Ehm ehm
Now the boy is in bed, the girl sleeping right beside him as he sat on the edge of the bed, now with his clothes on and Abelard on his shoulder. He shook his head and whispered to Abelard, "Sorry Abelard, looks like your virginity has been claimed by this girl here"
The mini boy, Abelard, shook his head as well and whispered back, "I mean… it's not a big deal, she is quite pretty, to be honest, and I think you did it for the sake of returning home, I'll just thank you for handling this situation"
Abel nodded, and then he heard a yawning sound behind him. He turned around and say the girl yawning with a blanket covering her chest. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the boy. She suddenly chuckled, "Well, boy, you were kind of good in your age, 16, right? Basically the same age as me! Couldn't believe you were this experienced in bed"
Abel placed his hand on his head and sighed, "Well, I kind of enjoyed it too and all, but isn't that a bit brutish when you asked a person to ehm just 1 day after you met them? Anyway, I want my information"
Gertrud just looked at him right in the eyes before she winked, "Well, I'm not telling you anything unless you completed the round 2!" The boy was in disbelief. He stared blankly at her and didn't say anything.
Another Ehm ehm moment later.
Now both of them under the blanket and are staring at the ceiling of the room. The girl said to the boy, "You see at the ceiling? I painted that when I was little. There are 4 major areas in this land, east, west, south and north. We are in the south."
The boy placed more attention to it as she continued her words, "I once heard a tale of a great wizard on the north that is immortal. It was she, she entered the land through the south and went to the north"
She continued, "The tale… was very old, about some hundred years. There was a mountain in the south once, but when she came, the mountain disappeared. Once the people knew about this, they don't want to fight back, nor can they. They let her pass this land and now, I heard she is residing in the north area"
[Intelligence increased by 4]
Abel nodded, understanding what had been said to him. He just smiled at the girl and was about to leave the bed. But a hand grabbed his wrist, he turned around and saw the girl's hand on his wrist, "Abel, isn't it? I know you are not from this land, but I don't want you to go from this place…"
Abel looked at her face and saw the red blushing face of a woman in love, he said to her, "Well, I have a place to return to, I'm not from here nor do I will be staying in here for long, I have a mission to accomplish after all"
Her hand slowly released the boy's wrist and her expression saddened, "Well, if that is what you want… just don't forget to return to this village months later and don't forget about me, anyway, you can go now"
The boy left the room and returned to the cave. He told all the information he got from the girl, Thorgrim cheered up as soon as he heard all of it, "Good job Abel! Now we could go south and we will be in the city of Valfield in no time!"
…
After buying more foods and walking for a full day straight, they found the harsh reality and lost almost all of their hope. The place where they stood right now were a beach, connected to a sea, perhaps an ocean.
There was no end to it as they sat on the still snow-covered ground and just like before, the dwarf approached Abel, "Abel… I don't know what is wrong with your information but this must be something wrong with it…"
[You levelled up to level 47]
[Level requirement is met]
[You gained a piece of important information to your quest]
"Once a great person will be a great person until it dies"
"But for that person"
"My elven friend"
"She was like an immortal"
"Head north and find the one in the tale"
Those voices, familiar voice of Calendin, echoing on his inner brain, telling a piece of information he never knew existed, 'That one in the tale… that immortal wizard Gertrud told me. If yes, I better head north!'
He told Thorgrim about it, "A voice spoke to me in my inner head just now, it told me to go north. I don't know if this is connected but we might need to find the friend Calendin mentioned in his last moment"
Thorgrim furrowed his eyebrows and shouted to the others, "Boys! Prepare your thing and stuff! We are heading north" They complied and 1 day later, the group found themselves back at the cave, resting while the sky was covered in darkness.
Abel was no different from the others. He was asleep when he felt a light touch on his hand, a very light touch from a soft hand. He opened his eyes slowly and saw that girl, Gertrud, sitting beside him, he whispered, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be sleeping in the village?"
She whispered back, "I was just checking this cave out, didn't know I would meet with you here. Maybe this is fate? Anyway, what are you doing here, I thought you went to south 2 days ago with the intent of going back to your land?"
Abel shook his head for a few times and said, "No, we didn't find anything, it was just a vast sea, really vast that I couldn't see anything in it, not even a fish. So based on your tale, we decided to go to the north and locate that great wizard, I also have some business with her"
Gertrud get in front of him and looks at him straight in the eyes, she said to him, "Well, why don't you go back with me to the village and we could have some fun, I might even tour you around the village!"
Abel gave her a straight no to her words and suddenly, all the worlds, living beings, crumbled and vanished to thin air. Replaced with blackness, pure blackness everywhere.
But he saw a person, a woman, pointy ears and what it seems to be a magic staff on her hand.