''I will never disappoint you, Mya.'' Hyun Jae started chanting with resolve deep in her heart.


    "Goddess of Light, Lumiera. I ask thee to purify thynd covered with darkness."


    Waves of light erupted from Hyun Jae.


    The magic circle where the people were being sacrificed was now dimming.


    "What are you waiting for? All of you stop her!" The witch screamed and the mes of anger flickered all over her body.


    ---???---


    "How beautiful." Mya nced up as she pped her hands three times,pletely impressed. Together with Iris, Dorris, and Elred, they also looked at the sight in the sky.


    The thick and dark clouds were starting to clear up as well. Revealing the vast starry night skies.


    "Hey! As I remember, that''s our signal, am I right?" Iris asked as her spear materialized on her right hand.


    "Yes. That''s our signal. It''s now the time.


    "Mya grinned as she brought out her talisman from her bag. Then she turned towards Dorris.


    "Dorris, you have used up your teleportation twice now right, I think it will be better if you go back to the ship with him." Mya gestured to the unconscious Kayden. "That would be a better choice for now."


    "Wait, what Mdy?" Dorris was surprised by what she heard. "I can fight as well. I promise I won''t be a burden to any of you. Let me prove to you that I can help the team."


    Mya leaned closer to Dorris to whisper something. Then she moved a step away and patted her right shoulder.


    "Let''s see each other again, after all this."


    Dorris pursed her lips as she clenched her fists. "Alright, take care then Mdy and all of you." She walked towards Kayden and started chanting. Soon they were enveloped with her magic circle. Before they disappeared she gave Mya onest look.


    "Take care as well, Dorris," Mya said and both Dorris and Kayden disappeared in just a second.


    "I can sense that she truly wants to help us. What did you whisper to her?" Iris asked.


    "Some words of advice to reassure her," Mya said casually. Then she handed two talismans of teleportation to Elred and Iris.


    "If your lives get endangered, use that to escape. That''s for your own safeness."


    "And what about you?" Iris raised a brow.


    "Don''t worry I have plenty of that to me now, so I''ll be fine." Mya simply said. She nced at her left wrist that was still continuously throbbing with pain.


    When she raised her head, Iris'' face was close to her which made her step a few steps behind.


    "Whoa," Mya said, a bit surprised. " That was too close, huh. What?"


    Iris with two arms on her waist looked at Mya. "Is something that matters?"


    "No," Mya replied, maintaining her calm. "Let''s go now."


    They started to remove the cloaks of the people they knocked out.


    ---???---


    On the road, they stealthily moved.


    "Are we there yet?" Iris asked.


    "Will you just be patient? You keep asking me the same question. Anyways just this one turn and we will be there." Mya calmly said yet a little bit irritable on her reply. She stopped before turning into the left corner of the street. She checked first if there were any people there. At the point when she saw that the region was clear she signaled to her allies to go and make a move. They kept walking some more until they reached a dead-end.


    After ncing and observing the surroundings, Mya started to press a brick in the middle. Then to Iris and Elred''s surprise, the dead end wall began to split into two.


    "What is there?" Iris asked.


    "Another thing that will surprise the enemy." Mya said. "Follow closely behind me."


    *Boom!*


    Before they could enter the bricks, all of them nced up. They could still see Hyun Jae emitting her light above. But there was someone trying to get close to her.


    Since they were a bit far away, they couldn''t see it clearly. But they could get that it was trying to break the barrier Hyun Jae created for herself. Soon lightning emerged from the skies. And more explosions from the sky urred. The crown prince started to show himself and stopped anyone who was trying to get near to Hyun Jae.


    ''Hang in there, Hyun Jae.''


    "Stop staring, we need to move now. Let''s go," Mya said. She picked a small bottle on her bag containing blue liquid. She shook it up and down and the bottle started to emit light.


    She gestured for Elred and Iris to follow behind her. And as soon as the three of them entered, the wall behind closed.


    With the light bottle she had in Mya''s hands, they started to walk towards the stone walkway. It took them a half an hour for their walk.


    "I don''t know what we are doing but are we going to some underground ce?"


    "Close." Mya just simply replied and didn''t say anything or entertained her question after that. Iris seemed to sense her seriousness so she chose to didn''t ask anything either and stealthily followed behind Mya. All of them were quiet and focused on their destination.


    Soon, Iris could hear the sounds of rushing water.


    The three stopped when they reached the end of the tunnel.


    "What is this ce?" Iris asked a bit perplexed. " I never seen this before."


    There was now a small clear pond in front of them. Then in the middle there was a small waterfalling from within the crack of a stone. Mya continued to walk in a small bridge connecting to the falls.


    "Hey, are you out of your mind? That''s the falls!" Iris stopped when Mya vanished within the falls.


    "She couldn''t hear you anymore. Let''s just trust and follow after her." Elred who was behind Iris strode forward and disappeared into the falls as well.


    Though still skeptical about it. "Alright fine." Iris rolled her eyes and she did not have anything to do about it but to follow after them.


    When she thought she would be drenched from the falls, strangely it was like there was some sort of barrier surrounding her that prevented the water froming to her.


    When she walked past the falls, the next thing Iris saw greatly shocked her.


    "Wait, is this what I think it is?" Iris asked. Bewilderment was clearly expressed in her face.


    "Yes." Mya simply answered as she looked ahead. "This is the lost city of Herez, the Heloz that we couldn''t find earlier, when we first arrived here."


    "This waspletely ridiculous. I can''t believe that city was only found inside the wall?" amazement and curiosity was written on Iris''s face.


    In front of them, there was a massive gate between two huge stone bricks. On the right brick, it contained the characters for Helos and on the left was the characters for the City.


    "How in the world, the city get here?" Iris kept asking the same question and amazed and curiosity was still visible on her face." Hey! I was just amazed, okay?" she said when she saw Mya stare at her.


    Elred narrowed his gaze. "With thest survivors of the mages of the GeZo countries, they teleported the city here to escape the eyes of the empire. The emperor upon finding that some of his enemy disappeared didn''t want anyone to find this. He wanted everyone to believe that he had aplete victory in the war that was why he hid this fact. Upto this day, then Herez was still secretly monitored by his people in case that the remaining people who escaped would show themselves once again."


    Both Mya and Iris nced at him.


    "Yes, he''s right." Mya said in agreement with Elred. "And the one he assigned to lead these discrete monitoring is Oliver."


    "I see, so I''m the only one who didn''t know about this." Iris carressed her chin. "And it means that''s how Oliver and the cult seized control of the ind without the emperor knowing." Iris nodded her head in understanding. "Everything bes clear now to me."


    "Although, I''m not surprised if within this group, most of you were so aware of everything that even I don''t know." Elred looked at Mya. "I''m quite curious as to how did you know all of this?"


    A grin emerged from Mya''s lips. "A little spy told me everything."


    The ground began to tremble as the gate started to split into two.


    "Who''s there?!" A booming voice echoed throughout the ce.


    All of the three of them looked ahead. When the gate waspletely opened, it revealed people wearing ck armors and they were holding different kinds of weapons in their hands.


    "Thankfully, Oliver wasn''t able topletely seize control of the ind, since he still hadn''t found out about this city that was lying beneath his fortress." Mya whispered that only Iris and Elred could hear.


    "The Sun is my enemy." Mya removed her hood and curtly bowed with her hand on her heart.. "I am Mya and I''m here to seek for your cooperation."