'how do I deal with an enemy that appears when it wants and can stop my power. I should take this day to find where the monster appears from. There must be something underground where he came in from...'
Saviour decided what he needed to and he was ready to do whatever it took, no matter how many times he might die.
He reached out his hand and opened a gateway outside the walls. He then looked around the back, where he first found Runna being attacked. It looked completely normal, Saviour ran all around the back and didn't spot any entrances.
Saviour looked around and stealthily opened another gateway. This wasn't a normal gateway though it was looking in the past.
The past has already happened, it is definite and close by. When Saviour used a gateway to the past he felt little usage of sunlight. He did this in order to look if he could see where the monster came from.
Saviour started to pull back time and could see nothing change, perhaps the occasional guard walking past. But then he stopped it, two months ago.
It's been hiding underneath the town for two whole months! It had been lurking for an opportunity which it took when it sensed Saviour's sunlight and the guards leaving.
All those with miasma are drawn to and repelled paradoxically from sunlight. Sunlight could repel miasma but eventually be conquered.
The monster, while once human, did not have the mental ability for thought and once it saw it's prey leaving it attacked. It could also sense Runna with her sunlight.
Saviour stood there taking it in, but quickly took action. He closed the gateway knowing the past cannot be changed by his gateways, then opened up a new one to grab a shovel.
Saviour took the day to dig out where the monster had entered. There was a boulder covering the hole, which was why he could see it originally.
Instead Saviour dug around it, being careful to leave the boulder alone since if he removed the earth below it, it might be the end of this life.
As Saviour was running out of hope his shovel felt no resistance, he had broken through to the tunnel!
It resembled an animal's burrow but larger, much larger. With the light of day being so dim from miasma and the fact it was almost mid-afternoon meant that the tunnel received little light.
It felt like an endless deep dark abyss, the longer Saviour looked into it the more he felt it was looking back.
If not for him recalling Runna and the villager's gruesome deaths he would've stopped there hoping it was a dream, but no he had to do this to save everyone.
He took a candle from his home and took it inwards of the burrow.
Almost instantly it split, the tunnel was splitting into endless parts and once he chose one yet another splitting would occur. Some paths led nowhere while some led into previous paths, it was a complete maze.
Saviour kept on walking in slowly growing uneasy that while he had his gateways to leave if the monster spotted him first this might be his end...
Saviour opened his eyes in his bed once more with Arm shouting for him.
"Saviour wake up, time for your speech about the evacuation"
He didn't jolt up but laid there confused.
"What's taking you so long?" Arm started to open the door with a complicated expression. On the surface he was frustrated but he was also a little worried.
"Yeah I'm fine, I'll come to get breakfast soon" Saviour put on a smile and Arm closed his door again.
His smile dropped,
'what happened?! I didn't even see the monster, did it kill me instantly without me even hearing it!?'
Saviour had guessed what happened but while he didn't like the thought, he came back! Nope he can use a gateway straight back, and bring soldiers to ambush the monster.
Saviour thought of how he would explain how he knew to Arm while he dressed himself.
He opened his door with a white suit and red shoulder cape.
"Before we have breakfast I have something to admit... I've been lying to you, I found something I can do and I want to show you something"
Arm was shocked and stopped prepping breakfast,
"O...Kay.. show me"
Saviour opened a gateway in this very room, connecting the space with itself!
Saviour showed Arm the past with themselves sitting there. Arm sat there confused,
"...How is there two of us!"
"I'm showing you what has happened already this is the past, but this is just a prelude to what I found very recently" Saviour had a serious expression and he switched the scene.
This time it was outside. There was the dark purple-ish miasma in the air and the black dead grass. It seemed like just any land, nothing special.
That was until something appeared. A huge. Burling. Monstrous. 'Thing' not human yet not beast. A large hard black exoskeleton like an insect with sharp claws and a human face.
It clawed at the ground at started burrowing,then it reached out with it's massive arms and pulled a boulder over it's entrance.
"This.... Is this in the beast tide, if so we need to go NOW!" Arm shouted asking Saviour but he only responded with a shake of the head
"Phew if we had to defend that even for a second we could not, the boulder it could move with ease, it's SIZE. So why are you showing me this?"
"It's worse... It's here. Right now. Below our feet it's burrowing in tunnels and with it there the beast tides is of lowest priority, we can defeat the scouts and have some time to spare"
"Are you suggesting we fight that monster?"
Saviour responded with a nod, his face however had a serious expression.
One of conviction and readiness to fight.
Now he would be the one hunting the monster down...