Zenon was in a predicament. He was stuck an a small rock he thought of as a shelter, and no one knew he was here. The beetles in Sandland couldn't get him from here, but his magic was useless against the tough exo-armor of the beetles. He was scared, and was desperate, and so activated a blue orb in his hand to attempt to communicate with Rahcaz and call for help. Rahcaz did not reply, strangely. During a previous encounter, Zenon had accidentally planted a blue orb onto William. Thus, six hundred miles away, an man named William noticed the message.
"Hey, Nicolai! What's this?" said William, refferring to the blue orb. "It's a message, from... Zenon?!"
Nicolai and Sarah exchanged looks, and Uriah stopped his conversation with Reinhard Amerson, the newly appointed leader of Jaem Tuung (the previous one, Jone Tuscans had been killed by Nicholai during his attack), to walk over wit Reinhard to William and Nicolai.
"What's that you got there, er... Nicolai?" asked Reinhard.
"I'd like to know for myself too, but it seems to be a message sending device. We need someone to track down where this message was sent from."
"Did I hear that someone needs to see where some train tracks come from?" asked an elderly man, apparently eavesdropping.
Nicolai turned in shock, as did William and Reinhard. The combined group looked at the man, dressed in light brown robes. William immediately recognized the man as being Merlin, Head Mage of the International Mage Federation and Chief Mage of the emperor of most lands, Maximillian.
"No, you heard us wrong, we need to track down where this message was sent from." replied Reinhard.
"Hmmmm...." said Merlin, looking at the orb. "This came from a very, very tiny island near Sandland. You surely aren't planning of going there?"
"Of course we are, right guys?" says William halfheartedly, as Nicolai and Sarah were backing away.
"I think Nicolai and I should have a bit of a chat first." said Sarah, dragging Nicolai away too.
Nicolai and Sarah did not end up searching for Zenon, although William, Reinhard, Merlin, Uriah, Travis, and a female warrior of the Holy Islands named Joan ended up embarking on the search in one of Tennin's helicopters, driven by Tennin himself.
Upon reaching the spot where Merlin said Zenon was, they found Zenon, cowering in fear of the helicopter. Much boring explanation was made between both sides, in which Zenon was repeatedly threatened by William and Uriah, although in the end tthe group reached a consensus. Merlin was a better mage than Zenon, and cast a spell that created a bubble that humans could enter but the bettles could not. the eight of them (William, Uriah, Reinhard, Merlin, Travis, Joan, Tennin, and Zenon) made camp. Zenon looked in the distance, and noticed a pyramid. With the help of Merlin's Far-Sighting Binoculars, Zenon identified a symbol no one else knew.
"It's the symbol of Arctunus, a neccromancer of the Dol Sol who vanished a long time ago, maybe 3-400 years ago. Not long after he disappeared, the Dol Sol entirely vanished, strangely. We need to investigate deeper into this, since the fact that his symbol is on this pyramid means we could potentially be looking at a 400-year long mystery about what happened to the Dol Sol, or people of the Sun.
William took a look, then said, "Well, this will have to wait until tomorrow. Uriah and Tennin are already asleep." William got into his sleeping bag, and Zenon continued to wonder about Arctunus.
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