Christopher his companions and the queen were taking a long walk towards the cave to the next floor, there was a matter with the carriage being too big to enter the gate, unless of course the opened the large gate which would take them at least one day.
The queen however had no time to lose, the carriage was to remain there and wait for them as they would descend the pillar with a few elites.
The queen even offered them amnesty from their crimes and a chance to serve in the mostly decimated royal army. Of course most of them were exiled by the other royal members or due to serious crimes, but that didn't matter as long as they served her loyaly.
Vadima was leading the way as she was accompanying the down the dark pillar, the few light spells that shone the way made them rather nervous, while from time to time they could hear strange noises as if glass being broken.
"Do you think that there are monsters in the tunnel?"
The queen asked Vadima as she heard another of those unusual cracking noises.
"Well even if there were they probably are no more"
Vadima said completely relaxed, the scouts in front found no monsters whatsoever.
"Then is that the sounde of cores cracking?"
The queen asked with a somewhat distressed tone.
"We cannot be sure about that maybe he's trying some new stunt teleporting glass around or something"
Vadima's words made christopher somewhat interested in the aspect, what would happen if he teleported two cores into one slime, would it grow stronger?
Unfrotunately he had no chance to experiment as they were already at the other end of the tunnel.
They said it would take a whole day to go down, but it only seemed like a few hours with the speed they descended.
Of course this misconception of time is something easily produced by the lack of a clock or other way to measure time.
Although the dwarves did have clockwork and their own clocks, others however used their own ways to determine time.
Of course there were those like Christopher whom didn't care about time, space or anything other than leveling up.
"We will be going to the twill village to see a friend"
Tris said, of course the queen already knew which hero was managing that village, but she didn't care.
She had her own plans, she and Bloom would go to see the leader of the opposition, Hero Nick.
As for Christopher's destination, which he himself knew not about till they arrived it was non other than Alexxa's village.
The travel was short and the few monsters they passed by were all pathetic slimes , of course Christopher got the chance to experiment, although it was a complete failure, the second core did nothing at all.
"Would you mind shining some light again, we know that you have night vision, but the rest of us can't see anything"
Tris complained as she massaged her own foot, having just hit it onto a rock.
The light globe spell was a basic spell and although he didn't know it by heart he had it written in his spellbook. More like a notebook that would turn into incomprehensible dribles in a few years.
"Are we there yet?"
Rosetti asked, she didn't like walking so much, especialy for such long durations, it was a pity that there was no carriage service at the outpost, thus they had to travel on foot, of course the queen and princess would leave later on carriage, as there is one prepared for the royal family.
The road from the outpost to the villages pass through the four cities and twelve towns, you could say that they were built in a rather isometric structure, the four Cities to mark the four directions, the towns surrounding them and villages being built in between towns and cities.
Christopher's group reached the nearest city and went on with buying a carriage, looking at the local goods and other stuff like resupplying on foodstock, selling off the slime cores, for which Christopher suffered largely from Tris, because he had wasted a lot of them by stupidly experimenting.
"Will you become stronger if I stuff a second heart into your stomach?"
This was how she understood his experimentations, in every side you saw it, it was a total waste of materials.
Of course there were some rather interesting stuff sold in the dungeon City, namely the summoned Slime monster.
They could use a slime core to create a pet like slime that could be used as a soldier, servant and for some even more disturbing stuff.
The higher quality slime cores could make higher quality pets, these pets were not so popular on the surface, but down in the dungeon pillar they were practicaly everywhere. Of course their prices were painful to look at.
It wasn't like they were poor or anything, it was that the prices didn't correspond to the utility of the goods sold, they could recruit a whole army for the price of one weak slime soldier, of course the slime soldier didn't require food, was 100% loyal and will never die, unless of course itse core is destroyed, which however depends largely on the one controlling it, since simply imbuing it with magic will heal any wound on its body.
Of course the main reason to buy one was a servant, especialy when there are so many poisons and drugs in the world.
Unfortunately however they found no slime servant to their liking, one that could accompany them to their next destination.
The most popular slime servants were luminescent slimes, meaning they shone in the dark.
The most however impressive summoned slime they saw was in a hero museum, called the karate slime, you can understand what the slime could do, of course it was only good for show, but it did a huge impression on their difference.
On earth martial arts and tactics were taught and studied, but in Axis they disregarded them completely since they could and did so.
You could spent 10years to learn a martial the earth style way, or simply learn the martial arts skill and be as fast as the strongest master if not even faster and stronger.
Of course one could still spend 10 years and combine both, but the result won't exactly be better than simply learning a few active skills.
For example the quick attack skills were far supperior to martial arts, in simple words even if a martial artist wanted to evade them, he would be unable to, only thing he could however do was counter and decrease the damage taken.
The karate slime was rather unique in the aspect that even though it was a rather lowly soldier slime, it could easily use martial arts to avoid dying, in general, hitting its core was really hard.
Summoned slimes were of course intelligent, well as intelligent as an artificial intelligence can get, they could follow simple orders and act in preselected paterns.
For example you could teach them stuff like cooking, serving food, using weapons and other stuff.
Well you wouldn't of course expect a nobleman to do such tedius work, there were beast tamers for stuff like that.
Thus it explains the great prices of the goods, all summoned slimes sold were already trained for the job and some even had skills imparted to them.
In general a summoned slime had a level cap in how strong it was, it didn't need training since its level depended on the magic imbued into it by the caster, in general the low quality ones went from 50-100level cap, the higher quality went from 100 to 200, while higher quality ones were only found in the floors bellow, since people there had needs for better such servants.
Having a level 200 bodyguard on the first floor made you completely safe, at least while in the city.
The thing however was that the summoned slime would stay in the family for years to pass, some even passed them on to their descendant like a heritage.
It wouldn't be strange to see the governing nobles of the city having a small army of such slimes accompanying them.
Some even had them on the surface level, while the most prominent ones took a trip to the lower floors to buy slimes of higher might for a stinging price.
Another interesting slime product were Slime weapons and armors, they were summonable armors made out of metal slimes and other hard quality slimes, it was a rather strange creation, some called them weapon mimics, but they were not monsters and had no will of their own ulike mimics that are monsters that hide in the shape of items.
The carriage arrived to Alexxa's village in simply no time, well if you can describe 10hours as fast.
Of course living in the darkness of the night was somewhat better than living in the mines, but it did bring depressing memories and worsen the mood.
"Halt! Who goes there, by orders of the Village chief all those whom want to pass through the village have to pay a tax of 2 low quality slime cores"
This was something new to Christopher and his party, well it wasn't like tey cared for a few slime cores, but it did sound somewhat like a fraud, even in the city they asked them for not tax to enter and here in a small village there was a tax.
"Is the Village manager in the village?"
Tris asked arrogantly as if she was her best friend or something.
"Oh, you are friends of the heroine? A hundred pardons, please have mercy on this poor fool for not recognizing a hero, would you mind stating your name and village?"
The Guard said, but his words hid a hint of disbelief, he didn't seem to believe that they were heroes, after all heroes travel with carriages provided by the state and theirs was a private one.
"Just tell your Hero come out and greet us, we are rather busy"
Tris said irritated, but her expresion turned grim as she saw Christopher getting ready to cast his power.
"Fuck! didn't I tell you that you shouldn't kill the guards!"
She shouted, but the next moment two small cores appeared right in front of the guard, if he wasn't fast enough they would have fallen down and crushed.
"Where do we go to find the hero?"
Christopher didn't know which hero lived in the village, but he didn't really care, his thoughts were that Tris probably wanted to invite another hero on their expedition to reclaim the 14th fallen country.
"The heroine is out hunting, you can wait for her at the local Inn, a guard will come and inform you when she's back?"
The guard said, this time his voice was dignified and polite, after all he still wanted his life.
"Then which way to the Inn?"
Christopher asked politely.
"Just head right from here and you will reach the village, from there you can ask anyone around, it's hard however to miss since it's right next to the adventurer's guild"
The guard said trembling in fear for his life as he held the two slime cores in both his hands, his spear still stuck in the ground next to him, normaly he used it to lean like a cane as there is nothing to do most of the time.
It was funny now that he thought it asking for tax from a carriage that was passing through the premisses of the village, in truth it was no different than daylight robbery, since all the carriage did was pass through the rocky ground around their village.
Truth be told that if he wasn't ordered by the village chief, he wouldn't have even thought of doing something so degrading.
Note that the Village chief is not the hero, it's the one whom governed the village before the hero arrived and probably after he/she leaves.
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Alexxa arrived disheartened as there wasn't much to hunt, the slimes might respawn, but their whereabouts were random, making those hands more like patrols around the village.
"Hero, you have a guest, some hero whom didn't want to reveal his identity, he's staying at the Inn at the moment"
The guard outside her estate reported, making Alexxa just nod in reply, she was too tired and wanted to go and rest for a little.
After he arrived at her estate, that was full of lights and some basic luxury, mostly procured by Anna for her, Alexxa went to have a bath, something that people of Axis would consider stupid, using drinkable water to wash off dirt from the body, it was the worst waste there could be, you could after all simply use magic to clean yourself.
"Do you want me to rub your back?"
Ludicar, the half-elf ex-prince said as he came to her bathroom completely naked.
If it was a few months ago she would have screamed and thrown him out, but their relationship had since then grown to a rather intimate one.
"Just get your ass out of my bath, you dirty scoundrel"
Alexxa said while laughing, these were the words she had shot at him the first time he tried doing something like it, but now they sounded more like an invitation to a feast.
The naked elf walked boldly like a boat shaking with the waves making her laugh her ass out.
If there was one person in the world of Axis she liked it was Ludicar, he was simply too manly when she needed to depend on him, too cute when she was angry at him and too lovable when their skin touched.
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Little to say but the guard wasn't sent to invite Christopher and his companions till much later.
"By the way Tris, which hero are we recruiting?"
Christopher asked her as they shared a rather large room with four beds.
"Who told you we are recruiting a hero, I just wanted to find more information about you, thus I decided to make a deal with another hero from your world, nothing to be concerned about, by the way when I return don't be surprised"
Tris said as she sent him a kiss through the air.
"Hm, who cares how you look, you will probably won't be any less shameless than you already are"
Rosetti commented.
"Mistress, do we have enough food?"
Tanna's stomach spoke for her, as she was rather hungry at the moment.
It was around that time that the guard arrived to invite the hero and his companions. At first Christopher wanted to go and see which hero Tris had decided to visit, but he was stopped at the door by Tris whom said that it would take longer if he saw the hero and begun talking for hours about their original world.
Christopher wanted to laugh, but in reality that was something that would 100% happen if they met, after all so many months had passed a little touch with reality wouldn't be bad, but he could wait for some other time and some better place, better if it had a sun above their heads and a beach nearby.
Tris' arrival at the estate made a great impact on Alexxa, of course the main point was that she didn't know her at all, of course she had heard that some people had changed races, but she couldn't recognize her at all.
"I'm called Tris and I'm hero Christopher's Wife, I came here for a small business offer, I have heard that you had some small money problems down here in dungeon pillar"
Tris said, she looked rather strange with half her hair missing from the fire and her face looking rather similar to Alexxa's.
"So how's the goblin country? I hope it's better than this dumn place"
Alexxa asked, not really caring about whether the info she was given is true, of course she knew that Christopher probably wouldn't want to see her and truth was neither did she.
"Well things are a little complicated, in general we are not part of the goblin country, you could say that we are acting independantly from countries"
Tris said while taking out of her space a pot of tea and filled a cup for herself.
"Would you like some?"
Tris asked Alexxa seing her somewhat surprised expresion.
Alexxa nodded, truth was that down in the dungeon pillar the food situation was rather harsh after all most food is perishable and hard to move around, even with the dwarven teleportation arrays it's simply not worth it.
"Now lets have some cake as we talk"
Tris said as she brought out a whole cake, making Alexxa's eyes glitter.
It wasn't that she was gluttonous or a hungry ghost like Tanna, it was more like memories of a better life.
-You see Alexxa, or is it Sir Alexxa now, tell me which you prefer
-just Alexxa is fine
-So Alexxa, you see me and Christopher have a small problem, his penis won't go up, thus I'm trying ways to inspire him, I heard from Vadima, you probably know her a rather detestable woman, whom only knows how to swing her sword around
-Mm, well she's not that detestable, at least she tried to train us or so I think
-Don't measure people by their duty, you should measure them by the acts they do beyong that, for example did she ever explain to you anything about the world or give you any tips?
-Mn, now that I remember it, not really in a way it was more like a bored teacher doing his job kind of thing
-Well I don't know about being bored, but that was her job, she just did what she was told to do, like for example that black robed man whom acts like a bodyguard, you think that if you ask him a question about the situation of the kingdom he will answer you, of course not, it's not in his duties to answer your questions, although I'm sure that he knows lots of stuff.
-By the way what exactly did you come for?
-Well, we'll reach to that eventualy, by the way you should eat some more cake because your partner will eat it all, if you don't
-Ludicar!
-As I was saying there is duty and there is emotion, as his wife I can of course fulfill my duties, but I want that emotion of love that the two of you feel for one another
The couple that was fighting over a piece of cake just a moment ago suddenly froze, not really understanding what she said.
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"I want your memories of the other world, I want to know his better, I want to experience your world"
Tris said, making Alexxa even more lost, thinking if there was some wicked spell to steal memories or something.
"This is an orb of memories I got from the dwarves when I was in Greddor, All you have to do is wish to copy memories into the orb, of course I want all your memories, maybe the ones before you reached this world, you can name your price, after all they say that memories are priceless treasures"
Tris said, making Alexxa freeze, not knowing how to react.
"Beautiful lady Tris, may I disturb this discusion, I know that you want memories of the other world, but such stuff is easier to get from other sourse not to say that your orb of memories seems rather special"
Ludicar said as he looked at the orb, but didn't dare to touch it, the thing cost more than the whole village put together, in truth he also know that they cake they just ate and tea was another sort of luxury even on the surface world.
"I will tell you one think you lose nothing and the price for your memories is in the seven digits or maybe even eight in DP of course"
Tris said making Ludicar freeze.
"What's DP?"
Alexxa asked while whispering to his ears.
"1 slime core is around 1000DP, so thats technicaly thousands of slime cores"
He explained it to her in a language she could understand.
"Can we trust her?"
Alexxa asked him with a rather happy expresion, it was akin to a rain comming in a period of draught.
"Well if we go to the City to complete the transaction, there is nothing she can do but to pay up"
Ludicar said, but his thoughts were deeper than he made them seem, he tried to figure out if there was any way to harm Alexxa with that orb, in order to protect her in case that was possible, but he couldn't think of any way, if she had asked for blood or a hair, then there was some stuff that could be done, but with a copy of ones memories, nothing that he could think about, other than maybe making clones of her, but the clones would not have the same hero class and power, thus they would be rather easy to distinguish.
In all actuality this bargain was a one in a lifetime chance for him to save his wives from their fate of slavery, but he would never sucrifice his one wife to save all the others, he had to be sure.
"Dear, I think we should consult with the queen's advisor, just to be on the safe side"
Ludicar said, making Alexxa somewhat angry, just hearing the word Queen made her enraged.
"There's no need, here's a gift from me"
Tris said as she threw a somewhat crude ring to Alexxa.
"This is an identification ring, you can identify items of items, up to rare quality, you can keep it as a gift of good faith"
Tris said.
"Don't wear it yet it might be cursed"
Ludicar said but he was too late, for the nothing to happen. Seriously nothing, Alexxa could tell that he was acting a little too overprotective.
"So is it the the same as what I said it would be, if you don't believe that what it tells you is the truth, you are free to play with it, Christopher is paranoid with rings for some reason, he had keeps the old ones as he buys new better ones, the last he found was one that can even identify Artifacts"
Tris said, making Ludicar's mouth form a large =O.
"Then how about we go ask Christopher himself, I'm sure that it's no problem after all you are his wife"
Alexxa said, finding their situation somewhat strange to begin with.
"Alright, but you probably won't get too well with the others"
Tris said with a smile on her face.
"What others?"
Alexxa asked somewhat intrigued by the woman's words.
"Well he does have three wives after all, don't tell me it's strange, after all your husband has a total of thirteen including you"
Tris said making Alexxa rather angry, thinking that all men are scum.
"Should I call him or would you prefer this to end silently and in a more humane way"
Tris said, making it sound a little like a threat.
"Whatever give me your top price and we're done"
Alexxa said while glaring at Tris', somewhat revealing outfit and then at Ludicar whom was looking at the wrong orbs, in reality he wasn't even looking as he was deep in thought, but his head was ironicaly turned towards Tris' cleavage.
"Could you sent the little pretty boy away, he's making me shy"
Tris said with a laughter at the end making Ludicar wake up and at the same time get in touch with reality, an angry Alexxa and a laughing Tris.
Thus ended their first round of negotiations and the second round would be fought in the nearby town which was under Anna's rule.
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In Ecclesia the Couple of Theodor and Stella were both recruited by the Inquisition.
Theodor quickly found some idealists like himself, a society calling themself the "Light of Dawn".
Basicaly a racistic group that didn't like non humans, of course colorful people were also in their hit list.
The two of them were rather bored in their new post, they were both given two blessing skills each, but unlike Stella whom was an enchantress, he gained no experience when using them, thus he simply didn't.
What he did however learn were offensive spells, he especialy loved the fire missile spell.
Theodor was a mage and his power was a flash of light, which could at least blind a person, but since it was sunlight it would have deadly effect on undead and demonkin, whom come mostly at night, unless of course they are high level enough to not care about sun damage.
For example if their hp regeneration is higher than the sun damage they will suffer.
Ironicaly Theodor chose the blessing of might, which raises physical damage and the blessing of dawn, which summons a small floating light for 24 hours that will follow the person around.
Well he was sort of a brute in a way, not a bad guy, but not really the finest of brains, at least he wasn't a bully, he was all words but didn't really do anything.
You could say that he was one of those fake punks whom made themselves look cool and strong until they get their asses beaten by a small boy with a black belt in karate.
Of course his affair with Stella was serious and they were even getting ready to marry, sorry my bad, they did get married in Ecclesia.
Stella the enchantress was now officialy Theodor's wife, her cheat power could be called usefull or useless.
She could give away her own stats to the person she loved, rather disappointing cheat power, especialy since she couldn't take them back.
She could only drain away her own mentality to give theodor greater physique, the conversion was 1:1.
Of course they were given enough battle to reach level 10, but stella by using her blessings and power could gain extra experience points, thus she reached a mediocre 22 level, most of which she put into mentality to help Theodor become stronger.
As inquisitors they were stationed at a rural village, there wasn't even an adventurer's guild there, all there was is a temple and an Inn.
The only disputes that ever happened was a child taking an fruit from the neighbor's tree or a rented cow giving birth, now whom will the calf belong to, especialy when the bull was not a rented one.
Such small disputes over property of course were not enough to ignite Theodor's interest and while stella was trying with the others to handle such disputes he was out patrolling. Lately he had his eyes on a strange couple that just came to the village not too long ago, they might seem harmless, but they are both mixbloods, one of them even had horns, the other one looked like a werewolf or something, of course he was told that they were half-beastmen.
Theodor had three families in his sight, the most suspicious being the beastmen, the other being a half-elf family and lastly a large family of half-orks.
On his latest patrol he saw a black shadow flying out of the Ork family's house, His own physique wasn't high enough to follow the shadow, but his angel could do it.
The terminator faced macho anger simply grabbed him from his feet and begun flying after the shadow.
"Blessing of Dawn!"
He cast his blessing at the shadow, at that moment whomever the shadow was, was doomed to be apprehended, unless of course he could run away for 24 hours strait.
He had thought much about how the blessing could be used and in the end Stella came with the Idea of him using it to pinpoint suspects on the run, that way even if they use stealth, the light will still give them away.
"Stop right there!"
Theodor shouted, his scream waking up the sleeping villagers and alarming the other inquisitors.
The shadow stopped and turned around, in its hands there was a small green baby.
"Let me go or the child dies!"
The cloacked man said, his hand holding a dagger towards the child's throat.
"Easy there, let the baby down and I will let you go, I will even erase the blessing, see!"
Theodor made the light of dawn disappear, it was a deactivation of the skill people called blessing release, of course he still could not use the blessing before 24 hours pass, but this was a small act of good faith.
"Stay far away!"
The man said, as he still held the baby hostage.
"Why are you doing this are you one of those demon loving bastards!"
Theodor shouted at him, after all even if it was green and disguasting to him, it was still only a baby.
"I'm through with Ecclesis, that green bitch said that she didn't want a weak human as a husband"
The man said as he held the baby tighter causing it to cry.
"Flash!"
A flash of light caused the man whom was looking at him become blind, dropping the baby down.
It was a miracle how the terminator angel with a boost of speed saved it from crushing into the grassy ground.
"My eyes!"
The man shouted the knife having been dropped from his hands, his hood falling back only to reveal his Ecclesian golden locks.
"That's as far as you go, follow me back willingly or die"
Theodor threatened, the other inquisitors were on their way and even if the man wanted to run now, there was no way, after all he was only a commoner.
The man fell to the ground trying to reach for the dagger, but in his half-blinded state he couldn't find it amongst the grass.
"So have you decided?"
The voice came from behind him, Theodor had already procured the dagger as evidence and was ready to kill the man with his sword, the crying baby was evidence enough for him to kill the man on the spot.
"I give up just kill me"
The man said as he turned around, but what came at him was no the sword's edge but a punch to the face.
"You scum is what makes other race look down on us, you pathetic man instead of joining the adventurers and becoming stronger decided to abduct a little baby, instead of killing that green bastard whom took your woman you decided to abduct the little baby, You're not even human, falling in love with a green monster"
Each punch and kick that came upon him came with a stupid racistic comment, making the man want to puke blood, Ecclesian citizens thought of the Inquisition as just and upright and only now he discovered that there was a bastard amongst the inquisition that was even worse than himself.
He was about to leave his last breath before he heard him say.
"As for the bitch that called you a weak human, we have ways of cleansing such heresy"
Theodor's words ignited the last life force he had left, he might hate her because she loved another, but he would never try to harm her, now however his words in the mind of the twisted inquisitor became words of heresy spoken by his beloved one, these weren't even her real words.
As the man threw himself towards Theodor in an attempt to kill him with his last dying breath, a sword passed through his chest.
The first to arrive to the scene was surprisingly Stella whom was patrolling nearby.
Of course seeing her beloved one killing a person in cold blood didn't sit very well, but seeing the terrifyingly mascular terminator angel holding a baby and after hearing his explaination she understood that there was no alternate choice, the man was after all mad out of his obsession for a woman he could not have.
"We should return the baby and tomorrow I will have the criminal's and baby's parents come for an interogation"
Theodor told her as he hugged her tightly, for him the matter hadn't ended yet.
Joyne and Toyle, the remaining two Inquisitors were a little late to the scene, but they did believe his explaination, after all the knife and the baby were still there, well the corpse as well, they didn't question why the corpse was in such a bad state, after all that bastard did want to murder a baby, even they would have shoved him a few punches as a bonus to releave their rage.
The next day Theodor and Stella were left behind as the other two went on patrol.
It was consumary to leave one Inquisitor in the base during patrol, but since they still had a case open they left Theodor in charge of the mess.
One Ecclesian and a half-Elf came inside as the parents of the crazed youth, while two half-Orcs were the parents of the baby.
"Thank you very much for saving our baby"
The half ork woman said with tears in her eyes, her figure was like that of a bodybuilder, but her face was strangely beautiful.
Her husband was 3meters tall and looked nothing like an ork, more like a barbarian, only his face gave away his orkish heritage.
"It's all this witches' fault she seduced our son and then crushed on his hopes, he was devestated, I only hope he died a peaceful death, could we please see his body?"
The dead man's mothe, an Ecclesian beauty said, she was no older than 30, but her face looked no older than 20.
"That fool, I told him to give up, it was not worth going after that stupid orc witch"
The half-elf father with his bald head, handsome face and pointy ears said.
Only the human barbarian with the fangs protruding from his disfigured Orkish mouth didn't speak.
"So you are the two families involved, we will be having interogations on some matters of faith I can see in your eyes that you not too great of believers, please follow me downstair to the cells, I will interogate you one at a time"
Theodor said his eyes and cold tone giving them a sense of crisis, but there was nothing they could do.
The first to be interrogated was the Ecclesian woman and the dead man's mother.
"Do you have other children?"
Theodor asked seriously as they sat in a dim lit room, with some strange interrogation tools around them, most of them being magic tools used to extract demons out of their victims.
"No Master Inquisitor, we only had one disappointing child?"
She said trying to hold back her tears.
"What's your view on other races"
Theodor asked seriously.
"They are bastards, those despicable Orks should all burn in hell!"
She said letting her anger come out.
"Is that so?"
Theodor said as he approached her, making her feel somewhat afraid, thinking that she had said something wrong.
"Then why the fuck did you marry an elf!"
Theodor shouted at her making her realise that something was wrong, but to her surprise she could not stand up from the chair.
"Do you think that your son became crazy because of the Ork, it's because of his own mixed blood, the evil elven blood corrupted him, making him less pure and vulnerable to corruption and you are the one guilty for that!"
He told her with a domineering voice of self-righteousness, it was as if at the moment he was the voice of god.
"I, Elirien, but..."
She didn't know what to say, she had never heard before that other races were evil, that wasn't even in the writing taught to children, but hearing so from the inquisitor she begun to doubt what she knew.
"The Holy order tells us that we are all Equal, but it never stated that mixing our pure human blood with that of other races is good, you can see that from the color of their hair and eyes, they don't have the golden radiance that makes us humans the purerest race"
Theodor continued with speaches of supperiority of the human race, how they should be united and overcome the threat the mix-bloods posed.
"But what can we do, I'm sure that my husband isn't evil, it's his genes that are bad, can't we do something to help him?"
The woman said frightened, she fully believed his nonsense.
"There is a way, it's called the evolution curse, but I need your help to make him understand that he has to agree going through the blessing and becoming a pure human, he of course will deny my words, he will even curse at me, but those won't be his words, they will be the words of the devil that hides in his blood"
Truth was that even Theodor himself didn't believe what he was saying, but it sounded pleasant to his own ears.
"Please let me speak to him, I know that it's a very expensive ritual, but we will do our best to gather the money needed"
She said with a worried voice.
"Don't mind it I have some friends whom would be happy to help with him turning into an upright human being for free"
Theodor said, knowing that his collegues in the society would be happy to turn him into a human, they even did so illegaly.
In truth he had countless times asked them to teach him how it's done, but they said he wasn't high level enough to perform the ritual, he needed at least a level of 200 and a magicality of above 200.
"I will call your husband inside, but you should be prepared because I fear he might be one of those concealed devil lovers from Neassa whom worship the Elemental demons or Eolia whom worship the Devil himself"
Theodor said, making the poor woman anguish by the idea of the man she spent years with raising their son being a demon worshiper.
Theodor brought the man inside the chamber and told him to sit at the chair next to his wife.
"So mr elf, we have good and bad news to discuss about, the good news is that your wife is a perfectly faithful believer of Ecclesis, the bad news is that We have concluded that you will have to change your race and become a human"
Theodor said with a serious tone, but a smile on his face.
"I..."
The man tried to get off the chair, but he found it impossible.
"The holy order understands your inability to comprehend the reason why you have to go through the holy ritual of evolution, but consider it as a gift to your wife, sharing one life with each other keeping your holy vows of marriage"
Theodor's words made the elf confused, there was simply too much bullshit in the phrase to make him understand if it was a threat or even had some meaning.
"Dear, please accept this gift, we will have another child, one with pure blood and mind"
His wife said, making him even more confused, he couldn't connect the dots in his confused state.
"All you need to do is agree to become a human, there is no crime in being a half-elf, but your blood is impure, having hints of demonic influence"
Theodor said, his words making the bald elf angry for some reason, truth was he was proud of his heritage, his parents were half-bloods as well, his brother was a pure Ecclesian and his sister a pure forest Elf and lived in the nearby town.
"So what is your decision elf?"
Theodor asked focusing his voice with a mocking tone onto the word "elf", a hint of disdain and supperiority being shown as if insulting all his anscestors.
"I chose not to become human, it's simply too expensive to poor village people like us"
He said an excuse in order not to insult the high and mighty inquisitor, whom held his life in his hands.
"Don't be afraid dear, the good inquisitor said that he would get you changed for free, we will age together and make many more children with the blessing of god"
His wife said, not understanding his refusal, thinking that he was simply shy.
"I don't want to become human, I carry the blood of my parents, given to me by Ecclesis himself upon my birth"
The man said, making the woman somewhat troubled, thinking that her husband was trully possessed by demons.
"But was it Ecclesis that gave you your blood, you are wrong in that, Ecclesis gives you life, your flesh and body comes from your parents, have you ever heard how beastmen came to be?"
Theodor's words made the elf puzzled, he could say nothing against the Inquisitor's words, after all he wasn't every faithful to the script as to know everything written inside.
"It's said that the first beastman appeared through the vile act of a drunk human raping a goat, the poor animal had foolishly chose to give birth to an abomination, at that time people thought of them as monsters and even had wars against them, but in time the beastmen grew in numbers and made a name for themselves thus becoming a race"
"Disgusting lies!"
The elf said, he knew full well that beastmen were a completely different race that had nothing to do with the Inquisitor's words.
"But is it a lie, let me tell you how Elves were first born, there are demons whom have humanoid forms, some call them the Fey other call them with different names..."
"Stop with the shameful lies, the Fey are Gods, not demons"
The man said making Theodor smile, but causing his wife look at him in horror for what he just said.
In Ecclesia there was only one unbroken taboo, there was only one recognised god, all others could be called Spirits, Ghosts, Demons but should never be called Gods or Deities.
"Inquisitor you have to help expel the Fey demons from his mind!"
The woman shouted in grief, her husband looked at her as if he looked at a donkey at the moment, he could only sigh, in truth he knew that he had said the most stupid thing and even the most merciful priest would be unable to save him, because of his words.
"Ecclesis is merciful, we will go through a demon exorcism tomorrow, your husband will be held in a cell till tomorrow, please on your way tell his parents to come for an interogation as well, I'm really worried, that his whole family might be corrupted by the demon Feys"
Theodor's words made the half-elf's ears twitch and his eyes fill with rage.
"My parents are innocent, I'm the demon, you can torture me but leave them out of this!"
Of course his shouts although gave an emotional pull to his wife, truth was that she hadn't seen him so mad even when he heard their son had died.
Making her believe even more that he was possessed.
"Don't shout, so loud we don't want to kill you, we will only purify the demons residing in your body and mind"
Theodor said as his angel took the elf out of the room and threw him into a cell next to the orcs, he could only laugh maniacaly as he imagined what would happen to the Orc whom was taken for the "Interogation".
By the time Joyne and Toyle returned they were rather surprised that the peaceful half-elf and half-orcs whom resided in their cells cursed at the Inquisition and Ecclesis, curses so crude and heretical that made them trully believe that Theodor was right to persue the matter, they even learned that he had invited the imprisoned people relatives as well for interogation.
10days later
Stella was shocked to hear the people imprisoned in their cells cursing, she had even peaked at one of Theodor's interrogation, well she didn't agree with everything he said, but in the end he made them reveal that the people whom came didn't really believe in Ecclesis, truth was that she herself too wasn't a deep believer, but Theodor seemed like a zealot whom would die for Ecclesis if asked.
Of course she didn't mind it very much, in a way she found his driven self rather sexy.
What however she did find disturbing was the other two inquisitor's interogation and demon excorcisms.
In a way they did non of the two, all they did was torture and rape the prisoners till they died.
Theodor might be a racist, but he neither raped nor tortured them, what he did was doing excorcistic rituals written in the manuals, she even helped him in one of them.
Of course she wouldn't let him touch the females and she had no qualms with him excorcising the males as she did the same with the females.
Four days later she send a message to the Inquisition reporting Joyne and Toyle, the other two inquisitors with a small memory orb that showed their crimes of raping the heretics instead of excorcising them.
It came as a surprise to Joyne and Toyle when the two of them found themselves in a cell due to misbehavior and corruption, they of course wanted to take Theodor and Stella down with them, but they soon understood their naiveness.
The two of them were heroes, holy champions, while themselves were mere low rank Inquisitors, in a way Theodor hadn't even done anything wrong, other than saying some falsehood in interogations, but during interogation it was allowed to Inquisitors to lie in order to trap heretics and demon worshipers.
The two new Inquisitors in the village were Irena and Mella, both of whom were of course females and strangely enough they were half-bloods, one was a half-elf and the other a red half blood ogre.
Stella of course didn't like them very much, mostly because they were more beautiful than herself, while Theodor hated them as they were half-bloods.