An Accident

"If someone is bitten by a demonic beast," asked Roland, "will he turn into something like the beast?"

He hoped that this was not some otherworldly version of Resident Evil. They could not extract virus antigens with the current technology.

"Of course not," said Iron Axe, making a confused face. "Humans will simply turn into corpses."

"Can we eat the flesh of the demonic beasts?"

Carter exclaimed. "Your Highness! How can you eat these beasts? They're all tainted by the touch of hell!"

Roland turned to Iron Axe, who nodded. "Your knight is right. Once I tried to cut off a piece of flesh from the beasts and feed it to a hound, but it died soon after."

"Is that so? What a pity." Roland sighed. Food was so scarce in this era, so if demonic beasts could be eaten, then they could have a huge harvest in the winter. Just imagine, with all the crazed beasts running from the forest to Border Town, they would not even need any hunting tools.