The screams quickly faded away, and before Dean Bruce and the others could react, the bodies of the two soldiers had already been completely incinerated by the flames—vanishing without a trace, not even leaving behind ash, as if they had simply disappeared into thin air.
"Huh?"
"Could it be... that the people who vanished before all disappeared like this?"
"Then what about my fiancée…?"
Witnessing this scene, Nicholas William was utterly horrified. If those previously missing people had met the same fate, didn't that mean his fiancée—and even her entire family—were already dead?
"Roar!"
After burning the two soldiers to death, the human-bodied, ram-headed monster let out a low growl. It began to move, stepping forward and charging toward Dean Bruce.
The pale green flames in its eyes surged more fiercely with every step, and each hoof left behind a scorching trail of fire on the ground.
