Rickert, Terra, and the thirty guardsmen were walking through path one, it was a pretty tight tunnel but as they kept moving on, they made it to an open area. Standing in the middle of the opening was Hiro with his two sickles in hand. "Just the people I was looking for." Hiro said, smirking. "Hah, last time you couldn't even beat the two of us, what makes you think we can take us plus thirty guardsmen?" Rickert asked as he unsheathed his sword. Hiro was silent for a second, "what makes this time different? This time I got an upgrade." Hiro said as he used his sickle to point at the necklace around his chest. "What's that?" Terra asked. "This is a very special charm." Hiro responded. "Charm or no charm you're still going down. Guards attack!" Rickert commanded. All thirty guardsmen charged towards Hiro with their iron swords in hand. Hiro licked his lips, "Time to test this thing out." Hiro said as both of his sickles started to glow a bright gold. Hiro dashed straight into the group of guardsmen and stuck both of his sickles into the chest of the first guardsmen he could attack, the sickles dug deep into the guardsmen's iron armor and pierced his skin. Hiro lifted the guardsmen up with his sickles and slammed him into the ground. The glowing sickles released a huge shockwave sending all the guards flying. Rickert and Terra could barely hold their footing. "Terra, get ready he's tougher than I thought." Rickert said. "Right!" Terra responded as she took out an invisibility potion and drank it. Hiro laughed maniacally as he repeatedly slashed the guardsmen with his sickles. "I didn't realize you were this strong, that was my mistake, and my mistake costed the life of one of my fellow guardsmen, but now I know I have to take you seriously, Emperor time!" Rickert shouted. Everything around Rickert started to slow down, this was his ability he wasn't super-fast it was just that everyone around him was super slow. The ability only lasted 1 minute so Rickert had to hurry. Rickert charged at Hiro with his iron sword ready to cut him down. Hiro saw Rickert coming at him and threw his sickle at Rickert. Rickert dodged the sickle and kept running at Hiro. Rickert was only three feet away from Hiro when he swung his sword at Hiro, before Rickert's sword could make contact with Hiro's neck, Hiro teleported to his other sickle behind Rickert. Before Rickert could ask the question of where Hiro went, he noticed something off about the guardsmen Hiro killed. He started to glow brighter and brighter, before Rickert could move the guard exploded right in Rickert's face