After realizing he had been turned into human, Crystal entered in panic, "Why you did this to me, can"t you let me die?!" "Wait, but I thought most of the beasts cultivated to reach human form shouldn"t you be happy then?"Hearing what Elijah said made Crystal stop for a second and reflect before replying in low voice, "Well, I guess you are right..."
Looking down at his own body, Crystal had become a five-year-old boy with a childish and honest face while his two multi- colored eyes drew attention towards him. Thin crystals could be seen around his eyes and face which means he hadn"t become fully human.
"Elijah, we should find him a new name now that he"s a human because I don"t think "Crystal" is a good name." Yawen spoke her thought. Since he turned into a human boy, "Crystal" was really not a name that fitted him. Elijah remained with his head down for a second before speaking, "Well, what about Chris?"
"You are really... Oh, I like it." Crystal, no. Chris was really pleased with his new name and showed a big smile. Then he thought of something and started to look around, "Where exactly are we?"
They were in a small camp mounted by Elijah with at the exit of a cave behind them and a big swamp stretched as far as the eye reaches in their front. Looking away, Elijah sighed: "A few things happened why you two were unconscious. "First, we are in the Muddy Swamp. The location for the for the second floor. Yawen, show him what we got after pa.s.sing the first floor."
"Okay!" Pulling the sleeves up, a pretty light-blue bracelet. It had many runes all around it, helping gave a more mystical aura to it.
"Show the map!" All the runes lit up numerous times before a few lines light appeared out of thin air and drawed the picture of a map. This was a map containing half of the marsh"s land. At the same time, there were countless yellow s.h.i.+ning dots, two red and one black in the other half of the same which wasn"t recorded in the map.
"Our objective this time is to invade the demon tribe and a.s.sa.s.sinate its three leaders. The bad thing is that two of them who are represented by the red dots are on the same level as the 9th rank Azure Dragon we found in the first floor and there is still the black dot who must be at least at the level of a Celestial if not higher. Also this time, Yawen had been heavily injured by the backlash of forcibly using the second level skill of her origin and won"t be able to fight for the next hundred years. The good news is that we"ve been given one hundred and twenty-five years to complete this quest." Like Elijah said, it was not even possible to use the dragonform skill in her present state. The Muddy Swamp was full of Demons instead of undead creatures which mean they countless times smarter than the enemies on the first floor.
Now that Yawen and Chris had woken up, Elijah moved their camp to a more discreet and far away place from demon tribe. The entire swamp was really huge, with a similar size to England. While Elijah prepared diner with his with his new magic of creation of food, he also mixed a couple of potions with a few healing herbs and ingredients he found in the swamp because [Create Food] could only replicate appearance and taste, not magic and medicinal properties like potions and medicines. Suddenly, he heard Yawen"s voice, "Elijah! I"ve been examining the map and noticed there is not just the demon tribe living in the swamp..."
In a split second, Yawen has appeared beside him, rubbing the map in his face while pointing to a small area recorded in the map, "Can you see, a few small buildings in this area? It"s really small but when I pressed my finger on it, the information about it was transferred to my mind and this is not the only one..."
Pointing to six more areas, Yawen continued without caring about her pale face and yellow veins all around her body: "See there is six tribes in this half of the swamp. Claw, Sword, Mud, Poison, Valor and Renegade Tribe.
"What more can you tell me about the six tribes? I guess all the arrangements have been made for a long time, and this tribes could be something we could need to finish the quest."
"Well, I a.s.similated all the information and leaving out the last tribe that moved away to the Demon tribe"s side, all the others hold some hostility towards the demons." Yawen spoke happily as she had found some lead but Elijah noticed a hint of loneliness in her eyes. Scratching his chin, Elijah reflected for some time before reaching conclusion and looking deeply at Yawen.
"Good, I guess it will be necessary to visit these tribes and see if we could use them..." Looking closely, Elijah saw the loneliness in her eyes increase for a great margin and imediatamente took her in his arms, "I can"t let you and Chris staying here alone in your present state, even more bring you with me to a place that could have battles. I fully undestand what you must be feeling and I will stay here with you for a few months until you recover a little. When you are better, it will be when I look into this matter." Giggle! a sweet sound invaded his mind and Yawen a.s.saulted his mouth with a deep kiss before he could react. They kissed for a whole third minutes before Crystal walked over with a angry face.
"This is why my foodie is not ready yet, I want my food!"
Splitting away quickly, they straightened their clothes with flushed faces before Elijah replied, "Okay, okay, I will finish your food. Yawen can you wait until latter, I guess Chris will cry if not bring his warmed cow milk fast."
"Okay, just remember to bring coffee at night." After saying the "Code" she walked away while Elijah could not take his eyes off her figure.