The Rise of the Sword Expert
Creatures that Eject Fire

We have come out of the Sanktessy region, this is a causeway used by many nobles, splitting the border of Duke Lexier.

Otherwise known as the quiet zone. Anyone can get through this area. No ruler controls it. So that a horde of criminals, black magic witches or dark world associations are here.

The sun had risen, the air was getting hotter by itself. However, this had entered the winter, the scorching air was not in the Sanktessy area it was impossible.

Geck! Geck!

A knight knocked at the door of the horse-drawn carriage, he was agitated, and looked at me fearfully.

"What's wrong?"

"It looks like we have to turn the road, Mr. Akion."

I scrunched my forehead. "Why?"

"Akion, try you out."

Tanka who just went outside to get free air yelled at me. His face was not as usual. Something's not right.

Outside the horse carriage, I saw something terrible. A pitch-black smoke towered high, covering the scene above him.

The village below, the place I was going to pass by for the Empire was experiencing a great fire. That's the reason my knight said he'd find another way.

"What's wrong? I smell burning, and it's hot in here."

Verion got off the horse-drawn carriage, he covered his nose with a handkerchief. That's a little funny thing about a fire witch. The burning smell made him sensitive but he often burned things.

"Yes, God... What's going on here?!"

His face paled, his mouth not tightly closed. He's in shock.

**

If only Harzem were with us now, then that fire would be easily extinguished by him.

Verion asked me to come closer and help them. I agreed. My knights ordered me to evacuate the victims, so that the death toll does not increase.

Verion looked at the huge fire in front of him, he was brainwinding how to make this fire disappear. A fire that does not belong to him he has no will over it.

"Mr Akion, everything has been evacuated." I nodded, and asked him to back off.

"Verion, get out of there."

He looked at me confused for a while, then figured out what I was going to do - he walked away.

THE BUSH!

The flutter of my sword put out the fire quickly. The sight of the gosong on the building was half left in front of me.

"Help them, Verion."

He woke himself up, and ran towards the most severely injured victim the first time.

The holy power he used to heal them. The broken wound did not look too good, but the blood that flowed stopped, and he stopped the more severe burns.

Verion kept trying to focus on completing his task. His small holy power, made it difficult. His face was full of sweat, he wiped it with his shoulders to make it quick.

Secretly Tanka also helps, she heals some people. Then he also took the medicine that he stored like a child himself.

"What's that?"

The red, syrup-like liquid I used to drink on earth was in the small bottle he was holding.

"Curer's banquet, Akion."

"But we don't have much." He was disappointed in himself.

"Give it to someone who is very badly injured. Act efficiently. You can also heal their minor wounds with your strength."

He had rounded his resolve, his eyes sharpened and nodded. Then fly towards the person in need. Every second is a bet.

Just as Verion had a high human spirit because he was a priest before and thought that their lives were important too, I thought so too. Even if they say what I helped them for, it has nothing to do with Sanktessy. But being ignored and left behind is painful.

I know that feeling.

After that critical state, the highly meritorious Tanka and Verion are currently sitting very tired.

Their weak bodies finally fell to the ground, and lay there. Right now laying down their bodies was the most convenient.

The village is destroyed. I don't know what their fate will be when winter comes. Where will they take shelter?

Both ended in death.

They are immigrants. People who are rejected everywhere and end up settling here, a dangerous place with deceit.

"Do you want candy, sir?"

She's a shabby girl, a face smeared with charcoal, and half of her skirt is eaten by fire.

I took a candy bar that he offered.

"Thank you for helping us, sir."

I was just about to thank him, but he said it first. He's still bowing.

"That's a normal thing that humans do. Thanks for the candy." From the bottom of my heart, I sincerely thank him.

"Sir, do you know why our settlement is on fire?"

Soon it will be winter, the air will cool, they need to warm their bodies. Things that often happen in winter, the fireplace burns the house as well.

"Because of the fireplace."

"No, Mister. "

I looked at him curiously. But he was worried about saying it.

"Say."

"There's a monster up there on the hill. A very scary fire monster."

I raised one of my eyebrows, what kind of monster did he mean.

"The shape has three heads, the middle head is snake-shaped, the tail is like a moving centipede, on the front legs are spider legs."

He tried to remember again.

"Ah, one head is also a spider, the other if I'm not mistaken is a Tiger."

Just imagine the form of the animal he described, very unusual.

"At their necks are wrapped around fire, and they spout fire from their heads." She's terrified. The fear still haunts him even though the animal is nowhere near him.

"Anni, I told you not to tell anyone lies." A man pulled his hand. But I opened my hand, made him stop.

"Are you lying to me?"

"No." He shook his head strongly.

"They don't see it because they're busy looking at their point of vision."

I looked at him suspiciously. "Sir, the animal came out of a waterfall near here. The stream from that hill. That's why I conclude so." He explained it boldly, without the slightest hesitation.

"When I met him, and was about to escape, I fainted. When I got back here, the settlement was on fire."

I began to feel that what this woman was saying was true. Why would he lie? Under these circumstances, draw conclusions from the story to find a better bright spot.

What is that creature exactly?

I played my fingers in the horse-drawn carriage. Both Tanka and Verion have been lying inside. They're asleep. The energy they spent was immense, and needed a break.

After they wake up, I'll tell you what I heard earlier. Maybe Tanka knows what that thing is.

We ended up spending the night here. My knights I order them to cook for everyone, including the villagers. They had protested about food ingredients that would be immediately exhausted if cooking in large quantities.

**

But soon we will arrive in the countryside managed by Duke Lexir, we will buy staple food there before making the return trip.

"Is your energy filled?"

Verion who was eating his soup nodded.

"I know you heard what that woman was saying." I looked at him, for a moment I was worried about him blaming himself.

"Hows it? Are you coming with me?"

No doubt when the face stiffened. A revenge from him will happen. When he put the spoon on his plate quietly, I knew that he was serious.