SNATCHED BY EAGLES
"I guess it is just the few of us here", Melroy said to us as the fog in the sky cleared like what Yasha predicted.
"What do you think? How do we get to the castle over the other end?" I asked Sara.
"The grounds are moving in a trajectory that brings us back to our point of origin. We can't walk to the castle. This bloody realm is stopping us", she told us of her observation.
"We can't walk to the castle and the clouds will attack us if we fly, how do we get to the castle?" Chash asked us.
We stayed in the yellow cloud hill for some time until the light went out in this realm.
While we were wondering about what to do, suddenly, several clouds formed like eagles rushed toward us. With their large claws the cloud eagles started to grab the adventurers.
Several adventurers were taken by the eagles and none of us could stop them to our shock and horror.
"Why is the cloud taking our people?" Rinna asked us.
"Usually, the realm of Delirium will only prevent people going to Castle Delirium but will not harm them", Yasha told us from her knowledge and experience.
Yasha was once one of the Black Bishops of the Dark Church of Nerakah. Although she had never been here before, she was more familiar with the place than the rest of us.
On the next day, before the lights came up, we were surprised when those people who were taken by the cloud formed like eagles returned them to us.
We checked these people and found them to be unharmed.
"These idiots are not harmed but they lost all the magic in their body, some of the loss is permanent", Sara told us about what she saw in the returned adventurers.
"Where did the eagles bring you?" we asked the returned adventurers.
"We were taken by the eagles to another cloud peak. A monster there channeled his magic at us and made us sleep. When we awoke, we returned here but our magic is gone", one of the returned adventurers told us.
"Is there someone else in this world on the other peaks?" I asked Sara.
"There is another idiot over there in that peak", Sara told me and pointed to another cloud formed peak.
"Is the monster from there?" Cassandra asked.
That cloud formed peak was where the cloud filled eagles took the adventurers came from and where they brought them away for the night.
"What are you thinking?" Rinna asked me when she saw me pondering about the matter.
"We should check out the guy or monster over at the other peak since we couldn't get to the Castle of Delirium ourselves. There might be clues there on the peak on how to get to the castle", I told them.
"How do we get there, we can't fly in this realm? There is magic that prevents flying in this realm," Melroy asked me.
The others shared the same question as Melroy although they didn't ask out loud.
"The only thing that can fly in this world are the cloud formed eagles", Sara informed us.
"I know how to get there to the other peak and without us flying there", I replied to them.
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The day came and gone but we still couldn't find a way to get to the Castle of Delirium.
"The eagles are back", someone shouted and ran as the night touched down.
But I did not run like the others.
Soon, the eagle found me and thought I was easy prey. The eagle swooped toward me and grabbed me into the sky. The eagle soon brought me into the air before we flew away.
In a short while, we reached another cloud peak. The same cloud peak where the eagles came from and the mysterious person in Delirium resided in.
Suddenly, someone walked out from a cloud cave to meet us. To my shock and surprise, he looked familiar.
"Ah… who do we have here? I'll have another feast on your magic tonight", the guy said to us.
The guy checked our magic by probing us immediately.
He was satisfied with the magic of the other adventurers who were captured, but he frowned when he met me.
"How did an Awakening tier come into Delirium?" the guy asked.
My chaos magic caused the reading of my magic to be misrepresented on the low side. I also cast a unique chaos magic that could lower my magic reading even more.
"Chaos Suppression"
"An awakening tier is not worth the effort of my exertion to extract magic from", the guy complained to me.
"Please don't kill me?" I pleaded with the guy.
The guy thought about it for a while before he replied to me, "I won't kill you. I will just take your magic like the others".
"But I don't have much magic. It is a waste of your time", I replied to him.
This guy was taking magic from the victims snatched here by the cloud eagles. But it probably took more effort from him to steal magic from an Awakening tier than the benefit from it.
I was useless to him.
The guy thought about it again and scratched his head. My appearance here gave him much trouble.
"I'll kill you. That will solve this", he replied to me.
"Master, my magic is weak, but I can work for you. Please do not kill me", I pleaded with the mysterious guy.
The guy thought about my offer for a while as he counted with his fingers. He was calculating the chores that he has to do.
"I don't need a slave. I am usually alone", the guy told me.
I am beginning to have a conversation with the guy and he gave me a lesser than clever impression.
"But I have so much to do", he continued as he counted with his fingers again.
"Why don't you try my service for a day then you can decide whether you want to keep me. I'll help you do all your chores", I asked the guy and pleaded with him.