Supremacy Games

After the girls and Bodidi said their goodbyes to the villagers and the chiefs, they grouped up with Felix in the training ground.

"Supreme Elder, we would like to get teleported near the Mire Marauders." Felix requested politely.

The distance between the two tribes stretched beyond the horizon...Felix didn't want to travel on foot with his party as he knew that it would take way too long.

Since he never visited the Mire Marauders' territory, he couldn't open a dimensional mirror to it...The same applied to Bodidi as he needed exact coordinates or visited the place once.

"That will cost you a food container for each member." Elder Strauvis anwsered.

Felix agreed to the payment and beamed the food containers to the side...He had to add another one since Miss Monaka was going with them as well.

Without further ado, Elder Strauvis teleported them a couple of kilometers outside of the Mire Marauders' Tribe.

The moment Felix and the others opened their eyes, they realized that they were placed within a gloomy vast forest with pitch-black leafless trees.

The sky wasn't as sunny and welcoming anymore...It was covered completely in gray gloomy clouds, making the atmosphere unpleasant and somewhat harrowing.

"The tribe is in front...Please, follow me." Miss Monaka requested as she floated deeper into this nightmarish forest.

In a short while, they encountered a huge, ominous swamp, which seemed to have absolutely no end.

The scent of decay was overpoweringly unpleasant, and the earth seemed soft and mushy beneath their feet as if it would give way at any second.

From the murky waters, tall cypress trees with twisted roots grew, creating unsettling shadows on the calm surface. The creepy feeling was heightened by the way that hanging moss swayed in the light air.

The air was filled with a disturbing cacophony of buzzing insects and croaking frogs in addition to creepy unfamiliar noises.

"Be careful." Felix warned as he noticed a large green alligator with three heads moving stealthily across the water with its eyes fixed on them.

"I will handle it." Selphie said as she pointed her wand at the alligator.

With a soft audible murmur, the alligator seemed to have been affixed in its place like it was paralyzed. But everyone knew that she had frozen it in time as the water around it was also unmoving.

"Gives me the creeps every time I see it." Bodidi murmured to himself.

"It will be released after a few minutes." Selphie shared with a faint smile.

care of anyone in our way." Felix permitted, knowing that Selphie could handle such

Selphie could reply, a sudden gruff

am still asking nicely...We do not

but Miss Monaka and Felix as they already anticipated that the tribe's chief

shrugged her shoulders at Felix and his party, seemingly telling them that it wasn't her problem to convince the chief to accept

take matters

bowed his head politely and said, "I understand that you want us to leave, so I won't waste your time with useless chatter. I am here to train my poison elemental manipulation and if it means buying or renting a plot of your land to make it happen, I will gladly accept any offer

the conflict as he wanted to see if he could get what he wanted from the chief without needing to get his hands

Alas...

interested

Felix wasn't dishearted by his response as he knew that it had the highest

for Elementals...But that's only if

how could the Mire Elementals care about food when they

with this offer a century ago, chief Drogath might have accepted it. But not now

is being attacked by the Scorchlanders." Felix requested with a serious tone, "So, if you won't accept our deal, then please give

and his party in the shape of a dark

talking about things you

know is that your tribe is an uninterrupted path towards its damnation and no one is offering you any assistance." Felix replied

offer my services." Selphie

"Likewise."

"Me too."

it would

little ones think that you have what it takes to help my tribe?" Chief Drogath

about them as he didn't bother to

it was normal to be underestimated by

proposed, "We will fight your tribesmen and if we win, you have to take us in. If we loss,

at Felix's proposal, seeming like he was thinking about the upsides

"Fine."

that he had nothing to lose and everything

led the relieved Felix

of huts built on stilts, with wooden walkways and

roofs, with a few small windows and a

walkways were slippery and uneven, making travel difficult for anyone

in the village and even then, they seemed wary and unwelcoming with the arrival of