"The gods created everything, my dear," Alu sat Hemi in his arms, and Hemi held the thick book in his hand. The golden title on the old leather has worn off the paint. "Flowers, trees, animals, and us are all created by the gods."

"So am I?" Hemi asked curiously, blinking her deer-like eyes like her mother.

Ellu smiled bitterly, then looked up at Joel leaning against the window. Joel shrugged and walked towards Hemi. He reached out and rubbed her snow-gray curly hair, and then smiled docilely, "No, kid, you were created by us."

"How to do it?" Hemi asked in surprise, "Can Dad create something like the gods?"

"Uh." Joel was stunned for awkwardly, then looked at Ellu who was holding Hermi with help.

"Dear, you can't compare anyone to gods," Alu said softly to her daughter, "this is an act of disrespect for the gods. Just as you can't compare animals or anything to humans, the person who is compared may feel very upset."

Hemi thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, mom."

Ellu smiled smugly at Joel, while Joel could only smile bitterly and walked back to the window and looked at the snowy street outside the window.

"Then mom," Hemi suddenly stretched out a tiny finger and pointed at a paragraph in the book, "Is the little monster also created by the gods? And this, how do you read this?"

"It's the 'devil', my dear, the word is pronounced 'devil'." Elu said hesitantly, her eyes looking at Joel from time to time, "No, Hemi, Mom doesn't know. Maybe it was the gods who created them, maybe they were born naturally."

"Originally?" Hermi thought about the word. She didn't quite understand the meaning of the word, so she asked in confusion: "Where is it?"

"In the darkness." Joel, who was leaning against the window, suddenly replied, and both Elu and Hemi looked up at him. He was looking out the window at this moment, and the expression on his face became serious at some point.

"In the darkness, kid."

...

As described in the story, Hemi saw the shadows of four-legged crawling in the darkness. Their four-legged legs were very long, like frogs. Hemi had never seen a living frog. She had only seen a specimen of a frog in Master Baru's house, which was as true.

Legend has it that the little monsters have bat-like ears, small and sharp teeth, long limbs, and have flexible figures. From a distance, they look like a child who is about to starve to death, with bright red eyes as if he is congested. For children, they are the endorsements of "nightmare". Legend has it that they like to eat children, and adults also like to use their names to scare children and make them obedient.

But at this moment they were not adult lies, but real. Hemi saw a thin dark night pounce on a man who was running away. The man screamed and fell to the ground, and it bit his face and neck hard. Hemi could see warm blood gushing out, steaming out, and quickly cooled down in the snow.

There were quite a few of them. Hemi looked around and she could clearly see the shape of each falling snowflake. When the cold wind blew, Hemi instinctively wrapped her cloak, but in fact she was not cold at all.

At first, her body temperature made Mr. Kang Ting feel very uneasy, but she herself disagreed. After a period of observation, Mr. Kang Ting gave up continuing to worry about her body temperature.

The little monsters surrounded the snow in the darkness around them, and their eyes were occasionally heading towards their direction. Whenever the torches became darker due to the wind and snow, they moved closer.

They were indeed like they were born from the darkness. Hemi thought to himself that at first it thought their skin was black, but after careful observation, Hemi found that it was not actually pure black, but almost black green.

The guards released a round of arrows to scare the little monsters for a while, but when they realized that the arrows did not hit them, they immediately leaned over again.

The wolves, wild dogs or other smaller animals followed these capricious little monsters. After Hemi saw the person bitten by the little monster fall to the ground, the wild beasts immediately pounced on them and began to bite the person who fell to the ground. Sometimes those people were not even dead, and could only let out a creepy and shrill scream.

There is also ghosts. Hemi didn't know what it meant. Those shadows like smoke were also following the little monster. When the beasts were feasting, the phantoms emitting glimmers just stood quietly aside, and the illusory bodies as if they would dissipate in the cold wind.

If it weren't for the night when he had experienced the Golden Falls, Hemi might have been so scared that he cried.

The guards fired another round of arrows, but did not shoot the little monsters, but shot several wild dogs and wolves to death. The wailing sounds of the wild beasts made the guards cheer in surprise, but the cheers were immediately covered by the sound of wind and snow, and the guards fell into silence again.

Even though the wind and snow covered most of the sounds, the guards could still notice something moving in the darkness. Many guards burst into screams from time to time because of the shadows moving around the edge of the fire. Only Hemi knew that most of the shadows were just wild beasts, and the real little monsters would never get close to the fire.

They were afraid of light. Hemi thought to himself.

"Damn it! What are you doing standing there?!" Hemi heard a man named Barrit shouting, "Shoot the arrow! Shoot me to death by those things that only dare to stay in the dark!"

Hemi could hear that he was very upset at the moment. He had wanted to rush into the darkness several times, but he was stopped by his companions every time.

At this time, Ronnie, who had been nervously protecting Hermi and Joel, couldn't help but ask: "The situation is getting worse and worse! Those who screamed seem to have died! It's our turn next? What should we do?"

Hemi knew that he was not talking to him, so he honestly hid his face behind Mr. Kang Ting.

...

"My words don't work here," Joel replied in a hoarse voice. "I'm going to ask the captain of the guard."

"Ask him?" Ronnie looked in Barritt's direction, then turned his head to look at Joel, "It's possible that he told us to rush into the darkness and fight those things!"

"Then do you have any other good ideas?" Joel asked back in confusion.

"That mercenary wants to see you." The guard pointed in Ronnie, and Barritt immediately met Ronnie. He didn't like Ronnie, of course, he didn't like that guy wearing a white mask.

"Let him come over." Barrit said impatiently, and then he immediately ordered loudly: "Get a good crossbow arrow! No arrows are allowed until I order them to be fired!"

When Ronnie came to Barrit with the guidance of the defender, Barrit was already calmer. He also noticed the abnormal situation around him.

"grown ups--"

Ronnie had just spoken and was interrupted by Barritt: "We have never encountered this situation when we were patrolling! And on the first night when your Saint came to Sentinel Town, such a strange thing happened! She is really a Saint rather than a Witch? I heard that she was protected by the Demon Dragon in Golden Falls. What is your Saint explaining this?"

She is not my saint. Ronnie wants to tell Barrit, but these are not the focus of the conversation at this moment. "Sir, this is too domineering. I have been in Sentinel Town for a while, and I have also heard of abnormal things happening in the villages outside the city. This situation has already begun to happen, but this time it is particularly intense. You know that. If we continue to struggle with this issue, we will be dragged away by those damn monsters."

"Did she ask you to talk to me?" Barrit asked with a frown.

"Yes, sir," Ronnie lied, "The Holy Maiden asked me to tell you that we must go back to Sentinel Town right away. It would be too dangerous to be outside the wall tonight."

"Too dangerous?" Barritt's eyes widened, "We are not the only one outside the city wall, but those farmers also live outside here! What if these monsters rushed over and killed them all? Our guards existed to avoid such a situation! You asked us to escape at this moment?"

Ronnie only felt that he wanted to raise a middle finger at him for the captain of the guard who suddenly cared about the life and death of the civilians. Everyone knew that this guy was just angry because he couldn't fight with these monsters, but the high-sounding words he said were very reasonable.

"Sir, this is not the first time you have heard about these monsters," Ronnie had to be glad that he had a little understanding of Adam's world, so he said with a stern tongue, "The little monsters will not break into people's houses, which is what children know. It is not the time to say this. If we continue to stay here, the snow and cold wind will blow out our torches, and then we will be killed by these monsters at a glance with those who scream."

"You want us to escape?" Barrit was very resistant, his face stiffened with anger, "It was like a coward who ran away in a hurry without even seeing the enemy's flag!"

This guy's brain is very useful, but will it become like this when he arrives on the battlefield?

Ronnie was secretly surprised by Barrit's situation at the moment, but continued to say, "Of course not, sir! This is just a strategy. If we show that we want to escape, the things in the dark will definitely not stand by and wait for us to run away. At that time, they will definitely interfere or even attack us, so that we can find the right opportunity to hit them!"

Ronnie's words made Barritt's eyes shine. His lips moved slightly, and his expression immediately became serious again: "Even so, we cannot do everything to wipe out these things. In this way, Sentinel Town will not be peaceful, and our mission tonight will not be able to be completed."

"Of course, sir, the saint has taken this into consideration," Ronnie swallowed, feeling that his throat was almost dead, and suddenly wanted to have a cup of hot wine. "She said that these monsters would return to their nests at dawn, and the light of the day would make them weak - as in the story, and she could learn that their nests were where, and your guards could seize this opportunity to clear these monsters from this land in one fell swoop."

"Is the little monster's nest?" After hearing Ronnie's words, Barritt's serious expression suddenly disappeared, and he changed back to the way Ronnie looked when he saw him at the King's Gate. "If this happens, today's mission has been completed soon? Hello! Did you hear it? Turn around now and go back to the King's Gate!"

Barritt's words made the guards who were still nervous just now refreshed. They shouted and responded, and immediately began to turn the team and walked in the direction they were coming.

At this time, Ronnie and Barrit heard some roars of resentment from the darkness around them. They exchanged their eyes. Barrit said in a deep voice: "Go back and protect your saint immediately, mercenary. If she is apart from the bad, I think you will be hung on the wall of the King's Gate tomorrow."

"Yes, sir." Ronnie had no good feelings for this guard captain who was threatening him, so he didn't say much, and turned his head and leaned towards Joel and Hemi's position.

...

In order to return to the King's Gate as soon as possible and leave this place wrapped in terrifying environments and cold wind and snow, the guards accelerated their pace, and the resentful and sharp roars around them appeared more and more frequently. People all noticed that many things were following them.

It was a wild beast. Joel learned from Hemi that there might be only a dozen little monsters, but behind these monsters there were beasts that were several times more numerous than them. The beasts were extremely unnatural in their expressions, and their saliva fell from their mouths to the snow-covered ground. The most important thing was that their eyes were as congested as little monsters and turned red.

Does the little monster have the characteristics of taming wild beasts? Joel thought to himself, but at this moment he had no time to think about it carefully, so he could only write it down secretly.

The guards almost ran away wildly. If Barrit hadn't kept calling them loudly, the team might have been broken up due to panic. The result would naturally be that they were defeated by those monsters or beasts. Joel's nerves were tense. If such a situation really happened, he might have to face the monsters that rushed directly to Hemi through the guards.

Joel asked Ronnie to help him guard the left, while he stared at the right. Hemi hugged Joel's waist tightly, and suddenly he tried a little harder.

"What's wrong?" Joel asked in surprise.

Before Hemi could answer anything, a scream answered Joel's question. He looked in the direction where the screams came, and saw a torch flying high, and the person holding the torch had been dragged into the darkness. Only the shrill scream proved that he was still alive.

"Save people quickly!"

Barrit's roar made the pale guards move. They waved the torches and held the iron sword tightly at the front. They rushed towards their companions who screamed, and then saw a scene that made them creepy: a bunch of wild beasts with hair on their bodies surrounded the screaming man. They could only see a bloody hand waving in their direction, and the screams became even more shrill at this moment.

"Take those beasts away!"

Barrit, who was riding high on the horse, rushed over with a torch and a steel sword. The sound of horse hooves and firelight scared away many smaller beasts. When Barrit approached, he saw a pitch-black shadow drilling back into the darkness from the beast, and the shrill screams stopped.

Barrit roared angrily, then turned sideways and chopped off the head of the wild dog who was still lying on the guard's body with a sword.
Chapter completed!