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as he went.
        “A hundred gold coins. You’ll get this sum when the demon is dead, Elementhar Iddell,” said the mayor.
        “Deliver _ I shall do of this of its head,” proclaimed Ray as both he and Spirit walked out the door in the same confident stride they came in with.
     
         The townsfolk left the town hall with mixed expressions on their faces. Some carried with them the feeling of hope. Others carried the feeling of helplessness. Most were just plain scared. But all of them were worried, and of that, there was no doubt.
     
         The evening sky was crimson red. The owls began to hoot as Master Elementhar Ray Iddell and his wolf companion, Spirit the White Wolf, walked the lonely road to a nearby village on the outskirts of the town. Ray had in his hand a thick and seemingly ancient book with a metal cover. Inserted into this metal cover was a small circular frame in which a diamond-like black jewel spun freely. The apex of the black jewel pointed straight ahead. Soon, they came to a sign on the road which read ‘Eastcrop Village’.
     
         Ray and Spirit continued in the direction that the black jewel pointed to. Eastcrop Village, it seemed to Ray and Spirit, was very quiet and almost felt deserted. There were approximately 30 farms in total, located equally on both sides of the one and only road, which ended at a single storey building Ray assumed was the village meeting hall. Each farm had a simple house, and it seemed that most of these houses were dark. Ray could only guess as to the level of fear that consumed the villagers as they hid there in the darkness of their homes, fearing to light even a single candle lest they attract the demon’s attention.
     
         Ray shook his head slightly at the silliness of these people and looking at Spirit; saw that he was shaking his head as well. Ray knew that demons were not attracted to or distracted by light, but by their senses. He knew that they were strongly drawn to the aura that the souls of every living beings produced. He also knew that younger people possessed more soul energy, thereby producing more ‘prominent’ auras and this made them more appealing to demons, whereas, older people’s soul energy were faded, thus producing less prominent auras, hence, they were attacked only if no younger victims could be found.
     
         Sitting under a large tree by the side of the road, Ray and Spirit rested their feet. There was nothing to do now but wait. The demon was hiding somewhere nearby. Ray knew this. The jewel was never wrong, not even once. As Ray leaned back on the tree trunk, his mind drifted to an incident almost 15 years ago. The whole scene played out in his mind as though it happened only yesterday. It was the Grand Creation Day, an annual event occurring on the 1 st Day of Fifth Month of Wet Season. It marked the anniversary of Pioneer Elementhar Nova Vanguard’s victory over Lord Desolator almost 700 years ago; and was meant to be a happy occasion.
     
         Closing his eyes, Ray could still hear the music and taste the food at Monune Ruby, home of the Fire Elementhars, just as if he was there 15 years ago. Everyone was happy, in particular, Ray himself. He had graduated as a Fire Elementhar when he was of the age 18. At the age of 20, he had left for Monune Brown Diamond to study the earth element. He had then spent five years at Monune Brown Diamond, the home of the Earth Elementhars in Southern Falls Province. He was, at that time, one year away from graduating as an Earth Elementhar. For him, it was both a celebration and a reunion.
     
         Then it happened, on that fateful night of the 30 th Day of Fourth Month of Wet Season of the Year 1185 of the Known Era. Almost two hundred assassins attacked Monune Ruby. One by one, Ray watched his brothers and sisters die. He heard their screams of anguish and desperation. He heard his own screams of sorrow and helplessness. Dead bodies lay everywhere.