BEYOND THE SHADOWS.

While Tylos was immersed in sleep, reliving past memories, a dense fog surrounded the cabin where they were, neither Tylos nor Liria seemed to realize what was about to happen, a stench of sulfur took over the place and the The sword "crosshead" that was now in the hands of Liria began to shine in a light blue tone.

The huge and evil presence woke up the girl who had goosebumps, "damn, what the hell is happening, I'm surrounded", with a fierce cry she kicked the door to confront whoever was stalking her, but what she achieved cause was to send Tylos flying into the courtyard.

- So, you're the one who was snooping behind the door, don't you have decency or are you a pervert?

- What the hell is happening to you, all this time I've been behind the door, I just want my sword back...

Liria showed him the sword "you see, I haven't taken it anywhere else"

- Damn, that color, since when is it like this...

- Since I woke up, what happens? You are pale.

- They are here…

It was then that they noticed many presences, eyes that were watching them, more and more, and there was nowhere to run, surrounded by Tylos and Liria, they prepared to fight against the darkness.

One of them quickly came out of the shadows and took Liria by the head as if he were sucking her soul, and she began to scream, Tylos took the crosshead and with one slash cut the creature, which looked like this: its body was like that of a person malnourished to the waist only, their bones were barely covered by skin and on their heads they only possessed a single eye that bled and gave off a disgusting odor, and added to that a torn robe that seemed to be a shadow.

A large number of these monsters lay levitating around them looking for the moment to attack them.

- Hey, you're fine, hey.

- Yes, barely, but yes, what are those things.

- They are nightmare specters, sometimes they appear near the battlefields very late at night, the problem is that they have seen us.

- And what are we supposed to do?

- We must resist until dawn

-What are you talking about?

- They won't stop coming until the sun rises.

Liria just remained silent, barely visible, and Saria's spell to see through the dark had already worn off, the only light at the moment came from Tylos's sword, "bring your shield quickly" Tylos muttered and so did Liria.

- Come on hold it well, it must work, after all these two seem to know each other, "from light is born the penumbra and in the deepest darkness the light was forged"

Then the sword was charged with a very bright clear light and to the surprise of the two, the shield also began to glow.

- Who are you?... How can you manipulate these treasures even with that sinister aura?

- Leave it for later, okay? You are not trustworthy either, you are not human or at least not completely. But we'll fix that later… here they come.

They had no choice but to fight, the light attracted more and more of these specters, back-to-back they defended themselves and with attacks and sword blows their numbers decreased, but each time they were more, they had no choice but to enter the hunt so that they would not be caught. They will overwhelm the multitude of monsters.

The house was being destroyed little by little in the fight, "I'm sorry Robert, but we can't do anything more" Tylos said as the furniture and the few belongings that his friends had left in his cabin were torn to pieces.

The wraiths suddenly stopped coming after them, but instead began to let out piercing screams as they tore at their wretched faces with their claws, barely letting them stand on their feet from the intensity with which they wailed.

Then they both had a bad feeling…

- Can you feel it...

- Yes, something is not right...

A sepulchral silence took over the place and then the expected thing happened.

- Under my shield noweee.

A sudden sound sounded, deep and penetrating, all the people woke up and saw something terrifying through their windows, the people seemed mute, something was happening at the top of the hill, the monsters had not attacked the village, but that cabin where they were Young.

And then from the place where that terrifying noise came from, a dense fog grew more and more, at that moment, as if they were lanterns, the eyes of a creature began to shine high up, a hundred meters above the cabin, its body was not visible. .

And out of the darkness came a humanoid-looking bony hand that with a single blow blew up the entire roof of the cabin, exposing them, and turned to stare at them.

"Runeee!" Tylos yelled, and they were barely out of the cabin when it was crushed to rubble in just a second, leaving a hand-shaped crater in the ground.

- Damn what is that.

-Don't know

- The ones from before you knew they were

- Yes, but that thing, I had never seen anything like it.

The two were lying on the ground, when again the huge hand of bones went towards them.

- Here it comes, move.

- I'm stuck, nooo… help me…

Tylos began clearing rubble rapidly and pulled Liria to the side of her, barely even able to ward off her with her sword when the monster sent him flying, breaking several trees in her path.

Tylos really hit hard if he could maintain consciousness, and he started to vomit blood, he tried to get up, but couldn't, to which a deep voice coming from the monster whispered "impostor".

Liria ran towards him, it was already surprising to her that he was still alive after that, so she took the sword of the badly wounded Tylos and steeled herself.

- Go away, he'll kill us both.

- No way, you just saved me, and I don't want to owe you anything.

When he held the sword, he felt a connection with them, their power flowed with intensity "I can do it" he thought and another strong blow was coming, but he could bear it, "I knew, they are stronger together and so am I" and he quickly rejected it, but it seemed to have no effect.

Even so, Liria was running out of strength, her attacks were increasing in intensity and strength, she could no longer reject them, she could only hold on, and leaning on the sword, raising the shield, she created a barrier.

Then the monster impacted the hand directly into the barrier that seemed to be resisting until it began to crack more and more, Tylos began to crawl until he reached the girl, and trying to stand up, he fell back vomiting even more blood.

From both sides, hands appeared that intended to crush them, "I won't resist that, but I can't leave it here -Goddess protect us-" then a flash of light appeared over them so great that it seemed dawn, they could hardly notice a kind of figure in the center that seemed to be female, and in an instant the enormous skeleton that was discovered began to crumble as if it were ashes, a warmth invaded them both and they lost consciousness accompanied by the first rays of sunlight.