Making sure that the hooded guy names Toram is no longer looking, we quickly slip away from the area. Better be safe than sorry. Moonlight wiped the sweat on her eyebrows. With the close call of the enemies on sight, we almost courted death earlier. If we indeed used illusion to cover ourselves, we would be already discovered."Oh no, we are already in their radars. We can"t just hide away anymore. We need to hurry on and look for Nekoyamsama as soon as possible," Maple said.
"But where are we going to start looking? Enemies are almost everywhere in this place and the signs of him are all gone. What are we going to do now?" I looked at them.
Moonlight did not respond. Even she has no idea what to do. Based on the mana density the elves earlier exuded, I am quite sure they are around the middle of rank 5 Magus and Rank 6: Warlock which is much stronger than Moonlight and Maple who are both in Rank 5: Magus. But I don"t think they cannot be beaten. Any enemy can be defeated even the strongest of them with perseverance.
"There is no need to risk yourselves getting found by the enemies. I will lead you to him," a woman"s voice suddenly appeared on our back out of nowhere. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Our body tensed up and we quickly go on offensive attacks. Of course, we didn"t attack immediately, there are sometimes where doing that immediately incurs the wrath of that person and you don"t want that if you know you are not strong enough or if you hit an ally by mistake.
"Woah, chill people, I am not one of them. I am a friend of Nekoyama," the woman raised her hands. She emerged from the bushes and we saw the woman that called us. I squinted my eyes because, for some reason, she seemed familiar though I don"t recall where I have seen this woman before.
Maple"s ears twitched.
"You, I remember your essence. You are the one who held the egg of the Elemental Pixie before Kazuma managed to take it! Does that mean...you are here to take the Elemental Pixie from us?" Maple quickly goes to defend me. Since the Elemental Pixie is with me, the last line of defense for Hikari would only be me. But I was surprised when she shook her head.
"No, no. I am not here for the egg and I don"t really care if the egg is in your hands. In fact, I am much more relieved that the egg is still in your possession," the woman said.
Moonlight still didn"t drop her guard. She continues to look at the girl with a glare.
"So what is your business with us. How did you know we are looking for Nekoyama?" Moonlight asked.
"Heh, this is not a math question so I will immediately answer. I was tasked by your cat friend, Nekoyama to fetch you three out here in the woods," the woman said.
"What if we refuse?" Moonlight continued.
"Well, if you all still refuse, I can do nothing about it. You three would continue to search a pointless search, but if you three loved to suffer and doing that stuff, then go ahead," the woman said and acts to move away from us.
"Wait. I can feel that you are not lying though I am not 100% sure of it," Maple said as her ears started to twitch.
"You believe with her words Maple-san?" Moonlight did not expect Maple to agree with the woman.
"She is not lying. All of the words she said are true. I can"t understand it either but she really is not lying!" Maple insisted.
Moonlight wanted to retort more but I stopped them.
"Let"s save the quarrel for later. There seems to be a nearby enemy attracted to our noise."
The three stopped before the hooded woman turned away and waved at us.
"Follow me!"
She sprinted away without waiting for us to follow behind. I did not hesitate and followed suit. Moonlight was against at it at first but decided to just follow behind with Maple. The woman in the hood is pretty fast and I can barely catch up with her. If not for the "Acceleration" Magic of Maple, and with my Mana Sense, we would have lost the mysterious woman who scaled the bushes and trees like nothing.
We continued running in the forest like our life depended on it. Somehow, the trip is uneventful. No other people besides us are pa.s.sing the forest grounds and not a single beasts either. It was like they are avoiding us intentionally. Soon, we arrived on a steep location which is still part of the forest but already the edge. Also, from the looks of it, this forest is located in a ravine where cliffs are almost everywhere. One wrong step and you will fall to your doom which is something I don"t want to happen.
It"s my first time pa.s.sing a breathtaking place like this but I have no time to admire the view. If I don"t want to lose the woman on my sight, I have to keep on running. Moonlight and Maple are both still up but in their faces, it was clear that they don"t have too much energy left and only their mana is allowing them to continue on without problems. Even me is almost reaching my very limit that I am trying to surpa.s.s, not to mention that the necklace I am wearing is making the process heavier than usual.
Soon, we arrived on the very end of the forest and we are led into a cliff.
"We just need to leap down in this cliff to reach the cave," the mysterious hooded woman said.
I look into the edge and my whole body cringe. Leap my a.s.s, this is an effing cave. All I can see below is just rocky formations and sharp edges of the cliff that I am sure that dying while falling in that place would be really painful. No, not painful but you will fall to your death instead.
"Are you toying with us? You want us to die on our deaths here?! You can"t fool us anymore! If you want us to follow, you need to jump first!" Moonlight shouted and pulls out her bamboo sword after flicking her right arm. Her hand is ready at the tip, ready to transform the Bamboo Sword if necessary.
The hooded woman"s look is still the same, no panic or any kind of emotion. Just a neutral one.
"My bad. Don"t worry, you won"t die here. Let me demonstrate here," the woman said and leap off the cliff like she is performing the leap of faith. The three of us were stunned. We still did not expect her to jump down the cliff. I mean, that is a cliff! If you jump, only death awaits!
"...Let"s try jumping, but we will use our levitation magic if things go wrong," Maple said.
"Uh...I did not learn Levitation yet..." I said to Maple.
"No worries. Moonlight will be able to help you with that."
Moonlight nodded at me.
We held hands together. If we are in the normal cliff, people would freak out if the three of us jump off. It would really look like suicide. Luckily, I am not afraid of heights but still, this stunt makes my heart pound. Unlike bungee jumping where we have ropes tied up in our body, this time would be a bungee jumping minus the rope.
"F*ck, do we really need to jump?" Moonlight asked who seems to be hesitating.
"If we really want to see Nekoyamsama, then we have to do this. Besides, what is the use of our Levitation magic if we won"t use it?" Maple explained.
"But..."
"Wait, Moonlight, does that mean...you are afraid of heights?"
"Gah..." Moonlight was taken aback.
"Eh? Moonlight, you are afraid? Where is the girl I know who is not afraid of anything?" Maple grinned.
"You...Fine! Let"s j-jump! I w-will show you that I am not afraid!" Moonlight stuttered but she pulls us towards the end of the cliff too. Then we heard a voice below.
"You three, go and jump now. There is nothing to be afraid of. You all are magicians, right? This height is not enough for all of you to get afraid of," I immediately know that the voice came from the Mysterious woman in the hood.
Maple nodded at me and before Moonlight can prepare for the jump, our feet left the ground causing us to fall at a fast pace.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH..."