After thinking for a while, Leah came up with a solution.
Following it, both of them bid goodbyes to the village head and his family, leaving the village during the lunch hours with an unconscious Elias, who continued to be tied up.
It's not that he was unconscious this whole time.
Elias woke up once a while ago but Azzy once again knocked him out with a chop behind his neck before he got to ask what the hell was going on.
As for the villagers, they thought the royal prince and princess came to the village to apprehend a criminal, who probably did something that incurred their wrath.
Once again, no one dared to question Azzy or Leah, and they too didn't feel any obligation to fulfill their curiosity. Their fake appearance helped them a lot.
Eventually, they returned to the spot they landed and a beam of light fell upon them from the sky, teleporting the three of them into the spaceship.
"Welcome Back, Captain Garcia, Ms. Pendragon." The holographic image of Aria welcomed them with a smile.
She didn't ask about the stranger on the ship and merely asked permission to leave.
As Azzy nodded, the spaceship left the planet's orbit and resumed its journey.
Roughly, four hours later, Elias opened his eyes again but this time, he wasn't knocked out.
Instead, Azzy and Leah let him speak everything. And Elias seemed quite angry.
"Who the hell are you guys?"
"Why was I tied up?"
"What kind of creatures are you?"
"What place is this?"
"What's going on?"
Elias will be in his control until he gets full control over the Protos energy and then returns to his home planet and serves his whole life as a hero or a guardian, protecting the innocents using his dark power.
Azzy doesn't believe that light is good and dark is evil. It is all about how one uses such power. It is why he took a leap of faith in giving an opportunity to Elias, the rare hybrid of a Yer and an Aeni.
Of course, this doesn't mean Azzy would release the Decarune seal he cast over Elias' soul, right away.
He merely released one of the ten seals, giving Elias access to connect with natural energy. However, he was still so weak that he wouldn't be able to escape in case such an opportunity arrived.
Fortunately, Elias behaved himself and toned down Azzy's suspicions on him a lot. He turned curious about a lot of things over the next few days.
First things first; he started learning sign language to communicate with Leah.
Secondly, he familiarized himself with the concept of soul energy and soul orb and began training on how to use activated skill cards by pouring down the natural energy into them.
As regular skill cards are designed to be used through soul energy, Leah and Azzy knew that it was almost next to impossible for Elias to use them.
Special skill cards, developed by Leah over several years, that use natural energy as the medium are too strong to hand over to a stranger like Elias.
Even when they consider containing the damage, the space still lacks the natural energy and Elias can only use whatever natural energy is left in him, and his rate of drawing out that power is extremely slow due to the seals.
As a result, they stuck on only training him on using 1-star activated skill cards created by themselves on the spot.
Eventually, the day when they neared their destination arrived. Or so, it was supposed to be.
The alarms rang all over the ship and the announcement was made by the artificial intelligence as the three of them automatically returned to the lounge to tie themselves in seat belts.
"We will be entering the star system, Proxima Centauri. Get ready for the final space jump." Aria's announcement brought a smile to Leah and relief to Azzy.
"Finally... we are here..." mumbled Azzy as the spaceship entered the star system with only two exoplanets, one is a large planet comparable to Gaia and another is a small planet, both of which are in a habitable zone.
However, in the next second, everyone's facial expression changed as another announcement was heard on the ship.
"The target's location has changed. Captain, would like to redirect the ship to the new destination or continue our journey?"
"Huh?"