7 Living here isn'st the same

'Elementors? What's that?' This question was revolving in the heads of the group while Leo was thinking of an excuse to come up with.

"Well, the thing is, my group and the elementors were on two different carts. We paid them beforehand, and after a few turns, we got detached from them. I think they tricked us and got away with our money. We were in the middle of the forest and a ravager swallowed our cart, while we were riding down trying to find a city, but luckily the ravager wasn't big enough to swallow us all. Clint here wasn't swallowed, so he immediately plucked out its roots. During this time, our horses ran away." Leo came up with the first random excuse that came into his mind and tried to confuse the soldiers using logic. He figured out that Elementors weren't things but probably a rank that was given to humans, as the guards had asked about them, even after they had said that they lost all their stuff.

"Hmm, that's strange. Elementors are always supposed to be on every traveller's cart for safety and that are the rules."

"Well we were discussing something important and we were just unlucky to have met with a ravager at that particular time."The soldier in the front stared at Leo as he heard his reply until finally, he put a hand on Leo's shoulder.

"Poor lads. Must have been tough for you to survive the day. Thank god Matthew saw you down the road. We will let you off the hook, for now, cause these young ones look quite tired. Get them in and come out for drinks with us tomorrow to make it up to us." The soldier waved his hand towards the soldiers near the gate who made way for the cart.

Leo and the group heaved a euphoric sigh of relief hearing the soldier's words. They were almost certain that they would be caught lying if it weren't for Leo.

"Got that! But let's drink at my place tomorrow, it's on me. Hiya!" Matt waved his hand as he got on the cart along with the seven.

"Now that's how a man makes up for his mistakes! We will be there. See you tomorrow little girl." The soldiers waved their hands towards Erina who was waving her hand along with Matt. Matt rode the cart through the gate to the tunnel that was made to enter into the city. The group sat down in the cart. The walls were pretty broad on the top and because of that, the entrance resembled a tunnel in a mountain.

"Ah! That mentally tired me out but look at her." Sai pointed towards Erina who was still enthusiastically waving at the soldiers.

"Give her a break. She saved us in a way, Sai." Leo shrugged his shoulders as he said those words looking at Sai.

"Well, that's true. Come here Erina or you will fall down from the cart." Aiko dragged Erina to her side and patted her adoringly, which resulted in Erina smiling like a child.

"Yeah, we wer-" Just before Ian wanted to agree to the fact, he couldn't utter a word after the cart entered the city.

"What the...?" Ian's jaws dropped to the ground seeing the city's interior. Everyone in the group stood up with eyes bulging out, with expanded pupils.

"This cart doesn't match with a civilization such as this." Erina said out loud trying to control her mixed emotions.

It's hard for them to remember how many times their jaws dropped since they were teleported to this world, and out of that half of the times were because of Erina. The group sat down slowly trying to burn the images into their eyes.

The city did resemble a semi-modern world.The dressing style and how people were interacting with each other,buildings which resembled buildings of modern earth, only with a few exceptions, were pieces of evidence of a semi-modern world. The roads and the buildings were clearly built with stones and cement in the city. And in the middle of the city was a building which looked like a castle with four towers having bells inside them, from which every corner of the towers could be seen.

"My motel is a bit deep into the city, we will be there in a few minutes." Matt said vaguely without looking back. If Matt had turned his head to face the group he would have witnessed the stretched faces of the seven.

"Not a problem." Leo said slowly but audible enough for Matt to hear. Even though Leo regained control of his jaw he didn't get his eye's back into his control.

The roads were being patrolled by a pair of soldiers on each road but strangely even the soldiers on the road didn't carry any weapons but only had a weird armour which seemed like leather than iron. The shops had signs written in English and seemed like any other shop back on earth.

"We will learn everything about this world before deciding on our next step." Leo leaned back on the side of the cart, finally regaining control over his entire body. The group sighed facing downwards, thinking that it would be tough for them for quite a while. And just when the storm inside the seven's head was calming down, they were dealt with another hard blow of reality to their head.

There was a crowd blocking the road in front of the cart. The seven along with Matt got down the cart and pushed through the crowd to the front only to see the soldiers blocking the road to make way for something in that T-junction.

As the eyes of the seven wandered around to see what the cause was their eyes fixated on something. They were not to be blamed for being stunned every time, it was really overwhelming for a person to take so much in all of a sudden and they have been receiving shocks since last night.

In front of them was a creature that resembled a pitch black, red-eyed wolf twice as huge as humans n, while sharp white canines forced their way out of its mouth. It was trapped inside a box which was clearly not made with a physical material. It was as if the box was made with some kind of white coloured energy. The box was floating in the air while six men were touching the box directly with their hands which were glowing. There were different symbols glowing on the hands of each of the men touching the box. They maintained constant contact with the box and moving down the road while the wolf went wild inside the box trying to get out.

"So, the knights finally caught that damned wolf huh?" Matt called out casually looking at the scene. But it wasn't anything casual for the seven beside him, who froze on the spot as their mind kept on saying:

'Living in this world isn't the same as living on earth.'