Maita was delighted by the warm welcome of the Moon Elf in front of him, and it left a good impression on Maita.
Even though the system already told him earlier about the Moon elves warm treatment on their own kin, Maita is still quite surprised that they just casually let a stranger inside their home; maybe because of his previous experiences at Earth, which are not that good.
When Maita entered, he subconsciously observed the interior of the house, and he noticed that the exterior of the house doesn't reflect it's interior even in the slightest bit.
The interior is a sight to behold as to say that the craftsmanship of whoever designed and built this house is undoubtedly a master craftsman with decades of experience; even the furniture looks elegant and flawless work of art.
If any famous designer from Earth saw this: they would surely be captivated by its charm, and would probably ask the creator to take them as disciple.
After observing for a bit more; Maita recalled the famous saying on Earth: "Real beauty is in the inside" even though that's really not what the saying meant. "
So, Real beauty is indeed in the inside huh?" Maita mumbled to himself.
The eldest looking guy within the house stares to Maita and noticed that he is captivated by the aesthetics of the house, and because of that a grin appeared on that man's face and mumbled:
"What a rare sight; I didn't expect that a young moon elf would appreciate my masterpiece."
Young Moon Elves with the age of (17~47) solely focuses on awakening their "Lunar prowess" so, they naturally don't pay attention to other things, than the secret techniques books that may help them awaken the power of the blue moon, because when they turn 48 years old they lose their chance to awaken Lunar prowess."
But sadly, only 25% of Moon Elves awakens that power. The 75% that failed to awakens it can still learn elementary magic spells from magic books.
But it's not comparable when you posses the "Lunar essence" that is required to use lunar power, and also usually costly, especially quick cast skills in a way that only nobles who's sitting on piles of gold coins could afford.
After a few seconds, Maita's eyes are still all over the place; he is too Immersed in his own world while gazing on the beautiful art that he found after entering inside the tree house.
"Come! have a seat!" saith the woman who's sitting on a flowery chair."
She had great features of a woman with green eyes with a taint of blue hues just like her skin and long eyelashes which corresponds with the color of her long wavy hair. She is D-cup at most matching her curvy body.
After she noticed that Maita wasn't paying attention and ignoring her, she quickly reached out for Maita's waist.
[SYSTEM] ¡notification: Warning! --an incoming sneak attack behind the User!"
Maita startled when he heard the System's warning, so he finally snapped out of his passionate admiration for the art.
He immediately intended to turn around, but before he could react a pair of hand was already at his waist and pulled him down as his back bump into something soft and forcefully been seated on the elf's lap followed by a tight hug from the back; in just a mere second he's already in the embrace of the elf 'Alaysha'."
--"Eh!?"Exclaimed Maita; after realising what had just happened, he quickly tried to break free but to no avail, because Alaysha is just too strong compared to him, to the point that she doesn't even know that Maita is trying to broke free, she won't even budge.
After a one whole minute of struggling , Maita hath accepted his fate and gave up struggling.
"Sigh~ what a pain...
--Maita is a bit allergic to girls, especially those clingy ones...
Normally, elves always move with grace, and elegance, especially when interacting with someone they just met for them to give a good impression.
They are vigilant in making a move; they have high intelligence naturally.
"That's how it should be, right?" Maita is speaking telepathically with the system, but the system is also confused as to why Alaysha's attributes are comparable to that of a barbarian.
[SYSTEM] ¡notification: Would you like to see Alaysha's information?"
[Yes/No]
"Yes!", Maita said in his mind
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[ Commencing Interrogation ]
Name: [Alaysha]
Race: [Moon Elf]
Class: [Squisher(Rare)]
Title: [The commander inside the house]
Level: [ ?? ]
Attributes:
[Health: 100(+100↑)/100]
[Mana: 100/100]
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[Strength: (70~80) ]
[Dexterity: (17~25) ]
[Constitution: (9~14) ]
[Defense: 9 ]
[Agility: 7 ]
[Intelligence: 9 ]
[Wisdom: 4 ]
[Gift: ????]
[Skills: Mud ball throw, Wall slam... ??? ]
[Condition: Excited, Joyful, ???? ]
[Personality: Charming, Humble, kind, noble...]
[Hidden Info: (Locked) ]
[SYSTEM] Message: due to the user's low level other information regarding the subject was temporarily locked ]
"What an absurd strength... and what's with that class? it sounds cute and funny, but it's definitely scary... no wonder her strength is abnormally high." mumbled Maita after he saw the attributes of Alaysha."
"Ara~Ara!... What your name sweetie?" Alaysha whispered in Maita's ear in a soft tone that caused Maita to startle."
"W--what!?" Maita exclaimed in shock and confusion, because no one will do something like that on his planet of origin; which is Earth.
Well, even in this world it's still not common occurrence. But Alaysha is someone not comprehensible; she does things that would surprise even her companions.
Maybe because of her low wisdom stats and a so~so Intelligence that isn't common among the Elves who pride themselves as a highly intelligent race, full of wisdom and experiences because of their long life spans.
Even with that said; Alaysha would still not do something so daring as to hug a male, especially a stranger at that.
But the thing is... No one inside the house know of Maita's identity as a man except the System and himself.
In fact they only see Maita as a cute and adorable little girl whose part of their kindred.
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"Maita! -- You can call me Maita." After the activation of his trait, he became composed and answered Alaysha's inquiry in a very calm tone.
"Oh? What a unique name you have there!, especially for a moon elf" said the man who opened the door and let him go inside their settlement.
"By the way I am °Eion•; and this young girl right here is `Alfie`."
After the one who opened the door introduced himself he then pointed his index finger to the elven girl who's sitting in a cussion while her elbows and forearms are leaning on a small low round table as she flips a vintage book with a serious gaze and deep concentration, as if she's trying so hard to comprehend its contents.
But after she heard Eion introduced her to the guest she quicky lift her head up, as she stares at Maita with a blank expression on her face, but when both of their gazes met she then gave Maita a big smile and said:
"Hi! there! lets be friends!"
"O__Okay, let's do that!" Maita replied to Alfie and he also smiled back at her.
"Ara~Ara!, apologies-- I forgot to introduce myself; I am Alaysha, and the humble man over there is "mr. Erwin."
Her poke was directed toward the man sitting on a couch with a ninjatō it his hands.
•°»|Author's note: Ninjatō is a weapon that looks like a katana, but it is straight|«°•
After Alaysha's introduction a pop-up notification made Maita remember the reason he needed a shelter to settle temporarily.
[SYSTEM ¡notification!: 30 seconds remaining before the Wraiths parade begins...]
"System!, will I be safe if I just stay here?"
[ System: Yes, as long as the user doesn't come outside of the house, there's a 0% chance that you'll be attacked by the Wraiths, because this tree house has a lesser artifact installed in it that prevents the invasion of creatures without a physical body...]
" that's great then~ I won't die on my first day here."
"But... I'm itching to try my new powers... well that can wait for a night, but if I died here there's no saying if I'll just get transported into one of the four humanoids planet or I'll disappear for good, so lets be on the safe side for now it's better to be cautious than sorry..."
[System: the "Wraiths Parade" will start in...
3...
2..
1...]
"*Awoooooooh!!"
"*Awoooooooh!!!"
"*Woooooooof! Wooooof!!!!
-Howls of wolves and barks of wild dogs could be heard all over the forest-
This is a common occurrence everytime residents of the ghost realm pass through dimensional cracks to go to the material world to cause chaos.
After Maita heard the howls of the wolves his heart beats became faster and faster for each second and a big grin could be seen on his face; his excitement reached its peak when Eion said:
"The dire wolves are howling non-stop again it just means one thing--"
Before Eion can finish his words mr. Erwin interrupted Eion and said: "the Wraiths parade had begun~."
After Maita heard the word "Dire wolf" his excitement reached its peak and entered the state of adrenaline rush; he immediately freed himself from Alaysha's embrace and speedily ran off to the direction of the door. But a hand grabbed his forearm and asked:
"Where are you going?" After turning back, Maita saw that it was Eion who stopped him from going outside the tree house.
"I... want to see the Wraiths parade..." he replied
"If its just for that reason then... you won't need to go outside..." said Eion.
"Conjure!" Eion chanted, and a window appears out of thin air in the wall near the door.
"Wow!" Is that how magic works?"Maita's thoughts leak subconsciously.
"If you are thinking that a window suddenly was created because of my magic then you mistook illusion magic from fake creation magic. I just simply cancelled the illusion magic i put in the window to make it look like a wall."
Eion explained the nature of his magic to the amazed young elf.
°"Oops! I almost blew up my cover there...
Seraphim Macy's ability is even more amazing, but why didn't I get excited there? maybe because of my reader's mind, right? it might have not activated because Eion's magic is just a trivial thing in this world, that's why the trait Reader's mindset didn't activate " (inside Maita's thoughts)
Maita thinks for a few seconds, but after recalling that he needed an abyssal cage to tame a monster and it required metals or precious to make, he decided to stay inside the tree house and just watch the Wraiths Parade from afar.
"This is frustrating..." Maita mumbled as he watched the Wraiths parade while listening to the howlings of the wolves from all over the forest.
"How saddening..."
"I thought I could do everything I want after I got transported here... "
"A world where there's no schools, no parents that I need to obey, all things that's restricting me on Earth is now gone!."
But only now that I realized...
"That being weak in this harsh world where strong preys on the weak is my biggest restriction...
"If that's the case then..."
" I'll be strong enough to be free from doing whatever I want with nothing restricting me!"
Maita's thoughts leaked that caused him to shout his sentence out loud.
--"An oddball!" Alfie exclaimed
"It's good for youngsters to have such self motivation, but always prioritized your safety...
there's no need to rush things...
We elves have a lot of time in our disposal" said mr. Erwin while gazing at Maita.
(" What an interesting fellow...") mr. Erwin mumbled.
All the individuals present inside the tree house were staring at Maita with diverse expressions on their faces. Each of them sees Maita in a light that differs from each other, its because of their different perspectives/point of view. For example: Alfie sees Maita as an "Air head", while Mr. Erwin finds Maita as an interesting person.
After realising that he had just shouted his thoughts, Miata looked around and saw everyone looking at him, which caused him to be embarrassed.
Maita's pale face became bright red as he lowered his head out of shame.
"Oh-- right!_ System could you show me the information of those Wraiths?, just like how you did on Alaysha."
[SYSTEM] message!: I can do it for three more times today, as you may have already guessed I can only do this four(4x) times a day. So, would you still like to proceed?"
"_Eh? aren't skills like that supposed to be unlimited?; that's what I red from the novels..."
[System: I'm not as idiotic as those siblings of mine; they just love showing off to their hosts wrecklessly while exhausting their energies...]
"You mean if they over exerted their themselves and exhausted their energies which was their life force then they might get destroyed?"
[That's right...] The system replied with a fading voice, shocked by Maita's comprehensive analysis.
"Then don't ever over exert yourself if its just for the sake of aiding me...
I don't want you to suddenly disappear in the middle of my journey...
You just need to do your part, and leave the rest to me...
Don't worry I'll somehow manage it!...
What I won't be able to manage is...
to lose the one who accompanied me for a
millennium..." Maita said with a mixed melancholic and cheery tone.
[System: "B--Baka! User kun! (E-ne-be! parang tanga!) Its not like I accompanied you because I want to! or anything! Its just that... it's my job to do so--"and there's nothing else!--]
"Out of all the novels I red... I never encountered a "Tsundere" system. Well that's better than a having a "Yandere" ain't it?"
"Moving on that matter; can you now please scan the monster?"
Maita forcefully changed his mood and channeled it into their last topic about the Wraiths; its because Maita hates drama genre the most whether when its the books he reads and in reality.
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[ Commencing Interrogation ]
[Reversed Wraiths: A new variant of Wraiths which are Immune to magic attacks, but they are very vulnerable to melee damage instead.]
[Health: 70/70]
[Level: ( ? )]
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"That's odd..." mumbled Maita: "argh! let's put away those unnecessary thoughts for now; I have a more important matter at hand as of now..."
Maita was again in deep thoughts thinking about how his skills works, but out of the three skills he currently possessed he's more intriguid by the lesser wood golem summoning.
"Hey system! can I summon the golems while I'm right here and make them spawn outside?"
[System: Yes, you can; they are really meant to be summoned in a distance for strategic purposes, but they can only be summoned and be operated inside the radius of (100 meters) away from the user's location. Their size is also base on how big the three they came from.]
"That's great! I have an idea..."
Maita turned his back from the window's location and directed his gaze into Alaysha who's sitting on the same spot as before. He walks toward her direction, and he stopped right in front of her.
"Umm..."
Alaysha quickly noticed Maita in her front and turn her gaze on him. "Do you need anything?" she asked with a hint of confusion in her expression.
"Its just that..." Maita mumbled while acting shy in front of Alaysha.
"What is it?" Alaysha noticed Maita's stuttering voice, that's why she asked him again.
"Do you have any scrap metals by chance? and if you have... c--can you gimme some... please?"
Alaysha find Maita embarrassed side extremely adorable and so a grin appeared in her face and said: "I have some cold iron that I scavenged from the ruins, but what would you do with them? asked Alaysha out of curiosity."
"Y--you see... I need them as raw materials to the spell I'm developing..."
Alaysha's grin and curiosity turned into a face with a shocked expression as if she couldn't believe what she just heard.
Well that's understandable because, even the current elven king that was considered a genius among all the other previous elven kings (excluding the first elven king) only managed to develop his very own original spell at the age of 19 but, a youngster who doesn't even looked like that she's on her 15 years of old is saying that she was already developing her own original spell and that alone would shock any elves that would hear it. That's why even though Maita looked so innocent and harmless in nature, she still doughted her words and would like to confirm whether it is true or not.
"I can give it to you because, I do not have anything to do with it as of now but, would you please mind showing me that spell you're talking about just now?" said Alaysha with an obvious hints of curiosity on her tone.
"Really? if that is all that you demand then I don't mind as long as I get those research materials ~ehe~." shouted Maita so excitedly while his right hand was on the back of his head keeping the shy act, for the reason that he was so eager to get to try his new skills for the first time.
Alaysha then stood up and walked toward the corner of the wall and mumbled a spell on her breath: "Conjure!" and after chanting the word, a hidden door revealed itself in front of Alaysha, the scene then again left Maita's mouth wide open taht you could fit an egg inside it.
"Wow!, it really is magical..." mumbled Maita after witnessing the "conjure" spell casted once again in front of his face and just adding to his excitement to try his skills.
Alaysha opened the door and got inside for few seconds and when she returned, scrap metals and precious stones of different appearance and sizes was on her hands.
" Here! Maita, this are all yours now!" said Alaysha with a joyful tone.
"Thank you ma'am" replied Maita with a cheery tone on his voice that reveals his excitement.