A/N: Episode 7-9 were mostly useless for material to work with so I had to work with my own brain, sorry if this comes out badly since I wrote this last minute due to me watching Episode 9 only a few days ago. I understand the stats system now but will continue to use mine, an ever increasing value, since it is too troublesome to change to it.

As for my thoughts on Episode 8 if anyone was wondering: Once Upon A Time, Bell Cranel… Got Good!

I'm sorry if the Minotaur fight is not as epic as in the Anime but I honestly doubt I can make it difficult for Bell considering how much stronger he is.


A few days have passed and Bell has gotten considerably stronger along with Lili as they continued to train in the dungeon. They had slowly been killing off members of the Soma Familia, eliminating close to a hundred of its members. Due to the way Soma controlled his Familia, none of his people were scared off by the rumors of Soma Familia Adventurers being murdered in the dungeon. Some even saw it as an opportunity to get a ton of loot by killing the culprit, allowing Bell to have a steady flow of prey.

The rumors in the tavern grew more and more outrageous as he got more and more powerful. Most were far from the truth but some were ironically accurate, though usually put off as false by those who heard it because of how ridiculous it was. Bell's training has raised his stats to 10, 000 each and that was between fights with Soma Familia Adventurers.

There was no need to upgrade his gear as the magic stones only got stronger as more dark energy was gradually absorbed by them. He felt confident about attacking Soma, most of the people he interrogated cracked easily once he started to inflict some pain. He had learned of a man named Zannis Lustra who was the one who stood in as leader of the Familia.

'He is said to often fight on the fifteenth floor. I doubt I can bring Lili along for that so I will need to assign a separate task to her while I seek him out and kill him.'

He downed a mug of wine as he thought of his next move.

'I guess she can try to find out where Soma is hidden in that base of his but-'

He was interrupted from his thoughts when a man burst through the tavern shouting.

"They're all dead!"

A man, presumably from his Familia, approached him.

"What happened? Who are dead?"

"Shimada's party was wiped out! I saw it with my own eyes! Some huge enraged Minotaur wielding a giant blade hacked them to pieces!"

"You're joking, they were all Level 2!"

"I know what I saw! I'm going back to tell the rest, whatever you do, don't go down to the ninth floor!"

'An enraged Minotaur? Interesting, it might be worth checking out on my next trip.'

The next day, Lili took a day off to take care of her landlord who had gotten ill and Bell took this opportunity to investigate the supposed enraged Minotaur. When he got to the end of the eighth floor, he saw some Adventurers who were heavily injured and leaning against a wall. He noted they were the ones who were warned not to go to the ninth floor yesterday.

"I assume the Minotaur did this?"

The least injured of the batch spoke up.

"Aye, I recommend you stay away from there, it's not worth trying. I question how you even got down here with just that crooked dagger and cloth shirt."

"I'll see you around then."

"Wait, you aren't honestly trying to take that thing down are you?! You'll get killed!"

"Don't make me laugh. Who the hell do you think I am?"

Bell walked down the stairs and sure enough, in the middle of the cavern, stood a Minotaur with bloodshot red glowing eyes. Its skin had also been stained red, dyed in all blood of its victims. The beast wielded a Basler with a protruding tip but it seemed jagged and damaged, suggesting that it was extremely scarred from all the battles the Minotaur had fought.

'Intriguing, I never knew Minotaurs wielded actual blades, they usually use stone ones which are brittle and blunt, I wonder where he got it from.'

Bell approached the Minotaur with a smirk on his face as the monster roared and charged him.

"Stop! You're gonna get killed!"

Someone had seemed to have followed him down and was worried for him. Bell looked back for a moment and saw it was the Loki Familia. They had apparently planned to go for a raid in the lower levels of the dungeons but took a detour to save the supposed ill-equipped Adventurer who went after the Minotaur. The Minotaur brought the large sword down on Bell's head, only for it to be stopped in mid-air by an invisible force to the surprise of onlookers who expected him to die.

"And here I expected a challenge…"

As it had been struck, the cloaking of the dagger was disabled and revealed itself to the party. Its purple pulsing form leaving them in awe as Bell knocked away the huge sword of the Minotaur easily and proceeded to inflict light cuts into the beast's flesh

"What is with that knife?!"

"It's not just the knife Bete, this kid is something else…"

"What is that supposed to mean Riveria?"

"Look at his speed, he's playing with it, the Minotaur doesn't stand a chance."

"He's level one right? He wasn't mentioned at the Denatus after all! What Familia does he even belong to?!"

"I don't know, but he seems to display exceptional skill, not to mention his weapon seems to be beyond even what the Hephaestus Familia is capable of."

"Just who the heck is this guy…"

The fight between Bell and the Minotaur raged on as they watched him toy with the monster, bullying it into submission. After an hour of being constantly injured, the Minotaur, incapable of landing a single blow on Bell, finally yields from the torture. It embeds its sword into the ground and gets on its knees. The first cuts of the fight had already scabbed over and healed partially, the beast could take no more.

This action took even Finn, an experienced Adventurer and the leader of the group, by surprise.

"Impossible! I've never seen a monster surrender before in all my years of dungeoning!"

Bell then placed his hand onto the head of the Minotaur and implanted information into its mind. The beast analyzed the thoughts it received and understood what it had to do. It rose and pulled out the sword from the earth, then, to the surprise of the group watching, it spoke.

"What would you ask of me Master?"

"We're leaving."

"Very well."

Bell walked past the group who were too awestruck to say anything with the Minotaur in tow, surprising the injured Adventurers on the eighth floor who thought the monster had come for them after dispatching the others. The biggest scare was when he brought it out to the city, no one dared look him in the eye or follow him for fear of angering the Minotaur.

Back at the dungeon, the Loki Familia Adventurers finally regained their senses.

"That kid just enslaved a Minotaur, one of the most aggressive creatures in the dungeon…"

"Not only that, the damn thing spoke, just who the hell is this guy?!"

"Calm down Bete. Finn, should we call off the expedition for today?"

"No, we will report our findings when we return."

The party moved on to their destination floor and started to push deeper into the dungeon. Bell headed back to his home and made a makeshift bed on the ground level for the Minotaur to sleep.

'Now how am I going to explain this to Lili...'

Just as Bell was thinking of a way to break it to Lili about the Minotaur, she entered the church and quickly moved between Bell and the Minotaur with her weapon drawn.

"Get back Bell-sama, there's a Minotaur here!"

It pointed to its upper arm where a red sideways llightning bolt was visible.

"Relax human, I mean you no harm."

"It spoke…"

"Master freed my mind from the shackles of the dungeon and brought me out of that accursed place. As such, I have pledged my life to serving him and will fight alongside you against the Soma Familia. Though there is little hope for the rest of my kind for I could only be freed as I wandered too far from my floor, though that is a story for another time, for now we should focus on dealing with Soma. For the sake of convenience in battle you may refer to me as Minos."

Lili took some time to process the information and sighed.

"Just what the heck have you been up to Bell-sama…"

"Glad you understand Lili, is the gnome all better now?"

"Yes, why?"

"We'll be attacking Zannis tomorrow but I have a special job assigned to you Lili. You will need to acquire large amounts of magic stones for me, I need it for a project of mine."

"Very well Bell-sama."


The next day arrived and Bell headed back into the dungeon with the Minotaur while Lili contracted with some Soma Familia Adventurers to rob them of their magic stones. Bell made sure to use lesser known paths in order to avoid attracting attention of other Adventurers as the pair made their way down to the fifteenth floor. They managed to reach the fifteenth floor without incident and locate Zannis' party of five.

Bell sent Minos the signal to carry out the strategy that they had discussed beforehand and he rushed out from the shadows at the adventurers, knocking three of them off their feet and slashing another with his sword. Bell dashed out afterwards and silently stabbed the sniper of the group in the back, eliminating him from the fight.

Zannis and his three remaining members got together and tried to fight off the beast.

"Why the heck is there a Minotaur up here?! They should be two floors down damn it! Ishida, we need covering fire!"

He looked around for his partymate, only to see him lying on the ground dead.

"Tsk, the bastard got up and died on me, now how am I supposed to deal with this…"

Minos roared and clashed swords with Zannis' while blocking blows from the others. The one who had been injured at the start had already been secretly dispatched by Bell while the other three charged ahead. Zannis sensed something wrong and turned back to see another partymate dead.

"Someone's picking us off, Shinji, guard our rear while Yuji and I deal with this thing!"

Bell then revealed himself and fought with Shinji, wielding both daggers and easily overpowering the man through sheer speed and versatility. With his ally slain, Yuji immediately came to hold off Bell, though to little success as he was soon cut down as well, leaving Zannis as the only one left. As planned, Minos knocked away Zannis' weapon and made way for Bell to speak.

"Who the heck are you, why did you attack me!"

"You haven't heard of me? Well, not that it matters, all that matters is that you are no longer there to keep the Soma Familia from falling apart."

"Wait, no what are you going to do to me?! No, please!"

"Finger of Death!"

A red bolt of lightning streamed out from Bell's fingertips and hit Zannis, causing his body to swell and eventually burst from the inside out.

"I get the need for him to pay for his crimes Master, but did you have to kill him in such a brutal way?"

"It is what he deserves Minos, there's no telling how many sins he has committed in order to rise above the rest of his Familia."

"Very well."

"We will now meet up with Lili to assist her in the 'acquiring' of her magic stones."

"Yes Master."

The two met up with Lili as she was searching the corpses for anything valuable.

"We wanted to help you but it looks like you don't need it."

"Bell-sama, how did it go?"

"I achieved my goal and in a few days the Soma Familia should fall apart. Without a leader to keep them in line and the other higher ups with him dead, the Adventurers will no doubt do anything they can to get more money."

"What do we do until then?"

"We train, I'm going to need a ton more magic stones to achieve what I'm planning."

"Alright Bell-sama."

"The crystals I got from Zannis will be traded in for our living expenses while I use the rest."

They trained for a couple of weeks and Bell picked up interesting rumors regarding the Soma Familia. They had apparently been causing problems all over town and in the dungeons. Murder, theft, extortion and haggling with the bankers. They did anything to get money as predicted by Bell. As Bell was exiting a store, a courier suddenly came up to him and handed him a note, it read:

"Gods who have received this letter, come and bring a representative to the Town Meeting Hall at noon today or for an emergency meeting regarding the Soma Familia.

-The Guild"

'Everything is going according to plan...'

Bell attended the meeting at the specified time and sat in a seat while the other Gods streamed in. The one who called the meeting was the head of the Guild, Royman Mardeel.

"Now everyone, I am glad you took the time to heed my summon. As you may have heard, the Soma Familia has gotten a little more… aggressive as of late in their pursuit of money."

"I know not the cause of this, but we need to resolve the situation before it gets out of hand."

"Ganesha agrees!"

"True, there is a need to act now in order to prevent further problems but what then what about the Soma?"

"Loki, while it is unfortunate that you will lose your wine, if we don't do anything now then the situation will escalate beyond solving."

"Hmph."

"To save time we shall do this by vote, those who do not wish to participate in dealing with the issue leave now."

A few representatives and Gods left but most stayed.

"Anyone has an idea to resolve the situation?"

"We could bar them from the Guild until the incidents stop."

"Hmm… That is a possibl-"

"No, the only way to stop this is to destroy the Soma Familia."

"You, do you have any idea what you are saying?!"

"I know how the Soma Familia operates, bar them from the Guild and the'll force others to do it for them. The killings and thefts might even increase as they lose a source of income. The only solution is to destroy the Familia once and for all."

Those present all considered the option carefully, knowing full well that he was right.

"We shall take another vote, those who support the destruction of the Soma Familia raise your hands, those who do not, don't."

A majority of the hands were raised and the decision was made.

"Those who do not wish to participate may leave, the rest of us will stay and form a plan."

Those who did not raise their hands left and the others started formulating a plan. Bell left as well, to inform Lili and Minos of what had happened.

"Lili, Minos, the Guild is now strategizing with other Familias to destroy the Soma Familia. We will of course participate, but we won't be following their plan at all, I want to deal with Soma personally."

"Yes, Bell-sama."

"Understood, Master."

Bell later found out about the date set for the attack on Soma and decided to listen to some more rumors at the tavern. Some interesting ones had surfaced regarding his recent exploits.

"Did you hear? That kid enslaved a Minotaur!"

"What? Impossible, those things are senseless raging beasts? How did he pull it off?"

"Some say he put it under mind control or something but I saw it myself believe it or not, he tortured the damn thing into submission. I was lying in the corner once it smashed me away and this guy came up awhile later. He was messing with it, the guy was moving so fast I could barely keep my eye on him."

"Wow, who the heck is this guy?"

"I don't know, but he used the knife of his and cut the Minotaur maybe hundreds of times."

"The crooked garbage dagger?"

"No, he got a new one, some glowing purple one."

"Man, I'd hate to be on his hit list, having a Minotaur against me would be nasty, don't even start on him."

"You should be safe man, word on the street is that he only targets strong players so you should be fine."

"Phew, for a second there I thought you were gonna say he was targeting me… Hey wait a minute, you just called me weak didn't you!"

"Maybe…"

"Get over here you bastard and let me punch you, then we'll see who's weak!"

"Hey stay away, haha!"

Bell downed another mug of beer as he saw the man chase his friend in an attempt to get revenge.

'I guess my exploits have been pretty prominent in the rumor mill, I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing..."


The day for the destruction of the Soma Familia came and the participating Familias were all gathered in front of the building. Soma had learned of the attack and used the Soma to call the Adventurers to his defense, offering a drink to anyone who fought valiantly.

Bell and his group entered after the main force did and spearheaded into the centre of the facility to where Soma was, slicing down all in their path. Lili and Minos guarded the door while Bell confronted Soma.

"Soma, who are you, reveal yourself."

"What ever could you mean?"

"Don't play dumb with me, I know you're one of them."

Soma's voice suddenly changed and sounded deeper.

"So… you are the one… I might not be at full strength yet, but I should definitely be able to take you down!"

Soma's black wings sprouted from his back as his true form was revealed.

"I am Kasdeja, you will regret approaching me."

Kasdeja rushed Bell and slammed into him with incredible force. The impact sent Bell flying across the room but he was largely unscathed thanks to his armor and immediately got up.

"Quite the tough piece of armor you have ther-"

Kasdeja flinched in pain as he noticed that the parts which collided with the armor had been badly burned.

"What is that material…"

"Magic stones Kasdeja, the one thing left in this world that can harm fallen angels, the rest have already been destroyed by the rest of your kind."

"Impossible, how could we have overlooked such a thing?!"

"Maybe you can ask some of your friends in the afterlife."

"Fool, I don't have to touch you to kill you!"

Kasdeja launched balls of concentrated void energy at Bell who dodged them expertly. Enraged by his miss, Kasdeja fired off a volley of projectiles at Bell, eventually giving up when Bell started to taunt him for his misses. He focused his power and pulled a blade out from the void, using it to fight his foe head on.

They clashed blades and fought with such speed and strength that any normal human would only see a blur and feel the shift of the wind. Kasdeja was stronger, but Bell was faster. In the case of this fight, Bell got the upper hand, able to keep his opponent at bay by alternating his dagger strikes such that Kasdeja was forced to either dodge or block them at weird angles.

Kasdeja was forced to stay on the defensive as Bell barraged him with dagger strikes. He was pushed back quite far in the room and soon hit a wall where he noticed a plant he had been growing. The roots of the plant were said to be extremely poisonous and Kasdeja used that to his advantage by crushing the root into powder, then tossing it at Bell.

Bell dodged the powder but this created the opening Kasdeja needed. The fallen angel came up behind Bell and tried to stab through his armor with the sword, only for it to break on impact, notifying Bell of Kasdeja's presence. He immediately backflipped over Kasdeja and pierced both his wings mid-flight.

Kasdeja howled in pain as his wings were damaged severely, rendering him incapable of flight. He fired off a beam of dark energy at Bell in anger which was countered by Bell's Finger of Death. The two spells neutralized each other as they fought for dominance. The crackingly of lightning and hum of dark energy echoed through the building as the two clashed.

Outside with the main force, they were trying to gain ground on the Soma Familia but seemed to keep getting pushed back due to the indomitable moral and spirit of the Adventurers determined to taste the God's Wine. Many feared killing actual humans and did not attack with all their might, whereas the Soma Familia Adventurers saw the enemy as obstacles to overcome in order to receive their prize and mercilessly fought.

The leader of the attack was Aiz Wallenstein, the Sword Princess and Valkyrie. She mowed down the enemies in her path and cleared the way for others. She was backed by Bete and Riveria of the Loki Familia and managed to make it to the middle of the complex where the Adventurers split off into groups to clear out the building.

Back with Bell and Kasdeja, the two ceased their spell fight and had started to once more clash blades. The fallen angel had reconstructed his blade and had reinforced it to be able to take the hits from Bell's daggers. Kasdeja fought the hardest he ever had as his life literally depended on it. He was tired though, using all the energy attacks had put a giant strain on his reserves, rendering him weaker. He was just barely managing to block Bell's attacks.

The fight dragged on and Bell eventually landed a strike, marking the end for Kasdeja as he could no longer defend himself. Bell slashed and stabbed Kasdeja multiple times and before the final strike, Kasdeja spoke.

"A question before you kill me, what do you call yourself, God?"

"Cranel, God of Ruin."

"A good name…"

Bell brought the dagger down and Kasdeja ceased to exist as he burst into dark energy which was absorbed by the magic stones, empowering Bell. He signalled for Lili and Minos, they jumped out the windows and met back up at the church.

"Bell-sama, what went on in that room?! I thought you were the only one who retained his divine powers, how did Soma fight with you for so long?"

"Another time Lili, for now I need to rest, the fight with Soma took a good amount of my energy."

"Yes, Bell-sama."

Bell slept and rested after the long battle, briefly uncaring of the dangers that awaited him in the future, only satisfied that he had avenged one of his comrades.


A/N: There you have it, the third chapter, hope you like it, be sure to follow, favourite, check out my other stories, poll and review. Looks like I can't really rely on the Anime for ideas anymore and will need to use my own brain since it will likely end on a cliffhanger or just end it with Bell escaping the dungeon. This is why the chapter will be delayed, because I have to think. Anyway, there might be more chapters since I'm not following the Anime anymore.