10 years later

"Catch me if you can,slowpoke!!" I said to the boy who tried to catch up to me as we headed towards the outskirts in the forest.

It has been 10 years since I got reborn into this world. It seems I had been reincarnated as a female elf in the world called Effluomus. When I became old enough and understood this, I was really excited because this world had all the mystical creatures in it like Elves, Dwarves, Beastkin, Humans, and Demons. Each race had their own Kingdom. I was really happy as I was lucky enough to be born into a race which was talented in magic, and also partly because I had always wanted to one day become a girl as well.

In this world, the various races mostly live in harmony with each other except for sometimes there would be self important rulers who would wage war with the other races for supremacy.

There is an Adventurer's Guild branch in each town and city across all the Kingdoms. The main branch is located in the Kingdom of Aquieta located at the center of the continent, between all the kingdoms. There are other guilds such as the Beast Tamer guild, Healers guild, and Trader's guild, each also having their main branch at Aquieta. For some reason, it never initiated any wars against other countries even though it always easily defended against invading Kingdoms.The Kingdoms who send their army there would find that their army would dissapear without any traces left behind at all. Despite that, people are able to go to and fro from this country without any problems. As a result, the kingdoms began treating it as a neutral place where they would host negotiations between them in case of any disputes.

"Tag, I got you, now its your turn" The shout of a boy and his tap against my shoulder woke me up from my musings and I quickly gave chase to him "Hey! Get back here. I'm gonna get you for that". And so we played around like that till evening when we returned to our homes.

"I'm home" I shouted as I opened the front door of my house. The house is actually treehouse build around the trunk of a tree. Its slightly elevated from the ground to avoid water entering into our house in case it floods. At the entrance, there is a plank from where people can use to have easy access to the door. Its a typical elven style to make their houses like this. It brings about a sense of closeness to nature and mysticism reminding me that I have somehow ended up in a fantasy world.

"Welcome back dear, go wash yourself while I prepare dinner for us." my Mom said. I replied "Okay Mom" as I rushed into my room to get a change of clothes to wear after the bath, then I ran downstairs towards our comman bathroom. As I stripped myself of my clothes, I looked at the mirror. What I see is a beautiful elf girl staring back at me. The girl had long blue hair that reached till the middle of my back, pointy long ears, and blue eyes. Her skin tone was fair and smooth, and her figure was slender. I couldnt believe this was me. In my former life, I had always wanted to know what it would be like to walk up into the mirror and see a beautiful girl staring back at me. This was an answer to my wishes in my former life and I couldnt wait to see how I would look as I get older.

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I quickly washed myself and went to the kitchen to help my Mom cook dinner for us. Tonight we had grilled chicken, stir fried vegetables and mixed vegetable soup. Despite popular beliefs, elves do not have anything against eating meat in this world. I was really glad because I did not want to eat only vegetables throughout my life even though I had nothing against it. The cooking was done over a stove powered by a fire type magical crystal. There are magical crystals of different elements namely fire, water, wind, earth, light, and dark. Different elements have different uses. The water I used for my bath came from the water crystal.

As we finished cooking our dinner, we heard a man open our front door shouting "Honey I'm home". My Mom followed me as i ran towards him and hugged him,. "Welcome back dad" I cried cheerfully. My dad smilingly gave me a hug as well saying "How has your day been my little princess?" "It has been great Dad. I went out playing in the forest with Elwin" I said. "Oh is that so, Im glad you had fun" he said.

"Honey, you should go and take a bath now before you have dinner" Mom said lovingly. In recognition, my Dad went to get a fresh set of clothes before heading to the bathroom to wash up. Now, my father was an adventurer when he was younger. His name is Estelar. Supposedly, he met my mother in the adventurer academy. After graduation they were in the same party as they went around the world adventuring, where eventually, they realised their love for each other as they decided to settle down in the elven kingdom. Now my dad works as a guard in our town called Faelar. My mom's name is Chryssandra.

When my dad finished, we all sat down at the dining table to have our dinner. Before eating, we would always say our prayers to the elven goddess 'Ellaine' before having our meal.

"So how are you feeling Aelene. You will be heading out for the academy in three days. I can't believe you are already 10 years old. I wish you wouldnt grow up at all so that I can keep you by my side forever" my mom started crying as she reminded my about my upcoming departure.

"Now, now dear, you still have me around when she leaves. Besides you cant keep her in the house forever, she needs to go out and experience the world for herself." said my dad trying to calm my mom down. I was really impressed by his supportiveness of my desire to become an adventure. Being an adventurer himself might have influenced it.

To further console her, I added "Dont worry mom, I'll definitely take care of myself properly when I'm away. Besides, the place Im going is the academy. There wont be any danger there"

Feeling better my mom said "You're right dear, I was just feeling a bit lonely at the thought of my only daughter leaving me. Take good care of yourself when you reach there". I replied "I will".

The next two days were spent in getting ready for my departure. On the morning of the third day, my dad took me towards the Beast Tamer guild to rent a flying beast to take me to the capital of the Kingdom of Aquieta, also called Aquieta where the entrance examination of Kaishi Academy is located.