Darren Ryker and Lucas found a suspicious cave at the border of the beast kingdom while they were returning, Darren let his army return while he will be running late, he and Lucas stopped at a distance from the cave and Nolan led the army back to Dragao kingdom under the order of their general.
after they both made sure that the army was further away from them, Lucas recited a magic spell and unlocked the illusion magic on the cave, they both quickly covered their nose because of the rotten and disgusting smell coming from the cave, Lucas and Darren covered half of their faces with a cloth before they moved towards the cave,
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they heard a different type of animal sound coming from the cave, by the sound the animal should be deep in the cave, Darren and Lucas nodded themselves before they went into the cave, they were shocked to see the some rotten and some half-eaten corpses in the cave they found more of such things as they went too deeper,
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the mumbling sounds became clear Lucas and Darren concealed themselves as they reached the deep part of the cave, they saw a weird Black monster with big horns and the fresh eaten corpses at its feet, that monster was smashing the corpses but halted and turned towards Darren and Lucas at the speed of whip,
Darren and Lucas took stood in their battle-ready stances when they saw the monster was coming toward them, Darren raised his sword and wanted to swing at the monster, he heard a sound of air but not any scream, they both looked at each other before checking the cave in and out the monster disappeared just before their eyes, without making sound it's as if they saw an illusion of monster,
after searching the entire cave and the surroundings they were quite sure that the Monster would be hiding somewhere but they found nothing, not even a trace of the monster, Lucas set magic traps around the cave and surroundings and locked the cave with an illusion spell as before.
Darren and Lucas both hoped on their horses and went to a safe distance from the cave but not far, to see if the monster comes back, they hid behind the rocks
Lucas spoke first as they settled themselves "Darren you go back and inform his majesty about the cave I will also send a message to the Beast kingdom mage we are in touch with"
Darren "are you crazy? you can't fight that thing alone I don't think even if we both fight together the chances of winning are low, that thing is dangerous and powerful we are taking chances here"
Lucas said nothing, seeing his hesitation Darren sighed and said "it wouldn't hurt to call for reinforcements like you said to send the message to the mage from beast king I will call my familiar to send the message to his Majesty"
Lucas finally nodded his head in agreeing he got himself busy with contacting the mage, while Darren called his familiar a red fox with a large tail, as soon as it appeared the fox clung to Darren and started rubbing its head on his leg,
Darren gave a helpless smile then crouched before the fox and instructed it seriously, he then let it bite the bag with the memory globe and a letter, Darren then stood up when he saw the fox leaving, he turned to Lucas who was leaning on the rock exhausted, he used up almost all of his magic power today,
since events of the day were quite troublesome and unexpected Darren felt sorry for him and let out a frustrated growl, he keeps on getting on this hunch from the day the war stopped that whatever is happening around them it is going to be something terrible.
after a while, they heard the strong wind blowing towards them and the dust arose from the sudden wind, after the dust settled it revealed a handsome young man in the white robes of a priest, Lance Francis the only priest of the beast kingdom and a powerful mage with four attributes he stood in front them sweating and panting
"What the heck was that message you sounded like you were taking your last breath, it better be something worth if not I am going to beat the shit out of you"
Darren and Lucas were quite used to his attitude, even though he is a priest he only maintains his behavior in the temple and while doing his duty as a priest, all the other times he is more like them unruly and bold.
Darren filled in him about the cave and about the monster they encountered, Lance narrowed his eyes in suspicion
"You are saying that monster escaped after seeing you both instead of fighting, that doesn't make any sense"
Darren humped in displeasure as he said "I wish it made sense this monster was fucking terrifying in appearance and in power, now I am worried it may have intelligence"
Lucas was being silent throughout their discussion and suddenly spoke in a cold voice "someone is stepping inside the illusion"
Darren and Lance both glanced at Lucas and the three nodded to each other as they moved towards the cave, they stopped behind the large tree near the cave when they saw a person with a horse carriage was alone standing,
Lance signaled at Darren and Lucas, as he walked towards the horse carriage as a traveling priest, the person standing in front of the horse carriage got shocked and attacked him first without allowing Lance to speak, Lance quickly avoided his attack and knocked him on the back of the head.
Darren and Lucas moved towards Lance when they saw the coachmen were attacking Lance, Lucas hurriedly unlocked the illusion spell when he sensed multiple people's presence from the other end of the cave, they were shocked to find three grown adults and a kid with hands and legs tied and their mouths covered with cloth in order to not let them speak.