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Chapter 6 - The Night in the Widow Forest

Emerging from the self-made cave was the perfect infiltrator no one could have ever expected.

Its red eyes seemed to glow and hum with so much power under the moonlight, this new form was as majestic as it was cute. For all intensive purposes, he was not 'The Beast', he was "Nelson Vigor" a child who lost his parents today in an attack from a predator in the Willow Forest.

Adorned in commoner clothes.

The bright moonless sky was very tasking on his mentality drawing his sanity through the line but at the end of the day the term 'Universal Magnificence.'

With restraint and doubt in his mind, he proceeded.

While suppressing his essence and very being from being tracked down by the human who wielded the heart of a fellow origin, this idea infuriated him.

'I'll kill him later", he said to himself walking down the neatly made path of green along the trees in the forests, he could hear the croaking of sage green Vergil toad two miles east, the howling and roaring of different beasts in the forest, even all the conversations in the human territory. 

This seemed to be his dynamic the only thing that could amuse him, himself.

The Beast.... rather Nelson Vigor possessed a sense so powerful that he could track down and count all the ants that called the Willow Forest their home. 

He could hear, see, and smell everything happening in Talen.

'Why didn't I just fly down directly above the kingdom of Talen? The suspense is killing me.' he was telling himself as he took a short stroll down the familiar terrain. 

He knew that he couldn't risk getting seen by humans, it would shatter their government, power dynamics, and most importantly his status as a cryptid.

What would these ungrateful weaklings say if they were to find out I was real all along?

He began conversing with himself.

I have a plan on how to get in undetected.

"HOWL"

In this human form, I called out.

My power as the undisputed king of this world was still to be unchallenged, my order was absolute, and the howl was to be heard by the humans in Talen and all the beasts in the forest.

Beasts of different monster sub-categories came pouring out from the shadows of the trees that lined the path I walked on.

They were the predators leaking saliva from their mouths ready to pummel me to the ground and take my life, exactly what I was looking for.

 My aura was splashing out.

I need not say a word for any to understand, this was the power we the origins possessed.

Even the most primal and barbaric knew my threat level and dared not attack me. I was irritated, no kneeling or acknowledgment for my splendor. 

"Kneel! you are in the presence of the great Uleen."

The order was sent across Hilderia itself. All the tension rose, all cricket silenced, and the night itself proclaimed him king.

And so it was, the order was collected by the predators about twenty in number all that lived in that vicinity knelt even the trees tried and were disconnected from their branches.

The Willow Forest was completely deforested, and though my order was taken I was disgusted.

"If you see me kneel, I don't have to say it" Someone... something had to die. The hulking brown grizzly bear was a good target.

Instantaneously I was fist-deep in its guts applying a force that sent it flying to the other side of the continent.

It was a show of power and dominance.

"Oops", I forgot I masked my presence there was no way to tell who I was. The act was already done there was no reversing this action, it's not like there was use for reversing I am perfect, and perfection makes no mistakes.

"Hit me"

They froze in pure and utter terror fearing the consequences but still doing it anyway.

All at once nineteen beasts charged at me to fulfill my command. 

It all came in slow, the movement of these creatures felt like an eternity for him. Instinctively jumping back a few feet away, then having to remind himself that these creatures were an easy walk in the park even if he was asleep in the middle of the forest no harm could come to him.

Slashing and ripping blood were everywhere - it wasn't my blood it was the blood of the creatures. Forgetting my body was denser than all and there was no weapon made on Hilderia that could lay even the tiniest of scratches on my unblemished skin.

As a way to apologize, I fed each of them my blood which possessed healing properties. "You'll all make fine soldiers for my army," I said before snapping their necks. 

Their pulses slowly down as the seconds went by, the breathing heavy and assisted, the blood vessels about to pop trying to metabolize the blood of the origin in their system which consumed a lot of energy as it was already all while their brains were looking for systems to shut down to prolong their hearts, I could hear it all. 

This was something I had heard all too many times.

The signs of higher ascension in power and my blood were the key to making it all happen.

His red eyes glowed with extremely luminous intensity.

"Howl"

"When you wake up leave this continent and wait for me on the highest peaks in Hilderia", they were no response from them because they were dead just a hum of my almighty power signifying that my message was heard.

As I walked toward the direction of Talen, the sound of a heart at maximum capacity, and blood flow at a faster pace came to my ears. Accompanying that was the command I gave for them to go to the highest peaks in all of Hilderia.

Footsteps and stomps going in the direction I just came from.

'It has begun', I said with a smirk on my face, seeing the city of Talen come into physical view as I went on; blood-soaked toward the first gate of the city of Talen.