A few walked over to the estate's guards and began chatting them up, obviously in an attempt to distract them since the others surrounding the estate had quickly dashed into the compounds.

Silver let out a low growl. He began manipulating the wind elements and memorized each of these suspicious people's scents.

'Grrrr...If they are after master...kill...'

Silver quickly reverted back into his pet form and hid under the desk next to the bed. If the people were indeed after his master, Silver would take quick actions and end their lives. He'd leave one of them alive so that his master may question them later.

*****

While Silver was lying in wait inside of the room for the perpetrators, Lucia and the girls were out patrolling the city.

Her earlier outburst of frustration had already pa.s.sed. With Fina explaining her reasoning, Lucia was able to calm down. She was now more concerned by what Cecil had ACTUALLY gone and done last night. There was news of a terrible ma.s.sacre the previous night and this caused Lucia to be worried.

Although, the ma.s.sacre was concluded to be caused by rampaging monsters, but when she remembered how ill-at-ease Cecil was this morning, she couldn't help but think that maybe he played a hand in the ma.s.sacre last night.

"I better ask him later—"

All of a sudden, Lucia felt worried and uneasy. An odd pain was p.r.i.c.kling at the back of her neck and all her tails were standing in alarm.

"Huh?"

She couldn't help but turn her sights at the direction of the Darkfang Estate. She frowned. It was the first time she felt this way.

The only thing that could cause her to worry that was still back at the estate...was Cecil. Her friends came to a stop with her and noticed that the girl was staring off into the distance.

Fina couldn't help, but worriedly ask, "What's wrong, Lulu?"

"I...feel uneasy...I'm worried about Cel..."

"Cecil?"

"You were just mad at him earlier, Lulu...Are you going to forgive him already?" Velicia asked.

"Uhm..."

"Let her be Veli...that's just how Lucia is...she just can't stay mad at her beloved Cecil," Eli said while giggling at her foxkin friend.

"Ehehehe..."

"Let's go back, mas—Lucia...I feel uneasy as well, not to mention that wolf brat is currently expressing a strong amount of bloodl.u.s.t right now..."

"Huh?"

"Silver...he's emitting a whole lot of bloodl.u.s.t...I'm not sure if you guys can feel it, but it's making me worried. That brat is normally mild; despite being a Fenrir...this is the first time he's acting up like this."

"Y-Yeah...I think something bad might happen to Cel...let's hurry back."

BBBBOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM

"!"

"!!!"

"WAH!!"

A large explosion suddenly resounded from the Darkfang Estate then a loud howl ensued.

"AAAAARRRRRRRRWWWWWWHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!"

After the loud roar sounded off, the ground began to shake suddenly. It was then that Lucia and the rest suddenly heard something come from outside of the city.

"ROAR!"

"GRAWR!"

"SQUEEEEEE!!!"

"BBBZZZZZ BZZZZZZ"

Lucia and Yuna quickly jumped into the air, Eli snapped open her wings and followed suit. The two turned to look outside of the city and noticed an appalling scene. Monsters of all kinds were das.h.i.+ng out of the forests and currently heading towards the city.

"Oh no..."

"Lucia! Look!"

Eli quickly grabbed onto Lucia as the girl was beginning to descend back down. She then brought her friend's attention to the scene behind them.

In the distance, at the location of the Darkfang Estate, a large ent.i.ty had broken through the skies of the estate and was poking its head into the air. The large ent.i.ty towered over a dozen meters in height and there were around 5-8 black silhouettes darting around the figure and sending magic spells at the ent.i.ty.

Once the dust settled, it was then that Lucia noticed who that large figure belonged to. The large figure was that of super enlarge Silver. Lucia also saw the small body currently resting atop his head.

"Silver! Cecil!"

"Yeah...it's them alright...but who's attacking them?!"

"It's them! They were the ones Cecil was so worried about!"

"What?!"

"Let's go! We have to go help them!"

"Then what about the monsters outside?"

"...tsk..."

Lucia almost forgot about the monster wave coming from behind. It looks like the monster ma.s.sacre from last night was true, and it was only the prelude to the current monster wave!

"We'll split into 2 teams, I'm sure the boys are still at the estate with Cecil. Veli and I will make our way back. Yuna, you, and Fina will quickly head over to the city's walls and help out with the defenses!"

"Alright, will you 2 be okay though?"

"Don't worry, we'll quickly finish things up there and come to support you guys. Remember to announce your presence, make sure it's as flashy as can be! When the guards see that a royal princess such as Eli is even standing firm and helping them defend the walls...I'm pretty sure they'll have their morale boosted!"

"Alright, hurry and go then!"

Lucia gave a signal to Yuna and the dragon girl immediately dashed for the walls. Eli dropped down and placed Lucia onto the ground before quickly taking off with Fina in her arms.

"W-what's wrong, Eli?!" Fina immediately yelled upon being abruptly taken into the skies.

"Just look ahead! You'll soon understand!"

Fina looked ahead and immediately paled at the sight.

"Does this mean the last night monster ma.s.sacre was true?!"

"Apparently!"

"Okay, first things first, we have to boost the city guards' morale!"

"Got it covered!"

"Okay!"

*****

As Fina was prepping their battle plans, down on the ground, Lucia and Velicia were quickly das.h.i.+ng back towards the Darkfang Estate. On the way, Lucia quickly explained the situation to Veli.

"So those are the people inside Cecil's...future vision?"

"Most likely! Sorry we didn't tell you guys...Cecil didn't want everyone to be excessively on guard...but at least this proves that his dreams are indeed events that may happen in the future!"

"...What a convenient ability! When did he get it?"

"He's still not sure, but Cecil thinks he may have gotten it from the World Tree's Trials!"

"Makes sense! Let's hurry! Maybe it's those people who're attacking Cecil and Silver are the ones that caused the monster wave and last night's ma.s.sacre!"

"Yeah! Maybe..."

Lucia was still skeptical at the conclusion. She felt that maybe Cecil and Silver had played a large part in the ma.s.sacre. Right now, Lucia was able to feel the madness and rage currently permeating the atmosphere. It was all coming from the enlarged and the seemingly enraged Silver.

'I hope it's not true...'

But even if it was, Lucia wouldn't care. There was bound to be a reason why Cecil and Silver had done it.

"Lucia! Why not use Misty Gate to teleport over?!"

"Huh?! Ah, you're right!"

Lucia was panicking so she had nearly forgotten. The girls quickly stopped and Lucia opened up a Misty Gate to the estate.

*******

"s.h.i.+t! Lucius, what the h.e.l.l's happening?!"

Ainz shouted as he fought off a beastman wearing dark clothes. It was unsettling at how strong these people were. If it wasn't because he had back up from the estate's guards, he'd be pushed up against the wall.

Not to mention that these beastmen's targets weren't even him! They were all attacking Silver and trying to attack Cecil who was on top of Silver's head. The foxkin boy looked like he was struggling to keep himself awake and couldn't do anything at the moment.

"I don't know who these people are! But they're obviously after Cecil and Silver! We have to do all we can to obstruct them! Guards! Coordinate with each other and lock down at least one of these guys!"

"Yes, Young Master!"

The guards replied to Lucius loudly and began moving in groups of 5 to combat and lock down at least one of the black clothed beastmen.

"d.a.m.n...they're all individually powerful as well...this'll be hard." Ainz quickly switched from using his spear-staff and began casting mid-high level spells.

"Take this, b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!"

A while later, a guard from the city walls arrived riding a basilisk. He quickly jumped off and immediately reported the situation at the walls to the estate's guard captain.

"What? Is this true?!"

"Yes sir! There are mult.i.tudes of monsters pouring out of the forests and heading towards the city! We have the Sword Maiden and 2nd Princess Elizabeth Arks on the front lines helping us defend the city walls! There're also her friends helping out! But...at this rate sir...we'll be overwhelmed..."

"d.a.m.n...I'll report this to the young master...you lot! Hurry up and find the Master! I need to report on the situation on the walls! We'll take further action once the Master gives us an order!"

"Yes sir!"

The guard captain quickly made his way over to Lucius and reported the situation at the walls. Lucius was shocked, but was relieved that Eli and the rest had gone over to help out.

They could at least rest easy for now and hurry up and quickly deal with the situation in front of them.

"Hurry! We have to quell the uproar here and go help with the situation at the walls!"

"B-but young master! Shouldn't we direct some reinforcements to the walls?"

"No! We'll deal with the situation here first! Princess Elizabeth and the rest can handle the situation on the walls until we get there! Don't forget, she's a sword maiden and her party is a platinum ranked adventurer party!"

"...yes sir!"

"Also, go send a war eagle to the Capital and the surrounding territories, request for support! Hopefully only our territory is experiencing the monster tide...if every territory at the border is experiencing this...then it'll be a disastrous event for the Kingdom..."

"Yes, young master, at once!" The guard captain immediately bowed and went to find the Master, but before he went he directed a subordinate guard to go send the messages to the Capital and the border territories.

Lucius continued throwing vials of alchemy potions and pills at the black clothed beastmen. He followed it up with a magic spell and blew up the potions and pills.

He grew furious at the timing of these b.a.s.t.a.r.ds. He already concluded that these beastmen were the cause of last night's ma.s.sacre, and although it was mostly beastmen who went missing, there were quite a few beastkin who went missing as well. They were all most likely dead.

Just thinking about this caused him to grow even more furious.

"d.a.m.ned b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!"