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
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
They keep on running while Charles carrying Drico who is wounded by Ashtria's gun. They have heard people's screaming, begging, and asking for help. They didn't try to look back and focus on their way to escape and go to the nipa hut where Valdo is right now.When Ashtria tried to move her eyes, she saw a group of baby Octomorphs; she was perplexed as to how they could only have seen the baby Octomorphs crawling and eating people. However, their parents are not visible, which confuses and fears her that they are hiding or doing something dangerous, especially since Octomorphs are intelligent monsters.She didn't bother and decided to think about it when they got to the Nipa hut. When they arrived, they discovered that the old nipa hut had been completely destroyed, and it appears that the monster was the one responsible for the extensive damage. Sanya took a step forward and called Valdo's name. "Hey Valdo, we're here! Where have you gone?" Sanya stomped her feet on the floor.Valdo i
The Octomorph keeps on running, crawling towards Ashtria. It roars which made the birds fly away. When the Octomorph was now closer to her, its tentacles attack her so she slide her sword but she was surprised that it didn't burn nor make a scratch. She take a look at her sword and the Luminous powder was now almost running because of killing the baby octomorphs.She continues to defend herself with her two swords against its attack. The monster continues to push her against the wall until its one tentacle attacks her again, causing her to flee and her body to ache from being hit by thick walls. Her bones nearly cracked as a result of the impact, and her head began to bleed.She scattered one bottle of Luminous powder on her two swords and hold it tightly. She needs more Luminous but the flowers from the lake were damaged caused by the elders and the chief. She looks around and can still see elder Lolita laughing seeing her in her bad situation. She calmed herself and made sure to hit
Ashtria keeps on defending, attacking, and avoiding the monsters' attacks but that doesn't keep her body unscratched. She may be a skilled swordswoman but she can't keep on continuing defending and attacking the monsters around her.Her body is now covered in wounds, and her head and wounds are still bleeding. She still can't find a way out, her body is tired, and she wishes she could rest for even a second, but she can't because her life is in danger. She kicks and cuts their tentacles until the parent octomorph's tentacles attack her and catch her. She cut it and, thankfully, she was able to let go and fall to the ground properly.The baby octomorphs once attack her again, she quickly wields and slides her swords once more. Her eyes widen as she finally sees an opening! She continues to avoid the monster's attacks and went to where she finds an opening to escape. The monster saw her and knows everything she wanted to do to escape. It moves to get her again but before it could catch