Chapter 1146
However, the environment around me changed as well. Rather than a large field, I started to move into a forest. Would this be the equivalent of a new level? I didn’t know. However, this environment was completely different than the environment I had just been in. Soon, my vision was just as obscured as it was in the rain, except this time it was from a thick forest.
That’s when I finally came out into a large field. It was the first time the path opened up to something more than a corridor. This was a mansion that was buried within a forest. Compared to the mansion I had in Chalm, it was comparable, so it stood to reason that this was some lord’s manor. It made sense that Elaya was the daughter of some lord.
That was what I was thinking, but a moment later, I noticed a girl who seemed to be gathering water from a well near the side of the mansion. She was pulling up a bucket with her sleeves pulled up. What ultimately caused me to look twice was that she appeared to be the girl I had run into in the field. However, she was now several years older than she was before. She also didn’t appear to be a noble at all. She was wearing a maid uniform with a white bonnet.
“The maid hero…” I breathed out.
That was what she had been called. I had only ever known Elaya as a Queen, so it didn’t occur to me that she came from a life as a maid. Now that I realized it, it seemed painfully obvious.
“Girl! Hurry up!” A voice erupted from the doorway. “The master and mistress wouldn’t be happy if you took this long. Be lucky they are out today.”
“I’m coming!” The girl cried, hefting up two buckets full of water, one in each arm.
The woman at the door was old, and she looked to be a maid in her own right. She shook her head, making a clicking noise with her tongue. Suddenly, her eyes fell on me and widened.
“Who are you?” I blinked, not having expected to suddenly be part of the story once again.
I heard a gasp, and the maid who had been carrying the buckets dropped them. They fell to the ground and tipped over with a splash.
“Clumsy foolish girl!” The old woman chastised her, but she barely noticed the woman, her eyes locked on me.
“It’s you…” She spoke in disbelief. “The man from the field.”
The maid recognized me. Just what was going on with this dungeon?