"Ah, um, no it's okay, I'm fine." Elysia immediately took a step back from the girl who was standing too close to her.
"Um, if you say that..." Sylvia didn't feel like anything was wrong. Her friend blushed and returned to normal somehow.
Yet, at the same time, she sensed a fluctuation in magic energy behind her. Sylvia turned back to check. It was not from her father but from the hut that belonged to an alchemist they had just visited a while ago.
A brownish semi-transparent barrier of the earth element was suddenly erected that enveloped the entire hut.
"Oh, wow. An Advanced level alchemist with Saint-level barrier protection. Who is he really?" Sylvia muttered in amazement. Their client from the quest just now wasn't a simple alchemist.
"We don't know, we just need to wait until the statement he declared is realized."
^_^