¿Alliance?

"Have you been okay during the time we left you alone, Yina?", Aureus was sitting on a sofa while stroking Yina's head.

"Yes, master, as you said, I hid and did not come out of hiding", Yina agreed with a tender smile.

Yina is not yet able to manipulate her form, so they had to leave Yina in a safe place, humans are not exactly famous for treating other races well.

Aureus smiled, "That's good, go to bed and rest, tomorrow you will follow us to the forest, but don't worry, I won't let the humans see you"

Yina nodded obediently and returned to her room.

"Are you sure to take in that elf, master?" Artemis suddenly appeared behind Aureus, looking at the closed door with a complicated expression.

"She is a child, a good child, and she is very talented, Artemis, do not let your envy take over you, I know what is going through your head right now"

Aureus suddenly took on a serious demeanor, turned his head towards Artemis as his sky-blue eyes fixed on the phoenix.

"... I don't have those thoughts, master"

"That's good", Aureus regained his usual smile, motioning for Artemis to go to his room.

[You've taken care of the elf girl a lot, brat]

"And, does she bother you too?"

[Not at all, it just amazes me, races like yours normally treat all life forms like ant and trash, exceptions are rare, apart from Titans of course]

"I'm not doing anything I don't want to do, maybe mine are kind by nature"

[Hopefully that's true, I'd love to see another exception born]

"Speaking of which, you mentioned the Titans, are they your friends or something? Do you have a Titan girlfriend ?!"

[... just when I think you're maturing, you jump in with other nonsense]

"Don't be like that, you haven't answered me"

[Sigh]

[Titans are a race with overwhelming physical strength and enormous size, they are a hundred meters in adulthood and can innately dominate wind and thunder, the interesting thing about them is their way of thinking, they treat all beings the same, they do not care if you are a damn god or a human, for them only strength matters and not race or blood, that's it! happy ?!]

"Yes, thank you, walking library!"

[... I'm going to ignore that]

Aureus didn't follow the conversation, he sat down and began to meditate.

He arrived the next morning ...

A fairly large group of people gathered around the fire village, each person being equipped with different weapons and wearing strange outfits, resulting in quite a picturesque scene.

These people are divided into two groups, the first group is the people dressed in all kinds of different outfits and weapons, the second group wears the same armor and carry regulation weapons.

The first group is made up of adventurers who took on Lord Rich's mission, the second group is the baron's personal army, you are entitled to an army of 100 men when you become a baron.

Currently, the acclaimed Lord Rich was not paying attention to these people, his gaze was fixed on a handsome young man with white hair and a beautiful young blonde.

The girl who had knocked him down yesterday was nowhere to be seen, as if she had vanished into thin air.

The baron wondered exactly who these people were, and more importantly, how strong they were, you know, Emilio is a mighty rank 9 warrior, if he advances one more time, he will officially become a knight and a level two.

But the girl could knock him down like he was a dog, that can't be possible, unless ... Emilio shook his head and pushed those dangerous thoughts out of his mind.

On the other hand, Aureus and Artemis were on the edge of the group, just waiting for the departure time.

"Hey, albino friend!" A scream interrupted his tranquility, Aureus turned his head and saw a young smiling, a cheerful boy of average height with a smile that makes him look like an idiot.

"BOOM!"

Before the boy could continue, he was kicked back and fell on his ass, causing laughter from the surrounding adventurers.

"Huggg ... beautiful lady, you don't have to be like this, it was just a joke, a joke, let's be friends, okay?"

Artemis's face is cold, he was about to kick the insolent human again when another voice emerged from behind the boy.

"John, again ?! I'm going to rip your head off!" A woman ran up to John and, for some strange reason, started kicking his butt.

"You dare to flirt with other girls when you already have me, you ungrateful son of a bitch, from now on I'm going to put a chastity belt on you!", The woman kept kicking and screaming until a man stopped her.

A huge six-foot-tall almost man with brown hair and green eyes stopped the woman who was beating poor John.

"Sam, it's not what you think, I asked John to invite these two!"

"Ohhh ...!", Sam did not react for a moment, John's groan of pain was what brought her out of her stupor, in a split second change from an enraged lioness to a loving and motherly young woman, while John couldn't even protest for justice.

As the other adventurers watched the show with interest, the huge man turned to Aureus, "Sorry for the confusion, buddy, he blurted out not to bother you."

"What do you want?", Aureus rolled his eyes.

"You see ...", the man explained his purpose to the two of them, it turns out that they are a party of low-ranking adventurers, they accepted this search to be able to rise from rank F to rank E, and they are looking for people with the same interests.

"You seem like low-ranking adventurers too, so I thought we could unite for now, just to survive, you know what they say about the dark forest, better safe than sorry"