"Alice, watch out!"
Just as Alice was staring blankly at everything in front of her, a shout suddenly came from behind. Alice subconsciously raised her head and saw a mass of flesh with four wings and covered in tentacles pouncing towards her.
Looking at the wriggling tentacles and the huge mouths full of fangs, Alice felt an unprecedented fear, but instinctively hugged the kitten in her arms tightly, squatting down and shrinking into a ball with her eyes closed.
"I'm not dead?"
Half a minute later, Alice, who hadn't felt any pain, cautiously raised her head and opened her eyes to look forward. She saw a dilapidated street turned into ruins in front of her, and the monsters that were originally there had completely disappeared. Only the bloodstains on the street and the smell of blood in the air proved what had happened before.
"Alice, are you okay?"
At this moment, several little guys hiding in the alley all ran out and surrounded Alice, looking at her with worried faces. Just now, they thought Alice was going to be eaten by that monster, and they were all so scared that they closed their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they found that Alice was fine, and they all ran out.
"I'm fine!"
Alice looked at her companions, gently shook her head, and quickly took out the kitten from her arms. After seeing that the kitten was okay, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then, Alice raised her head and looked at the gentle older sister beside her.
Only then did she realize that the monsters had completely ignored them when attacking other people, as if they didn't exist.
"Sister, thank you for saving us."
In the next second, Alice bowed deeply to Flora in front of her to thank her. She knew that the monsters hadn't attacked them because the older sister in front of her had saved them, otherwise they would have been eaten by those monsters like everyone else.
On the side, the other little guys saw Alice like this and quickly began to thank Flora as well.
"Thank me... even though I'm the one who did all of this?"
Flora looked at the little guys thanking her, a strange and terrifying smile appearing on her face. Her fair skin began to wriggle constantly amidst the horrified expressions of the little guys, and tentacles emerged from the torn skin.
"B... B... B..."
A little boy looked at the wriggling tentacles on Flora's face, retreating behind him with a terrified expression, unable to speak clearly.
"Yes! We still need to thank you, big sister, because thanks to you, we were able to survive!"
On the side, Alice looked at Flora's increasingly indescribable appearance, enduring the fear in her heart and raising her hand to thank Flora. Although she was young and didn't know why Flora was doing this, she at least understood one thing: they were still alive because of the older sister in front of her.
Moreover, the older sister in front of her was also the only one who showed them kindness and didn't look at her with disgust or revulsion.
"Alice, you really are kind."
Flora looked at Alice in front of her with a terrifying smile, gently stroking her golden hair with her palm, tentacles wrapped around Alice's weak body. The little guys on the side looked at this scene with terrified expressions, but they didn't run away, instead biting their lips and staring intently at Alice and Flora.
"Big sister, you are also very kind and gentle, aren't you?"
Alice looked at the tentacles wrapped around her body and Flora, whose face had completely turned into wriggling tentacles. The trace of fear she originally had in her heart completely turned into calmness, and a hint of a smile appeared on her childish face.
For some reason, Alice had an intuition that the older sister in front of her wouldn't hurt her.
"You really are similar, Alice. Do you know? You and the former me are so alike."
Opposite her, Flora once again returned to her previous gentle smile, gently stroking Alice's face with her palm. Looking at her, Flora seemed to see the former self, the gentle, kind self who wanted to protect the Edras Kingdom.
"Alice, live on, and then accept the new you."
In the next second, a twisted, chaotic power emanated from Flora's body, and the Gluttony Sin began to erode everything around her little by little. This time, Flora didn't directly unleash the Gluttony Sin with all her might, but, like Lu Minghao did in Carando, gave Alice and the others time to adapt.
"I hope to see you again next time, Alice."
Looking at Alice and the other little guys in front of her, who had already rushed to the ruins on the side and were gobbling down food under the erosion of the Gluttony Sin, Flora's lips revealed a gentle smile. She was looking forward to seeing Alice again next time.
Regarding whether Alice could adapt to the Gluttony Sin, Flora had an intuition that she definitely could. Even if Alice was just an ordinary person, Flora knew that beneath Alice's kind heart, there was a darkness no less than her own.
"Then I'll see you next time, Alice!"
Flora took one last look at Alice and the little guys who were gobbling down food, as well as the kitten mixed in between them, then turned and disappeared on the spot. As for why Flora wasn't worried that these little guys would expose herself.
It was completely impossible. As ordinary people, they had already begun to be eroded by the Gluttony Sin. They only had two choices: either become gluttonous monsters, or become Flora's kind. There was no other choice.
Half an hour later, after the little guys had eaten almost their own weight in food, they woke up from the madness of hunger, looking at everything in front of them with dazed expressions. Only Alice looked thoughtfully at the kitten beside her that was still gobbling down food.
"Alice, what should we do? Should we leave here?"
At this moment, the little boy who had been so frightened by Flora that he couldn't even speak asked Alice. Now he just wanted to escape from this terrifying place as soon as possible. He had been scared out of his wits by Flora and those gluttonous monsters, and just wanted to escape far away.
"No, we can't leave here. If we leave here, there's no possibility of us surviving!"
Alice glanced at the little boy and then looked at the other three companions beside her. Although she didn't know what had happened to her body, her instinct told her that they needed a lot of food now. If they left here, they wouldn't be able to find enough food, and then something terrifying would definitely happen.
After all, Alice clearly knew the taste of hunger. She had once witnessed a child a little younger than her being dragged into a dilapidated room by a group of extremely hungry paupers in the winter. The next day, Alice secretly looked inside through the window.
On the ground covered with weeds, several paupers were huddled together to keep warm, and beside them were a few bones full of teeth marks, and in a skull on the side was the remaining meat.
Alice didn't want them to become like this either, because she could clearly feel that the things she had just eaten were being digested quickly, and soon hunger would devour their sanity.
"Hurry, let's go collect all the food we can find."
After saying that, Alice was the first to stand up and start moving all the edible food in the ruins to a relatively intact house on the side. The other little guys, seeing this, quickly followed Alice's example and began to act.
Even the little boy who had just said he wanted to escape from here gritted his teeth and started carrying food with his weak body. Although he was very scared, he was more willing to believe Alice, because they were able to survive entirely because of Alice.
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A day later, inside the palace hall of the Ister Kingdom, Ister III was looking at the report in front of him with a livid face, and the great nobles on the side also had solemn and uneasy expressions.
At this time, they had already received news from the front lines that a large number of monsters were pouring into the territory of the Ister Kingdom. In just one day, the entire border area had completely fallen, and the citizens and nobles living on the border had become food for those monsters.
And now, those monsters were still continuously launching attacks towards the interior of the Ister Kingdom. According to the news received, wherever those monsters passed, the land had all turned into constantly wriggling, twisted flesh and blood. Plants, beasts, and even insects had been eroded and turned into members of the monsters, and even stones, houses, and city walls had turned into monsters.
It was as if those monsters were like a virus, capable of eroding and transforming everything, turning it into their own kind.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
A noble raised his head and looked at Ister III in front of him, with a hint of fear in his eyes. He had personally seen those monsters, their twisted, indescribable appearance, and the scene of frenzied eating and killing, had been deeply imprinted in his mind.
Even now, he would still recall the scene he saw last night. If he hadn't escaped his territory with teleportation magic, then he would definitely be eaten by the monsters like his children, wife, and those lowly people.
"Mobilize the kingdom's most elite soldiers and mages. We must stop those monsters. In addition, you must also send out the armies from your respective territories. If we fail this time, whether it's the Ister Kingdom or us, we will all be destroyed!"
Ister III looked at the noble who spoke, stood up directly, and scanned everyone present with a serious expression. He understood that if they couldn't stop those monsters this time, then his kingdom would be destroyed.
"Your Majesty, should we ask other kingdoms for help?"
At this time, a top-level great noble stood up and asked. None of the nobles who could participate in this meeting were fools, and they clearly knew the threat posed by those suddenly appearing monsters. It could be said that with the strength of the Ister Kingdom, they could at most stop their attack, but it was impossible to eliminate them at all.
"Yes, I have already asked all the countries in the Western Continent for help. In addition, I have also posted a mission in the Adventurers' Guild."
Ister III nodded and said that before attending the meeting, he had used magic to ask the entire Western Continent for help, and even took out a large amount of treasure to issue a mission to adventurers all over the world through the Adventurers' Guild.
