Authors Note1: I changed the plan a bit, since I wrote already about the Tundra and the Icy Hell in Like a Fairy, we will move faster to the new Floors.
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The great Tundra.
The biggest of the three Floors that formed the glacial territory. It was enormous...beautiful...but still deadly.
"OOOOOOOOOooooooo!"
Bell ducked under the swinging arm of the huge monster in front of him, jumped forward and slashed with Vesta. His opponent was covered in white fur from toe to the horned head, the smallest one of the pack that attacked them was about two meters tall.
He had read about this things, they were called "Wampa". Each of their arms ended in long, icy blue claws that were strong enough to destroy his armor with a good hit, also they would inflict ice elemental damage, which would drain his stamina and prevent his wounds from getting healed. They suddenly burst out of a snowdrift and pounced on the group, there was no panic, just quick reaction. Normally they were divided in vanguard, middle and rearguard, but attacks on this Floor came from every direction and that suddenly. So Bell and Ais walked in the front, Tiona and Tione at the left flank, Bete and Gareth at the right, the adventurers below level six formed the front line between the stronger ones, Finn and Tsubaki behind the group, Riveria, Lefiya and the supporters in the middle.
Three Wampas came out of the snowdrift to their left, at once Tiona and Tione countered them, while the adventurers behind them formed a shield wall. More attacked from the other side. To Bell´s surprise, both amazons wore much more clothes than usual. When he asked Tiona for the reason, she looked at him like it was a dumb question.
"Argo...we come from a very hot country, do you really think we can endure this cold by wearing nearly nothing?"
"Oh...I guess...that makes sense..."
Tione had shook her head when she heard the conversation.
"You and Ais really fit well together...how do the gods say? A "Bacouple"."
"Hm?" Ais had tilted her head as she heard her name.
"Nothing..."
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For now the mages didn´t used magic and observed the surroundings. The supporters and adventurers that used range weapons didn´t fired at the Wampas, their fur was too thick.
One Wampa on it´s own was a bulky, strong creature that had about the strength of an level five adventurer, but their biggest strength was their huge number...and their warcries.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo"
It was the Howl, while each of them weren´t as strong as Asterios´ howl, their combined number made it quite dangerous.
Like before on the frozen lake, the monsters worked together. The Howl was attack and signal in one, the ground started to shake. Something massive waltzed toward the party.
It was hard to see at first, since it was also covered in white fur.
It was a kind of woolly rhinoceros, but instead of just one horn, it had two sitting in a row, the one in front larger than the one in back, and both were made of blue ice.
"Snow Horn!"
Attracted by the howls of the Wampas, an enormous snow horn charged at them from the front. Its movement triggered what appeared to be a small local earthquake...moving toward them. It was a little over two meters high and four long...weighing over three tons. It was covered in thick, shaggy white fur from the front horn to the tail. It moved surprisingly fast for a monster of its size, but Bell knew it only got that fast when it charged. His tactics were simple and easy, the Wampas attacked the sides and it just thundered into the crowd from the front.
And it was in a bad mood...a very bad mood.
"Com´ ere lad!"
Gareth didn´t waited for the impact, Bell and Ais moved out of the way, to the right flank to support Bete. Bell´s eyes widened and the elves in the party covered their ears when snow horn and dwarf collided. Gareth's arm and leg muscles swelled massively, veins bulged in his neck and he roared as loud as the snowhorn. To Bell he looked like Ottar who had been hammered down to a smaller size. Even at his higher level, Bell doubted he could have stopped the monster like that. Gareth dug his heels into the ground and took the onslaught head-on. The monster didn't stop immediately, but pushed him a good distance until he came to a stop about two meters from the shield wall.
The dwarf...had stopped over three tons of bad-tempered muscles...some would wonder which of the two was the real monster.
"Finn!"
"On it!"
Raul, that stood behind the shield wall turned around and went down to one knee, holding his shield in front of him. Finn ran right towards Raul and nodded, in the last moment, he jumped forward, stepped on the shield while Raul pushed him up with all of his strength. For a moment, Finn Deimne flew over the shieldwall and hurled his spear.
Spears and Ais´ rapier were the best weapons against a monster with such thick fur. Yet, due to Gareth holding it in place, Finn was able to pierce the eye of the monster...it exploded to ash immediately, painting Gareth grey.
"*Ptui* I hate that tactic!"
The dwarf took the spear and threw it back to Finn. Ais and Bell moved away from Bete´s position, while Gareth returned.
"You are slow, old man!"
"Shut it, young one!"
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Now Lefiya started to chant, Alicia held back since her ice magic was more than just useless here. It was rare that only two attacks came at the same time on these Floors. Riveria and the other mages kept observing, especially those with magic that the monsters were immune to.
The young elf raised her staff. "Proud Warriors...Archers of the deep forest..."
Over the last years Lefiya had gotten pretty strong, not only due to her level rising, but she had gotten stronger mentally, she didn´t panicked anymore and it was visible for everyone what a strong mage she had become.
"Behind us!"
"From the front!"
Snow wolves joined the attack, they were more the sneaky type of monsters. And the probably worst kind of monster...for the women at least...giant...snow...spiders...that could leap over ten meters.
The ground started to shake again as more snow horns came fromt he front.
Behind them, Riveria started to mumble as well.
"The flame will soon be released. Creeping war, unavoidable destruction. The horn of battle sounds aloud, the cruelty of conflict will envelop all."
"Bell! Ais! Out of the way!"
""Understood!""
Lefiya continued with closed eyes. "Take up your bows before the advancing plunderers. Answer the call of your brethren and ready your arrows"
Following Finn´s order, Bell and Ais fell quickly back behind the shield line. In every direction they were surrounded by monsters and more kept coming. The situation was dangerous, but still one of the easiest encounter on this Floor.
The strength of the monsters wasn´t what made them dangerous, nor their number. These two factors were something to worry about, but what made them really dangerous was...teamwork. Not one monster attacked an adventurer on it´s own, they tried to get the attention and counted on the other monsters to attack together with them.
Or creating an opening with their own death, so others could kill the intruders.
Only a few monster types on this Floor fought alone...and they had absolutely no need to work with anyone. Like the gargantuan snow mammoths...each of them weighting over twelf tons.
Riveria got a bit louder. "Come, crimson flames, the ruthless inferno. You are the avatar of hellfire. Sweep completely, bring a close to the great war."
Ice, wind and lightning magic were mostly inefficient or completely useless...but fire...that was something else.
Magic circles formed around the "Ragnarok Elves", how Loki started to call her two cuties after the attack on the city, as they continued their chants.
Light shone from the tip of their staffs and Lefiya´s sword.
"Tinge them with flame, the lamplight of the forest. Release them, the fire arrows of the fairies."
"Burn them through, Sword of Surtr - my name is Alf!"
Bell jumped to Lefiya, his left hand shone slightly while he charged his own magic for a short time. They had trained together so that she wouldn´t get startled when he suddenly put his hand on her nape.
"Falling like rain, burn away the savages!"
"Magic incoming!" Alicia yelled from the middle.
All of them were prepared and waited for the right moment.
"Fusilade Fallarica...Flare Burn!"
"Rea Laevateinn!"
Dozens of burning magical arrows appearead from the magic circles around Lefiya, shot upwards, before they rained down at the front and on the sides.
Meanwhile...Riveria summoned the burning tornados and cremated everything that came from the back of the group.
Fire Magic was the big weakpoint of the monsters here.
Only one Wampa survived the magic, by sheer luck no arrow hat hit it.
But well...there was still a level seven adventurer in the group that could use his magic over a hundred times in one day...
"Firebolt!"
The Wampa´s head...stopped to exist.
Lefiya had gotten really skilled, now the "Young Archmage" wasn´t only capable of firing her magic into one direction but bombarding the area around her. Some of the monsters had time to scream in pain or anger before they were destroyed, smoke and dust filled the area.
It was a good thing that Bell had only used a short charge. One time...and only one time he went to a special training with Lefiya and Riveria. They tried what happened when Bell used his full four minute charge on one of them or both at once. Just in case, Amid accompanied them.
They didn´t wanted to go too far, because Bell feared that a certain monster would appear otherwise, in case they destroyed too much.
Their practice target, the collosseum on the 37th Floor.
Even the Ragnarok version of Rea Laevateinn couldn´t be compared to what happened...the collosseum and all monsters inside...were atomized.
Lefiya´s and Riveria´s ultimate form of destruction magic, only possible when they stood still and Bell was able to charge for four minutes.
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The Rhanaan Daandr.
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The name was an old elven myth for the end of the world...quite fitting for that spell.
Right when the group wanted to relax a bit after the attack, the ice of the frozen river next to them started to shake.
There was one special monster on this floor, that only moved hidden under the icy parts and was drawn in by fierce battle and bloodshed.
The brief cracking of the ice was the only warning before it exploded. The Hrossvalar rose from the ice without further warning, but with a thunderous roar. Enormous tail fins seemed to have no trouble lifting the sea dragon-like monster out of the ice. Scaled flanks and now-visible claw attachments on fins broke up more ice and it reached the bank with a smack, its enormous jaws gaping wide. The flesh of the throat was the color of mother-of-pearl and stank badly. The teeth were ice blue, like most of the monsters here. The monster heaved itself completely to the ground, its snorting mass crushing everything beneath it as it roared loudly. Smaller monsters, seal-like but with claws and fangs, followed the Hrossvalar barking, they always seemed to follow these things. One got too close to the big monster, with a quick jerk it moved down its maw and ripped the smaller monster apart. Using his huge flippers, he pulled himself across the floor toward the party.
Those who opposed the Hrossvalar were Gareth and Tsubaki. Both wielded massive axes.
Both held their axes as low on the hilt as possible for optimal leverage. Side by side they ran towards the monster. It thrust its jaws out in a rush of rancid breath, opening them impossibly wide at the same time...it almost seemed like some sort of second jaw would open as well...it reminded Bell of a snake. Somehow it seemed to have way too many teeth and each of them was eager to tear flesh. The monster's massive mass rolled forward, crushing rocks and smaller monsters beneath it. It was a horrible monster, no question about it. But Gareth and Tsubaki...
Gareth brought his ax down, splitting the lower jaw between the front teeth. Blood and foam gushed from the wound as the dwarf wrenched his ax free. Roaring, the Hrossvalar straightened and tried to bite Gareth in two with a snapping motion. Tsubaki's ax dug into the side of the skull, the edge on one side sinking completely between the scales. The monster froze for a moment, then Gareth's ax dug into one of the huge eyes from the other side.
The monster roared and spat out a gout of slime, which Gareth narrowly avoided. Tsubaki wrenched her ax free and struck again, widening the wound into a nick, her hands spilled in the strange blood. Together, they took turns hacking and hitting the monster until it finally reduced to ash. The smaller seal-like monsters, meanwhile, had been destroyed by the party.
Tsubaki used the hole in the ice to wash her weapon and hands, grinning wild.
Bell had seen the short but awesome fight, his muscles shook.
This is so exciting!
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Their way continued, from the Tundra to the Icy Hell and beyond.
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Bell couldn´t stop himself from being incredibly excited. The last day alone was wonderful, it took them nearly eighteen hours from the safe point on the 50th floor to the safe point between the the 61st and 62nd floors.
It was a small gift from the dungeon, as were all safe points. It contained of a large cave, not big enough to put up all the tents of the party, so they just built the one of the leaders, which they would also use for the next days as an important place. Normally Finn, Riveria and Gareth would use this big tent, but Finn felt an icy...or maybe hot glare on his back.
All the other members would use their blankets and sheets from the tents, but sleep in the open. Normally they divided by gender, but there were exceptions. Ais and Bell were married so no one had a problem with that...except for a certain amazoness.
Tione glared wordless at Finn, he could feel her thoughts. Both weren´t married yet, but Tione wouldn´t back down.
When Tiona saw both of them, she sighed.
"Can´t believe it...Ais will sleep next to Argo...Tione next to Finn...am I going to sleep all alone?! Okay it´s decided! Lefiya, come!"
"Eh?! Why me?!"
"I need someone to sleep next to me."
"But why me?"
"Because Argo took away Ais from you, so you can´t share a tent with her anymore."
"D-Don´t say something that people could misunderstand!"
"Why? You two shared the tent during the last expeditions, to save space."
Even when they were tired from the long march to this point, there was still enough energy to argue with each other. Tione only made it worse, she showed Tiona a smug grin when she wanted to pull Finn to another part of the safe point.
"Ah Tione, I´m sorry, go ahead and bath. I have something to talk about with Riveria and Gareth."
"Captain..."
It wasn´t the whole truth, agreeing to sleep next to Tione in the camp was one thing, bathing together went too far, it was the dungeon after all.
The other part of the safe point was a smaller cave with a sort of hot spring in it. The women of the party were too happy about the chance to wash themself and their clothes properly after such a long march.
Men and women washed themself separated from each other, even Bell and Ais didn´t went in together, to save time, the dungeon wasn´t the place for getting flirty or cuddly.
But again Bell got eyes from the party on him. Like the time when they went to the north to encounter the monsters that came from there, Bell prepared food for Ais. Well and Tiona...and Lefiya.
Tione refused, she would make something for Finn and herself, Raul secretly slipped Finn an antidot potion...just in case. But Finn didn´t needed it, he was a master tactican and had watched Bell and Ais from up close.
So instead of just taking the food, he asked Tione to wait, so they could make the food together...the young amazon was overjoyed.
Bell didn´t cooked alone, Ais cut things up for him...it was the only help she could offer, but no one was faster in that than her. Tiona and Lefiya wanted to help too, but there wasn´t enough room.
While they ate, they talked about the things that had happened today, Bell wished he had more time to take in the glacial territory, but he would get that on their way back.
After eating and cleaning up, the party quickly went to sleep, the three leaders would take the first watch. When they finally allowed their bodies to rest, most of them immediately fell asleep.
Tiona soon started to snore lightly, Lefiya looked over to Bell and Ais. Ais had snuggled up to Bell and her face was burried at his neck, at some point both would move away from each other slightly, since sleeping in that position wasn´t comfortable.
Must be nice, I wonder how it feels to sleep in the arms of a loved one.
Lefiya would like to find someone for herself one day, like Ais had done. She wasn´t the only one in the party who thought that.
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"Alright everyone, listen up. We have prepared us as good as possible. But I can´t say it often enough, be carefull. You all know the procedure when we explore a new floor."
The whole party was in high alert and all of them very excited. They had formed their ranks at the exit of the safe zone, the way up to the glacial territory was on the other side of the cave.
"Alright, onwards."
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"Woah..."
"What a sight."
"Majestic."
"Huge."
"Wow..."
"Unbelievable."
"Meh, too much green."
Similar to the glacial territory, the party came out at a rock plateau, but this time they couldn´t see the whole floor from here. What awaited them were...
Trees.
Lots and lots of trees.
A veritable ocean of trees lay before them, it was difficult to see where one tree began and the other ended. But all appeared to be deciduous trees, many had fairly dark foliage but different areas were colored differently. The entire floor was dominated by a titan among the giant trees. It was in the middle of the floor and was at least two hundred meters high. Its canopy was so massive that it dwarfed much of the trees around it. The ceiling of the floor was particularly fascinating, it looked like a huge ring of crystals was growing there, some of them glowing yellowish, arranged in a circle. As they watched, some crystals next to the glowing ones also began to glow, while others on the other side slowly faded. It almost looked like some kind of sun slowly moving across the ceiling of the floor. It happened so slowly that it may have tracked the sun's path on the surface, but viewing for long periods was difficult due to the brightness.
From their position, they couldn't see what lay behind the giant tree, but there were very likely more trees.
And it was quiet...very quiet.
The only thing they heard was the gentle rustling of the wind in the treetops. The floor was so big that wind formed naturally.
The path led downwards in serpentines, basically the closest trees were only thirty meters away, but due to the nature of the path, they were just above the treetops.
"Defensive formation!"
Immediately, the party got ready for incoming attacks and waited.
And waited.
Nothing happened, no monsters came rushing at them.
After about five minutes, they relaxed a bit.
"Riveria." Finn didn´t looked over his shoulder.
"Supporters, we will start. Alicia, your group keeps an eye on the forest."
Half of the supporters and magic users from the party backed away a bit. The supporters took out writing boards from their backpacks, as well as paper and other things. They started to take notes, some about the ceiling, some the tree titan, some the floor in general and other things.
Only when they were done, they would start to move.
Bell was just glad, that the first mapping didn´t took long, so that they would now procceed to move forward.
Some people would be afraid of the unknown, but Bell was different.
This is so exciting!
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They slowly moved down the path, only two of them could walk next to each other, the supporters with the big backpacks had to walk alone. That alone could be a dangerous situation, depending on the monsters that existed here.
Not only the type of monsters could be dangerous, the probably biggest danger, were old monsters.
Which meant, the monsters down here existed for years already, without being slain. Like the colloseum on the 37th Floor, there were places in the Floors where monsters fought against each other and got stronger. The last Familia that was down here, was the Zeus Familia and that was a long time ago now.
Also, they didn´t knew how strong the monsters here were. There were specific floor numbers, depending on the level of the party, that one should or could visit. The question here was, was level five enough to fight a monster alone? Was level six needed?
And which elements did the monsters used here? Which elements were they immune to? Was there a new kind of tactic that the monsters used here?
They had to find out the hard way.
Bell, Ais and Gareth walked at the front, the dwarf carried an enormous shield. The trees around them were all at least ten meters tall, they probably got bigger the further in the Floor they were.
"They look a bit like those in my homeforest."
He heard Lefiya mumble behind him. Bell didn´t knew much about forests, for him it was just a big number of trees...and most trees looked the same for him. The path between the trees was sometimes not very easy. There were no natural paths here, in many places there were shrubs, but also massive roots meandering here and there.
Hazelnut trees, bluebell trees, plane trees, chestnuts, beeches, lime trees, ash trees and many more. There seemed to be no specific order of the trees, they just grew everywhere, and they indeed got bigger the further inside they moved, but also the room between the trees grew.
"It´s so quiet here."
Ais held her sword ready, just in case, but she was also fascinated by the environment. They moved slowly, surveying the area closely, making sure their retreat path was clear at all times. Even if they didn't know what monsters were here and how dangerous they were, exploring uncharted territory was just exciting. For none more than Bell, it was a real adventure for him, no living adventurer had ever seen this place. He felt oddly connected...to his predecessors.
The last adventurers here were from Mother´s and Father´s Familia. I wonder...was father down here before? As much as I know he was a supporter, so probably.
Bell turned around for a moment and looked at the path behind them. He vaguely imagined a man, red-eyed like himself, walking down the trail with a gigantic backpack. He knew that his mother was never in the dungeon, due to her illness, but his aunt was.
I wonder who went further into the dungeon...but I guess it was the Hera Familia, with the empress and my aunt.
He smiled shortly and looked forward ahead.
Please watch over me, you all. I will continue what you started, I will fulfill the third great quest, so that you can all rest in piece!
In his room in the Mansion, Bell had a growing collection of notes from the Zeus and the Hera Familia. He had asked Freya and Loki about everything they didn´t needed, especially the notes about the members. Both goddesses had agreed, since they didn´t really needed notes about deceased people and it seemed to be important for Bell.
He wanted to read about the Familias that his parents came from...that more or less...he came from.
Back when he still lived with his grandfather, Bell had learned how to carve. He wanted to prepare a large carving, with the symbol of both Familias and inscribe it with the names of the members who died against the one eyed black dragon.
He swore for himself, he would make it look good and put it up in front of Babel one day. Together with the symbol of the Hestia Familia and all the names of his friends in there. So that everyone would see, the Zeus and Hera Familia had not failed the three great quests...that it just took a while.
I need to get stronger for that...but first...
He squeaked in his mind out of happiness.
An unknown Floor! So exciting!
"Bell Cranel."
"Mr. Finn?"
"What do you think about this floor so far?"
"It is exciting!"
Finn smiled slightly. "That it is, but I mean the environment, you have a great knowledge of the past and stories. Does something here ring a bell?"
"Huh?" Ais, who walked next to Bell, looked confused at Finn. "Ring...a Bell?"
"Yes."
"Why would someone...ring...Bell?"
Finn smiled wryly, he knew what happened now. "Ais, I don´t mean to ring your husband. "Ring a bell" is a saying, it reffers to bells, like those on a clocktower."
"Oh..." Ais turned her face away and pretended to continue her way.
Finn and Bell could still see that her ears were red.
Something similar had happened while they were in the third part of the glacial territory, the icy hell.
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While they moved through the last part of the Icy Hell, which was a constant snow storm, Bell´s head jerked to the side as something hit him, he whirled around but no monster came. The snow storm carried sometimes pieces of ice with it, completely invisible in the storm.
"Bell?!" Ais jumped to his side with a worried face.
"It´s okay Ais, it was just ice that hit me."
"I...hit you?"
"No not you Ais, I meant ice."
"Not me...but me?"
"No, I meant ice, Ais."
"So you mean me?"
"No Ais, I mean ice, like I said..ice you know, Ais?"
"Eeh?"
"Ice you know, Ais?"
"Why are you saying my name twice?" She tilted her head in confusion.
He picked up the small piece of ice. "Here I meant this ice, see?"
"Oh...Oooooh...You meant...Oh...mmhhh!..." She turned her face away and kept walking.
Sometimes Ais Wallenstein was just like that...and it made her only more adorable for her friends and Familia.
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"To answer your question, Mr. Finn, no. No story of old comes to my mind or legends about monsters. Forests were a pretty common sight back then too, so it could be everything here."
"RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
The question got answered a moment later, when the first monster of this floor revealed itself, screaming like mad.
At first they couldn´t really see what came out of the forest...then it looked like it was the forest. Which it was...in a way. It looked like a tree suddenly ripped itself out of the ground and charged at them.
The monster measured about three meters in height. Two trunk-like outgrowths formed the powerful legs, which ended in claw-like roots used as feet. The legs flowed into a massive hip, with a surprisingly slim waist above before expanding into a massive chest. The chest was split open, revealing what could almost have been a female elf. The skin was green and leaves covered the chest, while the hair above the pointy ears was made of vines and leaves. The belly had no navel and the shoulders went straight into wood. The massive shoulders looked oddly orange and had many holes...the arms didn't thin out but expanded into wooden claws, at the level of the forearms there were also holes in the wood. The monster shrieked in mad anger and charged the group...or more specifically...Gaeth and Tsubaki...eyes fixed on their axes.
As it sprinted faster and faster, seemingly having no trouble rooting all over the ground, a strange popping sound emanated from its shoulders and forearms. The monster fired what appeared to be seed pods at the party, like it´s arms and shoulders were grenade launchers.
"WATCH OUT!"
When the seeds came down, they exploded into clouds of spores, at the same time, smaller plants on the ground fired spores into the air as well. The party's visibility was suddenly zero. Adventurers tried to cover their mouths, noses, and eyes, but the spores were suddenly everywhere. Simultaneously, the arboreal creature rushed towards Gareth and Tsubaki, screaming like mad.
Bell had read stories with such a kind of monster, but in different versions...a Dryad.
Since it was a tree...well most of it...Bell raised his hand and was about to unleas his magic, when Finn slapped his hand away.
"Don´t! If you fire now, we will all die!"
"What?!"
"The spores! They will immediately burn up and explode!"
It would be basically the same as a flour explosion. So instead, Bell raised his weapon and got ready to fight.
Right when the screeching Dryad charged into the party...the first screams from the adventurers started.
A loud growl from his right side alarmed Bell of an incomming attack. He whirled around...and saw Ais. She stumbled forward and held her hand pressed to her stomach.
"Ais!"
"Be-*GROWL*!"
It was her stomach...it growled...as if she was hungry.
"I am so hungry..."
Eh?
With a loud clank, Tiona let her Urga III fall out of her hand and dropped to her knees...she had problems to keep her eyes open.
"So tired..."
Most members of the party that got hit by the spores seemed to have different problems.
"Hiiiii!"
Bell´s eyes widened when he looked at Lefiya, she had dropped to her knees too, her sword and rod were next to her on the ground. The young elf shook heavily, her hands clenched between her legs. She couldn´t say it, but Lefiya felt the strong urge to use the toilet...was afraid of suddenly losing the fight against her bladder.
"RAAAAAAH!"
Bete suddenly roared and jump with a frightening face in the direction of the Dryad, who attacked Gareth and Tsubaki like mad...it seemed to be their weapons that the Dryad hated...maybe because she was mostly a tree.
All the adventurers that got affected by the spores, felt suddenly one of their natural and primal urges increased tenfold. Ais wasn´t really hungry, Lefiya didn´t needed to use the toilet, nor was Tiona really tired...they just felt like that.
Bell saw Alicia dropping to her knees too, a hand clutched in front of her mouth, the other on her stomach, she had the feeling she needed to throw up.
Riveria...she stumbled and was suddenly sweating for some reason, clutching her legs together under her robe.
Tione clenched her teeth while she looked at Finn...she even drooled slightly with a flushed face.
While the effect wasn´t deadly itself, it made many of the group unable to fight.
And Bell...he felt nothing unusual.
He was now one of the few that was able to face the Dryad.
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And on top of that, more screeches and movement suddenly filled the forest. The floor eventually noticed the group of adventurers.
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Authors Note2: As of now, this story is longer than Like a Fairy.
Why do the Dryad hates Axes so much? Was maybe someone down here before, someone who uses a giant axe? Maybe...maybe not.
I will just give the hint, something I teased in Like a Fairy, that I never finished to write, will take place in this story.
The Expedition Arc won´t only be fighting, don´t worry.