With an annoyed face, Qi said "In case you did not notice, we are under attack"

Qi searches his surrounding but found nothing, so do Rex. They hear it again the sound of something flying across the air. Before they can see the source of its Rex's shoulder has been hit, a dagger is embedded on Rex's shoulder making him grimaced in pain.

Rex spread his mana to make an earth spike when he hears the whooshing sound but when his mana reaches around 10 meters he can sense something behind him. When he turned to look at it he found nothing. His mana is clearly sensing something but his eyes say otherwise.

It moved! He can sense that it is moving only that he cant see it. Annoyed by it he makes a box made out of earth around it whatever that his mana is sensing. Seeing that there's no other dagger being throw at them, Rex shrinks the box little by little.

When the box is getting pretty small to fit a human he can hear a voice coming from inside. " I yield, please spare me"

"What is your name and why are you attacking us?"

"Elanalue, Elanalue Torfaren. I must have mistaken you for the hunters"

"So you are the dangerous criminal that is hiding in the forest"

"Yes that's me, now can you please, please release me from this thing. I'm afraid of a confined place" Rex is pretty shocked that shes confessed quite easily.

"Not until you tell why you attacked us"

"I already told you that, I have mistaken you for the hunters"

"How do you know that we aren't one?"

"There is no way they send an experienced mage like you just to hunt a cornered elf, my bounties is not high enough"

"I'll release you from the box but I have to tie you up" Qi is the one who is surprised that Rex is willing to release the one who just now attacking them.

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"Yes tie me up, whatever, anything other than this box thing"

Rex releases her from the box of earth and told Qi to tie her up. When it all set Rex asked why not go work for the kingdom instead of becoming a criminal, the only answer Rex got is a burst of laughter from Elanalue.

She explain that an elf can not find work at Ganda because it is a kingdom that frequently goes to war with the elven kingdom, even to this day they still sending assassin at each other to kill the king or other important members of society. Elanalue herself is such assassins send by the elven kingdom to assassinate the Ganda kings.

She used to be before her group got attacked by a dragon making her the only survivor. Her group is on route to the capital of Ganda when an elder dragon flies across the sky then landed just in front of their caravan.

She describe the dragon as fiery demons, breathing fire on all the elves, luckily with her aptitude to fire and by extension light she can escape the red dragons fiery wrath.

Hearing the description of the dragon in Elanale story Rex said something unexpected both by Elanalue and Qi.

"Qi here is the one who attacked your caravan"

The emotion of surprise is clearly showing on the face of the elf and the transformed dragon. Ignoring their surprised face Rex say something even more surprising.

"Qi takes off your clothes and change to a dragon"

"What. Are you mad? We are close to the capital city, there is a chance for them to noticed."

"Are you really afraid of a little kingdom?"

"I'm not, but I believe it will give you some problem if they see me"

"aww, you are thinking about me?"

"It's not li-"

"You act like a tsundere you know. But nevermind that, I don't really care about it, just change so our friend here can see your magnificent form that you are so proud of"

Qi takes off his clothes and when the last piece of clothing touches the ground he changes, his nail turns into claws, his skin changing to a red scale and his body is getting bigger. When the elf can finally see Qi true form she is shocked, seeing the elf act like that Rex spoke.

"It is him right? The dragon that killed all your friend"

"YES!!! It is him, how can a human mage command a dragon?"

"It's not important how I can command a dragon, what is important here is how do you feel right now? How does it feel when the one who killed your friend is standing just right in front of you, is it revenge for your friend? The despair that you cant do anything? or even sad?"

"To be honest with you they are not a 'friend', we are just bound together by duty to the elven kingdom. What is truly important here is how can a mere human command a dragon, an elder one at that"

Qi even in dragon form is visibly confused so does Rex.

"Qi you can change back to a human now"

After the three of them is no longer confused, surprised and shocked. They have a nice and pleasant conversation they agreed that the elf will teach Rex how to control light in exchange Rex will free her.

Rex told Qi to remove all the thing that constrict the elf and then they made their way deeper to the forest lead by Ela, they are going to Ela hideout.