Currently, Eiziest has led his attackers near the Walls of Groven, having to choose to fight in a place where fewer people can get affected. As all-around them are nothing but trees and some small emptied streets.

Eiziest stands ready, standing in between a man with a rifle aimed at him and a very angry winged woman slowly walking towards him with her spear on her right hand.

Eiziest smiles, “…Any chance we can talk this out?” he says to the winged woman.

The winged woman ignores Eiziest and dives forward with her spear at Eiziest.

Eiziest shifts his body and dodges the spear, but the winged woman stabbed her spear onto the ground, and using the spears long pole, she swings on it and kicks Eiziest back.

Eiziest grunts as he blocks the Winged Woman’s kick that pushes him back towards a tree.

As Eiziest tries to recover, but quickly ducks down as he hears the gunman shoot and dodges the shots aimed at him.

Eiziest uses the tree’s shadows to try and outmaneuver the Gunman and the Winged Woman.

The Winged Woman stops as she sees Eiziest go into the shadows. She then looks at her companion.

The Gunman smirks, as he then loads his rifle with a glowing cylinder. He then puts on some glasses as he throws a futuristic-looking monocle towards the Winged Woman.

The Winged Woman catches it and wears the eyepiece, a second later she sees were Eiziest is.

As the Gunman begins to shoot bright glowing bullets aimed at the foot of the tree where he can see Eiziest. As the bullet lands, Eiziest pops out of the shadows much to his surprise, then the Winged Woman charges at Eiziest as she lunges her spear at him.

Eiziest dodges and sees the Winged Woman destroy the tree she just hit. He then continues to back off, not wanting to fight the Winged Woman head-on. While also dodging the Gunman’s constant barrage of shots.

Eiziest then slams his hands onto the ground as he uses Thorned Webbing on the Winged Woman, as vines grow out of the ground and ensnare the Winged Woman. The Vines then releases pink smoke, “…Courtesy of Night bells!” Eiziest says to the Winged Woman as she slowly begins to drift off.

Eiziest chuckles as he takes a quick breather as he then focuses on the Gunman. But to Eiziest’s surprise, the Winged Woman gets herself free as a bullet burned the vines off her.

Eiziest then morphs his hands into dragon-like claws as he uses scale formation. As he guards and tries to counter against the Winged Woman’s even more relentless attacks.

The Winged Woman relentlessly continues to push Eiziest back, without giving him any window to attack. While the Gunman makes sure to keep Eiziest on his toes.

Eiziest then creates a bright flash as he claps his hands, blinding the Winged Woman for a moment. As Eiziest aims towards the Gunman.

Eiziest again uses the shadows to bolt towards the Gunman. The Gunman shoots quick but not quick enough, Eiziest thought to himself as he pops out at the back of the Gunman aiming to knock him out.

The Gunman smirks as he quickly turns towards Eiziest and quickly shoots a revolver from his hip.

Eiziest backs off as the Gunman smiles and laughs, “Gotta admit I’m impressed you got this far! Now…” The Gunman holsters his rifle as he wields two unique looking revolvers on both his hands. “Time to step it up! Now, give me a good one ponytails!” as he says he begins shooting with a smile on his face.

Eiziest uses lightning movement to dodge the barrage of seemingly never-ending shots fired by the Gunman. Eiziest tries to get closer but the Gunman seemingly can tell where and when Eiziest can come from.

The Gunman then quickly flicks a bullet up in the air and catches it into one of his revolvers. As he loads it up and shoots it near Eiziest, it causes a shockwave that knocks Eiziest down.

As Eiziest tries to stand he sees the Winged Woman burst towards him in full force with her spear seemingly glowing.

Eiziest quickly morphs his hands into black scaled claws as he catches the spear with both his scally hands.

Eiziest is pushed towards the wall of Groven, a big dent, and a loud sound of stone cracking is made as Eiziest made contact with the wall, as the Winged Woman continues to push her spear into Eiziest looking at him with a cold blank face.

“Give up and tell us where you took the Queen…” The Winged Woman says to Eiziest coldly as she pushes harder on her spear.

Eiziest hands shake as he chuckles, “… mind dropping the spear first?”

The Winged Woman unflinchingly responds, “No…” as she further pushes her spear closer to Eiziest chest.

Eiziest struggles to push back the Winged Woman’s spear as his grip and the wall behind slowly break.

The Gunman walks in behind the Winged Woman, “…Ease up Angie, we can’t really get anything with a dead guy!” the gunman says as he taps the Winged Woman’s wings.

The Winged Woman’s face grimace as she, for a brief moment, eases up. And with that small window, Eiziest quickly moves her spear onto the side. As the Winged Woman drives her spear deep into the stone wall.

Eiziest in quick succession uses thorn webbing on the Gunman and the under the feet of the Winged Woman. As he creates a saber and engages the Gunman.

The Gunman quickly shoots off the vines as it gets near him using flame bullets with his revolvers. As he sees Eiziest coming, he quickly shifts to his rifle and shoots it onto the ground facing Eiziest.

Eiziest is surprised as the ground in front of him explodes and creates a dust cloud covering the Gunman. And through the dust, the Gunman continues to shoot at Eiziest, as Eiziest deflects with his saber.

Eiziest is able to push forward, using the Gunman’s shots to locate where he is. As they confront each other, both smirk and was about to clash until they heard a loud yell coming from the Winged Woman. “Well, she’s pissed…” the Gunman chuckles.

Moments later, the Winged Woman with incredible speed, to which Eiziest describes like a jet plane that just broke the sound barrier. Rushes next to Eiziest, giving him no time to react, as he sees her murderous face for a second and kicks him upward high in the air.

The Winged Woman bolts up in the air, creating a small vacuum as she flies up. She then relentlessly attacks Eiziest from all directions, keeping him in the air.

The Gunman quickly loads up his rifle with a different cylinder, and then aims and shoots at Eiziest. As the bullet travels it splits into a net that catches Eiziest. As he does, the Winged Woman spins sideways and kicks Eiziest back down to the ground hard, creating a sizeable dent onto the ground.

Eiziest struggles to get free, while the Gunman holsters his weapon and sighs a breath of relief. The Winged Woman on the other hand stabs her spear onto the ground next to Eiziest head. “Now tell us where Queen Eirene is…” the Winged Woman menacingly says looking down at Eiziest.

As Eiziest nervously chuckles, he hears a familiar voice getting nearer.

“YOU FOOLS!!” Felice shouts as she creates a sphere of ice and drops it on the Gunman’s head putting his head on the ground.

The Winged Woman looks at Felice surprised and sees beside her running towards them, she sees Queen Eirene. To which the Winged Woman with tears of joy bolts towards Eirene and hugs her tight, “QUEEN EIRENE YOU’RE OKAY!!”

As the Winged Woman hugs Eirene, much to Eirene’s surprise. Eirene pats the Winged Woman in the back of her head and chuckles, “Good to see you too Angie…”

Mimir then pops out of the shadows near Eiziest with Xion and Nora, with Silfy riding on Mimir. “I see you’re doing fine…” Mimir says to Eiziest on the ground nonchalantly

Nora walks daintily at Eiziest and pokes him with a stick. “A little help would be nice…” Eiziest says to Mimir with a smile.

Xion on the other hand pulls the Gunman head out of the ground.

* * * * * * * * *

As the sun sets, Eiziest and his friends then continue their discussion at the room in the inn they were supposed to stay at. Which coincidentally was where the Winged Woman and Gunman were also staying.

Felice then snaps her fingers, as a layer of transparent glass envelopes the room. “Now we should be safe to speak freely…”

Felice sighs as she sits on a chair, “So… let me introduce you to these two…” Felice says as she looks at the used to be Winged Woman, but as they left the battle area. She made her wings disappear.

The Woman sits on one of the beds beside Eirene, crossing her arms as she looks at Eiziest coldly. While the Gunman sits beside Xion on the sofa, letting him look at his rifle.

Eiziest sits on the opposite end chuckling nervously, with Nora sitting on his lap reading a book. While Mimir floats at his side, as Silfy rests on top of one of the beds.

Felice sighs and smiles as she chuckles at the situation. “Her name is Angelie Brynggur (Bring-er), a valkyrie and one of the champions of Alberio. And with her is her Brother, Gaultrus Brynggur. The head researcher and champion of Hindra, the famous harbor city…”

Gaultrus cuts in and smirks, “Don’t forget the most dashing and number one marksman in all of Niviru…” he says as he shrugs.

Felice blankly stares at him, “…Also, a fool who confessed to me at the first moment of meeting me when he was just a cheeky child…”

Eiziest, Eirene, and Xion hold off their laughter. While Gaultrus shakes for a moment but shrugs off his embarrassment, “I have learned from my past mistakes, I won’t do anything like confessing to an ol-” before he could finish Felice freezes him in place.

Angelie sighs at his brother’s antics, “Apologies for my brothers’ crudeness…” she says as she looks at Eiziest again with cold eyes, “And… my deepest apologies to you Eiezist…” she says meekly and nervously at Eiziest. While Xion helps melt the ice off Gaultrus.

Eirene laughs and smiles, “Don’t be intimidated by her looks Eiziest! she may look like that, but she is truly just a sweet girl inside!” Eirene says putting her left hand on Angelie’s shoulder and cheekily grins.

Eiziest chuckles, “Nice to meet you Angelie and… Gaultrus?”

Gaultrus laughs, “I ain’t the type for formalities, just call us as Angie and Gaul… and in turn, let me call you Eiz! What ya’ say?” Gaultrus says to Eiziest with a smile and half his body still frozen in ice.

Nora’s attention is caught in hearing Gaul’s nickname to Eiziest. “…Alright, please to meet you Gaul, Angie…” Eziest says with a smile.

Nora tilts her head and looks at Eiziest blankly. “Eizy…” she says nonchalantly as she returns to reading her book looking satisfied.

Eiziest smiles, “Guess you like to call me that huh?” he says to Nora warmly. To which Nora just replies, “…Eizy”

Angie looks at Nora confused. “How come Nora is able to be so close to him?” Angie asks Eirene and Felice.

Eirene shrugs, “I don’t really know how, but I do know Eiziest is a person we could trust. And it's fine by me for her to interact with someone so closely that isn’t part of her family…” Eirene says to Angie with a smile looking at Nora.

Felice puts a hand on her chin and sighs happily. “Probably because they somewhat have the same aura in regard to their abilities…”

Angie and Eirene look at Felice curiously. “Care to explain?” Angie asks Felice, to which Felice shrugs and says, “Maybe another time…”

Felice then looks at Angie, “Mind calling Priscilla and letting her know the situation now?”

Angie nods, as she taps on the gem on her armlet. Everyone waits as it glows on and off.

A moment later, the Queen of Alberio, Priscilla is seen projected on Angie’s armlet. “What is it, Angie?” Priscilla asks Angie.

Eirene then pops on to the side, “How are things, Pris?” Eirene jokingly says with a grin.

Priscilla is speechless for a second before shouting. “WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU BEEN, HAVE YOU HAD ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED YOU MADE ME!!” Priscilla’s voice was heard clearly, Eirene just laughs while Angie and Gaul sigh.

Eirene smiles warmly, “I do… And I truly thank you for that… at one point we were in a terrible situation… But as you can see, me, Xion, and Nora are just fine now. I would like to give my thanks to Felice and Eiziest…” Eirene says warmly at Priscilla.

Priscilla sighs in relief, “Good to know you ran into Felice, but who is this Eiziest?”

Angie then moves the projection of Priscilla onto the middle where everyone can see clearly. Angie then points to Eiziest, “It would be him, my Queen…”

Eiziest waves nervously, while Mimir looks at Priscilla blankly. Nora on the other hand simply kept on reading.

Priscilla looks curiously at Mimir and Eiziest. “…A drone from Civel and a… Human…?”

Felice chuckles, “Not entirely true…”

Nora closes her book for a moment as Eiziest then shifts form into his tiny 1st form and now sits on Nora’s lap.

Priscilla looks in awe as she sees Eiziest change forms, as do Angie and Gaul. “So you were a toy?” Gaultrus says bluntly.

Mimir and Eiziest reply at the same time. “Yes” “No!”

Eiziest coughs, “…A pleasure to meet you, Queen Priscilla, the name’s Eiziest and this would be Mimir!” Eiziest says with a pleasant face.

Priscilla smiles, “Pleasure to meet you as well, I give you my deepest gratitude for keeping Eirene and her children from danger…” Priscilla ponders as she looks at Eiziest, “…So, what are you exactly?”

Felice then interjects. “I’ll send in that data later, so if you don’t mind Pris. Can you fill us in with the current situation?”

Priscilla nods, “Yes of course. Since Eirene and her children are safe, we can focus on the matter of who are the people that tried to take them...”

Angie continues, “…and thus current information had led us that these people may well be holding somewhere in Groven. Gaul and I have been investigating all around and found only a handful of clues…”

Gaultrus then explains to everyone the current information they have. He mentions the numerous missing person cases of varying races and tells about the suspicion he and Angie have with the Father and son named Gulius and Loren Osmous who lived outside of Groven’s walls and have given full support to both the guards and the people.

Gaultrus shrugs, “They seem nice but only hearing good things about someone who just now acted saintly is pretty suspicious… Well, based on some of the people’s ideas. Loren Osmous is known to actually be a nice guy. So, it’s all on the Father, Gulius, who’s the likely suspect… But! we still have no evidence to prove it otherwise…”

Angie continues, “…All the alleyways we’ve been said to be the place where the kidnappings took place all end without any traces of anyone being there…”

Gaultrus sighs, “I pretty much have a hunch that someone’s been cleaning the place up before we get there… We tried going in more randomly but the area always seems to be cleared out before we could do anything…”

Felice and Eirene ponder, “Have you tried posting guards in the area?” Felice asks.

Gaultrus grunts and grimace, “We’ve decided not to, as we think it was the guards themselves doing it! And I don’t really trust those royal guards lent by the Osmous family…”

As everyone thinks of a plan and further think of a way on how to deal with the situation, Mimir cuts in as he then detects someone familiar nearby. “Remil is in the lobby and seems to be in distress”

Gaultrus looks at Mimir confused, “…Who?”

Felice snaps her fingers and the sound of Remil shouting and panicking can be heard at the lobby.

Everyone then moves out of the room and move towards the lobby.

* * * * * * * * *

As Eiziest and his friends arrive, they see Remil sitting on a chair looking very much lifeless.

“Who’s the elf kid?” Gaul asks Felice as they come closer.

“…His name is Remil, an acquaintance of ours from Tiniril that helped us get into Groven” Felice explains to Gaul and Angie.

Eiziest approaches Remil, “Hey Remil, what’s going on?”

Remil notices and looks up at Eiziest, and with a shaky voice, he speaks. “Nemi… she… she disappeared!”