Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Leo and the others traveled for more than a week around the Sun Desert in order for them to arrive at Emerald Forest.

To avoid the dangers located in the deep of the Sun Desert, they only traveled at the green and dark-green area, completely avoiding the red area and deeper.

At this moment, in front of them is a seemingly endless forest of very tall trees. The leaves of the trees were as vibrant as emerald in color, clearly showing to everyone why this wilderness was called the Emerald Forest.

Located just before entering the Emerald Forest were a few small settlements where people that intended to enter the wilderness for various stuff, like for example gathering materials, missions, and many more, decided to camp themselves.

There were also two unnamed small villages of elves nearby, which provided those settlements with necessary stuff, like for example maintenance for their weapons, a store that sells and buys items, and other buildings that provided different services.

The Captains of the three Green Eagle Flyingboats slowly made their way towards the nearby village and decided to park the Green Eagle Flyingboats outside because there was no parking space inside, again...

As soon as they arrived, countless people were immediately attracted to their direction. To be more precise, they were curious to know who is the rich person that owns the three Green Eagle Flyingboats.

It was an extremely rare sight to see Flyingboats around this area. That's why once one arrived, everyone would immediately gather together to satisfy their curiosity.

Leo found such a situation troublesome, but he has no choice but to just accept it because it was their fault in the first place for making their entrance in such a grand manner. Anyways, they won't be staying that long in this place. The reason they came here was mainly to ask whether there was a clear map of the Emerald Forest for sale somewhere, since it would be difficult to use the rough map that the ancestors of the Sandy Town had made. Aside from that, he also wants to inquire more information about this place to hopefully avoid dangers.

He has never been the type of person that will only think of a way whenever the situation comes in his way. To this date, he has always been prepared with all possible means he can use. Only when he doesn't have any way of gathering information, would he choose to think about a plan once the situation finally happened?

Whooooosh!

The door of the three Green Eagle Flyingboats slowly opened up, letting Leo and a few other people to walk outside.

Leo and the other boys were currently wearing their noble clothes to show that they are part of a powerful force. They have purposely done it this way in order to not let any death-seeking madmen to try and steal their Green Eagle Flyingboat.

On the other hand, Cassandra and the other women are currently wearing a Magic Mantle that was given to them by Mayor Jong, as an appreciation gift, to cover themselves with no way of easily perceiving their identity, even when one is using Magic spell. Of course, if one is powerful enough, then wearing Magic Mantle would be useless.

This was in order to avoid inviting unnecessary trouble due to their beautiful appearance.

At first, Cassandra and the others were completely against it, saying that, "Why should we hide how we looked like to the others?"

As a woman, it was only natural for them to not want to hide their beautiful appearance. It gives them confidence and at the same time makes them proud with themselves by showing how they looked.

However, it's exactly through this why unnecessary trouble, like lustful, perverted, and arrogant people would suddenly cause trouble just to have them.

So hearing that question from Cassandra and the others, Leo didn't hesitate to shove straight to them the Magic Mantle and saying, "So that you won't cause us trouble. If you don't want to hide your appearance, then don't leave this place, and don't ever show your face until we leave."

Cassandra and the others were fuming with anger after hearing that. They wanted to continue arguing with Leo, but Elaine step up and told them, "Just listen to Leo, at least for now. Once you have sufficient strength to protect yourselves, then you can openly reveal to anyone how you looked like."

With that said, Cassandra and the others could only helplessly wear the Magic Mantle, except for Charlotte though...

Charlotte is a 9 Star Battle Mage. With such a cultivation, there is absolutely no need for her to hide her beautiful appearance. Of course, she first took into consideration their location right now before deciding to do that.

The Emerald Forest was only a territory of a Kingdom, and not to mention only considered as a Red Zone in the standards of Empires. Therefore, a person with the cultivation of 9 Star here has the ability to become one of the powerhouses.

It was only after knowing that information did Charlotte dared to not wear a Magic Mantle.

Elaine also decided to not hide her appearance. She simply sticks very close to Ethan, obviously showing to everyone that she's a woman of a 1st Galaxy Mage. With such a man by her side, there would only be two different types of people that will dare to cause trouble to them; first, an extremely foolish person that wants to try courting death. And second, a person that can kill Ethan easily and forcefully take her away. The Emerald Forest certainly only has a few of those people, so there is no need to worry about the second type of person. And besides, she was also someone powerful, so she can defend herself.

Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, Veronica, and Ash could only look at Charlotte and Elaine full of envy on their faces.

Fortunately, Sele, despite being a 6 Star Mage and having Edward, a 9 Star Mage, by her side, was still not spared by Leo, so Cassandra and the others were still able to have her as a way to console themselves.

Leo directly asked a few random people watching them if they knew about anyone selling a map of the Emerald Forest. After receiving a reply, he then ignored them and lead everyone in that direction. They didn't bother entertaining anyone as they went straight to what they were intending to do here.

Meanwhile, Ethan, Elaine, Edward, and Sele separated from them as they made their way to look for a place that sells food and other necessary supplies they needed for the journey in Emerald Forest. Leaving Chief Lago, Sebastian, Dan, Sele, and old man Torre to guard Leo and the others.

They weren't intending to spend a lot of time here, so they choose to do everything as quickly as possible, which means they need to do a division of labor.

It didn't take that long for Leo and the others to arrive at a store of a Cartographer.

As soon as they entered the store, they were immediately greeted by the Cartographer, specifically a fat elf.

"Hello, I'm Elvis, a Cartographer and also the owner of this store. How may I be of help to you?" Elvis bowed his head a bit to greet Leo and the others.

"I'd like to buy a map of the Emerald Forest," Leo said.

Elvis nodded his head before walking back to the counter while saying, "There are a lot of maps of the Emerald Forest, so what kind of map exactly do you want?"

Leo can't help himself from smiling in delight after hearing Elvis's reply. He quickly answered, "The more the better!"

"Okay," Elvis nodded his head as he then began taking out tens of maps of the Emerald Forest and putting them on top of the counter.

Leo walked beside the counter, and right after began checking the maps that Elvis brought to them.

Soon, he discovered that these maps were detailed maps of the rivers, lakes, hills, mountains, caves, and many similar places. There were also detailed maps of the location of each of the different Magical Beasts tribes and those Foreign races villages and towns that they have heard about, and also the villages, towns, and cities that belonged to the Emerald Tree Kingdom. And the most shocking of all was a detailed map of the location of the Underground World of the Emerald Tree Kingdom.

Seeing the detailed map of the Underground World of the Emerald Tree Kingdom, Leo can't help asking, "Is it really alright to sell this map to strangers like us?"

"Oh, you don't have to worry. The Underground World of the Emerald Tree Kingdom is basically ruled by the Second Prince, so everyone almost knew about its existence." Elvis smiled before finally taking out the last map of the Emerald Forest, specifically a map of the entire Emerald Tree Kingdom.

"These are all the maps that you should be needing," Elvis said.

Hearing Elvis' words, Leo suddenly asked while smiling mischievously, "If it's alright for me to ask, do you also have maps that we should not be needing?"

"Of course, our store prides itself with its service of selling all the maps of the Emerald Forest, as in everything. But they are priced in gold coins, so will you still buy them?" Elvis replied with a smile.

"Of course!" Leo didn't bother hesitating in his reply.

"Okay, then. Please wait for me here, I'll be right back in a bit," Elvis nodded his head before making his way to the back of the store.

"I didn't expect that I will be able to easily stumbled upon a store like this one," Leo thought to himself. A store that sells maps of everything was something that he really didn't expect to get from just asking some random people. But of course, he reminded himself not to fully trust Elvis yet. No one aside from that person knows whether the maps he sells here were indeed the real deal and not just fake maps. No worries though, because from the very beginning his main intention was to only gather as much information in order to safely cross the Emerald Forest and arrive at Emerald Tree Kingdom. The existence of a fake map wouldn't be able to affect him that much.