Chapter 25 (1/2)

In order to search for night light grass outside the city, Lin Qi brought Luther along. After all, with a grand swordmaster by his side, he was not worried about being attacked by demonic beasts.

The two of them left the city in the middle of the night. The area around the Black Wind Castle was surrounded by forests, and Lin Qi came from the New Moon Forest along with the others.

That forest was the lowest-level forest among all four directions, and the other areas were all relatively more dangerous.

Luther had the strength of a grand swordmaster, so naturally, he was not afraid of any demonic beasts in that forest. However, there were still exceptions.

When they arrived outside the city, Lin Qi led Luther into the forest. He did not know if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the forest was exceptionally quiet一not even the hoot of an owl could be heard.

“Young Master, the night light grass that you are searching for is in the area ahead!”

With Luther’s familiarity with the mountain, the two of them soon arrived at the area with the night light grass. They saw a patch of grass that was emitting a weak light. Those were the ingredients that Lin Qi needed.

Lin Qi did not care about anything else and went forward to pluck some. He had not wanted to stay in that place for a second longer than needed.

“These should be enough!”

Lin Qi put all the night light grass into his backpack and turned to leave.

However, at that moment, Lin Qi heard a shout.

It seemed as though someone was calling for help in the distance. The voice was very faint, which proved that the victim was very far away from his location.

“What’s wrong?” Luther turned around and asked when he saw that Lin Qi had stopped moving.

Lin Qi froze and said to Luther, “Listen, do you hear someone shouting?”

Luther was not paying attention to it and sighed. “Young Master, this is the New Moon Forest. At night, many demonic beasts will come out to hunt. If that unlucky guy encounters some, then he is just considered unlucky!”

Luther did not care about those things. After all, it was common to find a few corpses in the New Moon Forest.

However, Lin Qi did not agree with him. He turned around and said, “Since we heard it, we can’t just leave them to die.”

Seeing that Lin Qi was walking in that direction, Luther could only sigh helplessly and follow him.

However, at that moment, Luther found that the aura around Lin Qi had suddenly become strange.

“Wait!”

Lin Qi had not heard him since he was focused on heading toward the source of the voice. He completely ignored the fact that Luther had disappeared.

“Luther, if you encounter a demonic beast later, you don’t have to hold back…”

When Lin Qi turned, he suddenly found that Luther was nowhere to be seen. That scared him.

“Luther!”

In that forest, any demonic beast could come out and attack him. Without Luther’s protection, he would be in an extremely dangerous situation.

“No… It can’t be that bad, right?”

Lin Qi was terrified. He shouted a few times, but Luther still did not return.

He started to panic. He was calm under Luther’s protection earlier, but now, he was so scared that his body was trembling.

“Help… Help!”

All of a sudden, he heard another cry for help. That time, the sound was even louder, as if someone was running toward him.