[Author's note: A little rushed chap]
"My na is Zero. A Light elent user, who specialises in combat, healing, and scouting. I am in dire need of sothing found only in that forest so… How about we make a deal, Miss Vatra?" I ask with a humble smile on my face.
She looks deep into my eyes with a dumbfounded expression before she speaks,"Am I… dreaming? A Light user… is willing to help out?" before she looks at her friends who had the sa expression as her. Even people looking from far ahead kept peeking at with a surprised expression.
"Help you? Haha! I think you are mistaken. I am just here to achieve my own goal. I just thought making a deal with you will ease my travels, so I ca forward to make a deal here. So let ask this again, Miss Vatra. Would you be interested in making a deal?" I spoke with the sa humble expression, this ti with a tinge of dominance in it.
Vatra kept looking at for a few monts before answering,"ye-" though before she could complete her sentence, Iliara interfered,"What is it that you want?"
I looked at Iliara and then sighed before speaking,"I want you to guide to the centre of the HellFire forest. Or at least show the way," and they looked at with a deep analysing gaze.
The surrounding people started murmuring as they kept looking at . I could more or less make out what they were talking about. Sothing along the lines of who I am and if anyone knows about .
"Okay, we have a deal. When should we leave?" Iliara asked as she looked at and I made a slight nod before speaking,"if it does not bother you then can we leave imdiately?"
She nods at before speaking,"given our circumstance, I would prefer to heal and regain our strength first. Healing can be done if you help us out, as for strength I think we don't really have ti for that right now. So… I guess yeah.. Yeah we can leave imdiately."
I look at her tired smile before she stands up and picks up the bag placed beside her. While Iliana and Vatra also stand up and bow at before moving towards the forest. Iliara turns at as she keeps walking,
"I can explain everything you want to know on the way… for now can you heal us on the way too?"
'Not wasting any mont whatsoever, huh?' I thought as I moved behind her, Dion and Ariel too followed them along with . Not long after we had ventured quite a bit into the forest, I had already healed them back to normal and while I was doing so; we sensed soone following us, which made us stop and look behind.
An old man with a long white beard and a silver sword was walking towards us. He had a white robe covering his body with his eyes silverish blue in colour gazing deep into mine. Before I could utter anything he spoke first,
"Can I join your noble cause?"
He had a cheeky smile on his face and I understood that he wanted to join us in venturing into the forest.
"Yetris?" Iliara spoke as she gaped at that old man and I looked at her as I asked,"Acquaintance?" and she shakes her head signaling no before speaking,
"He is one of the strongest adventurers. What do you want Yetris?"
Yetris smiled before looking at as he spoke,"I just want sothing from the Elder Fla Forest." and I looked at him before asking,"You are putting that much of a risk on soone whom you don't even know properly?"
Yetris' smile deepened as he spoke,"I know a strong man when I see one. And you Mr. Zero aren't ordinary by any ans. My instincts are telling that if I miss this chance, I probably won't get any better chance than this in my entire life."
'Quite the instinct he got there,' I thought as I sighed before speaking,"Just don't do anything that might get you killed," and he gazed at with a serious expression at which I simply smirked and he nodded before I spoke to Iliara,
"Guess there is one more to us now."
She looked at before looking at Ariel and Dion as she said,"I did not notice them before, but are they with you?" and I nod at her, at which Iliara looks at them strangely before sighing and nodding at herself and then looking at as she speaks,
"Whatever. Let's hurry now."
Then she starts running imdiately without waiting for us. The other two also start running and we too follow imdiately. As we were running, I helped Dion and Ariel to maintain their strength and stamina, from ti to ti using Life magic. Though I did skillfully hide it from the sisters. Still, Yetris managed to see through and was really surprised to say the least.
However, he did not speak anything and just kept quiet on the fact that I could use Life magic too, or perhaps even more than that I think I saw him smiling a little as he pondered over sothing.
'It's kinda creepy… Man, did I make a mistake by letting him join us? I thought getting soone powerful to use for once will be a good thing… wonder how things would turn out later on,' I thought as I contemplated my decision but since I had already made one I think there is little I can do about it.
From that point onwards, we kept on running and running. Yetris tried to talk to about where I was from or where I was going to but all in all, I dodged his every question by making up so sort of bullshit which he honestly didn't buy at all.
'Maybe I should work on my bullshitting skill,' I thought because really, all my lies are easily seen through… or maybe I am not trying hard enough honestly.
When he realised that he couldn't see through at all, he tried to talk to Dion and Ariel but honestly; they kept their mouths shut the whole ti without speaking any word at all.
As for Yetris himself, I did not get to know about him either… or rather I did not try to find out about him, honestly. Though if there is one thing that I did find about him was…
'He f*cking talks too much,' I cursed inside with an annoyed expression as I kept looking forward. Though not long after we started engaging with monsters on our way. While detouring around the monsters to reach the destination faster was the plan according to the sisters but with Yetris easily cutting down those monsters with his dual swords, we moved even faster.
As we ventured deeper and deeper, the power of the monsters, the temperature of the forest, the eerines of the location was increasing step by step. Though, it was still under my control, as I could still keep using Life and Light magic together for as long as I wanted, this much heat wasn't much for .
However, after a certain mark, we reached a point where fighting against the monster beca difficult even with the help of Yetris. Every ti we stopped to fight, it would take about 5 to 10 minutes to defeat the minotaurs and that too increased wave by wave and not long after, I even had to engage into combat and show so of my cards.
Though it didn't really sit well with the sisters that I was hiding my powers. They glared at and Iliara was even about to fight with saying that if I had used my power before, we could have saved so much ti.
"My power is limited and takes ti to recharge," I answered her and she looked at with a slightly dumbfounded gaze before an embarrassed expression ca on her face as she apologised for her lack of understanding.
I kinda felt bad for her but I was not going to correct her so it was fine. We then kept moving deeper and deeper into the forest, finally reaching a spot where it looked like we were at a stalemate. To be honest, it wasn't a stalemate since I haven't shown my complete powers though it wasn't just … Yetris too hadn't shown his complete power as well.
In fact, he kept his powers hidden till the very end and I had to trick him into revealing his cards in front of everyone which he kinda did… and it was a dual sword skill using white fire magic which is… not sothing I had seen before.
'It's flashy…' is the only remark I could make. Though sothing happened right after it, which made question whether I was looking at the real thing or was it all an illusion which I was witnessing?
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