Alastor felt a shiver creep to his spine as Libel jumped down the cliff. Wind flushed over his face as he grips hard not to fall out of imbalance. Libel felt his sharp gaze. The Comodo cried out as if he's telling him that you’re in a hurry, right?

Alastor snorted and cautiously glanced ahead. Beyond the woods, he saw the outpost of the city’s guard was destroyed. Police and robots were deployed outside the gate. He can hear the citizens cry beyond the wall and the gunshots reverberating like an orchestra in a room.

Alastor pulled the reign and Libel stopped. He led the Comodo across the field where the enemy couldn’t see them. They stopped on a sewer filter. Libel steps back, disgusted by the foul smell coming from both of the tainted hollow river and the hole. His boots were smeared by the dirt of the muddy ground. He plunged his sword on the iron filter. And with might, he removed the once tightly sealed filter.

He was about to get inside but taken back as he remembers the Comodo. He beckoned the animal to come.

“Come on,” he said. “There’s so much we need to do.”

Libel back off. The disgusted expression written all over the face tells it all. Alastor comes close and pulled the reign over. Libel did not budge. Alastor is pissed by the attitude that Libel showing.

“Damn it.” He swore. “Listen, I have no time for your crankiness, man up and enter the damn hole.” He ordered with a strict authoritarian voice.

Libel looked away. Alastor gave himself thought and took a deep breath. He didn’t have any background knowledge regarding Libel’s Comodo race, only he thought about the combat strategy, mounting an animal is strange just as the traditions of the outside world. Comodo was known for being oppositional but obedient for offering treats.

“Fine. I’ll give you a treat. A rather large one. You like meat, right?”

Libel cried in happiness for the treat.

“I’ll give it to you, once we’re over this.”

They finally entered the filthy sewage and landed on the higher level of the walkway. Alastor pulled his sword out of the scabbard and held it high.

“Can you do magic?”

Libel replied with a loud cry.

“Good. I’m not really that used in synchronizing combat and magic. It drains a lot of stamina for me. It’ll be great having you to assist me in battle.”

The path they took led them to a higher level, in which, the water pathway was drought. Rat scrawled over the cornerback to their hole. There were a few damaged sewers pipes, all were disconnected as if they were cut by a sharp object. The mark trailed all over the place.

Libel stretches and glances all over. Alastor too felt an object cutting through the air and with a quick response, they evaded the attack. He pointed his sword at what it seems to be an arachnid that can spew out its web and mold it into a sharp object.

“Here we go!” Alastor shouted as he charged to battle.

Cid never thought that he would fail to notice the motive of the monster. He thought that his lightning magic would be done enough damage to kill the monster, but it came back from being drowned like a cockroach lingering to life. The enemy has staged itself to be defeated and came back unexpectedly in an inconvenient manner. There are few monsters that quite a brainer and possessed high intelligence, but only for preying on other kinds, it was not considered an all-out higher intelligence, but more of improved hunting skills. Cid was attacked while he was pissing over the corner of the sewage. Until now, he can still feel the tingling pain from the head of his crotch as it got nearly stuck in between his zipper. Cid glared at the enemy before making a break.

“For fuck’s sake, let me piss in peace man!” He shouted.

He's currently on the run. Using the ruins as obstacles to somehow decelerate the speed of the rat monster, ensures the high chances for Cid to evade the monster’s attacks and for his advantage. He slides over and leaped onto the higher ledges until he trips over the rock. He stumbled on the ground as he muttered his spell.

Just as the monster ate him, Cid manages to pull off the shield magic and have the enemy at bay with five transparent semi-circular walls protecting him from the monster’s attack. Cid’s smile crept ear to ear seeing the bamboozled expression of the enemy.

“Not so tough now, eh?”

The monster growls and glared at him.

“That’s right, go and fuck yourself.”

He stood up while backing away from the enemy. The rat’s scratch attacks remain only grazes on Cid’s protective walls. He finally stands up and made sprints away.

He felt his blood gushing over his brain down to his feet and his heart pump faster than ever. The last time he felt like this was the time he was undercover, his job was to assassinate a politician, but being reckless he is, he got tricked by a maiden and got involved in a gunfight. It took him another month to successfully fulfill his mission and by that time his salary was deducted, nevertheless, he was still able to finish the job.

Cid halted his movement and notice the change in the ground’s aptitude. There were no shaking and disturbances in the surrounding, only his hard gasping and the large filtration fan behind the enemy. The rat monster only stood a few kilometers away from him with its soulless eyes staring at him, jaws gnawing on bones and meat it had found over the way here. The putrid meek of saliva reached his boots.

“You nearly got my dick shish kebab, you fucking asshole!”

Cid investigates for a moment as to why the sudden change of behavior. He finally noticed it; the enemy’s belly is glowing. Is it just him or did the place just actually got hotter? The heat is actually getting on his nerves and it is not good for him.

No matter how he thinks of it, he couldn’t rationalize the strange phenomena. Since the enemy doesn’t care for him anymore, Cid made a break to the door ahead of him.

There it goes again; he felt the rise of the temperature. He gazed back and notice the belly of the rat monster got brighter than before. Just as the enemy opens its mouth, Cid finally realizes what it is doing.

“OH, MOTHER---!”

A tornado of flame burst out from the enemy’s mouth, destroying, and incinerating the obstacles, turning them into ashes. Cid closes his eyes as he felt the brightness burns bright.

Just as when he thought that he’s already screwed up, he felt someone pull him.