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Chapter 70 - Visions and Illusions

Amy looked around at the field of gold now emptied. Alina seems to be having a blast selling the wheat she grew herself and got herself a sponsorship of a samaritan. With this much wealth, she brought so much more people back to their homeland. She can't help but feel happy for her. There were some rough years but it seems that there is much to look forward to now. Even some people of Getel are beginning to support them with no discrimination nor prejudice that made them seen as second-class citizens or savages.

Alina laughed and instantly stopped as her mood began to change.

"So, this is why you cut me off."

Amy struggled to wake up realizing she is not dreaming this.

*

Amy finally woke up only to come down with a migraine. She looked to see that Anna is asleep as well. She has been attentive as she wrapped her warmly with fur and activating the heat stones in the carriage.

"You opened your thoughts to her. You seem to have trouble maintaining control on your mind even more now."

Amy frowned and Alabaster sees her silent fury as a warning.

"All these voices bother me when I am awake. Don't nag me with this anymore."

"We decide to take it further. We are gonna have to use monsters next for their brain power."

Amy, who had her eyes closed, shot them open. "Absolutely not. We are not using monsters!"

She is extremely against it. The monster races were not all inherently malevolent in this story. While some are indeed the bane of all living beings, most are against the Cambion and their role in his sealing and eventually his destruction were thanks to them. She specifically warned Boris and Alabaster not to kill any monsters as their attacks were out of desperation or fear rather just having the urge to cause chaos and destruction. Humanity shed an extremely bad light to all monsters and it led to senseless killings.

In this story of angels and demons, humans are the only being that are similar to them in any way thus they prefer to hook up with them. Monsters are deemed "too ugly" and "unintelligent" to catch their interest so none of them have any angel or demon descent. Meanwhile, they see humans as impure as angels and demons do not originate from the natural world and see any angel or demon descendant as abominations.

"Truthfully, I don't see a problem." Boris said with a shrug,

"Your way of thinking is far too shallow, Boris." Amy said in a reasonable tone, "other than being vital to the plot of the story, they are capable of being sapient and sentient like any human being."

"Not all of them," Alabaster noted.

Amy looked at the fur she was wrapped in. This is the fur of a Silver Sabertooth from Hekaton. 

There are plenty of monsters in this world other than elves and humans. The most common are fairies, goblins, lizardmen, mermaids, vampires and wolf men. There are several other creatures, but they are mostly just regular animals with exaggerated or unusual features, mostly size. There is one species of monsters who sided with the Cambion: the orcs. 

With a particular taste in human flesh, they are definitely fitting in the inherent evil spectrum. Unlike the other species of mystical creatures, these ones deserve their terrible image. Pillaging, looting and other deeds that she cannot even begin to describe were done. It is difficult to imagine if it is because of their nature or if they have a grudge but they sided with the Cambion though they didn't expected to be eaten by him in the end.

The rest were killed by Aron and his team, and they officially have gone extinct.

"We will have to be sneaky. Orcs are resistant to magic." Boris said.

"But not immune," Alabaster said, "If I could get your device working then we can get them all in one swoop."

"What device?" Amy asked curiously,

"The flying space craft,"

"You thought that far?" She marveled, "I drew it out of curiosity. I didn't actually have plans on making one because of its size."

"That's why I'm trying to make one on my own. I would ask you but I'm not sure if it is a good idea."

Unamused, she looked out the window. "Making one would be beneficial for travel but also surveillance. The orcs would never see it coming."

"I forbid it, guys. It's a bad idea, not to mention time consuming." Amy retorted leaving the men wondering. "Orcs are not easy to kill and this technology might do more harm than good. I already made a terrible risk by opening up a business selling items from my world."

With a tired face, she stared out the window with an even more grumpy expression. "Understood?"

The voices are silent but at least it left her a momentary sense of peace.

*

The scene changed to a clear scenery, it seems to be a deciduous forest with a tree fort and crates, crushed cages large enough to fit large animals in, and the most alarmingly part; death. There are dead bodies of multiple men and women that are wearing leather armor, covering the earth with their weapons and blood. Amy walked towards the sound of screaming and she approached it. The cages that are still intact are filled with lots of people, scared. The number of bodies continued to grow with each step forward. She abruptly stopped upon seeing the killer. The bloodlust is so incredible that the aura itself is making it hard to make out the details of that person except their eyes and they look vengeful. Amy is fearful because it looks like Violet's eyes whenever she yells at her. It stared right back at her making her jump.

*

Amy woke up a second time, on a bed and in complete darkness. It takes an entire day without rest to get to Fiore but everyone is tired and stopped at a nearby inn to rest. 

"I have a question, Alabaster. Would I be able to see the future with Temporal Disease?"

"Why do you ask?" Alabaster asked curiously, "Did you see the future?"

Amy gripped on her sheets with fear, "I think it's a sign."

"Future sight is a rare side effect of the Temporal Disease but yours will be temporary. Only one person ever had it although she was delirious when describing it. You are not a seer so you don't have the training to differentiate between dreams and reality much less understanding future visions."

Amy growled in her bed and she sat up. "You couldn't tell me this sooner?"

"It wouldn't hurt to know the future in your case since you technically already know future events."

She turned to see Violet staring at her from her bedside like a predator, silent and terrifying as it threatens to tear her apart with the same violet eyes. Did she get so frightened of her that she had a nightmare of it? Taken aback by this sudden appearance, she covered her mouth to prevent screaming and slowly turned away in fear. She could basically feel her heartbeat.

"It seems my condition isn't getting any better. At this point, I might become paranoid and deranged. I'm surprised that I'm not sleeping with a knife at this point."

"We made sure that wouldn't happen." Boris assures her. "She's just a hallucination. She won't do anything to you."

"In a fictional world like this, I wouldn't be surprised if she could." Amy mumbled.

"I admit that dream was quite alarming. Boris is already on his way to Fiore. He will be there before you."

"Just great," Amy put her arm over her eyes in frustration.