53 Chapter 53. Starting a short trip to Solara

"Big sis! Hey! How's it going? Did you find the herbs that you wanted?" greeted Lex as he displayed a cheerful smile and began walking towards the bushes.

Another rustle sounded as Aurora walked out from the thick bushes. She was in her usual attire of a pink long-sleeve shirt and dark blue skirt but was immediately noticed by Leila because of her sheer beauty.

As she walked out onto the sandy yellow riverbank, her attention was immediately caught by Leila who was covered in bandages.

"My, my! Who is this little girl?" asked Aurora in an extremely curious tone as she gave Leila a very warm smile.

"She's a little girl from the village called Solara which I think is the village that is nearby. Her name is Leila, I found her injured in the forest," replied Lex.

"Hello..uh… Madam," said Leila in a very stuttered manner as she bowed and gave a greeting. The beauty of Aurora made her sure that Aurora was of noble descent so she decided to greet her in a very polite manner.

Seeing herself being treated like this, Aurora suddenly froze for a few seconds. Understanding why Leila might say that, Aurora smiled as she slowly walked to Leila and sat herself down right next to her.

She placed her hand out to Leila's wound and examined it thoroughly.

"Nicely done, Lex! You treated her wounds well. If you had made a mistake, it would've taken much longer for her to wake up," said Aurora as she gave Lex a thumbs up.

"Of course, I did it well. You and brother are always forcing me to learn medicine so if I failed to save her then you guys would have beaten me to death," replied Lex with a fake arrogant voice as he walked back to the placed where he initially trained and continued.

Aurora turned her attention back on Leila and politely asked, "You stabbed yourself?"

Leila became shocked, how was she able to tell how she got her injury so easily?

She stayed quiet for a few seconds before looking up at Aurora and nodded.

Immediately as Aurora saw Leila's face, her eyebrows calmed as Aurora saw that her interpretation was correct but suddenly, her face turned extremely livid.

"Who beat you up to this degree?" Aurora asked coldly as her eyes suddenly turned cold as she moved closer to Leila's face. Upon closer inspection of Leila's face, she confirmed that it indeed used to be swollen and that brought back memories of Meno village and her pain, causing her to lose her cool.

"I can hear you from here! You should introduce yourself to her first," shouted out Lex as he side-commented while concentrating on his training.

"Haha, I completely forgot about that," Aurora broke out in laughter as she quickly forced herself to recover, "I'm sorry for flipping out like that. I am Aurora Wellbloom. I am Lex's brother's friend. We are also from a small village like you but our village got destroyed during the start of the war."

"Really?"

Leila found it hard to believe, she had thought that they were lying. These people were dressed so nicely and the clothes that they were wearing were not the typical clothes that villagers would wear.

"It's true. We are from a village called Meno which is at the south border of this kingdom," Aurora assured.

"Sis Aurie, have you seen brother? Leila wants to go to Solara," asked Lex as he couldn't be bothered to train any further and he began telling Aurora the rest of the story of how Leila ended up like this.

Hearing the story, Aurora got more and more anxious about what happened in the village.

"Well… I haven't heard from your brother yet but I think that we can go to the village. With me around, I'm sure that you guys will be fine. The village is only fifty or so kilometers away," said Aurora confidently as she couldn't keep waiting. The situation was too similar to their childhood experience, if they didn't arrive in time, then there could be a dejavu and more and more people would get hurt.

"Leila, have you started cultivation yet?" asked Aurora curiously.

Leila shook her head and cluelessly answered, "No, not yet. I'm still to young. I'm going to start next year."

Hearing her reply, Aurora and Lex both gave a nod of understanding.

"Well then, let's go. I think we'll get there in about an hour's time, Leila come hold my hand. I know the way," said Aurora as she reached out her hand to Leila.

But receiving no response from Leila, Aurora simply smiled as she began walking in a particular direction.

"Don't worry, sister Aurie is stronger than you think," said Lex to Leila and he also started walking right behind Aurora.

Leila was left puzzled and surprised by these two strange humans. It was as if these two knew no fear. However, judging from how kindly they treated her, she decided to put her faith into these people. Strangely there was a weird aura of faith that seemed to linger around these people. Especially Aurora, when she was up close with Leila, Leila could sense a vague killing intent around her which somehow gave her a comforting feeling.

While she was so lost with her thoughts, she did not realize that the two had almost faded into the horizon. She immediately ran after them and followed close behind.

"Hey sis, there was something weird about Leila. She has a very strange energy around her. When I was healing her, I saw that her blood was a shade darker than normal people. Did you find out anything?" asked Lex using a very quiet voice.

"Impressive. I am surprised that you noticed that. She does indeed have a stange weird energy emanating around her. It's a very secretly hidden. We should just keep going for now. When we meet Leo, maybe he can tell us about it. Leo keeps on reading everything so he should have some information about it. She seems to be hiding something from us. We should just keep going. Her identity might be slightly special," replied Aurora in a very suspicious tone and immediately stopped talking once she saw that Leila was about to catch up.

Leila caught up to them a few seconds later and they began their journey to the Solara.