"Not my baby, please!" Shuni cried and tried to stop Ashtria from pointing her swords at her baby's neck. "We won't try to betray you, we just wanted to escape from here, please," Shuni added while crying, tears streaming down her face. Charles stood up and walked closer to Ashtria. He kneeled with his head bowed on the floor. "Please, my wife is telling the truth. We won't betray you, I will even sacrifice my life just to prove to you that we're not on the elder's nor the chief's side. We're victims, and we will never be on their side," Charles said calmly still kneeling and bowing his head on the ground.Ashtria stared at Charles for so long who was still kneeling and bowing his head. She immediately takes away her sword from the baby and speaks. "Get up, I'm just testing the both of you. No way I'm gonna kill a baby without a valid reason, however, if ever I caught you betraying us I won't hesitate to kill you including your one and only child," Ashtria said and placed her sword ba

Ashtria with Sanya was at the library trying to find a book about the monster's detailed information. They gain access with the help of Drico. Shuni was with them as well helping them while her husband was at work, Sanya was the one who took care of the baby, carrying it softly with her arms. The library is not that big or small but enough to hold hundreds of books. The style of the library is old and stylish and they thought this was built hundreds of years ago. Ashtria was right, some people come here first before the villagers live here.Ashtria was still wearing her mask and carrying her swords on her back. She continued to find books until one caught her attention. She quickly takes it and opens the book, but then a dead flower falls to the ground, perplexing her. Her brow furrows as she picks up the dead flower pinned to the first page of the book.She turned the first page and discovered the author of the book. She then turned to the next page and discovered something written a

The claws of the baby Octomorph and Ashtria's swords clang as they fight each other. Ashtria was having a hard time beating the monster as even though it is still a baby, its strength cannot be underestimated.She jump backward away from the baby Octomorph and saw him gritting its teeth while looking at her. She thought that she did something and that the baby Octomorph was angry at her. The baby Octomorph dashes towards her and notices that it is avoiding the Luminous flowers, it is climbing from side to side and up to avoid the ground as the location where Ashtria was standing was surrounded by the Luminous flowers.As the baby Octomorph approached her, she took one flower and scattered the petals on her two swords. When she realized it was already a few steps away, she drew her sword as its claws began to attack her. Her eyes widened as she noticed its skin was burning, causing the baby Octomorph to groan in pain and attach itself from the side."So the book was telling the truth,

[Before the Betrayal Happened] Ashtria went out to go to the mirror lake after she scattered the sleeping powder to Drico while he was sleeping. However, Drico always had this medicine he always drink not to be affected by sleeping pills if ever someone will try to attack him. When he senses that Ashtria finally left, she gets up from the bed and looks at the door that's now closed. He goes to the kitchen to drink water and speaks. "I guess she'll be going to the mirror lake to pick some Luminous flowers. Is she already know about the secret passage I accidentally knew before?" After a couple of minutes, she was about to sleep again when Lucas immediately get out of the room with Valdo and quickly goes to Sanya's room where Ashtria sleeps. "Hmm?" Drico hummed as he grin looking at Lucas catching his breath while looking at Sanya's room from the door. "You cared for her, huh?" Drico asks him which made his head moves to look at him solemnly. Drico began to laugh fakely and gets clos

When Lucas was able to catch the sword, he immediately dashed toward the baby octomorph and didn't bother looking at his sister. He gets closer to the two monsters who were crying and their skin was burning, they still dash towards Lucas as they see him running towards them.When he was now stepping away from them, he immediately cut their necks with his sword that is scattered with Luminous flowers. The two baby monsters were now lying down and their bodies were slowly burning leaves a stinky smell. The villagers were all just staring at the monster whose body is slowly burning until only bones were left.Elder Lolita gritted her teeth and look at Ashtria. She walks closer to her and points to her face while shouting. "You woman! What have you done!? The ritual hasn't started and yet the monsters are coming out. Did you do something!? This is the first time that happened–" Elder Lolita didn't continue what she said when Ashtria cut it."This is the first time because the monster's eg