The sounds of wood shattering echoed through the now silent streets of the city, as the monster ripped a door of its hinges and toss it away, entering into the building, the beast wasn't stopped by anyone as all of the guards had either died at its hand or had focused on evacuating the civilians, the building was completely empty and despite nothing telling it where to go, the beast headed straight for a large metal door and started trying to get through it with all of its strength.
"Open the door, I just want to talk" a sweet, motherly voice came out from the monster as it persisted on banging on the door without any success.
Its strikes made the building tremble, waking the collapsed girl inside of the cell, it didn't take her long to realise what was happening, she couldn't hear the voices the creature mimicked through the door but she clearly felt the pounding on the door, there were no other exit than the door the monster was trying to get through, she could only wait as the monster never ceased to strike at the door, slowly but surely, it would get through after at least ten minutes, the metal on the door slightly caved in, it was nothing, almost imperceptible but it was a clear sign that the door wasn't going to keep it out.
However, at some point, the banging on the door stopped, Telikoritsi couldn't know what was happening at all but after a bit, the sound of a key rustling inside of the lock was heard, she felt her body go cold as she looked with intensity at what would appear after the door would open.
The door slowly opened, revealing the face of one that freckled adventurer's guard friend, she seemed to have brought some adventurers alongside her.
"What about the monster?" was the first thing Telikoritsi asked, there was no way it had left.
"Don't worry, the adventurers took care of it" responded the guard and Telikoritsi knew that her chance of survivals had dropped even further than before.
She stood up and looked outside of the room she had been locked in, right in time to see the monster stop playing dead as it suddenly rose up, it's wounds healing as if they had never existed in the first place, despite being the only one with no combat experience at all and no fighting skills at all in the room, she seemed to be the only one able to see the monster in its fast movements, as it swiped its claws, cleaving through the adventurers cheap armors as if they were paper, the strength of the swipes sending their body parts flying and painting the walls, ceiling and ground red.
Taking advantage of the fact that she was still out of its reach, Telikoritsi did something that could make anyone think she was crazy and laid down on the ground that was now covered in fresh blood and gore, rolling into it as everyone else were getting massacred.
The monster pinned an adventurer down on their chest, holding them down with one of its leg before grabbing their arm and pulling them with enough force to tear them off, it then threw the armless adventurer at another one before skewering both of them.
Very soon, the village girl was the only one left as she saw the decapitated head of the guard roll past her, the monster stood still, it seemed confused about something as it sniffed the air, it's head covered in nostrils as it did so, it moved around like a dog searching for a trail, it picked up on something and approach one of the fallen adventurers, who despite having their guts spilled on the ground next to them was still alive, the monster approached its face next to the adventurer's own and after a bit slam its open palm into their face, that wasn't what it was looking for.
From the monster's perpective, only corpses remained, it was unable to smell what it was looking for, it didn't feel anything moving around, slowly, the monster started to check each corpse on the ground, checking the ones that seemed to be in the best of shapes, it was emmiting a sound similar to that of teeth grinding against one another while it was doing it.
Everytime it checked a body, it would destroy the body even further than they already were, as if it was removing this one from the list of possibilities, soon, it was Telikoritsi's turn, she was lying face first and breathing so slowly and rarely tha she could feel her lungs hurting, the monster grabbed one of her shoulder's with an uncharasteristic gentleness, the same it had shown the corpses before realising they were nothing more than corpses, it flipped her around and brought it face close to her mouth, almost touching her, she held her breath with everything she had, the monster's head was soon covered in ear holes as it seemed to pick up on something.
Unbeknowst to her, it was hearing the sounds of her blood flowing through her body, it grabbed her head with its hand, feeling that she wasn't getting any colder like a corpse should.
A mouth appeared on its face and it mimicked words it had heard, clearly understanding what they meant.
"I know" it spoke out in the voice of an elderly man, Telikoritsi stopped her act and stared in horror at the monster, it licked her face, removing the blood off of it.
It did a small movement and just as it was about to do something, it was interrupted by a booming voice.
It stopped its movement turned to the source of the voice and so did Telikoritsi, at the entrance, stood a tall man wearing a sort of red mage robes but with armor, the sun was shining directly behind him, causing an enormous shadow to be casted inside of the room.
The man had crimson hair and yellow eyes, he seemed extremely pissed and looked at the monster as if it was nothing more than a common monster.
"You're one ugly motherfucker!" spoke the man as it looked at the monster, the beast stood straight up and bared it's claws before leaping forward, right at the red-robed man.