As the early morning sun shines warmly outside. The weather is currently clear and peaceful.

Vilo’s tavern is closed for today, as today is the day when Eiziest and his group begins their long journey to go to Aéthea. But, before they could leave, they had to take care of packing the things they need and making sure they were prepared for the long haul.

The plan was supposed to be just that for today, prepare, pack, and leave. Yet no one expected Eiziest surprise transformation. Besides apparently Mimir and Nora.

Vilo stands nearby a window, next to the table everyone is sitting. He has his arms crossed and his head lowered as he remains silent. Xion stands next to him and does the same.

Xion takes a peek at the current situation at the table near him, he sees Felice excited and using some sort of tool in scanning Eiziest. While Eirene shows an angelic smile and chuckles wryly at Eiziest, with Nora seated at her side eating another parfait.

“I sincerely apologise for what we did…” Eirene says apologetically at Eiziest while scratching the back of her head, with a broken smile.

Felice continues, “…You should’ve told us THIS would happen. if you did, none of THAT would happen!” Felice says energetically as she continues to scan Eiziest.

Mimir’s drone was occupied by Silfy, as they assist Felice with explaining how Eiziest now looks human.

Eiziest is seated at the other side of the table now wearing clothes lent by Vilo, “…yeh, now prowblem!” he says with a light chuckle, with his face and entire body is filled with wounds and bumps due to Eirene and Felice’s attacks earlier.

Felice stops scanning as she analyses her findings, “If I look at it closely, your entire body. Skin, eyes, tongue, and hair, are all made of a mix of Mieza and Aetho!” Felice says excitedly with a playful look in her eyes.

Felice then snaps her fingers and conjures up her magic goggles as she looks at Eiziest, “…But I don’t understand how this form of yours doesn’t exude the same or probably even more of the type of aura as your other forms? Your whole body is composed of Mieza and Aetho, you should be gleaming with all that concentrated power!” Felice fiddles with her goggles. “…Yet, I can’t see or feel any type of power coming from you?”

Mimir’s drone explains, “With the help of Nora, I was able to create a body using his second form as a base, with a natural capability to hide Eiziest’s aura”

“Sow thwat’s what yuv been dowing!” Eiziest excitedly tries to say as he looks at Mimir, and Nora who is still eating a parfait.

Mimir’s drone sighs, “one moment please…” as he says, a second later, Eiziest body heals itself.

Eiziest smiles as he touches his face, “Thanks…!” he then looks at Felice. “With this, I won’t be needing to act like a summon anymore right?” he asks both Felice and Mimir’s drone.

Felice removes her goggles and ponders, then she looks at Mimir’s drone. Mimir’s drone shook its triangular form saying no, Felice nods, “Not quite, if there are anyone like me who happens to have the means to scan you, you’ll be in a lot of trouble” Felice shrugs.

Felice looks at Eiziest curiously, “In any case we can say you’re a humanoid summon. Which, does happen… rarely, but… never… like this…” Felice trails off as she eyes Eiziest.

Everyone then looks at Eiziest curiously as his face now doesn’t look like a freshly puffed bread, except for Nora who just continued to eat her parfait.

Eiziest now looks like a guy in his twenties, with long black hair reaching all the way to his shoulders, with a hue of white at the end. He has grey coloured eyes and a fair skin colour. His body was fair built, similar to the one he used to have only taller, roughly the same height as Vilo.

“…Does, anyone have a scrunchie?” Eiziest says as he pulls a strand of his hair.

Felice and Eirene look at Eiziest confused, “…A what?” Felice asks Eiziest.

“Something to tie his hair with” Mimir’s drone says to Felice and Eirene.

Felice looks at Silfy with a smile, “Silfy, grab a tie for Eiziest would you sweety!” as Felice says, Silfy’s gem glow, “Hold out your hand” Silfy says to Eiziest.

A second later, a hair tie pops onto Eiziest hand, “Thank you!” he says as he begins to tie his hair. “So, um… we should get ready now…” he says to everyone still curiously looking at him.

Felice shrugs and sighs in satisfaction, “Well, not much we can do. In any case your much more useful now!” she says as she stands. “Let’s get moving everyone!”

Everyone then smiles and nod, “As we should” Eirene says as she stands.

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As the sun continues to rise, everyone prepares.

Xion and Nora, pack up their knapsacks and horse saddle bags with food and things they think they would need for the journey. Xion in particular packs a special pack onto one of the saddle bags, Vilo’s special bread.

Eiziest and Eirene, took another look at Felice’s map making sure on where to go. With the help of Mimir’s drone floating at Eiziest side and Silfy, who’s on Eirene’s shoulder.

Vilo and Felice, took care of preparing the horses, making sure they were ready for the journey. Vilo puts on the horses tacks, while Felice checks on their wellness, feeding them if need be.

Barely halfway till noon, the sun still shining warmly down at everyone, as everything was set and ready to go.

Vilo, Eiziest, and Eirene placed the saddles onto the horses. There were four horses as decided by the group yesterday. Xion, Felice, and Eirene, have their own horse, while Eiziest and Nora ride together as Nora wanted.

Everyone then begins to say their goodbyes to Vilo.

Eiziest shakes Vilo’s hand, while Nora rides piggy back on his shoulders, “Thanks for everything Vilo. Specially for the clothes and for the delicious food you made every day!” Eiziest says gleefully.

“…Come back anytime, my doors are always ready to welcome you all!” Vilo says boisterously with a smile.

Felice rummages through her pockets looking for something. As she finds it, she gives it to Vilo, “Keep my room toasty and clean till I get back!” she says playfully with a wink as she hands Vilo a small leather coin pouch. To which Vilo just chuckles and sighs as he takes it.

Eirene then in turn shakes Vilo’s hand, “My sincere gratitude to you Vilo. I swear I will repay your hospitality towards us as soon as we can” she says with a smile.

“No need! Your safe return is all I can ask…” Vilo says to Eirene warmly. To which Eirene chuckles and nods.

Vilo then shakes the hand of Xion, “Protect your family well Xion” Vilo says warmly to Xion. To which he replies with a nod and firm handshake.

Finally, Vilo looks at Nora, riding on top of Eiziest. Vilo chuckles, “Now don’t you sleep to much!” Vilo says as Nora begins to drift off once again. Nora simply gave Vilo a thumbs up in reply.

Felice then leads the group as she rides on her horse, with her huge backpack again on her back, “Let’s move everyone!” as she says, Silfy pops on top of the backpack and everyone rides their respective horses.

Everyone waves at Vilo as they begin to leave the area. Vilo and some of the people who knew them wave back, a few questioning who was the new guy with them.

Felice and Eirene, leading at the front of the group. Both look at Felice’s projected map. “Heading East, our first stop before Groven Burg. Would be a farm town called Tinril, one of Groven Burgs main suppliers” Felice explains to everyone.

Eirene continues, “Before that, we must cross some hills to get out of the forest and into the open plains”

Eiziest smiles in excitement, while Mimir pops out as they leave the village.

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Days passed without much trouble. Besides the occasional beasts’ encounters, which were not much of threat thanks to Eiziest using his Pack Leader skill. Making the wild beasts into obedient pets. Which sadly, they couldn’t bring along.

Eiziest from time to time tends to check anything that caught his attention, and having Mimir or the others explain it to him. Adding more to Mimir’s bestiary and Eiziest plant related skills.

Camping was not much of a problem as Felice conjures a large tent every time they decide to stop, for everyone to rest inside. Eiziest was impressed at how homely it was inside. Eirene, Nora, and Xion, weren’t too surprised, as they know how much Felice is capable of doing.

After passing some hills, Eiziest and his group finally exited the forest and entered the plains. With one final night of camping, they followed the dirt path leading towards Tinril.

The sun is currently halfway up in the sky as Eiziest and his group near the Farm town called Tinril. The weather is currently cloudy, as refreshing winds move through the plains.

Xion stretches his arms as a cold breeze hits them as they ride along the path towards Tinril. “Haaaahhh… This is feels great!” Xion gleefully express as he stretches his arms.

Eiziest does the same, “I think Nora already fell asleep again?” he says looking at Nora sitting in front of Eiziest, her eyes closed as her hair moves by the wind.

Nora shakes her head telling Eiziest she’s still awake.

Eiziest smiles and copies Nora. He closes his eyes and relax as he lets the breeze hit.

Eirene smiles as she looks at Xion, Eiziest, and Nora, enjoying themselves. Eirene then looks at Mimir who currently is floating in between Eirene and Felice. “How much farther till we arrive?” Eirene asks making Mimir and Silfy look at her.

Felice, wearing a thinner version of her goggles as she doesn’t like things getting things in her eyes, projects her map, “Not much farther I think?” she says while gazing into the distance.

Silfy continues, “…We would likely make it to Tinril before noon, I would presume” she says looking at Eirene.

Just then a loud grumbling sound emitted, surprising almost everyone. Eirene, Mimir, Silfy, Felice, and Eiziest look at Xion.

Xion rubs his stomach as it grumbles, “…So… hungry…” he then looks at Eiziest annoyed, “Why did you have to give Nora the bag holding the sweet breads!”

Eiziest shrugs, “How was I suppose to know she would eat it all?”

Xion sighs and whines, “Lucky you, you can just eat anything. Even dirt!” he says with a long sigh as his stomach grumbles.

Felice and Eirene laugh at the sight as they continue heading towards Tinril.

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As everyone begins to see tilled soil and some people tending to the planted crops. Eiziest smiles in excitement, as he sees that the people living in Tinril were a mix of Orcs and Elves. Xion on the other hand drools as he smells food coming from withing Tinril.

Everyone of the farmers look curiously at Eiziest and his group riding on their horse and into their town, Mimir quickly returns into Eiziest and sent out a drone in his place.

Felice removes her goggles as they enter the open town, “We should find the chief, he should be aro-” before she could finish, a loud explosion was heard nearby at one of the wooden houses.

Eiziest, Eirene, Xion, and Felice, rode their horses towards were the sound came from without question.

As they arrive, they see a house emitting white smoke from its windows. As then a young male dark-haired elf burst out coughing, “*cough*Okay…! That didn’t work… *cough*”

Next to come out was a young amber haired female orc, she punches the male elf as she coughs, “Ya idiot! *cough* I thought *cough* we were really done for that time!”

The male elf just laughs as he gets pummelled by the female orc.

Eiziest and his group just stares at them confuse, “Uhm… need some help?” Eiziest asks as he gets off his horse.

The male elf and the female orc stop their actions as they look at Eiziest and his group. The male elf warmly chuckles, “…If you don’t mind!”

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Xion and Nora uses some long cloth lent to them by the female orc, to fan away most of the smoke. While Silfy helps the female Orc arranged the cluttered furniture and broken equipment inside.

Felice and Eirene went ahead to get and meet with the chief, as Eiziest suggest.

Eiziest helps the male elf lifts up some of the rubble caused by the explosion and put them in a pile.

The male elf introduces himself as he throws the last of the rubble onto the pile, “Names Remil and my friend over there is Nemi by the way, thanks for the assist!” he says as he offers a handshake.

Eiziest shakes Remil’s hand, “Nice to meet you Remil. Call me Eiziest!” he says with smile.

Remil then looks at Xion and Nora, “…and they are?”

Eiziest thinks for a moment as whether to use their real names or not, but Mimir says inside Eiziest that it would be fine.

“The boy’s name is Xion while the girl is Nora. The white ferret is Silfy” Eiziest says as he points to them one by one.

Remil smiles, “I see!” he says as he chuckles.

Eiziest looks at all the rubble, “So… what exactly happened here?” he says as he looks at Remil.

Remil just laughs, “Well you see…” but before he could explain he hears a grouchy voice calling his name.

“REMIL!! WHAT DID YOU AND NEMI DO THIS TIME!!” the burly adult orc man shouts as he tackles and clobbers Remil to the ground.

Eirene and Felice then appear without their horses, “How’s the situation?” Felice asks Eiziest as they arrive.

Eiziest wryly chuckles, “…Okay, I guess?” he says as he sees Remil being pummelled this time by the burly orc man.

Nemi comes out of the house as she hears Remil squirming in pain. As she sees the cause of Remil’s pain, Nemi sighs, “Hey, dad! Take a hint would ya!” Nemi calls for her father to stop.

The burly orc man then comes to as he stands, then throws Remil to the side and perks himself. “Sorry about that…” he says as he faces Eiziest.

The burly orc man smiles at Eiziest, “You must be Eiziest! I’m the chief here, name’s Ghorud, Chief Ghorud!” as he says he shakes Eiziest hand and smiles energetically.

Eiziest wryly smiles, “N-Nice to meet you...” he says to the chief as he shakes his hand, as he glances at Remil on the ground seemingly knocked out.