The Land Of Thorns
Secret underground part 1

They were waiting for Silvi who seemed to be swinging his hand from earlier looked like chanting a spell, not long before they felt a gust of wind surrounding Silvi's body.

Silvi swinging her hand seemed to push the wind into the underground passageway, Silvi who closed her eyes so focused her mind on the wind she exhaled.

“What's finished?”

Asked Ludi who was crouching near him, he looked astonished because he did not feel the wind he had previously felt.

“It looks like not yet, he looks still so focused.”

Edgar responded, as he approached Silvi and took a serious look with his hands propping up his chin and turned to look at the underground passage.

Silvi suddenly opened her eyes she saw Edgar in front of her directly pat Edgar on the shoulder to speak in his mind.

‘A prison, I found this underground street looking safe with many dungeons in it.’

‘You're sure there's no trap down there?’

‘It seems, because this is only benefited into road access, I feel there are people going through this road now.’

It was clear that Silvi felt the existence of someone who was going through the underground road at the moment,

“What does he say young man?”

Asked Uncle the owner of the tavern called, he looked not so impatient because he had been standing by watching Silvi with an axe that he embraced with both hands on his shoulders.

“This underground passage seems to be quite safe Uncle, he said so because he felt this underground passageway seemed to be the dungeon they used to hold the residents of the slum district they sealed.”

“What's that all he saw?”

What the store owner's uncle said made Edgar turn to look at Silvi but it seems that Silvi had read her lips and knew what the shop owner's Uncle said, Silvi just shook her head with a grim face looking tired.

“It looks like Silvi's ability can't make him see any further, but at least we know that this underground road is not so suspicious.”

“Although we must be careful. Ludi! Take that torch and guide us in front, only you have good eyesight in the dark.”

Pinta, the shop owner's uncle who looked at Ludi who was squatting looked bored waiting, Ludi's experience showed that he wanted to refuse his request, but he wanted to refuse, but after seeing the gaze of the shop owner Uncle who was so creepy looking at him made him feel unable to resist.

“Yes well uncle, but if there is anything I will count on you, the fight in a narrow place is so unsuitable to me!”

Ludi said it while picking up a torch on the wall of the room to help them get light inside the dark-looking underground street.

They went down the stairs to the underground street, in the street they seemed to be lined up with Uncle the tavern owner and Edgar who was in the middle. This underground road is wide enough for 2 people who walk together but they prefer to line up to clear space in order to freely exchange positions later.

Their journey was not so long that they found another source of light that also came from the torch that was on the wall as they passed the bend of the road to their left.

They saw on their right side lined with iron bars, they knew that this was the dungeon that the bandits were using, but from the beginning they passed by and they did not see anyone being held behind bars.

“Isn't this underground area so vast!”

Just spoken as Ludi thought of those who had walked far enough.

They did not realize that the underground road they were traveling through did not directly lead to the headquarters of the bandits who became their destination. The extent of this place caused Silvi to not find the exit as she used her wind magic.

They went back through a bend to their right, with the road looking the same, but this time lined with iron bars on their left, not long after passing through several rooms they found 3 boys who were held in prison.

“Hoi little boy! can you hear me?”

A small child seemed to be trying to grow his finger so hard when he heard the commotion that Ludi made, the child looked so difficult to open his eyes.

“It looks like he's alive .. backwards Ludi I'll try to open it!”

The shop owner's uncle pulled Ludi away from the bars, he saw that these bars used a padlock to lock those inside. He with all his might swung his axe smashed the locking padlock and opened it easily.

Ludi quickly entered the child who was aware, he saw the child's lips were so dry and took out a drink that he brought to help him slowly drink water from the place he was carrying.

As Edgar approached the other children, he tried to check and did not feel a ticking pulse, he did the same thing to the other children as well but got the same result if they all did not breathe except the child who was with Ludi.

These kids have the same scar on their necks, like a scar from something that bit them.

‘This child is a human animal.’

That's what Edgar thought when examining the child in front of him was no longer breathing.

Only this child was different from the others when Edgar noticed, This little boy had wide ears with fur like the ears of a coyote in general with a small, hairy tail, makes Edgar sure that this child comes from a human dog race.

Uhuk!

The little boy choked on the drinking water that went into his mouth and he instead spewed out the water that he drank that was mixed with blood, making Ludi surprised to see let alone this child seem to want to say something to him.

“What you said!”

Ludi did not understand what the little boy said to her, her voice was so small that it made it difficult for Ludi to hear her. He then brought his ears closer and tried to hear what the little boy was saying.

“To-long .. save ka-mi”

The voice of the little boy still sounded so soft.

Even so, Ludi was finally able to hear what this child said to him, after saying that the little boy was unconscious again.

“What did he say Ludi?”

Asked by a curious Edgar who was standing nearby, Edgar examined the little boy and realized he was still breathing slowly.

“Please save us. That's what he said ... We have to save this kid, I'll take him out looking for help!”

Ludi tried to wake the little boy trying to carry him, but Edgar stopped himself.

“You won't have time Ludi.”

“What are you doing Edgar! We have to help him!”

“See the situation is stupid!”

Ludi looked so emotionally snapped at Edgar that it seemed as if a vein had appeared on his forehead when he saw Edgar holding himself back. Edgar knew that this child could not survive when he took him to the nearest hospital or healer. Not to mention they still had to take care of the bandits.

“Quiet Ludi! I understand how hurt you feel to see these kids have such bad luck. I understand you can't bear to see them fared just like your sister. But if we want to save him this time, we have to directly destroy the problem.”

Said the shop owner's Uncle while stroking Ludi's head, his words made Ludi look so moody and frightened and endured his sadness.

‘Adik? He never told me that he had a sister, what it was that made him a bandit hunter in another life.’

Edgar spoke in his mind looking surprised, not expecting Ludi to have a sister, they were long friends but he never told her about his family and Edgar also did not want to make him remember his dark certia, that's what Edgar remembers when they were best friends in other lives.