Chapter 418: Forbidden Regions
Chapter 418: Forbidden Regions
It was like a whisper of glory in Yuuki's mind. Whether it was her angel or her devil, both whispered to reach the divine hand and swore allegiance as the faithful servant.
She stretched out her hand and placed her hand on the divine hand. It was the best choice of her life, and she was sure of it.
"Allow me to be your faithful servant. I will do whatever you want, and I will serve you to the best of my ability! So, please please don't leave me behind." Yuuki knelt down, but she still held the divine hand.
"Hm-mm, welcome to the boat." Elysia did not expect the result. However, at least, it wasn't bad either.
After that, Elysia and the others discussed the plan to go to the capital city center of the Beastkin Continent. However, Yuuki's house was getting quite hot, stuffy, and cramped. After all, the room was filled with three grown girls, six beasts, one fairy, and one baby elf.
"Well, it's getting pretty stuffy now, isn't it? The room is so cramped now, let's go and have a discussion outside. We can also put up a formation to guard this place." Elena suggested and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sleeping Rhea's sweat.
"Forgive me, please forgive me. My house is indeed small. I will make a magnificent portable house next time." Yuuki repeatedly bowed because she made the Goddess Ely also feel uncomfortable.
"It's okay, we will also leave from here and you will come with us, Yuuki." Elysia fanned herself with a folded fan and used subtle magic to keep herself fresh. "Let's set up a barrier formation to guard the entrance to this cave. I think that's enough. Is there another entrance besides the mouth of the cave above?"
"Uhm, there's another entrance. It's a secret passage. I'll guide you there." Yuuki's eyes were a little teary for so many reasons in mind.
"Good, little one, you are in charge of setting up the barrier formation at the two entrances." Elena stood up and gave the order.
"Eh? Why me? You're much more capable of doing that, right? It's so easy, you just have to-" Nell felt a bit lazy and reluctant to do anything. Her stomach was packed, and she wanted to sleep and laze around.
Unfortunately, Elena just cut off Nell's answer. "If it's so easy, then it's no problem for you, yes? So, just do as I tell you."
After saying that, Elena went toward the exit. She couldn't let the baby Rhea sleep in a stuffy room that lacked oxygen.
"Ah-uhm, okay..." Nell immediately nodded without giving any more reason. She was just about to mend her relationship with Elena, and she couldn't take the risk of upsetting Elena.
Elysia followed right after, and the others also came out of the house.
Yuuki looked at her portable house and sighed. She took out one of her two Space Bags and put her home inside. About eighty percent of the space capacity of her Space Bag was filled just to load her portable house.
After that, Yuuki guided the small group towards a secret cave entrance on the other side of the cave mouth. It was the deepest part of the whole cave.
"That's the secret entrance I mentioned earlier. It's a narrow passageway that is quite long and will lead to an underwater cave at the foot of the mountain." Yuuki pointed to a hole in the cave wall.
"Hm, it's probably only enough to fit one adult. I'm sure Elena will have a lot of trouble going through this passage because of her big breasts." Nell hovered over and examined the hole for a moment. She whispered in a mosquito-like voice to tell the parable.
Fortunately, Elena wasn't focused on Nell. She didn't hear what Nell was whispering and just asked Nell to set up a barrier formation.
"Are you sure? Just here? Not at the entrance at the end of this passage?" Nell asked for confirmation.
"Do whichever works best for you. You are small in size and can easily pass through that passage." Elena only left the decision to Nell.
"Uhm..." Nell glanced at Elysia and only got an innocent look. Thus, she chose to go into the hole and put a barrier in the middle of the passage.
It didn't take more than a minute, and Nell returned. "I've set up the barrier. I placed the barrier formation in the middle of the passage. So, anyone who tries to enter will meet a dead end."
"Good job, Helen. Let's head back to the mouth of the cave." Elysia raised both her palms and praised Nell. She allowed the little Goddess to land there to rest. After all, Nell always flew or hovered in the air using magic instead of wings.
"Un, it's nothing, hehe... Let's get back to the surface." Nell appreciated any kind of compliment if it came from someone she acknowledged.
Then, they exited the cave, and Nell set up the barrier formation once again. The barrier was disguised, so from outside the cave's mouth, it would only look like a rock hill.
Elysia sat on a flat rock and pulled out a world map. She was about to bring up the previous topic.
Elena just sat quietly beside Elysia like a housewife taking care of her sleeping baby.
Yuuki became the most curious of the others. She took a closer look at the map just as Elysia had just opened it. "Woah, what is this? A picture of the territory?"
"No, this is a world map drawn by the human explorers in the past. You're too close, Yuuki. Please give me some space." Elysia gently pushed the curious fox girl's head to not block her view of the map.
Yuuki immediately complied and crouched down in front of Elysia. She looked at the world map with comprehension. "So our world is like this. It turns out that the world we live in is flat. Where are we now if we look at this map?"
"Beastkin Continent, Beastkin Continent... Well, here it is, we are here, near the snowy northern mountains." Yuuki scanned the map and pointed to a region in the Beastkin Continent.
"Yeah, we're around there. Would you like a headpat?" Elysia kindly offered.
"You want to give me a headpat, Goddess Ely? I'm honored." Yuuki brought her head closer to Elysia.
*Pat* *Pat*
Elysia stroked the fox girl's head to see what was going on. She didn't expect that Yuuki would not mind letting her stroke that fluffy snow-white hair and play with those fox ears.
However, she was a little surprised that Yuuki didn't have human ears like in storybooks. Just a pair of fox ears on top of the head, twitching and swaying from the caress.
'She is a beastkin, Ely. Like a Saint Beast or above that can transform into human form. If they had ears like humans, it would be strange because they would have two pairs of ears.' Elena brightened the surprised Elysia.
'O-oh, so it's like that.' Elysia just smoothed Yuuki's long hair back so that the side of the head was covered entirely like before.
"Hng..." Yuuki enjoyed the head pat, but unfortunately, it only lasted for a short time.
A strange feeling arose suddenly. The clueless Yuuki didn't really understand what she was feeling, but it wasn't bad. Maybe she has fallen in love with being petted or given a head pat by Goddess Ely?
"Zach, Jimmy and everyone, could you come here for a moment?" Elysia called the beasts with a swing of a hand.
"Your request is an order, I come at the speed of light and am here to serve you. Is there anything I can help you with?" Jimmy shot off at his fastest speed and sat down next to the map.
"Achoo!" Cold air suddenly came uninvited. Yuuki sneezed and shivered slightly.
"Pfft! Seriously? I thought you were just making up a figurative sentence, but apparently not. You're an ice elemental mage but can't stand the cold?" Elena covered her mouth as she almost laughed.
"What's wrong with that? I can control the ice element, but I'm trying hard to learn the fire element to warm my body. You wouldn't know that I almost died many times just because of my extreme ice cold curse." Yuuki hugged herself and used subtle fire magic to emit the heat.
"My, my..." Elena shook her head. She was kind enough to widen the scale of her heat magic to cover an area of three meters in diameter. It was no longer just covering herself, Elysia, and Rhea.
"O-oh..." Yuuki felt warmth coming from nowhere. She simply stopped using her magic.
Elysia just smiled seeing that. Then, she discussed their plan to go to the capital city, the center of the Beastkin Continent.
She also didn't forget to ask about the regions that Jimmy mentioned a while ago. Unfortunately, the world map couldn't live up to expectations because it wasn't fully drawn.
"Even though those dangerous yet unknown regions are not on the world map, I believe they are around here, here and here." Zach pointed to several blank spots on the map.
Elysia glanced there. It was just a blue sea area, just a nameless ocean. She glanced at Zach to wait for him to continue.
"Well, I know that because my ancestors recorded it in the clan leader's manual. You can find it at Winged Tiger Palace. Those forbidden regions are said to have a lot of danger and evil energy. No normal living things can last long there... Only demons, mutants, and monstrous creatures." Zach explained with a solemn expression.