"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
"Wait, what? How can you say that? There are two monsters in the lake? Do you have any proof of your statement?" Drico asks her. "I'm not sure, but after seeing the dead bodies in the Black Tower and hearing that the elders and the chief are now always bringing people to the monster every 4 months in a year, that makes even more sense. If I remember correctly, the male monster would be the one to get out of the lake to catch its prey and give it to his mate, but since the chief and the elders were already giving them food, he didn't need to get out anymore and just eat his prey and bring his prey from his mouth to deliver it to his mate," Ashtria said and stops from talking and then continues. "But since the bodies, I saw in the Black Tower, he didn't consume it completely, and just taking a bite means he was planning it for their babies and her wife when the day comes they will get out," she added."I don't think that is valid evidence Ashtria, but it may be possible. What if the mo
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
"Hey, guys! What did you find?" Drico immediately showed up and placed his hand on Lucas's shoulder. "We discovered that the monster who is called Octomorph can lay hundreds of eggs and that the monster in the lake is hundreds of years old," Ashtria said, taking off her boots without looking at him. She then raises her head and looks at Lucas before turning her gaze to Drico's shocked expression."W-what? Can it be true then that the monster in the lake gave birth–wait, does it mean the female Octomorph already lays hundreds of eggs and it will hatch as soon as they get out of the lake?" Drico asks worriedly and takes off his arm on Lucas's shoulder. "I think so, but the monster's eggs only hatch one at a time so they won't hatch at the same time. We just need to kill them and smash the eggs before they turn into monsters just like their parents," Sanya responded while closing the door. "How can we kill it? We can't beat those two monsters with just ordinary guns and swords. It won'
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,
Both Ashtria and Sanya were locked up in their storage room. Ashtria is sitting on the floor thinking while Sanya was still lying on the ground, she rests her head on her lap and looks at her sleeping.She let out a heavy sigh and speaks softly. "If only I hadn't let us go with Drico this won't happen but it will be more dangerous if I let that monster live with their babies. I wish they didn't notice that the flower can be used as a weapon."Moments later, someone opened the door of the storage room and was shocked to see Shuni with her baby carrying him on her back. "Marie! Are you okay? There are no people in the village anymore as they are all busy doing the preparation and for the ritual later. Hours later, the monster will appear!" she shouted and take the knife from her bag and help Ashtria free her hands from tying up."Thank you, but, why did you come here? It will be more dangerous for you and to your baby," Ashtria asks her while Shuni was trying to cut the rope that was ty
[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
Sanya quickly jump down and run away from the storage room and quickly found a boy who was walking without noticing her. She covered his mouth and drag him to the other side of the wall to hide which made the boy's eyes widen. "Hey kid, do you know where is the mirror lake? And did you see Valdo around here?" she asks and the boy shook his head quickly as a response."Answer me! It will be over for us if I can't find him! That's the only thing miss told me, for sure she knows something and already had a plan to end this. There are too many monsters out there already and we don't have a weapon to kill them!" Sanya shouted worriedly while shaking the boy's body which made him surprised and stared at Sanya scared.The boy just slowly pointed his finger at the right side which made Sanya looks at where he was pointing. "Alright thank you, kiddo. Be careful on walking around, there are monsters lurking and they might eat your internal organs and your flesh," Sanya said and quickly went to