While still riding Bothasuses and assembling at the same place, Goode’s Bothasus is on the left side of Andark’s Bothasus, and Lighel’s Bothasus is face-to-face with the two.

“Are you alright?” Andark asked.

“Yeah.” Lighel’s face is crumpled. “But Garuvy was hit by the enemy’s attack.”

“Well, I was right before.” Andark smiled before he added. “You’re not ready.”

“Yeah, I saw you got hit too.” Lighel smiled before she continued. “You’re not ready either.”

Goode stretches his hands towards the two. “At least Garuvy is still alive, guys.”

“No.” Andark shook his head. “She had failed to become Garuvy’s mother.” He waves at Lighel with his right palm facing down. “Now return her to me.”

“No.” Lighel shook her head before she smiled. “Garuvy is now my daughter permanently!”

“What?” Andark’s eyebrows are furrowed.

Andark moves his Bothasus to approach Lighel slowly. It makes her move her Bothasus to step back slowly.

“Enough, guys!” Goode smiled before he added. “Garuvy is our daughter! Case closed! Now let’s continue our journey!”

Lighel turns to Goode. “Where’re we going, then?”

Goode turns to Lighel. “We are looking for a quiet place! Perhaps it slipped your mind?”

Andark turns to Goode. “This place is okay. Don’t go too far from the city.”

Goode turns to Andark. “This place? Well…” Goode looked around before he added. “Fine, then.”

Goode and Andark get off from their Bothasuses.

“Wait!” Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted. “Is it okay?”

Andark turns to Garuvy. “Yeah. If the Bothytures come again, we can just defeat them.”

Garuvy turns to Andark. “But what about the dead Bothytures here? They smell bad!”

“Well, you’re right.” Lighel nodded.

“Don’t worry, Garuvy!” Goode smiled as he turned to Garuvy. “We will take care of the Bothytures’ corpses!”

Andark turns to Goode. “No, just leave the corpses alone. They’ll disappear after 24 hours.”

Goode’s eyebrows are narrowed as he turns to Andark. “Yes, but don’t you care about Garuvy’s feelings? Are you really her parent or not?”

Lighel smiled as she turned to Garuvy. “See, Garuvy? He’s full of darkness, so don’t trust him.”

“Umm…” Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted.

“Hey, I still haven’t finished talkin’!” Andark’s eyebrows are furrowed. “What I mean is, we must get Garuvy into the barrier quickly, because the smell can’t penetrate it, right?”

“Hmph.” Goode’s eyebrows are narrowed. “You are just making excuses.”

“I’m serious!” Andark shouted.

Lighel turns to Andark. “You want us to continuously inhale the bad smell?”

Andark turns to Lighel. “Well, if you don’t like the smell, wear a face mask!”

“Come on.” Goode’s eyebrows are narrowed. “How hard is it to get rid of the Bothytures’ corpses?”

Andark turns to Goode. “I did this to show Garuvy how the Bothytures’ corpses disappeared! This is a lesson for her!”

“Oh, I see.” Garuvy’s eyebrows are raised.

Goode and Andark turn to Garuvy.

“I accept it, then.” Garuvy smiles.

“Yeah.” Andark smiled before he added. “If you don’t like the smell, then go inside the barrier!”

Andark turns to Goode. “Goode!”

“Roger.” Goode nodded.

After Lighel and Garuvy get off from their Bothasus, they see Goode turn around. He walks towards an empty ground far from his friends. He stops there and puts his hands on the ground.

Light blue auras appeared around Goode’s hands. They spread on the ground and formed a big light blue circle with a diameter of 10 meters.

While Goode is in the middle of it, the big light blue circle creates a blue barrier from the edge of it. The barrier is shaped like a dome.

After the barrier was created, the big light blue circle and the light blue auras around Goode’s hands disappeared.

Goode lifts his hands. He walks towards the edge of the barrier and places his right hand on it.

A light blue aura appeared around Goode’s right hand and spread on the barrier edge until it formed like a door.

After the light blue aura disappeared, Goode saw a barrier hole shaped like a door. He lowers his right hand and goes through the barrier hole.

“The barrier is done!” Goode smiled as he turned to his friends. “Come here, Garuvy!” Goode waves at Garuvy with his right palm facing down.

After Garuvy approaches the barrier hole and goes through it, Goode places his right hand on the barrier edge.

After a light blue aura appeared around Goode’s right hand. It makes the barrier hole close.

Garuvy turns to Goode. “Is there any air in here, sir?”

“Yeah!” Goode smiled before he continued. “Don’t worry! Air can penetrate the barrier, but not for the bad smell! The barrier is friendly!”

Andark and Lighel approach the barrier edge near Garuvy’s position.

“That means if you want to fart, you can’t release the smell all the way here.” Andark smiles.

Lighel smiled as she turned to Andark. “Do you want to fart?”

Andark turns to Lighel. “No, you’re the one who farted!”

“Alright!” Goode smiled before he added. “Now it’s the time to grab some mats!”

“Who has the mats here?” Andark asked.

“I have,” Lighel replied.

“I have too,” Goode replied.

“I have too,” Andark said.

Lighel’s eyebrows are knitted as she points at Garuvy. “But we can’t leave her alone, dark people!”

Goode turns to Lighel. “Yes! We should pick one of us to stay! I have an idea!” Goode waves at his friends with his right palm facing down. “Follow me!”

Goode starts walking somewhere.

“Huh? Where’re you goin’?” Andark’s eyebrows are knitted.

“Just follow me!” Goode smiles.

Lighel and Andark follow Goode to walk to an empty ground quite far from the barrier and the dead Bothytures.

After they stopped there, Goode stretched his right hand and directed it upwards. He releases a blue fireball from his right hand that goes up in the air before it falls down and creates a blue flame on the ground 10 m from where he and his friends are.

Goode smiled as he turned to his friends. “We will do a sprint race! The last one to pass through the blue flame is the one who has to stay here!”

Andark smiled as he turned to Goode. “Oh, that’s interestin’! I won’t lose!”

Lighel smiled as she turned to Andark. “You’ll lose!”

Andark turns to Lighel. “You’re the one who’ll lose!”

“Let’s line up!” Goode shouted.

While the three Bothyzards are lining up, Garuvy is watching them from inside the barrier while touching the barrier edge with her palms.

"On your marks..." Goode ordered.

The three Bothyzards are in a crouching position.

"Set..." Goode ordered.

The three Bothyzards are in a set position.

"Go!" Goode shouted.

After they started running, Andark was the first one who passed through the blue flame. Lighel is the second one. Goode is the last one.

“Damn!” Goode’s eyebrows are furrowed.

Garuvy smiled as her eyebrows knitted.

Andark chuckled as he turned to Goode. “You’re embarrassin’!”

Lighel chuckled as she turned to Goode. “You’re darker than Darky!”

“This is because I’m overweigh!” Goode looked down.

“It’s okay, dude!” Andark smiled before he added. “You have Buff Bothyner, so you can fight them alone!”

“Hmph, fine!” Goode’s eyebrows are narrowed as he turns to his friends. “Just go away, you two!”

Lighel turns to Andark. “Yeah, let’s go, Darky!”

Andark turns to Lighel. “Hell nah, I’ll go alone.” He immediately leaves his friends and walks towards his Bothasus.

“No, c’mon, Darky!” Lighel’s eyebrows are narrowed. “Let me work together with you for once! You can’t carry a mat while controlling a Bothasus in this area!”

After hearing that, Andark stops walking.

Goode turns to Andark. “Yes, just let her ride your Bothasus!”

After remaining silent for a few seconds, Andark turns to Lighel. “Fine, c’mon!” He waves at Lighel with his right palm facing down.

Lighel’s mouth is wide open. Her eyebrows are raised. She tries to follow Andark until she rides Andark’s Bothasus by sitting behind him. The two leave the place.

Goode approaches the barrier edge near Garuvy’s position.

“Sir, I think they suit each other.” Garuvy smiles.

“Yes.” Goode nodded before he continued. “But Andark only loves Clara.”

They remain silent for a few seconds.

“Is it okay that you are alone here?” Garuvy asked.

“Oh, I’m not alone!” Goode smiled before he added. “I’m with you! Besides, you heard what Andark said, right?”

“Yes.” Garuvy nodded.

“Then don’t worry! You will see it soon enough!” Goode smiles.

***

After guarding the barrier for a while, Goode sees three Botholves, two Bothunicorns, and two Bothoxes.

Each of the Botholves looks like a wolf with blue fur, light blue eyes without eyeballs, a blue tail, light blue sharp claws, light blue sharp teeth, two horns on its back, and a horn on its forehead.

Each of the Bothoxes looks like an ox, has a blue body, two light blue horns on the sides of its head, light blue hooves, a blue tail, and light blue eyes without eyeballs.

“Maybe I’m too cocky.” Goode’s eyebrows are narrowed.

While they are still far away, the Bothuncorns and the Bothoxes release blue light balls from their mouths.

Goode dodges them by moving to his right side. The blue light balls end up hitting the barrier. They cause cracks in the barrier. Garuvy’s eyes are wide and her eyebrows are highly raised.

Goode touches the barrier edge with his left palm and stretches his right hand towards the enemies.

While repairing the cracked barrier with his left hand, Goode shoots blue fireballs from his right palm. They make the Botholves, the Bothunicorns, and the Bothoxes dodge around.

After the Bothoxes and the Bothunicorns release their horns to be launched as six blue horn missiles, Goode makes three of them explode in the air by hitting them with blue fireballs.

The other three exploded after hitting the barrier. They made three big barrier holes.

Garuvy moves away from the big barrier holes to evade the blue light balls coming through them. She lets the blue light balls create cracks on the other side of the barrier.

Goode releases his left palm from the barrier edge. He approaches the Bothytures and stretches his hands towards them.

After releasing blue fire bursts from his hands, Goode moves them to the left and right and hits all the Bothytures with them.

The blue fire bursts are strong enough to make them die of heat with just one hit. Garuvy’s eyebrows are raised and her mouth is slightly opened. Goode dispels the bursts and walks back to the barrier.

Garuvy’s eyebrows are knitted as she sees Goode coughing while approaching the barrier. He touches the barrier edge with his hands to eliminate all cracks and holes. “Are you alright, Garuvy?”

“Yes.” Garuvy nodded before she continued. “But what about you? I saw you cough.”

“That was the side effect. Every time I used my Fire Bothyner that was strengthened with my Buff Bothyner, my respiratory tract was attacked by my Buff Bothyner,” Goode explained.

“What?” Garuvy’s eyes are wide and her eyebrows are highly raised. “How could that be?”

“I will explain it after you have learned more about the Bothyner Core Structure.”

They remain silent for a few seconds.

“If so, then Mr. Andark and Mrs. Lighel should stay here!” Garuvy shouted.

“It’s okay.” Goode smiled before he continued with a low voice. “I only coughed once. Not that bad.”

Goode turns around. “Unless there are more missile monsters like that.”

Goode sees four Botholves and three Bothygers coming towards the barrier. Each of the Bothygers has the same characteristic as Botholf, but it looks like a tiger instead of a wolf.

“It’s better than before.” Goode smiles.

He releases blue fireballs from his right hand that hit two Bothygers and a Botholf. But he cannot hit the others.

Goode approaches his enemies while releasing blue fireballs that can hit three Bothygers and a Botholf.

Right after two Bothygers and two Botholves charged towards him, he changed his blue fireballs into blue fire bursts that were coming from his hands and hitting incoming enemies.

Goode attacks an incoming Bothyger, and then he attacks three incoming Botholves.

He dodges the two charging Bothygers by moving to the right before attacking them. He dodges the four charging Botholves by moving to the left before attacking them and killing one of the Botholves.

He changes his blue fire bursts into blue fireballs that are coming from his hands, and then he kills two Bothoves and two Bothygers with them.

The remaining Bolholf and Bothyger charge at Goode from the sides, and he kills them at once with blue fire bursts.

A Bothlower suddenly emerged from the ground behind Goode. The Bothlower looks like A blue sunflower with the same size as an adult hand and light blue eyes without eyeballs on the top of the flower head in the middle of the petals. It launches a blue light beam from the middle of the flower head.

Goode dodges the blue light beam by moving to the right and kills the Bothlower with a blue fireball from his left hand.

Another Bothlower emerged from the ground behind him and released a blue light beam. He dodges to the left and kills it with a blue fireball from his right hand.

Two Bothlowers emerged from behind him and launched blue light beams. But Goode dodged to the northwest before he approached them and defeated them with blue fire bursts from his hands.

After a Bothlower emerged from his right side and another Bothlower emerged from his left side, he dodged their blue light beams by moving forward. He turns around and kills them with blue fireballs from his hands.

Two Bothlowers emerged from his southwest side. Another Bothlower emerged from his northeast side. Goode dodged their attacks by moving to the right.

He kills the Bothlowers in the southwest with blue fire bursts from his hands. He kills the Bothlower in the northeast with a blue fire burst from his right hand.

While Goode was busy with the Bothlowers that kept appearing near him, Garuvy’s eyes were wide and her eyebrows were highly raised. She sees three Bothoxes coming far from Goode’s position.

“Mr. Goode!” Garuvy screamed.

To be continued.