"...and now you're caught up to when I discovered my Guardian, roughly. I can't give you more up to date data for security reasons, Last City on the line and all."

"So was Liam really dead when you found him?"

Orange hair looked like she had a world shattering revelation. Which I suppose she had. Surprisingly, the rest had taken this rather well.

Enough that we'd moved to a pub to 'celebrate their expedition'. I wasn't too bothered by having the lightbulb do his thing in public. Especially since it would be a much better stage for the fun part.

"Yep. Bone white skeleton, fractured bones. Considering the rusted cars in the desert around his corpse it might have been a car accident that did him in, that's how he came up with his second name too."

"I am insulted! I tell you, nothing less than a fully loaded truck could have lain low my esteemed countenance."

"Or maybe a rock to the brain, it still works about as well."

Me and Sirius had started to lighten up a bit, though maybe that was alcohol talking.

We were all a bit drunk.

"A..an how exactly er, did you end up here?"

I think Bete was drunk, isn't her part wolf or something. We explained the Awoken and Exos, but they still haven't explained what's the deal up with this place and genetics.

"Well, we were on a classified mission. Pretty top secret. I can't say much..."

Sirius looked pointedly at me.

"...but well, it seemed to be over, until things went weird. We ended up real lost in some kind of bunker or maybe labyrinth. Its hard to tell with how old it was. I found an anomaly in their data network, ah excuse me, I read their machine thoughts to tell there was something irritating them and directed Liam there."

Loki had given the poor lightbulb an earful for headache inducing jargon and technical speak, I'm guessing this Tenkai or heaven place wasn't too shabby in terms of tech.

"It was a portal, straight to the dungeon. We didn't know it lead there, but Guardians can survive a lot, or die from it and get up again anyway. We figured it was the worth the risk compared to trying to escape that place. Liam jumped straight through, and ended up on the seventh floor."

"Wait! Wait! Sparkles, didn't Liam fight the Minotaur on the sixth?"

"Yes? Is that relevant?"

"Well how did you get there? Or did you land right by the steps?"

"Haven't you been listening? I am a piece of a dead god sent to raise people from the dead to slow down Dark gods of Unfathomable evil and protect its corpse. Making a mere map from error laden scans of a labyrinth is a bit a trifle. Never mind a single floor, I have floors 1 to 37 mapped to reasonable levels of accuracy and the floors 38 to 57 mapped to less than reasonable levels of accuracy!"

At that, her sister looked at Finn.

"Captain. With this we could!"

The blue eyed, blonde haired Pallum, Finn Deime, Captain of Loki Familia...

Was actually pretty chill. Had a drive for sure, looked tough, but he reminded me of Cayde more than Zavala, if not quite as a fun. You'd think the second in command of a goddess would have a stick up his arse.

"Not yet. We can't rely on something we haven't tested or have no experience with. For all we know, the Dungeons tricks could work on you two correct?"

Oh, scientific eh. I like it.

Sirius nodded, somehow. "Yes, we detected a number of anomalies, and as I explained earlier. The Dungeon monsters vaguely remind us of the Darkness, and you the Light of the Traveller. However, both are different. I hesitate to say that our instincts may be trying to fit something outside our context into a box we recognise. For all we know, our abilities could react unpredictably to the Dungeon or its 'monsters' as you call them."

"Phantoms fits better." I snarked.

At that though, Ais asked a question. "What level are you?"

"Level?"

Loki looked confused.

"Wait, if the God was dead, and all the lightbulb did here was flood you with this holy energy, how would you grow stronger? Even with Arcanum and a gods blood the Falna doesn't give power easy, both the god and mortal work at it, you kids by fighting in the dungeon and us by converting excelia into stats. You killed a Minotaur right?"

Sirius whirled at that.

"Your thinking of it wrong. Liam wasn't going full throttle against the Minotaur."

"I don't suppose he had his hands tied behind his back either?"

Ais helpfully raised a hand.

"No, he used all limbs. Expert."

I smiled at the genuine praise. "Thank you."

"That's not right. I don't mean he was holding back either. We receive Light constantly from the Traveller, even this far away."

"Wait, what. I don't sense a think? Oi Riveria, you sense anything."

Sirius sighed.

"No you won't sense it, its being sent through a type of quantum time loop after all."

"So it's already here?"

"Sort of. If something happened to the Traveller, the loop could collapse for a least a while. Anyhow, think of his light like your Mind. Except he gets a lot more. If Liam used all of his light, he could reach a state where he would be several times as strong as the Minotaur and able to better manipulate Arc light. However, since reviving requires so much light, and we had already been fighting for several days, it would have left him vulnerable in the dungeon as well me."

The Green haired Elf, Riveria Ljos Alf seemed to understand.

"So it's like a spell without a chant, or several spells, that can boost his parameters to level 2 and possible level 3?"

"Pretty much."

"Hahahaha, now that's nuts. But do tell me kid..."

Gareth Landrock, a dwarf. He'd been silent most of today, but he hadn't been fazed at all either.

"What happens if you get a Falna as well?"

Now this was my que. Sirius seems to roll his eyes.

"Well, from you've explained, the only thing holding adventurers back is death right?"

At that, I pulled out my pistol, a nice sleek black model, decorated in gold with a suppressor on the end, just as everyone on the table before me widened their eyes in horror.

I pointed it at the side of my head and pulled the trigger.