Once Daimon’s ship had completely emerged from the water, Calvin and the others jumped onto its deck, a couple of seconds later, Daimon, Aisha, the Risha sisters and lastly Stella came out of the ship.
“Vice principal Leeris, when did you arrive?”, Calvin was the first one to notice the presence of a new face in the group, probably because it was a woman.
Stella stole a gaze at Daimon before she cleared her throat.
“I was finally able to enter the magic ruin about half an hour ago… and apparently the badge brought me near the one who had it”.
The others just nodded without thinking too much about Stella’s slightly hesitant voice, they just assumed she was a bit dizzy due to the travel through the dimensional tunnel.
“Mm?”, Stella’s attention was drawn by Scarlet, Ruby, Lapis and Jade as she saw them getting onto Daimon’s ship, with Amber’s help.
She turned to see Daimon with a frowned expression.
“Natives of this place?”.
Daimon shook his head as he told Scarlet and the others to join them.
“No, apparently another stellar chart is connected to this place, the rulers of that place are four tribes, which have attacked us from the very beginning, and they are their enemies, so I took them in”.
“What!”, Stella’s eyes widened a bit, not because of the girls, but because of the mention of another stellar chart, the only time the Wonder Myriad stellar chart got into contact with a foreign stellar chart or galaxy, it ended up in a bloodbath on their side.
Stella immediately became serious, they must het ahold of the entrance that the other party used to enter the magic ruin, the last time they were invaded it was a bloodbath.
“What are their numbers, their strongest powerhouses, do they have Magus Emperors…”.
Stella suddenly asked a lot of questions, if what Daimon said was true then, this no longer was only an exploration, the rules of the academies stated that the students must either capture or neutralize people from other stellar charts.
“Judging from their explanations, there are four of them in that galaxy, but so far their lord ranks have been disappointing, they don’t have mana sense nor the capacity to use the manifestation phenomenon to increase the power of their spells”.
“Yeah, Daimon is right, the shrimp and me can easily stall one of them each, if we join hands, we can kill them is less than an hour, as long as they are more or less in the same range of strength that the ones we have fought against before, they have close to zero battle experience although their realms are high”.
Scarlet and the others had no clue what they were talking about, but they did notice that Daimon and the others weren’t impressed by the members of the noble families that have caused them so much pain.
Still even among the nobles there were divisions, so Scarlet didn’t forget to warn them.
“The four princes and their first cousins in other words those who come from the noble families that have marriage relations with the royals, have personal instructors, so they aren’t as easy to deal with as the others… that guy who you captured is one of them”.
Upon hearing that Daimon had a prisoner with potential important information, Stella couldn’t help but see Daimon in a different light, normally members of the young generation are too hot blooded to think in future prospects, they think that killing an enemy is the biggest victory, while in a war information is priceless.
…
After about one hour of conversation, everyone was now in the same channel, Daimon even showed them the black badge which now had the rune shark engraved on it.
“Speaking of it, have you seen my little sister?”, now that the magic ruin turned to have three parties in conflict including a lot more of Lord ranks than what was supposed, Stella couldn’t help but be worried about Gina.
“I appeared on the north and travelled through a large part of it, without finding anyone but those creatures and a couple of demons, including one of those pillar guys which happened to be possessed by them”, said Aisha.
“Same for us, we appeared near each other at the west and only found creatures, only when we started travelling to the south those tribe guys started appearing”, added Michael.
“It seems the entrance for the Melize galaxy is on the south, I appeared on the east so the second years should be on the south”, concluded Daimon, he also only bumped into the members of the tribes after he headed to the south, unfortunately Scarlet and the other girls, were already in a cage before they could reach the magic ruin.
They were only able to not be separated and distributed among the royals, because they didn’t know they were the princesses of their races, and that was in part thanks to Ruby, because all the previous princesses isolated from other members of their races, to somewhat lessen the chance of being caught.
That’s how the son of an Archduke not related to the royals like Eleazar managed to keep them, they were confused as simple members of their respective races and according to the laws of the tribes, they belonged to whoever captured them, in this case Eleazar’s father who then gifted them to his son.
Seeing Stella’s worried expression, Daimon then added.
“Why don’t you use the special communication sigil to contact her, although I don’t see any of them having troubles to deal with guys in the same range as the ones we have fought so far, specially if Arianna, Lana and Aleah appeared near her”.
Stella’s eyes illuminated for a split of a second, technically the one in charge here was Daimon, because the lord ranks couldn’t attack the students of any of the academies, so the one-time sigil could only be used with his permission.
“Thanks… Daimon”, Stella thanked Daimon, she then remembered something that happened before she left.
“Miss Aura secretly gave me this just when I was being dragged by the gate of the magic ruin”, Stella then handed Daimon a small box with a ribbon.
Daimon raised an eyebrow remembering the previous “gift” Erin left in his pillow, so he accepted the little box and only after scanning it with his infinity eyes, he opened it, to reveal a little transparent crystal as well as note.
“That is a one-time sigil, but the sage could only create four of them in the day and they were evenly split among the four academies!”, Stella was in disbelief, each academy only got one of those sigils.
Daimon read the note and couldn’t help but laugh.
“You should have already seen Erin’s gift, this is from me, Liz and Elaine (we threatened the sage with Erin’s name though), it was created in a hurry with a drop of my blood, so you can only use it to contact a werewolf, and that guy fainted due to it, but everything for our Daimon~”.
“Those three girls…”, thought Daimon, apparently, they somehow blackmailed the Greenwich Sage into creating a fifth sigil, it had some limitations, but Arianna was perfectly in the range, the other option was Reiner, but his “junior sister” had priority in this case.
Stella didn’t lose time and immediately contacted her little sister, the sigil she had was yellow instead of transparent, she inserted it into her sigil lector and after a couple of seconds, an emblem with the form of a snow leopard appeared on the little screen.
“Sister, is that you?”, Gina’s voice came from the sigil lector, making Stella let out a sigh of relief.
“Yes, I just arrived, I’m with practically the whole first’s year elite class, where are you, are you okay… are the others with you?”.
After a few seconds of silence, caused by the interference that restricted the mana in the air, Gina’s voice was once again heard coming from Stella’s lector.
“I’m at the south area, Aleah and Lana are with me, we are okay but there is a lot of enemies in ships blocking the area, there are two Peak lord ranks among them and about forty early-stage Lord ranks, there were more, but we got rid of some while we were fathering, we had to hide after the peak ones started looking for us… because Aleah half beat someone to death”.
“Humph, it was a weakling acting all high and mighty swinging a stick like a sword, those Lord ranks are just a bunch of herbivores”.
Aleah’s voice suddenly interrupted the conversation, making Calvin shrug.
“See I told you she was a walking disaster”, he mumbled.
The crystal which Stella inserted into her sigil lector started to crack, meaning the time for the connection was about to end, Stella and Gina exchanged the coordinates of their destinations, and in the last seconds Daimon asked if they have seen Arianna or Dana.
“No, but the area is divided in two different “camps”, the one we are in has green flags with sword emblems all over the place, the other one has blue flags and a wave…”, before Gina could end her sentence, the crystal became thin dust and the call stopped.
“Bamboo Sword tribe and Tidal Wave Tribe, they are controlling the gate, makes sense since the entrance was found below the sea of a planet which belongs to the Tidal Wave tribe and they are allies”, said Jade.
“Mm?”, Daimon was about to contact Arianna, when he noticed two ships coming at full speed towards them, both ships stopped a few meters away from Daimon’s one, and then a blond-haired guy with blue eyes, who was wearing white clothes and armor, as well as a gray skinned black long-haired guy with black clothes, came from the captain’s cabin of each ship.
Both of them had frowned expressions, the blond guy looked at the ship where the Paladins were, while the black-haired demon focused his attention on the deck of Daimon’s ship.
“Brother Adam, that guy tried to kill me!”, the girl from the Penddra family immediately shouted as she saw the blond guy who turned out to be the captain of the second year’s Paladins, Adam Regen.
Still Adam didn’t react until he saw Femi and Tessa coming out of the captain’s cabin, his eyes narrowed after he confirmed something and then without saying anything he took out a white sword from the sheath which hanged from his waist.
The black-haired demon, who was the captain of the second year’s Abomination class, Marcus Sicarel, gritted his teeth and then everything from his forearm to his fingers became black and started leaking black mist.
“How dare you!”.
“Go to hell!”.
They both shouted and then jumped towards Daimon’s ship, Calvin and Michael were about to intercept them, but they managed to catch a glimpse of a lightning and darkness cladded figure passing them, and exchanged smiles as they crossed their arms and stopped moving.
“Booom!”.
“Clang”.
A loud shockwave, followed by the sound of metals colliding and a large amount of mana clashing on the air, drew everyone’s attention.
There in the air, both Adam and Marcus were stopped midway by Daimon, Narasha in Gram’s form collided against Adam’s white sword, while Daimon’s claws clashed with Marcus’s ones, sparks flew all over the place, but Daimon didn’t pay them any attention, because right now, a familiar sound could be heard in his mind.
[Ding]