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The battle begins as the antelope charges Valerie with a volley of quick kicks.
"Kick [Savannah rush]!" Annabelle lunches the power kicks at the Hobbit however.

"{Soundless}" Valerie activates her magic disappearing completely from sight.

"Where'd she go.... Ouch!" Annabelle wondered as a sharp pain stabbed her right side.

Punch after punch yet the antelope couldn't see where the Hobbit went to until.

'crack' one of the branches on the ground was mysterious broken
"There! [Ground breaking kick!] 'bammmmmmm!' the antelope leaped and delivered a powerful kick cracking the very earth.

"Missed by an inch!" Valerie re appeared behind her and grabbed her horns.

"Huh! Kyaaahhhhh!" The antelope screams as she's lifted into the air
'slammmmmmmmmmm!' with no mercy using her upper body strength Valerie slams the antelope head first into the ground knocking her out.

"Hehehehehe, not bad if I so say so myself" Val Pat's herself on the back.
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The next battle has Sofia and Bonny the hyena racing through the forest.

"Hyehehehehehe!, Stay still sweetie I just want to show you my rod!" The sadistic hyena chases after the other worlder as the bulge in her pants gets bigger.

"No means no! Plaaaaaa" Sofia sticks out her tongue and keeps running.

Hidden in the forest Zion takes aim with his wooden bow {Arbor shot!} 'zippppp!' he shoots an arrow covered in green aura and it zips towards Bonny.

"Huh?!" Bonny is surprised as an arrow hits the ground underneath her
'grooooooooooo!' roots shoot out towards her.

"Fat chance! Hyahhhh!" 'slasshh!' she cuts down the roots with her claws but just as she's about to turn around.

"Tiger Punch!!!!" Sofia lands a direct hit on the hyena her fist transformed into a blue tiger paw and she knocks out the hyena.
"gUwaaaaaahhh!" She cries and falls to the ground however the bulge in her pants remained.

"Gross" Zion commented and wrote down in his journal "Hey don't touch it!" He yelled as he saw Sofia trying to take a look.

"I wasn't gruuuuu!" Sofia pouts and looks away from her defeated opponent.

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The main battle between the two leaders goes on.

"[Lion dozer!]", "{Air wall bash!}" Edward and Graven Punch each other creating a shockwave.

"Ha! For a human you sure can keep up with the king of beast!" Graven laughed.

"King of beast? Sorry but I know someone that's even more beastly than you!" Edward said with a serious face.

"Bastard, fall human!" Graven charges.
[Beast King fang!] Graven's teeth became even sharper and the lion man bites down on Edward's arm 'Chomp!' however...

"Eh?!" Graven is shocked to see no blood, instead he's biting down on a force field of air surrounding Ed's arm.

"My turn! {Air wall x 3! Bash!}" 'baaaaaaaammmm!' Edward sends his fist covered in 3 layers of the air shield straight into Graven's exposed chest.

"Gaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!" The white lion cries out as He's flung backwards due to the force.
"Coughhhhhh!,........ It can't.....be....... By a....... Mere......human!......." Graven falls to his knees and collapses.

"Not a mere human, a Diora knight" Edward raised his right hand in victory.

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Basil and the secretary struggle for the deed on the Rocky plateau.

"Go away human baaaahh, you wouldn't understand what it's like to be a third rate citizen baaaahhh! You humans just keep all the good resources to yourselves baaaaaah! Leaving us with your rotten leftovers baaaaaah!" Secretary complained.
"Now it's our turn, your land, your food baaaaaah! All of it will be ours for the taking baaaaaah!" She yelled.

"Shut the hell up!" Basil yells back.
"Stop talking like it's all humans getting the presidential treatment! Most of us are just like you guys suffering! That's just how the government works!" Basil explains.

"Going to war will only make things worse for both sides that's why! As a working class woman I'll beat you!"
Basil punches the sheep right in the gut 'powwwwwww!'

"Baaaaahhhhhhhh" the secretary cries and passes out.

"Alright I got this stupid thing...... Wait a sec" Basil takes a closer look.

On the back of the Deed of Furiran village are strange patterns that look almost like a map.

"Ahhhh......" A voice comes from the other side of the plateau it belongs to a man that comes walking towards Basil, "would you look at that, a pretty girl" he said flirtatiously.

Basil takes a closer look at the man, his dressed very strangely, bandages on his chest and arms, golden chest plate and glasses, his hair cut was bizarre too, not matching his dark skin color, but what caught her eye was the red chain necklace around his neck.

"Who are you?!" Basil went on the defensive.

"Ah just a traveling Taolist, Blake at your service!" He posed magnificently.

"What are you doing here?!" Basil started to move backwards slowly.

"Been looking for a piece of paper like the one in your hand, mind letting me see it" Blake said playfully.

"Sorry but this is important, later weirdo" Basil turns away from him and starts walking away (he couldn't be one of those cultists right?) Sweat drops from her face.

"Ahhhhh, guess I'll have to show you a bit of my profession" Blake closed his eyes and from within his bandages 4 sheets of yellow paper come out 'swooshh swooshh swooshh!' they fly towards Basil.

"Huh?" She turns around but it's too late.

'Zaaaaaaaaaappppo!' the paper turns into lightning shocking Basil into submission.

"Ouuuuuuuhhhh!" Basil let's go of the Deed and falls down unconscious.

"Hmmmmmm you didn't die? Guess the people here are stronger than I give credit to" Blake looked at her surprised and picks up the Deed.

"Basillll!!!" From the forest ground Edward and the others notice what had occurred and run to her rescue.

"Sighhhhhhhh, people just can't take a hint!" Blake said stroking his hair.

Edward gets closer and identifies him as a cultists "You! your part of the Aris cult aren't you?!" She screamed.

"Church! You fat bastard! Deacon Blake of the Meissa cathedral part of the great Aris church and Master Taolist at your service" Blake vsays proudly.

"Ed, he has the deed!" Valerie says looking at the villain's right hand.

"Give it back! {Air wall bash!} Edward charges Blake but he dodges.

"Wow there!" Blake backs off "that's some interesting magic but it lacks the 'boom' " Blake air quotes with his fingers.

"Basil Basil!" Sofia tries to wake up the injured receptionist but to no avail.

"Sofia take Basil and go since you are the fastest, Zion, Valerie and I will handle this" Edward said taking charge of the situation.

"Ehemm, careful please" 'shhhhhooooo' Sofia said before transformation into a blue cheetah.

"Wowwwww!" Blake said amazed by Sofia transformation magic.

Sofia leaves with Basil into the forest while the others take on Blake.

"Give back the deed! {Arbor shot}" Zion shoots an arrow at the wrist of the Taolist.

'soooooommm' a blue piece of paper comes out from the bandage around Blake's wrist, the paper burns out and suddenly 'zooooooom' 'pazzzzztt!' an electric dome shielded the man from the magic arrow.

"What?" Zion is confused.

"{Electrode dome!} Not one of my favorites but it gets the job done" Blake said before looking in front of him.

{Air wall Big shot!} Edward sends a giant air bullet at Blake's shield destroying it 'shizzzzzzzzzzzzzz!' leaving the Taolist defenseless.

"Herrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!" Valerie released a Sonic wave of energy at Blake from her mouth

"Gahhhh!" Blake yells as he's forced backwards by the scream however.

"No way!" Valerie is devastated as she looks the Blake's chest.

"Gahhhh, it hurt..... Not, thanks for the sound spell though those are pretty rare" Blake says completely unharmed instead his holding a white piece of paper that turns yellow as soon as the spell hit him.

(He absorbs magical spells too?) Edward thought to himself.

"Well I'll save it for later now then, time to finish you!" He raised his hand up and took out a huge yellow paper from his wrist
"{Emperor's lightning!}" The paper vanished and turned into a giant bolt of purple lightning hurdling towards Edward from above.

{Air wall x5!} Edward creates 5 thick barriers of air above to shield him from the attack however...

'Bzzzzzzzzztttttttttttttttttt!' the electric spell makes short work of barrier destroying it and shocking The hell out of the poor boy "Gyahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!" Edward yells in pain the current is too powerful for him to handle.

His clothes are burnt by the high current smoke emits from his body "shhhhhhhhiiiiiiiii"
He starts to see something from his misty eyes the figure of a young man covered in black
(I........ I wanted to become stronger so when you return you'd never have to bear that much burden every again...... I'm sorry Sir) tears fall from his eyes and he faints.

"Oh yeah! One down 3 to go! I'm on a role yah yah!" Blake starts moving his hips strangely in a form of a victory dance.

"Teach! You bastard! You'll pay for that! {Arbor shot x 3}" Zion enranged fires off 3 green glowing arrows at Blake 'shiiicc, shiccc, shhhicc!'

Before Blake can't even react "poooooooofffffffff!' the 3 arrows explode creating a cotton smoke screen "What sort of baby magic is this?!" Blake complains as he tries to escape the smoke screen.

"Here!" Zion yells holding his bow like a bat in attempts to wack the Taolist however.

'bonk!' Blake stops the bow with his hand taking only slight damage, "ouch! that's lame man!" He takes out a yellow talisman and points it at the Archer,
"Wind booster!" 'shoooooooowaaaaaaaaaaa' a giant tornado shoots out from the paper sending Zion flying away.

"Owaaahhh!" Zion's body lands hard on the stone ground defeated.

"Now then where did....... The scripture! It's gone!!!" Blake freaked out over being unable to find the deed.

Unknown to him an invisible Hobbit girl had taken it and was heading towards the forest.

"Who wants to dare me?! I swear I'll destroy this entire area return the scripture!" Blake yelled yet no one answered.

"God is my witness! Burn! {Great flame......!!}" Blake took out a dangerous looking red talisman paper ready to unleash it until.

"{Ice mist!}" A feminine voice falls from the sky along with a blast of cold air 'snoooooooooooowwwwww!' the air freezes the environment including the unconscious Edward and Zion Along with the Hobbit girl Valerie.

'step step step' from within the mist a woman with long dark purple hair walks towards Valerie's frozen body, she's wearing a Gothic nun outfit designed with silver chains all over her body, her distinct features we're her completely blue eyes, pale skin and black tattoo mark around her neck like a scar, in her left hand is a blue crystal spear.

"What the?! Rosy! Why the hell is Harris's doll here?!" Blake saw through the mist and recognized the goth woman.

"Sighhhhhhhh!" Rosy didn't bother to answer him until she had collected the scripture from Valerie
"Master said........ "Gacha God warns me that fool will destroy a scripture with his red talisman, go stop him Abyssiamakimaaaaa!" and that's why I'm here Sighhhhhhhh" Rosy repeats nonchalantly.

"Bloody Simp! I wasn't going to do that!" Blake hides his red talisman.
"Now then let me finish off these bastard" the Taolist cracks his knuckles and approachs the defeated wrath party until.

'stepstepstepstepstepstepstep!' from the forest hundreds of foot steps could be heard as it seems the Beastmen were approaching.

"Shit! Fuck them locals!"Blake yelled and wanted to pull out a talisman until.

'grab' Rosy the goth nun holds his hand stopping him, "Sighhhhhhhh too many witnesses don't cause anymore trouble for master" Rosy said tired as hell.

"Tskkkkkk, fuck all y'all" Blake says pissed off as he and Rosy escape the plateau.

Furiran village medical bay
After the battle the Beastmen had brought Edward and the others for treatment.

On one of the hospital beds Edward starts to wake up "huuuh? Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the deed!" He panics as he doesn't know what has happened.

"Calm down teach" Zion says also lying down on a bed.

"Huh?" Edward asked.

"Edddddddoooo!" Sofia See's his up and gives him a hug "waaaaa!" He yelps.

"Seems Basil has a talent for forgery" Valerie who was also taking a rest said playing with her wild bushy hair.

Edward would soon understand what they meant.

Town hall
"Hehhhhh?! A scribe!!!" Edward freaked out.

"Keep it down! Yes I'm a scribe on my mother's side, it gives me the ability to copy any sort of writing perfectly once I've seen it" Basil explained
"As soon as I woke up and we went looking for you guys, I quickly wrote another Deed on similar paper and passed it of as the Deed to the village" she finished.

"You... you're amazing" Edward said surprised.

"Shut up you low life! I only did it cause my family is here don't misunderstand!!!" Basil's face turned red as she started to shout.

Mayor Rets thanked Edward and the Wrath party for saving his life along with punishing his secretary and the Wild Hunt members, by taking them to the birdcage.

Finally it was time to return to the capital.

Basil's house
In the wooden cabin Basil was kneeling down in front of her father while her 3 siblings were watching from the background.

"I'm sorry father, but I had to use it, even though it might be selfish I didn't care" Basil says confidently "I couldn't let this place fall apart".

"Calm down my daughter, you did nothing wrong" he said calmly.

"Dad I won't....... Did you say did nothing wrong?" Basil did a double take.

"A scribe who uses their powers for others Instead of themselves is truly a great person, I'm proud of you for choosing the right path" he smiled at her.

Basil wanted to cry but her pride didn't let her causing her face to morph into a very strange shape making her siblings laugh.

Village gate
A small crowd of beastmen had gathered to send of the humans.
Chukooko the basilisk was chomping on a giant fish Greg had gotten for him.

Abigail hugged both her parents and entered the carriage.

"Take care dear, beware of witches" Mimi said in a worried tone.

"Edward take care of my daughter, bring me grandkids next time you show up nyahahaha" Greg joked.

"You guys!" Abigail cried while Sofia once again looked pissed.

"Thank you for everything!", "Be careful!", "Look out for monsters!" The crowd cheered as the carriage started to move out and just like that the saga of the Beastmen village came to a close.

Serpent's path
The party were now half way through the path when Valerie asked an important question.

"What was that cultist's goal?" She said pissed.

"It's unlikely he was trying to cause war between the two races"Zion said.

"But to steal the original deed? Why?" Edward added.

"Toilet paper?" Sofia said stupidity while playing with a stick.

"There was a map on the Deed, I don't know what it was for but if the Aris cult wants it, it must be dangerous" Basil spat out
"And here I thought when that demon left things would be peaceful! I'll have to report this to Master David in the guild" the entire mood of the carriage went somber.

"God help us all" Abigail prayed for the safety of her friends and kingdom.

Swampfort village
Witch's cabin
After dropping off Basil and Abigail, the remaining Wrath party members headed home only to be greeted by 2 beautiful young women.

"Genevieve, miss Eliza?" Edward said confused by the appearance of these two girls.

Genevieve was dressed in her rich girl attire a yellow and white dress with bonnet covering her wavy blonde hair, her purple eyes were as sharp as ever.

While Eliza looked like hell, he armor was almost completely destroyed her dark skin was covered with dust, and her black hair was a mess.

"Edward something big just happened" Genevieve said seriously.

"What?" Edward asked.

".......... We saw Remi" Eliza says with pain in her eyes.

What happened, what did Remi do find out next time
To be continued