455 After the Meeting, An Odd Night and the Departure to the Destroyed Kingdom of Sylphs (1/2)

Day ▋▋ - ▋▋:▋▋ ▋▋ - Guest Rooms, Stone Fortress, Eastern Mountain

The night in the Spirit Dimension had finally fallen.

Nonetheless, it was the time of the day for many kinds of elementals and spirits to be active. It kept the place lively despite the dark sky.

Bright glowing stones, magical fruits, glowing mushrooms, and even balls of light made of magic illuminated the whole place. Not all the races needed light during the night, but for the sake of safety, they tried to light up the entire area where the survivors lived.

Of course, since the whole place was surrounded by tall trees blanketed with illusion magic, the light could be barely seen outside. It was unless the attackers came from above. Still, even if that happened, everyone was ready to defend this place. To make the fortress fall, the infected would need a thousand horde of flying ones, that was unlikely to happen for now.

Inside the Stone Fortress, the meeting had already ended. Everyone, except for Danaya and Hieromano, who still had to discuss things about the fortress, had already left the room.

Mark and Pefile arrived at where the rest were brought to. They were being led by one of the King's aides who immediately left after leaving a message to the queen that was still within the guest room. Shortly after, the queen also left together with her guards after bidding goodbye to Terrimillio's wives. The husband, of course, was still ignored.

”Gege, how is it?”

Mei asked after she welcomed Mark back with an embrace.

”Let's sit down first. I'll tell everyone later.”

Mark said as he patted Mei's head.

He looked around, it seemed that they were brought to a guest area with several bedrooms. It was not a very classy looking one but was surely pleasing to the eyes. For something like this to be built in this fortress, it looked like large groups of guests would frequent this place.

Everyone was waiting in the lobby, except for Amihan and the three girls. Mark could feel that the four were inside one of the four rooms and were already asleep.

Mark and Pefile sat down together with everyone and told them about what happened here in the Spirit Dimension. Amidst the story, dinner was brought to them. The food looked too different from what they usually had in the Mortal World because of the uncanny ingredients.

It was just soup and grilled meat. However, the meat was colored red, while some of the vegetables were something that they never saw before. Fortunately, Teremillio, Felenia, and Pefile were here to say that these things tasted good, or else, none of them would have eaten a single bite.

Furthermore, they were in a place that magic was not rare. Even if he could not detect anyone spying on his group, there might be some magic concealed anywhere.

It was better to be cautious as Mark rather not have any conflict with the races at this moment.

Pefile seemed to be confused as to why Mark hid some details. Nevertheless, he was able to read his intentions. Thus, he decided not to speak anything about it.

Mark also told his plan on dealing with the situation in the Kingdom of Sylphs. The ones that would accompany him were Aephelia and Logan.

Hearing that, anyone in here knew what he was planning. And thus, everyone agreed in his decision, even Mei was the same. No one here wanted to hold Mark back.

”By the way,” Karlene spoke. ”Queen Malabinia said that there is a trade area outside the fortress every morning.”

”Trade area?”

Mark tilted his head.

At his question, Felenia explained.

”Mother said that they allowed this since not everyone here can fight and hunt. Those people can use their things to barter for extra food and also other things.”

”I see. So, while I go out tomorrow, you all want to see?” Mark asked.

”Of course we do!” Alana exclaimed. ”Who knows what kind of unusual things we can find there!”

”And what are you going to trade with them?”

Those words from Mark made the others stumped. They thought about trading some of their food, but that was unlikely since it was human food, after all.

”How about weapons?”

Spera suggested.

”We don't have that many, though.”

Edzel voiced.

”Let's just window shop. There's no problem with that, right?”

Karlene finally suggested, and they all decided to just do that. After all, no one here was sure about what they would be able to see there.

Soon, they turned in for the rest of the night.

The night was strange, though. Even though they just slept for a few hours, and it was just past midnight, they all woke up and could not go back to sleep.

They all ended up idling in the room till morning. The time they spent this night, for some reason, felt like ages.

***

When morning came, Mark and Aphelia prepared for departure.

Everyone came to accompany the two out as they were called out by an aide of the king for departure.

At the courtyard, they met Danaya and the representatives that were already waiting.

Mark told Aephelia to call Logan, which caused a bit of commotion. After all, Logan and Gifre were not moving at all ever since they were left there. Many individuals even poked and made fun of the two. It was normal as many elementals and spiritual beings were playful in nature. They disregarded the fact that the two were Infectas since they were not moving.

When Logan moved, there were still some individuals playing around him. That caused these creatures to scurry around while screaming in fear.

Fortunately, everyone was already here in the courtyard to see all that happening. There was no misunderstanding that could happen. Of course, the representatives of the races and Danaya were surprised that one of the two individuals that Mark decided to come with him was this large, fat Infecta.

”Is everything ready?”

Mark asked.

”I am just waiting for your people, and we can go.”

Danaya replied.