It have been 2 hours since he left those green creature, but his truck had no sign of slowing down.

***

Alexander John is his name, as his experience through his entire life, this is the most bizarre thing that happen to him.

After seeing those green creature, he know that inside this forest is full danger, so he didn’t dare to randomly stop unless he certain he was truly safe.

*GLODAK *GLUDUMB *GLUM

An endless sound of metallic clashing together because of bumpy road.

Actually, his truck is unsuitable to pass this kind of road, his truck was built for long distance in highway, not off-road.

***

After bumpy jumpy road for more 30 minutes, the truck driver or Alex was stopping his truck at peak of hill in open area, so he could observe his surroundings.

With the aid of moonlight, Alex found a glimpse of light faraway at down the hill.

Alex take his binocular inside his truck dashboard so he could see clearly.

It was a settlements, with a dim light that seemed to be a torch.

Alex could see with his binocular that they are man, a human, a normal human.

Alex’s overjoyed, seeing another human after he transported into unknown forest.

Without thinking much, he drive his truck to downhill, into the settlements.

The road was getting narrow and narrow, until all tree branches hit the truck and snapped.

Alex know that his truck is too big to pass this road, but he don’t care as long as there is no trees that blocking his way.

***

Baharmag Village.

A village that located at borderland between 2 kingdom, Kingdom of Amra and Kingdom of Demora.

Both kingdom hostile toward each other, they always fought from generation to generation.

The Legend said Kingdom of Amra first queen fell in love and made an affair with the king of Demora Kingdom, thus ignite the anger of King Amra Kingdom, the king kill his queen and wage the war with Demora kingdom because of the filthy thing he had done.

The other legend said that King Demora and King Amra fell in love with the same woman, thus both fighting for it and the war happen.

Many legend regarding war between 2 kingdoms but one thing for sure that the war caused by single women.

When the war happen, Baharmag village suffered from both side.

Why both side? Because their village located at borderland, both kingdom military confiscate their food and weapons, only tools for farming they didn’t take.

They suffer from malnutrition, because they can’t hunt, even they grow crops again, it’s still takes a long time before can be harvested.

When Alex spot the villager, they were doing patrolling because recent attack of magic beast.

Armed with their farming tools like fork, small axe or shovel, they could only relied in numbers.

They patrol in great numbers so they could overwhelm the beast and killed them or at very least drive them away.

“HoooAAAAMMMM~ … I’m so tired” whispered to his friend, by brown haired youngster while yawning like a hippo.

“I know! Everyone know! Don’t you think you’re they only one who tired” said iritiatedly the old man who lead the group.

“Ekkk, I’m sorry”, the brown haired youngster quickly replied.

He didn’t expected that the old man could heard his word.

While his friend at his side smiling, seemed they were happy seen him at his misfortune.

While they were giggling, suddenly they heard weird noise from the distance.

All of alarmed, they are looking everywhere trying to find the cause.

“Hei! Look over there!” said one of the villager while pointing at the hill where Alex at.

Every single of them now paying attention at the distance hill.

They saw a bright light coming down from the hill very quickly with loud noise and snapping branches along the way.

They panicked, they never seen such a thing like that.

“PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE!” Shout the Old man.

They grip their tools while trembling, they thought ‘why something like this happen to us? Why can’t we have a peaceful life?’.

Misfortune event came one after another to this village, so they thought something like that.

Their number is already small, the recent war and beast attack decrease their number every year.

Also some of them actually already leaving the village to better place, it might be another village or go to city but still, many of them is reluctant to leave their village, because they have to start everything at the bottom or at zero again.

***

*BLAM! *GRUGLE *GRUGLE

As the sound of truck that made it through out of the forest.

Soon Alex could see a mob of people carrying faming tool and torch.

He slowed down his truck and lower the truck headlight, so the mob won’t get blinded by the truck headlight.

*SCREEEECH *TSSSSSS

As his truck stopping in front of the mob.

Alex could see their face, their face is not far different from Caucasian, he’s glad though he also aware that they are not really welcoming him in warm hand.

Alex once more grab his shotgun and get out of his truck.

***

After the ‘thing’ was stopped in from them, they didn’t rush to attack.

Because their fear of death, and also the Old man had not command to attack.

The Old man noticed there is a man inside ‘that’ thing, even so, he didn’t slightly lower his guard.

*VRMVRMVRMVRM

The unknown sound from it is still exist, they thought that ‘thing’ is aware about their presence.

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But then a man came out from it.

He wore very weird attire, actually Alex just wearing his usual clothes.

Alex wore green denim jacket, gray t-shirt and blue jeans.

But of course, for Alex, after what he saw, he thought they are bunch of people wearing some-kind-of tribe wear from Tibetan.

And of course, what villager wear was actually their casual clothes too, though by earth modern standard, it was like makeshift tribe wear clothes.

Now, both of them staring each other, observing one after another about other parties.

“I meant no harm” shout Alex.

The villager are confused about what he said.

He’s clearly didn’t speak any language they know, but also indirectly inform them that he’s a foreigner.

The old man notice this and quickly he chant something, some kind of bizarre word if normal earth people heard it.

“Say again, what you want?” said the old man, but still in his own language.

Somehow, Alex understood what he said but he bewildered, he speak some unknown language but he understood it.

“I-I meant no harm! I’m lost!” replied Alex.

“Really? Then could you tell your beast to quiet down?” said the old man in the same way as before.

‘Beast?’ Alex thought about it then realize that the ‘beast’ they talk about actually is his Truck.

So, Alex switch off his truck.

“Ok, I already turn it off, so … put your weapons down too” said Alex.

Then the old man told his group to lower their weapon, although some of the somewhat reluctant about it but in the end they follow the old man command.

“My name is Labaro, the chief village, and to whom am I speaking?” said the old man that actually is the chief village.

“Alexander, just call me Alex … I just want to ask few information” replied Alex.

“Sure, sure … it just … I hope you keep it down your beast” said Labaro while still being wary about the truck.

“Sure” Alex didn’t explain about the ‘beast’ actually just a transportation vehicle because he’s at the place of unknown, he’s unknown about everything in here, but they also didn’t know anything about him.

But also, there is another reason.

Back then, he watch a movie about a tribesman found glass bottle, they thought it was a gift from god. It was just a glass bottle for normal people but for the tribesman, it was a divine item.

So he did in similar way, at least it just for precaution.

But suddenly when they are about to talk more each other, they heard a loud scream that belong to female inside the village.

They are all gasped, and without thinking much, the group of villager rush to source of voice leaving behind Alex.

Because they all know, that the scream was caused by attack of magic beast.

While running, they silently pray that they hope the voice didn’t belong to their family members.

The village chief, Labaro was the fastest, even though at his old age, his movement and stamina is not belong to person at his age.

When the villager arrived at the scene, they saw 2 unconscious girl.

One of them already dead being mauled by the magic beast while other one is still laying motionless on the ground.

“MARTA! MAIA!” shout one of the man that seemed relative of them.

Afterward, they saw the cause of this.

It was a big black tiger, you might want to call it a panther but it has 2 big fang that looks like sabertooth from earth.

The size of it actually slightly bigger than normal tiger on earth.

Because of anger and grief, that man who just lost one of his family member rushed at the magic beast.

*RAWR!!!

The magic beast respond him with loud roar and swing his front paw at him.

When Labaro seen what’s happening, he also rush at magic beast.

He’s not attacking the magic beast, rather than that, he’s trying to save the man life from his reckless thing.

Fortunately, Labaro managed to push away that man and caused the paw hitting empty air.

Even though like that, they are not complete safe from another magic beast attack.

*RAWR! RAWR!!!

Seeing that the magic beast missed his target, he let out irritated roar toward Labaro.

As for Labaro, he’s actually pretty nervous, because he’s unsure that he could beat this magic beast.

If it was at his prime age, probably he still could beat this kind of magic beast.

The magic beast jumped at him while swipe its front paw.

But very quickly, Labaro evade the magic beast attack by rolling on the ground.

“Everyone attack! No need to hit him, just scare him away!” said Labaro.

He know they can’t kill it, but at least they should be able to scare him away.

The villager randomly swung their tools, as if attacking the magic beast.

*RAWR!!!

Unfortunately it doesn’t work, in fact, that made the magic beast furious.

The magic beast quickly jumped to crowd and swipe its paw to the closest person.

“AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!” a loud scream by the victim of the magic beast.

Because of fear getting killed, the group of villager dispersed.

But there is a single youngster that stood trembling, that youngster is the brown haired from previously.

He want to run, but his fear made him unable to move.

The magic beast bare its teeth at him, and suddenly jump at him.

The brown haired youngster know that he’s about to die, he close his eyes but then … a very loud noise came out from his behind.

*BANG!

***