Becoming Legend

The seamless town that was once a lobby for merchants, shed into utter chaos.

A head almost the same as human, dark hollow eyes, long slender limbs that walked on four, and claws that sliced into the human gut like a butter. Ravaged the people innocently coming back and forth savoring the last ray of the sun.

These unknown monsters shriek in every direction. Limbs sliced, stomachs gut open, and blood sprayed all over the cobblestone road within the market.

Toni, with her Kiki'Dorra dagger, was having a hard time repelling one of the monsters. "Naa'ri!" She darted a look at Naa'ri who seem to be unmoving.

While Toni was in shock, Naa'ri was horrified. Too much as that, she forgot to move an inch on her spot. Not far from her, was the head, of a once a living flesh attached to its rightful body. Jason.

These monsters were too fast, that not even Sir Edwin reacted at the right time, or he chose not to. "The town hall!" He cried. Raising his voice while his fingers were tucked in his metal belt. "Everybody, the town hall! Now!"

Naa'ri shook in place after she heard the knight. With Coco between Naa'ri's grip, she walked, then ran to where the safest place would be right now. The Town Hall.

While Ned ran to grab the resisting Toni. Fighting with her wits against the claws of the hellspawn. As Ned was getting closer to Toni, he saw the monster becoming clear.

[Ghouls.]

ICE prompted. It took time to scan her database's record of billions of species across the entire universe of Sskat.

[An almost extinct monster in the Empire's database. It comprises of only 0.10 percent of the monsters in the entire universe known to the Empire.]

She added.

Extinct? Ned paused, then why are they here? Wait, scan for space fluctuation.

[Scan complete. Result. Negative. Requires additional data to support the host's requests.]

[Ned. Try to suppress one of the Ghoul. Get closer and touch them. That way I can scan if it passed inside a gate.]

[And be careful.]

Her human to robotic voice resounded on Ned's head. In return, Ned showed a faint smile. But was cut to grieved when he saw Jason's bleeding head. "Rest my friend," Ned lamented a look of sadness.

Ned stopped to helped Toni fighting the Ghoul. He draws his sword, twisting his waist to his right and putting his strength to its right foot. With proper balance and strength, he shifted his strength to his dominant hand, pulled back his shoulder, and thrusts the Butterfly towards the carnage right in front of him.

The Ghoul was hit right to its chest, where the Core was supposed to be.

With only a mind of killing the human in front of it. It doesn't have any thoughts of evading the sword that went right to its chest. It collapsed to the ground.

Now that Ned was close, he touched the flesh of the Ghoul. The smell of flesh, stench the body of the dead monster, under the thunderous dark sky, the body of the Ghoul was nothing but all flesh. Its body doesn't shed any skin of such. Just a muscle threading its entire body. Slimy substances leaked its entire slender body.

[Affirmative. Subject. Monster. Ghoul passed through a Gate. Approximately two hours ago.]

[Additionally, a trace of dark matter was confirmed in the ghoul's body. Indicating that it was from another planet.]

With Ned touching the Ghouls body, ICE prompted. Now that it was clear to Ned, that a gate had opened. But the question was, who opened the Gate since according to the booklet of the Kingdom, the gates were supposed to open three more years.

Without time to ponder things, the group, led by Sir Edwin went inside the town hall, where dozens of escaped citizens are waiting to be hauled save from the monster loitering flesh outside. Ned saw a number of Handlers, some focused while others in shock.

The town hall's wall made its name dozens of moons ago when bandits assembled and attacked. But it doesn't take them a night when the plunderer gave up and left with nothing but failure. The wall was made of thick sea stones inlayed with binding materials that even tier-one spells had a hard time penetrating.

The wall proved its resilience, again, when hundreds of ghouls failed to dig in the town hall. Giving up, the monsters redirected their flesh sniffing senses to other villages of the town.

Hours of five had passed, the sight of gutted body scattered the town market and plaza, and the coasts were stirred with crimson rather than ocean blue. And with no ghouls to be found. McGreedy, with his daughter at the topmost part of the hall, saw that a number of people finding their way towards the town hall.

Learning that it was inhabitants from the village of Dragonshore, a village not far from the town, the door spun opened to let the scattered villagers in.

It was almost dusk the new people settled in.

Toni, who had been walking back and forth, decided to leave and check on his little brother at the orphanage.

Likewise, Ned who had been worried for his Master must venture the outside and look for him.

With none who could stop them, Ned, Toni, and CoCo, and Naa'ri tagged along, went outside.

Bodies littered across the town, some hung on the porch, cut to half. Ghouls feasted on bodies that made a gaping hole. Blood pooled that drip along the sidewalk.

Their first destination was to secure their friend, Xi, and Granny.

But before reaching the cabin. The sky that was already dark, turned purple, a silhouette of wing blew across the dark clouds. The humongous wing flapped, and wind, accompanied by thunderstruck the town. Destroying infrastructure, splintered wood scattered across the bloodied town.

After flapping its wind, the most that covered its body became clearer and clearer. A massive body with purple thunder cracking all over its body. Thorns that resembled armor coated the entire body of the monster.

The monster opened its jaw, purple mist oozed all over its body, it's azure eyes turned gaze to the group, screaming with animosity. The jaw went wide open, chilling aura oppressed the group. A purple ball of energy formed into its jaw.

"What in the Maker's name is that?!" Naa'ri cried while she strode away from the monster.

[The Devourer.]