Chapter: 4, Cecilia
"You..." The girl mumbled
Then suddenly she grabbed Noir and pinned him down, taking him off guard. Noir was taken aback by her sudden movement. He thought about using the [Reverser] but decided against it.
"W-wa-wait, wait a minute. Before you do anything let me tell you I mean no harm. I saw that beast bring you here. I don't know where we are." Noir knew what the girl would ask from the novels he read before..
The girl was taken aback by his answers before she could even ask. "Who are you?" she asked. Then she speculated and said "the clothes you are wearing and where we currently are, you should be a slave who ran away from his master or family." She said while retracting her hand from Noirs neck and taking a few steps back.
"Yes, I am a runaway slave but somehow ended up here in the middle of this forest." Noir told her to stand up. "My name is Noir. May I know your name, miss?"
"Cecilia from the Temple of Void." Cecilia said but she felt something in her chest seeing the unknown slave. 'What is wrong with me? I somehow feel good hearing his voice. Is this what they call attraction? No, that is not possible; I have already forsaken my emotions in order to fulfill my Purpose. I cannot feel emotions; then what is this feeling in my heart." Cecilia thought
'Temple of Void '? I thought there were only 7 god temples. Do you know something?'
[Host, Temple of Void is a temple without any particular god. They worship the strongest gods which are in the void. Also they try to clear a path for themselves and their descendants to Godhood. Anyone is free to reach godhood if they have the talent to reach it.
And just so you know this is neither Earth nor any of the realms of six gods, it is located in the end or border of the universe where you currently live. This is a place the other gods from the 6 realms send their descendants to train.]
'What!' Noir was taken aback. 'End the universe? Then how did the spell reach this place? The spell should only be able to reach the 6 realms, not the whole universe.'
[Host, currently the system is helping the Nightmare Spell to create this Scenario. Since your Aspect rank is beyond the level where The Spell can comprehend.]
Noir was speechless. 'Aren't you afraid the spell might steal these abilities and information?' Noir asked.
[Host you don't have to worry. Even these spells don't know the abilities and information you currently possess. All the Spell knows is that you are in your 1st nightmare. The Spell can only guess where you are.]
'Sigh' Noir gave a mental sigh. 'That's great. Who knows what would happen if I had to fight the nightmare spell and it knows everything about me.' He thought.
He then focused on the white haired girl who seemed to be thinking something. "Miss Cecilia." Cecilia turns to him, hearing Noir. "What?" she asked.
"Do you know the way to leave this forest? It would be great if you can give me some pointers. After all, I don't want to stay here forever." He said with a polite tone.
Cecilia thought for a moment then said "I don't know exactly where we are but as far as I know we should be heading to the East."
Noir thought for a moment then asked "If I'm not being rude can I ask why you think that?"
"It's because the forest I last entered is the Deity Forest, which is located to the west of the Temple of Void. So, we should head to the east. She then continued "And seeing that there are only awakened abominations we are in the very edges of the Deity forest. It should take about 3 to 4 days if we walk."
Noir was shocked for a second "At the very Edge? How big is the whole forest?" he asked.
"Why are you surprised? On the outer area there are fallen and corrupted creatures living there, on the inner parts there are great and cursed creatures and the core area is specifically only for unholy abominations. So of course this is the edge of the deity fore--."
At that time she suddenly fell to the ground, kneeling. Noir quickly went close to her worried. "Miss, are you okay?" he then looked at her legs where a shade of purple was on both of her lower legs probably from broken bones left untreated for many days.
He then quickly picked her in a princess carry and headed towards the cave.
Cecilia who was startled by his sudden action got flustered "wh-what are you doing? Put me down this instant."
Noir who was walking with her in his arms said with a concerned look "You are not in the state to walk or do anything. You need some rest before your legs can start healing."
Then Cecilia went silent. She didn't know why but she didn't feel good seeing his concerned face. 'Why? Why do I feel like this when I am with him?' She didn't know why she felt emotions that she had long abandoned were coming back to her.
After entering the cave Noir sat Cecilia against the cave walls. He then took out his shadow blade and started skinning the dead Beast. The blade cut through the body of the beast like butter. After carefully removing the beast's fur he made a makeshift bed and made Cecilia lay down on it.
He then collected all the meat from the beast and went to throw away the remaining parts that are not edible. While doing that he also collected the edible parts of the shadow ape outside. Noir made sure to throw the useless parts far away so no other creatures could locate them.
After returning, Noir cleaned all the blood from the body using the water from the nearby pond. Noir was feeling hungry so he looked through the pile of belongings to find something that could light a fire since it was already night time.
Strangely he found a match box and some clean metal rods with a sharp tip. Noir quickly lit a fire and started cooking some of the meat to eat.
While he was waiting he heard a female voice coming from the back. "Where am I?"
END