Curse on my trail

I was putting as much flame as I could inside of the earthly barrier, the shrieks have stopped after just a few more seconds, I was exhausted. But didn't want to get any attention. I took the barrier down, the body wasn't there anymore. There was nothing, only molten dirt. It was almost like magma at this point. But it means our job is done, we killed the monster of this place. Or was it a monster? Who was pulling the strings… This will be a question I will need to have answered. But I have my suspicions. I hid the body under a new layer of fresh dirt and ventured back to the village. There was no point in staying where the smell of burnt body would destroy my nostrils.