"Yawn! I should have slept a bit more; it''s only been afternoon," Myne yawned while riding his horse toward the elf kingdom the day after he stopped at a bandit camp for the night''s rest. He really didn''t expect that his one-night stand would make him lost in such pleasure, that when he came out, it would be two days later.

    It was all the fault of Aurora and Babyoisa, who were just too enthusiastic about their guest and didn''t let him leave their cosy, warm bedroom. Even today, he ran out secretly while they were sleeping without telling them anything.

    "But didn''t you sleep enough last night? You didn''t wake until ten o''clock even because Aisha forcefully dragged you out, why do you still feel sleepy?" Waffle asked with a frown. He had been with the clone Myne for the past two days and hadn''t left the house as the clone was lazier than Myne.

    Now, he couldn''t wait to restart their journey. Seeing Myne yawning and complaining that he still hadn''t slept enough, made him want to slap him on his head annoyingly, but fearing that Myne would throw him back home, he held back.

    "You don''t understand," Myne said casually, patting Waffle''s head and ignoring him. "We adults have to do work even in bed." He looked around the grassland and couldn''t help but sigh, wondering when he would reach the damn elf kingdom.

    Two hours ago, he had passed the Town of Lunawan, a small town about the size of his Lucus Town.

    There weren''t many people around – 5 to 7 hundred, and adventurers like him were rare. There wasn''t much worth seeing. There was a medium-sized inn run by a fat man with a hot waitress, a muscular blacksmith who, although he sold weapons, focused mainly on making farming equipment.

    The potion shop only had low-grade potions of all types. There seemed to be an adventurer''s guild in this town, but due to recent turmoil in the kingdom and not receiving much support from the main branch of the guild, it had closed down, bringing a lot of trouble to the town''s people.

    When Myne went into the town, he saw a group of people who had nothing better to do, gathered together and discussing wherever to apply to restart the guild.

    Anyway, after wandering in the town for half an hour, and remembering a good location to open the portal if he needed to, Myne walked out of the town and continued his journey.

    "By the way, Waffle, do you think we''re forgetting something?" Myne, who was boredly riding the horse, suddenly seemed to remember something but couldn''t pinpoint it, asked Waffle, who was dozing off on his lap.

    "Huh? What? What did you say?" Waffle, hearing someone calling him, jolted awake and asked while looking around confusedly with half-closed eyes. Stay updated through My Virtual Library Empire

    "I said, do you think we''re forgetting something? I''m having a feeling of de?ja? vu, as if we''ve done this before, but something is missing this time," Myne explained with a frown, closing his eyes and trying to remember what he was forgetting. Waffle also repeated his action, but because he was in a half-sleep state, he soon started snoring without knowing it.

    "AHH! Now I remember!" Myne suddenly opened his eyes with an enlightened expression and exclaimed, nearly making Waffle fall off the horse.

    "What! What happened?! Why are you screaming?" Waffle, who was again awake with jolt, asked confusedly after stabilizing himself.

    "Bang!"

    "AHHHH! F*CK!"

    "Thud!"

    Myne, who was catching Waffle, had barely crossed a kilometre when he suddenly smashed into something hard in mid-air and fell from the sky like a broken kite.

    "Myne! Are you all right?" Waffle, who had wanted to prove his innocence by bringing Myne directly in front of the World Tree, saw Myne smash into something invisible and fall to the ground, quickly returned to his side and asked with concern.

    "I am fine, but which bastard created an invisible barrier in such a desolate place?" Myne, no longer an ignorant brat and having seen many things, understood the source of the problem immediately after getting his ass smashed on the ground.

    While cursing, he got up from the ground, raised his hand, and walked forward. Soon, he touched an invisible, hard, wall-like barrier in front of him, blocking everything except, of course, Waffle for some reason.

    "But why can I pass through it without any problem?" Waffle couldn''t help but ask as he demonstrated by easily bypassing the barrier. Surprisingly, even though he passed through the barrier, he didn''t vanish from Myne''s sight but continued moving forward as if there was no barrier at all.

    "If you asked me whom should I ask? Also, this is not important. The main point is what should I do now? How the hell do I cross this damn barrier?"

    After Waffle returned, Myne made a bit of distance from the barrier and threw a few fireballs at it, but as he expected, they had no effect at all, like rocks falling into an ocean. This was completely within Myne''s anticipation, as such a large barrier that covered an entire core area of a kingdom could not be broken by just someone of his level.

    If it were Fenrir or Maya, maybe they could try to break it, but to him, this was too far to even think about.

    "Then what should we do?" Waffle, who also had no idea how to deal with this matter, asked. Although he could easily bypass this barrier, he didn''t want to go inside alone, no matter how much he wanted to, as it was too dangerous for him. And if Fenrir found out that he was wandering dangerous places alone, he might as well forget about living with Myne, let''s not talk about going on another adventure.

    "Is there even a need to ask? Of course, we will trouble your mother. Since you can go inside, then this barrier is clearly the work of divine beasts. I just need to get permission from a divine beast, and I can also go inside like you," Myne, who had figured out the mastermind behind the barrier, rolled his eyes at Waffle''s stupid question.

    He summoned two comfortable chairs for himself and Waffle to sit down, and both of them began trying to contact Fenrir as always. Since the weather was cold, and the sunlight was very pleasant, they didn''t try to make any taunts or anything.

    As for their horse, because it was a smart and well-trained horse prepared for a queen, even though Myne left it behind, it was still following him. After seeing them resting, it stood behind them calmly without making any trouble.