Movement

Zerlan pointed his sword at the girl. “Answer me! What is your purpose for doing this?”

Even though she was in a corner, the girl still gave off an angry gaze in her eyes.

With all the strength she had left, she stood up again. “I just wanted to make sure that you were one of the people I was hunting!”

"Since you've been talking about things I don't know, what's your purpose in searching these people?"

The girl's brows were sharply pointed. "That's not your business, they have taken something precious from my life!"

"Is that so!" Zerlan sighed. “I think you've misunderstood, I really don't understand what happened to you! I am on a quest to find the person who destroyed my village!”

"Uh!" The girl dropped her eyes downwards. "So that's how it was, I was the one who had the wrong idea!"

The girl let go of her stance, the angry face that had been kept on was now fading away.

"Sorry, I didn't know you weren't one of them!"

Zerlan was also no longer in a combat-ready position. "Yes, it is ok! I understand that you are probably being overcome by anger!”

“Thank you for understanding!” She bowed her body to confirm her words.

“Alright, no need to be so formal!”

“I have to leave soon, you have that sword must be careful! They will find anyone who had one of those swords of great power!”

The wind blew between them. "Who do you mean?"

“They are a group that is trying to find the 7 legendary swords led by Ortus! Their group name is Zaranai, their group will not hesitate to kill! I hope you are careful!”

The girl immediately walked away from his sight.

"Who exactly is that girl!" Zerlan then looked up at the sky. "It's just getting started and it's already a pretty bad find!"

***

Ortus was fidgeting in his room, he kept tapping the table with his fingers, the sound that was produced echoed. “Tch… looks like I won't be able to get that sword anymore! Huh… do I have to do something to make the sword holder appear?”

“Master Ortus!”

A man wearing a mask had appeared, he had a sturdy build with a curved sword behind his body.

"What's wrong Torente?"

“I came here just wondering if you were looking for the legendary sword called Cearuleus?”

“Not only that sword, but all the legendary swords I'm looking for too! Right now if all those swords were held by someone it would be difficult for me to conqueror the entire area!” Not only did the words emit such a strong tone, but the gaze in his eyes also radiated such great hatred.

“Master, if you don't mind I will search for that sword?”

"Can you convince me?"

Elengka's defeat was a bad thing that he didn't want to get anymore, indeed Torento was one of the people who had great strength and had an aura that radiated that he was not an ordinary person, but still there was no possibility that man was able to give a calm inside Ortus' heart.

"Sure, let me take care of all this! You don't have to worry, anyone who dares to stand in your way will be cut down by me!" Toreto said it all with a gaze filled with an aura of great intimidation as a promise that would stick in his heart.

“Very well, I will allow you to take the sword! But, you must remember that failure will never be tolerated!”

"Sure!" Toreto give his respects and then left the room with a smirk on his face.

***

At night…

Zerlan looked at the fire in front of his eyes, he was unable to shake off the memory from the village that had been destroyed. It hurts to see it all.

“Huh… why did all this have to happen? Was it really because of this sword everything that happened to me must to appear?”

Zerlan took the sword from his back, he put the sword in front of his body. A fairly strong aura continued to radiate from the sword.

Pandora's words started to play inside his head.

“Hmm… this sword has great power and is being sought after by people who want great power! Maybe it has something connected with that girl?”

For now Zerlan couldn't get an answer from that, he immediately sleep to release the tiredness and fatigue that had settled on his body.

In the morning before sunrise, Toreto had arrived at the location of the village of Vofuri. Conducting investigations must be carefully, he does not want to get in trouble from the task he wants.

Together with some people, he checked the entire contents of the village, there was nothing left only a fishy smell and some blood spots.

His eyes were drawn to two o'clock. “Uh… you guys wait here, I'll be right back!”

Quickly he moved towards the direction that made him curious, when already there he saw a house that was neglected.

There see a lot of things related to the incident which is quite strange.

"It looks like there's been a fight here!"

Looking at what had happened, he could conclude that there had been quite a fierce battle before.

His feet began to walk to search for clues that he could get, but still nothing could be found.

“Damn it, where is the person holding the sword? I'll always be looking for him!"

Zerlan was already walking under such a bright sun. “Huh… what a wonderful weather indeed!” He reminded himself of what had happened in the past while doing such strenuous training just for a workout.

However, Zerlan doesn't regret what happened, because of that he was able to get a healthy and muscular body.

Zerlan accidentally found a river flow, without much thinking he quickly approached the river and then washed his face.

“Wow… what a cool water!” Zerlan was able to see a reflection of his face in the stream. “Hmm… if I take a bath it will probably be very fresh!”

"Help…."

Zerlan raised his head when he heard the voice, he soon tried to find the source of the sound.

Krsk…

On the other side of the river he saw a girl being chased by three people.

"What will they do?"

The girl fell, her body kept shaking violently looking at the three people.

“Hehehe… it's time for us to enjoy his body!”

"Yeah, let's make him scream!"

"No one will help you sweetie!"

The girl glared violently, her eyes wanting to cry when thinking of what would happen.

__To Be Continued__