A couple of days passed and Manna's wounds healed fully. But today's the day where the voice said that the raid on sentinel was happening. "Perhaps I could ask Kirby and Cat to come with me on sentinel? Or I could have an ultra-class to help me? But they probably won't believe me…. Ugh, what should I do?", Manna asked himself. As he continues to dwell on the situation he thought of a plan. Perhaps he could have Nat ask her friends to know where they went. So Nat and her friends looked for Kirby and Cat for about 2 hours. It was 12:30 and they haven't found any information about them at all. "Cat what do you think we should eat when we get back?" Said Kirby. As he slid his sword back into its holder. "I don't know, what should we eat? Perhaps chicken? That sounds good enough", replied Cat. "I don't know about chicken. What about beef?", Said Kirby. They picked up an unconscious body and started walking to sentinel. An hour later, Manna decided to give up on looking for them and to stop the raid by himself. Manna didn't want people to intervene with him going to sentinel to stop the raid so he left before anyone could notice him. He picked up his blade and packed some water for the walk. Nobody heard the sound of someone passing through the orderly barrier. "Hey, Manna...Manna? Where did he go?", Nat asked. "He's nowhere to be found," said Alexia. "Hmm. I'll check the male dorm rooms one more time", said Nat. After 30 minutes it's 2:00 pm.
As Kirby and Cat walk up from the sentinel's dungeon, they hear a familiar voice talking to a chef for some food. "Oh, it's the maid. Let's go Cat, maybe she'll buy us something to eat with her food", said Kirby. As they walk up a large number of footsteps could be heard coming from the giant staircase to go to The Sea of Sand. "Hm? How many people is that?", asked Kirby. "Sounds like...We have to go, now! They're wearing armor and have weapons!", said Cat. "Ehh they can't be that dangerous", said Kirby. As they continued to walk up the stairs, they heard swords clashing, screams of terror, and a lot of things breaking. They rushed up the stairs and they saw someone being stabbed multiple times. "Cat be prepared to fight. Seems like we can't escape this one", said Kirby in a serious voice. "Since when does Kirby get serious?! Is it that dangerous?!", thought Cat. As Kirby gets into position to go full speed several other bandits notice both him and Cat.
"There's 7 to the right, 2 in front of me, and 9 to my left", Kirby muttered to himself. Kirby and Cat get out of the hiding spot and start fighting, just as Manna gets there. "W-What happened?!", said Manna. "Come help", said Cat. "Let's go!", said Manna. Manna would struggle to fight 3 bandits, but would eventually be able to knock them. Manna felt tired and looks over to Kirby and Cat. They were doing really good. After a while, the wave of bandits didn't seem to stop. Manna was exhausted. While Kirby and Cat continued at the same pace. One of the bandits went to attack a civilian. Manna charges his mana throughout his body and protects the civilian with his body, leaving a deep cut into his chest. As he groaned in agony from the pain, multiple bandits attack him attempting to kill him. He punches and kicks them back, knocking some of them. "Are you okay ma'am?!", Manna asked the girl on the ground. "Y-yes", replies the girl. "Go somewhere and hide!", told Manna to the little girl.
After 30 minutes of continuous fighting, Cat noticed something. "These aren't real people!", he yelled. "Yeah, I know that already! The problem is that we don't know where the source is!", Kirby replied. "Just allow your blade to follow the white string", said a very familiar voice. Kirby would be put off by the sudden voice in his head. "Who's that?!", said Kirby "Now is not the time for making jokes!", yelled Manna. "When is there a voice in your head." Muttered Kirby. "What string are you talking about Mystery Voice?", Kirby asked to himself. "Just follow the white string and don't lose sight of it!", said the mysterious voice. "Alright, alright", replied Kirby. As Kirby gets ready for the final lunge. "MANNA!" Kirby yelled. "What?!" Manna yelled back. "Make sure you tell Nat you love her okay?", said Kirby. "What do you me-", said Manna before a loud explosion rippled through his ears. Sentinel was burning. Manna climbed from wall to wall until he found someone. He jumped and asked what was happening, but the random person summons a whole horde of bandits. As Manna attacks the summoner, it uses his mana shield. But Manna's attack was able to break the shield and slash the summoner. Blood came out and the summoner fell down onto the floor. All the tied and knocked bandits became cards. Kirby and in the other side of Sentinel were knocked because of the explosion.
Manna, didn't know what those cards were, but he still decided to pick them up. A guard then came out and the reinforcements came. "W-What happened?!", asked the guard to Manna. He explains in detail what happened. "Then who was the mastermind?", asked the guard. "It was that summoner up there, on the steps.", said Manna. As the guard went to go check and dispose of the dead civilians, the girl went to Manna. "H-hey, what can I call you?", the girl asked. Manna turned to the girl and replied, "You can call me Manna".
End of Chapter 4