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Jack's POV
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"It's-it's moving.....moving!" I hear an old man at the table say, I look away from my father and stare at the corpse of the queen, only to see a massive leg slowly begin to lift up the headless carcass. Vines extend from the stump of a neck and slowly converge on the area where the head was moments ago.
I hear a gargled screech as the head begins to form itself from its original body and I break into a cold sweat. "Is-is this the might of a-a World Class Beast?"
I look over at my father, "What the hell is that thing?" Multiple people glance at me with a strange look but my dad understands as we have learned Kurayami's lingo.
"This World Class or Continental Class mana beast is one that we didn't know existed until moments ago but from what we know, it's a Vine Raptor queen and the special ability of Vine Raptor queens is that...that....."
"Spit it out dad!" I yell with impatience. "It can regenerate its body with vines." Dreag says as he continues to stare out the window with horror.
I hear an enraged screech and look away to see the queen staring at us, enraged. She suddenly bolts toward us as a tear slides down some people's faces, some cry, and some look at it with horror. But just when all hope is lost, I feel the ground tremble even more than before as massive black tentacles burst from the ground, wrapping around the queen with no mercy.
She screeches as she tries to pull on them, but to no avail as we all stare with wide eyes, then I hear someone yell, "A demi-god! He has come here to save us!" I hear some cries of joy as people look at the struggling queen. I look over at Dreag who shakes his head with an awe stricken face, "Only one person can utilize darkness magic like that, I know because I have seen it. It's Kurayami."
The cheers go quiet as someone asks, "Who is this Kurayami fellow you guys keep speaking of?"
Dreag speaks again, "He is a divine beast, but his mana is..."
Someone else buts in, "It must be legendary to create magic like that!"
"F rank...."
Everyone goes quiet as they stare at Dreag with awe, "What?!"
Even the king looks surprised, "What do you mean? You told me he was advancing steadily." Dreag nods as he and everyone else stares at the tentacles, "His mana has stayed the same for some reason, but his strength kept growing at an abnormal rate, he has been passing tests with strength and wit, sometimes using magic....but this..." Dreag trails off.
"I don't think even I could pull it off." Dreag finishes as everyone looks at it with awe. They suddenly feel hope and shock beating through them as they look at the queen struggling. Suddenly, she stops struggling as she takes a step forward, almost crushing the hope in our hearts, then another, crushing our hope completely.
I watch as her big eyes suddenly seem to widen as she looks over at a patch in the forest before screeching. She suddenly runs away from the castle as she tries to bolt away, nearly falling as the tentacles hold her in place. She screeches again as her legs begin to glow with radiant light and she begins to walk away, trying to seemingly get away from something. Something that even she fears.
She takes steps forward as the tentacles start to stretch when I watch a beam suddenly boat from the forest, hitting her in the back as she screeches in agony. She slowly disintegrates as the white beam blasts through her, whatever remains of her body falling or being blown to the wind. She soundlessly disappears, as if she didn't exist, but the damage around says otherwise.
Everyone is shocked into silence, the amount of power from that blast to make that World Class beast fall apart into dust requires something that they couldn't even fathom. No one has seen a spell able to commit such a death because if one did exist, it could destroy a whole continent.
Everyone is broken from their stupor as my father yells, "Get people to comb that forest! Kurayami is in there! Now!" Everyone looks at eachother before panickedly running from the room while making calls and orders to staff.
Before Dad can even say anything to me, I have already begun running out of the room and towards the exit of the castle, just to see Winter standing there in black and purple armor, the suit pulsing with veins. I immediately pass her as I bolt out the door, just to feel a resistance.
I look behind me to see Winter smiling creepily, "If my boyfriend is dead, I'll have your father's head." Before she suddenly bolts past me, running towards the gates as the wall slowly falls back down.
'Trust me, you won't be the only one.' I think as I glance at the fuming Dreag beside me who also is swift to try and find kurayami.