Chapter 183 Destra no more 3 (1/2)

As Terry walked off the dirt road into the more wild forest his breathing unknowingly began to slow down as well as his heart rate, he stepped on the moss covered forest floor while he scanned the trees and forest floor around him for wild plants and game as he walked deeper into the forest

'steady now...'

a change from when he first set foot in the forest was that he had his bow in his left hand with an arrow ready on the arrow rest so he only needed to draw back the string to fire it off instead of having to retrieve it from his quiver first,this tactic was by no means uncommon and had already netted him 4 rabbits and a forest bird so this had become the new norm for him whenever he was in the forest. Right now he stood and leaned up against a tree as he took aim at a bird sitting on a branch a few tens of meters away, a few seconds later he let the arrow fly and quickly it struck the bird that fell down on the forest floor

'yes!'

Terry did a fist pump and began walking over towards his kill but suddenly felt something watching him and stopped walking as he looked around, but after a few seconds the feeling disappeared again

'...maybe it was just my imagination? well whatever with this forest bird I'm one step closer to reaching stone rank!'

ranks for the hunters guild were like the ones from the mercenaries guild starting from lowest to highest was wood, stone, iron, steel, silver, gold, platinum, mythril and finally adamantite. Reaching stone from wood rank signefired a more than just a leap in one rank, it was often a cruel joke that circled around the upper ranks that the reason the lowest rank was wood was because wood disappeared after a while in the forest, if the lower rank was iron instead the forest floor would be filled with rusted iron tags as being a hunter, especially in the lower ranks was dangerous work, in fact it was only at steel rank that---

”stop right there”

Terry nearly jumped up from surprise but did as the voice that sounded out right behind him asked and stopped moving

”good... now drop the bow”

Terry reluctantly dropped the bow and arrow on the forest floor before he raised his hands above his head, it was only now that he realized that the voice that was speaking to him in the common language had a heavy accent

'don't tell me it's an elver..!'

”good now turn around”

Terry slowly turned around and came face to face with what he feared an elven woman clad in leather armor that was pointing an arrow towards him, but beyond shock there was also amazement

'she sure is beautiful...'

the elver had pale smooth skin and shoulder length blonde hair and emerald green eyes, her figure was somewhat slender but she still had curves in all the right places

”(by the 13, what's that on his face!)”

the elver spoke something in elvish which Terry didn't understand as she frowned, although Terry didn't understand what she was saying he had seen those eyes and that frown before and explained

”this is a birthmark, I was born with it”

the elver cutely tilted her head to the side as she repeated after Terry

”birth.... mark?”

Terry gave a nod and pointed at his birthmark

”this is a birthmark”

”I see... wait keep your hands up!”

Terry quickly put his hands up again and stared at the elver while he waited for the next instruction, he knew she was unlikely to kill him as long as he followed her instructions as she could have easily killed him when she had snuck up behind him

”now walk that way”

the elver gestured to the way she wanted Terry to walk and Terry gave a nod and began walking for a bit before he stopped and slowly turned around to face the elver again that had a frown on her face

”what is it human?”

”my name is Terry... could you pick up my bow, it was a gift from someone”

the elver gave a deep frown but eventually she picked up the bow and carried it with her

”thank you”

”....now move!”

”okay, still this way?”

”yes now move!”