Sprint of the Wind

Part 1

“Aigo. I am gonna die.”

Jiss became 9 years old in the elves’ forest.

This was already a significant age in the Marka continent. As his physique grew and as his bones set permanently, he was at an age where he could handle mana.

Of course there were 4~5 year old slaves forced to learn black magic as well.

If you learned magic from an early age magic affinity, mana capacity and growth potential became very high. However this also came with severe side effects.

The body would grew deformed if it cannot handle the mana and the brain would also crumbled like tofu.

Taking safety into consideration, it was ideal to start handling mana starting at an age of 9. Hereseh drew a magic circle that gathers mana on the ground.

“You don’t have to worry too much. You can just live as a magic researcher even if you cannot understand and feel mana.”

At the least, Jiss had been showing quite a promise in studies of magic for how young he was.

This was the most important moment as a magician, as he had finally reached the age where he would get to feel and utilize mana.

“Ease your heart. As everyone has mana, so do you.”

“You sure? What if I am the only one without……..”

“Refine your senses and focus. You will be able to feel the mana flowing in the world without fail.”

Jiss then closed his eyes.

– If this brat wants to inherit my magic, he will have to be able to feel mana…… can he? By any chance he cannot, do I put an end to this? Magic scholars, compared to magicians who can rise in the magic circle with a sense of accomplishment, are of an existence like a goblin’s eye booger.

Hereseh Pondered in his thoughts next to Jiss.

This was an important moment for Jiss, so Hereseh’s feelings were even more tangled since he was Jiss’s master.

– Ah… He needs to able to feel mana….. Even if he isn’t a genius, he still needs to be above average. He should be able to feel mana looking at how well he performed in the previous magic lessons. If he can’t, he must really have no talent for magic.

Though this was not his intention, Hereseh was bothering Jiss with his thoughts. (Zix: It seems Jiss couldn’t stop Hereseh’s worrying thoughts pouring into his mind. lol)

Magicians needed to have much greater sense and control over mana than knights. Otherwise the mana can conflict within one’s body and cause excruciating pain.

Hereseh’s thoughts kept squeezing in as Jiss was trying to focus.

‘This is a once in a lifetime moment.’ (Zix: This is Hereseh. This is more clear in Korean where there is a ‘mature’ way of speaking.)

Other than scholars, merchants, farmers, or blacksmiths, there was nothing much one could become if you did not know how to manipulate mana.

Jiss went deeper into his inner self.

It is said the moment you begin to feel the mana in yourself, you begin to understand your will more clearly.

When one can gather enough mana and will power, only then one can truly start as a magician.

In the case of swordsmen, they can utilize their mana to reconstruct their physique to gain G.o.dlike strength.

‘Mana….. I should be able to do it right?’

To feel mana Jiss fell into deep meditation.

‘Allium is really pretty. Meanwhile Jin-Sora and Yee-Heejin are still practically babies… Other elvish women are very beautiful as well. Slender legs and their body types are just absolutely……..’ (Zix: So deep)

Jiss ended up wasting two hours in meaningless thoughts because his mental age was not of an innocent 9 year old.

He could not yet feel the mana which organized and activated his body.

Hereseh’s worry became even more larger.

– It is regrettable but it seems he is not a genius when it comes to feeling mana. He had to at least feel mana at this point if he wanted to manipulate mana at a level of a high cla.s.s magician. However as long as he gets to feel by today he can at least become a regular magician.

Low circle level magic incantations were very easily done, however complicated spells consisted of dozens of different formulas were impossible to cast without being able to connect and convert mana finely.

The reason Jiss trained his body extremely was also to increase the innate mana capacity inside his body. As he received plenty of lessons as a magician he also created a strong foundation.

It would be normal if his senses were higher than of a normal folk.

“We have time so keep trying.”

“Yes. Master.”

“Don’t lose any control of your senses and focus in believing you have mana.”

Hereseh left after giving this statement.

Since it can take up to a month to feel one’s mana if one had dull sense of mana, instead of staying next to him he decided to give him some alone time.

‘What exactly is mana, and where is it anyways?’

Jiss finally threw aside his pointless thoughts about Allium and searched his inner self as he asked himself the important questions.

‘All these familiar feelings are just all parts of my body. Just exactly what and where am I suppose to feel.’

He had to feel mana but he couldn’t feel anything weird or strange.

‘Mana absolutely exists and is a natural phenomenon, it is also everywhere in the world…. It is really easier said than done. Can it be I cannot sense it because my senses are dull?’’

Finding the initial awareness of mana is very difficult.

This is because the mana in a person’s body is weak and does not move easily, thus it is difficult to mend it with one’s will power.

Black mages even stab their disciples body with knives to wake their senses. This was to create a moment when their source of life, mana, was showing the most movement.

‘Just what is it.’

Energy was visible when Hereseh used magic. Mana being used within Rendall’s body when he used swordsmanship was also visible.

‘Everybody has it…… Even after seeing it with my eyes I still don’t understand very well.’

Everytime Rendall and Hereseh used magic and swordsmanship, there was a weird feeling from the mana. As he focused using this feeling as basis, he felt a delicate pure energy from within his body.

‘So this is the mana I’ve been hearing so much about? But this energy is so abundant in this world.’

Jiss was a little dumbfounded feeling something he was already so used to.

Just as you feel cold if you go to a cold area, this was a feeling he has been sensing ever since he was a baby.

Insurmountable amount of this energy was overflowing in this world.

Since in the other world’s mana was all dried up and barely existed, the feeling of mana in this world was even more noticeable.

So in the end he struggled even more because he tried to focus and look for a new sensation he hasn’t felt before.

Of course Jiss was not the only one in this continent who could feel mana so easily, as they say archmages were also very different from the beginning.

It is said even if never taught, archmages grasped mana on their own and learnt to manipulate it on their own.

Elves, the demon race, and the chosen dragon race were also all on the same boat.

‘Since I was not truly a baby when I was born so my potential must be more difficult to gauge. Though it can be that I am a genius…. I am probably not a super genius.’

Sense of mana alone grants a person substantial potential in this world.

However Jiss evaluated himself without an ounce of bias.

‘There is no reason to have big expectations. Just because you have good leg movements doesn’t mean you will become an athlete.’

He observed the flow of mana in the body for a while.

When you gather mana and form a small house around the heart, you can be considered as the first circle.

By increasing the density of the mana and and making the house bigger and stronger was the elementary method of magician growth method

The first circle can be considered as magicians, however this was a meaningless t.i.tle since their difference in ability compared to the public was negligible.

At most they can cast light magic to make the surrounding area a little brighter or shoot down a bird with a magic arrow.

Jiss formed a house around his source of life, the heart, as other magicians do.

‘He said it’s good to envision a big and tough brick house. For material I am to use both the world’s and my mana.’

After he built the house of mana, he begin to absorb the mana flowing outside.

The density of mana in the elves’ forest was higher than the outside world. Mana was also sucked into Jiss since he had the scent of the forest.

After a while, time it would take for a person to eat two bowls of ramen pa.s.sed by.

Jiss looked inside his body.

Though he envisioned a brick house, there was small hut that seemed to be built by throwing a bunch of weed together.

A chancy house that looked as if it will fall apart right away if a rain storm came!

‘There is a limit for a first circle so this was to be expected. As the house becomes bigger and stronger I will be able to withhold more mana.’

Withholding mana over one’s limit was absolutely forbidden as a first circle.

If the house of mana were to collapse one would lose the ability to use magic forever and sometimes could even lose one’s live

As Jiss opened his eyes lightly after completing the first circle, he saw countless of golden strings of light.

“Ora. What is this.” (Zix: Ora is a questioning sound you make when you are slightly shocked.)

He thought a golden spider knitted a spiderweb or something since this was the elves’ forest.

This thought lasted for a short moment and he was able to find out this was not the case.

They were on the walls and the ceilings and not tightly knitted like spiders webs.

“These are some strange things.”

Jiss touched the strings of golden light carefully, while frowning his eyebrows.

– Fruits…. I am going to eat them when they ripen. They are gifts given by nature. I want to eat bitter tree barks as well.
– Nature is great.
– Emm…. I am an elf. It is good to be an elf. Since elves are the best.

“This is rather a familiar feeling?”

This time Jiss touched the strings of golden light that were also connected to him.

– oooahhh I am hungry. Well done meat and beer would be killers right now. Elves’ forest is boring and has nothing to eat.
– Fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven….. Kughhuk. Tired. Even so I must hit one hundred. Then another hundred!
– These elves of the forest sure live peacefully. I wonder if people from my hometown are doing well?

“What. This is just mind reading.”

The Jiss’s talent from birth.

Sure if Jiss desired powerfully, he had the ability to mind read even if the person was far away. However these strings of golden light allowed him to mind read targets far away simply by contact.

“But this is a little different. Is it making the mind reading more effective?”

He left the house after pondering for a while.

He could also see tens of thousands strings of lights crossing all over the elves’ forest.

They were mysterious strings only he himself was able to see.

Jiss and the elves were connected by the strings and it was the same between the elves as well.

However there were no connections of strings between himself and the elves he did not know.

Strings of golden light formed between the living beings when some sort of destiny was formed between them.

‘I don’t exactly understand the principles…. but anyways, it allows me to read minds from far away. At the least I will never get scammed anywhere.’

Jiss decided to name this connection between the living beings the string of destiny.

Such a sunny day, the wind of the forest was calm but cooling and the sun was providing sunlight between the tree leaves.

‘To be able to see such a thing…. can it be I am actually a G.o.d? My sense of mana is genius level as well. Nha. No. I shouldn’t have such useless thoughts. Dragons live up to 10,000 years and even elves can live over 1,000 years. They say there is even a demon that can split the entire continent, compared to them I am nothing but a commoner.’

Jiss had to think of himself as nothing extremely special, since this world was lined with beings that could call thunderstorm and rain, and even call a hail storm.

At best he would be able to live in this world comfortably as a commoner, since he had an unique ability others and even elves didn’t have.

Of course, although he was already beyond a normal kid.

Part 2

The reaction from the party varied person to person after hearing about Jiss’s success in handling mana and forming the first circle.

“Mana you say…… you should be able to hammer a little better now.”

Nedhand praised Jiss.

– As expected the human growth is…… The little kid who used to smile innocently in dungeons already grew this much and learned to handle mana. I wish dwarven kids matured fast too. Only thing they learn early is how to drink beer. They sure are disobedient.

“It is an absolutely necessary factor if you want to learn magic. You have pa.s.sed a great gateway.”

Hereseh also made an extremely relieved face.

– It is good that he has felt mana. He has potential as a magician. In my case it only took 30 minutes to realize mana. Though his beginning was slow, if I teach him well he should be able to research high level magic.

“Congratulations.”

Dark elf Grona congratulated him.

– I am glad.

Her feelings were not much different either.

“As expected of my son.”

Laurelle smiled brightly.

– I gave birth to a good kid. I need to also become a great mother.

“I heard you have realized mana.”

“Yes. Father.”

Rendall made Jiss lift up his sword.

“You can memorize magic now that you have sensed mana, however you can also say it is a minimum necessary quality you need as a swordsman. From now on I shall teach you high level swordsmanship as well.

Swordsmen absolutely needed usage of mana.

If you did not know how to handle mana, at best you would become a foot soldier and would not be able to travel around the Marka continent with freedom.

Of course grave robbing also became more dangerous.

-From now on I shall actually start training him seriously.

There was nothing bad about sensing mana as a swordsman.

Jiss had acc.u.mulated more mana in his body through training and soon he will be able to manipulate it.

This signified the beginning of his h.e.l.lish training!

“Let’s learn swordsmanship together during the morning and night.”

Jiss has been training with Rendall when he strength trained his body.

Swordsmen fought by utilizing the mana in one’s body to strengthening their physique or expelling it outside.

As for mages, they used their own mana as a basis to synchronize with the world’s mana.

This required difficult mana calculations, management, and incantations, however the power of swordsman couldn’t even be compared to a magicians’ when their magic reached completion.

As for Jiss, since he has realized mana at an early age, he had an option to choose an even more unique specialization.

Swordsmen must goes through extremely rigorous training to increase the mana in their body. Meanwhile magicians must deeply research the magical studies to grow their mana circle. They also had to understand the characteristics of mana more deeply and joint research with other magicians.

Due to these reasons one often had to choose their path firmly, otherwise one may fail to become either one.

Normal people usually did not have the opportunity to learn swordsmanship, and starting as a magician was even more bigger of a dream.

However Jiss had the opportunity to learn both swordsmanship and magic.

‘Can I even consider this as luck? This is like telling me to become a professor at prestigious university meanwhile being a national level soccer player………”

This meant he had to study and exercise at the same time!

High elf Lishiansus of course also knew Jiss had realized mana.

“I see.”

He wasn’t surprised at all as if he was just told what bread Jiss ate for breakfast.

– Of course he realized the world’s mana early, this brat already knows how to breathe the breath of the forest.

Elves are able to handle mana freely since they are born with the blessing of mana.

Thus it was more surprising to know a normal human such as Jiss could drink from the forest’s breath.

If one becomes old and the body becomes rigid or the mind becomes impure, one becomes unable to drink from the forest’s breath.

Jiss also probably wouldn’t have been able to drink from the forest’s breath, if he didn’t have the ability to communicate with the nature at the elves’ forest.

“There is so much more archery to teach if you know how to handle mana. What do you want to learn first?”

Lishiansus was thinking of teaching Jiss some special archery skills.

Arrows flew unbelievably faster at the target when one grasped the flow of mana.

When one’s control over the flow and mana of the wind matures, arrows flew unbelievably long distances and even the trajectory of the arrows were bendable.

Jiss answered honestly.

“I really just want to play sir. With Allium.”

However Lishiansus was not an easy opponent.

“Yes. Let us first learn the basics of archery a bit more. If you want to learn the archery of the elves you will need about two hours a day.”

“Two hours??”

“Does it seem too short? Don’t worry. Even if the lessons are short I will just have to teach you well. Your body will also become stronger running around the forest to gather the shot arrows. It is quite a necessary exercise for a growing human like yourself.”

“Though I don’t I will be able to learn Sir Lishiansus’s archery because it is too difficult?”

“Archery is a useful skill to know all around. If you learn archery somewhat for 70 years, you should become decent enough to carry a bow around.” (Zix: Unrelenting Lishiansus, the ignorer of all questions.)

“…….”
Part 3

Yeonwoo’s life as a 10 year old pa.s.sed by without any irregularity.

He became 3rd grade in elementary school and his grades were not bad.

‘Why do schools even  teach us how live earnestly. Living by the books would only make me look like a fool.’

Jiss’s siblings also grew up rapidly.

They just ate and p.o.o.ped with a care in the world. The crybabies seemed like they were growing faster than potatoes and sweet potatoes.

“Big bro. I just need 20 cents!”

“Big brother. Buy me a headpin.”

Yeonwoo whispered to them gently as he caressed their heads.

“When will you guys be able to take on roles of humans. Will that day even come.”

It was worrisome to have younger siblings, but it would be lonely if you did not have any too.

Yeonwoo also got along with his friends reasonably well at the picnic.

-Yeonwoo is so cool when he is looking far away.
-I wonder what he is thinking about. He will be telling me fun stories later right?

The sensational popularity amongst the girls!

However Yeonwoo was nothing but disappointed, since his standards were rising without limit due to living in the elves’ forest.

One big change in his life in this world was that he had started going to English after school after his regular cla.s.ses.

‘Ah. I wanted to at least avoid going to after schools while living in this world…..’

A person would imagine, if they were to live two lives their opportunities will also double.

Since you could avoid the making the same mistake you have made in one world in the other, this could be seen as a blessing.

If the two worlds were vastly different from each other, one would imagine they could feel boundless freedom.

Yeonwoo also in reality learned and gained many experience living as Jiss in the other world.

However there were many suffering the dual life caused as well.

There were just too many different things one had to memorize in each different world.

One day Yeonwoo’s mom asked him a question when he came back from the English after school.

“Between piano or k.u.mdo, which do you like better?” (Zix: k.u.mdo is Korean swordsmanship)

“Well……..”

Yeonwoo had a very difficult time deciding.

This was practically one of the most difficult moments of his life.

Facing an arrow flying towards his heart would cause less shivering than this moment.

– It is about time to increase his extracurricular activities. Still, he should be able to choose the one he likes more.

That was because the implications behind her words were obvious, even if he did did not read her mind.

‘Piano should be better. Since I am learning swordsmanship tirelessly in the other world already.’

“Piano please. I already wanted to learn it from recently.”

“Aiyoo. I see. We should have signed you up earlier.” (Zix: Aiyoo is a sighing like sound with indication of slight regret, disappointment, etc…..)

“I will just have to work hard on it from now on.”

“I am so proud of you. My baby.”

Yeonwoo gave her a bright smile.

He knew how difficult it was to raise four children on two paychecks.

“Let me just ask you one more thing. Do you like math more, or science?”

“Mom!”

Part 4

The Civil war of the Gratess empire kept growing larger within the Marka continent.

The fourth prince marched his army of the Roten kingdom, and the fifth prince allied himself with the Pleyisen race. An outrageous and insidious race with exploding strength.

According to the records left by the adventurer Chandler, the Pleyisen race were the worst evil beings residing by the swamp within the northeast portion of the continent.

Swordsmanship, Magic. They did not know how to use either, however they possessed G.o.d-given strength, merciless cruelty and hard thick skin.

Their negotiation terms were simple.

“We will help you if you give us land and allow us to eat any humans living in that area.”

They possessed an ability which allowed them to exude even greater strength when they ate human meat.

The fifth prince pulled the Pleyisen race to his faction for the civil war.

Though they were not much of a use in large scale battles where the knights and the magic armors ruled, they were exceptional for taking over castles and cities.

Pleyisen race who devoured even the elderly and the children, were a true symbol of fear.

The king candidate had the order of the knights and the central army, the third prince held the army of the Gratess empire and initiated total war, and the provincial warlords were revolting in the sidelines.

The root of the Gratess empire, which held the political and the economic dominance for centuries, was shaking.

——-

Light morning physique training with Rendall.

“It is important to consistently train in the sword. We shall begin with a thousand sword swings every morning and night.”

Rendall believed practice held the utmost importance.

If Jiss tried to fake having no talent in swordsmanship, Rendall would say the training was insufficient and would teach him until dawn.

If Jiss tried hard, he would say he is catching up nicely and would increase his training intensity. (Zix: lol no escape.)

Magic lessons with Hereseh began after breakfast.

“You will learn faster If you learn only one specialization, however you do not know what kind of situations you will face later on, so you should know how to use a large variety of magic. You will also have to study hard since many knowledge from other subjects are required for higher level of magic.”

As Hereseh was a tomb hunter, he was a more interested in the practicality than the abstract compared to the magicians at the magic tower. Thus there were even more things Jiss had to learn more thoroughly. (Zix: You can’t rob tombs with theories!)

The ma.s.sive amount of beginner magic!

There were over 200 magic incantations in the first circle alone.

“You have to set a firm foundation. It is good to learn all of the first circle magic. If you ignore them thinking you don’t need them, you will run across problems in those subjects later. At this moment it is not important to use magic right but better to study and grasp the characteristics of mana, and enlarge your house of mana.”

Hereseh decided it is better to learn steadily now and learn all of the first circle, which will allow him to grow at a faster rate later.

Dwarf Nedhand praised Jiss who pick-locked a door after he avoided a trap.

“You have great observation skills. From now on, no ordinary traps should be able to catch you by the ankle.”

Unlike his preconception, it was easier to learn trap-disabling than pick locking.

Most traps installed in the dungeons usually were of simple structures.

This was because complicated traps took longer to activate, broke easily from things like humidity and also were more difficult to fix.

After he learned how to discover traps and which areas to watch out for, trap disabling has become much easier.

It was not difficult to destroy traps once you understood the trap’s structure and few of its principles.

Jiss’s ability to discover traps right away came from the experience he had earned as a baby, when he accompanied countless dungeons with the grave robbers.

He had been observing them with awe while they have been disabling dangerous traps like clockwork.

After Nedhand’s lessons, Jiss ran within the forest while learning archery from Lishiansus.

‘He said we will only train until sundown. He totally scammed me.”

Due to Jiss’s teachers keep pressuring him it is important to play outside when you are young, his archery lessons ended up becoming longer.

“Do not hold your breath when you are aiming your arrow. Drink the forest’s breath. Circulate it’s vitality throughout your entire body.”

He learned archery while running with the other elvish children.

Drinking the forests breath cured fatigue, lightened the body and cleared one’s vision.

Jiss have become good enough to shoot arrows in mid jump while dashing between the trees.

Shoooshooooshooooshooook!

The five arrows he shot in mid-air fiercely penetrated through the tree branches.

The target was an apple tree 200 meters away!

Pahbaabaahbaaak

The five apples on the same tree-branch were penetrated in order.

“Very impressive for a human.”

Jiss sometimes heard Lishiansus’s praises.

The agility and the swiftness of elves were at a level beyond imagining.

In the forest the elves were even faster than a charging horse.

Though this does not happen often, they did not always used arrows for hunting. They had the ability to just run and capture animals such as boars and wolves.

‘ Faster.’

Jiss ran with all of his strength while drinking the forest’s breath. He shot forward with great distance every time his feet left the ground.

He ran with lightness as he jumped over the tree stubs and barely grazing the gra.s.s.

He ran with speed beyond the limits of human beings and their common sense.

A plump female deer and her baby deers were running in front of him.

She was Robian, a quite famous deer in the elves’ forest.

She had rainbow color marks on her body and was known as the fastest deer in the forest.

The female deer was trying to hurriedly escape Jiss’s chase.

The deer who were running fiercely, piercing the wind, looked behind them with eyes of despair.

A young human was chasing them with unbelievable speed.

They ran as fast as they can and tried to zigzag, but could not shake off the human.

In the end he completely caught up to them by the edge of the waterfall, where the violent streams fell.

– I am dead. I am going to be eaten.

The baby deer closed their eyes tightly.

The female deer Rodian also must have judged an escape was impossible because she also stopped in her tracks.

“To think I can run this fast………. Not as fast as elves but still what a cheat. fraud. Whooo. Still I am still quite thirsty after chasing them this far.”

“…….?”

Jiss walked past the mother and the children and drank the clear water from the waterfall.

Though the deer initially tried to get away, since nothing happened, they  began to feel secure.

Additionally, Jiss’s body also emanated a strong scent of the forest.

“There is a big snake in the area where you were just before so be more careful there from now on. It will be dangerous there until I barbeque and eat it.”

Jiss slapped deer Robian’s b.u.t.t with his hand.

Pooohingg! (Zix: deer scream.)

The female deer ran away with her children with resentful eyes because she was shocked.

– Bad little brat. He just looked at me with shrewd eyes.

Jiss was dumbfounded but could not chase the deer any further. That would only increase the misunderstanding.

Part 5

“Sir Nedhand and Hereseh are a little late.” (Zix: This is Laurelle. She uses respectful way of speaking which is more noticeable in Korean.)

“That’s right. They should have returned two days ago…….” (Zix: Rendall)

Nedhand left with Hereseh to receive the items they had left at the city Terace.

The lengthy settled life in the elves’ forest was becoming intolerable for Nedhand.

He couldn’t drink as much beer as he wanted to, and he did not have enough materials to make anything.

As for Hereseh, he had left to check on the treasures and the magic ingredients left inside the bas.e.m.e.nt.

Even if it was a long journey which required at least 14 days round-trip by horse carriage, they should have returned by now.

Though Nedhand and Hereseh held exceptional abilities, it was still worrisome since the current state of the continent was in rubble.

“Nothing must have happened to them right?”

“There were no news of any mishaps in Terace, so we will just have to hope that they are safe.”

Laurelle and Rendall decided to wait a little bit more.

‘I can’t tell if something happened to them.’

Jiss locked into meditation.

‘That means it is time for my ability to shine.’

Though he could not see the strings of golden light normally, they appeared when he focused.

Lines which disregarded all obstacle and distance and connected two living beings in destiny!

‘I must find out about Sir Nedhand and Hereseh’s situation.’

Jiss found the strings which stemmed from him.

If he used these lines, he was able to read the minds of people regardless of where they were.

-I didn’t know Proeh gorge bridge was collapsed. It was probably because of the war. To think I can see the smoke rising from the burning Volken castle all the way from here……. Just how many people have died.
-It is going to annoying to go around with all this baggage. (Zix: It is obvious who is who haha.)

Jiss observed the map Rendall left. Since this was a tomb robber’s map, geography and topography such as cities and mountains, as well as places to hide during an emergency were marked and described exceptionally well on the map.

This item, difficult to purchase even with money, had been created by Rendall’s own accord.

‘Still it is good that they are safe. Well, they would have been still fine even if they were sucked into a little trouble.’

He had been observing their skills even before he had a single strand of hair on his head.

They had already experience many life threatening situations, so no doubt they will be able to return safely.

Then 6 more days had pa.s.sed.

There were still no news from the two of them.

Jiss once again read their minds using the strings of destiny.

– To think we would be trapped in an area like this. This is quite problematic.
– It would not be good to be spotted by either side’s army. They will have to be avoided as much as possible to protect the beer.
-We just needed 3 more days to reach the forest. Because of the soldiers on the plains, we cannot move forward.
-The humans the cave won’t crave my beer because they are hungry right? Though I can give some to the pretty girl over there.

It seemed Hereseh and Nedhand were hiding in some cave waiting for the nearby army to leave the proximity.

“Nothing bad must have happened to them right?”

“It seems I will have to go purchase some information at a guild in a nearby city to check if something happened.”

Laurelle and Rendall were nothing but worried.

Grona was quiet, but she also deeply wished for their return.

Being a dark elf, she did not have a village to go back to. Her comrades were same as family to her.