In the middle of the forest, five people were found sitting on the floor. Not far from them some were corpses of some monsters. On the one side were elvis girls and the other side were a human man and a demon women. They were having some conversations.
"Well you see. Millennia ago, when humans of this world invaded/travelled to the world of other species/races, many things happened. Some were good things like technology and infrastructure of the other races increased exponentially. And there were also people who used those technologies and their power for sinister things. Before the worlds of all races/species was balanced but the interference of the human led to power dynamic to change and everything became a mess. That's what my grandparents said." Rina said.
Sona continued cutting off Rina, "After that, everywhere conflict started and now many dark guilds were formed. They made the life of normal people hell. They kidnapped them and experimented on them. Life became harder for the ones who are weak. One day big fight broke between the neutral being, a God and a Demon which destroyed many dark guilds and disappeared but it seems they came here."
"Then peace returned once more to the worlds but they say, those people involved with the dark guilds are planning something big again. That's why everyone trying their hardest to become stronger than before. We came to this world to get monsters materials. They are used for many things like armours, potions, etc." Kaya said.
"So the battle of disaster that left earth in this state was started because of those dark guilds. Still your coming here doesn't make sense. You could get the materials in your world too." Yuna asked not getting the clear picture from what they said. David was also looking at them with a dumbfounded expression.
"You are right about that, but it is very hard for us, low rankers to find weak monsters there. If you joined the party with the high rank players, you will be settled. But if not, it will be hard for you to level up and grow stronger. But luckily our rulers/kings are allies. We are allowed to travel to each other's domain as long as we pay the fees for using teleportation gate." Rina said.
"You came here for trainings and materials but almost died. You should choose your opponent carefully." David said feeling pity for those idiots.
"We would have just ran away using our flying cars even without help, If we couldn't manage to beat them." Sona said hearing his.
"You have flying cars? Where?" David said, He looked around. "I don't see the cars anywhere. Don't lie to us."
She opened a pouch she was carrying, a actual car appeared Infront of them. It was beautifully designed, with black color. "Do you believe me, now?"
"Wow. You really have a flying car and that small pouch has the space to hold a car that big inside." David said amazed, seeing the beautiful slick car Infront of him. He new the concept of magical bags though.
"You are getting sidetracked. Did you come here alone?" Yuna said seeing David getting distracted.
"This world has monsters all over, this is the perfect hunting ground. We came with few others but we split up and went separately, when we came inside the forest. What about you?" Rina asked.
"Is that so. As for us, we came from the west. We are new to this area and don't know anything. Can you do us a favour and help us get inside the kingdom walls. " Yuna asked them.
They looked at Yuna with the expression 'seriously?' "You know what you are asking, right? You are a demon, please will freak out when they see you. They might even try to hunt you down." Kaya said.
Yuna however just hid her wings and horns like it was nothing. "Now, can you help us?" She said.
"How did you do that? It should be impossible to do that. You are now look no different from any other human." They said shocked by Yuna hiding her racial features.
"Wow, Yuna. You have learnt to hide your horns as well. Well done." David was pleased seeing Yuna like before but with little distinction like long hair, red eyes and more beautiful facial features.
"Thanks David." Yuna smiled. She seemed happy getting David's compliments. She turned to elves again. "Will there be any problems now?" She asked.
"I don't think, there will be any problems. We will go their in a bit. First we need to store these monsters in the magic pouch." Saying that they turned their attention to the monsters. After they stored the monsters they came to them.
"We can leave now." Rina said but stopped after walking few steps and came to David. "I suppose, you don't have any money with you. Take this, it is not much but it will be enough for few days to in the hotel." She gave David few silver coins.
"Silver coins are used as money nowadays. We can't take your money. If you don't mind, can you tell me how we can earn money instead?" David said returning Rina's silver coins.
"Just take it. You have saved us and we also took your kills. This money is a payment for those monsters, not the free money." Rina insisted so David kept the money.
Rina continued, "you are so strong, earning money should be easy for you. You just have to kill monsters and sell their corpse in a shop. You will get more money, the stronger monsters corpse you sell."
"How is this coins divided anyway. Is there only silver coins used." Yuna asked.
"The coins are divided from copper being the lowest which has no value, followed by silver, gold and platinum. 1 silver coin is equal to 10 copper, 1 gold coin is equal to 10 silver coins and finally 1 platinum coin equals to 1000 gold coins. Platinum is not seen often and it is only possessed by big shots." Kaya said.
"While we are at it, let me tell you about how much money you get from selling monsters. E rank monsters are sold for 2 silver coins and D rank for 6 silver coins. You will get 1 gold coin from a C rank monsters corpse, 3 gold from a B rank and 10 from a A rank ones." Sona explained.
"What rank were those tiger monsters Yuna killed?" David asked curious.
"They were just E rank monsters. Their leader was at D rank I think. We will get about 10 silver coins from selling these corpses." Rina said.
"Thank you for explaining everything, that was helpful. Would you mind waiting for a bit. I have something to discuss with Yuna in private." David said.
"Please, take your time we will wait for you near that tall tree over there." They said pointing toward the tree.
When they left, Yuna Yuna asked, "what is in your mind, David? Is it about Teresa? "
"Yes, even though we were using camouflage all this time on spaceship, I don't think we can take it inside the kingdom. They will detect it from far away. What do we do?" David said with troubled expression.
"Don't think too much about it. First we will go inside the kingdom and get familiar with the environment there. We will come back for Teresa when we have every information we need." Yuna suggested.
David thought for a while and said. "We can do that but first let's go back to the spaceship. We can not leave it in the ground, it's very risky."
"You are right. Let go." Yuna and David returned to the spaceship. They instructed Teresa to keep the spaceship in constant flight until they are back. Teresa provided them with the communication device. With that they could contact Teresa and give her instructions when needed.
Initial problem taken care of, they went to the place where the elves were waiting for them. Now that they were together, they started their journey to the Shangri-la kingdom. Yuna and David were seated in the flying cars of Rina and Kaya each and Sona was leading the way.
They travelled through the vast jungle and hills. After an hour of journey, they finally arrived near the wall. There was a big gate with advanced sensors and security systems in place. There were people entering and leaving the gate using some kind of card. There were guards at the gates and lookouts on top of the walls as well. The security was very tight.
The elves slowed down the cars. "Be careful, you are new here, so let us do the talking and follow our lead. Don'tdo anything that will put everyone in danger." Rina warned.
"We understand, we will do as you say." David and Yuna nodded. David and Yuna curiously scanned everything around them.
When they were Infront of the gate, Rina went ahead to talk about David and Yuna's situation. Some time later she came with a guard of the gate but looked like a veteran soldier. She came close to David and Yuna.
"You have to go through security checks to enter the gate." Sona informed. She leaned close to Yuna and whispered, "Try your best to not reveal your real identity."
The guard scanned David and Yuna head to toe, "You two managed to survive on Wastelands, huh. Come with me." He said with a strict tone of a soldier in his voice.