Irina accepted the 1000 horses from the goblins, and expressed her gratitude to the goblin chief.

  Although the goblins didn’t help the Night Elves in the battle earlier, neither did they take advantage of them during their time of weakness. Now, they were even giving them horses to help them to travel southward. They had already done their best for the Night Elves.

  “Chief, the Night Elves are also elves. Will they be even harder to handle than the Wind Forest if they become more powerful?” a goblin asked as he watched the Night Elves’ retreating backs.

  “We, goblins, and the elves have been neighbors for the past 1000 years. This neighbor had only turned bad in the recent 100 years, so it was all that old hag Helena’s fault. If Irina could make the elves go back to who they were, it would only be a good thing for us goblins.” The goblin chief shook his head with a smile as he watched the Night Elves leave.

  With Alex and that mysterious force’s support, Irina’s counterattack against the Wind Forest would perhaps begin soon. The goblins could gain a potential ally by helping them in their time of need.

  ***

  With horses to ride, the Night Elves’s speed increased a lot.

  “Howl!”


  Right at this moment, a loud cry appeared over their heads, and a purple-striped griffin hovered above the Night Elves’ caravan as it locked its sight on Irina in the lead.

  “Ah Zi?” Irina looked at the purple-striped griffin, feeling rather surprised.

  Captain Ashley came forward, and smilingly said, “Please go ahead, Your Highness. I will lead the Night Elves to Chaos City and find a place to set up base.”


  Irina looked at Ashley who was a loyal captain with very exceptional talents at managing the army and a 9th-tier power. Her status in the Night Elves was only below hers.

  “Good. I will go and look for you after you reach Chaos City.” Irina nodded, and leaped to a giant rock at the road’s side from the horseback.

  The purple-striped griffin dove down, and landed next to the giant rock. It extended its wing to the rock to let Irina walk over easily.

  “Little Ah Zi, come and let me stroke your head,” Irina said smilingly as she wasn’t in a hurry to get on the griffin’s head.

  “Ow……” Ah Zi shrugged subconsciously and howled as it looked at Irina nervously.

  “You won’t die if you let me pat you. Why are you so peculiar?” Irina’s voice turned cold. “Or, you think you are already too good for me to pat your head?”


  “Ow!” The purple-striped griffin surrendered instantly, and poked its head over to let Irina “torture” it.

  Even though it wasn’t willing at first, when Irina’s hand was placed onto Ah Zi’s head, the griffin with a 100m wingspan began to roll around on the ground like a kitten[1]. It even rolled over to reveal its stomach to look at Irina with its tongue out in adoration.

  Irina retrieved her hand back from Ah Zi’s head. She poked Ah Zi’s tummy with her toes gently with a smile, and said, “Let’s go. Bring me back to Chaos City. I haven’t seen my Little Amy for a long time. I miss her so much.”


  “Ow.” Ah Zi flipped back onto its legs, feeling rather unsatisfied. It shook the dirt off its body. When Irina got on its back, it spread its wings, dashed through the clouds immediately, and flew toward the south.

  ***

  “Big Sister Xixi, I think Father should be coming home soon,” Amy said as she looked at Xixi who was busy in the kitchen.

  “Mm-hm. They could be coming back for lunch, but I’d better make something for you two little ones first,” Xixi replied without turning back.

  “It’s okay. We’re not hungry at all. We could wait for Father and the rest to come back to have our meal together.” Amy shook her head before tugging Anna’s clothes’ hem. “Do you agree, Anna?”


  Anna glanced at Amy, and then looked at Xixi in the kitchen before nodding her head. “Mm-hm, I am not hungry, either.”


  Xixi shook her head. With conviction in her voice, she said, “You have to eat even if you are not hungry. You are still growing. If you don’t eat your meals on time, you won’t grow tall.”


  “It’s fine. I like being small and short like Big Sister Babla. That’s so cute.” Amy blinked.

  “I want to be like Big Sister Shirley, tall and slender.” Anna pondered for a moment before shaking her head. “However, it’s fine to eat my meal later today because I want to wait for them to have our meal together.”


  Xixi turned to resignedly say to the two of them, “Although the food I made isn’t as nice as Boss Mag’s, you two little ones should at least have some.”


  Amy and Anna shrugged their shoulders together, while Ugly Duckling simply turned its head around.

  Knock! Knock!

  Right at this time, a knock came at the door.

  “Are they back?” Anna jumped up from her chair and dashed to the door.

  “That’s great!” Amy’s eyes lit up, and she ran to the door with Ugly Duckling in her arms as well.

  Anna tip-toed and pushed open the door with some difficulty. She was stunned when she saw Shirley standing at the restaurant’s door.

  Her usually well-groomed hair was tied up messily, and her pretty skirt became a light armor full of holes. There was a lot of blood on her, which no one knew if it was hers or belonged to others.

  Anna’s eyes became red instantly.

  “I’m back.” A smile appeared on Shirley’s face as she took out that little bunny that Anna asked Firis to bring to her. The white bunny was already dyed red by the blood.

  Anna dashed over and threw herself into Shirley’s arms, sobbing.

  Shirley held Anna gently first before hugging her tightly in her arms. Her highly strung up nerves only truly relaxed now.

  “Big Sister Bean Sprout, Big Sister Shirley, Big Sister Camilla, you came back!” Amy exclaimed in surprise. Then, she looked around them, and worriedly said, “Where is Father and Big Sister Miya?”


  “They are right behind us. They should be back very soon,” Firis replied. She felt so good to be called Big Sister Bean Sprout by Amy again, and it felt great to return to Mamy Restaurant. If the Night Elves could be based in Chaos City, then she could return to work at Mamy Restaurant.

  “That’s great. We have lunch to eat now,” Amy said happily.

  “Seems like I don’t have to display my culinary skills this afternoon,” Xixi said as she glanced at those prepared ingredients, feeling rather wasted.

  “Oh, yes. Where’s Big Sister Aisha? Why isn’t she back together with all of you?” Amy said after pondering.

  Anna also lifted her head up with a concerned expression from Shirley’s arms after hearing that.

  “She’s not coming back for the time being, but I believe she will definitely come back one day.” Shirley released Anna and took hold of her hand.

  [1] The wingspan is indeed written as 100m long.