While, Frank was in the treatment center, Maru visited him, after hearing about Frank's condition and viewing his readings, Maru heaved a sigh of relief. He paid two cursed energy bars to the lichs while waiting for Frank to wake up.
He waited for a few hours before a young man with gray hair and an absurd face drifted to his side while engaging in a conversation with him with a serious expression.
"Is it yours?"
"Yeah, he is just one of my servants."
"That's a lot of attention for a 'servant', unless it is something more"
"I just want to know how he is doing"
"Say, I wonder what kind of soul being it is, it isn't like the others"
"It looks a little bit like you but there is something different about it"
Maru had a slight frown on his face but he still looked up to the sarcastic man and asked:
"What do you want, Diego?"
"One might think you and Cord were rivals considering the way it swallowed up one of Cord things, anyway that's not why I'm here."
"Some of my subordinates just obtained a special merchandise which could change the way things are for the better, and maybe we can finally leave this wretched planet and return to the motherland."
"I just want to share this good news and let you know that, while you were looking for the piece of that scum to experiment on, some of us were actually looking for a way to benefit the people"
"I don't expect you to understand since your kind like living like nomads, anyway please excuse me I have places to be"
Diego left as silently as he came leaving Frank with a frown on his face.
Frank returned to his castle and told two of his skeleton knights to start tracking Diego while Sebastian was in charge of the castle in the mean time.
Frank rested on his bed for a while and then woke up abruptly saying:
"Time to visit father."
***
After Diego left Frank, he met up with some of his closest official which were holding a pale yellow woman with gloomy eyes, fiery red hair with torn green clothing and iron clutches on her hands, legs and neck. Diego approached his officials and said:
[Let's go.]
A large bone wyvern spread its bony wings to fly but the wings didn't flap like normal wings, they spread wide and then at the helm of the wyvern a large purple tube around 50cm long and 10cm wide with a label, called:
The tube was inserted and then the wyvern hovered above the ground slightly, a few moments passed until the wyvern was the perfect distance above land, the wyvern was then controlled by an aviator located deep in an enclosed bone near the skull of the wyvern surrounded by a transparent bright yellow energy field.
The prisoner was loaded into the torso of the wyvern while a few of Diego's officials set up camps around the bony legs of the wyvern.
Diego and another one of his officials sat side by side with the prisoner, an artificial room was created around the torso so they were comfortable.
***
Maru's skeleton officials arrived at the location a few minutes later and observed the bone wyvern in mid air.
A skeleton in model leather armor and silver shoulder blades and knee caps discussed with another skeleton with dark blue robes and purple gem necklace.
[Why are they not using portal travel]
[I think it is because of what they are transporting]
[They want no record of it, to be displayed]
[In other words that are transporting it illegally]
[I have a bad feeling about this]
[They are about to leave the gate]
[It's been a long time since I stepped outside]
[We have no choice but to follow them]
The skeletons exited the gates and stepped outside the gates of New Darkovia alongside the bone wyvern.
Immediately the skeleton exited the city, a bright deep blue sky and familiar landscape were observed.
The skeleton dispersed to the shadows while the wyvern took to the skies, poisoning and cursing any living thing in its path.
A few hours passed, while Maru's officials secretly observed the wyvern trying to find out what cargo was being transported.
The skeleton lich could take it any more and grumbled at the need to get closer, after a while the skeleton knight accepted and they agreed to get closer but one of Diego's officials which was at the rear of one of the forelegs easily spotted one of them and tried to chant a spell but Maru's skeleton knight was faster as he easy propelled himself from a nearby tree into the wyvern leg with a sharp bone blade that easily crushed the head of the skeleton.
The skeleton knight urged the skeleton lich to accompany him at the top, the lich accepted and together they started using different skills on other skeletons while trying to find the easiest route to where the cargo was held.
After five of Diego's skeleton officials were crushed, Diego ordered the aviator to land the bone wyvern so that the intruders could be found.
The skeleton knight and lich tried to flee the scene but they lost their chance because two skeleton lich and a skeleton knight were busy battling with them and blocking their way.
The wyvern landed softly on the parched earth while the skeleton lich and knight were easily surrounded by their enemies.
The scene was watched by two young girls with brown leather clothing, one holding a bow and arrow while another holding a short spear, they were standing a few meters behind the large wyvern hidden in thick bushes and observing the situation.
***
Love and Willow were busing tending to their camp when a large trail of black was seen ahead, immediately noticing the situation, Willow shouted to Love.
"Run!!!"
Love wanted to ask Willow whether to take any of her things that was in the camp but before she could approach Willow, Willow had already taken a few steps sprinting like a mad woman with her bow.
Love stopped hesitating and quickly grabbed her wooden spear and bolted in the same direction Willow ran.
After securing a good hiding spot far away from the black trail, Love asked:
"What is going on?"
Willow answered with her mouth trembling;
"Soul beings"
Love was confused by her answer and asked carefully:
"What are soul beings?"
But before Willow could answer, a large bone wyvern landed on the floor of their camp, making the woods decay, the trees turn yellow, then brown and then black until they scattered like ash.
Love tried drawing closer but Willow just stood at the same spot petrified, on closer inspection a pair of skeletons in beautiful clothing laced with a bit of dark blood and broken bones were seen at the middle surrounded by a bunch of skeletons with injured bones waiting for something or someone.
It happened like a flash a man with grey hair and a face that looked like it was patched to his skull was there and together with him, was another skeleton with a black book and dark robes with dark holes in his eye socket and together with him a pale woman with pale yellow skin, fiery red hair and torn green robes was seen standing with them.
Love had a shocked expression on her face as she exclaimed:
"Hope!!!"