“The very first kid I saw was lying on the grass, to normal eyes, he looked to be doing well.

    But as I got closer, I figured, some had sucked his life force dry off him and left the kid to die!

    It shocked Carena so much that her body posture became stiff and had a blank expression on her face, she screamed out loud and went unconscious.

    The kid was of the age of Carena, lying on the ground and was paralysed; his body was cladding sky, and it had turned white seemed like he had no blood left in his body. The area around the eyes turned black and the eyes looked dead. The face of the kid was completely sunken and it looked very vicious as he was lying lifeless!

    I was late to track the kid! But I could only see one kid! For some reason, I couldn’t track any more footsteps!

    Seeing what happened with this kid really scared me, such a cruel thing seeing it in person was totally different.

    At that moment I was absolutely blanked and couldn’t understand what to do. My eyes had literally popped out of the socket and my mouth was outspread. The muscles of my hands and legs got rigid for a few seconds. Suddenly I perceived that Carena was with me and the place was not secured so I dragged her to my side and clasped her hand tightly.

    I decided to store the kid’s remains in Spirit Dimension and carry the kid on the carpet.

    The only way I could think of to keep her away from any unknown danger.

    As I kept away from the kid the air changed, there were fewer animals than before. I could sense something off!

    The small creatures were running frantically away from something, as they passed us and left the forest I prepared to counter whatever was coming, I was already pissed enough to tackle anything that walked out of that forest!

    But what came walking out was nothing I was prepared for, mentally!”

    “The kids!” Aeneas enchanted his eyebrows and blinked his eyes fast and asked in a concerning tone!

    “The party of men that left the village for capital!” Merida replied stroking hair flicks with tightening her first and without looking him in his eyes,

    “That would have been good, so did you find the kids?” Theo felt assured, he nudged his face and took a deep breath of relief for what happened,

    “If only that would have been for the better!

    Every single one of them was Demonized! To the core! There was no way I could believe what was going on!

    It was like a small army of almost 30 Demonized men and animals!

    They were stumbling and staggering towards us slowly. Carena screamed out loud before passing out again as their pearly, milky skin gleamed under the sunlight. Their crazy, diseased eyes terrified me a bit. I could smell the toxic pong from their body odours.

    They all seemed to be hungry! Looking at them like this was breaking me, as I knew I had to kill them, or they’d cause trouble for villagers!

    And if they died at my hands, the elders won’t be left with the guilt of facing their own kin! That’d have killed them from within for good!

    But even for me…”

    “30 sounds a troublesome number!” Aeneas understood the situation

    “Yeah!

    And I had to defend the kid while going full-on offence too!

    But most importantly, I needed to find an advantage for me to fight back! Right then, I was surrounded and If I walked in blindly, I’d have been at a disadvantage!

    Using a smoke blast, I retreated in the woods for the time being! I noticed that they couldn’t move at a good pace for some reason, so using trees as my asset, I used the area for the benefit, taking out the animals which were demonized one after another!

    My heart won’t allow me to touch any men! I just couldn’t!” She averted her gaze

    "Taking a human’s life takes just more than strength!" Aeneas replied in a cold tone.

    “And especially when you’ve known them!

    After taking out all the animals, I carried Carena on my back and told her to seize me as tightly as she can and we just kept running through the thick forest full of wild trees and let them chase me around!

    Using flying carpet would have gained their attention which I didn’t want.

    I tried tiring them of their stamina for the next whole 2 hours but to no avail! They just won’t slow down!

    After trying many spells and skills, I was left with only one option! I had to look for the kids too, there were still 5 kids missing! Wasting any longer meant putting more lives in danger! Also, if there was something off here, the village was no longer safe!

    I had to tell everyone about what happened there!

    That being said, I was left with no other option but to take them all out for good!

    It was time to wipe them out in one go, I didn’t want them to suffer any longer!

    Reluctantly, I decided to round them all up in one place and use a giant spell. But I needed some time to prepare and that was the one thing I lacked most.

    I began luring them one after another to the open space again.

    All this time, I had to make sure Carena kept sleeping and didn’t see any of this, so I used a quick sleep spell on her while the carpet kept her safe from all the fighting that was going on.