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So, I guess this was expected. We were sent to this jail, made of tree roots.
After walking with that elf in the city, even though the people there were pretty depressed over something, they still got scared when seeing me in my original form.
So after the elven guards discussed about bringing us into the town with the elf. We were sent to this jail.
Why didn't I just escape? Because they might bring us food, that's why, and it could be free! And besides, I want to be sure this strange feeling is not coming from this city.
I question Furiae that is trying to sleep with her back against the stone wall, and using a root that serves as a metal bar as a pillow.
-Do you think they have a harmonica? And that I can maybe play it with this body?
-Please god no. And if they have it, I'll strangle you if you somehow can play it.
-But it will be fun. I'll play it while we travel.
-I'm not buying it.
-Stingy…
Suddenly, someone enters the room with our jail cell. They seemed to be really careful with us, as this jail cell is isolated with stone walls while still having these roots as jail bars too.
The one that entered our room was the elf we first met with another elf that had dark green hair, and was wearing a silver chest plate while having the rest of his armor made of leather.
The elf with the dark green hair looks at Furiae sleeping the corner of the jail cell and then at me with a serious expression. He looks at the elf that we first met and questions him in a calm voice.
-So, why did you bring in these two? We are not in the mood to do this kind of thing.
The elf we first met answers him in a calm voice.
-That's why. I couldn't kill them, because of what happened… I'm sorry.
-…
Okay, first of all, you wouldn't kill us even if I didn't find you first. We would eventually find you after you attacked. And second, what happened? Does he mean about that hero? I mean, he was an elf, so maybe it is.
The dark green haired elf sighs and claps his hands hard, waking up Furiae. With a calm voice, he begins to speak with her.
-So what are you doing here?
Furiae lifts the mantle that was covering her vision and look at the Elf, and then tries to go back to sleep while answering him in a lazy tone.
-We are lost. Humans ambushed our group. Our tribe actually lives in the dwarf territory.
Don't sound so robotic, it makes the lie really unbelievable.
The dark green haired elf makes a confused expression while continuing to question Furiae.
-A rider from the Dwarf territory? I didn't know that you would try riding a wolf in those caves.
Oh well, that lie was not all that planned. I just made an excuse with the first thing that came into my mind, by the way, a rider? That somehow sounds really sexual. But no, I'm not letting Furiae ride me like a horse.
I look at Furiae and could almost see her making a serious expression while looking at the elf.
She's thinking about making our way out of this by killing anyone in our path. Understandable, but I have a slight doubt in my mind, because maybe they have more soldiers that can hide themselves like the first one. If things really go south, we won't come out of this in a state that we can go on without having to lick our wounds first.
The dark haired elf scratches his chin as he looks at us. With a calm voice, he continues to speak.
-Well, I can't actually expect a kobold to have a map… so I can kind of understand why you ended up in here.
Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait, you guys are ignorant to the sense of time and directions because its "Demon knowledge", but you guys have a map anyway? What the fuck is this logic? Can someone please explain me this? Because I'm starting to get lost here… By the way, is this guy racist? I'm sensing racism coming from the way he talks with Furiae…
The dark green haired elf opens the door behind him and begins to speak the orders for the guards that are wearing full iron armor.
-Let these two out, I'll supervise them myself.
-Yes sir. (x2)
The guards enter the room and touch the roots, and after a crystal in their right glove glows a bit, the roots go back to the ceiling, leaving a small opening in the cell.
I look at the dark green haired elf as he speaks with Furiae in a calm voice.
-You two come with me, I just need to get permission of my general and see if I can give you a copy of the map and I'll let you two go.
I look at Furiae and nod at her when she looks at me. We both begin to follow the dark green haired elf while having the elf we first met behind us.
I use [Analyze] on the guards and the people behind the bars on our left as we walk a corridor out of the prison.
Gydia / Elf Humanoid: Wood / Threat: F+ / Class: none
Nidio / [Cursed] Elf Humanoid: High / Threat: E- / Class: Archer
Erquio / Elf Humanoid: Earth / Threat: F / Class: none
Jiory / Humanoid type: Half elf / Class: [Forced] Swordsman
Orlark / Elf Humanoid: Normal / Threat: C++ / Class: Fighter
Erlio / Elf Humanoid: Spirit / Threat: B / Class: Tank
After we pass the six jail cells and arrive at the end of the corridor, I [Analyze] the dark green haired elf.
Yarguino / Elf Humanoid: Normal / Threat: A- / Class: Spirit Caller
An advanced summoner without a summoning gem with him? Or is the gem below his leather gloves? But anyway, they all have threats, strangely, except the half elf.
…
We followed the dark haired in a series of dirt corridors until we ended in a building somehow.
This building is completely made of white wood and has two floors, one is a basement and the first one is a "reception" floor. The basement is filled with five beds on each corner, while the reception floor has only a round table with four chairs around it.
The two elves began leave us through the reception floor's door, with a calm voice, the dark green haired elf spoke with Furiae while she looked at him with a calm expression.
-I'll get the map. If you need anything, just ask Kiadat, he will be outside. All you need to do is knock the door thrice. Don't leave this house until I get your map ready.
Furiae nods and I watch them walk away from us through the only small window that is beside the door they just left.
Not even a minute pass and Furiae knocks on the door three times. And the elf we first met that was about to climb a nearby tree with his daggers looks at us. He makes a confused expression as he walks towards us.
He opens the door and questions Furiae in a confused tone.
-Yes?
Furiae answers him in a calm tone.
-Can you give us some food? Your sandwich didn't las- didn't do it.
-Well, okay, I'll get some.
He closes the door and walks behind the building. I look behind me and see Furiae walking down the set of stairs. She's probably going to sleep in the beds. I stay watching the window since I don't have anything to do really.
…
After half an hour, the elf we first met came back and placed a bowl of soup of meat pieces. I woke up Furiae and we ate it. While we were eating the soup, the elf kept telling us to not go out on this night even if really needed and that he won't answer to the knocks until the sun rises.
He wouldn't say us why, so I was really curious about it.
While Furiae is about to go to sleep again, I question her in a calm voice while looking if the elf is about to enter the house.
-Why do you think they didn't want us to leave the house, especially in this night?
-I dunno… I'm quite fine with staying here though.
-…So you did get addicted to sleep.
-Don't blame me, it feels so good to get cozy and you just sleep away the day. I never had this feeling when I was a soul.
-Then you are going to love the heated nights.
-Will I?
My sister is starti- Wait, no. she was always a lazy person to begin with.
I sigh and go back upstairs and watch the outside of the house through the window.
Argh… I really want to go outside. I'm like a dog that begs the owner to take me out to walk. But I can't. Why?
I activate [Dragon eyes] and look around and find the elf's heart through the house walls, he's somewhere between the trees but I can't tell if he's looking at us or doing something else. I'm sure that is him because after we ate the soup, I kept watch on him.
I lie down on the ground and try to rest while still being aware of anything that moves or makes a sound near me.
…
I wake up to the sound of fire crackling outside of the house. I move my ear around without opening my eyes, because maybe I'm just hearing things.
I hear the crackling again, so I stand up lazily and stretch myself. I begin to use [Dragon eyes] and search around for the elf, but I don't find him, so I deactivate it and look through the window.
I find lights of torches appearing from time to time from between the trees with a small interval. I activate [Dragon eyes] and strangely don't find any hearts walking around.
That's it. Curiosity killed the cat but it won't kill a wolf.
Should I [Transform] into a newborn or a child? Ah, better not, the newborn is going to be too slow to walk around and I remember having problem walking and opening my eyes. …Should I say where I'm going to Furiae?
Nah, she probably just wants to sleep anyway.
I [Transform] in my child form and open the door with [Telekinesis] just enough that I could squeeze through it. I close the door and walk towards the torches light.
Ah, yes, even in this form, it's hard to walk in this terrain with the trees literally a meter from each other.
I need to jump over the roots while being careful to not be noticed. Which almost seems to be impossible to be done.
I get near where the torches are and find, I think the whole city population, walking through a road of dirt with some people holding some staffs in the air. Their staffs could be seen shining yellow weakly. The people there were either holding a staff or torch while walking towards somewhere. I tried to find out how that road was being made without having a single root in it, but I was almost found out.
The reason they were walking is probably for the burial of the "Hero". As they all have either fully black armor or clothes.
[Hidden presence level rose to 2]
That's good, but I don't care about that right now.
I turn around and go back to the house that Furiae is sleeping in. If I remember, the city should be behind this house.
Ah, there it is. Why is so dark though? Did they ALL leave the city without someone guarding it?
I use [World Vision] to see over the city.
Wait, I can see some torches light walking around between the houses. But it's so few that I can count them with human fingers, which are 8 torches. But, they seem to be concentrated on being around the castle in the middle.
I cancel [World vision] and activate [Dark vision] in its place, and [Transform] into my young form.
If there are so few, I can just run around the city quickly without anyone finding me. But first I need to find out where I need to go. I can't really tell from here where that strange feeling is actually coming from, but I have a guess that it is in the city.
I'll just have to go with my feelings, if the strange feeling gets stronger or I recognize something, I'll know when I'm near it.
After jumping and walking over tree roots for at least one minute. I arrive in the edge of the city.
I'll start to search through the left side of the city, but I need to do it fast, I can almost see that the night is in the middle of it through the gaps between the leaves and branches.
I look through the windows of the houses. I go up small sets of stairs to see through the windows of the houses that have second floors, and use [World vision] to see their third floor if they have.
I go through eleven houses without the strange feeling getting stronger or anything giving signal about anything that could be giving me this strange feeling.
Suddenly, when I was about to look through the twelfth house's window, I hear someone shout.
-Who's there?!
I look to my right, in the street made of stone, and see a light coming from a torch approaching me.
After transforming into my child form, I slowly go between the houses while watching the torch's light getting closer and closer.
I get between the houses and lie down on the ground and cover myself entirely with [Dragon skin] and close my eyes while trying to follow the guard footsteps through hearing.
This guard wants to be the best in his job I think, because he's looking through the house gaps, fences, stairs and anything that someone could have hidden behind on.
But I guess he didn't notice me coiled in a corner because of how small and hard to see I was, because the [Dragon skin] is too dark to see without a proper light source in this dark.
After a minute of waiting the man go away, I stand up and [Transform] back into my younger form, cancel the [Dragon skin] and go back to looking through the houses.
I sigh after looking through my twenty-eight house.
I can't keep the search like this. I have to move fast, because soon enough the people in the funeral are probably about to come back and me and Furiae will have to follow that elf's map to somewhere where we don't know nothing about.
So while avoiding the guards, I run around the city, trying to pin-point this strange feeling that I have from this forest.
Eventually, the only place that I didn't go near is the castle, which had two stationed guards looking out for anything that moved in the entrance while having guards go around it.
The castle is surrounded by an iron fence, but the gaps in between each bar is just enough for me to pass with my child form, and also, the fence has no vertical bars, so it looks like it's a bunch of spears stuck to the ground. But to pass through the gaps, I need to distract the guards for at least one minute.
So, I threw a plank that I found between the gaps of the houses, on their left side with [Telekinesis] and went inside the castle's garden through their right quickly while they try to find out what made that noise.
I [Transform] into my child form so I could hide between the small trees that were around the castle.
The castle garden that was around the castle is really small for a garden of rich people. Because the base of the tree that has the castle in it is very slim, but they have a giant fucking stone staircase to the middle of the tree where the entrance to the castle is.
By the way, the castle doesn't look like those tree houses I saw from time to time when moving from city to city. It just looks like the people found a way inside the center of the tree and went "I think a giant castle will fit in this" when it clearly wouldn't. So, the castle has it edges using some of the tree as support while leaving the corners and some parts of it out of the tree.
So, below the castle, is their garden, which the only space between bushes and trees was for the staircase.
I search around the garden, trying to find anything that could indicate something giving this strange feeling. It doesn't take a minute and I find myself on the other side of the garden, so I look around more and find a small opening in the back of the tree that is supporting the castle.
It's clearly meant for someone to enter, as it has a portal made of wood as the door.
I slowly enter the tree and look around. And don't find anything, but only a small staircase leading to something that is glowing green and yellow.
I go to it and look at the bottom of the staircase and see that the staircase is a rotating one, so I could look at what was below me.
It's… a bigger garden?
While confused, I begin to go down the staircase and look around the room that I'm going to.
It's a garden with the same size of the garden above me. But the only place where I could walk on was the small island that the staircase led me to.
I finally get down the staircase and look around the garden. It's a garden filled with strange green water, but it was almost dry, leaving small islands now and then.
I walk up to the edge of the small island I'm on and touch the green water with my left paw and a white box appears in front of me.
[Regeneration effect received. Regenerating Hp…]
I pull my paw out of the water and look around the room again, but when I look up, a strange yellow woman's face appears in front of me.
I take two steps back while using [Analyze].
Iearlia / Elemental Sprite: Thunder / Threat: B++ / Class: Thunder caster
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White boxes appear in front of me while the strange yellow woman kept staring me without emotion in her eyes. You can't call this woman a human because her entire body and her long hair are almost yellow gold, while some kind of material grows out of her stomach and makes a strange small dress.
[Multiple Requirements met]
[Analysis level raised by 3]
I don't have time to think or celebrate the sudden three level raise in [Analysis]. I use it again on the woman.
Iearlia / Elemental Sprite: Thunder / Threat: C++ / Class: [Thunder caster]
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Titles: [In a contract] / [Dominator of thunder] / [Traitor] / [Wild life rule rebel] / [Murderer of ten lives]
Skills: [Magic control Level 3] / [Water nullity Level 1] / [Extended Knowledge Level 2] / [Magic flow Level 1]
Spells: [Thunder control Level Max] / [Art of the Thunder Level 1]
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(Expect a One shot in the future, it's not a LitRPG but it has some elements that I'll use here too. Warning: It will have sexual intercourse unlike here, where i just give really obvious hints about it.)
