As I received all of the ores, I looked through my crafting nu again.
I now had enough resources to craft a [Standard Iron Sword], it was 20 iron and 50 wood. It looked significantly better than the [Lesser Stone Sword] I was currently wielding.
Chloe looked at with a smug look on her face.
"Good job, I guess."
"Tehe, you can praise a little more you know~"
I pat her on the head.
"Is this what you wanted?"
"Not exactly, but it's not too bad~"
After a little while, Rosie also returned from her journey into the forest. She was holding a large number of fruits and vegetables.
"Look what I got!"
"Those will be good for dinner tonight," I replied.
I began setting up the crockpot for dinner. Everyone gathered around it, taking a seat on various logs I had placed around the area. The bright orange smoke was hypnotic as the bottom of the crockpot slowly heated up. Rosie poured in so water and vegetables and I put so at in as usual.
"Hey, William," Chloe called out to .
"Yeah?"
"I can take care of this if you want."
"Alright then, I had sothing I needed to do."
"Okie~"
She took over looking over the crockpot and I made my way back into my hut. Most of my Minions were still outside as I wanted to gather resources for a little longer. With my new [Standard Iron Sword], I snuck out without anyone noticing and began making my way into the forest. I went the sa path I took the previous day until I finally reached the place where the injured girl was.
Ugh, where is she?
I looked around the area and saw that she wasn't there anymore. I had wanted to speak with her in order to check my suspicions about a particular person, it was soone who I had suspected for a while now. However, since she was no longer here, I would have to wait for another day.
I made my way back through the forest towards my settlent as it was starting to get really quite dark.
However, I was t by a very bright light in the distance. Not only light but there was also a huge cloud of smoke above it. As I made my way closer, I realised that the area was quite warm. There had been a fire at my settlent.
I rushed back and saw that one of my huts was on fire. Elrich, Rosie and Chloe were all nowhere to be seen.
Ah, it's finally happened.
Suddenly, the first person I saw running towards was Rosie.
"William! Soone set the hut on fire!"
She grabbed my arm and pulled back.
"Let's get out of here!" She yelled.
"Wait."
I walked further into my settlent and looked around the area.
I couldn't find Elrich or Chloe.
I ordered all of my Minions to return as I tried to figure out the situation.
"Rosie, where did the other two go?"
"I don't know! I think they ran away!"
Suddenly, Elrich appeared. Rosie appeared visibly shocked at his appearance.
"William, Chloe was with when we were watching the crockpot but now she's gone for so reason." He stated.
"Elrich, it's fine."
"Huh?"
I needed to find Chloe first and foremost. I searched the general area, looking around the burning hut which looked like a large bonfire. The wood slowly burned into char and black dust. I looked into the hut from the outside but there was no sign of Chloe. The only other place she could be was in the forest. I ran into the forest, looking around at the various trees. My vision was heavily blocked so I struggled to look far into the distance.
"William, what are you doing?" Elrich shouted at .
I continued searching around the forest until finally, I managed to see a slight movent. As I made my way closer, Rosie suddenly ran towards . She grabbed my arm again and pulled back towards the settlent.
"William! It's not safe, let's get your Minions first!"
I shook her off.
She stood silently as I ran further into the forest. All of a sudden, behind a tree, I saw Chloe tied behind a tree. There was an extrely thick rope that attached her to the tree, she was simply sitting there waiting, the rope was also stuck inside her mouth so she couldn't make any noises.
I quickly removed the ropes as she slowly got back up.
"Took you long enough~"
"Don't you have any sense of danger?"
"I'm not dumb, you know."
"I don't really have ti for this, we need to go back and deal with her."
The two of us ran back towards the settlent.
Before us, Rosie stood, with a large ring of water surrounding her. It was flowing around freely as if she was manipulating it herself.
*
I figured it out a few days ago.
Rosie's movent had been suspicious.
First of all, despite claiming to have a botany-thed system, she didn't appear to have any abilities related to plants.
Whenever she went out on expeditions, she ca ho with wounds.
However, that wasn't enough to suspect her.
She might have just been lying for so other reason.
However, once I t Chloe and more importantly when I saw the girl on the ground, I realised it.
It was true that Chloe had beaten up the girl. However, I noticed sothing quite suspicious.
The accessory that the girl was wearing was the exact sa accessory that Rosie wore.
The Knife of Kali.
She also had so plants on her that I have only ever seen Rosie collecting.
I finally figured it out.
Rosie was lying.
*
"How did you know!" Rosie exclaid as she violently cycled fresh water around her.
"I'll admit, you were pretty subtle."
"How did you find out!"
"Several factors."
Her face was covered with anger.
"Hey, Rosie," I tried to speak to her, "soone else is making you do this, aren't they?"
"Why does that matter! I'm your enemy now."
"Well if it's soone else, I'll just have to deal with them instead."
She shot a jet stream of water towards , just barely grazing my cheek.
"Who is it? Who's making you do this?"
She stopped listening, instead, putting more energy into her attacks.
Ah, what a hassle.
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