Chapter 186 - I Krios Village

It was a nice day like any other in the Krios Village in the D region when a small group of red-eyed beasts could be seen on the distance.

"Mommy, what is that?" A little boy asked his mother while pointing to the same group of beasts he spotted walking in circles around the village.

"Wait..."The mother turned her eyes to where her son was pointing and saw the red-eyed beasts, creatures with a strange aura around them. Suddenly she burst with an incredible speed and carried her son to the centers of the village where she searched for the Village Chief.

"Chief! Gather the hunters, there is a dozen strange looking beasts surrounding our village." Hearing her voice, everyone including the chief was indifferent. Different from the other Villages, their village was situated far away from the city which means having beasts attack the village was quite common.

"Okay, I understand. Call Osaia and Lucius over, I believe the three of us will be enough." Said the Village chief, a woman seeming to be around her forties while maintaining a valiant air around her. Not much time later, The village chief headed to where the beasts were last seen and worry appeared in her face for the first time, she saw numerous clothes of different colors and style but they all shared the same thing, blood stains and holes in all clothes.  Clearly meaning that people had died already and about a week ago when the first disappearances have been reported.

"This is why our people was disappearing." Osaia spoke with a hand in his mouth. Osaia was from a rare species known to be male in the day and female in the night and because of this he also had the special gift of having two armaments, one for his male form and one for the female form.

"Chief let me see what my armament show." Closing his hand, luminous particles gathered on the back of his hand where a blue mark surged from below the skin and a thin blue cube appeared.

Mortal Will Armament: Cube of Truth! 

Leaving the cube on the ground, Osaia's hands moved in high speed forming a dozen hand seals before the light in the cube spread to five square meters around it and one of it sides opened, shooting light at the air that morphed into a three-dimensional holographic screen.

The screen showed the past and they all saw how those beasts attracted and killed their people, but suddenly all color was drained from their faces. A mother and son pair walking into the forest mindlessly while a dark red claw surged from the darkness and ripped their necks appart. This reminded them of the mother and son pair they saw on the village calling for help and when they stared at the ground, they saw a light blue shirt, the same the boy was wearing and the yellow dress of his mother. However they were ripped to pieces and soaked in blood.

"Shit!" "Shit!" "Shit!" 

When their thought reached this point, they realized how stupid they were to leave the village without a expert in the fifth realm.

Ahh! Boom! Despaired cries and explosions ressounded in the village and the three of them rushed at maximum speed, trying to at least save who were left but they were too late. All they saw was the bodies of the villagers all over the place as the putrid smell of blood gave them the urge to vomit, but matters would became even worse from this point.

All of the dead people suddenly opened their eyes, now in a deep red color before they started howling. Their flesh fell and turned into dust while a black-purple fluid it was pouring out of their mouth and spreading to their entire body, turning into a type of skin. Just this scene was enough to traumatize most people, but it was far from the end. After the flesh fell and the black-purple fluid cover their body, dozens of glassy spike grew on their body and before long all the villagers turned into red-eyed beasts.

The three cultivators in the Mortal Will realm lost their fighting will when they saw this and knelt on the ground. Guttural growls reached their ears as the beasts rushed toward them.

Pang! A bright green light that came out from nowhere blinded the beasts when a blue-skinned young man covered in radiant blue-green tattoos appeared in front of the village chief and the two others while a huge mass of metal covered the skies.

Fourth Sky Eruption: Zephyr Nebula! Green particles surged and spread over the entire village instead of gathering in one point. Sensing a gentle wind blowing against their faces, the three of them opened their eyes and saw the young man waving his sleeves and the green particles blew the same wind on the beasts from all sides before they all fell on the ground, unconscious.

"Keith, are you done?"The energetic voice of a young lady came from the mass of metal hovering above them while a hole opened in the mass of metal from where a platform descended so they could enter the ship.

"Yes, I did everything Elijah told us, to finish the beast without taking their lives. I guess those here will sleep for three months, we should at least take one of them to the A-region Citadel to see if they can find a way to reverse this transformation. "

"Understood, I'm contacting the citadel right now... Okay, they said an True Immortal will be waiting for us. As for the Village chief and the other two, leave them for the D-region citadel to rescue them, I heard they've sent people here."

"Then we should hurry to the A-Citadel." Keith stepped onto the platform with a red-eyed beast in his arms, slowly they were raised by the platform until he vanished inside that huge metal aircraft. With the deafening sound of engines turning on, that huge aircraft turned into a ray o light and vanished while leaving the three cultivators behind.