6 The Monster Wave

Sitting in the corner, Leo felt the time slowly fly by. He watched on as the villagers would console each other and giving each other pep talks.

"The unity these villagers have is not surprising. From some of the conversations they have had with each other, dealing with monster waves is something that happens quite frequently here. Even on earth, humans would throw everything away and work together just to survive."

"Some of those militia men look like they are very battle hardened. If I am not mistaken, they would be very strong warriors, it is too much of waste that they are only able to wear worn out armor." Leo pondered to himself.

After several more hours had passed, all of the militia men started to leave the building, leaving only some of the older teenagers in charge. This did not affect Leo in the slightest since no one expected an outsider to be effective at all if a battle were to happen within the building.

Awaiting for the monster wave to appear, Leo was starting to become a little impatient as he remembered something from earlier.

Taking out the card again, Leo spent some time looking over the card. He would flip it around, look at it closely, and had some hope inside of himself that he would be able to find some clue to understand what exactly this item was.

"It seems that no one except for myself can actually see the item in my hand." thought Leo as he started to hear the other villagers reacting to watching what he was doing. The villagers started to think that Leo had a mental disorder and that he was playing with an imaginary object.

Some of the older teenagers observed Leo and decided to leave him alone. They felt that Leo being both young and an outsider, led him to lose himself mentally due to the fear of death from a monster wave.

Roar!

All of the sudden, loud roars could be heard from outside of the village. These roars from the monsters was able to shake the building.

The teenagers who were used to hearing these roars, stood silently into their patrol positions. However, everyone else, started screaming in fear. Though the villagers have lived through many of the monster waves, there was still fear that they would be killed.