Flame, breaker of darkness

It was dark everywhere. Blackness covers the whole space and gives the color of nothingness to everything. The silence covered every imaginable direction and no sound could be heard except for the drop of a drop that occasionally broke the curtain of silence.

 Meanwhile, the dim flame split the dense layers of darkness and appeared like sparks.

Along with the spread of the entwined flame and the dancing embers, the footsteps of several people echoed. Gradually, the sound of footsteps rose so much that the face of Mastoran appeared behind the burning torch; The four people they were walking in a rocky and cold corridor.

One who, in addition to his hammer, had an iron armor and helmet with small walls, said with a voice deep in his metal: "I hope today goes well, one of us is finally reaching the level of steel."

His voice echoed in the corridor, but it had no effect on the movement of his companions.

The boy holding the torch, a sheathed sword strapped to his waist and leading the hilt, said with a short sigh, "Yeah... hey Lenus, today we're all going to give a hoot to those highbrows!" And he laughed a little.

At the rear of the square formed by the four, and according to which they were moving, a boy in purple clothes and a long peaked hat walked with a wooden staff with a twist on the top, and looked at a plaque around his neck.

The only girl wearing a robe in the group, who had a special golden cane, happily slapped the boy on her left and asked: "Tell me something, Lenus, you're not healthy enough to go to the plate of Poladis!"

The boy was thinking when the girl's body brought him out of his distraction, he looked at the priest's daughter with a flowery face.

- "What can I say, Selena?" In this one year that I was a member of your group, I was able to improve a lot. I owe my success to you."

The swordsman looked back and sarcastically said: "Whatever happened was the result of your efforts, I hope you will be successful in your next class..." and looked forward again.

"What do you mean, Kevin?" Lenus asked hurriedly. Who said that I am going to leave this group?"

- "Don't worry boy, you are considered a genius now. Besides you, who has been able to reach the level of steel at the age of 15? "Adventure with us Platinum plates will prevent you from promotion."

Selena nodded in agreement with Kevin's words.

- "Kevin is right, you shouldn't adventure with us and limit yourself. Although you have just entered the Poladin level, you can still join better and higher categories.

"I'm not so cowardly as to let my friend go when I'm advanced," cried Lenus, more fiercely and furiously, as he clenched his wand. I will never leave you."

- "But..."

- "I made my decision. You are the ones who let me into your group when no one would accept me, saved my life many times, and gave me your share of the mission wages when I needed it. I can't separate from you and leave you alone."

"But Lenus, what about your mother and sister?" asked the armored boy from under his helmet.

"You should..."

"I've got enough money to send them, Robert," Lenus interrupted. "I recently found a part-time job, so I can send more money to my mother and sister and keep some for myself."

Lenus was the 15-year-old son of a magician who sent most of his earnings to his mother and sister. They lived in a city far from him and Lenus came to this city to earn more money; Because the requests and missions found in these areas were more than other areas for some reason.

Lenus came to this city more than a year ago and joined this group by chance. From then on, they went through many missions together, and because Lenus grew and progressed more than the others, he miraculously leveled up faster.

Kevin, who was trying to check the road with a torch, said with satisfaction: "I'm glad to hear that from you, Lenus, our work will be very difficult without a wizard. However, if you want to go, go ahead and don't look back."

When the group made its way in the darkness and silence, the image of the dancing flames fell on the stones of the wall and their parade was finally displayed in glory.

After a while, Selena broke the silence with a bit of annoyance.

- "Did we really have to come this way? "I never had a good feeling about narrow and dark tunnels and I don't have any."

Kevin put a hand on his sword and answered: "We didn't have to, but we saved almost half a day by going through this tunnel."

Lenus continued Kevin's speech, "Besides, our mission is to attract the attention of the orcs after we enter, that way, we can get in easily."

Selena, who was convinced, didn't say anything, but she was happy that they had passed through the tunnel without any problems.

The most likely nests of goblins, orcs and other monsters were in dark and abandoned places such as tunnels, caves and ruined tombs. The squad was capable of fighting such monsters, but even the strongest could barely survive surprise attacks in such tight spaces.

After a few minutes of walking and passing a few turns and rocky outcrops, Robert stopped and said to Kevin, "I can feel the open air, turn off the torch as we go." Even though Kevin was in charge, he trusted Robert completely.

After walking about 10 meters, the group stopped at Kevin's command. After extinguishing the torch, he slowly and carefully placed his hand on the wall in the darkness and moved. After some time passed, his search finally came to fruition, he drew his sword and plunged it into the wall.

After pulling the sword out of the wall, moonlight shone through the hole. At this time, Lenus, Selena and Robert, like Kevin, noticed that a part of the wall in front of them was covered by ivy and moss and some intertwined plants.

"Looks like they're right," Robert muttered.

Kevin slowly and silently widened the hole and looked out from it to make sure no one noticed them. After reassurance, Selena used her wand to widen the hole enough to pass through.

 Before passing, Celaena took out a bag from under her robes and gave Robert, Lenus, and Kevin three more robes, similar to hers.

- "Cover yourself well with these."

 After dressing and disguising themselves, they all passed through the ivy and moss, but when they left, no one was seen.

Everyone had become invisible.