---Perspective: Mary---

"I discovered how useful the recovery scrolls I made are for the first time..."

Walking on the road to Legeng City, Dale was walking and tearing recovery scrolls to heal his injuries.

This guy picked a special skill in alchemy, making scrolls at a tenth of the speed and materials required by others, but the only problem was that the things he made could only be used by himself.

However, this also made up for his shortcomings in recovery. After all, he hardly learned any magic, spending most of his time developing various mechanical equipment. And because of this, this guy basically had nowhere that needed to be healed.

Except for this time.

But to tell the truth, his scrolls were very powerful. After tearing 7 or 8, all the injuries on his body were completely healed, as if he had never been hit.

To prevent him from getting extra injuries, we reluctantly put a cloak on him.

But there were still plenty of people watching us. If we didn't have weapons in our hands, we'd probably end up as their experience.

Although I found that the terminal seemed to have lost a lot of functionality when I woke up, I usually cast spells by chanting, so it didn't make much difference to me.

"Don't complain, at least you are with several beautiful women. Be grateful."

"No, I would rather play with my airship by myself... Hey! Why are you hitting me?"

"Can't I be happy?"

This guy, looking down on us? Really, destined to be lonely for a lifetime, hmph!

"However, now I can't contact my airship. We don’t know where we are. What should we do next?"

"Of course, we'll find a city and look for a solution."

I said with a wry smile.

"By the way, where are we exactly, Blanche, do you have any clues?"

Speaking of which, the person who probably knows the most about this world here should be Blanche, who is an elf. I say this not because she is the oldest, but I always feel that someone from the elf clan would know more things.

Well, this is probably the common criticism of playing games or watching too many movies in the past.

"This... is probably the Hot Continent of the West Continent?"

"Phew!"

We both burst out laughing.

"Wait! You know this place?"

"Yeah."

Blanche replied with a smile.

"Why didn't you say earlier! You've been following us all along, it feels like you don't know anything, just silently standing by our side as if you know nothing."

"Well..."

Blanche scratched her head helplessly.

"I wanted to tell you too, but we elves also have our own limitations. Although I was the Saintess back then, I no longer have the ability to break through these limitations. We elves on the Lost Continent cannot directly tell humans about what's outside the Lost Continent. Once we want to speak, we will temporarily lose the ability to speak, and if we want to write it down, we will lose control of our body."

"Uh... it sounds quite disgusting. Who set up these limitations in the first place?"

Fran furrowed her brow.

"If that's the case, can't you elves always come and go outside the continent?"

"Yes, but we generally don't go out. Although our elven magic ability is strong, in many cases, we have to rely on magical beasts as a fighting force. And once we leave the Lost Continent, we lose the fighting force of magical beasts. Didn't Fir save those elves at the auction before? In fact, those elves completely lost their combat effectiveness after being absorbed by magical traps, and with our small number of elves, we can’t afford any wars."

"Wow, so you guys are at war with the dragon clan now..."

"The dragon clan? They're indifferent really, those guys have some strange quirks," Blanche waved her hand.

"When they encounter someone skilled in magic, they'll only use magic to fight, it used to happen often before. Don't worry, usually the dragons are the first to lose."

"..."

Looking at the expression on Fran's face, I knew she was thinking the same as me.

The bastards are just being dramatic!

No, bastard dragons!

"Alright, since you're so familiar, you lead the way from here."

"Yeah, that's right," Fran agreed too.

"Is there anything around here that can't be bought elsewhere? Let's buy something quickly."

"Well, um..."

Blanche looked troubled.

"Although I know this place and where it's located, to be honest, I've never been here. Like I said before, us elves rarely leave the Lost Continent."

"Ugh..."

We both sighed disappointedly.

"Wait a minute, doesn't that mean elves are very rare here?"

"Yeah, extremely rare."

Blanche nodded.

I had a premonition that I didn't like for some reason...

"It looks like we'll continue to face trouble in the future, let's figure out a way to go back. We've confirmed that there are other continents beyond the Lost Continent, and we can't do anything about what comes next."

"But I have a feeling it won't be that easy."

Fran frowned.

"If we come out, Snake Eye should come out too, right? People outside on the mainlands might have also discovered the Lost Continent. It's going to be chaotic if we go back, why not have a look around here first?"

"You just want to buy souvenirs, right?"

And also gather information for Momiji? Although I'm not sure about Momiji's true nature, the outside world always refers to it as an assassination guild, but since Fir has joined, it shouldn't be too sinister, right?

"That's good, the drones are still functioning properly."

Dale, who had been silent until now, had been tinkering with his drone. With a low buzz, several drones shot up into the sky and disappeared.

"Oh, perfect, we'll rely on you for reconnaissance."

Our mini-map had almost completely malfunctioned, so having drones for reconnaissance would make us much safer.

"So, you guys handle the combat, right? Well then, just to make it clear, there's a group of people following us from the forest 300 meters behind. It seems... they're maintaining a fixed distance and tailing us."

"Huh?"

Fran and I were both shocked.

"Do they have a death wish?"

"Oh, I forgot to mention something. This is something our elders mentioned to us a long time ago."

How long ago?

How long ago is 'long time ago' to you? That's terrifying.

Despite that, we were curious about the content and all looked at her in silence.

"It's about how the mercenaries from these continents are very thuggish~ They mostly just bear the title of mercenaries and then go around robbing people."

"..."

We looked at each other, quietly pulling out stronger weapons.

Really, who turns down experience points, do you think we're stupid?