Vol 4 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
Wolves, gather in the forest
Chapter 1 – The forest priestess
“Well, that’s the last one”
He finished readying himself for another hit, he hit Cleo in the nose this time, she let out a
faint groan They were in the forest, sunlight was pouring down through the trees The trees
were several roups——they weren’t far from the main road,
but this wasn’t a tourist attraction In the future it would have been refreshi+ng to take a stroll
in this forest——except Cleo bought herself a purple sweater and shorts at the local market
She had to buy new shorts since her old ones were dirty, naturally Cleo was angry——
Orphen chucked at this He was a black sorcerer around twenty years old, and he was
laughing He had black hair, black eyes, a medium build, he didn’t look all that special Most
of his clothing was black, he wore a silver pendant, a dragon wrapped around a sword It
looked sharp——and sinister, it gave off a poisonous vibe
He put a bunch of wooden strips onto the ground, then proudly said:
“I won the game——any objections?”
“No……”
Cleo said reluctantly, as she lowered her voice
“I’ sick of this!”
“Losing can be hard”
He said, as he rubbed the scarf on his head
“But noe get to the best part of the game, since you lost ten rounds you have to do what
“Of course——how could I forget? I’ll just go andterrible to eat”
Cleo said, as she kicked a bowl in his direction
“Easy, I was only joking”
She glared at hi her sword all the while
“Don’t think a little fencing training can make you a match for me, I was trained in the Tower
of Fang, remember?”
Orphen pulled out his dragon pendant It was a dragon wrapped around a sword, proof that
the wearer was fro
“Froht it all You are no match for me”
“Well, that’s nothing but pure rhetoric to me We won’t knoho the best is unless we have
a little duel What do you say?”
“You’re starting to sound like that Vulcan guy……”
Orphen could see that her eyes were half open, he sighed
“Okay, what else do you propose?”
“I know!”
Cleo said angrily, as she grabbed her sweater
“Well——I’ll go and chop firewood or do the dishes”
“No, I don’t want to have to go looking for you Or have you doing so easy”
Orphen thought for ato do
“……Your state you want me to do all the work?”
“Simply put, yes”
Orphen sloalked towards the wagon, he pointed his finger towards a simple chest
“What do you mean?”
She asked, Orphen could feel her muscles twitch
“You asked me what I meant! This is what I meant! Last time I told you to help me sew the
broken shi+rts, and that’s exactly what you’ll do”
“What? None of that was my fault, you can’t make me do all that work This is slavery!”
“I won the gae the subject”
“I didn’t try and change the subject”
“Good answer Now get to work”
Cleo was full of rage
“Well, don’t blaether with handkerchiefs!”
“Quit your whining!”
Orphen shouted But he wasn’t a stranger to handkerchief stitched clothes, when he was
young his sister would do this all the time One time he received a pretty handkerchief patch
was a present from his sister, he had alondered if this was intentional, since there
was a lot of rags she could have used instead
“Ah, as expected——it really is a huge forest”
The thick piece of paper he was holding was a map, it displayed the entire continent The
region he was looking at was the Fenrir Forest, which accounted for more than twenty
percent of the continent One of the last places which hasn’t been fully explored on the
continent
“There should be all kinds of wild beasts in this forest”
The blond haired boy with green eyes said He was almost fifteen, he wore a black shi+rt,
black leather trousers, most of his outfit was black, and it really didn’t suit him at allBut
nevertheless he wore it
(Someday I’ll earn this attire)
He optiht, since he would have to wait until he became a decent sorcerer
“According to the legend, the Goddess of existence should be here, but the powerful dragon
race guards it……”
He said as he looked up The forest was a lush dark green, trees and bushes were
everywhere
He unconsciously said
“There’s a spring”
He wasn’t near a river——nearby there was a swaerous, so he
avoided it
The young boy walked until he reached the spring, most of the lush trees and bushes were
gone now, suddenly a spring appeared in front of him The water was calm, there wasn’t
even a trace of ripples in the water It wasactually, there
was plants under the water, this gave it a wonderful colour
He got closer to the water, and gently stroked his finger in it, causing some ripples Then
suddenly——
It sounded like so serpent, it came
down from the tree above
He subconsciously raised his hand and said:
“Niceyou here——”
The serpent responded to his sentence——it saw it as a challenge and moved quickly
towards hiht
Instinctively, the boy waved his hands and shouted:
“Sword of light, whom I do release!”
A wave of light and heat appeared in front of the teenager, the serpents jaw and lower body
was blown off by the explosion, it went into spas
“This forest really is dangerous”
He said as he wiped the sweat off his forehead
“Great, I did it just like Master I must remember how simple it is”
He then took a look around The use of fire in a forest is very dangerous, he was lucky the
forest had adequate ht have caused a blaze he wouldn’t be able
to control
He thought about this, then all of a sudden he heard a voice
“A Sorcerer……”
The boy looked around for the origin of the voice He opened his mouth, but he was unable
to speak
There was a wo on the opposite side of the water——or rather a young girl, he
estier He looked into her
eyes, he could feel a powerful force peering out at him
(Did she step out of the bushes to fight……?)
He didn’t knohy he thought that, maybe he was just surprised by all of this
The girl continued to look at him, she wore an expression of dismay on her face Majic
thought that maybe it would turn into a beautiful sht, it
went all the way down her back Her dress was even ——it looked like her
body rapped in a thin bathrobe made out of silk
“……Excuse me, Miss?”
He ondering if the girl could even speak
“You are a sorcerer, right?”
“Me? Well, no——I’m just a trainee”
He hastily replied
“I see……so you are just a trainee?”
“Yeah, my Master is much more powerful than me”
“Oh…so you have companions with you…”
The girl muttered, then she fell silent Majic felt a little bored, he scratched his head
(This wo of isolation, her attire is also bizarre considering we are in
a forest)
“Well, what’s your name?”
“Fiena……”
“That’s a good name”
He said so words, she faintly smiled when she heard them
“Thank you, what’s your name?”
“A-Are you a noble?”
She——Fiena noticed the colour of his hair, ordinary people didn’t have blonde hair
“No, I’ve got nothing to do with nobility, I was just born this way”
While he did find it flattering, he would always object to people thinking he was a noble
Fiena came closer to Majic, he did the same
As she walked, she said:
“……Why are you here? People from the human world don’t come here, it’s a secret place”
As she alking, her shoulders ht Majic replied:
“I alking, I guess I got lost”
He then took out the map from his pocket and showed it to her
“Okay……I’ll bring you out of here The forest is very dangerous It can make
people……dream”
“Thank you——but, what do you mean by that?”
Majic stopped and asked She just shrugged and didn’t answer
“Can I ask you a question?”
Majic crossed his arms
“What are you doing in the forest?”
She answered hi for this opportunity
“My strength lies with my contact with the forest, I can’t leave”
“……Ah?”
Fiena solemnly continued:
“In the forest, I can use my power Just like you”
“You can do that sort of thing?”
Majic asked, she nodded her head
“Yes I’ from a dominant force”
“Oh So you must be a priestess”
Majic exclaimed as they walked in the forest Of the continent’s most well-known three
Goddess of fate, Fiena appeared to be a member of a frontier faith
(Master should know h at the
uncivilized religion or so like that)
“I guess being a priestess is pretty tough”
Majic said in a relaxed tone
“I’ve……beco”
She said in a low voice
“The power, it……”
Majic patted the back of her head, he said slowly:
“Is this stuff really important?”
“Yes, to me it is”
Fiena’s ansas a little auous, she looked at Majic, then said:
“You have companions, so can you ask them for help?”
“Yeah……I guess so”
Majic thought about his Master——Orphen
A shadow appeared over Fiena’s eyes
“I can’t I can only obey”
“Ah……?”
Majic didn’t understand what she was saying He gave her a puzzled look, then followed her
Suddenly, she turned around and grabbed her chest, then she said:
“You came from the outside? The outside world”
“Outside……you mean outside the forest? Yeah, we came from there”
Majic didn’t kno to answer her Fiena continued to listen, her eyes shi+mmed in this dull
in the wind
“What has becoe nearby called Sorichian, did you