Scarlet Beginning

Paladia followed Kieran and looked towards the direction where they came from.

Unbeknownst to him, a figure was standing there, but the figure was surely not a human!

A broken cape covered its body but the seams and holes on it revealed its scarlet red bones underneath. Under the hood, soul fire was burning in its eye sockets. A string of prayer beads were being twisted in its hand and as it walked forward, it laughed in a weird way that sounded like croaking.

The aerial monster seemed to have noticed this hooded skull and it was utterly frightened. It flew up higher and tried to fly away without a second thought but right when the aerial monster was about to leave Paladia's sight…

Karooom!

The aerial monster exploded, blood and flesh raining down.

There were no signs before the bursting, the aerial monster turning into a pile of bones under Paladia's shocked gaze and falling down from the sky, but it did not fall to the ground.