And I'm back. Sorry for the long wait but it took a while to think up how this chapter would go. I think from here on out things should go smoothly. Provided I don't suddenly get swamped with homework. Also, we hit over 100 followers! Thank you all so much for your support! I think I'll answer a few reviews now.
Azbycheri – Thank you for the compliments and I think I have a plan for how I will write Freya. But I'm not gonna say till the end of this chapter! Also, no need to apologize your English was great!
Shin Hyo Joon – That would be a fun idea, too bad this isn't Avatar Bell. I had honestly thought about writing that before but chose to go with this. Why? I'm not sure. But I like how things turned out. A crossover from different universes? I might have a few ideas for something like that after writing this story. Would you all like to see something like that? Leave a review if you would and what the story would be because I don't have much.
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Anyways, enough rambling and let's get on with the story!
"A murder?" Finn asked. Unfortunately, murders weren't that uncommon but they were still out of the ordinary.
"Yeah. Damn shame. Everyone's on edge, and it's bad for business." Borris said.
"Can you show us the body?" Finn asked him.
"Ahhhh, sure. Prepare yourselves as this is pretty gruesome." He warned.
Borris turned and led them into the inn. At the end of the hallway was the owner, a cat person, standing outside a room.
"If you don't have the stomach for this I suggest waiting outside. It's not pretty." He warned them again.
In the room was a headless man lying face down on the floor. His head wasn't exactly cut off, more like crushed. There was blood everywhere. This was not a pleasant sight.
"Oh god." Tiona said horrified by the scene.
"It's terrible." Tione added. Given the twins' past, they weren't too frightened by this.
"Who would do something like this?" Lefiya asked sadly.
Bell was left horrified by what he saw. This was not a sight for the light hearted and young like Bell. It was the first time Welf saw a dead body too but being older and more mature he took it better than Bell did. Lili jumped at the sight of the body but living the life she has she's seen something like this a few times. Doesn't make it any easier.
"I think I'm going to step out." Bell told him. They all just nodded. That was a totally normal reaction to seeing their first dead body and even if it wasn't no one would have said anything either way. Welf followed shortly after.
'There was, so much blood. Who could do such a thing?' Bell thought to himself.
"How are you holding up?" Welf asked Bell as he caught up to him.
"I think I'm alright." He told him.
"Okay. I'm uh, I'm gonna take a walk to clear my head. Wanna come along?" Welf asked him hoping to take his mind off things.
"No thank you. I think I'll just stay here." Bell told him. He didn't want to do anything at the moment. His head kept going back to the body and all the blood and couldn't get his mind off of it.
"Alright then. I'll be back." Welf told him as he walked off.
Bell watched him walk away and his mind went back to the earlier scene. No matter what he tried thinking of his mind always went back to the blood and he wouldn't lie, it scared him a bit.
"How are you?" Aiz asked him.
"Aiz? I'm fine, thank you." Bell told her.
"That's good." She said.
There was a moment of awkward silence between them as neither of them knew what to say to the other. Aiz had come out to check up on Bell. She knew that Finn would handle what was happening in there and she wasn't too happy about some of the comments made by Borris and the owner about the girls.
"I was worried about how you were doing." She told him shyly. Truthfully, she was worried about him. This wasn't ordinary. Plus this was supposed to be nice trip down to floor 18 and show him around, not see a dead person.
"Th-thank you for worrying." Bell replied. 'She was worried about me?' Bell thought to himself. 'Has she seen something like this before?'
"Hey, Aiz, can I ask you something?" Bell asked her wondering if this was something he should be asking.
"Sure." She replied.
"Have you um, have you seen a dead person before?" He hesitantly asked. She was silent for a moment thinking about the question.
"Yes." She told him.
"Did you know them?" He asked.
"Not personally. I knew of them but I didn't know them." She said.
"How did you handle it?" He asked. He didn't know what to make of it. Was he supposed to go on and pretend he never saw a thing? It was obvious a monster didn't do this; an actual person killed him. How could someone do such a thing?
"I, I don't know. I just kept getting stronger." Aiz said. She didn't want to tell him that she didn't let it bother her and she kept on her single minded advance to get stronger. It felt wrong now that she's thinking about it.
"Oh." Bell said. He didn't know what else to say. Aiz didn't either. She wanted to help him out with this but didn't know how. If Riveria were here she'd know what to do.
"Sorry this is the first thing you saw down here." She said to him.
"It's fine. Do they know what happened?" He asked her.
"Not really. They know he was with here with a woman last night but no one knows where she is." She said. "He's a second-tier adventurer so whoever did this had to be somebody strong." She said.
"That's not good." Bell said.
"No, it's not." Finn said exiting the building and joining them. "I'm sorry Bell, but it looks like we won't be sightseeing any time soon." Finn told him.
"It's alright. This is more important." Bell responded. "So, what's going to happen now?" He asked.
"Well, now we have to round up everybody in town to see if that woman is still here. My instincts tell me that she is still in town." Finn said.
"We better get started." Riveria said as she joined them followed by the others.
"Yeah, before whoever did it gets spooked and runs off." Gareth said.
"Can you all help with gathering everybody?" Finn asked them.
"Of course captain!" Tione said enthusiastically.
"We've got nothing better to do so sure. Should be fun!" Tiona said.
"Of course we'll all help." Riveria said.
"Alright. Meet back here in half an hour." Finn stated sending them off.
The half an hour soon passed and everyone was soon rounded up and Finn explained to them as to why they were all there. He informed them of the murder and how they had to check with all the women to see if they had done it. Borris and the owner would have had a field day if they had it their way. Riveria calmed everyone down saying they'd do the inspecting. All the women immediately ran towards Finn pleading for him to do the searching for, um, reasons. Tione quickly, and quite literally, threw them away from Finn
"GET AWAY FROM THE CAPTAIN YOU WHORES!" Tione shouted at them plenty of times.
'Heh. Please don't kill anyone, Tione.' Finn thought to himself.
Out of the corner of Bell's eye, he saw a woman running off towards a huge tree.
"Hey, where are you going?" He shouted to her and took off after her. Aiz followed shortly after.
Bell followed the woman, a chienthrope, up the tree stairs. Well, he tried. He ran up as fast as he could but she seemed to be a higher level than him and thus faster than him.
'Man she's fast.' He thought to himself while seeing her get farther and farther away.
'Did I get away?' She thought to herself. 'Wait, I thought there were two of them?' She looked behind Bell to see if she could see the other person but didn't see anyone. She looked forward just to see the mighty sword princess blocking her path.
"Stop." Was all she said. And that was all it took; she knew running was pointless if the sword princess was going to be chasing after you.
"Okay!" She yelled, frightened. She was not stupid enough to disobey her.
"Great … huh … job … huh… Aiz." Bell told her as he tried catching his breath. "Wow you're fast." He added.
"Hm." She nodded. She liked being complimented.
"Alright." Bell said taking one last deep breath. "You're gonna tell us why you were running." He told her. She wasn't really threatened by him but one look from the sword princess left her no room for argument.
"Alright! Alright. I'll tell you. Just, let's go somewhere else not in the open." She said.
"Okay." Aiz said. She wanted to let Finn know what was going on but didn't want to send Bell on his own on the 18th floor without knowing where anything was. She could just take them back but she felt something was, off. She wanted to find out what was off.
Aiz led the both to a clearing off the main path to talk to the chienthrope. She seemed to feel a bit safer here but still kept a guard up.
"Talk." Aiz said. Poor girl didn't know what to say other than that.
"Okay. My name is Lulune Louie. This is all because of the dead guy. After I heard what had happened to him, I knew I might be next." Lulune said.
"Why is that?" Bell asked.
"It's because of this stupid quest I accepted. I was supposed to bring this to the guy that gave the quest." She said as she held her bag up to emphasize her point. "I was supposed to pick this up from Hasharna, the dead guy, and take it to him. Of course, he was alive when I picked it up." She said.
"What is it?" Bell asked.
"This." She said as she grabbed some sort of item from the bag and handed it to him.
"The hell is this thing? Some sort of, ball?" He asked outloud. It seemed like some sort of sphere object wrapped in a cloth.
"I don't know. He never told me what it was and I wasn't supposed to ask. Keep it. I don't care. I don't want to die because of that stupid thing." Lulune said, scared that this might kill her.
"Can I see it?" Aiz asked holding her hand.
"Uh, sure." Bell said and handed it over.
Aiz had unwrapped the cloth and saw some sort of, creature? It was hideous. And alive. Just holding it made Aiz feel sick.
'What is this?!' Aiz thought to herself. She didn't like the feeling she got from the object. Not one bit. She wanted to just destroy the thing, then it opened its eyes. A wave of unease flowed through Aiz. She was frightened by it. She felt weak as it stared at her.
"Aiz?!" Bell said catching her as she fell down.
'What was that feeling?' Aiz thought to herself. She was rarely scared at times and this was definitely one of those times. Whatever that thing was, she did not want that anywhere near her ever again.
Bell had picked it up but didn't feel anything other than creeped out. It kept staring at Aiz even though he was holding it away from her.
"Keep that thing away from me!" Aiz shouted. Bell obliged.
"So, what now?" Lulune asked them.
"You're handing it over to me if you want to live" A voice said.
All of them turned to see a man in armor walking up to them wielding a giant long sword. His eyes seemed emotionless yet that made them even more terrifying.
"Who are you?" Bell asked.
"Your worst nightmare." They stated bluntly.
"Bell. Take Lulune and get out of here. Now!" Aiz told him as she got ready to fight. "And take that thing with you." She added.
"You're not getting out of here alive." The man said. He then let out a whistle that summoned some snake like monsters.
"What is this?!" Bell asked as he dodged one of their attacks. He went on the offensive and striked it, only for his sword to bounce off. He wasn't strong enough to hurt it. Aiz had to step in so that Bell wouldn't get hurt. She slayed the nearest vinelike monsters around Bell and Lulune and told them to leave and find Finn.
"You might find that a bit difficult." The man said while pointing to the town. It was in chaos. The same monsters were there but there were many more attacking the town. The elites were busy fighting them all off. It was their first time fighting these monsters and didn't know how to effectively kill them, though simply powering through it seemed effective so far.
"Damn." Bell said. He put the thing in his bag and got ready to fight.
"Hand it over boy!" The man commanded.
"Yeah, no. Something tells me that I should keep this away from you." Bell said as he got into a defensive stance. "Get ready to fight Lulune." Bell told her.
"Funny story, I don't have a weapon. What should I do?" She asked.
"Fight." Bell said while thinking of what magic he should try to use against this opponent.
Bell had decided on what magic he would use but before he could start chanting he blinked and the man was instantly in front of him and punched him through his sword, breaking his trusty sword in the process, and breaking a rib or two and sent him flying into a wall.
"AGH!" Bell yelled as he barely registered what had just happened. He looked up expecting another attack from the mysterious man but only saw him fighting Aiz. The scariest part, if you didn't think what had just happened was scary, was that he was fighting against her pretty evenly. No, scratch that; he was stronger than her. Every time she'd try to attack, he'd just block it effortlessly and took a few swings at her with Aiz barely dodging them.
'This isn't good.' Aiz thought to herself. 'If this keeps up…' She continued while looking at Bell hurt. If she kept holding back he would get hurt even worse. She had throw everything at him if she wanted all of them to see tomorrow.
"Tempest!" She chanted, calling her wind to her side. Immediately, she began to push the man back.
'The hell?' The man thought. 'This wind, it can't be?'
'Am I really going to just sit here and watch them fight?' Bell thought to himself.
"Tranquil rivers, flow through and purify those in need. Water cleanse!" Bell chanted, using his water healing magic. It was a bit hard to chant it, considering he had a broken rib and just had the wind knocked out of him. The neat thing about this magic was that it didn't only affect him but also whoever he wishes to heal. He healed himself as much as he could and helped Aiz out. It wasn't Riveria's healing magic but she would take whatever she could get if it gave her any advantage over the foe she was currently fighting.
'Thank you, Bell.' Aiz thanked Bell in her thoughts. He healed a few scratches she had gotten before using her magic and she felt a slight increase in stamina. It was a small bonus from Bell's magic. She'd thank him later, but first she had to defeat this enemy.
"Come on, let's get out of here!" Lulune whispered to Bell trying to get him to leave. She could go at any time but she wasn't thinking straight.
"No. I want to help Aiz, but I don't know how." Bell said. No matter what he wanted to do, if he tried to join the fight he'd only slow Aiz down. He also couldn't use his magic right now; he had just used his healing magic and while using it would restore the stamina Aiz had used it would ultimately just be a waste of mind, his fire magic was too risky considering that he could hit Aiz with it in the process, the same thing with his earth and ice magic. That left one element; lightning. He remembered how it left an electric field behind so even if he missed it might help if it at least annoyed him and let Aiz get a few more hits in. The problem was, would Aiz be affected by it as well? He knew he wouldn't be affected but he never tried it and tested to see if his familia would be affected by it too. Only one way to find out. 'Oh gods, please let this work out!' Bell quickly prayed for this to work out.
"Come on! Let's get out of here!" Lulune yelled at him trying to escape.
"If you want to go, go. But tell Finn and the others where we are." Bell informed her.
"Alright! I'm outa here!" She yelled as she ran away.
"Okay. Here goes nothing." Bell said silently hoping this would work. "Holy lightning, rain down and smite my enemies. Lightning Storm!"
Just as he had planned, or hoped it would, lightning rained down on their battle but surprisingly, Aiz wasn't affected. The man was, however. Sadly, Bell's magic stat was too low to deal any real damage to him, but it made him jump which gave Aiz the perfect opening to attack and she destroyed part of his armor to reveal, breasts?
"Wait, what?" Bell asked. Obviously, there was a cloth wrapped around them. Get your head out of the gutter. But that meant this wasn't a man, it was a woman. The woman tore off the rest of her armor and pulled off her helmet.
"Thank you, that was getting annoying to wear." She said as she pulled the mans face off. That's right, pulled. She wore his face like a mask. Was she a psychopath? (YES)
"You. Were you the one who killed Hasharna?" Bell asked her.
"What does that matter?" She asked as she twirled her sword around getting ready to fight without the added weight.
"Impressive magic boy. Attack and healing magic? As a, what? Level one? Too bad it's weak." She told Bell as she took a readying stance. This fight was far from over. "It's annoying at best. Can't have anymore interruptions." She added as she dashed off with newfound speed and grabbed and threw Bell at the same wall. Losing the armor was terrible, for them. With the newfound speed she was able to both attack Bell and deflect Aiz's sword that tried stopping her. Sure, if she got hit it would hurt but now, she was evenly matched with Aiz in terms of speed. Aiz did not like her harming Bell and kept attacking although with less success now.
'Did I really just make things worse?' Bell asked himself. The electric field was still there, too bad the woman was too busy fighting Aiz to even acknowledge its existence. 'Guess I messed up huh? What do I do now? The smart thing would be to just leave and find help but I already sent Lulune. I know she's not coming back but she said she'd tell Finn and the others where we are so help should be here soon. Still, should I really just be sitting here waiting to be saved?' He continued.
Back with Aiz and the mysterious woman, they seemed to be at an impasse. Aiz was still holding back a bit not wanting to kill a person, and the woman seemed to be thinking about something as they continued exchanging blows.
"This wind. I was thinking about it when I first saw it but now I know. You must be Aria, right?" She asked.
Suddenly, Aiz stopped. She seemed to be frozen. Bell had barely tuned in and heard them.
'Aria? The great wind spirit? But, she's been dead for centuries. Surely she's mistaken, right? And why is Aiz shaking? Does she know something?' Bell thought to himself.
Not waiting for an answer, the woman took this opportunity to overwhelm Aiz and landed a ton of hits. Bell immediately chanted his healing magic but that didn't help much as Aiz just got that damage back as soon as she was healed. He chanted his fire magic and aimed it right at her which let Aiz jump back and get her bearings. However, it barely did anything to her. She didn't even attack Bell for that, she solely focused on Aiz, determined to finish the fight. She didn't even think of Bell as a threat anymore.
'What do I do now?!' Bell internally freaked out. All his plans were worthless as his magic wasn't strong enough to matter. He tried his lightning and fire spells again which did nothing to the woman anymore, she just tanked the hits. Just what the hell was she? Aiz wasn't able to keep up much longer. The moment she let her get those hits in Aiz was always on the defensive and never got a chance to catch her breath which drained her stamina massively. Bell tried healing her but the same results from earlier happened again and things just repeated for a while. It was a miracle that Aiz hadn't gone down yet. This however didn't mean she was invincible and neither was Bell. He had to stop as he had used too much mind and was on the verge of a mind down. He needed a break to recover mind. He had already downed most of the mind potions Riveria had given him and he was down to his last one. He drank half of it and decided to wait to see if he could get the drop on the woman anytime soon. He had taken a glance at the town and while it was way better than earlier there were still many snake-like vines left which meant the elites were still fighting. What should he do? He didn't know. Suddenly, Aiz was thrown into some rocks. The fight was ending
"Was that all you had? I'm disappointed, Aria. I thought you had some more fight in you." She told her. As she got ready to deal the finishing blow a wall of earth had suddenly appeared in front of her.
"What?" She asked in disbelief. She simply punched through the wall and found nothing on the other side. She looked to where Bell was and saw that he was gone. "Another element? Just what the hell is he?" She asked to no one in particular.
Elsewhere, we see Bell running towards the town while carrying a dazed Aiz in his arms. He quickly chanted his healing magic which helped her tremendously. Since he was only focused on healing her, she received the full extent of the magic. It didn't heal everything but it was enough to bring Aiz out of her daze.
"Bell?" She asked, not believing her eyes.
"It's okay, Aiz. I've got you." He told her as he kept running and smiled at her.
Seeing Bell like this brought joy to Aiz. It was nice seeing Bell worry about her and carry her to safety. In fact, he almost looked like … like a …
"Nice trick." A voice stopped her thoughts in their tracks.
Before Bell could even react, the woman delivered a hard kick to his side, destroying his ribs and sent him flying. He was tossed aside like nothing. Aiz was sent flying with him.
"AAGHH!" Bell screamed in agony. It hurt like hell. Even after coming up with the idea to use his earth magic to delay her he knew she'd catch up to them eventually, just not this soon.
"Bell!" Aiz yelled to him as she saw him lying there with part of his side caved in. He needed some help now if he wanted to see tomorrow. She saw the woman walk up to them still ready to fight. She got up and readied Desperate for another battle.
"Who are you!" She asked. She wanted, no, needed to know who she was.
"It does not matter who I am. What does matter is that you're coming with me Aria as well as that fetus." She said. "If it makes things easier call me Revis." She added.
Alright, now Aiz knew who to look for when she's healthy again. But first, she needs to survive the here and now. She needed to stay focused on what's most important now: Bell. He needs medical attention right now. She needed to get him to Riveria or get him a potion at the very least as soon as possible. The only problem is that Aiz was still exhausted from earlier while Revis seemed completely fine. Whatever she is, it's not normal. She should at least be winded but she seemed as ready to go as when they first started.
Revis, knowing that this battle was all but won, decided that now was the time to collect her reward; getting the jewel fetus, which was her primary target, and getting Aria as a bonus. But before she could attack them, she was stopped by a spear and a staff blocking her attack.
"Hello there. I see you have taken good care of my members. Please, let me show my gratitude." Finn said as he stared Revis down. Revis, completely confident in her abilities, decided to attack him to get this over with. What she didn't expect was for him to be faster than her and hit harder than she's ever had. One second she was ready for a fight and the next she was in a boulder. No, literally, inside a boulder. Just how strong was this hobbit?
"Level 5? No, level 6. Seems I'm outmatched." She calmly said.
"Hmm." Finn calmly said while looking at his fist.
"What's wrong?" Riveria asked.
"I think I broke a finger from that." He said as he examined his fist further.
'Really? For Finn to hurt himself from that and she's still concious, just who is this woman?' Riveria thought to herself.
"Riveria, heal them. I'll take care of her." Finn instructed her as he readied his spear and set off. Riveria turned around and was saddened by sight in front of her. Bell was unconscious and Aiz was holding him checking him over. Under different circumstances she would have been thrilled to see her daughter show emotion but now was not the time.
"Riveria, please! Help him!" Aiz pleaded to her. She was fine now, at least her body was, but she was worried for Bell. He was just a level 1 who took a kick from that monster of a woman.
"It's alright, Aiz. I'll heal him." Riveria calmed her down as she cast her healing magic. Bell's injury looked instantly better but would still need treatment on the surface. At the very least, he lived through this whole ordeal.
Back to the battle, or should I say massacre? Finn used all his techniques on the red-haired woman who couldn't get a single hit and was continuously beaten. After a few minutes of this she decided that now was the time to call it quits. She warned them that she would be back before jumping off a cliffside into a river. Finn saw her hit the water but decided not to pursue as he had his members to take care of.
"What happened here?" Tione asked as she made hers and the others presence known. They finally took care of all the vines and made their way there. They were surprised to see Aiz holding Bell in her arms but couldn't focus on that; they needed to know what the hell happened up here.
"There was a woman, a red-haired one, that went toe to toe with Aiz." Finn told them. He didn't need to ask Aiz what had happened to know that she was strong. "And she overpowered her." He added, sadly. He had a feeling that this would push Aiz to get even stronger to beat that woman.
"Wait, really?! She's stronger than Aiz?!" The twins asked in unison.
"No way. Stronger? Than miss Aiz?" Lefiya asked in disbelief. She couldn't believe that her idol could be overpowered by someone other than the King and the top three executives.
"BELL!" Welf and Lili yelled as soon as they caught up and saw Bell unconscious. They were worried for their friend's safety. "What happened to him?" They asked.
"He took a hit from said woman. Being a level 1 of course it would cause this much damage to him." Riveria told him.
"Well, I don't thin we'll be seeing that woman for the time being." Finn told them. "I suggest we head back to the surface. We need to take Bell to Airmid's place." He added. He led the rest of them back to the town to inform Borris of the what had happened before they left. They soon headed for the surface with Aiz carrying Bell on her back. She felt terrible for letting him get hurt when she was supposed to protect him. They all hardly said a word as they were too tired and embarrassed at what had happened. There was a murderer on the loose, a strong one to boot, and they had no answers for what had happened and only got more questions. As soon as they surfaced Riveria and Aiz headed to Dian Cecht's place to get Airmid to heal him. Finn and the others went back home to tell Loki what had happened while Welf and Lili just went on their separate ways and agreed to check up on Bell at a later time; for now they were just tired from everything that had happened.
"Will he be all right?" Aiz asked Airmid.
"Yes, he's fine. All of his injuries have been healed." She reassured her. "All of our healing and from what you told me about how much magic he used all he needs now is to let his body rest and he should be out until at least tomorrow. You can stay here the night if you wish." She told them as she left the room.
"You heard her, Aiz. He'll be fine." Riveria told her.
"I know." Aiz said sadly. She still felt responsible for him getting hurt. She is a level 5 and an executive of the familia yet she let Bell get hurt this bad.
"Let's go home Aiz. We still need to inform Loki about what happened." Riveria told her.
"Do I have to?" She asked, not wanting to leave Bell.
"Unfortunately, yes. Come on." Riveria told her. "Don't worry, Airmid will make sure he gets better." She told her. She really wanted to let Aiz stay by Bell's side but first things first; they had to know everything about that woman to prepare in case she attacks again. Reluctantly, Aiz left with Riveria toward the Manor. After getting there and informing Loki on what happened everyone seemed to be on edge.
"So, there's a woman, Revis, out there who's strong enough to beat Aiz in a fight even with the lass backing her up? How is he?" Gareth asked.
"He's fine. His body just needs rest." Riveria told him.
"That's scary." Lefiya said.
"Yeah." Tiona added. Normally she'd be all in for a fight but after hearing what happened to Aiz she couldn't help but feel a bit of fear.
"Everything's fine. If she just comes back Finn can take care of her. Right captain?!" Tione asked believing her beloved would take care of things. Finn however, was stuck in deep thought.
"Something wrong?" Riveria asked.
"It might be nothing, but she seemed to not know of us. When we fought, she didn't know who any of us were. Not to stroke our ego but nearly everyone has heard of us and know who we are. So, for someone to not know of us, don't you find that a bit odd?" He asked them.
"That is strange." Riveria said.
"Hmm. It's probably nothing, like you said." Gareth said brushing the topic off.
"Yeah. All right everyone. I think it's time we all sleep now. No use losing sleep cuz of this." Loki said dismissing them. Only the three executives were left with her; they knew she wanted to talk with them.
"So, how was Bell? Really?" She asked Riveria.
"He's fine. Honestly. All he needs is to rest." She reassured her goddess.
"I hate that he had to go through all that. Especially on his first trip down there." Loki said sadly.
"It's my fault Loki. I just wanted to show him around the floor, not throw him into a life-or-death battle. From what I gather he's lucky that Revis didn't consider him a threat. At least until the end. Although I do admit, I'm impressed by his quick thinking." He said remembering what Aiz told him what Bell did to try to help.
"You couldn't have known. Don't blame yourself. And while I hate to see this, I can't wait to see how high up his stats will go in his next status update." Loki said, eager to find out how strong her child would get.
"Loki." Riveria said.
"I know, I know. But come on! You're lying if you say you're not at least curious to see how much he improves!" She told her.
"We all are. Now! I'm going to hit the hay." Gareth said as he exited the room.
"I'm going to sleep as well. Goodnight you two." Finn said as he left the room as well.
"Well, let's see what tomorrow brings us." Riveria said as she too set off to bed.
Loki was left alone in her office thinking about all the events that had happened. She hated that her newest member had to go through all of that so soon. And now he needed a new sword since his was destroyed. Or at least he did. Loki walked over to her desk and bulled out a long-shaped box and opened it, revealing a sword resting in its sheath.
"Well, lets see where this takes us." Loki said as she pulled the sword out and admired Hephaistos's work.
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Somewhere off in an weird green like area we see the same red haired woman, Revis walking to a corner and sat down. She was thinking of all the events that happened today and knew that she needed to do some research to see just exactly who those adventurers were. They were stronger than her and that just wouldn't do. She knew she needed to get stronger if she wanted to fight them again.
"Well, at least today was not a total waste." She said while holding the monster fetus that she took from the boy.
"Multiple spells? He'll be a nuisance." She finished as she ate a monster crystal.
And that's the chapter. I have the Monsterphilia events planned next. I know, it's out of order but bear with me please. Also, my plan for Freya. Don't laugh.
Fangirl Freya.
Now I know it's odd but hear me out. She'll still be obsessed with Bell but not in a, bad way? Yeah, being obsessed is still bad but at least she won't be kidnapping him or try to NTR him. She won't directly harm him but still send challenges to him to see him grow and would love to see him make friends and not try to kill Aiz for simply existing. What do you guys think? Let me know. I'll get the next chapter out soon but in the mean time check out Suahtloh's works. He posted a bunch of stories recently and they're really good.
Sorry guys. As Nullbu said I completely forgot about the crystal and just edited in. My bad. I've been going off my memory and completely forgot about the crystal.
Anyways, have a great day!