Chapter 79 - 80. Go Away From Here! (1/2)

”I Azalea alright?” I was wondering, trying to reach the prison room as soon as possible, But even running, it felt so much farther than usually. ”Naar is with her, right?” I was hoping Yoru was also with her. At least they could help each other when bad things happen.

Once I arrived in front of the prison door, I saw the Elder standing in front of Falak. It seemed they had not noticed my presence because I just stood still and stiffly due to confusion. I turned to gaze at Antonie's body lying on the floor. Meanwhile, slowly the head part that had been separated from his body started to reconnect.

”Go, go away!” Azalea yelled at me. Her body went full of horrible wounds. I saw Naar and Yoru lying not far from her. ”Hurry up, Tha!

Before even understanding what the current situation was like, Falak lunged at us. The Manji's body melted into grains and sand as they hit the walls. When the creature's attack was aimed at me, Kerberos jumped up and attacked it immediately, while Manji formed a guard and attacked the Elder.

Although the Elder was like a middle-aged man, he moved very agile and managed to dodge the slash of the Manji's swords. Meanwhile, On the other hand, Antonie woke up with his head intact. He smiled mysteriously when seeing me. I did not know what to do.

It happened in a blink of an eye when suddenly I could see nothing but the darkness around me. The Manji's stood by my side and Kerberos in front of us.

I looked around again, the atmosphere now had changed. We were in a forest I had never been to before. The fire was shot from the sky. It was from a bird that breathed out the fire. He flew above us, his wings spread out wide like a tongue of fire.

”Keep the Manji away from the fire!” Kerberos said.

”Go! Go away from here!” I shouted at the Manji to warn them, but they were still. ”Please, I beg you,” I begged. The next second they turned into grains of sand.

Kerberos stayed alert by my side, while the bird flew circling above us, spitting out fire nonstop. The trees started to burn and the temperature started to rise. I did not see anyone else but both of us.

”We will die if we stay here,” I whispered.

”This is just an illusion,” Kerberos warned. We have to kill that bird to free ourselves,” he added, ”When there is an opportunity, you must cut the head off, then I will take the head away as far as possible,” I nodded to understand the instruction, ”Why is the tubby taking so long?” he grumbled.

Now I got confused after listening to his grumble. ”Mickey?” I confirmed it.

”Yes, Miss. He will be here.” Kerberos replied, his expression was disbelief.

We could not just wait and did nothing when the bird kept breathing out fire and burnt everything around us. Therefore, Kerberos took me away from that place and from that animal.

I did not know how long we had flown away but we finally felt that we were lost. When we were trying to find the way out of the forest, we would go back to our previous place. ”Are we lost?” I asked Kerberos when I saw the bird was getting closer again.

”Illusion only tricks our eyes, but the width of the area and other things closely related to illusion, so it was always made in high precision.” I was trying to digest the explanation from Kerberos.

”If so, we need to find the way out of the prison,,” I asked. Kerberos nodded. ”Are there other ways to dismiss this illusion?” This time he shook his head.

Kerberos took me running, but it looked like everything was the same. After some time we finally saw something like a tunnel. ”Over there!” I said and pointed to that tunnel.

Following my direction, Kerberos ran to a seemingly endless tunnel. We kept running and running to reach its end until we finally were outside the prison room.