Chapter 49: More Monsters
Gritting her teeth to bear with the pain in her head, Felixa turned and ran away from the monster. The wails became more unbearable and she thought more spirits joined in the wail fest. The caked earth beneath her feet started to shake violently, throwing her off balance. The cracks widened and the wails of the spirits seemed to get closer to her.
Resting her hands on the shaky ground to have balance, her eyes followed a crack that formed right under her feet. With a sound similar to the crackling of firecrackers, the thinner cracks on the caked ground joined together to form a deep crack and traveled forward.
She noticed other such cracks forming all around her and converging at one pit on the ground twenty feet in front of her. She sensed something going wrong and stepped back.
*Thud*
The dead monster that was killed by Maximus fell to the ground displacing air. The hair at the back of her neck stood up and her loose hair floated high up along with the dirt that rose with the wind. The smell of the monster’s blood was unbearable.
*Boom*
Another monster popped out from the ground to her front. That was followed by loud cracking noises and more monsters popping out Like little sprouts of seedlings emerging from the ground.
{Kill... Sacrifice... Blood... End...}
Those monsters each said something and lunged towards her. She could feel it in her bones that the monsters are targeting her. It hurt her to see the land that was once fertile and was home to a lot of little birds, insects, and worms now under the terrorizing evil of these monsters.
Felixa turned and looked at Maximus as the monster in front of her wriggle its head and the muscles of its compartmentalized body tensed as if it is preparing for an attack. Her hands fisted and she felt the itch of wanting a sword to hold.
But no, she cannot. Maximus brought her here for a reason and she would assume that he knew of the presence of these monsters if not for the significance of this place in her heart.
But what is the reason?