Trivia: Goblin Race is considered as the lowest among all inhabitant of Fantasia, there two types of goblins; the regular and the elite. The regular goblin mostly only wear a plain cloth over their private part, the elite can be seen with armor or shoulder patch, for a regular goblin to transform into an elite, they must massacre each other and eat their flesh; if they luckily consume enough, they will evolve with innate skill << Skill Mimicry >> which allow them to adopt any sort of fighting skill from the flesh they ate.

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"Sir Star, we are very indebted to you, how can we repay all of this benevolent?"

Sitting on a huge rock, Alex saw the pair of brother and sister immediately knelt in front of him, didn't matter if some blood of goblins smeared the soil, they without hesitation smashed their forehead on the ground.

"Your brother had paid me 10 golds, and I had taken enough from the treasure vault, so don't make yourself difficult," Alex stood from the rock and crouched in front of them, he grasped their shoulder and supported them to rise from the ground.

It's not he was humble, Alex always felt uncomfortable when someone knelt to him, he thought his action didn't deserve such behavior.

"How that is enough?" Alexis shook her head, "Sir Star, you did not just save us from a terrible fate, but you gave us a chance to reunite, making us once again has a hope."

"Sir Star, in my whole life, I only have my sister and my mother, without them both, I don't know if life worth living," Elliot deeply sighed, "I wish we have a better reward to give to you."

"Alright, let's put aside this whole payment thing for a moment," Alex couldn't help but forced a smile, he swore if any of them spoke about gratitude again, he wouldn't hesitate to start throwing fire, "what's next for you guys?"

"We return to Avalon," Alexis said, glanced to Elliot on the side, "the deadline for our mission is not enough, and my party also got wiped out, I couldn't endanger Elliot anymore than this."

Elliot nodded, "I am not a fighter, so I can't burden Alexis, this is the only option we have."

"Besides, if we fast enough, maybe we could arrive for the last time to see our family..." Alexis smiled at Alex, she extended her hand and said, "it's my honor to know a remarkable mage like you, Sir Star."

"..." Alex grasped her hand and shook it lightly, afterward Alexis and Elliot departed from the area, he had given them three days worth supplies, and Elliot confidence enough with Alexis' skill to protect them along the way.

After gathering the reward of war from the battlefield, Alex and the others continued their journey, Momo said the end of the Dawn Forest was not far left.

A couple of hours before the evening, they had come out from the forest, here was a plain field with several tall blades of grass, the area was surrounded by the high ground that covered in thick forest on its surface, the high ground itself was narrowing to an entrance of the dark and gloomy forest.

The Dawn Forest might have tall and lushes trees but the light of the sun still pitched in, but the forest ahead was horribly spooky.

There was also a strange beast that loitered around here, a hairy monster with no feet or hands, jumping around as they fed on the grass, their big one eye was half-wide open while they munched on the grass, appeared bored to death.

The gang decided to continue their journey the next day, not because of afraid from losing the light, but the monsters Alexis had warned them about.

They were called Hellhound, unintelligent demonic pit bulls who would attack with no hesitation, their claws could tear you apart, and fangs effortlessly rent the exterior of your larynx.

Faster and much ferocious than the Wild Hog, but luckily, their skin was not thicker than the Wild Hog, thus easier to be killed, though half of his group graduated from the stormtrooper school, so this was the worst nightmare.

Also, despite their savagery, these Hellhounds would not appear before the sunset, their active time was at the earlier evening to right before dawn.

So, they didn't have much choice but to camp here for the night.

Alex casually took out the tents from the storage, it already set up, so they could just rest immediately, the soldiers had stacked dry woods from the vicinity, Dick grabbed a stick and prepared to lit up a fire by whirling the stick on the dry woods.

It worked the last time but took quite a while.

"Wait," Alex stopped him, the younger man glanced at him in confusion, "let me try something."

He picked up a book from inside the system, it's a regular-sized tome with a red cover, this came from the goblins' treasure vault.

"Fire Marbles," Alex slowly said, the red tome suddenly flapped open, red aura covered his body as Alex felt a sort of heat traveled into his palm, he spread it open, and one small fireball emerged from the base of his palm, soon another fireball emerged and eventually, four fireballs floated above his palm, revolving like the planets in the galaxy.

"Go..." he gently said, the four fireballs did one last round of revolution, then in a line, they rushed at the stack of firewoods like a small snake, it hit the target one by one, and the result was... well, small.

No explosion or sort, it caused a small spark but enough to lit a small fire in the firewoods, then not long after the entire group was in a fire.

"Man, magic is really handy..." Damian said in jealousy, daydream in which day he could somewhat cast one.

"They did, but so also a lighter, or a matchstick, even without magic, a human can strive..." Alex cast another fire marbles, he just let them revolve on his palm, he thought they were cute.

"Hey, Alex, let me try one, maybe I can also use magic!" Momo came out from her pumpkin house, dressed in casual clothing, Great Lord, she's damn cute.

"You can shoot lightning, what magic you also need?" Alex let out a small laugh.

"There is no harm in having more, a woman will always need another trick up their sleeves," she giggled.

"That applied to everyone, not just woman..." Alex took out another book from the system, said, "actually why don't you all try to use it, maybe you did have a talent in magic."

"This is a book containing Telekinesis Spell, you can move things with the wave of your hand or through your mind, I myself have not tried it."

"Sounds handy!" Momo tapped her hands and approached him, Alex gave the book to her.

"Just say the name of the spell; if you have a talent of a mage, the book will open by itself, of course regarding whether you can use the magic or not, that requires practice, or in my case, level up."

"Alright," she cutely nodded then cleared her throat, she held a book on one hand as she closed her eyes and said, "Telekinesis!"

The book remained close.

"Eh? Did I say it wrong?" Momo doubtfully said while peeking one eye, "maybe need louder? TELEKINESIS!"

"..." No response from the book.

"Maybe it's broken..." she said while having suspicious eyes.

"I don't know, here let me test it," Alex said, Momo gave the book back to him, unlike the Fire Marbles, Telekinesis had a silver cover.

"Telekinesis..."

*Zing!*

The silver book on his hand immediately flipped open, a silver aura spread from the book and soon covered Alex's whole body, he took out a copper from the system and focused his mind on the coin.

Very soon, the copper floated from his palm, hovering still in the air, rotated to left and right, up and down, lastly moved toward Momo.

"Ah... not fair..." Momo's cheek puffed a little, she held the coin while staring at him like a child received injustice.

"I am sorry, that just means you don't have the talent to be a mage..." Alex softly chuckled.

"W-well, magic is stupid, who needs it anyway, hmph," Momo threw her face to the side, "Shizuka, let's play with those monsters!"

There she went, dragged Shizuka by her hand.

Alex shook his head in bitterness, then he cast Telekinesis again, lifting up the red book and slowly sent them over to Dick.

"Mr. Star, shouldn't you be chasing after her? I mean, she's your fiancee, would be bad for your if she mad," Dick awkwardly said while grasping the red book.

"Nah, she's just playing with you, even if she's mad for real, I have a method to make amend," Alex calmly said, "try cast the spell."

Dick sat up properly, felt a bit anxious, he cleared his throat for a bit, then said, "Fire Marbles."

"..."

"No dice," Dick sighed before passing on the book to Damian, the latter excitedly held the book.

"FIRE MARBLES!"

*Swoosh!*

The book surprisingly flipped a bit, Damian widened his eyes and face became extremely flushed in excitement.

"Wow, do see you that?! I have a talent in magic!"

"That's a wind," both Dick and Jason deadpanned.

"No, no, look!" Damian lifted high the red tome, exclaimed with his full passionate voice, "FIRE MARBLES!"

"..."

Full half minute, the book showed no sign of making any movement.

"Man, this sucks..." he twitched his lips, pouting as he offered the book to Jason, but got rejected by him.

"I have no interest," Jason said.

The red tome floated back to Alex's hand, then he stored both books back to the system. Afterward, the four men went silent, they stared at the dancing flame in the middle.

"You know, those kids are nice people," Jason suddenly said.

"Who? Elliot and Alexis?" Dick wrinkled his eyebrows.

"Have you met other kids aside from them?" Jason rolled his eyes, "we didn't even meet other people but them."

"Alright, no need to get annoyed, and yes, I think so too," Dick's lips twitched.

"Well, I met a lot of women..." Alex played with the copper, "just unfortunate they haven't exactly in the mood to chat."

"That worse, huh?" Jason said with a concerned tone, he didn't participate in both fighting and entering the Goblin Nest, wasn't quite experience all the horrors and thrills.

Alex sighed, flashing his smile toward them, "It's just the tip of the iceberg, I believe there will be something worse down the road, back then was just... a drill."

The three soldiers exchanged glances, anxiety flashed through their eyes.

"Let's talk about something else, hey Jason, what do you talk about with that kid Elliot?" Damian said.

"Well... I obviously can't tell him I am from different worlds... and I don't know a lot about this world... so our conversation is a little, you know, not quite right, so..." Jason tilted his head and looked toward the sky, " but I do know that he's attending Grand Art Academy, took painting lesson he said."

"What's the Grand Art Academy?" Dick said.

"He said it was a place in which people with a passion for art could improve and study, it has no relation with the three kingdoms and quite big also, they offered a lesson such as painting, instrument, dancing, literature, etc..." Jason said, "any other lessons except fighting."

"This is rather strange; if Elliot can't fight, then why he was on the journey together with Alexis for their task?" Damian frowned.

Right, it muddled their mind, wasn't someone with no fighting capability would just become a burden along the way? In fact, Alexis had to sacrifice herself so Elliot could make his escape...

"Elliot initially didn't want to go with her, but Alexis couldn't relax if he's not under her watch, thus he accompanied their journey..." Jason said.

"She's rather too protective, doesn't it? I mean, it's both irritating and marvelous to have such sibling," Dick suddenly smiled with lecherous eyes, "I don't mind she's watching my back 24 hours."

"Right... she was towering over you while you sleeping, or watch from the side while you taking a shit," Damian sneered.

"Great, now my imagination ruins, thanks a lot," Dick grabbed a small stone and threw it toward Damian.

"Well, I rather have a brother than a sister..." every eye suddenly looked toward Jason, the latter looked at them with confused eyes, "what?"

"Jason... don't tell me..." Damian knitted his eyes in suspicion.

"Don't tell me...?" Jason wrinkled his eyebrows before finally realized what he meant, his face twisted in anger as he gave Damian a middle finger, "fuck you, Damian, I am not that meaning!!!"

The three of them laughed before Dick looked toward Alex, said, "Mr. Star, what about you? Do you have a sibling?"

Alex shook his head, "I am a sole child, or unless you consider the bird we kept as a part of the family."

"Wow, you pet a bird?"

"My father's, not mine..." Alex shifted his eyes toward the fire, clenched his teeth, "and he preferred playing with it than teaching me soccer... "

The soldiers dropped a sweat.

Alex sighed before sweeping his eyes on them, he smiled as he stood up, said, "You boys have fun, I am going to talk with the ladies."

"Ooh, talk with the ladies~" the three of them laughed, Dick followed with, "make sure they satisfied Mr. Star!"

Alex helplessly shook his head, "Get your mind out of the gutter."

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Momo hugged a weird hairy creature, caressing its furry while Shizuka sat beside her, one of the creatures rested on her head.

"You know, Nana would have loved them, they cute..." she lifted up the creature and looked straight at its face.

"Couldn't agree more..." Shizuka twitched her eyes as the creature let out a grumbling hum, a steam shot out from its cow-like nose.

Momo's face turned sour, hugged back the creature, "If only such cute thing that exists..."

"Then there is no use for Alex to be here..." Shizuka said, "I think he or she beckoned him here clearly for the trouble they unable to handle."

"I know... that means it would be ugly... and downright scary..." Momo's eyes couldn't help but half-lidded, "do you think Alex could handle it?"

"..." Shizuka went silent for a bit, then said, "he can't."

"You right he can't."

Momo chuckled a bit, said, "Alex may have an experience, but not this kind of experience, he... is no different than a regular man."

"Not really... his first request when he summoned me was to kill the Wild Boar, then his second request was to kill two soldiers, I think he has sort of... way to handle things ruthlessly."

"He did..." Momo's eyes suddenly glittered, she snapped her face toward Shizuka, said, "Hey, tell me, why he summoned you here?"

Shizuka startled, she thought of his courting after she killed the two soldiers, couldn't help but her face groomed red, threw her eyes away from Momo.

"Hoho..." Momo's tail swayed side to side, her lips curled in a mischievous way, "did I catch juicy?"

"N-nothing... nothing... he thought me of someone capable to protect him, so he did what he did..."

"Come on, there is only the two of us... you can tell me..." she slid closer, rubbed her body to Shizuka's side.

"Q-quit it, it's tickling..." Shizuka leaned away, but Momo started using her fingers to trace her body.

"You got some curve, Shizuka, me jealous..." Momo giggled as her hands rubbed all over her body, "especially here... uh... I got mine, but not as big as this... you probably comparable with Big Sis, no wait... maybe Mother..."

"No, ah..." Shizuka tried to push her away, but her strength was so superior, eventually, Shizuka's hand suddenly grabbed Momo's swaying tail, the Devilukian Princess immediately gasped, even letting out a moan.

"N-not my tail..." Momo trembled as if her body got jolted, her face blushed fiercely.

Shizuka startled, she thought about letting it go before looking at Momo agitated face, couldn't help but grin then continued harassing her tail.

"Yeah, no... let it go, umm..." Momo squirmed while closing her eyes, a bit drool sneaked out from the corner of her lips as she tried to suppress the pleasure.

Shizuka continued her stroke, marveling at the fact that such a fierce person got so feeble by getting her tail attack.

"Kuuu..." Momo hummed begrudgingly, then she leaped at Shizuka, wrestling with her in the name of revenge.

"Ah... where do you touching?!"

"Let go my tail!"

"No!"

"Then I won't stop!"

"..."

Meanwhile, Alex watched from the sideline, thinking whether he should appreciate the view, or come back later...