Hell Mode: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 8] by Hamuo

Author:Hamuo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4: Those Who Can Be Saved and Those Who Cannot

The sky was clear and bright, but the sun was already slowly setting to the west. About a day’s trip south of Teomenia, beyond the hills along the road, was a huge tree in a corner of open grassland that cast a long shadow in the afternoon sun.

A man kept as low as possible and walked silently, keeping an eye on his surroundings. Meanwhile, in the hollow of the giant tree, a woman and a child crouched close to one another. The woman stared out of the cave, frightened, shuddering momentarily at the shadow heading toward her.

“Hey, it’s me.”

The woman instantly relaxed at the sound of the man’s voice. The child cried out with a bright, beaming smile, “Welcome back, papa!”

“Shh! Anyway, how were things back in the village, darling?”

“The village has been razed and is filled with an unbelievable amount of monsters, just as the priest said,” the man replied in a low voice.

“I see. So, what do we do from here?”

“We should go south, and quickly.”

“It’s getting dark soon. Can’t we wait until tomorrow?”

“No. If the monsters in the village start moving, they’ll be here in no time. Let’s get going.”

The mother hesitated for a moment but realized that there were no other options left to them. As such, she climbed out of the cavity in the tree. “I can’t believe it.”

“It is what it is. Myla, climb up on my back.” As the father spoke, he thought about the events of earlier in the day that had led them here.

Early in the morning, the three had left to go shopping in a nearby town. Usually, the father went out alone, but their five-year-old child had wanted to see the town, so the trio had decided the night before that they would all go together. Upon their arrival, they had bought food at the market and ate lunch. As the family hummed a song on the way back along the road to the village, a desperate-looking priest on horseback had approached them from the opposite direction, screaming, “Monsters are coming!”

Heeding the priest’s words, the father had hidden the mother and child in the hollow of a tree and tried to return to the village, avoiding the road the whole way. Just as the priest had said, the village was overflowing with monsters. At first, he had thought that some of the villagers had survived, but then he noticed that everyone had strangely pale skin and was wandering around aimlessly, making no attempt to escape. Monsters passed by them without attacking as well, almost as if the two groups had become allies.

If the three of them had not left the village that morning, or if he had ignored his child’s wish and left his family in the village as he always did, they would likely have already joined the ranks of the monsters. With that in mind, he thanked Lord Elmea for still having his family.

With the child on

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