Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Zoe's POV: ]

"What about you, Zoe?"

Quin had answered, and so did Med, Jen, Ezra, and Lizzy.

And, regardless of rights or wrong, the creators that they considered to be the rarest were most certainly rare creatures that were rare enough to be something that any other student in our grades might never even get the chance to see in their lifetimes.

'Some of them were rare, some of them were one of a kind, while some of them were so unique that they were some of the few left of their kind in this world.'

From Med's perspective, the rarest one was the creature that resembled a turtle but was in fact a creature that belonged to the snake kind.

It was the biggest creature present here so it was pretty common to consider it the rarest since it was certainly just too big.

It was covering a tenth of this cave alone, and that too when his upper body was under the ground in the water.

It was large and it did not belong to the same kind of creature sister Elle's grandma's big turtle.

'This one was a snake even though it had a big shell like a tortoise on its back.'

Similar to how some snakes possessed rattles that produced sound to keep the other creatures away from them, this one had a big tortoise like shell to store its prey, to lay eggs, and to mate with the male counterparts of their kind that did not possess a shell like the females did.

It was certainly a very rare creature and there might not be any of them left in the wind areas in the outside world anymore, but, it did not mean this one was the rarest among all the creatures present here.

'These creatures lay tens of eggs at a time and even though the mothers find suitable places to leave these eggs instead of nurturing them herself, these creatures have amazing survival instincts and can live up to a few hundred years.'

If there was a female on this island, the possibility of a few males being present here were very high… and if there were males, there were bound to be childrens that lived in hiding all across this island, and on the surface below.

'They were rare but not so rare that we can call them the rarest of all the creatures present in this place.'

The same was Quin's answer.

She thought that the shiniest looking snake present here that seemed to have been made out of some kind of crystals was the creature that was the rarest since she had seen most of the other kinds of creatures here, heard about them from her grandpa who used to be one of the most famous adventurers of this world.

Some other creatures that the others did not know about and didn't understand the origin of didn't catch her attention much but this particular creature that was not only transparent but seemed to have been an elemental creature made pure of crystals was the most peculiar for her.

'I was also surprised that she chose something like that to be her rarest creature but thinking from the perspective of someone that had lived on an island most of her life, it was quite understandable.'

She was already used to the tropical creatures and creatures of the forest so not many uncommon creatures caught her attention.

However, a nine feet long snake whose head was as big as us was undoubtedly one of the most attractive beings present in this place.

"Hmmm. Must I choose just one creature, Uriel?"

It was a rare creature called (Sapphire Golem) and it was one of the few rare kinds of golem that took on the appearance of a creature rather than a humanoid that they usually do.

But still, it was a golem and they weren't that rare in this nature so even if this one might have been one of a kind, which it most certainly was not, it couldn't be called the rarest of them all.

"Yup. You have to pick one. Everyone did, so the same for you."

Every time someone shared their rarest creature, sister Elle asked them why they thought they were the rarest.

And then she told them the flaws in their logic, and then gave the chance to the rest of us to criticise or support the other's statements.

'It was a fun game, that much I'd agree on, but it wasn't all there was to it.'

We were having fun and learning from one another, sharing knowledge about our own fields that we were good at and proving to each other why our answers were correct.

This game of hers was unexpectedly good, and thanks to it, Lizzy had learned why even though the creature that she could feel was the rarest due to her natural affinity with higher beings of heaven, was not in fact the rarest creature present.

'She still doubted others though and couldn't understand why she was feeling that way towards a mere fish in this vast lake.'

But, she was questioning other people's judgments. And that much was a good sign since usually, she might never have questioned such strong opinions of the majority.

'She was a good person. Too good sometimes.'

Perhaps the reason she had not awakened her powers until now had something to do with her extremely good self.

'She couldn't even use her power of Holevil, one of the strongest powers of the world that doesn't really make any sense.'

Just think about how the existence of a divine power of the purest kind, powers of archangels could ever coexist with the eternal demonic nature of evil.

It was absurd and few in the entire nature possessed something like that.

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Which naturally made her unique, but as someone that had three blessings, one of them being complete protection from a hell ruler, she was a one of a kind being even more rare in this nature than I was.

She did not realise just how amazing she was… but perhaps doubting others was her first step towards the change.

"Hmmm…"

Anyway, her answer was wrong by the logic of the other people and since I cannot tell them about the divinity that seemingly rare fish possessed, her answer was going to stay wrong.

And Ezra was wrong as well since, well, dispute being a regressor, her knowledge about the rare species of creatures was not enough.

"I think the rarest creature present here is flower we see in the centre of this lake."

"Hmmm?"

"Wait… what?"

"We can choose the flower? Aren't we talking about the creatures here?!"

Tia was stunned, and so were a bunch of the others.

"Of course we are only talking about creatures~. And that pretty looking flower we see is a living creature as well~."

They forgot the flower completely since sister Elle deliberately used the word 'creature' every time she talked about this game of hers.

No one had thought about any other organism other than the creatures, or the energy beasts in other words, when they thought about the rarest 'creature' present in this place.

"Whaaaaaat! No! That's cheating! Everyone knows that flower is the rarest! Hey! This is cheating, right Uriel?!"

Tia couldn't accept it, and she obviously wasn't going to either since from her perspective, she was the only person that had seen what that flower actually was.

"Well, Tia, you can just say that you also think that flower is the rarest if you want. No one's stopping anyone from selecting the same creature as the others.

It's not like we are selecting them for some kind of gladiator fight where they will be fighting with another for the title of the strongest.

This is just a game~. You're free to do whatever you want~."

She was smiling at her warmly.

"Hmmm? I… I can do that?"

"Of course you can~."

And it's never a good thing whenever she smiles at anything with that kind of warmth.

Somehow, Tia had already learned that.

"I never like that smile of yours."

"Hehe, what's there not to like in a simple smile, dear~?"

She got goosebumps from just hearing that giggle of hers so she at least knew she should go any further with her argument and stopped talking.

"Alright then, is that your answer Zoe~?"

This sister Elle of mine was a slay one that knew how to best make fun of her friends, especially the ones she cared about the most.

'She does show it often, but she loves some friendships despite her past.'

Any person in her shoes wouldn't have much faith in this thing called friendship, but she believed in it as much as she believed in her family.

And, as someone who knew her as much as big brother, I couldn't help admiring that side of hers.

"Yes, that would be my answer."

"Okay then~! It's wrong as well~."

As well as this certain playful side of hers that I enjoyed watching more than most things in this world.

"Hen?? What? She's wrong?"

"Yup~."

I knew I was wrong but this game wasn't about what actually was the rarest thing present here.

'This game, in its essence, was all about symbolism.'

It was about what we thought was the rarest and not the factual knowledge.

'This game wasn't about being right or wrong but about knowing why we could have been right or wrong.'

It was a game that, above everything else, helped us understand our own selves better through the answers of random choices.

It was more elaborate than she made it out to be… and to create and execute a game as well thought out as this one was, perhaps, the reason she was big brother's future wife.

'She was cute. And in times like these, awesome as well.'

She herself was the rarest being present here if I had to say so myself, but… we won't ever figure that out even if we played this game for hours or days.

'And that was the very thing that made this 'game' more fun than the simple game with elaborate rules.'

It was fun.

Quite fun, actually.

'We should all play together after dinner once again~~.'