Chapter 556: 517 rica’s childhood friend
Elf Country, outside the treehouse.
When Shane, Princess Luoqi, Lasha, Lilith, and Milu, a group of five, exited the treehouse and walked along the bridge made of vines to reach the ground, there was already soone waiting for them here.
“Mr. Shane! Everyone!”
rica seed to have been waiting here for a long ti. As soon as she saw the group, her eyes lit up, and she hurried over.
“rica?”
Shane blinked and smiled.
“You’ve co?”
Princess Luoqi also looked at the elf girl and smiled warmly.
“Miss rica.”
Lasha greeted rica.
“Um?”
Lilith tilted her head, either surprised by rica’s sudden appearance or only now rembering soone like rica.
As for Milu, she was outright confused, curiously looking at this unfamiliar elf girl.
rica seed not to notice Milu. After jogging up to the group, she finally spoke with a face full of apology.
“I’m… I’m sorry, everyone, for leaving you behind.”
rica appeared genuinely sorry for not having accompanied the group the day before.
The group didn’t really mind.
“You haven’t been back in a while, right? You must have wanted to catch up and greet your acquaintances,” Shane observed rica with a smile that was not quite a smile, “Your complexion seems much better than yesterday; you must be feeling pretty good, huh?”
Shane’s words made rica blush, lower her head, and beco too shy to speak.
In fact, rica’s complexion had indeed improved significantly, making it obvious that she was in a great state.
rica didn’t know why, but she always felt better returning to Elf Country. Consequently, the speed of her increasing Magic Power had also accelerated quite a bit.
Perhaps, returning to her holand had indeed improved rica’s spirit, qi, and energy.
This was a good thing.
Anyway, rica didn’t feel anything was amiss and was less reserved and shy than usual.
“Lady Ai?”
rica looked around the group, not seeing Ai Yi but spotting a curious little girl being held by Lasha.
“Ai Yi is still asleep in the treehouse. You know that girl sleeps like it’s her job,” Shane explained with a wry grin while patting Milu on the shoulder, “This is the newcor, related to Ai Yi. There was another, but she didn’t co; I’ll introduce her later.”
Hearing this, rica sowhat understood: “A relative of Lady Ai…?”
Clearly, rica did not think of Ai Yi’s Demon sisters.
“Milu! My na!”
Milu would not bring up those details, cheerfully introducing herself with a raised hand.
“Oh… Alright! Miss Milu!”
rica quickly bowed her head in greeting, less reserved and shy but still as polite as before.
Then, Princess Luoqi also spoke up.
“Are you alone?” Princess Luoqi asked softly with a smile, “I thought you would bring your friends along.”
This statent seed to make rica stamr a bit.
“I… I actually wanted to introduce everyone to my childhood friend…” rica cautiously glanced at Shane and spoke in a low voice, “But she heard there were n from an alien race here and didn’t want to co…”
Shane was speechless.
Great, another elf girl with gender biases.
This place really isn’t friendly to us.
“Next ti for sure I’ll introduce you all!” rica hastily said, “Genom is really nice, braver and more capable than . Everyone in the clan says she’s a genius who will be the next to join the Elf Corps. She’s looked after and protected since we were young. She’s just a bit wary because she doesn’t know you all yet. Give a few days to persuade her, and she’ll definitely agree to et everyone!”
rica earnestly spoke well of her childhood friend.
Her manner was very similar to how she had spoken about Shane the day before.
From this, it was clear that rica valued her elf friend nad Genom greatly.
Shane was now curious.
“From what you say, your childhood friend should be more outstanding than you, right?” Shane continued, “Then why is it that you left Elf Country to gain experience, and she did not?”
Shane had heard this incidentally from Carol.
It was said that Genom and rica had a very close relationship.
The two had almost simultaneously endured the Fairy’s Rebirth Period and almost concurrently successfully transford into elves—they were virtually brought back to Elf Country one after the other and joined the Elf Clan.
Thus, the relationship between the two elf girls seed very good; they were inseparable from childhood.
Carol had ntioned that initially, rica and her friend had both received magic initiation from her. They started learning magic and practicing together.
Both were the sa age and had been close friends for over a hundred years, their relationship was far above the average mbers of the Elf Clan.
However, two years ago, this pair of childhood friends who had been together for a century ended up on different paths.
Genom was following the footsteps of the elders in the Elf Corps, striving to join them by practicing diligently within Elf Country.
rica, on the other hand, had suddenly decided to leave the village to gain experience outside, to widen her knowledge and experience.
According to rica, in terms of temperant, the elf girl nad Genom was much more outgoing than she was.
In such a case, how could it be that the more nervous and shy rica went out to gain experience, while the elf girl nad Genom stayed in the village and dedicated herself to closed-door training?
“This…”
rica was at a loss for words.
Seeing this, Princess Luoqi couldn’t help but elbow Shane in the side.
Shane twitched the corner of his mouth and helplessly glared at Princess Luoqi.
He knew that the princess was blaming him for not being able to keep his mouth shut, for not considering whether he was touching on a sensitive topic and making soone uncomfortable.
This Slacking Princess, for so reason, seed to have suddenly taken a keen interest in rica.
Shane could only shrug helplessly.
“I was just asking casually, you don’t have to answer.”
Shane gave rica a smile.
This made rica shake her head.
“Actually, it’s not sothing I can’t talk about…” rica, finding it difficult to start, said, “The reason I wanted to leave the village and gain experience outside is that I felt if I didn’t, I might never surpass Genom.”
It wasn’t sothing too difficult to comprehend.
“Since our rebirth as elves, we have always been together, doing the sa things, living the sa life, even practicing magic in exactly the sa way; there was hardly any difference.”
In such a case, the two doing the sa thing, yet achieving different results.
“The first to learn magic was Genom.”
“The first to level up was Genom.”
“The first to master interdiate magic was Genom.”
“Even the first to vanquish the demons outside the village, attracting the attention of the Elf Corps, was Genom.”
rica gripped her magic wand, with no resentnt in her tone, yet there was a hint of dejection.
“Even though I’ve always been doing the sa things, Genom has always been ahead of , which made wonder if I was inferior to Genom.”
It wasn’t jealousy or dissatisfaction but just a bit of doubt.
Yet, it was this slight doubt that, in the end, made rica decide to take a different path.
“If I continued to train like Genom, I would probably never catch up.”
“And once Genom joined the Elf Corps, she would receive better training, better cultivation; then I might never catch up to her.”
“I didn’t want to be left behind by Genom.”
“So, I gathered my courage and decided to leave the village to train and strive hard outside.”
As she spoke, rica unconsciously murmured.
“I wonder if I have caught up with Genom now?”
Clearly, rica wasn’t very confident about this matter.
And since they had just reunited yesterday, both were wrapped in the joy of the reunion and naturally didn’t notice this.
It was only now that rica seed to recall her original intention of leaving the village and couldn’t help feeling a bit anxious.
Yet her deanor was sowhat pitiable.
Princess Luoqi stepped forward and gently hugged rica.
“It’s okay, you must have caught up with her by now.”
Princess Luoqi consoled in a soft voice.
“Thank… thank you, Princess Luoqi…”
rica was sowhat shy, not knowing whether it was because she had revealed her innermost difficult sentints, or because of Princess Luoqi’s rather intimate gesture.
At the sa ti, rica stealthily glanced at Shane, seemingly very concerned about how Shane would view this matter.
Shane got the ssage.
Thus, he unequivocally said,
“I believe that you have indeed caught up with her by now, and perhaps even surpassed her.”
Shane gave the highest evaluation.
“Surpassed?” rica, who hadn’t considered this possibility, hastily said, “That’s not possible; Genom is so incredible, so talented, it would already be great if I could catch up to her.”
It seed that rica held a much higher opinion of her childhood friend nad Genom than of herself.
“That talented?”
Shane muttered to himself.
He didn’t know just how incredible the one nad Genova was.
But he didn’t think that the current rica was inferior to her.
Not to ntion anything else, just considering the insane growth of rica’s magic power in the past few months, her counterpart definitely couldn’t keep up.
That was the magic power growth that even Lady Ai glanced at sideways, and even the Elf Queen was amazed by.
Of course, rely having increased magic power didn’t prove that rica was stronger than the other.
But since the two of them were both mages?
Since both were mages, the one with stronger magic power definitely had the advantage.
Therefore, Shane believed that the current rica definitely wouldn’t be inferior to her childhood friend.
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