Genevie woke up early in an alarmingly fashion. She had never seen such a shock recently from Wally, he is planning on what was called a Stop Unwanted Witchcraft Act that would ban all types of witchcraft, Genevie included. That means, Genevie would be forced to let Ernaut go in the morning, but she felt too close to him, and felt like Ernaut would be helpless from now on. Was there any hope for Ernaut on his next mission? However, this was also the day that the so-called Galleon would arrive to be board for Evergrove, which was the ship Ernaut would take to get to Evergrove and continue his mission from now on.
Ernaut wanted to get to Evergrove to continue his mission east and fight his way through many obstacles that would await him from now on; while continuing to further his skills with Karin, the Spirit of Heaven, however Ernaut had to go on his own, because he'd had to leave Genevie behind while the authorities dealt with her, and Genevie didn't have any powers with her that can help, because all of her witchcraft would be illegal right now thanks to the new law that was already being passed.
"Ernaut, today is your last day of staying with me. I have some bad news. Apparently, they're passing a law that will make witchcraft fully illegal in the Nexus. When I was spying on Wally's plans, he had secret plans to shut me down by making witchcraft illegal in the Nexus. He'd knew people like me would assist you in your goals, yet nobody cares about because there's no evidence to even prove them. Do you remember that time where you were being put up for witch trials, which you escaped because these witch trials were ultimately impossible because they never believed in anything non-Nexusian because it was "zero evidence equals hoax" to them. Genevie warned.
"What is going on? What am I going to do?" Ernaut didn't know what to do, he knew he had to leave this place as soon as possible, because Genevie already knows they're doing whatever they can to pull the strings on Ernaut.
"You have to find a way out of this place. You have to find a way off this island, because there's nowhere to go now!" Genevie cried.
"Well, I don't see what I can do, there's nothing I can do, and I'll never leave a soul like you behind."
Upon Ernaut's words, a sound of a ship's horn played. Ernaut knew that had to be his way out of Aurora and a continuation of his journey, but Genevie felt a bit risky about it.
"Ernaut, I just wanted to point this out, I can't come with you, and so you're on your own right now." Genevie pointed out..
"Let's go, and I'll come up with a plan to get to that ship." Ernaut stated, with both of them walking down the stairs and into the exit.
"Explain to me, how you are going to get onto that ship while they'll probably bar you from there because everyone in Castlemore already knows about you, and even Mayor Wally would also pay attention to what's going on over there as well!" Genevie asked.
Genevie and Ernaut left the estate and from their sight; they saw a ship was on its way to the docks; was it taking passengers or was it meant for delivering goods? Ernaut knew that he had to go to the ship to find his way to Evergrove, because he knew that was the Galleon, but he knew that Genevie won't be here anymore, because Wally had already made witchcraft illegal, which means it will be just Ernaut and Karin continuing the journey together. Genevie saw the ship that sailed with the flag of the Nexus, and the emblems of Aurora, Evergrove, and Nexus Capital on its wooden side!
"Ernaut, there's a ship that's leaving for Evergrove, which must be that Galleon I was talking about. What I need you to do is get on this ship as soon as you can. After that, you are on your own for right now." Genevie said.
"A ship for Evergrove? What would I do here? Oh, continue my quest to find my way east. Also, what's going to happen to you?"
"Oh, Ernaut, I believe this is bad news right now, Wally has passed-" Genevie was interrupted by a shot of an arrow puncturing her. From out of nowhere, Genevie was hit by an arrow on her back shoulder and fell down with a splat of blood. The wound where Genevie was hit by the arrow was bleeding out quite a bit, but was there still hope for Genevie? Was Ernaut out of options?
"Are you alright! Genevie! Genevie! Answer me!" Ernaut checked if Genevie was still alive. He didn't know how a single arrow could kill a person.
"Genevie's dead." Karin said.
"What? She's dead. I don't even know where that arrow came from, like who fired it. It came from a direction which I didn't see, and after looking around, I didn't even see anyone. They must've likely gotten away immediately after I tried to check if Genevie was still alive."
"It looks like I am your only companion right now, but what is your plan right now to get out of this island?" Karin asked. "It looks like you soon have no time to stay around here right now, and it looks like the only way to move on is onward that ship!"
"Oh… I'm guessing I'm on my own from now on. But that doesn't matter right now; what matters right now is finding my way east. There's a ship bound for Evergrove which I have to escape to, but as I'm a fugitive here, I have to get in there without them aware of my presence."
Upon looking from behind a tree, Ernaut saw that the ship was boarding passengers, but as he already knew, he was unwanted in the ship for being a fugitive of the Nexus, but that was also his only ticket to find his way east, because that ship was going to Evergrove, the island that was east of the Nexus Capital, which Aurora was north of. In fact, this was his only chance to make the shot. Ernaut was watching the attendant at the docks keep track of who's boarding the ship. As Ernaut watched, he paid close attention to what the attendant was doing. As he called the last passenger and cargo aboard, the attendant walked towards the ship, Ernaut knew this was his chance; he moved towards another obstacle while Karin kept track of the attendant's movements to avoid being spotted.
Using Karin's abilities, Ernaut snuck into the ship's interior without anyone noticing by concealing his footsteps and hiding any potential noise that could come from it and being wary of the ship's crew on patrol. It felt a bit risky indeed, but it was what he wanted to do, continue his quest to find his way east.
The interior of the ship felt more of a luxury, as if this ship was a passenger ship aimed to traveling to the other states of the Nexus; whether it be either Evergrove or Nexus Capital. Ernaut got inside one of the rooms. The first room looked to be some sort of boardroom for meetings, with a long wooden table and drawers of documents. Ernaut was in a hurry, he didn't bother to check the other rooms because he was worried about any potential forces that might be inside the ship, he knew that he'd fail the mission if he were to get caught by the people in the ship.
As soon as Ernaut was going to read the classified document, there was a sound of the door opening, as if someone else was approaching.
"Quick Ernaut! Hide in the crate!" Karin said, while Ernaut did as she commanded; hide inside one of the wooden crates using her powers to not make any noise. As expected, the wooden crates had some sort of door that would open and close.
Ernaut was unable to see anything, but he could still hear the presence of someone else inside the other room. After a few moments, it sounded like the door to the room Ernaut was in.
"No sign of that Ernaut boy… I suppose he got away…" a voice said.
Then, after some time, there was the sound of a door opening and closing, Ernaut knew the coast was clear for now.
"Ernaut, the person has left the room. No one else seems to be approaching this room, for now." Karin said, after scanning the area of anyone that could oppose him.
"Okay, now let's read the classified documents. Something tells me this is going to tell me some secret information that they're keeping from us that they don't want us to see." Ernaut said to himself, as he proceeded to read the document.
"The following is classified information; not to be shown to Ernaut or anyone else interested in the Comet Caller. Wally has passed the Stop Unwanted Witchcraft Act. That means, witchcraft that is confirmed to be mysterious and confidential to others, is banned from usage at any time in the Nexus. This had to be passed down from Castlemore to the Nexus Government within the Capital, and governor Nehemiah had approved it for action. As of this writing, Nehemiah had not yet passed the document, but it is confirmed that it will likely will."
"So they passed this law as a way of continuing to get rid of me, but what they don't know is what else I can do with Heaven, there's still some more of Karin's powers to use, which many more I don't even know. I'm going to have to be careful while I'm at Evergrove. I don't know if there's any new forces Wally and Shion are going to send to try and kill me, though." Ernaut said, while on board the ship for Evergrove. He had finally made it aboard the ship for Evergrove, and his only resting place of choice there was the storage because he'd knew that he'd heard the sound of some passengers getting on board before the ship boarding. While he was hiding in the storage room with the help of the crates and barrels, he then heard the some of what could've been a crowd of people getting aboard the ship, as he'd expect while he is getting on a passenger ship.
Then, after some time, the ship started to depart and the sound of the same fog horn played while the ship was departing. Ernaut knew that this was his chance to get to Evergrove once and for all, but because he was being chased, he had no choice but to stay in the storage room, his place of hiding.
"Karin, this is it, we're on the way to Evergrove, once and for all." Ernaut said.
"So, what are your plans for Evergrove? What are you going to do there to continue your quest?" Karin asked.
"I'm going to find my way east, I had read from Genevie's archives that there is a monument called the World Portal which was built from the wonder nicknamed the Gems of Power Aruku had discovered, which would be a portal to other lands in the world. I gotta find the one in Nexus though, but I have to restore it with the help of you, because I think they destroyed it to keep people from going on witch-hunts towards Aruku and focus more on themselves. It's their way of talking about legends, they focus more on their own literature and culture and not anywhere else, because if it's zero believable evidence, don't bother.
From the dock where the ship departed, Wally and Shion were watching the ship depart away. Wally felt no sense of failure in that, because he'd know that Ernaut would try to escape from him, so he prepared so that the other states in the kingdom of Nexus would be aware of Ernaut's presence, ready to catch him and settle the score of the witch run. He knew that there was still more to plan and do to continue his plan on getting rid of Ernaut; getting Evergrove and everyone else on his mission to get rid of Ernaut.
"So Ernaut's bound for that ship in Evergrove, but that's not over right now. I already sent the message to the sailors regarding that guy, and this message would tell them to get Beck and Quinn on our crusade against him, because they are the finest warriors from Castlemore. Now, we've made all witchcraft and magic illegal. We killed Genevie because we had enough of others trying to help this guy out. Ernaut, have fun surviving in Evergrove, because your days are numbered." Wally said, upon the ship sailing away out of his sight towards Evergrove. Wally had already made preparations for how would Ernaut be dealt with while he is at Evergrove, he already got the authorities at Evergrove to be aware of Ernaut and catch him with whatever they can.