They are still walking to head to where Valerie is. None of the two tried to complain about walking for hours because if they did, Hero would point his sword toward them. They are walking in a valley of flowers and Hero is confused. The highway they were walking was filled with different beautiful and astonishing flowers. Their petals are shown in the sunlight. Peitho is about to touch one of them when Hero touches her arms causing her to stop.
"Don't. These are dangerous plants. If you wake them up it will be over for us. We can't beat them as there are thousands of them. I can't fight them while securing your safety. Keep your eyes on my back, don't wander your eyes around." Peitho dropped her hands and continued walking.
She pouted after what her brother said in the latter. She felt as if to her brother she was just a nuisance to him. She wanted to get stronger so she didn't have to seek help from her brother but what could she do when the only thing that she had right now was a weapon and the ability to forge a gem in the weapon? She thinks that forging weapons is not that helpful to awakened people. She just let out a sigh and looked around.
As she wandered her eyes, something caught her attention, and when she tried to look at it clearly her eyes widened when she saw her mother smiling and waving at her. Without Hero's noticing it, Peitho is already in the garden trying to reach her mother with her hands as her tears streaming down. "Mother."
Simon who had just turned his head to look at Peitho behind them was shocked to see that she was gone and now in the garden of flowers! "Peitho!" Simon's worried and scared voice causes her to look around and see his sister still walking away from them.
"Sh!t, why did she go there!?" Just about he tries to save his sister when the flowers grow rapidly and become a monster with a large mouth. All the flowers in the area woke up, roaring and one of them tried to eat Peitho, fortunately, Hero was able to take his sister away from the garden and kill the monster flower.
They are the family of the Forest Golems! They will trick people into going to their garden with their petals and eat them piece by piece. If they can't be tricked by that, they will make hallucinations about their loved ones leading them to their area.
"Simon! Take Peitho away from this place. I will cover you!" Simon immediately took Peitho from Hero's hands and carried her.
"This kid, why did she try to go to the garden? Ah sh!t, she's just making our journey harder!" Simon complained as he kept on running away while Hero was busy covering him by killing monsters who would try to take them two. Some monsters try to eat him fortunately these golems can't move to eat him as their roots are still intact in the soil.
Simon just kept on running until he reached the end and dropped Peitho who was just staring blankly. "Hey, what happened to you?" He tries to make Peitho bring back her sanity but he can't. He looks at where Hero is, making his way to get out from the monsters by killing and avoiding their attacks.
Hero keeps on sliding his sword, killing every forest golem around him. He was killing them for twenty minutes already and killed all of them. Simon was amazed by how powerful Hero is. If ever he was the one to kill them, he would have probably been dead by now.
Hero took the root of one of the forest golems and cut it. He takes a bit of it and carries it as he walks towards Simon and Peitho. Herl put the root in Peitho's mouth and immediately after seconds, Peitho was back to reality.
Hero gave her a smack on the head causing Peitho to groan in pain and touch her head while looking at her brother. "Why did you do that!? It hurts!"
"Didn't I tell you not to wander your eyes around?"
"You could have just told me that those monsters will create hallucinations! How would I be able to not resist it when I am seeing Mom!" Hero was shut for a moment and just let out a sigh.
"Let's go. It is getting dark, we should find a place now." Simon looks at Peitho who is now sitting on the ground with a bag on her back.
"Let me carry this now. Don't ever complain and hold my hand so you won't get lost again." Simon reaches his hand after he takes the bag and carries it. Peitho looks at him and accepts his offer. Simon was holding her hand as both of them walked and followed Hero.
Another roadway filled with different plants can now be seen. Peitho tried her best to keep her eyes on his brother's back so what happened earlier wouldn't happen now. She keeps on staring at her brother and bit her lower lip.
'He's really so cold.'
While walking, Simon accidentally kicks the rock toward the forest golem causing some of them to wake up until the others follow. All of the forest golems around their area now woke up causing the two to run as fast as they could while Hero just let out a sigh and killed all the forest golems that tried to eat them.
Like earlier, the two of them were able to escape from the rampage of monsters thanks to Hero. They saw him walking glaring at them causing them to gulp and tremble in fear. Hero's eyes were like a sword, stabbing a couple of times. Hero is mad at them!
Simon slowly moves backward and so does Peitho. They turned around and started to walk as if nothing happened but Hero grabbed their shirpullingimg them closer to him.
"Try to wake them up again, I will kill you two." The two gulped and were crying on their heads as they were afraid of Hero's eyes and words.
'He is really scary!' Simon thought to himself.