259 More lost than ever (2/2)

So I'll give you and the rest of your useless race two options... Give me what I want... Or watch everything burn!”

Part 2

Evlin woke up staring at the blue sky while feeling the rough surface of the sand under her body while her skin was kissed by the strong warmth of the scalding sun.

”What the what...?” she whispered as she tried to stand up, surprised that she was finally able to move by herself again.

Gazing to her left and to her right, she quickly put together that she was lost in the middle of some kind of desert.

No signs of the castle, Knucker, Wrath, or Dria. She also didn't see her friends anywhere. Nothing but hills of sand no matter where she looked and an immense heat filling up her body.

”Ashley!! Gustav!! Ria!! Daren!! Marcus!! Leona!! Auren!! Lilith!!!” she tried to scream in the hopes that any of her friends could be close by, but it seemed like she was by herself after all.

”Sph- Ah...” for a moment she considered calling for her pet griffin, but just thinking about the way the beast acted around her like he was afraid of her, made her heart feel extremely heavy for a moment, almost the same way when she lost Mia. Seeing someone in pain and being unable to help was something that damaged her more than any kind of scar that she could acquire in battle.

She checked herself for a moment and realized that her wooden armor and her crossbow were gone, probably ended up getting burned from the fight with Wrath where she surrounded her body with terminal fire.

All she had was a green whip that she got from stealing one of the vines from Dria during her escape.

”Oh, joy...” she mumbled as she realized her terrible luck was acting up again.

”Ugh...” whispered someone in the distance.

The sound was just loud enough for the mage to hear and rush to see what the origin was.

She kept running until she found a man laying on the ground with half of his body covered in sand. He had a clean shaved head and a strong physique, making him look like the leader of a biker gang.

”Auren!!” Evlin cried as she dashed to help her friend.

She removed the sand from him and tried to give a little bit of water from a bottle that Auren himself was keeping in his bag.

”Auren!! Auren, talk to me!! Can you hear me!!??”

”Ugh... E- Evlin...?” he replied.

”Auren!!” the girl yelled while hugging the lad, ”Thank God you're ok!!”

”What... What's going on?? Where are we...??” Auren wondered while analyzing his surroundings and standing up as well.

”I have no freaking clue... Ria's portal must have overloaded with power and scattered us around the map...”

”What!!?? No, no... I need to find her!! I need to find Ria! And Marcia!! They need me!!”

”Auren, Auren, calm down... We can't be- Oh... What's that...?” Evlin asked as she gazed at a cloud of smoke approaching in the distance.

The cloud continued to come closer and closer until it revealed some kind of shadow inside of it. It looked like a man riding some kind of creature with a spear in its hand and a mask covering his face. The mask seemed to have some kind of fake white hair that extended itself until it could reach its waste.

The creature he was riding seemed to be some kind of red shark with eight crab legs sticking from its body.

”Trespassers!!” the rider screamed.

Evlin took another glance and realized that there was more than one rider. She counted five, eight, twelve people, all riding red sharks that just walked over the sand like spiders.

They kept approaching until they got both Evlin and Auren surrounded while aiming their weapons at the two who were just raising their hands to show they didn't intend to resist.

”E- Evlin... What do we do...?” Auren asked.

”Uuhhh... We come in peace...?”