As Elidi and Aibeck kept on walking, they would occasionally come across a soldier patrolling the kingdom, but everytime they walk up to one of them to ask them about the kingdom, before they would even get a chance to speak, the guard's would tell them.
" Shut up, and go into your houses,"
Every single time that happens, Aibeck would have the urge to kill one of them, but every single time, he would be stopped by Elidi who knew exactly what he was thinking.
Aibeck wasn't the type that liked to talk to humans, he felt they were degenerative and weak fellows that don't deserve even a glance from him, much less to talk to them.
" Elidi, I don't think this Kingdom is hosting any form of festival, neither do they even spare a glance at us. Why don't we just take over the whole Kingdom and use it for a day, then we can return their Kingdom to them, or we could just keep it since I really do like their innovative architectural design for their kingdom, this place is indeed stunning," Aibeck said with a smile, as he looked mesmerized by the sheer beauty of Velhihem.
" Aibeck, I told you, we need to conserve energy for when we need to talk to Universe, or to try and sense the orb, we don't have time to think about taking over a kingdom, let's just do this in a civilized manner," Elidi said, as he shook his head. Why must Amon always prefer using power.
As Elidi was about to keep on walking, Aibeck immediately protested," Elidi, there is no way I am walking again,"
Yes, Aibeck was a great and powerful primordial wizard, but it's been a while since he's walked like a regular human, and his feet had already begun to hurt him. How can humans walk like this, it's both slow and painful.
" Aibeck, if you're not going to walk how are you supposed to look like a normal non-magical being without walking?" Elidi said with a raised eyebrow.
Aibeck simply smiled and said," By floating,"
Immediately after saying that, Aibeck used a strand of magical energy to float a little off the ground. Unless someone looking close enough, they wouldn't realize that he was actually floating, because occasionally, Aibeck would move his feet forward and backwards so as to look like he was walking, while he was actually just floating.
" Aibeck, tick~ tick~, you and your laziness," Elidi said, as he shook his head with a smile and chuckled lightly.
" Well I like my laziness," Aibeck said, as he began moving forward.
As they continued moving, they couldn't even spot any person they could ask.
They tried knocking on the door of inns but they told them that they were closed and were no longer receiving customers, but when they use spirit sense they could clearly sense about thirty beating hearts in the inns, meaning they just didn't want them here.
" What in heavens name is wrong with this kingdom?!" Aibeck said with a look of annoyance clearly written on his face.
" I have no idea. I can clearly sense about a hundred beating hearts, judging by the way they are beating, I can sense about seven warriors, two minor mages, and the rest are regular humans, I wonder why they won't accept anyone in their inns?" Elidi said with a confused look on his face, though if you look closely you would be able to see a hint of annoyance, probably even anger.
" Elidi, someone's coming closer," Aibeck sensed someone heading towards their direction.
A young and fat boy was jumping around in a jolly skit, the moment he saw Elidi and Aibeck, he turned around and was about to flee.
" Wait! Don't go," Elidi immediately called out to the boy, making him stop.
" Good evening young man, please could you tell us about what happened here?" Elidi asked, the moment they walked up to the kid.
The kid stared at them suspiciously for a moment then he opened his mouth," I'm sorry for trying to flee, but it's just that mother told me not to talk to strangers at night," the boy apologized for his earlier action.
" But, if you want to know what happened to the kingdom, it means you are not from around here. Isn't that right?"
Elidi and Aibeck stared at each other for a moment ," this kid asks' a lot of questions,"
" Yes, we just arrived here tonight," Elidi replied the child.
Then the child stared at them strangely," Sorry to say sir, but it's has been illegal for the guard's to open the kingdom's gate to strangers at night. Could you please enlighten me on how you got in?"
The child began looking around for wether there was a guard passing by so he could report the two strange men.
As Elidi and Aibeck became alarmed as they saw the kid's reaction. And the fact that he had technically called them criminals, made Aibeck a little annoyed.
" I didn't want it to resort to this," Aibeck thought to himself, as he appeared behind the child's back and inserted one of his fingers into the child's neck.
Aah!
The child suddenly felt a great amount of pain coursing through his body, as Aibeck's nail dug into the boy's neck deeper.
" Aibeck! He's just a child!" Elidi became angry about what was happening at the moment.
" He's a child yes, but he was just about to report us. And like you said before you didn't want us to use too much magical energy, so let me use just a strand,"
And with that, Aibeck had successfully inserted his finger into the child's head. But the child on the other hand fainted due to too much pain.
Aibeck then began to see the memories of the child, the time when the kingdom was prosperous, to the time when the witch took over, and how she was eventually killed, to the part of a new king and the grave curse that now threatens their land.