Chapter 35 Poisoned

All the girls who followed them couldn't help but close their noses from the stinkiness of the atmosphere. The wall and the gate were in terrible shape allowing them to see the outside from inside the city.

"What happened to the wall here?" Nara looked at everything with surprise. The gate was wrecked into pieces and part of the wall was missing. It was like something big was running around destroying everything.

Since nobody was there to be seen except the bodies of dead people inside the city, All of them quickly took a peek of outside from the huge hole in the wall.

"That's the monster!" Girls shouted looking at the dark black fur ball with horns lying on the floor without any movements. It had no body movements or anything as it stayed still.

"Is it dead? Where are the chiefs?" Nara asked while ordering everyone not to get too close in case it was alive but, Usha and Eva didn't listen to her as they quickly went there with the weapons aimed towards its throat.

Nara would have scolded them if it was a normal situation, but right now her full attention was on the monster.

They attacked it but, it gave no reaction signalling the death of the monster. For some reason even if they pierces its body with their weapons no blood came out from its body.

"It was already dead when she was attacking us, she's used some kind of a curse to turn this monster into her puppet," Others didn't know about it as Nara was the only one who was there except chiefs when Eldora explained about it. She still vividly remembered her disgusting story.

As a light mage, she had seen blood and injuries that could be categorised as dangerous but she never saw a whole monster turning into a corpse like this.

There were undead in this world but, none of them was controllable, at least they didn't even know who they were. Undeads are just empty shells. This monster had the characteristics of an undead except it was like a puppet.

"If the monster is dead, where are the chiefs?" Girls who came with Nara to help questioned her, nobody knew what happened there since it was a mess but, suddenly Eva shouted looking at something with a frightened look,

"Mother!" With Eva yelling, Usha and Nara quickly came to the place where Eva was standing, Nara didn't expect to see Carol in such a state.

She was lying on the floor with blood all over her body, she was not sure whether Carol was unconscious or dead so she quickly checked her pulse.

"She's alive, take her back to the city," Nara quickly ordered the girls. On her orders, they acted super fast and lifted her carefully without causing any more damage to her.

Eva didn't talk as she kept looking at her with pure shock, She felt like she was in a dream seeing her like that.

"Mother! Why?" She didn't know what happened to her. In her mind, the most powerful person she had seen was her mother, so if someone was able to damage her this much, she couldn't think about how she would have been able to help her being this weak.

She understood why Carol wanted to send her back while fighting with these monsters,

"I'm weak, I thought I'm strong but I'm weak," She muttered to herself. The powerlessness hit her so hard that it became the driving force for the future Eva who became an unstoppable killing queen.

Usha was worried about her but more than that, she started to get anxious because she couldn't find Elisha,

"Aunty, where is our chief?" She was acting tough in front of everyone but deep down she felt like crying. Nobody wanted to see their friends like this and she remembered how they promised her not to get injured and their smiles,

Nara didn't know how to answer her as she had no idea about it, Eldora was also nowhere to be seen. In her mind, she thought about the worst case of Elisha being kidnapped or killed.

"Did these two manage to kill that bitch?" Nara was questioning herself.

"Let's just go inside now, we will send a search party to find Elisha," She was hesitant to send the girls because she knew that none of them stand a chance against, Eldora's disgusting powers.

She didn't know why she felt like puking every time she saw it but, Nara guessed that it must have something to do with her element.

"Aunty, do you think something happened to her?" Usha's fake expression started to break out as tears started to collect in her eyes. Nobody had seen cool and quiet Usha like that. Most of them felt sad seeing her like that.

"Don't cry, darling, she's strong I'm sure she's safe," Nara hugged her but in her mind, she wasn't sure about it.

"Your mother has high hopes for you, so you should live up to them until she returns," She understood why her mother didn't want them in this fight as they might become a liability for them.

Usha wasn't a toddler to not understand what was going on, she knew something bad must have happened but she decided to stay strong as others might need her help.

They left the corpse of the monster for now as it was too big for them to carry while going back to the city. Even though, the gates and walls are damaged most of them started to build some temporary barriers so monsters won't attack the tribe to increase their problems.

While this was happening outside, Usha, Eva and Nara with a few other girls were looking at the unconscious Carol with sadness.

"Nara, is she under the same black smoke that enveloped our girls?" One of the elders asked, normally they wouldn't interfere with the work of the tribe but, after getting to know about the dangerous attack they did their best to protect the city while fighting with dark elves to help younglings.

Most of the elders were from the generation of Elisha's mother so they were a big asset for the fighting power as well as the administration.

"She's the only one who knows what happened? We should recover her quickly,"

"What happened to our Elisha girl?"

They were arguing with each other and giving suggestions while Nara is looking at Carol without blinking.

Nara and both Carol and Elisha were best friends since their childhood, so she felt utter pain in her heart and body seeing her likes this. If she had been more cautious she would have noticed something strange happening inside her own body but, her whole mind was with Carol's problem.

Nara diagnosed her for a minute before answering the questions, everyone,

"She's cursed but it's not the curse that's dangerous, I think she's poisoned, look at these blue spots," Nara pointed at her underboobs and shoulders.

"They are the symptom of getting poisoned, but I haven't seen a poison giving these coloured symptoms,"

"Do you have a cure for my mother? If you have please give it to her," Eva was begging but Nara didn't know what to do as she didn't know what type of poison it is or how it will affect her.

"I'll try my best darling, don't worry I won't let anything happen to your mother, first, I will take care of these disgusting curses," Nara chanted her blessing which caused a black colour smoke to leave Carol's body.

*Cough *Cough

Nara started to cough violently feeling a heavy pain in her chest.

"What the hell is that?" Nara thought as she felt something twisting her heart, she coughed feeling hard to breathe but she managed to calm down after a few seconds.

"Are you okay, Aunty?" Usha was worried about her but Nara waved her hand showing her that she was alright.

"I'm okay, darling,"

"I removed her curse but, we will have to continue treatment using some herbs to prevent the poison from spreading, so all of you should go and rest, I will take care of her,"

Except for Eva, everyone left the room without much questioning as they knew how important concentration is for these kinds of things, but before they leave the room, Nara quickly called out to Usha,

"And ask Nym to come here to help me, if you see her somewhere, I hope that girl is not harmed," She was scared but in the end, she wasn't powerful enough to protect someone physically because she didn't know anything, other than healing.

"I will aunty," Usha left while nodding her head.

Everyone respected her because of how important and kind she was so they acted as she told them to, Elders sent a party to search the forest for any evidence while people started to rebuild the walls and gate.

None of them knew that the worst time of their life was yet to come, just like that two weeks went by without many incidents.