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AN: I never really like the way canon Danmachi handled the whole Xenos affair. I thought all the plans that Ouranus put together were pathetic with too many holes and Hermes' plan was even more short-sighted and ridiculous, granted it was more in line with his selfishness. I want my Xenos arc to be badass so I decided to give them one of my favorite cards as a badass guardian. I hope you like it. More set up work. Not so funny but sadly necessary.

PittBullBytes:- LOL! Yeah! There's more to that punchline and I'll be using it later on for a special scene.

Onishin Tsukitenshi:- Glad you liked the chapter. Yes, for sure Astolfo will turn up again. He has a special role to play in the next attack that Hestia will launch against Evilus.

AzureKaiser:- I think many kings in the medieval period that couldn't keep it in their pants or not talk about it. Henry VIII and his six wives and several publicly secret mistresses come to mind. Also which one or ones told Da Vinci will be busted soon enough.

ghost777:- Hahaha! Yeah I would so read it too just for laughs. So many possibilities and innuendos…

Shirosaki Kizuro:- Indeed and I intend to show how Hentai will help make Orario a better place to live for all.

Phantom Thief of Hearts:- Finn is the most perfect straight man you can get… I love keeping him between a rock and a hard place. He'll get his time in the sun a bit later, once the timing is right. Archer Ishtar has met the others but more about her will come to light as we get closer to the Ishtar arc. It will be worth it and totally legal. I never understood how Freya could be allowed to openly go to war in Orario and the guild not even fine her. Let alone kill another goddess and nothing happens so I had to look for a legal loophole and I believe I found one. I don't want to spoil it for you as I'll need to set it up. The gates are going to be heavily secured for obvious reasons as it basically leads right into the heart of Hestia's powerbase. Not good to let a weakness like that just laying around unprotected so more is explained about it in this chapter and it will be built upon. As Finn said, Da Vinci has plans to own the dungeon and she's working on it. Even if Ouranus knows he's powerless to do anything about it and that's by the laws of his own making so he's got no one else to blame. One day someone is just going to lay the smackdown on him and tell him all the ways he done fucked up big time!

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Please read & review as I appreciate any comments made

Fate Grand Disorder

Chapter 44 – Monster

Caster Merlin was humming a happy tune to himself as he made last-minute adjustments to the teleport circle he was setting up. Hephaestus familia would be needed to come down to Rivira and start enclosing it all in a building complete with scanners and fail-safes for security purposes as it was a direct link from the eighteenth floor to the heart of Hestia territory, just outside Orario. It was nearly complete and once it was, the traffic flow of adventurers to the entrance of the dungeon would slow down as it would become more economical to use a teleport port to get to the eighteenth floor.

No longer would you have to go to the guild's official floor one entrance and work your way down which made it easier to get down further as less supplies needed to be carried. Logistics planning for deep dungeon dives could be simplified as you could start preparations from either floor eighteen or floor fifty, once that one was complete. A Chaldean team had already been sent down there to begin work on it. A new age of dungeon exploration was about to begin.

The advantage that really made Da Vinci tickled pink with joy was that only beginner level adventurers and thus the poorest adventurers would bother going to the entrance proper, meaning the wealthier adventurers and thus, those with more to spend would be diverted to the new teleport point in Hestia familia property. The shopping mall next to it was near completion, as was the inn across the road. The adjoining adventurer's superstore was already leased to the god Miach and Hephaestus and was being built to have a potions store on the ground floor as well as a weapons and armour store. Adventurers could essentially buy wholesale before entering the dungeon directly. This would again change retail dynamics in Orario forever.

The other good thing about building in the dungeon was there were no real estate laws. It was just, you build it, you defend it, which was why the population of Rivira was concentrated around a great tree at its centre surrounded by tall, wooden walls. Merlin could only chuckle to himself at the sight of this as the plans given to him would change all Rivira forever. Whistling to himself he stretched his arms out as he walked into the tunnel and proceeded down to the nineteenth floor. He had an appointment to keep.

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Avenger Gorgon had joined the group of intelligent monsters, known to themselves as the Xenos, for almost three months now. When she had first met them while exploring the twentieth floor, they had been wary of her and had simply frozen on the spot. She didn't attack them straight away like most monsters as they didn't attack her straight away like the other monsters did either. They had hesitated because her skimpy white and gold dress and her large creamy white breasts made her look almost human. The design of the dress and its attachments were definitely not made by any monsters from the dungeon.

An audible gasp was released by the Xenos when she finally flicked her tail out from behind her and coiled it around underneath her as an impromptu seat. Her hands turned into claws and her long, purple hair turned into snakes. A pair of beautiful golden wings sprouted from her back as her forearms and legs covered in golden scales.

A woman with wings for arms with golden feathers tipped in icy blue with hair to match leaned in close to her and gave a short sniff as if testing the air. "You don't smell like our kin, yet you look like one." She leaned back to take a better view of Avenger Gorgon. "You don't look human yet at the same time you feel somewhat human." She spoke with a melodious tone. "Who or what are you?"

Avenger chuckled. It was rare that anyone would greet her as anything less than a monster upon first sight. "Avenger Gorgon. You may call me Avenger." Turning the full might of her gaze on the Xenos she asked them in turn, "Who are you?"

"W...We're Xenos." A slightly trembling red-scaled lizardman said, "I am Lyd, a lizardman and the siren you see before you is Ray." Pointing to a grey reptilian figure with giant wings behind him he introduced, "T...This one is Gros, a gargoyle. Together, we lead this group."

Avenger stared at the group. She smirked, she would leave them alive for now, she won't turn them to stone unless they did something against her. Right then, they were just something interesting she would need to report to her master, Ritsuka Fujimaru. Thus began her time wandering the dungeon and inadvertently protecting the Xenos. It didn't take them long before the rest of the Xenos realised she was by far the most powerful one among them. She quipped this away by simply stating she had come from really deep within the dungeon. How deep was anybody's guess as she easily overpowered the forty-ninth floor boss, Balor by herself. She was biding her time till her comrades would eventually make contact with her.

This was when they would meet again. It was a little on their way to a safe village on the nineteenth floor when Avenger had noticed a small humanoid female with blue-grey skin and long silver-blue hair being chased by several adventurers. From what the other Xenos had told her, the girl was a vouire and they could tell she was kin to them, another Xenos, another sentient monster. By the way the adventurers were attacking they were not aiming to kill her but to capture or torture her. They were poachers.

The Xenos had gotten used to Avenger doing her own thing and often deferred to her greater power when it came to combat time, so when she told everyone to stay in the trees and not interfere, no one questioned her.

She landed softly on the grey grass in front of the vouire. The girl had been running so desperately and was more concerned with watching behind her that she ran straight into the legs of Avenger and promptly fell onto her backside. Gorgon tilted her head as she leaned forward at the hip to stare at the red gem on the girl's forehead before looking into her amber eyes. Placing her hand upon the girl's head she asked her, "Do you want to die?"

The girl's eyes widened but she did nothing but gulp. A loud male voice boomed out at Avenger as she slowly raised herself up to stare at the adventurers. "Hands off lady, that prey is mine!"

A female cackle could be heard behind him as a woman and two other men appeared behind the first bald-headed one that spoke. Gorgon let out a throaty laugh as she wrapped her tail around the girl and lifted her up and placed her behind herself. The adventurers gaped until their eyes squinted in glee. "FUCK OFF!" Avenger snarled at them "OR DIE!"

"Another Xenos," the man smiled as if he'd just hit the jackpot, he pointed at Avenger, "Capture it alive!"

"Ain't never seen one like you before." The woman sneered. "What are ya?"

Avenger just laughed into the air before she suddenly appeared in the midst of the adventurers, the woman's head already crushed in her claws. The others looked stunned before they leaped forward weapons drawn having decided that maybe capture was out of the question. Her hair darkened at the tips as they seemed to fuse together before forming themselves into the heads of pitch-black snakes. One man had his throat torn out and the other found his torso pierced through as the snake spat his heart out onto the ground.

Gran, the last man alive saw all this happen before he could even draw his huge sword out. He decided that retreat would be the best option at this point, so he turned to run. Only to come face to face with the monster who had ripped his own sword out of his hands with her tail. Waving it around behind her, she swiped at his face cutting three lines onto his left eye, obscuring his tattoo there with his own blood. She seemed to casually sit on the stem of her tail as she looked down upon him, howling in pain and holding onto his face. She finally spoke again, "Go… And tell your master, the next time he comes hunting one of us, it will I, that comes hunting for his head."

The man seemed to understand he was being shown mercy, so he struggled to his feet and began running to the exit back to Rivira. Avenger turned back and simply stared out to the distance, "That was what you wanted right Caster?"

Caster Merlin appeared out of the fog and clapped his hands together as he strode confidently towards her. "My… So brutal…" He smiled charmingly at her and turned slightly to pat the vouire on the head, "Little girl, are you alright?" he asked.

She nodded as Avenger slid towards him on her tail, her body never coming out of her seated position. "What do you want?"

The other Xenos watched on in awe as the new intruder seemed calm and comfortable around their champion. She in turn treated him with the most respect they had ever seen her treat anyone else with. Merlin gestured towards the Xenos hiding in the tops of the trees and answered, "Depends on what I hear and what they have to say."

Avenger glared at him suspiciously as she stood before him. Her tail planted the sword in the ground before it whipped out and grabbed the young vouire by the torso and dragged her closer. She turned her eyes on the whelp, "Little girl," she asked again, "Do you want to die?"

The girl shook her head vigorously but Avenger just kept staring at her. Gulping, she finally opened her mouth and a voice she wasn't used to using yet, whispered out, "N… No."

"Good," Avenger leered at her, "Then come with me if you want to live."

The girl nodded her head slowly. She turned to Merlin and lifted her chin in a motion that suggested he follow her. Merlin nodded and bowed to her, with an arm outstretched and in a sing song voice, he enthused, "After you, Oh mighty Queen of Beasts."

The other Xenos gathered around Gorgon as she nodded for Lyd to lead the way to their next hidden village on this floor. The white-haired, female Arche Xenos, Rayne walked by and grabbed the large, double-edged sword that used to belong to Gran and she looked up at Avenger almost as if asking for permission. Avenger merely smirked and nodded her head to which Rayne hoisted the blade up laying it on her shoulder.

The Xenos were curious about Merlin, a human who showed no apparent fear of their strongest member and who exuded a powerful aura of his own. They would trust the judgment of their kin and lead this man with them to their secret hideaway.

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Mia Grand stared warily at the letter in front of her. The Hestia seal on it still intact. Hestia familia now owned nearly every building on both sides of her street and hers was one of the last places still owned by someone other than Hestia. She knew it was probably another letter of offer. The offers had been getting bigger and bigger and more tempting but she did not want to give up her dream or have to restart elsewhere all over again.

Ever since the opening of the 'Thank Hestia It's Friday' pub next door, her business had taken a dramatic hit. Her usual dinner crowd and drinking crowd had now dwindled down into nearly nothing. She was getting desperate as even Freya was unable to help her against the corporate giant known as Hestia familia. If the offer was good she would have to give it serious consideration.

She cracked open the seal and read over the letter and her fingers went numb as the paper slipped out from between her fingertips. They had halved the original offer. Something was happening and she didn't know what but she felt a cold chill run through her body.

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