Chapter 5 Ring inspection

"Okay no more admiring the views, maybe we'll come back here again sometime.*she smiled* I think for sure we will return." she said.

She turned around and walked to the door behind which the village ruler's office was supposed to be located and just walked inside, yeah without any problem, apparently the door was open because everyone felt safe in this village.

Inside, in addition to the most normal things, she saw his desk, a bookshelf and a safe. The elf's eyes shone greedily, she approached the safe and tugged the door, what was her disappointment when she discovered they were locked.

"Damn it, I won't open it. Certainly not yet." She said

After which our ring added " Well, I'm even less likely to do that."

"Well then, I guess there will be nothing from the great treasure. But maybe he has something else here, that didn't fit in the safe." She said

Since she discovered that the safe could no longer be opened, she walked over to the desk. She found a pouch on the table and a letter that curiously said when exactly the merchants would come to the village and what exactly they would bring, it was addressed to some man she didn't know. Strange that the ruler of the village would give such information to people from outside, but all in all, it's none of her business and everyone copes as best they can.

So she decided to just take the pouch, just a little gold for the journey, not so little that she couldn't buy anything with it, but not so much that she didn't have to work for rest of her life. Probably bigger treasures were hidden in the safe, But what can be done, the elf thought.

On her way out of his study she noticed a strange cover on the bookcase, all the books were bronze or green, but this one was different, blue, which made it stand out. The elfess walked up to it, grabbed it in her hands and began to cry.

"What is going on? Why are you crying?" Said the ring

"This... My mother's book... From which she wanted to teach me magic because.... She thought I had talent.... But my father sold it and... It turned out now that it's here. It even has a... characteristically damaged cover because I played with it when I was little. It's one of the only mementos of my mother." The elven woman tried to recover quickly, because time was chasing and she took the book with her

"So what happened? Why was this book sold?" he asked, but the elf remained silent, so he also began to remain silent, as he did not want to bring back old bad memories with all these questions.

She went out to the balcony once again saw that the party was still going on at its best, she could even hear some music.

She went downstairs and left the building, while the guard continued to lie down. In the end, it was a quick action. The elven woman decided to return to Mrs. Goldsmith's house.

She enters her building and hollers in the dining room however it is empty

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She goes to the terrace and there she finds her sitting on an armchair, also she is the first to ask something

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"And how did it go dear child? Did you find something interesting?" Asked the blacksmith lady

"But... How do you know where I was?"

Answered the elf

"Oh very simply, I just saw you on my way back from the party, I was just there to hand them their wedding rings." Replied the blacksmith lady with smile

"Aren't you angry?" Asked the elf

"Are you kidding? Child I am so proud of you for being able to handle yourself so well. In this world, to be able to defend yourself and take care of yourself is the most important thing. Now brag about what you have there." The blacksmith lady said and smiled.

" Well I found my mother's book with the basics of magic and I think I might be able to learn something from it and some gold for the trip and there is one more thing.... When I was in the forest I found this."

She pulls the ring off her finger and they both hear only the soft sigh of relief *mmmmh* that the ring gave out.

"What was that?" asked surprised blacksmith.

The elf told the whole story of how she met and got the ring, the lady smith hearing this was even more proud of her when she heard how capable is her elf girl. And they returned to the ring.

"Can I wear it?" asked Mrs. Blacksmith

"Auntie, of course." Said elf

She put on the ring and again they heard a sigh this time not of relief but of slight suffering. Both women began to laugh and the lady smith felt a slight surge of energy, she also learned from the elf that he was able to talk so she asked.

"So can you tell me something about who you are? Maybe I will know what to do." Said the lady blacksmith

"Listen I was turned into this, by a goddess so if you haven't heard of something like that before, I think it's going to be hard. "said the disappointed ring.

"Well. I will surprise you, I have heard. But I'm going to disappoint you right away that I'm not going to pull you out of this form, and certainly not soon, because it would require experimentation and I think you might still be too weak."

She turned to the elf now and continued.

" These types of items with person inside are not very common it's true, but supposedly they have the ability to grow in strength, only you'll have to discover how, because there are different ways. Some, for example, along with killing enemies, you will have to discover yourself. And that's it for now, I don't know much, but once you make some progress I might be able to tell you more.

And one more thing, he's now assigned to you, meaning he won't work on others unless you let them, so you don't have to worry about someone discovering his powers, I don't know about... His moaning, either you will train him yourself, so he no longer will be that noisy, or maybe you will be able to communicate differently in the future, you'll discover it yourself, I only know what I heard." Said the blacksmith lady and gave back the ring

The lady blacksmith left the room for a while and immediately returned with a small bag and an object in her hands.

"Dear child, I made this dagger for you. I know you can manage yourself maybe without it, but it is better to have than not to have it." Said the blacksmith

"I... Thank you so much auntie. You have done so much for me." Said the elf and jumped to embrace the blacksmith lady.

" Well go eat now and go to bed because you still have to leave tonight, who knows when someone will start to think that you were the one who snuck into that old fart house."

They both started laughing and the elfess packed up and took all her things with her. She ate the dinner prepared earlier by Mrs. Goldsmith and went to bed.

She kissed the ring for goodnight, he would surely blush if he could.

"I'll read this book before sleep a bit, maybe I'll learn something." The elf thought.