As I walk down the path I try to think of what exactly I will do once I reach a city.
I can find a inn and try to get more information on this world
but as I don't know were to I would find that information i would have to ask around.
from my memories I know from my mother than the major races on this world were nature elf's first.
followed by dragons, dark elves, beast kins, spirits, and lastly a race winged being called skypeians.
from what I was told this race resemble angels with two wings but they come in different colors according to what element they naturally align with.
there are other races but these are the major ones as they have the biggest or more prosperous kingdom or nation amongst the others.
of course there is still the kingdom of males but I won't count them.
I turn my thought back to the path.
hang on .....
why am I walking
I have powers now
I need to get over my old mindset
looking around I first climb a tree
as I an a elf and lived in the forest all my life I can scale trees with ease
soon Im at the top of a particularly large tree
far off in the distance I can just barely Make-out a small smoke cloud
dropping back down to the ground I keep the direction I seen the smoke in my mind while walking to a shadow made by a tree.
stepping into it I use my magic as I instinctively manipulate it to do what I want.
in a instant I was far from the place I was just moments before.
climbing another tree I can see I was closer to the smoke cloud but not that much
it was then I found out have far away it really was.
'that smoke cloud must be huge what is causing it?'
while I know I moved a significant distance. I still what far away if I measured it. while I traveled a couple miles maybe 25 or 30.
I still would need to make that same kind of jump another 11 or 12 times.
just how far did my mother go away from civilization in order to raise me in secret.
expanding more magic I drop to the ground again and walk to a shadow.
thus time I move even farther. covering maybe 3 or 4 of my original jumps.
after another 2 more jumps I arrived close to what was making the cloud.
it was a vast convoy consisting of dozens maybe even hundreds of carriages all in different styles and colors.
looking at them I try to see where they are headed but see nothing but a road beaten beside the forest heading off onto the distance.
someone notices me from a carriage not far me and proceeds to walk towards me.
I panic a little bit thinking about what to say to them.
walling closer to me I notice that the person is a female....
well from what I can see, with this world they be anything
I also notice that the she is a beast kin
a wolf kin to be specific, a dark blue bushy tail extended from behind her and I notice a pair of dark blue wolf ears in her equally colored hair.
she was wearing form fitting leather Armor along with a light colored traveller's cloak.
she was a looker but as she drew near I could faintly feel my body tingling almost as if a kind of 6th sense was going off.
I can make a educated guess and say she was a futa.
Did I have some kind of weird 6th sense that let me know when one was near?
that would be help but also annoying as it seems I would always faintly tremble in the presence of one.
need to fix that and fast as to not let others know I was afraid or intimidated by them
the wolf kin finally draws near me stopping a few yards away. " Is there a reason you are around our convoy and by coming out of the great virility forest"
I file the name of the forest away as I hesitantly say " I don't know how I got in this forest.
I woke up not to long ago to far away and saw the smoke cloud rising into the air and came to see what it was.
I'm sorry if I made you guys uncomfortable with my presence.
I will leave I just would like to ask where the nearest city is."
The wolf kin looks at me closely, annalizing my words.
she quickly she " I didn't mean to offend you it's just you can never really trust people you don't know to much around here.
the nearest city is valfax, it's 3 days travel down this road.
that is where we are currently going.
if you'd like you can travel with us."
It's my turn to look her over and decide if I want to be around people this early on in my journey.
Judging from her eyes she would like nothing more that for me to say yes
honestly I don't need to travel with them as I since I have a direction and distance I can travel faster to get there than be here with these people for 3 days.
still if possible I would like to look at a map if possible if she had one.
" Do you have a map of the local region as I don't know where I am and would like to know" i ask the wolf kin
she ponders for a second.
" Me and my companions do have a map but it's not the kind you would be looking for. there are guilds in the city that you could go for if you need the information. all the more reason to travel with us." she says with a bit of a big smile that was to "wolfy" for my likings.
"No that's fine, thank you I will be on my way and out of you guys hair" I turn to walk away but the wolf kin tries to stop me
"WAIT"
she rushes forward to grab my cloths but before she reaches me I'm already walking into a shadow and using shadow travel I appear a few miles down the road.
turning back I'm in front of the convoy now by a bit.
the dust cloud painting the sky with a light yellow color due to the dry dirt of the beaten road.
yea like I was about to let that girl touch me.
I still haven't forgotten my skill or debuff and with how she was looking at me I knew nothing good would have come from that.
plus traveling with a group of people I don't know off rip I'm not OK with.
I turn back to look at the way I still have to go
3 days travel?
how long would that take to shadow travel
since I'm already in a shadow I just use my magic again to appear a greater distance down the road
while I want to just use more magic to go greater distances in a single leap
I am unfortunately limited to making jumps to what I can see.
I can't just materialize in a place I don't know or see.
so I just jump to the edge of I can see with every jump going faster as I did so getting the hang of it.
I keep doing this until the mid-afternoon when my stomach rumble
looking around at where I'm at I have left the forest edge long ago and am now in a plain traveling down beside the beated road that turned into a more paved road.
I was jumping from tree shadows littered along side the road.
seeing no one around I think of what I can eat
from my belongings.
I have dried meat but while I can eat meat I don't have a big appetite for it.
I also have a few assorted fruit in my bag so I reach for them to settle my stomach.
as I eat I look again at my surroundings
It was amazing
the picture perfect landscape
the magnificent trees and the flowers scattered everywhere
I sat on a large rock not far from the road looking up at the sky
this world really had two suns
one a big blue and the other reminds me of my 1st life sun all bright and yellow.
breathing-taking
that's going to get some getting use to
I continue to eat and when I feel like I ate my fill I wash it down with some water from my water skin.
feeling re-energized I stand up to continue on my way to the city
I don't know how far I traveled I can only hope I get there before dark as I didn't want to sleep outside.
I step back to the tree shadow and dissappear ...
it's wasn't until the sky was darkening by alot that I finally saw a faint glow in the distance.
since it was getting darker and because of my night vision I can cover more ground without being limited to tree shadows
when I arrive closer to the glow I can see it's the light spilling over from a big city.
it was a typical medieval city as it had a big city wall with people walking back and forth along the top
I can see just beyond that from my point of view a little bit of the tops of some of the buildings and i can see from here they would be magnificent also.
the road led to a city gate in the wall with a small line in front of it and a few carriages with people surrounding lead it out of the city gate and taking another road branching off from this main road and going in a entirely different direction
where it went I don't know but judging by how this road I was on was relatively sparce and that one had more of a steady steam of travelers
my guess is that it lead to another city father away but no less important that this one.
I was still thinking about the big convoy ... 3 days behind me.
looking at the two different roads I can guess that the convoy coming down this road must be some kind of event as that many carriages coming didn't seem like the norm.
I don't linger too long there as I want and inn before it gets fully dark.
I shadow jump one lat time to appear a reasonable distance away with not having to walk to much but also so that I don't startle anyone with me appearing out if no where
I walk until I'm at the very back of the short line and looking in front of me I can feel the tingling feeling again.
there was nothing but beautiful women in this line
but from my hypothesis, this feeling is something I get when there is a futa or maybe even a male is near me
that doesn't reassure as while I may be able to roughly identify one I still didn't want to be alone with one.
the one in front of me turn to look at me slightly and turning away.
before immediately turning back around to look at me again.
it was a kind of weird double take as I had no reason to warrant such reaction.
I look at the one in front of me at ask nicely but a little guarded "I'm sorry, does something seems to be a problem for you to look at me like that."
the girl snaps out of her stunned state and says while looking me over " no, nothing is the matter.
i was just caught off guard by your beauty.
if it doesn't seem to forward after getting into the city since it's a little late would you like to have dinner with me.
Of course I will pay"
she gives me what I suppose was her flirty or "sexy" smile
but I did nothing but give me the creeps and send a shiver down my spine
I also am a little offended that she basically called me cute
according to the system I was a male
but thinking it over I won't try to correct her, as letting people know I was a male without more forms of protection was stupid
" nnn no that's alright I have my own plans for dinner and won't be able to accompany you I'm sorry" I say tremblingly as she comes a little closer to me.
hearing my response her smile gets a little bit bigger
"aawww come now there's no need to be shy I won't hurt you. In fact I can take extra special care of you " she comes even closer to me
I step back visibly a bit afraid and when she suddenly reaches out grab my hand to keep me from backing away from her.
My body suddenly froze
all attempts to use my magic to try and escape the situation fail
I'm immobilized and deep fear was creeping into my expression
I felt like I couldn't breath straight and my legs was about to give way up under me.
I try my best to look up at the girl and try to say with the best voice I can muster
"ccc ccaa ccaannn yy yyoou pp ppl lease llleeet gg ggggoo ooofff mmmmmm meeee."