I look at the destroyed gate and look at what I can see in this haze on the city walls that are damaged but still standing.
An image of the destruction path that we saw having destroyed two walls and having made a destruction path in the previous city comes to my mind, so I look at the main gate of that city.
“(Was it the same monsters?)” (I)
“Now it’s time for everyone to leave, we can’t fight like we’ve been doing anymore, this is still a rescue mission.” (I)
“I still think you should bring more people, master.” (Ivan)
“We don’t know who the enemies are, we don’t know their numbers, we don’t know the strength of the Undead inside this city, and we only have a rough idea of ??where the prisoners are.” (I)
“Under these conditions, the best I can do is go alone with my Family.” (I)
All my Familiars have a strength above Lower Catastrophe Grade, besides they will be able to help me in many things, Hela and Vanessa stayed with me for now since we don’t know what kind of monster there is in this city.
“The monster must have been dead a long time, these are ancient ruins.” (érica)
“But that could also mean that this giant monster has turned into an Undead.” (Irina)
“I admit I’m curious about this monster and the reason it came here causing so much destruction, but I also don’t want to take the risk of having to fight an Undead monster of that size.” (I)
“We can be sure that the place of a temple or church would be the right place for us to go, as we saw in the previous city, it would be the best place to stay being in such a hostile place.” (Vanessa)
“I wonder how these people got here with hundreds of prisoners.” (I)
“They might have some artifact, magic, or technique to ward off the Undead.” (Hela)
“If this is true, then our theory of them being inside some Church or Temple could be wrong.” (Vanessa)
“Even if they aren’t inside a holy place, they should be close by as there will be fewer Undead monsters near such a place.” (Ivan)
“Just go to the side where the tower is, it must be the only tower in that city, according to the Goddess Selene it was this tower she saw through the eyes of her devotees.” (I)
“Unfortunately I don’t know much about this tower other than it’s the tallest.” (I)
“That will be enough as it will be an easy trait to recognize.” (Nix)
After talking to everyone for a while I asked Layla and Nix to take the others to the Dungeon through the portals they use to go to their Cradles inside the Dungeon, so érica, Irina, Irius, and Ivan returned to the Dungeon without me having to open the door Dungeon in that place.
“Lets go in!” (I)
The fog seemed even thicker inside the city making it nearly impossible to see inside through the gate.
We entered through the city gate, from the view from above I knew that our destination was on the right side of the city considering our current position, so we continued walking forward, it seems to disperse little by little allowing us to see the city.
I look at a city in a worse state than the previous one, every city was destroyed as if a full-scale battle had taken place here. .
Not able to see a single building or entire house, the architecture was accurately done on the houses showing that everything must have been beautiful in the heyday of this Kingdom, but now even the road floors were destroyed with claw marks, cuts, engravings, and holes.
When I look back I see a wall of fog as if it was some kind of barrier, but even then there was still fog inside the city, it was just an acceptable amount that allows us to see the surroundings, but it was less than half of our normal vision.
“(I feel something strange.)” (I)
I child my eyes because I felt something with my Aura m, I felt like there is something my Aura is reacting to, I briefly close my eyes concentrating on myself before I start to feel my surroundings, and that’s when I noticed something.
In that moment I feel the energy running through my stigma on my back and then using my tattoos and traveling all over my body.
Soon the mist seems to twist, then I see the image of the city around us change from ancient ruins to an intact city, then normal people start appearing out of the mist walking normally living their lives as if they can’t see us.
“(Is this a dream? An illusion?)” (I)
I kept looking at people loading their carts full of ingredients to street stalls being opened, children playing in the street, stores opening, and even a street robbery.
There was a mother carrying three young children down the street, there were Adventurers coming out of town heading our way, and there were soldiers walking down the street greeting some street stall owners.
I’ve reached out to one of the Adventurers coming towards us and my hand goes through him leaving a trail of mist as the Adventurer continues on his way unchanged.
“I can feel different Auras from each one, this is not an illusion or dream, this feels more like a memory…” (Ragnar)
“Some of them are Ghosts, this is normal among their race, to get lost in past memories reliving them over and over again.” (Hela)
“But I feel something else, an urge within the mist itself as if the mist is acting as a medium for something else spreading one across the city…” (I)
“…” (Ragnar)
Ragnar in his human form closes his eyes and I feel him spreading his Aura before opening his eyes again.
“I could feel it now, a feeling of regret, sadness, loneliness, and guilt.” (Ragnar)
“The mist and the miasma are separate, but I can feel the curse energy contained in the mist itself.” (I)
We kept walking down the street and seeing a thriving city full of people going about their daily lives, but we weren’t able to hear anything, it felt like watching a silent movie in virtual reality.
Boom!
Screams! Screams! Screams!
But everything changed after a few minutes, when we were a little further away from the city gates a noise happened suddenly it was the city gate being destroyed and something that looked like some sort of crocodile with a humanoid head and tentacles instead of limbs entered the room City.