Cain gathered up the other Avatars as soon as Moana got the message from her clone and got ready to head to the place known as End of the World to meet the Librarian.
They had been on this quest for a rather long time now, and it was time to get it finished. The reward should also give him something very good, and he was hoping that it would let him advance himself to Spirit Awakened.
At the moment, he had everything that he needed except for a Spirit Rank item, and he hadn't seen one of them anywhere on the planet up to now, so the quest might be his best and possibly only chance to actually acquire such a powerful item.
The real mystery was what the other Avatars had to do with anything though. Sure, they were fun to have around, but so far they hadn't had anything to do with the search for the Librarian that Cain's summons couldn't do as well or better.
That made him suspect that they would have a role to play in the interaction with the Librarian, or perhaps they would be destined to inherit a skill or something from one of the books that had been rescued from the Ancient City.
"Boss, where did my Bunny go?" Cain heard Kone calling from across the yard.
"Isn't she at the temple saying goodbye to her friends?" Cain yelled back, making Jin laugh.
"How do you even lose a person? Just message her and she will come back, I'm certain of it." The dragonkin pointed out.
"That is a possibility. But it doesn't work if she is working or too busy to check her messages. Hey, acolyte, can you find the High Priestess and bring her to me?" Cain responded, grabbing the attention of a passing Bunny child.
"No problem mister Cain. I will be right back."
The little boy ran off to find Jessica, while Jin just shook her head in amusement.
"You realize that now there are two lost Bunnies right? Jessica and the one you just sent on an errand in the middle of his chores?" She asked.
"But he won't be missing for long. Once he finds Jessica he can go back to what he was doing." Cain shrugged.
Since they didn't know how long they would be gone, their small group was planning to stock up, getting trade goods from the farm to deal with the Youkai on the far side of the Continent, plus Mythic Juices, specialty foods from the farm, and anything else that they thought might be important or interesting and help them complete the quest.
Honestly, they didn't know what it would take, so they were just going for a bit of everything.
"We should teach Jessica to join the collective. She is always busy with something, but we could tell what she was up to right away if her thoughts were open to the group." Kone suggested, coming over with a large backpack on and a clone of Moana sitting on her head.
Su had brought another large backpack full of things that didn't fit in her inventory, and the transformed Forest Dragon was even more excited about the journey than the rest of them.
Everywhere Kone went, she went, but lately, Kone had been spending her time training Larkin, so she hadn't been on any adventures at all. Now, she finally got to go on a journey, and it was just one new thing after another. New foods, Bunny Clerics, Mythic beasts, strange people at the farm, and now she would even get to see a real Youkai City, something that she had never experienced before, as she hadn't spent any time on the Southern Continent.
"I found the High Priestess." A small voice called. The acolyte had attached himself to Jessica's leg so that she didn't escape from him, but she was already heading to Cain, so there wasn't much for him to do.
"See, he wasn't lost for long," Cain told Jin, winking at the acolyte, who cheered for the recognition of his hard work before running away to finish his other tasks.
"The people from Morgeth's Army had a lot of injuries among them, so I was over there helping out. They have almost all left now, but it looks like some are going to stay by the real Morgeth anyhow, and don't want to accept that the movement is over.
She thinks that the best thing to do is to go around to the cities that they conquered and make sure that the people are doing alright. The army took almost all their awakened fighters away to speed up the process of expansion, so they might not have enough guards and hunters to defend themselves from the mythic beasts in the forests." Jessica explained.
It was a good idea, they had to do something with them if they weren't going to brainwash or kill them, so having them become proper defenders of their hometowns again would be a good start, and the real Morgeth could warn the people from the farm if the General showed up again and started causing trouble.
He should be easier to deal with the second time though. There wouldn't be any anti-magic barriers, no army around him, and Summons weren't easily affected by Mind Control unless you could break their link with their summoner. If he caused trouble again, the Echoes could send assassins again to deal with him in a more final manner and hope that he didn't have more escaping tricks.
The Oath Breakers were out looking for him right now, but so far they hadn't had any luck. They thought they picked up his trail earlier, but it was from his way in, and only led back to his army's last camp.
"Do we have everything? Is one spot open in the inventory in case of quest rewards? I hear it is annoying if your inventory is full and you can't complete a quest." Cain reminded the group.
Su moved a sword from her inventory to her hip with a very serious look, and Kone signaled Cain not to say anything about the fact that Kone would get the quest completion notice, not the Forest Dragon Companion.
"Good to go, Boss Cain. Now, let's go see the Library." Jin cheered.
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