Five months later of traveling through rough mountainous terrain. The Artemis Familia along with Cirrus and Nox are heading to another well embedded town.
“The one coming up should be the 34th village right?” said Nox.
“Yes, I hope this one has a water source, I’ve been wanting to take a bath since 3 villages ago.” Artemis said.
“I could go for a bath…” Rethusa said trailing off into thought.
“I just wanna sleep on a comfy bed.” Cirrus said. “Maybe eat some food I didn’t have to hunt, kill, skin, degut and cook over an open fire with no fucking salt like a dam savage.”
“Ahhh…” they all began to salivate.
“W-well lets hurry then! It shouldn’t be to far.” Artemis said with hesitation.
Arriving at the village many of the villagers came with weapons.
“W-w-what are you doing here!” they shouted.
“Whoa! Whoa! What’s going on!” Cirrus shouted.
“Y-you know full well!” one of them shouted.
“Please tell us!” Artemis shouted. “My name is Artemis! On my name as Goddess of the Hunt I promise you we will bring you no harm!”
“A-Artemis!” they all shouted.
“The one the goddess Loviatar and her Familia have been keeping an eye for!”
“!!”
They were surprised, it would seem they have found a solid lead.
“Oi Dwarf why was she looking for Artemis?” Nox said.
“W-well they just said you were trouble but…after they stole all of our food and took all the skilled miners and fighters of our village we usually had to make people leave by force.”
“…Seeing that fork on your broom I assume we are the first ones to come here?” Cirrus said.
“Y-yes…” they said putting their head down.
“How about you tell us what’s going on? We could help?”
The people lowered their weapon and they begun to talk of what happened: A few months ago a Familia came in, the Loviatar Familia and took over, at first they were kind and generous making potions and medicine to help many of the villages. Then a few months later they started to get more aggressive in how they did thing and eventually just flat out took their young and strong to Hecaton Village which is home to the area’s best smiths and warriors that isn’t on any maps due to their nature of secrecy and for being so far into the mountains.
The Familia would come to villages and take their supplies and return back to the Hecaton Village which is in a natural fortress. The villagers even showed where they lived, the hunting party were surprised to see such towering mountains.
“…Uh…really?” Phi said. “Is it one of them that’s close??”
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“Sadly no…” said one of the weary villagers. “It takes about 4 days to reach the village at the fastest, but for you who have a gods blessing you should get their half the time! And bring back our people!”
“We will head out tomorrow!” Artemis said. “You have our word! But for today we are weary if it is not to much we would like to stay here for the night?”
“That is fine!” they said.
“Come I will set you up in a house for the night!” said a villager.
Watching out into the cool fresh mountain air with some meat and bread with melted cheese Cirrus looks out into the majesty of the mountain range while the girls all take a bath.
‘I kinda want to race up these and jump down…’
Nom!
As he sits he takes out his Occulus and it begins to glow.
“Hey Fels, we finally found the Loviatar Familia, but there in a mountain that has no top.”
“That is…troublesome, can you get through?”
“Uhh…don’t know, from where I’m looking and the path to it we will be heading into a trap where they can circle and surround us from how the locals described the mountain as a natural fortress.”
“So you will have to go in alone then, has there been any sign of the monster being released?”
“No, from what it says in the text it a mountain sized monster and well…seeing these mountains I can see where it’s been sealed but they are accelerating the time to undo the seal. Many of the villagers were hit by the Familia taking their young and strong to help whatever it is that is sealing the monster.”
“That is troublesome…will you be using all of your power in case this monster is released?”
“Is that a rhetorical question? Of course I am, one is for the safety of people and two…well I see this as my ticket to level 7!” he said with a smile.
“Be careful and if this doesn’t well…I have good and bad news.”
Cirrus froze in place looking at the crystal.
“…What? What good or bad news!?”
“Recently we found that a known Evilus Familia has escaped outside of Orario along with half of her children. They are the Alecto Familia.”
“…What’s the good news.”
“…We got word from Hermes that they went to Telskyura, whether their able to get by the Amazons or not it will buy you time to go and find them or the Amazon’s will do the job for us…but in the worse case you will have another chance to level up.”
“…Well I’m going to bed; tomorrow is a big day.”
Cirrus said his good nights to Fels and left, after Artemis and the rest of the girls left the bath Cirrus took his and felt refreshed for the next day when the mountains moved.