The party continues their journey through the forests of Malluraea. Everyone sticks together and remain alert if they encounter any monsters that would come after them. Fortunately, no monster encounter as they all managed to make it to the entrance of the cave.

  "To get to Senwald, we must get pass through the cave and reach to the other side of the forest." Antoinette told the party.

  "You mean...will we get attacked by more strange creatures?" Marie asked, feeling a bit nervous.

  "Look," Rei confronts Marie by a hand on her shoulder. "We're all in this together. What's the worst that can happen?"

  "Umm...beats me." Marie responded, looking down.

  Shokei looks at her allies for a second and turns face to the cave. "Let's go."

  The party enters the cave.

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  Meanwhile, far away in Du-Mek, Fozoworu watches above his viewing screen to see Shokei and her party entering the cave. His cohorts stand behind him to see what was going on in Nolea.

  "Survivors huh?" Fozoworu asked himself. "Looks like these faces are the remaining ones left in just one town."

  "Those beings are returning from some trip." One of his cohorts said to him. "I'm sure they're amused of the damages that were done in their pathetic town that used to be their home."

  "They made mincemeat out of those Kobolds we sent down there." A second cohort added. "That girl and her allies just withstand the monsters we pgued on their continent."

  "Either way," Fozoworu turns to see his cohorts. "None of them have no idea that we are doing this. I have a feeling that they are going to interfere with our pns...maybe..."

  The lead Necromutant thinks for a minute. Then, he looks up to one of his cohorts.

  "Echrezar..." Fozoworu speaks up to one of his cohorts.

  "Yes sir?" Echrezar said, speaking in a deep tone voice and looks at him.

  "Perhaps you should pay these travelers a "visit" as in a "warm welcome" to our devious siege." Fozoworu requested.

  "Sure thing." Echrezar smiled and vanished. He was on his way.

  Later, Shokei and her party continues their trail inside the dark cave. With a lighted torch, produced by Sadako, navigating through the cave made it visible to see. Antoinette sticks to Shokei's side and everyone else was walking right behind them. The princess feels nervous traveling inside the cave due to the nature of evil she now sees.

  "This is scary indeed." Antoinette said, feeling worried. "No matter how far we travel from here, I can tell those hideous creatures will be coming after us."

  "Why worry when you have us?" Rei asked. "You'll be fine."

  "How much further we need to get to your hometown?" Beatrice asked.

  "It's a long journey." Antoinette said to her. "It will take us a few days to get there."

  "If we make it to the other side, we can rest up in Ethisia." Shokei said. "From there, we can be fresh enough to get to Senwald."

  Suddenly, the party heard a strange sound ahead of them. Soon, a figure appeared in a fsh of light and the party shielded their eyes by the fshing vision. The white light fades and from there, Shokei gets a look to see what it was. There stands a warlock with small green eyes and lustrous grey hair that's very short. Wearing a bck mage outfit, his facial expression shows a dark and sadist look.

  "What the? Who the hell are you?!" Shokei asked and shouted at the figure.

  "I am Echrezar, a servant for the Necromutant of Chaos." the Necromutant introduced himself.

  "Echrezar?" Rei asked, confused by the name. "Never heard of ya."

  "Enough! My objective is to stop you all from going further into our devious scheme on taking over humanity." Echrezar said to them.

  "Whoever you are, that won't be necessary." Shokei said to him and has her hand on her sword. "If you have intentions on stopping us, then we will have to..."

  "Silence!"

  Interrupting her, Echrezar summoned a monster in front of the group.

  "Weruwo! I summon you to take care of those who repel against the dark cn of our gaxy!" the Necromutant chanted.

  The party looks to see a werewolf type monster that's tall. It's sharp fangs growled through the mouth, nails that are like daggers, and a figure of superhuman strength really has the party on high alert.

  "EEEEP!!!" shrieked Antoinette.

  "Uh uo!" Shokei said, looking up at the monster and takes out her sword immediately. "Protect the princess!"

  "Right!" Kichiro agreed.

  "In case of anything, I'm with you Antoinette." Saeko tells her. "Just in case."

  "Thanks." Antoinette said.

  Saeko and Kichiro escorts the princess away from the monster. Shokei, along with Rei, Marie, Beatrice, Tamiko, and Sadako fought against the Necromutant's monstrous creation.

  Weruwo charges right at the party in its first move of attack. The party gets out of the way from the enemy's attack and then the wolf monster turns back quickly to face them. Tamiko takes aim and fires her crossbow at the wolf. Her shots were no good as the wolf manages to avoid her sharp arrows being fired. Weruwo charges after Tamiko with a pounce attack, swiping down at her with its sharp cws. Tamiko gets out of the way, dodging the attack.

  "Chilling Icicle!"

  Sadako casts out her ice spell against the werewolf monster. Weruwo quickly dodges the attack and goes for the hit towards Sadako. Sadako avoids the monster's sharp cws and gets out of harm's way. Beatrice charged behind the enemy and gives a quick ssh on the back on the Weruwo. The werewolf felt the strike on the back and counters with a backfist, hitting Beatrice and knocking her down.

  The werewolf monster roars out to the party's ears. Sadako sees the monster building up momentum and was about to use her spell once again on the enemy.

  "Wait! I have an idea." Rei tells her.

  Rei comes face to face with the werewolf. The monster growls through its breath and looks down on Rei. Rei sees the monster howls and it charges at her and then she did the same. Inside, Rei was building up chi energy and her right fist tightened. With enough energy inside, Rei goes for the execution.

  "Cataclysm Punching Bolt!!"

  Rei cries out the attack and with the agility she needed, her fist ignited a lightning bolt that roared towards the werewolf's stomach. A strike of lighting caused Weruwo to cry out in pain as the energetic lighting sends shockwaves to its body. The monster steps back as it felt the lighting waves effecting its body. Sadako sees the opportunity as the monster became paralyzed.

  "Chilling Icicle!!"

  Sadako's ice spell now came in effect as a wave of frozen icicles surrounded the monster. Weruwo is unable to do anything but be submerged in the freezing ice attack that caused its body to be covered in ice entirely. The monster became frozen in pce as it is trapped in ice.

  "Yes. It stopped moving!" Sadako said with success.

  The monster, frozen solid in ice, did not st long in the ice. Its body is breaking up the solid ice in its surroundings. As Shokei sees the werewolf about to break out of the ice, she notices her sword giving off a glow once again.

  "Shokei...your sword..." Marie points out to her.

  "Huh?" Shokei stares at her sword.

  "What could it be?" Tamiko asked. "What's happening?!"

  "This force..." Shokei said as she feels the grasp of her sword giving her strength. "It's...giving me goosebumps...*gasp*"

  Just then, the sword was at its peak and then Shokei felt the adrenaline of her body rushing towards the monster. The werewolf manages to break out of the ice, but it was too te to defend itself from an upcoming attack. Shokei grips the sword tightly and then she drives the sword to the enemy.

  "Style...EXECUTION!"

  Shokei moves in for the kill as the waves of the sword emitted two fsh cutters. The fshy wave cutters came right through the monster. The werewolf was killed instantly as its body was ripped into half, destroyed completely. Once the monster was defeated, the swords energy stopped glowing and Shokei feels her strength returning normally. Weruwo was no more as the corpse of the body lies in its own blood in pieces.

  "Wow Shokei...you did it!" Marie happily said. "But...how?

  "I don't know..." Shokei said, puzzled and looks at her sword again. "Just like the st fight, I haven't a clue how I did it again."

  The party stops for a moment to look at the Necromutant surveying the defeat of his creation. Echrezar is flying, hovering in the air as he is looking down at the party.

  "Very amusing..." Echrezar said, smirking. "I never thought that Weruwo would be destroyed completely by the hands of you."

  "Hmm?" Shokei looks to see the Necromutant has her attention on her.

  "The creature that I summoned was just an example of my creations with the power of darkness." expined the Necromutant. "Heed my warning as there are more to come. You have no idea what we the Necromutants are capable of. Until then..."

  Echrezar vanishes and leaves the scene. Once he left, the remains of the monster also vanish into dust and disappears in thin air. The party regroups after the Necromutant have left.

  "Who...was that creep?" Antoinette asked.

  "I'm not sure...but he looks powerful." Marie replied.

  "Looks like he's our enemy all right." Rei said. "I bet he's behind the destruction of Malluraea."

  "Possibly yes, but I'm sure we might encounter more like him." Shokei said. "We just need to be careful from now on."

  "Right." Tamiko agreed.

  "It's over for now...we should be out of this cave soon." Rei tells everyone. "C'mon."

  Once they are out of the cave, they look at their surroundings to see that it was now nighttime in the forest. They party decides to bring their journey to a halt for now and they all decided to rest up for tomorrow. There are no sights of any monsters that are coming towards them, so in this case, the party feels safe for now. Everyone found an area where the moon was shining above the trees. The party camps there to get some sleep.