Chapter 30: The next day

  Thalia laughed, meanwhile Natsu hid her embarrassed face and Xhemile felt tempted to punch Thalia.

  “Ignore that fool there... Of course you can stay.”

  Xhemile repeated her words and Natsu was once again brought back to the reality. Thalia also slowly calmed down from her laughing tirade.

  “Yeah... hah... what she said.”

  Xhemile looked at her with a sharp gaze.

  Meanwhile Natsu relaxed and sat beside Xhemile by the fire. She also received a skewer from Xhemile with deer meat on it and began to eat it. The other two women were distracted by their meat skewers, only thing to make that true skewers were spices, but they would manage.

  “So... now were starting to introduce ourselves and then it's your turn, alright?”

  Natsu nodded as her gaze hit Thalia who just spoke to her.

  “My name is Thalia and I am a night elf. We both are currently in an alliance and just recently teamed up.”

  Thalia introduced herself and then looked at Xhemile with an urging look.

  She sighed.

  “My name is Xhemile and I am part of the Karomama Tribe, now that this is clear how about you introduce yourself anew.”

  She looked towards Natsu.

  “W-Well my name is Natsu and I am also a lord in this place as the system thingy said. Erm... I am an orphan and was transported here when I was going to school. I have some lizard-like things as subordinates, they gave me some weird fruit and now I too have lizard-like things on me. My castle is near a volcano so nothing special there.”

  “Wait you’re a lord?”

  “What did you think she was?”

  Xhemile looked towards Thalia as if she was dumb.

  “Well to my defense! I thought she was a native resident of this place.”

  “Now that this is out of the way, I have a question for you Natsu.”

  “Yes?"

  “Are you currently member of an alliance?”

  “No?”

  “Well do you want to join ours? We could protect you from bad people and give you good food.”

  Natsu pondered over Xhemile’s offer.

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  After a while she looked at Xhemile again, trying not to be distracted by the two melons.

  “Yes, I would like to join your alliance.”

  “Alright now that this is out of the way, how about we get some sleep? It's pretty late.”

  As if on command, Natsu yawned and started to rub her eyes sleepily.

  “Alright it's time for some shut-eye. You can sleep where you want.”

  Thalia and Xhemile laid down on the furs which were placed in front of the fire.

  Natsu, after a bit of pondering lay down in between the both women. She soon quieted down and entered dreamland, Thalia also soon slept deeply. The only one awake was Xhemile and she pondered a bit about her current situation.

  If she introduced Natsu to her subjects, would they accept her? What was she thinking... Knowing her subjects they would urge her to adopt Natsu and make her the princess. Marwa would probably directly assign herself as her bodyguard.

  Xhemile pondered a bit more and laughed quietly. Soon she also got drowsy and started sleeping.

  She had a refreshing sleep, when you disregard that she was woken up multiple times in the night due to some goblins, which managed to sneak in and started to fondle her breasts. She quickly dispatched them as they were distracted and broke their frail necks. She threw the bodies outside and after the third time she went and hung a corpse on the entrance of the cave which allowed her to sleep through the night without any further disturbances.

  Weird creatures somehow fixated on females.

  She awoke with Natsu using her stomach as a bed and her breasts as a pillow, this was something she allowed. Thalia next to her also woke up and looked towards Xhemile with a mischievous expression.

  As Natsu suddenly started to make some sounds and tried to suck on one breast, she almost started to laugh again, but held herself under control.

  After that Natsu awoke and was surprised to wake up on a really comfortable bed which after a few blinks somehow had a darker color that usual. She looked up and met eyes with Xhemile, after that she noticed what her bed was and scrambled of Xhemile.

  After a quiet and shy ‘good morning’ they started to make breakfast.

  Also, some nuts, fruits and berries they found in the surroundings.

  After breakfast they gathered their things, but did stay a little longer.

  “So how about we invite you to the alliance, can you tell us your chat name?”

  Xhemile asked Natsu, but she just got red in her face and murmured something.

  “Q....”

  “What?”

  “My name is ‘Queen of the forbidden volcanoes’.”

  “You don't need to be embarrassed; our chat names are like that too.”

  After that they opened the system and invited Natsu into the alliance which needed a name. They seriously thought about that, but they couldn't think of one which would suit them. Thalia’s examples were directly dismissed as she suggested, ‘alliance of boob’, ‘The alliance of wet dreams’ and other sleazy names, which she only said to tease Xhemile and Natsu.

  By one suggestion Xhemile almost punched her.

  After that they gathered their stuff and stored it. Natsu was completely distracted by the use of Xhemile’s unique storage.

  So that's why some female chests are so big! They store stuff in it!

  Xhemile looked towards Natsu and somehow knew that she thought of something weird.

  After storing everything they walked towards a white beam and killed the weak boars in it. They didn't stand a chance and they made it so that Natsu didn't have to fight as she was too young to properly hold a weapon. After opening the chest in which was a small dagger located, they gave it Natsu for self-defense purposes. Then the system popped up.

  {[Last day of the challenge! The top five players will have their location broadcasted and the scoreboard is now accessible!]}

  They opened the scoreboard and noticed that they somehow all three landed in the top five spots. In their mini map now the other two people which were rank 4 and 5 appeared with their location. Xhemile was rank 1 with Thalia rank 2 and Natsu at rank 3. Natsu somehow reached rank 3 with not killing or fighting once during the challenge. They started to make their way through the woods and hoped that no one would attack them or harass them.