Chapter 404 - Surprise behind the Lady.

"It has been three days since I left Gaster Kingdom." Osira spoke to herself, taking a second to breathe. Afterwards she took a glance at Eyil, standing to her side and smiling. "I might have been over dramatic, leaving the Kingdom was a bad idea."

"What will do?" Asked Eyil, curious if she wants to go back or continue her path.

He managed to catch on to her rather quick, she hasn't been rushing her way through the fields and hasn't touched the forest yet, although they are 30 Kilometers away from Gaster Kingdom. She plans to reach the 100 kilometer wide river first and follow it. Meaning, she has to walk through a very wide semi flat land first to reach it.

There are two reasons why she prefers the river for such travel, it makes it easier to reach Septemtrionis Ignis and there are a lot of animals or fish on the way there so she doesn't neccesarily have to carry 20 Kilos of meat on her backpack to stay, well alive.

Plus this river, although it gets smaller in width the deeper it indulges in to Ignis, it does have other perks such as being able to enter four Countries in a week since it passes right near the middle of the four borders.

Since Osira wants to reach this big river, it neccesarily means that she will have to get in to enemy territory first (Meridionali Ignis). She could have gone through the forest to avoid this part, but it would have taken a lot longer and it is far easier to get disoriented there considering her only way of navigation being a poorly drawn, half of the times inaccurate, map.

However, getting back to the conversation. Osira decided to express herself at a deep extense, considering that she is a lot more calmer now.

"I would feel far to embarrassed to turn back now, I think it is best to avoid the Kingdom for now and go back to the Hidden Domain." Now after taking that fact in to consideration, she glanced back at Eyil with stronger focus and expressed with seriousness. "You don't have to come with me, I'll be fine. You have a family and my home is practically at the other edge of the Continent and will freeze your ass off. You don't have to tolerate that, or me."

"Family have gold lot, you need me here." Eyil spoke, trying to be as descriptive as possible with the little language he knows, it tends to get rough to communicate but he finds a way.

"The temperatures I'm talking about are hazardous. I don't know how seasons are in Zameria, but up in the High Mountains it feels like three Winters happening at once... while at summer it feels like two winters. You probably won't be able to adjust to those Temperatures, I've seen you shiver countless times today." Although she hasn't been in the best terms with Eyil, she doesn't want him to make the sacrifice of warmth. They debated this once when he found Osira, but he didn't give up on joining her.

"I slept under a tree, no house. That's why I'm jiggling." This sentence made Osira giggle a little bit, it is a hilarious sentence but she tried to keep a serious look on her face to convince Eyil on turning back.

"Oh, I should get a fire going then. How did you forget to pack a tent? We are in the middle of January." Here she scolded a little bit, but started to become more concerned about the fact that she might have to share a tent with him.

"Mother hit with a broom for one meter, I escaped quick." Eyil explained jokingly, trying to lift up the overall morale here.

"Your mother is right, but let's warm you up first. You obviously aren't giving up, I'd like to know why but I have a few theories about it." Afterwards without letting him speak, she walked away from him and headed for the forest.

The forest is about 50 meters away from them and it is a great way to keep track of where she is, since the fine line between it and the flat land will eventually lead them to the River.

She pulled out a Dagger, the same one that Eyil gifted to her a bit over a week ago and started cutting through some branches. It took several hits to cut down one arm like branch, but it didn't really tire her considering her time spent beating against Iron.

Eyil joined her nearby, cutting fresh branches down and throwing them behind on the flat land. It took them about twenty minutes, but they managed to cut down about 15 branches and afterwards broke them in to smaller pieces using their own two feet.

To make this campfire a bit warmer, she blew fire slowly on the snow in front of her. At a diameter of 10 feet wide, she melted off the snow and didn't even leave liquid as a leftover however the small remaining grass on it is rather torched. No matter, they both wouldn't mind having their fur leggings black on the buttock area. This isn't a fashion competition, but survival.

These branches are rather wet, which makes it a lot harder to start a fire not to mention to maintain it. So to dry them out, she started blasting a minor amount of fire. This is close to blank shots, where a Fireball wouldn't burn but push. However, to push the branches would be a very bad idea and this fire does indeed burn, but very slowly.

The goal here is to start smoking out the liquid out of these branches so they can burn easier, and fairly provide more heat. This took nearly five minutes, and when she stopped blasting fire they did see that the Campfire has been started and is burning properly.

Eyil has been warmed up by all that Fire Osira blew on the branches but this is nice too. Considering the quantity, this Fire should last for half an hour. That would be enough for Eyil to start missing the cold again, this fire is large because of the many branches.

Ten minutes have passed, and Eyil felt like this is the appropriate time to reveal more of what he feels considering how often she is giggling here. They haven't really talked it out yet, and the only thing Eyil made clear is the fact that he won't leave her take on this journey alone.

He started it off delicately, stating. "I inform... I need to..." As he took a few seconds to collect his words, glancing at how willingly she is listening with her eyes wide open. He noticed something from the distance behind Osira.

The scene hundreds of yards behind her became hard to comprehend without panicking, he stood up and pointed. "Army!"

Osira got goosebumps instantly, stood up and although hesitant to look back and with hopes that this is a joke, she finally took a glance behind her and noticed that there is indeed an Army approaching with its quantities tremendously tricky to predict.

"We kill fire?" Eyil asked in a rush, panicking and trying to think how will they withstand this Army alone.

He has heard stories of the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance, these Soldiers on the other side can't be here for good, they are here in aims of asserting dominance.

"They already saw the Fire, it is best to rush in the forest now." Afterwards she grabbed him above the wrist and dragged him in to the forest. "The Kingdom is too far to run or fly back to, so I just have to launch a sneak attack here and hope that Gaster Kingdom is prepared for Company."

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"Guard Commander, two people just went in to the forest. What is your Command about them?" A Guard reported, and awaited for orders.

Feeling that he is smart enough to analyse this situation, the Guard Commander expressed. "Well if they fled in the Forest, they obviously are no threat to us. They could have been low life bandits or just some Lumberjack, leave them be."

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"How many are there?" Eyil asked, grasping on some branches high up a tree, awaiting an answer from Osira close by on top of another tree.

They are mostly camouflaged up here thanks to the many branches and due to the fact that these couple of trees they are at the top at, aren't exactly much taller than the other trees in front of them.

The Army, well they are about a hundred yards away now and their quantities seem to be getting larger and larger. "There has to be at least a few hundred, although I doubt that they are over a thousand. The ill.u.s.tratian Alliance can't afford to send that many Soldiers to a Kingdom who only have 800 people living there."

"You are smart, what do we do?" Here he practically complimented her observing skills, but also felt curious of the next move.

"I will need to wait for them to pass, so I can attack them from behind and end at least 20% of this Army." Looking at him, she pointed behind him and stated. "You need to start heading this way right now, I can't carry you but we do need to run away fast since this Army will no doubt try to kill me and you after my attack."