They enjoy finally being outside of that place.
"We're finally outside!, but I have no idea where we are," Clad says, while letting out a sigh.
Clad thinks about asking Lylia, but he believes that asking her won't help, as she has been imprisoned for quite a while, so he asks Adonis instead.
"Does this place look familiar to you?"
"Nah," Adonis replies
"Damn"
"Then we should probably scout the area."
As Clad starts walking forward, an arrow flies directly at his head, barely missing as it grazes his right cheek, and hits the grass.
!!!
Clad starts looking in front of him when he sees a group of long-eared people hiding in the shadows of faraway trees with blond hair and blue eyes wearing clothes made out of leather with a dark green cloth covering their necks and heads, only revealing their faces.
"Elves?" Clad asks himself.
Lylia and Adonis thought to themselves, "How can he see so well from that far?" as they could barely tell their facial features from this distance.
The group of elves walks out of the shadows, revealing them to be equipped with swords, spears, bows, and magical staffs. One of the elves stepped forward and shouted.
"State why you are here, humans!" The elf shouts.
"Human? im not human at all!" Clad shouted back.
"Do you think I'm a fool! There were plenty of humans like you who tried to get into our kingdom to enslave our people!"
Clad raises his left hand so that the elf can see it, and proceeds to transform it into a white, branch-like appearance, which makes the elves lower their guards a little bit.
"What about those two besides you?" the elf says.
"They are my friends. We were lost in a cave for a while, so we would just like to know where were are currently at the moment," he replied.
The elves talked to each other, wondering what they should do. But they eventually decided to let them be in their territory.
"Follow us," the elf says, before walking towards the forest. Clad, Adonis, and Lylia quickly catch up to them so as not to lose track of them.
"Where are we going?" Adonis asks.
"To see the elf queen," the elf replies
"Why?"
"Because your friend is a dryad, in our culture, dryads are to be treated the same as us elves, due to both our species being protectors of the forests."
The elf also adds that they are currently in the kingdom of Fexivia, the kingdom of the elves and that most of the population here are elves, so they might act in a similar way to how they just did a few minutes ago when arriving at the capital.
Adonis asks Lylia and Clad if they know about the kingdom of Fexivia which they both decline. Upon hearing that they do not know the kingdom of Fexivia, the elf sighs.
"You guys are one of them, huh?"
"One of them? What do you mean by that?" Clad replies with curiosity
"Late wakers, people who woke up later than the majority of people after the "shattering."
"What's that?" Adonis asks
"I barely know about it myself as I woke up a year ago from it as well."
"But our queen woke up around 3 years ago, so she would probably know more about it."
"I see."
The group continues to walk the path towards the capital of Fexivia. Later during the day, they finally arrived at the Queen's castle. They walk inside to see multiple vases, statues made from all kinds of shiny gems, and they see an elegant woman with grey hair and blue eyes wearing a dress that has the color of an ocean, wearing earrings, and an elegant smile, whom the other elves greeted, as they called her the "elf queen".