[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
They arrived at the basement where Sanya and Valdo hid. When Sanya saw Ashtria is completely injured, she dashes toward her and takes the medical kit that Charles took from the house they hid earlier. "Your body! It's a miracle that you're still alive, miss. With those hundreds of monsters, why did you even try to fight that big monster!? I thought ya'll just fighting with the babies?" Sanya asks her while cleaning and treating her wounds.Shuni on the other hand helps Sanya wipe the blood on Ashtria's face and speaks as well. "We're all worried when you told Valdo that you're in danger. However we can't get in touch with you after you speak, it's a good thing that Charles found you, the both of you.""No, the monster dashed towards me because that old lady did something. Even if I'll try to escape, it would still be able to catch up with me so there's no use. That monster looks like just playing with me earlier," Ashtria replied and looks at the ground. Sanya just let out a heavy sig
Lucas and Drico were now in the basement of Elder Lolita's house while Charles on the other hand, seek another hiding place. Lucas and Drico all took the important data and quickly went back. They all read the data and documents they can find to help them survive and more information regarding the monster.Most of the data and pieces of information they read in the documents, they have known already. Sanya was silently reading when she notice that Ashtria looks like she was having a bad dream. They all notice it which made them worried, Sanya remembers her mother when her parents are still alive and that every time she has bad dreams her mother would hold her hand. She's having thought that maybe Ashtria was having a bad dream about her mother.Sanya walks closer to her and held her hands tightly which made her calm down. "Marie," Shuni muttered softly. After that, they all focus on reading again all the documents.An hour passed, and they all collected all the pieces of information t