Legacy of the Pantheruos

Gathering information...

3rd POV

Leaving the settlement was the natural way of things. He came and did work, checked up to make sure everything was alright, then he left shortly after. This was how things were supposed to be, and they would continue to be the same. He spent nearly all his Lien on supplies and stuffed his bag to the brim before heading out into the wildlands. Out here, there were no rules. Anything went, which is why the more violent side of humanity and Faunus shined. Out here was his hunting grounds, and people in the frontier of Vale knew it. Mistral knew it too but never experienced it as much as Vale did. His status varied in different places, sometimes good and sometimes bad. It didn't matter to him.

The faint signal had caught his attention again. Every time he sent a report to the Pantheruos Space Naval ships orbiting the planet, there was a third party response back from something else. It interested him and ONI greatly and they decided it would be beneficial towards Raptor if he were to investigate it. While he did do the bounties when he stopped in settlements, he started to stay out of them more often to investigate the signal. Vacuo was the furthest away from it as was Mistral, but Vale and Atlas had the strongest points, it was difficult to pinpoint where it was on the two continents even with the extra agents on the ground. Both he and ONI didn't send too many signals often to avoid someone from Remnant picking up on it, but Raptor did send more than he had in the past. This was interesting and he would dare to admit that it he had thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it was a minuscule amount of the feeling. The areas that usually had the strongest signal were barren of any settlements or military bases. There was also the fact that Grimm populations in that certain area were lower than others.

He felt as if he were coming close to something though. That was part of the satisfaction of investigating this. For the first time in years, he had felt intrigued by something that wasn't bounties nor traveling but something that would truly impress him.

He had two options as of now, find Raven Branwen and have her cough up the slipspace technology or investigate the source of the signal. Both were paths he would take, just in case one were to fail and the other succeed.

Right now though, he still had time. While it was passing by at a moderate rate, he still had time to prepare himself should the need arise. At the moment, he was currently completing his bounty... which was struggling against the binds he had subdued them in. He was in a bar in one of the more vile settlements in Atlas when he found his target being harassed by three cutthroats. The three men attacked him but he quickly eliminated them non-lethally before taking his bounty target. Naturally, the man tried to pay him double the amount of what the bounty was and kept trying to coax him to let him go, but Raptor didn't care. He didn't care what the man had to offer because there wasn't anything that interest him. He didn't care if the man was trying to coax him with Lien but what he did care about was that the man was currently drawing Grimm to the area due to his negative emotions. This presented several problems to which Raptor had to deal with.

It happened once and didn't happen a second time because his target was unconscious the rest of the journey before he stopped at a settlement. Everyone had seen him just carrying the unconscious bounty over his shoulders before stopping off at the guild there, the receptionist just looked at him then at the bounty before nodding and placing something on the desk. It was a stack of Lien cards neatly put together. He inspected it before nodding then leaving the building and going to the jail.

"That the sniveling coward?" The jailer asked.

"..." Raptor just nodded in silence.

"Well alright, put him in the third cell to the right. Man's a dead man anyways, so might as well leave him to the council to decide his fate. By the way, here's the added bonus I mentioned if you brought him in alive." The man said as he reached into his desk and produced a stack of Lien. Raptor nodded then went to the back to the cell, where he threw the bounty on the bed roughly then shut the door on the way out. He went up to the desk and grabbed the Lien card stack before placing it in his bag along with the other one then slung the bag over his shoulders again. He was out the door soon after then went to the store to pick up supplies for the next several minutes before he left the settlement shortly after. His business was done here so there was no reason to stay.