Wish(2)

"Wake up we should get going now." In a soft voice Joe whispered as he wake Zoey and Roland.

"It's still dark. Why are you in such a hurry?" Zoey refuted as she tried to sleep once more.

"Zoey is right my friend. Haaah... Its till too early." Roland said but he get up and started stretching.

"This is the right timing to travel since most of the wild beast are still asleep and thus we can travel faster minimizing our encounter rate of dangerous beasts." Joe said and took his bag. Zoey was still annoyed but Roland took her in a piggy back and so she began to sleep for a while.

"Miss Zoey your drooling.." Joe smirked and said.

"Shut up Joe.." Zoey said and flicked her finger producing a small droplet of water travelled into Joe's forehead.

"Ow.."

"Hehe.."

"Alright you two lets get going." Roland sighed as he carried Zoey out of the huge tree.

The mystic forest is a very wide forest and at the center lies a tall mountain where the top is coveres by clouds. When one goes deeper inside the forest the danger of the beasts grow stronger. Still it is one of the Poca Kingdom's objective to explore the forest since it holds many secrets. 40% deep in the forest is already considered dangerous since groups of beasts wanders around but at this hour the beasts are inactive. Two silhouette is seen moving fast on the ground.

"Run as fast as you can to cover more area before the beasts became active again."

Joe said as he sprint straight while dodging the trees ahaed. On the other hand even Roland suffers the worse since he got a heavy armor weapon and Zoey to carry while Joe only has a big bag and his crossbow. If Joe is the only one travelling then it would be faster but seeing how Roland becomes slower and slower he scout the area to look for some place to rest.

"Roland! I hear a river lets go their and rest!" Joe shouted as he turns toward the sound of river.

"Hah.. hah.. Alright!" Roland followed.

The trio then went to a rocky place where they can hide near the river. Among them Roland suffer the worst because of his armor, weapons amd Zoey.

"How much further?" Roland gasp as he asked.

"Don't worry. We are near. We just nead to prepare ourselves. Wild beasts began to move." Joe Calmly said as he rummage through his bag. Seeing something he want he took out a small bottle filled with purple liquid and smeared it on his bolts.

After a while the trio sets.

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Deep in the forest there is a small house made of woods and bricks along with a chimney. Outside an old man is seen enjoying a smoke in his pipe sitted on a rock. The old man has long gray hair that stretched until hus waist wearing a brown robe covering his entire body.

"Haah... What a nice day. Its been 8 years already. Should I head outside and make a name for myself?" The oldman ponder as he enjoyed his smoke until he looked on a direction where birds fled.

"A fight?"

The old man stood and jumped as high as the tree stand. He is old but quick as if he is still young. Jumping through the branches of the trees he came to a stop and saw three humans fighting a family of Bears. There are 2 adult bears and 2 younglings. This bears have black fur but as hard as metal as the green haired man on a metalic armor weilding a huge axe slash through it but managed only to knock it of back.

"Oh? Interesting to think he manage to push down this black Iron bear." The old man laughs as he enjoyed the show smoking hus pipe. Then he shift his gaze on the Dark blue haired girl on her blue robe.

"This girl!!! Interesting!!" The old man open his eyes in shock as she saw the girl casting a spell. Around the girl water started to form like a wall surrounding her. On the other han a young man in brown hat shoots his crossbow drawing the attention of the bears like a quick monkey.

"This lad... Joe?" the old man said in surprised as he recognize him. His though was then interrupted when the Mage girl yelled.

"Put them together in one place!!"

"Alright!!" the two men yelled in unison.

Roland with his might able to pushback the black iron bear but not enough to cut through of course with the help of techniques he could break their defences but the black iron bear is not that push over. They have enough strangth to push him back too should he loss focus also they have quick speed despite having a big body. Hearing the signal roland swung his axe around pushin the adult bear and young bear back. Meanwhile Joe draw the other two bears before jumping out of the area. With the 4 bears in one place Zoey released her magic. When she was cursed her ability drop but this time she drank a bottle of miracle water dispeling the curse for 10 minutes of time.

"Water Dragon!!"

The water that surrounds Zoey stood tall and formed an elongated figure like a dragon. The dragon formed by water rotating faster and faster that became dangerous upon contact. The water dragon travelled in a second towards where the 4 bears are.

*Boom*

A loud sound of impact followed by a sound like a waterfall but the water falling in a more faster rate that pushed down the bear's body to the ground. The water dragon was at leat 100 meter long from where Zoey stands.

The bears screamed but the sound of water violently falling down overshadowed them. Ten seconds of time felt like an hour for the bears before the attack is finally done.

"A beat is still alive? Looks like mystic forest lives up to its name." Although a bear has only manage to breath but it is already near on dying still Zoey thaught that it will be enough to finish them all. Now she understand how big the world is. Before she used this move on a chaos remnant thinking that it withstood it because its a chaos remnant now a black iron bear manage to survive her attack.

As she was still in her thoughts she heared a clap.

"Well done! That was a magnificent show! Wow! What a powerful attack!" From the trees emerges an the old man that is watching from atop of the tree.

"Who are you?"

Roland Readied her weapon. Zoey saw the old man before the curse began to start activating again as she was forced to drop her knees in the ground. The only one that remained calm was Joe.

"Old man Hermit!! Its been a while!" Joe smiled as he wave his hands.

"He's Sage Hermit?" The two said in shock.