Everyone chose a unicorn to ride, and then... the atmosphere froze abruptly.

Because everyone quickly realized that there were only eight controlled unicorns in total.

And the squad of The Azure Longsword had nine people.

So, adhering to the principle of ladies first, after each girl had chosen a unicorn, the question arose: with whom would the Squad Leader share a ride?

The thought of some girl sitting happily on the back of the horse, while the Squad Leader tenderly held her from behind. She would lean softly into the Squad Leader's spacious embrace, and the setting sun would cast a long shadow behind the unicorn of the two hugging each other...

Even Nora, the gentlest in temperament, could not tolerate such a scene before her eyes!

Aske: ???

Sensing the sudden hostility in the air around him, he seemed somewhat cluelessly perplexed. Then, he ignored the girls' hair-trigger expressions and laughed as he said,

"Oh dear, we are one horse short. I might as well go back inside Fire Island..."

"No need," Medea, mounted on her unicorn, suddenly stretched out a hand to grab Aske's arm, smiling, "You can just ride with me!"

Miss Enchanting Demon decisively seized the initiative!

"Wait!" Eleanor suddenly spoke out to stop them, "The back of a unicorn isn't that wide; it would be too crowded with both of you riding..."

However, before she could finish her sentence, Aske had already mounted the horse, causing the girls to clench their hearts and release an involuntary aura of murderous intent, startling the controlled unicorns below them to start uneasily kicking their hooves.

Medea was inwardly overjoyed, but then she heard Aske behind her say,

"Yeah, it is indeed too cramped."

He then promptly jumped back down, leaving Medea with a sense of lost disappointment.

"The main issue is that Medea's butt is too big. That horse would struggle just to carry her alone!" Mia blurted out innocently but quickly closed her mouth in fright as Medea now stared at her with a cold smile, her gaze seemingly about to spit fire.

"Aske, why don't you try mine?" Sigrdrifa suddenly offered from the side.

"That won't do either," Aske retorted.

Eleanor and Sigrdrifa both had the statuesque figures of supermodels, far from petite and delicate, while Medea was too voluptuous. None of their steeds had any spare room.

Of course, the main reason was that the unicorns themselves were small.

"Or the Squad Leader could ride mine," Nora tentatively offered, patting her mount and softly adding, "I can make it a bit sturdier."

"Oh," Aske knew she had mastered the Evolution Law, able to enrage Darwin himself by shredding the Evolution Theory, "How long would that take?"

"Just a few minutes at most," Nora quickly said.

"No need, it would be better to ride with mine!" Peggy had already eagerly interrupted, "Look, I'm quite petite; there's plenty of room at the back. And if that's still not enough, I can freely adjust my size, and it wouldn't even take a few seconds."

"That's true, you could turn into a mouse and perch on my shoulder," Aske chuckled.

"Yes, that's right," Peggy suddenly felt dejected. Becoming a mouse on the Squad Leader's shoulder was not at all romantic!

"Turning into a mouse would consume your spirituality, right? Don't bother with that hassle." The last to speak was Miel, who smiled slightly, with a calm and collected manner, "Actually, I can squeeze in with the Squad Leader."

The girls' unfriendly glances immediately focused on Miel, but the half-elf girl was fearless, for in the team, she and Mia were the youngest and had the most childlike figures. Since Mia would not take the initiative, her proposal was completely logical and confident without a hint of hesitation.

"Indeed," Aske was convinced.

After all, with Miel's figure, she could easily sit in his lap without seeming cramped.

A few minutes later.

Miel lay dispiritedly on the back of the unicorn, her whole person seemingly turned ashen gray.

"What's wrong, Miel?" Mia asked from behind, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"I'm fine," Miel replied with an excessively weary tone.

She couldn't just say that she didn't want to share a mount with him, could she?

If only I had foresight to look into the future before... the half-elf girl thought gloomily.

Everyone rode the unicorns swiftly, on the muddy ground as if they were on flat earth, and even before swamps or underground rivers ahead, they had a mysterious sense to detect them.

Nora and Eleanor grew quite fond of these unicorns and even persuaded Aske and the other girls to take them back to reside on Fire Island.

Several days later, the group finally emerged from the Doniana Swamp and entered the southern part of the Badajoz Jungle.

Most of the Iberian Peninsula is comprised of plateaus and mountain ranges, with the terrain lower in the west and southwest, densely forested. In the Third Epoch of the Ancient Solomon Empire, this region was referred to as "Lucitania Great Forest."

Because its location is towards the east, the Badajoz region became the gateway between the Lucitania Great Forest and the outside world. The half-elf tribes here were heavily influenced by human culture, able to accept technological items such as electric lights, generators, and hunting rifles. Further west, in the Portuga Region's "Dark Forest," it is said that the wood elves live a life of archery, raw meat, and blood drinking.

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