Maya stared at the drone with a baffled expression on her face as she still couldn't bring herself to believe what Jude had told him.
"What do you mean you are in another world?" She asked.
"There is another world just like ours with people, trees, and animals. The only difference is that everything is improved here and doing some things is as easy as ever." Jude explained.
"And you are there right now?"
"Yeah, Tania is also here," Jude said.
"Tania?" Maya said as her eyes suddenly brightened up. "Is there any way I can hear her voice?"
She couldn't believe that her daughter was alive after all this while.
"She's not here but we're heading to her now," Jude said.
"We?"
"Yeah, the elf twins came with me and we made two friends who fortunately for us had been directly involved with her and knew where to find her. They are the ones leading us there now." Jude said.
"You're still with the elves?" Maya said as the tone of her voice suddenly changed.
"Yeah, Tauriel, say something," Jude said, turning his gaze to her but there was no response from her as she stared back at him with an expressionless look on her face.
"Hello, Mrs.Blackstone," Tuchel said.
"Oh," Maya said.
After educating his mother on where he was and what was going on, it was time for him to ask her what was going on over there at Asaka.
"Mother." He called.
"Yeah," Maya replied.
"What is going on? What happened to the king? What is going on with the sky?" He asked.
"I would have said one question at a time if I knew the answer to any of your questions," Maya replied. "The only thing I can tell you is that we are in danger here, all of us."
"Listen to me mother, I want you to do something."
"What?" Maya asked.
"Where's father?" He asked.
"He's with the other men at the council hall, they are trying to figure out a way to deal with what's going on now," Maya said.
"I doubt they're going to find anything," Jude muttered.
"Huh?"
"Mother, please make sure you and father are both here before the sun completely sets, I'll be back." He said. "Let's go, Layla."
"Where are you going?" Maya turned to the drone to ask as soon as it flew past her heading toward the hallway.
"To find Matilda." He answered before the drone disappeared right in front of her.
That was the way she thought it but the drone had entered stealth mode before flying off.
After the drone had left, it didn't take up to a minute before the door was pushed open for Felix to enter the house.
"Maya," Felix called as he found it strange to find her standing there like that.
"Oh, you're here, Jude was just here." She said after turning to him.
"Jude?" Felix said with a surprised expression on his face. "Where is he now?"
"He just left, there was a large bee-like creature here and he was talking to me through the creature," Maya revealed.
"Bee-like creature?" Felix said with a confused expression on his face.
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Mirinda spun in the air to avoid two discs that had been shot toward her at the same time.
The speed at which the discs were getting shot out at level three had taken quite a significant increase and that alone was enough to create the feeling of nervousness in her for the first time since the competition kicked off.
She quickly lay on the large disc to avoid a disc flying toward her at high speed and just as that disc flew past her, two discs came flying directly toward her.
She quickly sprang up and curled up her legs to avoid that.
Apart from sensing when they touched the ground and discs those gloves were also for sensing where they were.
She had three discs left now and these three were the trickiest as they had all been shot out toward her together in a zigzag manner.
The discs being shot out toward her in a zigzag manner meant that her only way to avoid them was to find a way to fit herself through any of the two middle openings, any other thing would mean that she would have to fall off the large disc and get disqualified.
She quickly sprang up and got herself in a horizontal position for the discs to zoom past her, she had almost touched one of the discs but luckily for her, she didn't.
She had succeeded in avoiding the tough discs shot at her and now it looked like her legs were going to hit the floor but she had grabbed the edge of the disc and pulled herself back into the middle to prevent that from happening.
She was applauded by the students and a few staff who were impressed by the performance she had put up.
"If level three was that hard, how are the levels after it going to be?" Chloe asked with a baffled expression on her face.
The machine had been filled up with all twenty discs as Derrick stepped up for his turn, he no longer had that look of confidence he had when he stepped up for levels one and two.
'You do realize that this one is quite hard compared to the one you played at the arcade.' Lena said.
'Yeah, I just wish this golden fortification will activate without me having to feel threatened.' Luis replied.
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It wasn't hard for Layla to find a way into the house as Matilda's room upstairs happened to be open.
Jude directed her to the room and when she flew in, Matilda didn't seem to be there.
"She's not here," Layla said.
"Check the whole house," Jude said.
Layla did as he said and quickly began to fly around the house to see if she could spot her but she didn't seem to be anywhere upstairs and even after flying downstairs she wasn't there.
"Where could she be?" Jude said with a pondering look on his face.
"Maybe she's outside the house, like around the house somewhere," Tuchel said.
"Yeah," Layla said, already flying upstairs to leave in the same way she had entered.
"Wait," Jude said just before she could drive the drone into the room.
"What?" Layla asked.
"How many rooms did you check up here?" He asked.
"Those two." She said, turning the drone's camera to the two rooms standing opposite each other. "Plus this one, that's three."
"Did you check the room facing the stairs?" The young knight asked.
"There's a room there?" Layla said with a confused expression on her face. freeweb novel. com
Matilda was in her master's room, sitting on his bed with a painting of him in her hands.
She was doing everything to stop herself from crying but it just wasn't working.
She bit her lower lip in anguish as drops of tears fell from her eyes and just as she was about to break down in tears, she heard the door move and quickly turned toward it to see that it had opened more compared to the way she had left it.
"Who's there?" She asked with a startled voice as she dropped the painting on the bed and quickly reached for the dagger at the edge of the bed. freew ebnove l.com
She could hear the buzzing sound which clearly sounded like that of a bee and under normal circumstances she wouldn't be afraid of something like this but after what just happened her mind wasn't what it used to be.
"Who's there?" She asked looking around to try and spot where the sound was coming from but she just couldn't spot anything.
"Hey, Matilda it's me." Jude finally spoke through the drone.
"Jude?" Matilda said with a confused expression on her face as she had immediately recognized the voice.
"Yeah, it's me," Jude said.
"Are you a ghost now?" She asked, looking around.
"She thinks you're a ghost," Layla said with a chuckle.
"Who was that?" She asked as the urgency in her voice quickly returned.
"It's me, Tilda, I'm not a ghost but I am not exactly here right now so this is the only way I can talk to you," Jude explained.
"If you're not here right now then how are you talking to me?" Matilda asked with a confused expression on her face.
"I fell into the portal with Tauriel and Tuchel, we are in the other world right now and with the help of some friends we found a way to be here without actually being here," Jude said.
"What are you talking about?" Matilda asked as she was getting more confused the more he tried to explain.
"Please turn off the stealth mode."
"Huh?" Matilda said with a confused expression on her face.
There was no response from Jude as the stealth drone immediately became invisible right in front of her and looking at it now she had a horrid look on her face.
"If you're not a ghost, then what are you?" She asked, looking at the drone with a confused expression on her face.
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