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Spoiler: Basic Informations

"Mm."

At the same moment, Altum was currently in the Fairy Forest because Gravis told him to go there, honestly, he didn't care whether he went or not, however, right now, he lured the cultists and got 'captured', as for now, two people were dragging him toward probably their base so they could use his life as a combustible to invoke something or someone dangerous like they said at the Central Plaza.
First, it seemed like the tattoos were what was allowing them to use Magecraft, the tattoo is slowly disappearing each time they cast spells.

That was good to know this, and from their talk, he confirmed something, their organisation.

"Ha ! 2 then 4 then 8 then 32 then 128 !" That was what he heard... in other words, there were 166 cultists, approximately, after, there was way more than 128 dogs, but of course, it was the official number among cultists, but it could be twice the number, so honestly, it wasn't sure...
Only the higher-up are unchangeable.

"Mmm.." As they were silent, they heard a fake moan coming from Altum, they looked at him, and kicked his face.
"...uu...?" The young man with no emotions simply wiped the place of his face where he was kicked and looked around as he stood up, he showed nothing. It felt odd to them, but one of them simply hit his neck by behind, oh no, he didn't, he just avoided.

"Excuse me... did you hand slipped...?" He asked on an indifferent tone which sounded irritating to the attacker's ears.
"Mm, where are we..?" he looked around the forest, he knew it but of course he lied, nevertheless, he simply waited for their response, both of them had a wooden mask.

"We are at the Fairy Forest, we have a camp and... excuse my partner, he found you suspicious so he thought it would be better to knock you off." That was what he said however... at the same time, Altum simply stabbed one of them, in the chest while he knocked out the second one.

"Mm." He was satisfied with himself, one of them was going to die while the other wasn't aware of what was going on.

"Mmm... what's the name of your group ?" He had their organisation, but not their name, their numbers were in hundred.
"The Church." Church in the Fairy Forest ? That was unexpected, it was a bit too simply, 'The Church', it sounded... too... benevolent, it didn't fit to the organisation.
"What about... right, you will be called Moira, yes, Moira."

As for what happened next and before, Altum didn't give much details, all that is to know is that... nobody was with him when he came.

OOC: I just give as information the size and 'name' of the organisation.
Moira, around hundreds of people.
And also a bit of the organisation.

Checking on the Duke's corpse, Gravis rubbed his chin while wondering what was going, alright, traitors but then, on a certain paper, he noticed one thing. The handwriting, it was oddly familiar, realizing something.
He smiled, and he was glad to know that some of them could be trustworthy, at least, that was good to know, he wondered about what to do, contact him ? Send a message ? Or simply nothing...?
At least, he knew one thing thank to all of those things.

Altum came back and gave the information he got quickly and swiftly, immediately, he left without any words.

"So... let's not all of this... those three... one of them died... the duke is probably lower than the Miltheo and Gerard... so... one of the 8 died. And the two are probably part of the four under the order of the two leaders..." Gravis muttered and internally sweared to himself that no matter what, those dogs crawling in the city will be exterminated, they... are corrupting this place. It seems like everything will go amok soon.
They needed to prepare.
After reporting everything he knew to his superior, he felt like something was wrong with him, true, they grew up and trained together, however, he always has been open to dirty tricks which Gravis always refused. He sighed and simply said everything to his former friend.

"Mm.. I just hope I am wrong." He said as he resumed his work, ready to welcome anyone who has more information, it looks like some people are just too wrong here.


OOC: Well, here is the organisation, Moira :

On the 2 Leaders, nothing is known.
On the 4 below them, two of them are known.
On the 8 below the four, one is dead.
On the 32, untouched.
On the 128 (may be more), they are just the lowest in Moira.

I am going AFK, so if any question, I will reply later~

 

<Golden City gate - morning | Rook PoV>

I looked into the crowd that been dispersed...
"Its safe to enter now?" I muttered in my mind
I passed through the gate like nothing happens and walked into the R.C.B mini house.

My mind full of thoughts about the cultist organization
" i'm sure one of the head is {influence master} and the last one highly one of the leader personal bodyguard"
I write two of my deductions in the paper,then i looked the rest of intel from my daughter Ravenia.
"The rest of {resources} is somehow dejecting that cultist didn't treat their resources management very well"
- captain of resources (seafood gatherer) Sean brothers [2/32]
- captain of resources (illegal logger) Djordje Blackwood [3/32]
- captain of resources (merchants raider) Jennifer Gale [4/32]
- captain of resources (textile expert) Yana Weaverick [5/32]
"I see that previous outpost is the site for illegal lodging"
I continued to the lower class intel.[18/128+] is each of the captain soldier and that's all about the cultist resources.

Then i looked into the crowd in the central plaza....
"Their weapon and armor supplies is gone,i'm sure I'm dealing massive blow to the cultist for now"
I said in my mind while watching the Duke body being escorted for further investigation by city guard.
But then i saw an auntie among the crowd who run with horrified face,
"She was on the list Yana Weaverick the textile expert" i prepared to finish her

Ooc: to be continued on hunt.

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Golden City]

Spoiler: A Nameless City Guard Tale

<Golden City - Noon |Young City Guard PoV>
If there's one thing i can shout freely at this time, i just want to scream badly
"THERE'S A SICK B*STARD SERIAL KILLER HERE !!"
what actually happen in this city?
- Henry the local blacksmith been robbed and stabbed to death yesterday
- 17 other worker including bodyguard,head butler,maid,chef,hired master and their servant also got killed in Crowfall mansion this morning
- a foreigner that dressed like a priest also been found death near the emptied storage room.
- the owner Duke Crowfall himself also been found death in the most gruesome way out of them all impaled and thrown out of his castle
- there's also missing person report ! 2 younger maid,3 bodyguard and a gardener that also worked in there been reported missing this morning
- lastly the Duke only family who probably still alive,his granddaughter also been reported missing
i closed my thought when i suddenly heard a bang on the door....

*Thok*Thok
"please open the door!!"a woman screamed but it sound so familiar ...
i quickly ran to the door and open it,to catch my surprise it was my own little sister
"what happen sis?"i got nausea feeling
"blood !! there's a blood splat !!....i mean miss Yana in danger !!!" my little sister pulling me to follow her

<West side Golden City - Noon |Young City Guard PoV>

When we were young,Miss Yana always give her extra material to make clothes for us without charging anything. She know we are just a poor sibling without parent,she also almost everyday invited us to eat dinner with her and sleep in one of her empty room.

Before i know it that empty room filled with my belonging,it almost she is my foster mother.
Even so that happy year of living together is ended,i already an adult and i have a job. She also already married and started her own real family, we don't want to disturb her family so we move back to our poor house.

But cruel fate cursed miss Yana, her husband died in a accident only a year after marriage,leaving her alone with a baby in her womb, Thankfully my little sister always helping her when she was pregnant until she delivered the baby safely,she become a strong single mother that i proud.
Now,everyday after work it's my turn to visiting miss Yana house,i always greet her and head straight to the room i used to sleep...

< Yana tailor shop in West side Golden City - Noon>

A city guard standing silently in a baby room,There's a trace of blood of murder that just happen recently and there's the owner who just been murdered still hold dearly her baby that also murdered in the same room. The cause of death is axe blow that been wielded also by another corpse!

A bulky man dressed like a priest in the Crowfall mansion also found death by a sword wound in his neck.
what actually happen here? nothing about that matter to that young city guard as hatred burned his sanity.
He grabbed the axe and butchered the bulky man while cursing a hundred curse as cry mixed with a blood fall from his check.The only sound he can heard is her little sister plead who keep saying..

"big brother,please stop"

he end up being caught by another city guard and dragged as a mad man to the jail for a while.

< R.C.B house in West side of Golden City - Noon >
Rook reading a blood stained blueprint,it was a precious intel about the cultist special robe.
His eyes is hazy as he tired from all the work he been dealt. Then he hide the intel in the hidden drawer and rest his eyes for a moment.
He dreamed about the thing that just happen,an auntie who hold dearly her baby almost killed by the cultist with the axe,but then two figure leaped from Rook hiding spot and catch the cultist.
What happen next is the auntie surrender herself to Gravis while still calming her baby.

Rook then waking up from his dream and laughed bitterly,as it was a dream and not a reality.

@Naraku @leegood @Raineternal @Exitiumm @Quaesitor

 

Limited Mission: Cultist

Spoiler: The Battle of Survival in the Fairy Forest!

---Leona---
"Alright then Zayne, lead the way" I looked around the town, and it seemed life was going as normal, so I urged Zayne on "Actually, we could pick up more members along the way."

---Zayne---
"Yeah, it would be nice if we could pick someone up who was headed in the same direction. We better hurry though as last time I checked the ritual was in its final stages. Perhaps they already started the summoning sequence with some sort of sacrifice."

Zayne bids fairwell to the apothecary and leads Leona out of the apothecary shop. They head outside the city gates and find a youth......with a slime on his shoulder.

"Leona! Look up ahead! A slime's attacking a young boy!" Zayne draws his long sword.

---Leona---
"What? it only seems to be sitting on his shoulder, though that blobby thing is a living creature?" I looked at it with interest, no animal I've seen ever looked like that. "And Zayne, perhaps drawing a sword at someone could be seen as something else?"

---Shu---
(Master, there seems to be danger to our right.)
Lazarus' blobby form turned, staring into the distance. Two people were speaking, one with a weapon drawn. I frowned. Was this place really so lawless? People would attack others on sight, without checking for their affiliations? But, it wasn't like I was completely prepared to fight here. I had no money, nor anything to trade for a better weapon. I got transported with nothing but the clothes off my back.

"...if it is a fight they want, it is a fight they'll get."

With my shield on my arm, and my - rather crude - club in my hand I stared the two down.

---Zayne---
Zayne blinked. He stared at the slime and the boy for a couple moments. It looked like.... the slime wasn't attacking the boy? Zayne attempted to confirm this. Zayne shouted "It seems that slime wasn't attacking you after all? Pardon me for jumping to conclusions. I thought you were in danger." Zayne sheathed his long sword.

---Leona---
I stared at the little creature, It seemed to not really have a 'shape' except a general blob, though turned my attention back to zayne. "Indeed, he seems to have mistaken the slime as to trying to aim for your life."

---Shu---
I took a breathe, calming myself. Though, Lazarus stayed on alert, watching them closely.

"It is no problem. I can understand, why you thought that. If you didn't know it would look like it. Do you need something, though?"

There was the obvious chance they were going to pass him, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

---Zayne---
"We were just headed on our way to deal with some cultists. I found out that they were planning on summoning to destroy the entire country and I returned to the Golden City to seek out reinforcements. Just the cultists they sent out to pursue me were so tough. If I had to face their main force on my own it would've been suicide."

---Shu---
My arms fall to my side, as I grit my teeth.

"Really...something to destroy that entire city..."

Not something I could handle. Not, something that I could go against.

"...alright. I won't be much help, but may I go with you?"

Lazarus spun on my shoulder, staring at me.

(Master?! You have almost the worst equipment, and I haven't even consumed enough to be of use in a fight!)

The quivering blob that was my familiar wasn't wrong. But, surviving an attack on the city was also impossible for me at this time.

---Zayne---
Zayne looked at the boy and his equipment. It all seemed like very basic stuff. Besides that slime on his shoulder he seemed like a normal soldier.

Zayne didnt want to drag someone with no combat capabilities along because he knew that the place they were headed was really dangerous. "Are you sure you want to come along? This mission is really difficult. The last time I went in there I almost didn't come out." Zayne described how the cultists were capable of using glyph magic to shoot scorching rays and blew a hole in his side as well as their synchronized chanting to bombard an entire area. He also described how they were able to stay mostly unharmed from the magical explosion.

---Shu---
At your words, I had a hint of hesitation. But, I nodded anyway.

"No matter what, the more people the better. I can definitely at least not be a burden."

"I don't have great equipment, but I am pretty durable. As long as I find something good enough material wise, I can be more helpful. I'm sure of it." This person wholeheartedly tried to persuade him, for his own sake. If I couldn't at least trust him, I probably wouldn't be able to trust anyone here. "So, please. Let me at least try to help."

Overall, he wasn't wrong about my equipment. The leather armour is in good condition, but it won't stop magic. The shield had dings here and there, and wasn't even partly metal, while the club had seen better days.

---Zayne---
"Well welcome aboard! Lets stop those insane cultists together then! My name is Zayne. Big sis over here is called Leona. She seems to have gotten distracted staring at your pe-- companion."

---Shu---
"Ah, thank you for having me!" I did a quick bow, relieved that I wasn't refused. "I am Shu, and this one here is Lazarus. He is quite small right now, though."

---Leona---
"Perhaps you should not cut off the word pet so easily next time" I had a small smirk imagining him saying something indecent to a normal young woman. "Indeed, the more the merrier I suppose." He looked armed enough to defend himself and the fact we met him outside meant he's stupid, or knows a thing or two.

---Shu---
I looked at Leona, then back to Zayne. It wasn't that simple, for me to just join them and fight but it was better than nothing.

"Well, if we shall fight together, we should learn something about each other. Since I am the newest, I'll explain my skills first." I approach the two, and hold out my shield. "Overall, I'm a defensive fighter. I can block attacks, and take hits while counterattacking. I'm pretty sturdy, if I do say so myself." I point to the slime on my shoulder. "Lazarus here can't do much right now, but later he will be able to help out with a variety of things."

---Zayne---
Zayne was confused. What did she mean not to cut off the word pet so easily? "Leona what do you mean by not cutting off pet? Let's see..." Zayne flips through the dictionary in his head and finds a list starting with the letters pe. He scrolled down the list until he came upon a certain word. Zayne began to blush. "L-Leona! That's so indecent of you!" Zayne stammered.

Zayne calmed himself down and responded to Shu's statement. "I can use reinforcement and I know how to cast the scorching ray glyph. On that note, I'm not sure whether you'd be able to block the glyphs with that shield and armor, it's better to dodge those."

---Leona---
"I am usually leading the fight whether from the front or from the back. For now, I fight with a sword." I let out a small laugh "alright, lead the way."

---Zayne---
Zayne shook his head with a wry smile. "Guess you are more playful than I though you were. Makes sense since you look so young."

Turning to Shu, Zayne tries to remind him. "Make sure to dodge the glyphs alright? I really don't think you can block them. Alright guys I'll lead the way back in. Follow me."

---Shu---
I nod, falling in behind you. Magical attacks damaged me, while most physical attacks had less success.

(Master, I am hungry.) Lazarus' sudden statement startled me, and I looked towards him.

"Can you wait a little longer, Lazarus? I don't have any good material to feed you, right now..."

---Zayne---
Zayne led the way to the Fairy Forest. However at its edges Zayne stopped. He looked around and inspected the surroundings. He felt that something was off. The entrance to the forest was the same as ever yet something felt off. It took a few seconds for him to realize what the feeling of wrongness was. The mana......the mana of the forest was dramatically lower than before!! He saw the streaks of mana in the air moving further into the forest.

Zayne turned to his two other party members and with a grim countenance Zayne said "Guys, I believe we have a problem."


---Leona---
"Start jogging and tell us what it is at the same time, so we can save time." I looked around, Indeed, for such a large forest it seemed some of the plants were less 'vibrant' than usual. "Let's hurry, I don't like the look of this."

---Zayne---
Zayne started jogging taking careful note of the magical lines in the forest. They were growing dimmer. From the books he read and from what his eyes were telling him, such a phenomenon would only occur in the final phase of the summoning ritual. The magic circle would absorb the surrounding ambient mana to create a dimensional seam or door for the creature being summoned to step into the world. At such a point the ritual could not be stopped.

Zayne explained as he headed deeper into the forest. "Such a phenomenon happening in a region of this size means that the summoning has already reached its final stages and whatever is being summoned, it's something powerful as more mana is needed to support the creation of a pathway to our world. The bad news is that the ritual already can't be stopped. The good news is that most of the cultists should be dramatically weaker than before as the ambient mana will have likely all been sucked in and their glyphs have to be driven with their own magical energy."

---Shu---
I stopped as I felt the drained environment. Lazarus shrunk, his body trying to absorb more of the atmosphere's mana. "This place, feels like hell..." I was used to being in an area that was mana rich, absorbing the mana in the atmosphere. My family, in particular required the mana rich environment to release more of the abilities of our bloodline. Until we could absorb base materials, we needed mana to grow stronger.

"So...what can we do? If we can't stop the ritual then what should we do? If we kill at the cultists, the summoning won't stop will it?"

---Zayne---
"I wouldn't be leading us into a certain death situation. While the ritual itself can't be stopped, we can however dramatically weaken the creature that's going to come out. Perhaps even kill it with the gathered power from the ritual. We have to aim for the moment it steps halfway out the portal and completely destroy the anchorpoints of the summoning circle. Theoretically, the resulting magical explosion should destabilize the spacial pathways and cut the creature in two, not to mention the resulting mana explosions. If that doesn't work we'll have to do it the old fashioned way and attack it when it's weakest right after suffering those blows!"

---Leona---
"Then the plan will be to take out the cultists, then find a way to de-stabilize the formation correct?" I spotted something in the distance, It was the entrance to some kind of open area in the forest. "I think we are arriving soon, Fast and furious, or Moderate and Stealthy?"

I looked at both of them, seeing what option they would choose.

I nodded "I guess we'll have to see"

---Shu---
I nodded in understanding. "...but, that leads to another problem...will this forest ever go back to normal again?" The pure amount of mana left was meager, not enough to keep an ecosystem healthy. "And, itsn't like..."

My voice fades, as we approach the lake. The mana is visible, swirling above the lake and malevolent. On the edges of what seemed to be a massive portal, were fissures in the air itself.

"The...hell?"

---Leona---
At the scene of the lake, their were about a dozen cultists barely standing upright, still chanting around a portal. It seemed that there were also bodies lying in the center, already deceased and drained of any trace of vitality.

Around to the right of the lake was a more, well dressed looking man, though in terms of looking like a cultist he perfectly fit the image. "We'll take out all of them except the leader, Since he may also be another pawn of someone, or something else, perhaps the thing he's trying to summon."

I looked at Zayne and Shu "Alright, when your ready." and placed my hand on the pommel of the sword.

---Zayne---
"I need a few minutes of uninterrupted concentration to observe the patterns of the summoning circle up close. I need to find out the crucial anchor points so we can deal enough damage to the creature. If this part fails and the creature comes out unharmed I doubt we would have a snowball's chance in hell of contending with it. Can you guys cover me?"

---Shu---
I nodded, holding my club in my hand.

"Lazarus, stay here for now. Contact me if there is a problem." The blobby sphere rolled off of my shoulder onto the ground, and quivered. (Yes, Master)

"Miss Leona, I'll follow your lead."

---Leona---
"Alright." Running forward, I ran out of sight of the nearest cultist and knocked him out with the pommel of my sword, drawing my sword and knocking out another cultist with the blunt side of the sword.

The cultists seeing me 'charged' or in normal terms speed walked toward me, giving me enough time to take out the rest, but 2 of the members luckily, or unluckily, decided that shu was the best one to attack.

The leader cultist looked on in a daze, a bit out of wack of the situation.

---Shu---
Despite my amateurish look, I took them on carefully. Keeping a firm grip on my club, I smashed it down on the closest cultist. He crumpled, falling onto the ground, and the other glared at me, before looking towards Leona. They began to draw a glyph in the air, and I cursed, backing up.

"Miss Leona!"

---Zayne---
While all this was going on, Zayne stuffed his recently acquired magical robe into his herb supply bag as it had protections against mana siphoning. He could see from Leona taking the cultists out so easily that they were severely affected by mana drain and their protections and magical equipment had all been destroyed by the summoning circles siphoning.

He would be getting close to it in order to study it, so he would be more severely affected. He dashed out and began studying the summoning circle looking for the anchorpoints to disrupt the spacial pathways.

---Shu---
The summoning circle was a complex series of lines and symbols that guided the siphoned mana around the still forming portal. It appeared as thought its large shape facilitated faster mana movement, but also caused it to thave far more key anchorpoints to be protected. The leader of the cultists, who still seemed rather dazed and confused at our appearance, still hadn't moved from his position. That is, until he saw you approaching the summoning circle.

---Leona---
I was knocking out the remaining cultists when I heard

"Miss Leona!"

I turned around to see a man drawing a glyph in the air, wary of what It could do I ran towards him and threw my sword like a spear into his hand causing the glyph to stop being drawn. The next moment I took the sword and knocked out thew now bleeding cultist.

"I'll go take on the leader now!"
--

The leader was frowning at the scene, He could not use his magic spells because his mana was low, but he could still use his reinforcement magic that makes him 2x strongerbut it caused his movements to slow down a bit, but to him, it was worth it as he shouted.
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"You shall die for interfering!" and swung it toward the interferes.
And drew out a huge iron ball attached to an iron chain and swung it at Zayne.

---Zayne---
The cultist leader had been distracted by the joy of success at their ritual. He had been busy communicating the fact that he had succeeded in his task to summon the creature to his boss, one of the 4 heavenly kings under their 2 glorious leaders. The leaders and heavenly kings had been alerted to something in the city and decided to head there after leaving the follow up to him. Something about one of their important cooperators being caught in Golden City, a nobleman most likely. He had been angry that a party of meddlesome adventurers had crashed their ritual right after all their mana had been drained from them. He didn't know what that boy studying the summoning circle was doing, but he wouldn't let him do it. He pulled out a huge iron ball and swung it at Zayne.

Zayne feeling something heavy and hard flying for his face had to interrupt his study of the summoning circle and dodge out of the way. "Guys! We dont have much time left! Judging from the mana undulations the creature has already started down the passageway! The summoning circle is much more complicated than I realized! It has a lot more anchorpoints than I anticipated and I'm not sure where they all are yet!"

---Shu---
I sighed in relief at your safety, nodding. I looked towards Zayne, who was still studying the massive summoning circle when the leader yelled out. In just a few seconds, I saw the iron ball be flung towards his face.

I could only nod in response, running towards the cultist leader.

"Lazarus! Come to me! Miss Leona, I'll back you up!"

(Yes, Master!)

Of the three of us here, I could take the hit with the least damage if need be. I glanced at the various markings on the ground, before glancing up at the now violently pulsating portal.

"Mister Zayne! Can you destroy the anchorpoints that are visible to you now?! The weaker it is, the better chance we have!" I pulled my attention from the battle for just a second. But, it was all the leader needed as he once again launched the iron ball. It arced above the ground, and the rushing of the wind brought me back to the battle. But I didn't have time to dodge.
The leader let out laugh, as I held up my shield to slow it's momentum, and turned to Leona, counting her as a greater threat.

And, a crunch roared out as my shield snapped in half, and the heavy ball slammed into my arm.

But, instead of pushing through me, it slowed and eventually stopped as my left arm was left dangling and bloody, but not destroyed, with a grin on my face.

---Leona---
Taking that moment I dashed in with the sword and tried to slash him only to find that it was only giving shallow cuts, so I switched strategies and started aiming at the weak tendons in his arms and feet.

"You!"

But before he could move his weapon again he was stabbed in the right eye and let out a scream and started swinging around his weapon haphazardly while I jumped back and jumped back in to do a lot of small cuts and attacks on vital points to weaken him.

---Shu---
At this point, the leader's focus was completely on Leona as he tried to smash her.

"You intruding bastards! You can't stop this! Just die already! I refuse to fall behind the other groups!"

His screams of rage gave way to information, but it had to be ignored for now, as he began to use his own blood to draw glyphs on his body. Glyphs, that began to glow the more he drew.

"To help my master, I will reject even my chance to see destroyer!" As the leader draws one more glyph, he stops moving and the mana not being drawn into the circle begins to pour into his body.

---Zayne---
Zayne took a spare moment to glance at the glyphs that the cultist leader drew. His eyes widened. "He's using those glyphs to rapidly strengthen himself in exchange for his blood essence! Oh shit, He's planning on sacrificing himself to kill us! He's going to be as strong as a humanoid magical beast for 5 minutes! Don't let him draw anymore glyphs or he'll become even stronger! Guys this is bad, the creatures going to come out in 3 minutes! I can't find all the crucial anchorpoints to blow the passageways up in time! I can at most weaken it a bit!"

---Leona---
That's the moment when I used the ability, except I used it on myself to inspire myself to become a quicker striker and "Alright!" taking the moment that the boss was drawing the glpyh, I thrust my sword into his mouth as he was shouting at me, effectively causing the glyph to stop as the massive pain shock wave stopped him in his tracks, not letting it go, I dove my sword deeper into his head, eventually reachiing the back of his head.

"Was that...too much?"

---Shu---
"...no. No, that was fine....ah, but enough of that, we have bigger problems to handle! Mister Zayne, can we just destroy the circle? He called it a destroyer and I won't be that useful against something too strong!" While I could move it, there were multiple fractures in my arm, and a wooden club probably wouldn't do much to it. A soft push was felt on my leg, as Lazarus slowly began climbing up to my shoulder as I spoke.

(Master, could you not destroy the passageway itself? When I am summoned, if the passageway is interrupted I myself come out far too weak to even take on a physical form.)

"...could we try to destroy the passageway itself?"

---Zayne---
"It's what I planned on doing, destroying the anchorpoints was needed to create the turbulence needed to breakup the passage and damage the creature. The spell would still bring the creature forth but it would be damaged by that storm. If we just wantonly destroy the circle, we would have no way of doing anything to the creature and it might just appear somewhere else. Leona are you up for fighting it? An ordinary sword might not be able to damage it though."

---Leona---
"It's the only thing I have on me currently is this sword, But I'm prepared to fight." So I started gathering logs and throwing them near the portal in order to start a fire before the creature appears so I can set it on fire.

---Zayne---
Zayne nodded. Leona was a ruler class servant who would be a lot stronger than mysteries. Perhaps she could do something about the creature that was summoned. "Alright I'll be destroying the anchorpoints I can find! The creature should immediately appear after that!"

Zayne strikes several of the anchorpoints on summoning circle. "Get ready everyone!"

The portal begins shaking but the dimension passageway just seems to tremble a bit. Not the total collapse he had hoped for.

---Shu---
I clicked my tongue, trying to think. Eventually, I eyed the ball and chain left on the ground, and walked towards it.

"Lazarus, you can have this. So, eat it and get ready to fight as soon as possible!"

Lazarus jumped off me, and began literally consuming the chains leading to the ball, slowly absorbing the metal.

I held the club in my right hand, and prepared myself as best I could.

---Leona---
I got ready, preparing my sword I wondered what kind of creature they were summoning, and if it was strong. Though It most likely was strong due to the sacrafices I always thought about the what if's but not now, I lit some branches on fire and waited with a torch and sword in my hand, ready to set the pile of wood on fire if need be.

---Shu---
The barely affected portal shined once, and stabilized itself. Slowly, a single black furred arm made it's way out, and it pushed against the edge of the portal, forcing it more open. A low growl began to be heard as another arm appeared, and latched onto the other edge. From within the depths of the portal, two yellow eyes, could be seen looking at the three beings in front of it. And it launched itself out of the portal.

A large furred humanoid, about 8 feet tall and unnecessarily muscular. It had the head of a wolf, but it couldn't be defined as a lycanthrope. It was something beyond that, closer to Fenrir itself. And it treated us like air, as it looked at the dead or bleeding cultists on the ground.

---Zayne---
"OH, SHIT THAT THING! I CAN'T SEE IT'S STATS! IT HAS TO BE AT THE VERY MINIMUM RANK B!" Zayne tenses and prepares to fight or flee depending on the situation. The creature did not even seem phased by the dimensional shaking, an ordinary sword Zayne thought would definetely not be able to cause it to even the slightest of harm.

---Leona---
"This....Will be our fight!" I took the sword and felt something in me that made me move my sword, and a rune appeared in the air, "COURAGE. HONOR. SPIRIT." The rune dispersed and a thin field way lain over the 'battlefield'
[To allies and Leona] [5 minutes Duration]
[+20% Attack speed]
[+20% Attack damage]
[+20% bravery]

Though that felt like, a portion of energy was taken away from me, I prepared my stance, and got ready to attack.

---Shu---
I clicked my tongue, but approached the monster in front of us, standing to the right of you.
"Miss Leona. If we are lucky, I might, and I mean might, be able to take one hit from him. Back home I had seen some powerful people, but I've never seen anything like this."

The creature looked at us, before opening its mouth. But, instead of a growl, or a roar, it chuckled.

"You can stand and face me, eh? You have strong spirit. This place doesn't suit me, and you don't seem to be my summoners, but I cannot leave this place as I am now." Their voice was low and deep, and while he spoke freely, there was a tone of mockery and arrogance. One that could only be made when you knew you were far above your opponent. "You, young lady, have an interesting ability but it won't matter. Your ally is injured, and the other is still too far away to help. Now tell me..." His voice fades as his yellow eyes glisten, and a silent pressure begins pushing down on you. "Are you all ready to die?"

---Zayne---
It seemed that Leona was ready to stand and fight this creature that she clearly knew was far above her in power. Zayne remembered the promise he made in an earlier adventure together. Zayne murmured "I'll be by your side rain or shine whether they be a sea of swords or mountains of bodies to climb huh? Zayne psyched himself up and yelled while charging. "Whether there be a sea of swords or mountains of bodies to climb I'll be by your side! Let's go!!!"

Zayne charges at the creature and prepares to fight what he knows will be a losing battle.

---Leona---
"I'll give you three strikes, then you'll be my kindling." The monster smiled sadistially as I rushed towards him and tried to cut him it was just as if I was trying to cut steel, or something tougher than steel.

The seconds strike I tried to slash a tendon or so, but barely something called a scratch could be seen on the skin.

"Hahahahahaha! This is Hilarious! I'll watch your third strik--"

I tried attacking his head, but he moved his hand and blocked it, making me reflectively take away the sword do he does not grab it.

"Now, It's my turn." He swung his claws at the ones attacking him, forcing them into evading or taking a heavy blow.

---Shu---
I frowned, as the claws came rushing towards us, and I made a decision.

"Miss Leona, Mister Zayne! I'll take this first attack!"

Instead of dodging, I moved forward to block his swing with my already damaged arm. I had noticed it, when he blocked. "He is strong, but not invincible! He probably isn't the type that has no weak points, so if either of you can get in a good swin-" My words were forcibly stopped, as he cut into my arm, and began slashing through, only slightly slowing down. He looked on, amused as he cut me. "Oh? You are built a bit differently, than the other two. You might have lasted longer, if you didn't try to be a hero!" His mocking voice foretold his next attack, another sweep of his claws from the other side.

---Zayne---
Zayne was a bit of a distance away from the fight so he couldn't help with the first blow. He had been channeling his mana into the glyph he had just drawn which had gathered quite a bit of the dispersed ambient mana from the closing of the portal around the summoning circle. It was radiating and it seemed to have a great deal of magical energy within it.

Seeing the second swipe from the creature at Shu, Zayne prepared to fire his scorching ray glyph. "Take this you beast!" Zayne fired the glyph and out came a highly concentrated beam of light shooting at speeds faster than the mortal eye could follow.

The creature paused in it's attacks against Shu and focused it's attention on Zayne. It seemed that it could feel a small amount of threat in that burning magical symbol in the air. Impossibly, it was able to react to it and twisted it's body in a dexterous way. Zayne couldn't believe it. Such a huge body could move so fast! It was merely playing with Shu when he had attacked earlier!

The beast seemed to focus all its attention on Zayne, it seemed that glyph he shot at it actually made it feel threatened. The tiny sword of the Ruler class servant wasn't enchanted and could do nothing against it's skin which was resistant to nonmagical weapons. That little boy, a half slime sort of creature, was just a meatbag for him to toy around with. However that guy who could use spells would be a problem. Though a direct hit by that spell wouldn't have hurt much, if he had charged it up more.....

The beast moved impossibly quick and darted past Leona and Shu at an inhuman speed heading straight for Zayne. With a furious bellow it prepared to smash him into bits!

---Leona---
"It seems.. I forgot to inject energy into this" I muttered that to myself as the sword accepted my energy, becoming an enchanted sword once again ( totally not because I forgot about it)

I then rushed his back and slashed at his knees drawing blood.

---Zayne---
Zayne sees Leona's sword lighting up with magic again making the blade sharp and strong. The magic he had given it before had long since faded away. It seemed she finally remembered to inject her mana into it. Unfortunately the spell on the sword wasn't enough. It was only a low grade enchantment to sharpen the swords blade, not really comparable to a true magic weapon. Instead of a thin white line appearing, a superficial cut was instead made.

While blood spurted out and looked grisly the cut only irritated the beast. Nevertheless it was forced to slow down to bat Leona aside to prevent her from making the wound deeper. A heavy fist caught Leona and blasted her aside.

Zayne having noticed the creatures' wariness towards the glyph he made and had started to draw and hold the same glyph, storing magical energy and drawing all the ambient mana around.

---Shu---
The beast grunted in annoyance, stalking towards Zayne. "This is getting boring. I'll end this, here and now!" His behavior seemed to switch into a more serious one, as he went quiet with his claws outstretched.

While Leona got blasted away, instead of slamming into the ground she landed on a rather soft and squishy object, that simply pushed her off of itself. The tiny red slime had finished consuming the ball and chain, and apparently drank up all the blood from the leader and dead cultists. It had grown to about 6 ft tall and was a deep crimson in color.
Seeing the changed form of my companion, I yelled out to it.

"Lazarus! Protect Mister Zayne!"

---Leona---
"Thanks big one" I patted it's side as I got up again to unleash another barrage of cuts and slices on the beasts back, I was aiming to create weakspots for zaynes magic to blast through as the beast was distracted by zayne.

---Shu---
Slowly, Lazarus approached Zayne's side, ready to intercept any attacks made against him. With the large amount of material consumed, and the need to grow as quickly as possible, Lazarus only fully digested about a quarter of the material and forced the rest to be used as material to evolve. Which meant, he would revert to a much smaller slime in around 20 minutes.
The beast glanced back at you, and looked at the only threat here, along with the slime that appeared. In the middle of deciding who to kill first, a wooden club was launched at his head.

"Oi, you cocky bastard! You can't even put me down, so why try for the others?!" In a, suicidal, act to buy time I tried to provoke the beast to keep from the two of you since you were actually doing something.

---Zayne---
The hits by the female Ruler and the half slime being were annoying the creature greatly. In particular the woman's slashes on its back. When the half slime creature tried to provoke it, it said "I know what I'll do to you when I catch you. I have never eaten a half-slime before. It should taste novel. Just you wait. As for the woman, ill have her accompany me as my slave."

The creature rushed forward and attempted to hit Zayne, however the deep crimson slime bounced before the attack and used its body to cover Zayne who had rolled away focusing on channeling more and more magical energy into his glyph. The claws tore a big open wound on the slime from which gushed forth copious amount of red fluids. The big slime seemed to deflate greatly. However the slime seemed to gather itself and in a determined way it chose to adhere to the creatures' body in order to stall for more time. The creature ripped and tore at the big slime until it was in tatters however it was able to gain those few precious seconds for Zayne to slip around behind it!

Zayne was moved by the big slime's heroic actions and resolved to make his hit count. Zayne leapt into the air and targeted the creature's back which Leona had done her best to litter with countless small wounds. Zayne stuck his hand inside and unleashed the glyph. "SCORCHING RAY!!!" The glyph shone with a brilliant light and with a flash superheated chunks of flesh just evaporated and a fountain of blood splurted into the air.

The creature howled in agony "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWRRR" This was the first time such a major injury had been inflicted on it in the fight and in a rage it flung the tattered pieces of the slime to the side and smashed Zayne who was still in the air all the way into the lake! CRACK! A big snapping sound resounded and Zayne seemed to feel as if he was hit with a battering ram as his rehealed ribs broke once again along with his left arm and his organs were rattled! Zayne plopped into the surface of a lake where only ripples denoted his location.

The beast turned to Leona and Shu with its eyes bloodshot. It looked to have gone into a blood frenzy but it in fact was very calm. It decided to defend the area of its wound as the defenses there were greatly lowered by that spell blasting its skin apart. It wouldn't let the female Ruler have a chance at wounding it in its already weakened back.

---Leona---
A glint appeared in my eye as I realized what I could do with a beast under my control as a Ruler..That's how Ruler's work right? I mean, they are ruling things right? I got back into concentrating on dodging the beast's strikes as he was making me keep away from the wounded area Zayne had just created that was spouting blood.

Strange, my strikes seemed to be stronger and faster when I switched my thinking from just surviving and killing the beast to beating the beast half to death and claiming someone under my rule A grin was on my face even as one of the claws was able to cut a wound on my stomach, though not deep enough to worry me in the short term.

---Shu---
"Tch, Lazarus!" Seeing Zayne and Lazarus' injuries, I grit my teeth in anger. At this point, I couldn't do anything. I was almost completely useless.

And at this point, Miss Leona was fighting and holding it back alone. I joined the two, because I thought I could help. Instead, I was standing here with a half broken arm, bleeding.

"No...even if I'm useless..."

I took one step towards the intense fight. Lazarus' body twitched, seemingly sensing something and slowly began absorbing water to regain lost fluid. He curled a part of his body around Zayne and began half swimming, half floating towards land, taking care not to aggravate Zayne's injuries anymore.
The arm that was halfway in tatters seemed to wriggle the closer to the battle I got, slowly trying to close the injury.

"Even if it's just for a second...I'll shield you..." At this point, the battle between Leona and the beast was reaching higher speeds, as small wounds formed on the monster and larger ones on Leona.

---Zayne---
Zayne was in a daze. Perhaps It was because he had been hit so hard and the pain so intense that he had been hallucinating. A shining light had enveloped him and a warm soothing voice call out to him. He felt that he was in a different place or even a different time and he could only look at that warm glowing figure manifesting before him. He tried to galvanize his Mystic Eyes but for some reason they didn't work. The figure smiled when he tried to do this and spoke. "----- --- --- --- -----? - ---- ---- ----- --- --- ---- ---------- --- ----- --- - ---- -- --- ---. - --- ----- --- - ---- -- --- --- -- ---- ----. --- -- ----. " The figure spoke in a language he could not understand. The light around him grew brighter and brighter until he could no longer see.

When the light faded he was atop the lake being pulled along a slime who looked clearer and clearer as water poured into it and diluted the crimson color of its body. Zayne looked around surprised. He muttered "Was that an illusion of the Fairy Forest just then?" Zayne tried moving his body.....and he surprisingly could. The pain had faded and only lingering echoes of it remained. He found in his hand a longsword. The very same one he received from the apothecary except.... It was glowing. There were elaborate glowing runes on its surface now emitting a pale golden light. Zayne stared in shock. What had happened when he was out cold? Who was that mysterious figure? However a loud boom broke him out of his trance.

Leona and Shu had just been sent flying by the wolf-headed abomination. He could ask his questions later. Right now he had to rejoin the fight! Zayne thanked the slime who had been pulling him to the shore and asked it to go faster. "Thank you! I'm fine now, can you head there a little faster? We need to save your master and Leona!"

---Leona---
I coughed out a bit of blood No good......If I go head to head again I'll perish...But... I looked around at the scene to see that Shu had also been sent flying. I shook my head, no, Shu had stepped in front of me blocking most of the damage that would have been done to me.

What is this...We just met, and we're already fighting to the death together like long lost comrades I gritted my teeth and took a bottle of rum out and poured a bit of it on my cuts, clenching my teeth harder as the pain of the alcohol was fresh enough to clear my mind a bit.

I looked at the beast, then the alcohol, then threw the 12oz bottle of rum to splash over the beast's wounds, causing it to feel the harsh burn of the alcohol and Signaled to Zayne to do something to burn it, so it would cause the beast to catch on fire.

Though while that was happening, The beast looked at me "I've upgraded you from food, into being my personal Bedwarmer! Be grateful!" The beast slowly walked toward me, confident in his capture in me, and whatever he planned with Shu.

---Shu---
Lazarus quivered, and began to barrel through the water, spewing out water in a jet behind him.

(Master!)

"...shut up, you mangy dog..." The words spilled out suddenly, and the beast stopped. "You have that aura of that wolf, but the mind of a recently turned lycanthrope... All you have is wasted on you." I looked at him, judging. His strength and speed were top notch, definitely. But, skill wise he wasn't too great. In a match solely of skill, Leona would win. "You have all that strength, but you don't even know how to use it. It's, pretty funny actually." I chuckled, holding my head with one half broken arm. The beast was no longer looking at Leona, instead focusing on me. His arrogance and anger blinding him completely.
"...what did you say, half slime brat?" He took one step forward, claws once again outstrecthed, as his blood ran down them.

"I said your strength is wasted on you." I took a quick glance at Zayne, counting the seconds till they reached shore. I counted under my breath. "...10 seconds left for Zayne..." And when I looked back at the beast, he was already mid swing about to slice through my torso like tofu.

---Zayne---
Zayne had been accumulating magical energy in the scorching ray glyph while he rode Lazarus the slime back to shore. There was only 10 seconds left until he reached the shore when Leona signaled to him to set the beast on fire. At this moment was in mid swing with it's claws about to tear Shu in two. Zayne cried out "NOOOOO!" And let loose his scorching ray glyph. He had hoped the accumulate more magical energy but he was forced to fire early to try and divert the beast's attention. The ray landed on the wolf-headed creature's back yet again and blasted further into the wound. An even bigger fountain of vaporized flesh and blood spurred out and the beast staggered. Flames raged over its body. However it was too late! The beast's claws had already begun to penetrate Shu's chest!

---Leona---
"This is the end!" Giving up on capturing the beast, I stabbed the sword through the beast's now bigger wound on his back and opened a path straight to his heart, Where I pushed my hand in and ripped it out of his body.

Feeling a little greedy, I also Ripped out his Lounges, Then his Liver, And the energy stone next to where his heart was when I remembered Shu, and the bloody wounds on my body, and the fact that the beast was on fire currently.

I went over to shu and started cleaning and bandaging his wounds, mine also needed to be treated but...I have a feeling that shu's wound were more severe...even if I was losing....Consciousness......

---Shu---
The sharp claws sunk in, and Lazarus stopped for a second before speeding up even more.

I could barely recognize my surroundings. I felt more and more blood spill out of me, and the world was growing hazy. I could faintly feel Lazarus calling out to me, but I was exhausted. Far too much energy was used. I had been on the edge of what felt like a breakthrough, but before I could I was going to die. The glowing stone from the beast was on the ground, and I glanced at it, as Leona bandaged me up while her eyes grew murky. I was proud that I could help, and reached out towards the stone. "...not...too tough now, eh? Just a dog...in the end..." My fingers scraped it's rough surface and I used my strength to bring it into my hand. It was warm, and shining. "...sorry, Lazarus...I think...I'll be leaving you here..." The weight in my hand seemed to fade, as my eyes closed upon feeling a familiar shining silver light.

---Zayne---
Zayne who had just reached the shore astride Lazarus saw the supposed still burning corpse of the beast twitch. It had its heart, lounges, liver and energy stone ripped out yet it still moved. "Dammit no wonder its the supposed destroyer of the country. It can still move even after all that?"

Leona had just fallen over Shu's body losing consciousness after bandaging his wounds. The beast gurgled out a sentence it's eyes filled with madness "EVEN IF I FALL HERE, I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!!" The beast raised it claws for its last all out attack.

However Zayne raised his sword and in an imitation of the first stance Leona showed him, he slashed and cut the creatures' body in twain. The body split apart and the creature faded into sparks of light that rose up into the air.

Suddenly a huge fatigue came over Zayne and his eyelids drooped. Zayne withstood the lethargy and went over to check Leona and Shu. They were both battered and bruised. Shu had a broken bloody arm and a huge laceration across his chest covered by Leona's hastily applied bandages. Leona seemed to have small fractures on both her arms and legs. The power of the beast was the real deal and although she had ablated most of the blows it still resulted in this much damage.

Zayne turned to the only still moving member of their party Lazarus. "That was a really close battle huh?" All of a sudden Zayne's injuries reappeared and he spurted out blood and staggered. "Might....still be a total wipe....Cough Cough."

Zayne turned to the bodies of his companions and murmured "Leona, you gotta make sure an enemy is dead before turning your back on them.... though I guess you can't hear me now unconscious as you are. Shu, you really look bad man, you're almost in two halves." Zayne saw that the magic stone had fallen out of Shu's hand. He picked it back up and placed it back in his hand. "I think....I can still do something. Lazarus, don't worry your master's not dead yet."

With that said Zayne arranged Leona and Shu to lie side by side against a tree with Lazarus' help and cast 'Slow Regeneration on all three of them. With the last of his strength fading away, he clasped their hands together with his last thought being "Its not a bad way to go..... being surrounded by friends in the end."

---Leona---
I woke up with a groggy head, and when I moved it hurt a bit, but it was a small amount of pain compared to when I was fighting the best Where...? I looked around, It seemed Zayne had dragged us to a tree and cast some kind of healing on everyone, or, that's what I assumed.

Their was also the possibility that someone just came and helped us, But I doubted it. I took the energy stone and grinded into a powder with my sword, It was something the three of us needed after that debacle of a fight. I then mashed the liver into the powder and made some kind of medicine and I was kind of dubious about the effects, but It can't be bad right?

I then added my last rum to the mix, and it started shining and turned into a golden liquid. I pondered about adding the heart, but the heart in most stories I've read, Is something that would be more useful for an apothecary to handle.

I Drank a 1/3rd of the liquid and could feel my energy returning to me in waves, causing my cheeks to flush red. Seeing that it worked, I walked to Zayne and Shu, Feeding them the 1/3rd of the impromptu potion I made.

After that I laid down on the ground, The energy was...Intoxicating after all. I Idly wondered what would have happened had I put in the heart as well, But I don't want to mess up the reward, and the fact that I decided by myself to turn the Heart and Energy stone, two potentially very valuable things into a consumable....I'll ask them after I wake up and the energy within me calms down...

---Zayne---
Zayne woke up a short time after Leona had fed him the potion. He still had a lingering aftertaste in his mouth and seeing Leona awake, he asked her about it. "I feel some sort of weird energy within me. Whats that about?"

---Shu---
I could hear various sounds, and I stirred.
I felt a heavy weight pressing down on me.
(Master...Master, get up.)
Lazarus was half covering me, trying to wake me up, for whatever reason. My body ached terribly, but after moving it seemed as though my insides weren't about to fall out. Most of my armour was destroyed, and I had lost both my club and shield. At first, I contemplated staying still, before feeling a strange energy in me. But, once I became concious of it, it was as though it got consumed by some gluttonous force.
"Ah, what's ..going on?"

---Leona---
Letting out an "Mmmmmha" I got up with my cheeks still a bit flushed, That was...Something potent..."I found us....Laid down here...I used the magical stone...and turned it into some strange potion thing..."

My cheeks were still a bit flushed, and my breathing was haggard, and so "Don't..Mind me..." I got back on the ground to take deeper breaths, not noticing the state of my clothes, what had a few holes and scratches.

---Zayne---
Zayne sighed "Leona you know, you shouldn't pick up strange things and eat them you know?" A few seconds later, Zayne felt a bit weird. His body temperature seemed to be rising and he started breathing haggardly. "Hah, hah...Leona what the heck did you feed us?" At this moment, Zayne seemed to notice Leona's state....for some reason she looked way more alluring than ever before. Her clothes were quite tattered with bits of holes and rips in the fabric and her heavy breathing seemed to accentuate her chest. Zayne for some reason couldn't look away.

---Leona---
Not noticing the change in Zayne, I closed my eyes and concentrated on making the energy my own. That's when my body began letting off a soft glow, realizing something, I took out my artifact and looked at it, It seemed the range of the map increased from 500 meters around me, to 2000 meters around me.

Though one downside I have noticed, Is that it does not have live updates, meaning that the only way to do so, is to see it in person, but as a general, I knew the importance of this map since I can use it for planning, Traveling, seeing what can be noted down for strategic use.

I put it away, I then concentrated on my ability, but nothing changed their, It was the same buff for allies and people under me.

I was still red faced though, so I continued the process of claiming the energy as my own.

---Zayne---
Zayne sighed and marshalled himself. He grabbed for his herb pouch which still contained the magic robe he had stuffed in there from before the fight began. He then drapped it over Leona and murmured red faced to her. "You're really making suggestive movements what with the state of your clothes and heavy breathing you know! Geez!" Zayne turned away and attempted to get that image out of his mind. Unfortunately he had eidetic memory and simply couldn't forget that scene.

Seeing Shu wake up, Zayne turned toward him and asked "How are you feeling man? For a second there, I thought you wouldn't make it."

---Shu---
I looked up towards him, a bit groggy. I wasn't red faced, but I felt strangely hungry. "...I dunno. I'm alive, and not really wounded. But I feel achey, and terribly hungry...what about you?" Lazarus, having used most of his energy and extra material, had shrunk down to around 3 ft tall, rolled more onto me. (Master, do you feel any different?) I looked over to my smaller slime friend, and shrugged. "No really, why Lazarus?"

---Leona---
"Then, Lets head to the apothecary, we have a heart and..." Looking at the knocked out cultists "Laborers that will work for this place in the future.

---Zayne---
"I heard Gravis say that perhaps the reward will be land. Perhaps we could have these guys work for us to gather herbs on our new lands? Still though Leona....perhaps you would want to change clothes before we head back to town? We all need to change clothes in fact." Zayne looks at his tattered platemail and the.... glowing golden longsword??? "By the way guys, do you know of any legends of the Fairy Forest? I believe I had a weird encounter back in the lake there..."

---Leona---
"I'll just have my clothes patched up easily, I need need a sewing needle and thread and...I'll be able to repair my outfit I think, I'll have to check in with the local Clothes making person. I donned the Magic robe on myself and muttered aloud "This makes me look like a magician...or a tax official."

"I've not had the chance to read any legends or hear about any stories regarding that lake, perhaps it's special?"

---Zayne---
"I'll lend you that robe until you can get your outfit fixed. Don't want to go walking around like you did before. Unfortunately all the books in the library only have generic descriptions about the Fairy Forest. No mentions of any large lakes like this one. Lets head back to town and tell Gravis about what happened here. I'm quite concerned though, shouldn't the cultists have been stronger? There was only that one guy who was able to fight back but he died from your sword before we could ask any questions. Should we head back now?"

---Leona---
I nodded "Alright, Let's head back" preparing to head back, and will head back with everyone after Shu is ready.

---Shu---
I was only half awake, listening to you guys talk, as well as Lazarus speaking about something. (Master, you changed a bit. More like me. But, Mister Zayne got touched by something. I felt it. Something powerful.) I blinked slowly, and finally willed myself up to stand, and stretched.
"Lazarus...says you got touched by something, Mister Zayne. He said it was something strong."

---Zayne---
Zayne takes a long look around the lake and says to his companions "Say, I'm sure we are all exhausted and hungry after that battle. Why not commerate our first victory against such a foe with a tea party?" Saying this Zayne begins taking out the sets of biscuits, paste and tea from his packed bags.

---Shu---
At the mere thought of food, Shu nods vigourously. Lazarus rolls over to Zayne, softly butting into his leg, seemingly happy. While the two of us where up for it, the area behind us was mostly devasted. The ambient Mana was spreading out, and there were waking cultists, bodies, andholes from the beasts attacks all around.

---Leona---
I nodded and also took out the biscuits and paste from my leather bag, Of course, I had also brought out the tea. I then took out a biscuit and spread some paste on it, nibbling the treat since it was something worth eating slowly.

"Have a biscuit Shu, You need it" I handed him a biscuit with the paste spread on it "Don't eat it too fast okay."

---Shu---
I took it gratefully. "Thank you, Miss Leona. But, being honest I didn't do all that much. You and Mister Zayne were the ones to defeat that beast."

---Zayne---
Seeing Lazarus rub against his leg affectionately, Zayne spread some honey paste over a biscuit and gave it to Lazarus. "There you go buddy, dont forget to sip tea with it too as theres a pleasant surprise when you do that." Seeing a cultist attempt to crawl away stealthily Zayne fires a low powered glyph at the cultist and knocks him back out. Zayne then takes a biscuit, spreads some honey paste over it and chomps down. He elegantly sips from his tea container and allows Lazarus to have a sip as well. "Leona, Shu, you both seem different. Is it just me?"

---Leona---
"I felt there was something But I'll have to check later" I continued munching my biscuit as I sat on a cultist who was unconscious "Urrrgh..What happ-" I took my sword and knocked him out again. "This certainly is peaceful."

---Shu---
Lazarus seems to enjoy the food, as he absorbs it and wobbles a bit. I chuckled, looking at him, as I ate some of my biscuit as well. I was actually fully awake at this point.

"Yeah, Lazarus was saying something about..." I paused, remembering what I was told, before smiling.

"...I broke through...I actually broke through!" In a fit of excitement, I stood up and laughed out loud. Unlike others back home, my family along with some of the more advanace bloodlines hadtroublefully unlocking it. And, due to this life or death battle I actually broke through the wall I was facing.

---Zayne---
"That's quite lovely for the both of you. Feeling the effects of the food and drink consumed Zayne smiled. His fatigue and weariness were gone. Come to think of it, if they hadn't eaten this food before hand perhaps they wouldn't have been able to pull through. That extra boost in mana regeneration sure let his glyphs pack quite the punch. "Well then, let's head off after rounding up these cultists. I'll search for some herbs on the way back."

---Leona---
"Alright" I found some rope the cultists used and tied their hands together.Tightening the top "ready when you are."

---Shu---
I stood up, still bit giddy as Lazarus rolled around, sticking on various equipment was left on the battlefield. "Miss Leona, I can drag them while we walk."

---Zayne---
Zayne nodded and proceeded to leave the clearing with the lake after putting away the tea and biscuits. He occasionally stopped and went off the path to gather herbs here and there and eventually they reached the outskirts of the forest. "Looking at the bright sunlight here really makes you feel that you have a new lease on life you know?" Zayne spoke aloud when he saw the bright sunshine. "Let's head back and talk to Gravis, we should tell him of our adventure here today."

OOC: Phew, me @leegood and @Shafome worked hard on this. Enjoy!

@Naraku

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Golden City]

Spoiler: Vanishing Twilight

<Golden City - Evening |Rook PoV>
i know i am drunk even i don't feel headache at all.
why?because i heard a floated voice from the past.
a single step of my footstep is echoing again and again like the sound of army footstep.
my shadow blurred out as my vision showing several other shadow surround me .
tipsy leap and my mind floating like a foam as i remembering a journey.
and i just realized i already stand inside the graveyard with a flower bouquets in my hand.
facing a graves that have familiar engraves in the top of the tombstone.

"I don't believe myself meeting you again today here out off all places" the sound waking me up from my drunk,i look into the source of the voices with just a single glance i knew it was Baron Gerard that just greeted me.
"Please don't be modest Baron Gerard after all my position is lower then you"i replied
But he just smiled like seeing an old friend as he approaching me .
tak*tak*
"Hah! drop the formalities after all i am also a military person like you" he patted my back,i just smiled bitterly when he continued his talk "So you're going to visit here tomorrow too?".
"No, i am going to back home tonight, that's why i prayed earlier"i put the small flower bouquet in front of the tombstone.
"That's too bad then since time is limited let me straight to the point,did you see it" he asked me about the thing that he and few person in this city know my noble phantasm [death prayer].
"Yeah,your time almost reach its limit"i focused to death aura that already enveloping his body.
"Hahahaha Want to make a bet I survived your prediction like back then?" he treated my warning as a joke.
"Miracle didn't come twice" i replied
"Then let make it happen,i hire you Rook to become my servant" he declared

If he was someone who played chess,He really the type of someone who didn't know that he almost checkmated and moving his pieces like a winner. Did he didn't notice that there's many skillful hunter that watching him for a while?Sigh,i don't want to be misunderstood as his partner, if that the case i should end the games quickly to end his suffering.
"i didn't work for a wanted person"i showed him the thing i just received in the restaurant this noon, a wanted poster for him.
"Till the twilight end it's your time limit to surrender yourself"i leave him after saying my final end to him.
when my goodbye reaching to him,the sun already gone as darkness night approaching within the silhouette of 12 person that watching our conversation circling him.
i leave like a deaf person that didn't hear any of those war cry and clashing sound,when i already moved faraway without their sight i crushed the teleportation stone.

<Foggy Swamp [R.C.B mansion] - Night |Rook PoV>
when i arrived here i saw the sight of Ravenia sleeping and been cuddled like a small animal by Viona,while Arune and Raine grinning from afar looking at their cute interaction.
" i am home" i said to my family.
"welcome back"Raine smiled to me.
i move quickly like a wolf who found my prey,yes i found and princess carrying my beloved prey Raine to my room.
"hehe,looks like i need to discipline you again my dear"she whispered to my ear while enjoy being carried in my arm.

--------
<Golden City Outskirt [Valiant Graveyard] - Night>
The clash just ended with a single victory, of course it was the victory of Baron Gerard. Although he maybe a bit lower in the intelligent, he own astonishing power as someone directly trained by his father the ex military instructor.
His rough breath turn into prideful smile as he saying "i won again Rook", yet at this careless moment a sudden blade back stabbed his heart. at his rough breath turned into dying breath he looked into the hooded assassin that have a familiar design. It was the infamous Royal Assassin.
"TILL THE END YOU STILL BACK STABBED ME HUH!!" he screamed full of rage

And at that moment miracle really happen twice to him!! a few millisecond before he died,He used his last secret weapon! The symbol of the cultist in his chest shined while his body slowly transformed into Baphomet the holy demon messenger.
Then he grabbed again his broadsword and cut down in half the Royal Assassin member that stabbed him.
"with this power i can take my revenge NOW!!!" he declared a war with Aureum.

Spoiler: Baron Gerard Baphomet form

monster name: Imperfect Baphomet
dangerous level: dropped from S -> B since the host body already weakened in the death bed.
health bar: 30/100

 

Limited missions : Cultist - Golden city]

Spoiler: Thugs

Now what to do today for some reason I still don't feel hungry even after all this time what the heck does this mean it is so weird but I had better try eating just in case something has gone wrong with my body and it just isn't registering that it is hungry. Now I wonder what I can do? Tigger starts wandering around the city after his internal monologue looking for something quick to do.

Tigger notices a group of people standing listening to the message from a messenger. The people standing appear to be thugs of some kind. I wonder what these guys could be talking about a messenger usually won't talk to them. Will they? Tigger proceeded to turn into a dog and follow them around. The messenger must have finally proved his position as he starts speaking about whatever he came to talk about whilst heading inside "the boss said that you guys were to head off into the forest and cut all ties that you might have had in the city also remember to make sure that the base that you enter is old and hasn't been created because of your relationship with us."
"Why shouldn't it be related to our relationship with you guys something about this seems fishy."
"I don't know I am just the messenger you know how it is for me don't you guys?"
"Okay seeing as how you won't tell we will trust you for now."
I wonder what all this could be about however it sounds really important doesn't it?
"Your boss will be getting new orders when he meets with them also don't move until there is a major disturbance as we don't want it being noticed by the guards or anything now do we?"
Well I think I have heard enough now to sketch some of there faces and hand it over to the guardsmen I think that it is important that they here about this quite quickly.
Rex runs off in the direction of the main gate to hand in a description of some of the groups to look out for when a big kerfuffle happens whenever that will be and whatever it will be.

@Naraku

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Golden City]

Spoiler: Headhunt a Runaway Lion

"MWOAAAH!!!" a demon roared in the outskirt of the city.
"this is dangerous! this is dangerous" the city guard who watching from the top of the wall running quickly to the watchtower and hitting the bell.
"demon! there's a demon approaching the city" he shout out the emergency to all nearby city guard.

As the bell sound surround the city, many hunter and servants that resting quickly preparing themselves to fight again, so do they…

“Someone successfully summoned a demon here, it’s time to move” a few cultist that been spread around the city noticed the signal they’ve been waiting for.

-----

The mighty mithril sword once again slain a foes who dare challenging its owner.
"Begone you small fry" the baphomet swinging it sword and killing two city guard who stand together against him.
As he walked closer to the city he kicked a dying servant body he fought earlier into the next challenger position.


The fight continued until the trio lycanthrope hunter arrived,
Zayne leads Leona and Shu to the city outskirts where they happen to witness this scene of carnage. From behind a couple buildings the group pauses to gather information.

Zayne activates his Mystic Eyes and observes the creature's movements for a bit. "Mhm.....its physical body seems to be several ranks below the monster we fought. I don't sense as much mana coming from it as the wolf-headed monster. However the fact that it uses a greatsword means it knows how to use weapons. Looks like you were right Shu. The good news is that Leona's reinforced sword should be able to harm it though it may counter your technique."


----- <Leona PoV>
"Yeah, It's most likely skilled, I'll try attacking it for a test run" I ran forward but the monster was able to keep me at a distance, not letting me deal any damage to it. Dashing back I yelled out "This is going to be a long fight."


-----
The baphomet saw the trio that just came to stopping him now.How many people he should slain to be able to finish his target? He's patience running out as he knew he didn't much time left in this world. He must finished them asap,not taking any taunt he just make a huge swing of horizontal slash to the Leona,yet it was easily dodged, The trio exchanged a few blow when a few other hunter and servants waiting for opportunity like that man.


----<Tigger PoV>
Well I guess that thing is the distraction that they were talking about earlier I wonder how I will be able to help best? Should I become a bear or a smaller version of it? Lets go bear and transition into snake form if it attacks me.


-----

Suddenly among the few servants that keeping their stance a bear appeared in front of them…
"uwaa you suprise me!" a nameless servant beside Tigger suprised at his appearance.
"hey can you hold that demon for a while,i will thrust him with my lance"the nameless servant continued

“Possibly I have never encountered a being such as him before. I will have to determine his strength first” Tigger replied. Tigger morphs his body into that of a bear and proceeds to rush forwards towards this demonic entity. Aiming to smash into it's side.


The baphomet that keeping his focus on the trio easily rammed by the bear.
"mwoah!!"the baphomet let out cry from the sudden attack of bear.
not letting that chance out the nameless servant that been followed the bear continued with stabbing the baphomet arm using his lance.
"nice assist there"the nameless servant praised,but the baphomet regain his stance and killing the nameless servant with one clean cut to the head.

"begone!!" the baphomet throwing the bear to the sky with only one hand. Thrown in the air
Tigger proceeds to turn into a snake and wrap around the hand of the baphomet and try to gain purchase by wrapping around it's body.
Surprised at the bear that suddenly turned into a snake that rammed the baphomet before them, Zayne pulls Leona and Shu back out of the attack range of the both of them.

"you think this thing enough to stop my revenge!"the baphomet show monstrous strength as he break away from Tigger using high stomp to the ground and leaping into the city wall.It was sudden unexpected of turn the baphomet choose to ignore the battle and heading straight into the city.


----<Zayne PoV>
Zayne watches the baphomet leap onto the city wall and head deeper into the city. "Guys we should follow it. It's killing so many servants. We need to stop it from killing any more!" Zayne takes off after the baphomet while analyzing the strength it displayed before him in the previous moments.


----<Shu PoV>
I nod, following. It was a different type of strength unlike the lycanthrope we had fought in the forest.
"It's too different from the lycanthrope! Is it really even a summon? It's going on and on about revenge, that it's not even completely focused on destruction. It's killing everyone in it's way, but that isn't it's main priority."


----
Meanwhile the baphomet who successfully jumping into the city wall greeted by city guard cannon ball.“FIRE!!!” the city guard captain signaling open fire.


psyu~ DAR* psyu~ DAR*


"HWAA!!"the baphomet hand pushing down the canon to the ground,and at his vision he knew one of the city guard stationed there and continue to grab the city guard.What he grabbed was the son of current millitary instructor. The baphomet smiled and crushing the target with his hand.

"HUAHAHAHA!" The baphomet laughed and cried in joy as one of his target just killed. Seen that horrifying scenario a few guard taking a few step back from the baphomet.

“Don’t let the city fall apart!!” a nameless servants shouted the rest of the fighter there nodded and they begin chasing the baphomet figure.


---- <Tigger PoV>
I do not believe it is a summon however it's major priority should be creating confusion now or something along those lines so it's comrades and possibly itself can escape.


---- <Zayne PoV>
"I think I got a main handle on its strength and physique now. Around B rank for both of them. In comparison that wolfheaded creature was I believe at A+ for both of those stats. When it jumped a bit of its mana was disordered in one spot. I think that place was heavily injured before so that should be its weakest spot."

Powering his reinforcement technique Zayne jumps onto a roof of a building and follows the creature atop the wall.


----<Tigger PoV>
"and he doesn't even tell us where that weakness is." Tigger mutters whilst following as a bear again.


----
What he saw was the previous hunter chasing him back into the city.those hunter tenacity reach the baphomet,after all he was a brave warrior in the heart.


"fool,i let you live so you can see with your own eyes how these corrupted people get their punishment" the baphomet showing the corpse of the previous city guard to Zayne.
at his speech there's a blood dripping from his mouth it was a sign that the transformation time almost reach it’s end.

"So you let us live or was it really that you have some more important agenda to see to like I don't know trying to kill the king." Tigger says as he catches up in his bear form and turns into a slightly smaller Baphomet.


“i…”before the baphomet continues his speech a sudden voice interrupt him,
"hey don't spill out the plan!!"the cultist that blend with city guard yelled spontaneously...
after a moment of silence the hidden cultist realized he just make a huge mistake " oh sh*t" the hiding cultist jump away and trying to escape.

the baphomet sighed...
"you don't need to know for now" the baphomet making a jumping stance readying to leap once again.

"Well guard that is your mess to deal with. On with the chase." Tigger says whilst now chasing after the baphomet as a minitaure baphomet which may be a bad idea...

"That morphling just fall into my trap"the baphomet muttered as he feint a leap into a strong kick and kicked away Tigger body to the watchtower.The reckless move tripped the baphomet into the city civilians home leaving many casualties,and also because of the baphomets kick Tigger was knocked the hell out with no chance of recovery.


-----
Meanwhile, in the Guard Quarter, Gravis hit a desk which belonged to his superior and old friend. It cracked. Just like the country. And their friendship. It spread. Until it will break.
Then, his voice echoed loudly, even if there was soundproof spell, it is possible that it may not work considering how loud Gravis shouted.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY NO BACK UP ?!! THEY NEED HELP !!" That was why he shouted so loudly, right, there was a demon, or what he think is a demon, which could ravage the city and yet... he didn't want to send any soldiers ? Just what was his problem ? Innocent will die if they didn't do anything, and the servants, Leona, Zayne, Shun, Rook, Tigger... what would happen to them ? What if they weren't strong enough ? What if... they died ?

"Gravis... Graaaavis... Gravis..! Gravis ! Gravis !" His voice seemed more and more enthusiactic, it terrified this soldier who suddenly felt cold sweat running on his skin, and falling quicker and quicker and quicker... the feeling he gave off was different than usual.
"...I."

"Weren't you supposed to be the so-called 'simple soldier' who apparently now can hit the desk of his superior, is almost giving orders... ah right, also, since when such a simple soldier has knowledge of magecraft... right right right, what do you think about that ? Fallen... Traitor. Related to Moira by some unknown links. Who know who you might be ? An ally ? A traitor ? An enemy ? An deserter ?" Gravis gulped, he has given many of his secrets to his old former friend, a peasant who raised from the ground to the sky, from the slums to the Guard Commander's room. Isn't it impressive ? Wasn't it... unique ? Somehow, he was a great figure.
He represented the people however he was far from being near to them, that was just a facade as he was selling weapons to outsiders to make money and gain more power for some unknown reasons once again. Both of them hid things, one because of fear, the other because of safety.

"..." He couldn't do anything as the door was closed, and now, he needed to stay hours with this... his... this person, not his friend, an individual that didn't have any links with him anymore. Yes, this friendship is now broken, like this city, this country.
Everything is now broken.

"...darn it... darn it.." He bit his lips. Leaned against the wall. Breathed roughly. Trembled from fear. Internally, he was crying out of pain. His family was... he preferred not to think about it. His friends were... non-existent. He had nothing.


----<Zayne PoV>
Zayne narrowed in his focus on that spot with discordant mana. It seemed the creature was using a lot of its mana on plugging a hole in its heart. A sword mark it looked like had stabbed the creature from behind in its heart before it transformed.

"GUYS ITS WEAKNESS IS ITS HEART! AIM FOR THE BACK WHERE IT'S SWORD WOUND IS!" Zayne started pouring mana into his glowing golden sword and if seemed to shimmer even more brightly.


----<Shu PoV>
I nodded, trying to catch up to the baphomet's large form. Rusty sword in hand and Lazarus behind me, I jumped onto the slime. His squishy body contracted and then expanded, launching me up. The sword wasn't magical, and had no chance at cutting into him, in a normal circumstance. But, it may be different if I swing into a partially open wound.

"!!?" The baphomet who just stand up from falling being slashed by the rusty sword,unlike the previous demon,the baphomet defense quiet a low one.

yet the baphomet didn’t want to yield yet as he reacted with a counterslash that crushing the rusty sword I hold.
"Any last word?" The baphomet tried to finishing me with a giant swing attack.

I clicked my tongue, holding a completely crumpled sword in my hand. "Can't even catch a break."
---- <Leona PoV>
"Those aren't his last words." I had finally arrived, taking my sword out and putting a bit more energy into it I attacked it's back.

"Che~"the baphomet grumbled when his attack interrupted.A moment later he noticed Zayne attempt to attack,the baphomet quickly rolling and force entering the nearby house...,then he quickly keep rushing and crushing house,He took a risky bet to escape.

As the fighting getting heated another nameless servant that carried unconscious Tigger body ranting "where's the reinforcement? We got a lot of injured person here!"


---- <Shu PoV>
"Thank you, Miss Leona!"
I jumped back, as his attention was moved somewhere else.
"Lazarus! Give me the daggers!"

I frowned, and began to chase. There still weren't any reinforcements, and who they had now wouldn't be enough, to much damage could be caused. Lazarus, jetting out water underneath him to move faster, followed close by, and spit out the daggers to me. "We have to take it out as soon as possible! The faster we do, the less damage will be done!"
In the back of my mind, I couldn't help but wonder if this demon was the real threat to the country. The wolf was definietly stronger, but he wouldn't lay down his pride and escape like this. This demon, was much more cunning, and probably more dangerous.

----
The chase didn’t last long yet as Shu and Zayne keep pursuing the baphomet,
Till at the end of the last house he crushed,he finally see the condition of his main objective...
Minister of defense base camp that been burned to the ashes. The death of (Minister of Defense) in his subordinates hand.
"I see....Crowfall finally we got our revenge" The baphomet slowly losing his strength as more blood dripping from the body and his mouth to payback his reckless move.
To the cultist it just secondary mission to easily penetrate the city,but to him and Duke crowfall it was everything they wish for... the death of the coward who hide the expedition result one year ago.

"Your prediction was right...this is the end" The baphomet muttered to himself as he know his last objective,to let his subordinates escape....
"Come kill me hunter!" He taunted Shu who following him.


----<Shu PoV>
I rush to the scene, expecting a rampaging demon, and instead I saw a roaring fire and a taunting behemoth. "...Come, kill you?" This was completely different from the other one. "...you aren't a summon, are you...."
----<Zayne PoV>
"Mhm, I missed. Good thing it doesn't consume the mana until I hit something with it." Zayne follows after Shu and witnesses the baphomet taunting Shu.

"DIE foul creature!" Zayne charges towards the creature and slashes making sure to keep it's movements in mind to adjust the trajectory of the swing.


----<Shu PoV>
I hadn't moved from my spot, still in shock at this. This rampaging creature had wantonly rushed through the city, killing anyone that got in its way, only to stop here and taunt? It came to see a burning building, and then fight?! What was the point then?! Of ALL THIS!?

"You...bastard..." None of those people had to die that way, none of this had to play out like this! It had barely been twenty minutes for god's sake! I could feel the rage building up in me, and I was watched Zayne. "You didn't even need to kill those people..."
----<Gerard PoV>
I took the sword slash with my hand to make sure the sword stuck inside my hand. "UGGHHH" such a violent attack. I tried to hold down a bit longer but it's no use the time is up.

Klang*
The stone in my head fall apart to the ground,and my transformation slowly gone...
I see the three of them who been cornering me shocked to see my real body. A mere young adult with lot of wound in his body,and to make it worse there is now 3 weapon that stuck in his body. Two in his back,one in his right hand.
"What's wrong?you can't kill human?" That was my last sight in this world...
My eyes now losing all it sight but i will stand in this darkness till the end of my lives.



---- <Shu PoV>

Zayne successfully sliced the baphomet head off, a moment later the body also fallen to the gound.


I frown at the now headless form of the man. At this point, all the rage and anger was just bubbling around, with no outlet in sight. I click my tongue and turn away. "...stupid. This entire situation was stupid...No one had to be killed by him..."

I grit my teeth, and walked away. "I'm going out of the city for a bit. I'll be at the public house when I get back..."
----
Meanwhile in the cultist headquarters....
"All 5 nobles who didn't support us already exterminated in the chaos,and the royal military is disorganized at the current moment everything going smoothly in our favour leader" one of the supreme being reported to the two leader of the cultist

"Mmm,Then let us pray for Gerard sacrifice for our greatest goal" One of the Leader smiling happily

After the meeting disbanded again,two of the supreme being having a private talk in one of their houses...


"Is this really fine?we lost Gerard you know? And of course Miltheo also in danger he already in wanted poster too" the tall hooded person talked to the slender hooded person who just sit down and watching the pond.


"Just a few hours before I received news that Miltheo chasing Crowfall killer" the slender said crucial news in casual tone


"You!? Why you didn't informed this in the meeting!"the tall yelled
"Impossible,High risk high return is his motto,instead of hiding he going to kill the killer, and robbed all Crowfall wealth that just got stolen for himself" the slender answered casually like everything wasn't their problem

"Seriously!? At this time? I am going to report to the leader" the tall going to leaves when his hand suddenly grapped by the slender.


"No risk high return... if Miltheo fail we can loot his wealth,if Miltheo succed we can blackmailed him for disobeying and get the Crowfall wealth"the slender told the evil scheme.


"Then what are you going to do with all this wealth if our main pillar crumbles ?" The tall a bit intrigued with the scheme.


"We can prepare a safety haven in case everything gone wrong"the slender answered


"You plan to double crosses us?" The tall enraged at the slender answer


"When you hear this you already partner in crime" The slender ended the conversation.

@Naraku @TiggerBane @Shafome @Raineternal @leegood
ooc: exact 3,2K word i coughed blood looking at the result.
ooc2: i merging some part to make the story looks more consistent

 

Non Mission: Fairy Forest

Spoiler: Slimes' Hunt

The amount of built up rage in me was about to explode as I walked through the partially ruined areas of the city. There were bodies everywhere, as people and guards ran about, trying to clean up the mess. Lazarus followed me closely, his formerly rather transparent color no an angry red. I gripped the two daggers in my hands, as I reached the city gate, and went beyond it. I didn’t understand this place. There was more to it, but I just, couldn’t understand this goddamn world!


Battle and killing could be understood. That happened back home. But...this, indiscriminate murder...for what? No goal. He wasn’t a killer, there just to kill, nor did he have any obvious goal! Why run to fulfill a goal, then stop in front of a burning building!


“...If that was me….If I saw my goal already completed like that…” It was the only answer that made sense. He saw his finish line already crossed, and accepted everything that would happen after.


(Master?)


Lazarus began to move faster, staying at my side.


“...I wouldn’t have stopped. He just...let all those that died, die without a reason or cause. They didn’t die, trying to stop a demon from its goal. They died, because they got in his way.”


If he rampaged more, attacking others, they would have died as those that fought against a demon that killed to destroy the country. This way...it felt as if they died for nothing. And that didn’t make sense. I went silent, trying to make sense of the events that occured. Eventually, I reached the Fairy Forest, and entered while Lazarus picked up various herbs into his body and deposited them into bag via spitting it out. Things he found that were poisonous however, were consumed. His body began to take on a strange shade of greenish blue, with the aspect of metal being abandoned due to circumstance.


The silent forest had once again been filled with Mana. Every breath I took, I could feel the energy around me. Almost like home. But only slightly.

“...I wonder...how Van and Iru are…”


A tree branch snapped, and the time for reminiscing vanished instantly. Lazarus’ consumption of the plants made his color change, and a slightly acrid odor began to emanate from him. A voice from behind us spoke out, startled. “Huk! Poison?!” I turned to see a thin man in cultist robes standing with his palm against his nose and face. And I couldn't help but grin.

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - The Golden River]

Spoiler: The Witches Under Raid part 1/2 {White Darkness }

<Rook past>
It's already a week since the snowstorm is getting heavier to the point reaching blizzard level...
To them is disaster, to me is a relief...
I hold my breath and dive in under a snow to make sure I avoiding contact with the passerby people...
When hunger make people blind,they stop being humane and only think about their own survival...
A few moments after they left,I camouflaged my white coat with this pure white world as I carried a round of cheese to them...
When I finally arrived at the church i going straight to the confessional room...
"Bishop Rook you're back" many little girl hugged me like i was their parents
What i see was the figure of sextuplets girl who waiting for my arrival...
These girl are all the last children left in this city when everything fall apart that day...
I cutted the cheese to six pieces and give it to them...
"It's time to eat dinner " i give it to them and take the crumbs of the cut for myself...
Sometimes they cried in their sleep why their parents abandoned them...
I just silently patting their head till the cries ended...

The blizzard finally ended when I fall asleep...
I proceed to scavenging food in early morning to find out the passerby yesterday killing each other...
"Is that you Bishop Rook"someone who still alive asked me...
"Yes" i reloaded my musket...
"Please end my suffering it's too painful to live"
Duor*
I walked to different routes and few hours later i found a few other people chatting in front of burned wood...
"Did you hear why those young couples still alive?"
"Yeah,you believe those cannibalism rumors?"
"Don't you think their children is doing the same like they do,i mean isn't that weird a six children can still alive when they kicked out from their parents house?"
I want to tell the truth that the couples hiding lot of food since they should be feeding six children before,but i am sure it will just put them in danger...
Then when i am going back not finding anything i saw a few people in front of the church and those girls being tied,some of them even bleeding...

"What the hell you guys doing" I didn't want to believed it,but i am know the madness of hunger already driving them insane...
"Those children hiding food!! They waste our precious food! Kill them!" Those nonsense bloomed the darkness inside me
Duar*Duar*
I killed everyone who tried to harm these children,blinded in rage i killed every survivor and those who come when heard the gunshot...
The white snow that been white turned into red color to wake me up from the white darkness...
Three of the sextuplets children died in their hand...
I just wiped the blood putting bandage to their dead body and put them in best coffin the church have...
when the three who still alive asked them if they're died i just answered...
"They're just sleeping till the darkest day end"
Then we run away from these places cause I'm sure there still dangerous threat to kill them

Yet in our escape another blizzard come again,and it's more rampant then the last one...
In empty shelter of abandoned house the four of us spent our last ransom...
Then two days passed without food,everyone lost it's strength,at this rate everyone going to die...
"Please survive,eat me"I suggested the final inhumane attempt to live
The three cried but they understood my intentions...
"I missed mom food"
"I am so hungry"
"I am so hungry"
"We are sorry"
They cried while i hold the pain as they chewed my body,my hand still patting them till my last breath.
---------
<Foggy Swamp [R.C.B mansion] - Morning |Rook PoV>
I just hugged and patted my wife Raine,we didn't sleep last night at all,we just stayed enjoying a moment just for the two of us.I putted my clothes that just been cleaned with her spell,and preparing myself to going work.
Klack*
The opened door hit me and i fall dawn like a victim that being stripped before rape happen,Cecillia that opened the door looking down of my body she sighed in disgust "heeee... i didn't know you're a masochist type" (bad luck of the day succeed)

"Put your clothes quickly,there's emergency request!!" She grabbed her broomstick and tell me to ride it with her,while Raine opened the balcony as soon she heard Cecillia instruction.

Looks like i need to race against time in this mission...

 

Non Mission: Fairy Forest

Spoiler: Slimes' Hunt Pt. 2

The cultist frowned at my grinning figure and jumped back into the forest, his hand swinging to form a glyph. But, my own bubbling anger wouldn't allow that. I threw the dagger in my left hand at him, and then rushed him. The cultist dodged the dagger, but the real danger was too close to escape. I ran through the half drawn glyph in the air, and swung my fist at his face.

A thump came out, as my fist sunk into his nose breaking it. Lazarus jumped forward from behind me, coiling around his legs preventing him from struggling. The slime slowly released poison onto the cultist, which began to see through his pores and into his bloodstream. I backed away, watching the proceedings before getting an idea.
"Lazarus you keep him there. When a new person comes, I'll lay into them next."
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For the next 2 hours the constant wailing of my victims attracted more cultists that then became beaten bloody and tied up. I was still pissed, and had considered killing them, but then thought that the guards could try and get information out of them. I wasn't in the mood to try and question them, so I just broke bones as I wished, and anything that looked serious was given minor first aid. If anyone died, it wasn't my problem. There were already at least 15 cultists laid out on the ground. One less wouldn't be a problem.

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - The Golden River]

Spoiler: The Witches Under Raid part 2/2 {Red Claw Battalion}

<Golden River [Miltheo cargoship] - Morning |Miltheo PoV>
Those foolish people really can't see the bigger picture of the Crowfall incident,although myself know the source by pure luck investigating burned carriage residue in the Neverending Forest, it wasn't that hard to draw the conclusion a fire spell from caster attacking Crowfall carriage,then Duke Crowfall himself got assassinated,next is me and Gerard wanted poster is spread in the city.
The conclusion of course is simple the culprit is Caster who sided with the minister of defense "Cecillia Angrayu the former minister of defense assistant"

Speaking of her of course i keep reminded how strong her resistance going to be,after all she is the top witches in Foggy Swamp. So i already transformed to my holy demon form <OGRE>, even my strength is lot weaker than Gerard <BAPHOMET> i have special power too summon lots of minion, 30 orcs and 100 goblins is already enough,and if case thing go wrong,i prepared my cultist squad that protecting me as last resort.

For now,i just watching a few spark of witch spell being shot,and the cries of my minion.It won't be long till she got captured and i will lead the squad to grab the foggy swamp resources,Crowfall stolen treasure,everything going to become mine.
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<Foggy Swamp - Morning >

There's two figure of female hunter that using spear type weapon,it was Trident and Glaive user,both of them skillfully slaying many orcs and goblin,yet there's no sign of monster wave end for them.
"Xiao,you escort the witches into the shelter,my master already secured that area"Arune ordered preparing to hold on a few more wave of goblin.
"affirmative" the glaive user named Xiao confirmed her new objective.

meanwhile in the foggy swamp shelter there's few witches and wizard resting their wand,while a figure of woman with demonic wing striking from the sky using a longsword,and a knight charging to the enemy with empty hand until suddenly claymore appeared from her hand and slashed the orc into two pieces.
"big sister i did it~"Ravenia enjoyed her first job as part of the family
"good job!"Viona also finishing a few goblin with quick clean swing to their head.
"thank goodness we saved"the old wizard with tattered cloak giving his gratitude.
"everyone already reach here?"Viona sheathed her sword as all the hostile monster already slayed
"the only one who didn't reached here is madam Fina from the southern swamp"the little witches counted all the witch and wizard already gathered in the shelter.

a moment later an old lady running to them with lot of sweat that ruined her make up...
"oh no! madam Fina turned into undead"the little witches exclaimed
"SHUT UP!! hufh hufh i almost raped by those savage orcs you know"madam Fina arrived with Xiao and a few golem that escorting her.
everyone there silently tried to hold their laughter...
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<Golden River [Miltheo cargoship] - Morning | Miltheo PoV>

"IMPOSSIBLE!!" i denied that most of my minion already wiped out...
"give me a scope!!" i ordered my crew
a cultist quickly run to the deck and returning with a scope,then i looked to the swamp situation...

i see my orc been hunted by two witches that working together,i looked to different spot and i see a hunter that easily killing few goblin,then lastly i looked into the shore i saw a woman hunter stabbing her rapier to the sea,then everything changed into brown color....
"huh!?"i looked away from my scope when noticed a sudden appearance of battleship in front of me...
am i dreaming?the witches should be a kind of person who only care about their own little territory not working together like this,and they should be shunned since the last year expedition failure,yet why there's still people working for them,and lastly a ship? a rider class?

BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
they bombard me without mercy! my ship won't last long i shouted to my cultist crew "TO THE SHORE MOVE FASTER!!"
BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
another round of bomb shell flying to my ship....
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<Golden River shore - Noon>
two witches still flying and killing any cultist that been spotted swimming in the river,while in the shore there's a burned cargo ship and a lot of cultist burned corpse,there's also an upper body of ogre that already on the verge of dying...
"you shouldn't make a 'berserker' going mad you know?"the musketeer walking closely to the ogre body prepared to slain the demon.
DOR*
a clean headshot to the head,then a moment later there's a mana flowing from the ogre death body yet it quickly contained inside a bottle that labeled with many seal letter by the musketeer.
the lancer beside the musketeer then grab her lance that been stuck in the demon chest.
"now,what you going to do with that 'tracker'"Lily asked Rook
"it still incomplete,Cecillia just make it so the mana is quickly crushed and no intel of our location sent back to them"Rook replied
"then what should we do? wait for another attack?"Lily asked the next question
"no,this time i am going to search another intel and plan to headhunt the leader"Rook prepared a teleportation stone
"then i am going too~"Lily grabbed Rook other hand while Rook in the middle of crushing the stone...
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<Golden City [R.C.B mini house] - Noon |Rook PoV>
"Lily~ you did it again" i sighed
"hehe now it's our date time,after all seeing you doing it with Raine make me a bit jealous"Lily push me down to the bed.
"it's the second round for the second wife~"she hugged me not letting me go.
"no it's going the three of us"Raine suddenly appeared while make a pouting face.
"fufu,you're really a jealous type"Lily giggled
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ooc: it's funny in my opinion how miltheo mistake conclusion lead to almost correct target.

 

OOC : Well I hope don't have any problem like before

Spoiler: Cultist in Fairy Forest

<Din POV>

'So this is the so called hunter board huh?'

- Knock Knock -

"Nothing special at all, made by wood but harder by normal wood. So, let's check the task there."

- After 10 minutes -

"Damn, I don't know any of the place mention there at all, I only know Foggy Swamp name but still I don't know where it is.."

Feeling slumped, I decided to go to the merchant to check out some item.

I walked toward the merchant area and were bumped by some bear like fella.

"Hey kiddo, how dare you bump into me!"

The bear like guy extend his hand and grab me by my shoulder then he thrown me toward the wall. The shock of the impact is too great and it cause me to faint.

.........

"What a wimpy, just a throw and he's out. Hey Skinny, you and Baldies bring this trash and trashed him at Fairy Forest. Make sure he is trashed for real, understood?"

He glare at his two henchman and both of them shiver from his glare. They didn't dare to be disobedient to their big brother word. Both of them hurriedly bought the poor guy into Fairy Forest and dump him there. After that, Skinny put out some item nearby the poor guy. Then he left following Baldies.

After dumping the guy, the Baldies look uneasy. His eyes keep going right and left.

"Hey, Baldies what's wrong with you?" Sensing his uneasiness, Skinny ask him a question.

"No, not really just I am afraid if that guy will be dead there and won't it become our fault?" Telling his uneasiness make the Baldies a bit better.

"Haha, don't worry I already expected this. That's why I left some useful thing for that guy there," Skinny proudly told his righteous did to Baldies.

"Is that so? Haha you are so smart Skinny. Come let us enjoy some beer in the tavern later." Baldies beam with smile after hearing skinny explanation. Both of them return to town later walking happily.

............

- Some time later -

<Din POV>

"Ouchh, my head so painful.."

"What the hell is wrong with that bear guy, suddenly attacking people." After the pain becoming tolerable, I sat up and check my surrounding. The unfamiliar scene caused me to blank for a moment.

"Where the hell is this?" My mind scream that question loudly not expecting anyone to answer it. I spotted a cloth bag in the distance and some writing 'THIS IS FAIRY FOREST' nearby. Inside it I found a dagger, worn map, some food ration and water-bag. I take all the item there, the dagger I hide at my back, and I store the other in my pocket farm.

After that I produce some purple herb from my farm and grind it. After that I fill all vial with purple herb powder and add some water into it. Lastly, I close the vial with a cork and put them in the slot of my belt.

Using the map, I tried to find my back to the city. During this time, I spotted a suspicious guy wearing black cape moving stealthily.

"If I'm not mistaken there is task on board about some cultist and from Rook story, the city were attacked too before,"

My mind keep telling me that's dangerous but if I don't brave the dangerous scene how could I growth stronger. In the end, I decided to follow the mysterious guy.

The mysterious guy traveled the forest like it is his own backyard and I as the secret spy is having a hard time following him.

'Damn, if I know this place is like this, I swear I won't follow him here," I keep cursing in my mind how treacherous the path is.

When he arrived at a hollow tree, he start chanting something. I tried to move closer to hear what he spoke but accidentally step on a twig break it.

- Priackkkkkk -

The sound of the twig broken caused the mysterious guy to stop his doing and paid attention to his surrounding.

"Damn, I'm so unlucky isn't it." I keep complaining in my mind
about the misfortune that I had.

Suddenly, the mysterious man start chanting and a fireball flew toward my direction. I hastily dodged the fireball and started my run. Seeing me fleeing is making the mysterious man excited he started chasing me while chanting and blasting me with fireball.

I run toward a big boulder and hide behind it. Sensing that, he had lost me, the mysterious man moved slowly and carefully. Using the time, I take out two of my purple vial and use all of it fluid to create a magic circle on the ground. By using same type of liquid the light it emit will be intensified but there won't be any other effect other than bright light.

After that, I hide myself in the bush nearby. The mysterious man sensing the sudden increment of light coming from the boulder become nervous. He thought the guy he's chasing is channeling a strong magical skill. He chant a fireball and rushed toward the brightly lit area and blasted it.

Seeing, the guy blasting the area I quickly cast my blink skill and I appeared behind him and stabbed him in the neck. Negating him any chances for casting magic.

After confirming the mysterious guy death, I take all his belonging with me. It seem that guy kinda poor and he didn't have much valuable at all. I remove my tattered clothes and wear all his belonging. Luckily our stature doesn't differ much and I can easily wear his clothes.

Finished my arrangement, I take out the map and start to find my way back to the city. I traveled for about two hour and reach the city gate.

Reflecting back at my action, I really need to train my body stronger. So, I won't run into situation like that anymore. Then, I stepped on and enter the city back. I really going to have a good night sleep now.

Spoiler: Item get

Black cape - Common cape sell in any city
Leather shoe - Common shoe sell in any city
Chain mail - Common chain mail sell in any city
Leather shirt - Common shirt sell in any city
Leather pant - Common pant sell in any city

 

Non Mission: Fairy Forest

Spoiler: Slimes' Hunt Pt. 3

By the time I calmed down, and knocked out the last cultist, there were around 20 people on the ground. My fists were bloody and raw, after connecting against jaws and breaking ribs. There was a faint metallic sheen on them, my bloodline helping me. I took a deep breath, the cool forest air pushing past the bloody scent of the ground. I was sweating quite a bit, and the cool air made me shiver a bit.
(Master, it is late. We should return.)
Lazarus' worried voice echoed in my mind, and I nodded in response. The slime rolled over the cultists, absorbing the excess blood and, almost kindly, covered their wounds in what seemed to be a light layer of red matter. I ignored it, not really caring how much effort Lazarus put in to keep them alive. If you fought, you should be prepared to die. You can be afraid and fight against the consequences all you want. But, everyone I knew back home, were of the same opinion. I picked up some of the more interesting looking items they had, like what seemed to be a black wooden staff, and a few more daggers and cloaks, before tying them up with some vines that were around in the forest. Lazarus lay underneath them, to give them a sort of smooth ride, as I began walking back to the City, my rage subsiding. Though, I needed a shower considering I was covered in blood, and vomit from the ones that couldn't take a beating.

OOC: @Clozdark ..shu's not evil...he's just pissed. Also, back in his original world, for those of you that didn't get it, the people were of the opinion that if you attack, expect retribution. If you kill, expect to be killed.

 

Non Mission: Fairy Forest

Spoiler: Slimes' Hunt Finale

The silence in the forest was comfortable. I walked infront of Lazarus, who was spread out carrying the cultists. My anger had completely subsided, and I looked around the vast greenery, taking in the sights. The forest was beautiful and full of small life. I caught glances of birds flitting through the trees, small animals scampering about and a pair of...translucent wings?
???: "So, you're the one that was going on a rampage, huh?"
In front of me, was a young boy in white clothing, a robe probably. Two translucent wings were sprouting from his back, and the glare that he gave wouldn't scare a fly. I looked at him, slightly surprised, before smiling. (Master, I am confused. Why is a Fairy, here?)
Boy: "What do you mean, why am I here, slime? I live here, ya brutes!"
(...he is quite rude...)
Boy: "OI!"
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While Lazarus and the Fairy began bickering, I looked the floating child up and down. He was almost completely the same as the fairies back home, so my curiosity was peaked.
"Hey, Fairy, what is your name? It will be annoying to say fairy everytime I go to speak." I decided to act on my own curiosity before returning to the city, and the boy apparently didn't mind.
Boy: "You can call me Len, Brutish Slime."
(Master, just fight him.)
I ignored Lazarus, and nodded.
"Well, Len, care to speak for awhile? I have some questions about this place."
Len: "Fine. As long as you answer my own."
"Of course." I sat down before continuing. "So, let's get started."
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We spoke for a while, about the state of things and other topics.
By the end, I organized all the information I learned.
In order of my importance, it was in this order.

1. Len nor any of the fairies he knew had any solid information on why or how I got here, nor about my world.
2. A strange instance is in the Forest, bringing people to another area outside of the Fairy's control. I believe it may have something involved with how I was brought to this world.
3. The cultist's in the Fairy Forest were planning to use stray servants they allied with for a plan they had.
4. A group of stray servants were going around the forest, trying to stop the cultists, but didn't like the Golden City for whatever reason.

I told Len about my situation, and what the cultists were doing, such as the summon and the baphomet. After hearing more about the influx of servants in the world, he decided to grant me a gift.
Len: "I will give you something to aid you, when you are here in the Fairy Forest." He proceeded to take a wilting branch off of a tree and infuse a white energy into it. It slowly molded into something akin to a small bar of wood and he handed it to me. "From what you have told me, you should be able to absorb this." He was about to hand it to me, before stopping. "But. You must investigate the instance in the Forest. After that, the Fairies will recognize you as an ally."
I nodded, having planned to do so anyway when I was more prepared. Accepting the gift, Len turned around and seemed to disappear into the woods.
"...thank you, Len. I won't betray your trust."
Finally, I turned and began to head out of the forest towards the city Lazarus still carrying the cultists.

OOC: Welp, this is finally done with. I can go do stuff again. Also, since I didn't really see anyone else introduce them, I might just be blind, the introduction of Fairies! @Naraku

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - The Neverend Forest]
Collab party: Rook,Lily,Din

Spoiler: Conflict Prosperity

<Neverending Forest – Evening>

Disturbing the wind sound a single carriage running speed ahead to the Neverending Forest, When the forest almost in sight Rook saw a giant smoke inside the forest.
"looks like we got company"Rook slowing down the carriage not too far from the forest just in case they need an escape plan.

Watching the smoke,Din could not help but agree with what Rook has said.
"Based on the situation right now, they are at least dozen of them in there. So, do you have any plan in mind?" Din asked toward Rook who just stopped the carriage.

<Rook PoV>

I looked into death body of few cultist that killing each other,
"Let just scout till we arrive in the base, and stay off under their sight!"


I quickly put up a dark mantle to cover Lily and myself,
"Time to move" I quickly running to the forest.

"Yeah, let's go”, quickly donning his cape. The three of us move stealthy inside the forest.

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At that time the cultist under Miltheo is being takedown by another cultist group lead by a slender lady...

"Damn it, f**k you Miltheo" the lady screaming not founding anything worth to robbed in his base that already in her control.

Then she found a chest,she shake it a bit but it wasn’t sound of metal like ingots, or jewel..

“Why the hell all the chest can’t be opened !” the lady tried to open by throwing it to the ground yet it won’t open

"My lady,all the resistance faction already captured" one of her lackey reported...

"I am going there! I need them to spit out where all his money gone!" The lady walked to the outside of the base that almost most of it already burned down to the ground.

Inside the forest, three dark silhouette can be seen moving following a bloody trail almost reach the place.

<Rook PoV>

"By the way, to increase the success chance, I thought we will need to know each other abilities. So, I'll start with my abilities first. I can be a support or fighter during a fight. By the way, I can hasten the rate of regeneration of any of you too and I'm a sharpshooter." Din said

"Uwaa...i thought i won't become frontline alone this time"Lily sulking hearing about Din hunting class

"As you can see i am a gunner class servant,and she is a lancer class servant"i take out my musket,while Lily raising her lance.

"Fufu,don't you know a gunner is a sub class of archer servant but it so rare in this world,you're the fourth person i ever seen in gunner class since coming to this world 1.5 years ago" Lily making a pose like veteran teaching rookie.

As Lily tried to show off, I heard a yelling sound…

"Lily,Din... i heard something" I stopped my pace and slowly taking a peek of what happen in the base from our high ground positions.

What we see is a sight of a lady in white robe kicking down a cultist who being tied.
Looks like the fight there already finished with her side winning the battle.I can use this opportunity to take her out.

"Din,i need you too circling from another side,when you arrive there shoot that lady in the head,then we will take them out from two side,Lily you're doing the usual protect me from any ambush" I ordered the execution...

<Din PoV>

"Roger that, boss," I quickly move to the other side and then taking my gun from the pocket herb farm.

I hide behind some tree and start to aim at the lady. After a breathe time passes a hissing sound was heard.

- Hissssssssssss -

The red bullet flew directly toward the head of the lady and it hit her directly. Weirdly, there is no blood splattering happen there.

Rook who watched it thought inside his mind, "did he miss the shot?" Before he could said anything, he saw the head of the lady melting and then the lady body fall to the ground.

- Thud -

Silent permeated the area.

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"My lady!!" A high pitched scream come out...
A headless body fallen to the ground, and every cultist that standby there turned into hysteria.

Not giving a chance a sudden gunshot also followed them...

Dzing*Dzing*
Each bullet penetrate a few body leaving only 8 cultist left including the tied one...

"Ambush! Prepare to...." before one of the cultist finished saying he already stabbed by lance,the lancer figure didn't stop after that,she continued rushing,stabbing another cultist,keep pilling it and make skewer out of cultist body's.

Then slowly a figure of hooded musketeer came,he sheated two of his musket,and taking out a sword from his waist, "fireball" he chanted and the trio tied cultist slowly burned alive in agony...

"Ahh..."
"Save us!"
"Hwaaaa....."

"No I don't want to die here!" The last cultist standing running straight into Din position...

"Din it's all yours..." The Musketeer left the final blow to Din.

Sensing the fear emanating from the cultist, the demonic force inside Din body churned. Purple smoke, coming out from the crystal embedded on Din chest. The smoke congealed itself into demonic being and the demon leap toward the cultist and devour him fully.

"Ahhhh ~~ So delicious, to think that I would be able to devour such a high quality emotion this quick, I'm satisfied already. It has been more than thousand years I haven't feed on such high quality dish. You should try to find more and feed me more too." The demon lodge satisfaction and complaint simultaneously toward Din.

Seeing the demon manifest itself, Din quickly turn toward the other two and start to introducing 'it' to the other.

"Well, this guy here also a part of me and he can sometime acted like that. So, please no offense and for you, don't just manifest yourself suddenly it may bring trouble in the future."

"Okay, now all of them settle let's continue our hunt," Din urged Rook and Lily to moved.

<Rook PoV>

Looking at the demon appearance back then me and Lily can't hold our mischievous laugh...
"fufufu"
"kekeke.... ah sorry...sorry...my bad,looks like i can get along with that thing inside you"

then i walk into the lady corpse and strips her chest to find the cultist tattoo...
it was there and an important rank one...

"ok Din,since most of the hunt here is already done,we just need to transport that corpse and going back..."

"But before call it a day,these lady is having a high bounty,and over that tent there's a chest from my target" i showing him a key from my previous hunt then i continue explain the deal...

"what do you think the best thing to split the deal?
1. you take the lady bounty,me and Lily take that chest
2. we split all the result and open the chest right here,if the chest result was bad don't change the deal"
i give him two choices.

<Din PoV>

Hearing the answer from Rook and Lily, a smile appear on my face.

"To tell the truth it doesn't matter at all. You see I can get free food and free room in this place. So, worldly desires is of no value to me but since you already offering like that to me, it would be rude if I doesn't take anything at all. So, I'll choose option 2."

Telling them his option Din then activate his demonic force and absorb back the demon into the crystal on his chest.

<Rook PoV>

"i see"then i walked into the tent,plug the key in the treasure chest,and open it...
What we saw there was just a chest full of paper,mostly it consist of black market trading record,yet in the end of document it there's a big paper,it was the cultist route money laundering scheme paper,lastly behind the paper it lies Miltheo private diary.

"uwaaa.... Rook you really shouldn't open the chest"Lily ridiculed my bad luck.
"i am sorry...sigh*...since i still needing a lot of intel about the cultist,i am taking the black market trading record and his private diary,you can have the rest "i handed to Din 'money laundry scheme paper'

after that i grab back where my bullet pellet end up,then burned all the corpse after taking some of it belonging,lastly i burned the rest of base before leaving the area.

<Din PoV>

Seeing the loot inside the chest, I couldn't help but agree with Lily. His luck is very, very, very bad. Still, since he's well off (with two wife), there is no need to console him. Better I pour some salt onto his wound.

"Well, I guess this will conclude our hunt today. So let's get the free lodging and food." I stash all the loot I get into the pocket herb farm.

"This tool is really handy now, it can also serve as storage space. I gotta upgrade it capacity later since my magical force had also gotten stronger," finish murmuring in my mind I follow them back to the carriage.

<Rook PoV>

The carriage moving smooth and fast,from far away i can see the glittering candle light of the city,looks like it’s good time to disband the party.when the carriage almost arrived in the Golden city gate, i drop off Din and the lady corpse then i say my parting word...


"i am going back to my home in foggy swamp,see you again later"I waved my goodbye


"Rook don't tell me we going to stay all night inspecting those document..." Lily gazed into the treasure chest that contain lot of paper...


"yup"i answered and riding back the carriage to the west direction.

<Din PoV>

"Okay , see ya later, I'ma grab my free food fast," I then waved toward their back that's start to disappearing.

Then walking and humming along the away toward the public house

"Free food, free food, free food~"

@MrS4n @Naraku @Exitiumm

Spoiler: hunt result

Hunt result:
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Rook & Lily pair result
- 50 pieces of black market trading record paper.
- Miltheo private Diary
- Miltheo private key
- 5 pieces of cultist blade
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Din result
- Lady corpse that contain higher rank cultist tattoo
- 14 pieces of cultist blade ( one eaten by Din demon)
- money laundry scheme paper

ooc: soon i will write the opinion from the cultist leader

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Golden City ]

Spoiler: Obstructing Summon Circle

<Golden City {Dockside Sewer} - Midnight | Ula PoV>

'To bribed someone,First you need to learn the art of forced deal'

My name is Ula {the Corrupter} servant of caster class.
My noble phantasm was {Weakness Link} i can see a person weakness,but it can only be activated once a day.
with that ability i rise to the top rank in this organization by blackmailing and converting many noble into Moira cult.
Maybe people think my noble phantasm was a good cheating method,but actually it was hard,i need to look into the target eyes directly beforehand for one minute,this is where my little artifact playing a big role {Syringe of Abyss} a special syringe that never forget the liquid inserted to it, i created many good drug to it,especially paralysis one,once injected the rest of my mission is easy, just silently staring them like a Medusa who petrified their target.

I really glad when that lady bring me to this organization before,now it's feels like i regret joining it.
Everything gone wrong,and now since that lady death it's my task to guard this sewer as the last strongest subordinate.
seriously?my abilities need a clear sight! yet you put me in the dim of rotten darkness ? what the hell i can do?
are all this loss clouded their judgement?

cklack*
i heard a sound that i most familiar with,it's the way i died as drug lord in the previous world...
"you gotta be kidding me,an archer class who using gun out of everything"
that's was my last word...
ptarr*
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<Golden City {Dockside Sewer} - Midnight | Rook PoV>
ptarr*
i shot once more time to make sure he was death.
Looking at the tall man death body,looks like i made the correct decision to follow the trail drawn in the back of Miltheo diary.
then i searched the tall man death body and found my bullets and an elegant crafted syringe,i am sure it was his artifact so i keep it in my pocket.
"everything clear Lily" i make small gesture for Lily to follow me.

then we continued our journey to the deeper part of the sewer that still under construction.
what we found there was a giant magic circle, and a few children in the cage...
That's right,a pure innocent children,every time i looked into them i remember how beautiful those girl sleeping in the coffin like a pure doll.
ah right, they're in cage,they won't run away...

Klang*
"Don't worry,the cavalry already here"Lily crushed the cage with her lance.
"Lily !"i cried,at this rate she going to rescue them and i lost such high quality doll...
"kura vava makarada"the little girl she saved speaking in different country language...
"miaya miaya"other little children screamed while hitting the cage.
a foreigner children trafficking? good it's not too late i will convince Lily to hand the little children as my doll.
"Rook can i keep them?"she hugged the little girl
No,she will do it,the strongest charm to make me guilty..
"please?after all it's my first chosen daughter"she make a puppy eyes ~
i nodded surrender to my defeat...

After cleaning the summon circle drawing with sewer water,me and Lily guided the children to our carriage outside the city.
The almost empty carriage now filled with children who i can't understand,is this my bad luck of the day?i bring them into the Foggy Swamp.

Spoiler: Hunt result

- 20 foreigner children
- artifact: Syringe of Abyss

@Naraku @Raineternal @Shafome @leegood @MrS4n

 

Spoiler: Dungeon in the Fairy Forest Pt. 1

When I finally got the chance to leave the General Store, I immediately left the Golden City and headed towards the Fairy Forest. The trek was normal at this point, and Lazarus would often point out various inconsistencies that he noticed, such as stray footprints or certain areas that have a bit more mana than the others until we reached it. Almost immediately, the normally rather jumbled looking forest cleared up, and a familiar looking fairy floated out of the trees. His yellow hair and white cloak made him look like a child magician, but the wings from his back gave away his real identity.

Len: "Yo, Brutish Slime, and Rude Slime. It is good to see you back so soon." Though his words were kind of rude, the tone was friendly, and he really did seem happy from our appearance. "I asssume you came to check out the instance?"

I nodded in response, as Lazarus rolled up to him. (Hello, Len. Have you gotten any ruder in the past two days?) "No, Slime. Have you gotten any more likable? Cause I don't see it." Ignoring the growing conflict between the two, I pulled out the wood block that I was given, and Len glances at me. "Why haven't you absorbed it yet?"

"I'll wait until after I check out the instance. You aren't coming with us, are you?" I was curious, mostly because if it was an area outside of their control, he would have a harder time using his abilities. Len: "No, of course not, idiot. I'd just be unnecessary baggage." He stopped his argument with Lazarus, and instead floated over to my shoulder. "Now then, follow me. It frequents one area in particular, so if you are looking to check it out, it would be better over there."

OOC: I'm feeling pretty lazy right now, so I'm gonna finish this in a couple of parts. Just posting each part seperately, so I actually write it.

 

Spoiler: Dungeon in the Fairy Forest Pt. 2

Len took point, as he led Lazarus and I deeper into the Fairy Forest. The trees crowding around us slowly gave way to an open clearing with bushes and trees spread about. Len stopped, and turned back to us.

Len: "It should appear around here. Now, Brutish Slime, let me go over what us fairies know about it once more. First of all, after you enter you can leave almost immediately. The instance moves around either 24 or 48 times a day. Either once an hour, or every half hour. This was found after having stationed someone to watch it for a few days after it appeared. We aren't certain if it moves when someone is inside, but we expect it to. Other than that, we don't know anything." He stops, looking at us to see if we understood all the information. "Well, good luck. And, try not to die." Having told us all we needed to know, he floated off back into the forest, to do whatever it was that he felt like.

(Master. We are only doing a quick scouting, right?) Lazarus rotated, while sounding worried. I glanced at him, before nodding. While I finally had my new equipment, I didn't plan on going through it too much yet. After all, we had to find the thing first.

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I was getting tired. Lazarus and I had been walking around this clearing for 3 hours, searching for any signs it had even been here recently. For a second, I considered whether or not Len was playing a trick on me, but while Fairies could be mischevious, they were also known for their honesty when it comes to their home. It wasn't impossible, but I doubted that I was tricked.

(MASTER!) Interrupting my thoughts, Lazarus let concerned thought, and began quickly rolling away from my side. I swung my head in his direction, where a large crack in space was forming. It began opening up, revealing an ominous black void behind it, as the world itself seemed to be rejecting it's existence. And, it was eerily similar to what brought me here.

"Lazarus! We're going in, but we aren't staying long!" I rushed over to the speeding slime, and we both went through the cracked space to enter a black void. It was strange, the blackness being both warm and chilly, and felt as though I was swimming through a deep pond. I took a tentative breath, feeling air go into my lungs. Lazarus seemed to float, not being able to move as efficiently as usual. However, just as suddenly as the crack appeared, a dark room formed around us. Instantly, I turned around to see a crack back into the outside world sitting there, and I sighed. As long as we could leave, there wasn't much to worry about.

It was made of what seemed to be cobblestone, and it was completely smooth, with nothing to be seen. A room leading to an exit, and a hallway in front of us. Up through the hallway, there was a faint light, but barely enough to see by. I strained my ears, to see if there was anything moving, but it was completely silent. No rush of air, even though I could breathe, no sound of flickering flames. Just silence.

"Alright, Lazarus. We aren't exploring everything, but we are taking this seriously. Be on your guard, and if you think something is wrong, let me know immediately." The blue-green slime quivered in recognition, before taking a completely spherical shape. I took off the buckler shield strapped to my back and gripped the mace. Getting into a battle ready stance, we slowly advanced up through the dark room. When we reached the edge of the room, and stood before the entrance to the hallway, Lazarus stopped. (Master, something feels wrong here.)

"What is it? A trap?"
(It isn't a trap exactly, but it isn't normal. It is like, suffocating, or consuming? I'm...not too sure.)

I nodded, looking around for anything I could test the hallway with. There were no loose stones in the room, so I gave up and Lazarus shot a bit of water onto the floor. But, nothing happened, and it just seemed to sit there. I frowned, but we couldn't leave with so little information. Taking a small step, I walked into the hallway waiting for the floor to sink or something, but it never came. We proceeded about halfway through the hallway before I felt something change.

(Master!) "I know." It was similar to the tournament back home. It wasn't suffocating or consuming, more like restricting. I felt my body for any changes, until I noticed the biggest one. My entire inventory had disappeared. I swung around too make sure the exit was still there, and in the middle of the room was my bag, and what seemed to be a large puddle of water next to the wall.

We returned to the room, and I picked up my bag, while Lazarus reabsorbed all the water that was somehow completely removed from his body. This place took our things and made us come back to get them... If it was similar to the tournament, everytime you entered, you would lose something different...

OOC: And so the dungeon is entered!

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Foggy swamps]

Spoiler: Diabolical Guardian part 1 {Beware of the swamp}

<Rook PoV>
What children can do in foreign land?
Without any connection to lead them into home,they've been brought here by force.
Maybe my wife Lily did a good thing when she release them from the cage,
Then after that,what they able to do next?
Language they didn't understand,belonging that only worth for pocket money,
it just matter of time before they got kidnapped again,why i didn't seize the opportunity for myself then?
But i am not that cold blooded,so we put the children under Cecillia Angrayu territory witches,
Xiao will train them,Niel and madam Fina will teach them language,
It just investment for future asset,yet just in case they showing sign of potential threat there's no mercy.
i hope Lily was right,especially those 3 girls she choose to adopt.
....kling*kling*
i heard the alarm trap sound,looks like the threat already come.
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<Foggy swamps {Angrayu Territory} - Morning 4 AM| Cultist unknown rider PoV>
any servant who come to this world more than one year ago they must heard the news when the 'witch hunt' happen, there's two mercenary group fighting each other as the core force how the 'witch hunt' going to end, the defending side is <Red Claw Battalion> remain members who siding to protect the witch, and from the attacking side is <Thousand Hand> remaining 400 members who contracted by those who want to hunt the witch and foggy swamp resources.
15 vs 400 it's probably an obvious choice in the beginning,but the victor is <Red Claw Battalion>.

How much of them survive those battle one year ago? are there new recruit?
I hope they don't have new member,i want this mission to end up quickly and getting nice promotion.
Then as i step myself and my crew into this dense swamp i sense a devil starring at me naked...
"f*ck"
Ctar*tar*tar*tar*
"Ox cart!!" i shouted my noble phantasm
tak*ctew*tuak*ctiw*tar*
"uoooo" my ox screamed to their last breath...
"uagghhh...."my stomach....something penetrate it....my body is bleeding a lot....but it's not time to fall down even i must sacrifice my sole noble phantasm we must push forward....
"everyone attack!!"....there's no response?then i looked into my back and i see a woman...holding a lance in her hand.... that filled with my crew corpse...then in her back... i see something like spider hand...that also stabbing few of my crew head....
"ha...haha....what the hell is that...."
tar*

ooc: i give the previous hunt children fate and a few insight about my character background

 

[ Limited Missions : Cultist - Foggy swamps,Golden River,Golden City]

Spoiler: Diabolical Guardian part 2 { Let Them Snitch }

<Golden River Shore>
two person was waiting for their comrade to going back from doing their missions,they were sean brothers the ship captains of local fisherman in golden city,cultist main suppliers of food.
used to be in the sea and waiting for fish hitting the bait,both of them patiently waiting for their comrade that never come back,Fortunately their enemy send someone to deal with them,so they don't wasting their time waiting for nothing...

"good work Xiao" the musketeer come to sean brother who already knocked out
Xiao just quietly nodded and know what the musketeer going to do with them,so what she doing right now is tying them in the ground and waiting for the main attraction...
The musketeer holding a syringe from his pocket,sean brother expression turn sour knowing what that little injector can do...
"bastard,so you were the killer of Ula" the little brother replied...

But the musketeer don't replying back,he just injected the syringe into the other one who also don't talk the big brother...
"ughh....my head....my head splitting..."
Then the musketeer prepared something unexpected...the cultist dagger!
"remember this word....you're useless to the cult and need to be punished....you're useless to the cult and need to be punished..."the musketeer whispered to the half conscious big brother over and over while highlighting the slow dagger movement like chanting a hypnosis to him.

Looking at the subject already focused in the dagger movement,the musketeer quickly robbing away the live of the little brother in front of him using the dagger,then the musketeer laughed in his trance as shouting the seal of the hypnosis to him....
"you're worthless pawn,it's time to throw you away from my sight..."
rage build up to the big brother as he shouted the leader name that he should be devoted like a livestock...
"good...the name same with Miltheo and Corv diary...so it was true he was the main culprit" the musketeer conclude his hypothesis beforehand.
"Xiao protect the swamp....i am going to report this thing right now"the musketeer end his speak as he crushed the teleportation stone...
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<Golden City {Central Plaza} - Morning 4:15 AM| Rook PoV>
Leaving my house,i carried the hypnotized cultist to Gravis,it was a coincidence i meet again with Din there...
i greeted both of them as presenting the result the cultist and Miltheo diary only...
Yup his diary only,cause there still a nice bit info in Duke Corv Crowfall one i need to study,and also just in case if the diary fall to the wrong hand i still have back up left...

ooc:let's have a nice chat in the central plaza ~ @Naraku @MrS4n