Chapter 16. Orari

With the first rays of the sun, Victor reluctantly opened his eyes and fully woke up. While Victor fell asleep from fatigue, the others had a feast with meat, which was a little depressing for Victor.

Quickly throwing unnecessary thoughts out of his head, Victor gathered all the members of the group.

- "I have two options for entering the city, but one is a little risky but fast and the other is long but safe. The first option: Me, Mash and Da Vinci will go to the gate with animal skins for sale and everyone else will follow us in spiritual form. Because I think it's suspicious when a group of strong people came out of nowhere to the city of Orari. Although they may think that we want to join the family of some god, but we will definitely be questioned, and since we don't know much about this world, it will be troublesome. But there is also a possibility that one of the gods will be watching the main gate, so I am not sure that we will not be noticed because I think even the transition to a spiritual form will not help from the sight of God. The second option is to divide into groups and enter the city at intervals of 30-60 minutes. This is the safest but time-consuming way. "

Victor wants to eliminate as much as possible the possibility of their identity being exposed. Although there is one goddess who, out of boredom, looks through the whole city from a high tower in search of people with an unusual soul, but according to the plot of the anime, she should have already found Bell Сranela, which means she will stop considering the rest of the people coming.

At least that's what Victor hoped.

After hearing the proposed options for entering the city, the opinion of the servants was divided.

"Why would I, the king, hide my presence from these lower gods who have sealed their divinity?" - Ozymandias suggested not to hide, but just to go to the city in a crowd.

- "Why all these difficulties? Kill everyone and go to the city" - Cu Alter plays his role as a berserker.

As a result, it was decided by voting to go to the city according to the first option. Although some did not want to do it.

Having collected all the things, the group moved towards the gates of the city. After about an hour, they saw huge walls in front of them and guards at the gate.

Presumably these guards are from the Ganesha family, because they are responsible for the safety of Orari as a whole. Also, this family has an arena where various fighters perform. Most people who have just entered the city go here. They want to become a little famous so that they can be noticed by powerful families who can recruit them. But this option is definitely not suitable for Victor.

Finally, the turn came to Victor's group. In front of them were two beastmen who basically checked all the newcomers.

"Welcome to the city of Orari! Tell me your reason for coming to this city" - The Beastman is already used to saying this phrase every time and not getting tired. It is immediately clear that he is from the Ganesha family (who understood well done).

Victor prepared the most standard answer.

"Have a nice meeting! I am Victor and my group and I came from a small town in search of an adventure. We have heard that there is a dungeon in this city where there are various monsters as well as gods who help adventurers. That's why we came to this city."

The guard looked at Victor, Mash and Da Vinci. Then he went up to Victor and whispered:

"You're a lucky kid. I got two beauties. Will you tell me how you did it?"

Although the whole conversation was a whisper, but do not underestimate the servants' hearing.

Mash, hearing the guard's whisper, blushed a little and was shy. Da Vinci just took it as a compliment with a smile.

Victor certainly didn't say anything about it, which upset the guard, but he missed them.

…..

Meanwhile, in the tower of Babylon on the high floor.

A beautiful woman in a red and black outfit was lying on the sofa with a glass of wine in her hands. She had the facial expressions that people have when they're terribly bored.

Beside her, a tall man with a dark skin tone and a large sword stood silently.

- "Eh, nothing is happening today again. Ottar maybe you know how to get rid of boredom? The goddess of beauty Freya slowly asked the man.

- "Lady Freya. I think you should do what you like the most" Ottar replied briefly.

Freya heard this answer and sighed. Her every day in life in Orari is always the same.

Then Freya began to look around the whole city with her own eyes. And all she saw were souls. It is the souls of living beings. Her hobby is to look at the city and look for people with a "beautiful" soul and attract them to her family.

Ten minutes later, she finally turned her gaze towards the city gate. She saw clusters of "dirty" souls trying to get into the city.

- "However, as usual, today I did not find someone who can be with me" - Freya was about to go back to the sofa when suddenly she was attracted by the glow at the gate.

Looking closely, she saw a lot of strong souls that burn with golden light. Freya was shocked by what she saw, but quickly recovered.

-"I never would have thought that I would see so many strong people in one day. They seem to be following someone. It's worth following a little bit" - Freya had no difficulty finding who these people were following.

She saw two girls and one young man. The girl with long hair had the same soul as the people who follow him. The pink-haired girl had the purest soul she had ever seen.

Seeing the pink-haired girl, Freya was now in complete shock. For the first time she sees such a "pure" soul. As if she had just been born and had not known the sins of the outside world.

- "It is simply impossible for such a soul to be in our world! She is very unique, Oh, how I want to bring her to me and have a nice "conversation" with her"- Freya was excited by this event, but even so she did not forget about the young man who was next to the pink-haired girl.

Freya saw the same soul as all people and was about to look away, but then she noticed a small glow in this soul.

"Is this really it! Yes, that's exactly what I need! To think that he would have such a hero's fate! Although at first glance he is the same as everyone else, but if he becomes stronger and overcomes himself by becoming a hero, then his soul will be even better than that girl's! I have to bring him to me, but I can't rush so much or I'll scare him off" - Freya's emotions jumped up and down.

Then she turned to Ottar and said "Ottar! Send someone to find out their identities to the guild after they've been there. But do not follow them. A lot of strong people go with them"

Ottar, though not boastful, was the strongest adventurer in the city of Orari. For his goddess to talk about someone there means she takes them seriously.

- "As you command Lady Freya" - Ottar left Freya's room.

Freya couldn't wait to meet and decided to go to the place where all adventurers usually gather for rest or for food.

…

Victor and his whole group suddenly felt that someone was watching them. When everyone was already tense, Victor stopped them.

"It looks like we didn't manage to slip through unnoticed. There will be problems in the future, but for now it's not worth paying attention to it. We now need to sell everything we got in the forest and eat" - Victor already realized that Freya noticed them, but Victor was just a little upset. He wanted her to find out about their presence much later than now.

However, now it is not worth being afraid of. After all, Freya is not one of those who blindly rushes to "jewels". She will wait for quite a long time, which, in principle, is in Victor's favor.

In the meantime, the group began to inspect the city and various structures. Mash and Da Vinci curiously examined everything and asked some questions from the locals.

Victor told a short story last time in Chaldea and thought that would be enough. But then he noticed the stares of everyone in the group. They wanted to learn more about this world.

Victor gave a signal to Da Vinci and she immediately put a field that protects from listening.

- "I have already told you most of what I know, so I will tell you about the current forces in the city. Now there are two families in the city, namely Loki and Freya, vying for supremacy. Although Freya doesn't try to do it at all. Freya's family has the strongest fighter Ottar and now he is the seventh level. This is the highest level in the city of Orari at the moment. Previously, the highest level was the eighth one that the captain of the Zeus family had. Together with Hera's family, they were the strongest. Almost every member of the family had the strength of a level four adventurer. The Freya and Loki families took the places of the Zeus and Hera families who were destroyed in the battle with the black dragon. Although they had defeated two strong monsters before, this dragon was too strong. Some say that none of the families helped them expecting their defeat and the absorption of their territory.

All information about these families has been erased and only the gods and some old adventurers know about them" - Victor, who was a little fond of this anime and read ranobe, told about what he remembers.

After hearing Victor's story, the group began to discuss this story along the way.

- "Quite an unusual story. Although all the gods have a goal, namely to reach the last floor of the dungeon and clean it up, only a few try to do this. And the rest just spend time in entertainment" - Da Vinci made a small conclusion.

"Which is to be expected from these gods! They don't even have the courage to take a step to meet danger! The sun god Ra certainly wouldn't be like that" - Ozymandias openly insulted the gods who were cowards in his understanding.

-"Among the gods, there are also those who have the mindset of humans. That's why all the troubles happen," Archer said.

"Are the gods capable of such things? Mash asked with incomprehension.

- "Such is the life of the gods who have become too integrated into human society and have practically merged with them. Okay, I think it's time for us to go to the sale of our animal skins and then to a tavern where we can eat," said Victor.

- "I wonder what their beer and meat taste like? I'm looking forward to it," Lancer Cu said with anticipation.

After selling everything they got in the forest, they got 5 million 463 thousand Faris (local currency). It turned out so much because of too many skins and meat that the servants got.

Finally, having received their money, the group went to the tavern.