When the monsters charged their claws after Dilara and Rhydian, they both casted their spells against their enemies. Relieved with the monsters gone in black dust, they sighed and scanned their surroundings.

Dilara and Rhydian were about to get out of here at first, yet they then saw more monsters coming after them, roaring at them with their fangs out; this time those monsters were all skinny land monsters that were black furred and red eyes, kinda like the beast Dilara encountered in the woods earlier.

There were a lot of them too; there were, in fact, so many of them that Dilara and Rhydian couldn't even count. Dilara sighed and aimed her palm with her other hand supporting it, while Rhydian just raised her arm and grinned without a problem with purple electricity surrounding and swirling around her hand, hearing her chuckle a bit.

Oh, great more enemies to deal with! Jus' when I was 'bout to go home, and this is what we have to deal with! Ugh!

Once the monsters dashed their way against Dilara and Rhydian, they casted their spells against their nemeses. While Dilara's spell took out a group of those things at a time, she chanted her spell to cast it against them. Rhydian, however, was able to cast her spells against her enemies without even chanting them, which is unusual in Castoria, let alone Aniva.

Nonetheless, Dilara assisted Rhydian cast magic spells against them since Rhydian could only cast her spell at one enemy at a time. After they fought against two new, large groups of those same monsters a couple more times, Dilara grew tired of fighting them already.

No matter how many times Dilara and Rhydian fought against those monsters, their nemeses kept coming after them to attack them. They wondered when will this shit end as there were too many of those nemeses.

Dilara's magic powers were beginning to weaken through and through; her arm grew tired of casting magic that she stopped holding her arm to aim her palm straight. She tried everything to make it work, yet the magic spell still wouldn't even help her.

When Dilara chanted her magic spell, only very little white light flickered from her palm, dimly lighting its surroundings. She frowned at her arm when her magic spell had no effect on them.

As the monster got closer to Dilara, it smiled and grinned at her, chuckling a bit. She chanted her spell and it no longer responded to her chants, so I took a couple steps back and shivered a bit, gritting my teeth. After fighting her enemies so well, she now couldn't fight them anymore. She wondered what she was supposed to do now.

Dilara looked everywhere for something useful to fight against that thing, yet she couldn't find any, no matter how hard her heart pushed her to help Rhydian. Rhydian noticed it before the monster decided to be on the offensive. Dilara screamed from the top of my lungs.

Yet Rhydian slid to the side and cast her lighting spell at the monster and it screamed in pain, disappearing in black dust. She then turned to Dilara when more of these things charged right at Dilara and her. "Go!" She shouted in demand.

Dilara turned to Rhydian with her shocked eyes. "But Rhydian, I-"

"Go!" Rhydian shouted once more. "Your powers are weakening from all this fighting, and besides"-Rhydian turned back to her enemies-"Your family needs you and are worried sick about you. At least better go check on them and see that they're okay. I'll catch up with you later. Right now, I'll distract them while you go fetch your family."

Dilara felt guilty that she almost forgot about her family. Frowning, Dilara shook her head at Rhydian. "Alright, I'll go, I guess…"

As soon as Dilara turned around, she immediately ran for her life, to escape from Castoria by herself. She looked back and forth with her continuous frown.

She felt guilty for failing to fight with Rhydian like she should have, yet it didn't stop her from escaping out of Castoria alive. She wished her powers would've lasted much longer to fight with Rhydian, yet she knew right then and there that there was nothing she could do about it. Nothing at all.

While she survived her way out of the burning kingdom, she scanned her surroundings to find corpses of both civilians and soldiers alike slightly outnumbered the monsters, both flying and land. She couldn't believe it in her own eyes of what she just saw.

Although the remaining soldiers failed to defend the civilians from those things, Dilara was lucky enough to not have beasts attacking her. She hoped her family was still alive and out of the castle, as she couldn't even imagine wanting to reenter the kingdom to search for them again.

Dilara finally managed to leave the kingdom, she studied her environment only to find soldiers escorting the civilians to safety in the woods with the torches guiding them. She searched for her family and they were nowhere to be found.

Then one of the guards spotted her and walked his way towards her. "Ma'am!" He shouted.

Hearing his footsteps inching closer to her, Dilara turned to the soldier and asked, "Yes, sir?"

"Are you alright? I just saw you exiting the kingdom a few seconds ago," the guard said.

"Yes, I'm fine. I'm looking for my family. I told them to escape out of the kingdom while I distracted the monsters. Have you seen them?"

"Oh? Well, I might have seen them. Can you describe what they look like for me?"

Dilara shook her head. "Sure, no problem, sir."

After she described their appearances, the soldier shook his head back. "Ah, I've seen them. They were escorted from here a while ago."

Dilara sighed out of relief and looked up at the sky.

Oh, thank the gods, they're still alive!

"Please take me to them," Dilara said.

"Well, I can't take you to them, ma'am, due to helping my comrades escorting civilians away from Castoria, but"-the soldier turned to the other guards-"if you follow their lead, they should take you to the sanctuary camp. That's where you should find them."

Dilara turned to the soldiers escorting the civilians, then back at the soldier near her. "Thank you, sir, for everything."

"No problem, ma'am. Take care." The soldier waved at Dilara and walked his way back to his colleagues.

"You too!" Dilara waved back as she began to head for the sanctuary camp with the soldiers' guidance throughout the woods, hoping to find her family there. She wished she would never experience that ever again in the future.