Altevia’s POV

“It’s okay.”

After I said this, looking at Nazir, his eyebrows furrowed, “I'm sorry, my lord, but my orders are clear, I must not let you out of my sight.”

I sighed after Nazir's words, “Will we sleep in the same bed too?”

“But my lord…”

“My father wouldn't have sent us here if this place was dangerous.

Like I said, it's okay. Wait here.”

After Nazir was silent, I opened the door, went in and... Okay, now I know why I was the only one allowed in.

An incredibly beautiful woman with purple hair, who looked to be in her early thirties, sat cross-legged on a stool, a palette in her right hand and a brush in her left, painting herself on a canvas. As soon as the woman noticed me, she turned to look at me and quietly put the things in her hand on the small wooden table next to her.

“You really do look like your mom.”

Why was that everybody's first reaction?

I silently nodded at her and she said, “Did you get your personality from Eliar? I wish you were a little more talkative,” and I gulped.

“You draw well.”

After my words, she watched me for a while, her serious expression never wavering, and then she took a glass of wine from the small table behind her and sipped it.

“Thank you.”

When I finally managed to take my eyes off her and look at the painting, I was actually impressed, it was very high quality. Looking in the mirror next to her, she was able to draw her whole body.

I approached her and said, “Are you practicing anatomy?” and she frowned slightly, “Anatomy and light, but how do you know?”

I looked at her, but then I turned my gaze back to the painting, “I read a book about it.” It was actually a lie, I had a friend who drew beautiful paintings before I died. As I continued to examine the painting, I noticed something and pointed my finger at it.

“There is a mistake here.”

As she bent down and looked at where I was pointing, I said, “Your hips are bigger,” and she furrowed her eyebrows even more and looked at me silently, then looked in the mirror and took her brush and drew where I was pointing again.

“You have a pretty good eye.”

I looked at her again without saying anything and as she continued to draw, she said, “Are you looking for more details?” and I think for the first time in this world I was blushed with embarrassment.

“I’m sorry.”

“Don't be, I'm the one who allowed you to come here, but if you've reached that age, I'm not the person you should look at.”

“I can't say I understand.”

“My daughter, Rea.”

If she was talking about the girl at the entrance, nope. But…

“If I have to choose one of you, I want you.” As soon as I said that, Mira froze, looked at me and I said, “I didn't know my father had such beautiful friends.”

I'll have as much fun as I can while I'm still a child and words that come out of my mouth has no weight.

Mira chuckled and said, “You know my daughter will look like me in the future, right?”

“Aren't you an elf, you'll look like you in the future too.”

“Half elf.” Mira chuckled again and was about to say something when I interrupted her.

“By the way, before the chat goes any further, I have to ask.

I mean, not that I have a problem, you can stay like this if you want, it's your house, but…

Why are you naked?”

Mira looked down at her body, “Yes, right," she said and got up, put on a thin purple dress.

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Nazir Ramenor Pov

It had been hours since the little lord had entered the room and, apart from barely audible conversations, Nazir had no idea what was going on inside. Lady Mira was a merchant, she had a way with words and was a master of analyzing people. So she shouldn't have been left alone with a boy she could influence, but the little lord was not a naive boy who could be easily fooled. Most of the time he approached things really carefully, like an adult.

For the first few hours Nazir stood at the door with Erotir like a statue, then, with the stress building up on him, he started to walk left and right in front of the door.

His old friend Wyll came up to him and offered to chat in the garden. Nazir actually wanted to chat with him, especially to find out what had happened to his hair, but he… already let the little lord out of his sight. He sighed.

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“I'll come after like an hour.”

Wyll nodded and walked away.

Nazir turned to Erotir, “I will check the little lord,” and as Erotir was saying, “My lady said-” Nazir knocked on the door. As Erotir's eyes widened and he reached for Nazir, the little lord's voice was heard from inside and Erotir looked at the door in surprise.

“Come in!”

Nazir looked at Erotir with a frown, then slowly opened the door and entered.

…

Should he not have entered?

'You can tell me about the trip later.' That's what Lord Eliar had said, but... How could he tell him this?

'My Lord, I have one good and one bad news?' No, at least Lord Altevia seems to be quite… satisfied with his situation, so two good news?

It was a little difficult to describe this scene, Lady Mira sitting in an extremely comfortable looking leather couch, Lord Altevia in her lap, holding a glass cup with a dark red drink in it, looking at Nazir with his head resting on her.

Maybe things that would be considered bad for a child of his age had not happened? But when did the two of them get so close?

“Is something wrong?”

Hearing Lord Altevia's words, Nazir said, “No, no... It's just...

Are you all right?”

“Yes, I'm wonderful, Lady Mira is very hospitable.”

Nazir looked at the glass in the little lord's hand, “What are you drinking, my lord?”

Lady Mira looked at Nazir with a smile, “Cherry juice, we grow it in our garden.

But, it's been a long time Nazir, how are you?”

Nazir looked back at Lady Mira and averted his eyes, “Forgive me, my lady, I'm fine. How are you?”

“I'm fine too, is there something you wanted to ask?”

Nazir looked at the little lord for a moment and then said, “No, I just wanted to check my lord, if you’ll excuse me.”

After the little lord and Lady Mira nodded, he left the room.

Altevia’s Pov

Fast forward to the next day, the night was very comfortable. I even managed to sleep with Lady Mira. Well... Actually, I can't say I managed to, she was the one who invited me and I couldn't refuse such a beautiful lady. But nothing special happened, even though I had my own desires, I managed to restrain myself, we just cuddled and slept.

On the morning of the next day, I put on a simple leather armor specially prepared for me, it didn't seem to be very durable. The armor on my chest and shoulders weighed almost nothing. Over the armor, I put on a green, hooded cloak, cut to my height, and attached the steel dagger Nazir had given me to the belt around my waist. And finally, today Altevia joins the hunt.

As I was leaving the house, I noticed Mira's daughter, I forget her name, looking at me with her eyebrows furrowed. I think she was aware of her mother's plans, but she needn't have worried. Both in my past life and now, I still like older women.

We left the city in 2 carriages and headed towards the forest and after about 2 hours we found a flat area among the trees and set up camp. According to the party, an inexperienced boy of my age had to learn the basics before he could hunt in the demon forests. In my past life I camped alone, so I was knowledgeable about a lot of things, but I had never picked up a hunting rifle or a bow and arrow before, so they were actually right. And I did not want to use a bow, so they taught me to move quietly through the forest and I watched them hunt small animals like boars and rabbits. Like playing the training part of a game.

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“I’mma puke the dragon,” said Wyll as he left the campfire and Euric stood up after finishing his drink, “I'm coming too.”

I spent the first day watching the party, time flew by and it was night. I really needed a change like this. As darkness was falling, I went for a walk in nature with Nazir, we had to go to the mine tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to check the shipment and the mine was on top of a hill. So we moved our camp a bit higher up. When I went up the cliff to look at the city, I felt a sense of peace as I gazed at the landscape of dark blue, black and green tones. It was like I was back in middle and high school, playing Skyrim non-stop with incredible enjoyment.

But this peaceful moment was shattered when I noticed Euric and Wyll pissing down the cliff.

I chuckled and looked at the moon and realized something. The moon in this world has been blue like the ocean since I was born, and although it was strange at first, I got used to it quickly, but now the color of the moon were all yellow.

“Moon is yellow,” I said curiously and Nazir informed me, “It seems Konshu visited Lady Diana.”

“What?” I turned to Nazir in surprise and he looked at me in confusion.

“I thought you might have read that, my lord.

Moon is the kingdom of Lady Diana, Goddess of Moon. But Khonsu, a god from Laxendria is count as a Moon God too. Every once in 8 years Lady Diana accepts him to her kingdom and Khonsu takes a form of a falcon and wanders around the moon.

He checks that if there is a problem on it.”

“And if there is?”

“He can demand the problem to be solved but the decision is up to Lady Diana.”

“Are there more gods in the moon?” I raised my head slightly and looked at the moon again.

“During my time in Xinshui, I heard about a woman named Chang'e, but I'm not sure if she is goddess or not, all I know is that she is immortal and lives on the moon.

Other than her there are few more like : Yugenese God Tsukuyomi and Demon God Ay Ata.

Tsukuyomi is banished to the moon. It's said he was there even before Lady Diana established her kingdom. And Ay Ata is known as the creator of ice and moonlight spells. They say that as the moon's cycles change, his battle style and mana pool grows and changes.”

I looked curiously at Nazir and put my hands in my pockets.

“Sounds like a fun place.”

Nazir chuckled, “The gods' idea of fun can be very different from ours, but yes, it is fun to imagine them there playing cards.”

I couldn't think of anything to say to keep the conversation going, so I slowly kicked the dirt and waited for Nazir to say something, but since he usually doesn't speak until I ask him something, there was a short silence.

To break the awkward silence, and also out of curiosity, I approached the cliff and was about to look down, but Nazir stopped me by grabbing me by the shoulder and I was reminded again that I was a child.

“I can't die anyway.”

When I turned to Nazir and said this, he frowned slightly, “There is no need to test your limits, my lord.

Also, if you fall, it will be a difficult climb back up here.”

“Can't you create a stone platform underneath us and get us back up here?”

Nazir shook his head, “I can try, but it won't be funny if I run out of mana halfway through or a monster jumps on us.”

I was surprised for a moment. “I thought you had more than enough mana?” I said and Nazir put his hand behind his head, “I do, but to put it simply, I have very little control over the amount of mana spent.”

“I don't understand.”

“Let's say I spend 4 mana on a spell that I should spend 2 mana on.”

“Is that a common problem?”

“Yes, that's one of the things that distinguishes a good mage from a normal one.”

I kicked the dirt with my foot again, then looked at Nazir.

“Can you teach me how to cast spells?”

Nazir and I looked at each other in silence for a while and then, as I waited for him to say 'No', he started talking and my eyes grow slightly in surprise.

“You have read the methods of understanding and imagination, right?”

I nodded to him.

“Many people say that the method of imagination is easier, but in fact the method of understanding is easier, because imagination eventually leads to understanding. If you focus only on the path of understanding, you will fail, but if you aim for it, you will find the shortcut.

Man looks down from the cliff, he sees the birds, he wants to fly like them and go down, but man is clever, he throws a stone and sees it fall, then he thinks, he looks for a way to fly.

He imagines that he flies on all the ways, and when he realizes that he cannot fly, he finds the way that is closest to flying.”

Nazir turned his head with a smile, “Yeah, it's a little complicated for you-”

He was saying something after his smile, probably thinking that the subject would be too complicated for a boy my age, but there was a small detail he didn't know.

After a strange tingling sensation under my feet, I slowly started to ascend on a stone platform and noticed Nazir's surprised face.

“Man wanted to go down, but I want to see the view.”