The Golden Carriage

"We are going to buy weapons and scram right?" Lynel seems uncertain with the prospect outside.

"Yeah, if they ask some questions, you know what to answer right? Niva looks at the anxious Lynel beside him. His eyes are eyeballing various crowds outside. The stone knight patrolled various points in the area, ensuring the safety within the entity hunt.

Compfreund with various shapes, size, and color that he has seldom seen before have gathered in the town center with their companion. Brown large wyvern like creature, blue feathered giant bird, red wyrm, green tentacle humanoid creature, and so on. There 10 compfreund in sight at the span of 1 minute. 'Have they gone through the first evolution?'

Some men and women with black and yellowish prestige robes are asking the locals about the mysterious entity. Their faces are filled with various cosmetics. Lips painted grey, their eyebrows groomed to the point that it gives sharp and somewhat sinister looks.

Also, their faces are painted with black ink that forms a pattern, giving them a non-human look. However, their appearances are just not for show. They possess the one of the best tier for their class, Level 8 [Grand Sorcerer] and Level 8 [Arcane Wizard], the most potent offensive class in the realm.

Watching those guy's cosmetics reminded him of Fergus. Niva only knew from Lula that Fergus saved Krilo from The Richter's blast. He vanished soon after and Niva hasn't thanked him properly since.

Level 7 and above are really on another level. Anyone that possesses the kind of level will also have access to the higher ups position of The kingdom's knighthood and The Holy Order. Tens of thousand Volvalen will be given monthly as a monthly salary. Not including the allowance.

Another thing to note is when you are in a higher position of knighthood, you can buy properties in one of the administrative regions. The price will be discounted and the landlord must oblige. There is also the limit of how much land that one official owns.

Meanwhile, In The Holy Order, one must dedicate their life inside the organization or pay a massive penalty. High enough ranking won't have you access to the realm like the knighthood does. But according to the rumors, The Holy Order holds some kind of terrifying secret about the realm that they do not want to share with anyone outside.

Watching those guy's cosmetics reminded him of Fergus. Niva only knew from Lula that Fergus saved Krilo from The Richter's blast. He hasn't thanked him properly since.

"We don't have a choice." Niva's hand is holding the door knob. Still expecting a second thought from his mind.

Meanwhile Lynel sweats profusely. His body freezes in place. Not only his body, but his mind also seems preoccupied with his own little world. Something must be really bothering him.

But, Niva should be the one who is scared. Giving the circumstances as a soon-to-be wanted man.

He always hated to project his own circumstances to other people, but from the look of it, Lynel's paranoia seems abnormal.

"Everything will be alright, come now." Niva pushes the door handle. Letting the warm Helios immediately enters the room. The blue haired boy then tries his best to act casually. He drags Lynel by his wrist. The blonde boy is so scared that Niva's grip is wet by the sweat of his wrist.

The weapon shop is across several roads ahead in the eastern part of the village. There is no way that they sneak past the Order. Not when a flying compfreund is patrolling above their head.

Niva took a deep breath and walked for several meters. Slowly and surely walk like anything normal. They get glimpsed once in a while but The Holy Order do not mind at all. Both boys walked as nothing happened. Even though the hostile gaze occasionally cast by those compfreund.

In the intersection, they stumble upon a square shaped gold covered horse carriage. Guarded with several stone knights in all directions with an expensive looking curtain and paintings of a veiled woman with wings. It is the organization's representation of The Nature.

A delicate hand suddenly comes out from the curtain, then points to Niva and Lynel's general direction. They instantly freeze in place. Without any screams or shouts, all attention immediately shifts towards them.

The stone knight apprehends them at once. Niva is scared to do anything as a result. If the rumors were true, the [Grand Sorcerer] can instantly burn you to ashes without even touching you, and the [Arcane Wizard] can turn your body upside down in the most gruesome possible way.

They both freeze just inches away from the statue of Macademia Muller The Vermillion Butterfly. A commander of the Voltingen Kingdom of Order of the Avian 250 years ago. The legendary hero from Sari Village that saved the realm from The Scorching Darkness Era.

His butterfly compfreund Aganido is standing tall grasping on his shoulder. In those era, Muller flew on top of Aganido and bombed the hellish landscape caused by the Voidlings. Resulting the voidlings to be successfully suppressed for a time being.

His descendants are now continuing his lineage for the unending war against the same voidling in the underworld. This is one of the reasons why he formed a pact with Krilo.

The statue seems to calm Niva a bit. But Lynel behind him is still abnormally scared. It may look like that all his body screams rejecting this outcome. Even his face looks like he is about to pass out.

They are quickly apprehended by the guards, forcing them to go in the direction of the hand that was pointing at them. 'This is not what I had in mind, are they going to take us away with the carriage?'

The red curtain is just inches away from their nose. They immediately pushed violently into the carriage.

"Relax, make yourself at home," calmed a lady's voice from inside the curtain.

The cramped size of the carriage is not what it seems from the inside. The interior looks like your regular house. Wooden floorboards with a cream colored wallpaper filled the room's surface. Patterns of The Holy Order's four winged angels are displayed all over the wallpaper. 'Are we teleported to someone's house'. Niva once again thought to himself

There are three people currently in the room. One is a lady sitting on a dining chair. She looks like a 30 years old wearing a red and white gothic gown with angel's pattern all over. A halo necklace as the practical religious symbol, belonging to The Nature's Way of the Eternal school of thought. Or they would say, The Church of Eternal.

The most distinctive appearance will be the black blindfold that fully covers both eyes. Both ends of the blindfold are tied behind her head inside the red burgundy tied hair.

One other person is a lady that is currently using the kitchen in front of me and another person's silhouette can be seen from the small hole under the door partition that leads to another room.

"Are you going to sit down? Or should I drag your legs myself?" The blindfolded lady's voice tone is getting more assertive.

They both without a second thought sit neatly in front of her. Only the dining table that separates the two of them. Fearing a retaliation might befall on them if they do not comply.

She suddenly pints at Niva. "From your first question, we are not going to take you away. I have something important to talk to you both about. And from your second question, technically this place is still in the carriage, but with the help of my associate, it looks bigger than it should be."

Niva is getting a goosebump. He hadn't said anything all this time.