The Adventure of the Light-Bearer

CH. 7 - The Bandits

Levin opened his eyes, a bright light made him squint to look around. He woke up, looked to his left right and was surprised to see himself in an iron cage, inside the forest.

"Oh look, who just woke up" someone told Levin. The voice sounded so familiar, Levin's eyes and left-right wiggles looking for the source of the voice, and seeing the woman in her clothes being locked up with him, that woman was the woman he had found in the cave before.

"Ka.. You're... What the hell is going on here? And why am I locked up?" levin asked limply.

"Why are you locked up? Remember that bandit I killed in that cave? L... They think we killed him. After all, killing or not the bandits will still catch you." said the woman while enduring the pain, there was a lot of blood around her body, she was sitting limp on the edge of Levin.

"What happened to you? Are you all right? You're... You look very weak" Levin said as he approached the woman, and observed her scarred body all over her body. The wounds were caused by a sword that scratched, some of the wounds were deep and shed a lot of blood.

"Damn it, we need to get out of here and treat you" Levin said as he tore off his lower pants, and wrapped them in the woman's thigh that was splattered with blood.

"Stupid... We're gonna die here. Whatever you do won't get us out of this cage." said the woman, Levin ignored her and laid her on the ground, Levin then stood up and looked right left.

"Where are they? Where are the bandits? When did they come here?" levin asked the woman, the woman was breathing so heavily, she scrunched her face in pain.

"Where do I know" said the woman in a soft voice.

Levin then looked for a way out of the iron cage. He looked towards the iron door and approached it, it was locked very tightly, needing a key to open the lock.

"Damn, I gotta get out of here. Wait, what about teleportation? Can I do it?" levin asked himself. He tried it, trying to focus himself and his energy on turning it into light, but failing, he ran out of Mana.

"Damn it, what do I have to do to get my Mana back? No time, I gotta move fast." Levin then frowns back, he looks for useful objects around him. He then walked around the cage. His face was wide-eyed when he looked at the wet ground, and he poked it with his finger, and saw the thick ground on his index finger.

He also rushed to find a rather pointed stone, he had time to go around in that place. As the woman looked towards the sky with resignation, she knew she had no hope of survival.

"Dad, mother, I'm sorry" said the woman in her heart, then closed her eyes, tears came out of her eyes.

Levin finally got a stone, he pointed it up proudly.

"Finally we can get out of here!" he shouted with pleasure.

Levin then ran to every corner of the cage and poked the ground. "Here we go!" he shouted while pointing the stone up high. He then stuck it into the ground, and dug up the ground quickly.

His work as a slave made him an expert in digging up the land. Despite using only a pointed stone, he dug into the ground quickly and agilely.

"You'll be fine, hang on!" levin yelled at the woman, who then carried her towards the quarry.

"Damn, I think you have to crawl on your own to get out of that hole, it's gonna be hard if I have to pull you out of the outside, unless I dig that hole deeper" Levin said, a look of confusion on his face.

"Boo.. Fool, come out and leave me! There's no time to dig... The bandits were coming." said the woman, she did not move her body in the slightest, it seemed like she lost all her strength to move. Levin then shook his head.

"No, I'll dig a little more, we'll both get out of here or none of us should get out" Levin said, then he put the woman's body aside and grabbed the stone he used to dig.

He continued his excavation, not in him digging, the ground he dug was getting harder and his strength was getting weaker. But he kept digging the ground with his remaining strength, while the woman looked at him lying limp.

"Fuck shit! Why is the ground getting hard!" shout Levin.

Sweat was pouring down his forehead, he dug out the ground with all his might and at an extremely fast speed. The hard ground made the stone scratch Levin's palm and made him bleed.

Levin then threw the stone. His breath gasping, blood pouring from his palms, everywhere then moved towards the woman limply.

"Now I can get you out of here" Levin said as he held the woman closer to the quarry. Levin then put the woman in the hole, crawled out and pushed the woman out of the cage. There was no sign of the bandit, only Hartlova knew where they were going and what they were doing.

Levin carried the woman on his shoulder, and walked slowly into the forest.

"Hold on, we can definitely find a village, you'll be treated there" Levin said, taking pains to step.

"Ke.. Why you... Did this? Why don't you." said the woman with great difficulty. Levin laughed a little.

"Be quiet... You chatty female." Levin said in a joking tone. Levin then pointed towards the ground in front of him.

"Look! The trail! We can finally get out of here" said Levin, who walked faster through the streets.

end of Chapter :)