Putting the cult of cuteness to the back of his mind, Poe started to focus on his surroundings… Nothing changed still the same giant mushroom trees everywhere… The only difference being, that he now also knew that a fluffy rabbit village was hiding somewhere out there.
"Ah!"
Hearing a sudden voice behind him, Poe quickly turned around and looked towards the voice.
What greeted Poe when he turned around was Lucia looking shocked while looking towards somewhere in front of her.
Poe was interested in what made her so surprised and seeing Lucia not getting ready to fight or anything, Poe relaxed as he slowly looked at what Lucia had discovered.
[Kevin, lizard, lvl 3]
[Titles: Named one; Kevin the Lizard; Proud One]
Looking at the little lizard standing proudly in front of Lucia on two legs while puffing out its chest, or at least trying to puff out its chest, Poe really had no idea how to react.
The little lizard named Kevin discovered Poe looking speechlessly at it from a distance.
Maybe Kevin was not a bright little Lizard, but the first thing it did was waltzing towards Poe, showing no difficulty at all in its somehow elegant walk.
Poe on the other hand was just about to burst out into laughter while looking at the little lizard elegantly waltzing towards him. What made it worse was that the lizard did all of this while looking over towards Poe confidently, while at the same time trying to look like some imposing and proud lizard coming from higher class family.
Did lizards have nobles..? Wait…! Did they even have some kind of society in the first place?
Thinking this, Poe looked questioningly towards the lizard now standing proudly in front of him.
"Grooowl, grrrooowl, gggggrowl!"
The little lizard Kevin let out a few weird growls, as he looked towards Poe waiting for a response.
Poe had no idea what the lizard was trying to say, so with Lucia and Ivy both looking strangely at him, Poe answered the little lizard Kevin with a few growls.
"Grrrrowl~, growl growl growl…?"
"Groooooowwl!"
Kevin angrily growled back at Poe while sending him a deadly look that was ready to kill at any moment. Hearing Poe growling such unfriendly growls at him and even dragging his family into it, Kevin was immediately enraged.
Seeing the little lizard suddenly look at him as if he killed his entire family, Poe stepped back in fear of the sudden bloodlust oozing out from the little lizard in front of him.
"GROOOOOWL!"
Letting out a powerful and strong growl, Kevin jumped towards with the intention to kill the damned thing in front of it, to think that the puny elf would even dare to growl like that at his family!?
*Shriek*
Just as the little lizard was about to reach the panicking Poe, a bird around two times the size of the lizard dived down from a nearby mushroom tree and grabbed the little lizard with its claw.
"GROOOOWL! GROOoowl, groo…"
The only thing Poe managed to hear was the little lizard's growls slowly growing distant, as the bird disappeared, Poe did not even have a chance to use inspect on it before it disappeared up above the tall mushroom trees.
"Wha… WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?"
Lucia screamed as she looked worriedly towards Poe, who was standing paralyzed in place having no idea what just transpired in front of him. First, some proud lizard elegantly starts waltzing towards him, then it tries to kill him and finally a bird that suddenly popped up out of nowhere carries off the lizard.
Poe really had no idea what this damnable mushroom forest was, but something definitely felt wrong. Right Now he wanted nothing more than to leave this weird mushroom forest and never come back again.
"Poe, are you okay?"
Lucia asked worriedly, as she looked at Poe who was still frozen in place.
Hearing Lucia, Poe quickly calmed down again and suppressed his fear, before looking at Lucia.
"I-I'm fine… T-the lizard are b-both gone now, s-so there is no need to w-worry… F-for now let's m-move on."
"It's fine Poe! Let's get out of here fast! When we get out I'll buy you something delicious to eat!"
Poe was quite bad at suppressing his fear, it did not really help that he was trembling all over and stammering when he spoke at the same time. Lucia of course did not miss this and tried to cheer Poe up again.
"Y-yes…!"
Poe answered filled to the brim with renewed spirit, energetically looking towards Lucia.
Lucia thought to herself, that Poe really was a simpleminded person, maybe an airhead as well? Just a mention of getting some delicious food and he forgot his fear from earlier…
Having recovered, Poe and Lucia joined the awfully quiet Ivy, as they made their way deeper into the mushroom forest.
"Hehe~ scared Poe is also cute~"
Ivy was muttering something to herself as she looked towards Poe.
Poe felt a sudden chill and met Ivy's eyes, a strange glint flashing across her eyes Ivy smiled creepily at Poe, who quickly hid behind Lucia.
Ignoring her sister, Lucia took Poe's hand as she made her way in front of Ivy.
Having made their way in front of Ivy, Poe and Lucia continued deeper and deeper into the mushroom forest with Ivy following behind them.
After walking for what seemed like 15 minutes, Poe, Lucia and Ivy soon saw what looked like a broken down wall in the distance, but that was not what drew Poe's attention... No, what Poe saw was something much worse, his eternal enemy.
[Fluffy rabbit, Guard, lvl 15]
[Fluffy rabbit, Guard, lvl 17]
[Fluffy rabbit, Gua…]
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[Fluffy rabbit, Guard Captain, lvl 28]