"You will be named Alira."

'Ding'

[ You have named a white tiger cub – Alira ]

[ You have gained your third vessel ]

[ The Third Vessel Of Shin

-> The third vessel of Ruler of the Swamps, Shin.

-> Provides 10% boost in all stats.

-> Gives 40% boost in swampy areas.

-> Can use the skill 'Heal' when the HP drops to 10% to heal itself. ]

These notifications popped up after Shin named her.

Along with that, something else popped up too.

'Ding'

[ Due to the attainment of the first trio vessels, you will get a +10 increase in all the physical stats ]

[ HP: 820+10/820+10 || Max. HP: ??? ]

[ MP: 330/510|| Max. MP: ??? ] 

[ Exp: 6000 || Max. Exp: 9999 ]

[ Atk: 285+10 || Max. Atk: ??? ]

[ Def: 253+10 || Max. Def: ??? ]

[ Speed: 549+10 || Max. Speed: ??? ]

'Cool, this isn't bad…', Shin said to himself with a smile after looking at the little boost which he received.

Right when Shin said that, a gust of wind blew past them.

It was as if nature was giving a sign that the name was good or perhaps it could have been some random coincidence.

But in reality, it was something else totally.

Shin came to know about that only after the system displayed another notification.

'Ding'

[ You are no longer being watched ]

'Huh?'

Did this mean the wind that just blew by was the after the wind that was generated after the Celestial went away?

Whatever, after reading the texts, Shin sighed in relief.

It was a good thing because he no longer felt the insecurity that he had been feeling since the moment the system had notified him about that.

[ Vessels ]

-> 1] Aella [ female ]

-> 2] Terran [ male ]

-> 3] Alira [ female ]

Shin checked his own stats to confirm what had happened and indeed, he could see the addition of Alira's name on the list.

It was a good thing because now he could at least think of another option in the near future after she actually got stronger.

"Thank you master!", she jumped towards Shin and pushed him to the ground.

Right after that, she started licking him again regardless of whether he liked it or not.

Of course, he would have been disgusted since he was a human from inside, however, that did not seem to be the case.

He in fact liked her licks because it gave a weird tickling effect causing him to wag his tail for a brief second.

"Haha, Alira, stop…", he asked while laughing and rolling on the ground with her.

She thought about continuing it for a bit longer, however, she stopped because she respected his wish.

Shin was still doubtful about the one condition which she had mentioned earlier and the same was for Terran, he too was suspicious about that, but they let it go for now.

A time would come when they would eventually come to know about what Alira actually meant and wanted to do with the condition that she put.

Anyway, Shin's main aim to come to this part of the forest wasn't to help Alira, it was to find the potioneer or the witch who was in charge of making potions.

"Where can I find her…?", he questioned himself while looking here and there and then turning back towards the destroyed hut.

Alira was intrigued by Shin's question so he asked, "Are you searching for someone, master?"

"Ah, yes…", Shin just replied to her on a whim and continued to look here and there when he realized that Alira might have an idea about the witch since she was here for quite some time.

"Alira!", he almost immediately called out to her while looking directly into her eyes since she was right in front of him, lying on the ground.

"Yes master!?", she was surprised by the sudden call.

"Do you know anything about the witch who makes potion?", he asked directly.

Well, he did promise to help Mo and had taken the task upon himself from the elf, that was why he asked her almost immediately without wasting any more time since a lot of hours had been wasted here.

"Tell me, do you know anything about her?"

"…"

Alira failed to understand what Shin asked since she was still young.

She knew nothing about the word – witch. Also, she had no idea about a potioneer which was why her expression was blank and empty as if she heard something weird.

"I'm sorry master, but I don't know wha-"

Just by looking at her expression, Shin could tell that she knew nothing about those things.

However, that doesn't essentially mean that she didn't know about the person who symbolized the meaning of those words!

"What I meant to ask was, whether you had seen some old hag or the old lady with a long wooden broom or stick…"

He tried to explain to her the attire of the witch according to the knowledge of the previous world.

'I don't know if the witches in the world look the way I imagine, but I need to at least try…', was what he thought.

"Ah, that kind old lady?", Alira almost immediately connected what Shin was trying to say and related it to a woman.

"Kind old lady!?"

"Yes!"

Shin thought that Alira finally understood what he was trying to say.

'Kind old lady' or whatever terms could be used by Alira to represent the witch since she knew nothing about her exactly, that was why Shin assumed that the old lady about whom Alira talked about was the same witch about whom Shin was speaking.

"Do you know anything about her?", he asked.

"Yes, she was the one that saved me from the pigs.", was what she said.

'Saved her from pigs?'

'What pigs?'

Shin wanted to know if Alira was using an adjective to define some being as a pig or if it was a real pig, to begin with.

"Those huge monsters who tried to kill me…", was what she replied.

'I see…'

'So it was used as an adjective.'- but that wasn't the main thing here.

There was totally something else at stake and something else had to be talked about.

"Do you know about that lady?"

"Where did she go?", Shin asked right away without wasting any more time.

"I don't know, she just vanished into the forest while attacking those pigs.", was what she said.

"Hmm hmm…"

Shin was understanding what she was saying one by one. 

'So she went towards the east side of the forest…', Shin concluded this when he looked at Alira pointing out towards one direction.

Shin was about to tell her about his goal of nearing the hut when suddenly she said, "I'm worried…"

"The pigs were five times…"

"No, ten times bigger than her."

"I don't know how she would fight them and escape this time."

She had an expression on her face that showed that she was actually worried about the witch.

Shin was surprised after hearing her words. Yes, he was literally surprised to hear that the so-called pigs were at least ten times bigger than her.

'Wait…'

'Doesn't that mean there should be large footmarks on the ground or some sort of space created in the forest due to their large size?', this was the first thing that Shin asked himself after hearing her say that.

'How could mere pigs be ten times bigger than a witch?' – it was suspicious indeed.

Either her vision wasn't good because of one eye, or she failed to explain properly.

Yes, even now one of her eyes had the scratch – the right eye.

She couldn't open that eye, unfortunately, Shin's heal also didn't work. But no one was worried about it at the moment though.

'Were they some sort of giants?'

It started to get confusing for him.

He looked towards Terran to ask if there was indeed any pig that big, however, Terran denied firmly as if he understood Shin's question even before he asked.

"Even in my time, there was nothing like that.", he said firmly.

"Weird…"

He didn't want this confusion and wanted to ask Alira about the pigs and the witch.

"Alira, tell me exactly…"

"How the pigs looked like…"

She started explaining their structures and physical body in detail.

"Large tusk-like teeth and-"

She said many things and all of them indicated that the pigs were nothing other than Orcs!

"Orcs?", Terran and Shin said simultaneously at the same time with a surprised expression.

"…"

To be continued…