One week had passed after the duel with Brynhilde, me and Mael are now heading towards the place of the quest given by Liz.
When Liz handed the quest, she explained it to me very carefully. The quest was posted a few days ago, but no one was willing to take it since the place was really far since it will take about three weeks to arrive there and the quest only contains about investigating the cause about a monsters called Death Python and why it is showing an irregular behaviour in the forest that made the people in the village scared since the Death Python is considered to be a rank B monster because of its deadly poison in its body and how they always move together making them more dangerous so it was considered to be its difficulty to be a B.
When we leave the city and started to going somewhere every night when Mael is asleep, I started to train my weapon skill creating weapon and if I created some awesome weapon I immediately put it inside my inventory but I won’t say what weapon it is since it will ruin a surprise.
When we also saw some monsters on the way we immediately kill so we can raise our level that made rose seven levels, making her level 17 and I raise ten levels so I am now level 22 since I also hunt some monster every night and it is also the time that I can let loose of my abilities since Mael is sleeping.
We are now inside the Twisted Forest. The forest here is very dense that sunlight can’t almost passed inside, making the surrounding somehow dark but not us dark that you can’t see were you are going.
“This is the first time I saw a forest that’s really thick.”
“Somehow I got the feeling that there are elves living here.”
“Why do you say that, Mael?”
“I heard that elves had a magic that is connected to nature and they used it to hide their village by making the forest just like this making it denser and they used to attack intruders.”
“Hmm… Is that so, can human also use that kind of magic?”
“I don’t think so since I have never heard of someone can use that kind of magic, but I heard that a Halfling can learn that magic.”
After I heard what Mael said all, the only thing that come up on my brain is nothing since I have never heard of Halfling after I was reborn from this world so the only I can do is ask.
“What is a Halfling?”
“You have also never of Halfling somehow you really are mysterious Ren, but I’ll explain you see Halflings are people that are born from a race and another race.”
“Born from race and another race?”
“Yeah, I’ll give you an example, let’s consider a human and an elf in a relationship gave birth to a child, when the child is born the child will look like from the race on who gave birth to it like if human give birth to its appearance will look like human, but some part of it body will look like an elf like their ears and if an elf gave birth of the child its appearance will also look like an elf.”
“I thought that elves also look like a human, but the only difference is their ear isn’t it just the same?”
“Yeah, they also look like us but their beauty is so much above than us so if an elf gives birth their child well you can pretty much guess that they will really be beautiful with an ear of a human unlike human give birth to its appearance will only like the beauty in human looks.”
“Hmm… is that so.”
I continue on listening intently at Mael while nodding at her.
“Alright, let me continue. After they give birth to the child, they will inherit the mana of their parents so if their parent is an elf they can easily learn magic that elves know.”
“I pretty much understand now but I never saw Halfling before so I really want to see one.”
“Well, that not really surprising since it’s pretty much rare to see Halfling since all five races only ignore each other and some of them are in bad terms. I also haven’t seen one.”
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Mael face that looks like she also wants to see a Halfling but the only thing she can do was sigh dejectedly.
“Well, it’s no use thinking about it since a Halfling won’t appear if you just think of let’s just focus on getting the other side of this forest.”
“Yeah…”
After we finished our conversation we continue on going deeper into the forest since we don’t know the exit of this forest.
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After a few hours passed, but we are still inside the forest and we haven’t seen any sign of an exit as of yet.
“We have been walking in this forest for an hour now, but we haven’t seen any signs that were near the exit that it’s starting to get strange.”
“Yeah, somehow were just walking in circles.”
“Don’t tell me!”
Mael immediately started to search something desperately on the ground after she saw a green flowers that she started thinking while her face looks grim.
“Is something wrong?”
“Yeah, we got caught in an illusion.”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you see those flowers?”
I looked at the flowers that Mael pointed and no matter how I looked at it there is nothing I feel like there is nothing wrong about that green flower.
“Those green flowers that you are looking are called Illusion flower and it looks like we smelled its fragrance that we are put in an illusion.”
“How do you know?”
“I’ve read it in a book before and I am sure that this flower’s appearance is the same as the appearance in the book so I’m sure that this is an Illusion flower.”
“Then we just have to destroy the flower?”
“It’s not easy to destroy this flower since it is growing in the whole forest.”
“So how do we escape its illusion?”
Mael was in deep thought, trying to remember everything about the Illusion flower after a few minutes passed her eyes lit up that looks like she remember something.
“So do you know how we can escape?”
“Yeah, if I remember correctly, these entire Illusion flowers growing inside this forest has a host and if I remember it that host is a giant flower monster called Death Trap who is passing the entire mineral needed for the Illusion flower live so if we can find it and kill it maybe we escape it’s illusion.”
“In other words search and destroy.”
“That’s right.”
“Then do you know how can we find it?”
“Even we are inside an illusion, but the only real thing in her are the Illusion flower so if we just follow it I highly believed that will reach monster Death Trap.”
“Alright let’s go!”
We immediately run following the illusion flower that had been growing looking for the monster.
After some time had passed, when we reach the place in the forest that many Illusion flowers grow in one area we also saw a huge flower monster that deep crimson huge petals, the middle the huge mouth with a hundred razor sharp teeth and uncountable vines with sharp thorns that are moving around.
Name: Death Trap
Level: 27
HP: 3,652 / 3,652 MP: 932 / 932
Strength: 62 Agility: 40
Defence: 53 Luck: 35
Magic: 37
Skill:
[Regeneration], [Corrosive Saliva], [Thorn Whip Barrage], [Wrap]
When I saw the status of the monster cold sweat started to form on my face and I don’t know what Mael is thinking, but the only thing that it’s in my mind is this is going to be a dangerous fight.