168 The Decision of Antonio and Aks!

[Death (Pedro): Urgent! To Everyone! Ready yourselves! There's another wave of monsters charging--coming from the south. Sabrina is currently holding the monsters before they arrive at Kagat Village.

Unfortunately, we learned about it just now. Arvedar held them as long as he could. That is why we were not able to contact him since we joined the fight. 

Defending the Kagat Village is an impossible feat. Thousands of monsters would soon knock on its walls. Reinforcements would be useless because, by the time you arrive here, the village would already be crushed into the ground. 

So... We'll be taking the battle into the plains. 

Like earlier, Mathew would hold the northern border of the plain. Talia would hold the foot of the Woba mountain and the southern border of the plain. While the Treants would hold the eastern border of the plain. 

As for the support team, all of you would become the temporary communications and reporting team. 

Faith [Aldo] would be with me as my messenger.

Direction Idiot [Loren] would be with Sabrina as her messenger. 

Hope [Ashley] would join Killer Smile [Mathew] at the northern border as his messenger, together with Yuson as an escort.

Illusion [Elisabeth] would join Killer Looks [Talia] at the southern border as her messenger, together with Beatrice as an escort.

While Love [Charlotte] would be the messenger for the commands to the other NPCs who would stand by. They would act as reinforcements, loot collectors, and they would be the ones to bring the injured personnel back to the ships. 

We'll hold the monsters first and see later on what actions we can take to advance forward. We have to ensure everyone's safety first because we don't know when will fatigue hunt us down. Let's do our best and capitalize on this annoying 'bug' event!

If you have any ideas or suggestions, don't hesitate to message me. I would greatly appreciate your help, especially that there are only a few of us left standing. 

And remember...

Don't die!]

~~~~~End of Pedro's Message~~~~~

It took Pedro a few minutes to type the long message. He did so, to give a more detailed instruction to everyone else, and, at the same time, give Antonio and Aks more time to 'carefully' make their decision. 

As for the monsters, they have a couple more minutes before they arrive. Besides... Pedro just needs to transform into his dragon form and fly into the sky in order to escape the monsters. Or, he could just activate his demonic eyes, making every monster fall into sleep. 

Thus, Antonio could only bit his lips as Aks nodded to him--indicating that he would support him on any decision that he would make. 

"I... We... W-We'll evacuate with you!" Antonio said with pain in his heart. "It was obvious that we would stay, even to our deaths. But... With you... Adventurer Death! I know that we could build Kagat Village from the ashes... in the future, once again!"

Pedro simply smirked in response and said, "Of course... We'll make these bastards pay tenfold!"

In the next second, Pedro handed over Arvedar to Aks' care. Then, he walked a few meters away from them before transforming into his dragon form. 

Afterward, he swung his tail into the ground, allowing Antonio and Aks to go up and ride behind his back. They sat between two huge spikey black scales on Pedro's back, with Arvedar sitting in front of Aks and was locked in place by his hug.

If this was seen by people outside the game, they would have mistaken that Arvedar and Aks were sweet lovers in an amusement park.

Pedro glanced to his back and smirked slightly towards them that, in turn, made Antonio and Aks force out a smile in response. They had an ominous feeling about it, thus, they reactively tightened their grip at the scales on Pedro's back. 

They were right! They were right to grip tightly at the scale on his back!

In the next blink of an eye, Pedro jumped as high as he can, making the ground shake and the two NPCs cry in fear. It was as if they rode an airplane with no glass shielding them from the wind. The skins on their faces seemed like it wanted to separate from their skull--consequently revealing their teeth and eyeballs. 

When Pedro reached the peak of his jump, the NPCs' hearts were filled with momentary relief. That feeling as if they had successfully reached the ̷h̷e̷a̷v̷e̷n̷ sky. 

However, before they could utter a word, the wind rushed towards their faces once again as Pedro glides downward--heading to the west. Pedro did this repeatedly, giving the two NPCs one hell of a roller coaster ride. 

On the other hand, Sabrina had also started to retreat behind Pedro. Her pen-knives had circled on the ground and followed her retreat whilst still piercing through every monster it could encounter along the way.

That said, Sabrina saw hundreds of wild mountain wolves already feasting on the dead body of the players inside the Kagat Village. On top of that, tens of giant orcs were smashing their gigantic clubs--destroying the wooden walls of the village in a single blow. 

But what really caught her attention was a grey owl, whose grey eyes were staring back at her fearlessly. Sabrina felt something bad about it, hence, she made one of the pen-knives to circle around and kill it silently. 

The grey owl tried to fly away but it was too late. The pen-knife pierced to its head, killing it instantly. Then, it fell down, straight into the campfire that they had earlier--consequently burning it into ashes.

A strong black smoke burst in the campfire, killing the flame and consequently swallowing the village in the dark. Thus, Sabrina could only avert back his attention to her targets as she retreated, almost half a kilometer away from Pedro. 

~~~~~~~~~~

At this moment, Somewhere in the world of Bearth, a lady sat casually on a throne. Her lips were curved upward and were barely lit by the light coming from the moon. While her grey colored eyes illuminated through the darkness that was covering the rest of her face

"Interesting..." She said. Then, the lady lifted a glass that was filled with a red viscous fluid and took a sip from it. "Those pair of murderous red eyes... It seems like the Elders had already made a move to the human continent. If that's the case... Then, there's no use for me to stay and play with these little mortals."

"What about the contracts and the deal with those humans?" A man said as he takes the empty glass of the lady. He had pale white skin, silvery-white hair, and four fangs hidden amongst his teeth--two on the upper jaw and two on the lower jaw.

"The experiment was a success, right?" The lady said in response, "All we need to do is capture more gods and demons to produce more contract with their blood. What power they bring... I don't give a damn! What's important is that if we give it to those dumb humans... They would gladly become our pawns. And this is good news for us... Especially for the next war."

"What if the elders learn about the contracts? What should we do, my lady?"

"I can't quite understand the essence of your question, Koffer." She said. 

The man named Koffer could only bow towards her in response and said, "Forgive me, my lady."

The lady simply waved her hands as she stood from the throne, revealing her snow-white skin and her elegant silver-white hair that beautifully laid to her back. She lifted her white dress like a queen or a princess as she went down the few stairs that were leading to the throne. 

"It's alright! I understand that you are worried about those bastards. After all... They are the most treacherous beings in this world!" She said as she waved her hands, creating a black gooey liquid-like portal. Then, she took a deep breath and said, "But don't worry! They won't cause a ruckus, especially that the seven houses are rebuilding their respective forces. It's just a matter of time before another war starts... Every single demon on their side is important."

"I understand, my lady!" Koffer bowed once again. He did not have any hint of fear in him as if he had completely entrusted his life to the lady, even to death. 

The lady could only smirk in response and say, "Let's go! We'll just go back in the near future. By then... We would have prepared a lot of the contracts for our pawns."

"Yes, my lady!" Koffer said as he and the lady entered the portal, leaving the throne room empty.