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

I had no idea what she was talking about.

"Pits?" I looked at Gesai, "What are those?"

"Pit Fighting. Think Adventurer Games, but underground and bloody." Ether started going through menus on her CB. "I've got her!"

"How do you know about..?" The glare Ether gave me was enough to stop that line of questioning. For now anyway.

"You know where Astrid is?" Gesai put Zel down.

Ren, Justia and Jen ran over to try to comfort the young woman who had started crying again.

"Not Astrid exactly…" Ether looked at me.

"With all the disappearing that Rix was doing while we were in Wurn, we thought that maybe we should have a way of tracking her in case she did something…" I waved my hand around. "Like this."

"You put a tracker on Rix?" Gesai shook her head, "She's going to kill you."

"At least she'll be alive to do it." Ether motioned for people to follow her.

I looked at the other Tank. "Shelly, I need you to stay here in case something happens." I looked at Aelin. "You too Aelin."

"But…"

"No buts." I slashed my finger in front of her. "Look, I know you're okay with what we might have to do, but if you go, then Justia isn't going to be able to stop worrying about you, which means that when their parents…" I pointed at Zel. "Get here, There won't be anyone to handle the Nobility."

"Hey!" Jen pouted. "I'm here!"

"And you're going to do exactly what Justia says." I turned back to Aelin. "Call Trent, tell him what happened." I touched my chest. "He can track both of us."

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The blonde nodded and walked out of the room.

I turned to the other two women. "This isn't an order…"

"I'm going." Oz headed for the stairs.

"I'll go."Fray seemed a little more sure of herself.

I grabbed Oz's collar and pulled her back. "We're taking the shortcut."

I took off running and lept off of Rix's balcony. The grass in the lawn was pretty soft and I rolled to a stop and got up. It wasn't perfect, but I was able to get down about the same time as Ether.

Oz and Fray landed beside me and we headed towards the RV.

"No." Gesai slashed her hands. "I am only taking Ether because she can track Rix. I'm not taking the three of you into that death trap."

I ignored her and kept jogging towards the RV.

"Hey!" Gesai reached out to grab me, but her hand got shocked.

I stopped and turned around. "Look. I get that you're worried about me. But I'm going to go help my friends." I shook my head. I didn't even know Astrid, but I'd already thrown her into that category. I let out a nervous breath. "You promised to follow me, because you knew that I would be worthy of following. Which means you can't stop me, so you can either waste time with you failing to block me. Or we can get in that vehicle and go save our teammates!"

I couldn't hear what Gesai grumbled, but she walked past me and got in the RV.

I looked at the other two women. "Let's go."

"Took you long enough." Ether had a map of the city on the table at the booth and was standing over it. "She's not moved much in the last few minutes, so I think this is where they are."

"On it." The RV started moving and I was pretty sure that if we got seen by any Authority, we were going to be in a lot of trouble for how fast we were going and how little of the lights and signs we were adhering to.

Oz and Fray were both putting on their armor and I started doing the same. It was a little heavier than our casual clothes, which is why I preferred not to wear armor outside of the dungeon, but in this case, our blue leather could pass as casual clothes. Ether's more solid armor wouldn't be able to pass as casual clothes. Not that it was going to be a lot of help if there were Adventurer's there. Depending on the type, I might be able to take on a Tier One, but Tier Two and above were out of my league and I wasn't sure if Oz and Fray would be much good against anything other than Mundane.

I made sure my pistol was loaded with the cartridge of magic bullets, and put it in my holster. I really hoped she was going to be okay.