"Elvers are normally bound to their forest but my people use the plains around our forest to raise livestock"

"I see so the plains are important to you guys..."

"yes, in fact our ablilty to feed our own people have been significantly reduced since Ule annexed the plains around our forest, the cowards also took meany of our people hostage and threatens to sell them into slavery"

'so there's a hostage situation too...'

Mars listened as Amelia explained the situation in detail, it took about an hour for Mars to understand all parts of the conflict, then Mars gave a nod

"I understand now, since the elders have left this matter to me I'll decide if Green river gets involved in it or not, you understand that right Amelia?"

"...yes"

Amelia gave a heavy nod as she looked at Mars that closed his eyes and thought for a few minutes before he opened them again and said

"alright, I have thought of a plan, however I'm not going to share that with you, I'm going to go and tell your elder of it directly, it will be up to them if they accept"

Amelia's expression lightened up as she gave a nod

"I see... when are you ready to leave?"

"in 10 minutes, wait here..."

Mars stood up from his chair and walked out of the room before he opened a portal to his penthouse and picked up his bag and told Victoria he would need her help in a few days and that she should go to Alvin when she was hungry before he picked up his pre packed backpack and opened a portal back to the giant tree and walked back into the meeting room where Amelia waited for him exactly 7 minutes after he had left

"let's go"

"don't you have to inform the elders of you decision first?"

"nah I don't need to, they entrusted me to handle this matter"

"....they must trust you a lot"

"sure they do"

Mars followed after Amelia until both of them reached a park and Amelia took out a flute and blew it, just as Mars was about to ask what she was calling a giant hawk with a wingspan at least 20 meters wide descended on in the park and landed in front of Amelia and petted it's beak before she jumped onto its back and looked over at Mars

"come on, she doesn't bite"

"no need"

Mars slowly lifted off the ground to Amelia surprise and began hovering

"....so you can fly?"

"yup"

"...is there anything else you can do that I should know?"

Mars gave a smile but didn't answer, instead he raised his alt.i.tude fast and soon disappeared above the clouds Amelia gave a sigh and patted the hawk on its head and it let out a screech and lifted off the ground with a mighty flap of its wings and soon it also lifted above the clouds were it quickly found Mars that was waiting for them

"lead the way"

"okay!"

Mars followed after Amelia on her giant hawk and surprising had no problems keeping up with the giant hawk as he even flew around the hawk a few times just to demonstrate his superiority which seemed to p.i.s.s the hawk off

"easy girl, he's just teasing you"

Amelia petted the feathers of the hawk while she looked over at Mars that wore flight goggles and flew with his arms stretched out in front of his head and gave a sigh while she thought

'not only does he have a high level of swordsmans.h.i.+p and a healing skill which is able to reattach severed limbs he can also fly faster than a giant wind hawk... that and the immortal elders of Green river seems to trust him, I wonder just who is this Mars? and what more can he do?'

After flying the entire day Mars, Amelia and the giant hawk landed in an underpopulated area and made camp for the night and soon Mars and Amelia sat down on their side of the campfire, they had just eaten some provisions and a little ways away was the giant hawk, it was already sleeping but was likely to wake up if anything approached the camp so Mars and Amelia could sleep without having to stand guard in swifts which was nice, Amelia loosened her tight fitting leather armor while Mars did his best not to stare

"hey..."

"what is it Amelia?"

"you said you have a plan, how likely is that plan to succeed?"

"hmm... well it's more likely to succeed than not, let me just say it like that"

"I see... what are you going to do if the plan fails?"

"well the plan is mostly how to make sure Ule or another power doesn't want to annex your land again, so if the plan fails I'll just turn the capital of Ule into a ghost town as a deterrent to others"

"...are you serious?"

"yup, anyways I'll head to sleep now, see you in the morning"

Mars got up and walked away from the campfire leaving Amelia alone at the campfire, for a time she just looked into the fire trying to figure out if Mars was serious about turning a city into a ghost town by himself

'no way, he must be joking...'

Amelia shook her head and looked up at the stars while thinking of her homeland that was mostly in the hands of invaders and gave a long sigh

'guess I'll go to sleep too...'

It took Mars and Amelia 4 days of flying to reach Amelia's home forest, the forest called Black woods and soon both of them landed in a clearing outside of the city that also was called Black woods and after the giant hawk flew off by itself Mars and Amelia began moving towards the city walls, on the way there Mars transformed into his half dragon from to avoid a repeat of what happened with Amelia