More than half of our fleet has been ripped to shreds." Elis: "Why are the weapons not online yet? What the hell is wrong with this fleet?" Anew: "what was that strike just now? Our escort ships are basically destroyed." Riruru: "Command ship, this is central ship. What the hell was that? What are our current orders? What do we do?" Elis: "Riruru, go down and secure the prisoner. Everyone else, focus on defending the ship." Meanwhile, Leo said, "Ma'am, I can provide backup to Faiz. Permission to deploy?" Elis: "Go now, all ships! Someone sabotaged our ships and our fleet. Basically, all our ships have weapon systems offline. Whatever we have to do, we have to do it on our own, with our own magic. No cannons, no nothing. Are you all ready?" Riruru thinks, "What the hell is the commander doing? Is she stupid or something? How are we supposed to compare to Deinsleif-tier military gear, especially now that more than half our fleet is destroyed and our formation is ripped to shreds?" While fighting in the front line, Faiz thinks, "These guys didn't come here to save their comrade; rather, they came here fully prepared to kill us, along with her, and remove all traces of this mission. If we didn't block that strike somehow, we would have died for sure." For a second, Astrea, Anew, and Riruru see Faiz, and then Faiz again disappears in front of their eyes. Anew: "Astrea, did you just see that?" Astrea: "Yeah." Anew: "You don't think...?" Astrea: "Did he die, and his ghost came to haunt us?" Anew: "Don't say that, idiot." Then, Astrea and Anew together said, "May his poor soul rest in peace." Riruru: "He isn't dead. If he was, he would never have reached the rank of Existforger Elite." Astrea: "Good point." Anew: "So, what did we see?" Astrea: "Maybe a hallucination?" Anew: "But the paper is still there." Riruru: "What? Then let's read it. Oh, it's a set of instructions. It says Astrea secure the prisoner, Anew help accelerate the central ship to reach the port as soon as possible, and Riruru take control of the ship and ignore every order from Elis. Also, don't trust any Malacor members." Riruru: "Avalon members, from now on, based on the situation, you will be helping Anew in the acceleration of our current ship." Now, as the ship started to accelerate, Elis said, "Central ship, stop! You are violating the Knighthood codes." As Leo and Faiz keep defending the front lines, Elis becomes angry and says, "Do I have to do everything myself now?" Water magic, Abyss draggers, and two sharks made of water go after the ship with the prisoner and latch on to it, trying to drag it back. Aoi said, "Blade magic, relentless strikes," and ended up destroying the water magic. Anew said, "Now, enchantment magic, winds grace," and the wind helps the ship accelerate. Riruru said, "Guess I have no other choice. Air magic, air burst," and strikes the ship with Elis in it, pushing it back. Then, Riruru said, "String magic, endless slaves," and the sails begin to rip from the ship, effectively stopping them in the process.