"Any news from our spies and assassins?" King Wells asked.

"We heard the Scouting Legion was wiped out." A messenger said.

"What? By just one person? How could this be?!" King Wells said angrily.

"We don't know sir, I think its because of his po---" King Wells cut him off, "of course his powers. It'll be no good if we send soldiers to retrieve him but not return. Order the assassins to eliminate him, he has no more use for us."

"Aye sire." The messenger replied.

"Let's pray to Gods that he doesn't reach his full potential." The king thought to himself.

Another messenger came to his palace, "your majesty, Andeenan people are sending their mages to all cities and villages, apparently, they are allowing people to enter Andeena."

"Hmm interesting... Why would they want to save all the people and let them in? Or maybe they are trying to end the battle by doing something so devastating that they need to take the people to their kingdom." The king said. "Summon the Ravens, we shall have a meeting immediately."

The Ravens were knights of high order, the ones who got the blessing of the king to be his advisors.

The knights gathered at the King's Palace. From the oval table, they sat. "What do we owe this meeting your highness?" Knight Sam, the military advisor, asked.

"You all have heard the news about Andeena's moves, yes?" The King asked. The knights nodded.

"Good, that is what we will be discussing today." He continued. "They are moving their forces across all cities in the land without borders. They are trying to 'be kind and help the weak'. Well, we are not buying that for a second, what they are doing is conquering the land without borders. I say, we send our forces and capture as many cities as fast as possible, to gain territory. Of course, we will raid the cities which have the Andeenan 'protection'. What do this council say?" King Wells explained.

"I believe we must strike fast, before we lose all of our already conquered cities." The military advisor said.

"Yes, but bear in mind, the method that the Andeenan are using is through soft diplomacy, they lure the people using their promises of a safe haven. The people will likely follow them." The cultural advisor reminded.

"That is why we must spread fear to the people, to make them bow down to us, we will use hard force to have a guaranteed success and it will consume less money and time." The economic advisor agreed.

"Other's agree?" King Wells asked.

The other advisors nodded.

"Good. Regarding my son's death, since I no longer have an heir to the throne, I shall pass down the crown to any one of you who could find my son's killer and bring his head to me. Levenhood will pay for what they've done. After all of this is finished, we will eliminate Levenhood for good." He declared. "For The Raven!"

"For The Raven! Hoora" The Ravens chanted and cheered.

The knights were dismissed. A knight blew a horn, signalling the army to prepare to raid the cities. They had developed a new type of weapon, a rapid firing gun called Musket type V and also a new type of vehicle, The Landship, a fully steel body vehicle running using a continous track for its wheels, a steam engine for its propulsion and also mounted with double cannon in the front.

The army marched on horseback, heading straight towards Zuno's village. They entered the village.

"This village is under the protection of Ravenrock kingdom. You will follow the rules of the kingdom, those who disagree will be punished." A knight said holding his musket.

"This is outrageous, we are in the land of the free, we have our own fre---." Before a villager finished talking, a knight shot her.
"Anyone else who disagrees?" The knight asked. The other villagers were silent.

Landships and the army began passing by the village. They were now heading to Floran City.

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"All right everyone, for those who want to go to Andeena, the teleporter is in the middle of the town square. We will have mages guarding the cities if you wish." Prince Ande adressed the citizens of Cresan City.

He arrived with a handful of mages, ready to provide aid to the people. The citizens agreed that the elders and children will be sent to Andeena, the men and women will remain in the city to proceed with their daily lives.

From afar. Levenhood spies were watching, monitoring the moves of Ravenrock and Andeena.

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"It's all your fault, you killed Gwen."
"Yes, your fault for killing her, and also Arya."
"So is killing the entire world. Hahaha."
"You won't have a friend, they will always hate you." Whispering voices were heard from all around Zuno.

Zuno woke up, shocked, he was on a bed. Two voices could be heard arguing just outside his room. The door opened, Arya entered.

"Thank gods your awake, I had a conversation with a mage earlier. He said that a teleporter to Andeena has been built in the city square. We can go through there once we recovered." She said.

From the corner of the room, teleported Prince Ande. "This is the boy?" He asked.

"Yes your majesty, this is him." Arya replied.

"He looks nothing like a shadow summoner, then again, looks may deceive you. Once you are fit, go through the teleporter and see my sister, she will help you." Prince Ande said as he teleported out of the room.

"How long have I been out?" Zuno wondered.

"Three days. We arrived here about two days ago. Don't even think about how I had to carry you all the way here. I used a horse, that's all." Arya replied.

Tears started coming out of Zuno's eyes, "I killed her didn't I? I killed Gwen."

"Don't blame yourself, it was the shadow that did it, not you." She said.

"Yet I couldn't do anything to stop it." Zuno continued.

"She wanted to die, I tried to heal her, but she didn't want to." Arya made clear.

"It's all my fault that she had to go through this. I should've let her kill me." He explained.

"You couldn't die even if you wanted to, your shadows just won't let you. Don't blame this on yourself, we'll get it figured out once we get to Andeena." She commented. "Eat up, once you're done, we'll go straight to Andeena, so the shadows won't take another life."

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"Prince Ande!" A mage approached him. "I saw a white raven."

"What?! Where?!" Ande was shocked.

A white raven being seen means that Ravenrock is making a move, a huge movement. It is a code made by the mages and wizards symbolizing the raven symbol on the Ravenrock flag. White ravens were very rare, almost extinct, Andeenan preserved the white ravens in their kingdom and let one out ocassionally.

"So they made their move too." Ande said to himself.

The white raven came to Prince Ande. He let it rest on his shoulder.

"No doubt about the white raven, tell the mages to speed things up. The situation will get ugly soon enough." Ande ordered the mage. "You raven, go to my sister, tell her about the news." The raven flew away and disappeared in the air.

"Better tell the so called shadow summoner to qucikly go to Andeena." He said.

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Arya saw the white raven too. She immediately ran to Zuno. "We have to go, Now!" She said.

"What? Why?" Zuno questioned.

"Ravenrock are on their way, and they bring a hell lot of trouble with them." She replied. "We wouldn't want to be here when they come."

"Those damn basta--, ehm, alright let's go." Zuno wanted to curse but he kept it to himself.

The two went to the city square. There,  Prince Ande was waiting with a few mages and the elders and children were queueing to be teleported to Andeena.

"Let the boy past, he is  priority number 1." Ande ordered. The citizens stared at Zuno.

"You go, I'll teleport myself and see you right at Andeena." Arya said.

Zuno didn't hesitate and went straight to the teleporter.

"This might hurt a little, well... actually a lot." A mage said as she turned on the teleporter.

"Wait whaat?" Zuno said as his body was teleported to Andeena.