I guess I couldn’t even t on my tamed beasts to uand my side of things… or maybe they just had a better moral pass, and that was saying something.

  In any case, I wanted G to deal with the problem that she wao fore, but she wouldn’t be able to carry Ay that well. Her arm was still hurt and due to the blood loss, letting her risk losing more was dangerous.

  For starters, I let her use my rings that increase health regeion. After that, I decided to pull the arrows from her arm and cover her arm with bahe smell of flesh and blood made my heart rad the hunger and the thirst got more powerful, but I focused my mind on the game and e.

  “e or think of it, she is something like an assassin, right? Carrying her in my back is quite scary. She wake up and try to kill me at the very same moment.”

  “Awooo! Awooo!”

  “You say that, but what are the risks for you? At least watch my bad bite her if she does something suspicious.”

  “Chi, chi, chi!”

  G was scolding me for overthinking and for being spineless. At least that was my impression based on my iions with her. It also could be just my mind makihink like that.

  In any case, after I was doh the wounds, I began to carry Ay on my back to the byrinth where her group was hiding.

  I was going to lose around two days since we couldn’t move that fast… for situations like this, I realized that the wagon was truly a y as well. Not like situations like this happen or would happen often. In any case, G could recover her stamina faster now, so not using all that extra energy when it could be so useful would be a waste.

  ‘Putting that aside, it looks like she was ambushed and the smell of blood was ing from the West… She said that she had to firm something, but why would she head to the dwarves’ territory?’

  My initial guess was that the people iown were pnning to cause a dungeon break and then had the chaos to achieve something. Ay probably went to firm that, but she messed up and then ended up like this. Most likely, she was on the right track, but she was discovered and was forced to flee.

  I wao say that this isn’t my problem, but this might involve the guy that I am looking for, so I ’t say that with certainty. Revenge is a lot more troublesome than I expected… vilins make it sound so easy.

  One day ter, I was back at the entrance of the Ioids byrinth. The trip was a bit longer since G informed me of the presence of troublesome people around… they were rge groups of elves moving in the area, so we had to take some roundabout ways to avoid them.

  That was annoying, but at least it gave me a lot of time to think. I already had the idea of making an invisible tent, but what about making an invisible wagon as well? I just had to cover the parts with the parts of the invisible tent, but it wouldn’t hide the traces of the wheels of the vehicle.

  What about a flying wagon? I probably shouldn’t give myself that much time to think about those things… I also need some time to rest since I only took half an hour naps tely.

  “... It looks like they don’t have any guards at the entrance again. Their security system is seriously g. Do you smell anyone nearby, girl?”

  “Awooo, awooo!”

  “Showing up ih her wounded and unscious will only make things dangerous for us. I use a bow too, so they might bme me. Perhaps I should have left the arrows in her arms…”

  “Grrrrr…”

  I was being unreasonable. Even G was ready to se again. Without any other choice, we got ihe byrinth, hoping that these guys wouldn’t make me waste too much more of my time.

  G cleared the path ihe byrinth with ease while I carried Ay on my back. She wasn’t poisoned. I could smell that her blood before was free of such things, so she must be just exhausted from overwork and the blood loss. Still, she was really causing me a lot of trouble.

  trolling my thirst for blood was already hard enough and now, with my half vampire puberty getting in the way as well, I could tell that soon enough, that would be a recipe for disaster.

  When I reached half way through the first se of the byrinth, I felt the atmosphere ging and then G alerted me of trouble approag.

  “What have you doo her?”

  I heard a guy’s voice shouting and then I saw some blurry movements in the air. The moment, I caught a punch a few timeters away from my face. The first dark elf that I saeared… sudden movements and attacks make the camoufge skill bee almost useless and he should know that.

  “I khat this would happen, but…”

  The guy tried to punch me with his other hand, but since I was supp Ay with the other, I couldn’t block it, so I just kicked his legs and made him fall. His endurance was really low since I didn’t feel aanbsp;

  “Take care of her now. She already caused me enough trouble and I don’t want to waste any more time.”

  I was ready to pass Ay to him, but he got up while showing a pained expression on his face… his purple leg for purple where I kicked him, so it looked like I broke his bone. For him to carry Ay would already be difficult enough. With the monsters and the distao cross, it would make things even harder.

  “... G someone who has healing skills or potions. I don’t have all day, so move.”

  The dark elf’s face tightened, his brows knitting together as his lips pressed into a thin line of disapproval. His annoyance was hard to miss, his pierg gaze dartiween me and Ay as if assessing the risk. His sharp features and stiff posture spoke volumes. Leaving me aloh Ay wasn’t something he was willing to sider.

  For a tense moment, he seemed ready to challenge me, perhaps to demand an expnation or ft-out reject my presence. Yet, as his gaze lingered on the unscious figure I had brought with me, his expression faltered. His calg eyes narrowed, and I could almost see the gears turning in his mind.

  With a heavy sigh, he finally straightehe frustration on his face giving way to relut uanding. While the situation clearly didn’t sit well with him, he seemed to aowledge the logiy as. No one would endahemselves or others like this without a good reason. After a long, assessing look, he gave a curt nod, his expression still tinged with wariness but no longer openly hostile. It was clear he didn’t fully trust me, but for now, he was willing to let the situation py out.

  “My life is anything but b, huh?”

  I set up my tent and the Ay rest inside while G watched our surroundings. I decided to take a nap as well, to clear my mind and kill time too. It didn’t take long for me to wake up when I sehe presence of people approag.

  Eventually, that guy and the older dark elf were in the area where I was resting alongside another dark elf woman. I wao pack my things and leave, but they decided to treat her inside my tent.

  “Thank you fing her here… you tell me what happened?”

  The older dark elf was willing to listen to me, but I could tell that he was on guard. He left her with me, after all. Now she was back, wounded and unscious. His suspi wasn’t weird at all.

  “After we reached the third se of the other byrinth, we found the pce crowded with lesser chimeras, that made her questioentions of the elder of the area and sooo iigate it, when I left the byrinth a few days ter, she showed up in front of me heavily ihen I brought her here.”

  The dark elf, whose name I still didn’t know, sidered my words. After a while, the woman that brought it had fireating Ay and her expression looked a lot better. It looked like she also knew magic to restore one person’s vitality instead of just health points.

  “She had wounds caused by Elven arrows.”

  “That would expin why she was so exhausted…”

  The dark elf healer assessment was accurate, but I wondered how that would expin a lot about Ay’s dition. Uhe arrows that the regur elves drain their stamina or something, or maybe seal it? It was quite something if they produced arrows like that in the past and decided to keep the same method, even though they didn’t know where the dark elves went into hiding.

  “Once again… thank you fing her-”

  “I don’t need your thanks. I just want my tent and then leave.”

  Just as they were relut to i with me without a good reason, I felt the same about them. Their caution was mirrored by my own. To them, I was someoroublesome. an uable variable they’d rather avoid gettiangled with. And to me, they represehe same: a group whose involvement was likely to e with plications and risks I wasn’t eager to embrace.

  There was an unspoken uanding in our mutual wariness, like two predators cirg each other, her willing to make the first move unless absolutely necessary. It wasn’t animosity, exactly, but a shared reition that our respective priorities didn’t naturally align. The dark elf’s sharp gaze carried the weight of suspi, and my guarded demeanor answered in kind.

  “Sorry, leader… I messed up.”

  Ay woke up and then tried to get up, but she was too hurt to pull it off that easily, so she was forced to rely on the support of the dark elf healer and on the guy that tried to punch me.

  “It is fine, rest easy… I know that you wouldn’t have done anything risky that wasn’t good for our .”

  The situation was getting melodramatic here, so I kind of wao leave…

  “I followed someohat seemed suspicious and firmed that the guys in the north are w with the dwarves… they are part of the group that ambushed you and Crice the other day.”

  WritingMaeGun