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Chapter 2: Attack on Lalivero

"Well, you got the plans! From your expression, I guess you didn't manage to kill the King?" Menardi took the papers from Isaac.

"Forgive me, I even lost the Mystery Blade to the king's gun," Isaac said quietly. Saturos stared at him.

"King Django has a gun?" he asked sharply.

"Yes. If I'm not wrong, it's powered by sunlight," Isaac. Menardi looked puzzled.

"Powered by sunlight. But isn't that related to the element of Mars? Is Vault working with Kolima?"

"We have to do something about that," Saturos said grimly. "Karst, you and Agatio go to Kolima and steal that sunlight powered gun. Menardi and I are going to Lalivero for other business. Isaac, you come along. I hope you're not too tired after travelling for one and a half days from Kolima without sleep."

Karst opened her mouth to protest, but Saturos had already walked off with Menardi and Isaac.

"You'll need a new weapon," Saturos said. "And we just got a new blacksmith, too..."

He opened the door to the weapon room. The only occupant was a girl with glasses and a blond ponytail, holding an ax. She bowed.

"Aurelli, I need a weapon for Isaac."

"Preferably a sword," Isaac added. Aurelli immediately picked up one.

"Swift Sword, yes?"

"No, it's too weak for him," Menardi said.

"Hmm... weak... strong..." Aurelli raised one long blade. "It raises Venus Power and Resistance..."

She placed it in Isaac's hands. "This is the Gaia Blade."

"I don't see why I have to be stuck with you!" Karst complained half a day later. The two Proxians were the fastest Proxians Saturos trained, and reached Kolima easily. The green- haired, green-skinned man beside her, Agatio, sniffed.

"Come on, Karst! We have to find the king's room, and fast." He peered into the corridor. "All clear. Let's go."

Swiftly and skillfully, they dashed through the long hallways of the palace of Kolima.

"Look, doesn't that seem suspicious?" Karst whispered, pointing at a door with a crown on it. There were four guards in front of it, unlike other doors with only two.

"Get ready! Inferno!"

The guards struggled weakly in the flames and soon collapsed.

"Too easy!" Karst sneered as she entered the room. The room was large and well furnished. She opened a chest next to the bed, and in it was a small, grey gun. "Got it."

"Let's split, then!" Agatio said. The Proxians exited the building, making for the thick wall. Someone else, however, was there.

The stern brown eyes of the man showed that he knew they were intruders.

"That's King Django's GunDeSol," he said.

"Yeah, so what?" Karst said, clutching the gun.

"Proxians, aren't you? There is no enmity between us. Why do you steal from Kolima?"

"Just because you've done nothing to us doesn't mean we can't do anything to YOU!" Agatio said scornfully. The man raised a light sword.

"Hand over the GunDeSol!" he yelled.

"Cycle Beam!" Karst screeched, pointing a finger. A beam of gold shot out at Felix. He was knocked back, and the Proxians took the chance to leap up the wall.

"Ragnarok!" the brown haired man cried, both arms raised. Agatio yelped as the sword made out of psynergy crashed into him. He fell off on the other side of the wall.

"Come ON!" Karst dragged the dazed adept up. They rushed off.

"No!"

"Felix! What happened?" A red-haired girl approached, frowning slightly. Felix clutched his injured arm.

"Get King Django! Now! The GunDeSol has been stolen!"

"There're so many guards. And all Jupiter Adepts... It won't be too easy getting in," Saturos muttered. Isaac looked around. His eyes fell on a man pushing a cart filled with large sacks.

"I've got an idea. Clay Spire!"

The man collapsed. Quickly Isaac whipped off his cloak and hood, handing them to Menardi.

"Saturos and I can hide under those sacks," he whispered.

The guards at the entrance became alert when he saw a lady pushing a cart approach. "Who's there?"

"I've come to deliver an order to Master Hammet," Menardi said, reading a piece of paper stuck onto the cart.

"I sense something funny," one guard said.

"Don't you dare to read my mind!" Menardi said angrily. "I do not appreciate people peering into my secrets!"

Taken aback, the guards all gave way. Menardi smiled to herself and pushed the cart into the palace grounds. When they were safely out of sight, Saturos and Isaac jumped out.

"We're going to find the king," Saturos said.

"What are we supposed to do this time?" Isaac asked, rushing after him.

"The king, Faran, has only one daughter, aged 15, so if he dies Lalivero will be unstable due to an unexperienced ruler," Menardi explained. They soon found themselves in the palace gardens.

A young, blond girl was playing with two small, violet creatures.

"Jupiter Djinni. That must be Princess Sheba," Saturos said. "She's the only one with Djinni in Lalivero, 10 are in Contigo and the other six we stole."

A man with blond hair the same shade as Sheba's walked towards her, smiling.

"King Faran. Let's go." Menardi gripped her sythe tightly, then charged forward. "Fireball!"

Startled, Princess Sheba grabbed her Djinn and dodged out of the way, but King Faran was hit in the chest. He dropped to the ground in pain.

"Father!" Sheba cried, rushing to the injured one. "Who are you!?"

"Quake Sphere!" Isaac yelled, his hand glowing golden. Sheba pushed Faran off to the side. But that was exactly what Saturos wanted. While Sheba suffered from the earth attack, his sword embedded itself in Faran's chest.

"FATHER!!" Sheba screamed. "Breath! Heal him!"

"Too late," Menardi said, smirking. "Even Coatlicue, the goddess of healing, can't save him."

Sheba glared at the satisfied Saturos.

"Gale! Attack!" she shrieked.

"Let's go!" Menardi said hurriedly as the second Djinn flew towards them. The three raced off at top speed.

"That was from Kolima!" Saturos shouted, grinning all over his face.

Isaac remained silent. It was the first time he went on an assasinating mission. Usually he just stole, spied or kidnapped. He felt strange when Saturos killed that king. The look on Sheba's terrified face made it worse. For the first time in his life, Isaac had helped kill someone. For the first time in his life, Isaac felt bad.

"Princess! Saturos! Isaac!" Agatio called as he saw the three approaching. "Alex and Hsu have returned from Vault!"

Two men stepped into the hall. One was a much older Hsu, smiling evilly. The other, Alex, had long blue hair and eyes of the same colour.

"With the small group of army we took, we managed to destroy a town in Vault," Hsu reported. His eyes narrowed as he watched Isaac.

"How did everything go?" Alex queried.

"Smoothly. Faran is now dead," Saturos said.

"Isaac, you're looking ruffled. Never seen anyone die?" Hsu asked. Isaac flinched.

"Makes sense, he only injured people badly and never stayed to watch them die," Karst said.

"Shut up, Karst," Menardi said sharply. Karst frowned. "Isaac, you're going to have to get used to it."

"I understand." Isaac said softly.

Aiii... Poor Isaac.