Detour

"You pointed us to the wrong direction didn't you." I state with mild annoyance.

We've been flying for an hour now and we just figured out that instead of east, we headed west.

Nadia meekly lowers her head in shame. "I have no words..."

"Haah." I sigh. It's not a big deal. If I really cared about just heading east, then I wouldn't have taken the direction on a whim, from a random girl.

"Well whatever. Come." I tell her and walk towards a field. She follows me as expected and looks at me curiously.

'I best explain this first, because this stupid girl will get the wrong idea otherwise.' I think to myself as I come to a stop.

"I will start your training. I will be mostly focusing on arts, atleast in the beginning. But for that I need to know exactly where you are right now. So strip." I explain, while turning towards her.

She listens to me seriously and nods. Her movements are a bit hesitant, as she removes her jacket, pants and top, but she still does it. Now she's only in her underwear, looking on the ground and rubbing her hands in shame.

"Stupid girl, it's just me here and I'm a female. What do you have to feel shameful about?" I ask, masking my smile. Her mannerisms are quite entertaining...

Or rather... arousing...

"Uuuu." She gets even more withdrawn and redder with my comment. Since she is looking intently at the ground, I slip out a grin. Then I stop joking and start examining her.

I close the distance between us. I'm almost a head shorter than her.

The first thing I do is put my hands on her shoulders and release aura into her. Her shoulders tense up when I touch her. She is really shy.

While releasing my aura into her, I start circulating it and use it to make her body relax. I can both see and feel her body relax, along with her face and mind. Within minutes she looks like she just got out of a long, relaxing bath.

Once she is fully relaxed, I start touching, pulling and prodding her muscles all over her body. I also use my aura to see inside her. Doing this I'm able to gauge her potential and read her body condition.

Her body is quite interesting. It's as if she'd been a gymnist from a young age. Her muscles are compact, strong and limber.

I examine her upper arms, down to her lower arms, to her palms and fingers. I also check her joints with my aura. Then I move on to her shoulders and upper back. I also squeeze and feel up her breasts, suprising her. It is natural to check them, since her breasts affect her balance as well.

Then I move on to her abdominal muscles and her lower back, down to her perky ass and tight thighs.

Not to brag but I know exactly how to pull apart an elf's body. So it is natural that I know everything about how it functions as well. This is why I'm so confident in analyzing her condition.

Once I've completed her check up, I let her know and she gets dressed again.

"What weapon do you use?" I ask.

"A sword." She says and pulls out a standard sword.

"Trash. This weapon doesn't suit you." I say and urge her to put it away. As if it hurts my eyes to look at it.

"Now circulate your aura." I tell her. Aura is best felt when there is skin on skin contact, so I just grab her hand in mine.

Each person's aura has a feeling to it. For example mine is very cold and corrosive. It feels like someone is choking you with a rope, while trying to drown you in an ice bath, at the same time.

I close my eyes and feel Nadias aura. Her aura feels positive and vibrant, as if trying to tickle you into laughing. Funnily enough her aura is pink, like her hair. "Hmm." I enjoy the feeling of her aura.

"Now pay attention. I don't like to waste my time..." I say and start teching her about aura. She listens seriously and picks up my lessons quickly. She's a natural talent.

I continue tutoring her for about an hour, after which I have us take a break.

While when I'm teaching her, I'm also coming up with new mystic arts. On the break I focus on cultivating my darkness skill, by channeling my negative emotions into it.

A week passes by like this, with both of us training seriously. I was simply in the mood to train, so we did.

I've also mapped out the surrounding area, while we have been here. I discovered a city not too far. It's quite the unique city as well.

Nadia and I are sitting around a campfire and cooking a chunk of a bull. We just woke up, so this is breakfast.

"Nadia, we will take a break from training for now. We will be moving today." I casually mention, as I cut a chunk of meat and throw it between my serrated teeth

"Hm? Alright." She nods relaxedly, not making a big deal out of it.

I cut another chunk of meat from the barbecue and smile slightly. The casual air around me seems to disappear, being replaced with something much more dark and ominous.

"Actually. I found a city not too far from here. Said city is also quite interesring, housing vampires." I happily explain this to Nadia while swaying my chunk of meat, like a little girl playing with her food.

Nadia is confused, since I seem to be excited while talking about this. However this excitement somehow feels wrong. Like it's been twisted. She can't understand exactly what this feeling means.

"So Nadia~." I look at her with a smile. "Since we're taking a break from training. Why don't we go and pick a fight?" I grin at her, from ear to ear, exposing all of my sharp teeth, with my eyes cresent. My beautiful smile, containing malice enough to drown a kingdom, arouses shivers and cold sweat in Nadia. She feels a mild sense of crisis come over her and just chuckles nervously. "Ehehe."

....

A few hours later, we walk towards the city. During the walk neither of us talk, for different reasons.

Once we get somewhat close to the city, I fly up in the air by myself and unleash my aura at full force. This should fish out a few powerful opponents.

As expected. A few powerful humans and vampires immediately react and rush towards me. I land on the ground, to coverse easier. The first to arrive before me are the vampires.

"Who the hell are you woman!?" One of them yells at me.

I look at them with my analysis skill and click my tongue. "Tch. How disappointing."

I flare my aura again, scaring a few of them. The sheer concentration of malice makes my opponents knees go weak.

"Is this the best you got?!" I yell at them. Thankfully my intimidation is not in vain and one of the more scared vampires opens his mouth.

"If you cause trouble here, the queen is not going to be happy." Bingo. He threatens me with his shaky voice.

"Where is this queen?" I ask arrogantly and urge him by waving my hand, like I am on a tight schedule.

"Stop it you jus..." An elder one tries to stop the idiot, but he's too late.

"She's in the castle! The castle northwest!" He screams.

"Thank you for the information." I smirk, then yell out. "Nadia come here!"

Soon a pink haired elf struts over shyly. She looks at me, who's surrounded, with apprehension and her expression screams "Why am I here!?"

"You will fight these creatures." I state and start walking towards Nadia. Some of the people try to stop me, but they get bisected before anyone can even react.

I walk over to Nadia and pat her on the shoulder. "Go wild." I whisper and smile at her.

She looks at me with pleading eyes, but I have no mercy, pushing her towards the city people. Luckily they make it easier for her, by attacking first. I spectate Nadia fighting against all those vampires and humans.

Soon Nadia fatally wounds a human. I quickly grab him and return to my position. I still haven't forgotten this heavenly taste... I sink my teeth into the humans neck, rip out a chunk and start sucking out all his blood. Delicious!

After about 15 minutes, Nadia manages to incapacitate them all. I helped her by making barriers at key moments, from time to time, since I can't let my subordinate die.

I walk over to her and caress her head. "Good job." She tiredly pants, but manages out a small smile.

I pick her up in a princess carry and fly towards where the castle is supposed to be. Soon I find what I'm looking for.

"It's certainly unique." I mutter, as I stare at it. It's a beautiful castle that looks like it's designed based on a plant. A rose I suppose. It has spikes and leaves coming out of it, like that of a rose.

"Now let's see who's inside." I smile.