It begins
The crowd was in a daze, their eyes fixed on Astralux. They still couldn't understand why the elemental beast had yet to start a massacre, killing all the people present here... From the look of things, the beast even seemed very loyal to Nox, which was strange.
Whispers suddenly filled the crowd as they all pointed at the beast and spoke in hushed voices, coming up with different theories about it... After seeing that the elemental beast had yet to make any move, the various Awakened and lords of other baronies released their tense muscles, though they remained alert. Their eyes were full of confusion.
They checked around the beast's neck for a runic slave collar—those usually placed on beasts to turn them into mounts—but there was none. This only made the Awakened even more perplexed.
If there was no collar on the beast's neck, didn't it mean it was a free wild creature? But how did it look so tame?