Our knights had recovered the Heartlin Stones from all over the world and restored the power of Asalikith once more. It was late in the morning, and Darice and her team arrived back in the capital of Treesape to return to King David and to hand over the stones they collected. "Team Darcie, it's my pleasure to have you back here. I understand the pain you had to endure to get to this point, and I couldn't be more proud of you and Shara for accomplishing this task, this failure that I let happen to the kingdom, and I apologize for letting this happen." David announces to them. Darcie handed over the stones to David but requested to speak with him in private afterward, to which he granted her request. David then announces the funeral of Aaron later in the day to rest up from their adventure. David then notices small markings on Taski's body; however, he decides to sweep it off and focus on his primary task.
He then orders them to rest up and attend the funeral at the 6th hour; before that, he gives them the freedom of choice. Darcie left Taski in charge of her crew to watch until her questions were answered. Once David orders them to fall out, Darcie follows him toward the inner security section of the castle's basement, where she'll attempt to extract secrets that she believes David held back from them. He then ordered her to abstain from entering the security door, as it was only for chosen members to cross over; he then sealed the Heartlin Staff inside the heart of the castle, where no one could rob the staff. After this, he stepped back into his office to speak with Darcie, "David, with all due respect, I understand you have had more experience with the world; however, I'm just curious about some things. If you knew where you were sending the stones, why would you send one of them out towards Tennessee, down into that horrible lab room where we almost lost our lives? Furthermore, that lab that you sent our last stone out to appeared to have a lot of Treesape written all over it; what's up with that?
My team was put under pressure by some weird creature we encountered." Darcie asked David with deep concern. David remained unruffled from her doubtful and concerning questions. He answered her, " With your concerns and doubts, I understand why you feel this way, young knight, but I didn't intentionally send the stone out towards a monster-infested lab to have you executed. When I send out the stones in a world-at-stake scenario like this, I send them to places I've been to in my younger years. To answer your other question, Treesape is a name we Asalikians had bought out many years ago for this part of the land." Darcie remained optimistic about David and kept other questions to herself. David added, "I understand that you may feel doubtful of me, and I respect your thoughts and feelings; after all, we all have our own beliefs. However, I wouldn't do this to all of you purposefully, and I hope you understand my perspective, Darcie." He ended his statement. Darcie then finished her time with David and headed to her dorm room to rest. Now, further out from the kingdom, deep down into the sea, was the deceased body of Chris Deratea.
The warrior of pride lay down in defeat from his former boss, the unknown leader of the solar pyramid. Slightly further away from him was a piece of flesh brought back from the lab and stuck to the side of Darcie's ship. The piece of flesh separated into two pieces; the first went off toward the city limits, and the other floated downward toward Chris due to the blood scent from the bullet that pierced through his head. The flesh then dug into Chris's forehead and went to his heart, which may manifest into his body. Then, Chris instantly had his heart active once again. He then awoke from his dead body. "(What!? I'm alive, but how is this possible? What's going on?)" Chris asked himself, bewildered. Then, the flesh spoke to him through his conscience. "{Listen to me. I am now a part of you, Chris. You will either do as I say or suffer the continuation of your death.}" The flesh ordered him through his mind. The flesh then spoke to Chris again and told him, "{Now that you're finally out of the grave, I need you to do something. My physical body is now forming and restoring, and I will use your body to execute my desires until my body is finally completed.
I know you have a beef with the prince, Taski Mandelen. He left a terrible taste in your mouth, I see. Well, I can ensure that you can bring forth sweet revenge, tear down this dump, and bring forth a new age. Do as I tell you, and you shall have a second chance at your life. {Chris then acted out on the fleshes commands and pursued its orders without hesitation. Upon receiving the orders from the flesh, Chris moved forward and sought revenge on Taski and all his adversaries who stood in his way of progress. Darkness had then been reborn; thus, a new age would soon begin for the land of Asalikith and the world. Night had then fallen upon the Asalikian land, and therefore, our heroes formed the castle of Treesape to remember their comrade, Aaron. Our heroes paid their respects, wept, mourned, and stayed for hours to weep over their fallen knight.
Akaio stayed the longest as she felt more broken-hearted in the circle. Some of Aaron's closest friends then discussed their memorable moments with him. After the funeral, the rest of the knights and citizens then departed. The following day comes, and our heroes attend the official first day of their intended work. David orders them into the office round table for their intervention in the coming work, "If anyone needs to take some time still to clear their thoughts, please do so." David offered to the two teams. Team Darcie and Sharaletta were close to the roundtable; however, Akaio still displayed tears from the funeral and opted to move away to regain her composure. David then commanded Vennath Elibalar's assistant to lead the knights into their investigation. Vennath was chosen as a knight; however, her ability would lead to her potential death due to blood loss. Thus, she was assigned as King David's assistant and as a knight when needed in battle.
"Everyone, I require you to listen to Vennath, do as she says. I need to depart from the castle to reach out to the first responder of this situation. Some of you may not have been aware, but someone attempted to disrupt our electrical supply early this morning at 2:23 am. Our mission is to find out who did this, capture them, and detain them until further notice from the judge. All of you will have to do an online investigation on highly protected and classified sites, accessible only through specially designed computers. We have the Valkyries already sent out to search in locations of the lands; the units have already begun searching on the premises of the power plant; our Air Force pilots are currently searching through the space programs. It is critical to stay private with us, and it is currently highly classified. Do as Vennath says, and she'll assist you with any request you bring her." King David orders them. After speaking to the knights, he vanished from the castle and flew out toward the site of the incident. Vennath then ordered the knights to spectate the camera footage on the website she gave them. The knights then watched and observed the footage to check for any suspicion that was recorded.
An hour had passed, and only small details were collected during their observation; however, Drake noticed a suspicious figure moving closer toward the camera; he watched. "(This is weird, it looks oddly familiar. Looks like that guy that Taski had fought back at the exams. Wait, hold on. That is him, what's he doing to the power breaker?)" Drake thought to himself. Seconds later, his livestream then shut down and displayed an error. Without delay, he called over Taski to observe the footage captured, and the results shocked him to the heart. Darcie then rushed over to them and likewise admired the scene. Now further out from the kingdom, King David had arrived at the plant and noticed that most of the power supplies were heavily damaged and fried. He walks through the facility and feels a power with dark malice; he doesn't discover this entity but keeps moving forward. He approaches the plant and suddenly feels the power fade away, he then asked himself, (Hmm, that weird power keeps fluctuating all over the place, I can feel it, but what's stopping it from approaching me?"
After a few minutes, he makes his way through the double doors of the plant and notices the power of the place is burnt out, making the place appear dark and gloomy. Then suddenly, the same power he felt reappeared to him, but instead, it felt darker and colder than before his last sense of it. "Whoever is there, give it up and show yourself. I'd hate to fight in a place like this, but I'll strike first if needed. Make your move, coward." David intimidated the dark force. Then, out in the shadows was a figure that appeared small, it then spoke to David saying, "Soon, no actually, very shortly will be the rebirth of the entire Earth. You'll see it in its full glory, and I'll be the one to rule it all. Just wait and see; it'll be magnificent." David then vanishes into his phantom hemn form and searches the facility, hunting for the dark that spoke to him. Slightly further away from him, was a figure rushing toward him at high speed, he then summoned his ghost slayer sword and then reappeared physically to begin his duel.
"(That's Chris Deratea. What is he doing out here, not that it matters, here and now is where he's done for.)" Returning to the knights at David's castle, they discover more footage of Chris Deratea causing damage to the power supplies of the plant. They asked themselves, "(What are his intentions of doing this?)" Next, the knights reported to Vennath and gave her the data collected from the power plant footage. Now, Vennath had little experience in her job and slightly panicked due to the overwhelming amount of information given, "Everyone, remain calm and continue to search for any more entities that could potentially be out there." Vennath commanded them while figuring out her next move. Her only thought that came to mind was to contact David, but unfortunately, David refused to answer his calls. She then resorted to contacting Tailzy, except she knew that Tailzy was busy with the Valkyries and their task. Returning to David in the power plant, David and Chris clashed in a head-on fight, and the two fought with incredible power. David and Chris clashed their blades aggressively, causing powerful shockwaves to bounce off their blades. This would then become a severe problem in David's case, "What's wrong, Mr. King of Treesape? Can't hit your target, just like you did with Yegor, oh wait, you died by a bullet. Of course, you'd fall to something simple and weak like that."
Chris taunts him, disrespecting his skills. David then unleashes phantom energy all around Chris and misses his target; Chris then taunts him for his aiming skills. However, David then ignites his slashes, causing the entire room to become foggy. "Idiot, I wasn't aiming for you," David announces to Chris. After the room becomes like a ghost town, Chris becomes lost in the mist and is slashed on his back and chest, but at that moment, David finds out about Chris's newly found frightening power. "You can't kill me, you can't damage me, neither can you cut me off. I am immortal now." Chris promotes out loud to David. This left David confused and lost, for David left marks on his upper back and marks on his upper and lower chest area, but it meant nothing to Chris as he laughed aloud.
Chris then charged forward while ignoring the damages and fights back; however, the power difference between the two were not far apart from each other, David still had the upper hand, but lacked the ability to insure his victory. Chris kept pushing and battling against his opponent without mercy. His power only got more robust, even to the point where it was as strong as David's. Returning to Treesape Capital, Queen Tailzy received the call from Vennath; she then responded to her and instructed her command to return the information to David. Vennath then informed her about David's nonresponse. This caused trouble in the kingdom. Tailzy then ended her call with Vennath to leave where David was last known.