The Forest of Darkness

Tomorrow is my trip to Invit. In Akion's memory, Invit was good territory.

However, Count Invit was a very annoying person. He has a look in his eyes that likes to look down on others, and his speech is very arrogant, as if he is a god. That's the thing that makes me the most lazy to go there.

Akion was obedient to orders, he was too rigid of imperial laws. Even if he wanted to attack his uncle, he wouldn't have done it if he hadn't been attacked first or by order of the emperor. His mind is still pure, afraid of what will happen to his people because of his actions. So Akion often put himself as a shield.

therefore, Akion let whatever his uncle did. Because it considers the status of the Count to be higher than the Baron.

The trip to Invit was longer than ours to Aurus, taking two weeks. I had to pass through a dark forest full of monsters and pass Mount Berk which the descendants of Sanktessy had not stepped on for a long time.

How many hundreds of years has Mount Berk not been visited by the successor of the Sanktessy Family, even though Mount Berk is an heirloom of the Sanktessy Family.

There are many stories about how extraordinary Mount Berk is. Surprisingly, the mountain had now turned very dangerous. Mount Berk and the forest of darkness are a deadly duo of the Sanktessy Territory.

Which even the Sanktessy Family was afraid of and did not understand the two realms.

Together again with Levian. He has become a close friend of mine, who is sometimes confused by my behavior. Brother, yes, he is my brother.

An unmarried man who is very loyal and highly capable.

The next day, when I came out of the mansion, I saw Levian making sure that our supplies were tied up properly.

Hayd promised to do his job well. In fact, other villagers help each other to fix this area.

Aurus is the largest area of ​​Santessy. If this becomes a prosperous region, then many people will be helped. The prosperity of Aurus, is the future of Sanktessy, although this region is called the center of the curse.

I rode my dark horse, Akion gave his name Aaron. Cool name for a horse, but if you look at this horse, then you'll agree he's called Aaron, he's dashing and strong.

His body was surrounded by thick mighty muscles. Because Akion must have worn it for a noble cause. I glanced back from the top of the hill, still visible Aurus Village.

Naturally, we've only been walking for twenty-five minutes. Levian rode his brown horse beside mine. We both raced at high speed again.

So that the hood of the robe is useless to cover us. The dry wind that touches the skin makes it extremely stifling. The horse entered the forest of darkness four hours later, the atmosphere immediately changed.

You can't tell the difference between day and night, there's only darkness and voices like whispers that are enough to make people get goosebumps.

The forest of darkness isn't just because it's dark and full of monsters and other bad things. However, because the trees here have dark black trunks. Unlike the tree trunks are generally brown.

"One…." Maybe it has become a habit of mine, every time I kill a monster, I subconsciously count it.

After that, we stopped for a while. I got off Aaron watching the Ogre I killed just now. He looked very ugly, with a round face and fangs sticking out of his lips. Ogres also have a very unpleasant odor, pungent and fishy at the same time.

Levian wandered around looking for other Ogres.

"Nothing else, master Akion," It's too close to the border.

"Why did this Ogre come here, huh?" Levian watched the Ogre.

"Perhaps this Ogre got separated from the herd." According to the book I've read, Ogres move in herds and are led by a leader who when you see him, you'll know who's the leader.

"Luckily we found him. If this Ogre reaches the village, it will be dangerous."

Levian nodded as usual.

In fact, there are unwritten laws in this forest. The monsters here couldn't pass through the darkness forest region, they would suffer greatly if they violated it.

However, I always want anticipation or you could say I always prepare more than one plan. In this world nothing is 100% without gaps. So I came to the conclusion, if unlucky, this Ogre could just cross over from the realm of darkness, it would be very dangerous.

Levian knew that, as my knight who had only known me for a month, he was quite good at taking care of me. Knowing that I always had high anticipation.

"Master Akion, there is a possibility of this as well as it is approaching the blue moon," Subconsciously I nodded.

The blue moon is a sacred month, it can affect both monsters and spirits. It could be that these different habits are due to the influence of the blue moon.

Even though the blue moon would probably appear in two days and Levian and I would still be in this forest.

"We're moving again!"

I gave orders to Levian. The situation here has been confirmed to be safe. The faster we walked, the sooner we got to Invit. Then, four more months I have to be in the empire.

That means I only have a little time to finish everything. I feel annoyed about this, on earth there are planes that can take you to other parts of the earth in just a few hours or days.

However, here, nothing. No, there are things more practical in this world than planes, namely magic portals. Too bad, Sanktessy didn't have a magic portal because it was very expensive, nor a great mage who could use magic portals at will. I shook my head.

A second later, I stopped. The air turned colder. In Indonesia there is a forest called the rain forest because it often rains and the humidity is high.

This dark forest has a different humidity from the rain forest. It is more concentrated and makes the skin feel tight.

"This animal is endemic here. Look, pretty color, but it's deadly." Once again I was carried away by the past. Remembering my father who took me into the forest just to look for step frogs. He always has a hobby that is quite different from other people.

The rain finally fell as I expected, we decided to spend the night in the cave we found.

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