The cloaked man builds a sandcastle.

"The jungle of Karma is not my cup of tea personally Zeno, so I am grateful chronologically the sands of contemplation are my real target"

"Oh yeah you don't have much to say when you're dead"

"What do you wish of me master…" Zeno grunted out in his prime form but undead, a sorry turn of circumstances for the man.

This cloaked individual journeyed with two zombies Zeno and Naveen, with them and his own strength he planned to subjugate the sands that provided the only good resource point in his eyes.

"Sophie is attempting to ascend to the citadel through the Mountain of harmony, isn't my luck just amazing, all I have to do is to kill some goons and I'll be ready to devour my prey, who would be so kind to get into one place together"

Elsewhere in unknown regions a man with an otherworldly presence sat observing a chess board in front of him intently.

His name was Solon Samesh. He is one of the six eternal sages, he thoughtfully rested one hand under his chin and the other played with a chess piece.

He had a shrewd gaze, short dark hair, adorned a robe of black which covered his red military wear. Possibly an illusion.

He spoke to himself.

"Well he is dead then, yes good, my predictions bore fruit, but now ripples are on my board, or rather off them, that makes the future uncertain, for me to say I don't know is a rare occurrence, but aside from that, all is according to plan"

He watched the fire crackle he thought many things, he thought this potential that would be nourished through great chaos would let him achieve results, when it was Solon's turn personally and when he is done; chaos would be discarded and order and harmony would remain.

He gazed through the fire, into the distance.

It had been a few days, a few cold days.

Beatrix had been left to cry in a ball by Sahib in this realm she didn't even deserve to be in, it seemed to be a waiting room of sorts.

A place where the king would attempt to claim their right to the throne, it's assumed if you conquered a place or had relations to a conqueror you had the right to stay here.

To survive she accepted Sahib's request and felt awful, dried tears softly ran down her cheeks and color was drained from her face.

Sahib said he had a job for her, he could freely teleport people to any domain if they were with him, since he was the king of the labyrinth of wisdom. The winner, as much as it pained her to be reminded

She wobbled to her feet once more and attempted to tighten her resolve, he said she was to reinforce his forces in either the jungle of karma or the sands of contemplation, abandon the mountain for his forces without him had no hope against his dear sister.

She shuddered at the thought of the jungle it had unknowns there, like the Tyger as much as she seemed unbothered by it at the time, then again if that being could be believed he wasn't supposed to be there and had left.

The sands was a definitive no, that was just courting death despite the venerable not being present it supposedly had an extremely beneficial resource point.

Sahib claimed he wanted to have fun so he didn't bother directly while Sophie could not be in two places at once.

This meant lone wolves and both factions would clash there.

Sahib gave Beatrix an insignia that said she was his property and teleported her to the Jungle when she made her decision.

She could immediately move to round 2 the garden of deeds in the jungle it was lush, a beautiful garden, but what could the garden do?

We look back at the cloak man.

"Well even though I didn't have to journey through stages to get here, this place is quite unique there are no direct places to clear like the labyrinth of wisdom, however it is dangerous none the less human dangers and obstacles, I must find the resource point."

Under his covered mask he licked his lips, fired up ready for spice.

There was sand, a sea of sand.

The sand stretched far and wide, but constantly shifted.

By no means an easy terrain to traverse

He saw figures approaching.

A handsome man, short blonde hair, baby blue eyes and a sword that looked like a choking demonic aura was embedded in it.

The man next to him he had a sailors type of hat, a magicians robe, he looked very eccentric.

There was a women too and another man.

The women she was familiar, it was like they had history.

The man was unknown next to her though, he had a suit, grey hair, not that memorable, but he looked like he had a scholarly gaze about him, so why was he on a battlefield.

 "Hello Zeno old pal, who are those guys with you?"

Zeno did not respond the man did not know why?

"You a little stiff since we started then"

"You know me, William blade, I'm like the only sword singer in the family apart from father, and don't you recognize me?"

Zeno was silent.

"Hello I am Zeno's guardian, he pretty much said if we encounter siblings tell them to scram or die, this other guy is a temporary alliance mate until he finds his guardian"

The masked man said apparently speaking for Zeno, Zeno did not deny his words.

"Yeah Zeno, so you look a little different we start the game and now you're better than us, maybe being a lone wolf hasn't been so bad for now, but it may get bad when I cut you to pieces"

William blade unsheathed his weapon.

The magic man pulled out a gun.

The masked man and his zombies prepared for a battle.

Or rather the masked man took several paces back. And ordered his zombies to show him what they can do.

William had charged forward attempting to rend Zeno from where he stood.

"Great duke Allocer; Demon of the heavenly sky"

He sung his technique, his blade in his hand, his song dancing in the sky he truly wanted to reap Zeno.

The zombie Zeno simply used his tortoise heart, William sword danced out of the way of the recoil, smiling.

Naveen pulled out his artifact the divine mind.

He wanted to use this on William blade, but the magician man apparently called Roger Ham.

He had directly sent golden light balls out of his "Wand" around 3

 Shooting off Naveen's arm

William danced and danced with Zeno.

The woman and the masked man watched.

The grey haired man was not watching however, he had been setting up a device.

He asked William to defend him.

The masked man had moved back already.

So William pressured Zeno further attacking from the sky laughing wildly.

William's associate Roger had confusion in his eyes, because he watched Naveen shrug off his attack and then put his arm back on as if it was never lost. No regeneration as if it was a biological fact of his being, the reason Roger was confused was because was this not a wisdom cultivator?

He had no time to think further because this time Naveen got off the divine mind, chains strangled roger, he screamed desperately for help.

"Help this is no man this is a monster"

The man named Biruni said not to sweat it because his preparations were complete, the machine leaked an azure glow and it was like a magnet.

It didn't do anything to Naveen immediately, so William stopped fighting Zeno for a moment sending a slash at Naveen, cleaving him into pieces.

Freeing his guardian who gave him thanks.

The guardian wiped his brow, barely escaping death, but watching in horror as the monster he thought was finally slain started putting itself back together.

The chains immediately become one with roger again.

William was confused but didn't have time to ponder it for he was being pressed by Zeno.

The women and the masked man watched silently assuming each other were only support class fighters.

Suddenly to the sands a fiery rock with a face it had low intelligence, and had pure rage baring its fangs.

"You brought a god eater here?" William exclaimed.

It resembled an asteroid it was big, apparently only a baby.

"Good on you even if it is only an infant."

It prepared to crush both Naveen and the masked man who was not far away.

Prior to that two things happened.

William had rescued Roger once more, this time Roger quickly shooting golden light beams at Naveen putting holes in him while he was torn to pieces again.

The ravenous beast however did not come to find its mark for the masked man had finally moved.

He leapt into the air unseen and slammed his foot into the asteroid.

It disintegrated on impact, the showers of its body raining upon the man who foolishly summoned it.

"No wait-"that man was crushed.

While this happened, Naveen reformed and caught roger off guard while in shock at what happened.

He bit a chunk of flesh out of roger. And was ravenous, that would of course not satisfy him.

William was in shock, he did a maneuver. Cutting distance between him and Zeno preparing to escape it seemed.

"What kind of guardian do you have was he laughing at us from up there, on us insects"

The women had acted she was indeed a healer; she attempted to repair what was left of her comrades which showed great talent in this aspect.

But unfortunately for her, she had no one to save herself.

The masked man slowly appeared in her vision; perhaps he did this on purpose.

He was silent until he said "Well Eir, I don't really care for you, but you have something of mine don't you if that got in the hands of someone else that would be bad, I was going to find you and kill you, thanks for making it easy."

The masked man brutally ripped the woman's head off, allowing his minion to finish off Roger and smashing Biruni back into remains of a man.

William had brought forth a creature known as an ultimate thereon; it was a beast hulking, huge, scythe like claws, mammoth like but also sloth like in appearance if we had a reference to earth.

Good on him for taming it but he knew it was not for combat in this situation, but rather to escape faster than he could, what was an animal to a god eater even if a baby, he was not a prime example of his species, he could not casually prey on even an infant god eater.

So he hopped on the beast and ran, trying to traverse away, to get back to a resource point to warn Sophie that there may be a monster that could fight her.

The masked man thought, he did not pursue immediately even though he was capable of killing him from where he stood.

He did want to conceal his abilities but letting this panicked man lead him to the resource point, an oasis in this desert, seemed like a good payoff to him.

The masked man laughed, he had something to do, collect the spoils of violence.

He chuckled.

"Run rabbit run" he said with the thrill of the hunt.

Returning back to Beatrix due to the time passed it seemed no one was in the garden what was laying here for her?

She was a guardian, she felt like a traitor to her core.

But she needed purpose to say it was ok to live.