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Arcaine had his eyes closed when the door to the room opened and entered his subordinate who went out to get information about Rigel Anzel. He opened his eyes and looked at the person.

"I'm sorry for disturbing your rest, sire but here is the document relating to Rigel Anzel." The person showed a relatively thick stack of papers bound inside a folder to the man. Arcaine remained silent before he finally gave a signal for the person to continue.

"It says here that he came with Major Linius Ginehart and that they came from a small town called Moonvale which is a thousand miles away from the capital. It's a pretty faraway and practically unknown place. It also says here that they are on their way to the capital to register at the Magic Tower. Aside from that all the things here are pretty much a bunch of nonsense but there's one notable thing written here, he was able to kill and defeat five mage hunters." He read through the basic information before handing the documents to Arcaine.

The hero also did not waste time and quickly browsed through it but there was nothing really unusual that could cause a concern. And that incident where he defeated a group of mage hunters, it must have been a fluke because the next page describes how he and the major defeated the other mage hunters.

"Alright," he threw the stack of papers on the table and stretched his hands as he stood up. "He's a surprising guy with a way with words, but I'm right that he is just someone weak."

While they were talking about the matter, the mayor came in panting and trembling in fear. He looked like he went through battle because he looked too disheveled with his hair a mess and his clothing unkempt.

"Sir Arcaine! Please come and help! They're here! They're going to take us all! All of us are dead, all of us are dead, dead, dead…" he suddenly kept on mumbling, then he fell on the floor while holding his head and his eyes wide. Arcaine looked at his subordinate before they left to see what was going on.

Every street was lit as the people who attended the banquet excitedly left for their homes. Some were in their carriages and the others decided to walk. Perhaps the appearance of the hero gave them the confidence and sense of security that they did not even feel the danger coming their way.

They were still drunk at the fact that the hero was here and everything will be fine. Some of them were even enjoying their walk and continued to laugh at things they find funny. This merry atmosphere was interrupted by the sudden darkening of the sky as the light of the moon.

It should have not caused panic since the sky can be overcast sometimes but this time it was different because even the lamps that lights the lamps went out. The entire town was covered in total darkness but only those who were outside of their homes noticed this change.

Arcaine and his subordinate came out to this chaotic scene of people running frantically from human-shaped masses of smoke that were trying to grab them all. Mixed with them were bloody hands that kept on reaching out from the ground.

The screams of the people who were being dragged to the ground filled the whole town but mysteriously enough, none of the people who were already inside their houses seemed to notice the commotion that was happening outside.

"Where are your brothers?" He looked behind him but the person he was supposed to be talking to was nowhere to be found. He did not know what happened but he can't let this go on or else he would lose face.

He walked out of the residence and summoned a sword out of thin air then he slashed it towards the hands that were tightly gripping and dragging their victims along the rough streets in front of the mayor's manor.

With just a slash of his sword the black hands dispersed like they were purified as the particles turned to small lights that floated to the sky. This one slash was followed by more as the people were freed from the grasps of these terrifying creatures.

During this time, the person who came with the hero finally appeared as he profusely apologized for his sudden disappearance. "Stop talking and do your job!" Arcaine commanded because he had no time to deal with the person right now.

The other man also brought out his sword and started to hack at the human-shaped smoke that was also clutching their prey. These things were more difficult to deal with because these things were literally sticking to their victims and wouldn't let go. The more their prey squirmed and thrashed, the more that this humanoid smoke attached itself to them.

"Sir Arcaine!" The man called out the other's attention since the humanoid attackers were trickier to deal with.

Arcaine turned around then raised his hand to the sky as he mumbled a spell which created a magic circle of pure white appear above them. When he was done whispering the spell, he let his arm fall forward followed by a rain of white needles that targeted the enemies. This move successfully disintegrated all the dark creatures around the area.

The people who were freed shouted in joy and praise as they went to thank the hero but Arcaine left to deal with the other places plagued by the same problem. His subordinate instructed all the people to temporarily rest inside the mayor's manor and not to go out while they go and deal with the other places.

Arcaine arrived at another place but he could not see anyone. The place was shrouded with fog that impeded his vision so he needed to use a special technique that allows him to see through the darkness and the fog. He gritted his teeth when he saw the status of the place.

All the people who were in there were already dead. He could see creatures in the shape of feral dogs feasting on the bodies of the people who already lost their souls. He lifted his sword and imbued it with holy power as he made a horizontal slash to dispel the fog.

As the fog was lifted, bodies that lost their flesh littered the ground. It was gut wrenching and anyone with a weak heart would definitely pass out at the gruesome scene in front of him because there was blood splattered everywhere.

The feral monsters who sensed the disappearance of the fog stopped from crunching and lifted their heads in the direction of the hero. Bone chilling growls and howls filled the sky as several pairs of red eyes appeared from the corners of the street and some of them even emerged from the ground.

Arcaine spat in disgust at the flesh-eating creatures so without hesitation he stabbed at them when they started to come after him in hordes. He was able to kill many but their numbers kept on increasing to the point that they could already overwhelm him.

The creatures banded together and jumped towards the man. These creatures already covered him as they raced to sink their fangs on their prey but as a hero who was blessed with holy power, this was nothing to him. Using a burst of that power, he managed to blast them away from him and at the same time killed most of them.

"How resilient," he clenched his jaws and summoned another weapon.