Knight of Astrape

The ride to the center took more than 2 hours due to the size of the white forest.

"We'll have to walk from here on young master.. because we left without giving the horse a chance to rest; the horse is already exhausted." Derret said

As he stepped off his horse

"That's all right. I can feel that we are quite close "While clumsily descending off the horse, Orion stated.

'Finally I can rest!! After two-hour ride on horse, my ass hurts like hell.'

'I'm glad that plan A worked... If I had to escape from the home alone I would probably died.'

While was Orion massaging his ass.

Derret tied his horse to a nearby tree.

Then, without saying anything, he approached the thickest tree in the vicinity and gently swung his hand in front of it.

Bamm!

With a massive sound, the thick white tree crashed to the ground.

The thick white tree was cleanly cut in half so cleanly that it looked like he had used a sword.

Orion looked at the scene in disbelief.

'He is broken wayy too broken...he cut that thing in half with just swing of his hand?'

Orion was shocked. But it wasn't just because he cut some random tree in half without a sword.

'He is a swordmaster. Something like that is obvious'

He was shocked because he had cut the "white tree" in half.

White trees are trees that are found only in this forest. They are so durable and tough that they are used to make fortresses and wooden parts of expensive weapons.

In order to cut them in the game, you needed a magic sword made of mythril with fiery runes engraved on him.You could sell wood to blacksmiths and city lords.

'You can get enought money to buy a house just from selling that trunk'

"We can sit here and rest, young master," Derret said with an innocent smile, like a puppy waiting for its master's praise.

'Scary how much of a ignorant he can be'

Orion sat on a tree trunk with a Derret.

"Is it okay to pull the food out?" Orion asked Derret.

"Yes, I don't feel any monsters around the young master."

'In places with monsters, it is dangerous to pull out food until you are sure there is nothing around. At least that's what my mom warned me about before I left. '

Orion extended his hand with a gold ring with a black jewel in it, and proceeded to concentrate his mana on it.

This ring is a magical artifact that has been found in some ruins. It is a ring that acts as an inventory in games. It has access to a dimension where you can store different things.

The rings have different ranks, and with each higher rank, the ring's abilities improve.

Black is the highest rank found so far which has unlimited space in it and there is no time in its dimension, so things will remain in the same condition as in which you put them.

"I'm glad I was born rich," Orion muttered as he pretended to slap his own cheeks with imaginary cash.

" HaHa..even though I'm slowly dying..." he added in monotone voice with lifeless eyes

Orion homemade a sandwich from his ring and started to eat it.

'This forest is really more beautiful in reality. It's incomparable with the game,'

The whole scene before his eyes was pure white nature.

Everywhere the eye saw were white trees, little birds chirping, and curious animals watching them. It was a beauty that could hardly be described in words. It was such a beautiful place that Orion would not be able to visit a place nearly as beautiful as this in his whole life if he still lived on earth.

And there was also a problem with the fact that he was locked up in his house because of his aunt.

As Orion looked around, he noticed something carved on a tree.

"Do you feel uncomfortable young master?"

"Ah, No i was just thinking about somthing.."

He was silent for a moment before turning to the Derret and starting to speak.

"Derret can I ask you the question?"

Derret was surprised for a moment by his straightforwardness, but he answered quickly.

"Of course, I will answer any question you have to the best of my ability."

"Do you promise you will?"

Derret didn't understand what he meant until he noticed his serious look. He realized that the innocent angel whom everyone adored now had disappeared, and now a descendant of the Astarte family stood before him ...

"Yes, I swear by the name bestowed on me by the Duke."

Derret responded to Orion's feelings with the same respect and a serious look.

"Then I have 3 questions for you."

"Do you love our Dukedom?"

"Yes I do with all my heart." The Derret replied with his hand on his chest where is heart located.

"Do you respect the Duke?"

"Yes I do." Thanks to him, I became who I am now."He responded and recalling the slums where he was born.

"You should know that, because of me, the Dukedom does not have any successors." "My parents won't have a second child while I'm alive out of love for me."

"While I'm alive Dukedom doesn't have any future."

"Nobles are probably ridiculing my father behind my back because of me."

"Don't you think that if you kill me now, you will save the dukedom?"Orion said, with a cold expression on his face.

Derret was shocked.. He could clearly see it. Orion's eyes didn't have any light in them.

"My parents are young. It's still time to raise a new child, but if I die 10 or 15 years later... it's not certain that it will be possible anymore. "

His voice lacked emotions.

"It wouldn't be surprising with my condition that I would die out of nowhere." And you wouldn't have a problem making it look like natural death if you killed me here. "

Orion continued with an emotionless look on his face

"My father also belives in you"

Derret remembered where he had seen a similar expression to the one that orion have.It was on the battlefield...When the soldiers lost all will to life, they begged to be slain by the enemy.

"So answer me Derret..will you save Dukedom?"

At that moment, the Derret realized something.

' What if it was from the beginning of his plan ..

The whole trip to find the cure was just for this moment

because he knew he'd be a burden to his parents.... and the dukedom.

The young master took advantage of the fact that his condition improved for a while so that he could .. '

Small tears formed in Derret's black eyes.

He slowly pulled a sword from his scabber.

"So you decided, I'm glad." Orion muttered

"Please forgive me, young master." Derret said in a low voice and moved his silver sword toward Orion.