... Kanji wakes and looks out the window. The sun is setting, its head lowering beyond the horizon. Kanji moves his leg-shooting the blanket off and covering the window.

Kanji "Shit. Note to self to never overcharge again. Mina! Azan! Why aren't we moving anymore?! Also, bring an empty battery. I say about 1,000,000 volts capacity!"

Mina "What?! Oh, you want a battery! We're coming! Just stay still!"

He looks to the right. Mina and Azan are carrying over an odd yet familiar battery. There are dozens of heavily covered wires that weave in a swirl around the battery's circuit-like and metallic components. They lay it down on the side of his bed.

Kanji "Perfect. That's the prototype, NASA was developing to store power from the Sun. You know I'm still impressed that they were able to create thermal generators on the Sun's surface."

Kanji gives them a look and nudge his head, leading their attention toward his right arm. They understand and put his right hand over the battery. His hand glows blue and the whole floor lights up, blinding everyone in sight. After it clears, they see that the battery is shaking, and its exterior collides with the floor, jittering out of control.

Azan "Ok, this doesn't look! Kanji what do we do?!"

Kanji takes out his device tablet and stores it away. Mina and Azan noticed that he whispered something to his device but they decide to not bother him about it.

Azan "Was that the right move? It could destroy everything in there."

Kanji "Dealing with out-of-control devices is my specialty. Besides, I was looking for ways to charge my subspace anyway"

Mina "Wait, that place has a charge?!"

Kanji "Obviously. Nothing in this world is infinite. Speaking of which... now that my Vortex Battery is full. Let's continue with our journey. Where are we exactly?"

Mina "We are on a cliffside. Far south of an Amish town, they were such nice people!"

Azan "Nice, huh. Then can you explain the tomatoes on that window over there?"

Mina "Azzy, but those were thrown by kids. I'm pretty they were just having fun! Also, We asked them about the closest isolated place from the town. And now we are here thanks to lovely folks!"

Kanji "Okay. Thank you for the info, you two. You guys are awesome."

He then gives the two of them noogies like an older brother doing it to his two younger siblings. The time and change wielders then salute and run up the stairs, alerting the other wielders. One by one they come down- Gwen and Claire hug Kanji.

Kanji "Oh hey girls. Sorry, I made you two worry."

Claire "Don't do that again! You big silly dumbo!"

Gwen "Don't ever try again! You brave imbecile!"

Dave "Woah! Harsh man harsh! Girls, am I righ-

Diana and Amelia hit him on the head, and he retreats to the back of the group. Kanji stand up from his bed and they make way for him as he walks into the outdoors. From the cliff, he sees an ocean of trees and flocks of different colored birds flying in the distance. He breathes in the fresh air while his body slowly adjusts. Soon, his reflexes return and Kanji takes out his device once more.

Kanji "Who's up for Ireland!"

All "Me!"

AN "Me, too! I'm so glad that you have recovered! Gosh! I was so worried! At one point, I noticed that your pulse wasn't beeping. And my heart near jumped out of my chest."

Kanji "Hold on. How could you know that my pulse wasn't active?"

Gwen "Yeah! And did you just mention that you have two hearts?! Two hearts!"

AN "Oops! I probably got too carried away. So while you guys were doing your own business, I was discussing with the other rebels how they could deliver stuff to me instead of me going to them. They said that invisibility was the only option and ask me if I happen to have a schematic for one. Soooo... Sorry, Kanji. I sort of... hacked into your home's database."

Kanji "Again. Please stop hacking my stuff. You guys took the cloaking tech. Didn't you? Did it at least help?"

AN "Yes, tremendously! Buuut that's only because The Empire doesn't know we have that kind of tech. You see we tested it and infrared worked on it. So if they catch on, the invisibility will be useless."

Kanji "I have a guess that you guys will only use it the deliver stuff to your location."

AN "That's right! This way I can be much more useful and there's no way The Empire can find out about it."

Gwen "Ahem! Two hearts and the device. I need some explanation."

AN "Oh, sorry. Yes, Castastrians have two hearts. One in the same place as humans and one on the opposite end slightly to the right. The device I received today was a type of scanner that can check the vital states of creatures using stored image learning. It has in total about 100,000,000 catalogs of species across the universe."

Claire "I thought you Castastruairara- or whatever don't like to do that stuff. Right?"

AN "Oh, yeah. We didn't create this technology. This is a product of the merchants and traders of Wal'Tera. Us rebels made some negotiations. The Empire also has them, but they used actions more than words."

Diana "Darn, bastards! Even in trade, they are merciless!"

Sarah "Er... AN. Can I have my shovel back?"

AN "About that. You see I still don't have a way to transport it back to you. I'm so sorry."

Claire "Sarah. If you want a shovel, I can just make you another-

Sarah "NO! A girl's first shovel is her shovel for life. AN, keep on to it until the day we meet in person."

Noah "Yeah, better watch over it." "God, I wish I was her shovel. Ah... Together for life..."

AN "Ummm... okay. I will try my best. See now that I have the option to access more things. Is there anything you guys need?"

Kanji "Yes, there is! We need a way to counteract their searching devices. If that isn't possible then we must fight fire with fire!"

AN "I don't how to stop them from finding you guys. But I can discuss with the others on a way to help you search and detect enemies. I think... it would take a while before we get any good results."

Kanji "That's fine with me. Just make sure to press the heal button if you see us injured."

AN "Got it! I guess I'll see everyone back in a few days."

Dave "Wait! AN bro!... Fuck. They're gone. Man, I had a question."

Diana "It was bound to be dumb anyway. I bet it is like "What do your farts smell like?" or something stupider."

Kanji "Okay enough! Is everyone ready to go?"

The ten wielders give him salutes and they take a step back, thinking that Kanji is about to do something big. Kanji exhales and walks to the RV, he presses a button on his device... Success! One RV has been stored! The group cheers and Kanji then grab a circular disk out from his portal. His peers come closer and see that it looks like a massive DVD but thicker and has small circular dents around the outline of the object. He places it down...

Dave "Cool dude! Is this your teleporting thingy, bro?!"

Kanji "Yep! But this one is a little bit... different. |Access Protocol 888098| connect transfer point to Teleporter 56749302. |Access protocol 888098| |FXCGYTH-34567| ignore restrictions for 3 hours."

Azan "What the hell was that?!"

Kanji "Since you shared your secret. Might as well share mine. These are commands to access any teleporter in the world despite the owner's permission. That said the two teleporters must still be at the same point in space-time. Thanks to our luck, we got just that, and this other teleporter is located in the middle of nowhere."

Amelia "That's odd. Why would anyone do that?"

Kanji "I'm guessing that the owner is a farmer. These days teleporters are very popular with farmers since they can easily sell their products. Either that or the owner simply forgot about it. Now, I say it again. Is everyone ready-

Everyone except Gwen tries to fit themselves onto the small platform. Kanji facepalms and kicks the side of the teleporter. The platform expands... Gwen and Kanji move in with style. Their body covered with light before zapping to the other side of the world. Their eyes are shut for a moment but then they open. Looking around they appear to be in some kind of small cottage. The floor is made of old mangrove planks and covered with hay. The walls are layered with white wool and the ceiling is made of woven fiber. On one of the walls, there is a Viking horn on display. Under it is a desk covered in dust and on the converge of collapse. Dave checks its drawers and finds nothing.

Diana "Icarus! It is rude to search other people's stuff!"

Dave "We are already in their house anyway. So what's the big deal?! Also, you think that anyone would live in this fucking dump, bros."

Claire "Hey! This place isn't a dump! I find it very comfy like this leather skin bed-AH!"

Her lightweight body caused the bed to split in two. It reveals a hidden hatch on the floor. Curious, Kanji pries open the hatch with ease but the whole thing comes out along with some of the surrounding floorboards. He flips it around and sees that the hatch was locked from the inside.

Sarah "Woah, there must secrets down there! Like Viking treasures!"

Sarah is the first to jump down and they all follow after her. Claire converts one of her syringes into a lantern. They then see that!

Cl/Mina "AHHHHH! What is that?!"

Sarah "Awesome! A corpse! Holy shit the guy's clothes are attached to him."

This corpse is sitting on a bench, the floor is covered with even more hay and the walls are buried under a layer of strange moss that oozes a clear liquid. Near the corpse are carcasses of rodents and the empty shells of insects. Kanji and Gwen take a closer look. Gwen can tell that it wasn't the clothes that were attached to his skin. It was his skin that is overlapping and fusing with his clothes.

Gwen "I say that is the most extreme case of Fibroma I have ever seen. Perhaps a far more mutated variant that was caused by exposed scar tissues. Seeing that this poor individual was stuck here for a while. This is a plausible outcome."

Kanji "A while? I say a couple of years. The question is why did I lock himself in here? Also, take a closer."

Amelia "Hold on a second. Wow, his skin is bloody green like his trousers!"

Mina "Oh poor guy! He's green all over. What the hell happened here?!"

Kanji "I say most likely that this has to do something with our trial. It just screams paranormal- Sarah! Cut that out!"

Sarah "Oh! Sorry! Sorry!"

She pulls the corpse's finger out of its nose and walks back. Claire stops her and tells her to take her mechanical soap. Sarah groans and follows through with her demand.

Adrian "Kanji. I think you missed something. In this person's pocket. There's a note!"

Kanji "A note? It might a clue. Can you read it for us?"

Adrian "Sure... Let's see here... Okay, small parts of the note are a bit wet from something. Also, the words here are written in a weird Irish font and of course in Irish. But lucky for everyone, I am prepared to translate this for you all. Okay, here I go...

Hello, My name is Poel Ishe. If you are reading this, I’m most likely dead. Let’s start from the beginning. It was a typical day of hard-working, tending to my precious sheep. At the end of that day, I was visited by a strange man who wore a strange suit. He said nothing and held his cane high before cutting my flesh with its sharp end. I feared that he was going to kill me right then and there. But he instead left. After that day, I thought nothing of it and continued life. However, as time went by, I felt ill. I noticed that my flesh was turning green like the color of my clothes. I feared that I had some kind of curse and I locked myself in the cellar so that my sheep won’t be harmed. After a few days, my body except my arms didn’t move. Living day to day, my arms were just out of reach to eat the moss that give me water. I had to eat cockroaches and rats to keep myself fed. I don’t know what day it is now. I can barely write this m e s s a g e P l e a s e l o o k a f t e r m y s h e e p

Adrian "That's very grim. The least we could do is find his sheep a new home."

Kanji "About that. Our current trial revolves around grouping sheep. I wonder if this is connected."

Diana "There's one way to find out boss. Let's go outside! I think I heard some!"

They exit the herder's cellar and go out to an open grass field. There is a long fence stretching for a fair distance, Gwen can tell that it is made of a stronger variant of birch wood. What's stranger is that coming closer to the fence, it appears to be clean and polished.

Kanji "Okay. This doesn't make sense. Unless someone was tending to them while he was locked away. Do you guys see any sheep?"

Sarah "... Look! Over there! I see them!"

They look at a small hill situated in the middle of the pen. The wielders hop over the fence and go for closer inspection. These sheep are a bit strange...

Gwen "In all my years, I have never seen a faceless sheep. Let alone sheep that have different colored wool. Unless someone dyed them, but still! There seems to be every color imaginable here!"

Azan "I don't really understand our goal here. Are we supposed to hunt or herd them somewhere else?"

Kanji "Most likely herd. But where? Everyone! Search the area!"

The group splits off leaving Gwen, Claire, and Kanji to look after the sheep. Noah then finds a strange patch of missing grass. It forms a massive ring, big enough to fit an entire legion of humans. Noah waves his hands to the others and they all meet up with him.

Kanji "Great job, Noah. Now we just need to drive those sheep here."

Kanji walks closer to the sheep, and they spot him. They scatter into separate groups, running away abnormally fast. Kanji notices that each group has sheep with a similar shade of the same color.

Kanji "Ok, this might be harder than I thought. Those sheep like to stay together if they have a similar color."

Mina "Kanji, look! That one group just collided with another and moved away!"

Kanji "So, they don't like to stick with other colors. That makes things way more difficult. Do you guys have any suggestions?"

Claire "Er... what aspect is this trial for?"

Kanji "I have no idea. However, I think we will find out soon."

Mina "That's the spirit! Also, I have an idea! Amelia, I need your help though. I need you to make one group of sheep think another group has the same color."

Amelia "That plan sounds brilliant. Might as well bloody try it."

She eyes two groups of different colors, red and blue. Amelia imagines all their wool turning blue. For a moment, she believes that it worked. However, as the groups meet each other, they bounce off with not a second to spare.

Amelia "What a bummer. They seem to be immune to illusions. Bollocks! I feel like my powers are becoming more useless by the day!"

Dave "Amber, it's okay. Maybe we just need to do it the old fashion way, dudes."

Sarah "And what is that exactly?..."

Dave "We knock them out and put them into the fucking circle, bro."

Dave runs toward a group of purple wool sheep. His footsteps alert them and they run, but Dave catches one of them. He swings his bat against the right side of its head and knocks it out. Dave puts his arm around its torso and attempts to lift it. It feels so heavy.

Dave "What the hell?! What the fuck is this sheep made of, man?"

Diana "Move aside, Icarus! I'll show how it's done!"

She manages to lift it over her head. Dave notices that her arms are shaking and she barely moves from her location. He falls to the ground laughing.

Diana "Huh?! Shut the fuck up, Icarus! Dammit! Why isn't my body moving?!"

The sheep wakes up and kicks her in the jaw, releasing her grip. It then hops away to rejoin its herd. The other wielders come over, lifting her back to her feet.

Diana "Fucking shit! What was that?!"

Kanji "Some anomalous force was preventing you from moving. I guess moving these guys by hand is off the table. Does anyone else have a suggestion?"

Claire "Oh! What about food?! Surely they won't split from each other if there is food."

Kanji "A good idea. But what do these creatures eat?"

Gwen "Don't fret. I have already got that covered. I took the liberty and was examining some of the creature's drool that was left behind and found that they were eating a mixture of ginger, lime, and mint."

Kanji "Good. I have all of those. One sec..."

Kanji enters his portal and gather the three ingredients. He then walks toward the center of the circle and places the food down. The scent travels to the sheep's noses and they all flock to the circle.

Kanji "Yes, It's working!-

One of the sheep chews on the ginger and disappears. It was the first as more sheep swallow the ingredients, they too vanish. The wielders stand there confused but then Azan spots new sheep appearing somewhere along the nearby fence. Those sheep have an entirely new color of wool and they move faster. Kanji grabs the food off the ground and stores it in his inventory.

Kanji "Welp, that plan is a no-go. However, this made me think of another plan. Claire, do you happen to ever touch a sleep grenade?"

Claire "Umm, let me think... No, I don't think so."

Kanji "Okay, does anyone know of a way to get some?"

Dave "I know but I can only get on the dark web lol. I don't want to risk that though."

Diana "Icarus, what are you afraid of?! We are like superpowered humans!"

Dave "True. Okay, ten sleep grenades coming right up! You bros should stand back."

Dave pulls out his phone and enters the Dark web. A cooler-like box manifests in front of them. Dave opens it up and a cloud of gas comes out. Kanji can tell that this is sleeping gas. Luckily, it has no effect on the wielders. Claire leans down and touches them, adding them to her creative prowess. Dave grabs one of the grenades...

Dave "Okay, what do I do now, bro? Like do I chuck it at the sheep?"

Kanji "Yeah, basically. We need to know if this can work on them."

Dave puts his arm out and yeets the explosive into the air. It lands near one of the groups. It works and the sheep rest their head against cold grass.

Kanji "Alright, time for attempt number two. Dave, I want you to chuck them into the circle. Cover as much area as you can."

Dave nods and begins throwing the remaining cans. Kanji runs through the storm of smogs and reaches the center of the circle. He places back the food and runs out of the circle. Hundreds of sheep enter their trap. It seems to be working... but then they see more sheep appear near the fence.

Noah "What the fuck?" "Seriously! After all of that!"

When the smogs clear, they see that a fair amount of sheep have fallen asleep inside the circle. The wielders look at each other, confused about where the excess sheep were coming from. Amelia steps in and raises her hand.

Amelia "I think I know what happened. You see from the top I could see all the sheep enter the bloody circle and fall asleep. But some sheep were really fast and didn't fall asleep."

Kanji "Those must be the sheep that ate the food from earlier! Shit! Okay, we need another plan."

Sarah "Kanji, I feel like this is impossible. I wish that we can get just change the color of the wool or something."

Azan "... change. Change! Of course. With my power, I can convert all their wool into a single color. Wait a second! Is this my trial?!"

Kanji "Well, there are color and location-changing sheep. I say yes. But doesn't your power require you to imagine all of the sheep at the same time? With this many sheep scattered everywhere, that seems impossible. Wait! Unless..."

Kanji goes into his portal one more time and grab out more ginger, lime, and mint. He then points at the french and to his comrades.

Kanji "I want you guys the block the sheep that have eaten the food. Make sure they don't come this way again. Don't be afraid to let out some force if you have to."

With that, the wielders circles the sheep near the fence. They hold out their weapons and give the sheep frightful stares. The creatures decide to remain still and not move toward the food. Soon, all the sheep are gathered along the fence. Azan looks at them all and imagines them all to have the same white wool. They look in awe as the wools all transform to a snowy white. The sheep now huddle tightly against one another. The wielders chase them toward the circle. The sheep's facial features return to them.

Azan "Yes, we did it! Hey! Is that..."

In the midst of BAAS and cotton wool, Azan spots a void-like battery. He steps towards it and the sheep make way for him. His hand reaches down... the battery flies away.

Azan "Huh? What the hell?! Come back here!"

Kanji "Azan! What's wrong?!"

Azan "This battery is flying away from me! I think the trial isn't over!"

Azan runs back to his friends. He feels defeated and sits on the ground. Mina crouches and pats his back.

Kanji "Ok. This is a first. Maybe there is something that we haven't done yet. Wait... the note! There must be something we missed! Did anyone notice what he used to write this note in the cellar?"

Adrian "In one of the corners, there is a broken pen. Kanji, do you think there is a secret message?"

Kanji "It is just a hutch? Because I see no other way we can approach this problem. Claire, give me a UV light."

Claire turns her lantern into a flashlight and lights a blue light onto the note. The moist parts of the note glow. The wielders lean in and take a look...

Hello, My name is Poel Ishe. If you are reading this, I’m most likely dead. Let’s start from the beginning. It was a typical day of hard-working, tending to my precious sheep. At the end of that day, I was visited by a strange man who wore a strange suit. He said nothing and held his cane high before cutting my flesh with its sharp end. I feared that he was going to kill me right there. But he instead leaves. After that day, I thought nothing of it and continued life. However, as time went by, I felt ill. I noticed that my flesh was turning green like the color of my clothes. I feared that I had some kind of curse and I locked myself in the cellar so that my sheep won’t be harmed. After a few days, my body except my arms didn’t move. Living day to day, my arms were just out of reach to eat the moss that give me water. I had to eat cockroaches and rats to keep myself fed. I don’t know what day it is now. I can barely write this m e s s a g e P l e a s e l o o k a f t e r m y s h e e p

Azan "Is it telling me to turn all the wool green? Dammit! I just used my charge for today!"

Kanji "Do not be alarmed. We are 4 hours away from midnight. Your charge will return and you can get your upgrade."

... And so the wielders wait it out until the start of a new day.