Pov Carlos:
It's been weeks since Zenos and his group left the city, shortly after people from the Church of Light arrived asking about him, it didn't take long to find out that Zenos' mansion was gone and that there was no trace of him leaving the city.
During this ti the Inquisitors have been asking almost every person in town about Zenos and his group, they want to know his race, age, appearance, origin, and the kind of powers he has, they want to know the sa about the rest of Zenos' group.
More than once they have co to my Adventurer's Guild to cause trouble, but even if I have the information they want they cannot force to speak, even the Church of Light cannot afford to beco the enemy of the entire Guild of the Adventurers.
Every ti the Inquisitors appeared they tried to get information from the other adventurers, because of this many adventurers have left the city to stay away from the Church of Light.
The problem has beco even worse because of the strong prejudice that many of the Inquisitors have against other races, there are many reports of people of the Demis or Beastman races being mistreated by people from the Church of Light.
This sort of thing is causing traders of other races to leave Valen City towards the capital, it has beco such a problem that even the Royal Guards have been sent to the city to try to calm things down.
Just when I thought things were starting to go in the right direction was when an Archbishop arrived, he made strong accusations about Zenos being a spawn of the Demon race.
This Archbishop said that Zenos used slavery or mind control techniques to kidnap the Inquisitors who were under his command, the famous Faceless Brothers.
Since then it has only caused more and more problems, we were already suffering from a lack of people because of the last wave of monsters, but now we are with even less people as adventurers keep leaving, new adventurers don't want to co to Valen city.
I got tired of this and joined up with the leaders of the other Guilds to speak with Duke Valen, so a eting was arranged with this Archbishop to pressure him to leave the city.
But during the eting the Archbishop got up and ran to the window and stood looking towards the Forest of Blood, he started to say that he felt Divine power coming from the direction of the Forest of Blood, but he insisted that it was coming from much further away.
So he contacted Church Headquarters and had over 20000 soldiers from his Church sent here using Mages of the Space elent, this could have been the sa as a declaration of war.
The Duke and the Kingsguard wanted to protest, but just two days later more armies from the other two religions also ca to the city, the next day these armies started to leave one by one.
The Duke was worried about what might have happened to alarm so many religions, so a special quest was issued in the Guild, I accepted this quest along with my wife Mari, I also took so people with strong tracking or sensing skills to be able to investigate the What's happening.
After a week we arrived at the mountain range, so we started to investigate around, it took another three weeks and we were only able to investigate less than half of the mountain range, but we were worried about what we had already found.
Now I am in a small destroyed village together with my group we have a bonfire where we are roasting monster at to eat.
"I miss my beer." (I)
"This is what happens when you drink five barrels in two weeks, if you had just a little restraint it wouldn't have happened." (Mari)
"I thought I brought more, I rember I asked to bring twenty barrels." (I)
"I left it at ho, it was taking up too much space in my storage item." (Mari)
"Where are the other two?" (Mari)
"I asked to see how the religious armies are doing, at night it's much easier to spy on them." (I)
I take a knife and cut a piece of at to eat, then drink so water since the beer is long gone.
"What do you think of everything we've discovered so far?" (Mari)
"Strange, for starters this miasma is full of malice in a way I've never seen it before, there are even so soldiers from so religious armies who are catching the Devil's Madness disease." (I)
"Yes, but there are no records of such miasma ever being found in the mountain range, the last record is just five years ago." (Mari)
"I know, that's my record, at that ti there was a war between so monster races and Demis, so I forbade adventurers to co here." (I)
"But the only place with signs of battle is the fortress we found two days ago and so villages like this, now the fortress is in the hands of the Church of Light that arrived there following us." (Mari)
"It had traces of a battle that took place recently, but it had no bodies or weapons, the fortress was also not recorded in any records and I had never seen it when I ca here five years ago." (I)
"By the structure, it looked new, maybe it was built a short ti ago." (Mari)
"But what makes more confused is the large number of empty villages, half of them are destroyed and we can guess from the blood marks that were attacked just like the one where we are." (Mari)
"But there are also many villages that are intact, but without any resident, yesterday we also found a village that could accommodate thousands of people, but it was empty." (Mari)
"Sothing strange has happened here, but for so reason, the Archbishop seems furious these days." (I)
"He's been following in our footsteps, it seems one of the n who followed us to that big village found sothing he took with him." (Mari)
"Do you know what happened?" (I)
"No, I just know it was a wooden sign with sothing written on it, but I don't know what it was." (Mari)
"At least we've confird the target location of these churches." (I)
"A place that's supposed to have five or six mountains on our maps, but for so reason has a valley full of young trees, it's also the only place where it doesn't have miasma." (I)
"I think there's no doubt that sothing happened here, I'd like to ask so of the races that lived here, but most of them are gone." (Mari)
"Those who remained were dead before eting with them, the people of the Church of Light mask two entire villages, the people of the Temple of Law also destroyed a village of Werewolves today." (I)
"That way we'll never know what happened." (I)
"This place has beco a great Darknest, and we don't know why." (I)
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Pov Archbishop Thomas Galaretto:
When I thought I had finally found that Demon who stole my two tools, I found he was gone, at least this ti I know his appearance and na, I found out he was a filthy Dhampir.
Unfortunately, I had to stop my searches for him when I felt weak divine energy coming from sowhere in this mountain range, I have been here for weeks in this deplorable place full of this filthy corrupt energy.
I made so of my subordinates watch over the adventurers who ca here, because of that I found out about a giant abandoned village.
My subordinate also brought sothing from there, he ran straight to urgently, the item he showed was a wooden board with so writing on it, but when I read what was written I burned that thing until there was nothing left.
Plate:
[ If anyone is reading this please send it to Archbishop Thomas Galaretto.
You big dung heap in human form, if you're reading this know that I haven't forgotten about you, I'm simply busy with more important things than a worm-like you, but no need to worry, soon I'll co to you as promised and rember that no one can protect you from . ]
"YOU FILTHY AND INSIGNIFICANT THING, HOW DARE YOU LEAVE SOTHING LIKE THAT TO , I WILL FIND YOU IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!!!!!!" (I)
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Pov Dragon Prince:
I was in my room in the mansion that I was granted to stay during my stay in the capital of the Trigan Kingdom, I have already finished everything I needed to do in this Kingdom, I planned to stay longer in the city of Valen to train, but with what has been happening for there for the last few weeks it wouldn't be safe to go there.
I'm on my bedroom balcony enjoying the view of the night sky as I drink a glass of wine and hold an open letter in my other hand.
"Master, new news has arrived." (Mia)
Sigh
"About Zenos?" (I)
"No, his whereabouts are still unknown, but I have new news about the mountain range." (Mia)
Mia hands so papers where the situation of the mountain range is being explained, this is information that so spies infiltrated in the Church of Light army have obtained, there is also so information that a contractor from the Assassin's Guild got.
"The situation of the mountain range is very strange, the disappearance of inhabitants, the miasma, abandoned villages, disappearance of mountains, a mysterious fortress, and confirmation of divine power." (I)
"Now I have an overview of the situation, I also understand why so many religions have sent armies there, but none of that matters to ." (I)
"What happens in the mountain range doesn't affect or the Cartoza Kingdom." (I)
"Keep looking for Zenos, as much as I try to search his past I haven't found anything, it seems as if he didn't exist before he appeared in the city of Valen." (I)
"Why does the Prince try so hard for this adventurer?" (Mia)
"You better not know, the fewer people who know them better." (I)
"Then I will retire to continue the search." (Mia)
After Mia leaves I go in and throw the daddies with the information about the mountain range on the bed, then I lift the letter I got from my sister.
"Looks like she's already started acting, I don't know what relationship she has with Zenos, but I hope it doesn't cause any problems for the Kingdom." (I)
"I'm sure it was you who saved that day Zenos, so I'm going to pray that this selfish, combat-maniac person doesn't find you." (I)
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