Hostile

As I got near her, she faced me and I calm her down.

"let's go release your elf tribe, maybe there is your family."

"yeah."

With that, we two walk where they detain them. Seeing the bandits corpse around the place, her face got paled and I thought in my mind.

'looks like this girl rarely sees a corpse, just from looking at the enemy already make her this paled.'

"are you okay?" I said to her as I worried she would be not fine.

"Nah, I'm okay." She answers me while trying to look brave and keep on walking to the place the bandits detain them.

Arrived at that place, she quickly rushes and releases them. While the rest are surprised seeing her coming and release them, they are more surprised seeing me coming with her. their surprise quickly faded away as it's turned into a hostile gaze.

Seeing this, I can't blame them since from what the bandits have done to them. I can only ignore their gaze and see where Clana right now. She keeps on searching her family, but when all of the elf people go out from the cage the bandits used to detain them.

She worried since she can see her family face, she walks near to one of the people she knows.

"Aunty, can you tell me where is my family?" she asks that to one of the middle-aged woman, worried that something has happened to her family. She has to ask the person she known and has to be sure the thing that she doesn't want to happen became reality.

The aunty that was asked, seeing Clana. Her face immediately turned to a sad face while the rest also followed in suit, their sad face makes Clana face paled and she step back some step before she lost her conscious.

Realizing her losing her conscious, I move to her behind and hug her from falling to the ground. While the rest of the elf tribe has a slow response that she was unconscious. I face them and said this while leaking out a sigh.

"well, I will explain some info I got earlier to you all. But can you lead me to her home? I need to put her on her bed."

"s-Sure please come this way."

As she said that, she quickly led me to her home. Her home is placed on the tree, so I call it a tree house. Inside the house are filled with wood furniture, steel or iron cookware and some magic items. Putting her on her bed, I leave her house before walking to the village chief home under the lead of the aunty from before.

Maybe she has my gratitude for catch and carries Clana back to her house, her expression towards me a bit better than before. On the way, she introduces the surroundings to me while I look at it curiously. Of course, I still ignoring the hostile gaze of the people on the way to the village chief house.

When I already arrived in front of the village chief home, I knock at it and from inside the house I hear a voice saying "enter". Open the door, I enter the house while the aunty didn't follow me.

Inside the house, I see four-man sitting on the chair while on the table is a map and some tea placed there. They look at me with a hostile, and question gaze.

"so you are here, sit down first."

Gotten his permission to sit, I sit down and from the kitchen. A petite girl walking out while carrying a tray with a cup of tea placed on top of it. She serves me a tea before she withdrawing from here, also she didn't forget to give me a curious look.

"Okay, how about introducing yourself first?"

"my name is DarkCrows, I'm an adventure from the other world. Also, I'm here on the mission of escorting a female girl to her home."

"I see, so you are from the other world. With this, we can feel relieved since you are not from the other empire."

"why?"

Although I know why they are hostile to the humans, I ask him so for not make become a suspicious person. The one sitting at the middle sip of the tea before said to me.

"since you are from another world, it won't hurt telling you this. all the empire are hunting for us, they want our skills to make their empire got stronger. You know right what it meant for getting stronger?"

"ah yeah, I know that since I also want to gotten stronger than before or else I won't be feeling safe."

"yeah you are right about that, but they didn't know our skill is limited."

"limited?"

"we can't use the potion we crafted and only other races can use it, also it has it's own limit to consume it."

"I see."

Putting on an act of shocked and tired expression, I sip on the tea while leaning on the chair facing above.

"now, mind telling me what you four decide for now?"

"for first, we want to rebuild the place that was destroyed by the battle against that people and strengthening the barrier again."

Saying that he looks at me, I have a big question mark for why he looks at me. didn't I only ask for their plan right now?

"can we trouble sir DarkCrows for something?"

"can tell me what you need?"

"we want you to search and gather us some materials for strengthening the barrier."

"mind telling me the name of the materials?"

"Yeah, it's an energy crystal, Space Iron, and Meteor Stone."

[Ding]

[Mission: gather Energy Crystal, Space Iron, and Meteor Stone for the elf tribe so they can use it to strengthening their realm barrier.

Reward: one million experience, Pet/ Slave, and one hundred thousand golds.

Failure: elf tribe favorability decrease 40.]

[will host accept the mission? Yes / No]

I press yes answer, and I said to them.

"sure, I will accept that quest but before that mind telling me where the material is located?"