After some time.
Alex was in his room, pondering about Dev. He vividly remembered Dev instructing him to exorcise the evil spirit. In fact, that was the first thing Dev mentioned upon entering the house.
However, a large question loomed in Alex's mind: How would he complete his mission when Dev had seemingly already done it?
Was it a mistake, or was Dev merely joking? Considering Dev's behaviour, it didn't seem like he was lying.
If he wasn't lying, does that mean the spirit is still here?
_Wait, I remember Benzo telling me that the spirit was already exorcised and she came back._
From that event, he understood one thing: this female spirit is attached to him, and no matter what he does, she will return unless or until her wish is fulfilled.
But who is she?
Trying to find the answer, Alex closed his eyes and started filtering Raser's memories so he could learn more about this evil spirit.
Sure enough, there was a reason for it that sent a slight shiver down his spine; his hand turned cold.
Apparently, two weeks ago, Raser and his friends decided to have a beach party. They planned the entire schedule for it, including drinking, eating, and games, festivities.
One of the games was water volleyball.
It was a strange wish, but they wanted to try it out and discover how it felt when the splash of water struck their bodies.
It was not like they wanted to savour the beautiful scenery of the beach where ladies ran around in bikinis, some applying sun cream on their skin.
That was not the reason, Definitely not!
When they were in the middle of the ocean playing volleyball, the beach suddenly became blessed.
Being blessed meant a sudden surge of an abundant amount of spirituality. This triggered underwater fish to rapidly evolve, pushing them into 7 stages.
After that, fish just need to eat; the more they eat, the more they evolve. In a sense, eating is their ritual.
The evolution method of animals sounds easy, but it was anything other than that.
Not any random food can be used as a nutritional supplement; the food needs to be spiritually abundant. They indirectly sacrifice Spirituality and physical form inside their body.
The spirituality of their food works as evolution-triggering ingredients that fulfil power-up requirements, and the bodies they eat work as sacrificial ingredients for completion.
With each stage of evolution, the amount of resources needed to climb to the next level also increased.
It was almost astonishing when Alex learned that a sudden surge of spirituality can cause normal animals to evolve and attain a higher form how easy is for them to choose eating as their ritual.
On the other hand, humans had to gather sacrificial ingredients, determine an auspicious, and finally perform rituals.
But animals?
They just need to eat; the more they eat, the more they evolve.
This is one of the 16 pathways of divinity; it only works for animals and beasts.
If any human tried to use this pathway, his body would collapse and be reduced to shreds of meat pulp.
Although there are chances, one in a million that a human body can adopt this pathway, it's been centuries since anyone was recorded using this devoure pathway.
Anyway, back to the topic, the beach and fish, when they start to evolve, they need to absorb a creature or artefact.
What more suitable food can there be other than humans, who are spiritual creatures?
Anyone can guess what an evolved creature will do.
The fish did exactly that and started to eat nearby humans on the beach.
The fish consumed them alive without displaying any shred of mercy, as humans were nothing but food used to calm their hunger.
At that time, the sudden movement under the water caused discomfort among people.
It didn't happen in one go. First, the water started to surge up, generating sea waves, and then suddenly, the fish attacked.
All the boys quickly ran away, grabbing children or anyone unable to keep up with running or swimming.
Some people, who were invocar and had supernatural powers, started to fight with the fish. However, their pitiful numbers were overwhelmed by the gigantic wave of fish, causing a lot of lives to be lost.
After Benzo and Ricky were out of the water, they took large breaths and searched for others. The search didn't take too much time; after all, they were together.
Splash.
Suddenly, Raser, who had come back out from the water, jumped in again, wanting to save the children. Some children had fainted in the water and were drowning in the depths.
One of them was Melissa, and if he hadn't gone again, it would have been possible for her to die.
Under the water, with nothing but blue bubbles and a swarm of fish grabbing humans here and there, he swam to the rescue of the children.
There was a particular lady that was stuck in a swarm of fish.
He ignored her and surged out of the water, coming to the surface. The lady also appeared outside.
There was no explanation of how she was able to do it, but she did come out and yell at Raser, who was holding the fainted children in his arms.
"Help... me!!!"
Raser was unable to save her; she was eaten alive in front of his very eyes.
The live visuals showed the body shredded piece by piece with a heart-wrenching cry for help, causing him to be stunned for a moment.
After all, the scene in front of him was bloody; the lady's entire body was drenched with blood and bitten marks of teeth that bled crazily, releasing every drop of blood from her being.
The surrounding water was tainted in crimson red.
She ultimately became the food for the evolved fish.
The shock was so intense that Raser was unable to process what he was witnessing. He even wished for it to be a dream, a nightmare that had paralyzed his body.
He started to sink in the water, but Raser too was bitten by one of the fish, the pain pulled him out of his shock, and he quickly ran away with guilt and remorse.