Chapter 90 - Requested after Guidance (2/2)

“Then follow me. Our home is just up ahead.”

Accepting Loren’s request, the fairy named Corne floated up from Loren’s shoulder and started slowly flying deeper into the cave, waving for them to follow.

Loren, calling Lapis, who was half naked, and Feuille, who was sitting on the floor, decided to follow after Corne.

“How is this place like this?”

Temporarily holding her wet clothes in her arms, Lapis looked around and asked Corne.

But Corne cocked her head, not understanding what she meant.

“From what I can see, this place is an underground cave.”

“You’re right. This is below the place you call the Black Forest.”

“Why is it so bright?”

“That’s because of the glowing moss growing on the rocks. I don’t know why they glow, though.”

At Corne’s explanation, Loren put his face close to one of the rocks.

There was indeed a thin layer of moss growing on it and could see that the light being emitted from them was illuminating the whole cave.

“It’s the type of moss that could be found in nature type dungeons. It can be found in many places, so it’s not that rare.”

Lapis told Loren, who was examining the walls.

“Is it different from the walls from the Ancient Kingdom ruins we saw before?”

“It isn’t the same thing just because it glows Loren.”

Previously, when they had investigated an Ancient Kingdom ruin that was made for breeding goblins, they had seen that the building material for the walls, and remembering that, Loren asked Lapis, but she said he was wrong.

“The ones in the ruins are on a different level, from its rarity and light quantity to its price.”

“Everyone, how about looking at the walls later and keeping up? You’ll catch a cold, you know?”

As Corne called them, worried, they stopped what they were doing and hurried after her.

After walking a while, the cave opened into a large dome like space.

On the ground were stone buildings that weren’t taller than his waist, and Loren thought for a second that it was like a replica of a small city, but a look at the small winged beings moving to and from the buildings told him it wasn’t.

“Big people came.”

“They came.”

Responding to Corne’s voice, fairies that looked like boys and girls flew up slowly towards them and started flying around them.

Even though he knew they wouldn’t attack them, because of his first encounter with them, he found himself reaching for his great sword, but Lapis stopped his hand.

“It’s okay. They’re not enemies.”

“Y-yeah, my bad. My hand moved without thinking.”

“I know how you feel, though.”

Lapis didn’t forget them being chased as well.

The swarm of fairies was something even Lapis thought was scary, as she knew it couldn’t be helped that Loren was anxious.

“Everyone, you can dry your clothes here.”

Corne pointed towards a hole in the wall of the dome.

When Loren walked near it, he saw that it was way to small for a person to go through, but apparently it was connected deeper underground, and there was warm air flowing out of it.

“I was wondering why it wasn’t cold even though it was underground. This is how they control the temperature.”

“You could dry your clothes near this hole. It’s dry and warm, so it should be fine.”

“Let’s take her offer. If we leave our clothes here, it would dry quite quickly, and this place seems the warmest as well.”

“I’d like you to listen to our story while your clothes dry.”

“You said you wanted help, right?”

Watching Lapis hanging her clothes on the edge of the hole where the warm air was blowing from, Loren said to Corne, who was fluttering in place, Corne winced and nodded her head.

“Tell me about it. You’ve saved us, so we’ll do our best to solve it if we could.”

Loren told Corne, looking at Lapis finish hanging her clothes and taking off Feuille’s clothes to hang them as well, and with a serious look on her face, Corne flew around in front of his face, raised her fists in front of her, and in her expansive way of talking, told Loren.

“I want you to kill our chief.”