The forest of death is exactly as scary as it sounds. Many times this is where the children would be killed, especially at night. More often than now a two tail wolf would come and drag one away, if not two. If you are really unlucky a devil bear could come and rip you in half in your sleep!

Due to the dangers of this many had stopped sleeping outside in the tents and decided to sleep in the carriages. This was quite uncomfortable as the the carriages were not built to be slept in. There has already been 2 incidents where a boy had his head torn apart by a two tail wolf, and a girl only had an arm left in her tent. This has caused many to start hiding in the carriages; although, the knights does not seem to care as much as they should. Julien and I have noticed a few drinking from flasks in their poaches even on guard duty.

It seems that we will be in this forest for a month and although there are dangers, me and Julien continue to practice our sword techniques.

*Clang Clang*

"Your movements have improved Julien!"

"Father had taught me a few techniques to improve my body development!"

The swords clashed under the moonlight; although the knights have to protect us as long as we did not stray too far from camp they could care less about us.

As our swords had clash sweats rolled down our foreheads

"Let me show you what my father has taught me during his years of being a guild leader!" Shouted Andre

"Chain Sword Attack!"

"Ku..." Julien blocked the sword technique perfectly!

"And my father wasn't just a knight for show! Hidden Blade!" although it was not perfect for a split second it felt as the blade had disappeared in front of andre and appeared near his arm!

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Andre had blocked it and the two swords that clashed caused a loud sound that resonated around the forest! The two smiled and took a step back.

"Let's take a stop for the night and go sleep Julien, that last clash has gotten me very tired."

Just before returning back we stopped by a river to wash ourselves, and I had noticed that Julien had gotten much more muscle mass than before; although i'm not falling short of that but i remember previously he was not as built.

"Are you into guys now Andre? quit your staring!"

"HAH you wish I was into you! It seems you have really trained hard your muscles are really starting to show!"

"Father had taught me a few techniques to increase my muscle power by using breathing and meditation techniques."

"oh my father had showed me some as well! Although I have been practicing it, it seems I hae reached a bit of a bottleneck!"

A knight had appeared out of the thicket at this point

"what are you two doing! hurry up and get back to camp... I don't want to have to deal with you two more dead bodies"

"Sorry Sir Knight.. we were just washing we will be right back" Julien had said quite politely.

The knight had grumbled and walked away while drinking his flask, while me and Julien had cleaned up and went back to camp with no troubles.

The days continued although there has been less deaths since everyone had slept inside the carriages, it has not been a great time as the crowded carriages had taken a toll on everyone. we were just a day's ride away from outside the forest when a high alert had been placed from the magus's that sat on the carriages. It seems that there are a pack of wolves in the area and the knights had started being more on guard. The road was not small and was quite wide but being in the forest there were quite a few dangers lurking around every tree.

"THERE!" Shouted a knight in the front. A rather large wolf with three tails were standing in the middle of the road with two wolves beside him.

"It must be their alpha." The magus in charge quoted "Knight's formation A defend the carriages while two of you and I will break through the front!"

Julien and I drew our swords in excitement.

"Can we help you sir knight!" questioned Julien and I.

"sure hehe just don't get killed! Stay back and protect the carriage! You will our last line of defense then!" the knight that drove our carriage gladly accepted our help.

"Let's do this Julien."

"Don't get carried away, these wolves are quite large and even though we have training we can still be easily killed!"

Eyes appeared out of the forest like an evil presence as the convoy had slowed down.

"Looks like it's going to be a fun day" Smiled Julien.