Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

The Warehouse looked abandoned.

From the outside at least, but that didn't mean that there weren't a dozen high-level Authority Officers inside waiting for us. Thankfully, we had a way to check. Rix Zeb was almost undetectable when she was in stealth, something she used to her advantage a lot.

So while our redheaded hero was investigating if it was safe to go get our teacher or not, the rest of us were stuck in the back of the moving van. Gesai had moved up front with Whisper, the bandit who for some reason had been following us around and gotten himself compelled to obey Rix. It was a strange situation, but I was glad to have the Tier Five man, since Gesai was only Tier Four and Trent was unconscious in the warehouse the last time we'd seen him.

We had thought we'd been clever, creating a distraction, then slipping in the side to rescue half of our team, but not only had the Six, the former leaders of the city of Mive, been waiting for us, but they had also revealed themselves to be possessed by demons. To make matters worse, when Trent had used a LOT of magic to try to force out Mive, the God who the city was named after, that gave them the cover they needed to use a large spell to possess all of us under the guise of subjugating Trent.

We'd won, but we were now being hunted by the Authority and I assumed soon the Adventurers would join in. It didn't help that in order to slow down the demons, Gesai had killed the Six after they had been exorcized. According to Mive, during the short time I had been in his mind, the spirits of the Six had already been forced to pass over and their bodies had been empty husks for the demons to ride around in.

I looked at the Kitsune God lying unconscious in front of me. The Six had done something to him to bind him, and it had been his request that we take him with us to protect him. The problem was that now it looked like we had killed the Six and kidnapped a God. Which is why I knew it was only a matter of time before we'd have to start fighting everyone in the city.

Most of the rest of my teammates were asleep. It'd been a long night and those who had been captured were just as exhausted as those who went in to rescue them, even though it was still morning.

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Ether Klix was on my right arm, happily sleeping with her head on my right shoulder as I sat against the side of the moving van. She was holding my arm tightly against herself as she slept. The white-haired woman was the Tank of my team and until this morning, I had thought that she was just a normal, red-eyed, ivory woman with very sharp teeth. But when we had been pulled inside Mive's Mantle, which was where the demons had planned on possessing us, she hadn't been knocked unconscious like the rest of the team. Which meant that despite her assertion that her parents were Mundane, those without a Mantle, the only way that she would have been able to be there was if one of her parents was a God. There was also the small loophole of a High Priest, but she would have to have been bound to a God in that capacity and since she was bound with me, I seriously doubted that was the case.

I looked over at Justia Publian. The green woman was my High Priest and the only reason why we had been able to escape from inside the Bequeathal Chamber. But the effort had taken a lot out of her and she was sleeping next to Aelin Zeb.

The crystal band, or CB, on my left wrist buzzed. The CB was our item storage box, how we maintained who was in our party, how we kept track of our stats and skills, a repository for information about Dungeons and monsters, as well as a communication device. My version had a limited item capacity as well as lacking the function for me to spend my skill points.

I had to tap it with my chin, since my other arm was pinned. There was a message from Rix.

It's clear. Only Sydney is in here and Gesai has her restrained. Waiting on you to question her.

I tried to disengage myself as best as I could from Ether.

"Huhmm?" She rubbed her red eyes.

"Shhh." I patted her head and helped her lay down. "I'll be right back."

She fell back asleep as Oz moved over to me. "What's going on?'

"Gesai wants us to go into the ware..!" The moving van started moving. "I guess we're going to them."

In a few moments we stopped and then the back opened up. The blonde bandit was standing outside.

"Hurry up." Whisper motioned towards the RV. "I'll stay out here in case anyone shows up."

"Thanks." I stood up and stretched. Maybe I'd be able to get some answers.