DANGER ALWAYS LOOKS

Gwydion directed them to leave immediately, Tylos carefully loaded Cinderella onto Alexa who was wrapped in a blanket and was still asleep next to Elise, although the wizards tried to heal her, their spells bounced off the young elf who was in quite serious condition.

-Gwydion: Everyone come up, our friend is big and strong enough to carry us all.

-Tylos: come forward, I will be with you in a moment, guide them Aisha...

-Gwydion: let's move... we have to get out of this place.

-Aisha: but he won't know how to get there, we can't leave him behind...

-Tylos: go now...

They left immediately, and from among the bushes it was revealed that it was the man who accompanied the girls at the inn, the one who tried to touch Tylos's sword.

-That was crazy, how you survived that enormous explosion of energy, you really are very interesting, maybe much more than those weapons you carry... ah I have so many questions, so many things I want to know, so tell me, do you have answers for my questions? questions?

The man was well dressed, perhaps a nobleman, he had a lens on one eye and a pocket watch that he polished while he spoke to the boy, with a bow, taking off his hat, he said, "Excuse me lack of courtesy at the inn, I was just very immersed in my role, now, will you offer me a demonstration worthy of comparison with my abilities?"

-Tylos: I do not owe any courtesy or forgiveness to a slaver.

-So, you were the one who freed my precious toys, you shouldn't touch things that don't belong to you!

Tylos: things?

From his elegant suit the man took out two very elegant short swords that made water on their edge, and in an instant, he disappeared, remaining behind the boy's back, and he pounced on him, barely touching the boy's cheek a little without realizing that he was hitting him. He was returning from a counterattack with a tremendous blow that was aimed at his stomach, hitting him squarely, sending him flying, breaking several trees in his path. The truth was that Tylos was full of anger at what had happened to the knights and knowing what the end of those girls from the inn was only fanned his flame, their death was a reminder that he had once again failed to save everyone, and That prevented him from holding back.

Gwydion and company who were already a considerable distance away could hear the roar in the forest, which was so loud that it woke up Elise.

-Gwydion: so that's what it was about, even with my perception I couldn't see it.

-Elise: What's happening, where are we, Alexa... Alexa, how is it?

-Gwydion: None of our spell's work, he just repels them.

-Elise: stop, don't continue, no man can touch her, don't do it or you will die, she needs special magic to heal, that's why I'm here with her, I'll keep her stable until we can stop, I don't know what's happening, but Tylos doesn't. It's here so I guess we can't stop.

-You are much more capable than you seem, young man... it was a good blow, but only that.

Tylos turned quickly and made a frightened face seeing the subject behind him, his blow had no effect, that was what he thought.

-You seem to be who I think you are, although he remembered you as more skilled, or perhaps you are a relative of his.

Tylos drew it, and with a full body turn and all his strength he directed the blade of his sword straight at the subject's neck, a great roar was heard in the forest again, Gwydion was already getting worried.

A trail of dust and the earth destroyed in a cone from where he was was what the boy saw, but his astonishment was even greater when his sword was being stopped with a single finger of the subject.

-Tylos: I don't know what you're talking about, I don't know you.

Tylos had a mental blackout because since it was possible that he had not hurt him with all his strength, the blow from before must have decapitated him at the very least or left him dying. His swing with his sword would have been capable of cutting any monster in half, so how come he had stopped it, just like it was nothing.

-I notice you are hesitant boy, because you don't show me a little of the shine of this sword, when I touch it I know that it is special, I notice part of "its magic" emanating from it, don't try to hide it, where you got it.

-Tylos: I have nothing to answer you, but if you want to see it so much, then you will see it Solis Astra!

The boy's hand was burning, but as he supposed every time he used the power, the damage to his body decreased, now he released an amount of energy much greater than when he encountered Delphi, however, the slaver He didn't flinch.

-Seen up close it is not so imposing, you are weak, I must add. I don't know why I overestimated you at the inn.

"How come he doesn't have a scratch, I don't think he's going to just let me go if I ask him, I have to decimate him."

Now he put away his shining sword and immediately took hold of his previously invisible sword that had acquired a black color. His eyes began to change again, and the subject felt a chill, his smiling face became serious, and without hesitation he pounced first. against the boy.

Tylos didn't know why, but the feeling was imminent, he had to send him flying away from there, because if he didn't hurt him, he would end up killing him without any choice.

No name, no word, just a release of raw power that devastated the newly rebuilt village. His attack sent that guy flying more than three days away.

But in Tylos there were cracks that ran through his entire body, causing blood to gush out, leaving him lying on the ground unable to move, barely staying alive. He had reached his limit! But he had defended them.

-It seems that he is not only what he seems...son of darkness.

Was what the slaver whispered as he flew on the horizon enveloped in the great discharge of dark-colored power.

A hand extended…

Get up!

The boy opened his eyes because he had closed them trying to rest a little before leaving after the others.

And he saw them all, they had come back for him, and even Alexa had already woken up.

-Tylos: It's good that you're okay! It wasn't necessary for you to come, but since you're here, let me rest a little, okay?

And he fell into a deep sleep.

Alexa got off the horse quite worried, spinning around while she saw how the cracks in Tylos's body throbbed and bled while emitting a crimson light. Despite this, and despite Elise trying to cure him, nothing happened, but soon they began to close little by little.

-Alexa: what does this mean, he has absorbed that power into his body, with the curse it should not be possible.

-Lariat: the curse?

-Elise: that is not important now, but what happens to him, this is more than a miracle, I know that he does not seem to have magical power, or any type of energy, however, he can use large amounts of it, it is as if he were …

-Lariat: just a means, a way, a conduit of power.

-Gwydion: It seems as if energy passes through him, but he can't store it at all, that's very peculiar.

-Alexa: but where does that power come from then?

-Gwydion: that is even more mysterious than his condition.

Lariat again saw that shadow dimly in the evening light, that presence was felt by everyone, and they were immediately on guard.

The boy seemed to be the epicenter of the eccentricities that occurred non-stop one after another, despite this, and when everyone realized that the presence was coming from the boy, they were scared since it was a feeling of emptiness, loneliness, resentment. On the other hand, Lariat, confused, seemed to be the only one who saw that shadow that little by little was taking shape, which with a smile asked her to remain silent, since she was healing Tylos's wounds.

Quite concentrated crimson energy began to come out of the cracks in her body and to even more confusion it moved down her arm until it reached the dark sword, where it seemed to be absorbed.

With a smile that seemed gloomier than kind, the shadow said goodbye to Lariat who had been observing her and had come to the conclusion that she was the one who helped the boy with his injuries all the time.