As I walk down the path I try to think of what exactly I will do once I reach a city..
I should find a inn first....then try to get more information on this world....
...somehow..
..but as I don't know were to I would find that information...
..i would have to ask around..
..from my memoriesm..i know from my mother that the major races on this world were nature elf's first...followed by dragons, dark elves, beast kins, spirits, and lastly a race winged being called skypeians..
..from what I was told the last race resembled angels with two wings...but they come in different colors according to what element they naturally align with..
..there are of course other races...but these are the major ones...
...they were the one's with the most power and influence...the biggest and prosperous kingdom or nations..
..and of course there is still the kingdom of males....
...but I won't count them..
..I never...
..ever..
..plan to go there..
..I turn my thoughts back to the path...
...hang on....
..why am I walking..
..I have powers now..
" ... "
I need to get over my old mindset..
..looking around I spot a big tree standing out from the others and decided to climb it..
...I an a elf...and also I've lived in the forest all my life....so I can scale trees with ease..
..soon I'm at the top...and I have to take a moment to truly admire the view and appreciate how tall this tree was..
..far off in the distance...I can just barely Make-out a small smoke cloud..
..taking that as a sign i climbed back down to the ground...
..keeping the direction I seen the smoke in my mind...I slip into the shadow made by the tree..
..I focusing....I use my magic...
...it was as if i could instinctively manipulate it to do what I want..
..in a instant I was far from the place I was just moments before...
..climbing another tree I can see I was closer to the smoke cloud...
..but not that much..
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..it was then I found out have far away it truly was...
..that smoke cloud must be huge what is causing it?..
..while I know I moved a significant distance...
..It was still far away...
..if I measured it....while I traveled a couple miles maybe 25 or 30...
..I still would need to make that same kind of jump another 11 or 12 times...
..just how far did my mother go away from civilization in order to raise me in secret?..
..expanding more magic I drop back down to the ground again...and walk to a shadow...
..this time I move even farther....
..covering maybe 3 or 4 of my original jump...
..after another 2 more jumps I arrived close to what was making the cloud...
..it was a vast convoy consisting of dozens maybe even hundreds of carriages all in different styles and colors...
..looking at them I try to see where they are headed...
...but see nothing but a road beaten beside the forest heading off onto the distance...
..i turn back to the convoy to see that someone noticed me from a carriage not far me and proceeded to walk towards me..
I panic a little bit thinking about what to say to them..
..walking closer to me I notice that the person is a female....
..well from what I can see....and with this world they should mostly likely be..
I also notice that the she is a beast kin..
..a wolf kin to be specific with a dark blue bushy tail extending from behind her...I also notice a pair of dark blue wolf ears in her equally colored hair...
..she was wearing form fitting leather Armor along with a light colored traveller's cloak..
..she was a looker....
...but as she drew near I could faintly feel my body tingling...
...almost as if a kind of 6th sense was going off..
I can make a educated guess and say she was a futa...
..did I have some kind of weird 6th sense that let me know when one was near?..
..that would be help...
...but it was also annoying as it seems I would always faintly tremble in the presence of one...
..need to fix that and fast...as to not let others know I was afraid or intimidated by them..
..the wolf kin finally draws near me stopping a few yards away and directly asks me.. " Is there a reason you are around our convoy and by coming out of the great virility forest "
..I file the name of the forest away...before I hesitantly say " I don't know how I got in this forest...I woke up not to long ago...I saw the smoke cloud rising into the air not far awayband came to see what it was....I'm sorry if I made you guys uncomfortable with my presence....I will leave I just would like to ask where the nearest city is."
..the wolf kin looks at me closely...probably annalizing my words...before she quickly said.. " I didn't mean to offend youm..it's just you can never really trust people you don't know to much around here.. the nearest city is valfax...it's 3 days travel down this road....that is where we are currently going....if you'd like...you can travel with us."
It's was my turn to look her over...and decide if I want to be around people this early on in my journey...
..judging from her eyes...she would like nothing more than for me to say yes..
..honestly....
...I don't need to travel with them....since I now have a direction and distance...
...I can travel faster to get there than be here with these people for 3 days...
..still if possible I would like to look at a map if possible if she had one...
" Do you have a map of the local region as I don't know where I am and would like to know" i ask the wolf kin
she ponders for a second... " Me and my companions do have a map...but it's not the kind you would be looking for...there are guilds in the city that you could go for if you need the information....all the more reason to travel with us." she says with a bit of a big smile that was too "wolfy" for my likings...
"No that's fine..thank you...I will be on my way now and out of you girl's hair.." I say before turning to walk away..
...but the wolf kin tries to stop me..
.." WAIT!!.. " she shouted as she rushed forward to try and grab my cloths...
...but before she reaches me...I'm already walking into a shadow...and using shadow travel I appear a few miles down the road...
...turning back I see I'm in ahead of the convoy now by a quiet a bit.
..the dust cloud painting the sky with a light yellow color due to the dry dirt of the beaten road..
..yea...like I was about to let that girl touch me...
I still haven't forgotten my skill...or debuff..and with how she was looking at me..
..I knew nothing good would have come from that..
..plus traveling with a group of people I don't know off rip...I'm not OK with..
I turn back to look at the way I still have to go..
..3 days travel?..
..how long would that take to shadow travel?..
..since I'm already in a shadow I just use my magic again to appear a greater distance down the road..
..while I want to just use more magic to go greater distances in a single leap..
I am unfortunately limited to making jumps to what I can see..
I can't just materialize in a place I don't know or see.
..so I just jumped to the edge of I can see...with every jump going faster as I was getting the hang of it more and more..
I keep doing this until the mid-afternoon when a rumble in my stomach told me to stop..
..looking around at where I'm am...I can see i have left the forest edge long ago and am now in a plain traveling down beside the beated road that turned into a more paved road..
I was jumping from tree shadows littered along side the road..
..seeing no one around I think of what I can eat from my belongings..
I have dried meat but while I can eat meat I don't have a big appetite for it..
I also have a few assorted fruit in my bag so I reach for them to settle my stomach..
..as I eat I again observedmy surroundings..
..it was really amazing..
..the picture perfect landscape..
..the magnificent trees and the flowers scattered everywhere..
I sat on a large rock not far from the road looking up at the sky..
..this world really had two suns..
..one a big blue and the other reminds me of my 1st life sun all bright and yellow..
..breathing-taking..
..that's also going to get some getting use to..
I continue to eat and when I feel like I ate my fill I wash it down with some water from my water skin..
..feeling re-energized I stand up to continue on my way to the city..
I don't know how far I traveled...I can only hope I get there before dark as I didn't want to sleep outside..
I step back to the tree shadow and dissappear...
..
..it wasn't until the sky was darkening...by alot that I finally saw a faint glow in the distance..
..since it was getting darker and because of my night vision I could cover more ground without being limited to tree shadows..
..shen I arrive closer to the glow I can see it's the light spilling over from a big city..
..it was a typical medieval city as it had a big city wall with people walking back and forth along the top..
I can see just beyond that from my point of view a little bit of the tops of some of the buildings and i can see from here they would be magnificent also..
..the road led to a city gate in the wall with a small line in front of it and a few carriages with people surrounding lead it out of the city gate..there was another road branching off from this main road going in a entirely different direction..
..where it went I don't know...but judging by how this road I was on was relatively sparce and that one had more of a steady steam of travelers...
..my guess is that it lead to another city father away...but no less important that this one...
I was still thinking about the big convoy...three days behind me..
..looking at the two different roads I can guess that the convoy coming down this road must be some kind of event as that many carriages coming didn't seem like the norm..
I don't linger too long there as I want and inn before it gets fully dark..
I shadow jump one lat time to appear a reasonable distance away with not having to walk to much but also so that I don't startle anyone with me appearing out of nowhere..
I walk until I'm at the very back of the short line...and looking in front of me I can feel the tingling feeling again..
..there was nothing but beautiful women in this line....
..but from my hypothesis....this feeling is something I get when there is a futa or maybe even a male is near me...
..that doesn't reassure as while I may be able to roughly identify one....I still didn't want to be alone with one..
..the one in front of me turn to look at me slightly and turning away..
..before immediately turning back around to look at me again..
" .... "
..it was a kind of weird double take as I had no reason to warrant such reaction..
I look at the one in front of me at ask nicely but a little guarded " ....I'm sorry...does something seems to be a problem for you to look at me like that.. "
..the girl snaps out of her stunned state and says while looking me over " no....nothing is the matter...I was just caught off guard by your beauty...if it doesn't seem to forward after getting into the city since it's a little late would you like to have dinner with me...of course I will pay... "
..she gives me what I suppose was her flirty or "sexy" smile..
..but I did nothing but give me the creeps and send a shiver down my spine..
I also am a little offended that she basically called me cute..
..according to the system I was a male..
..but thinking it over....I won't try to correct her...as letting people know I was a male without more forms of protection was stupid..
" nnn no..that's alright I have my own plans for dinner and won't be able to accompany you I'm sorry" I say tremblingly as she comes a little closer to me...
..hearing my response her smile gets a little bit bigger..
"aawww come now there's no need to be shy I won't hurt you...In fact I can take extra special care of you " she said comeing even closer...
I step back...visibly a bit afraid when she suddenly reaches out grab my hand to keep me from backing away from her...
..my body suddenly froze..
..all attempts to use my magic to try and escape the situation fail..
I'm was immobilized....and deep fear was creeping into my expression...
I felt like I couldn't breath straight and my legs was about to give way up under me..
I try my best to look up at the girl and try to say with the best voice I can muster...
"ccc ccaa ccaannn yy yyoou pp ppl lease llleeet gg ggggoo ooofff mmmmmm meeee..."