The Return of the Mad Witch
Devina Abducted

Devina told Valencia everything, she told him that in recent times there has been frequent terror in her room. Starting from the writing of blood on the bathroom mirror, a letter containing an oath of absorbency regarding death, as well as the carcass of birds that are often sent through a gift box.

Indeed Devina was eager to tell Valencia and Rachel about the terror. However, Devina felt bad about having to trouble them because of the matter. Therefore, lately Devina looks more gloomy and more alert to people around.

Then there was a real death threat today. In addition, Devina's hand was sprained by falling from the horse, making it difficult to swing the sword. Devina did not want Valencia to be too difficult because of that, but this has already happened.

"Devina, today you and Rachel should sleep in my room. It'll be safer if you're under my watch. I'll report the matter to Reibert soon enough to deal with."

Devina just agreed, this is the best solution for now. Valencia sent a letter to Reibert. Lately Reibert was assigned around the academy area so it would be faster for him to get to this place to conduct an investigation.

'Prince Rudolf, I believe he planned to kill his own sister. Moreover, from Devina's story, it seemed Rudolf had no close relationship with Devina. But what made him want to kill his own family? Is there a motive behind this plan?' valencia is serious.

In the evening, at seven o'clock in the evening, Reibert and some of his knightly group arrived at the academy. Valencia have previously told Frintz and Xeros of the situation so they are also helping in this case.

"This time Prince Rudolf was after Devina's life, his subordinates attacked long distances using arrows."

Valencia showed the arrows to the three of them. Arrows with unusual motifs and colors they saw in the Alegra Empire.

"The land looks strange" said Xeros.

"It's only natural that you feel this is strange, this is a magic arrow that will explode when it hits the target. It was fortunate that I managed to catch this arrow before it hit Devina's body. But where did they get these arrows?"

The same question flashed across the heads of the three men. Dangerous arrows like this were impossible for them to find in the territory of the Alegra Empire or other empires and empires.

"Isn't this an arrow from the Mihovil continent?" ask Reibert.

Valencia turned towards Reibert. "It turns out you realized it quickly. This was indeed an arrow that came from the Mihovil continent. That covered continent, is there someone behind it deliberately trading these arrows illegally?"

"That is a possibility, but the more awkward thing at this time is the possibility of involvement of the Mihovil continent against the plans of Prince Rudolf," Frintz said in a statement.

Valencia was silent for a moment, the thought of Frintz sounding reasonable in Valencia's mind. Starting from the group of shadow magicians to the appearance of magic several times to kill important people in this empire.

"It's reasonable! It is possible that the mastermind is currently in the Mihovil continent. Since Klarybell's death, the Mihovil continent has shut itself off from the outside world so there is no room for us to investigate the activities of the Mihovil continent" Xeros said.

"If it is true like that, then it means that our enemies are not just anyone we can fight. We have to find another way to eradicate the evil that is constantly coming to Alegra" Reibert said.

A burden of mind that Valencia carries every second of the day. After more than eight hundred years of his death, Valencia never again heard of the continent of Mihovil. The territory of power he guarded wholeheartedly was swallowed up by time just like that.

Valencia thought hard until he subconsciously broke his arrow. However, he immediately returned the shape of his arrow to its original form.

"Let's think about it later, for now we have to tighten the guard around Devina. We don't know what will happen, but at least we have to prepare for the worst possible situation" Valencia said.

Tonight Devina and Rachel are taken to Valencia's room. Around the room, there were a number of high-powered knights assigned to guard Devina. They never shift their focus to anything else.

Although they were hard to tighten security around, the enemy could still take advantage of the gap that the guard group had accidentally created. In the middle of the night, Rachel wakes up to hear a noise from Devina's bed.

Rachel watched as Devina was being smothered by two robed men who went out of nowhere. Devina tried to shout, but their strength was much stronger than Devina.

"YESY, DEVINA!" rachel tries to save Devina. But he did not save his friend.

Devina suddenly disappeared as fast as lightning from the sight of Rachel's eyes. In the end, Rachel's shrieking voice reached Valencia's sense of hearing which happened to be outside the room.

"What's up, Rachel? What happened to Devina?" ask Valencia to panic.

"Valencia, Casablanca ... Devina's missing! He was taken by two black-robed men and they disappeared in front of my eyes just like that while carrying Devina. What are we supposed to do? It's my fault, it's my fault I can't take good care of Devina."

Rachel looked hysterical, shocked, and panicked, her head raging. He who was not used to seeing magic was enough to make him drown in confusion.

As soon as Valencia calms Rachel down, she takes Rachel to sit down.

"Calm down, don't panic. Everything will be fine as long as I'm here."

Valencia tried to stay calm until Rachel was calmed down. Xeros, Frintz, and Reibert also approached Valencia after hearing Rachel's screams.

"You better get some sleep now, wait for the good news from me. I promise to bring Devina safely to the academy."

Valencia touches Rachel's forehead, accidentally putting Rachel to sleep to reduce Rachel's frustration. Then only Valencia moves with the others to search for Devina's current whereabouts.

"Where did they take Devina? Do you have any way to detect their presence?" ask Reibert.

"I have a way to detect the magic traces of the people who just brought Devina."

Valencia captures a speck of light that is thought to be a trace of the magic of the two people. The traces of magic they left behind will be very useful for Valencia to find the existence of Devina at that time.