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In the adventure guild the adventures are waiting for the new job posting to be put up on the job board. As they waited they ate the food and drink that the guild provides, they shared stories with each other and told each other the news they have heard. But what's the most talk about news is about the warrior women from the eastern woods.
"The eastern forest use to be the home of the Illirian elves before the demon lord of that era drove them out. There are some of them still around, one lives where, I'm from she's the best garden of the kingdom," High Elf Archer said to her group of Goblin Slayer, Priestess, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest.
"A gardener?" Dwarf Shaman ask.
"In the Illirian culture the practice of growing and cultivating plants is considered an important and even holy skill. Gardening is a highly-valued profession, practiced even by the high-born elves. The Illirian elves are also known to be politically more skilled than the other elven kinds. I should know, I'm married to one," Druid Elf said from the nearby table he's sitting at with his party.
"What do you know of the forest?" Dwarf Shaman ask.
"From what my wife told me. It use to be a good place to live till the demon lord attack and drove her people to the winds about 7,000 years ago. There was a dwarven kingdom of Golden Hills known for their brewery, and their love for gold. My wife joked that the dwarves only live underground to keep the rain out of their beer. There is also a Rhea town of Mellow Hills that was also there. Then there was Greenvale a human dukedom that fell on hard times after Black Baron died and his brother took over. My wife told me that if the Black Baron was alive when the Demon Lord attack, he might had been able to kill the demon lord, he was able to summon minions who frought for him at will. He was a tyrant who had enslaved the entire area but without him, the entire region was overrun by the demon lord's army. What's left has been reclaimed by the forest and filled with all sorts of monsters and creatures," Druid Elf said.
"Minions? Like the Dragontooth Warriors?" Lizard Priest ask.
"No from what my wife remembers, the minions were small goblin like creatures, but have small noses and large bat like ears. They were magical creatures that were created by the Black Baron, but all disappeared after he died," Druid Elf said.
"How did he summon them?" Goblin Slayer ask having perked up having
"Kept it to himself and his family were all slain by the demon lord," Druid Elf said.
"What of the warrior women?" Priestess ask.
"Might be a tribe of warrior women who decided to claim the forest," Amazon said.
"And are the reason why there aren't any jobs around there too," Spearman said.
"They been hunting down all the dangerous beasts and monsters around the forest. They also been going to the different villages and asking if they have any troubles with monsters. All they ask in return is supplies. It's the reason why the goblins and other monsters have been fleeing from the east. Which is causing problems for the western regions," Guild Girl said. (1)
"That explains why there have been so many quests lately to deal with monsters," Swordman said.
"And the reason why there's a mission to find out what's happening there. The warrior women have been buying up all the ore at the new mine," Co-Worker said finishing up posting the missions on the board.
"Really?" Spearman ask.
"Yes the capital wants to know what those women are doing," Co-Worker said.
"They keep to themselves. I tried talking with one of them and just got the cold shoulder," Thief Padfoot said.
"You tried hitting on her and got the cold shoulder," Archer Elf said. Causing the other adventures to laugh.
"Anyways, we did follow their tracks and just found a fort made of logs in the forest," Thief Padfoot said.
"The do have money but they mostly traded with furs and cured meat and horns," Archer Elf adds.
"Not much that we don't already know. So who wants the job?" Co-Worker ask the group of adventures.
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Eastern Forest -
Walking on the forest path Rookie Warrior and his childhood friend Apprentice Cleric are on the look out for the warrior women. The quest was to gather information on the warrior women which is why it's a low ranking quest with low pay, prefect for the two of them to show the guild what they can do.
"Wow this place is actually very quite without all the dangerous beasts and monsters running around," Apprentice Cleric ask.
"I guess this is why the mission was such a low level job," Rookie Warrior said.
They spotted a clearing up ahead of them, where the trees have been all cut down. The land has also been smoothed down, plants and stones have all been removed. so that there is no cover at all. In the center of the clearing is a fort, where all the wood of the cut trees had been used to build. The wall is made out of wooden logs driven down into the ground, there is a ditch dug in front of the walls to make it harder to climb. There is a road leading to the forest, which Apprentice Cleric and Rookie Warrior hadn't taken to avoid being spotted.
"If we go into the clearing we will be seen," Rookie Warrior said.
"I can use a spell to see what's inside. I learned it from Witch," Apprentice Cleric said.
"We're only here to gather information. So do it," Rookie Warrior said.
"Alright," Apprentice Cleric said casting the long range sight spell. She created a invisible eye that is link to the magic ball before her that shows what the eye is seeing.
The invisible eye flew into the air and gave the two a bird's eye view of the insides of the fort.
The fort has three towers, a well, 5 interior buildings, that including a stable and a warehouse. The other 3 buildings are unknown but one does have lots of smoke coming out from a chimney. There is several wolves being skinned, drain of their blood that is dripping into large buckets, pieces of meat on drying racks and skins being made into leather.
The entire fort is populated by women who are all wearing hide armor decorated with skulls and bones, and many are armed with clubs or axes, making them look like a tribe of barbarians. There is no signs of who is in charge, as none of them really stands out.
"So how many you think are in there, can your spell tell?" Rookie Warrior ask.
"No but there has to be over 50 or 100 of them," Apprentice Cleric said.
The gates began opening and the eye looks down the road leading to the forest. A wagon train of 4 wagons is coming out of the forest loaded with iron ore, tools, supplies, and sacks of grain. The wagons are all heavily guarded with no less then 20 of the warrior women to each wagon being pulled by 2 giant women to each wagon, with two more woman pulling the one loaded with iron ore, which is made to hold all the weight. The women are even bigger then Amazon but unlike her all 10 giant women are wearing bear skins, they're giants among the other women and easily pulled the wagons loaded with goods.
"Those women are huge," Rookie Warrior said.
"Yeah they are," Apprentice Cleric said feeling her self-esteem falling seeing how big the women's breasts are, each being bigger then her head.
"So much metal but what are they doing with it?" Rookie Warrior ask seeing how there is no blacksmith workshop in the fort.
"They might be transporting it elsewhere," Apprentice Cleric said.
"Let's go back before they see us," Rookie Warrior said.
The two left not seeing shadowy figures watching them from the trees.
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Author's Notes -
1 - Unlike in games where the monsters will just respawn, hunting down the monsters will cause them to flee elsewhere. Which cause problems in other areas, who have to deal with the monsters who fled. Like in real life where if a group of animals are force out of one place, ending up in another place sometimes cause problems there.
Or driving them off will cause something else to claim the empty plot of land. Like driving off a bear will cause the wolves show up instead, as the bear was the only thing keeping the wolves away.
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