"Why do you steal the fire crystal? It doesn't make any sense!" Questioned Siegfried.

"Fool! Master Arnos sent me along with the other fiends to steal all four crystals, and use them to unleash the giant to destroy you meddlesome humans! You may have defeated the fiend of poison, but mark my words! Master Arnos is coming, so you're all doomed!" Explained Fyro.

"The giant!?" Said Sonya in a frightened tone.

"Not if we're gonna let that happen!" Snarled Eric.

The team get ready to fight the fiend of magma, then Laura casts blizzara at Fyro. Unfortunately, it dealt no damage because he uses his cape as a shield.

"Spells of ice cannot penetrate the cape of fire I wear!" Fyro grinned.

Then the fiend of magma counteracts by casting fira, dealing moderate damage to the party. However, despite being weakened, Sonya casts cura on the entire team (including herself) to heal them back to health. Eric casts candle fire on Fyro, dealing damage to the fiend of magma despite being a fire elemental. Laura followed the example by casting fira onto the fiend of magma, dealing moderate damage. When the fiend of magma tried casting blizzara onto himself to heal, his cape was open and dealt damage instead. He is weakened, and he  transformed into a blob like creature made of magma as a means of preventing physical attacks and fire spells. Unfortunately, he's still vulnerable to ice spells.

During the fight, everyone heard a deep man's voice telling them to stop. When they turned around, they find a man, clad in blueish grey armor, arriving from the entrance of the crystal room.

"Master! You came to my rescue!" Fyro exclaimed.

The armored man didn't say a word, let alone blasting the fiend of magma with purple colored lightning.

"M-master...? Why are you attacking... you faithful servant?" Fyro questioned.

"You may have bought some time for me to get here, but you took too long in killing the team. That's why I'm punishing you, I shall relinquish the fire crystal from you" responded the armored man.

The team was shocked at this, that the armored man is no doubt the so called "master Arnos" that the two fiends have mentioned. Then the armored man casts some kind of spell, sucking Fyro in as the fiend of magma was screaming for mercy.

"Are... are you the so called "master Arnos" that the two fiends have mentioned?" Asked Sonya.

"Verily, I am a Lunarian who was the one who sent the first two fiends to steal the crystals" answered Arnos.

"Then why are you stealing the crystals?" Asked Siegfried.

"Simple, to summon the giant from the tower that my faction had constructed here on this planet. Have it wipe out your kind, just so my kind can colonize" answered Arnos.

"That's awful!" Laura called out.

"Oh? Is it wrong if I wanted my kind to colonize at the expense of yours? Then me give you my gift, a gift to remember by!" Arnos said as he raised his arm, and blasts everyone away thus sending them flying across the room.

Siegfried shakily got up, and watched as Arnos picked up the fire crystal and put it somewhere. He stumbles towards the armored man, but he collapsed in front of him.

"Tenacious, aren't we?" Said Arnos sarcastically.

Then the armored man walks up to Sonya and swung his cape over her, making her disappear within his cape. Then he walks towards the exit, but before he leaves, he stops to give a message.

"If you wish to see Sonya again, seek the other crystals. Once you have the other three, return to the Blue moon within the depths of the Lunar Core and I will give her back to you" he said before leaving.

The team struggled to stay awake, before slipping into unconsciousness. By the time when they were awake, they were back in the inn of Ostia. The inn keeper told them that Octavius found them unconscious within the crystal room, so he had his scrubbers bring them to the inn by driving the airship to the town.

"What are we going to do!? This Arnos person just kidnapped Sonya, and told us to take the other crystals from other nations and bring them to the Blue moon!!" Panicked Siegfried, Laura had to smack him in the face.

"Calm down, Siegfried!" She scolded.

"We need a plan, because Arnos needs the four crystals to summon the giant from the tower. We have to do something to counteract this, otherwise he would do horrible things to her" said Eric.

"Could we contact the old sage and his assistant? They would now what to do, since they're both Lunarians" suggested Siegfried.

"That can work, seeing that Lunarians are technologically advanced beings from outer space. They can lend us their aid" Laura deduced.

"But there's this flaw: how can we go back to the Blue moon if the vessel that we arrived in is imperial property? If only we have some kind of vessel of our own, so we can use it to travel to the Blue moon and back" said Eric.

As the trio were discussing, they reached the decision to travel back to the Caerenth empire and rent the Lunar Shrimp and use it to travel back to the Blue moon.

Authors note: how was this chapter? Will the remaining team travel back to the Blue moon?