Justitia had been in a forest before, it's just that the other forest was much less dense than this one. She found it hard to believe that some of Gremtall's contacts actually found something. Regardless, he still promised to pay a sizeable sum of silver if she at least went to check it out in closer detail. He also stated that the adventurers would be in the area during this, but that it would be best if she saw them as 'competitors'. Justitia has never competed with anyone before, and she's even getting paid for this experience! The [Angel] wipes away some drool from completely non-chocolate related thoughts. She would use the silver to get her scales back... somehow. Chocolate is simply a vital purchase she has to make... for maintenance reasons.
Justitia was told by Gremtall to acquire poison of a monster that had entered the forest to the west recently, his contacts stated that it was spotted in the forest while injured. She thought it was a bit strange that his contacts saw a valuable wounded payday and didn't go for it, but Gremtall responded something along the lines of calling them cowardly dogs who would rather squeeze an honest merchant dry safely than even try to stick their necks out for the slightest danger.
"Hey you! What are you doing here? It's dangerous here!" Justitia is pulled out of her idle thoughts, by the sight of an odd squad. A lizardman, an arachne, an oni, and a gnome (at least according to the Central Governor) are idling by at some trees, and Justitia can make out the sight of a camp behind them. The oni who asked her constantly grips her club, clearly wanting to use it on something.
"I am making my way through the forest, and I am aware of the dangers. Mutants are not going to be helpful to me, you may leave me alone now." Justitia's comment hits the adventurer group had, the oni scowls and pulls her weapon, the lizardman narrows his eyes, the gnome physically recoils, and the arachne grips her spear.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING A MUTANT?" The arachne yells in anger, and draws Justitia's attention, but the arachne is not the one to attack her.
The oni charges at Justitia, not aware that the cloaked figure ahead of them is an angel in disguise. She swings horizontally, and Justitia dodges low, before she can recover and counterattack, the arachne attempts to stab her. Justitia feels how the spear digs into her barrier, but doesn't pierce. As the oni goes for a diagonal overhead swing, and the arachne circles to stab at Justitia's side, she blasts light into the eyes of her attackers. The oni staggers, and the arachne goes to the floor screaming. Justitia moves to finish the arachne off with her plasma cutter, she is interrupted by a yell.
"Everybody stop!" The gnome manages to yell loud enough to be heard over the arachne's screams, who is now being tended to by the lizardman. Odd... Justitia never noticed the lizardman until she looked toward the gnome.
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"I apologize for the offense brought to you by my teammates ma'am, they meant no harm, could you let them go?" The gnome asks nicely, while hiding something behind his back. Justitia merely thinks to herself. Meant no harm? It is true that they didn't manage to harm her. Then they might not have sinned yet.
"Alright, I'll forgive them." Justitia sheathes her weapon, and the entire squad looks at her in confusion. The arachne is still seething in hatred, but also still too blind to do anything.
Justitia merely hops away, leaving the adventurers behind. It doesn't take long for her to see a webbed nest, is this the place? Entering the cave she feels like she is being watched, and as she goes further down the eerie silence makes it clear she is. Just as she hears a rock fall ahead of her, she is suddenly tackled from behind by something large. She casts a bright flash of light, but fails to hit the eyes of whatever has her pinned down, just as she goes to grab her weapon and dust this offender she notices that she is...
Being hugged? As Justitia gets her bearings, she notices that the large being pinning her down is in fact a [Hive Spider Genestealer Anomaly (Angel)]. The spider slowly lifts itself off Justitia, and she notices that it has... grown wings. Justitia rubs her hand along the hairs of the giant spider, she doesn't know why, but she likes doing this. The spider makes odd chittering noises, but Justitia doesn't have a hard time deciphering that the spider is happy to see her. Some spiders emerge from the shadows, but not as large or numerous as they used to be.
Justitia sits down, only to have the spider move on her lap like some massive dog... did the spider get smaller? She doesn't know, and she doesn't care either. The reason for that is because Justitia is currently looking at the wings of the spider, she thought it was because it's so dark in here, but if this spider steals genes, and she is the only angel. Why are the wings... the wrong color? No, that must be something to do with the spider nature, yes that has to be it.
While Justitia scratches the wings of the giant spider, who is affectionately leaning into the scratching, Justitia suddenly remembers her purpose coming here.
"Are you the monster Gremtall sent me to get some poison from? You are, aren't you?" The spider chitters nervously at Justitia's inquiry.
"Don't worry righteous one, you know I won't hurt you, but if you help me I can get some stuff like chocolate, it's really tasty." Justitia holds out a half-eaten chocolate bar for the spider, who takes a small bite out of it. After it takes a bite out of it, it looks at Justitia blankly, who looks like a child showing its mom the random animal she just found. The spider has no opinion on the chocolate bar, but seeing Justitia like this simply makes it chitter happily. It takes one of the jars Justitia was carrying with her, and fills it up with its venom.
"Thanks! I'll make sure to buy you some yummy things as well! Also, watch out for the adventurers outside, they probably have nefarious intentions." Justitia doesn't lose her smile, and happily takes to the sky, ditching all semblance of stealth as she flies back to Warsawa in excitement.
The spider stays behind, watching as the angel departs eastward.
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Did she just say adventurers nearby?