"..."
"..."
A deathly silence had been settling in for a while now, ever since... They left Theos fighting the Sacred Dragon.
Luna and Camilla flew upwards, towards the top of Godria. But still, neither of them were happy.
'Will he be all right,' Luna wondered, a question she had asked herself over a hundred times in her head.
'Could it be that I was wrong to leave him there? I know very well that he wanted to buy time for us to go grab the potion, but still... Maybe I should have stayed and supported him,' thought Camila, her eyes conveying a bit of her regret.
However, now they couldn't go back at all. Theos had beaten them by quite some time against a Supreme Rank Dragon.
Remembering that Dragon, Luna only had to shake her head. She knew all too well how dangerous someone in a Supreme Rank could be.
Very few mortal people in the whole world, possibly counted on hands can be of Supreme rank.
Worry and anxiety shone in Luna's black eyes. However, she pressed on, as did Camila.
But ... Is the tension between the two of them just because they left Theos?
Not exactly...
Luna wanted to stay to help him; however, Camila, with her Grand Master's strength, took Luna flying to the top of Godria.
Luna couldn't do anything, not even scream because that would alert other dragons.
And thus, the intense silence between the two. With a very resentful and resentful Luna, while with a regretful and worried Camila.
Fortunately, the silence was broken by a few words from Luna with astonishment and bewilderment: "Look! That glow..."
Hearing what Luna said, Camila looked in the direction she pointed, seeing a faint, bright golden light. "That's it..." she muttered.
Instantly, the two girls flew there at a high speed. They had gone several minutes without seeing any abnormality so far, so seeing this now meant only one thing... A treasure.
Landing on one of the giant branches of the tree, at the end of the same branch was the fully golden light.
However, the two saw a peculiarity in the distance. A man, or rather, an old man in his 70s, with wrinkles and white hair. However, his eyes were black, as if he were possessed.
The green-eyed shadow, Camilla, moved so fast and so suddenly that the old man could barely see her. He could only come to his senses when she was close to him.
Instinctively, the old man placed his arms to block Camila's attack, a slash that, by its power and speed, could cut anyone in half.
And so it was.
*Drop*
Two arms flew off to who knows where, but what is certain, is that they left the Godria forest.
Yes, a single slash, a single slash was enough to send a pair of arms flying.
However, the old man didn't wince or wince, no scream or anything, he just stood there, silent and saying nothing.
"Camila, watch out!"
Just as Camila was beginning to suspect something was wrong, there came a shout from behind, from Luna herself.
Perhaps out of instinct, skill, luck, or all of those things combined, Camila ducked, propelling her legs slightly to slide backward.
*Swosh*
The cut of the wind echoed through the silent battlefield.
Camila only had to look up to notice... An axe, an axe made of a strange and grotesque type of Mana she had never seen before.
'That axe... It almost cut my head off,' Camila thought with a shudder.
Just seconds ago she had been a single second away from losing her life.
The coldness in Camila's eyes grew stronger, at the same time as the Dragon scales appeared, further strengthening her skin.
Her reptilian eyes seemed to be watching her next prey!
Luna, on the side, also saw the axe suspended in the air, but with a different kind of thought, as she... She had seen that Mana.
The same Mana that Theos used, the Mana of Death.
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