"I can’t leave my position right now…."

Artisha began to speak, her story unfolding with, "It was a few months ago…."

"Monsters around the village started showing up dead. At first, I thought it was just the usual territory disputes that monsters have…."

But finding dead monsters didn't end there. Hunters began returning empty-handed, and even powerful monsters they couldn’t normally handle were showing up as corpses. Realizing something unusual was happening, Artisha organized an investigation team, leading them herself. It wasn’t long before they found the source of the problem—so quickly, in fact, it was strange they hadn’t noticed …