He hacked away at his notes.
< Beware for these hideous beings are ones that only care for the blood of the untainted, animals that were corrupted by aether.
Birthed to new powers, they become deadly monstrosities, with features resembling that of the species it evolved from yet losing the ones it has no need for.
They have massive destructive potential, with the potential of one halo and four thorns at their weakest.
Unlike spawns they don't actively hunt for humans, but are highly territorial.
But other than that, the biggest threat they pose is…>
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"Vanished?!
What do you mean by that." Herra was in panic as she asked Laura.
"I don't know, it became feint then I stopped feeling it." Laura responded.
Her eyes enlarged as if they were about to pop from her head.
She began proliferating.
"Are we going to die?" She muttered repeatedly in fear.
Herra stretched her body from her end of the wagon and held Laura by the neck section of the inner cloth.
"Are you pulling our legs?
What is the act you are pulling, you incite the thought of fear in us and now you're saying it vanished?
Huh?!" Herra slammed Laura to the back of the wagon, causing it to wobble.
"Is everything alright back there?!" Saul who was leading the horses asked in worry.
There was an opening in the wagon's canopy to the front where he was seated, but he couldn't hear them due to the noise of the wind and the gallops.
"It's nothing!" Zefroth replied loudly.
She shifted her gaze to Herra.
"Stop it alr-" Zefroth was stopped mid sentence.
Fiona stopped her from talking by spreading her palms out.
"I will have to go with Herra on this one.
Give us a reason to believe you." Fiona asked calmly.
She stared into Laura's eyes, but Laura's were still left terrified by the corrupted being.
Herra shifted her furious gaze at Fiona.
"Should I punch her, even just once?" She asked furiously as she shifted her gaze back at Laura .
Fiona had an inward sigh.
She put her hands on Herra's and shook her head.
Herra gradually loosened her grip till she finally let go.
Laura's breathing was highly unstable, worsening by the second;
She was having a panic attack.
Fiona placed her hand on Laura's shoulder plate.
Laura began calming down.
She finally turned her head to take a look at Fiona.
Oh what a gaze she was met with, a rare frown from someone who she had never seen doing it before.
Along with a gaze that made her seem irrelevant.
"So?
I'm assuming it wasn't a prank." Fiona tilted her head at an angle.
"No--No,... it's my gift.." Laura replied with a cracking faint tone.
"And what does it do?" Fiona followed up with another question.
Laura averted her eyes from Fiona's gaze.
"The seventh sense;
I can feel the presence of every living being in a very wide radius around me, and can tell their make-up.
Unlike everyone else I can't turn it off, it is always activated.
And everyone that has aether has this distinctive contradictory dark glow that they constantly emanate.
I know everyone from their glow and make-up, this one was different." Laura shed light on her reasons.
"Not being able to turn that off might be a nightmare…
I'm not one to speak though." Fiona drifted in thought.
"And how am I supposed to trust you?!" Herra still had dagger in her eyes.
"This girl, was she always this pessimistic..." Zefroth thought, the girl she referred to was Herra.
The display she was putting on was different from her norm.
Laura looked at her without an inkling of fear.
"I can tell that we're four in this wagon." Laura teased.
This only made Herra more furious.
She planted her hand beside Laura's face with force.
The only reaction from Laura she got was a scoff, a far cry from the desired outcome.
Herra was angered even more.
"I don't have time for this so I'm going to be quick." Laura said.
She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply…
Then exhaled.
"Saul!" She yelled, but just loud enough that he could hear.
"Yes!" He responded.
"Moments after the recent wobble of the wagon, the formation became tighter.
Now very closely packed, is this correct?!" Laura asked with confidence.
"Wha-
Yes, as an order from the supreme.
Firstly, how did you even get this information?!" Saul asked in astonishment, she was dead on spot.
"Commander Ricia informed me from the back, I wanted to confirm!" She replied him.
"Oh okay" His voice dulled in the background.
"There are you go, now get away from me." She shoved Herra aside.
"If so, then do you have any idea where it went?" Zefroth asked calmly, with a hint of fear.
"I can't say with certainty…
As a matter of fact; I can't tell at all." Laura responded.
"Wait…it's here again!" She looked frightened.
–
The formation was now different from before.
Heimer and Gustev were still in front, but this time the outer two from each flank – Leo and Heimlich were pushed to the front of the wagons.
Leo at the left and Heimlich at the right, they were slightly behind Heimer, and only slightly behind the wagons.
With Lana and Ricia now pushed to the centre behind the wagons and in the same line as Rud and Ren.
–
Heimer eyes were peeled out and looking for any sightings of the corrupted beast.
"How strong would you estimate it to be compared to the ones from that day." Gustev asked.
"I can't just draw conclusions just from sight alone, if I'm going from the amount of aether it would be the sprout I fought that day.
If I'm going by size then this easily takes that category.
And if I'm going by sheer instinct alone, this makes my skin crawl the most.
One thing they both have in common is being giant cowardly puss-" Heimer released his aether mid statement and dropped down from his horse.