They walk again and again in the dark forest, on the same path they followed while easily eliminating the small monsters like the sandworms which almost devoured Gray and the trees with moving roots which bother them a lot in the forest.
Soon they are at the edge of the forest, the place they must cross to get out but.
Is there a goalkeeper, his form? You would think you see a deer but its antlers seem alive because it has eyes of its length and a mouth at the end, its eyes are too big to be real rather like tennis balls on its face resembling the inside of a beehive with its pentagon holes and a mouth salivating blood withsharp teeth like crocodiles 🐊.
Aliss senses the presence and stops Gray then brings her back by reversing until he is at least a hundred meters from the monster but Gray saw it and almost vomited 🤮.
Gray calls out to Aliss: "Miss, what was this weird and terrifying monster 😰 I don't know"
Aliss calmly replies "it was only a guardian deer, not even a real macabre deer"
Aliss notices his apparent disgust and explains "the dark or cursed continent is still called the nightmare of the gods because the gods cannot enter it conventionally and also because here are the nightmarish aberrations of all the creations of the gods."
"Basically it's a warehouse of the most horrible side of all creations, that's also why the sun is above this piece of land but we can only see a reddish part of light without seeing the source"
"For light represents life and such a concept does not exist here, most of the daring explorers who come here do not survive two nights for the luckiest but for the most part, they die as soon as the sun sets because here with the sun comes a semblance of faint life thenwith the night comes the silence of death 💀 "
Then she looks at Gray and adds "this is just the way to go to a place that can be just as dangerous to look for one of the most dangerous items"
"We have to get out of here before night comes so no fighting 🤼♂️. This guard, we have to get around him, follow me"
Then they take another path filled with assassin roots before finally exiting the dark forest, they are now in a clear place where we can see the portal which is their destination.
But something in the sand is approaching, which Aliss feels first and then speaks without shouting 🗣 "run towards the portal without fighting because there is only an hour before nightfall"
What Gray immediately does, which also allows him to avoid the surprise attack 😲 of the sandworm that she had not noticed and wanted to look back but was stopped by Aliss
"She is the queen 👑 of the worms that you have killed, so only run and above all imprint this in yourself: if you slow down you are dead, if you turn your head you are dead and if you cannot see in front of you to run 🏃 avoiding all obstacles you are dead."
After that they advance in line without resting or slowing down for a moment and in particular avoid the worms and the dark ones which attack them by becoming more and more numerous and active because it is almost night.
They speed up and behind them is a monster that looks like a giant with two eyes but its face and body were rotten, it was a night monster that woke up and extended its hand towards the running duo which made them accelerate.
Soon they reach the portal which Aliss opens easily and from a distance with a movement of his hand 🤲 then they barely enter before being caught by the giant and before the portal closes which finally only lets in the breathless duo.
They are now in open, barren land 🏜 with only sand under their feet 👣.
Aliss points 👉 to the east "we have to go to that temple over there then we have to get what we need to save your master but be careful of the ground when we are near the temple"
"Because below the ground there are lava, they are sandworms with very acidic and corrosive blood in addition, the queen has blood full of lava 🌋 so don't cut them near your face otherwise it will hurt and don't make a lot of splash otherwise it hurts"
"Now let's go?"
Gray was a little disgusted but she calmed down and quietly asked, "Is there even one normal monster here?"
Aliss answers briefly "yes, but hey they are not on our way, they are mainly on the coast which are also a little more normal compared to the rest but the deeper we go the more rare it is to see normal monsters that's why the center is called territory of rulescontinental
"In this territory the world somewhat follows the rules of the dark continent, but now that we have taken the portal we are in hell of flames and here the monsters are infernal and naturally born under the extreme fire element, you have to be careful when cutting them because some have bloodacidic or volcanic "
By the way we have to run 🏃
Grey, surprised asks "why rush if you have to be careful"
Aliss responds with a forced and embarrassed smile, "you were hurt."
Gray interrupts "it's no problem because I heal quickly Miss"
Aliss continues "I know, but firstly the blood remains, secondly the creatures here are sensitive to blood and we are in an open area, thirdly they have been starving for centuries and fourthly there are many who have surrounded us"
Gray looks around and sees indeed that they are surrounded as monsters are coming from behind and others are flying around them like vultures and eagles.
Gray and Aliss look at each other face to face before running 🏃 at full speed, leaving dust flying as they pass and a shock wave 😲.
They go fast while avoiding the monsters on their roads with great precision then thanks to their extraordinarily fast speed, they block the vision of the monsters with dust and go all out to then succeed in losing them.
They are now at the temple, where the guard is sleeping which is their only chance for a while so they decide to go incognito.
To do this, Gray gets on all fours and grows soft hair on her hands and feet, which makes her take silent velvet steps, then Aliss climbs on top of her to go quickly and they succeed without too much problem.