Archipelago: the lost king
chapter 17-man in robes

Noran drove his horse quickly, the dirt road dusty with wide grass padanv he passed, until finally Noran arrived at the edge of the dead forest.

"the forest is dead?" Noran looked at the forest susana which was quite spooky.

kwakk...

the sound of a crow welcoming Noran, Noran then spurred his horse again down the dead forest.

"i have to keep going, no matter what." Noran muttered while watching his surroundings.

normally, inside a forest like this there would be robbers hiding. This made Noran alert and on guard.

"are there any robbers in this forest?" Noran thought as he looked around.

the horse continued to walk down the small forest path, there was nothing strange about Noran's journey.

until, he was finally in the middle of the forest, a loud shouting voice sounded.

"talooong!!"

the voice was heard several times, and the voice grew clearer as Noran walked forward.

"it looks like it's from that direction." Noran immediately spurred his horse faster, he felt something strange with the sound of the scream.

sure enough, something terrible happened in front of Noran. two people were fighting in the middle of the forest.

one was an all-black robed man, with a long sword on his back.

meanwhile, the other was a green-robed woman.on her body there were several scratches and a long incision on her back.

"mister, help me sir! help me!" the woman whined in front of Noran.

meanwhile, the cloaked man just chuckled and stared intently.

"kekekeke..no one can help you, today, according to my master's wishes, you will die, kekekekeke.." said the man.

the man then swung his sword filled with blood, walking closer to the woman with his evil laughter.

"stop!" noran shouted to the man.

Noran got off his horse, took a sword of his own and stood facing the man.

"oh? looks like someone's playing hero?" the man chuckled back.

"sir, go quietly, and I'll assume nothing happened what. do you agree?" ask the man in the robes.

"leave the woman, and I'll go too" Noran said.

"boy, I've been kind enough to give you a chance, but you threw it away. I'll finish you off with him!" said the man in the robes.

he swung his sword forcefully, a horizontal swing towards Noran and aimed for his neck.

"it's not that easy to kill me!" Noran repelled the attack of the cloaked man with his sword.

"let's see, can I kill you or not? kekekeke.." said the man in robes.

the man in the robe threw a small knife from under his cloak. Noran immediately jumped back trying to avoid it.

wush....

"why do you want to kill him?" ask Noran.

he was curious, why this cloaked man so wanted to kill the woman.

"sometimes, knowing too much is dangerous for you boys, and also, it's none of your business" the robed man said.

he threw back the knife that was stored from behind his cloak.

shu shu...

Noran ran away from every knife the robed man threw, as he gathered his strength in his hand.

Noran ran towards the cloaked man, his fists filled with power in he swung.

the cloaked man avoided him and, speaking to Noran, chuckled back.

"armor huh? dangerous move. kid, are you from the military?" ask the man in the robes.

"it's none of your business" Noran said.

in his heart, he felt surprised, from where this man knew his style.

"it's like this guy's pretty dangerous" Noran thought.

"of course it's none of my business, because you're going to die soon" said the man in the robes.

he attacked Noran with his sword.The two clashed intensely, several times, the robed man tried to exploit the gap that was in Noran's attack.

"meet!" thought the man in the robes happily.

he directed his attack towards Noran's lower right rib.

but unexpectedly, Noran again issued his iron fist.

buumm...

the 5th level iron fist hit the body of the cloak brr man hard.it broke some of his ribs and killed him.

"is he dead?" Noran drew closer to the cloaked man, looked down and saw the face of the cloaked man.

to confirm the man's death, Noran checked his heart rate and was told that his heart rate had stopped.

"it looks like he's dead" Noran murmured.

Noran then walked up to the woman, and lowered his head.

"are you okay?" ask Noran.

the woman nodded, saying she was fine, but the look on her face said something else.It seemed like she felt pain all over her body.

Noran then approached the body of the cloaked man, ransacking the corpse.

throwing knives, various medicinal pills, and other items. Noran then opened a bottle, taking one pale green-colored pill.

"it looks like a healing pill." Noran murmured, according to his knowledge in novels and comics.

Noran gave the pill to the woman, and sure enough, as Noran thought, it was a healing pill.

Noran took all his belongings down, and told the woman to leave the forest immediately.he thanked her and immediately left the dead forest.

Noran then changed his clothes to those of the cloaked man, and buried them.

in Noran's mind, the dead don't need anything, with it, he can freely search for it.

"it looks like I have to walk, I will definitely be late there" Noran thought.

Noran walked with the items on his back, down the thickets of the forest all by himself.

Noran continued to walk through the forest, in the middle of the journey, he returned to meet the unexpected.

he saw two monsters fighting each other, one was a pitch-black wolf and another a small white monkey.

"grrs.."

the wolf growled and attacked the little monkey with its claws and fangs. Although small, the monkey had an agile movement.

several times it was seen the monkey attacked back, which made the wolf even more angry.

Noran watched the two fight, in his view, walking past two fighting monsters was tantamount to suicide.

"growl!"

the wolf pounced on the little monkey, keeping the little monkey restrained under its huge claws.

"alum, little monkey!" Noran immediately darted towards the wolf monster before him.