Harrian had stopped flying for a moment, hovering in the air, the two peregrine falcons then appeared in view and were absorbed into Harrian. Everyone in the [Infinite Item Box] felt the particular stop, and Atogin began to ask questions.

“Why did you stop?” Atogin asked. “We need to get to the capital,”

“Atogin, this sounds very cliche but… Beelzebub has stopped us from approaching from the air,”

“How?”

” Take a look,”

Everyone’s vision then erupted back into colour, as they saw what was up ahead. [Insect Demihumans], but unlike Allanae, were much more like their insect counterpart. They seemed to be dragonfly inspired, all of which were blue.

They were at least two and a half metres tall, all of them, flying ten metres away from one another. Like the ants in Limral, they seemed to be bipedal and resemble a humanoid form, but they are just more [Monsters].

“That is cliche,” Atogin said. “Stopping us from entering directly, so we have to do something else,”

“Harrian, why don’t you fly over them?” Enar asked.

“This is what happens,”

A bar-headed goose, an animal that is known to fly high above the clouds, the highest flight of any bird. It flew up, before it crossed the border of the [Demihumans], as it was immediately shot down with a spear.

“I’m not sure if I can survive that, and I’ve already checked, we have to go underneath,”

“Whatever, out travels, will be on foot from now, but we probably skipped three days of running through the forest,” Nicko explained.

“Indeed, but I need to see if I can go under,”

Another bird appeared out of Harrian and went underneath the circle of beasts; they did not attack the bird, so Harrian went underneath them as well. Many [Demihumans] then eyed Harrian in his bird form, and seeing this; he dived into the trees.

“There’s a time limit, isn’t there? Until those beasts notice you and attack,” Atogen speculated as Harrians bird that he had summoned fell in front of them, blood spurting from the small creature.

“As Nicko said, we cut down three days of running from the flight, like what? Three hours?”

“Five and a half actually,” Harrian replied.

“Can you turn back to normal and let us out?”

“Let me just land,”

Harrian landed on the ground swiftly and returned into his standard form. His bag turned back into a tophat, and everyone jumped out. They all began to cough, as Harrian had released his spores so that Beezlebubs spores would not infect them.

Enar took out the map Mida had given her and looked at it. The lines quickly glowed blue, and their location was revealed to them.

“We’re near Suuf since Mida was infected fighting off until Atogin killed him, Beezlebub probably knows we are here,”

“Why didn’t he just kill us?” Allanae asked.

Nicko shrugged. “It’s as you say, Cliche,”

“I don’t understand what that word means! You see this?” Allanae pointed to the sleeping spider on her head. “Nicko had to explain what a Tsundere meant to me, so what does it mean?”

“It’s stereotypical, why doesn’t Beelzebub just kill us now?” Enar responded.

“I think I know why,” Atogin said, all of their gazes shifted towards him. “It’s because he is an alpha tester,”

“Another theory, ‘The Creator’ wants our story to continue, isn’t that right?” Harrian responded.

A pure white [Status Board] appeared in front of everyone. On the top of the screen, it had something called [Heroes Party Chat]. A small profile with the letters” T’ and ‘C’ along with three dots appeared on it.

The three dots then appeared as a sentence on the screen.

[Both of you are right]

[-The Creator]

“You’ve added chats?” Atogin asked.

[Correct, this will be implemented to long-lasting [Parties], even longer than how long you have been together]

“You made it so that our story will continue?” Enar asked.

[I have something known as [Reality Settings]]

[One of which is called [Cliche Safety]]

[It just makes it easier for [Players] to do stuff]

“Anything else we need to know?” Allanae responded.

[No, I’ll be in touch, good day]

The whiteboards disappeared, and everyone made their way towards the main entrance of Suuf. It had a gate around it and based off Harrians recon, many [Demihumans] were scanning the area, the only way to go was through the village.

“They’ll be much more onto us, something which Harrian can’t cover?” Atogin stopped talking, as Harrian hands began to change into different shapes continually.

Harrian smiled before he left his skeleton and wrapped around Atogin; everywhere he touched, it would change. Atogins skin and feathers became white; his eyes turned brown, everything was changing where Harrian felt.

Height, body size, facial changes, Harrian was changing everything about Atogin. The [Slime] then jumped off, and turned towards Nicko, before Harrian gasped onto his arm. Unlike last time, Harrian had changed everything about the group, their appearance, voices, everything.

An hour passed, and two gatekeepers at the gate of Suuf were standing guard at the entrance of the city. They were weakened because of the hive mind but were able to fight off intruders. Looking up, they saw a single carriage.

Two [Demihumans], on a cart which two horses were dragging behind them. The two guards put out their right hands, as the carriage came to a halt. The horses neighed as they stopped, and breathed heavily.

“License and registration,” The guard to the left said.

“Right here,” The [Demihuman], which was a disguised Atogin handed a few passports. “We also have some adventurers at the back.

The guard to the right nodded and opened the back of the carriage; there were two [Elves], each with large weapons. Both of them were resting on each side of the carriage, giving the [elf] a little scare.

The guard’s eyes changed to a mouldy green before he threw in a sort of wooden canister, which let out a green gas filled with the mind-controlling spores. A few coughs later, and everyone nodded at the same time, as the guard’s eyes went back to normal.

After some more searching through some crates that were full of metals, they were let through. Going into a stable, the carriage and horses melded into some bags, which everyone picked up. Going to an inn, near the centre of Suuf, they got a room for four people, and all of them sat down on their beds.

Every place, every food, every dish, everything was made out of the giant fluorescent mushrooms that naturally grew here. Safe to eat and easy to grow, living in them, making products out of them, one of the nearest cities to the capital of Grandage was made out of mushrooms.

Because of Atogin and Allanae, the other [Demihuman] in the front, with matching rings, got a double bed to keep it up. As soon as the door closed, the two of them tensed their fists and the rings present on their fourth fingers shattered.

“Not doing that again, tell me Harrian, why did you make those rings?” Atogin asked as the shattered material wriggled back towards some bags, absorbing into them. The packs then all slowly moulded back into Harrian, clicking his fingers, a tophat appeared as he put it on his head.

“It just made it easier for me, same last names and occupation, yes [Slimes] can change their form, but the more detailed the items, the harder it is for us!”

“Yeah yeah, but can you just revert us to normal?”

Harrian shook his head. “Not going to, i’ll remove the makeup when it’s time,”

“And when’s that?”

“When we start the revolt in the Jörmun,”

Atogin shrugged. “It’s not that bad, I mean, I don’t like looking in the mirror now but, we all look like new people, you stepped up your A-game Harrian!”

“I was able to find a jellyfish within [Primal], which a defence mechanism, where it spits out some biodegradable plastic substance, that how I altered your facial features without tearing it a new one,”

“So that’s’ that’s why my bones hurt so much, but not my skin?” Nicko asked.

“Exactly, now you all seem a bit tired, get some rest,”

Allanae walked towards Harrian. “I’ll rest in the [Item Box], Rache can come with,”

“...Fine,” The spider mumbled.

The two of them disappeared into the tophat before everyone began to rest. Harrian saw this as the perfect time, so by releasing some of his spores outside the window, he began to scan the area surrounding.

No one seemed to be hurt or anything, they kept going through their average day, it appears that these mind-controlling spores would only be activated in Beelzebubs command. Harrian sighed, relieved that the battle wouldn’t be like a zombie apocalypse like he initially thought.

Recalling all of his spores, Harrian walked around for a while, messing around with his original form, not using any [Primal points]. Three hours had passed, and everyone was asleep, Harrian was moulding everything above the beds, where he was sticking to.

He stopped as soon as Nicko woke up, Harrian stopped. He got up out of bed and stretched, before sitting down and reading a book which Harrian gave to him. It was a story called ‘Angels fall’, something which a [Elf] called Cassius Root had written, a bestseller in Grandage.

Soon after, Atogin woke up due to [Insomnia], before sitting upon his bed, and began to shift his feathers colours to different elements. Enar and Allanae woke up at the same time, both getting up. Harrian told everyone they all at least had a three-hour nap, before everyone went about their own accord, none of them stepping outside.

Not long after, some knocking was heard at the door. Harrian jumped into action and walked to the door, turning his head to the side, nodding, everyone nodded back. Slowly turning the handle, and opening the door, Harrian looked up and saw five individuals, all giving the same aura as Muspel.

He very quickly closed the door, and his head turned one hundred and eighty degrees.

“Brace for impact!”

Right outside the door, an explosion ripped through the walls, engulfing Harrian, as everyone else ran outside. Jumping from a story towards the ground, causing a massive impact, the party looked above them, as the five [High Elves], the last of the Yggdrasil guards, we ready to fight them all at once.