Kolla was an elvin settlement located deep inside a forest called Inborru. This place was still under the rule of the Ioikashi kingdom, but due to their remote location, they were almost autonomous. Also the elves living in this village were very territorial and did not like to have much contact with the outside world. So only the village elders were a bit knowledgeable and everyone else had little to no idea about anything happening outside their small circle.

But currently this remote place was getting a lot of outside visitors and a festive atmosphere was visible. That was because at this time, a very rare plant was going to give birth to its fruits. This plant was named Gindarru and it was a plant that could only be found in this forest and nowhere else. This plant also only gave birth to fruits once every hundred years, so it was extremely rare.

Not only were these fruits extremely tasty, they also had a purifying effect and were good for a sick person. For that reason the fruit of the Gindarru had extremely high demand and price on the market.

That was the reason when this fruit was about to appear, many merchants came to this settlement to buy them at a cheaper price. And to protect those merchants inside the forest of Inborru, many adventurers followed them. That was why Kolla was currently filled with many outsiders.

The residents of the Kolla always enjoyed this time with their all. For a boring village like settlement, it was definitely the only time they got to enjoy something new and exciting. That was why this incident was celebrated as the "Harvest Festival of Kolla".

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After many thousands of years, this impromptu festival had become something official and a large scale festival at that. Kolla village was also a very important economic point of the nation, so a festival that increased the good relation between them was given great importance by everyone.

So at the time of the Harvest Festivals, all the prominent families would send their representative for this celebration. And currently two major figures were coming here together.

One was the representative of the Dayflower family and a very famous genius in the field of alchemy, Dalia Feyline. She was also an A rank adventurer. And the next person was extremely famous. She was also the most important person in this nation. It was none other than the only S ranker protecting this place, the Guardian, Eldriana Moonblossom. She was also known as "The Strongest" for her incredible powers.

Eldriana was one of the few people who were famous even in Kolla. Many people outside the village would know about Dalia as a genius or about a S ranker but that was not the case for this place. The general population living here did not even know the name of their king.

But all of them knew about Eldriana, as about 400 years ago she saved this village from the attack of a peak A rank monster. Normally the forest of Inborru was not very dangerous and the residents of this settlement had the combat prowess to take down B rank monsters easily, so this village was quite safe.

Some time though, the forest would give birth to stronger monsters but even they normally only resided at the deepest part of the forest, so they just avoided that part. But the newest monster, who was also the strongest monster appearing in this forest did not follow this rule and attacked the village. So without Eldriana's help, this place would not even exist anymore. That was the reason everyone leaving here knew about Eldriana and respected her.

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After becoming Elena's student nothing much changed for Eldriana. She was still doing her regular work and training but with Elena giving her little advice and small missions which made her training more optimized.

After a few days she got a letter from her subordinate that he had gotten an invitation to go to the Kolla village for their harvest festival which happened only once in a hundred years. At the same time Dalia also got the news that the Dayflower family was decided on their representative for this same festival.

Elena was very interested in such a race festival that happened only once in a hundred years. This was something only elves and a few other races were capable of celebrating with their long lifespan. Short lived humans were definitely unable to have such a festival. Elena was visiting the elvin lands with the intention of seeing things that were impossible to find in a human nation so she definitely had to visit this festival.

So as Elena was going to go to this festival, Dalia was definitely going to follow her. When she told this to the Dayflower family, they decided to make Dalia their representative. As an alchemist, she was also very fitting for a festival like this. So it was decided that Eldriana would go to the Kolla village representing the military, Dalia would go there as the representative of one of the four venerated clans, the Dayflower Clan and Elena would just tag along with them.

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The journey to the village was very easy as Eldriana used a flying vehicle used by the military to travel there. It was one of the top tier technologies of the military that only the supreme commander was authorised to use. With that they were able to reach a city called Moura very easily, which was also the city closest to the forest of Inborru.

Eldriana left her vehicle in that city and entered the forest with Elena and Dalia. Normally adventurers would make big teams to enter this place as B ranks monsters were not uncommon here, but for them it was not a problem at all. Then on their way, they found a merchant caravan getting attacked and did not help that caravan.

That caravan was guarded by quite a few B rank adventurers and they were very much capable of protecting themselves. Helping them in such a situation was uncalled for and unnecessary. It might even make the adventurers displeased. So Elena, Eldriana and Dalia were able to reach the village without any problems at all.

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The village elder was already aware of their arrival and was waiting in front of the gates. Normally the elder did not come out to welcome anyone personally but Eldriana was a different case. She was the saviour of this village, so she always received the highest hospitality from this place.

Even though Dalia was also quite important as the representative of a venerated clan, she was given just the minimal amount of courtesy and was almost pushed to the side. Elena was not even given that much as she was completely unknown to them. Only a few males were looking at her as she was insanely beautiful.

On the other hand, the treatment that Eldriana received was completely different. She was given a flower crown and garland by the elder himself and she was also welcomed inside the village with songs and dances. It was quite spectacular.

Now Elena was getting excited to see how amazing this once in a hundred year harvest festival was going to be.

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