The two dwarf ladies came up to him… both had fire red hair and no beards… Kadrin could keep all the hairy dwarf ladies to himself. They were dressed in light leather armour… rogues or warriors he thought.
Their leather armour was form fitting and lets just say their forms need a fitting from Maro.
He smiled "Hello Ladies, my name is Maro, and what would be your beautiful name?"
They looked him up and down seriously and asked "Are you a warrior or a healer…?" they asked bluntly
Uh oh he thought, was being a paladin going to cause a scene. So decided to do what he did best
"Ladies, I will be anything you want me to be, if it will lead to night with the two of you" he put on his most charming smile
Both Dwarves immediately stabbed him in each leg with a dagger
Maro did his best to have a stone cold reaction, used to being tortured by an Ice mage and two Druids… this was nothing… but it fucking hurt.
"When do I get a chance to prick you back" he laughed as he healed himself
"He's just a priest, acting like a warrior, he had zero reflex when we stabbed him" one of the ladies said to the other
Oh Maro could have stopped the knives if he wanted to, but he was trying to get laid.
"Well now ladies, I've been stabbed three times by you now…"
He honestly wasn't expecting to get stabbed again, so when they stabbed him in the abdomen this time and ran off… he was genuinely caught off guard.
"Hahahahahaha" Gnarlo was laughing again
"I knew you couldn't help yourself, so I told them you had the Witches Nose and that you were shameless… hahahahah" Maro smacked Gnarlo's crown off his head with a tsk
"When did you even tell them" Maro was wondering
"Im invisible Maro, I could talk to them whenever I want without you seeing me" He placed his crown on his head just right
"So what did you learn about the mission?"
Gnarlo went into detail, 50 km north was an abandoned temple in the forest, devoted to some holy god or goddess… it had been a long time, no one knew… but this temple was taken over by an Orc Necromancer.
That was the scary part… An Orc that became a mage and unlocked a specialisation. That wasn't the difficult part… the Orc was essentially immortal and over the years he amassed thousands of undead minions from skeletons to undead monstrosities.
The Holy church of the Kingdom couldn't deal with it as the priests couldn't perform well in combat and any mercenaries assigned to be the front line would eventually die and join his undead army.
Everyone had given up or didn't try because the Unity Kingdom had to vote on it and they only cared for their own territories… not one chancellor wanted to send their own S rank champion to deal with it.
Maro was deep in thought "Thousands you say… I have to test out Holy Judgement and Consecrated Ground… I mean by all conventional wisdom Holy beats Undead right"
"Have you ever even seen an undead idiot? I haven't, I guarantee you the vast majority in the city haven't… because if they weren't strong enough… they'd be dead and not only that all functional knowledge regarding fighting undead is probably only with the Holy Order, and fuck those guys."
"You know how corrupt the Holy Order is… all they do is move and protect priests after they defile their congregation and keep it hidden… especially the Rabbit, Orc and Goblin priests… they just… look I don't even want to get into it… they are fucked and not helpful"
So just like his world, he had a mental laugh as Maro was super heated talking about it.
"Why Rabbit beastmen" he thought outloud
"They don't stop fucking… they can't help themselves and they somehow aren't banned from positions over seeing vulnerable people just because they are cute."
Maro understood.
"Ok so lets go test out my power on their intended target… if it works really well, we'll continue, if not, we'll bribe someone to sponsor us, no risk Gnarlo"
Gnarlo bashed his scepter against his own head "fucking idiot… I don't even want to get into it… but the guild puts up requirements for the job… It says here we need at least a group of Three to attempt this job and the recommended number of people to do this job is 25 people plus…"
"Okay so lets find someone quickly…pay them even to do jack shit" Maro scratched his head
"Not one person will accept… this posting has been here for years Idiot… people don't want to get turned to undead" Gnarlo was ready to hit Maro again
"I'll join you!" A voice piped up from behind Gnarlo who got startled enough to drop his scepter
"Hahahaha, how does it feel asshole" Maro laughed as Jintha revealed herself
"Why would you join us" Gnarlo asked as he picked up his scepter.
"Are you joking… this is the first Paladin in centuries, I want to see and write about what he can actually do… I know what his abilities are and I just have to see them" The Gnomish lady said
"You would be 0 help, just a spectator we would need to care for, not like you do anything combat related with your magic anyways." Gnarlo was being a bit of a dick…
But as soon as he finished the sentence… Maro noticed a stone floating between Gnarlo's legs and in a split second it launched up and hit him in his Royal Jewels… Gnarlo crumpled in pain
"Why do you keep this idiot around… he must be the stupidest gnome to ever exist… My information unveiling magic has nothing to do with my initial affinity to Earth magic" She fluffed her robes as Gnarlo was groaning
Maro didn't even laugh, he never felt it was appropriate to hit Gnarlo like that given the size difference… he was infatuated
Maro kneeled "Jintha, let me say that it would be my honour if you joined our party for this mission… also what you just did was so hot… I would like to fuck you but I will respect your wishes, as an honorable and righteous paladin, you have my word"
She laughed and told him "my magic also can determine the intent with how your magic is used…" She winked and helped Gnarlo up
"Alright boys" she said "when do you guys plan on going?"
"First thing tomorrow morning… I mean our plan was to go to a brothel after this and get drunk, so we usually wake up around noon and then we would head out" Maro kinda liked Jintha. She was fun, as long as she kept hurting Maro… it was enjoyable.
"Change of plans Maro… you and I are going to drop off Gnarlo at an 'amazing' brothel I know and you and your tight butt is coming home with me"
She went on her tippy toes to slap Maro on the butt
Gnarlo was muttering something under his breath, and it sounded like "Skinny bi...." before a rock slammed into his balls again.
Hahahahaha Maro bent over laughing
"You like that?" she said as she slapped him a little on the cheek "let's go boys"