The pillars were made of intertwined huge vines standing in a circle.

In the main sit, a lady was sitting motionless. Her skin was black as she looked lifeless. She has a silver headdress with her wings on her back.

Kalipsi was going to approach the lady but Tala stopped him. Tala put her hand to the floor. She closed her eyes and surged her earthly energy to feel any vibration from the floor. Securing that there's no vibration, they approached the lady.

Tala felt the pulse of the lady. It's beating slow.

"Do you know what her condition is?" Kalipsi couldn't help to asked.

"She was still breathing but her life force was being slowly sucked up." Tala explained. "We need to bring her out her or kill the one behind this."

"Do...do you know who pull this off?" Kalipsi asked in confusion. The boy clearly just arrived and foreign to their land.

Does he already know the culprit?

"HA HA HA. HUMAN!" A hoa.r.s.e voice suddenly sounded all over the hall.

"That's the culprit," Tala answered.

"Whaaaaat?" Kalipsi looked at Tala with incredulity.

Tala did not pay heed to him, so he directed his attention to the unknown creature.

"Wh..who are you?" Kalipsi trembled sensing the uncomfortable energy became stronger.

A figure slowly approached them. A hideous two meter creature looked at them like they were his prey. Licking his lips, he said, "It's been a long time since I smell human flesh."

"What are you?" Kalipsi was filled with fear, but he didn't let it shown. He unsheathed his rusty elementary sword from his waist.

Elementary weapons were used by warriors. Secondary weapons were used by elite warriors. While mortal grade weapons were used by masters.

The creature didn't bother to answer him. He dashed at a lightning speed towards Kalipsi.

Kalipsi drove his energy through his sword to defend, but he just sent flying. The speed and the strength of the unknown creature was too great for him to handle.

The creature was going to launched his second attacked. Driving and gathering dark energy, he dashed again towards Kalipsi.

"I'm doomed! But I'm not going to die without a fight." Kalipsi murmured as he exerted his remaining energy to fight back. But as the creature came closer, he felt numbness. The energy became heavier. He can hardly breathe. He tightens his grasped to his sword.

He tried to sway his sword, but he was unable to. The uncomfortable energy came like a boulder crus.h.i.+ng him. 'Is this my end?'

Tala rolled her eyes in annoyance. She was examining the lady in front of her, but the creature seemed like wanted Kalipsi dead. She couldn't afford someone be killed under her nose.

Tala confronted the creature leaving Kalipsi behind.

Kalipsi saw Tala in front of him raising her hand.

"Noo.!" Kalipsi gathered all his strength to warn Tala but Tala didn't seem to hear him.

A circle emitting light was formed in front of Tala. A second later, the creature was sent flying when it made contact to the circle. Tala dashed at visible speed. She pointed a half-inch wide wooden stick to the creature's throat. No one knew when did she picked it up.

Raising her head to met the eyes of the demon, Tala asked, "Where are the others?"

"Do you think that this d.a.m.n stick would be able to kill me?" the creature sneered.

Tala dabbed the stick to his throat. Feeling pain, the creature moved step backward until he lean on to the wall. Blood flowed from the creature from the slight slit on his throat.

"How about it!" Tala smirked and raised her left eyebrow. 'A mere cacodemon like you think I can't kill you?'

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I will not loss to a mere human like you. I'M A DEMONNNN!" The demon gathered all the energy he can. The uncomfortable energy became heavier and heavier as dark energy gathered around the demon.

Tala, who was next to him didn't feel any helplessness. Instead, an expressionless face looked at the demon like he was just an ant.

"De... demon?" Kalipsi uttered. The uncomfortable energy became denser. It made him hard to breathe. He was going to faint at any moment.

Suddenly, the uncomfortable energy vanished. Kalipsi take a deep breathe. He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. He looked at Tala and saw the lying demon motionless. He noticed the blood dropped on Tala's stick.

The blood was red as human blood.

Cacodemons were the lowest kind of demons with some characteristics of human, just like their blood.

"STUPID DEMON. HOW CAN HE ACT RECKLESSLY WHEN HE KNOW THAT SOMETHING SHARP WAS IN HIS THROAT!" Tala furiously yelled. She was going to interrogate the creature, but it suddenly made moves which made Tala's instinct stabbed its throat.

'My reflection from my previous life.' She sighed. 'It appears that he's just a wandering cacodemon.'

'Sharp? How could you say a mere stick was sharp?' Kalipsi was dumbstruck hearing Tala's words.

Regaining his strength, Kalipsi approached the lady.

"What should we do?" Seeing the lifeless lady, Kalipsi shyly asked Tala. He thought Tala would be unreliable, but it turns to be him.

"Do you have any pills?"

"I do." Kalipsi took out his pouch and hand it to Tala.

"It is just healing pills. Nothing more." Kalipsi explained.

Tala opened the pouch and saw five substandard pills.

"Feed this to her." Kalipsi grabbed the pill and feed it to the lady.

"Are you sure it is effective?"

"Just watch!"

The lady's black skin showed sign of liveliness. A moment later, the lady regained her consciousness.

"Human!" The lady startled. She falteringly walked towards them emitting spirit energy; characteristic of a spirit creature.

She spread her luminescent wings.

"A spirit creature? A..are you Ani?" Kalipsi could not believe to what he was seeing.

"Yes, I am Ani, the spirit creature of harvest. I bet you two saved me. I thank you so much!" The lady bowed.

Spirit creatures were born according to the spirit energy of their surroundings, but their energy were not limited to only one skill.

Ani was born through the spirit energy of the plantations. She can dictate the harvest and she can also form a barrier. She can protect herself using her energy and can fight head on to a master level.

Her predicament situation earlier was due to her miscalculation.

"I...It's nothing." Seeing the spirit creature bowing, Kalipsi felt a little awkward. "He..he's the one who truly save you."

"No..it's your pill who save her." Tala stated.

"How can my pill saved her. I know you did something to it. And you're the one who kill the demon."

"I just touch it." Actually, Tala surged her heavenly energy to the pill. Guardian's energy was good for healing and recuperation among all living creatures beneath heaven, but she needed some medium to hide her ident.i.ty.

The spirit creature was quite amazed by them. If it was a greedy one, they will probably fight for their so-called rights.

"Both of you help me out, so I thank you. But we needed to go out now for my absence weakened the barrier I set in this place."

Th...there's a barrier in this place?" Kalipsi couldn't keep out to Ani's words.

"Yes, there is. This is the place where I was born. In order to guard this place, I put a barrier because I could not guard this whole land days and nights." The lady explained as she led the way out.