THE SHIELD AND THE SWORD OF LIGHT.

While everyone was celebrating, Tylos, who was still quite exhausted, approached to ask what was happening, he had a bad feeling about what was happening "hey, go back to your posts, you could come back at any time, because you're celebrating", he said, but this didn't seem to worry the villagers who survived the attack, Tylos frowned, and then Colt put his arm around his shoulder and said "relax boy, the adventurers who came a few days ago from the church are surely finished." with that monster, didn't you hear its scream of agony?"

Tylos removed his arm from his shoulder angrily and replied: "You're kidding me, don't you understand, that's not the cry of a dying beast, they're regrouping, and if it's as you say, your church friends are going to die"

They all fell silent, murmuring, and at the same time Colt dropped a crystal glass he was carrying in his other hand.

- We have sent them to their grave, hell, they because of us agghhhh...

Colt quickly organized the guards who could still fight and got some horses.

- I know it's selfish of me, and this problem has nothing to do with you, but boy, we need your strength, if not we go now and even if we go, we don't know if we can save them, please help us.

Colt hung his head fervently as he waited for a positive response from Tylos, to which the boy replied "I would have gone, even if none of you had, a horse, give it to me, quick."

Thus, they left at full speed following the trail left by the march of the monsters that had withdrawn towards their lair again, and soon they caught up with them, the beasts were not very fast, and thus a battle began in the forest, the guards seemed to contain them quite a bit Well, Tylos observed that many of the monsters kept advancing while their companions were slaughtered by the guards, it seems that they inevitably wanted to get to their lair anyway.

- I'll go ahead, we have to block the entrance, I'll contain them there while you finish off those who keep moving towards there.

As soon as he could make out the entrance to the rift, Tylos jumped up and stood in front of it, the monsters became frantic and began to fight, he was correct, there were only two options, if he entered and tried to help in the fight against the main monster, the little ones would get in the way and there was a greater chance that they would all die, however, not knowing how the situation was inside was not a luxury that should be allowed.

"For now, I will trust them and contain them here until the guards arrive."

Defeating one after the other and barely holding his breath, Tylos rapidly brought down the numbers, until at last the guards appeared.

- Take charge here, I hope they are still alive...

Moving like the wind, he rushed into the corridor where a large number of bodies of dead monsters were lying, and he soon saw the room where the adventurers were.

As a gust of wind burst into the room and he jumped up, covered in wounds they all lay unconscious on the ground while a knight in white armor could barely stand up while receiving the ferocious attacks of an abomination.

"Broken Road" and Tylos appeared in front of the knight while one of the limbs of the abomination flew in the air, and thus the battle between him and the monster began, flashes of light impacted in all directions and the monster could barely react, the knight with slightly blurry vision, trying to maintain consciousness, he wondered "who is he, how strong is he...", once again the beast felt cornered and then once again got ready to roar, "nooooooo, your ears will explode if you stay close, after from my noweeeeeeeeeeeeeee," Tylos jumped behind his shield as the sound that seemed like it would rip their skin off resounded throughout the crack.

To his surprise, monsters began to appear from the blood that flooded the chamber, until it was left without a single crimson drop in it.

- I won't be able to do it like this, they are going to kill them and then they will continue after me.

Tylos embedded the crosshead into the ground and recited "May my sword repel these abominations, as light refuses to mingle with shadows."

- Don't let anyone out of here.

- But your sword, what will you fight with, hey... don't go...

From his back he took out the hilt and the air became dense, a different presence was felt, something even darker, and thus a carnage began, members of the monsters were flying everywhere, the knight could not see what was happening, however, there were fewer and fewer enemies, clouds of dust rising everywhere until only shrieks could be heard from the great monster as it dueled with Tylos.

Those who lay within the shield that emanated from the sword buried in the ground began to recover in a dizzying manner, only to witness the unusual. A great blow was heard and from the impact everything was cleared, the warrior seemed to be holding an attack from the monster, but nothing could be seen, only the claws that could not touch him, then Tylos made a turn and unbalanced the beast making it fall, then he He leaned forward and landed a blow that brought out the heart of the monster pinned to the invisible blade, now crimson with the blood that bathed it.

- What the hell is happening...

Said Franz, while all bewildered saw the carnage that was around him, all that had been done by that mysterious warrior.

A scream of agony came from the jaws of the one who now had a hole in his chest.

Ahhhhhggggg…. Tylos yelled and drew the bloody sword and again made a clean blow, with a great momentum he cut off the monster's head, now there were no more surprises, and thus he stood for a moment, swung his sword strongly and the blood drained from her, and again became transparent, then multiple wounds opened up his body and he began to bleed until he collapsed in the arms of the gentleman who had run away immediately when he saw him in bad shape.

-Hey, hey, do you hear me? He's bleeding too much... but a moment ago he was fighting like crazy and now he's full of deep wounds... Rose run, hurry up, he's serious.

-It's impressive, his life force was being drained by this sword and even so he was fighting, how much willpower, if it hadn't been for him we would be dead right now...

- How can you know?

- I am a priestess, the energy that is used for this type of skills comes directly from the life force of the person, so it is for my gifts.

The others who were still in a daze and didn't know what happened after they lost consciousness were all confused, Franz took the bow and started shouting aiming everywhere, while Saria clutched her hair while trembling on her knees, "did you already know? is over?" he said, while he looked up and saw that there was no longer any threat stalking them, then Franz lowered the bow, his judgment was clarified, he turned to look at his side and there was that woman who was being killed by the monster, she was still unconscious, and he took off a cloak that he was wearing and threw it over himself to cover her.

Soon the village guards arrived, "someone's still alive" Colt was shouting as he advanced along the crevasse.

When they arrived, they were able to confirm that everyone was fine except Tylos, no matter how much Rose tried to heal him, his healing was rejected.

Suddenly a huge wind began to blow from the outside to the inside of the crack, the corpses of the monsters, the blood, the vestiges of the crack, everything was heading towards there, towards Tylos.

- Run, let's get safe, everyone after me...

-But he is still there, he will die if he stays there

-If we go there, he too will drag us into that whirlpool.

The knight held Rose, preventing her from coming out of the protective barrier he had erected, strangely now the mysterious warrior's sword was shining, so the knight decided to take it and immediately both shield and sword formed a dome over them that was impenetrable from the outside.

A large whirlpool was formed in the room that hit the dome with force, however, it did not hit the young warrior, the invisible blade hilt rose while being held by force by the young man who was lying unconscious, like a vortex everything started to be absorbed by the invisible blade, blood, bodies, monsters, everything was consumed until there was nothing left, just an empty cave like any other, and silence took over the place.

Shortly after, Tylos got up while his wounds were closing and the bleeding stopped, it was then that the knight without saying a single word took his shield and next to the sword of the young warrior rushed towards him, Tylos easily dodged the blast of blows, one after another until he took up his invisible blade sword and parried a charge.

- If you have the courage to attack me with my own sword, remember that I saved their lives, no...

- What the hell are you, that evil presence, your wounds, you were dying and now you're just like that, you're one of those monsters!

Tylos exerts force on the knight and with his foot he takes him off balance, and with a movement with his sword he took off his helmet, and to everyone's surprise an enormous straight hair of black color like night was unwrapped, which fell to his waist., a well outlined face white as snow, as if it were a nymph.

- Who could trust someone so sinister and mysterious, answer or I will have to take care of you, you are too dangerous to walk around loose.

Tylos had been immobilized when he saw the knight's face, "she is a beautiful woman" he thought, while with a cut on his cheek he stopped being distracted and began to cover himself again.

As he dodged, the movements of that knight seemed beautiful to him until he snatched the sword from him and approached her head-on, removing his hood and revealing her face.

- If we talk about monsters, maybe you are one too

He opened his eyes and just like Tylos's they were also yellow, you see.

- Get away beast.

The gentleman slapped him that surely hurt more than any blow he had received in the previous fight, which clearly made him fall back in the air, while doing a somersault, when he fell, he put his hood back on and said "If it were like those creatures, I wouldn't have bothered to save them, there are things about this hilt that even I don't know, but you can consider me an ally.

The armored lady looked at her fellow adventurers and they nodded to her to leave it at that for now.

- Could you give me back my sword?

- No, it's suspicious that a light instrument like this would allow itself to be manipulated by someone like you.

- It belongs to me; I won't let you have it.

- Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere and for now you're going to accompany me.

Tylos looked back at Colt and he nodded as if telling him to play along, so the boy put the invisible blade back in the scabbard while everyone backed out of the cave, some more guards arrived and took the woman away. that he was still unconscious, and so they went out and Tylos followed them last while realizing that the woman in the armor was looking at him suspiciously.