The "Elf woman" approached walking calmly.
"A sacred spirit..."
She stopped suddenly as she saw Matthew was now a little stronger than before, enough to defeat her.
He could tell she was getting worried.
The "Elf woman" also looked at the zombie dog whose size had increased.
"I told you before, as long as you guys don't attack me, I won't hurt you," Matthew said, sitting on the ground and leaning his back against a tree.
The "C-" Rank zombie dog lay down near Matthew and the other zombie dog continued exploring the surroundings.
The Fairy began to fly around the Elf woman and then asked her:
"Are you able to handle spiritual energy?"
"Yes, that's right," the Elf woman replied.
Ignoring the conversation between the Fairy and the "Elf woman", Matthew still remembered the Fairy's reaction when looking at the cave.
"She knows what lives in that cave, but just from her expression it is easy to deduce that what lives in that cave is very dangerous"
Matthew looked back into the deepest part of the forest and did not feel that any rational beast was watching him, yet his instinct or intuition told him that it was not that simple.
Matthew sent his D-rank zombie dog into the deep part of the forest.
The zombie dog walked on the dirt floor sometimes covered by grass, tree roots and other variety of elements.
"You are very cunning. You could say that you came out in time," the zombie dog sensed the strange beast's malicious and cunning voice.
The zombie dog stopped.
...
"It seems you can hear me," said the Strange Beast.
The zombie dog tore the ground with one of its front paws.
"So it's like that"
...
"I knew it, just because the rest of the violent and chaotic beasts only attack at night doesn't mean that rational beasts do the same," Matthew thought from where he was.
...
If you escaped it is because you did not feel so sure of winning. I wonder if I should have tried to eat you. Maybe that strange power of yours would have been transferred to me. Now all rational beasts know your situation. You are a bipedal and rational delicacy for which any rational beast could go a little crazy", after those words the Strange Beast jumped between the trees and disappeared.
...
Matthew understood the strange words of the Strange Beast.
"These rational beasts are strong and want to be stronger. They will be willing to break the balance if that guarantees them a chance to increase their power."
Matthew looked toward the cave entrance.
It was an obvious concern after hearing the Strange Beast's words and after seeing the Fairy's expression.
"But I can't trust the strange beast's words 100% either. She must want something. Devouring me only seems to represent a stepping stone on her path to achieving her goal."
Matthew looked at the Fairy and the Elf woman.
...
The other zombie dog returned with a snake being crushed between the teeth of its jaws.
The Fairy looked down, still feeling afraid when she saw Matthew.
"What would happen if the rational beasts came here?" Matthew preferred not to mince words.
The Fairy's expression seemed to represent deep fear.
And the Elf woman, witnessing the scene, knew that Matthew was talking about something that would upset the order of the forest and put her people in danger.
...
"Chaos, and death, throughout the forest and beyond. If that with ancient strength is awakened, its anger will not stop until it quenches its bloodlust with the living beings within its reach," the Fairy's voice seemed increasingly fragile.
Matthew put a hand to his chin.
"Millenary, a being more than a thousand years old. She doesn't want to say what it is exactly, maybe there is a reason. But what is certain is that it is a being as chaotic as the beasts that face each time the light disappears from the sky and the moss shines again. They seem to be related or maybe that moss has something to do with what lives in that cave," Matthew thought silently.
"What is happening?" the Elf woman asked with obvious concern.
The Fairy kept her drooping and fearful look, especially after hearing Matthew's question.
"No one asks something without a reason," that was practically what both the Fairy and the Elf woman thought.