"Werewolves? Vampire? All this time, I only knew about it from fiction stories, that was when I was very young..." Alina seemed to be thinking, as if trying to remember something she had forgotten.
Then, Alina again said "But yes, there are people who have the power of shapeshifting. That person can turn into the incarnation of a lion, he looks dashing when he does his transformation. At that time, he and his colleagues managed to repel the monsters that came out of the Monster Gate, due to the absence of strong hunters who could handle them. From the video circulating, he was standing on a mountain of monster corpses. He said he was the one who contributed the most in handling the 'Open Gate'. Well, you know? People say, the gate opens a day early, whereas before the time comes, the Monster Gate will continue to close..."
Nathan frowned when he heard that there was a human who could transform into a lion-man. That intrigued him a little. He thought, maybe that person had information regarding the vampires and werewolves. About this Monster Gate, he understood it a bit more, including when it would open or close just by feeling the chaotic energy emanating from within the Monster Gate.
The girl was so caught up in her own words that she didn't even notice that she was starting to get into a topic related to her life.
"Then yes, I am a culinary trader who always changes places. I will trade in very crowded places. Even once, I was selling near the Monster Gate, because at that time there happened to be a stir regarding the achievement of someone who had successfully completed the Monster Gate which was said to be difficult to conquer. I should be grateful, because a lot of my food is buying it, but somehow I'm starting to feel anxious..." Alina paused for a moment, the look on her face was like she was afraid of something.
"Lately, I've been having a lot of problems that are not related to trading. The three men who last chased after me was one of the biggest reasons..." continued Alina, she smiled wryly as she recalled the incident some time ago.
At that time, Alina really felt depressed. Then, her anxiety finally reached its peak when she knew someone was following him who was about to go home. The last time it happened was something new to her. When she remembered it, her heart was pounding violently, her sweat was now starting to recreate on her yellowish white forehead.
"Is that so? That means, I'm on the right side..." Nathan muttered in a low voice, his hand spontaneously slightly raised and began to gently caress Alina's head. His decision to believe Alina's expression at that time had been answered after hearing firsthand the outpouring of a girl who was hurt. He just smiled warmly when Alina looked at him confusedly, but Alina didn't comment further.
Alina herself somehow felt comfortable being treated like that. In fact, she and Nathan had not met last night.
Since Nathan woke up from his sleep, he felt a turbulent energy turmoil that from the beginning the two of them walked towards Alina's house, the chaotic energy that was felt was getting more clearly felt where there was an increase in the intensity of the energy turmoil.
However, Nathan still behaved calmly. He was very confident in his strength, such a huge turbulent energy turmoil was actually very weak. Needless to say, energy also has a certain density, just like the materials that make up the universe, which have varying material densities.
The energy from his original world was a chaotic energy that had a high density, while what Nathan had felt since he had woken up on this Earth was indeed similar. But the density is much lower, even though it has a large capacity.
"From here, how long will it take us to get to Miss Alina's house?" asked Nathan.
They have been walking for a long time, but even after entering the residential area, there is no sign of Alina's house to be seen. Or, because Alina hasn't shown any signs that the two of them will be home soon.
"Um... Maybe, in about thirty minutes?" Alina answered only estimating, her hand holding her chin while looking up, don't know what got her attention.
"Pretty good news. In that case, Miss Alina should get ready before it happens..."
...
On the road that was only a few steps away from one of the houses on the side of the road began to appear small dimensional cracks, it made one or two passersby not notice it.
The dimensional crack began to spin, until it resembled a whirlpool. The sound was like gurgling water which wasn't too loud at first, but slowly the sound that came out of those dimensional ripples turned sharper and sharper like the continuous sound of broken glass. Residents around who were sleeping, both young and old woke up because of it.
Almost simultaneously, the front doors of each house leading to the street opened. Then, someone or several people came out from inside each door. They all looked in the same direction, namely the place where the dimensional vortex occurred which was getting bigger from time to time. This phenomenon should have predicted what would happen next, but those people were unable to move.
"Ah, it seems that people are affected by the chaotic energy that has been contaminated by negative aura..." Alina muttered, afraid that she would be like them.
Nathan and Alina who was holding the sleeves of his black coat from the start of the dimensional vortex were visible, both of them walked towards it which was the direction of the destination, namely the road to Alina's house.
From a distance, it can be seen that some people are unable to move while witnessing this phenomenon. However, as Alina got closer and closer to the dimensional vortex, she didn't act like the people around her. Then, her gaze fell on a pair of red eyes that made her have to look up to the right.
"Is it possible?"
Alina speculated that Nathan was the reason she did not receive the impact of the dimensional vortex's appearance. Everyone including herself knows the characteristics of the appearance of the Monster Gate, the dimensional vortex phenomenon that is the forerunner to the formation of the Dimensional Gate. There was no one who didn't know the repercussions of being hit by the turbulent energy emanating from the Monster Gate, especially when it was still in the formation stage.
According to the notification from the government well in advance after the research was carried out, people should immediately go into a seizure if they were near the Monster Gate formation area, and then become unconscious some time after. However, the people around just stood unmoved from their place. Maybe, there are also trying to move, seen one of their fingers vibrate from time to time.
Strange, Alina thought silently.
"Is this the Monster Gate?"
Nathan watched the dimensional vortex that was about to reach the peak of the Monster Gate formation. It became clearer in his vision that there were indeed many weak monsters in there. But when compared to the people around, the monsters were quite strong.
After all, the people around who didn't get the potential awakening wouldn't have the slightest chaotic energy, while Alina was the same as them.
Actually, the people around got protection from Nathan when he was still quite far from the location. The reason those people were frozen like that was because they had been exposed to the contaminated chaotic energy, whereas they were just normal humans.
You could say, if a grain of dust is inhaled into the nose, humans who have a body defense system will sneeze because they feel tickled. Then if the dust turns out to have a lot of viruses in it, it can make people cold. The body's defense here, even if it's just a cold, the other body will respond to feeling sick too.
The same was the case with that contaminated and wild chaotic energy. A normal human body can't filter the influx of chaotic energy, but without the help of tools it would be quite dangerous. Moreover, a normal human body is exposed to the chaotic energy that is still wild, wouldn't the impact be even more dangerous?
Luckily, their fate can still be saved by Nathan's presence. He who protected them could still repair their bodies that had suffered damage from being slightly hit by the chaotic energy, but their bodies were too weak to be exposed to more chaotic energy.
So Nathan slowly repaired the damaged cells in their bodies.