Hey wake up," Milan said to Aiden urgently. She had something going on outside. Aiden was loud asleep. Milan's eyes were back to normal. Milan had changed into fresh clothes. She had put on beautiful white and red hanfu and put her hair up. She leaned next to him and pinched his nose when he refused to wake up. Milan was happy and excited for everything that happened in the past few hours after coming back from the waterfalls, killing the wolf.

When she asked him to not leave her, he did as she she requested. He stayed by her side.

"Wake up, fast," the moment she pinched his nose, he jumped up from the bed. "Come with me, its urgent,"

"What?" He asked trying to open his eyes properly and rubbed them. She took his arms and apparated back to the spot. When they reached, Aiden lost his balance and fell on the ground with a loud thud.magic

"Shhhuushhh... don't make noise," Milan whispered. The people who were walking outside the barrier looked at their direction. Milan remained still, wondering if they could see her and exchanged glances at Aiden who was still on the ground. He shook his head telling her that the people won't be able to see them.

"It must be the sound of jackfuits or melons falling from the top," one of the guards said and moved forward with their hike. Milan and Aiden followed them, staying inside the barrier.

"Who are they?" Milan asked him.

"I cannot see the tattoo clearly, did you see them? Explain it to me,"

"A pine tree in the middle, a dragon circling it all inside the triangle.

"Not dragon it will be Phoenix," Aiden corrected Milan. They are Emperor Tai's well trained ninjas.

"What?" Milan was shocked. "What are they doing here in our Water Kingdown?"

"Let's follow them," Aiden said and watched them.

They carefully walked along the borders without making noises. The ninjas were alert and tight lipped hardly speaking anything to each other. Then around two hour later, they rested under the pines trees.

So did Milan and Aiden, sitting on a log of wood lying on the ground. Milan had plucked some fruits from the tree in between stalking people.

She handed an apple to Aiden and had one for herself. She say there waiting for the men to open up their mouths speaking. One man took out a jar of wine and sipped a little.

"Don't you know that we are not allowed to drink wine during the mission?" The head of the gang questioned the guy who was drinking.

"Am cold and dead tired, am charging myself, I advised you not to take up the job, you did not listen to me, now don't come and bother me,""We cannot lack at our work, it would cost our lives," he tried to make the drinking guy understand the consequences. "You know how the Emperor is and we had no choice but take the job since he pays us every month,"

"I understand i agree, but this fight, it's no good to us except dying in vain for an old gutter like the fake bird. Nobody would give a damn about our lives, are you not afraid of the Demon King?" The one who drank asked his team leader back.

"He is our enemy," Team leader said.

"Think twice before you answer, mean it," drunk guy said. Ten others were sitting there, staring at the two having a heated conversation.

"Demon King Huo, oh my god, brother in law is involved in this matter," Milan whispered sitting closer to Aiden who was concentrating hard. He nodded to Milan.

"Demon King won't sit quiet if he knows about this, you know who the King of Hell is protecting now?" The drunk guy continued with his conversation.

"Speak slowly, everything has ears that would leak matters," team leader said.

"We are too deep into the forest even the animals would fear to enter, look around, who is going to hear us?" The drunk ninja said and looked around. "Tell me who else is worried about the life here? Is this mission even right?" But nobody responded back. The other eight ninjas slowly lifted their hands, one by one.

"Get to work," team leader ordered strongly and seriously seeing the raised hands. "Don't make me complaint, for the laziness and breaking the oat," he got angry. Get up and move your asses," Miland got up at the same time. She proceeded with her walk in silence.

"I heard that the princess in hiding in the Realm, but why would Emperor Tai declare that she is the sworn enemy and order to kill her on sight.

"What?" Milan gasped. Aiden was sweating hard listening to the news.

"Aqua offended the heavens," Aiden said in disbelief.

"What are we looking for honestly?" A young and Small ninja boy asked them.

"The princess," Drunkard said. "What else?"

"No, you are wrong," team leader corrected them. "We are in search of mythical beasts, " Team leader revealed the secret to his assistants.

Milan and Aiden looked at each other. "Oh no!" She gasped. Aiden took her hands and held her the moment they heard the tasks given to ninjas and the order to kill on sight.

"Apparently, some creatures like unicorn, half horse thing, wolves that can shape shift into humans. And the giants," he paused looking around and gathered other ninjas."They witness everything pretty well," he went on, about i mean his...' he paused. "if we get to tackle one, We can't take away the body.

"Aqua is in danger, so are we,"

"And so are we, something is wrong, I feel so, this barrier is weak a huge attack by the top cultivator from any of the realms can break the barrier. But you can't. The ninjas started walking towards the opposite direction of them, moving away. They could no longer follow the ninjas and know more..Milan stool there motionless, confused and wondering what to do. She then decided to check on the giants again. The ninjas had gone in the opposite direction but she was constantly worried.