Chapter 220 - Bring me your Arm.

Throughout many situations in life, Mogranius had found himself in situations where he absolutely had to be invisible in order to succeed with a specific assigned task! Due to this fact, he taught himself how to find smoke even if it is from the smallest sources, even if he has to obtain the required smoke bit by bit! He taught himself to be more aware of his surroundings, one can find smoke easier with such perception.

Since neither of the three Ignite ladies that are chasing him and Eric, likely aren't in this scene yet but are scoping the Kingdom instead especially because the main Gate is closed! Mogranius decided to fly over this boulder along with Eric! Once he approached them, counting 12 ladies he proceeded with a warm approach. "Congratulations! This battle was tremendous! I've never seen anything like it." A bit of an interesting fact is that Mogranius isn't faking all of this battle enthusiasm! He loves the work these ladies did even though he is highly confused and a bit scared too. Fear didn't beat his curiosity however.

Seeing that the ladies aren't becoming hostile, Eric decided to ask about Mogranius thought out theory. "Did you poison the entire Army?"

The same lady that was slapped down by Bittore Nardone, walked away from the bundle of ladies and spoke for all of them! "Such information will only be revealed after King Tamzar's direct approval, we do not intend to reveal anything that might lead to Maleemia being conquered." At least this time this grumpy lady is willing to listen instead of trying to shoot either Mogranius or Eric down!

Feeling quite confident that his own speechcraft due to countless life experiences, can help him with this case of finding valuable information. He said, "But that's what King Tamzar send us here for."  Seeing that everyone is patiently listening, with a little smirk he continued. "To watch the battle and be taught the ropes by yours truly. We are now the part of this defence team." With this little wordplay, he is using the fact that King Tamzar "approved" their presence here to his utmost advantage.

Perceptive enough, and having a developed hate already for these newcomers due to the embarrassment she faced a while ago, this grumpy lady started stating fact after fact. "First of all, that's not how the procedure of approval here works!" Now taking the turn of putting a big smirk on her face, she continued with a lot of confidence. "Furthermore this is a restricted Area for any Fire Controller who didn't pass the defence test yet." Taking a couple of steps back and shouting. "The King didn't even know about the battle! Even we didn't until we saw the Soldiers appearing on the road's curve further away." With a sphere of Fire forming in between her hands that were seperated a foot apart from each other, she asked with a shout. "Now tell us! What are you here for!"

Embarrassed enough, not because he was caught in a lie but because he failed to get any information from these ladies. With a couple of sweats breaking from his forehead he calmly expressed. "I can explain this bit by bit."

Seeing that Mogranius still carried a calm tone even though the lady in front of him along with 11 others behind her formed a battle pose ready to banish these two men out of existence, she lowered her Guard down just a small little bit. That was her dumbest mistake here! And that's saying something considering that she got slapped to the ground a while ago!

Mogranius was replaced by a thick black formation of Smoke and spread in a spherical (But lumpy) with a radius of 15 meters! Just enough to help Eric be partially out of harm's way and connect after as well! To make this escape even safer, the 12 ladies started coughing from the top of their lungs until one of them shouted. "Shoot the damn smoke!"

These Ignite ladies aren't used to fighting other Fire Controllers. And even if they do, Fire is rarely involved. So they didn't exactly know that smoke can be shot and the "Caster" would be highly damaged by it. Even though Mogranius body is replaced by smoke, getting damaged by an opponent can be deadly. Unlike connecting with Fire, an attack sadly can't just pass through without actually dealing any damage. It is the main downside of connecting with Smoke. Another reason why the ladies didn't know of such a fact, is that Magic teaching schools aren't common throughout Ignis after the War, in fact there aren't any of them left at all. They were all burned down!

Sad enough, for the ladies at least. Once one Finally shot, both of the Ignites are out of sight along with the smoke too. Escaping just by an inch! Now it is nearly impossible to find these Ignites, they can just hope that they reappear again and get shot by anyone else.

How did Mogranius find smoke here you might ask? Well you can't trust anything that you can't see, Mogranius has proven that fact countless times up until now! Although not visible, the ashy aftermath caused for a lot of smoke to be released all around. The burning of Iron had a strong odor and once again quite hard to control.

The two drops of sweat Mogranius experienced in this blistering cold, weren't entirely out of embarrassment. Most of it was caused due to the wildly massive concentration he had to go through in order to drag every bit of smoke towards him enough to connect with it and cause that cloud of smoke!

A lot of the Smoke came out of torched bodies as well, this didn't make anything easier. He even felt the stench of it surrounding his body, he will need a wash after this!

"What will we do now?" Asked a lady from the group with a lot of concern, the King clearly won't tolerate such failure. She was scared for her own safety and for the rest of the group safety's too.

"We can't do anything about it, we have no way to find those bastards!" Shouted the grumpy lady as she felt that little tear frozen on her chin, melt out and spread around her neck and a bit of it on her chest too. Feeling cold water on her skin wasn't the best experience, but she literally melted it off due to the sudden rush of body heat she put herself through due to all of this eggarated anger, rage. I suppose she has work to do against her own Inner Demon. "We can just hope that someone else shoots them down!"

Meanwhile, since Eric and Mogranius didn't manage to get any information from these ladies, they decided to follow one of the previous plans. Which is to head towards the Castle in order to find any valuable information. However, since both of them spread in random directions and it is impossible to see an Ignite once he or she becomes invisible, they lost track of each other.

They can't yell out for each other since it would grab a lot of attention, so Mogranius did something else instead hoping that Eric is smart enough to pick up his unspoken sign. He just made a little bit of smoke appear, enough for anyone to see from close by but definitely not enough for someone who is over 50 meters away to notice.

After a couple of minutes, Eric apparently approached close enough and had the decency to scold. "You know you aren't supposed to be visible!"

A bit angry that he got such a comment after taking such a risk for the boy, he just simply said. "Shut up." To avoid being detected and waited for any passing random joe to open the main gate, it is easy to jump from the wall when inside the Kingdom, but not easy to climb up when being outside. They are living breathing smoke at the moment after all, and smoke doesn't break Fire from its feet. It doesn't even have feet!

In the Castle of Maleemia, a Guard approached carrying a leather bag and handed it to King Tamzar, stating after. "This my Lord, is what the Kingdom's Blacksmith managed to make out of that... ore."

Anticipation no doubt, he pulled the content out of the bag! He pulled out a little dagger, its blade around 20 centimeters but its size didn't matter but its color instead! Like the Blue Eagle, its colour shone in a dark blue manner!

"Hmm... amazing." Murmured King Tamzar to himself, and odd enough he asked in a low calm tone as if his request isn't such a big deal. "Bring your arm closer."

The Guard followed the Command without any disagreement but sure has some hesitation. In either way he doesn't want to show weakness so he just obayed the King's wish. Refusing wouldn't prove useful after all!