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Chapter 27- Forest Menace

Chapter 28

Forest Menace

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Alumina paused in her walking, eyes closed and body tense. Loke noticed the reaction and came to a stop as well, wary for anything in the surrounding trees.

They had been walking for an hour or so, mostly in silence, though Alumina had answered a few questions along they way. The blonde was becoming more relaxed speaking about 'Mind Divergence' now, and he was happy to see her becoming less tense. However now, he knew she had heard something, and he strained his own ears to try to catch what it was.

She had explained to him that there were a few creatures and animals within these woods, but so far, thankfully, she had not come across anything too dangerous yet. For what she had come across, Ursa had taken care of with little to no problem.

Alumina had also told him what the job was. It seemed relatively simple, but at the same time, he had been wondering why the client would want a Wizard to deliver something so small?

Well, he got his answer.

From out of the trees, a huge, two-story tall creature prowled out. Its clawed paws easily caved the earth underneath it as it walked, and even made it shake a little. Trees cracked and fell over as it pushed past roughly, its small yellow eyes bearing down on both of them in an instant. Its entire body was covered in dark green scales, its long tail adorned by black spikes that ran all the way up its tail and back. It had a short snout, small, drooping ears and very large, yellow-stained teeth sticking out from under its lips. Its feet were more like that of a bears, than anything, and its head was the same way.

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Alumina sweatdropped slightly at the immensity of the creature. She had never seen anything like it before, but he only had one word for it;

Chimera.

This was however, not Moldy, who had easily been scared off by Erza alone.

Loke sweatdropped too, this was not what he had been expecting. He had to crane his neck just to get a good look at the damn thing!

Alumina took a small step back, eyes narrowing and facing going neutral. This had to be what was killing, attacking, and taking people who passed through here.

The chimera stood still for a moment, simply staring at them and growling lowly. Alumina took the momentary pause to pull her hair up into a high ponytail; all of her hair, so her left eye was completely uncovered.

It remained a pale, almost white, though the golden symbol of Mind Divergence did not appear this time around. Loke glanced sideways at her, surprised she would leave that eye uncovered, but then he realized she must not are any longer, considering he had already seen it before.

Now that he thought about it, the odd color that Alumina's left eye was... He had seen something like it before in other people over the years, and he stiffened slightly, sweatdropping when the thought occurred to him that... Alumina probably couldn't see anything out of that left eye.

Alumina reached a hand out to the side, pulling her staff from her Magic Storage. Loke clenched his fists, the Magic of his rings glowing faintly as he activated them. They had the feeling they weren't getting out of this without a fight, and besides, better some Wizards exterminated this monster before it had the chance to hurt anymore people passing through.

"Ready?" Alumina asked, looking determined and calm despite the size of the Chimera facing them down, still growling furiously.

Loke nodded, gaze switching from her to the creature. "Ready."