Keh wiped his tears and denied Damien''s im while chuckling, "I d-don''t think so… All we ate and drank were normal food."


    Damien''s suspicion that something was very wrong grew even stronger. He looked around while trying to control hisughter.


    At a distance, he noticed a very olddy sitting down on a stone while facing them. A small cloth pouch was lying beside thatdy. And he didn''t know why but he felt that there was something off about her.


    He recalled how he and Ariel had encountered a mysteriousdy who called herself a witch on the worst day of his life. He narrowed his eyes at that old woman and thought to himself, "Don''t tell me she is someone who is after Ariel. Or that samedy from that day..."


    He subconsciously started walking towards her.


    However, thatdy suddenly picked up her pouch and got up from where she was resting. And though she was old, she began walking at a pace that beat young people.


    Damien didn''t notice it but all of them suddenly stoppedughing when thatdy started to walk away.


    Damien picked up his pace and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Hey, granny! Can I talk to you for a moment?"


    But thatdy kept on walking further and further away.


    "What happened? Is something wrong?" Keh also caught up with him and asked while running side by side.


    Damien clenched his fist in rage. He was angry, not at Keh but at thatdy who was clearly disguised in an old woman''s skin. He then asked Keh, "Do you also see that old woman?"


    Keh followed Damien''s gaze and saw the said olddy. "Yes, I see her." He then asked Damien, "Do you recognize her? Is she someone dangerous?"


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    That olddy was getting closer to the forest that was by the side of the town. So Damien asked Keh, "You keep on running after her. I will teleport in front of her and will try to stop her. And don''t lose sight of her."


    "Alright." Keh gave a nod.


    And Damien immediately vanished from Keh''s side.


    However, when Damien vanished, so did that olddy.


    "What the…" Keh was stunned to see thatdy vanishing like a puff of smoke.


    And soon after, Damien appeared close to where thatdy was a while ago.


    "Where is she?" Damien asked Keh.


    "She disappeared," Keh shouted back while running towards Damien.


    Damien frantically looked around and even ran around in search of that olddy. However, she was nowhere to be seen.


    Keh finally caught up to Damien and said, "She vanished as soon as you teleported. What do you think she was?"


    Damien closed his eyes and held his head with both of his hands. He looked above at the sky that had cleared up to show its blue color and then screamed in frustration.


    He sighed and then mumbled as his eyes shined bright red in color, "She was definitely not from Hell. And if she disappeared, then that can only mean that she was someone from the Heaven realm. I bet that she was waiting for Ariel."


    Keh widened his eyes and suddenly grabbed Damien''s arm. "What if she went to the castle?"


    Damien also looked back at Keh with wide eyes. And without arguing or wasting a single breath to make Keh leave his arm, Damien ordered, "Hold on tight."


    The two of them instantly teleported to themon room of the castle.


    And the moment they reached there, Damien shouted at the top of his lungs, "Ariel? Nih?"


    "Ariel, where are you?" Keh shouted while banging on Nih''s door.


    Ariel flung the door open and asked in a terrified voice, "What happened? What''s wrong?"


    Both Damien and Keh heaved a deep sigh of relief upon seeing Ariel.


    "Tell me what happened?" Ariel looked at the two of them as if she was still in shock because of their shouting, and she demanded to know why they were screaming as if something really bad had happened.


    Damien cleared his throat and then answered, "Oh, nothing. You two were taking too long toe back and we were getting bored so we came to fetch you."


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    Ariel gave a piercing gaze to Damien and asked in a stern voice, "Tell me the truth."


    Damien couldn''t handle that icy re from Ariel so he blurted everything, "We found this old woman there in the field. But she vanished right in front of our eyes. So we thought that maybe she was after you and she came here when she vanished from there. But you are fine and still here so I guess that olddy went back to where she came from."


    He looked down and then added, "Sorry. I couldn''t catch her."


    Ariel took a deep breath in and wiped her sweaty palm on her gown. She cleared her throat nervously and then tried to reassure herself and the boys, "Don''t worry about it if she is gone then. My grandma won''t let anyone from Heavene near me if they have any bad intention."


    "Er…" Keh panicked all of a sudden and nced at Damien. And he pointed at Ariel and said, "Her grandma won''t let anyone near her… that''s why that olddy appeared in front of us when she was here. What if…"


    Damien widened his eyes in realization again and shouted, "Shit! Those two…"


    Damien immediately teleported back to the barn fearing that that old woman might have kidnapped Zach or Ramon or both. She would be able to use those two as hostages and demand whatever it was that she really wanted from Ariel.


    Thankfully, he saw Zach and Ramon surrounded by their guards. They were right where he had left them earlier.


    "Are you two alright? Nothing happened here while we were gone, right?" Damien asked as he walked towards the boys.


    "Nothing happened," Zach replied in a soft voice.


    Ramon then nced at Damien and questioned him, "What happened? You two suddenly ran off and then vanished."


    Damien lightly massaged his forehead as it was hurting slightly. And he answered after heaving a sigh, "We had a little surprise visit from someone from Heaven. I''m d that she made usugh and didn''t try to hurt us or kill us. Maybe she was warming up to do that."


    Zach and Ramon exchanged a worried nce.


    The guards who heard Damien were now nervous. If an entity from Heaven decided to attack the Princes then there was nothing they would be able to do to protect the Princes. They were d that the Princes were safe, at least for now.


    Shortly after, Ariel also teleported back along with Nih and Keh.


    "What do we do now?" Zach asked in a slightly shaken voice since he was the weakest one among everyone there. He didn''t want to be the first target of that entity from Heaven.


    Ariel reassuringly caressed Zach''s cheek and told him, "Don''t be scared. I am right here. And granny will also protect all of us. Just try to stay close to me at all times."


    Zach nodded his head and then went to grab Ariel''s arm. "Don''t leave me behind. I don''t want to die today."