Chapter 36: Time To Explore!
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It has been half a week (4 days) since we arrived at the Amazon tribe, and oh boy, has it been filled with many new things to see and explore…. unfortunately, my parents didn’t let me do everything I wanted to.
After the first day of eating, I woke up quite early in the morning as I began to wander around the tent. In the end, I ultimately sneaked outside while my parents were nowhere to be seen.
At the very moment I went outside, the first thing that greeted my sight was a beautiful village. It seemed that the Amazon Tribe had settled down in the middle of a large grassy plain that was surrounded by mountains and jungles. There were two rivers coming from the south and north, as well as a large lake that I was able to see from very far away. A few tents were actually set there. It seems that people would fish there from time to time.
Nevertheless, the village was enormous. I couldn’t count all of the tents, but I was sure that there were over 200 of them. On top of that, each tent had at least 4 family members. Man, Amazon families are massive.
Unlike what I first thought, the Amazon tribe had both men and women, and are not a race that was only composed of women. Now that I think about this, why did I think of this in the first place? Well, in my previous life, Amazons existed as well, but as tales. I could still recall that my parents in my previous life told me a tale of a man stranded in an island where a large tribe of only strong women lived.
It was mostly a tale to tell young girls that they could also grow as strong as men, and I appreciated it a lot. My father wasn’t at all a stereotypical man that only wanted women to serve men. In fact, both of them in my previous life worked hard on the farm fields. Both of them even cooked together, sharing each other’s tasks unlike some other families I remember seeing back then.
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I suppose it’s because he had two girls, he was afraid that men would take advantage of us if we didn’t grow strong both physically and mentally.
Anyways, Amazons in this world apparently exist and are not just a mere tale! Or perhaps this is just a mere coincidence? In any case, there were both men and women, and that was that. They were quite different from the human race that my father originated from, who was small and white-skinned in comparison, alongside Shade.
Nepheline and her Amazon tribe were all chocolate-skinned. Their skin was glossy and beautiful. From the looks of it, their skin had clearly adapted to the harsh and hot weathers of these jungles. White skin such as mine would easily get burned by the sun, but their chocolate-skin was very resistant to it.
Another thing that was unique to them was that they all grew to be rather tall. On top of that, most of the adult population were all packed with muscles, being amazing warriors, hunters, and gatherers. They were a race of people incredibly well-suited to live in the wild in these conditions.
Due to the hot conditions of this place, they mostly wore similar clothes to Nepheline. They’re tribal in style and are beautifully decorated with different colors, ranging from red, yellow, blue, and green. However, they barely cover their bodies, if not at all. Males were all bare-chested, with only some covering their backs and shoulders with beautiful leather and monster bones. On the other hand, females cover their chests and their nether regions.
Males usually wore pants and not loincloths as some would think. Then again, their pants were more akin to shorts rather than actual pants.
On top of that, all of them were barefoot. Their feet are surprisingly clean despite walking over the grass with them. The skin at their feet must be rough and thick. After all, I haven’t seen anyone’s feet covered in scars so far.
All in all, they’re a naturally strong race. From a young age, they play around kicking large balls made of rock that could easily crush a kid’s feet their age. In contrast, their feet would be unscathed as they would continue to kick these rocks of at least a few kilograms like nothing.
The entire village was made up of tents, but there were some small towers made out of bones and wood for the guards to look from afar if any monster tide or wild beasts dare to come closer.
Speaking of which, they’re pseudo-nomadic, moving every few years from one place to another around the jungle, often following where the beasts and monsters move through the year. This way, they don’t exhaust the natural resources around the areas they occupied.
On the second day of being here, I mostly walked around. The people looked at me weirdly as they didn’t know who I was. For some reason, I felt a bit overwhelmed. Then again, having so many people looking at them out of nowhere would normally make someone feel pressured.
I was even asked by some people while I was walking if I had gotten lost in the jungle and arrived here. In response, I told them that I was the daughter of the heroes, and then my parents soon found me. After that, the misunderstandings were quickly resolved.
Nonetheless, people from the outside were a rarity in here. However, Aquarina was well-known around the entire village, so for the next couple of days, I went with her, and things became easier to handle.
While walking around with her, I found out that she didn’t have any friends yet due to how young she was and the little interactions with other kids she had, so I was pretty much her first friend.
Under the supervision of our parents, we walked around the village as we simply wandered these past few days. Of course, I didn’t forget to practice my magic and exercise as much as I possibly could each morning.
While I was doing all of that, Aquarina watched me with curious eyes, to the point she once tried to imitate me. Unfortunately, she failed miserably and ended up becoming very physically exhausted…
After four days of being here, however, Aquarina had finally taken her “dragon ritual” yesterday, with a full feast of dragon meat. Also, she was bathed in blood while she was sleeping.
So, today morning, she began to experiment with her newfound strength as we were allowed to move to a small wild patch of jungle with some small creatures roaming in the area.
Of course, there was a large eyeball with wings following us while hiding itself, alongside a shadowy crow… well, it’s no surprise our parents were still looking over us. We were one-year-olds, after all.
In any case, we decided to enjoy this little adventure.
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