V stood in the center of the cave, he felt fresh as a rose, the aches in his body had almost vanished completely, he was now able to move, walk, even at decent speed and responsiveness, yet he could still feel a mild feeling of nausea and confusion mixed with a mild sense of dizziness.
Better than nothing after all right? not even half an hour ago I was on the ground half dead and now I can stand up and even walk!
anyway, Rosephira is waiting for me, I should hurry to settle down, she seems a pretty sunny and calm person, but I would like to avoid making her angry, after all we know each other by exaggerating three hours, also because I still have no idea what she is capable of doing, and I don't want to find out on my skin.
V approached the wall and began to rearrange himself, first he dressed, vest, jacket, cloak, sandals,
pendant….
mmh…….
And then he gathered all his equipment,
the few, now, remaining bandages, the medicines and finally his sword, a few things, perhaps even useless, especially the sword, but caution is never too much.
Outside the cave, the world seemed more "alive", you could hear the birds chirping, small animals running among the trees, moreover, I realized only at that moment, that strong feeling of fear and tremor was gone, or at least , I could still feel it but to a much lesser extent.
"Oi, it took you some time"
I turned and looked up, towards the direction of the voice, it was Rose, she was sitting above the entrance to the cave.
The "cave" in question, or rather, the hole, was located inside a drop, a small hill if we want to call it that, a rocky wall that extended for at least ten meters (32,8084 feet) in height, thus dividing this part of the forest into two parts, the valley from which V had come and all the rest.
Rosephira threw herself from the Height, landing near V
"Can you walk?"
V nodded,
"Great!. We will have to walk for quite a while, Anyway…. "
Rose stood up, and turned towards the hill
"Our destination is on that side, beyond the hill, I could quickly climb it, but you ..."
V thought about it for a few moments, then shook his head and pointed with his hand to his left, towards the border between the valley and the hills.
There had to be a less steep point right?
“Hmm…. That way? the trip would be longer tough, are you sure? "
"Well then!"
…… ..
The rocky face was extremely steep and solid, like a wall, even after several minutes of walking, nothing changed.
V took advantage of this moment of boredom, slowed down a little, just enough to get the right away from Rose, and took her tail by pulling it lightly.
Rose whirled around, surprised
"is there something wrong?"
V nodded, then with his left hand he mimicked the gesture Rose made a few hours earlier, placing his index finger on his forehead, then pointing in Rose's direction.
"Oh, do you want to know what I did to you this morning?"
“Well, that was magic, a very banal control spell, one of the few things I can do. It allowed me to check your vital conditions, and thus I was able to track down the curse "
So that was Magic, Huh
“You seem quite interested, hehe. Well, magical creatures can harness a type of energy called Mana, which when used correctly allows The user to do a lot of cool things, like for ex ... uh ... "
Rose froze abruptly, almost knocking me over her, and knocking me off balance, I recovered and looked straight ahead.
The border between the wall and the valley was broken there, there was a kind of slide or path, similar to a ladder, which connected the two.
I turned my gleeful gaze towards Rose, but there was something wrong, she seemed upset.
Rose smiled
"Would you look at that, with what timing also, we were just talking about it"
the ground began to shake slightly, a few meters ahead of us it even began to shatter, albeit slightly.
From the cracks on the ground a strange liquid began to emerge, bluish and semitransparent, it looked like water, but even from a distance you could guess its gelatinous consistency.
After several moments the liquid began to separate and compact, forming at least five balls of gelatin about my height, and a much larger one, slightly taller than roses, "eyes" began to appear on each being, yellow and bright, without pupils.
The beings seemed angry, maybe they were hungry?
"Slime Huh, why am I not surprised to find monsters of such a low level around here?"
Rose paused to contemplate for a few seconds, then turned to me looking extremely cheerful.
"Oi V, Do you want to see something even cooler than magic?"
Rose reach out her left arm to the creatures,
various symbols began to appear on his arm, no, scales, purple in color, began to glow intensely, from there her whole arm caught fire, an unnatural fire, of a bright purple and black color.
The slimes had started crawling and running hopping in our direction, furious, I could hear screams, grunts and even growls coming from those beings, and with each of them their bodies were shaking, it was as if they used the sounds to increase their speed.
I started to panic, in just a few seconds they could walk several meters without any effort or fatigue,
"not yet…."
The slimes were now within inches from us, My heart skipped a beat.
It was at that moment that Rose, acted, focused the fire towards the palm of her hand, and suddenly blasted the horde of slime, completely annihilating them, and making them disappear into thin air.
It took me seconds to process what had just happened, I turned to Rosephira,
Nothing to comment, she looked like a little girl after giving her a candy,
she was visibly excited,
she turned to me abruptly, with glittering eyes and a big smile on her face, I could even see one of her fangs peeking out between her lips,
almost cute, albeit in a creepy way
"YOU SAW THAT THING V !!"
Yes, a fairytale, really, tell it to my heart, moron.
Rosephira kneels to "try" to reach my height,
“Cuogh, Cough …… Ahem !, Fiuu. I have to admit that for a moment I was afraid, I wasn't sure if they were slimes week to fire, if they were earth slimes we would have had a lot more problems, eheh. "
V was stunned at the sight of Rose's nonchalance, still shaken by what happened, he tried to recover.
Rose got back on her feet, still visibly happy and euphoric, she started walking again, gently pushing V with her tail to make him start walking again,
“I already tell you I was a dragon, right? Well ... to be specific, I am a dragon of the fire clan, this means that my body can create special fire without the use of magic, very cool isn't it ?!"
well, if you say so, who am I to deny the epic nature of it.
We continued up the path, jumping over the small ditch created after the slimes awakened, and then continued across the road, climbing the rocky hill.
I turned behind me, and stopped for a few moments to observe the valley, from above, it was beautiful, an immense expanse of trees whose bright green leaves colored the view, the pond could still be seen, while it reflected the sunlight , in a very soft and relaxing, almost angelic way, it looked almost like an eye, lit up in white.
"V ?, come on, the road is very long," Rose exclaimed aloud, impatient.
From forest to forest, at least this time I am not alone, although, I must admit that I am afraid, especially of Rose, it does not seem like a danger to me, at least directly, however, her behavior seems to me very ... How can I say , childish, it's better if I don't let my guard down, I wouldn't want to die from her distraction or anything.
This, in the end, is the definitive beginning of my journey.
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