女神归来的夏天

~~~(Location: Road to The Capital, Elven Kingdom)~~~

~~~(Time: 2:00 PM)~~~

We should be getting close to Greshina now. I can tell from how often Helda and Terox are looking out the windows and down the road. Knowing my brother, he\'s already thinking up a bunch of plans. "Terox, have you been making what we need?" The question is strange, in my opinion. Terox is in charge of making our false identities and getting us inside.

Yet I\'ve not seen her do one thing that would suggest something like that. Helda knows Terox better, so I should reserve judgment. "Don\'t worry. I\'ve been making them in my mind with my magic. All we need to do is pull over so I can use some magic from nature." At those very words, Helda stops the carriage and opens the door to the carriage.

Terox hasn\'t explained her class or abilities to us, but from what I can deduce, she\'s a producer. Someone who makes products and is non-combative. That\'s my best guess with what I\'ve learned at the moment. "Finish the process and hand everyone their new identities." She speaks as she leaves the carriage, and we all follow after her.

As I exit, I look up, and Sally is looking down at us from the top of the carriage. Cera hasn\'t bothered to give a peek at what\'s happening. "This process is going to take at least 2 hours to do for every one of us, so might as well get comfortable." Terox informs us of the amount of time this is going to take. Adding time to how long this trip is taking.

Helda doesn\'t look happy with the new timetable, but that\'s to be expected. While they\'re being civil with each other, they\'re still far from being friends. I look towards Sally, and I notice that Cera has finally decided to look. We make eye contact, and he smiles. Nodding his head a single time to convey a form of support to me. I appreciate the gesture.

Since it\'s going to take a bit of time, no reason not to relax while Terox does her thing. Leaving the rest of the group, I find a nice spot and make myself a campfire. Something to pass the time, not really for heat. I\'ve become good at making fires with the few things I have to make them. After a few minutes, everyone has joined me. Well, almost everyone.

Helda is off doing her own thing, and Terox is focusing on what she\'s doing. The rest of us are relaxing around the campfire that I made. I look to Jasmine and see she\'s rubbing her stomach and has the look that I\'ve come to understand. "Here, take this." I pull some food out of my Inventory, and she catches it without missing a beat. Quickly digging into the food.

~~~(POV: Jasmine)~~~

~~~(Location: Campfire, waiting for Terox to finish)~~~

~~~(Time: 2:30 PM)~~~

Hailey looks way better from what she used to look like a couple of days ago... She\'s had a rough time, and as much as I want to ask, I know that it\'s family business, and I shouldn\'t get involved. It\'ll be nice once we reach some civilization for a change. I\'m getting really sick of being on the road and in that cramped carriage. It\'s starting to stink.

While the majority of us are female, that doesn\'t mean we don\'t have body odor too. Mix that with the guys traveling with us, and we\'re going to have to set fire to the carriage after we\'re done with it. There isn\'t any magic that will get that smell out. "Melimora, what\'s the Greshina like?" I can\'t help asking this question. It\'s been asked before, but I want a better explanation.

She lifts her head and stops poking the fire with a stick she\'s found. She adopts a thoughtful expression and thinks hard about her answer. Something that I don\'t see from her often. She usually has the information that you seek on-demand, but she has to consider the answer this time. "You\'re probably meaning what Greshina looks like..." I nod my head, clarifying my question.

We\'ve already been told what Greshina is like, but we haven\'t been told about what it looks like. "Greshina is probably the most beautiful city you\'ll ever see in your life. I heard rumors that the new Kingdom of Avalon is something in itself. Can\'t really say if it matches up with Greshina since I\'ve never been there." That\'s something to look forward to, at least.

In the middle of the silence, Cera lets out a couple of quiet chuckles. All of our attention turns to him to learn what\'s funny. "Sorry, just some dark humor in my head." We all wait for him to explain further, but he looks surprised by this. "I was just imagining what it\'ll look like when we\'re done with it. Probably on fire and broken in most places." That is dark humor, just like Hailey\'s.

Out of nowhere, all the real elves that we\'re traveling with start to laugh too. They start out as gentle and bubbly, but they turn into full-blown needing air laughs. "Oh, God... Wouldn\'t that be a sight!" Melimora decides to chime in, and her words only make the rest of the elves laugh. Only Sally and I aren\'t laughing.

Cera and Hailey are because that\'s what their humor is like, and while we all look like elves. Some of us only look this way, thanks to the potions. "Never in my life would I think that shitty city would ever have a chance to become like that! Now there is a good chance of that happening!" Leila laughs harder as she talks. Making everyone else laugh harder.

~~~(POV: Helda Vora)~~~

~~~(Location: Taking a break from everyone, Elven Kingdom)~~~

~~~(Time: 2:50 PM)~~~

They\'re all sure laughing hard, and I can even hear Meli\'s unique laugh among them. It must be really funny if she\'s letting out a good laugh like that. I\'m taking a break from the large group and from being near Terox for so long. My anger hasn\'t grown, but it hasn\'t subsided in the slightest either. Being civil with her is the best option I have.

Their laughter starts to die down, and I\'m left in silence as the wind gently blows through the trees around me. I have a pretty bad headache from the horrid smell coming from the carriage. That\'s bad enough to make anyone squint their eyes and show their teeth as they scrunch up their faces. It\'s a funny thought, but one I\'ll not laugh at.

It\'s been so long since the last time I was in Greshina, and my memories of it are foggy. I was still a toddler when I went there with my parents, and now I\'m centuries older. Perhaps it\'s best that I forgot about those times. All they would cause me now is pain. "You know there are plenty of people willing to hang out with you..." I nearly jump out of my own skin at the surprise.

I recognize the voice, and I turn to see Cera. He\'s come alone, and why he has come is unknown to me. He walks over and takes a seat next to me. Looking out over the hill and seeing the same view I\'ve been staring at. "There are times that I need to be alone, and this seemed like the best time to do it." He nods his head, listening and not responding.

Cera doesn\'t go out of his way to do something like this, meaning he\'s worried something might happen. He needn\'t worry about anything, I\'ve got my emotions under wraps, and I\'ll keep them that way. I can\'t say the same for Terox, but she\'s been doing her part too.

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A/N: Below this line, I\'ll be keeping Cera\'s player information. That way, I won\'t have to place it into the story above anymore. It takes about 180 words up.

[Slayer (Zern) Lvl.196]

[Exp: 40/100%]

[Title: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael (Hidden)]

[Stats] [Strength - 7095][Endurance - 7045][Dexterity - 7215][Speed - 8240][Focus - 19,660]

[Mana aura control: 6/100%]

[Health: 76,560,000,000/76,560,000,000] [Mana: 216,600,000,000/216,600,000,000]

[Stat Points: 50] [Armor rating: 500]

[Inventory] [Dice of Wayland (Divine)] [Hardened Tree sap Armor (Very Rare)] [The Witness (Legendary Sword)] [Fenrir\'s Whistle (Divine)] [Sally\'s Dresses 5x] [Camping gear] [Food Rations 3x] [Dried meat 3x] [Fishing poles 2x] [Fish 8x] [Festival Garbs 2x]

[Passive Perks]

[Inheritor of the Sword] [Son of Heaven] [Slayer of Evil] [Holy Willow Trees Savior] [Finder of Legends] [The Divine who has Legend] [Destined for Greatness] [Dungeon Diver] [An Overachiever]

[Active Skills]

[Heavens light Lvl.59 325/5900] [Protected by Heaven Lvl.59 225/5900] [Slash Lvl..77 4600/130000] [Parry Lvl.53 80/5300] [Double Strike N/A] [Kingslayer N/A] [Raging Machine N/A] [Winged Glory] [Angelic Flight] [Divine Pressure Exertion] [Divinity Pulse] [Controled Fun]