Julian Ballard(1)

As a city where merchants, Adventurers, and people from different regions and races gather, Orazvil City was a place with great cultural diversity. It was normal to see people eating food and wearing clothes from different parts of the continent.

This diversity was also seen in religion. In Orazvil city, there were more than twenty chapels belonging to different churches. But only two of these churches had enough power and weight to influence the development of the city.

The Church of the Golden Dawn, with branches in every corner of the continent. This church did not care about races or origins, accepting Dwarves, beastmens, humans, and numerous other races as its adherents. There were even rumors of some intelligent monsters accepting the faith of the Goddess of Fate amd Judgement.

The Church of the Rising Sun, the main church between the Empire and the Republic. This church preached human supremacy and was not well-received in non-human territories. In fact, even some human kingdoms did not like it, such as most of the Kingdoms in the Great Isthmus region, example like the Kingdom of of Atira, Jermanian, the Dolasm State, and other nations in the Great Isthmus region which they were constantly trying to reduce the church's influence.

The next day after our group of main characters killed the slavers, a commotion happened between the higher-ups of these churches.

In the 8th Section of the city, in the Church of the Rising Sun, the Archbishop in charge of this city section was holding a paper with a serious expression.

"The Blight..."

Mumbling those words, he then looked looked at the church's personnel in front of him.

"Tell me about your opinions. Do you think this information is true?"

"We don't know, sir. The information in this report from our intelligence is too incredible. We will need to confirm it first."

"I see. What about the people we sent to investigate? Any results?"

"The case was taken by the Duke's personal men. We were unable to get valuable information."

The Archbishop's expression turned grave, "Very suspicious. Perhaps, the words in the letter are true. Contact the headquarters and tell them about this. Also, mobilize all our men to investigate this situation."

"But sir, we don't even know the information is very accurate. Don't you think we are exaggerating too much?"

"Exaggerating? Orazvil city can be known as one of the most secure cities in this country! Nobody noticed an intruder, and nobody knows how long they've been hiding without our knowledge. How is that possible? Even if there is no demigod guarding this place, the number of Legendary Realm experts can be counted into a dozen. Furthermore, it is related to the Blight. We can't afford to be careless!"

The two church's personnel looked at each other with grave expressions, finally nodding.

"Understood, Archbishop."

"Also, send someone to the city lord's estate. Tell him I need to meet him as soon as possible."

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In the Church of the Golden Dawn, Samara, the Knight Captain of the Order of the Guiding Light was holding the information the archbishop passed her.

Earlier this morning, she was passing by Orazvil on the way to Alisan City just a hundred kilometers south from here, following the guidance of the Holy Priestess. However, she was not expecting to get a clue even before reaching her destination.

"What do you think, captain?" The archbishop asked with a frown.

The knight captain's expression changed several times before finally sighing, "I will not hide it anymore, archbishop. My mission this time was a direct order of the Queen. She sent me to Alisan City to find any traces of the Blight."

"Alisan? Not Orazvil?"

Samara nodded, "It looks like things are much more complex than we thought. I'll contact the Queen and inform her of the situation. Meanwhile, I want all the information you can find about the people that were killed in that building."

The Archbishop from the Church of the Golden Dawn nodded without hesitation.

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Later that night, our group of idiots went to a Red-light district somewhere in the 1st Section City District. The group of seven were using disguising devices that Brian downloaded to disguise their features into different faces, including their complexion.

From what I mean complexion is that the white people in the group became colored people while the colored people became white people. Nogla, for example, has black skin while Marcel had an incredible pale skin.

"Hey Brian," Vanoss, who has white feathers, leaned into Terroriser's side and whispered, "I bet a hundred dollars that Nogla will say the N-word in front of Marcel's face, hard... 'R'."

Terroriser raised an eyebrow, "Oh Evan, don't be ridiculous, I knew Nogla for a long time, even he has a black wife, he doesn't have the balls to say it."

"Brian, your disguising idea is so ridiculous." Moo muttered from Terroriser's side.

"And uncomfortable." Basically added.

Black Nogla nodded his head at Marcel, as he said, "Indeed, I completely agree, I never felt so uncomfortable ever since that movie where Robert Downey Jr was black, talk about one dirty ni-"

ANYWAYS! Race or racism aside...

Last night, after the two biggest churches of the city learns that the slavers the group killed were related to this creature they encountered, it caused a huge commotion.

This morning, the city entered a partial lockdown state. Even although you could still leave the city, you must go through a very rigorous inspection in the process. Moreover, if you seemed slightly suspicious, you would be detained.

Moreover, a combine force of thirty thousand filled with city guards and knights of two different churches were patrolling the city with grave expressions, stopping each suspicious person they saw. Our group had been stopped on several occasions.

"Gotta ask, why are we listening to that lady anyway?" Delirious asked.

Basically responded, "According to the information in that letter she gave Evan with, we are going to a place that has more information we could find in this world, including buying special 'Items'."

"Ohhh... sweet."

"Speaking about information, did any of you guys know how these pedo slavers managed to get our information?" Wildcat added.

"It was probably that Joe Biden counterpart." Terroriser concluded, "Either he is cooperating with the slavers or he was threatened to reveal the information. Either way now is not the time to deal with him."

"Huh?"

"The entire city is tense about these killings. If the owner is killed now, we will be unable to avoid the suspicion of these Churches and the Duke. Moreover, if there is someone else that knows about the owner's relationship with the slavers, that person perhaps can connect the dots to reach us."

Vanoss sigh, "So complicated."

At that moment, the group of seven arrived at an establishment with a dubious façade.

"We're here, boys."

"Animal paradise, huh?" Wildcat raised a brow, laying his eyes on the building in front of them, "I bet it's some pet store or something. Does even a pet store exist in this medieval world?" he asked himself.

"Um, this is that kind of place, right?" Moo asked nervously.

Marcel, Vanoss, and Brian nodded. Just the name and the atmosphere were enough to recognize what kind of business this was.

A brothel.

"Boys, don't get separated from us." Nogla said, holding a Golden Shovel in his hand.

Marcel looked at Nogla with a speechless expression, "Why are you insinuating? You know the reason we are here."

"He is just saying in case we will get tempted by random thirsty thots. We are PURE gentlemens!" Delirious answered by pulling out a combat shotgun.

"You're right. Remembering my situation with that monster back in the Dungeon, just to be sure." Moo agreed to the two as he stood alongside with them.

Hearing three of his friend's words, Marcel and the rest were too speechless to retort.

When they entered the establishment, the place seemed to be beautiful, the colorful magic stones in the walls and ceiling making it look like any other modern strip clubs.

"Damn, this is giving me flashbacks." Nogla remarked.

Wildcat extends his hands and obstructs Nogla's path, before pointing at him, "You don't want your black wife to know about this shit?"

"Oh fuck off, I haven't forgiven you for tricking me into going to a Maid Cafe and for what happened a few days ago. Still cannot believe there is a real thing in here."

Then they all go inside and take a seat.

Once they all take a seat, Vanoss looks around. To his surprise, the place is quite clean. To have this place approved they probably had to agree to many regulations.

As an orange cat girl hands them beers, Terroriser looks around and commented, "This place is every Otaku's dream."

"Since when did you become an otaku?" Basically asked weirdly towards his cybernetic friend.

"I wasn't!"

"Yeah, yeah…"

Meanwhile, to Vanoss and Delirious, Vanoss leans towards Delirious and asks something.

"Your wife is gonna kill you being here."

"I know."

"Hey, I heard your wife has Only Fans, is that true? Especially that por-"

Cutting Vanoss' sentence off, a gun mechanical sound silently rang into his ears.

"O.O"

"Don't you fucking dare mention it." Delirious muttered into Vanoss' ears with a threatening tone, a dark bluish aura emanated from his body with deadly intent.

"...Okay. " 

Now to Moo, he looks around and sees a lot of non-humans here except a small number of human females. A Cheetah Beastgirl and a human woman are currently pole-dancing in the background. He ignores everything and looks at his friends before a seductively dressed rabbit-eared woman walks towards them.

"Welcome, dear customers. Do you require an individual service, or will you require a special Group service~"

"Sick, there's also an orgy in this place?" Vanoss whispered to the group with a chuckle.

"Oh, hell no I'm not fucking any of you nor any woman in this place, I'm joining Nogla's little club." Wildcat said, leaning towards Nogla, Delirious and Moo then crossed his arms, showing his part of the group now.

Moo witnessed this and sighed and took a glare at the bunny woman, "I'm sorry, miss. We are here for your other 'business'."

The rabbit-eared woman's expression fell to a frown and observed the seven of them carefully. After five seconds, she nodded and turned around codly.

"Follow me."