"no you can't eat them, they are Mars' mates... of course if you do Mars is likely to kill you and eat your magic beast core"

the red dragon let out another low growl which caused her to give yet another sigh before she spoke in an irritated tone

"yes I'm sure he will notice if they are missing a limb so you can't taste them either"

the red dragon let out another low growl and stood up and walked past the girls and out of the cave, Mars' mother gave a sigh and sat down on the ground before she looked them over again half expecting one of them to have died while she was not looking, but alas they were all still alive, although how close they were to fall over dead differed a lot

'best I soupse is the half dragon... then comes the two elvers and finely the one that is closest to dying is the beastwoman...'

Varvei had some dragon blood in her already so she was naturally doing best with enduring the side effects, Marry and Chloe was both extremely physically fit and had both lived long lives so their mental and physical toughness was pretty good and then there was Elsa.... Elsa was by far the youngest of the 4 and her physical fitness was not as good as the elvers therefore she had the most trouble, Mars' mother looked over at Elsa that was covered in sweat and seemed to have trouble breathing and gave a yet another sigh

'she probably won't last the night... how do I explain this to Mars..?'

Back at Green river Mars returned by portal, the negotiations were done and both the compensation and ransom they were set to receive was pretty good all things considered there was just one problem

'....now I'm bored again'

Mars had lost his work so now he was bored again and with the girls not being home he was feeling even more bored by the minute

"....let's go visit Terry"

Mars got up from the couch he was lazing around in and was about to walk out the door when he remembered something

"oh right, he's leveling up at the moment... s.h.i.+t what should I do now..?"

Mars still left the penthouse but he just wandered aimlessly around the city until he arrived at the giant tree in the middle of the bridge and thought

'maybe the elders have something for me...?'

Mars went inside and instead of going up to the reception he went straight ahead further into the giant tree, having been here so many times already he knew the way pretty well and didn't need anyone to guide him anymore, besides the elders themselves had said he was free to visit anytime he wanted and thus after walking for about half an hour Mars arrived in front of the door to the elders chamber and walked in without knocking and found that the elders were already discussing something

"---but still we must honor our agreement"

"it expired ages ago"

"I agree there's no reason for us to send them without any gain, besides how is a elver supposed to pa.s.s though the NNE at a time like this?"

"oh... welcome Mars"

"sorry we were discussing something, do you need anything?"

Mars walked up and sat down on a chair facing the 8 thrones were the elders were sitting and asked

"what were you discussing?"

one of the elders gave a sigh and spoke

"well the truth is we received a request for aid from one of the other elven settlements here on Salen"

"oh... now I'm interested, tell me more"

"well it's not all that interesting, they need to borrow our military to reconquer some of their territory, specifically the planes around their forest which has been annexed by one of the NNE's vessels"

"but we have no way of transporting that amount of troops over land or by sea"

"besides, we are not sure if we should honor such an old agreement in the first place"

Mars gave a nod and pointed at himself

"why not send me?"

the elders fell silent and a few moments later, one of them spoke

"we could do that"

"but are you willing to help Mars?"

Mars gave another nod

"sure I'm bored anyways so let me meet with the envoy first then I'll decide"

"how long am I supposed to wait here!"

Amelia yelled at the guard that was watching over her, she was an elver alright but that's were all similarity with the Green river elvers ended, she had tanned skin and a no-so-slender figure that put the slender Green river elvers to shame and her eyes were red as a ruby, she was what Mars would call a dark elf

"as I'm waiting here my comrades die fighting against the invaders! tell me if you plan to help already!"

she yelled at the guard once more, but the guard remained silent, he was indeed getting paid enough to endure being yelled at by Amelia, at this moment the door to the room was opened by Mars that walked in and laid eyes on Amelia and was stunned at her busty figure and was half about to ask 'are you really an elf?' but when she laid her eyes on him she drew her sword and slashed at him with rage while she yelled

"die you dirty human!"

Mars narrowed his eyes slightly as time slowed down around him before he reached out for the sword on his hip and in the next moment blood splattered thought the air