Well, here it is the new chapter for "The Forgotten Legend". I was happy that you guys liked this story, so here it is!

For the most of the reviews, I am glad that I caught your interes, so I hope that I don't disappoint you guys.

For guest1. I don't know, a year perhaps.

For guest2. I hope that I can rise your score this time.

For guest at the "The Grey Warden of the Void". Is serve for you.

Also big thanks to Flames of Nocturne for helping me again.


Chapter 2: Legends never die

"Where is he? Where is he?" said a certain worried loli-goodness.

Hestia; the beautiful petite goddess and head of Hestia familia who appeared as a little girl or teen, paced nervously. She has roundish blue eyes and light-black hair tied into two twin tails attached by two hairpins shaped like bells. Despise of her size, she has a well develop chest which earned her the nickname "Loli Big-boobs" between the others gods. The reason why Hestia was worried is because of her favorite and only member of her Familia hasn't come back.

"Maybe Bell is angry at me because I yelled at him earlier." she said with a sad tone, as she thought back on what happened.

It all began when she found out that Bell had finally received his first skill, Realis Phrase, a skill which allows the owner to grow faster as long as feelings last. The strength of the effects is related to the strength of the user's feelings. Thanks to this skill, Bell is capable to increase his stats way faster that a normal Adventurer, and all that happen thanks to the girl who had saved him in the previous day, Aiz Wallenstein, a First-Class Adventurer of the Loki Familia.

For some reason her precious Bell had fall in love to that girl of Loki Familia, and because of that he received a new skill. This made her jealous. Jealous that because of another girl he barely knows allowed him to advance further as an Adventurer- not her- and when she updated his status today, he had yet again greatly increased his status in just short time.

This was the last straw and compelled her to unleash the anger that she had accumulated inside of her at him.

"You can go have a wonderful dinner and a great time all by yourself!" she yelled as she points her finger towards her precious familia member and left without warning him.

Hestia releases a sigh 'He is probably now with that Wallenstein woman and will never return.' she thought sadly.

Then her thoughts were interrupted when she heard something coming from the above, the door of the church had just closed and she could hear steps. At first she thought that it was Bell had just return, but then she thought better, the steps that she was hearing were heavy and Bell doesn't wear anything heavy.

'A thief?' that was the only thing that she could think at the moment 'Why would a thief be here!?'

As soon she reaches to the door, she could hear footsteps descending the stairs on the other side of the door. She slowly reaches the door knob and gathers the courage to open the door as fast she could to reveal the intruder that has dared to enter her familia's house without anyone's permission. This only result in confusion because of what she was seeing, black that was the only thing that could see, a black armored waist, she slowly roles up her eyes to reveal that the black armored waist belonged to a menacing giant in black armor with a giant sword and shield on its back.

"KYAAAAA!" the poor loli-goddess yelled in pure fear.

"Goddess!?" yelled a familiar voice worriedly.

"Bell!?" Hestia replied surprised as she sees her precious familia member on the giant's arms, then she notices the cuts on his clothes "Bell what happened to you?"

"I run into some problems when I was in the Dungeon, if weren't for Miss Cathiddei here I would be a goner." The white haired boy explains to his goddess wearily.

'Miss?' the loli goddess wonderer, then she turns her eyes towards to the giant in black armor, who was observing her "You saved him?" she received a nod as a respond "Thank you for saving my dear Bell's life."

(Comment: If this is from Hestia's PoV she doesn't know that the 'giant' is the 'Chosen Undead' and should have another pronoun for her when describing her, such as 'warrior', 'dark figure', 'giant', or even 'stranger'.)

The strange woman shrugged slightly, making sure to keep from jostling Bell in her massive armor clad arms. Tilting her helmed head to the side Hestia suddenly realized she had still been staring at her rather than addressing her dear Bell's current plight.

"Put him in the bed." said Hestia as she shows the other woman to the only bed in the room.

"Goddess!" Bell protested "But that's the Goddess's bed!"

"Bell, you are tired and it's my duty as a Goddess to take care of the children in my Familia!" Hestia countered with reason as she pats the bed indicating that she wanted Bell on the bed.

Doing what the loli goddess told her to do; she gently put the small boy on the bed. After being pleased to see the boy safe and sound she starts making her way to the exit, but was soon stopped by Hestia's voice.

"I know that I may ask too much after saving Bell, but could you remove your helmet? I want to see the face of the person that saved his life so that I can repay you later." at that moment when the armored warrior heard her request, she flinched.

While the goddess and boy stared at her expectantly Mirune felt her thoughts whirl into a brief panic. They wanted to see her face? Was she in her Hollowed form? Was she in her Human form? Will they be disgusted at her for being an Undead? Will they hunt her down and put her back in an Asylum? No, she needed to calm down. She didn't felt like she was in her Hollow form, plus she was in her Human form the last time she checked so probably she was fine, but she did die many times during her time in the Kiln. What is she going to do? If she takes too long they will start to get suspicious, she didn't had another choice.

Slowly, Mirune's hands reach to her helmet, at first she hesitated but she knew that she didn't have any choice so she removed it.

"Oh! You are much younger that I thought." said the loli goddess a bit surprised.

When Mirune heard that she felt like a huge weight had been lifted from her heart, even though it doesn't beat. At least there will be no suspicion that she is an Undead, for now.

"Hmmm." Hestia hummed as she analyzes Mirune "From looking at you, you seems to be a middle or high level Adventurer. If you don't mind if I ask, which Familia do you belong to? Is that I never seen you before around ."

"Oh!" the voice of Bell call Hestia's attention "Miss Cathiddei said that she isn't Adventurer." Bell answered in place of Mirune.

"She isn't an Adventurer!? Then why she was doing down there?" Hestia asked confusedly.

Shrugging again Mirune gave the same answer she did with Bell "All I can remember is waking up down there." The ease with which the lie rolled off her tongue made her uncomfortable but she ignored it.

"It is the truth Goodness! She didn't even know that there exited an entire city over the Dungeon." Bell defended what the Chosen Undead said, reminding Mirune of the awkward conversation they had.

*some time ago*

Since the Chosen Undead saved the little Adventurer called Bell, they have been climbing up each floor to reach to the surface with the help of the Adventurer. There were moments where they would distract themselves by engaging in conversation- or rather the boy would talk and Mirune would hum in agreement whenever he paused for breath- which mostly involve about Orario, the city that was on top of the labyrinth.

'Did the Gods returned after hearing the break of the Curse?' the Chosen Undead wondered 'It would be possible after hearing that the threat of the Undead was over they would return, but how long it would take for them to receive the news?

"…and that's how I met Lady Hestia, my Goddess!" Bell finished telling his tale how he met Hestia.

Even though her mind was somewhere else, her ears were focus on the little adventurer on her arms. You could say that this is one of few perks of being an undead, being able to aware of his surroundings even with one's head elsewhere. Living in Lordran is dangerous after all.

"Hmm." Mirune hummed noncommittally, unsure of how to take the news of a goddess "Is this… Lady Hestia good to you?"

"She's beyond that, I don't know how to say this, but she cares about me, always making sure that I am alright, always making sure that nothing is missing in her Familia. I am truly lucky to have her as my Goddess!" he exclaimed with a bright full and yet tired smile.

'Someone who cares about …' the Chosen Undead mentally repeated the words.

"Mama! Papa! I'm home!" said a voice of a young child.

"Home already sweetheart?" replied a kind voice of a motherly woman.

"What is the lunch?" asked the child anxiously.

"Is Mama's famous stew." answered a strong voice of a fatherly man.

"Yay! Mama's stew is the best!" said the voice of the child cheerfully.

"Someone who cares about…" Mirune repeated the same words again, this time muttering them under her breath, only to call Bell's attention.

"Did you say anything Miss Cathiddei?" the boy asks as he looks up at the knight in black armor.

Mirune didn't answer, lost in her thoughts as she was 'What were those voices? It sounded familiar…'

"Oh! We have arrived!" the voice of the Adventurer called Mirune's attention.

When the Chosen Undead looked back forward, she saw a bright light coming from above of the circular staircase, wager to see what is beyond she increased the speed of her footsteps. Soon when she reached to the top of the stairs, she found herself in a new area, in some sort of building actually. The building itself had an architecture that proved to be alien to her, though the wall were in the traditional stonework like in Lordran and the floor as well, which proved that the building should be important. As she walks around with the boy, she noticed some rectangular furniture made of some sort green material, noticing that she was staring, Bell told her that they were called sofas, which served for one person to sit. The other thing she also noticed was that they were alone in the building at the moment, which made her a bit disappointed; she wanted to see more people, living people.

Soon when they manage to find the exist of the building, her eyes wide of the sight that she was seeing. A sight that she hasn't seen for a long time, an entire city in perfect condition. All building were made of both stone and wood like traditionally, but they were taller, not as tall to the buildings in the Undead Burg back in Lordran, but taller comparing to the ones outside of the city, the streets were wide enough to fit three large wagons and they were illuminated by lamps that were glowing by a beautiful blue flame. Then she looked backwards, but the sight made her eyes wider that before. She was hoping she had left a building like a Cathedral, but she wasn't expecting a tower. A gigantic stone tower that reached to the skies. Who even built that? Was all this top of her this entire time? How many years had passed since she joined the First Flame? Only more questions piling up for her to solve.

"Welcome to Orario, Miss Cathiddei."

*back to the present*

"Hmmm. I see, we surely have a problem here." Hestia said realizing the situation.

"Goddess." Bell's voice calls Hestia's attention "Could we let Miss Cathiddei join our Familia? She doesn't know anything about Orario and I am afraid if something could happen to her."

Hestia after hearing Bell's suggestion she began thinking about it. 'Hmmm. It would be a good idea of her joining us, after all we need to increase our numbers and she is available. Plus…' she gives another look at Mirune 'she seems to be capable to defend herself, but if I accept her I will not have Bell all for myself! But I can't make Bell sad!' she mentally rubbed her hair in frustration 'Well she did saved Bell so I think is the least that I can do for her.' with that she arrived into a conclusion "Miss Cathiddei."

Meeting the goddess' eyes Mirune gave the smaller woman her full attention.

"Would you like to join my Familia? Is the least that I can do after saving my dear Bell. Even though we aren't the biggest and the wealthiest Familia there is, I am willing to give you all my power to help you in any way I can."

The Chosen Undead thinks for a moment "Could you explain what is a Familia? I don't understand its meaning."

"To simply put, a Familia is a group headed by a God or a Goddess, which serves as a place where many Adventurers come together and coexist with each other. Each Familia follows a purpose, mostly are focused on Exploration of the Dungeon, there is also those that are in the Business, Industrial, Medicinal, and even Nation." Hestia gave the summarization to Mirune.

'Then is like a Covenant.' Mirune came to the conclusion of the explanation give to her "I understand."

"Then will you join us?"

"I appreciate for the offer Lady Hestia, but I would like some time to think it over. Will it be a problem?" Mirune said as she tries to sound apologetically.

Hestia simply shook her head as a response "I understand, after all, choosing a Familia is very serious matter."

"Thank you." The Chosen Undead bowed her head, she put her helmet back on and start walking towards the door "I promise that I will give my answer soon as possible." with that done, Mirune starts climbing the staircase.

"She is a strange one, isn't she?" Hestia asks to her Child of her Familia, which in return he gave a small chuckle.

"She seems to be a bit strange, but she seems to be a good person." He added "Goddess."

"Huh?"

"I promise that I will get stronger…"

*scene change*

Mirune walked in the darks streets of Orario which were illuminated by the magical lamps of blue fire that were scattered around the city, since the Chosen Undead walked out of the ruins of the abandoned church made her wondering why they were still there. Surely they could have move to another place, at least more comfortable for their standard. After all, as an Undead she wouldn't require that, but it would be a nice change. She looked up towards the horizon and sees the sun rising up and on that moment she could feel something coming from her chest. Is as if something was lift up from her chest, she felt relieved. Being undead dulls the possibility of one feeling any kind of emotion, most of them are only capable to mimic something than a living person could do, but for some reason she was actually feeling it. She was relieved because she could finally see the sun, the real sun for the first time after so many centuries.

"If only Solaire was here…" she said to herself as she remembers her friend, and then out of instinct, she stretched her arms up, signaled the symbol that her friend always did "Praise the sun…" she mumbles.

Then without any agitation, the Chosen Undead move further into town, wondering what possible changed after so many years.

*scene change- some time later*

The streets of Orario were crowded with people of every ages and races, Adventurers walking towards the dungeon and the normal people wondering around on stalls of the local merchants. By the first time, Mirune was feeling uncomfortable, not because of seeing so many people in just one place, but rather being the center of the attention. Everywhere she went; the people were always looking at her.

This really made her wonder why. Was it because of her armor? Was it because of her height? Or something else?

"Damn. Look at all that gear! Which Familia do you think that guy belong too?" asks an Adventurer lowly to the other beside him.

"I don't know. Maybe he is one of the Loki's." the other Adventurer answers back using the same tone.

"Mama! Look how tall is that mister!" said a child cheerfully.

"Steven don't point! Is rude!" the child's mother scolded.

Trying to hear everything that she is hearing about her, Mirune starts walking a bit faster, only to stop of what she saw. A woman with long blonde hair passed by her, but that wasn't the reason, the reason was that woman had long pointy ears. Luckily for her, the woman couldn't notice that Mirune was looking at her thanks to her helmet. It really made her confused, since when did Humans have pointy ears? Is it some kind of mutation that happened when Mirune linked the First Flame? Probably, because when the Chaos erupted, it created the demons and it was why the Fair Lady had a lower part of a spider. So probably made a similar effect.

'I wonder how much it changed.' The Chosen Undead thought to herself.

"Hey mister nya!" called out a feminine voice.

'Nya?' Mirune mentally repeated.

The Chosen Undead looks around and don't see anyone, then she looked down and she saw a girl. She had brown hair with matching eyes, she was hearing a green, long puffed sleeve with wide-neck and white trimming, white collar, above the knee dress and on her head was a ruffled headpiece. Then there was what that called her attention. Her ears. This girl had ears and a tail that similar of a feline, a cat probably, even her eyes resemble of a cat.

"Mister nya?" the girl with feline features asks, only to receive silence.

Then it happen, Mirune reached her hands towards the girl's ears and grab them 'They are real!' she exclaimed when she felt the ears twitching when she lightly squeeze them.

"Mister! What are you nyoing? Stop it!" the feline girl yelled in embarrassment.

"Hey!" shout another voice of an older person, when Mirune turned her eyes towards the owner of the voice, she saw a tall older woman, not as tall as her, she has brown eyes and long brown hair that was tied into a ponytail, she also was wearing a uniform similar to the feline girl, but instead of being green it was blue "What you think that you are doing, you bastard? Harassing my employees is prohibited!" the woman yelled angrily.

"Mama Mia nya!" the feline girl cried cheerfully.

The big woman quickly walks towards the Chosen Undead with the objective to grab her arm and apprehend her, but it didn't go well how she was expecting. Soon when her arm was in reach, Chosen Undead quickly grabbed her arm and knocks her down to the ground. The floor itself shuddered when the weight of her body touched the floor. The feline girl just stayed there in silence just to ratiocinate what just happen, she just witnessed someone beating Mama Mia, the woman that nobody dares to mess with. She sees the guy in black armor kneeling to be at the level of Mia Grand.

"Are you alright?" a feminine voice spoke beneath of the black helmet in monotone.

"You have guts… First, you harass one of my employees, then you throw me to the ground and now you're asking if I am fine… You sure have guts or you're stupid."

"I'm sorry." Mirune tries to sound apologizing enough "I was just… curious." she said as she helps the tall woman to get back to her feet.

"Curious?" Mia replied confusingly "What do you mean by that?"

"I…I never seen a person like her." the Chosen Undead answered.

"You never seen a Cat Person before?" Mia asks and she receives a nod as a response "Please don't tell me that you never seen an elf either." Which she received a response of the person in black armor titling her head giving away her answer, and then she sighs 'Did she lived under a rock or something?'

Then Mirune looks over the girl and walks towards her "I apologize for my behavior from before, I never expected to find someone like you."

"Apology accepted…" she said a bit uneasy with the Undead "But next time don't do that again nya. It is very embarrassing nya."

With that done, the two persons that Mirune had just meet, took her inside of a place called "Hostess of Fertility", a very well know pub in the city Orario, in there was where they introduce themselves to Mirune. The tall woman introduces herself as Mia Grand, the owner of the establishment and the feline girl was called Arnya Flomel, one of the employees of "Hostess of Fertility", which in return Mirune also introduced herself to them.

"So, Mirune where do you come from? I never seen anybody like you wandering around here." Mia asks to the woman in black armor.

"I don't remember." Mirune answered "All I can remember was waking up inside of the Dungeon."

"The Dungeon nyum? Are you an Adventurer then nya?" Arnya asks to her, only to receive a shaking head as a response "Then how did you get of thererrr?"

"I found a wounded Adventurer during when I was in the Dungeon, after healing him, he guided us back to the surface."

Mia nodded in understanding of what Mirune explained "You're lucky if you ask me. If you hadn't of found him, you would be pretty much doomed. Say, don't you remember anything at all?"

"Other than that my name, my skills and some things, I can't remember anything else."

'She must suffer some sort of amnesia to only remember that much.'

Then, out of sympathy for the woman in black armor, Mia decided to explain to her everything what she will need to know if she wanted to survive. First she started to explained that the timeline where Mirune was living now was consisted by group of races, the Humans Race, where they consist on Humans and Amazoness, which is a race, consist only by dark skinned women. Then there was the Beast Humans, humans that were born with animal features like tail and ears, the Cat People, the Chienthrope, which are people with dog ears and tail, Hume Bunny, people with ears and tail of a rabbit, Runarl, people with fox ears and tail, War Tiger, people with tiger ears and a tail, Werewolf, people with wolf ears and a tail, and Boaz, people with features of a boar.

Next was the elvish races, a race that consist of people with pointy ears, they are a highly intelligent race that excel at magic, there is the normal elf, the high elf which are the members of Elf royalty and finally the Dark elf, a elven person with dark skin. Then there were the others races like the Dwarfs, which are a race that consist of short people, Mia says that she is a Dwarf, but she then explains that there is exceptions where a Dwarf can be as tall like any human, like she in this case, then there are the Pallum, which is a race that consist of people the size of human children.

There were also the Spirits, they are strong magic users and can even use magic better than Elves, and finally the Gods, which fortunately the Chosen Undead already knew who they were. She said that the Spirits and the Gods share the same incapacity, which is that they aren't capable to have children thought those it isn't certain, but still it left Mirune confused. During the time when Lordran still existed, the Gods were capable to have children, like Gwyn for example, he had three children. Lord Gwyn's firstborn, the God of War, inherited the sunlight from his father who lost his deific status, expunged from history, with his name also been forgotten, Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight the second child of Gwyn and finally Gwyndolin the youngest son that was raised as a daughter.

Did they lost the capacity of having children or was because for another reason? This sounded fishy to her but she didn't prey on it, she didn't want to cause any problem.

She also said that there is times when races mix together to create a race that shares the features of their parents, like for example a Half Elf is a mix between Humans and Elves, but they aren't seen very fondly by some other elves, or like a Half Dwarf which is a mix between Humans and Dwarfs.

Then it came out about Orario, which is the city were every people of every race come together to seek adventures, fame and riches. Mia quickly advised than Mirune needed to make a name for herself, and to do that she needed to join a Familia. Joining a Familia brings a lot of benefits, a place to sleep, food, equipment (even though Mirune won't need it neither of those stuff) and above all is to receive the [Blessing] or also known as [Falna] of the Familia's host, plus is also a good way to get money.

"There is many type of Familias; Exploration type, those that focus on exploring the Dungeon, Business type, those who run an business, Industrial type, those who specially focus on smiting, Medicinal type, those who focus on finding new kinds of medicines to heal all kind ailments and Nation type, they deal with things that are related to the nation." Mia explains to her "And just by looking at you, I advise you to join the Exploration. They are always looking for new members."

While Mia was giving advices on which Familia Mirune should join, Arnya was simply staying there in silence observing the Chosen Undead. Her mind was in wonder as she looks over Mirune's equipment, a big ass sword on her back that was tall as her and with also a big ass rectangular shaped dark shield carved with a design of four wings and her finally her armor; a heavily looking armor made what it seems to be some sort of black metal. How can she even walk around with that thing on? She wasn't expert on things related with armor and stuff, but her armor seems to restrict a lot of movement, maybe she took some kind of special training, she already has seen many time what normally Adventurers wear and nothing is compare to her. She look like so Hardcore with that armor.

But. For some reason she looked familiar, as if she already seen her before, not in person but in a tale. A tale told many years ago to her when she was just a little cub by someone she doesn't remember anymore. A warrior in black armor carrying a big sword and a shield that once belong to the Hunt, which had the power to destroy the Gods themselves. Someone that had died long time ago but it didn't remain dead, it had become something else. An Undead. The Curse of the Undead.

"Bringeth her to me." Echoed a voice inside of her head.

"Yes my Lady." the brunette cat person girl replies lowly unemotionally as her mind loses it's consciousness.

"Well I wish you good luck around Orario!" announced Mia as she presents her hand to shake to Mirune, which she shook "Feel free to drop by, only this time as a costumer! Ahahahaha!" say the tall female Dwarf cheerfully.

"Sure." the Chosen Undead replied with a small nod "Farewell." and with that, she walks towards to the door, only to be stopped as the brunette cat person girl gets on her way and hugs her around her neck.

"Meet me up at the northwest gate of the city at midnight." The girl whispered on Mirune's ear, with that done, she release Mirune's neck and walks further into the Inn.

Leaving confuse, Mirune left the "Hostess of Fertility" in wonder, why would the girl called Arnya wanted to meet up with her? And her voice, it sounded different from the last time. For now she needed to know where to find the northwest gate. It is time to ask directions.

*Later that night- at the northwest gate of Orario*

It took some time, but she managed to do it. She had some problems getting directions because every time when she asked to someone, they would either step aside due the intimidating aura that her armor emits or they would change the subject and they would try to persuade her to join their Familia. But eventually she found someone that had guided her towards the gate, and now she is waiting.

'Maybe I arrived early?' the Chosen Undead thought to herself.

Then she looked at the sky, to the moon to be precise. Judging by the position where the moon is situated, she could assume that was at least midnight, but without proper ways to tell the time she didn't know.

Though this gave her sometime to think a reason why that feline girl wanted to meet with her. Which she failed to reached to a conclusion. They just meet today and they already are having a some sort of secret meeting at moonlight. But she wasn't to worry; if the feline girl turns out to be some sort assassin that was going to try kill her she would deal with her, but what it did caught her attention was the change of the tone of her voice. It sounded that she was talking with another undead, an emotionless cold voice.

Then just when she was going to figure it out another reason why she is meeting with feline girl, she started the hear footsteps coming towards her. When she turns her gaze towards the owner of the footsteps, she was presented by a dark hooded figure wearing a dark cape that was concealing all it body. Mirune gives another closer looks to the hooded figure and realizes who it was, it was the girl called Arnya.

"Come." Arnya said lowly "We are losing moonlight." with that said, she starts walking towards the gate.

Without replying anything back, the Chosen Undead silently follows the Cat Person girl towards the unknown destination. However she maintains her guard up for nobody knows what could happen.

*scene change- unknown location*

Both the Undead and the Cat Person walked for quite some time inside of some sort dark old forest. A very old forest, the trees were way taller that the buildings of Orario, the foliage of the trees covered the nightly starry sky, leaving them without a way to navigate back to the city. The only trail that could guide them back was a trail made by the local wildlife, which was in poor condition, the roots of the trees grew in such a way that they could be seen coming out from the soil.

Although of all that, the most troubling was the darkness that ruled inside of the forest. Without relying of a source of light, Mirune was forced to focus both on her hearing and on the little sight that she had left. After all, wandering inside of the darkness of Tomb of the Giants as it perks. It was really annoying, having giant skeletons and skeletons beasts stalking around in the midst of the darkness could make even the sanest Undead go Hollow.

Mirune tried to get some information about where they were going or even trying to create some sort conversation out from Arnya girl, but it always result she answering with "We are losing moonlight.", or "Everything it will be explain.", or "We have something in common." or she answers with only silence.

As her eyes gazes over the woods, she noticed something strange. Movement, she noticed movement among the trees, they were slow and stealthy. A trap? Her hand slowly reaches to the handle of her sword, ready to act at any moment. The hesitation grows inside of her; she wanted to end it quickly without giving any chance the stalker to react. It was easy and simple like giving a dog a stick.

"We are here." the voice of the cat person girl called her attention.

Standing right in front of them was an entrance of what it should have been a gate, of course was long gone abandoned and taken offer by nature over the years. Despise being severely damaged and covered by dozen of roots, Mirune could still notice some part of the style of architecture that was built. This was familiar to her for some reason.

As they went deeper the ruined gate, more buildings stand before her, old abandoned ruins that have been left behind in the hands of time. As they pass through the ruins, the Chosen Undead could at least determine what they used to be. The smaller ones were of course perhaps homes or even perhaps stores but then there were a big one, through the first look, Mirune could guess that could be a church, which could be justified by a broken statue that inside of the building. But it looked too fortified to be a church, so it could be a fort.

As they walked through the ruins Mirune noticed an old shrine standing in front of her, but what it called her attention was what top of shrine. A statue that stood 3 meter high which it looked to be perhaps a knight, though she couldn't determine who the knight is, because the statue was diagonally broken from it right shoulder, which it right hand was holding a sword, to the left hip, it was miracle that the rest of the statue was still standing after all this time.

So great was her focus on her surroundings that when Arnya finally stopped walking Mirune bumped into her but surprisingly she didn't budge an inch. The Chosen Undead looked down and saw that the girl was looking directly towards a large stone table that was covered by countless vines and moss. Why did they stop here? What was the reason? Then she saw it, between the remains of the abandoned ruins, hooded figures hide in the shadows. A trap!

Her hand quickly flew towards the handle of her sword and drew it out. Crimson sparks of chaos flew out of the sheath as she removes the blade of her sword from its sheath, as she stages herself.

"Ever wary, just as old." said a female voice amused in the air, between purrs.

"Where are you?" the Chosen Undead said loudly, showing some hostility.

"Is that the way to speaketh to an old acquaintance?" the voice spoke again, this time behind Mirune.

The Chosen Undead quickly turn around towards the large stone table, only to see a giant white cat sitting on the table as it was a throne. A cat that the Chosen Undead was once associated with. Alvina of the Forest Hunters.

"Lady Alvina?" Mirune asks back as she removes helmet off.

"Greetings Hunter, it hath been ages since the last time that I see thee. Oh what wonder art thou, forsooth through the years, yet they hadst been kind to thee." Alvina said amused.

"I could say the same about you, my Lady." the Chosen Undead replies back in monotone.

"This? After so many years, a cat such as myself may learneth new tricks. Like this." at that moment, Alvina's body was engulfed by a bright light and when the light died out, a woman with long white hair stood on her place, she had golden feline eyes, feline white ears on top of her head and a long white tail wagging behind her back. Which caught Mirune by surprise "It seems that I hath caught thee by surprise didn't I? I bet that thee has questions yet to be answered. " Despise of her youthful appearance and generous body, her voice betrays her age.

Getting straight to business Mirune took the opportunity to confirm her suspicions. "What is exactly this place?"

"This town is what little remains of Lordran, Hunter. All this land hath used to beest Lordran actually."

Raising a brow in doubt she waited for Alvina to continue.

"Across the tide of time, many kingdoms hath risen and fallen atop of the ruins of Lordran and with the ebb of time the land and its inhabitants hath changed as well."

"How?"

"At the moment when thee re-kindle the Flame eons ago, thee wast able to lift the curse that plagued this land. And with it, new races arose from its ashes. When the First Flame wast re-kindle, it had changed the humanity inside of the people and gaveth birth to others. To the ones what that they calleth Elves, their history trace back since the foundation of Oolacile, but back then the people of Oolacile hath kept their true form in the eyes of the Lords and of the Humans, but when the First Flame wast re-kindle, it revealed what they truly were and hath changed their way of Sorcery."

'Now she mentioned that, Lady Dusk had pointier ears comparing to mine. But she was always trying to hide them when I first meet her at Darkroot Basin.'Mirune contemplated.

"Then are art those who those gents calleth Dawrfs, Palluns and the Beast Races who simply hath appeared out of nowhere. One of those races, the Cat People, art under my influence. Even if they are far away from me or it they worship another other Lord, without their knowing, their true loyalty and mind art mine. Though it hurts me to playeth with their mind like this, tis necessary to protect myself."

"To protect yourself? Why?" the Chosen Undead asked, hand tightening around her blade's pommel at the thought of harm coming to what could be one of the last beings she could call a friend of sorts in this time.

At that Alvina released a sign filled with grief "Do thee see this place?" she appointed towards the ruins around them "Many centuries ago, this place hath used to beest a most wondrous city filled with life, happiness, cultural and riches, a place whither every people of every race would cometh hither to realize their dreams..." then her gaze fell to the broken statue.

Following her eyes and knowing what she needed to do, Mirune walked towards to the broken statute. Giving a better look offer the statue, she noticed that there was something familiar about it. She looked down towards the base of the statue and noticed that there was a stone plate with something written on it, but it was covered by moss. She gently removes the moss out of the plate, but then her eyes suddenly wide open when she read a very familiar dialect which was carved on it.

"In memory of Mirune of the house Cathiddei, the Hero who lift up the Curse from our bodies. Let her know that we will forever honor her sacrifice for us in our lives and even in death."

If she still breathed her breath would have caught in her throat, "This is…" Mirune look over Alvina with confused expression "Lady Alvina, what is this?"

"This is a memorial of thee, after at which hour thou rekindle the Fire. A knight named Solaire started to spread tales of thy heroism which eventually lend the formation of this city. The people started to worship thee as their savior and their hero, a perfect ideal figure for many to aspire to. As the ages hath passed many people started to treat thee as a god, which disfavored the Lords. The Lords wast outraged, wherefore would they worship a mortal? Wherefore would they worship someone who hath killed their kin? So they ordered their most loyal believers to a holy crusade to punish the heretics believers. For years this city hath fallen under their sieges constantly, killing both young and old, both women and men, both innocent and not. No one wast safe from their wrath. Eventually they surrendered and the city left behind destroyed." Alvina finished mournfully.

Mirune shook her head before she replied back lowly, showing some disgust poisoning her voice "Why would they kill innocent souls?"

"Probably because of thee, some Old Lords still recall thy past deeds and which still holds grudges against thee. Coequal after these years, thee still has't many enemies who would rather see thee burn on a stake. Thee must maketh sure that they aren't able to find thee, no matter what." then she gave Mirune a small pregnant silence before speaking again "I have heard that a young Lord named Hestia hath invited thee to join her familia, is this true?"

"Yes, it true. Would she be a trouble?" Mirune asks to Alvina, knowing full well how her condition is in this time line, she needed to be cautious when interacting with them.

"Humm... Hestia is one of the new Lords born in this era, thee would beest fine for now. That Lady's familia is small and it isn't well renowned compared to the other Lords, which means less probably to calleth their attention. Plus t'will ease any suspicions towards thee, unlike Hollows, the Undead tend to beest loners"

It is true, many Undead tend to seek solitude when they turn, well, Undead. She was the same way in the past, a Lone Wolf with nowhere to go, without hope to continue living, the only thing that kept her for going Hollow was the only thing that she was able hold in her memory all this time, that she used to be a proud Berenike knight. But that all changed when she met Solaire. He alone gave her enough proof that there was still some hope, forcing her to push beyond her limits alongside him. "Jolly cooperation" he used to say, truth be told, at first Mirune thought that he simply went mad with everything that happened to Lordran, but when she started fighting beside him it changed everything.

He was honorable, joyful, faithful, loyal and kind friend, a very good friend. She was truly lucky to have met him, she just hopes that he had a peaceful life.

"If I were Human… would I love him?" Mirune wondered lowly.

"Did thou say anything?"

"It is nothing. Very well then, I shall go see Lady Hestia and give her mine answer." with that said, Mirune turned around and starts walking back to the city.

"A moment before thee leaving, I has't a favor to ask thee for the old days." The sudden voice of Alvina stopped Mirune, giving her attention back to Alvina "If one day if thee have found a male Cat Person named Allen Flomel, could thee hunt him down and killeth him? "

'Kill? Wait Flomel, is that girl's…' Mirune thought for a bit before speaking "Isn't he…?" the Chosen Undead spoke while staring over the brunette female Cat Person who was still standing beside her like a statue emotionless.

"…Her sibling? Aye, Allen Flomel is her brother however both of them cutteth any ties to the other a long time ago." Alvina confirmed what was bother Mirune's mind.

"Why kill?" Mirune asks to Alvina, knowing full well that the Cat Person race was under her influence, why she needed for her to kill him?

"A Lord hath found a way to breaketh his bonds with me, if it be true that the Lord manages to unlock his memories, this boy is a threat for mine existence and as to yours."

"Won't she remember…?" Mirune pointed to Arnya.

"Don't worry. After this night, she wilt not recall anything what befall here."

"Very well, I shall see about your request. May our path see us again." She said with a bow before walking back to the city, with the young brunette Cat Person following her.

"Until our next meeting, O Chosen Undead." With that said her body fades away by a golden dust.

*scene change- in the next day*

The streets of Orario were bursting with live like always, but today was different. Monster Feriae, a special big event that is held every year in Orario where the they rent entire Colosseum and fight against monsters that have been captured from the Dungeon and tame them. If someone putted bluntly speaking, it's a circus.

Thanks to this event, many business owners take this opportunity and make special offers and sell their goods to the passing Adventurers and normal people. That's the reason why the streets were more lively that normal. This is a strange feeling for Mirune.

The Chosen Undead stood on the fountain in the west street with her head down, both her great sword and her shield were leaning against the fountain next to her. She wasn't worried about someone trying to stealing them; she even doubts someone being able to lift up those two heavy weapons of hers. Despite of all this, even without her weapons with her, she was still the center of attention to some. Is she that strange to them? To tell the truth, her eyes lay down to some Adventurers that have passed through not that while ago. How can they fight monsters like that? So far until now, Mirune had only seen Adventures wearing armor that only protects their upper chest, leaving both their abdomen and neck unprotected, and there were even those who only use jackets as protective gear for their upper part of their body. She doesn't truly understand the warriors of this era, and most of all, is that they were flashy. Too many jewels and too decorative for her taste.

However she must admit that their weapons seem very effective against whatever they kill. Though she must wonder why that there were few who use a fan as a weapon.

"Hey." A female voice whispered "Do you see that big guy over there by the fountain?"

"Yes I can see him. Which familia do you think that he belongs too?" Another female whispered back.

Even without looking up, Mirune knew that there were two amazoness women wearing rather revealing and simple clothing looking at her, whispering probably about her. And giggling?

"Do you think that he is awesome?"

"I don't know about that, but he seems to be very muscular. Look at that sword beside him, I bet that he likes to pommel hard on the monsters. (A.N Ah! Sex joke!)" The other woman whispered to the other one.

"I bet that Lady Ishtar would like have him around."

Even though Mirune couldn't get anything what they said, the way they were looking at her was the most unsettling. She just hopes that they aren't planning to do something.

"Bashu, wait!" Yelled a childish voice.

"Ahaha! Can't catch me!" Yelled back another childish voice.

The Chosen Undead look up and sees two dark haired Chienthrope children, a small boy in his six years old and a bit taller girl likely to be a year or two older, running to the direction where she is while yelling one to the other. Playing with one the other. These was truly rare sight for Mirune, she couldn't remember the last time she saw children playing in that manner.

Since the moment that the Curse of the Undead stroke over the Land, it was like if that everybody decided to stop reproducing at the same time. Though, having the idea of the possibility of their children becoming Undead was more than enough to stop any acts of reproductions, that or they decided to hide all the children. Whatever reason was, she never seen any child during her time in Lordran.

This change of scenery was completely refreshing for her, watching two young souls playing with all innocence and without fear of the Curse. This was truly a blessing.

"Gha!" the younger child yelped.

When her thoughts came back to reality, Mirune sees the younger child lying on the floor whimpering in pain. Without thinking, the Chosen Undead left behind her equipment and walked towards the whimpering fallen child, which she arrives before the older girl could have done something.

"Are you alright young one?" Mirune asks as calm possible in order not to frighten him as she picks up the young boy.

At first, the boy's entire body flinched when felt hands of an unknown person lifting him up and even got scared. But when he heard calming voice, he calmed down. He looks up and sees a helmed person wearing a similar armor fitted for a knight like in the story books that is read to him "M-My kn-kne-knees." The child said between his sobs.

Mirune looks down and sees his knees were all red and full of scrapes "I will make it better."

With that said, Mirune gently puts the boy back on foot, removes her talisman from her belt, place it over one of scrapped knees and started to mumble the chant. The boy looked surprised when the golden light suddenly appeared beneath the silky looking charm, he could feel the pain slowly fading away as he notices his other knee was slowly healing by the same light.

It was nice and warm, like his mother's embrace.

Then the golden light started fading away leaving behind the young's knees healed without leaving any scratch behind. This caught any nearby person by surprise; they have heard and seen healing magic before, but nothing like this.

"Is it better?" Mirune asks him.

"Yes!" the boy replied cheerfully "Thank you Mister Knight!" with that said, the boy continue running cheerfully with older girl beside him to the other side of the street.

Mirune stayed there watching offer the running children in silence, content for her feat of helping the hurt child. When she about turning around, she felt the floor suddenly shaking brutally and then it happen.

*CRASHHHH!*

"GYAAAAA!" countless voices to scream altogether from the other side.

"ROAAR!"

"MONSTER!"

The Chosen Undead quickly turns again to the other side and sees selling stands and crates being destroyed and being launched into the air. The people ran in fear for their lives, pushing away those who couldn't run more what their legs could carry them. Her eyes traced towards a tree meters tall dark skinned and pale eyed humanoid creature, with a powerful jaw with two sharp lower fangs coming out if mount and with four powerful upper limbs.

Giving a better look, Mirune notices something standing in front of the monster, it were the children from before. They were standing right front of the beast paralyzed in fear, they simply stood there staring to the creature as it moves one of its arms backwards to delivers the killing blow.

Without any delay, the Chosen quickly grabbed only her shield and charged towards the monster fearlessly. Many stood there watching when they noticed the same person in black armor charging towards the beast with only his shield that was on the opposite direction of the public in panic.

When the monster was about to strike the children, a dark great shield with four wings carved on it, appeared right in front of it and was hit instead. The thick thudding of flesh on metal ringing out as the undead staggered under the force of the blow but held strong. Taking this opportunity, Mirune quickly grabbed two paralyze children with her right hand and hold them tightly around her arm. When she felt the massive force of the monster's punch on her shield lighten before returning as it was struck again forcing her feet deeper into the ground as she braced herself on the floor to stop from giving any more ground.

"Mister Knight!" the younger child replied cheerfully as his bend down ears perked up when he notices that she was the one who save them.

Mirune looked down and gave him a firm nod, however this only lasted for a moment. The monster retaliated for Mirune's actions from saving his spoils, charged towards the shield user and started pounding his fists on her shield ferociously; only this time she held the line. The sound of the children screaming rang in the mid of the battle between this two individuals. With one arm occupied holding firmly her shield against the monster's attack and the other one was holding the two young children, Mirune was at a serious disadvantage, without her sword she couldn't fight against him.

She take a quick look to the fountain and sees that her sword was still standing by the fountain, but the distance between her and the fountain was too great. The only way to fight against this monster was to drop the children and grab the sword, but by doing that she would risk the lives of the children. The bottomless box was also out of the picture and she couldn't drop her shield and use pyromancy instead, leaving her without a way to protect them. The only thing that she could do was keeping blocking until hopefully someone appears.

Knowing that she wouldn't budge, the monster quickly change his tactic and started moving to her left and right, forcing Mirune to shift her position to block any coming attack. Through this process, the four armed monster started to attack the side edges of Mirune's shield while still moving which made her shield jerk to the side, forcing her to lose control over her shield for a moment before she could regain her grip.

Then without expecting it, the beast suddenly jumped two meters above her and landed right behind her. Without giving her time to turn around, the monster started punching ferociously directly onto her back. Mirune gritted her teeth as she feels pain on the back, even though her armor absorbed most of the impacts, she could still feel the blunt force.

"RARGH!" the Chosen Undead shouted as she swings her shield backwards to bash the monster away for her, but it didn't end up as she as hoped.

When Mirune swing her shield, the monster had yet again jumped above her and landed right in front of her. This time, the Chosen Undead tried to block his next attack, but it was too late. When she was moving her arm to block it, the monster was already launching one of its fists, which brutally hit on her shoulder.

The sick fleshy crunching sound of the bone being dislocated could be heard loudly. With a sharp moan, Mirune lost control of her grip and let go her shield, leaving her and the children without a way to protect themselves.

Taking this opportunity, the monster clenches another of its fists and launched it with all its strength to them. Left with no choice, Mirune curled her body around them to protect the children from the incoming blow. She could feel her feet being lifted from the ground and being thrown directly to a building.

Then everything blanked out.

*meanwhile*

The West streets of Orario were in total chaos, the monsters that had been captured for the exhibition of the events of Monster Feriae were at the loose. Many of the Adventurers that were nearby started to fight against the monsters or escorting any civilian to save place, though the Guild had requested to keep the operations to minimal, after all, they didn't wanted the all city fall into panic.

Aiz Wallenstein, a very beautiful young woman with long blonde hair, golden eyes, and a slender body and a First-Class Adventurer of Loki Familia also known as the Sword Princess, ran through the West streets of Orario, killing any monster that she encounters with her sword, the Desperate.

Along aside her was no that other the head of the Loki Familia, Loki herself. A Goddess with light red hair and red eyes, she is well-known to dress up in tomboyish like attire, whose personality shows a lustful side of her toward females, especially towards Aiz, though she enjoys living up her name as the "Goddess of Trickery".

"AAAIZZZZ! I am tired! Can we stop?" the tomboyish complained as she starts to slow down.

"We can't Loki. We still need to deal with the remaining monsters." Aiz replied calmly as continues running.

"Then I think I will recharge myself up." the goddess said as a lustful smile starts to appear across her lips as she looks directly Aiz's rear.

Loki starts slowly reaching her fingers towards her goal, but when she nearly there, Aiz suddenly stopped and the edge of Aiz's scabbard hit directly middle Loki's forehead. And she fell down backwards.

"Excuse me!" said a voice of man directly to Aiz "You are an Adventurer, aren't you?"

Aiz looks towards the owner of the voice and sees man in his late forties covered in sweat, Aiz answers him with a nod.

"Thank goodness! There is a large four armed monster wrecking the place not far from here! If I am not mistaken, there is an Adventurer distracting the beast as we speak!" the man explained the situation to them.

"An Adventurer you said…" Loki replied back on her feet while still rubbing her forehead.

"Where is the monster?" Aiz quickly asks to the man calmly, yet at the same time seriously.

"Is by the fountain! Please, go quickly! It seems that Adventurer can't hold beast for much longer!"

With that said, Aiz gave to the man another nod and return running towards where the battle between the four armed monster and the Adventurer. Loki continues running alongside her, only this time just few feet away from her.

Their running only lasted for a few minutes when suddenly a black blurred figure passed right front of them. Hitting a nearby building and crumbling the wall in the process.

* CRASHHHH!*

"W-W-What hell was that!?" Loki said between coughs due to the dust that has been raised because of the crumbled wall.

When the dust lift up, it revealed a enormous person wearing an armor made of some sort black metal sitting on top of a pile of crumbles, with his head tilted down and unmoving. Dread grew inside of Aiz, but her face betrayed that emotion, she kept calm no matter what. So without waiting for any longer, she walked towards the person in black armor.

"Are you alright?" the Sword Princess asks, but there was no response.

Not wanting to jump to any conclusions, the Sword Princess pushed a few crumbling bricks from the person and quickly went to the side of the adventurer clad in black armor. Feeling dread growing inside of her chest, she gently removes the helmet, reveling the face of this enormous person. It was a woman like herself, she had raven short hair and her eyes were blue like sapphires. But something was wrong, she couldn't feel any breathing coming from her and her eyes were gazed out, lifeless. Expecting for the worst, she traced her fingers towards her neck, right under back of her jaw to see if she could feel any pulse. But there was none, she was already dead.

"Sorry for not having come sooner." she said lowly.

Then Aiz heard a faint sobs, she looked down and sees two unharmed young Chienthrope children being hold around this person's arm. Her eyes quickly traced to the direction where she was launched and sees the dark skinned four armed monster freeing a victorious roar, and right next to it, there was a slightly dented great shield standing on the floor abandoned. And not far from the monster, there was an enormous two handed great sword standing by of a fountain, it was then it her.

She looked back to the woman in black and notices that on the back of her armor there was several dented marks all over on her back and there was another bigger one on her left side of the armor. Going further she also notices that her left arm limp, this is all she needed to know. She has been protecting them all this time, instead of fighting against the monster, she had decided instead protecting the two children while others couldn't. She sacrificed her own life for them.

She will make sure that her sacrifice was not for nothing. She gently removes the children from woman's arm and guides them to Loki.

"Loki, please look after them for a while." she said calm voice, which concealed the anger that was inside her.

With that said, the Sword Princess quickly turns towards the four armed monster and walked towards to it, with her hand resting on Desperate's handle. The victorious roars of the beast stopped when the monster saw another opponent standing right in front of his previous foe, he started smacking his fists ferociously on the floor as he releases intimating roars and snarls. He was ready to fight anyone that stepped on his way.

When Aiz saw that have caught the monster's attention she quickly stage herself to sprint towards the monster in full speed, she will kill him with just one swing. But something was strange; the intimating snarls of the monster soon into confuse expression. Why was he confused? It didn't matter any way. Her hand quickly grabbed firmly the handle of her sword, but when she was about to draw it, she felt someone grabbing her arm.

"Wait…" a monotone voice said from behind her.

Aiz hold the urges to scream when she felt being grabbed suddenly by someone, she quickly turns to see who the owner of the voice and of the hand was. It made her eyes widen completely. It was no other than the supposed dead Adventurer the one who is holding her arm and the one who spoke. She was just there sitting on top of the pile of rubble staring at her with her piercing blue empty eyes, while still holding her shield with her good arm.

'How…How she can be alive? I checked for pulse, but there was none!' the Sword Princess wondered confusedly, not knowing why she was alive.

"Are you alright?" she managed to hold her tone while speaking to her.

"I just blanked out for a moment…" the enormous Adventurer said in monotone as she gets up from the pile of crumbles, then her eyes focused on the four armed monster who was still looking at them confusedly "I have things to finish…"

"But your arm…" Aiz said as she stares offer her dislocated arm "You aren't in any condition to fight against that thing. Please, let me help."

Mirune looks over arm for a moment, and then her next action made both the Sword Princess and the Goddess eyes wide open. The Chosen Undead grabbed her arm and pulled it. It could be heard loudly the sound of bones being reconnected one with other. The other two just stayed there staring at the gruesome sight of the woman was doing, it gave barely enough time for Loki to cover the children eyes from the sight. Only Mirune stood there like as if was nothing, it didn't bother her that much; she could heal it later either way if she needed.

After doing hand exercises to see if the bones were well connected, the Chosen Undead attention fall upon the beast and slowly started walking towards the beast. Both Aiz and Loki stayed there staring over the lonely Adventurer who slowly walked towards the one who had incapacitated her for a while, now was standing right in front of him strongly. Then it happened. Both of her arms were suddenly engulfed by crimson flames that were glued to her arms as if it were a part of her.

Mirune could feel the Flame of Chaos flowing through her arms fueled by her desire to vanquish the monster that was right standing in front of her. Pyromancy, an art that is wielded by the user's own emotions, though strong emotions means a stronger flame, if the wielder let their emotions such as anger control them, then he or she loses control over the flame and it slowly begins to consume both the body and soul that possesses it.

Yes, powerful art but…

*Thump Thump*

…she will need it…

*Thump Thump Thump Thump*

...at its fullest possibilities!

* Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump!*

The sound of her undead heart starting to painfully beating could be heard all across of her body. Beating in such a rate, that was considered dangerous or even deadly towards living beings, and for each beating, it releases a substance directly to her veins. Mirune releases small painful groans as she feels her veins being swollen by the red burning substance inside of her, but she could already feel the effects running. She could feel her all strength enhanced far beyond of her possibilities, and the pain. The immense pain that she was feeling right now, was as if she was alive, truly alive for the first time for ages!

Aiz looks over the Adventurer and notices crimson lines forming a root shaped like form spreading across both her neck and face, and with it, a crimson aura started burning around her body. When she heard her groaning out of pain, she wanted to help her, to stop her from doing anything dangerous. But when she saw her face it made her skin crawl, she had a smile that no sane person would have, even perhaps no living being. As she slowly opens her mouth, a fate reddish steam starts coming out from her mouth edges and with it, an inhuman feral snarl comes out from her.

"RAAAARGH!" the Chosen Undead releases an inhuman roar.

Aiz's entire body flinched soon when she heard that roar. A roar that she knew well, a roar very similar to the monsters that dwell inside the Dungeon. So far only few were able imitated a monster's roar, the ones who let their anger control over them 'Is she a Berserker? No…No Berserker was capable to something like this.'

Both of the women looked at her startled by the sudden roared coming from the Adventurer, even the monster was affected by it. Taking the advantage of the situation, the Chosen Undead unleashed the fury of her flames towards her foe. Two massive fireballs formed on her hands and throws them in synchronize, hitting directly towards his chest. Exploding in the process, the monster cried in pain as he feels his skin burning by the intensive heat from the explosion.

"Chantless magic! How is that even possible!?" Loki shouted when she saw Mirune casting, in their idea, fire magic without needing chanting the spell to cast it.

The monster enraged by its pain, charged directly towards the Undead but little knew he that she was already to cast other spell. The Chosen Undead channeled her Pyromancy and concentrated on the palms of her hands, forming two orbs of fire. When the monster was closed she casted dual Great Combustion, exploding a burst if fire directly to its face.

The monster yelped in agony as he feels the fire burning the left side of his face, severely wounding his eyesight, but it didn't stay there. The Chosen Undead closed her mouth and started to swell it up, when she open her mouth again, a pale purplish smoke was puked out of it. The monster started coughing due to lack of oxygen entering his lungs, little he knew whenever he coughed, the toxins from the smoke entered inside of his system. Seeing without any option, the monster jumped back out of the purple smoke to inhale oxygen once again, but without giving any time to recover. Mirune comes out from the smoke, charging directly towards the monster with her closed fists lifted ready to strike him.

The monster immediately crossed his four arms to block her attacks, a wrong move from him that he couldn't have foreseen in beforehand. With her unnatural strength enhanced beyond that her limits, on the moment when her fist touched his arms, it broke immediately his arms. The monster screamed in pain as his arms become useless and fell limped. Taking no breaks, Mirune gave another punch directly below of the left side of his ribcage and another follow hitting his lower jaw, throwing him away few feet away from her.

The four armed beast starts coughing out blood from his wagging jaw, barely addling the pain, the beast manage to back to his feet, but he stayed for long. He quickly turns around and starts limping away from Mirune in fear. Then suddenly his body being surrounded by a pale ring, he suddenly felt a great amount of weight on his body as if was pressing him to ground. Slowing him down.

"Where do you think you're going?" a voice said behind him.

The monster slowly start turning around, only to see the person that have been fighting with holding a silky Trinket on her hand that emitting a yellowish glow.

After casting "Tranquil Walk of Peace" on the monster, she placed back her talisman on her belt, guided her hand towards the bottomless box that was on the back of her belt and opened it. The Sword Princess looked over the Chosen Undead shoving her hand inside of the small box and when she did it, a bright light starts coming out inside of it. She slowly sees the Chosen Undead pulling something out of it, focusing her eyes; Aiz noticed that was some sort of handle. As she continues pulling, it revealed more far that a mere handle, it was a sword. An enormous sword that was easily twice of her size made of what it appears to be entirely made of stone.

'How can she hold such a thing inside of a small box, not even to mention wielding it!' the Sword Princess mentally shouted.

Holding the handle with both her hands, the Chosen Undead lifted upwards towards easily. Aiz could feel the air starting picking up towards the blade of stone sword, as it starts glowing. She could a great amount of power of unknown origin being accumulated on the blade, but the feeling was like primordial, was as if the force of nature where being pulled to the sword.

"AAARGHHHH!"

With all her strength, the Chosen slammed her sword to the ground unleashing a devastating energy wave towards the monster, leaving behind a path of destruction and dust wherever it went. Seeing this, the monster tried to run away but it was useless. When he dared to look back, the wave had reached to him. The monster screamed in pure agony as his body starts to be disintegrate into pieces, his screams stopped when his body was completely disintegrate alongside with his core that had shattered into pieces and scattered it.

Aiz vision was covered by screen of dust being pulled towards their direction and by instinct, she covered her eyes. When the dust lifted, it revealed a linear path of destruction where the sword had slammed. Aiz look back towards where the monster and couldn't see any signs of him, only a destroyed road.

Her eyes quickly glace towards the Adventurer who had defeated the monster, whose sword was still clung to the ground, wearily heavily panting. Then her eyes quickly widen when she saw weapon on her hands. When she had lift up the enormous sword, it revealed that the blade was full with cracks and was already missing some pieces on the edge of the blade. Indicating clearly that was heavily damaged.

'Did she done that? Is she that strong that doesn't even her weapons can handle with her true strength?' Aiz thought, and then she gave a quick look over the destroyed road and look back to Mirune 'She is dangerously powerful. Which familia does she belong to? Is she a High-Rank Adventurer?'

'Great job me...' Mirune said mentally 'I think I use too much strength on this thing.' She mentally sighed as she looks over heavily damaged Dragon Greatsword 'This thing isn't cheap to repair you know.'

Slowly, the people started to gather forming a crowd and began applauding towards Mirune. The Chosen Undead stayed there surprised as the people appeared out of nowhere and started to gather around her applauding to her, giving her congratulations and thank you, that sort of thing.

"Pepele! Bashu!" an older voice of a woman shouted.

Mirune eyes traced over the owner of the voice and saw an older Chienthrope dark haired woman holding the two children between her embrace. Then she started bowing repeatedly towards the light red haired person, but the person started to hold his (A.N: Mirune interprets Loki as he for now because she doesn't know that Loki is a woman) hands up and said something to her while pointing to her. Giving a last bow, the woman approached the Chosen Undead while holding the two children between her arms.

"Thank you for saving my children! I didn't know what I would do if I lose them, they are my dearest treasure!" the woman thanked Mirune while bowing towards her.

"It was nothing…" Mirune replied in her monotone, but she held a small smile forming on her lips "The lives of children are far more important than mine."

Before the woman could say anything else, a loud roar was heard from not far where they were. The Aiz looked at Mirune giving clearly the message and ran where the roar came from, after grabbing her helmet, shield and removing her sword underneath of the pieces of broken fountain, she bid farewell toward the woman and her children and ran towards the same way where the Sword Princess went.

*later that night- at the Hostess of Fertility upper floor*

The Chosen Undead stayed inside of a room from the Pub, leaning against a wall on the end of the room with her arms crossed while looking offer the sleeping little goddess on the bed and the white haired boy sitting beside her. When she had defeated the four armed monster, both her and Aiz ran directly where they had heard the monster's roar. But when they reached to their destination, they found a giant white ape like creature being defeated by no other than Bell with Hestia sitting on the floor not far from him. Seeing there was no need for any help, the Sword Princess left before giving lowly 'Congratulations' with a small smile. Only Mirune stayed behind, after all, she had business with them. But that all changed when suddenly Hestia passed out.

Out of panic, Bell started screaming for her but there was no response. So without any delay walked to their directions and together went finding help for the little goddess, only to finding it at the Hostess of Fertility. When a bluish grey haired female employee wearing a maid outfit named Syr told them that she was fine that she was just fatigued, made Bell relieve to hear that his Goddess was fine.

When the maid was about to leave the room, Mirune walked to her "Excuse me." she called her attention.

"Yes?" when the maid turned around she presented by a green plant shaped like a flower that was being hold by Mirune "What is this?"

"Is called Green Blossom, it as special properties that allows stamina recovery. It can consumed like this or can be mashed and brewed with hot water (I think)." She mentally added the last part "Could you please make a tea with it for Lady Hestia to drink it?" Mirune asked with her monotone voice.

Syr look over for a moment at the plant before grabbing and nodded "Of course, I will back in a moment." she said with a smile and left the room.

Sometime later, the maid returned with tray holding glass with greenish liquid inside. With help of Mirune, they made the small goddess drink the liquid slowly. Her facial expression quickly frowned when she felt the uniquely bitter taste of the plant running down her throat. After few minutes, her eyes started slowly open and then she spoke.

"BLEH! What is that? Is so bitter!" Hestia complained with a tough out as stands up from the bed.

"Goddess! I am so glad that you're alright!" Bell replied cheerfully as he sees his goddess was alright.

"Bell? Cathiddei? Where are we?" Hestias asks as she looks around and noticed that was inside of an unknown room.

"You are at Hostess of Fertility Goddess Hestia." Syr said politely towards "Bell and Miss Cathiddei took you here when you passed out due to fatigue. Miss Mirune gave us a plant that allowed your recovering much faster than that it should." she explained.

Hestia looks towards Mirune "Thank you." she received a nod a response.

"Now if you excuse me. I must leave; I still have duties to complete. Feel free to rest much you need." with that said the maid left the room, leaving the three alone.

"Goddess, you made me so worried." Bell said with a tone that showed how concerned he was with her when she passed out.

"I am sorry to make you worried Bell. In these last days, I have been so busy that I couldn't sleep properly. Speaking of which, what happen to you Miss Cathiddei? You look to be in really bad shape." Hestia asks when she noticed the condition of Mirune's armor.

"Dealt with another moster in the market." the Chosen Undead gave her a poor and simple summary "Lady Hestia."

"Huh?"

"Despise being glad that I was able to assist with your recovery, I have business to attend with you." despise her face doesn't show a lot emotions, her quiet and serious voice betrays it "After some to think, I finally reached to conclusion. I accepted it."

"Then you mean…"

Mirune nods "Yes, I accept joining your Familia." she firmly stated.

Words couldn't describe of how happy Bell was of someone accepting their request of joining their Familia after so many failed attempts, plus, he knew that Mirune was an excellent edition for their little family. Hestia was also happy of course for someone accepting her Familia even after seeing how poorly they lived, the only bad part was that she will not be able to live with Bell alone never again. Despise of all that, she was happy.

"Very well then!" she said with a smile as she gets up bed "I, Hestia, head of Hestia Familia hereby welcome you, Miss Mirune Cathiddei, as a member of our Familia and one of my children! Welcome to our little family!" she happily announced "Now we just need to give you your Falna to finish your initiation!"

"Falna?"

"Falna is a grace given by the Gods and Goddesses to their Familia members, with these blessings allows one body to perform feats that supersede the limits of a normal mortal." Her newly patron goddess explains to her "And seeing that you manage defeating a monster by yourself, and not to mentioning that you came from lower floors of the Dungeon, only proves that you are far more than normal than any mortal!"

"Then how we do this Falna?"

"First, you will need to remove your armor first; you only need remove your upper part of course. Then I will engrave it on your back."

Nodding at her words, the Chosen Undead begins to move the parts that keep all parts of the armor together; the first piece of the armor to come off was the upper chest piece that protects her upper part and neck. But when the piece came off and fell to the floor, a heavy and loud clung could be heard when touched at the solid wooden floor, resulting a small cracking sound being heard. Both Hestia and Bell had their mouths wide open. How can she wearing such a thing. Though those thoughts were removed from Hestia when noticed something, Mirune was stripping off armor and Bell was still inside of the room. So she did what was necessary.

"Bell, out! Out of the room now!" she begins to push the boy to the exit.

"Goddess?"

"Don't you see Mirune unclothing herself?"

When she said that, Bell's face turned redder that a tomato and quickly turns his wheels towards the door and ran "Sorry!"

*Sometime later*

"Damn I will tell you. If I didn't know you or if I was seeing from your back. I would think you were a man." Hestia commented surprised.

At the moment, the Chosen Undead was standing in front of her half naked. The reason why Hestia was surprised, was because when Mirune removed her armor, revealing her strong hardened body, a body that have been trained none stop in her previous live to be a Berenike knight. Even as an Undead, it was still possible to see the fated scars scattered around her body.

Following Hestia next order which was to lie down, but seeing that the bed was rather smaller comparing to her, the Chosen Undead lay down instead on the floor with her back fencing the ceiling. Soon when Mirune was on the floor, Hestia sat on her back, though at first it was weird after being accustomed to Bell's back for so long rather of someone else. So without any delay, she started the ritual.

The little goddess removed a needle from one of her hairpins and without so much as a flinch pricked her index finger and squeezed out few drops of inky black onto Mirune's back. On the moment when her blood touched Mirune's back, her mind blank out as she channels her mind with Mirune's soul. When a Falna is being formed between the Head of Familia and its member, the Head of the Familia is capable to bind it to his or her soul toward it. But to do it so, she would needed to go inside Mirune's body.

When Hestia re-open her eyes, she was meet large field covered by a thick fog and walked into it. Sometime had already passed since she entered here, but until now she wasn't able to find Mirune's soul. It was this fog; it was trying to prevent her to find it. But why? Why there is something like this inside of a mortal?

Despise of all that, she doesn't give up. This mortal, this child had choose her to be her Goddess, to join her Familia. In the past, she used to be all alone inside of the basement of an old abandoned church, she tried so many times for someone to join her but no one wanted. But that all changed when Bell came along and her live turned far brighter than ever. Then she came along, a mysterious person that appears out of nowhere and accepted her proposal joining her despite knowing how they live. She wouldn't fail this.

She continues walking through the screens of fog until she noticed something. Within the fog, she noticed a shape in the mist of the swirling white. So taking a chance, she walked towards it. Though when never comes closer to the shape, the shapes becomes bigger and bigger whenever as she closer to it. When she finally to reached to it, her were far wide that possible. What she was seeing was no ordinary soul.

This soul was black as night and had a white glowing outline around it. Burning like was on fire. As she starts slowly approaching towards the strange soul, she could feel a strange feeling coming out of it, a feeling somewhat familiar but she couldn't guess what. Though the feeling was as if was looking down at her as if was she a mere bug comparing to it.

So without any delay, she connected herself with it. She could all sorts of emotions being chained down in the deepest parts of the souls, but even so, she could feel compassion and valor, but the biggest of it all as the burden, she could feel big burden within this soul. But oh how it burned.

After being able to stabilize the bound between Mirune's soul and the Falna, her back started to glow a bright light as the emblem of Hestia Familia being carved. With this, Mirune was an official member of Hestia Familia.

"Is all done Miss Cathiddei, now we just need to do something that I have been wondering about." the Goddess said as she gets up from Mirune's back, allowing Mirune to rise up.

"What is it?" the Chosen Undead asks as she gets up to sit.

"Is nothing that serious, I just want to see your [Status]. When a Falna is made, it forms something called [Status] that set various parameters, such as [Basic Abilities], [Development Abilities], [Magic], [Skills] and the overall the [Level]. A level shows the rank of an Adventurer, unlike [Status], the status of an Adventurer is considered to be secret information only available to his or hers Familia Head and members but the level of an Adventurer is required to be reported and can be shown to others. The [Basic Abilities] are Strenght, Endurance, Dexterity, Agility, and Magic. Each one is shown be a rank and a number from 0 to for example, from 0 to 99 is consider I rank, 100 to 199 is H, 200 to 299 is G, 300 to399 is F, 400 to 499 is E, 500 to 599 is D, 600 to 699 is C, 700 to 799 is B, 800 to 899 is A, and 900 to 999 is S. [Basic Abilities] can be raised through excilia gained from training and battles. [Basic Abilities] reset to I0 at every level up although the abilities gained before each level up will remain as an invisible base." Hestia made a little pause before speaking again "[Development Abilities] are different from [Basic Abilities] in the sense that they are characteristics specializing in a certain area, like for example having more Endurance that normally or being capable being a mage to be able cast a wide variety of spells. Starting from Level 2, there is a chance of gaining one every level up. [Magic] is considered to be a strong power. There are two different types of Magic; Congenital Magic, [Magic] based from one's own ability and race, and [Acquired Magic], [Magic] based on the Falna given by the Gods and Goddesses. [Magic] requires a specific chant to activate, and the longer the chant the stronger the [Magic] is. And finally [Skills], [Skills] are inherent abilities that can be discovered by those that have received the Falna. Skills correct and strengthen specific [Basic Abilities], [Magic], and actions. The chance of discovering a [Skill] is said to be rare, and [Skills] with effects that no one else has are considered to be [Rare Skills]." Hestia releases a sigh after giving a rather long resume to her newly member "Did you understand?"

Mirune just nodded.

"Please tell me that you are telling the truth. I would rather not repeat myself." The loli-goddess said hoping that the Chosen Undead was jesting around.

"I am not jesting." Mirune stated with a nod.

Staring at Mirune for a moment she walked to her back "Now if you excuse me."

The little goddess kneeled down with a piece of paper and touched the emblem, then it started to glowing and numbers and letters appeared in front of her, moving. She placed the paper on Mirune's back and let the information on Falna passing through the paper. After few seconds, letters and numbers started too appeared in black ink. After the information being passed, Hestia removed a paper and stared for a moment, before being interrupted by the door knocking.

"Goddess, are you two finish?" it was Bell's voice.

"Yes, just a moment." Hestia said while giving Mirune a glare, clearly telling her to dress up, though she didn't understand it "Put some clothes one." she said lowly.

Doing what she had told, Mirune wrapped around her chest area with a cloth that she had one her and grabbed on dark gambeson that she had underneath of her armor (A.N: They need to have something underneath of that armor, though in the game doesn't show that) and put it on. Seeing that the Chosen Undead was dressed, Hestia opened the door for Bell to enter.

Though still nervous of what happen before, Bell spoke "So how did it go?"

"It went rather well actually. I was just about to see Mirune's [Status], I have rather curious about her abilities since day one." Hestia said as she shows the paper on her hand to Bell.

Also rather curious about the topic, Bell also approaches towards Hestia and looks over paper on goddess's hand.


[Mirune Cathiddei]

Level: [Blank]

STR: SSS1550

END:SSS1550

DEX:C750

AGI:D600

MAGIC:A800

DEV-ABI(Development Abilities): Unnatural Strength, Unnatural Endurance, Teacher, Repairer/Upgrader, Paladin, Swordsmanship ,Valor;

MAGIC: [Holy Magic], [Fire Arts];

SKILLS: Quick Caster, Sword Specialist, Shield Specialist, Sharp Senses;


"Triple S rank, is that even possible?" Bell said clearly shocked.

Both Bell and Hestia stayed glued at the paper with their eyes wide open, they couldn't believe that she possessed such insane status. They give a shocked expression towards Mirune, who simply was simply staring at them with her head tilted, not knowing why they were surprise. This… this paper only proved that Mirune only could be a natural High-Rank Adventurer. But what caught next Bell's attention was Mirune's level, it was blank. Like, there is nothing there. This really made him confused at this.

"Hum…Goddess, why Mirune's level is blank?" he said as he points at the paper.

'Huh? Blank?' the loli-goddess quickly looks over where Bell was pointing at and he was right, it was blank "Hum, perhaps Falna can't exactly calculate the value of her level due to her insane status. But is nothing to worry about." She finish as she signs wearily "I think that I have too much excitement for one day, I am kind of tired myself." She said as puts the paper on the desk that was in the room.

"Well, then both me and Mirune will go back to church, so please take some rest Goddess. We will see you tomorrow." Hestia respond him with a nod and with, Bell existed the room with Mirune following him with her stuff with her.

When the door closed, Hestia stayed there for a moment looking at the door to see if someone enters the room. After seeing that nobody would enter, her attention fell on the paper on desk. She glared over the paper suspiciously for a while, before entering in action. She slowly approaches the piece of paper and placed index finger on Mirune's name and slides over it as she bubbles words that no mortals understand anymore.

"Vereor Nox"

At those words, the paper once white turned black and the letters were black ink, where now glowing a bright golden glow while holding an ancient language that only the gods could understand, revealing far more that the mere paper from before.

She grabbed the paper and her eyes quickly fell where Mirune's level used to be, and where used to be blank, was now written. A Heroic Legend.

"Heroic Legend, a title given to those whose deeds went far beyond possibilities both of a mortal and of a God. Until now, only two once possessed this title on the past, but that was during the Ancient Ages and they are long gone. Who just are you, Mirune Cathiddei?"

End Chapter 2


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