The carriage drives through the plains, maintain range, by the sea…..
Chuck looks out the window, “Uhh guys, I’m certain we didn’t pass her the first time we came here.” The place they’re now is another mountain range with mountain walls on both sides with 1 trail ahead.Aella looks out the window, “That’s odd.” She then orders, “STOP.” The carriage stops as she gets down, the trio follow her down to survey the area.Aku notices something strange about the carriage, her thoughts. “Forget stange, there’s no coachman.” She then turns to Aella who’s behind the carriage with a map, “A….A…Aella, t…..t…there’s no…” She points at the driver’s seat.Aella stares at Aku in confusion, then it dawns on her. “Oh, these carriages are different. You don’t need a coachman or driver. The horses are smart enough to take you where you want to go, just tell them.”Aku sighs in relief with her hand on her chest, Flint knows why Aku was scared. Chuck giggles at Aku, “You’re still afFlint and Aku climb up mountain from mountain searching for the dragon cave, Chuck stayed back with Aella since she seems a bit shaken. The duo is climbing the mountain as they’re close to the top, they hang from the steep slope.Flint snickers at Aku as they reach the top of the last mountain, “Still no cave Aku. Maybe you should have thought of splitting the dragon corpse but noooo. You wanted a treasure cave.” Aku has veins popping on her head as she’s silently climbing. They finally reach the top as Aku freezes. Flint finally pulls himself up to see what lies before him. He speaks with exasperation, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”Aku turns to Flint with disdain, “A dragon corpse is better than this, right?” Before them is a gold statue of a man holding a club? He holds the club on a pedestal as orbs are around the top of the pedestal below his feet. Beside the statue is a pile of shiny treasures, gold coins and chests (Poor merchants), weapons (Who got raided?) and
“YAAGGGHHH!!” Aeife’s scream resonates across the mountain as Flint runs down the mountain, he catches a glimpse of Aku dashing. He lands and starts to run after her, jumping and running on walls.He makes one big jump rolling in the air then lands before the carriage, Chuck, Aella and Aku are chatting. Flint lands before them then he places Aeife down on her feet, she shakes so much she falls but Flint catches her. Aeife blushes as she pushes Flint away and stands though wobbly.Chuck squints his eyes at the elf then he looks at Flint, “……Is anyone going to explain how an elf is here? Anyone?” Aella is confused though she shows some enmity towards the elf. Aku contemplates if she should introduce the elf to Chuck of all people.Aeife bows, “I’m Aeife.” Her thoughts, “I have to keep my family name a secret. If they now, it might put my country in danger.” She looks up to see Chuck turn his head to her with his signature smile as the wind blows through his hair making him
The carriage drives out of a forest revealing the village ahead, it has a wooden palisade with a tower. The tower has archers hanging out as 1 keeps a lookout, the archer notices the carriage approaching then notifies everyone.“Quick a noble’s carriage is coming!” The archer descends the tower and rushes to the village chief’s house. This causes an uproar as the people scatter around the village with worry on why a noble is personally coming here.The carriage window opens as a Chuck’s head pops out, “Umm guys. We’ve only been gone for a few weeks, so why is there a wooden wall?” The window on the other side opens as Aku’s head is next, “It is odd. I hope everything is alright.” The carriage pulls into the village riding to the center as people watch the sleek super expensive carriage driven by a ghost. Luckily someone notified them about the smart horses.Red threads gather around a tree out of sight, a little girl materializes from the threads with a bright
The sun rises on another day on the Barimah household, a certain someone is still sleeping with a map made of drool on his pillow.* KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* The door opens to reveal Aku, she leans on the door post staring at Flint with a smile. She turns to leave.“ARE YOU REALLY NOT GOING TO TRY TO WAKE ME?!” Flint sits up pointing a finger at Aku.Aku squint her mouth, “Well, you’re sleeping so soundly. Hate to ruin your sleep.” She gives a bright smile but Flint has a vein popping on his head. Aku waves and leaves the room.Flint gets off the bed and walks to the wardrobe, “It’s a good thing my senses are sharper, if not I’d be late to the farm.” He dresses up and walks down stairs.“Big brother!” Licia runs to Flint with a hug, “Good morning!” she smiles brightly.Flint smiles rubbing Licia’s hair, “Good morning, Li. How was your night?”Licia raises her hands towards Flint, “It was wondeful.” She spreads her hands apart. “I met teacher and we had a lot of fun!”Flint raises a brow con
Aku is on the village outskirts with her mother, Patricia. She holds sand in her hands which contains insects and dry leaves. “Okay mum, the thing about Information magic is gaining knowledge from what you can sense, but for starters it’s what you can see.” Patricia nods her head as she looks at the sand, Aku continues. “I want you to look at the sand in my hand, gather mana in your eyes and focus on the sand. You should be able to see things that are in it on a detailed level.”Patricia stares at the sand as EP slowly gathers in her eyes, she opens her eyes wide. “I see it, I see it. There’s some green stuff beneath the leaves, ants and a worm.” Aku nods her head with a proud grin, “Wait? Did you say worm?” Aku looks at the sand in her hand, “GYAAAHHH!” she threw the sand away, she rubs her hand in her clothes a lot as Patricia giggles. “Not funny mum!”Patricia walks to Aku, she stretches her hands towards Aku. “$##%&@@ > CLEAN.” Aku glows as her clothes are made clean.Aku is surpr
The group spend a week in the village before deciding it was time to move on. The group is at the village gate bidding farewell to everyone else. Aella and Aeife really enjoyed spending time in the village, they bonded too.On a cliff overseeing the village is a Vampire lord sending the group off as he weeps. Surprisingly, the group never found him. He wipes his tears with a handkerchief as he waves it at them, “Come back quickly! You did good distracting that girl from me, I finally had a week for myself. Come back soon so I can get more peace.” He bids them farewell.The group turns to leave by the carriage, the gates close behind them. The villagers start to disperse but Thorn is still watching, he has a very sad look. His thoughts, “*Sighs* That annoying girl is going to be here any minu- “Licia appears beside him, “Hi Mister Fang!” she waves at him.Thorn turns to look at her, “Ri~ght. No more me time.” He turns to walk back to the cave as Licia bugs him a lot
*DING DING DING*[You have arrived at the target location, Ergos Xenia.]Flint slowly opens his eyes as the carriage comes to a stop, the rest slowly wake up from the notification. Flint smiles, “We’re here.” He walks out the carriage followed by Aella and the duo, before them is a dungeon. “This is the first time I’ve seen a dungeon.”Aella is baffled, “Dungeons aren’t like this, is this really one?” Ahead of them about 30 meters ahead of them boulder with water pouring out of it down into two paths. Behind the boulder is a waterfall and it’s surrounded by high walls like natural formations. A door is before the boulder as the water flows on the sides of the door, there are plants on the boulder with small statues before it on a bridge. The statues seem to be 3 meters in size but they rarely look human, the statues are before the boulder arranged side by side on the sides of the path.They start to walk on the bridge marveling at the statues on it, Chuck walks slowl
The quartet walk out of the light to a massive cave before them, the cave is filled with water and has rock platforms over it. The roof has a giant crystal at the center which provides light, on some of the platforms are plants and even in the water. The platforms vary in sizes as some are like an oasis to a simple stepping stone.Flint looks around the place, “Okay, this isn’t what I was expecting.”Chuck nods as he looks over the water, “Yeah, with how flashy the entrance was I expected some ancient ruins of some kind.” He taps the water as his reflection ripples across it.Aella is amazed, “Don’t you guys get it? Normal dungeons aren’t even half as big as this.” Aku looks at Aella with a brow, so does the boys. “A dungeon of this scale can only be made by……by a god!” she looks around the place the looks behind them.The door they just walk through only has its post but no gate, this surprises them. Aku stretches her hand to the gate then a space opens showing outs