2 The Boy and the Girl Meet 1 (1/2)

The Land of Monsters, in a foggy forest, at the foot of a giant ancient tree.

Rose, who is wearing a white t-shirt and black jacket-pants, sits in a lotus position with her eyes closed.

She has been like this for almost two days. Actually, if the person doing this weren't her but instead some other with her same strength, that person would have already died thousands of times under the attack of the monsters.

Rose is different because she has a Special Awakened Skill; and by using it, she can completely hide her smell, her body heat, and the sounds. This lets others with only two ways to detect her: The first one is of course by sight, however, the dense mist and the trees of this forest turn this way to detect her almost useless; the second one is by the First Level Initial Awaken aura that she releases, but, the monsters can't feel her aura since they use another type of energy to cultivate. The monsters use an energy called Mystical Energy, whereas the civilized races use Complex Energy.

On the other hand; Rose is very sensitive to sounds, this allows her to immediately discover if some monster gets too close, and so to her is an easy task to avoid them.

In short, the monsters from this place will not be able to detect Rose unless an unexpected accident happens; and it is precisely because of this that she had the guts to enter The Land of Monsters, where there is no Complex Energy but only Mystical Energy.

”*Sigh*...” Rose lets out a long, heavy sigh as she slowly opens her eyes with an expression full of sadness and disappointment.

(... It didn't work...) she says reluctantly in her head.

Even though, before coming to attempt to make a breakthrough in this dangerous place, Rose knew that the chances of success in breakthrough the First Level Initial Awaken to reach the Second Level Initial Awaken were almost nil, she could not help but keep in her heart the hope of achieving it. Now that she has failed with this method, she has run out of ideas of how she could breakthrough. It has been twenty years since the last time she had a breakthrough and now she is already thirty years old; so it's understandable why a woman as strong as Rose, who would not change her expression even if she is stabbed in the stomach, has such a sad and depressing face at this moment.

But in the end, Rose is still an exceptionally strong woman, so, after a few minutes, her face turns solemn again.

(I have to get out of here before my Complex Energy runs out.)

Once she thought about this, Rose stands up, picks up her backpack, observes for an instant the shapes and details of the surrounding trees, then begins to walk following the same path she used to reach this place.

She had not entered too deep into The Land of Monsters, so she quickly reaches the zone where Mystical Energy coexists with Complex Energy. At this point, Rose drastically increases her speed, and after a few hours, she manages to leave the forest.

The landscape that appears in front of Rose is that of a green meadow, in the east there is a vast river and in the distance, there is the silhouette of the Lurep Village's walls.

Lurep Village forms part of the territory of Stormy Cloud City that belongs to The Broken Earth Kingdom, and the latter is one of the five kingdoms that make up The Continent of Civilized Races.

When Rose arrives at the entrance of Lurep Village the sky was already dark, but her thoughts had already cleared up: (Since I need to find another way to make a breakthrough, early tomorrow, I'll go to the library to find a clue, but for now, I'll go eat and rest.)

Once this is decided, Rose enters the village and goes to her inn.

The inn that Rose had chosen is neither luxurious nor humble, it is something in between but it has everything that she needs. Upon arrival, she goes to the dining room and asks for a light meal. Once she is done killing her hunger, she goes up to the room she had rented for fifteen days and still has eleven days of time to use.