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'I'll search for those ways.' I said.
[MAJORDOMO] "Awwww! Boring! But fine." My subconscious told me as he died down a bit.
I had to directly invoke Majordomo and let him temporarily act as my Id again in order to assume my Therian form, the striking image of a Qilin, with a lashing tale, indigo scales and a drafty jade mane behind my brilliant horn. I wouldn't do that at the time, I did not want to cause any undue bad blood between me and Shennu before we'd even met.
I instead chose to return to dry land. If I went further out to sea, I'd eventually hit the Frostreach Continent anyway, and there was no reason to.
Once back on land, I quickly pulled my dress back out from my Psychic hammerspace and threw it on, and not only that, but I pulled the brown cloak I had always had out too and threw it over my head to cover my horn, just to mask my appearance as I resumed my travel, but down the passes a ways from the coastlines. In the Grand Strait, the most popular fishing village was a place that sat on the southern beaches known as Saltford. This town was also one of the centers of Woldoria's off-shore mining industry. I don't know what they mined that was underwater, but I could only hazard a guess that it must had been Death Knell Materials. An off-shore rig like the ones they founded could certainly pull up Aquamarine, the crystalized sediment of Afterseas Spiritua that possessed a negative value of karma. A 'demonic' kind. Normally, it was a mineral used to refine into liquid Death.
[NOVITIATE] "Hallo!"
I eventually came across two low ranking soldiers of the Heer on patrol. The Heer were a unique bunch, they'd never lost their chivalrous sensibilities since even a thousand years ago. They commonly mixed... unique choices in with their modern military equipment. Fatigues overlapped by gambesons and surcoats. Stahlhelms on knightly cuirasses. Almost any Heer member was trained with a longsword and carried one.
[NOVITIATE] "Ja! Saltford is that way, just about a quarter mile more. You can see it in the distance there."
'Thank you.'
[NOVITIATE] "Ja. Und don't stay out late past curfew. And avoid the less traveled roads. You might run into Wolfman."
'...Hm? Wolfman...?'
[NOVITIATE] "Ja. Ist a upstart Demigod local around here. Has been causing trouble attacking people. Thankfully, no fatalities. But damn if he isn't robbing people and destroying scheiße for kicks."
[MAJORDOMO] "Huh. Sounds like a handful. A Demigod running around doing that."
I nodded one more time to the Heer men as they passed by, keeping the roads safe. I thought about how complicating of the situation this might be, knowing that a Demigod is running rampant in the same area I sought Shennu in.
If I ran into him, I'd be ready.
[MAJORDOMO] "The list of peeps to Redeem grows..."
I could agree to that. Perhaps I'd pay this 'Wolfman' a visit once I was done with my business, if I could manage to find Shennu first... if not, I will deal with it all the same.
