The party managed to return safely to their camp, they got attacked by a monster two times but thankfully without the big dryads. Bell had thought they would celebrate after a successful first day, but things turned out differently.

As soon as they were in the camp, the party split up into smaller groups. Supporters gathered around Tsubaki, spread a blanket on the floor and put all the drop items they found there, as well as the magic stones. Some supporters measured the magic stones, took notes about their color and general appearance, as well as notes from which monsters they got it from.
Tsubaki and a few others analyzed the dropp items, they used tool that Bell had never seen before.

"What are they doing?"

Ais was next to Bell, they had no tast at the moment.

"Cyclops explained to me they try to guess this way what the effects of the dropp items are and how to use them, it is a long proccess and most of these items will probably get wasted later."

"Wasted? Aren´t they valuable?"

"Very much, but they will be the test objects to see what they can do with it, it always is like this at the first time. For example, we don´t know if one of these items is a unicorn horn."

The term "being a unicorn horn" was a phrase among adventurers when they found dropp items they didn´t knew about. Until someone told them if that was really rare or not, everything was valuable at first. And also, since they had no records about this floor, they couldn´t know if one of these items was dropping as rare as a unicorn horn did.
The next days would show that, maybe they would find more items of a kind, the rarer they found a particular drop item, the more valuable it was deemed.

"It is really interesting to see this work."

"Absolutely, come."

To not disturb Tsubaki and the others, Bell followed Ais to the next group. These were the supporters that exceeded in mapping. They already worked on a great map of the whole floor in general, while a few made drawings about the environment.

"Why are they making three of each?"

"We will keep two for us and sell one to the guild. Two in case one copy gets damaged or destroyed on our way back. Every pack of copies will be carried by another supporter and even then we spread the copies further so that no one has a whole stack of it.
The guild pays very much for the copies they recieve."

"What exactly does "very much" mean?"

A voice behind them answered before Ais could. "Between 500.000.000 and 650.000.000 Vals."

"What!?" Bell looked shocked over his shoulder to Riveria.

"Mom, are you feeling okay?"

"Yes, don´t worry Ais."

Ais had stopped calling Riveria by her name even in public for a while now.

"They pay so much for copies?"

"It is a new floor for the records after all. They will make copies of the copy and sell it to the various Familias that want to have them."

"Which Familias would buy them? I thought no one else is even close to coming this deep?"

"The Freya Familia for example. Goddess Freya pays much to keep her personal records up to date. Lately her followers started to go into the dungeon more, but I think the two biggest reasons are her own curiosity and the Warlord."

Ever since Bell and Ais had reached level seven and started to train with Ottar from time to time, he got eager to become stronger again. Like Ais did before, Ottar had the feeling that he hit a wall that he couldn´t break through or overcome. Even when they went all out in training, it wouldn´t count as a great deed for him.
So Ottar had an urge to go into the dungeon again and get past his limits, if he would get past level seven and reach level eight, he would get the chance to be on par with the deceased captain of the Zeus Familia, Maxim. He didn´t thought about the Empress at the moment, that would come later.

Bell thought for a moment. "So this Expedition will turn out as a profit?"

"Maybe, maybe not. It depends on a few things. How much our equipment gets damaged, if someone gets seriously hurt or killed, how fast our potions run out and so on. We would have stayed here for only three additional days, but with the food we found, we can stay longer here."

"What about water?"

"In the other part of the cave, where the natural bath is, on the side is a sort of spring, we get fresh water there even if it is warm, we just wait until it cools down."

"It sounds almost too convenient, all the things we find in the dungeon that helps us stay here and makes us able to go further down."

Ais tilted her head slightly. "I thought these things were originally for the monsters and we are just using them."

"You are right, Ais." Riveria smiled proud.

Then Riveria frowned lightly. "There could also be another reason."

"Hm?"

"Bell, you remember how the dungeon and Babel came to be, right?"

"Yeah, I read the historical texts."

"No one knows what is at the bottom of the dungeon, it is possible that we are just lured further down there by something."

There were dozens of theories what was on the last floor of the dungeon. The gods couldn´t or wouldn´t say it, they just said, the dungeon is the dungeon.

Before they could continue, Gareth waved over to them.

"Oy, youngsters, we need you here."

"Ms. Riveria, sorry we have to go." Bell bowed slightly.

"Mom, until later."

"Work conscientiously you two."

Riveria watched for a moment smiling how they went on, before she walked over to the group where Alicia was and joined them in their work. There was a lot to catalogue.

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"I think the claw went more like this."

Bell moved his hand to show his opinion. He and Ais had joined Gareth´s group, who were busy writing down notes about the monsters and make drawings.

"And the seeds were more like Wooosh and Baaamm!"

Ais did her best too, but she was who she was.

"I still wonder why they hate axes so much."

"Well there are monsters in the glacial territory, like the big snow horns, that hate spears very much."

Gareth grinned. "I remember Finn getting constantly attacked by them."

Raul also sat with this group and pulled the pollen pods in the tiny flasks out, so that they could catalogue them too.

Gareth´s grin only widened. "Yer young ´ones did good, these gotta fetch a fine price."

"Is the guild buying them too?"

Raul shook his head. "No, Bell. The Dian Cecht Familia is. We will sell at least half of them. Whenever we bring something poisonous or possible poisonous as dropp items, they want to buy it. Dea Saint convinced lord Dian Cecht, so that she can study all these things to help people more, which in return will bring more money for him.

"Ah, but we will sell them fewer of themthis time."

"Why that?"

Gareth smirked. "If we sell them too many, they will think it´s easy to get ´em, they will pay less then."

So far the only option they had to get these things, were Bell and Ais moving together. Also the Familia´s decision wasn´t out of greed, they had to make money with this expedition. From what Bell heard, to prepare everything cost nearly one billion Vals. And Loki told him that their wedding wasn´t cheap either.

"How do they price the magic stones?"

"Ah that´s a long process, would be too much to explain it now, let´s just say we will make quite the haul with everything. But the informations about the Floor and it´s monsters will get us the most. Also about the dungeon gifts here, who knows what we might find when we continue to explore it."

After sharing their expressions about the monsters, Ais and Bell moved to the last group they had to attend to, Finn´s.

While Gareth´s group talked about the monsters and such in general, Finn talked about the fights, Bete was with his group. It wasn´t only about how the monsters attacked, but what kind of tactics they would use now to face them.

"Tomorrow we will test out large scale magic attacks, but at first we will scout the areas with the pollen traps, to see if they have refilled already. I would like to check it tonight, but I will not send a small group, we don´t know if the floor changes at night."

Many Floors were the same no matter if day or night, but some Floors like the 18th changed when it went dark. And this Floor too got dark in the evening. Finn placed guards at the entrance to the Floor, they should stay mostly concealed and watch if anything happened. They took notes about movement between the trees and noises. For a while after the party returned, they heard loud squeaking and screeching from the direction of the giant tree and it sounded like something clashed there. That monsters fought each other wasn´t rare, at least as long as there were no adventurers to disturb them.

And one of the most important points, they had to look out if they could see bigger monsters from above...or a Monster Rex. When it went dark and the scouts returned, they reported all they had seen to Finn, noting especially that it looked like some of the trees itself had moved.

"Since there are monsters looking like small and medium sized trees, I guess it is not too far for real tree monsters."

The talks went on for a while, but eventually the groups slowly finished their work, they had to relax and get a good night rest after all.

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"*Gurgl*"

"Ais, are you hungry?"

"Very much, yes."

"I´m sure the food will be ready soon."

The few people that had the job to make the dinner of the party, were working with their pans and big pots. Originally they had a plan for every day, what they would cook and how much they could use. But with the dungeon gifts, they didn´t had to hold back nor have to ration food. They used the potato, carrot and zuchini like things to fill up the stew that they were making.
Another gift that they had found were small, red berries that tasted like strawberries.

"We can have dessert every day during the Expedition!?"

That was beyond luxury.

The high executives were very statisfied that their food situation already looked better on the first day. Not having to ration everything would help them to keep the mood up, especially for a certain someone. Ais couldn´t stand the feeling of hunger for long and always got a bit "grumpy" during the last days of the Expeditions, but even she could eat to her heart´s content.

When it was finally time to eat, Bell and Ais sat down with a few people, talking while eating and this time it weren´t only girls.

"Hm, not bad, but Lena can do it better."

"Ms. Lena had learned how to cook? Oh I´m sorry, is Ms. Loga now better?"

"Ms. Lena is fine, you knew her before."

Up on the surface, Lena suddenly smiled happy, feeling someone had said the magical words "Lena Loga".

Bete continued. "Yeah, she really did her best and improved a lot. Thanks to that fox of your familia."

Bell smiled. "It´s good to see that you two are happy together."

The wolf man shrugged his shoulders. "Can´t say no to that."

Tiona and Tione looked baffled at Bete, whispering among each other.

"When did Bete became so soft?"

"Lena must have really put a leash on him."

"Amazing...I wonder if the gods see this as a great deed."

"They absolutely should."

"I can hear you two, you know!?"

The sisters stuck out their tongues and continued to eat.

Ais was finished with her first bowl and started the next. "Bete, when will you become a papa?"

"Shouldn´t be long after we come back."

"Are you excited?"

"It´s a strange feeling I never had before, I guess it will be challenging."

"Two at once sounds a bit hard."

"I'm not worried about two at the same time, but that their mother and her two friends will teach my little girls strange things. No way I will accept that they teach them these weird amazon things."

"Did he just say "my little girls?"

"Cute."

"Also Bete, amazon things aren´t weird! It´s our tradition!"

"Tiona is right!"

"Shut up you two virgin amazons!"

It was rare to see the sisters speechless like this.

"I will protect my daughters from every weird stuff that someone will try to teach them. So don´t you dare even try it! And no boy or guy should dare to even look into their direction before they turn twenty-one."

Ais looked confused. "But isn´t Lena only nineteen herself? And you two are expecting children already."

"The situation for Lena and me is different, I won´t let my daughters become typical amazons! I will teach them to howl and be strong!"

Ais imagined Bete crouching on a rooftop with two amazon daughters with tails and wolf ears, all three howling to the moon.

Of course his daughters woudln´t have tails and wolf ears, the genes of amazons were too strong for that. They were the exact opposite of humans. Both races could have children with nearly every other race, but while the human genes would be dominated by their partner´s, amazon genes dominated on their own.

"Ais...why do I have the feeling you just imagined something not so nice?"

They had never imagined to have a talk with Bete like this someday.

"I-I would never!"

Riveria smiled while she looked over to the small group, Ais asked Bete more questions about everything.

Is she getting interested in having children on her own? Will the time finally be there?

She had a theory about Ais, why she didn´t got pregnant no matter how often she and Bell made love. Maybe Ais wasn't an adult by Spirit's standards yet, or maybe another reason?

I wish she could ask Aria about that.

Eventually Lefiya moved over to the group after talking with Alicia and the other elves for a while, she too was curious about Bete becoming a father. It was good to see, that these two got along better again, it was mostly thanks to Lena again, she helped Bete with his communication problems.

Tione finally managed to yell back at Bete.

"I´m not a virgin!"

Riveria raised her eyebrow while she looked at Finn, Gareth just grinned, while Finn sighed.

Tiona also found her voice back.

"But I have to say, Argo and Bete, you two were really manly and heroic when the big tree thing attacked us."

Bete shook his head. "You were just too weak."

"Pfüh!"

"Well, we couldn´t know what would happen on this Floor, let´s just be glad that no one got hurt seriously."

Their talk continued for a while, at some point, Tiona, Tione and Lefiya left since they had to talk with Riveria. Bete excused himself, going to the cave with the hot spring in it, it was the mens time to take a bath. Bell didn´t joined them, he and Ais wanted to bath together this evening. When Riveria heard about this, she wanted to protest out of her nature, but Ais just "glared" at her.

When the men came out again, it was finally Bell´s and Ais´ time to use the bath.

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"Hah...it is nice to have something like this after exploring a new Floor."

"I agree, we normally don´t have this luxury."

"Okay Ais, close your eyes."

"Mmh!"

Ais sat on a small rock, Bell stood behind her and washed her hair for her, now that he was finished, he used a bucket with water to rinse out her hair. She shook her head and wiped along her face with her fingers to get the water away from her eyes, before she looked over her shoulder and smiled.

"Thank you, Bell. Now let me wash your hair and back for your."

"Gladly, my love."

When Ais got up and turned around to Bell, they exchanged a short kiss before Bell sat down on the rock. Ais was carefull when she washed Bell´s hair, they didn´t only did that out of the sheer joy for skinship, everyone in the party had to get help this night to make sure that every last pollen was cleaned from their bodies.
Ais would later help Riveria, there was no other person that would be allowed to do that, so as usual, Riveria would be the last in the bath.

After washing Bell´s hair, Ais washed Bell´s back in his most favorite way.

"It feels so soft."

"Hehe, you say that every time. I know that you like them very much."

"Can´t say no to that."

Ais hugged him from behind and was just happy. She felt a bit weird sometimes lately, wanted to cuddle more, it was not carnal desire or lust that she felt, Ais just wanted to be close to Bell.

"Shall we go in?"

"Sure."

Both searched for a corner for themself, Bell sat down there, his arms spread on the stone edges next to him, Ais sat down between his legs and leaned her back against him, their favorite way of bathing.
Bell´s hands slowly moved along Ais´ body while both held their eyes closed, she gently carressed his hands and arms. Their was no further intention behind it, just lovely cuddling and caress the other gently.

They stayed like this for a while, until they heard voices...three female voices.

"Na, I don´t think they are still here."

"Tiona is right, no one bathes this long."

"But I haven´t seen them outside."

Ais and Bell didn´t knew it, there were four people that still had to take their bath, Riveria would be the last...but now Tione, Tiona and Lefiya came in.

"Oh, Argo and Ais, you two are still here."

"Man, you two really take your time cuddling."

"Tiona, Tione, I´m sorry for taking so long."

"Nah, it´s okay, do you mind if we join you?"

"Go on."

But Lefiya sounded different. "W-We can´t! Bell is here!"

"And? He has his eyes closed and even if he hadn´t, I doubt that he would look at someone else than Ais."

"Tione is right, also aren´t you like his sister lately, Lefiya? What´s embarrassing about seeing your brother naked or viece versa?"

"Auuu."

"Ah don´t be like that, come one."

"Hiii! Don´t pull me!"

Bell couldn´t say much before these three entered the bath as well. It wasn´t the first time that they all were in one bath together, Bell had a job to clean a big bath in the past, to earn a bit more money. He had dozed off in there and when he woke up, he panicked since women came in the bath. Namely, Lily and Hestia, he tried to hide and bumped with the back of his head against something divenely soft...Ais´ butt. Both were more than a bit flustered, she still wore a towel around her body. Bell shortly explained the situation to him with closed eyes and in panic. Ais gave him her towel and led him out of the bath. They had passed Tione and Tiona, Bell got flustered by their mere presence and somehow managed to stumble in another bath and land on top of the bathing Lefiya.

That to say, neither Bell nor Lefiya rememberred that day, before things could escalate, Ais knocked both out with a quick jab to their necks, erasing their memories like that.

But in contrast to him being embarrassed back then, Bell now didn´t minded the three, he really had only eyes for Ais.

Ais moved away from her spot, sitting together in the bath was okay, but she didn´t wanted to cuddle with Bell like this in front of the others.

"Woah, Argo. You became really muscular."

"Ahm, thanks Tiona."

"No I mean it, you look very much like I pictured Argonaut when I read these books back then."

"Hah, you were such a bookworm." Tione sighed.

"What else could I do to have fun, hm?"

"True."

"B-But Ms. Ais also became really pretty over the last two years."

Lefiya may saw Bell like a brother, but she had no experience with men and tried her best not to look at him. Not that she could see something inappropriate, the water was a bit milky, so there was no way for the three to see Bell´s private parts.

He moved his head with closed eyes.

"But this is a good time, I wanted to ask you three something."

"""Go on."""

"I wanted to ask, how did you feel when you were hit by the pollen? I know that Ais got extremely hungry."

Tiona groaned. "Don´t remind me of that, I was so tired, I couldn´t even held my eyes open. Do you know how hard this is for someone like me?"

Tione sighed. "I had the feeling I wanted to devour Finn, it was very unpleasant."

Tiona looked at her twin with a raised eyebrow.

"What!? I´m a maiden too!"

"You sure are.."

"And you, Lef?"

"Please don´t ask, I can´t tell that. But it was really unpleasant, I don´t want to experience that again."

Ais nodded. "Me too, I never felt so hungry before. If Bell wouldn´t have saved me, I don´t know what would have happened to me...I might have died on the spot."

Tione rolled her eyes. "Ais, you were just hungry."

"Still!"

Bell smiled and nudged his shoulder against Ais´. "Then I´m glad that I was there."

"Me too, trust me, me too."

They chatted about this and that, until Tiona started to make a strange noise.

"Kuuh."

"Tiona?"

"Ais, you traitor..."

"Huh!?"

"You have grown again!"

"What do you mean?"

"Argo knows what I am talking about, right?"

"Ahm..."

"See! His hand twitched just now! He knows exactly what I mean!"

"Ms. Tiona, you sh-shouldn´t talk about that in front of Bell..."

"Lefiya you can see it too!"

"Ah eh no, I mean, ahm."

"I can only agree with them Ais, you are on my level already."

Ais looked confused down on herself. "Is it really that important?"

Tiona cried openly. "For me it is!"

Bell cleared his throat. "Ahm, you are aware that I am here too, yes?"

"Ah it´s okay Bell, that´s normal girls talk."

"Ms. Tione, Bell is still a man!"

"Yeah he is Lefiya. And you are bathing with said man while being naked."

"Mmmmmh!"

"Oh now you are getting embarrased? Why do you cover yourself, he has his eyes closed."

Bell felt Ais nudging her shoulder against his and giving him a kiss on the cheek. Of course he had noticed that her body had changed a bit, lately she got this adult aura around her.

What a strange evening.

"But I have to say, Argo also changed quite a bit, these abs are nothing to laugh at, you become quite handsome."

"Thank...you?"

"Hmmm yes quite nice, but the captain is better."

"C-Could you two not talk about Bell´s body like this?"

"What are you saying Lefiya? Your eyes are glued to his abs too."

"Wh-Wh-What are you saying? A-A-A-And if that were the case it is just because I never saw something like th-this! Not because I am curious! Absolutely not!"

Bell felt Ais chuckle and her hand shortly caressed his abs. "I have to agree with you, he really got handsome."

"Argo, Ais, would it be okay for me to touch them one time?"

Ais shrugged her shoulders slightly. "If Bell is okay with it."

"O-Only for a moment."

"Hehe, thanks."

He felt a hand touching his stomach, it felt different from Ais´.

"Woah, so hard, what a manly feeling."

Bell couldn´t see it but Lefiya and Tione also glanced at him.

Suddenly another hand touched his abs. "Hm, impressive, but the captain is better."

And a shy finger. "Wow..."

"Haha, Lefiya you are completely red!"

"B-Be quiet."

Bell felt a bit unwell by the thought that next to Ais, three beautiful, naked girls knelt directly in front of him. An old instinct of him kicked in before his brain could stop him since he forgot something.

"I-I will go out now!"

And what followed..

"""Woah!"""

"Dear gods, Argo! Now that´s impressive!"

"Hiiiiiii!"

He heard Tione whistle. "Wow, lucky you Ais, to think he hides something like this behind this cute and innocent face...but the captain is better."

"W-Where are you looking at?!"

Bell felt two hands covering him before he could do it himself.

"No looking at Bell down there, this belongs to me."

Ah Ais, you are an angel.

Ais Wallenstein had matured in more than one way, she had learned to be a bit "greedy" and mark her territory.

And of course right now, Riveria had to look into the bath to see if they were already finished...she didn´t liked the scenery before her eyes. With the standing Bell, Ais´ hands at his crotch and the three others kneeling there and staring at him.

"What are you doing here!?"

The five young people managed to snap out of their silliness. The three before them sat down immediately and Bell got hastily out of the bath while Ais sat down again. His eyes were still closed, so he didn´t saw that Riveria saw...everything.

"Bell Cranel, I have some questions why you are bathing with girls other than Ais and I would ask you to cover yourself."

He gulped. Bell Cranel.

Riveria only called him that when she was upset.

But Bell didn´t had to explain anything, Tiona, Tione and Lefiya explained everything to Riveria and took the fault completely. Bell and Ais kept their promise to not go too far with each other during break time, but they were married after all. More than one female member looked at them while Ais sighed relaxed when Bell massaged her feet or hands. In return she would massage his back and shoulders or they just cuddled until it was time to go to sleep.
Riveria noticed a change in Ais, that she seemed to become more and more cuddly with Bell. She couldn´t really explain what she saw, but it felt different.

Finn finally accepted his fate, he and Tione slept together, she wanted to cuddle too and wouldn´t back down on it.

"You married an amazon, Captn. Deal with it."

There was a point to what Finn could talk to Tione to hold back a bit, but even saying he didn´t wanted any other man to see her when they cuddled didn´t convinced her.

The only one that cared not one bit about these two couples "showing off" like some said, was Bete. He lay there in the evening and slowly moved Lena's curls through his fingers, thinking of his wife and children who would soon be born. Every evening Lena lay in her bed on the surface, stroking her round stomach and thinking about her Hubby.

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Over the next days they started to explore the Floor again, at first they checked on the pollen traps, they had indeed refilled in this one day, sadly they didn´t had more flasks to store the pods, so they just burned them with Bell´s magic. Finn wanted to try something so Ais moved with her wind as fast as possible over the pods, before they could shoot out their pollen, she moved away and Bell used his magic. The following detonation was pretty big and the noise attracted a horde of smaller dryads again.

After defeating them, they moved further into the Floor.

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"Tione, two Argonauts on your right side!"

"Thanks! Take that you stinky furballs!"

Bell shouted. "This is not their name!"

"Close the shields! More Argonauts from the front!"

"Not you too, Mr. Finn!"

"Bell, we need a name to use for now, thank Tiona later for that."

"Can´t we just call them Al´Miraj!?"

"Not happening."

It was the sixth day of moving through this Floor and it would be the last day, they had collected so much, that the Supporters didn´t had enough room for more dropp items or magic stones.
Every day they went to the spots that they located to harvest the dungeon gifts. In other places grew different plants, similar to mushrooms.

And it was because of this that they got attacked now. This dungeon had more monsters than plant types. What charged at them when they went to harvest a new spot, were dozens and dozens of rabbit type monsters. They resembled Al´Miraj from the upper Floors, but looked different. Their fur was white, except for a spot around the neck, it looked like every single one of them wore a black scarf. And like the smaller brethren from up, they used dungeon weapons. Not axes but swords and daggers made from stone, bone or wood, typical dungeon weapons. It looked like some even used parts of the plant type monsters.

And this look together with their red eyes, was what let Tiona yell out.

"A horde of Argonauts!"

Everyone knew who she was reffering to.

Some dungeon monsters used the dungeon gifts as a food source and without knowing it, the party stole it from them.

At first the bunny type monsters looked somewhat cute, just like Al´Miraj with their tiny snouts. But when they came closer, their true nature got revealed.

Fromt he distance, they had made a sound that sounded like. "Kiiiii!"

But from up close, they changed.

Their snouts seemed to open impossibly wide, and were filled with far too many fangs. Together with their weapons, they were truly fearsome opponents, the smaller ones were nearly as tall as Finn, all ran on two feet to wield their weapons.

And what finished the mirror image of Bell, they were fast, really fast. These monsters attacked from all directions, jumped at the trees and kicked themself off to violently charge or catapult themself over the shield wall of the adventurers. These rabbit type monsters fought constantly against the tree type monsters and were used to taller enemies.

There was not much time for tactic, these things were everywhere. During the first charge, they thought the situation got worse when a giant tree attacked them, they called these things Treelords. But instead of working together, the "Argonauts" swarmed the tree and brought it down with their sheer number, razor sharp teeth and weapons.

Normally monsters worked a bit together when adventurers were nearby, but stealing their food made it personal for the monsters.

Bell would later heavily insist to change their name, but since their fighting style was a bit similar to him, with all their speed and such, they decided to name them "Vorpal Bunnies". When they accelerated to full speed, it looked almost as if the wind was moving around them.

And their primary targets were Bell, Ais and Bete.

Bell looked for them like a big brethren, so they would punish his betrayal to them. Ais had Bell´s smell on her body from sleeping together, so she was deemed the mate and was also a target. And Bete...he was a wolf, that was enough to hate him.

What made these things so furious about Bell, was something that the party would find out later. .

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"Dear heavens! They don´t give up!"

Bell slashed and hacked with Olympus and Vesta, Ais used Zephyr with immense speed. Both of them got their equipment damaged, clothes ripped and skin scratched. Even their high level didn´t protected them from these numbers.
He had tried to use his firebolts against them, but most of the times they were too fast and evaded. Bell could count the number of monsters he destroyed this way on one hand.

Only Olympus´ charges were fast enough to kill two or three bunnies at once. Evading fire was one thing, but lightning had a natural speed that made it impossible to dodge. He had read stories about monsters or heroes seeing a lightning bolt shooting towards them and threw themself out of the way. But reality was different, in the moment that the lightning shot out of Olympus, it was already at it´s target.

Argo Verion also worked quite well, the moving block of sound somehow disturbed the way that the bunnies moved through the air. But it was hard to aim for Bell, when a group of bunnies gathered, they already parted when he fired his magic.
The use of this magic also made the bunnies hate Bell more. They had a kind of memory about another adventurer using a bigger version of this spell, firing multiple blocks of sound at once, but that was during the last time that adventurers came down here.

It felt as if an avalanche had come over them, the fight went on for a long time and for the first time while they were on this Floor, some people in the party got hurt badly.

They could prevent anyone from getting killed, but it sounded like something else was moving towards them.

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There was something on an unknown Floor that was the greatest danger of all. Would a new Floor have a Monster Rex on it or not? If yes, would it be bound to a certain area, like Udaeus and the Goliath? Or could it move around like the Amphisbaena?

Bell had once asked Finn a question that made the prum worried afterwards.

"Mr. Finn, do you think a Monster Rex will always be a very big monster?"

"What brings you to that question?"

"I just wondered, what if the strongest monster on a Floor isn´t the biggest one, but smaller, but stronger."

"You think about the Juggernaut, right?"

"Something like that, yes."

The Juggernaut wasn´t that big compared to Monster Rexes, but incredibly fast and deadly.

And what made Finn worried, what if Bell´s thoughts would be true?

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And Bell´s thoughts were true, the Monster Rex or at least the Floor boss was pretty small, only as tall as Finn. Having white fur and red eyes...charging towards a group of adventurers that got swarmed by it´s servants.

The boss of this Floor and the Vorpal Bunnies in general had their nest at the root of the giant tree in the middle of the Floor, where also the way down to the next Floor was.

While the Vorpal Bunny Boss moved with murderous speed towards the adventurers, another monster came up from the next Floor, arriving in the nest and getting attacked immediately by the remaining bunnies.

"GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

A howl that could even be heard at the party echoed along the Floor, making tree monsters that knew this howl screech in horror and rage.

The monster that came up was a bit over two meters tall, covered in black fur...and used a giant axe with one hand...he was the very reason why the tree monsters hated this weapon type so much.

This monster had felt the presence of the adventurers, of one particular adventurer.

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Fate demanded that these eternal rivals would clash again.

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With a fierce howl, a black minotaur charged into the attacking Vorpal Bunnies and cleaved them in half en massé or piercing them with his horns.

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Bell, it´s time to settle this!

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Authors Note: You should be able to guess who is coming from down there.^^

Next chapter will be for Change of Fates again.

Two additional informations since it was asked.

The Ero chapter for Demter will also feature Lunor.

And there will be a change for Blood of Zeus. Except for the story with Riveria, I went in no particular direction and just wrote what came to my mind, but I worked on a story board since I got messages that it was a bit confusing.

Blood of Zeus will get it´s next chapter after Change of Fates has it´s next.

It will be a whole story about Bell´s journey to and in Orario. He wants to become an adventurer and hero. Things and people will await him there. A short reading will follow, giving an idea about the story.

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"Bell, Sweety do you have everything?"

"Yes. mother."

"Mouh, I told you to call me Mama or Mom."

A white haired woman with a silver and a blue eye pouted slightly while she looked at her son.

"But..Mom...I´m sixteen now..."

"*Sniff* So you don´t want to be my little boy anymore?"

"I didn´t said that!"

A man walked to the two talking people, he had red eyes, like the young man before him.

"Bell, let your mother have this, okay? It´s hard for her to let her little boy go."

Bell smiled to his parents. "Okay."

"Hah, it is such a long way to Orario...will you be okay?"

"I won´t travel alone, so I think so."

Meteria turned around as she heard two other people coming, they didn´t made much noises.

"Ais, Ryu, you will watch over my little boy, yes?"

""Of course, Ms. Meteria!""

What came down the hallway, or rather flew, were to tiny woman. Each of them was only as long as Bell´s forearm without the hand. The one with short green hair, Ryu, had pointy ears and nearly see through wings, she was a fairy. The other one, with long golden hair, had no wings but flew anyway, Ais was a wind spirit. He was friends with these two since childhood.

"I hope you will get along with your aunt. Alfia can be strict but she is really nice."

Bell´s father sighed. "Not to me."

"You peeked on her in the bath, Honey. You deserved it."

"I came only for you..."

Meteria got slightly red.

"Ehehe. Okay enough flirting now. Bell, Ryu, Ais, have a save trip. And don´t forget your invitation letter."

What she gave to her son was a letter with the sygil of the great academy of Orario. Those who wanted to become adventurers often entered the academy, they got teached important things there and received help during their first trips into the dungeon.

""And when you visit, we hope to see a girl at your side, we want to see our grandchild.""

"Irkh, Mom, Dad..."

Ais and Ryu giggled while they sat down on Bell´s shoulders.

His parents couldn´t know that they wouldn´t only see one grandchild in the future.

Various girls and women would become interested in Bell. Including teachers, students, companions and others.

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This story won´t be a school story, but it is one of the locations where it takes place on Bell´s journey. The girls that get close to him will be added one by one. Orario will be a tiny bit different from the original, but not much. It´s basically that young adventurers attend longer to the academy than Lefiya did in the original, where she was finished at the age of thirteen.

I wanted to give Bell his parents and loving Aunt in this story, but it will not have such a long childhood like Change of Fates has.