The sun slowly slipped in the sky, dusk began to prepare to quietly retreat from the short transition, in the gradually dimming night sky, a round of light red moon quietly appeared in the night sky, and then a round of light blue moon quietly appeared, slowly pulling up the curtain of night.

On the edge of Xingmu Village, a makeshift meeting place is slowly taking shape in the hustle and bustle of people.

The origin of the name Hoshiki Village is that the people who built the village here found a large and bright starry tree here, which looks like a normal tree during the day, but at night, the trunk and branches emit a strange and colorful streamer, and the leaves are as bright as the starry sky on a summer night. There are several versions of the story of what happened between the first people and the tree, and there are rumors that the people cut down the tree and sold it for a lot of money to move it around the city, and it is also rumored that the tree actually came from some kind of monster in the rift, and one night the monster swept everyone who saw it back to the stars.

All the legends are related to a tree, but none have a specific result. One of the most popular is the Strange Tree version of the story, as adults always use it to warn children not to run around at night, otherwise they will be captured by the Starry Sky Tree and never return home.

Albena Taran used to be an adventurer, and the difference between Ann's understanding is that Taran is not actually a nobleman, but for Ann, the status of the village chief is no different from that of a nobleman...

As an adventurer, Taran and his team are quite legendary characters, who have been active in the exploration and crusade of the Chaos Nest in the past, and are quite famous in the circle of adventurers, but gradually withdrew from the circle after having a daughter...... But there are other reasons for this.

Relying on the wealth accumulated from the adventures, he hired a high-level builder to build a small manor in this remote village.

Although Taran has a rough appearance, he is polite, easy-going and enthusiastic, and over time, many people in the village began to jokingly call him Lord Taran.

As time passed, what was originally just a joke slowly became a habit. Later, he became the head of this small village of Xingmu.

Taran's wife, Thea, is a mage, and an accident makes her discover that a tree here has an excellent magic effect, and the magic props made are all good. Moreover, the mountains and forests here are primitive, the vegetation is intact, and there are many medicines and magical beasts in the mountains.

Later, Taran used his connections to get caravans to come to this fringe village, and planned the goods and specialties to be bought and sold in the village, and the inhabitants of the village began to go into the mountains to collect some medicine or cut wood for export in exchange for supplies. Gradually, the economy and population movement of this marginal village began to improve somewhat, and the village gradually began to develop into a village and town.

Life in the village began to improve after Taran took office, and most of the people in the village did some small business with the caravans, and life here was indeed much easier because of Taran's planning. This makes Taran the most respected village chief in history. Four years ago, when everyone knew that his daughter was missing, almost every household in the village sent people to help find him, and this time he organized a party for his daughter to wake up, and many people in the village spontaneously came to help prepare, otherwise it was just that the little manpower of the Taran family was really too busy.

Ann and Tata were finding their way after the sun had set, when almost the entire village had gathered.

Everyone applauded with smiles and goodwill and said words of blessing, but Ann was not used to being watched, and being watched by so many people made her look a little nervous, but she still greeted the people around her in a friendly way: "Thank you, thank you." ”

"Ahem, um~ everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet. Taran stood in the middle of the crowd, and his wife, Thea, cast an amplification spell on him, which made his already loud voice louder, and easily overshadowed the entire audience by himself.

"EMM, it's too loud. Honey, a little smaller...... Ahem... Ahem, it's pretty much it now. Taran looked around a little embarrassed, then quickly regained his complexion.

"Thank you for coming... Today is indeed a happy day for me: my Sleeping Beauty has woken up...", and then Taran said some kind words and some words of thanks, and once again expressed his joy for the day, and finally called the feast to begin. And he himself and Thea came to Ann's side.

"Hey, baby, did you miss me? I miss you, even though we've only been separated for a while, but Dad is really worried that you're gone. Taran hugged his daughter tightly, and even made Ann feel a little... Out of breath......

"Are you better?" Thea asked with concern, she didn't see Ann in a very good state during the day, she could see that Ann didn't really want to continue sleeping, she was just avoiding herself, although she didn't know why.

But since Ann didn't want her to accompany her, she could only ask later, after all, she didn't want her daughter to have any conflicts with her when she woke up.

"It's better. It's just still something. Thank you Mom. After accepting that the two people in front of her were her parents, Ann was a little less nervous, but she still didn't want to act a little strange and arouse suspicion.

However, in order to show the so-called 'normal', this made Ann very uncomfortable: because the table was full of delicious food that she had never seen before, but in order to appear 'normal', she could only eat more elegantly. Although it was just her own understanding of elegance.

But Mr. and Mrs. Taran were glad to see that their daughter could eat so much, and they did not want their child to wake up sick and unable to eat.

............

As the night began to darken, a huge bonfire was lit outside Starwood, around which most of the townspeople began to sing and dance, and a few drank on the side, all of which were provided by Taran.

"You know, my daughter, I was also an adventurer when I was younger. Adventure is not the same as what you read in the novels. Taran sat aside and began to share his life with Ann, perhaps he had said these words countless times before, but now it was the first time Ann had heard of them.

"Most of the time it doesn't have much wealth or fame, just endless dangers. Because I know how dangerous the Chaos Rift is, I don't want you to follow the same path as me. After dinner, the Taran family sat around the crowd and watched the campfire.

"What you see in the books is just the glorified part of the adventure, most of the adventures are often accompanied by danger and death, just as the light brings more than warmth, and the darkness follows in the corners of the light, if adventure really is only wealth and romance, Tatar should have a family like us by now. Taran's gaze turned to Tata.

Tata and Taran looked at each other, he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

"I just hope that you can master a little magic in life, and live a peaceful life. Although you spent a lot of savings when you were unconscious, the wealth we have left is at least no problem for you and Tata to live separately, ahem, of course, if..." Taran looked at Ann with a rather strange look, and then at Tata, and confessed that his daughter ran away with Tata as soon as she woke up, which made the old father feel very uncomfortable.

"Forget it...... That's for you young people. Our family is different from other ancestors, and we do not bless and reject other races. The old father swallowed his words......

"Actually, after you fell unconscious, I thought a lot, if I could tell you about the dangers of the Chaos Rift and how dangerous it is, it wouldn't be a treasure trove of opportunities and adventures as the story says. Maybe it's better than just stopping you from approaching that dangerous thing. Taran looked at Ann quietly, and Ann happened to be looking at Taran after hearing these words.

The two of them stared at each other silently for a while...

[Ah...... I accidentally met my eyes... Do you want to move away?...] Ann's mouth never stopped, and she kept chewing......

"Well, it looks like you still want to be an adventurer, right?"

Ann's expression as she looked at Taran from stiffness to confusion.

She wondered what kind of look the other party saw in her eyes that she wanted to be an adventurer, she wanted to say that I wasn't, I didn't, I think it's a good time now.

But she hadn't finished what was in her mouth, and before she swallowed it, she couldn't speak for a while......

"Okay, I see. But I want you to follow my arrangement. I've always thought that you sing well, maybe you can become a singer, if not, then learn spells, although our ancestors are not very affinity for spells, but your mother can become an elemental envoy, you should still be fine with a fireball. Mages and Lawgivers are generally relatively safe classes for adventuring teams. I know you want to be a sassy knight, but I don't think you're good at it with your physique, and you're missing the best time for training in terms of your age. Taran took a slow breath after saying this in one breath at a rapid pace.

"Uh... I think it's dangerous to take risks. I'd better stay home. "I could almost hear the 'coo' swallowing sound, and Ann finally swallowed what was in her mouth... Then he expressed what he really thought.

"Really?" Taran raised his eyebrows when he heard his daughter say this, and looked at his daughter with a look of surprise on his face, his tone suspicious with a hint of surprise.

"Uh-huh, really, really. Ann nodded vigorously, for fear that the other party would misunderstand what she meant.

"Oh~ Looks like I misunderstood what you meant. But you're really not going to go out and be naughty again?" Taran seemed a little surprised, and he asked again and again, until Ann nodded vigorously and he was sure.

"Hey, Thea, did you hear me, she said she wasn't an adventurer!" Taran said happily as he hugged Thea next to her excitedly, and Thea looked at her with relief.

"That's great. Thea, who was hugged by Taran, also happily responded to Tahran with a kiss.

Then Taran picked up Thea and spun around in a circle, which caused many people around to look sideways.

At this time, on the edge of the bonfire, a low but pregnant female voice sounded, at this time, the flame of the bonfire began to slowly become larger, rising to the sky, and then the song slowly began to heat up, like a flame, the sound of the ballad suppressed the hustle and bustle of the audience, the flame that rose into the sky condensed into a warm little sun, as the song gradually entered the high, the little sun quickly changed into a huge firebird circling and flying, and as the music began to change, the firebird became a fire tiger, and then the fire tiger became a wolf, and finally as the music slowly subsided, the flame transformed wolf into a dexterous cat, and finally turned into white smoke and dust drifted into the air.