"Hmm…it looks like the city is called Morthal." Lupus said in a gleeful tone. The three battle maids were currently traveling northeast in order to connect with a path that would lead them directly to this city. They were walking through straight wilderness, trekking over the plains that Nazarick had found itself planted on. Lupus had kept the map since swiping it from CZ earlier, Entoma had not yet looked at it and expressed no such desire, while CZ had been occasionally glancing over at Lupus. Lupus had decided at that moment to go over the map in order to keep her sister happy and increase the chances of success in the mission, she had to remind herself that Lord Ainz was expecting them to go beyond.

"By the looks of it, we'll run into a small village a while after finding the main path, although it doesn't seem to be named on the map…maybe it's new!" Lupus looked over at her sisters to see what they thought of it.

Entoma spoke first, "Then maybe they won't mind a few missing people here and there, I could go for a snack. The green biscuits I brought are good, but humans can really hit the spot."

"No Entoma- "CZ quickly interjected. "-Lord Ainz said to keep a low profile. Humans are likely to notice when their own go missing."

Entoma thought for a moment then said, "Fine, maybe there will be other things to try, Lord Ainz also said to keep an eye out for new stuff…"

At this point Lupus was satisfied with the feedback, or just wanted to talk about something more interesting. "Sooo…what do you guys think it is that Lord Ainz wants us to find?"

"We have just begun our mission, we do not have sufficient information to be making wild guesses." CZ had replied with a rather bored expression.

Entoma thought for a while before replying. "Hmmm…. maybe we're looking for a…world item…what do you think Lupus?"

"I know Lord Ainz has been looking for resources outside of Nazarick. He has that boy back at Carne Village working on potions, so maybe he wants us to look for interesting people and bring them back to Nazarick."

CZ once again interjected at this statement. "Lord Ainz said to keep a low profile, kidnapping people has a high probability of alerting others."

"Shizu you overthink everything! Let's just agree to take action based on what we think will benefit Nazarick, that is the end goal after all." Lupus ended her statement with a sly smile and proceeded to wrap her arms around her sisters, bringing them closer. While Entoma remained silent, CZ let out an exhale and looked up at her older sister.

"Very well…" CZ finally added, deciding that as long as Lord Ainz and Nazarick benefited, they would accomplish their mission. Lord Ainz is the nicest supreme being after all and wouldn't expect them to think on his level.

Meanwhile up ahead on the main path that the maids would soon find themselves on…

Briley had rolls of sweat running down his face and back. He was slightly panting, but at the same time managed to keep his composure strong. He ran his hand through his dark brown hair and then rubbed the same hand on his pant leg to get rid of the sweat. He was currently returning to his home village from a supply run and had those supplies in a sack slung over his back. The trip always took a full day and he would always leave before the sun came up. As he looked towards the sun, he guessed that he had about an hour or two of daylight left, although he was only about half an hour from the village, so it was not a huge problem. Briley had been doing these types of runs alone since he was 15 years old and was currently 19, although some people say he looked older. He was carrying more than usual today and was constantly having to pull the sack to keep it from dragging on the ground or leaning him backwards. Just as he pulled forward with a lot of his force, he lost his grip and the sack of supplies fell behind him spilling some of its contents from the opening that was only being tied closed with a loose piece of rope.

"Dammit." Briley took this time to stretch out his legs and back, silently being thankful for the break that he would not have given himself. As he was stretching, his mind thought back to the incident that occurred in his village just a few days back, it had been a situation stressing him out since it happened. A large group of bandits had come to their village and demanded supplies, their village being as small as it is, could only offer scraps. In the end, the bandits promised they would be back for more and made some very disturbing threats that would likely destroy the village. Briley was one of the few who took the threat seriously, to his surprise most of the villagers thought that nothing would happen. They were a small village and nothing to this scale has ever happened, not being named on most maps probably had something to do with it.

Briley continued to get on his knees to stuff the things that fell out back into the sack. As Briley finished his cleanup, he slung the bag of supplies over his back once again and took a couple of steps before a noise caught his attention. Glancing over to his left he could hear what sounded like voices, maybe female voices? Briley held his position for a moment before finally deciding that there were indeed at least two girls coming from the wilderness to his left. He'd run into people before of course, but it was a bit strange having them come from off the path. Eventually they emerged and immediately attracted his attention. The first one that caught his eye was the tallest of all three and had an exotic look to her. She had brown skin, beautiful golden eyes and red hair that came down in twin braids behind her, all this came together to create an alluring figure. The second girl was significantly shorter and had a fair complexion, opposite to that of the first girl, she had long red gold hair that came down behind her. She also had an eyepatch covering one of her eyes, but the other was a dazzling emerald green color. The eyepatch certainly didn't take away from her cuteness, it complimented her. The third girl…he couldn't get a good look as she was covered by a robe, but from her eyes could tell that she probably hid a real beauty like the other two. As he stood there visually taking them all in, they quickly noticed him and began to visually inspect him as well. As the three beautiful women shot their glances over to him, he instinctively stood straighter and puffed his chest out slightly, their stares could certainly intimidate any man with even the smallest insecurity. Eventually after an awkward couple of seconds, not that it seemed to bother the three, he decided to speak up.

"ahem, uh…hey" Briley managed to get out, cringing at his own shyness, he rarely became nervous in front of girls. The tallest girl immediately replied.

"Hey there! You look like you're having trouble carrying all that, I'd hate to be you! Puhahaha!" She let out an amused laugh at the end of her comment and placed her hands on her hips.

Briley, surprised at her joke, blushed slightly and replied, "I…um, it's not that heavy really, I do this pretty often. Why are you guys coming out of the woods?"

The red-haired girl replied again, "Maybe we're on the look out for a man to absolutely destroy…" The girl ended her reply with a rather lustful smile and closed the gap between herself and Briley.

Although this should've had a sexual implication, the girl's eyes seemed to have changed drastically and had an unsettling gleam to them. Briley's face started to heat up again and his heart started to race, but even with this managed to spit out a reply.

"I…uh…well I mean, I don't know if that- "

"Just kidding! Hahaha! Relax it's not like I'm gonna eat you or anything!" She now stood in front of him and met him at eye level.

Briley was now feeling the pressure of the situation in its entirety but managed to calm himself and attempt to speak up once again.

"Right… so who are you three?"

"I'm Lupus, this is Entoma and over here is Shizu." She said motioning to the other two girls. "We're doing some traveling and it looks like our next stop is a village. You know anything about it?"

Briley noticed she had not asked for his name but chose to give it anyway, "I'm Briley and yes actually, I live in that village down the road from here, we call it Cedar Village. If you want you can just follow me, it's only about half an hour away."

Lupus looked over at Entoma and CZ waiting for their response. Entoma simply shrugged and CZ blinked. "Looks like they're up for it! Besides interacting with people was one of our goals!"

Briley wasn't sure what she meant by the last part but didn't let it phase him, there had been enough of that for one day.

A short time later...

The four had been walking for several minutes, in silence, and at this point Briley realized that he was still feeling intimidated by the trio's looks. He looked over trying to decide who to strike up a conversation with, Lupus was very beautiful but had a rather crude sense of humor. So that left Entoma and Shizu, neither looked like they were up for a lengthy talk, nevertheless he decided to give it a shot. He moved himself closer to the short eye patched girl and took a breath before speaking up.

"So, Shizu- " She kept her head and eyes forward. "-how do you three know each other? Did you grow up in the same place?"

"Yes."

"Oh okay. If you don't mind me asking where are you three heading? Your friend mentioned that you're traveling and that my village was just a stop. Are you visiting family, looking for work, or maybe just finding new horizons?"

"Just traveling." Shizu replied half heartily.

"Right…" Briley took this response to mean that she didn't want to share such information. Still he found it odd that these three were "traveling" alone with seemingly no protection, other than Lupus's mace that was hanging from her side. Other than that, he wondered if these three were aware of the dangers of traveling in such a small group and with seemingly no supplies. Although as he thought this it hit him that he was doing the same thing, but he was alone, so he only had to watch his own back. Still, they've seemed to be doing fine up to this point and they did not seem concerned at all about bandits or dangerous animals.

"Have you guys run into any trouble during your travels?" Briley asked, still trying to be friendly.

"No."

"Alright…good. That's good." At this point Briley decided that this girl was probably just shy and moved over to Entoma.

"Hey, Entoma. So, your friend Shizu mentioned you three have known each other a long time, you probably have a lot of funny stories together right?" Briley decided to try and talk about something more lighthearted.

Entoma shifted her head over slightly in thought then said, "Hmm…a few I guess." Entoma then changed the topic suddenly. "Do you have any meat in your supply bag? I could go for a snack."

Briley was taken a bit back by her response, one because she sounded very young, and second because she implied that she would consume raw meat. Although, this wouldn't really be an issue because he had no such meat in his bag.

"Sorry, I don't. I'm carrying mostly medical supplies. When we get to the village though, I can probably get some for you."

"Ok!" Entoma replied, at the same time taking out a green biscuit and proceeding to eat it secretly under her cloth face mask.

It was at this point Briley decided to disengage from the conversation and continue walking with his thoughts instead. Maybe these three were just used to a different kind of talk that he wasn't stirring up. They would reach the village in just a short while, so maybe he could talk about that when they arrived. Still, their looks and behavior would certainly start some interesting conversation at the village, they didn't get many visitors, besides those bandits.

A/N: Hey, this is Readerguy. Decided to leave some afterthoughts this time. First off thanks to Kuroi Tetsu and Old Testament for the reviews. To Kuroi, I went back and fixed up some of what you suggested. This is my first story and wasn't sure if I would continue but now I am a little more sure of myself. This story is just supposed to be something for fun. Next update will be longer and probably be out later than this one was, I got university stuff and work in the coming days. Thanks if you bookmarked and favorited too.