A/N: Here it is as promised the second chapter. I'm really confused by the stats system so I will just be using a an ever increasing value for it without letters, I might correct it eventually if someone explains it to me clearly enough though I think it seems similar to the Shokugeki no Souma meat ranking system. Sorry if this chapter wasn't as long as the first but nothing much happened in Episode 5 so I had less material to work with and there wasn't a major battle or much of a flashback to write.


Bell set the large magic stone on a stone bench in his home, the great crystal glowed with power as he considered his options. He could sell it at the bank for maybe a million Valis, but what good would that actually do him? He could buy armor, but then again…

Bell dug into the knowledge bestowed upon him by the demons and found that they had only only given him the information on how to unlock certain properties of magic stones and how to craft the daggers. He thought about the options the crystal enhancements gave and decided to give his daggers cloaking, being able to hide his strength was essential in fighting stronger enemies so you could catch them by surprise.

Bell set out to locate the ingredients needed in the imbuing process. In order to bring out the cloaking property, the magic stones need to be submerged in a special liquid concocted from a mixture of slime and ectoplasm. He knew where to get slime, but the ectoplasm baffled him and so he set off to ask around about it.

A dungeon hunting advisor informed him of the spectral monsters that appeared on the thirtieth floor. He felt a bit threatened by the amount of floors lower he had to go but ventured off, confident in his ability to handle them due to his ridiculously high stats. It was on the thirtieth floor that he encountered the Wraiths. The ghostly apparitions were the souls of long dead Adventurers who fell in the dungeon over the years.

They had been bound to the will of the fallen angels to eternally haunt the hallways. Bell sliced them apart easily due to how strong he was, but their screams of pain as he temporarily put them out of their misery stung his heart. Seeing all the people who had fallen victim to the fallen angels' ploy only hardened his resolve as he continued his attacks, collecting ectoplasm along the way. He eventually exited the dungeon and sliced some Slimes on the way out once he felt he had enough.

Bell had gotten a lot of extra of both substances in order to attempt something. He set about mixing the slime and ectoplasm together, submerging his daggers in the substance while he tried out his idea. The demons had only given him the knowledge of how to smith the magic stone dagger, it was the book that had given him his smithing expertise.

His smithing skills were at the level of the original Hephaestus, having been granted the wisdom by the book. The book he received was a grimoire, given to him by the demons who had safeguarded it for years after Thanatos brought it to them. Within the book was the experiences of all the Olympian Gods that would unlock themselves when he needed them. Using that skill to his advantage, Bell decided to try and create his own magic stone armor.

The process seemed easy in his head, all he had to do was create a mold and fill it with smelted magic stones but he realize mid thought that he needed proper joints in order to move quickly in the armor. Bell searched deep into his mind for a property he could awaken in the magic stones to counter this issue and found flexibility to be suitable.

Like the cloaking, he could enable and disable it, so he decided he could harden it on impact so it would be effectively heavy armor while still allowing him to move freely. He created the mold for his full body armor and melted the magic stones into the full body mold. Once it had cooled, Bell cracked open the mold and submerged it in the liquid after removing his daggers.

While waiting for his armor to adapt, Bell set out to find the components needed for the imbuing. He tested the cloaking of his daggers and they worked perfectly, completely disappearing from sight to others but not to him. He held it up to a man's face to check and sure enough it went unnoticed. The imbuing called for slime and a tendon. The tendon could come from any creature so Bell opted to go for easy wolf tendons.

He only needed tendons due to his excess slime and got to work dismembering wolves who stupidly charged the obviously stronger opponent without concern. He harvested the tendons and headed back home where he grinded them into a fine dust. Bell mixed it with the slime and let his armor soak it up. After a few minutes, the armor could change from being rubbery to steel like at Bell's command.

It was around this point that he realized how smelly his equipment was because they had been soaking in slime and other disgusting things. He took his armor and daggers out by the river for a wash. Once the foul stench had been cleansed, Bell took a bath himself and put on a fresh set of clothes before deciding to take a break for the day. He rested for an hour before heading to Babel.

'I'll need a decoy weapon at least to show that I can fight. Smithing one would be too much of a pain so I'll just acquire one from some of the merchants.'

Bell walked around the area and eventually spotted a dagger he thought would be great for seeming weak. He talked to the blacksmith and gestured to a weapon with one hand, feeling its blade. He eventually got into a heated negotiation over the price with the man and carefully swiped the dagger.

Bell acted like the deal was off and walked off, the blacksmith hardly noticed that his dagger was gone and proceeded to the next customer. The dagger was completely banged out of shape and would have been better off as scrap metal. The blade was so blunt it could only cut through paper. It was awful as a weapon, but perfect for its purpose.

Bell headed home and retrieved his daggers and armor. They had been dried out by now and were ready for use. He set them down in cloaked mode beside his bed and went to sleep. He headed to the dungeon the next day with his new gear and continued to train up his stats to 3000 at the thirty-first floor, eradicating the monsters which roamed the floor.

He exited the dungeon once his stats were satisfactory and decided to scout out strong opponents to look out for. Bell noted the main enemy figures that could pose a threat to him such as Aiz Wallenstein, the Sword Princess, and Bete Louga of the Loki Familia. He was also wary of the Soma Familia, they had been causing huge issues over money recently, desperately trying to get as much Valis as possible.

Eventually after a few minutes, he was approached by a small person carrying a large pack who broke him from his thoughts.

"Mister! Mister! You with the white hair!"

"Hmm?"

He studied the figure carefully and found it to be a female Chienthrope only to realize it was an illusion spell that disguised her after more .

"Hello, mister! Sorry to bother you but are you looking for a supporter?"

Bell wondered how this girl had managed to deduce he was an Adventurer since his armor and weapons were currently cloaked, only his casual clothes and crooked dagger were visible. She must have seen him fight the Silverback. Bell thought about the situation for some time before some of the knowledge the Grimoire embedded into his mind unlocked itself, he smirked at the implications of this new information and decided to humor her.

"So what if I am? What could you offer me?"

"I will collect all your loot for you so you can focus on killing the monsters without stopping to pick it up. I will only want a small portion of the spoils as payment so you will still profit overall."

"Interesting, but why choose me? I don't have any armor and my only weapon is this dagger."

Bell pulled out his crooked dagger and held it amateurly.

"Well… All the other Adventurers around here either already have supporters or don't want me so I could only ask you."

"So I was a last option?"

"Yes... I mean no! I mean…"

"I might as well, what's your name and when do you wish to start?"

"I'm Liliruca Arde and is now okay with you?"

"Yea it's fine, not like I have anything else to do anyway."

The pair headed off into the dungeon and Bell decided to appear only somewhat competent. He fought on the tenth floor and killed off the enemies carefully without getting hit in order to not reveal his armor. At the end of the day, he had grinded through most of the mobs which surprised Lili. She wanted to steal his strange daggers and sell them off once she found them but actually being a supporter seemed to be much more beneficial because of how much he was earning.

When they sat at the table to split the magic stones, Bell simply took a fifth of it and handed the rest to Lili. Since he had killed so many mobs, he had gotten an entire large bag of magic stones, meaning that Lili was practically holding a fortune in her hands.

"Bell-sama! This is too much, I should be getting that portion!"

"Take it as an act of goodwill to mark the beginning of our partnership, I'll wait for you here tomorrow morning so see you then."

Bell walked off into the mist of the night and disappeared from Lili's sight. She looked at the bag she held in her arms and ran off to the bank to exchange it and pay her debts. Though what she got was the opposite of what she had been hoping for, instead of being happy for getting such a large amount, they forced her to bring back this amount or more everyday or they would hit her more.

At this point she realized that what she had done indirectly permanently linked her and Bell since she doubted any other Adventurers would be willing to employ her since she was infamous in the industry. Lili could only hope that Bell would earn more so she could reach her new quota. What she didn't expect however, was for him to give her a necklace made of purple crystals at the end of the day.

She knew that selling the necklace would get her enough money for today, but it was the first time anyone had given her anything out of their own free will and wanted to treasure it. Lili left silently with her share that day which was still a whopping seventy percent and rolled around in her bed thinking of what to do.

'Why is he being so nice to me? He barely even knows me and has given me all this... I still haven't seen his daggers either but I don't care anymore. What should I do? This is making me so frustrated!'

She got up and admired the necklace, it was expertly made, every single part of it was crafted masterfully as if Hephaestus herself created it. She wondered where Bell had gotten it from since he had given her so much of the loot.

'He must have bought it when he was out fighting on his own… It looks so beautiful, especially when light shines on it… I can't bare to sell it! It's too good to sell! I need to hide it from them so they don't force me to!'

The next day, Lili met up with Bell spotting a few hidden bruises. It was uneventful as they farmed on the thirteenth floor but the spoils were good. While resting at one of the safe zones, Bell wondered if his plan had worked and asked Lili about his necklace.

"Where is the necklace I gave you?"

"I have it with it now."

"Why aren't you wearing it?"

"I wouldn't look good in it…"

"Nonsense, I made it specially for you."

"You made it?"

"Of course, it wouldn't do for such a cute girl to go without some jewelry would it?"

Lili blushed and took the necklace out of her pack. She handed it to Bell who helped to put it around her neck. As soon as he clicked it into place, Lili's eyes turned dark purple and her face became expressionless. He smiled darkly and spoke to her.

"Who is your master?"

"Bell Cranel."

"Good."

Bell put his hand onto her head and used his God Powers to access the information she held. His hand froze the moment the information flooded into his mind and all her pain was made known to him. A lifetime of unhappiness, abuse, loneliness, betrayal, guilt, rejection, burden and injustice where she was constantly degraded, exploited and looked down upon.

"I know Gods can't solve all problems but does this really have to happen?! Even the fallen angels should have some semblance of sympathy for this kind of thing right?!"

Bell smashed the wall at the thought that such cruelty could take place for the sake of a drink.

"This Familia, the Soma Familia, needs to be destroyed… For the sake of their precious wine, they have mistreated an innocent child and twisted her into this! I don't know which fallen angel you really are Soma, but you are the first on my hit list!"

He put her to sleep and brought Lili back to his hideout.

'I know I can't save everyone, but there has to be a way to save someone. I have to help this girl, I likely can't afford to save the ones after her, but at least she will be saved.'

Bell laid her small fragile form onto the stone bench he had at home. Even if the Familia system was something the fallen angels had created, surely as a true God he should be able to imitate it right? He took off her clothes and saw the cursed mark on her back, the writings which binded her as a servant of the fallen angels.

His will to save her reached the knowledge given to him by the grimoire and the knowledge to dispel such a curse was made known to him. He focused his divine power at his fingertip and carefully traced the runes, burning them off her back. It took him a grueling hour of precise work to avoid accidentally burning her but once it was done and the mark was removed,

Bell then moved on to finish the ritual. He burned his own mark onto her upper arm. It was a lightning bolt much like his grandfather's, only that it was rotated ninety degrees to face sideways and where Zeus' was gold in colour, his was red. The process was done and Bell covered her with a blanket before taking a seat to rest. He knew what the ritual would do to him but he never expected such a drain on his energy. As he thought, overdoing this would take a heavy toll on his physical state.

It was only an hour later that Bell had fully recovered and was able to prepare some food and drinks for the girl when she awoke. He removed the necklace around the neck and the spell was lifted. She awoke in a daze and rubbed her eyes.

"Bell-sama? What is going on?"

She then looked down and saw herself half naked, she pulled the blanket higher to cover her body and started tossing things at Bell. Though the thing was, Bell didn't have much in the way of throwable furniture so it wouldn't be long before she ran out of things to throw at him.

"I can't believe you! You're horrible! You philanderer! Womanizer! Pervert! Enemy of womankind! Lolicon! How dare you do this to me!"

Meanwhile, Bell was dodging the things flying at him, sort of sad that the alarm clock he had used for all these years would ring no more, or that the candle holder he had since young would no longer hold a candle upright, or that his only bowl which he had been using for years was destroyed. Many other things were damaged but Lili finally ran out of things to toss and started to calm down.

"Now that you've had your fill of anger release can I explain myself?"

"Whatever."

"Now Lili, I'm really a God."

"Yeah and I'm the queen."

"Lili, I have seen your memories and know of what you've been through all these years. I couldn't stand by and let this continue so I saved you. I freed you from the Soma Familia, look for yourself if you don't believe me."

Bell handed her a mirror that hadn't been destroyed yet and she used it to check her back for the markings, only to discover there were none.

"How?! I've never heard of a God taking another God's Familia before!"

"I'm a special God Lili, I've retained most of my divine power and so can do such things."

"Oh… But then if I'm now part of your Familia then why aren't there new marks on my back?"

"I don't use those, check your upper left arm."

Lili checked it and saw the red sideways lightning bolt he had etched.

"How am I supposed to check my status with this?"

"Just tap the lightning bolt and you will instantly know."

She tried it once and immediately knew how much her stats were and how much they had improved by since she last checked.

"So what do you want?"

"What do you mean?"

"Surely you didn't save me for nothing right?"

"Hmm, I guess just be a good Familia and help me in my endeavours?"

"Can I still call you Bell-sama?"

"I don't see why not."

"Okay Bell-sama, what is the first thing you want me to do?"

"It's simple really, help me to destroy the Soma Familia."

"Huh?! Bell-sama, that's a really bad idea, most of the Adventurers there are really strong because they are fueled by the desire to live so they can drink more of the wine!"

"That is exactly why I must bring a stop to it, Soma has gone far enough with this ploy. He is enslaving them with this wine and needs to be stopped."

"Bell-sama! They have hundreds of members in their ranks and are one of the strongest Familias, do you honestly think you can defeat them?!"

"Relax Lili, I have a plan but we will start small first. We are going to use their exploitation of you against them. We know they are definitely going to come after you for more Valis because of the wine so it's simple, we lure them into a trap."

"What kind of trap?"

"They think I'm some weak Adventurer right? So let's use that to our advantage. Tell them I've found an ultra rare item and that you'll be stealing it from me but need their help. That will have their attention for sure, just pretend to lead me to the tenth floor and allow them to ambush me."

"Okay, it's about time I have my revenge on those guys."


They proceeded as planned and Bell was ambushed by a horde of Orcs. He used his crooked dagger to kill off the Orcs and feigned exhaustion afterwards. As expected, the group of four emerged from the fog with their weapons drawn, ready to mug him.

"Hand over that rare item if you want to live kid!"

"Hahahahahahaha!"

"Don't you understand the position you're in right now kid? We could kill you easily, Arde led you into our trap splendidly!"

"I think it is you who doesn't understand, Lili has led you into my trap."

"Bwahahaha! Get a load of this guy! He thinks he's hot stuff!"

"Finger of Death!"

Just as he finished the sentence, a bolt of red lightning shot forth from Bell's finger and hit him. The bolt of lightning did not electrocute him, but rather his body started to swell, as if he was in space and the air in him was trying to escape. The red lightning was turning him inside out, ripping him apart from the inside as his body imploded into a mess of blood and organs.

It was a spell Bell had learned when the pain and suffering of Lili was made known to him, the rage he felt manifested itself into a spell created for the sole purpose of torturing its victim before his demise, Finger of Death.

The others stopped laughing and were paralysed with fear for a few seconds before they desperately tried to get away, running away in three separate directions. Running wouldn't do them any good as Bell rushed forth and impaled one with his invisible daggers, turning off the cloaking. He then moved on to kill another one before flicking the blood off his dagger, sheathing and cloaking it again.

He looked into the distance to see Lili catch their leader. She walked out from behind a tree landform and stopped the running Soma Familia member in his tracks.

"Arde! How dare you set us up like this! At least you had to guts to come and accept your death bravely!"

"You are mistaken Kuradeel, I came here to kill you myself, there's no need to trouble Bell-sama further with trash like you…"

"Don't underestimate me Arde!"

"It is you who shouldn't underestimate me Kuradeel…"

Lili drew her magic flame dagger and fired off a firebolt at him, the fireball burned through his leather armor and melted a hole straight through him. He fell down as the pain numbed, looking up to see Lili standing above his corpse.

"The Soma Familiar will fall, such is the will of Bell-sama…"

He closed his eyes as death claimed him and Lili returned to Bell.

"Bell-sama, the deed is done."

"Well done Lili, we are one step closer to our goal. For the next step I need you to go back to the Familia and report that some high level Adventurers died in the dungeon, like before, they have gotten a special rare item but you couldn't get it in time to loot it. You just bring them to the spot and leave, claiming that you have something important to do so they can have it all to themselves."

"Which floor will we be using this time?"

"The thirteenth floor, we can't use anything much stronger or they'll be too scared to try."

"We'll do this tomorrow, today we'll be farming to increase our stats."

"Yes, Bell-sama."

"We will meet at the hideout for dinner later on so be sure arrive on time. I'll be going to the lower floors so see you later."


The day soon came to a close and Bell headed to the tavern to buy some food home. What surprised him was the sheer volume of rumors regarding his activities. He decided to listen in on some of the conversations to see how much had really been found out about him.

"Did you hear? There's some white haired kid who reached the fortieth floor in just a matter of days!"

"No way! Even Aiz Wallenstein took years to get that far!"

"It's true! I was lucky enough to see him today, the damndest thing is, he doesn't wear any armor at all! All he had on him was a crooked dagger and some commoner clothes. The only thing that would show he had been so deep was the loot he carried, you should have seen the sack of magic stones he brought back with his supporter! The little thing was carrying a bag the size of a large beer barrel while he was lugging the biggest magic stone I'd ever seen with just one arm!"

"That's crazy! Whose Familia is he from?"

"That's the thing, I've asked around but no one knows where he came from. Even the guards only knew of him a couple of days ago. I'm too afraid to ask him personally, he seems pretty scary with those scarlet red eyes."

"I've gotta see this for myself, his stats must be insane!"

"You probably won't get to, he practically lives in the dungeon, the guards say they rarely see him leave early. Some say he's a demon or something, that only something unholy could grant him so much power."

Bell chuckled at the rumor and listened in on another conversation.

"DId you hear of the murder in the dungeon?"

"Which one, people get killed for their money everyday there."

"The one on the tenth floor, I went there to check and saw the aftermath, his body was gone and the entire area was covered in blood, all his organs were splattered around with bone fragments."

"There's only Orcs and Killer Ants there, those couldn't have done such a thing…"

"Exactly, it was almost as if someone fed him a bomb or something, though there weren't any scorch marks on the pieces that I could see. Another guy was found with a hole straight through him, the dungeon is getting more and more dangerous by the minute nowadays."

"Ugh, I'm good thing I'm only on the seventh floor, I wouldn't want to go down there."

"Well you have to eventually and then if you ask nicely, your good friend Shu will protect you!"

"Yeah as if!"

Bell frowned slightly when he realized how fast information on the incident had spread. The Adventurers from the Soma Familia would undoubtedly still go regardless of the dangers but it was never good for people to be too wary of an area, they would avoid it and that would limit his options at times.

Satisfied with the information, Bell took his two packs of extra large spaghetti and wine and left for his hideout. He set the table and decided that if someone was going to live with him then he would need some new furniture. Just as he finished laying out the food, Lili walked down the stairs, back from her stroll through town. They sat down and had their food together. They chatted for a bit about the mobs in the dungeon and Bell brought up the topic.

"Lili, do you want to get some new furniture around here? It seems pretty under furnished when there's two of us."

"Sure, I don't mind, I'll get some after dungeoning tomorrow but how long will it be until we attack the Soma Familia for real?"

"Patience Lili, we haven't even identified the second in command of the Familia yet, the one who actually leads the bunch in place of Soma."

"Yes, Bell-sama."

"Don't fret Lili, you will have your revenge soon enough, we will strike when we get more information."


A/N: Well there's the second chapter, hope you liked it. Again, I would be grateful if someone would explain the status system to me through a message or something. Be sure to check out my other stories, poll, follow, favourite and review if you enjoyed.