Zelda quickly got off Cristian, despite her reluctance. Rushing to the edge of the end boulder, her pupils dilated when she sighted a monstrous beast walking into the shallow stream.
Some of the women and their kids were on their way up but others seemed to have been frozen by the beast's yellow eyes.
It was over seven meters in length, had a green armored body, stubby legs, a thick, long tail capable of shattering boulders and a protruding mouth filled with knife-like teeth that would crush a human bone in milliseconds.
Even as a Fallen Ancient Vampire with a lifespan of over a thousand five hundred years—a thousand years more than a normal Fallen—Zelda doubted she could survive a bite.
"Get the people out of there. I'll deal with the crocodile." She heard Cristian's voice and with a deep grunt, he leaped into the air.
She watched him disappear beyond the canopies of the sparse trees. Jumping down, she transformed into black smoke and shot forward.
