Inside a cave, crackling sound of burning of logs which was filling the atmosphere with warmth, stark contrast to the lonely night outside of the cave, near the burning logs a man with muscular build and a height of nearly 2 m, rough but handsome facial features with black hair and black eyes and his beard made him look more intimidating was lovingly stroking his daughter's hair.
"I never thought that one of my fantasies when I was young would come into being, but my younger self would have never thought that I would be protecting and caring for a little life, who might be the main character of this apocalyptic world" while watching her giggling Skylar thought how many dark creatures were chasing them because of this little girl.
'I will have hurry to the Sun Kingdom, they might be able to help me in this situation in exchange of Light Ignitus (a legendary artifact) or I will have to make a deal with high ranking demon' he thought of the available options for help.
After playing with his daughter for a while, he tucked her in a mattress taken out from his magical ring by pouring a drop of blood to activate it, then he closes the entrance of the cave by a big boulder.
Next day…..
Waking he removes the boulder which he placed last night at the entrance of the cave, he observes the rising sun, carrying his daughter in his arm he exits the cave.
He then takes out a weird scroll where many weird symbols were printed, while placing it at his chest he chants something in a language with a mixture of Sanskrit and Japanese.
The scroll started glowing brightly and turns into a light ball and started moving towards north-east direction very slowly then suddenly falls to the ground in its scroll form, Skylar picks up the scroll and started moving towards that direction with his daughter in his arm.
After some hours he discovered a ruined village where many houses where completely demolished and there were dried blood, pieces of flesh everywhere, which was extremely sickening to watch, so he put his daughter to sleep by giving her some dreamer's blood which came from a unique creature known as dreamer, this creature's blood can be as nutritious as a mother's milk to a newborn baby, so it is often used as substitute to a mother's milk.
After storing the tube of white liquid like milk known as dreamer's blood, he continues his journey inside the village, after inspecting some demolished houses he found many weird symbols which was giving of a very creepy feeling.
After a while he reached the center of the village where the houses were somewhat intact and consisted of multiple floors, where the rotting smell intensified.
'I think someone performed a demonic ritual here like the one Iris talked about once' Skylar thought of the rituals his ex-wife explained to him, while he inspected the symbols.
'This situation is becoming confusing and dangerous, now is the time to take out that thing' he takes out a blue colored rock from his storage ring, he puts it on the ground and started making a symbol of a shield while chanting something in Sanskrit language.
Then he pour some drop of blood on the rock, suddenly a horrifying growl can be heard from a nearby house and more of noises started coming out from nearby houses around him, hearing the noises he puts his guard up.
Amidst the terrifying noise a bright light burst in front of him and a mechanical voice came out "Level 3 defense golem at your service, master" after the bright light resides humanoid a figure made of rock with a height of 3 meter, with a blue rock at its centre.
"Protect my daughter at all cost" he gave his daughter to the golem, after that he takes out his katana from the scabbard and got into a battle ready stance.
The sound of growl became intense and a person came out from the biggest house of the town with a appearance of half demon and half human came out with a creepy smile on his face.
"what!?" blurts out Skylar shocked to see the person in front of him.