Epic Of Caterpillar

A single slash was released from Eifertʼs blade as it rushed through the night, destroying the dark nightmare flames, and reaching the Wolf Beastmen that conjured it, slicing him in half in a quarter of a second!

”Gyaaaaah!”

”I donʼt want to kill any of my citizens anymore, go away!” shouted Eifert.

”How dare you look down on us?! For Geggoron-sama, we will do anything!” shouted the Hyena Beastmen, rushing towards Eifert and Haruko with his heavy battle-ax while enhancing his capabilities with several artifacts, and releasing a barrage of techniques to crush his enemies!

”Die! Charge! Execution Slash! Blaze Cut!”

”Sigh…” said Haruko, as she moved her blade majestically, the blossoming of the lotus changed into a caressing breeze.

Slash!

”Gueeh…?!”

The Hyena beastmen body was divided into several sections, each one falling down the ground, alongside a large pool of blood.

Three more beastmen were wearing ninja-like clothes present there, glancing at the pair of beautiful blade masters with eyes wide open.

”D-Donʼt falter! Kill them!”

”F-For Geggoron-sama!”

”May Geggoron-sama bless our souls, even after death!”

”Wait you fools!” shouted Eifert.

”Eifert… itʼs useless. They have been completely brainwashed. There is only one way out for them now” said Haruko.

Slash! Slash!

”Guuuaaaaahh…!”

”Buggyaaa…!”

”Giiiiiiiii…!”

The two bared their blades and released a series of slashes and techniques, as their persecutors finally died, sliced into pieces.

Their blades stained in the blood of their people, the two glanced at the corpses with remorse.

”Was there… not any other way?” wondered Eifert.

”Donʼt be foolish, Eifert. That demonic god had seeped his claws deep within our people… the only thing we can hope to do now is to go to our neighbor Kingdom and ask for their assistance… perhaps, if we can communicate with their goddess…” muttered Haruko.

”Maeralya, the sister of our god and founding father, Marnet… is it even possible that they could help us? They had not communicated with us for centuries… I feel like they had forgotten about their children… it is normal. We are mere mortals, while they are gods among the heavens… how could they even see us as something valuable at all?” said Eifert.

Haruko patted Eifertʼs shoulder.

”Donʼt lose hope. We are their children… even if they have not communicated with us in centuries, it only means that they wanted to leave us to prosper by ourselves, using what they had given to us” said Haruko.

”Do you think so, Haruko? Do you think there is even some hope?” asked Eifert.

”There must be. Without hope, how could we be attached to our lives? Without hope, everything would be pointless. If you do not want to have any more hope, sit there, and die. I will continue by myself” said Haruko. She had to be harsh with the young wolf beastmen, or he could only fall into more despair.

”I… no! I will go as well… If I just lose hope, then I would be falling into that demon hands! Never… Let us go, Haruko” said Eifert.

Haruko released a mild smile on her flawless and beautiful face.

”Good,” she said.

The two knights that once protected the Sunclaw Kingdom rushed through the night, their figures slowly dissipating through the shrouding darkness.

Meanwhile, in the outskirts of the Moonfang Kingdom, Mohini, the Living Deity of Desert Cat Beastmen wandered through the wild, deep within the dark of the night.

Geggoron, who was glancing at her through the clones he had spread around the sky, smiled.

”Little kitten… you shouldnʼt be playing around at this hour… strong and fiercer beast may appear” he muttered, with a smirk on his formless, dark cloud-like body.

Mohini walked barefoot through the forest, she had just saved a village earlier from a werewolf attack and was feeling happy to have ʼmade a differenceʼ… although she only let them there afterward instead of trying to lead them to a safe place. This only resulted in that person being attacked by another group of bandits, this time monster tamers, that almost caused the end of the weakened villagers who did not have anywhere to run away to.

If it were not for Kireina that had saved them, they would have most likely died, without Mohini realizing this…

Mohini was good-hearted, but perhaps, too naïve. She wanted to help others, but never considered anything long-term. She was almost incapable of seeing the entire picture of things. If she were, she would not have foolishly healed the cat beastmen and then left them to die to whatever appeared afterward.