Light enveloped the whole place. It was so bright that even closing my eyes rendered it useless. I could see nothing, just brightness.
It's as if I was suddenly tossed 1 kilometer closer away from the sun.
It was blinding.
My body felt hot and I feel like my whole body was being torched.
"Nugh!!!" I could only grunt from the pain.
After a torture that might've only lasted for a few seconds which felt like a lifetime, the light finally subsided with my sight still wasn't able to adapt, I fell on all fours but still held on the light orb.
I don't know what happened but it looks like it was because of this light orb.
The intense pain ran on my body and my grip loosen which made the light orb got away.
I fell on the ground as I watch the light orb fly away.
As my consciousness leaving my body and my eyelids begun to close, I saw the light orb getting bigger, no, it was getting closer.
The last thing I saw was it shone again, but this time its brightness was not as strong as the first one. This one had a calming aura on it.
Then finally my consciousness left me.
I saw nothing but darkness.
mm… my body hu― what?!
When I felt my consciousness again, the first thing that came to my mind was my injuries with the expectation that I got burned to crisp by the light.
I remembered that it was very painful and the wounds are severe, so why? Why am I all healed up?
"…just what in the world happened?"
I asked myself as I stared at my hands. There's nothing in there, not even the scratches I got from the tree.
"You've finally woken up."
A calming and beautiful voice rang out of the place. Just then I realized that this is not the forest anymore.
True, there are some trees and veins running on the ground but this place is different. It has a majestic feel into it and the light in this place is very calming.
I turned to the source of the voice.
I saw an out of this world beautiful girl sitting on a throne that is carved from a thick tree. Multiple light orbs are forming a circle around the throne which made her appearance looked so majestic and eye catching.
She has a small silver crown with on her head and she also had pointed of ears with earrings that has a small shining red stone embedded on both.
She is about 148-150 cm tall. I decided not to judge her age by her looks because of the logic of this world.
She had a pure white long hair with straight bangs and silver eyes that looked very mesmerizing.
She is wearing a revealing white outfit. Her clothe is see through and made her look almost naked.
She is looking at me with complete calmness and authority under her gaze.
I gulped at the scene.
"…who are you?"
I was able to get ahold of myself before I could be sucked in with her beauty.
"I am the Queen of all Wisps, Llumia. I welcome you to my forest, Wisperea Elthea Forest. I apologize for this sudden summon, Hero-sama."
When I heard that she is a queen, my body stiffened a little. Her introduction also included things I can't ignore.
"…Pleasure to meet you, your Majesty. I am called Ares. Does that mean this is a different place from the Nymph's Forest?"
"You don't need to feel tense, Ares-sama. To answer your question, yes this is a different forest. If you want to know how you got transferred here, I just teleported you."
"T-teleported me?"
Hearing that magic, I perked up a little bit. Leutte said that no one can use teleportation in this world, at least none in the records.
To think that I would meet someone who can do it.
"It isn't that easy to teleport you though Ares-sama. You almost cancelled my teleportation magic by refusing it with your etheria."
"Is that the reason I got burned?"
"Yes. But because you lost consciousness before you dispelled my magic, I was able to successfully teleport you here. I did some healing on you so how do you feel?"
"I'm doing alright. Don't mind it. If this is a different forest, how were you able to cast a spell on me?"
"I have control on all wisps and they are my eyes and ears so I can use magic through them. The output is not as strong as the original though."
"S-so you're the one who sent that light orb, I mean that wisp?"
"That is correct. The original plan was to summon you while you were sleeping but I have to say, what you did back there to catch the wisp is very impressive. I've never seen anything like that before."
"M-more importantly, you would try to summon me on my sleep? That's kidnapping!"
"Is that so? I think it was necessary though? Compared to being burned right?"
Llumia said that as if it is the most obvious thing in the world.
Well she got a point there. I'd rather have that than being burned to crisp.
But still that is a really alarming skill. If it were an enemy, I would be dead by now.
Seeing my grim expression, Llumia stood up from her throne and as she stood up, the light orbs or wisps float around her. There were total of 8 light orbs around her.
She stepped forward as she moved her hand on her right side and a vein wrapping some kind of small weapon on its sheath moved towards her. She took the weapon from the vein and continued to walk towards me.
"…!"
I readied myself for any attack but when I looked at her face,
She was smiling.
It was so pure that one would not be able to think that she will do something bad to you even if she is holding a weapon while walking towards you.
She stopped and presented the weapon.
"Don't worry Ares-sama, I am not an enemy. I summoned you here to give you this. Also take this as an apology for what happened earlier."
I reluctantly reached out my hand and she handed over the weapon.
I unsheathed it to take a good look. It was a dagger.
It has carvings on the blade and its length is a little longer than a normal dagger that I saw in Alou's place.
It looked very expensive so I looked at Llumia's face to make sure that she is really giving this to me.
"Are you sure you're giving me something as expensive-looking as this?"
"Yes. Please take it. I hope it would be useful for you in the future, Ares-sama."
I put the dagger back on its sheath. Having a weapon would be beneficial too.
"Then I'll accept this with gratitude, thank you Llumia-sama."
"You're welcome Ares-sama. Use it as you see fit."