Daniel could hardly believe what his slightly open eyes were witnessing. The fighters used a variety of very strange firing weapons. One of them was a fire sword, then there was also an ordinary sword that is dimly lit, a gun, a spear, and the last one was a weapon that could change its sizes and also had different flames.
All weapons and warriors continuously fought each other against the twig monster that was currently groaning. His melted stomach fluid had already scorched the surrounding moist leaves and even the trees that were still thriving. They fell one by one after burning violently.
Red flames appeared on the top of the branch monster. The crouched Daniel tried hard to get a peek as clearly as possible, but the energy ball that was holding him was quite blurry, so this scene could not be seen clearly from a distance.
"Give it up, Monsky! You have killed your brothers here with your smelly old liquid! " yelled the chatty man who knew where he was. Meanwhile, the fire sword that was on the top of the monster's head had started to slash and split it blindly.
The monster roared, sounding in great pain. He didn't even say a word like when he was talking to Daniel just a moment ago. It was a sign that he was completely defeated and weak.
The monster that had been standing up and swaying along with the attacks that slashed him many times had completely collapsed. The wind blew against and rolled the moist leaves that were very dry and some of them were burnt. The ground also felt shaky, although Daniel could not feel it because the ball of energy that was confining him did not land directly on the ground.
The chatty man whined again, "Who wants to take on the last task? Morfo? Xyros? No, you can't, Alice! "
"Call me Briana!" screamed another woman, whom Daniel believed to be the fighter in the group, not the healer who had locked him up with the blue ball of energy.
"Okay! Whatever it is! Morfo? Xyros? Do you want to? "
The twig monster had completely fallen, but Daniel could still hear the ringing. In the midst of all that he wondered who these people were who saved him? Who were they?
Were they the ones who had also saved him when he was eaten by the twig monster last night? And were they fighters who defeated the water monsters in Lake Musi? But at that time there were no firing weapons insight, like now. Was it because it was already dark so everything could be seen clearly?
Suddenly the voice of a man with a very calm tone was heard. This was quite strange because they were speaking in normal intonation but Daniel could hear his voice. "You do it, Folc. I and Xyros will be waiting here, along with Briana too. "
"Wohooo!" The chatty man, who turned out to be called Folc, yelled, sounding very excited. "Ok, I will carry out the final crackdown!"
Then Daniel saw a red flame that had been at one point now moving closer to the monster. It seemed that fiery red flame was coming from Folc's weapon and his body. Then was Folc not human? Then who was he?
Soon the twig monster groaned and his chest exploded. His roar was able to shake the ground as well as the surrounding trees, and before long everything fell silent.
"Done! Now can we hunt for another one? " exclaimed Folc. When Daniel listened carefully there was a tinge of madness in his voice, screeching uncontrollably.
From the other side, a woman with a soft voice interrupted, "I can't. We must immediately repatriate these humans."
What? Humans? Then were they not human? And damn, why couldn't their figures be seen clearly? They only appeared as shadows from within the ball of energy that enclosed Daniel.
"Why do we have to send them home? We can leave them as usual, right? " Folc protested.
"Folcar!" The soft-spoken woman immediately interrupted and gave Daniel the information indirectly that the name of the chattering man was not Folc but Folcar. "This is out of my mind. The child inside my healing ball has a strange condition, and the humans here have been possessed. I can see the hole in his heart."
Daniel stirred and tensed. Who was possessed? Wendy? Prof. Ian?
Suddenly lights of various colors shot quickly to approach the direction where Wendy and Prof. Ian was turned into a cocoon mummy by a monster named Spodo. Now the figures of the fighters who had been beside the twig monster body had moved. Did they just teleport?
"Oh, I can see it. The condition is quite serious. " The man with the calm voice was talking now. From what Daniel heard it seemed like he was a man of the royal bloodline. "At least we can place it around the housing or hospital. Someone will find it. Luna's right, we can't leave them alone."
"Thank you, Marfo, for supporting me." It was Luna's voice, a woman who had the softest and most reassuring voice like the roar of the coolest wind in the mountains and also the gurgling of water on a calm current. Peace and reassurance. And if so, Marfo meant a man with a distinctively calm voice like that of a nobleman, and Daniel was right in his guess.
"Okay, okay! I'm not going to argue with the two coolest guys in our group. We can take these humans to a point that other humans can reach. But I don't want to carry them. Xy, do you want to hunt again with me? Let's slaughter all the monsters that exist." It was Folcar who had vanished without a sound, but Daniel could still see the red flames from where he was confined at this time. That meant Folcar was still in his place.
Soon someone said, right next to Daniel. "Hey, are you awake?"
Daniel looked up in surprise. In his eyes, he now found a beautiful face that had just finished hiding from a head covering. On her lanky and beautiful body was attached a simple armor that was wrapped tightly around her body. She was quite an attractive girl in Daniel's eyes.
Unable to say anything, the beautiful girl shouted at the others. "Luna, the boy here wakes up! Hey, this is weird! "
Daniel shuffled because he felt threatened, like a kitten who had just found a new home after being adopted. Especially when his eyes were moving wildly, they now found various kinds of faces and bodies that stood upright while looking at him.
"Luna? Why did it happen?" asked Folcar. He was a man with a somewhat muscular build, had a red flame on his body with several symbols engraved on his exposed chest and abdomen. There was a red cut on the tail of his eye and gave off a fiery flame. Not sure whether he was wearing clothes or not because it seemed that the clothes covering several parts of his body seemed to be alive and growing on his skin. When Folcar's fiery red eyes swept across Daniel's gaze, Daniel backed away in surprise. Now his body stumbled at the very back end of the ball of energy that locked him up.
"This looks serious, Luna. Try to handle this as best you can." Marfo's speaking. His very calm voice can give him serenity. He was the man who had the most sensible outfit among the others, a neat suit like a black tuxedo. His face that resembled an ordinary human now peeked at Daniel. But when Daniel looked into his eyes, there was a cold glint like thick but threatening natural rock in them.
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