Holy Light

Sleeping in the wild is not a pleasant experience, with hard ground, moisture at night, poisonous insects and snakes everywhere, wandering beasts, and monsters that are said to be haunting the area.

She was dirty and needed hot water, a bath, and a clean and warm bed.

Gareth lit the fire, and Aisina turned her back to Gareth , quietly took off her pants, and inspected her worn thighs.

There was ointment in the package, and when applied to the wound, it felt like mint-like coolness, followed by burning pain. She couldn't help but make a hissing sound.

"Injured?" Gareth suddenly stood up. As a man his tall figure cast a long shadow from the fire, shrouding Aisina in the shadow on the fire side.

He walked up to the girl and stared at her bare legs for a few seconds. The red scratches were particularly conspicuous on the jade-white legs, and then he stretched out his hand to press the red and swollen skin.

The stranger's touch made Aisina tremble instinctively. She also wanted to struggle, but the other person was a man and a knight holding a sword. Her resistance was probably the same as being tickled.

"If this keeps up, you won't be able to ride a horse tomorrow." Gareth gently touched Essie's wound with his cold fingers, causing a slight sting.

He looks benign and harmless, just looks. This person actually has nothing to do with gentleness and kindness. she thought.

"It's not going to get better if you touch it," Aisina said, "and it hurts when you poke it."

"Maybe." Gareth pressed maliciously. The young girl's skin was very elastic, and her fingers sank into the soft flesh. Aisina gasped in pain.

There was an awkward position between them, Aisina's legs were spread apart, and Gareth was kneeling between her legs, his hands on the hidden areas of her inner thighs.

This guy was just messing with her, Aisina thought. Like playing with a toy, or playing with a rabbit. She felt that such behavior was quite boring, and she was about to complain a few words, but she had to stop herself due to the sight in front of her.

Golden light lit up on the knight's fingertips, and Aisina watched with bated breath as the light flowed across her wound as the knight's fingers left behind the warmth of the sun. Wherever the light passes, the wounds are wiped away like stains on glass.

"That is the Holy Light?" 

She asked in surprise, "How did you do it? Do you know how to do magic? But aren't you a knight? Why do you know that?"

The girl asked questions one after another, her eyes sparkling, and she was extremely surprised to see someone perform the Holy Light spell for the first time.

"I can. There are also many knights who can do magic." 

Gareth answered him one by one, "Because someone has taught me, so I can do it."

"The answer is too perfunctory." 

Aisina complained. She didn't care that she was not wearing pants at this time. She grabbed Gareth 's hand and looked at it repeatedly. "I heard that only a few people can use Holy Light Magic. They Either a high priest or a holy knight, how can you do that?"

"I am from the Holy Capital. As for the great priest or holy knight, I can become one, but before that, I have to be a low-level knight for a few years."

"So arrogant." Aisina muttered in a low voice.

If this guy was the son of a big shot, how could he escape from the knight camp with a strange woman without any explanation. Maybe he had committed something himself and was in a hurry to escape.

"You haven't told me where we are going?" she asked again.

They were going south, no wonder the people were getting sparser and thinner as they went, and when they got here, not even a single person could be seen.

 "Go south, to the Secret Forest." He did give an exact address.

"The Secret Forest?" Aisina carefully checked whether there was any joking on his face. 

"Aren't we running away? Why do we go there?"

"That's why we went there because we were escaping. No pursuer dared to enter that forest." Gareth explained for her.

"The pursuers of the Knights don't dare, how dare we go in - no, even if you dare, I don't dare." She suddenly became excited, "Going into that forest is a dead end, and no one has ever come out alive!"

"There are still some," Gareth corrected with a smile, "Every year the Temple Knights send teams to explore, and some of them always make it out alive."

"But there are only two of us. If we go in, we will be dead. No one can get out."

"Okey, since you don't want to-" Gareth sighed, "then I can only go by myself."

The orange firelight only illuminated half of his face, with the other half hidden in shadow.

Aisina realized that just like last night, when he took her on horseback to escape without any explanation, this psychotic knight did not need a reason at all to do things, and there was no way he could listen to other people's opinions. He could definitely throw himself in the wild and leave on his own.

"I'll go," Aisi held his hand tightly, "I'll be where you are."

 "Really?"

"Of course, I would rather die with you than die alone here."

Gareth smiled extremely happily: "That's perfect!"

Ai Xi had been expecting that what Gareth said was a joke.

In fact, he didn't plan to go to any mysterious forest at all, he just said that to scare her.

After all, who in their right mind would go to that place?

All the children born in this continent heard the terrifying legends about that forest during their childhood. Those stories are often told by parents to scare children.

That forest is the opposite of the God, an abyss of evil and filth, a lair of monsters, and the birthplace of evil. Every few years one hears about how many more houses have been destroyed and how many residents have been killed by those who escaped from the forest.

But they were indeed heading south.

On the road today, they met a knight on border patrol. Anyone would think there was something wrong with a knight wandering around with a girl outside the dense forest, but the other party was deceived by Gareth 's random lies and there was no suspicion at all.

Are the knights not very smart? How stupid! Are they mentally ill?

When she met the patrolling knight, Aisina always wanted to ask him for help, but in the end she didn't dare to say it.

If she tells, you will definitely be retaliated by Gareth in the future. she thinks. definitely will.