'That was a better work out than the slimes Iris.'
All around me is nothing but corpses of Goblins, Hob-Goblins, and surprisingly Orcs.
I agree with her and step down from the corpse mountain to make my way to the end of the village to where the boss supposedly is.
As we near the biggest hut we hear a the crying of a girl.
'Don't tell me…'
As I enter I see a female green skinned teenage orc just laying in the fetal position crying. Her outfit consist of animal furs as if she is a cave man.
'Look I don't want to kill her and I have no clue as to why only girls have been the bosses so far.'
I inspect her to see what her status is but nothing happened as it seems I'm nearly out of mana. So I decide to let it regenerate as I try to talk to the girl.
"Hey…"
She peeks at me and then hides behind the makeshift throne mumbling. From behind the throne she keeps taking a peek at me and then hides again when she notices I'm still there.
"Get out from behind the Throne. I just want to talk."
'Wait.'
As she stands in front of me I see how scared she is while shaking and I notice she's a couple inches smaller than me.
"What is your name?"
"I a-am called M-Maertisa, you can just call me M-Mae."
I sigh as I realize that she may be too scared to listen to what I say.
"Look Mae, I have a proposal. I have the skill tame and I would like to use it to establish a contract with you."
She looks like she's calming down as I explain the details to her.
"So if I do this, I can explore new things?"
I nod my head and then as I am about to ask a question Iris stops me.
"Yes you can, is the deal ok?"
She nods her head and I use the skill on her using the name already given to her. The phenomenon from before with Elva and Astarte occurs once again.
'I should assume this will happen any time I make a contract with tame.'
Before she emerges from the cocoon I send her to where the other two are so she could rest and get used to whatever changes there are.
'I wonder what she's going to become.'
I roll my eyes as I then touch the next circle that appeared after I contracted with her. Now out of the village I noticed I was inside some sort of cave system again, but this time I was inside some sort of stone carved city.
'Where am I Iris?'
I could feel my mana slightly drain as she scans the city. I look around and notice how I don't see any monsters, or people running about. It's empty as if it's a ghost town.
These dwarves were better known for their stone work and blacksmithing skills compared to other dwarves. All masters in the dwarves kingdoms came here to learn, that is until this kingdom vanished.>
'Can I make this kingdom return alongside Olympus?'
'Ok, let's keep looking around then.'
I walk onto what looks to me a main road. On both sides are wall with tattered stalls that have trinkets and items that seem to have never aged.
I see stalls that have weapons that still look new, gear and armor that look like they were just made, and I started to notice statues as I walked closer to the town square.
The statues looked like Dwarves and they all looked to be screaming in fear. As I got to the center I saw a letter nailed to a post. I took it off and started to read it.
'To the people of Nal Lodur! You have unleashed a curse upon yourselves due to your greed for not sharing your creations with the Demon King Alviria!
She has decreed ironically that a curse of stone will be your sentence for a few centuries or until she has been appeased! It is nigh impossible to cure this curse and to prevent from anyone attempting to save you the dead will rise as a variant of undead acting as guardians of a tomb.
On this letter is a dark spell attached for when one reads it fully the curse will be released.
-Yours Truly,
1st General of The Demon Kings Army
Furia Bloodweaver'
'What the fuck?!'
'Is there a way to free them?'
After nodding yes I started to make my way to what seemed to be the palace or where the one who ruled this kingdom resided.
As I walked through I marveled at how well the structures were made and their architecture.
As I kept walking I saw armored statues wielding weapons as if they are protecting something or someone. I saw that the gates leading inside were already open so I ran through making my way (hopefully) to the throne room.
After a few minutes I arrived in the throne room and see something odd. There are two statues with one of them being a four armed demon that looks more like a monster than the ones I fight.
The other one is what looks like the Dwarven king and he is wielding a Large Two-Handed Battle-Axe. The axe looks like it's about to nearly cleave the monster in two while the demons claws are about to pierce the Dwarf.
Then I see it. In between the two statues is a slightly glowing dwarven boy floating and as I inspect it I see that he's stuck frozen in time as if to keep him alive.
As I'm about to touch him I see a warning from Iris.
'You're right, I should investigate some more to see if I can free everyone.'
As im leaving the palace I can feel a disturbing energy starting to awaken.
My senses going overdrive as I dodge to the left and feel a sword fly right past my left arm, narrowly missing me.
'Thank the gods for your warning!'
I jump back seeing an undead dwarf. Feeling sad for the people here I cast Lightning Bolt at the enemy and I see a nice blue lightning strike him down. Left behind is a body with no head.
I do as she asks and as I start to pray I can feel the area become warm. I open my eyes and see bright notes of light leaving the body before converging.
"Thank you child of Olympus."
As the light dims I see a spirit of the undead I killed.
"Your welcome, it's only right that I try to help the people who denied the Demon King her chance at victory."
The spirit laughs and then gets serious.
"Lad, the only way you can help the rest of us is to break this curse."
"How do I do that?"
"Kill the undead abomination that guards the effigy for this curse. Then destroy the effigy by pouring your blood into it. The blood of the gods is highly toxic to curses and any form of undead."
'Is that true?'
'It's ok, you are still learning.'
"What of the boy child in suspended animation?"
"Boy? Hahahahahahaha!"
The spirit is rolling around in the air and slowly vanishing as its energy disperses.
"That child is a girl! She is a prodigy at being a craftsman no matter the craft! If you break this curse then she too will be free. Use that skill of yours to make a contract."
"Wait, how do-"
"I know from experience boy, plus I sense several mana signatures from you. See you later in the underworld boy. Visit me will you and put in a good word with Hades if he manages to come back."
The spirit finally disintegrates and I'm left with more questions than answers.
"Well that was odd."
I turn around and begin looking around while killing any undead I come across. I pray for them too before continuing obviously.