Atanya walked with Lakyus, Tina and Tia for a few minutes. They were supposed to find the other two members of the Blue Rose, a woman named Garagan who was described to her by Tina as a mountain of muscles and Evileye who is the best magic caster in the kingdom.

And is also short.

They were supposed to be waiting for them in some tavern. So far though, it didnt look like they remembered which one.

´Cant they just message them or something?´

Finally, after almost ten minutes they found it.

"This took way too long."

Tia let out a small laugh.

"Next time I will navigate us, Lakyus cant do it."

Lakyus just sighed in response.

"Ill wait for you outside."

"Sure."

Atanyas hightened senses were amazing, but not in a place like this. She could barely stomach the terrible smell of the tavern and the city while outside. If she went inside the tavern, she couldnt resist burning the place down.

Just a few seconds later the Blue Rose emerged from the terribly smelling tavern with two other people. One a very masculine woman, or rather a she-man and the other one a short girl with an ominous mask on her face and a crimson cloak hiding her body.

´Garagan and Evileye. She really is a mountain of muscles.´

After looking at them for a while Atanya noticed that Evileye has a ring that hides undeath.

´Looks like shes got some secrets.´

Garagan immediatly went up to Atanya and extended her right arm for a handshake. Atanya took her hand and Garagan immediatly squeezed it, Atanya squeezed hers in return.

"My names Garagan. Youve got a pretty strong grip."

"And mines Atanya. Yours is not bad either."

´I barely noticed it.´

Evileye stayed silent. This irritated Garagan a little.

"Oi shorty, introduce yourself!"

Evileye stepped forward followed by a silent, annoyed grunt.

"I am called Evileye. Ive heard your name."

Atanya suppressed a sinister smirk. She took a few steps towards Evileye and whispered.

"Nice ring youve got there. A shame it cant hide you from everybody…"

Evileyes unbeating, dead heart metaphorically skipped a beat.

"H-how?!"

"I have my ways. Dont worry, I wont reveal anything."

´This day is really trying to keep me entertained. And its successfull on all fronts so far.´

Garagan got a little suspicious.

"What are you two whispering about?"

Atanya smiled at her.

"Nothing interesting."

Tina and Tia were suspicious too since they couldnt hear a word of it. Despite their over the top eavesdropping skills.

The only one who didnt care much was Lakyus.

"Now that weve all introduced ourselves, lets have a practice fight!"

"Now youre talking my language, Lakyus!"

Garagan and Lakyus were pretty excited over the practice fight, Tina and Tia didnt really show any signs of caring and Evileye just let out an exhausted sigh.

"How about we fight outside the city, somewhere on the plains."

"Sure, why not. We can fight more openly there too, so lets go!"

Garagan was excited about fighting someone who should be at least on Gazefs level. Lakyus was excited in a similliar way like Garagan, but she was also happy to discuss divine magic with her too. Tia and Tina wanted to redeem themselves from before, despite their look and Evileye considered it pointless.

On their way to the plains outside of the city they discussed a few things such as everything that concerned Atanya.

Where is she from, where did she learn to fight, is she rich, how old is she, what magic is she capable of, where did she learn said magic, what gods does he believe in and another annoying question that made her want to to stop time so that she could have an infite moment of peace before beating them unconciouss.

After what felt like an eternity filled with pointless questions, despite it being a few minutes, they arrived at the plains.

´I think that all that pointelss questioning gave me a small headache. Great...´

"How are we gonna do this?"

Asked Garagan.

"Well if you want to beat me, youll have to go all out on me."

Garagan gave her a wide smile.

"Oh I plan on doing that allright. I just dont want to exhaust you so that the others can fight a bit too you know."

Atanya smiled back.

"I see that you didnt get my meaning. What I meant to say is: All five of you have to come at me like youre going to kill me if you want to have a chance."

´Yeah right. Not even in your wildest dreams.´

Lakyus, Evileye, Garagan, Tina and Tia looked at her like if she was crazy or something. Atanya just instantly dashed over to Lakyus, who was about twelve meters away from her.

"Nice sword you have here, mind if I try it out a bit?"

No one knew how she managed to get near Lakyus like that. Even Evileyes superhuman senses only saw a small blur.

"What the-"

She dashed back to her original spot, but she just dissapeared and reapeared to the members of the Blue Rose.

"Now lets see…"

´[Silent magic: Greater appraisal magic item]! Kilineiram?! What the heck is a level fourty YGGDRASIL weapon doing in this world?´

She swung it loosely a bit before spinning it so fast it created a small tornado.

"A bit light for my taste."

Atanya threw the weapon into a tree near Lakyus, destroying the tree in the process.

Everyone just stared at her with their mouths open. The one who broke the awkward silence was Garagan and with a loud battlecry.

"OH! BRING! IT! ON!"

Garagan is a woman of three things: Body building, cherry popping (she a virgin hunter) and good fights.

So naturally she had to grab her warhammer and charge straight at Atanya. This was a good wake up call for the rest of the team and they soon charged at Atanya as well, just not as literally as Garagan and with actual tactics and thought put behind it.

Tina and Tia went into stealth and were approaching Atanya from her flanks. Both Evileye and Lakyus chanted out a few buffs. Lakyus then wrestled her sword from the tree and entered a more defensive stance, positioning herself a few meters in front of Evileye so that she could protect her but not get in the way of her spells at the same time.

´Theyve got some damn good team coordination, tactics too. A shame that theyre so far out of their league that the term isnt enough to describe the beating I am about to give them though.´

Garagan was just two meters away from Atanya now and was preparing a swing with her warhammer.

Garagan was putting all of her strength into a single overhead swing that shell strengthen with a martial art. She already saw, well she really didnt, how fast Atanya was so a single super quick powerfull attack was her best bet at atleast disturbing her balance and making an opening for Tina and Tia, who were still far away enough for the strike not to affect them.

"[Martial Art: Smash] !"

The martial art did what it said in the simplest way possible – extra smashing power for the users next attack.

Atanya just jumped into the air at the last possible second and kicked Garagan with just enough force to send her flying but not enough to snap her neck.

Lakyus immediatly ran towards where Garagan had made a more or less successfull landing.

"[Heal middle wounds] !"

´Fifth tier spell? That the best she can do? How pitifull.´

Garagan grabbed her head which still hurt like hell, even after Lakyus healed it. She got up and observed how Tina and Tia got pummeled to the ground, making two small craters.

"Hey shorty, you have experience fighting evil gods and such. This one of them?"

The Blue Rose knows that Evileye fought alongside the legendary thirteen heroes, they dont know shes udnead though. They just think that shes extending her life with magic like Rigrit.

"No."

"Well thats… blunt."

Evileye didnt know. The last time she saw this kind of speed and strength displayed was back when she fought alongside the thirteen heroes. She was trying to piece together from where Atanya might be. She said she was from the south and that she could easily use divine magic which gave Evileye the idea that shes from the Theocracy, but then she said that where she is from they dont believe in any gods and that divine magic is the same as any other magic.

Her posture and style of walking told Evileye a lot as well, although not as much as she wanted to. She walked regally and with pride, but not like a noble. She always stood straigh and was aware of everything around her, similliar to a millitary general.

´I know that theres a massive desert south of the Theocracy, never got to the end though. Could there be a country? Could she be from there?´

What broke Evileyes thoughts was Garagan crashing on the ground near her knocked unconciouss. She quickly created a crystal dagger in her left hand and prepared a spell in her right.

Lakyus summoned her blades and ordered them to attack Atanya, each from a different angle. But by the time the blades arrived anyway near where Atanya was standing, Lakyus was already kicked into a tree.

"[Cryst-"

Before Evileye could finish even the first part of the spell Atanya appeared before her and punched her face, no way near as hard as with the others since its purpose was to knock Evileyes mask off. And it worked.

"A vampire."

Evileyes dead, rotting heart skipped another metaphorical beat.

"Dont worry, I still wont tell anyone."

Evileye fell face first on the ground. She could easily get up, but she was little bit too shocked for that right now.

Atanya sighed in dissapoitment.

"Looks like Ive won."

She said this while walking towards Lakyus who was tightly clutching her left arm which was just just numbly lying on the ground.

"I hit you way too hard didnt I? Actually I hit all of you way too hard…. [Mass heal middle wounds] !"

A small wave of light errupted from Atanya. Once it reached Lakyus, Garagan, Tia and Tina it envelopped their bodies and healed their wounds and also restorred their conciousness.

At first they just stared at themselves and at Atanya before Lakyus asked her a question.

"What magic was that?"

"A modified fifth tier spell."

"That was better than one of mine though."

Whined Lakyus as she tried moving her left arm a bit. Fortunately for her, its like it was never crushed.

Tina and Tia were breathing heavily, Atanya broke some of their ribs beforehand and they were still in shock.

Garagan was lying on the ground with a small smile on her face. Probably happy the she isnt crippled or worse.

And to finish it off, Evileye was trying to find her mask and it looked quite comical.

´Well this was rather…. Underwhelming. Theyre amazed at a basic bloody spell modification.´

Atanya then approached Lakyus.

"Since I won, Id like you to answer a few questions for me."

"Yeah, sure."

Lakyus couldnt help but feel like shes in a hostage situation.

Atanya then asked Lakyus about politics with other countries and most interestingly, dragons and their abillities.

Evileye eventually found her mask hanging on a branch so she had to ask Garagan to take it down for her.

She will never hear the end of it.

Afterwards she helped Lakyus answer a few of Atanyas questions. Mainly the ones targetted at magic and dragons.

Small timeskip

Atanya was happily flying out of Re-Estize. She got everything she wanted, and more, without having to call on Gazef.

She knew what was fucking with her magic and in all honesty it was a lot better than she thought.

´I cant wait to try out this wild magic! I just need to learn it and all my problems are solved. Ill probably go and make a visit to the Draconic Kingdom place, since it has a wild magic user as its ruling monarch. Theyre also in a loosing war so theyll be in no position to deny my offer of help.´

Of course it wasnt going to be even as half as easy as it sounds in her head. The fact that wild magic is supposed to be the magic of the soul and she kinda had two of those if she understood correctly will certainly fuck with it. Not to mention that it was easily able to wipe out a country and was incredibly hard to controll if the books in the royal library were correct.

´Guess Ive got my work cut out for me.´

She still has a few other things to take care of first though.

Such as the slave girl she saved back in the capital and ordered her to be changed by using the possibly strongest racial change item ever to be created.

She also had to tell this to Ainz at some point, but preferably after she deals with the girl.

And possibly the complaints of the guardians for her venturing out alone into a world they know near to nothing about.

She was flying for about an hour by now and Nazarick was finally in sight. She was about two killometers above ground so naturally she had to dive bomb towards the ground.

While breaking the sound barrier again.

She had to spread her wings before landing though since she didnt want to create a crater in front of their doorstep. Afterwards she took a few steps inside the first floor and used her ring to teleport to Demiurges residence on the seventh floor.

´I hope Demiurge has those reports ready. Id hate for this to be a waste of time because I really cant stand the stench of burning human skin.´

Atanya barely took a few steps and Demiurge was already approaching at high speeds.

´Oh dear!´

"Atanya-sama! I demand to know why you have left without an escortt!"

"Because I was gathering information regarding myself. In other words, things only four people in Nazarick, excluding myself, will be informed off. That includes you, Kiedran, Kokabiel and Ainz."

Demiurge was a bit taken back by this.

"Well in the future I hope you will inform us about leaving to gather sensitive information."

Atanya just rolled her eyes.

"Yes, yes. Anyway, do you have the report?"

"Of course."

Demiurge gave Atanya a bundle of papers.

"Ill read these later. Come to my room in an hour."

"As you wish, my lady."

´That felt wrong for some reason.´

Atanya teleported into her room and threw the bundle of papers on the table.

"No way in hell I am reading all of that right now. Ill go check on that girl instead, thatll be a lot more fun."

Right now youd expect that she doesnt where she is but fortunately for her they already estabilished where people will be held during their transformations.

Which is in the empty rooms of the servant quarters.

So she teleported there. As she was about to open the doors, Kiedran opened them for her.

"Welcome Atanya-sama. The girl you brought from the capital should wake up any moment now."

Atanya was suprised.

"She finished transforming?"

"In record time, yes."

´I knew something was telling me she had potential but barely an hour? Thats something.´

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Tuare slowly opened her eyes, expecting the usual beating she got upon waking up. Instead, she was blinded by a strong, white light. She instinctively covered her eyes with one of her hands and much to her pleasent suprise, moving it didnt hurt. When she finaly put her hand between the light and her face, she was suprised that it wasnt bruised and bloody like it was before. She didnt believe it was hers.

The beautifull pale skin, the short sea green fingernails and the delicate webbing between her fingers.

Wait, webbing?

Tuare let out a small screech while falling off the bed, landing on her… tail? She looked down, between her legs and saw the she was indeed, sittin on her tail. It had light sea green scales with a few shades of light blue mixed in.

A fin, similliar to that of a fish, on the end of it included.

Looking further down her legs she realized that she was wearing some sort of trousers. She didnt know what they were made from, but they were light and incredibly soft to the touch. Her feet bare, but too had sea green nails and webbing in between the fingers.

She wanted to scream in panic and confusion, but she wasnt confused or afraid. She felt strangely different, but not wrong. In fact, she found this strange circumstance nice. It was clear enough to her that she wasnt in the hands of the slavers anymore, which she was ecstatic about, but that begs the question: What happenned to them?

Tuare tried to remember the last thing she saw, and soon enough images started flooding inside of her head.

Two thugs pulling her on a table and…. Having their fun when a girl in a black cloak entered the brothel and mercilessly slaughtered them. At the time she was afraid but now she felt statisfied that the bastards got what they deserved.

However the more she tried to remember the girl, the stranger the image got. The girl obviously didnt have wings or a fluffy silver tail, but something was changing her memory. She also remembered how she killed the thugs, not with a weapon but with claws…

The more she thought about it the stranger and more unbelievable it got.

Tuare got up and looked around the room. It didnt have anything in it except the bed she was sleeping in and a table with a chair. She was hoping to find a mirror, to find out if her face changed as well, but to no avail.

So she decided to conjure up a mirror of her own.

"[Water mirror] !"

Without even realizing it, Tuare used magic.

A small amount of water materialized in the air and expanded until it was the same size as Tuare. What she saw baffled her.

Her hair was the same length as it used to be, but it turned sea green with blue tips. She touched her hair and it was soft and silky. Her face stayed mostly the same, except the part where her lips turned light blue and her eyes went, yet again, sea green. None of it compared to her having fin like wings that were alsmot double her size though.

When she saw this the mirror rippled a bit.

She tried moving her tail and wings around and suprisingly, it went swimingly. (pun intended)

It was also about now that Tuare realized that she used magic. It was a small shock to her that she did it without even thinking about it, but she quickly collected herself. She took in a deep breath and the mirror evaporated into mist.

She was acting so out of character. Confident, strong, collected – these were things she could never afford while being a slave.

Suddenly, the creaking of the opening doors alarmed her.

Hey Ryuuiji, you said that you hate cliffhangers. Heres one more.