VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Walking through the familiar woods, he saw various creatures that he had seen in this specific part of the forest already.

This particular area was comparatively darker than the other areas around the forest so quite fascinating creatures lived here.

"Sera?"

[{ No, master. There's nothing around. }]

It was a small part of the forest so there weren't really that many creatures in this part aside from some simple birds that just slept in their nests most of the time, however aside from them, this place was a house of species that one might consider as nocturnal.

"Hmmm."

Flying squirrels are different from the horned squirrels that were part of their gang, bats as small as a firefly, even predator creatures that went out of this area to get food.

It wasn't a place suited for the cold blooded creatures, but for those who naturally had warm blood inside them, this place was the best resting place.

"Let's go that way then."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The temperature here was a little lower than the other parts of the forest.

The trees were denser and the humidity was lower.

It was a good place, but even he liked it. But, there weren't any creatures that had shown any particular interest in him until now.

This place was like an onion. The more layers he explored, the newer creatures he found each time.

Some of them were dangerous, but they still didn't attack him. Enjoy exclusive adventures from empire

Many of them were afraid of him instead. They were dangerous, yet they were afraid of someone almost the same level as him.

And that did not make any sense since he wasn't even traveling with the rest of his gang like the first time he came here.

He was alone, and even Sera was inside her mark many times so they knew there was something wrong with either him or the creatures present there.

Or there was something else that made them act like that as he had theorized.

Though he wasn't sure about his assumptions, he was aware that there were still many things that he had not learned about this first yet.

He might have been to most of the places here, he might have explored this place, and he might have seen many of the creatures of this small paradise, he was still far from discovering everything about this forest.

And that was a good thing actually.

"Oho. Did we see this one last time, Sera?"

[{ Hmmm? I don't think so, master. }]

"Nice."

He was leaning something new every single day, he was advancing further, he was certainly getting stronger, with only Sera here, he didn't really have anyone else to talk to.

The creatures here were pretty different from Az and Miu so they didn't respond to him like they did.

With each passing day, with each new thing crossing off of his list of things he needed to learn, he was becoming a little anxious.

"It's a simple looking grass, but it glows. Would it be because of Mana or something else?"

He had explored most of the forest and they had still not found any way out of this place.

They were going around, they were meeting new creatures, with his new eyes, he was also observing and researching the unique wildlife present in this forest.

But he had not found any exit yet. And with the diminishing numbers of things he could observe and study in this forest, he was becoming anxious with each passing day.

The motivation to get out of here, to find a way out that he had on his first day here, was slowly decreasing as well.

It wasn't a good sign. If anything, he didn't know what they would do if they couldn't find anything to do anymore.

Sera might be fine since she was a servant, but he did not know what he'd do… so he was trying to avoid paying attention to that part.

He just did what was fun for now, followed his routine and sang a song as he worked in the forest.

He was doing the same today as well… just that, there was something that was bugging him since earlier.

[{ "Sera, do you feel like someone's looking at you from afar or something?" }]

[{ Hmmm? No? What happened, master? }]

He didn't know why, but he had been feeling a set of eyes glaring at him from a distance away since he entered this part of the forest.

He could tell those eyes were close, but they still felt distant in a different sense.

It was mysterious. He had thought it was just his imagination or something simple that he was overreacting to.

But, when he found this strange grass, that strange feeling intensified.

He almost felt like there was something looking at him, glaring at him even.

He wanted to overlook it this time as well, but he simply couldn't.

His eyes were itching for some reason, and it made him associate it to that strange feeling.

"Tsk."

He didn't like that itching. It was annoying, so he pressed his eyes and turned around to calm this itching down.

And then he turned back.

"Hmm?"

And, when he did turn back, for a very, very brief moment, his eyes met a strange pair of purple eyes around an unfamiliar silver background.

"…?"

But that moment was very brief. Less than a blinking moment.

"What?"

At the end of this moment, when he finally blinked and his eyes tried finding the grass they were observing once again, they could not find it.

[{ Hmm? Where did that grass go? }]

The grass was gone.

There was no trace of it left on the ground either.

Elio couldn't even see any markings on the ground that would indicate that grass existed there.

"I saw… something."

It had just vanished into thin air… just like those… eyes that he had seen in that brief moment.

"I definitely saw something."

He knew he wasn't mistaken.

In that fraction of a second, he definitely saw two bright purple orbs that had also looked back at him before vanishing.

He wasn't mistaken about them. They were definitely there, and somehow, that grass was connected to those orbs… those eyes.

"Strange…"

He didn't know if it was some creature or some phenomenon, but something happened in that brief moment.

Something so fascinating that Elio now had a new smile on his previously bored face.

"Sera."

He had a new objective now.

A goal that was going to decide their future in this 'blank' area.