(Back to Clad and the others.)
The trio walks the path towards another elf village on the far outskirts of the city when they are suddenly being shot with arrows, which leads to Clad unleashing his blade and parrying all the incoming attacks.
[FLOWER GUARD]!
As Clad uses his sword technique to deflect all the projectiles, sending them away from the party. A group of elves comes outside, and they ask the elven guard something.
"Hey, guard of the capital, why are you with humans?" One of the archers asked him,"
"And why are there humans in the land of the elves?" Another one adds.
Adonis, who is starting to get annoyed by all this elf bickering, murmurs to Clad and Lylia.
"Does every single elf hate human presence?" Adonis asks the other two whom neither Clad nor Lylia knows the answer.
"These three are leaving Fexivia under my watch." The guard says to the other elves.
"Right....." The elf doesn't believe what he is saying and asks for a vouch.
"Why are you questioning my authority?" The elf guard says.
The other elf can be seen visually getting angry at his reply, but doesn't falter and sighs.
"You can go..." He says as he looks at Clad, Adonis, and Lyliak walking away with the guard.
"Does he own this area or some shit?" Adonis asked.
"No clue, and I don't want to walk around the outside of this kingdom any longer than this," Clad replies, slightly nervous as he feels like he's being watched but can't prove it.
And Clad's suspicion was quickly proven true, as when he looked up, he met eye to eye with a group of elves following them from one branch to another, which made the group uneasy. The guard eventually leads them to the outside of the forest, leading to an open field filled with unrecognizable yet beautiful flowers and magical creatures.