Alice was hit by a realization after listening to his story.
“Ah…so that’s how you ended up here. What do you say it called itself again?” she asked.
“He called himself Ritgarl,” Shaner answered.
."Why do you think they seal it?" Vine wondered about why it was sealed.
“I can only guess that each realm has an entity so powerful that these entities must be sealed else it causes destruction when released. Hell, Heaven, Realm of Mirror, Realm of Darkness, in every realm, there is always a very powerful entity in it. Those who managed to find these entities either survived and causes a calamity on the very realm where the entity sealed by unleashing it or died as these beasts are so powerful that you can’t tell whether you will live or die if you tried to find these monsters. So…The Forbidden Force of Hell had been unleashed,” Alice speculated.
“This is so complicated,” Vine admitted.
“It is,” Martha told Vine.
Alice then leans her face close to him and puts both hands on his cheeks.
“You mentioned seeing a tall figure. I’m suspecting it’s the spirit residing in the Realm of Mirror. I’m guessing you came here not just to visit me but also to chase that evil spirit, am I right?” she asked him.
“That's right. Have you seen her?” Shaner asked.
“Sadly, no…we didn’t encounter any spirit so far,” Alice answered.
“Well….since I already came here. I have decided to stay here for a while and help you out,” Shaner said.
“Welcome aboard!” Alice said.
“Wait, Alice! You sure about this?” Vine asked her with a doubtful look on his face.
“We’re talking about someone carrying a beast of darkness with terrifying power here! Are you sure about letting him stay here?” Poema asked her, one of his eyebrow raised.
“There’s no telling what he will do considering that the Forbidden Force of Hell is with him,” Martha warned her.
“I will make sure to keep him under control. I don’t know if I can handle him but I will do my best to keep him in check!” Shaner swore.
“I will take your word for it,” Alice said, pointing a finger to Shaner.
As soon as she said that, a pair of eyes can be seen glowing behind the shadow of a bush far behind her. Shaner senses its presence and his aura throws three feather blade made of darkness into it even though it is far from their location.
"I know you are there. Show yourself!!" Shaner shouted on the entity behind Alice which Alice instantly turn her head at where Shaner focused his eyes on.
Darkness gathers and a tall figure with long black hair, pale face, red eyes, a smile that reveal lower half of her sharp row of teeth of her upper jaw underneath the gap and wear long ragged bloodied white dress appears.
"What is this??" Vine screamed.
"It was spying on us?" Martha said with a very disbelief look on her face.
"I found you now...," Shaner muttered.
"This spirit...she's powerful," Alice said and both Vine and Martha turn their head to her.
"Alice?" Both look at her visibly scared expression as Alice slowly step back from the spirit.
"You...Who are you??" Alice exclaimed despite her subtle trembling tone.
The spirit gives an unsettling laugh.
"Ahaha! I am Obscura!" she answered then turn her eyes on Shaner.
"We meet again, boy. How does it feel? No longer human and forever thirsting in blood. Oh...poor little boy, how will your family react to you now?" Obscura mocked him, her grin reveals a terrifying set of sharp teeth which frightens Alice.
"You.....!!" Shaner muttered in furious tone and immediately chase her into the deeper part of the forest on the left side of the village.
"I will kill you, ghost!! Obscura!!" Shaner screamed as he chase Obscura.
Obscura, being a ghost runs faster than him by means of floating.
"Shaner! Wait!" Alice shouted, stepping forward, but Poema suddenly grabbed her wrist.
“Alice, don't. That place… no one who enters that part of the forest ever comes back," he said to her.
Alice turned to Martha and Martha says, "He's right. You can't enter that forest. That particular area is too dangerous even for us Magicians".
"Why is it dangerous?" Vine asked.
"We put our village here because this is the closest we can get to town to make sure that despite our isolation, we still know what's going on. In this forest, there's an area, that part in particular," Martha explained and pointed her finger at the end of her sentence.
"That particular area is full of dangerous beasts and I'm not talking about ordinary bears, lions, or anything. It's something else," Martha said.
"Obscura went into that forest because she knew what was in that forest. She's toying with us," Poema said.
"But—we can't just leave him on his own!" Alice shouted.
"Then there's no choice, we go there but we will have to be together if we want to come back alive," Poema said with his eyes closed and resigned look on his face.
Poema releases his grip and Alice turn to the forbidden forest, everyone enters the forest to chase Shaner.
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"Where did he go? I lost him," she said and look around.
Her eyes tried to see her surrounding but couldn't due to the inside of the woods partially covered in fog.
"Now I see why everyone called this place 'Forbidden'. I will have to track him down from smell," she said and morphs into wolf.
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"Here it is! The smell is strong starting from here. But...the trail leads to a location where there are less trees than over there," she voiced her mind out loud when she noticed that the trail lead to the deeper left area of the forest.
"Oh boy...," sweats start flowing on her face and she follows the trail.
As she follow the trail, she suddenly stop when she catches a glimpse of a shadow.
"What is that!? A wolf? No... Looks like a big lion but those thing's around it's mane....are those...hair of wolf!?" she thought as she tried to understand what she just witnessed as she got closer to it.
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