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After walking through the plains for some time, the distant mountain appeared to be a lot closer than before. I gotta admit, these raptors really can run when needed and their stamina is impressive.

On our way there, I had Elenore fight with numerous monsters. The monsters were getting stronger the more we approached the mountains. Of course, I also gave her a hand when she needed it.

Because of that, Elenore quickly leveled up and hit lvl 26. Just a bit more and we can look into a proper job change for her. Without a job change she can’t learn valuable skills.

Regardless, right now we stumbled on something strange. Me, Elenore and our Galleons finally arrived at the foot of the mountain. However, they stopped abruptly.

The reason for this was because in front of them, a collapsed girl had her face planted into the ground. The way that she collapsed didn’t look like she was sleeping.

“Izuna…Is she dead?”

I slowly approached the person while riding on top of my Galleon.

“Can you roll her over?”

Grawl

My mount is rather smart as it understood commands. It followed my instruction and turned the body over with one of her feet, without scratching it with it’s claws.

This girl is… a dark elf. She had dark skin and pointy ears. These traits are definitely dark elf specific. But something felt weird for me. In Astral Storm Online, dark elves females where designed as “big breasted voluptuous beauties”. But this girl… her chest was flat.

And don’t get me wrong. She isn’t a loli or anything. In human age, she’s probably 16-20 years old. But yeah. She’s an A cup alright. Her green dress with cuts on both sides has a bit of a bump on her chest area. Her leg wear was similar to mine. And she had beautiful blonde hair wrapped in two long twintails.

Her mouth was wide open, and the white of her eyes was all that could be seen. The person seemed to be breathing, yet, why she had fallen in this place was a complete mystery.

Her level was 31 and she had a crude bow made out of some tree trunk. Did she fight something?

“Izuna… what should we do?”

It’s kinda suspicious. Maybe we should just ignore her and keep going. At least that’s what I thought. But as soon as I wanted my Galleon to move… her eyes that were white before, flashed with a light for a moment.

She suddenly got up and did a backflip, doing several spins in the air before making a perfect landing.

But, the next moment… she collapsed again, like a puppet who had its strings suddenly cut.

“Ple…..please….food…”

What is she mumbling about?

*Gurgle**gurlge*

A very loud rumbling came from the person’s stomach as she grabbed her belly in agony. Oh, so that’s what’s going on. She’s starving.

“Izuna, can we perhaps help her?”

There goes Elenore’s motherly instincts kicking in. There is no reason to help her. Furthermore, the king’s guards only gave us the bare minimum food for the journey. They thought we wouldn’t probably come back alive. However… I just can’t turn my back here. That’s not how I was raised.

“Please…please…”

It feels like she’s dying here.

“Alright. Listen, miss, we’re going to give you some food.”

“T…thank…you.”

*Hamu hamuchew chewGulp**Hamu Hamu*

I can’t imagine how she can eat at such tremendous speed. Me and Elenore divided our rations a bit to make her somewhat of filling meal. Bread, cheese, biscuits and 2 apples. The food flowed into the girls’ stomach at a tremendous speed. Eventually when she finished eating…

“It’s sooo good to feel alive again!!! For the act of saving my life today, I am very grateful to you. My name is Tia. And you two are?”

“I’m Izunahime, but feel free to just call me Izuna. And this Elenore.”

“Nofofofo! Ah, I’m sorry for laughing. I thought that it was the end of me until you guys had arrived by chance. Because of that, I was saved. How lucky I was to meet you!”

Her heterochromatic eyes shined in gratitude as she spoke aloud.

“What a great day! I thought I was going to die, yet, I am alive! The must be the will of the heavens!”

“What’s a little girl like you doing here anyway?”

“Who are you calling little? I’m 873 years old you know.”

Involuntarily, our eyes were drawn to her small chest. Her gaze also went back and forth between my breasts and Elenores’.

“Don’t mess with me! Size isn’t everything, you know!”

I’m starting to get the feeling that I saved quite a troublesome person.

“Well regardless, I think you should go home, little girl.”

She pouted her cheeks and started to stomp her feet.

“I told you, don’t call me little! I still have room to grow! And I have a proper name! It’s Tia! It’s not that hard to remember.”

She probably has a complex about her height or something. After all, her head only reaches right at my chest.

“We need to go now.”

“What!? Hey, don’t suddenly change the subject, baka! And wait… are you planning of going across the mountain?”

“Yeah. Why?”

“I wouldn’t recommend it. As my life savior, I must warn you. The monsters on the mountain are higher level than the ones on the field. Also there are a lot of poisonous creatures here. Not to mention the rumored malevolence cave.”

“I see. Well, see you later.”

“Hey! Where you not listening? You still plan on going?”

“It doesn’t matter. Anything that gets in my way will simply be crushed. That’s all.”

“Then let me come with you!”

“You don’t need to follow us and go out of your way.”

“I’m not. I wanted to come here from the start. There are special herbs I need to collect and they only grow up there. This way I will also show my gratitude towards you two.”

Yup. I definitely picked up a strange person.

“Fine. You can tag along for now. Just don’t get in my way and don’t do anything unnecessary.”

“Hahahaha! That’s the spirit. I’ll definitely repay my debt!”

And so, I instructed Tia to get on Elenore’s Galleon mount and the 3 of us once again resumed our journey to the so called cave.

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