Chapter 50 - The New Normal
After Bell returned to Orario from the moon, there was a large meeting with everyone in the group, including the Loki executives, the other familias, the Xenos and his of course, his own familla. He provided information from the interrogation:
1. Revis is no longer a threat and lost most of her power when Enyo was banished, just like what happened to the other familias.
2. Hestia is working how to free the gods, Gros and Lyd from the timeless dimension. The other gods are needed to return Lili, Haruhime and others from the moon. Revis is considered too dangerous and will be kept on the moon.
3. Confirmation about Revis and many from the 27th floor massacre were converted by Enyo. She was the strongest and preyed on monsters as well those of her own kind.
4. The team had apparently destroyed the remainder of Enyo's army. There were no other high level fighters remaining in the dungeon.
5. Enyo was an elder god that disagreed with other elder gods about the world they were forming. Enyo wanted children honed to perfection through ruthless competition whereas other elder gods wanted excellence through beauty and love. This resulting conflict banished Enyo, who essentially became the god of the dungeon. As a result the dungeon took on the theme ruthless competition where resources were extracted by the strongest.
6. Revis and Enyo were driven by revenge. They were able to detect the gods on the surface world, and used the time trap bubble to quickly trap the gods before they could activate their own powers.
7. Driven by power, Thanatos was willing to merge with mutation magic from Enyo. With Thanatos' defeat, Revis and Enyo accelerated their planning to build up an army to conquer the surface world.
This confirmed many of the group's theories, but now the primary question was how to get the gods back. No one had an answer, though Hestia was not finished interrogating Revis.
In the meantime, the familias would continue to operate as best as they can, though healing was the biggest concern. Welf, Mikoto and Wiene would support the Ganesha familia in city security. Asterius and Ray would continue to guard the dungeon. The other Xenos would return to the dungeon and try to address the second largest concern: overpopulation of monsters in the dungeon and whether that could lead to powerful monsters coming up to the higher floors trying to escape into the surface world. The Xenos would make Riviria their temporary base and patroled floors 18 to 25. Ais, Bell and Wiene would also spent 2 days per week in the dungeon to help control the situation.
Life in the Hestia home was normalizing. With Mikoto, Welf and Wiene focused on city security, Bell and Ais had the responsibility to keep the home running. They cleaned and cooked quite a bit, and talked to Hestia regularly. They also spent quite a bit of time with the Loki familia. Finn was still frustrated with himself for being checkmated, but it became easier to accept since the opponent included an elder god. Bete still grumbled about being useless, but Tiona would then tied him up and pull wolf ears to get him to stop being negative... At night, Bell and Ais would lap pillow before Ais falls asleep hugging Bell. Of course, that led to a lot of giggling by Welf and Mikoto who were plotting something naughty...
In heaven, Hestia would focus on interrogating Revis on how Enyo created the time trap magic. While it was clear Revis was clueless about the magic, she did tell them that Enyo spent a lot of time on the 99th floor. When asked what monsters were there, Revis said she did not know, but the monsters in the other floors were already well known to adventurers including the floor bosses, dragons and goliaths. She also did confirm that the violas and vigras were new monsters that Enyo came up with on the 99th floor.
With this information, apparently a trip to the 99th floor was in order...