The smell of my burned flesh strongly filled the room as the nasty looking creatures, who turned out to be predators, sniffed towards me while licking their lips.
The pack began growling as they tried to warn them but I already know that they can't fight back because of me. If there wasn't a cuff around my neck, the nasty looking creatures wouldn't be standing there in a blink of an eye.
Still, they formed a protective circle around me in which Lion embraced me tightly as he began snarling.
The Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council simply scolded the nasty looking creatures playfully as he told the pack to stand up as he is going to tell something to them.
Or else.
I was gently laid on the floor by Lion as he nuzzled my face, whispering into my ear all sorts of comfort in which I started to flinch as the pain started again.
I just stared at the pack's faces as the pain started again in which I was too tired to scream, seeing their agonized looks as they began to clenched their fists.
Somehow, everyone in the room including Orm and Ghost despite not being predators, began sniffing towards me, much to the pack's horrified looks in which the pack especially Lion began clenching their teeth and hands.
Though the pain didn't intensified, still it lingered, the smell of it teased everyone as the predators including the two despite not being predators, began salivating and licking their lips.
I looked at the pack in which tears covered their faces and having tortured looks in their eyes as they tried their best to cover their mouths and noses.
This might be the end of me.
I didn't expect to be eaten alive.
I hope they will enjoy eating me.
Much to everyone's surprise, I simply smiled at the pack despite the pain and told them to make it quick. My voice is hoarse but everyone can hear it as I continued on telling the pack that I have no ill will against them if they decided to devour me and sincerely wished them well.
I kneeled towards them and bowed my head in which I can notice in the corner of my eye the look of interest towards me by the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council.
Despite him being clearly a sadistic person, there was no sign of him being a demon like Rahab in which I calmed down as my mind feels at ease, knowing that the demons who are in disguise can easily be defeated by the pack based on their performance during the combat event, much more if they used their abilities and transform into their ultimate form.
I can hear the pack telling me all sorts of protests and assurances as they slumped and huddled on the floor, clutching their chests while sobbing loudly.
Lion began biting his fists hard as his blood dripped on the floor, telling me that he would rather die than eat me.
Sly clutched his mouth, his nails digging through his face as blood started to trickle down. He told me in an agonized voice that he would rather starve himself than tasting a bit of my flesh.
Alpha has an agonized look on his face that he started to chew on his forearm that seemed to tell me that he would rather eat himself than me.
To my horror, Orm began pulling his hair as he kept on reminding himself that he's not a predator and even if he were, he would rather consume his tail than take a tiny bite of me while trying to wrap himself into a ball.
Ghost kept staring at his hands with a vacant look in his eyes as I can hear him questioning himself on his identity, calling himself a monster for salivating the smell of my burned flesh. He said that he would rather strike his head repeatedly on the ground until he die than to even consider the thought of eating me.
Soon, I can no longer feel the pain as feelings of wrath began to fill my thoughts as I stared at the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council with hatred, thinking of ways on how to kill him now as I clenched my hands.
He looked intrigued and stared back at me as genuine delight formed on his lips.
What the.
He's sick!
The other nasty looking creatures looked at him questioningly, in which he simply told them that their work is done and they can leave in which I can see the dismayed looks in their faces as they sniffed around me for the last time before leaving the room.
Though they are nasty, I can feel that they are not demons but simply predators with a twisted mind.
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The fiery plains.
The Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council told us our next mission while Lion gently embraced me despite the smell of my burned flesh.
The pack tried their best to calm down when the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council glared at them earlier while telling them that they already wasted too much of his precious time.
He told them they better pay attention to his words or else he will make the smell of my flesh too irresistible that they would instantly devour me without a second thought.
As I kept staring at him with intense hatred, he introduced himself to me, in which I should call him by his name.
Maelsa.
That's probably for the best as I kept addressing him by his title.
Hearing his name also further proves that he isn't a demon at all as there's no one by that name among the fantasy books as far as I know.
Still, he seems like a demon the way he is sadistic in his actions.
Or simply, he's just a true predator.
I was used to being around Lion, Sly and Alpha without any thoughts about my safety that I forgot about the fact that they are predators in the first place and can eat me anytime they feel hungry.
Still, it doesn't change things as they are precious to me and I don't blame them if they ever decided to eat me. I would gladly welcome it.
Though they should make it quick or I will haunt them from the other side.
Maelsa told us that the magic stone we are getting is a powerful control stone that was guarded by monsters.
The problem is that, nobody knows where the actual location of the control stone as it was thought to be lost until recently when they saw some signs of the monsters living in the Fiery plains began to get out of control.
He didn't explain it to me the actual powers of the stone but assured me that it won't harm me. It won't harm me but may affect the pack into losing their self control.
When I asked him what sort of losing their self control for instance, he gave me a grin.
He laughed when I told him that I don't mind if they decided to eat me in which he walked towards me and told me with amusement in his voice that there's several ways of losing control, not only by devouring me.
With a glance towards the pack, I can see all of them turning into different shades of red while averting their eyes.
Huh?
Oh, my word!
I facepalmed myself as I finally got it in which Maelsa told me to simply enjoy it and not take too much time as he needed the magic stone fast.
Enjoy?!
Then Maelsa warned the pack that if they are taking too much time in the mission or not giving him the magic stone, he would make sure to lock me inside the room with them while making me irresistible for them to devour me without a moment's hesitation.
There would be several creatures watching us from the shadows as he doesn't want the previous mishap with Bahar happening again.
If they did something out of the line while doing the mission, he would send a warning by punishing me. He can't guarantee if he would send the warning in a safe place or not, when there's a possibility that he might do it when there's monsters around.
It would be better if they would eat me first instead of the monsters, he told the pack while laughing wickedly.