Together with Cyra, I deliver the other two girls to their generic medieval villages. First Lily, who has three kids and a loving husband waiting for her. Wait, how old is she? Perhaps I better not ask.

Then we travel on my ice path for several hours to bring Ivy to her generic—

“What the hell is this!?” I shout and stop my freezing path.

We arrive at the edge of the most beautiful rainforest I have ever seen. Colorful birds are singing with the beauty of angels, there a phoenix sitting on a branch of a three hundred feet tall tree. And that’s the short one! I see a literal rainbow peeking over the treetops. Is... Is that a green whale floating in the sky? I rub my eyes in disbelief. Maybe this is all just a fever-dream I’m having?

“Come on, Lilith! Don’t fall behind” Cyra shouts and gestures for me to hurry up. We follow Ivy into the rainforest. She guides us following a narrow path. On both sides of the muddy path, the many different plants seem too thick to ever get through. Then, only a minute later, to the right of the path, I see a silver unicorn with a spiraling, blood-red horn—Huh? Strange color choice.

“What is this place?” I ask Ivy.

“This is where I live!” she answers. I notice her skin slightly glowing. She didn’t glow before! Is this the magic of the forest? I look at my hands and am slightly disappointed that I’m not glowing. Neither is Cyra. Ivy looks at me and asks, “Do you like it?”

“Of course!” How could I not like it? Finally, something worth seeing!

“In this forest, there is no hunger for us! No sorrow! No pain or death! With practice, we can even talk to the animals that live here!”

“Have you ever ridden on that big green whale up in the sky?” I point at the sky, which is completely obstructed by the colossal, lush trees.

“Ah, not yet! Only those who have collected the wisdom of a hundred lives are permitted to touch the Green Daddy!”

“Are you a wood elf or something?” I ask Ivy. I take a closer look at her ears. Nope! They’re not pointy or long. Just average ears. There is no way I would’ve missed such a crucial detail.

“No, but I was adopted by them!”

“How does that happen?” Cyra asks.

“Well, there are many people in this world who cannot provide a good life for their children. Be it war, famine, plague or all three at once! Life is harsh. Some choose to bring their new-born babies here and leave them at the edge of the forest, hoping to give them a better life. It happens all the time, honestly!”

“Why at the edge of the forest?” I ask.

“No one is allowed to enter, without the guidance of one of the inhabitants of this rainforest,” Cyra says.

“Oh, you’re perceptive!” Ivy says.

“Then how did you get captured by those lowlifes?” I ask Ivy.

“Well, I’m just a regular girl after all I suppose,” Ivy shrugs. “I don’t have some awesome magical powers like you or some of the elders. Not outside the forest anyway! I don’t nearly have enough lives for that. But still, my curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to see the world outside the forest. It sucked! Anyway, we've almost reached my village!”

“Ah, good! Then I guess we can leave you here?” Cyra asks and slows down her pace, falling behind both Ivy and me.

“Huh? You’re not coming?” Ivy asks confused.

“Oh, I would love to! But I really, really miss my mommy and daddy, you know? So I think we’ll be on our way! Right, Lilith?”

“Huh? Seriously? But this place is so magical!” I pout. “I'd much rather spend some time here, before going to another boring village I've seen a million times! Do you know how rare it is for a generic Isekai to have a place such as this?”

“Isekai?” Ivy asks and raises an eyebrow.

“I’m sure you’re exaggerating!” Cyra waves off my protest. “Now come on! You won’t be spreading your name if you stay here!”

“Well, I suppose so…”

“NO!” Ivy shouts and reaches for me. I recoil back.

“I mean…” Ivy pauses to regain her composure. “The elders will want to give you presents for my safe return! Usually, they hand out unicorns! Don’t you want a unicorn little girl? Or a unicorn pony?”

Then Ivy looks at Cyra with contempt and says, “You can leave for all I care! I sense great evil in your heart. Unicorns only allow the pure-hearted to ride them!”

“Oh?” I smile nervously. “In that case, I’m not sure the unicorns will let me ride them either.”

“Nonsense! Oh look, here come my people!”

All around us figures appear, dozens at a time. They’re nearly naked, their only clothes are made of different kinds of green leaves, tied together with thin, dark vines. All of them have green hair, just like Ivy. However, every single one of them has long, pointy ears as well as different tones of skin, ranging from warm ivory to pinkish, to full-on red like a radish.

“Greetings strangers!” one of the figures speaks and extends his arms to us. He has a long green beard and a wooden staff in his hand. “My name is Longbeard! Thank you for bringing our daughter to us! You must forgive her—she is still young and brash. Some times she has trouble fitting in with her woodland brethren.”

“Speaking of which,” I look around us and take a step back from Ivy. “Where are all your adopted brothers and sisters?”

“Oh, we feed them to the unicorns,” Longbeard states this matter-of-factly.

“Pardon?”

“Well, you see, in order to preserve our eternal lives, live without pain or hunger and attain the wisdom of a hundred lives, we drink unicorn blood. But the unicorns stay healthy only if fed small human boys and girls—up to the age of ten—on a regular basis. And if I say so myself, you look like a particularly delicious little girl, miss... ?”

“Her name is Lilith!” Ivy says.

“Lilith!” Longbeard exclaims. “What a tasty little name!”

Oh hell no!

“Now can we go?” Cyra asks me.

“Yes!” I shout and raise my hands above my head and chant. “Oh, Great Goddess A—Ah, fuck it! Heavenly Sunfire Inferno! Heavenly Sunfire Inferno! Heavenly Sunfire Inferno!”

I spam my inferno vortex in all three directions, sending the wood elves scattering in all directions. Then I run up to Cyra, place my hand on the ground and double cast [Freeze]. Cyra hugs me as we escape the cannibalistic magical rainforest on my freezing path.

I’ll check my stats once we leave this place far behind us.