Two days before -

Helen knew that the duke had went for subjugation and decided to go to the forest to test her new skills .

Though Helen was not able to master Fire element she was able to master wind element and make sharp wind blades.

Helen wrote a letter her Father (Mackil Duke) that she would be back within one week and is going to check some new buisness deals .[Duke did not know helen could use elemantal powers]

Helen left during midnight , she had already informed Lusav about her plan to go to the Magic forest . Lusav tried pursuading her to bring him along . But Helen promised to return safely and assured Lusav .

"Lusav ,i just want to test my skills . I will visit the magic Forest and see for myself how far i can fight ." Lusav agreed and trusted his master .

Helen wore her assassin dress - Black pants, and black top of leather with a belt to hold different sizes of knives and wore the red fox mask . Her red eyes stood out ,it was as sharp as a sword of red fire ,her

white- blue hair was tied high into a pony tail .She looked elegant ,slender and tall .

Helen moved fast, she rode her horse at the speed of wind . Being a wind elemantalist she was able to move faster than anyone else cutting through the wind like a sharp sword .

[People take years to master each element, but Helen was different, she had great talent to learn everything just by looking at it once . Helen, when she was in modern world knew almost seventy-five languages to speak and write . Helen mastered the wind element within three months .She mastered it with tge knowledge from library books , she was not able to level up to Blue flame in fire elemental because it was far more hard .

Within half a day Helen entered the Magic forest .Entering the forest she saw dead evil beast and dried blood . Seeing that Helen knew which way the subjugation team traveled . Helen sped up. On the way she encountered an ogre which was hiding from the subjugation team . Seeing Helen alone it came to attack her .

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[Ogres are giant green human like evil beast , they showed many human behavior and travelled in pairs . seeing an ogre alone Helen knew that its other mate must have been killed by the subjugation team .

The ogre rushed towards helen . Helen stood up on the running horse turned back . The ogre was following her from behind. Helen took out one of her knives and aimed at its neck .Then she threw the knife with her maximum HUMAN POWER but nothing much happened . The ogre was just scratched . Usually ogres had blue blood different from its skin colour , so if bled it was easy to notice . The ogre kept following Helen , it took giant footsteps ..and came closer to Helen each time ...

Helen jumped down from the horse . Ran towards the ogre at the speed of wind , she was very agile . Raised her hands holding a long ,thin, sharp knife . Helen imbibed the knife with wind element and sliced the arms of the ogre(The knife was glowing green due to the power of wind ) . She sliced the arms at the speed and force of wind , which many people dont know how to do . An evil beast was never easy to be killed . So after slicing its arms , Helen aimed for its giant legs . Helen jumped up into the air , and with full force and speed glided through the ground , slicing of the ogre's feet too. Blue blood splattered onto the ground .(While gliding onto the ground and slicing of the feet Helen was behind the ogre )

Helen turned back to see the ogre she sliced . Helen smirked and muttered "That was a good hunting , whew i need to train harder to use blue flame "

The ogre fell to the ground unable to move . Helen knew she couldnt kill the beast ,so she walked towards where her horse stood . The horse was few meters away , she jumped onto the horse and started riding it without turning back .

Helen was now interested to see what all monsters can she see moving ahead .She rode through the blood of monsters killed by the subjugation team . The forest paths were filled with smell of blood and venom. As helen had already taken the antitode (miraculous medical plant) she was immune to all venoms and poisons,.... the only poisons that could effect her was cursed poisons. Helen was able to travel a lot more faster as there were no more evil beasts attacking . The second day night Helen reached near the Duke's camp site . As she was riding her horse it suddenly stoped and started shivering . Helen felt the earth beneath slightly shaking . Suddenly she heard a person screaming further ahead from her ....

(That was the second scream. The evil beasts had already heard the first scream)

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(where the duke's camp was set)

As the shaking increased the duke ordered the knights to stay calm, alert and draw their swords.

Soon there were eleven evil beasts in sight. Six of them were lower level beast while there were almost five higher level beast . The Duke knew it was going to be a tough fight .