Lucas then looked at Allison and Malia and frowned as he didn’t see Lydia. "Where’s Lydia?"
When they arrived in Beacon Hills, he began looking throughout the town to see the nodes of energy; that’s why he appeared at the school.
The girls’ job was to search the forest for the Nemeton tree, to be more specific, Lydia’s job, since the Nemeton doesn’t just appear when you want it.
Allison and Malia looked at each other, then Allison decided to answer. "When we were about to leave the base, she suddenly started seeing something, and she’s still trying to figure out what it is, so she told us to leave first."
"A vision...?" Lucas glanced thoughtfully in the direction of Beacon Hills, and felt like this had to do something with the Dread Doctors.
This made him think about the Beast, and he wondered if they succeeded in resurrecting it. He then shook his head and glanced at Allison and Malia. "You two should retreat a bit further."
The girls nodded and walked a dozen meters away from him, and concentrated on his every move.
Lucas smiled when he saw their worried expressions as if he was about to die, then he took a step forward and touched the Nemeton Tree.
"Are you ready?" He stroked the old tree as he whispered, and immediately felt a connection with it.
A sense of happiness flowed into his mind, but at the same time, he felt deep malice coming from the Nemeton.
The once glorious beacon of the supernatural world started to become infested with the malice of the world itself.
Lucas then began slowly releasing the energy inside of his body into the Nemeton. Immediately, he felt the vitality inside of it growing and traveling through its roots and even heading towards Beacon Hills.
A sort of magnetic resonance formed between him and the Nemeton tree, which made him unable to move until the process was completed.
Lucas then sat next to the tree for 8 hours straight, and the result could already be seen as the once-cut tree started to slowly grow back.
The sky was already dark, and Allison and Malia still stood guard on the side. Well...Malia seemed to be on guard if you ignored her eyes closing from time to time.
"Crunch!"
The sound startled both of them and they looked back, ready to fight, but then they relaxed as it was Lydia.
Lydia ran in front of them, and her breath was all over the place, then looked worryingly at Lucas. "I saw a giant monster attacking Lucas, it was trying to stop him from healing the Nemeton."
Allison’s expression became grave and looked around the forest. "Then we must defend Lucas with all of our strength!" Then she looked back at Lydia and asked, "Did you tell them the plan?"
"I did, but do you think that she would really listen to him? Especially at this moment." Lydia gazed at her with a face full of worry.
"She will," Allison replied with a firm expression, and just as she was about to say something else, her face changed as she sensed a creature with deep malice approaching them at a tremendous speed.
"Something is coming!" Allison warned them and took a step forward, standing right in the path that the creature was heading towards.
Entire trees were swatted away as the creature made its way towards them, and then finally it fully showed itself.
It was a towering black monster, and it had a fierce blue-white glow in its eyes; just standing there made the girls feel an enormous pressure.
"The Beast of Gevaudan!" Allison exclaimed in shock, then her eyes turned red and braced herself for a tough fight.
Lydia’s pupils shrank as the creature was the same one from her vision. While Malia took a step back without realizing it, the pressure she felt was the biggest of the three of them.
But then she looked back at Lucas and her face hardened with resolve.
"ROARHH!"
The Beast was enraged by the sight of them daring to confront him.
His roar shook the sky, and the sound traveled in an instant to Lucas’ face, making his hair flutter, but despite that, he still didn’t look at the Beast and kept giving the Nemeton his energy.
Suddenly, behind the Beast, strange noises were heard, and the bushes were pushed away, and the Dread Doctors made their appearance.
"Oh boy! We are going to die!" Lydia smacked her lips in despair.
"We must win!" Allison replied in a resolute tone, then her figure disappeared from the spot.