Eren was relieved when he saw the newly spawned mana in his stats.
He sat down away from the cat's blood and braced himself on his hands, leaning back. Touching the ground and staring at the new numbers floating before his eyes made him feel calmer, happier.
"How do you feel?" Emily walked over and sat right down on the floor beside him. It was strange seeing such a beautiful, sexy woman sit on the ground, especially with those thin clothes clinging to her.
But that's strange to me. Maybe elves really are more in touch with nature like in the stories, who knows?
Eren watched the two kids lift the dead animal without a hint of disgust and carry it off to a special place.
"They're good kids."
"They're the only recently born children in the village. No new births are expected anytime soon."
"Why?" Eren had assumed elves might just have less sexual desire or something. Emily's answer went far beyond what he expected.
"It's said the elves were carefully created by a certain God a long time ago. Our ancestors were made in such a way that they were never expected to die, so they weren't expected to reproduce and multiply among themselves.
Genetically, the possibility of two elves having a child with each other may occur once. Even if they've had sex every day for decades it's almost the same.
That's why elves can only have zero or one child in their entire life, and that's if you're lucky." She had an intense look on her face. Beautiful but intense…
In that case, children had to be incredibly valuable to this breed. Everyone would want children. It was an interesting race.
Eren had been shaking his head at the start of the story, but then he remembered the books by the famous author who'd been the first to reveal elf stories on Earth. Thinking about it more, the origin of the elves here matched what the author had written.
"Do you know the name of that god who created you? Or anything from that time."
"I'm sorry. That sort of thing is just what elves generally say, I don't even think it's real. I believe the fertility rate of elven women is a little lower than other races, that's all."
Eren glanced at his profile page and the stat points he was entitled to use. Even one point felt priceless.
He smiled as he idly played with the soil between his fingers.
Even with the sun setting over this unfamiliar place, he was genuinely happy in that moment. For once, he forgot all his troubles and problems.
"But let me give you some extra information." Emily smiled him.
"Hmm." Eren froze when he felt the incredibly sexy woman beside him shift closer.
Emily leaned in and spoke in a whisper.
"When elves are with other races, our fertility doesn't suffer at all. In fact, my mother said an elf woman can bear more children than a normal human woman can, ten or even twenty, it's not a problem.
That is, of course, if an elf woman is together with a different race's male. For example a human..."
Eren turned his head and studied the blond elf's eyes as she watched him with clear interest. Emily didn't look like she was kidding.
"And why did your mother know about such things when there are no humans in the village or around?"
Emily snuggled closer with an even bigger smile, angling herself so the children in the distance couldn't see. Eren caught a sweet floral scent, like forest fruit, and beneath it, the tempting scent of a mature woman who was a little sweaty.
She took Eren's left hand in her warm, white hand.
"Because my mother traveled to a human town beyond this wild forest and dangerous mountains to make me. She had been with a young hunter from the town for a month and came back."
Eren wasn't a teenager. He'd had several girlfriends before, and apart from the childish ones, he now had a girlfriend he was in a sexual relationship with.
Still, despite everything, he was excited.
It felt good touching a beautiful elf woman while more than half of her body was visible. Eren's hormones kicked in immediately, his heartbeat speeding up as he avoided Emily's gaze.
"So you're actually a half-elf?"
Emily tilted her head.
In that moment, Eren struggled not to hug her or do something stupid. Calming himself down was hard, because of the smell, the sight, the closeness. On top of that, Emily was a high-level hunter and could probably kill him with a single hand move.
"Yes and no."
"Wood elves have either green or blonde hair. I look like an elf in that way. But my body has some problems because it also carries human blood, I've grown faster than normal, and I have this look even though I'm only twenty-four and a half (24,5) years old."
"You're a bit younger than me." Eren muttered.
"I will not age after this by the way." She winked playfully.
As the children drew closer, Emily withdrew her hand. She stood and took a step toward the dirt road that led to the house. After she jumped over the fence, she turned back to him.
"Are you hungry?"
"You have no idea!"
..
It was completely dark when Eren and Emily returned to the house.
As they sat in the village restaurant, a middle-aged elf man approached them from inside.
Eren was about to talk to someone else for the first time, aside from Emily and the two kids. The thought made him oddly excited.
"Hello."
"Welcome. Today we made Yaksa stew and black rice."
"Then I'll just have the rice. Can you get my friend a plate of both?" Emily said that after Eren had a weird look on his face.
"What would you have with your meal?"
"I want a bottle of Zen Wine."
Eren had wanted to speak to the waiter himself, maybe make a bit of small talk and ask a few questions. Still, it felt nice having Emily sweetly order on his behalf, so he didn't object and just smiled.
As he looked around, he also picked up bits about elf food, their drinks, and a few customs of the village.
The elves came here mostly as a social activity. Aside from their table, only two others were actually eating, while the rest of the green and blond-haired elves chatted with wine glasses in hand.
"It's a pleasant place."
"Sitting here is the only activity that can be done in such a small village. The people of the village can't enter the forest due to its dangers, so they're a bit trapped."
Eren frowned and looked toward the giant trees visible in the distance.
"Is it far from here where your mother went? That human town."
"She said it took a month, even for a high-level elf like my mother. A normal elf would probably take five to six months to arrive. I don't know because I didn't see it myself, and you have to imagine all the dangers on the road. Even I would die with a wrong step."
That evening, they talked about a lot of things.
Eren felt even happier to be here with someone as beautiful as Emily beside him, along by the delicious food and the wine.
He didn't think about his life on the other side even once for the entire night.
It was a peaceful, lovely dinner.
With each sip, he inched closer to the table and little by little, closer to Emily.
They chatted and laughed for hours deep into the night.
They talked about animals, their lives, their dreams, and details of the Evon System in this Elven Realm.
..
In the morning, Eren expected a headache, but there was no problem at all.
I think elf wine is an alcohol doesn't harm the body. It is impressive. Maybe I should ask about their recipe.
When they'd gotten home that night, he'd had other dreams in his head as he walked into the bedroom.
But he'd slept in a simple floor bed prepared by Emily. Contrary to all his expectations, they both fell asleep in different beds and didn't even move a muscle until morning.
..
Eren wasn't a breakfast person.
"I think we should leave breakfast for later. Let's go to the slimes."
Emily didn't object, since they'd already planned what they were going to do last night. She also preferred having breakfast after finishing her morning routine.
This morning, she looked as flawless as yesterday.
She looked sexy enough to shake the whole world in her weird pajamas that barely covered her breasts.
She smiled when she saw Eren swallow as he stared at her body. Then she went to the bedroom to put on yesterday's clothes.
"Let's hunt then."
After 15 minutes, they reached a place outside the forest.
"This is an area favored by the weakest level 1 slime. They usually hide under trees and are very harmless."
Eren nodded and watched Emily walk away.
She had an extremely mature body for a 24 and half-years-old. He waited a few seconds, his eyes lingering on her hips and the long blond hair flying behind her as she walked.
She looks big enough to have a child on the outside(Milf), but she's young on the inside. It's so weird.
Emily was the hunter of the village, so she wandered around the area every morning. And she cleared out any high-level creatures that approached the village.
Meanwhile, Eren wandered among the level 1 slimes. He played a little with the knife in his hand, and minutes later, he finally gathered his courage and crept closer to one.
If the village hunter says that level 1 slimes can't even kill ants, there's no need to be so afraid.
Even if he told himself that, the idea of actually killing a living being was still difficult. He had to convince himself for a long time before he stabbed the little liquid creature at the base of the tree.
And finally, for the first time in his life, he killed a living creature by himself.
[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime]
Eren stared at the bar showing his leveling status on the panel in front of his eyes. It was one-third full.
"Two left..."
A minute later, the third slime was also killed with a single stab before it could even move.
[You took the 100% energy of Level 1 Wild Slime]
[Congratulations! You have reached Level 2.
All stats are +1.
You acquired 1 Stat Point to use!]
Since Eren didn't close it, he watched all his stats increase on his profile page. It didn't even bother him that the feminine robotic voice said "Congratulations" again.
This time, after leveling up, he actually felt different.
It was like he'd grown physically stronger.
Robotic System Lady... as much as I don't want to hear you say -Congratulations- with your squeaky voice again, my opinion about you has changed now.
I hope I can hear your voice all the time until I reach level 10,000. Hahaha.....
Eren stood up laughing and looked at the slimes around as if they were the most beautiful bikini models in the Universe.
He was spending a beautiful morning. Without thinking about the the workplace he didn't go to, or the lover he had a fight.
The most beautiful woman he had ever seen running towards him while waving. This could also be the reason of his happiness.
Yeah, I may be in love already.