After two hours, they finally reached Arton village. Despite being a fishing village, it has docks for passengers and cargo, perhaps being a necessary as being an entry route to Hafnal. As they left the docks, they were greeted with people wearing white uniforms except a woman in her pajamas. 

"Hey! Why you are here, Beroile?" Clair asked her. 

"Just following this attractive werebutterfly." She giggled. 

"Fine." 

"Welcome to Hafnal. I'm Gopler Crafud, a police officer and she is Federei Asdren, a diplomat for Hafnal. I think you are very sure why you are here," 

"To defend this country from demon attacks. By the way, I am tasked to obtain the holy items and I believe that there is one hidden in this country," Syrfan answered. 

"He is Leocrinde Helgrul, a combat instructor for our army. He will tell you what to do next. Now, if you excuse us," Gopler and Federei teleported themselves away while they were taken to a room inside a wooden inn. After half an hour, 

"Let's meet up at here tonight," At night, 

"Let's execute the plan," They spread out to various locations in the village. After 15 minutes, werewolves started appearing and attacking the village. 

"Burst blast flame pillar!" Syrfan slammed the ground using his platinum sword and flame pillars struck up from the ground, burning them alive, but soon a few more appeared at its back, attempting to sneak up at him. He quickly turned around and poison was flowed into their bodies through the poisoned metal tip. Next, a few gargoyles flew at him, trying to grab him upwards, only to be injured when Syrfan fired acid and alkali blobs at them. At the meantime, 

"Go! Venom mist spray!" Fie sprayed some violet color mists from her platinum pearl wand as it it was fired out from an aerosol can. The mists paralyzed them instantly before they collapsed onto the ground and turned into dusts. Next, bone sword were thrown at her, only to be warped back at the skeletons, crushing them into halves. However, the halves were still active and slowly moved towards her. "Metal spike trap!" She jumped and threw her wand downwards and metal spikes struck up from the ground, crushing them into dusts. Then, 

"Watch out, magician," A hollow suddenly appeared behind Fie was punched repeatedly for a few seconds and broke into pieces. Then, he chased a few goblins who ran away at the sight of him, but with flash spell cast on himself, he caught up with one of them and threw it at other goblins. The goblins crashed and hit a few land mines. Next, a sand hollow grabbed its feet from the ground, but a punch from him emitted shockwaves which destroyed it. Next, 

"Shrapnel rain!" Clair fired rockets upwards which exploded into bomb sharpnel, falling down onto skeletons which surrounded her. Next, a few arrows were suddenly fired from a few gargoyles. She quickly dashed in random motion before firing rockets at them, but the gargoyles dived through with a hemispherical barrier appeared in front of them. A few drill bombs were launched from her legs, but they could only slow them down instead of destroying them. 

"Those things are made to be resistant to firearms. Watch this," Sedrine launched a few slash waves at them, which hit the drill bombs and the explosion cracked the barriers. After that, "This would be a better way. Phantom hole! Slash wave emission!" She attached a platinum pipe to her platinum scythe's handle and a blue vortex appeared around the gargoyles, sucking them in while slash waves were launched at them, destroying them in an instant. At the meantime, Lyank was facing someone....

The werebuttefly woke up and looked around him. 

"That vampire...." He was puzzled by Gruodis's disappearance. "I thought I would be thanking him...." 

"I heard that you want that sword for defend Xel. What is actually happening?" Tefler asked him. 

"Xel is now being attacked by demons and we seek to defend ourselves. But what confuses me now is that there are other demons showing up to help us," 

"I think it could be only those folks. Beroile, continue with your mission. By the way, we are going to Xel right now. We have to prevent any disaster from happening," At the meantime, at Xel's parallel cargo docks, 

"Take this!" Vilsrogas fired its positron cannons at Kyonafil inside a cylindrical barrier which prevented their fight causing massive property damage. Kyonafil laughed while its body turned into liquid repeatedly. Suddenly, it could not reform its solid body and started to boil. 

"Hereinse Kiout, coming for aid!" Hereinse pointed her platinum obisidian wand to the barrier. After a few seconds, the liquid turned into vapor and the barrier was disappeared. A gust of wind blew it away, but soon the vapor turned back into liquid and its body was reformed. It walked a few steps and pointed its arm at her, slowly turning into a pair of vacuum cannon. 

"Why you must come to interrupt my duel with it? You (swear) must die!" Vilsrogas attempted to move, but its body was sealed and could not move. The vacuum cannons were fired and vortex formed on the cannons attempted to suck her close to it, but a bomb was suddenly thrown at it. 

"Now leave her alone, monster!" Megeia suddenly appeared at Vilsrogas's back and a bomb was planted inside it, unsealing it from within. Just when it thought it could use the bomb to detonate both it and Kyonafil, 

"You are our partner now. We won't sacrifice you, ever!" Kerasair punched the bomb, sending it right at Kyonafil. Both bombs collided and blew it away. 

"I guess I just got company, huh? But with those madmen around, I wondered if you can survive their onslaught. Goodbye," Kyonafil teleported itself away and a group of people in torches appeared at their back. 

"What the (swear) you are doing here?" 

"We defended this dock from a powerful demon. We could only force it to retreat," Vilsrogas tried to reason with them, but suddenly a punch from an angry townspeople made it collapse onto the ground, something which even itself thought was impossible. 

"At least you should show some gratitude for us, people,"  

"For you demons who slaughtered our people? People, let's show them what we are made of!" Explosions around them suddenly appeared and they were collapsed after a few seconds. The angry mob quickly carried them to the town's square and put them at the center, near a statue. 

"So, what do you think what we should do with them? Shall we come to take suggestions?" 

"Just kill them!" 

"Yeah, those things are abominations! We must not let them live!" 

"Why don't we torture them to death? Letting them dying off instantly is too light of a punishment!" The crowd burst into a round of applause! 

"They are the ones who defended us! How could you say such a thing!" The werebutterfly suddenly appeared at the top of the statue and shouted at them. 

"All demons are equally evil! Why you are defending them?" 

"Your racist statement will not be tolerated! (swear)!" 

"I guess we have to execute you first then!" The crowd threw their torches at him. He could only dodge them by flying around for a few minutes before his wings were hit by the torches and burned while it was falling down onto the ground. This could ended up badly....

After one day, they arrived at Grauq ruins. Being an abandoned temple once being used to worship the god of sun, the goddess of moon and the god of star, the signs were seen floating magically above the tower shaped temple. Upon entering inside, dead bodies of soldiers and demons were seen on the ground, perhaps there was a big battle between them some time ago. 

"How dare you infiltrate this ruin!" 

"Your presence are desecrating this place! Only chosen people may enter this place!" 

"This place is protected under Oszer law! You trespassers go out or die!" 

"On behalf of the sun, moon and star gods, we'll punish you for your insolence!" Sounds of people screaming were heard, but oddly the sounds were of equal volume and seemed to be from the same point. 

"Voice tracer!" A needle was dropped onto the ground and red lines were seen on the ground travelling along all possible paths around. "Wait for a while. This is akin to the path tracer I used before," Tefler said to everyone. After 10 minutes, a line turned blue and they quickly dashed along the blue line. The path the the source of the voices forced them to jump over gaps, destroying marble walls and avoiding spike traps, slowing them down. After 20 minutes, they finally reached the source of the sound, which was a voice box playing repeatedly. 

"I thought...!" An ogre appeared at their back, but it was soon turned into dusts when a vampire launched dark red flames from his handgun with a steel barrel. 

"So this is the demon who use the voice box. Thank god that I managed to seal them off or they will kill each other further. I'm Gruodis Berthid, a dungeon explorer," The vampire disappeared. While they were traveling back to the entrance, soldiers and demons were seen walking out from the ruin. Next, an explosion was heard, scaring everyone inside and they suddenly ran away. At the meantime, near the stairs to the top floor, 

"I will not let you go up and steal the treasure here! It is meant to be sealed here for eternity!" Gruodis blocked a grenade shot from a floating grenade launcher using a barrier. Bolt sparks were launched from his hands to the grenade launcher a few times, but they were dodged while it was closing in. After a few seconds, it was swung at them, but he quickly dodged the attack and a swipe from its cape slammed the weapon away and sounds of crashing onto a wall was heard despite the weapon was thrown away onto the ground. 

"How could you know this? This should not be happening!" Punch waves were launched at him, but they were reflected back using a reflect barrier. After a few seconds, when the barrier was slowly cracking, shockwaves were emitted, destroying the barrier and launched the punch waves further back, sending the invisible thing crashed onto the wall again. Next, spirits were released out from a human's body. She was wearing her pajamas, much to his confusion. 

"Because I once raided this place for the royal treasure, only to be sent back to here once I reached the room storing that place. Also, the way the grenade launcher was swung is certainly akin to how a human swing it rather than being animated on its own. What you are doing with the artifact?" 

"I am tasked to collect them back by the king himself. According to him, he decided to make replicas of them and keep the replicas together in a museum while they will be returned to their original storage place. If you don't believe me...!" An arrow was suddenly fired at her. No one know what that is....

"Hey, do you upgrade your attachment pipes?" Lyank asked Sedrine while destroying homing missiles using his platinum lance. The two were fighting at an open arena outside of the castle which attracted crowd. 

"No. But I'm planning to do this after I am done with you!" Sedrine switched the pipe attached to her platinum scythe's hilt and fired homing laser beams at him instead. 

"You have to, because your attacks suck!" Lyank swung his lance as if it was a baseball bat while reflect barrier was covering the weapon, reflecting them back towards her. Instead of dodging them, she launched the pipe as if it was a bazooka, used the blade to absorbed the beams and slashed the ground. Photon beams were fired down at him as he moved. The pipe was barely dodged, but its explosion was not, throwing him right towards her. 

"Suck? If my attacks suck you won't let me join Syrfan's mission!" She launched a few slash waves at him, only to be attached right at his lance's tip before launched back at her. Upon landing onto the ground, she jumped over the slash waves, attempting to attack from higher position, but he quickly rolled away from her and turned around before throwing his lance at her. She swung her scythe and hit the lance's tip, but she and the lance were fell onto the ground. 

"I know, but you are yet to surpass me!" His lance suddenly moved on its own and launched itself back at Lyank before he held it. As she stood up a platinum scythe blade was attached at the opposite side of the tip, forming a platinum lyn. Next, a magical string suddenly appeared and tied on the scythe blade. A big energy arrow was pointed at him. As a response, his lance was emitting golden light and yellow flames were seen surrounding the lance's tip. 

"Don't you ever talk big like this!" The arrow was fired at him, but suddenly a dragon was launched out from his lance and "swallowed" the arrow without being "injured". Feeling anxious, the scythe blades were launched and the spun, forming a tornado sphere. Both attacks clashed and the energy arrows suddenly "burst through" the dragon, only to be absorbed and an energy blast was fired while he held it as if it was a long cannon. Not noticing that, she was hit and sent 15 meters away right into the crowd. She quickly stood up and dashed towards him with her scythe handle emitting colorless glow. 

"I am a humble person and you should know better. At least, with your current state, that hekruzil would wipe you out in a single attack," The scythe blades which were dropped onto the ground suddenly flew back and attached itself to the scythe's handle. Feeling worried about the attack that she will use, he dashed backwards and stretched his arms. Yet, her zig zag movements allowed her to slash the lance twice. Before she could slash his arms, he quickly charged at her using his shoulder before striking her using his knee. 

"I know, but against humans at least I have a chance!" She attached a blue pipe on her scythe's handle and fired a smoke bomb which exploded midair, emitting smokes that obscured their vision. Just when she thought that she could pass through the smoke and attack him in surprise, 

"This? I faced enemies who do that already, punk," Lyank swung his lance in a big circular arc and formed a disc shaped energy beam which was launched towards the smoke, hitting her and she finally collapsed onto the ground. The crowd cheered before dispersing. As she woke up, she was surprised. 

"Lyank, I love you," 

"I love you too," The duels start soon, or so they think....

The next day, the duels were delayed to a day after as the royal fighters were suddenly summoned for audiences. At the meantime, Syrfan and Fie were sitting on a bance inside a garden. A grave was seen in front of the stone bench they were sitting in. It reads, 

"In the memorial of our knigdom founders, Vurtis Tyranof and Norkrintsu Vekrif," 

"So this is a grave disguised as a garden. Perhaps they wanted a really peaceful sleep, I must say," Fie looked around the garden. 

"By the way, isn't this remarkably similar to the grave gardens of honored in Durgas?" Syrfan knelt down in front of the grave, giving a salute. 

"Yes. But they are remembered differently. After all, 'those who dead while defending our country deserve a blissful death'," She did the same. 

"Do you remember when is the first time we met?" 

"Yeah. I think back when I was 8 when I moved to become your neighbor and we have since been playing together. Then, after you become an astrologist, I wandered around villages and cities for my missions before returning to become your bodyguard," Syrfan looked at the sky. 

"After you were promoted become the chief guard, we see each other less often, but at least we do get to keep in touch with each other. For some reason, I like the times before we were sent for this mission. It's like we have our own private moment after our job are done," 

"Yeah. But I wondered, did you remember when is our first kiss?" 

"That? It was very sudden and solely made just to annoy several people who made sexual comment to me. But when you confessed to me in front of the entire planet's astrologists, I understand that you really do love me," 

"Yes. But what really makes me pissed off is the remark that I am 'just a statue who works for money'. So I responded that way," 

"I see. Still, what is your plan after this? Continue being a chief guard?" 

"Yes, but...." Syrfan suddenly blushed. 

"Huh?" 

"I...think...um...I'll...marry...you...." 

"Well, I plan the exact same thing. After all, we are already at this stage of relationship," 

"Definitely. But what should we do next? How about preparing for the battle?" 

"Sure," They took out a few flowers and placed them on the grave before leaving to an empty battle arena located underground. 

"Sir, do you wish to use the arena? If so, please register your name. You may only use this place for 30 minutes per day," A clerk sitting on a counter in front of the arena asked them. 

"Yes," After writing their names on a registry book, they entered and took out their weapons. 

"Remember when is the last time we dueled like this?" 

"I know. Several days before we depart from Dugras for this mission. In fact, it was so fierce that we attracted a lot of people around for a big show," Syrfan dashed towards Fie with his platinum sword emitting pale blue glow and ice was seen slowly sealing the weapon. Fie responded by firing a few bolt sparks at him, but he deflected them away by careful positioning of his sword which prevented the bolt sparks from hitting him. 

"Yeah. We fought until we are too tired to do so. Should we do this again?" Upon reaching close, Syrfan launched the ice seal at her instead of stabbing her directly, but she quickly strafed to her right and swung her wand at him, but an upwards left swung from his sword blocked her attack. He attempted to kick her, but she quickly jumped backwards and fired a few rock spikes at him. 

"Sure!" He dodged them by dashing backwards. At the meantime, Tefler and Clair were having their private moments....