They quickly left, taking even the fainted officer with them. The fear in their eyes enhanced as they saw this person here. Not many people in the world knew him, but as the special force, they did. A cruel killer that no one ever could kill. No one knew how old he is and where he lived.

And not many lived that asked.

''You must be Kendra Smith.'' The man stopped near the gate but didn't try to open it looking up and down left and right. ''Nice s.h.i.+eld.''

''Aham...'' Kendra just stood up and held Mia's hand as she walked slowly towards the garden gate. They stopped just on the other side of it and strange silence enveloped the whole place.

The man playfully just poked at the s.h.i.+eld and got shocked. "This is not a normal s.h.i.+eld. Its an array. I thought all array masters died many millennia ago. As it seems we were wrong."

Kendra just stood there and listened to his ranting completely calm. Her expression didn't have either surprise or anxiousness that other cultivators had when they met his kind.

"You know what I am. Now tell me, what are you?" He knew that both of them his their true forms in these human bodies.

"I am..." Kendra sighed. "I still am not sure what I am. Not many are left of my kind as it seems. You, on the other hand as an Oi, can visit your kind whenever you want. Why didn't your kind just seek help from my people, millennia ago?"

He opened his arms and turned his body towards the street. "Why should we? Those higher creatures are so busy creating worlds to save living beings, literally making food for us. All we have to do is to eat from the platter. Just like this world."

Kendra sighed. "So it's you who implanted those strange ideas into their heads?"

He shook his head. "I have the power to open the s.p.a.ce, that is indeed the truth. But the human race is self-destructive. I don't even do anything. Just gather worst of their race or those that were close to death and just send them to my realm to be fodder. Then I wait until they are replenished and then wait for their fights, wars and similar."

Kendra was actually astonished. "So you why did so many disappear lately?"

"Oh, that?" The man turned again towards her and chuckled. "As I said I collect only those that are about to die. Those people caught a newly developed disease that humans made to harm other humans. It makes absolutely no sense. They already knew that this is it, no way to escape this tiny s.p.a.ce, but develop something that can destroy the whole world. The energy they invented is the only smart thing. That is actually what I use to send to my world."

Kendra saw the man just calmly talking and nodded. "Yes, they found a way to enlarge the power of spirit wisp and produce energy. But now the question, why didn't you take the theology and just used in the other world? Wouldn't that help your kind live happily?"

He nodded and his face became serious. "My kind is already using that technology. I already sent it and planned to leave this world, but that doesn't mean other creatures would give up."

"Why? If that is what you need..." Kendra suddenly felt her own words sounded unreasonable. Even she was not different...

He nodded as he saw her face changing in realization. "Finally you understood. They are unwilling to give up something so delicious. It is not just the energy, its the connection of energy and the thing they eat. Oi doesn't care. We literally suck the energy out creatures and do not eat the meat or their essence."

Kendra suddenly had a weird thought. Vampires? Or similar? She started laughing.

Of course, she could see his astonished expression and just waved her hand as she tried to stop her laughter.

"Sorry... Hahahaha... I just remembered the old story in the world I came from. There was a creature that drunk human blood to live. The pictures they made were quite vivid so I just compared you with it in my mind." She took the handkerchief and patted her eyes.

He just shrugged. "That can only mean some of my kind were living there or still live there."

Kendra froze. "What did you just say? She suddenly paled as she realized that such creature might wreak havoc there, but then relaxed, Marcus is there... Luckily..."

He was astonished and curious. "If its ancient story they might or hide well or are gone. But no matter how you look, my kid eats only how much they need. We kill only if we have to. Maybe that is the reason why they seem not to be there. Maybe they like your world."

Kendra smiled and nodded. "If they did some damage to the creatures in my world, the protector I left there would have destroyed them. I'm not worried, at least not so much."

"How interesting. Not a sacred animal? Its a protector? Your world is different." He could see her proud smile and froze. "Don't tell me that you made that world? Like Grounding Fairies do?" 

"So you know about upper beings well? Quite informed aren't you?" Kendra was waiting for this moment. "Shouldn't you tell me how did you come here and why do you help the other side even if there is no real need anymore. After all, you got what you wanted."

This woman is interesting. For a creature that is not an Oi, she is quite... cute. 

She could feel his weird expression and just gave him a long stare straight at him. ''Speak. I can make your speak but it will be painful for both of us, me and you.'' She suddenly had a huge smile on her lips while her eyes slowly turned red. 

He rose his eyebrows and came near the s.h.i.+eld. "If you kiss me, I'll tell you..."