Gil was taking a major lead with the party. He saw that the flock was attacking something but they were seemingly unsessful so far. If it was proved to be someone in need, the party would burst in with a fury. This was Gil''s major worry.


    With his speed, Gil was able to get ahead of the rest of the party while Midnight kept up with him. Gil could feel Walker stepping in to the air behind him to get a better vantage point. The idea was sound and by the time the three saw what was happening, it didn''t matter. They were sprinting toward the flock at the fastest speed possible.


    Just in front of them was a singlerge horse with two demons on it. They were clearly different than the other demons that they had seen. They were wearing heavier clothing and had definitely been through a lot of battle to get to where they were.


    "Midnight, light Gil''s arrow on fire and have him shoot toward the center of the flock." Walker made arge amount of wind gather behind him while Midnight breathed mes on to an oil soaked arrow that Gil had ready for just a situation kike this.


    It may not be exactly why Gil had made the arrows but it was perfect. The arrows were an alternative to using his elemental arrows because he wanted to ensure that he could save mana in a longer battle. The idea of war had inspired these because he knew that the war to liberate the demons would cost a great amount of mana for everyone involved.


    The arrow was released and flew in an arc toward the center of the flock. With Walker''s push of air, it spiraled higher and burst in to ming cinders that rained over the entire flock of arrow sparrows. While this didn''t cause massive damage or arge fireball, it did cause pain to multiple of the arrow sparrows. From there it grew in to panic.


    The cries of the arrow sparrows were high pitched and frantic. They attempted to stop the cinders from burning their wings. This in turn, caused them to fall from the sky iling about. Their desire to snuff the embers in their feathers overtook everything.


    The time it took for them to begin to recover was enough for Gil, Midnight, and Walker to arrive in the middle of things. Between them, they were able to fire multiple oil soaked arrows causing more and more cinders to rain down. The result was an even greater panic that sent the arrow sparrows rushing away inplete fear. Their nests forgotten for the time being.


    The horse that the two demons were on was barely standing. It had cuts all along its body from whatever they had crossed while getting to this point. "You can rest easy now. We are looking for people like you that need help. Tell us what you need."


    The man that Walker spoke to had a younger boy clutched to him while they had been on the horse. It was crystal clear that the man had covered the boy through whatever they had done to escape the demonnds.


    "Help him. Help my son." The man fell from the horse with the boy still in his arms. When he fell he twisted to fall on his back keeping the boy safe.


    ''Gil, help me here." The horse was looking as if it would start bucking due to the sudden change in its surroundings. Since Gil had spent more time around the animals, Walker trusted him to handle it. "Midnight, I need you to start clearing this area so we can work. Alice might have to sing." Walker didn''t want Alice to hurt herself, unfortunately, he was not confident in dealing with these injuries.


    "Don''t touch him!" Remey stopped them in their tracks. "Get the water out and rinse them off. It will hurt their wounds but I know what caused those cuts and purple colorations around them. It was night thorns. They grow underground. I would bet anything that they used a tunnel to escape the demonnds and cross the border. They only grow inplete darkness and if you get that poison on you I will need to treat you too." Gil and Walker froze.


    "Just get the water!" Walker was spurred on by Alice''s rough voice. She wanted to help but couldn''t do anything just yet. Su was less afraid because of her higher poison resistance. She immediately took charge and began to work with Walker to clean the two off.


    The number of cuts and scrapes on the two demon''s bodies was hard to witness. With Walker using clean water, he saw more of the purple and bluish poison washing away. He realized that it was much more potent than he realized due to the fact that it was having a hard time diffusing.


    "Gil, that horse won''t make it. It''s hurt very badly, the poison is already in its blood. Look at the eyes, you can see the purple color bleeding in there. I wouldn''t stand near it when it copses. Its body should be numb and it will pass away any moment." Remey wasn''t trying to make everyone feel bad. This was how the night thorn poison worked. She just needed to be blunt so that Gil could understand the situation.


    "The night thorn is a double edge poison. It has a massive ability to reduce pain at the cost of causing the entire body to shut down. Even breathing bes numb to the point that you can''t tell if you are or are not breathing. A single drop can make enough medicine for ten people. That''s why it is so rarely used. Dosage is extremely dangerous." Both Remey and Alice knew this. It hastened their pace seeing the amount covering the older man and the small amount on the boy.


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