Chapter 86 Fearsome Alissa

The arm of the humanoid monster kept wrapping itself around the body of the giant faced monster like a snake coiling around its prey to strangle it. In the end it opened its mouth forcefully and pulled the tongue out. The same tongue that the giant faced monster had used to mock Alissa earlier.

The giant faced monster wailed in terror and pain and its screams echoed around for hundreds of miles of radius. The tongue was exceptionally long as the hand of the humanoid monster kept pulling it for sometime before it was able to rip it out of its mouth.

Black blood flowed out of the body of the giant faced monster that had a terrible stench to it.

The humanoid monster didn't wait around for it to gather its wits and tore its mouth apart like it was tearing open the wrapping of a gift. As soon as it was done it continued to look into the torn body of the monster as if looking for Zavier's body but found nothing.

The humanoid monster became so angry that the amount of black aura continued to increase and the monster was hidden inside the terrible energy. Its angry roars reverberated in the surroundings.

In its wrath, the monster tore apart what remained of the body of the giant faced monster as if thinking that one of the pieces might contain Zavier.

Black sticky blood spilled everywhere and the gooey blood splatter almost made Dahila vomit.

It might not have looked that way to another person who did not know who the monster really was but Valerie and the rest of the girls were quite sure that it was what Alissa was trying to do even after she had lost all sense of reason.

Since the humanoid monster couldn't find what it was looking for, in its anger, it wanted to lash out at something.

The closest were of course the three girls and it soon turned its attention to them.

Valerie couldn't help but scream in fright and terror. She could see that Alissa had lost her mind and in her place a monster was looking to tear them apart.

The earlier scream was meant to get the other two girls moving to make an escape. She on the other hand decided to stay back and hold the monster back for some time so as to give them a slight lead.

"You two….RUN!"

Calista understood her meaning and took Dahila by the arm. She could tell that Dahila's legs were turning to jelly and she needed help moving away from this.

The monster reacted at the same time as they were planning their escape. It stretched out its arm yet again.

The elongated arm headed towards Valerie who was the closest to it.

Calista didn't bother looking back and ran with Dahila in her arms. She wanted to make sure that at least one of the students made it back alive.

Valerie wanted to resist for as long as she could but she didn't exactly have the strength for it.

Just before Valerie was about to be attacked by the elongated arm of the humanoid monster, a figure arrived in time to deflect it off of her with a blood wall.

Valerie was almost moved to tears. She wondered how he got there every time whenever she was in trouble and was able to save her despite not being stronger than her. He was younger than her but his spirit and his courage exceeded that of the most accomplished men that she had ever seen.

He was unafraid of death and took the most risky paths to reach his destination and yet he was able to survive each time.

Despite him bringing about miracles with every step, Valerie wanted him to stop doing such things. She didn't want him to come to harm. Previously she had thought that he had died while trying to defend her from Kyouko and had even used such a self sacrificial skill in order to save her. She had felt so much grief that her heart had almost given out but somehow he was still standing in front of her against all odds and was still hell bound on defending her from an even more terrifying enemy.

Valerie would have rather died than let him come to harm once again. She wanted to tell him to run but the previous fear had left her body close to paralyzed. She had difficulty saying anything. Whenever she tried to say something only some garbled nonsense escaped her tongue.

It wasn't as if Zavier had some kind of teleportation skill for whenever Valerie was in danger. As it happened, Zavier had gotten released from that hell hole as soon as the humanoid monster had ripped the giant faced monster apart with its hands.

The escaped consciousness had rushed straight towards the nearest clone that was the clone bearing the necromancer system. It lay there at its place like some dead marionette that had escaped the clutches of its master but had found itself incapable of doing anything on its own.

The clones cut off from Zavier's consciousness were of no use at all. They had no consciousness of their own nor were they capable of even following orders like when Zavier cut his connection from them.

The basic requirement of their activation and normal operation was the connection with Zavier's consciousness. In their normal operation, even if there was no transfer of signals between the clone and the original, that didn't mean that, there was no connection at all.

Therefore, when Zavier was released, the clones that had lost their signal and had stopped their tasks revived once again.

Zavier took over the body with the necromancer system as the new main body.

When he got used to the new body, Zavier started to look for the girls once again. He was worried about them who had exhausted all their skills and mana.

Also, Zavier hadn't known how long he had stayed inside that monster and that hellish landscape. He couldn't sense the flow of time within that place but he was sure that it hadn't been that long.

He rushed at his fastest speed and headed towards the last location where he had been eaten by the giant faced monster.

Thankfully for him, the clone with the necromancer system hadn't been very far away from the place that he had designated as his destination and was most likely the place where he would be able to find the girls.

He could hear the terrifying roars of the monster along the way but he chose not to think about anything unfortunate. He kept running and soon glimpsed another scene that left him dumbfounded.

There were no signs of the giant faced monster. But in its place there was another monster that was humanoid in shape but liked to crawl on the ground like a common lizard on all fours.

The terrifying roars that he had previously heard had come from the monster in front of him and the giant faced monster had vanished into the wind and nobody had an idea about its whereabouts.

Other than that, Zavier noticed another major discrepancy that sent him into a fit of anger. Alissa was nowhere to be seen. He was afraid that in just the time that he had been captive inside the giant faced monster, something had happened to Alissa. Her absence was causing him great distress so as soon as he prevented the attack of the humanoid monster on Valerie; he rushed towards Dahila and asked her the question that he had been longing to ask.

"Hey, where is she…Alissa I mean?"

Dahila felt both sad and angry upon the events that had taken place. First that monster had been unsealed by Zavier and now one of their own had transformed into a monster. She wondered just where these monsters of such a high calibre had been hiding all this time while biding their time.

She was sure that if a couple more of these monsters ran rampant, the days of humanity would have soon been over.

Dahila knew that she had to tell Zavier the truth about what she had witnesses and the true identity of the humanoid monster that had been attacking them at that moment.

The fear that she felt for her life was preventing her from uttering any understandable word. Therefore instead of throwing out garbled words, she chose to use a hand signal. She pointed towards the monster stating that it was Alissa.

Zavier was unable to understand what she wanted to say. He thought that Dahila was telling him that the monster had eaten her up so he asked for a clarification.

"What do you mean? Did that monster…eat her?"

Dahila shook her head immediately stating that Zavier had misunderstood what she had been trying to tell him.

Dahila once again pointed towards the monster and managed to say her name this time.

"Alissa…"

That's when Calista put in her word as well.

"That monster is Alissa…"

Realization dawned on him as he stared at the monster in front of him. Others might have been oblivious to it but he had already known about the monster inside Alissa. He had no problem making sense of the situation that was unlike what the others were feeling at the time.

As soon as Zavier had interrupted the attack of the monster on Valerie, just like the others even the monster froze for a moment.

Before Zavier was done with his questioning, he was interrupted by the monster that had taken a fancy to him and was now after him instead of his original target Valerie.

The monster ignored Valerie and blinked to the side of Zavier in a sudden motion. Zavier hardly had any time to dodge the onset of attacks at all. As such the monster opened its mouth and gulped him down in a fine motion.

As soon as it was done eating Zavier, it fell into stasis. There was no further movement in its body. It seemed as if a robot had shut down after achieving its task.

The sudden scene scared the hell out of the others who were also in the close vicinity of Zavier at the time. Dahila who had been conversing with Zavier albeit with her hand signals almost fainted with fear due to the sudden attack of the monster.

One second she was listening to Zavier's questions and the next second Zavier had been eaten.

Even Calista was not spared the shock. She too had similar feelings to Dahila. The attack had come so suddenly that Calista had no time to distract the monster so that Zavier could have had more time to escape.

As a result the monster stuffed himself with Zavier and they could only watch it gulp down Zavier in fear and panic.

Valerie cursed the fates as much as she could. Why was it that Zavier suffered every time that he tried to save her? Previously he had tried to save her from Kyouko and had ended up with a blade in his heart. She didn't understand how he survived that but then he was swallowed by the giant faced monster in an attempt to save her from it once again.

Valerie had been sure that he had died but even with his almost lifeless body Zavier had been able to stop the giant faced monster and was swallowed up.

Valerie was sure that he was dead that time. But contrary to all sense, he had showed up again to save her from the humanoid monster once again. Valerie wondered what was it that made Zavier so tenacious and his survival ability like that of a cockroach.

She had yet to establish how he had escaped his fate at the hands of the giant faced monster and he had already been gulped down by the humanoid monster.

Misfortune was following him around like all of it was reserved for him.