Starting of the Day, Part 3

A few days had already passed. Elena and others finally reached krillim forest.

Henry as a tamer, and Elena, a guardian's decendants, communicated with monsters and spirit.

There were no abnormalities in the forest and there were no suspicious movements happened within.

"It seems that also no abnormalities this month, huh? should we looked for crystal horned deer?" Henry exclaimed as he made a sigh of relief.

Everyone replied with a "Yes!" and follow henry.

Nonetheless, Elena seems to restlessly looking around.

...elp! Elena flinches. She looks around while walking.

"... help... me!" Elena stops as she hears a horrid voice from somewhere.

"What is it, M'lady?" a voice behind Elena.

"Did you hear that? a voice?" Elena exclaimed.

Maria stops for a moment and listens to surroundings. "... But I don't hear any voice, M'lady! I don't hear any except from us.

Elena proceed to walking. She decided to ignored it at first but then she hears it again.

"... ease... help me!" a voice begging for help, yet, only Elena hears it.

Elena cocks her head to left as she hears the voice calling out for her.

Elena's mind flies elsewhere and instinctively followed the voice.

Maria who was behind Elena was left is panic when Elena disappears to thin air. Although, Maria, who's on full alert and passively uses perception magic, unnoticedly felt the disappearance of Elena.

As soon she found Elena missing, she reminded other and takes out daggers under her skirt.

"M'lady had gone missing, there's no signs of enemy, I also can't detect mana signature of M'lady." she exclaims.

Maria and others spreads out and look for Elena.

Elena, on the other hand, follows the voice that calls for her, getting louder as she closing near.

Elena looks back. "Where's everyone?" she mumbled as she found no one on her sight.

"Help me!" a loud voice that seems in pain calls again for Elena.

Elena walks straight towards the voice until she reaches deeper parts of the forest. There's no birds, no animals nor monsters and spirits. There's no wind and only complete silence.

Elena stops and she came across a thin veil that covers something in front of her. It is a barrier, erected deep inside the forest. It seems the barrier weakens and there must be a person hiding inside it.

"Please Help Me!" a voice, loud and clear. Elena hears it again yet she remain infazed.

Elena instinctively touches the thin-cloth like barrier. Her hand passes through, or it seems that she can enters it.

Inside the barrier she finds a virid forest, brimming with life.

As she walks straight ahead, she saw a figure lays before her eyes.

In front of her eyes, there laid a ***** woman on long slanted rock.

She's stunning, her deep blue hair cuts straight across her legs, it veils completely her voluptuous breasts and shapely thighs. She has a supple skin, a pair of fluff ear and long tail from her back.

"A beastwoman?" Elena mumbled as makes 5 step forward.

On her last step, cracks a dead twig.

The ***** woman ear twitches as she overhears that wierdly suspicious noise.

From her sleeping, she disappears somewhere in split second or should I say that she moves at a speed where eyes of normal people can't follow.

The woman teleported to where Elena is, taking a battle stance, hand placed on elena's neck while the other was wide open, showcasing sharp pointed claws. She makes a hissing sound, mouth wide-opened, showing her canine teeth and she glares hostile with her feline eyes.

Elena remained shocked, eyes shut, fist closed and covers her face. She sweats propusely and greatly gasping for air as she felt intense bloodlust from the beastwoman of the cat tribe. 

"... ack! w-w-wait!" Elena remarks, her tears flows from her eyes as she clutches her chest tightly.

After hearing her words. The beastwoman came into senses, quickly put away her hands and her bloodlust.

She went down her knees as she shooks her head. "... ster... Nghh!" she mumbled.

Elena was down on all-four, coughing, groans in pain while palpipating.

The beastwoman quickly noticed and reached out her hand on thin air and takes out a bottle. She forces elena to drink it down and finallu calmed down.

After a few minutes of rest, the two stares at each other silently. Elena remained silent, cold sweat runs down her spine while the beastwoman scowls at her.

"Master?... Where is master?" the beastwoman speaks and asked Elena.

"... Master who?"

"Never mind that... When and where am I?"

"Today is the 2647th year, 12th day of the ento month of the lucrim calendar. We are in krillim forest of great continent of acritoria." Elena answers.

"Acritoria?... oh, right! The sky continent."

Elena was a bit surprised. Although, she almost felt fear and death, she felt relieved after drinking the potions that was forced to drink to her. "My name is Elena von Rondelheim, daughter of Roselliete von Rondelheim and Peterdeil von Rondelheim."

"What? Pete? Where is he?" says the surprised beastwoman who seems to be acquaintance of Elena's father.

"... Sadly, my father went missing 2 years ago, without any leads nor clues..." Elena replies remorseful.

Once again, it brokes down to silence.

"... I see!... Oh, right! My name is Nekoria de Earthen. Nice to meet you, daughter of Pete. I'm very sorry about earlier, I was at lost and instinctively went on hostile." Nekoria, the beastwoman, ask for forgiveness of Elena.

"It's okay! I'm not hurt! More importantly, why are you here?"

"... My master... no! I was sent and sealed within here and was put to slumber. I used my subconcious to call out for help and you happened to respond to my call and broke the barrier—more like I've been sleeping here for 500 of years." Nekoria explained her situation to Elena. "For conpensation about earlier, here..." she added while reaching her hand to thin air and took out a small pouch and gave it to Elena.

Elena reached out her hand and received the pouch. More importantly, she was focused on Nekoria's hand.

"Oh! This? It is Spacial Storage Magic. It creates a rift and places things inside of it. It usually uses the basic space magic and time magic that stops time inside of it—it also consumes a lot of mana while using it."

"I see!" Elena nodded while cuping her chin with two fingers.

"So, you understand. What a promising kid!"

The two of them talked for a while learning magic and information.

After some time, Nekoria ear twitches.

"...lena?"

"...M'lady?" a voice followed by footstep and rustling of leaves.

"... It's Maria and others!" says Elena.

"... so, they are here...!" Nekoria responded with a sadness on her voice. "I think is time to leave, why don't you take a nap [ Sleep ] for a bit and forget everything that happens here [ Mind Manipulation ]". says nekoria while casting a spell on her sentence.

Elena loses conciousness and fell down while Nekoria vanishes into thin air.

Maria and others arrives on the scene. They've found no one, except for sleeping Elena.

Maria hurries to Elena, she worries but she seemed relief after she saw Elena peacefully sleeping. She lifts the sleeping child, and let her rest on her fine shoulder. "M'lady, please wake up." she whispers.

"... Nggh! Huh...!?" says Elena, eyes shut and was half-asleep. It seems like she's been asleep for hours but that's not the case.

"... No!... Grrhhn...!" she groans in pain, covered in sweat while her tempearture dropped down.

Maria quickly felt and noticed. "M'lady's health worsen, we need to go back." says Maria, alongside with others, they hurried back home.

The site was left abandoned and turns into complete silence.

"-fufufu! You managed to broke from my sleep spell, usually, it last for 6hrs and it cannot be broken by any means—you seems to have high magic aptitude." says by a gentle voice, it was from Nekoria, who grins widely while laughing.

She was atop of a tree, covered herself with concealment magic. "I hope me meet soon!" she added and vanished into thin air.

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Sire, we were outnumbered, we need to fall back.

Child, can you help me seals the rifts and help me restore the world back to it's previous state.

I grant you this power, in hopes for another, that will bring salvation to the world.

Crash!...

"... W-wha-what!... Nghh...!" I got up, there's a pang in my chest, I groans as I clutches my chest tightly.

"W-what was that? A dream?... No! it felt too real to be called a dream." I mumbled to myself, after I felt that dream, fragments of it slowly resurfaced in my mind.

It's a war... demons and angels. A battlefield, clashes of swords, smells of bloods and this feeling of despair.

I shook my head left and right, glancing around. "I was in my room!" I mumbled to myself. It was dark, it is past midnight.

my hands were trembling and I felt a swelling pain on my cheek. I raised an arm and put my hand to it.

"Huh! what is this? It's glowing." I was surprise that I goes out my bed and heads in front of the mirror.

Before my eyes, there was me reflected on the mirror. My eyes glows a golden light... isn't my eyes were prismarine blue?

"No! Never mind that." I mumbled to myselft again.

Aside from my eyes, there a white symbol imprinted on my left cheek, it was glowing a white light.

I touches, rubbed, smudges it over again but it won't go away. As it won't go away, I sit and crossed my legs and concentrate. My mana in my body was running wild, so I started to fix flow of my mana.

After a few minutes, I opened my eyes, my mana flow went back to normal and my eyes and my cheek stops glowing, However, the mark was left on my cheek and it was a little swollen.

I got up from sitting and went back to bed, recollecting the dreams I had that I started to think that it was memory or the reality itself.

Was it glimpse of future? or the past? It might be the so-called precognitive dream that everyobe spoke of.

Sigh! I do not know anymore. I shook my head like crazy and went back to sleep.

Surely it won't happen, was it?

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