"My queen, we managed to evacuate a great majority of our citizens before your fight turned too intense."
A wolf beast man dressed up in uniform with an eye patch over one of his eyes said. I looked around and saw a cut-off wing and tail as well as a couple of fangs about twice my size. My vision then returned to the beast man.
"It was thanks to you managing to hold yourself back from using your full power that we were able to save so many lives."
He said, as if consoling the loss I just faced.
Angrily, I sat up from my throne of rubbles then took a few steps forward. That was when I noticed just how small the wolf beast man was, in comparison to . He followed closely behind with both arms behind his back.
"I swear, I won't allow Fafnir to escape the next ti."
I said, tightening my fists into a ball. Before I could go any further, I could hear heavy footsteps. Two soldiers ca up. Both were cat people bearing spears in their hands.
"My queen! We've received word that the humans are marching on our borders."
"What!?"
Confused by the sudden news, I couldn't help but exclaim. There was no reason for the humans to march on my borders. Hadn't we warned them enough?
"Who said this?"
"General Ivalon was out monitoring the borders to keep the civilians who had fled safe from running into the human territory. He sent us to report almost imdiately."
The soldiers said.
"Where is this General Ivalon?"
I had no recollection of him. I had far too many generals to be paying attention to every single one of them.
"I am here, my queen!"
On que, he appeared before , blood soaked and panting, as if he hadn't had the ti to dress up before coming here. The wolf beast man moved in front of , with his sword at the general's neck.
"How dare you approach the queen in such a wretched state. I should have your neck."
His anger wasn't unfounded. It was about week's trip from the border to the capital. Surely, he could have found the ti to at least bathe before coming.
The soldiers themselves were surprised by his sudden appearance, almost as if they'd seen a ghost.
"I apologise, but it was of the utmost importance that I report to you what I have discovered. For this reason, I did not stop running for the past five days."
He made an outrageous claim.
"Five!? Stop lying."
The wolf pressed his sword harder against the tiger's neck, but the tiger did not budge a single bit.
"Put down your sword, commander. Report to what you discovered, general."
The wolf sheathed his blade then went back behind . The tiger didn't even take a mont to breathe as he started.
"Imdiately the humans spotted , they attacked my platoon. We retaliated, but not without casualt-"
"Skip the boring part."
I commanded and for the first ti, I noticed a change in expression. It was for a brief mont, but I could see anger, fear and resolution in his eyes at the mont. That was when I first took an interest in the tiger beast man called Ivalon.
"mbers of the Holy xar Empire were trying to invade us while our forces were weakened. Sohow, they received word of-"
The next words of his were just aningless rambling to . All I could think about was how interesting this beast man was. He ran 5 days, without rest to inform of sothing as aningless as human invaders.
That interest of mine was my worst mistake.
***
'Ugh… what's happening? Another weird dream?'
I thought as I regained consciousness. My vision was lined up straight and I could see trees as black as night with eyes on the barks. There were no leaves on the trees' crooked branches, but there were familiar fruit growing on them.
I rembered them as the mutations that my devil light caused to the fruits back in Larm.
I tried to tilt my head, but that was beyond . My body was moving on its own towards an unknown path, but one thing was certain and that was all eyes were on . It was a creepy sensation to have devil trees focusing so intensely on , but that was it.
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