RAINA DINESCHA (Creature Without Shape)
SEVENS

In the Red Forest, a large tall man came down from the horse and approached Rai.

Face square. Crossed wounds perched haughtily on his split chin. His skin was sunburned. His expression was harsh, like he had not smiled for many years. He's General Harding.

Rai doesn't like the way he looks at people. His eyes were like a desert wolf. There was no mercy on his face. Whoever he is, Rai hopes not to see him in the future.

General Harding saw it, learned it. Rai replied calmly. Surprised the General.

Throughout her memory, Raina was no longer helped; impatient, outspoken, obnoxious, and unlucky, very confident. It's like he keeps a time bomb in his pocket. Why does it look so calm now? What was the little head planning?

"Your Majesty," the General greeted.

Rai stared at him innocently, "Who?"

The news of the Princess losing her memory had reached her, but seeing her ask with such big eyes, made her see the illusion that this little girl was playing tricks on her! General Harding gritted his teeth. "I'm General Harding."

"Oh. It's nice to meet you." Rai smiled formally.

His smile made the general frown. Since when did he become so friendly? Because Raina was a baby tiger, she waited for him to bite, but Rai stopped there. He even left his face, focusing on the group that was ready to depart. General Harding felt an internal injury from holding back the anger. How dare that little girl ignore him?

Aezar approached them. The General bowed respectfully to him, exchanged a few words, then gave orders to a group of soldiers to conduct a search. Aezar turned to the red-haired girl. "You come home with me" he said, keeping his brother away from the general, and whistling to call his pegasus.

General Harding is a serious man, while Raina is happy to give him bullshit. Aezar knew, he always rose in blood whenever his sister was within his sight.

Pegasus is beautiful. Rai rejoiced at not having to ride a giant bee, but he also did not want to ride a flying horse. Cessa and Kana appear to be talking seriously with Aezar's four bodyguards, she immediately looks for an excuse, “Isn't there anything you should do?”

“What do you think I can do when someone removes all the evidence?” he said insinuating before calling Nex to discuss something.

Nex is Aezar's personal bodyguard and partner since childhood. His body was slightly taller than the Prince, sand-blond, slender, and agile.

Rai pretended not to listen. Suddenly he heard a familiar cry from a distance:

"Boss!"

Rai saw Algis waving excessively on a small street at the entrance of the forest. Since the location was already secured, they could only wait at the furthest reach. Atlee and Leah stood beside him. Don't tell me, they followed him here!

When Rai approached, they were debating something.

“Do you not know how to tell?” Algis. “Lucky we saw Prince Aezar's entourage cross.” When he saw Rai coming, his eyes shone. “Bos!” glancing back, he asked curiously, “Do you know the Prince? What are you guys talking about? You guys look familiar!” his voice clearly contained admiration.

Rai could only grimace.

Atlee said exasperatedly, “Obviously Your Majesty wants to know what happened, Stupid!” Then turn around on Rai. "Who was the big guy talking to you just now? Very creepy!”

“General Harding!”

They shuddered at his name. General Harding is famous for his violent and frightening character. According to rumors, his ferocity on the battlefield was comparable to a hundred veteran soldiers. They were horrified when they only heard his name.

"Good, you're safe!”

Rai smiled. "Thank you for worrying about me coming here. General Harding will take care of the rest."

Algis and Atlee are flabbergasted. It is rare to hear him say thank you, let alone sincerely!

“Cih, who's anxious!” Atlee rubbed her non-itchy nose, then jumped on the bee next to her.

Rai sneezed.

“Hahaha! Just admit! You stole a bee at the guard post and hurriedly followed!" Atlee struck Algis with the head of the bee, warning him fiercely, but the young man could not be stopped.

Rai Sneezing again.

"Whatever! Go, go!"

"What is this, you're afraid to go home alone?"

"In your dreams!"

They argue again.

"Miss is okay?" Leah was worried to see Rai sneezing. He took off his departure robe, afraid he was cold, but Rai refused.

"I'm doing fine. There was too much dust in the air" he reasoned, too proud to tell the truth.

Leah put on her robe again. The two people at the side were still arguing, he smiled knowingly looking at her. Then spoke to Rai slowly, "Young Miss should also go home. You have a dinner appointment."

Rai simply nodded, busily rubbing his itchy nose, his gaze fixed on the entourage of General Harding who passed by them. Frigga sat on the train with the victims who began to realize, looking calm even though not accompanied by anyone. He smiled when his eyes met. On the side, a young man named Nex rode with Andee, Cessa, and Kana. They nodded as soon as they saw Rai.

"We've reached out to his brother, Fabian," Nex said without asking, glancing at Frigga who seemed to know. "Let us take care of the rest."

Rai knew it was Aezar's words. "Thank you."

At first glance the young man looked surprised, but immediately covered it well. They continued on and disappeared behind the hill.

"Boss, who's that girl? I saw her coming with you this afternoon," Algis asked.

Rai replied calmly, "A guest from afar."

"The Meddler Is Mixed." Atlee grunting.

"Oh. So who are you going home with? I didn't see you bring bees. How about I take you home?"

"It's almost night, '" Atlee agreed. "We can go home together."

Leah became nervous.

Rai did not answer. The sounds rushed at him from all directions, shocking him to a daze. His eyes were unfocused, looking around in a daze. His face was pale.

"Young Miss!" Leah exclaimed anxiously, propping up her body.

Atlee jumped off the bee and stood with Algis beside her, ready to stand by.

Aezar heard the cry and ran over in panic. "What's going on?"

Throbbing head. The voices from the void howled in the air. Insects, flat animals, flowers, even trees, speak the same to her. The voices overlap and overlap. His shadow swayed uneasily.

It may sound strange, because since childhood Rai heard all the things that live around him. Whether big animals or flies, even trees and flowers, he heard them talking. Rai never revealed this to anyone, because somehow, there was a part in him that stopped him. His mother said there was no such thing as magic, so Rai kept everything alone.

Shade detected traces of magic elsewhere. Rai did not know where, but felt it very close. From the West. No, Northwest! In a place full of life.

Aezar. Algis and Atlee were even more shocked.

"That's ... the village where we live, why?" Algis looked at Rai concernedly. His head must have been badly bumped, he thought, forgetting his own playground.

Raina spent most of her time in the village of Dahae, the village of hunters, playing to the satisfaction of the forest and fields; hunting rabbits and archery birds. Often, swim in the river while catching fish for lunch. Although impatient, noisy and fierce, the village children loved it, the parents loved it. They knew for sure, Raina only behaved like that when bullied by the handful of parties who hated her.

"The name is Dahae village" Atlee said more clearly. "Village hunter. Whahuh? You remember anything?"

At that moment, the ghost of Clo who had been frowning since then, looked at Rai with a blank look. Horrible images flashed in his mind. I gotcha! his inner. The village ...

"The danger!" Rai exclaims. "The village is in danger!" Hurriedly running into the pegasus, he pushed Aezar roughly, barely making him topple over. Algis and Atlee veered in fear of her brash attitude, momentarily forgetting her exclamation just now. This girl, so rude to a Prince ... Rai jerked their consciousness by exclaiming again, "Hurry up! All the villagers are in danger! Witches attack!"

Again, they were terrified. In just a day, I don't know how many times Aezar was dumbfounded.

***

“Nothing left,” Will said after the fifth inspection. He who was tall and looked like a human except for his red eyes, stepped over the corpse of an Alfar and stood beside Rex who was palpating the surface of the ground with his magic. “They are dead.”

"Before long,” added Rex, retracting its soil elements. The cold and mysterious Lor Valley grew gripping by the dead. Rex looked up, the gray glow from the full moon in the sky somehow made him uneasy, as if something dangerous was moving closer. “But, obviously this is magic. Isn't that right, Boss?”

The emerald's eyes were open, but he didn't seem to be listening. The middle Prince observed the Lor valley with a half-bored and half-dreaming attitude as usual. Rex has been traveling with him long enough to know that it's better not to bother him when he's behaving like that.

"Sweety,” says Will. His voice echoed, too loud between the silence of the night and the coldness of the valley. “Their corpse is too perfect for someone who is exposed to curse magic.”

Rex glanced at the corpse of a man lying near his feet. He knew sooner or later they would arrive at this passage, but hearing Will say it plainly, the unease returned to him.

Before joining the group, Rex was a bandit. Mountain bandits on the Western border. He had become accustomed to danger and wandered about challenging the ferociousness of the night. But tonight it feels different. The dimness of Lor valley made the feathers stand up, like there was something in the darkness lurking around them and waiting for the right time to attack. “No injuries,” he agrees. “Besides that strange stone.”

Will lowered his head, observing the green object also observed by Rex. “Ya.” It was planted new in the flesh, visible from its mark that left a trail of blood and swelling. "Didn't these bodies look exactly like back then?"

He meant the victims of the massacre in the village of Paree, and the undead in the forest of Supala.

Rex confirmed, but something astonished him. Something is wrong, which should be there, but may just be missed.

“I understand,” the Prince muttered for the first time. “It should be like this.”

Will and Rex throw each other a look of wonder. They had gotten used to the boss's stiff and untouchable emotions, but his attitude tonight felt different. There was something he was thinking, an urgent matter that they believed to be extremely cold and dangerous.

“Bos?” Will asked himself. He's the only vier-gene the nobleman recruited on his way to the West years ago, when Will was still a slave to border witches. He had gotten used to receiving harsh treatment and torture, simply disturbing the Boss' concentration was not a big deal to him.

But again the prince did not answer, he looked up at the gray moon in the sky. The silvery ray touched his pale skin, slipped through the gap of his moss-green robe and stroked the fine silk behind it. Her blond hair was toyed with the wind on her waist. For the first time, Will doesn't believe that the stiff boss who saved him from slavery is Prince Alfar. Will never wanted to be controlled by a witch, so he was willing to follow this person and become his loyal bodyguard.

“Take the stone,” the Prince orders suddenly as the full moon sinks beneath the dense fog. Darkness immediately ambushed them. “Maybe this is the cause,” murmured again. He still remembers, the chests of the corpses found in the Supala forest perforated. The body was intact, right where his lungs were, a green object a fist was inserted. It was similar to the magic stone that Vanaheimr's emissary had brought! “Ya, right. Only this thing disappeared—“ but then he gasped when he saw a movement from the corner of his eye. The prince, Ace, turned his head, looking at the glint of the shadow in the darkness, but the shadow disappeared quickly.

Rex is aware of it and his keen instincts lead him to be alert. “There's a come!” he shouted, reminding the dozen troops behind. The army moved quickly to build a defense around the three, ready to stand by with weapons in hand. The Prince grasped the silver sword while Rex tightened the glove in his hand. Will whips out a magic wand as light as cotton.

A shadow emerged from the darkness. Tall, thin, dry, and pale with eyes all black. The green stone on his chest shone behind his clothes. They realized it wasn't just a rock. The smell of rain emanated from him, the Prince frowned.

They shot out as light as smoke, appearing soundless from all directions. The corpses lying in the valley surprisingly rose and approached simultaneously. So pale, parched, and staggering towards them. They're moving!

The Prince and his army were flabbergasted, not expecting that to happen.

Rex raised his hand, gesturing for the troops to be ready to attack, when the bodies suddenly stopped. His empty head moved sideways, like he was listening to something. The air in the valley became ice-cold.

Recently the undead attacked small villages in Southwest Paradis. The bodies lying on the streets were exactly the same as those in the Supala forest and the victims of the massacre in the village of Paree, without blood and flesh, but no visible wounds. All the troops that were sent to eradicate the enemy never returned. They're all destroyed! The Prince wanted to be sure of himself and left quickly as soon as he felt a great killing intent from the direction of the valley, then discovered one glaring difference: the stone.

What kind of thing is that? Could it be this thing that moved the corpses?

Rex made a spear from the ground when one of the undead moved. Will was ready with his staff, while the Prince did not flinch with the sword in hand. The entire army tightened its grip on its weapons. Everyone is alert.

As the tension continued, a terrible voice echoed from behind the crowd, becoming the backdrop that shook the entire defense, “A bunch of trash!”

The voice was low and full of disgust, floating with the night wind. The Prince's eyes pierced through the crowd of corpses that stood foolishly and saw a slender silhouette within the forest. The moonlight did not reach his place, they could not guess who he was, even from his voice alone. The silhouette was hidden behind the veil. All they know is that guy is very strong. In the blink of an eye, a dark screech struck as fast as lightning and half the soldiers in the army collapsed simultaneously. Their bodies are horrible!

They were flabbergasted, standing still motionless. Their gaze was centered on one person, it was a pity that the person disappeared as quickly as it came. His voice that was left in the air gave an indisputable order:

"Burn to dust!"

The bodies simultaneously attacked blindly. Surprisingly, even from the Alfar faction, the corpses mastered the curse fire magic!

The remaining troops are in trouble. The appearance of a nobody messing up the formation, made them terrified!

Rex built a fortress from the ground, resisted the fire attack, then asked amidst the chaos, "Is that him?"

Who is from the Northwest?

Such a force, capable of taking out half his army without moving at all, was beyond comprehension. This method reminded them of events in the Northwest. Is that really him? Why was he controlling the corpses this time and attacking them?

However, even though the magic and attacks were similar, Ace felt that something was amiss. The air pressure did not make her breath tight, and she did not tremble like that time. Still, this person cannot be underestimated. He's dangerous.

Will, who was well-versed with magic, replied, "It's unmistakable, it's shadow magic!" He cast a spell and detonated several undead at once, decomposing his intestines, but the corpse soon recovered quickly. They grinned stiffly at him, then attacked even harder than before.

The Prince pierced the heart of a corpse, which was again standing with a hollow body. The corpses attacked without pause, every injury created closing as he moved. Although parts of his body were torn apart, they continued to move freely, as if the hole in his body meant nothing. They recover quickly.

Lor Valley became chaotic. Clashes of weapons sounded from all directions, slingshots of spells were unraveled and magic-magic exploded. The casualties from the Prince's side were countless, while the corpses were not reduced by a single one! Despite the shuffling moves and hollow bodies, they were still able to summon magic!

Suddenly Ace remembered a single hole in the corpses in the forest of Supala. As fast as lightning, he jolted wind magic and pierced the lungs of a corpse coming from behind. Instantly the corpse fell, lying stiff on the ground, no longer moving.

That's weakness!

All the troops, who were on the verge of dying of despair, saw him and soon gained another hope that was almost wiped out. They advanced once again, attacking with confidence and high spirits.

Ace stunned. The target was the location where the strange stone was inserted. When his magic destroys the thing, the undead are defeated. Suddenly, his hair bristled. I don't know what kind of thing it is, it's really moving the corpses!

The cold and mysterious Lor Sheet, was once again gripping by the dead. However, the wind movement suddenly changed. The smell of incense and fresh blood felt Ace flowing so bitterly in the air.

He flinched where he stood, whipping his head in the direction where the cold wind came carrying the news. The one who appeared in an instant was in the corner of his eyes.

No more wrong! That person had come not to show off strength, but to use these corpses to lure him in. His goal was like a double-edged sword: to kill him on the spot, or to outwit him away from somewhere else!

Ace clenched his fist furiously when he realized the direction the wind was pointing at.

North West!

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