Danmachi: Westward Cloud [Complete]

Quest 71- Tusk Of The Warlord

‘I’m sure of it, that strength, those emerald eyes, 10 years of age. It should be around the time she took a leap of absence from adventuring… it also adds to why she was so power-hungry and brutal... She lost her child... It’s a shame you gave him up. I’m sure if you had kept him, he would have at least kept your Familia at least in the city. ’

Ottar gets up as his Beastification wears off and he regains more of his clear mind.

"You have a good punch; I could feel your weight in it," Ottar said, brushing the dust off of him.

"I can say the same, my endurance stat is something I’m rather quite proud of!" Cirrus then changed the spear back into a two-handed great sword. "Haa... sorry, but I don’t think I can use you at your best," Cirrus said under his breath, examining the blade. "Well, how about one last exchange, huh? I would rather not let people see what I can do after all… there are Evilus members here. "

Ottar took a quick scan of the arena and felt some malicious intent, but the crowd of adventurers drowned it out, wanting him to fight.

"Hm, I agree." He gets his weapons and gets into another stance. "But I will claim victory."

"I like to see you try." Cirrus kicked forward and came in with a swing.

"Then let’s see if you can survive this. (Silver moon's mercy, the golden wilderness)."

‘Magic!’

Cirrus increased his rate and power of attacks, but—

Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!! Clang!!!

"(This body is destined for the wild boar of the war. Run through, carry the goddess' will)."

Ottar had already learned enough to deny Cirrus any leeway.

"[Hildis Vini]." The blade glowed as brilliantly silver as his goddess.

"!!!!"

In those split seconds, Cirrus kicked back, trying to gain distance, but it was in vain.

"ROOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" he kicked off the ground, quickly covering whatever distance Cirrus had.

He moved his blade to block it, but Cirrus knew this was an attack he wasn’t able to take.

BAAAAAM!!!!

He lost consciousness.

SKID!!!!

The strike slammed the spine of his own weapon into himself, knocking the air—

SKID!!!!

and the daylights out of him—

SKID!!!!

As well as his magic.

The only way he slowed from the attack was his body once again skidding across the ground and into the arena’s door, knocking it off its hinges and going a bit into the tunnel.

THUD!!!!

"!?"

Where he regained consciousness from the impact.

‘Fu—'

"—ck."

He felt like shit; he felt like he'd been hit by ten Nuckelavees.

"I…. should have… gone a bit… seriously…" He said, his head spinning and his eyes shaky. He could feel thousands and thousands of ants crawling up his body. The ground was starting to disappear.

‘N-Nox cover…’

"A… i?" Looking up, he saw a blurry white before it all went black.

Seeing Cirrus knocked out and bloodied, Ai looked to see the arena with Ottar far off. She knew.

"Cirrus! Are you okay!?" She quickly knelt and checked to see how he was.

"…" He was out cold.

"Dammit!" She took out a potion and splashed it on him.

She could see his injuries slowly healing when Nox came and covered his face.

"You!? What are—"

"Zephyr!!" shouted Hermes, rushing in with Asfi and Lydia behind him. "Are you—" looked at Ai for a second before turning his attention back to Cirrus. "Lydia! Asfi! See if he’s fine!"

They rushed to him. Ai got out of their way as they examined him, but Nox refused to let go of his face.

"You Renard, did you use a potion?" Exclaimed Lydia.

"Y-yes!!"

She quickly patted him to feel if anything was out of place, only to find some bones were still broken.

"Quite a few still broken bones. What do you think, Lord Hermes?" She looked to see her god in deep thought.

‘Dammit… I want him to keep fighting, but… I don’t know how much his armor drains him of his magic... dammit!!’

"… Call the fight. He cannot keep fighting."

"Right! Asfi, take him to—"

"Zephyr!!" shouted Eupheme, coming from the stands into the tunnel. "Move aside, I am his blacksmith!"

"Wait, how do we know you’re not lie—"

"Hoot!! Hoot!!" Nox hooted, nodding her head.

"Well, are you going to argue with his smart owl!?"

‘That owl… why is it so odd…’ Hermes thought about how truly strange his owl was. All he could see was a contradiction. The more he looked at her, the more he didn’t know what she was.

"Take him, make sure you wake him up. Let's go. "

"Hm!" Eupheme picked him up carefully.

Lydia and Asfi followed their god, while Ai followed Eupheme.

"U-um I saw his face! So can I follow you? "

"… No, return to your Familia for now. But come to my shop, he will explain himself." She then left, leaving Ai to be found by her Familia.

Leaving the Colosseum after Hermes announced Ottar had won, the gods of Evilus were returning to the surface. The gods of Evilus got together.

"We need to tell Loviatar about this," said Apate. "I’m sure with that monster able to fight against that wild boar Ottar and with Artemis here, I’m sure they’re going to hunt her down!"

"Did you not receive word from her?" asked Alecto.

"No… not even a single word, when I heard of the monster being unsealed in the South-Western part of the continent and it destroying towns and villages, I knew she succeeded, but to find her up now is… tch Valletta do you think you can find something on where she went?"

Valletta, in a black cloak, came up to her goddess.

"I can, but it's going to cost us. That book hoarder isn’t cheap."

"That’s fine. At least his information is reliable."

"So what?" said Rudra. "Are we going to send one of our children to find her? And what if, when they find her, she has already unsealed another monster!?"

"A very reasonable thought, Apate?"

"If that’s the case, then we go to another place where one of those monsters is supposedly sealed."

"And that is??" said Rudra.

"Telskyura, the Country of Blood and Fighting."

His states after fighting in the dungeon, smithing, and fighting Ottar.

His states after fighting in the dungeon, smithing, and fighting Ottar.

Cirrus Zephyr

Lv. 6

Strength: I0→ 99                Endurance: I0→H198

Dexterity: I0→ 20              Agility: I0→ H199

Magic: I0→ G205              Mage: E

Immunity: E                        Martial Arts: F

Crush: H                              Blacksmith: I→H