By the time the children had calmed down and been tamed a bit, the townsfolk had a begrudging respect for us. A courier came up to us and handed me a letter. It was a from Shayne. His father was ill and he needed a special cure from an alchemist to cure him. That was a big ask. I would need to return to Arkton, get the cure and deliver it. This was most likely the mission to unlock the fiancé relationship with him. That was pretty interesting. I went to see Bishop Annabelle about it. There had to be a way to get passed them with immunity. I entered the cathedral and asked Father Micah for her. He yawned and said "I can see if she will see you today. All of you guys have been pretty busy lately." I nodded. "The kids needed to get used to living with humans. In the meantime, I could help out others in the town. I'm a mercenary after all." I told him. He just smirked at me and said "Hmm... I see. Do you want to want to help me for a bit? I could use a mercenary." I asked what he needed. The young cleric just placed his arms behind his head. "Help me out with the catacombs and I'll help you out."
He needed something from the catacombs under the cathedral, but there was a relic that he said would be very useful. "I think it would raise the town's spirits to see it." It would be really good to use it for my own purposes. The relic was as good an excuse as any. I smirked and said "If I get it for you, you have to sign off on an extended demonstration to allow me to take it to Ablinas. I have to get there, but Chegow wants me and my friends dead." He looked concerned. "There is no way I can grant that for you. Why on Ether does the Chegow Republic want you dead!?" he responded in alarm. I had to tell him about the slavers and the fighting. He looked at me with a pursed face. It looked like he was going to refuse. "So... you want me to let you have a relic to make sure they cannot attack you without invoking the wrath of the Church of the Sky, huh? Can't do it." I sighed. He then smiled. "Get me that relic and I can send you all off with an official title of envoy and mission for the church. Sighed off by the Mother Penelope of Estlor no less." he offered. I rolled my eyes. I would have to trust him.
I took the mission to go down into the catacombs. I had the kids looked after by a put upon looking Micah. I decided to do this mission solo. The centaurs did not look pleased, but I took them out my party anyway. I just wanted to know how far I could go with what I had. It would be bad for me in the long run if I did not have an accurate measure of how strong I was now. Micah told me where the entrance was and I nodded to him. The relic I was after was the Skyshatter, a flail used by a saint. I went down with my greatsword equipped. It really was not that hard of a dungeon. Since I had the holy symbol and the blessing, only the most persistent of the undead even spawned. That was a bit of a double edged sword. There were not as many enemies, but the ones that did were usually strong. It took me a long time to get my way past them. If I had been a paladin, I could probably just turn all of the weaker ones away from me using magic. When I finally got to the area of the dungeon with the relic Micah was looking for, that had the mandatory boss fight. It was a warrior bound to the relic.
