Search among the Restlessness

Twenty minutes had passed before Athena Familia finally arrived at the place where they were looking for information about the irregularities that had occurred between the monsters around here. Due to the past few days monsters have been seen more and more running away from the forest which is causing problems for the people around the town.

"This is strange as far as the eye can see hardly a single monster appears." The pallum let out its thoughts that were already disturbed by its surroundings.

"Although it's not like Anna said the smell did exist, but it was some monsters that had clearly headed towards the town where a few days ago were exterminated."

As if responding to Pallum's words with its great sense of smell the werewolf confirmed his words.

"Putting that aside aren't there quite a lot of herbs growing here? Besides that there are some that are quite rare." As if feeling that the herbs were rare, the woman with the characteristic of a cat felt that she had to hurry up and get the herbs.

"Of course it's due to the fact that this place has barely been touched by people over the past few years and due to factors such as herbs that one of the results of the process of fusing crystal magic stones from monsters on the surface into the realms naturally makes the land became more fertile due to absorbing the mana contained in the crystal magic stone."

Theresa with her knowledge as an elf explained smoothly to Clara.

"Okay, let's end the conversation for a moment. From here we will start exploring several places by dividing into three groups including two groups of two people each and one group of three people which this group is with Lady Athena-sama. For the first team will be left to me and Clara, next team Anna and Gaze and lastly lady Athena-sama Alice and Tian. Do you have any objections?" After everyone seemed to have no questions left, Theresa then continued her instructions.

"Looks like nothing then the first team will go West, the next team will go East and the last one will go North. This search doesn't need to be too deep because we only need to observe then make a report to submit, the deadline is one hour after that we gather again here as before then get out of here." ————————————–——————————

An hour had passed, as I suspected that it would only be seen that there was a bit of activity the monsters were doing before they left. It would be better if we join the others soon.

"Clara let's quickly join the others."

"Okay."

That way they finally regrouped according to what was planned, the resulting information from what they obtained was more or less the same as what Theresa had said.

A few minutes before we got together, somehow I had a bad feeling. The situation here was clearly abnormal with an uncertain cause even after an investigation was carried out.

Athena noticed that Theresa had a sour expression on her face for a few moments which made her grow worried.

"Theresa is there something? You look quite serious"

"Athena-sama..." Theresa looked at Athena then her face seemed to reveal her determination for her next words.

"Athena-sama sorry for my impudence, would you mind canceling the plan to see the ancient ruins that are a bit inside in order to return to the city immediately?"

"Hmm... what's wrong Theresa suddenly like that-"

"Tian, ​​I feel that it is better for us to hurry back now, for some reason a few minutes ago before we got together again I had an uneasy feeling."

"I see, considering our current situation it would indeed be best for us to head back first. What is your decision Athena-sama?" Tian obviously didn't want to disappoint his goddess' desire to go see the ruins of an ancient dungeon, thus he questioned her decision.

"I can't be selfish to ask you to continue going to the ruins, after all our safety is more important. So for now let's head back first as Theresa suggested."

Not long after that, a roar so loud that reverberated around the forest was enough to call out to the monsters that were on the surface to appear.