Chapter 102: Strange creatures
Unlike the rest of Balon City, where street lamps lit up the streets, the outskirts were particularly dark at night, and visibility was very low if someone was outside their house.
The space above Alex’s house ripped before tearing open and creating the other end of the void walk, no one other than Alex could see this gateway or the white space that it led to.
Alex slowly stepped out unnoticed; he was already in the indestructible robe and white mask, his body blended well into the darkness around the building, and one could easily miss him.
After stepping out of the white space, Alex looked around as his eyes landed on the five figures that he had sensed earlier. The five figures were slowly approaching within the darkness but Alex only grew more curious after looking at them.
He couldn’t feel any energy from them; they didn’t feel like humans, nor were they magic beasts. If not for the overwhelming murderous aura that was rising from their bodies, Alex would not have discovered them until they reached their house.
His eyes pierced into the darkness from behind his mask as he observed the five figures.
Hairy bodies like those of monkeys with abnormally long arms that reached the ground despite them standing straight, sharp long nails that resembled wood shafts stretched from their fingers. Their faces resembled those of humans, but their expressions were very twisted as if frozen in a moment of agony; their eyes were pitch black with glowing red pupils that gazed at the building, which was Alex’s home.
Alex felt strange staring at these creatures that looked like a mix between humans and magic genre beasts, their physiques were very human like and one of them even had the same shape as that fatty who had asked for Emily as payment for his parents’ debt but their beastly features like abnormally long arms and hairy bodies made it clear that they weren’t humans.
But Alex was sure that they weren’t magic beasts.
"Just what are these creatures?" Alex mumbled to himself. He spread out his senses to scan the surroundings to see if he would find anything else suspicious, but he couldn’t.
He could sense some people in alleys in the distance and people in nearby houses, but those were normal in the outskirts; he could feel the presence of another mage or a powerful magic beast.