"I want to go back in that forest and set fire to it all just to kill that damn monkey."
That's been Gloria for the past few hours, getting hit by shit and such a cruel and effective blow to her ego and pride that ripping her head off is a melee attack. Since I met Gloria I've noticed more than one example that her pride in her noble name and her competence as a warrior are extremely important to her.
If it hadn't been for harming the team by wasting time hunting that red monkey or it would have been a bad idea to set fire to the entire forest just to kill the monkey, she would have gone ahead with her cruel plans. That ape condemned himself to death when he soiled Gloria's shield.
I'm absolutely sure that after the test is over Gloria will come back here just to kill him, but I hope she doesn't set fire to the entire forest when she returns to this part of the kingdom.
Although in this world people don't care much about my environment, the gods of nature condemn maddened pyromancers who would attack fire and a forest as big as the one we were before.
I've only read this in books, but it is said that if a normal person commits many sins against the gods by avoiding the taboos that are enshrined, a black mark can appear on their foreheads. This is a divine punishment, there are several types of cursed marks in recorded history, I read a book about curses that gave the example of more than seventeen types of curses.
If Gloria burned this forest alone it was a rush to have a tattoo of a black tree on mine on her forehead, cursed people are treated as sinners by all religious people and can even end up being attacked by them. It is said that killing people with cursed marks allows them to gain favor with the gods who have a doctrine related to the time of the cursed mark they have.
If I killed someone who earned a mark for destroying a lot of trees and other types of plants, I could win the favor of all the gods who have teachings about protecting my environment and respecting trees, plants and flora.
I hope Gloria doesn't let her anger cloud her mind, and it's also good that she doesn't have the fire element. With her elements it is quite difficult to attack forest fire alone.
"You should forget about this incident, Gloria. In the end, the monkey's attack didn't hit you directly, your shield blocked everything."
"The shield is as important to a shield warrior like me as the sword and to the offensive warrior and the staff or wand is to a wizard. That is the symbol of my vocation, and he has been contaminated by a disgraceful attack that only a vile beast would make, and my duty to kill that monkey is a very painful way for him not to contaminate the rest of the world with his vile attitudes."
She's a lot like one of those religious fanatics, and just changing a few words that her speech becomes about warriors of the faith should kill all the unbelievers, that kind of mindset is getting stronger and stronger because of the movements of the apostles of the evil gods.
"Gloria you should calm down, the chances of you encountering the monkey again are very small and you shouldn't be too careful that your actions don't get out of control. Remember that we are living in difficult times, and the consequences can be far more severe now than ever before."
"Zephyrus is right, with the damned followers of the evil gods and demons partying everyone got paranoid. More than one member of my family has been targeted by temple watchers, just because we're rabbits doesn't mean we're supporting an evil god."
Stop I'm not the only one a bit paranoid with the heavy climate we're in, being accused of being a supporter of evil gods or just being a person who can be easily seduced could mean death or ostracism. I would not be surprised that a good number of those who suffer from this type of discrimination turn to the side of the evil gods simply to be more secure.
If it didn't involve so many innocent deaths I would find this irony amusing, the fact that many of the new worshipers of evil gods are caused by fanatical idiots who want to destroy the worshipers of evil gods and demons.
But I don't know why the rabbit tribe would be a worshiper of evil gods, as far as I know your tribe hears a female rabbit who lit the deity, but she is a goddess of the pantheon good not bad."
"Alice why her family is under suspicion, isn't the rabbit race goddess a goddess of the good pantheon?"
I get a complicated look from the rest of the group.
"You should have spent more time researching the gods, Ulric. The rabbit goddess is now a neutral goddess, she lit up as a goddess from the good pantheon, but ended up migrating to a neutral goddess because she decided to fight the slavery that the rabbit tribe was suffering."
"Many people say she didn't just fall into the pantheon of evil gods because her root is protection and that's the reason she can't fall under the rank of evil god, but to several of her priests and paladins who killed a ridiculous number of humans and they became very bloodthirsty people to the point of being cursed by some gods."
"In the northern aria of the kingdom there are many countries that will focus a lot on the enslavement of the rabbit tribe, in response to the prayers of their faithful the rabbit goddess Tifa I have built her priests to fight for the freedom of the tribe and with that a huge slaughter began. Many people died on both sides and they say they even hear combat between the good gods and after that the rabbit goddess changed pantheon."
"Because of this the rabbit goddess is seen primarily as an enemy to many religious and mainly human ones. Even today, several areas in the north of the continent are still in conflict because of races, and even less in the southern aria of the continent where our kingdom is located, but even so, like the tribe that started many rebellions in the north and still serves as the nucleus of the movement against slavers the rabbit tribe and seen as the most violent and bloodthirsty tibo to many kingdoms do not allow the rabbit tribe's family to live in their kingdom."
I had already heard that rabbit tribe has a small number, but I didn't know that the reason for this was because in the northern area of the kingdom so many conflicts started by them, most rabbits should be there and their number shouldn't be too much. great since it seems they are at the center of the conflicts.
"Well, the weather is bad for everyone, so Gloria, you better stop swearing that you're going to destroy the entire forest to get revenge on a monkey. But I'm more concerned about the owls that are in the forest at this peak."
I pointed up to get everyone's attention, even though the peak is quite steep I don't think we'll have much trouble climbing it as we have a strong earth element user. It will be Gloria who will use her earth element to pave our way, she will create the support points so that we can climb without too many problems.
It will only take a while to get up there, but I pointed out to my teammates and that even down here we are able to see the light flashing on the mountain guy. Even with the sky clear there is a huge amount of light flashing up there at a very high frequency.
"Looks like a pretty large number of owls in the woods, I think we're going to have to go up and down the mountain every day we need to stay here. Owls are very active at night and if we are surrounded by dozens of them at once we will have a lot of trouble surviving."
"Maybe most of them shouldn't be that strong."
"The problem and quantity Hilda. If there are many owls together, they will turn on us and that would be a big problem, remember that few of them have the lightning element, but looking at the peak now we can see that several owls are capable of releasing rivers."
"That means there must be even more owls that only have the wind element, that forest is very dangerous at night for us because of that we'll have to go down the cliff every day."
"Maybe we can stay in a cave on the cliff?"
"That depends on whether Gloria is able to create an artificial cave in the cliff."
"I cannot. Creating a cave for all of us to stay in would not only drain all of my energy, it wouldn't be very stable, if it falls apart, we'll all fall off the cliff."
"So, we're going to have to go up and down the peak every day. We're going to have to set up a good route to be able to climb and descend easily from the cliff."
The next morning, we will make our way to the owls' nest, hopefully getting one of their eggs without too much trouble.