Death Games
Apparitions in restricted areas

“Can you not surprise me like a ghost so?!”

“Why? You scared?” ledek Aza on Doxia.

“Damn it! Not scared, but you surprised me!”

“Same as.”

“Oh yes Mr. Aza, please,” interrupted Osmo while thrusting toast at him.

“So, are we going there?” ask Rexcel. Though it was clear their arrival to enter the place, but still asked.

“If not, why are we here?” Aza chuckles.

“The place is weird, Near is uncomfortable,” Reve suddenly makes a sound that makes people turn to him.

“You are really weird. The way you talk like a snake is your only son,” ledek Doxia but ignored.

“If you want you can stay here.”

“I'm curious.”

Reve's short answer was responded with a thin grin by Aza. Until finally the time for departure down there has arrived.

All of them went down the road filled with thickets to be able to reach the field under the cliff.

“This—” shocked Toz as his foot stepped on the grass in front of the lips of the forbidden area. It was because the sensation of the scent of flowers was loud there.

Magnolias.

Yes, similar to the fragrance that emanated from a figure named Susanoo before. The God, the white-eyed whole and the undercut hair dazzles. Toz was flabbergasted as the memories of the male look appeared suddenly while enjoying the scent around him.

“Where are you going? Don't we want to go inside?” asked Doxia who was confused following Aza's footsteps.

“Do not be foolish, the entrance is not here,” Aza timpal with a look of disdain.

Doxia just swung her lips because she was so. Until finally after a dozen minutes of travel they arrived in front of a large tree whose middle was somewhat hollow.

Aza immediately pressed her hands together while muttering something that they could not hear.

And suddenly, the tree moves by itself making a hole that was once small to be enlarged so that anyone can enter it.

“Wah, what did you say to this?” amazed Doxia. Honestly, he only heard the forbidden area as a place that should not be visited, but he also did not expect if the entry must also be like this.

The official did not answer him, making him grieve. However, for some reason Aza stared more calmly at whatever disturbed his view. Like a big tree at once their entrance.

“What's up?” ask Horusca suddenly. He also wondered why Aza was still silent in his position. Though as an elftraz (healer) that can control plants and detect danger, he felt nothing around him.

“No. There's nothing. Come on in,” take him with you as you enter the big hole in the tree.

And unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped inside, everyone was greeted with a quite strange forest view. The ceiling is filled with creeping plants with red leaves.

No more daytime sky, the view is all cut off by the charm of the foliage. And even worse, the magnolia scent is so thick in there. The ground was filled with grass that they had seen before.

But, there is something quite surprising. The appearance of red flames floating as lighting. Not just one, very many and far away. Highlight Aza's eyes swept across the view in front of her, with her footsteps walking first in front of them.

“Now I understand why this is called a restricted area,” Rexcel whispered to Doxia.

“Why?”

“Didn't you feel it? The sensation in this place is so strange and makes my hair goosebumps.”

“Yes, you're right. Are we going to be okay?” while Doxia's hand touched the floating fire and felt nothing. “This place is so horror, damn it!” sassy sagas.

However, Aza remained silent and ignored the chattering of the people behind her. In contrast to Horusca who looked strangely around him.

“What's up?” tanya Riz realized the meaning of the facial features of the plant controller.

“While, I can't feel anything. As if this place neutralizes my detection.”

Riz gasped to hear it and immediately glanced at his surroundings. To be honest, it's a bit uncomfortable in this area. For some reason, since entering it he was immediately vigilant. It was as if the place he came to had something with charm consuming his courage.

Suddenly Aza Ergo looked up and was stared at in wonder by Reve who was walking on the side but left a step behind him. “What's up?”

“This place makes me uncomfortable.”   

“You're right. Even my snake is shaking violently now.”

The big man smiled at his words. It is not a joke but a fact. Suddenly he called Horusca.

“Can you confirm if there are others around us?”

The young man shook his head. “While, I can't detect anything here. As if my abilities don't apply in this area.”

Horusca's sentence, clearly raises its own polemic in the hearts of each listener. Whispering loudly if the place in the house is not normal for them.

Suddenly, without any code Aza Ergo took out a sword from the magma that made them gasp.

Without answering it, the sword was directly plugged into the ground. “Nedierma (spread)” hisses so that red sparks directly scattered from Aza weapons form root threads to the surrounding.

“Hey, what is he doing?” doxia asked but no one answered.

Until finally the higher-ups of the empusa pulled out his sword and spread a grin on his lips. “Learnest. Apparently you guys are yes,” muttered him in a strange and pressing tone.

In a different place, a person who had been shocked, was now staring intently at the remnants of the root thread of the magma.

“Aza, what are you doing here?” he stared hard ahead.

“Mistress, now how? The road does not want to open,” complained someone staring sharply at the woman who was upset.

“Tap try, we can't be caught!” aquila Ganymede's orders to his subordinates.

“How is this? I didn't expect Aza to be here. Did anyone give her a year?”

“Surely so! Otherwise, where could that damn kid be here? Though he said his ability is declining but it bothers me here instead! Really jerk!”

“Then what should we do?” ask that figure to Aquila.

“What else? Just kill. If he gets to know our plan, it could run out of everything.”

“But she Aza Ergo, Aquila. Even his ability can not be compared with you even though both officials.”

“But we both! There are even your subordinates and me too! We can kill him no matter how good he is! After all his ability is not good, so we can definitely,” sure.

The figure who spoke to Aquila Ganymede displayed a doubtful expression. And finally, an unexpected sentence was thrown in his mouth.

“Do I have to send a message to the elder?”

“Do not!” intercept the empusa's top brass. “However the elder is busy opening another path, we must not disturb him. Let everything go according to plan, then you and I take care of Aza.”

“Alright then,” agrees the 30-year-old man.

And now here comes the Aza Ergo group. Doxia, Rexcel and Reve were busy asking Aza who she meant earlier. But, the young man only smiled and gave no clarity.

Until finally their steps were stopped by a strange order from the empusa superior.  

“You stay here. I'll be there alone.”

‘Hey, don't be crazy! You want us why-why?” sergeant Doxia who seemed to not accept.

“Even if you come with me it will be very dangerous. In front is a high-ranking member of my people. If I get caught walking around with a fugitive, what do you think will happen?”

“Cih!”

“Take it easy. This place is safe. There are a lot of you anyway, so it will be fine. I left one of my crows just in case. Then see you,” just relax.

And the crow that should have been given to each person if they had split up, was now perched on Horusca's shoulder for some reason.

Here comes Aza. His leisurely steps tread the streets without burden. Highlight his eyes focused forward, until finally the body arrived at the place with an extraordinary spectacle.

“Mrs Aquila? I never thought we'd meet so soon. So, what are you guys doing here?” that's how Aza Ergo's greeting sentence once met with that unexpected figure.

“Aza? Shouldn't I be the one asking? Why are you even here? This place can't be entered by anyone if you don't have the key.”

“And I have the key.”

Aquila Ganymede also narrowed his eyes looking intently at the young higher-ups of his people. “What did Trempusa send you?”

“Oh? Does that mean you guys got in here without our King's knowledge?”

“Cih! Damnit!” exasperatedly. “It seems, you didn't get the key from him.”

“And it seems you are too. What are you guys doing here? If other nations know, this will tarnish the name empusa.”

“It's none of your business, Aza. If you want to survive, you better shut up and act ignorant. Because I won't soften even if we're a nation.”

Aza Ergo chuckled softly. Suddenly, the magma sword that was not in hand reappeared and made Aquila put the horses on guard.

“When you are a very honorable person, Madam. Don't tell me if you don't know, what will happen to Trempusa if the higher-ups of his people are caught entering this forbidden area.”

“You think I care? He is not the real King.” Aza's face was wrinkled confused because of the strange words of the woman before him. “A outcast like you will never understand. Who is the King who should be worshipped and who should be banished. That's why you have to stay behind Aza, so that your life is always safe and your life is also calm.

Jerked.

Suddenly, a killing aura approached Aza at high speed from behind. The young man turned around and swung his magma sword, but it was too late.

An unexpected stab, it had lodged in his chest to coincide with Aquila Ganymede's wide grin as the culprit.