Elara was very touched. She almost wanted to jump and assault Eric with kisses to express her happiness at how free she was suddenly feeling, as if a huge mountain had been removed from her entire being, but the moment she turned and saw Eric's handsome grin toward her, she melted and became one with the mother water.
Eric felt weird glancing at Elara's condition, which he didn't understand at all.
As expected of a different Race, they had different characteristics which a human wouldn't understand at all.
He coughed and changed the subject. "So Elara, are there any interesting places you have visited recently?"
He truly wished to ask many other questions, such as Lysandra's Rank, strength, and many more, but for some strange reason, he always felt as if he was being watched. And so, he kept his balls tight, decided to simply gossip without asking anything of importance, and waited for the lingerie monster to return from her scouting over the half-naked leaf-skirt tribe.
Elara's eyes brightened at Eric's question, and her body regained its solid form again.
She spoke with her mellifluous voice, "I... we went to many places recently. Some have great scenery, both nature-wise and also man-made. But it was mainly for our Emp—my mother's business, and I went along the way while enjoying various things."
Elara tried recalling the unique places she had visited that wouldn't make her lover—cough, Eric—too bored.
"A few weeks ago, we visited The Golden Colony of Autumndi. It has gorgeous scenery. And then we visited Bleak Hollow—that place was very strange, but for some reason, my mother wanted to go there, and it also seemed to be guarded by some powerful natural forces. Then we went to Satyrstane United—it's an amazing place, and the whole city was floating high up in the air."
Eric was amazed. "You mean an entire city is always floating and not traveling? Does it not land? How do people return to the ground?"
"Yes, it always floats." Elara nodded, speaking while reminiscing. "I heard there are some other places in the world where lands automatically float without any mechanism, just with some natural energy field or something. Yes, there is a lift to take people up and down, but most people just flew to that 'island.'"
Eric nodded absentmindedly. He suddenly wanted to travel there and see if he could survive by jumping from that height—ahem, of course with a parachute or wingsuit. Hang gliders would also be fantastic. Overall, it would be lots of fun, especially since there was a lift to climb back up and try again from a completely different direction.
While Eric was daydreaming, Elara continued, "My mother went there for various purposes, among them to meet a world-famous Artisan named Elendo, but apparently, he had already died, and his apprentice Robert Campanel even made me this ring."
Elara raised her right hand and showed her index finger.
Eric glanced at Elara's fingers and was amazed. Her right hand had three gorgeous rings with colorful gemstones attached to all three of them.
Eric then suddenly felt weird.
He felt he had heard one of the names Elara just mentioned somewhere else.
Riya reminded him, "It's the creator of your pocket watch!"
Eric's eyes widened, and then he became speechless.
He sighed internally and could only feel pity for Bella Noll. It was better if she didn't learn of this.
Elara continued, "Mother met many prominent figures there, though I don't know why, but I received lots of amazing presents from the people there."
Eric was once again speechless. He hoped that Lysandra had kept a check on things that Elara received, or else, who knows—there might be micro-nuclear bombs attached within those gifts.
He also confirmed his guess that these fair Elves were really wealthy and quite some big shots as well. After all, not everyone should be able to meet so many prominent figures and also receive so many expensive gifts.
Riya quickly screamed, "Quick, seduce her and take that wealth from her! We need lots of wealth! Money!"
Eric rolled his eyes. He knew Riya was joking, but at the same time, he strangely felt that she really meant it...
Riya actually really meant what she just said, as they definitely needed lots of wealth for her plans and ideas to be executed after Eric became a Mana Wielder.
"After that, we went to..." Elara continued speaking excitedly about various places she had visited, describing them vividly.
Eric silently listened without paying too much attention, fearing that he might be the first young human male to die from ear-diabetes.
He no longer asked anything and waited for the lingerie giantess to return—and then, depending on the situation, he might need to speed toward Ringwood Town as quickly as possible.
Eric waited and waited, and soon evening arrived, but there was still no sign of the lingerie monster.
He wondered if she was already dead.
But then it struck him that they were on an island and the forest was high above sea level, so maybe she was taking time traveling.
He could only hope that Ringwood Town hadn't become the Dark Elves' dinner already.
At this moment, out of nowhere, some strange colorful glowing transparent orbs started rising all around them.
Eric glanced around and was dazed. These orbs were rising from all over the island as far as his eyes could see, floating around randomly but with a very gentle pace.
Each transparent orb-like thing had various dim-like colors, mostly pink and red.
Eric weirdly started feeling that the island had become far too pretty and romantic, almost as if he had suddenly transported into some dreamy fantasy land.
It was almost night, and the island was supposed to turn dark, but due to these strange fist-sized to head-sized orbs, it had brightened the island with a beautiful and hazy, dream-like atmosphere.
It was the strangest sight Eric had ever witnessed—and also the most beautiful—and somehow looked extremely romantic.
He tried to grab one orb that floated near him, but it passed right through his hand almost as if it was just an illusion, but the entire place had brightened quite a bit with various colors, so it was definitely not his imagination.
"What is this?" Eric spoke dazedly.
He wondered if this was something like a unique thing that only happens on this specific island or perhaps all islands.
Riya shook her head and reprimanded Eric, "Look! Look toward your new crush—this phenomenon is definitely a manifestation of her deep love!"
Eric rolled his eyes and turned to see Elara—and his soul nearly flew away.
He only now noticed that Elara had actually arrived very close to him. He was completely unaware, as he had barely been listening to her and was fighting the desire not to fall asleep as her voice was that melodious and pleasant to hear.
Eric's heart started pounding loudly inside his chest, and he was speechless at his own noobish behavior. What had happened to his past life experience?
Elara was staring at Eric in a daze and was slowly leaning toward him.
Eric hated to admit it, but some strange bubbly feeling was blooming inside him uncontrollably, and he strangely also felt that he was about to cheat on some specific two girls back at home...
Time seemed to stop.
Riya was also tightly holding her breath while wondering how sweet those lips were.
She was also deeply worried that Eric might really be diagnosed with diabetes if that kiss connected.
Before the disaster happened, there was a cough right behind the sweet couple, followed by an innocent explanation: "This is my 'Make it Romantic' Array that only activates during the evening and stays till dawn."
Glancing at both youngsters, whose faces were slowly turning deep shades of red, Lysandra asked innocently, "Am I interrupting something?"
Elara and Eric swiftly jumped and distanced themselves.
Eric was helpless. He normally wouldn't 'truly' blush, but with that sudden cough, he felt he had been caught red-handed doing child abduction.
Elara blushed from head to toe for being caught by Lysandra for being the 'bad girl' for the first time in her life.
She now just wished to dig a hole beneath her feet and hide for the rest of her life.
Eric soon calmed down after noticing it was the lingerie beast he had been waiting for.
He sighed internally, thinking that he was really getting weak—that he had even gotten jump-scared by a pervert woman. But he was also speechless inside, as this lingerie monster had truly gone scouting an enemy camp while just wearing lingerie...
Elara, too, calmed down, and the moment she noticed her mother's dressing sense, she grew furious.
Her mother was definitely trying to seduce her Eric—she needed to fight!
Before Elara could attack, Lysandra patted Eric's shoulder and praised, "Not bad, kid. You took down a Mage while being ambushed by two. You have a great future ahead. If Elara cannot satisfy you, you can come to me—I will make sure you go home satisfied!"
"What are you saying, you naked degenerate monster!"
Elara could no longer take it. This had gone too far!
She jumped and attacked with a flying kick, which Lysandra dodged in panic.
"What are you doing? Trying to kill your only lovely mother?!" Lysandra exclaimed in protest.
Elara snorted and stood in front of Eric to protect him from any further harm from an old cougar thousands of years old.
"First, change your clothes and cover yourself well, or else we are leaving! I will take Eric and return to his town!" Elara declared with a booming voice, which was also very pleasant to the ears of everyone present.
Lysandra sighed with heartfelt pain.
She had been enjoying her vacation and had already given Elara enough concern by wearing something—or else, she would run around naked, as she used to when she was young—but sadly, she was old.
She waved her hand, and out of nowhere, a simple one-piece white dress appeared, which she put over herself and covered her MILF body with.
Eric was not too bothered by visuals, as he was immersed in the beautiful melody of his crush screaming. He never knew girls could sound so nice when they got angry. Should he also try this back at home?
Now that he thought about it, he had lived so long together with Lyria and Livy and knew almost everything about them, including their sizes—ahem—but he still didn't know what made them angry! How was this even possible?!
Riya rolled her pretty blue eyes.
She knew that both her cute sisters unconsciously—or consciously—made everything into a pleasant feeling while being together with Eric. Even things they didn't like became pleasant to accompany him and not make him feel displeased with them.
Lyria, Livy, and even Eric had never noticed this, but Riya had long noticed.
Otherwise, how could such pretty girls genuinely laugh together at the silly jokes that Eric made?! And they had even started to learn to joke like that from him!
Riya felt frustrated about how her sisters were being corrupted and taken advantage of, but she was just a helpless ghost and couldn't do anything about it…