“OoOooH another fishy has come to be eaten!” a voice consisting of the screams of the suffering said causing both Villin and Ruby to get a headache.

“The boy doesn’t squirm? Our voices are WEAK?!” the male creature responded clearly enraged.

The two creatures moved closer slowly yet Villin and Ruby didn’t move, they knew that turning their backs on them was the quickest way to get killed.

“V-Villin?”

“Yeah?”

“You got a plan?”

Ruby’s voice was shaky, yet even so she stood ready, her bravery was clear for all to see.

As for Villin, his fearful expression had disappeared. He knew these things were powerful, and he knew he couldn’t beat them in a straight-on fight, but that didn’t matter to him right now.

The pressure of this situation did more than just calm his mind, he smiled as he looked at the two approaching creatures, he could do this. “I do, just follow my lead.”

Villin’s voice was heard by Ruby but the two creatures could see the confidence he was emitting and the sliver of hope in Ruby’s eyes causing them to become confused and put up their guard a bit more.

Once they were three meters from Villin and Ruby they paused as one, and the two sides stared at each other.

Ruby had difficulty breathing and the two creatures seemed confused, one of them emitting weird screeching sounds as it tried to think.

Yet even then, when they seemed distracted, Villin waited. The only thing he was doing currently was forming his magic power, repairing the mental shield that was constantly being attacked on one hand while sending a few strings of magic power into his backpack at the same time.

He seemed confident with his wand in hand, confusing everyone in the room, but after waiting for a bit, the two creatures had had enough. The male creature stopped his screeching “KILL!”

A moment later, as one, they pounced towards Ruby with an insane speed.

Still, they weren’t fast enough as Villin casted the spell he had prepared ‘Illuminatus’

A bright light came out of his wand at once blinding even himself and Ruby. As for the two creatures they tried covering their eyes mid pounce with a terrible scream more destructive than the ones they had used before.

Villin barely managed to sidestep the female creature that was still moving toward him but Ruby wasn’t so lucky. The male creature hit her in the chest causing them to tumble to the ground together. The male creature wasn’t ready to follow up with an attack though as blood flowed from his eyes, his hands unable to stop the damage.

Villin kicked the creature off of Ruby allowing her to get up.

“NOW MOVE!”

As one the two of them began running in the direction the fight had happened as they heard that should be the way out, yet they were not yet out of the first cave when the female creature recovered.

Villin ignored her though, just as the two of them arrived at the living room of the two creatures he had his second spell ready, a wandless Illuminatus this time, the second spell he ever cast. A bright light appeared in an area around Villin, illuminating it, once Villin got through he turned around and pointed at the area connecting the cooking and living room, he needed a second to finish his cast but luckily his earlier spells had gotten him that, the female creature had just taken the step and tried to pounce through the heavily illuminated area when vines sprouted out of the floor entangling her and making a wall the two creatures would have to get through.

If it was just the vines the female creature wouldn’t have cared much, simply slashing her way through it, the problem was the area of light the vines trapped her in. Before the evolution they went through by taking care of Leonardo, light was already somewhat harmful, making them close to blind in illuminated areas. But with this final evolution, their eyes and pupils had grown, Villin had recognized the symptoms of a nocturnal creature and hence used light to harm them. At this point her eyes were terribly damaged, she was pretty much blind, hence she had no idea where exactly she had to slash to destroy the vines.

After a loud roar she raised the arm she managed to free “Ractognal!”

The light all around her instantly disappeared causing darkness to spread across the room once more, still, it was too late, the damage to her eyes had already been done.

“Wincharte!” blades of wind appeared all around her slashing at the nearby area, destroying the vines in the progress.

She was now blind and the last evolution made her deaf as well, all she had left was her sense of smell but it was enough.

At this point the male creature had recovered somewhat as well, even though his eyes were harmed too, he still had the ability to see somewhat and so the two of them quickly chased after Ruby and Villin.

As for those two, they had hit a dead end. They had gotten to the courtyard littered with the corpses of those that tried to kill their elders, but there was no other exit, the only way out was either to go up which was impossible for them who hadn’t learned flight, or to go back to where they came from and find another cave to go through, both of those were impossible tasks for them right now.

Villin noticed Ruby seemed to be looking in the air with a pleading look but didn’t have time to waste thinking about that, the screams of the two creatures were too hard to deal with destroying the shield harder then he could build it, if he wanted to stop himself from falling to the ground in anguish again, he couldn’t cast any spells for a little bit at least.

Even though they had now been forced to fight, the situation wasn’t as hopeless as it was before. They knew their weakness. Hence after Ruby finished her pleading look she used her own illumination spell causing ten bright orbs to illuminate the area properly.

And well, with the two creatures blind, Villin had an option. Even if these creatures probably had a sense of smell, he had something that could bypass that. At the same time as the two elders came out of the cave, with just twenty meters of ground and corpses between them, Villin’s puppet came out of his backpack.

In this scenario, it was a weapon of stealth. With the creatures blind and deaf, they would only be able to locate the object by touch, after all the puppet didn’t smell like anything but metal, even though Villin’s scent was on it faintly, it wasn’t large enough to be detected by a beast.