"I come in peace I have no intention of fighting you."The woman said and smile softly at Sophia, and lifted her arms up slightly, as Sophia stared at the woman, she noticed that although she said that she hadn't moved from her position, when the lady noticed Sophia was staring at her with a gaze full of suspicion she finally tried to take a step forward, however the moment she took a step forward, she immediately held the side of her waist as her body quiver lightly.
Sophia slightly squinted her eyes, at this moment she finally understood why the lady had not moved from her position all this while, nevertheless, her attention wasn't on the woman's waist but on her entire body, just looking at the woman, Sophia could tell the woman seemed like an explorer, not just because she was spotting full body equipment with a high grade set of beast weapon, and had an explorer standard armor covering her body but because on top of her chest she could see her ID of her being an explorer on it.
When the woman noticed Sophia was staring at her explorer ID, she didn't say anything or reacted and simply smiled at her in a friendlier way that showed she meant no harm to her, however, she stopped paying attention to Sophia and instead tried to rest her back against the tree behind her, as she sat down she soon rested herself against the tree and slightly closed her eyes for a brief moment, before taking in a deep breath and exhale.
At this moment she suddenly turn to look at the Dracolizard on her expression was a look of surprise, however she didn't say anything and simply kept quiet just from looking at the dead demon beast she could tell it was only killed recently, and since the slayer had no intention of eating the meat, the lady stood up while holding her waist and walk towards the dead demon beast and brought a little dagger from her backpack and cut through the demon beast, and after she was done she went back to where she had rested before and took several items out of her bag pack and placed them on the ground.
Although Sophia saw this she had no intention of doing anything to the woman or stopping her from eating the demon beast she killed, after all, such character and attitude were expected of explorers they were the only set of symbiote people who ate anything just so they could survive, this was one of the reasons why they were called the expert of exploration and survivers of unknown places.
After the lady brought out several items from her backpack, she soon began to make a meal from the demon beast's meat, and the strangest thing was rather than removing or rinsing the black blood of the demon beast away, the woman instead used it to start preparing a soup for herself, when Sophia saw this she felt slightly disgusted nevertheless, she didn't say anything, since it wasn't her business away and just kept observing the woman from the corners of her eyes.
Eventually, the air was filled with the sweet scent of the soup the woman was cooking which was now ready together with the roasted game she had made from demon beast meat, with everything ready the woman sat properly on the ground to have a better chance at enjoying her meal, as she was about to eat she suddenly raised her head to look at Sophia, although she had a feeling the young girl wouldn't accept her meal she still proceeded to invite Sophia to join, and just like she thought Sophia didn't rejected.
After a while though, the woman was done eating and now seemed full of energy with rosy cheeks, she couldn't help but raise her as she looked at Sophia, at this moment Sophia was done healing herself and was now walking towards the woman explorer cautiously, so far she had been exploring around the place and what she had managed to see were abandoned buildings with any inhabitants, so it was actually unexpected and rare that she was able to meet an explorer in this type of place.
Another thing was, the woman in front of her might not really be a woman but a high tier demon beast who develop the ability to shapeshift into a human, and at the same time, the woman might prove to be useful to her, because for an explorer to be able to explore a thousand-way grade 7 stargate, the person must at least possess a decent skill, otherwise they were only looking to die if they ventured by themselves, without a team.
When the woman saw how cautious Sophia was she couldn't help but smile even more friendlier, before saying, "Don't worry I have no intention of attacking you, neither do I bite the hands that feed me. Anyways, what's a kid like yourself doing in a weird ass place on her own? Don't tell me you got abandoned or something, urgh, this why I hate the military so much, I didn't know they would be this heartless in sending a student to a hell hole like this."
When Sophia heard her she simply shook her head, denying the claim of being sent, before saying, "I got stuck here, by an accident and simply need to find my way out."
When she heard what Sophia said a look of surprise and doubt could be seen on her expression at the same time, although she thought the young girl might be lying nevertheless, as an explorer she had seen more often than not, people get stuck in different planets by accident so she choose to take her words for it. Meanwhile, now that Sophia was so close to the woman she could now tell that the woman wasn't a demon beast that had shapeshifted and was truly a human, she also had blonde hair that was braided.
"Looks like we both have something in common," The woman said with a friendlier smile on her expression before adding, "By the way my name is Anna, but you can call me Ann."
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