Chapter 15 Observer

The streets of Orario are noisy tonight, As criminal familia's emerge from the shadows to cause chaos once again. In the ensuing chaos a unlucky pair of adventurers are caught, they had left the familia home so that they could enter the dungeon. They needed money to buy medicine that their friend desperately needed. They planned to return to the surface before nightfall but they caught the sight of a jack-bird. 

A rare bird monster that spawns on the first floor. The monster isn't aggressive and runs away at the first sight of adventurers. However if you manage to get one, the item it drops is guaranteed to fetch you 1,000,000 valis. Enough money for medicine and much more.

They spent to much time trying to catch the bird only to fail. Now they had to return home at night where crime skyrockets and luck wasn't on their side. 

 "Saito... have we lost them?" A young girl said while panting, her voice barely more than a whisper.

"Not yet! Just a bit further and we'll be home Yuno!" The boy said. He was holding her hand as they ran so that she didn't fall behind. 

They continued running, passing through alleyways and shortcuts to throw off their pursuers. But it wasn't working, the footsteps of pursuers was growing louder.

Saito glanced back, fear evident in his eyes. 

"Shit they're gaining on us!"

They took a sharp turn into an alleyway only to lead to a dead end. They couldn't turn back so Saito started to try and open any door he saw but all of them were either locked or barricaded.

"W-What do we do?!" Yuno cried out, tears had begun falling from her eyes.

"I-" Saito was cut off from the footsteps that sounded from where they came in from. 

Four individuals emerged from the shadows with sinister grins. They had their weapons drawn and were eyeing the two adventurers like prey. A man stepped forward, his scarred face half hidden by a hood.

"Hehe, you two gave us quite the chase"

Yuno and Saito had drawn their weapons. The thugs slowly inched forward, the two tried to create distance only for their back to hit the stone wall behind them.

"This is going to be very fun!" The thug said, specifically eyeing the girl.

"Oh? Having fun without me?"

The thugs went of guard with the sound of a new voice. They looked upwards where a cloaked figure dropped down in front of the duo. 

"Yo" Mordred did a little wave.

The man eyed Mordred. His lackeys got into a defensive stance.

"What do you want?" The leader asked Mordred.

"Well, I thought I should invite the four of you to a fun experiment I wish to conduct"

The leader had become even more cautious.

"What experiment?"

"Weapon testing!"

With a swift move of her hands she revealed the rifle that was hiding under her cloak.

~Click~

~BANG~

The leader didn't know what happened. He was staring at Mordred for one second then the next he was on his back staring up at the night sky. His vision became blurry until he only saw darkness.

"Shit! Get them!" The remaining thugs didn't know what happened but with their boss on the ground dead they only assumed the weird object in her hand caused it. They charged forth only for them to receive bullets to the legs. They fell over screaming in pain, then their arms were shot next.

"Now then, I'm going to ask you three some questions. I hope you will be kind enough to answer"

The men could only nod their head in pain, hoping that by answering the questions they will be sparred even if it means outing their familia.

...

'Hmm the situation here is worse than I thought. I know the dark age was absolutely terrible, but to think it was this bad. How could they allow so many evil gods in Orario. You would think that Ouranos, the god that oversees Orario would have banned those gods or even at least had people watching them. It became worse when more evil gods flooded into Orario with the exiling of the Zeus and Hera familia's'

Mordred let out a sigh at the amount of trash she would need to clean up. 

'The only good news was that bullets are still very effective against level 1's. One of them even had their endurance at B and I now know the location of a few evil gods familia's'

"Since we answered your questions will you spare us?"

Mordred looked down on these criminals who were still lying on the floor. She put her hand on her chin and gave his question a quick thought.

"Nope, especially after you told me what you and your familia did"

"Wha-"

~BANG BANG BANG~

"Now that's taken care of"

Mordred look behind her where she spotted the terrified Yuno and Saito.

"You're still here? Go back home, its past your bed time" Mordred waved her hand at them in a shooing gesture.

The duo started running down the alleyway. When they were out of sight Mordred used mana burst to jump onto the buildings. She eyed the two until they reached their home then began returning to the inn, jumping from building to building.

'The goddess Eris. Those thugs belonged to her familia and they said that she is apart of evilus. I will make her my first target but I will need to prepare for the three level 2's she has, I wonder if-'

Her thoughts were cut off as her instinct screamed at her. She stopped readied her rifle, then scanned all around her. All done within a second.

'Nothing?'

There was clearly nothing there yet her instincts said otherwise. She couldn't see them but she could feel herself being watched but she couldn't pinpoint from where.

She decided to hasten her return to the inn. Utilizing mana burst to max out her speed.

...

"How very interesting, she was able to sense me yet she didn't know where I was"

On the top floor of the tower of babel a goddess looked down on the entirety of Orario, yet her gaze was locked onto a single individual. 

"She must be new in Orario, most likely arrived while me and Loki were busy dealing with those gods, after all, I wouldn't forget such a interesting and beautiful soul" 

The goddess took a sip from her wine as she watched. She licked her lips.

"I wonder how I'll make you mine"

...

...

Back at the inn, Mordred was a bit stressed as she was watched the entire time. Only after entering the inn did the gaze that bore into her soul stop.

She dematerialized her gear and threw herself onto the bed.

"Either a god or a high level adventurer"

"Shit now they know where I sleep, hopefully they were only curious, I didn't feel any killing intent and hopefully they aren't who I think they might be"

She stuffed her face into the pillow.

'Maybe returning to Remnant is the best choice'

[Report: New mission is available]

'wow perfect timing' Mordred though sarcastically.

"Show me"

[Mission: Travel to the 11th floor and slay the infant dragon]

[Rewards]

-500 points

-5 low grade healing potions

-Teigu: Incursio

"These rewards are quite good. Incursio is already amazing but the potions are also great. The potions here are either too expensive and sold to reputable familia's or their scams"

"Didn't the sword have a living demon dragon in it or something like that?"

[Affirmative]

"Neat, I'll go dragon slaying tomorrow!"

And with that Mordred went to sleep in a good mood, completely forgetting about the stalker that was watching her.