As the Grifil completely becomes hell, the only survivor who knows what happened is the old man, Wilfred. At the command of his young master, Vulcan carries the old man out of the lava zone and gives him some money and food. When Vulcan was about to leave, he remembered something and looked at the old man.
"By the way Elder, we found the girl's traces. So, she is alive"
The old man, did he become happy to hear the news or sad as if he failed his mission? He begins to cry.
"Sorry Milady, this lowly one couldn't protect her as I promised"
As Vulcan flies away, the old man's scream can be heard as a whisper and it dies as he flies away.
"Young master, as you said I have helped the elder"
"Hmm. Thank you. Then let's start our search"
"But young master, you need to return now. It's about the time you should leave as the duke's ordered"
"But how can I leave to the dukedom in this situation"
"Young master, trust me, I will carry out the search mission. Also, I don't know if the duke will allow you to love a human girl. There are so many noble ladies in the demon realm who are waiting to marry you, young master"
"Vulcan, you don't need to worry. I will choose what to do in my life and also those nobles are only after the power of Forcalor's seat holder, not me, right?"
Vulcan remains silent.
"So, as you promise, search for her. I will return to the dukedom as promised"
"As you wish, young master"
Lucio nods and vanishes like a black mist and Vulcan returns to the forest.
While all this incident happened, Elsha escaped from the forest with the help of the Lynx.
"So, we are parting from here. Thank you for guiding me out"
"No need for thanks. It's the promise we made"
"Also, we always welcome you"
After all the goodbyes, Elsha slowly walks away from the forest. She takes a map from the bag and looks for her current location. Due inability to understand a map she places it back in her bag and walks forward.
"In everything Grandpa packed, this one is most useful," she said while touching her ear piercing. Suddenly her hair changes to black and her eyes to brown.
"How did he get these valuable things, right Skye?"
Skye flies out from Elsha's hair.
"You are better now, right Skye?"
Skye chirps. After some walk, Elsha reached a road. some carts and horse carriages were stopped nearby and people were resting while eating their lunch. Elsha slowly approaches them. The was a middle-aged man who looked tough, Talking and laughing with others.
"Sir, I want to go to the nearest town. If it is not inconvenient, can you please give me a seat?"
After hearing this the man stands up and approaches Elsha.
"Girl, I'm just a leader of a mercenary group called Silvershield, who is in charge of safety. Please ask the old man there. He is a merchant from Silvan town"
Elsha thanked him and ran towards the old man.
"Sir, I want to go to the nearest town. Can you please give me a seat?"
"Girl, are you an adventure or a mercenary"
"No, sir"
"Do you know how to defend against enemy attack"
"I can use magic sir"
"Good, then help the mercenary with the guard duty as payment for the trip"
"Thank you, Sir"
Because she finds a way to get into a town, Elsha is in joy and walks toward a tree with a joyful face.
"Why did you ask that girl to do the safety duty? You can give her a free trip" a young man who dressed as an assistant asked the man.
"Look here young man, I'm a merchant, right? So, I will always find a way to reap profit"
"But sir, she is looking like a young fragile girl"
"That's what your problem is. You have no eyes for talents"
"Huh?"
"She may look like that. But the amount of mana overflowing from her is not normal. She can deceive others, but cannot fool a merchant's eyes and I, William Gorden, who is known as the merchant king will never fail to notice someone talented"
"...." The man looks at him with a smile while sweating.
Time passed and people began to pack and arrange everything to continue their travel.
"Young miss, be careful. The road from here is dangerous. If something happens, please go rear. 14 days will take to reach Silvan. So, I'm saying this for your safe. It's not like I'm acting like a boss"
"Don't worry sir, I can do some tricks" Elsha says with a smile.
"Sigh. Young people these days"
They began their trip. While traveling they shared stories about their travels, slowly Elsha became more friendly with others and laughed together. She became friends with all the mercenaries, even though it was her first time talking with other people, other than Lucio. while she traveling, she learns the names of the members of the mercenary group. The leader's name was Marcus a tanker, a lady mage named Iris, Archer Samuel, and a healer named Rita. She becomes close with Iris from the mercenary team. While speaking with each other Elsha also studied some basics from her.
12 days passed, and together with other mercenaries, Elsha defended the goods from monster attacks.
"We will reach Silvan within 2 days. So, let's make sure that no one make any mistakes" the leader of the mercenary said.
While they continued their journey, there was heavy rain for the past 2 days and was tough to move forward. But due to their quick commands and experiences, they traveled without any trouble.
But when they were about to cross the bridge connecting to Silvan, it was broken due to over-flooding.
"Sir, I guess we need to take a divert," the assistant said.
"Hmm… OK. We don't have other choices, right?
While they talking about the change of course a man who rides one of the carts said.
"Sir, there is a narrow path on a cliff, we used before the bridge was built. We will be able to pass through there. But the problem is, it's a bit dangerous now due to no one passing through there"
"Ha… I guess we have no way. It will take days to repair the bridge so let's go in the direction you recommended"
While everyone agreed with this plan, Marcus still had some uneasiness. They start to change course and reach the new route. The road was narrow and if you were not careful, you would fall into the flooding river. They slowly pass through the path. Due to neglect, the safety wall made of wood already fell off.
They slowly reached the other side, all the people passed and only one cart with some goods was the only one that was to pass and Elsha and Iris were talking to each other, sitting on the cart. Suddenly due to the high pressure of water flow from the river, the impact slightly shook the path. The horse pulling the cart jumped to the other side because it was scared by the vibration and Iris lost her balance and fell from the cart, hanging at the edge of the path. If she loses her hand, she will fall into the river below.