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  As the group of, lets count here, nine or so people walked through the forest; Nfirea looked at the treetops. The light that filtered through the leaves dappled the ground they walked on, and it occasionally touched the faces of the people that walked under it.

  Nfirea looked on at the people and the goddess that surrounded him. They seemed drawn in by the dangers that this forest could give them. Yet, he himself was more so drawn in by the beauty, and the way it pyed with the face of his childhood friend.

  His eyes looked across the rather pretty looking pnts, sometimes veering off their course to spy on his crush, Enri. The girl herself knew enough about pnts to be able to tell them apart and which was which.

  That was why he let his gaze flicker to her, every now and again. It was soon after that he had started to do so that, that he heard a message in his head. This startled him. he didn’t really know how to react.

  He mispced his foot as the voice began to speak. Ignoring it for now, he tried to keep his bance, yet failed and was caught by Enri. As he felt the arms of his good friend catch him, he realized that everyone was looking at him, he blushed at this and stood up.

  “Sorry everyone,” he said, starting to expin a lie he made up.

  After all, while he recognized the voice, it would do no good to leave his stumble unexpined. He rubbed the back of his head as he thought up and expined a quick excuse.

  “I was thinking about the different herbs and pnts that we were gathering. I was so caught up in thought, that I seem to have stumbled,” he said clunkily.

  “Nah, its ok man. Happens to the best of us,” Lukrut said with a smile on his face.

  Lukrut, as a ranger, could tell that the young man wasn’t really telling the truth. The ranger, as always, thought that this was because of Nfirea’s wandering eyes, and didn’t mention it.

  The rest of the group nodded their heads and continued on. The only people who didn’t really react were Naber and Calvaria, who were both focusing on the forest itself. Though, Anna was really only speaking because the others weren’t talking. Her own eyes wandered the canopy of leaves above their head as well.

  “Sorry for startling you like that, young man. I only wanted to test if you could hear me,” the voce of Momonga, or rather Calvaria, spoke in his mind, “if you wish to respond, simply think the words or actions instead of speaking or doing them. I was wondering, is there a rge monster or magical beast in this forest?”

  “Yes, there is. While I’m surprised that you don’t know of it. there is a rather powerful magical beast in the area called the, “The Wise King of The forest.” I believe it is said that it rge, with razer sharp cws and a snake tail,” he expined to the goddess.

  “That may be a chimera. A rather powerful creature, all things considered for this region. I was thinking that I may tame it, so I could spread Calvaria’s legend farther,” Calvaria said, getting a misstep from Nfirea and him slightly messing up his walk cycle, no one other than the members of darkness noticed, though.

  “If you do so, the vilge will lose it’s protection from the other two powerful entities in the forest,” Nfirea said, getting and metaphysical head tilt form Calvaria, “If you take the wise king away, then the vilge will be less defended,” he finished his counter argument.

  “I could just leave them here after I resister the beast as a pet of mine. Then, I could spread rumors that I was protecting the vilge of carne with the Wise King,” Calvaria said, and Nfirea agreed to the pn.

  …

  Aura walked along the treetops. Her feet covered distances like it was nothing. She was having a whale of a time, if the author said so. Her dy had given her free reign, so far, of the entire forest. She had never really seen any trees outside of the sixth floor of the tomb.

  She was very thankful, in the end for this. To simply be able to run and enjoy the outside world with her pets. Speaking of, she had let a couple of them run loose in the wild. Her pet Fenris, and Quadracile.

  She of course, had been following her dy Momonga for a while now. She didn’t really keep her presence down that much. Only about as much was needed for the animals in this area to not see or sense her.

  As she rushed forward, hopping from tree to tree, she heard her dy’s voice in her head. Aura herself was running in circles around the slow-moving humans that were currently walking in the forest. Her Lady was currently with them, helping the pathetic little things for some odd reason.

  She herself couldn’t understand why she was going all this way to get help from a rather subpar alchemist, but her Lady knew best. Even if Aura couldn’t understand the whole pn, she was fine with that.

  “Aura, I need you to go bring that magical beast here. you heard the young man describe it, right?” her Lady asked, and Aura nodded her head in affirmation over the line, “good, could you chase it over here? if that wouldn’t be a bother?” her Lady asked, and Aura obliged.

  Aura ran down the length of the branch she was on and rushed to the ground. There, she ran forward, searching with her heightened senses. While she was doing so, she heard the running of her pets.

  She looked back, just in time to see her Fenris scoop her up and plop her right on his back. She chuckled at these twos antics, and she asked them something.

  “Aw, you two want to come with me? You want to protect me?” she asked them, and Quadracile licked her face, “I take that as a yes then. Off we go!” she said as the three of them ran deeper into the woods.

  As she and her two pets ran off and into the woods, she could smell, hear, and sense this so called, “Wise King of The Forrest.” They weren’t even hiding themselves.

  Aura shook her head in embarrassment. She had wanted to make this beast into a rug at first, but then decided against it in her mind. This beast was far too weak to be used as a footstool.

  …

  After an hour or so of them finding different pnts and such that he thought could work, he spotted the pnt he came for. His gaze nded on the pnt and pointed to it. It had been a long day, and in all honesty, he simply wanted to get home.

  The herb was called, “Arnica Grass,” and it was a key ingredient in healing potions, at least the ones he knew. While this pnt was rather common, it was only good for the potions themselves for a certain period of time in the year.

  “Hey everyone, that pnt right there is the herb I need. Let’s get some before it becomes dark,” he expined, and the swords of darkness follow along to what he has to say.

  He walked over to it and kneeled on the ground. His hands grabbing the herbs and plucking them from the ground with practiced ease. The other adventurers look on, slightly impressed with this young man. They too, get on the ground and continue to help him.

  As he continues to pick up the herbs, yet after he is mostly done, he gets a message from Lukrut. His voice was tinged with a deep-seated worry, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end.

  Nfirea looks at the man himself. He seems worried, and if he himself didn’t know at least what was happening, he too would be worried. Still, some stress did leek through to him.

  “Hey guys, something big is coming,” Lukrut says, and pulled his bow from his back.

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