The Rise of the Sword Expert
Dark Forest

Tomorrow is my trip to Invit.

In Akion's memory, Ivnit was a good territory. However, Count Ivnit was a very annoying person. That's the thing that makes me lazy to go there.

That Akion was obeying the order, he was too rigid of an imperial law. Although he wanted to attack his uncle, he would not have done so if he had not been attacked first or on the orders of the emperor. His mind is still pure, afraid of his people why-why because of his actions.

So that Akion often put himself as a shield.

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

The trip to Ivnit was longer than when we were to Aurus, taking two weeks. I had to pass through the monster-filled dark forest and pass through Berk Mountain which had not been stepped on for a long time by the descendants of Sanktessy.

For how many hundred years Mount Berk has not been visited by the successor of the Sanktessy Family, even though Mount Berk belongs to the heritage of the Sanktessy Family. There are many stories about how amazing Mount Berk is. Surprisingly, the mountain had now turned extremely dangerous.

Mount Berk and the forest of darkness are a deadly duet of the Sanktessy Region.

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

Both with Levian. He has become a close friend of mine, who is sometimes confused by my behavior. Brother, yes, he's my brother. An unmarried man who is very loyal and capable.

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

Hayd promised to do his job well. In fact, the other villagers helped each other to fix this region.

The largest area of Santessy. If this becomes a prosperous region, then many people are helped.

Kunaiki my dark horse, Akion gave his name Aaron. It's a cool name for a horse, but if you look at this horse, then you'd agree he's named Aaron, he's dashing and strong. His body was surrounded by mighty thick muscles.

Because Akion was wearing it for a noble thing.

I glanced back from the top of the hill, still visible Aurus Village. Naturally, we had only been walking for twenty-five minutes.

Levian drove his brown horse beside my horse. We both drove at high speed again. So that cloak hood is useless to cover us. The dry wind that touches the skin makes a tremendous sultry.

The horse entered the forest of darkness four hours later, the atmosphere instantly changed. You can't tell the difference between day and night, there's only darkness and whispering-like noises that give people the creeps.

The forest of darkness is not just because it is dark and full of monsters and other bad things. However, because the trees here have a thick black trunk. Unlike the tree trunk, it is generally brown.

"One ...." Perhaps it has become my habit, every time I kill a monster, I subconsciously count it.

After that, we stopped for a while. I got off Aaron watching Ogre I just killed.

Levian went around looking for the other Ogre.

"Nothing else, Mr. Akion,"

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

"Maybe this Ogre is separated from his herd."

According to the book I read, the Ogre moves in a herd and is led by a leader who, when you see him, you know who the leader is.

"It's a good thing we found him. If this Ogre gets to the village, it'll be dangerous."

Levian nodded.

In fact, there is an unwritten law in this forest. The monsters here could not pass through the dark forest territory, they would suffer greatly if they broke it.

However, I always wanted anticipation or arguably I always prepared more than one plan. In this world nothing is 100% without loopholes.

So I came to the conclusion, if damn it, this Ogre could have crossed from the dark region, it would have been very dangerous.

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

"Mr Akion, there's a possibility of this as well as approaching the blue moon,"

Unconsciously I nodded.

Blue moon is a sacred moon, can affect monsters and spirits. It could be this different habit because of the influence of the blue moon.

The blue moon is likely to appear in two days and me and Levian will definitely still be in this forest.

"We're moving again!"

I gave the order to Levian. The situation here is safe. The faster we walk, the faster we get to Invit. Then, four more months I should be in the empire.

It means I have little time to finish it all. I feel upset about this, on earth there is a plane that can take you to other parts of the earth with just a few hours or days. But here, nothing.

No, there is a more practical thing in this world compared to planes, which are magic portals. Too bad, Sanktessy does not have a magic portal because it is very expensive, or a great magician who can use a magic portal as he pleases.

I'm shaking.

A second later, I stopped. The air becomes cooler. In Indonesia there is a forest called rain forest because it often rains and high humidity. This dark forest has a different humidity than the rain forest. More concentrated and makes the skin feel tense.

"It's an edemic animal here. Look, it's a pretty color, but it's deadly."

I was carried away by the past again. Remembering my father who led me into the woods just to find a step frog.

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