Chapter 21

After a month, Shireen was in the same condition. Pensive and did not speak at all, only a few words or two she would speak if necessary. Even the Aegis often visits to talk to his granddaughter, even though there are many attacks from enemies outside their village forest.

Shireen never replied to the Aegis, the old man was ignored and Shireen would just stare at her silently while blinking slowly in disinterested response. Upon awakening, a single question left her mouth at that moment that stunned the Aegis.

"Why did you save me and not let me die?!"

That sentence broke the heart of the Aegis who never got tired, even though some of his followers were already getting angry with the behavior of the aegis' granddaughter who didn't know the fact that their Solus village was being attacked by monsters.

"This time, they managed to enter even though it was only one of them. The wolves had lost their minds and were completely controlled by someone, luckily one of them was caught and killed immediately so that his tracks wouldn't call out his other companions." The Aegis said instead explaining the condition of their village this time.

Accompanied by colonized monsters, one disappears and leaves a trail of smell. Then the rest of their colony will come closer to see, what happens to their colony while trying to complete the orders given by their master.

Found a village where the former research masters fled because they are the object of research that is considered a failure and will spread their knowledge to the open world. It would be a disaster, which was why the people of Solus village were constantly plagued by the terror of the monsters.

Moreover, their master has a grudge against the Aegis who always manages to escape from their clutches, even though he has often been trapped, the Aegis always manages to escape. Even along with their previous research, it naturally manifested the anger and displeasure of its master.

"Why don't I just die." She said again, looking straight into the eyes of the old man, who she said was her grandfather.

Even in her memory, she had forgotten what her grandfather looked like. Because in her house, there is no photo of her grandfather and it is more supportive for her to forget. Her parents always said that grandpa and grandma had died, when she was 5 years old and she was still very young. Her memory wasn't as strong as it is now, if only she could. She wanted to forget the sad incident.

"Don't say things like that, you should continue your life well." Said the Aegis to his granddaughter.

Even though he couldn't stare for too long into those beautiful sad eyes full of wounds, he continued his speech.

"You know, a lot of people are still waiting for your return. Even though I hope you live well, everyone here is fighting to stay alive. You also have to fight for your life, I will support you until the end."

Shireen didn't reply, and the Aegis looked back at those sad eyes expectantly while praying.

...

"Damn it!! They found the village, the trail. Immediately tell the Aegis that if any of the monsters manage to enter the village borders, block their colony trying to follow in the footsteps of this monster!!" Eric said to Alan who followed behind him.

"I'll tell Arumi, that brat will tell using nature to give this message faster."

In the darkness of the night, the two of them ran, stepping on tree trunks one by one with force, shooting at a speed that the naked eye couldn't see. Like a flash of light in the night, they chased a monster.

A monster that has two long, skinny legs and two arms, each nail so sharp. His body was black and smelled very bad, he ran quickly towards the village. With one command, the monster immediately gave a call to its colony if it managed to enter the location where Solus village was located.

Where the research object failed to escape, the mindless mutant wolf's body was extremely ugly and terrifying. On his back, he has sharp spiked hairs almost all over his hunched back. Even his face was hideous, his eyes disappeared and his mouth seemed to be ripped to his neck.

His teeth were sharp and so long that he couldn't close his mouth properly, his voice was even more disgusting as his mouth kept spitting out poisonous saliva that killed almost all the grass and trees he stepped on.

"Damn it!! He doesn't stop running, we have to take him back off and stop!" Said Eric getting impatient to see if they failed to catch up to the speed of the mutant monster.

Grrr!!

"I will hit the ground so that his footing is uneven, you immediately block him!!" Eric said again to Alan who nodded in agreement.

Alan shot straight forward so fast, while Eric with all his might. Gathering his strength in his hands and feet onto the ground made a strong vibration that coincided with that. The ground made a huge wave of seawater toward the monster before the ground scattered. Explodes, and crumbles.

Kickkkk...

His voice squeaked how the angry beast had his footing crushed, he rolled over due to the uneven ground and the explosion sent his body bouncing far away. Its thorny back started to bleed, and some of it broke. Even though his back was nearly crushed from being attacked by the group brought by Eric and Alan, he didn't stop.

One command sounded again in his head.

"ALAN NOW!!"

And with that, a rope made of air was formed. The strange power resulting from research makes Alan and his friends in the village of Solus have not only one power, and condensing air into a strong rope is Alan's forte as well.

GRRRR!!

The mutant monster was on a rampage, he couldn't stay here as he almost made it to the center of the village.

"Eric quickly hit him!!! I can't hold on because he doesn't care even if his body is torn apart, he keeps throwing a tantrum!!" Alan shouted as Eric was again gathering all his strength in his fused fists in one hit.

BUGH!