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After getting all of the knowledge that she could obtain and get from the church about the Trinity Goddess, Arteria Blaze has managed to learn and know what she needed to have and then left the church late at night with kind and warm goodbyes from the priestess who helped her out.
Arty decided to stay for one night at the inn before she leaves the town and goes on her planned journey.
Fortunately, there weren't many people around the inn that she's staying for the night and she used the money to pay for the room she's renting and also bribing the innkeeper to keep quiet about her staying there.
At first, the innkeeper thought that he might be harboring an enemy fugitive or something but when he looked at her, he thought first that she's a lonely woman, vulnerable and afraid of someone or something that might be chasing after her so he accepted the bribe and promised to not let anyone know that she was here.
Arty was relieved and thanked him for it and the innkeeper kindly led her to her rented room where she'll stay and rest. It didn't take long for the heroine of the story to close her eyes and go to sleep until she wakes up early and plans to leave as soon as possible.
Once the morning dawns of the new day, Arty woke up, refreshed herself and then had gotten ready to leave.
With the decisions and plans already prepared and made, Arty had set off on the road and journey to the place where she believed that the Fiery Blade would be found by her.
Before she does that, she'll need to be physically and mentally prepared when she gets to her destination there, so she decided to live in the town on the location where the magical weapon might be there, and then stay there for the time being to familiarize herself and to get herself prepared to face against the goddess' obstacles and trials meant for the chosen wielders of the Fiery Blade.
It took almost three days for her to travel to get and reach to the destination she's searching for. It was fortunate for Arty that she hasn't encountered any difficulties or obstacles along the way as she had traveled down the road, though it is a little peculiar that nothing had come to attack her or something.
She wondered about the various creatures that haunt the woods she trekked through or possible bandits that might be prowling and hiding about as she walked through her journey, but so far nothing has come into her way.
Arty wondered whether she has become lucky or it might be the hand of fate itself that's helping her along in her path to get to her destination. She shrugged it off as if this was all a coincidence and kept on walking until she had reached the end of the road she's going through.
By the end of the third day, she has traveled long until she had finally reached the place where she's aiming to go, which is the small town village in the very area where she believed the magic weapon, the Fiery Blade is there.
It was almost sundown at that time and Arty was fortunate that she was wearing a heavy robed cloak and hood to cover herself up and hide her identity for a while as she walked into the quiet simple village.
There aren't many people about and around as they had already gone to their homes and were going to have their dinner and then rest. Arty was relieved at that so that she wouldn't have to deal with some nosy people who might be curious about the newcomer that had arrived in their little town.
It wasn't hard and long for her to find a simple inn for her to stay in the town village and she was also glad that the innkeeper was friendly and kind enough to let her stay long as she needed and accepted her money when she pleaded for her to keep quiet about her arrival and presence there.
The innkeeper was another kind person who understood a bit of her plight. A slightly plump woman who looked to be a motherly widow, who accepted the new person in her inn with warm open arms and promised to not let anyone among her people know about Arty being there.
Arty was happy at this and relieved again, thanking the innkeeper profusely and making the woman chuckle at her humble gratefulness. The innkeeper led her to where her room is, where it is private and secluded enough for anyone else not to dare venture there, even if they're curious enough to look.
Arty thanked her again and the inn-woman just smiled warmly at her before she left her alone in her new room. Arty looked around with satisfaction at the simple room she's staying in for the time being before she settled in and laid out her things but didn't put all of them out in case she needed to leave in a hurry.
Once she has done that, the innkeeper had come back to give her food for her dinner and Arty smiled to her gratefully and thanked her again but when she tried to pay for it, the plump woman refused her and told her that it's on the house.
Arty didn't want to freeload like this but she knew that woman was stubborn with her decisions so she let her as she accepted the tray of food from her hands.
She nodded to the innkeeper and she had left again, leaving Arty to eat her dinner and finish it so that she'll put the tray with empty dishes outside her door to be retrieved.
After she had taken her meal, she settled down on the comfy bed and lied down to stare up the ceiling with deep thoughtful eyes.
She's wondering about what kind of tasks or things that she needs to do, to prepare herself in the future to search and retrieve the Fiery Blade and take on the role of the future heroine of the story.
It isn't a guarantee that it would be easy, but all of Arteria's goals and paths are important to fulfill so that she'll be able to find ways into completing the other plans she had made, and finding and discovering ways on how to get back to her real home in the modern world without dying at the end of the story.
Arty doesn't feel very sure about this to herself but she is determined and courageous enough to fight against anything that would endanger her life and go through many hardships to fulfill all of her goals and missions in the story as its main lead character.
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