Inside of this compartment, there was an ocarina like I had expected, but…
It had a very strange shape.
Instead of having the normal ocarina shape, this one was much more slender and longer. It was in a shape that made one even doubt if it could be played properly.
That was because it was a very phallic looking shape.
With two round bottom parts, a long neck, and a short bulb on top, this looked just like a dick…
It seemed that the way to play it was to put your mouth at the tip and then use the holes on the shaft before letting the sound come out of the two balls at the bottom…
But it would definitely be embarrassing playing something like this…
And this was definitely not the ocarina that I had seen in the game. The one that I had seen before was the shape of a normal ocarina, round with small holes in its body and a long slender neck.
When the two girls saw this, they couldn't help turning to look at me, but the way that they were looking at me was definitely strange.
That was because instead of looking at me, they were looking at a certain part of my body. This was a part that was on the lower half of my body that they had seen before.
I knew exactly what they were thinking, but I didn't want to complicate this.
So without hesitation, I grabbed the ocarina from the compartment and said, "Let's go back. I'm sure that everyone is getting worried about us."
The two girls were still looking at the bottom half of my body as they nodded in a daze.
All I could do was reveal a bitter smile as I led the way back to the group.
With the marked trees leading the way, it was easy for us to make it back. Though it was a bit hard at the beginning since the final marked tree was a bit far from the second last marked tree.
It was a good thing that there were parts of the brush that had been damaged when I ran through them in response to Cecilia's cry.
When we arrived back at the camp, we saw that everyone had set everything up and were getting ready to cook lunch.
When they saw us coming back and seeing the dazed look that Cecilia and Haley had, they all looked at us with secret smiles.
I once again revealed a bitter smile, but I was too lazy to explain.
What I didn't see was that there were a few secret envious looks that were pointed in my direction.
It wasn't the envious looks of men, but rather the envious looks of women.
These were the knights that were under Cecilia.
The direction that they were looking in was certainly strange since it was aimed right at my lower half.
The rest of the day passed by without incident.
I ordered the group to sleep in shifts during the day which confused them, but they still followed my orders.
It was only when dinner came that I ordered them to all wake up and get ready to leave after we had finished eating.
This time, there were a few people who spoke out, including Cecilia and Haley.
It was one thing to explore the forest, the territory of the elves when it was bright out, but it was completely different exploring in the darkness. There was no knowing what would happen if we met the elves in this darkness.
But in the end, I wouldn't change my mind, so they had no choice but to follow my orders.
Still, Cecilia wouldn't let her guard down at all, so she had the guards take a strict formation around the group.
I didn't mind this since I knew that this wouldn't matter once we reached the place that I was looking for.
When dinner was over, the sun had set and it had turned dark.
Relying on the torches that we carried, we quickly packed up and then went to the edge of the forest.
It was there that I raised my hand to stop everyone and then turned to Haley to say, "Give me the powder."
Haley couldn't help revealing a confused look, but she took out a small bag from her pouch that she handed over to me.
I took this pouch and took a pinch of the powder that was inside to sprinkle it out in front of me.
The moment that the powder landed, there was a sudden glow that came from in front of us that shocked everyone. That was because this glow had formed a path leading into the forest.
Everyone couldn't help looking at me with shocked looks, but I ignored all of this as I focused on the path in front of us.
The powder that I had sprinkled in front of us was from a flower called the Moon Blossom. It was called that because it was a flower that only bloomed when it received a certain amount of moonlight.
But it wasn't a flower that was very expensive since it was a flower that didn't have any special uses.
So normally, people would ignore this flower.
But what most people didn't know was that this flower had a special property.
It contained the moon's light and could glow when mixed with certain compounds.
That included the secret path into the forest that the elves had created.
This was the path that was only used when elves themselves or their invited guests were brought into the forest.
So only the elves knew about the secret property of these Moon Blossoms.
And of course me as well since I had seen it in the game.
But I wasn't going to tell that to everyone.
Since the path had appeared in front of us, I led the way forward into the forest.
At intervals, I sprinkled more of the Moon Blossom powder since the path ahead of us wasn't lit up. Whenever the Moon Blossom powder was sprinkled, there was another path that appeared.
We went deeper and deeper into the forests until we arrived at a clearing.