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-Outside the Sealing Cube-
Of the twenty-three teams that had ventured into the Lochxen Forest, Kaya, Eloise, and Aylin had run into six thus far. And that was obviously excluding their team and Caius's.
Every team they met since leaving Caius, Delia, and Aurelius within the Sealing Cube, had been under assault from corrupted Magical Beasts and while quite a bit of them had been able to hold their own, the layer of red—demonic—energy around the Beasts rendered practically every attack useless.
As such, Kaya and the others always had to lend a hand. By now the trio had lost count of how many Beasts they had had to put down because it was the only way they knew to pacify the Beasts permanently.
Killing some Beasts came easy—emotionally and physically—and killing others didn't come as easily.
"If we meet corrupted Wind-puffing Rabbits, I didn't think my heart could take putting them down," Aylin said with a hand placed atop her large breasts.
