The fruit was eaten, but Enya ate it with her back turned to Sophia and Nina. Nina’s face was a picture of pure unhappiness.
“Hmph!”
Nina pouted her little lips, turned around, and trotted back to Sophia’s side.
From the look of it, she didn’t intend to give any more away.
Enya shrugged helplessly. She knew Nina wanted to hear her say it was delicious, but she couldn’t praise it against her conscience, could she?
However, she had to coax the child…
As Nina stood before Sophia, Enya spoke up lightheartedly.
“The taste is quite good, very thirst-quenching.”
Although Nina didn’t say anything, her little feet tipped up and down twice.
The small gesture exposed her happiness.
Nina hadn’t picked many. She and Sophia, the two Elves, were already hungry, so they quickly finished them all off.
Sophia was a “Missy” after all, so her eating posture was quite reserved.
But Nina was not one for elegance. What was a lady-like image?
She had no idea!
The red fruit wasn’t very big to begin with, so she just wiped it back and forth against her clothes before stuffing it into her little mouth.
She ate them one by one with great relish.
Nina was satisfied, while Sophia seemed to still want a bit more.
Enya saw they were finished and urged them to get moving.
Once Nina was full, her energy returned. She ran quickly ahead, but it wasn’t long before she came rushing back.
This time she didn’t bring food back, but instead brought a message to Enya.
After Nina landed in front of Enya, she reached out and knocked on Enya’s Armor as if she were knocking on a door.
She looked up at Enya and spoke.
“Dragon, there is a scent of blood up ahead.”
“Nina, you did a good job.”
Enya reached out and ruffled Nina’s head.
The soft golden hair felt great. Although Enya was wearing gloves, she could feel the fluffiness and softness just by looking at it.
Nina also had a floral scent on her, which was different from Sophia’s elegant fragrance.
She felt more like a fresh burst of energy, like a ray of the Sun falling on small flowers and grass by the roadside—that natural scent reinforced by warmth.
Nina originally wanted to dodge, but she seemed to think of something. After a flicker of light in her eyes, she let Enya pet her.
Enya didn’t indulge for too long. She quickly released her hand and looked toward the direction Nina had just come from.
Even with her eyesight, it was impossible to see what was happening so far away through the dense obstruction of trees, but her Spirit Power had already reached out.
Having a clear goal, the three of them were no longer as leisurely as if they were taking a morning stroll. Each used their fast-movement abilities.
Enya cast a side glance at the pair of wings spread out behind her back and couldn’t help but think to herself.
She really was getting more and more used to this. When the day came that she truly turned into a Dragon, she probably wouldn’t feel any resistance to it, right?
Truly… time changes people.
“But from that time until now, not much time has passed, right? In total… it’s only been a little over a year?”
“Predecessor?”
Sophia heard Enya’s low self-muttering from beside her and couldn’t help but cast a curious look. She hadn’t heard clearly just now.
She only heard Enya saying things like “that time,” “past,” and “one year,” which were all words used to describe time.
Enya gave a self-deprecating smile, shook her head, and said, “It’s nothing.”
“Hey, let’s race again!”
This came from Nina, and as soon as she finished speaking, she started running.
The golden figure used the trees as stepping stones, gliding across the giant trees like a flying bird.
Enya turned her head to look at Sophia.
“Sophia, you go first.”
“…Predecessor, then I won’t be polite.”
Sophia saw that Enya really intended to let her go first, so she no longer held back and summoned her newly made Staff.
The young girl’s body sat astride the floating Staff, and a gust of wind carried her and the Staff, flying rapidly toward the front.
Sophia’s flying speed in the forest was not slow at all. Not only was she fast, but she also deliberately performed various difficult maneuvers during the flight.
Thrillingly passing through branches, brushing against the trunks of giant trees, and even flying upside down while skimming the ground were all things she excelled at.
It seemed she had spent a lot of time speeding through forests in private.
Enya narrowed her Dragon Eyes slightly. With a slight movement of her body, she was standing in mid-air in an instant, at a height of a full hundred meters!
It was approximately as high as the tallest tree.
Her Dragon Wings unfurled. With a flap of her wings, a loud boom exploded in place, leaving a silver trail across the treetops.
After this trail passed, a violent gale pressed down on the tree canopy, snapping many of them along the way. These broken treetops fell, creating a loud commotion in the forest.
“Eh?”
Sophia looked up for a moment.
Just now, she had captured Enya’s fleeting aura.
The battlefield was tragic, a Wolfish Chaos.
The scent of blood was drifting around with the wind.
After Enya landed, she looked up and scanned the surroundings.
Many trees had been broken, either blown up by Magic or slashed directly in half.
One had to know that the trees here were very thick; the smallest would require three or four people to join hands to encircle it.
Enya read the lingering aura at the scene. One part came from the Lord of Mist Church, while the other group…
Nina arrived at this time.
Looking at Enya who had arrived here ahead of time, she still felt some indignation in her heart.
But this time she didn’t say anything more and silently squatted to the side.
Sophia arrived late. After landing elegantly, she withdrew her Staff and habitually tidied the Long Robe she was wearing.
There was a distance of more than three meters between Enya and Nina. Sophia stepped into the gap and stood between them.
“Predecessor, here…”
What Sophia saw was a battlefield filled with craters, the ground covered with various Fragments, and many trees destroyed.
Moreover, the scent of blood that had failed to dissipate for a long time permeated the area, even though no corpses could be seen.
The Magic Power in the space had been intentionally concealed, but the technique wasn’t particularly sophisticated; anyone with a bit of strength could see through it.
Enya didn’t speak. She turned and walked to Nina’s side.
Seeing her approach, Nina stood up from the ground.
Tilting her little head, she looked at Enya.
Enya reached out and pressed lightly on Nina’s shoulder.
Then, as if they shared some sort of tacit understanding, the two of them sped off in different directions at extreme speed.
Watching this scene, Sophia didn’t know which side to follow for a moment.
She looked left and right, and finally chose to just stand where she was.
Enya passed through a shadow and slashed out a strike of Sword Qi.
In a single breath, the root system of a giant tree split open with a crack one meter wide and three meters deep.
The person in the Black Cloak hiding within was also cut into two pieces, their corpse falling to the ground.
Consider it nourishment for this large tree as compensation.
Enya did not stop. She quickly hunted down and killed the people who had followed them, then returned to the original spot.
Nina returned almost at the same time as her.
The moment she saw Enya, the corners of her mouth curled up, and she said with a smile, “Dragon, you missed one.”
“Oh.”
“Dragon, you missed one!”
“It was on purpose.”
“Ugh…”
Nina originally wanted to repeat her sentence, but she was choked by Enya’s sudden change of topic.
Sophia covered her mouth and laughed from the side.
Enya reached out and pinched Nina’s cheeks, which were slightly flushed with anger.
“Alright, let’s keep up.”
“Yes, Predecessor!”
Sophia straightened her back.
Nina was reluctant.
Enya turned around and looked toward the direction where the man in the Black Cloak, whom she had secretly marked, was currently fleeing for his life.
When hunting social beasts, one would let them bleed and get injured, then intentionally let them run away.
After a while, you would call many people and bring hunting dogs to hunt down the entire pack together.
And some social prey had evolved a rule of abandoning the injured, or even killing them directly, to let them distract the hunter’s attention.
“Let’s see which kind you are.”
Enya let out a wicked smile.
In the distance, a figure in a Black Cloak was currently pushing the Magic Power in his body to the limit and applying it to his movement skills.
He was running away.
“Those women are definitely monsters, especially the one in the Armor.”
With a pair of black horns on her head, a pair of wings on her back, and a tail covered in black scales, she didn’t look like any ordinary race!
“I must report back as soon as possible. That way, I might even get a reward. This is extremely important news!”
“Their… their sacrifices were necessary!”
While making excuses for himself, the man ran toward the location of the Ruin.
He was quite smart, however, and intentionally took some detours.
It was just that when he stood at the entrance of the Ruin and saw the ground littered with the corpses of his companions, the man in the Black Cloak froze in place.
His vision suddenly began to spin. After falling to the ground, he saw the figures of three women standing before the entrance of the Ruin.
One was wearing Armor, one was a Grey Robe covering her face, and there was a shorty.
Enya didn’t even look at the guy.
The one who settled him was Nina. Toward those who destroyed the forest, she would show no mercy.
This was a small temple, looking like it had weathered many storms.
Most of it had already collapsed, leaving only this core room.
The door was ajar, and there was light illuminating the inside.
Just by standing at the doorway, one could already see the stairs extending infinitely downward.
Enya pushed open the door and walked at the very front, with Sophia following closely behind.
Nina was the last to enter.
Before going in, she took a look back to confirm that all external enemies had been cleared out.
After walking down a stretch of straight stairs, they entered a large cylindrical well.
This was a spiral staircase, and it looked like there was still a long way to go.
Enya walked to the edge of the stairs and leaned her head over to look down.
Nina was also very curious, so she followed suit.
While Nina looked down into the darkness, Enya used the “Invisible Hand” Magic to grab a torch and simply threw it down.
The darkness gained light as the glow of the torch plummeted all the way down.
But it never seemed to reach the bottom. After a long time, the torch became a small dot and finally disappeared.
Enya took a step forward and simply jumped down recklessly. She wasn’t afraid of any enemies, nor was she afraid that what lay below was some kind of Abyss.
The Abyss?
She had already fought her way in and out of it seven times!
Nina turned her head to look at Sophia. Sophia was currently looking at the falling Enya and sighed very helplessly.
Normally, shouldn’t they just carry a torch and walk down the whole way?
Predecessor really doesn’t follow the usual path!
Sophia lowered her head, and after taking a deep breath, she said to Nina beside her, “Jump. Let’s jump together.”
“Okay, Sister Sophia.”
Nina blinked her large, watery eyes.
Then, Sophia took two running steps and leaped down.
Nina followed closely behind.
The lady and the girls were in the middle of a fantastic descent~