When I opened my eyes early in the morning, the first thing I saw were Seryanna's sharp, dark-brown eyes. She had an accusing look as though I did something bad. I had no idea what though. But then again, she was still holding me in her arms and I her. It was pleasant, and I had nothing against her big chest pressing against me.

“Erm… Good morning?” I said with a forced smile.

The dragoness didn't reply, she kept throwing daggers at me with her eyes.

OK! What's going on? I'm pretty sure SHE was the one who climbed into my bed, not the other way around! I defended myself in my mind.

I was staring the lion right in his eyes, or rather the dragon… and a general at that.

“Hm…” he said while squinting his eyes at me and rubbing his chin.

Seryanna kept silent. She wasn't saying a word. Standing in the back of the room, next to the lit fireplace, she had her arms crossed at her chest and her eyes closed.

After the old man got the friendship confirmation message pop up in front of his eyes, we walked into the nearby reception room. It was big and luxurious.

Looking up at the sky, I couldn't tell what time it was. Thinking about it, this world had more hours than Earth, so thinking in Earth-like terms was a bit wrong to begin with. Looking back, the road was mostly empty. We saw only a pair of grumpy looking lumberjacks. I had to say, those two were quite tall and the axes they carried on their shoulders were big enough to cut down a Khosinni in half. A tree wouldn't stand a chance if struck with a direct blow from one of those things.

All I could say was that every single bone in my body hurt like I got stomped on by a dragon. Well, technically speaking, she fell on top of me when I made the wrong type of wish in my head.

That's 100 Luck for you, being the least bit reliable when you needed it the most. Why couldn't a cute nekomini girl or big-breasted innocent elf fall instead? I wanted to scream out loud, but a certain dragoness was giving me a strange threatening glare.

“For some reason, I want to punch you right now.” said Seryanna.

Morning dropped by like a rock or rather a bucket of cold water.

“Whoa! That's cold! Huh? What?” I shouted as I got up soaking wet and shivering like a puppy in the cold season.

Looking around, I thought for a moment that it was raining and my tent had a hole in it, or we got flooded by the river, although, we were quite far away from it. Unfortunately, the only thing wet there was a skinny shivering human, meaning me.

For some reason, that night I had a very HOT dream. When I say hot, I don't mean I went all tomb raider style with a whip in one hand and jumping on sinkable platforms over a lava pool, but in the sense that I dreamed of Seryanna. White nightgown, sultry look in her eyes, the body movements of a vixen, and the rest was pretty much history. When I woke up, I was hugging and kissing an imaginary friend. My brain took a few minutes of loading time before it managed to process what was happening. The color in my cheeks went from pink to red, and I slapped my forehead.

Once again, morning greeted me with a dark sky outside, but for the first time in two days, I felt a terrible pain rushing through my body. It wasn't too bad, more like the feeling I got after pushing myself too hard at the gym. My muscles were rejoicing when I moved, but at the same time, they were cursing me for daring to move. The good ol' muscle fever was a paradoxical sensation, which felt rather good.

Getting up from my simple bed, a blanket spread across a patch of grass, I crawled out of the tent and stretched my arms and legs a bit. The refreshing feeling rushed over me immediately, which was followed by pain. I groaned a bit and shook my hands and legs, hoping to get rid of it, no chance though.

The Bloody Mushroom wasn't categorized as a Magic Plant, so Seryanna was able to pick up and store as many as she desired inside her [Purse], however, she didn't take more than twenty. A lot more were left behind, but from what she explained, that much was enough to help cure her grandfather. The disease he suffered from was curable, but if left untreated, it could prove fatal.

I also carried two of those mushrooms in my backpack, just in case something happened to the ring. Although Seryanna highly doubted such a possibility, it did happen before, so she didn't want to see a repeat of her past experience. When I asked her about the full story, she simply glared at me and kept silent. It must have been a rather embarrassing one as far as I could tell.

As I slowly opened my eyes, I stretched my arms and forced my body to wake up. My mind was a bit confused as to where I was, but the memories of the previous day slowly flowed back, and I remembered I wasn't on Earth anymore.

With a heavy sigh, I got up and scratched the back of my head. I let out a big yawn and looked at the entrance of the tent. It was still dark outside, but I felt like I had slept a good 6 hours or so.

Oh yeah… A day here has 32 hours, so long nights. I remembered what Seryanna told me the other day.

The one walking in front of me, the dragoness by the name of Seryanna Draketerus, was really scary!

There was this strange powerful aura around her, the type which told you to stay away or else you'll end up as minced meat ready to be served to some kind of fearsome monster. It scared me and made my hair stand on end. If I could compare it with something, maybe it was like being in the middle of a cage with lava ready to poor down from the top while hundreds of professional assassins were ready to jump in to land a hit on you?

A loud and angry growl came from behind me. A pair of sharp teeth tried to take a bite out of my succulent flesh just as I ducked under a tree. Only the splinters remained from it as I continued to run through the dense forest.

What was I doing exactly?

Running for my life as fast as my legs could carry me, of course!

I wasn't the only one confused by the God-like entity's words. I was 100% certain of this. However, the reason I believed so was because I considered myself to be a normal human being. As such, one would naturally find himself or herself to be confused and afraid in such an absurd situation. Given what the God-like entity said earlier, there was a high chance for there to be individuals among us who weren't aware of the existence or extensively used the almighty power of the Internet. As such, they were most likely the most confused people out of all of us.

Three days have passed since the world received the ominous message regarding our impending doom, yet no one discovered who sent it. The news said the governments were working together on the clock to figure out how the culprit did it. Various scientists all over the world were giving their various opinions about it, most of them claiming it was done by high tech aliens. The religious fanatics took it as a chance to blast out their beliefs at anyone who cared or not to listen. Even at school, people were acting weird about it. One of the teachers didn't show up for class, and some of my classmates were still at home. Everyone else simply didn't care or believed it had nothing to do with them.

Hear me now, mortals of this world! In thirty years from now, a warmongering species shall surround your planet and lay waste to your entire civilization!

When every human on Earth heard this ominous message resonating inside their minds, it was met with various reactions. Some passed it off as a bad joke played by their overactive imagination, others as a nightmare, and very few took it seriously. The latter would be the ones to make it clear that this message was quite real and not some elaborate hoax.