All the carriages are still standing in the same place, and Anon is investigating the site with Faith.
"Well, someone could've attacked us and run away when we were busy reviving the Queen?" Faith spoke.
"No, that's not possible... I used my skill to scan the whole area as soon as I heard the first explosion. I didn't detect anyone hostile within 1 km... this attack was launched from a very far distance," Anon spoke as he started walking towards the carriages that were destroyed in the explosion.
"You mean, witchcraft? That's the only thing that can work from that far, right?" Faith asked.
Suddenly, Anon noticed that something was shining in the ashes of the burned-down carriages.
"Hmm...? Telekinesis..." Anon used his skill to pick up the object from its place, but he failed to pick it up.
"Telekinesis..." Anon tried again as he pointed directly towards the shining object this time, but still, the object showed no signs of moving from its place.
"What are you doing?" Faith asked with a confused expression.
"The heck...?" Anon spoke as he walked into the ashes and grabbed the object directly with his hands.
As soon as he grabbed the object, Anon walked out of the ashes and looked at the object curiously.
"What is this?" Anon wondered as he observed that the thing he held in his hand looked like a metallic plate, but it had an aura of its own.
Anon had never seen something like this, and he was very curious to find out what this plate-like thing was.
[Demonic Eyes]
Anon immediately used his skill to study the nature of this strange element. As soon as he commenced the skill, a very loud buzzing sound rang inside his ears, and a glowing red notification popped up in front of him.
[Name: Unknown]
[Rank: Unknown]
[Description: @-#&5+# -2+#()#(;#( , :"(!2;#(!";782(?[$]￥?[]￥[￥][ °￥°￥°]
[Warning: This thing can't be praised... Please retract the skill as soon as possible, or the host can face severe consequences.]
'What the heck?' Anon thought as he immediately stopped the skill and looked at the black metallic plate with an even more curious expression.
As Anon was looking at the black plate, he decided to turn it around and noticed that there was something written on its back with white ink.
It was the letter D written in an italic manner, with a small crown on one of its corners.
"Interesting... what does this mean now? Do you know anything about this?" Anon asked Faith as he handed the black plate to her.
Suddenly, Faith halted her steps and continuously stared at the black plate with a shocked expression.
"Oh, so you do know something. What is it? Tell me," Anon asked.
"This... This is the sigil of the Dwarf kingdom. Those individuals tried to eliminate our Queen? How dare they attack us? They are asking for war," Faith spoke with a very angry expression on her face.
"Hmm...? Dwarfs. Do you know anything about this particular metal?" Anon asked.
"This is the pure form of extracted Travertine. It cuts through any type of magic, no matter what type or how strong the spells you are using," Faith spoke.
"Do you know where this comes from?" Anon asked with a curious expression.
"Well, this thing dates back more than a thousand years when the Elven kingdom and the Dwarf kingdom were friends.
The Dwarfs worked in the mines, and the Elves conducted research on magic. Until one day, when the Dwarfs found the strongest metal in this world, Travertine.
The first piece of that metal was sent to the Elven Kingdom for research purposes.
Elven scholars found out that Travertine was the strongest metal in this world. They could've informed the Dwarfs about it, but they didn't. Greed took over them, and they declared this metal similar to any other metal like iron and copper.
The Dwarfs immediately believed our scholars because they were very innocent back then, and our scholars bought all the mines in which Travertine was found for the next 200 years. The supply of Travertine started to increase inside the Elven Kingdom.
They started creating magical swords and wands out of Travertine.
This continued for the next 50 years, but suddenly a Dwarf found out the applications of Travertine. He found out that the Elves were using the Dwarfs for their profit.
As soon as this news reached the ears of the elder Dwarfs, they immediately seized all the Elves from their mines and their kingdom as well.
The Elf scholars were greedy; they couldn't stand this. They brought up the mana contract they had signed with the Dwarf king at that time and tried to blackmail them into supplying more Travertine to the Elven Kingdom, or their king would die..." Suddenly Faith stopped as a sad expression appeared on her face.
"What happened after that?" Anon asked as his curiosity increased.
"The Dwarf king... he transferred his crown to his brother and died for the sake of his kingdom. He knew that if they kept supplying Travertine to the Elven Kingdom, they would face major drawbacks in the future.
As soon as the King died, his brother succeeded his throne and waged a war on the Elven Kingdom.
They mined and made their own weapons... they fought on the battlefield.
This fight lasted for 10 years. Both of the sides suffered very high losses, but the Elves were at a very big disadvantage. Since we only had a limited amount of Travertine, our weapons started to get lower by the day, but Dwarfs had an unlimited supply of Travertine. They started winning the wars one by one, but before they could've defeated us entirely.
The Elders from the Elven Kingdom proposed a truce between the two races.
Looking at the numbers of lives and time that were lost in this war, the Dwarfs accepted the truce, but they clearly declared that Travertine would not be supplied to the Elven Kingdom ever again.
But this rule was broken when the Counsellor attacked us 150 years ago, and to defeat him, all three races had to come together.
The Dwarfs started the supply of Travertine again throughout the three kingdoms, but in front of the Counsellor, these weapons were fragile.
That's when the dwarfs started digging further into the mines and found this... The Pure Form of Travertine. Invincible to magic.
This was one of the many reasons that we were able to defeat the counsellor but as soon as the war ended, it became an illegal element and everyone banned the use of this. But, I think they want to start the war again...."
"Hey, Faith... I have a favor to ask," Anon spoke.
"Hmm...? A favor?" Faith asked as she turned towards Anon with a confused expression.
"There are pieces of this pure travertine in the ashes of these burned carriages. Can you help me gather them?" Anon asked.
"Yeah, why not? But if you are thinking that you will make a weapon out of it, then forget it," Faith spoke.
"What? Why?" Anon asked with a confused expression.
"Do you really think that you can melt the strongest metal on this planet with a normal furnace? And let's just imagine that you somehow melted it... how are you going to give it a shape? Because, if you want to make weapons out of this pure travertine, you will need a very special enchanted hammer with forbidden runes upon it, and those runes are known to one and only one person on this planet," Faith spoke as she looked at Anon with a smile.
"Hmm...? Who might that person be?" Anon asked with a smirk.
"The brother of the First Dwarf king... who sat on the throne after his brother died due to the mana contract failure. He was the first and the last king of the dwarfs who had the knowledge to read ancient runes. After the war ended, he was betrayed by his Royal Ministers, and they turned him into a factory worker for the Sunshine Clan. He manufactured weapons like normal dwarfs during the day, but I heard that they would torture him at night just to get the patterns of the rune enchantment out of his mouth," Suddenly Anon interrupted Faith.
"Wait... what was the name of that clan again?" Anon asked.
"Sunshine Clan. Why is there a problem?" Faith asked.
"Oh, no problem. For how many years did they torture that dwarf king? 500 years?" Anon asked.
"Yes, How do you know that?" Faith asked with a confused expression.
Suddenly a smile appeared on Anon's face.
"Luv, can you tell me his name?" Anon asked with a smile.
"I think his name was something... Biyuk Jase Kujer... yeah, that was it," Faith replied.
"Hahahahahaha..... This is the best." Anon slightly touched his forehead and started laughing loudly...
"H-Hey, are you alright?" Faith asked with a worried expression.
"Oh, I am very good. Never been better... hahahaa..." Anon replied.
"Then, why are you smiling like a lunatic?" Faith asked.
"Sorry, I ahhahaha... just can't stop it. I just remembered a joke. Hahahaha..." Anon spoke as he kept laughing.
'What happened to Mr. Jule?' Faith wondered in her mind.
"Faith, do you know that this world is a very small place?" Anon asked with a smile.
"Umm... Mr. Jule, the world is a pretty big place if you ask me," Faith replied.
"Okay, let's pick up the pure travertine for now," Anon spoke.
10 minutes later...
Thud
"This is all I could find, Mr. Jule." Faith spoke as she dropped many parts of the pure travertine in front of Anon.
"Good..." Anon spoke as he picked up all the parts from the ground and put them into his inventory.
"So, did you find out who attacked our carriages, and will they get attacked again if we move?" Faith asked.
"I did... these carriages were hit by missiles," Anon spoke.
'The pure pieces of travertine has explosive powder on it, one of the parts that i found has a pointy end to it... I am sure it was a missile. I don't how they have it, but they have it.' Anon thought.
"Hit by what?" Faith asked with a confused expression.
"Missiles, Luv. These things carry very highly explosive powder inside them, and they can be shot from a very, very long distance. I checked some parts of the pure travertine and found out that the missiles are enchanted with an auto-target finding spell," Anon spoke.
"Wait... What is that spell?" Faith asked.
"These missiles, they can't miss their target because they are enchanted with a spell that attracts them towards the target that they are obligated to hit. Using this spell, these missiles would automatically find out the target they are ordered to hit from the start and hit it even if the target is moving." Anon explained.
"You are telling me that these missile things are made from pure travertine, they can be launched from a very long distance, they carry explosive power in them, and they can find their target on their own once launched, right?" Faith asked.
"Yep, that's pretty much everything," Anon replied.
"Fuck... We have to get out of here now. These things can't be stopped by magic barriers and they are pure chaos," Faith spoke as she started panicking.
"No, wait. There is something else to this.... if we would've been getting targeted by some living being, then we would've been dead by now, but since we stopped after the first two explosions, no third explosion has happened after that," Anon spoke.
"What do you mean? Do you want to say that if we moved from our places, some trap will go off, and we will be fried by those magical missiles?" Faith asked.
"Yes, that's a possibility. But we can get out of here if we find the movement triggers," Anon spoke.
"What are movement triggers?" Faith asked.
"Well, movement triggers are things that get's triggered when they sense movement, and they are here somewhere in this area because every time a carriage passed it... it got alerted and sent a signal to the main machine that's placed at a very far distance from here to shoot the missile," Anon explained.
"Okay, I understand, but what does this thing look like?" Faith asked.
"I don't know... it can be anything. A tree, a stone, and even a fruit," Anon replied.
"Soldiers, leave everything you are doing. Come with me. We have a thing that we need to find, right now," Faith shouted as the soldiers immediately rushed towards her.
After this, all of them started looking at the trees and under the stones to search for the movement triggers.
"H-Hey... I found something. Come here..." A female elf soldier shouted.
Anon and Faith immediately rushed towards the girl, to look at what she has discovered.
As soon as they reached near the girl, they noticed a machine. Covere with a fake stone cover.
The machine was old but Anon immediately understood that it was one of the movement.
As soon as Anon looked at the machine, he used his skill...
[Demonic Eyes.]
[Name: Movement Sensing Trigger.]
[Origin: Unknown]
[Description: This magical artifact can sense any movement in its surrounding environment, and once any suspicious movement is captured, it will immediately send a signal back to its receiving end. Mostly used in auto-opening doors.]
'Interesting...' Anon thought as he sat down to observe the machine from a closer distance.
It looked like a small box made out of wood, on its top, it had a very small diamond-like magic crystal, and on the sides, 4 golden pistons that were working at a very fast speed, without making any noise.
The box had three small umbrella-like objects on its three sides.
Anon gently grabbed the small magic crystal on its top and removed it very carefully. As soon as he removed the magic crystal, the box stopped working.
"This thing is made with very good knowledge of engineering.... I wonder, who made this?" Anon spoke as he observed the movement-sensing trigger carefully without touching it.
"The dwarfs..." Faith spoke from behind.
"Hmm...?" Anon looked at Faith with a confused expression.
"Here... look at this corner. This is the same sigil of the Dwarves. They built this, and, to be honest, I knew they made it, because no one else in this world can make things like this," Faith spoke as she pointed towards the upper left corner of the box.
Anon immediately noticed that Faith was right; it was the same sigil that he saw on the missile.
"How do you know if it's a real sigil? I mean, someone could've copied it and painted it here to start a war between you guys?" Anon asked.
"Here... use this," Faith spoke as she gave a small metal stick to Anon.
"What is this?" Anon asked.
"Hold this stick above the sigil..." Faith spoke.
"Okay..." Anon did as he was told and started hovering the metal stick over the Dwarf sigil.
Suddenly, the sigil started glowing bright red in color.
"Okay... is that the sign that it's real?" Anon asked.
"Yes, it's drawn with a very rare paint that glows in different colors every time you hover this stick over it," Faith answered.
"You mean if I hover it... once again-" Anon spoke as he hovered the stick over the sigil once again, and this time it glowed purple in color.
"Yep, it will change color," Faith spoke.
"Woah... this is some kick-ass technology," Anon spoke as he stood up and returned the stick to Faith.
"So, what now? Should we inform this to the Queen?" Faith asked.
"Well... I can't say for sure. If this were to be a fraud and you guys started war with the dwarfs again, it would be chaos. I suggest you guys go and talk with their leaders in peace first, and-" Before Anon could conclude his conversation, he sensed things coming towards them from the sky.
Anon immediately summoned his sword and looked back at the sky. Suddenly, he noticed big birds flying in the sky with elven knights riding on their backs.
"Don't worry, they are here to rescue us. The path of land is not safe anymore; we have to go through the air," Faith spoke.
"Good..." Anon spoke as he took out a cigar from his inventory and lit it up.
"Where are you going?" Faith asked as she observed Anon going toward the other direction.
"To get that box and search for the source of these missiles," Anon replied.
"I will come with you," Faith spoke.
"As you wish..." Anon spoke as he picked up the movement trigger box from the ground and threw it inside his inventory.
Swish
The birds landed on the ground, and the knights immediately stepped down.
"Where is the Queen?" A knight asked Faith with a neutral expression.
"In the carriage..." Faith spoke as she pointed toward Fiona's carriage.
The knights immediately stepped forward and surrounded the carriage at once.
The knight captain opened the gate slowly.
"My greetings, Your Grace... we are here to save you. Please come with me." The knight commander immediately bowed down and greeted Fiona.
"Oh my god, Andrew... you are here, thank God. Let's just go. I want to go back to my castle as soon as possible," Fiona spoke as she slowly walked out of the carriage and started walking toward one of the giant birds.
Faith walked up to Anon with an annoyed face.
"What happened?" Anon asked.
"Well, that guy took all the credit again. I saved her so many times from assassination, but every time... he would come with his team and take all of our credit. But this time, I don't mind it... since you are the real credit holder this time, it goes to you this time, Mr. Jule. You brought her back from the dead, and he can't take that away from you," Faith spoke as her annoyed face expression turned into a smiling one.
Suddenly Anon noticed a knight from Andrew's team coming toward him.
"Sir, Andrew has ordered both of you to return to the kingdom; he wants to interrogate both of you," the knight spoke with a tone filled with attitude.
"Let's go..." Faith spoke as she turned to look at Anon.
"You go; I have some work to complete," Anon spoke as he took a puff from his cigar and started walking toward the other direction.
"Oi, don't you understand? Our captain has ordered both of you to return to the kingdom," the knight shouted from behind.
"Yeah, Yeah... Forget it now," Anon spoke as he continued to walk toward the other direction.
'I would've stopped him from doing this, but if I stopped him today, he will never stop talking like that. That's why I will just stand here and enjoy the show...' Faith thought as she observed anger appearing on the knight's face.
"You, son of a bitch... come back here," the knight shouted as he started walking toward Anon with a furious expression.
"Oh, that one is going to cost him one or two bones at least," Faith spoke as she looked at the knight carefully.
As soon as the knight reached near Anon, he grabbed his hand and tried to stop him forcefully.
"Didn't you listen, what I-" Before the knight could've said anything else, he saw a punch coming directly at his face with incredible force.
Crack
Thud
"Oh, Shit..." Faith spoke as she looked at the knight with a very shocked expression.
As soon as Anon's punch hit his face, his neck broke, and he died right there.
"Oh shit... He killed him," Faith spoke as she immediately started walking towards Anon.
"Soldiers, immediately capture this guy and kill him if he resists..." Andrew ordered as soon as he noticed that Anon had killed one of his knights.
"Yes, Sir..." The knights shouted as they started running towards Anon and surrounded him from all directions.
Anon saw this, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Why does everyone have to die today?" Anon spoke as he took a very long puff out of his cigar and finished it all in one go.
Anon turned around and looked at Fiona with a smile on his face.
"Stop. Let him do whatever he wants..." Fiona shouted because she had seen this view before in the Colosseum; she knew what Anon was about to do next.
"But, My Queen... he killed one of our knights. He is definitely dangerous," Andrew spoke with a shocked expression.
Andrew had been working for Fiona for the past 50 years, and she never ever spoke between his commands, not once. But today, she interrupted him.
"Yeah, I saw that very clearly, and I don't want you dead as well. Let him go," Fiona ordered as she mounted one of the birds.
"Yes, My Queen. Soldiers, come back... Let him go," Andrew ordered as he recalled his soldiers.
"Good move..." Anon spoke as he puffed out all of the smoke from his mouth and smiled at Andrew.
"Take the Queen to her castle immediately." Andrew ordered the knights.
"Yes, Sir." The knights spoke as they took off from the ground with Fiona.
Andrew observed Fiona going away, and as soon as she went out of sight, he immediately started walking toward Anon.
"Who are you?" Andrew asked with a very serious expression.
"Call me whatever you want." Anon replied.
"Well, you seem like a bastard to me. Who doesn't care about lives." Andrew spoke as he picked up the dead soldier's body from the ground.
"You can say that." Anon replied with a smile.
"He has a fucking family... You psychopath." Andrew shouted.
"Mr. Andrew... Please, we don't have to do this. He is the chosen candidate for the Academic Exchange Event, Mr. Jule." Faith interrupted.
"Now I understand... Why the Queen let you go, but you won't get away with everything in your life, Mr. Jule. So, watch your actions in the future. Even if you become the Counselor of the Queen, I don't think she will need you after the Perfect Queen ceremony. So, you better watch yourself." Andrew spoke as he threatened Anon.
"Are you threatening me?" Anon asked with a serious expression.
"Oh, I am just giving you a warning." Andrew replied as he started walking toward the bird.
"He has anger issues." Faith spoke as she looked at Andrew going toward his bird.
"Yeah, I can see that." Anon replied as he smiled and looked at Faith.
"Mrs. Faith, are you coming with me?" Andrew asked turning around.
"No, I am going with Mr. Jule." Faith replied.
"Well, I don't have extra birds for this. You guys can walk wherever you want to go." Andrew replied.
"Well, that's bad. Right, Luv?" Anon asked as he turned around and whistled loudly.
Whistleeeeeeeeeeeee
"What the fuck is he doing?" Andrew spoke as he halted his steps and looked back at Anon with a confused expression.
Cawwwwwwww
Suddenly a very loud cawing sound came from a faraway place.
Chiiii
Chiiii
Chiii Chiii
The birds that were standing on the ground started running away as soon as they heard the sound.
"The fuck is happening?" Andrew wondered as he looked at the birds in confusion.
Suddenly, he saw a big figure in front of the moon. A raven that was coming toward him.
"Shit... A demonic being." Andrew immediately unsheathed his sword and got ready for his self-defense.
"Don't worry, Andrew. It's my ride... I don't think it will be interested in the likes of you." Anon replied as he grabbed Faith from the waist and picked her up in the princess position.
"See you later, Sir Andrew..." Faith spoke as she looked at Andrew with a smile.
Hup
Anon jumped and mounted on the raven's back.
"Let's go, Luv. Take me to the south..." Anon ordered as he touched the raven's neck slowly.
Cawww
The raven immediately started flying toward the direction that Anon commanded.
"How the fuck is he controlling a demonic, three-eyed Raven?" Andrew murmured as he observed both of them going away.
"Hahaha... His face was like, 'What the fuck is that?' He literally unsheathed his sword." Faith spoke as she smiled and made fun of Andrew.
"Well, not his mistake. If you would've seen a three-eyed raven in the middle of a forest, I guess you would be scared as well." Anon spoke as he smiled toward Faith.
"Well, I don't have to be afraid now. Since it's my boyfriend's raven." Faith spoke as she kissed Anon on the lips.
'Show me...' Anon commanded.
[Faith's Mind Control: 60%]
'The fuck? It's been stuck right there for the past 3 days... Why isn't it moving from 60%? Is it because Faith has no more guilt in her heart? Or is it something else?' Anon wondered as he looked at Faith.
"So, how are you going to find out the location of that machine that was firing those things..." Faith asked.
'Hmm... I will corrupt her more if I can have sex with her, and once she is corrupted. I will start the Corruption of Fiona.' Anon wondered as he was lost in his thoughts and ignored Faith's questions.
"Mr. Jule, I am asking you something?" Faith spoke as she touched Anon's face.
"Hmm...? What was that?" Anon asked as he came out of his thoughts.
"Well, how are you going to find out the thing that's launching these missiles?" Faith asked again.
"Well, with this..." Anon replied as he took out the Movement Trigger box from his inventory.
"Wait, you are thinking that. Are you?" Faith asked with a serious expression.
"Oh, I am, Luv." Anon spoke as he took out the magic crystal from his inventory and placed it right over the box.
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