Hajime and Yue stood on a makeshift base while Hajime adjusted his new weapon "Schlagen" was a short-barrel Sniper that had a powerful shot.
"Hajime."
His new companion Yue called out to him.
"What's that?"
She spoke pointing at the gun.
"It's a Long Range Sniper."
"What is a Sniper, and why are you able to make these strange weapons? How do you manipulate mana directly? Why are you here?"
She asked several things in a curious tone.
"Calm down, I'll explain everything.
He explained everything from when he was summoned to this world to the part where he fell into the abyss.
"What is a Sniper, and why are you able to make these strange weapons? How do you manipulate mana directly? Why are you here?"
She asked several things in a curious tone.
"..."
"Yue?"
She was crying
"I'm sorry... it's just so sad."
"Well you don't have to worry. I don't hold a grudge against God or my classmates. I just want to go home."
"Home?"
"Yes, home. I've changed a lot of things but I still want to go back to my world."
"I don't have... home."
"So I ate monster meat, survived because of this water you said is called ambrosia and I got here."
She had a sad expression on her face.
"So you want to come with me?"
Her expression changed to a surprised and hopeful expression.
"Can I really?"
"Sure... my world is not so cool, it has several boring rules but if you want you can come with me."
She approached Hajime and leaned her head on his arm.
"So Hajime is my new home..."
"Can I really?"
Hajime stroked her head making her smile.
It had been 2 days since Hajime had found Yue. They quickly passed another 25 floors it was already the 75th floor from the cave.
They easily passed the floors up to here and Hajime did basically nothing. Yue easily killed the monsters and when he asked to help her she would say "I want to be useful to Hajime." Then he would leave it at that.
Currently they were running away from several dinosaurs.
"Yue, do you understand?"
"Yes, it's a parasite."
They noticed that the monsters were having blurry eyes and strange movements. It was as if they were being controlled and resisting. They all had flowers on their heads that were not there before.
"The source is over there right?"
"Probably."
Yue pointed to a cave full of flowers that was surrounded by monsters.
Hajime put Yue on his shoulders and ran toward the cave. Yue decimated the monsters with electric magic. When they entered the cave Hajime put Yue on the ground AND looked around. So...
-Puff-
All the flowers began to expel their polem which dissipated into the air.
"These flowers are strange...Yue can you burn them for me?"
"..."
Yue was standing still in silence.
"Yue?"
"Hajime run away."
All the flowers began to expel their polem which dissipated into the air.
She spoke this as a flower grew on top of her head.
A blade of air flew towards Hajime.
Hajime dodged it as he clicked his tongue in disgust.
Hajime felt a presence entering the cave and turned to see who it was.
There was a creature that looked like a plant shaped like a woman. It had two rows of super sharp teeth and sharp eyes. It approached Yue.
"So you're the source hein."
Hajime aimed the gun at the creature but Yue jumped in front of it and said "sorry".
The creature had a hideous smile on its face.
Hajime stood receiving Yue's attacks without countering, but he realized that the creature couldn't make Yue use high level spells like blue sky so it wasn't much of a problem for him.
Yue was still standing in front of the creature that was a little taller than her. She couldn't see Hajime suffering anymore and said.
"Hajime don't worry about me shoot!"
"Eh? Really? Well that makes it easier."
DOPAN*
He shot the creature in the head causing it to drop dead.
Yue looked alternately between Hajime and the perplexed creature.
"You shot..."
"Well, you said to shoot."
"You didn't even hesitate..."
"Well I wanted to kill that thing and I have confidence in my aim."
"It ripped out my hairy crown."
"Well, it will regenerate, right?"
"Hunnnnnnn."
She started punching him in the chest as if to say "I know you're right, but I'm still angry."
"Well, it will regenerate, right?"
They arrived.
75 stories later on the 150th floor from the cave they saw. A gigantic door in great condition, it was well detailed with drawings that seemed to show a sky full of clouds.
"I have a feeling..."
"Me too."
""Let's go!""
They declared opening the door.
...
They entered a gigantic well lit room. The room had 6 gigantic pillars near the walls. The height of the room was 200 meters high which was probably to fit the monster that was about to appear.
75 stories later on the 150th floor from the cave they saw. A gigantic door in great condition, it was well detailed with drawings that seemed to show a sky full of clouds.
A gigantic magic circle appeared. It glowed brightly and a dragon appeared with a gigantic body with 4 heads of different colors. Yes it was a-
"Hydra."
Hajime muttered softly.
"Yue, let's go!"
Hajime ran to the left and Yue to the right
DOPAN* *DOPAN* *DOPAN* *DOPAN*
"Storm"
Hajime shot at the yellow head, but the blue head went ahead to defend. Yue attacked the green head with yellow Lightning. That received the damage and seemed to get angry.
"Roaaaaaaaaaar!"
A roar echoed through the room.
The green head attacked trying to bite Yue who dodged backwards.
The yellow head unleashed a jet of fire at Hajime.
He dodged and was attacked by the blue head.
The black head moved closer and looked deeply into Yue's eyes.
Yue saw Hajime run away and abandon her, leaving her alone.
The yellow head unleashed a jet of fire at Hajime.
That was the power of the black head.
Hajime saw the black head looking deep into Yue's eyes as Yue shed tears.
He realized that it must be some kind of mind control.
The yellow head launched a blast of fire at Yue, but Hajime ran towards it and stood between Yue and the blast. He transmuted the ground to use as a shield.
The piece of ground that Hajime was using as a shield began to crack with the pressure, even with Hajime remaking it every time this happened it wouldn't last forever. Hajime who realized this pulled a light grenade from his backpack. As he threw the light grenade the stone shield received a crack
Hajime saw the black head looking deep into Yue's eyes as Yue shed tears.
This crack didn't even take 2 seconds to repair but it was enough for some fire to pass through and hit Hajime's right eye.
"Uaugh!"
He gave a groan of pain and threw the light grenade stunning the Hydra.
While enduring the pain in his eye Hajime took Yue in his arms and laid her down behind one of the large pillars.
While enduring the pain in his eye Hajime took Yue in his arms and laid her down behind one of the large pillars.
"Yue... hey Yue."
He patted her as he called out to wake her up. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Hajime?"
"Yue."
"Hajime!!!"
She hugged him as she shed tears of happiness.
"He hypnotized you right?"
"I... I saw you abandon me..."
"You don't have to worry about that. Can you fight?"
"Hajime?"
"I..."
She made a pained expression as she remembered the scene she saw during hypnosis.
Hajime realized that she was worried about her abandonment so he decided to give her proof that he would not abandon her.
"!!!"
Hajime kissed her passionately and after pulling away spoke.
"Yue don't worry I will never abandon you. Now how about we kill that thing?"
She put her finger to her lips and stood up excitedly.
"Yes! What shall we do?"
"Hmmm... The Blue head defends, the yellow head attacks from a distance, the green head attacks up close with speed, and the black head causes illusions. It will be difficult to attack them..."
He thought for a while and then spoke.
"Yue. Protect me while I get ready, I'm going to use Schlagen."
"Yes!
Hajime picked up his Sniper that was in the middle of the room and began to prepare it.
The Hydra approached as their heads attacked.
The yellow head launched a jet of flame that was countered by a jet of water.
The green head was about to attack, but Yue drove it away with fireballs.
The blue head had to protect the black one that was being attacked by storm.
"Yue!"
Understanding what this warning meant Yue jumped behind Hajime.
BACHON*
Schlagen shot up with great power.
"Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Hydra gave a horrified scream and fell.
When Hajime looked at his target he saw the finished Hydra. Its entire body was seriously injured and its heads were no longer moving.
Before Hajime could sing Victory.
"What the..."
A light began to pour out of Hydra's body. The light levitated the body slightly making it stand upright. when the light disappeared...
"Roaaaaaaaaaaaaar"
Hydra let out a roar. Its once colorful body was now all white. Their heads now seemed in sync as if they joined their minds.
Hydra charged and shot a blast of golden fire from all the heads.
"That's bad." Hajime thought. He would have to use his last trump card, his Overcome limit skill that triples his statuses for 2 minutes. If he wanted to defeat this Hydra and he would have to give it his all.
But before he could come to a conclusion the Hydra fired a golden fire at them but instead of hiting them it got block by a wall of wind.
After the Wall of Wind disappear the Hydra Fire another golden fire.
Hajime was about to use overcome limit to dodge the golden fire with Yue when...
"Hey Hajime-kun, good to see you looking well. Nice look by the way. You look like a real Anime character now."
A boy with blue hair and black regatta appeared in front of him easily blocking the golden blast.
Rimuru had spent the last few weeks mapping the labyrinth looking for Hajime and went to find him right on the top floor. Hajime had white hair, red eyes, a more robust body and had lost an arm and an eye, he also had extremely earth-like weapons and most impressively... He had gotten a girlfriend!
Rimuru arrived just as Hajime and Yue were kissing, but he wanted to see if they could beat Hydra alone and left it to show up only now.
He asked Ciel how the hell could there be a girl down here and Ciel replied.
[She is a unique vampire as well as Ruminas who has infinite longevity and with my analysis of the half melted cube we found a few floors up shows that it was used to seal powerful life forms. So there's a good chance the girl is sealed inside the cube and the master's brother freed her].
(Unique individuals who are born with special powers among their species.)
I see.
"Hey, Hajime-kun who is she?"
"Ah that's Yue. But more importantly! That thing is coming this way!"
Indeed the Hydra was rushing to attack them like crazy.
"Ahhh Yue huh. Thing? Oh you mean Hydra? Well wait a minute."
Rimuru turned around while pulling out his sword. He injected mana into the sword and it began to glow in a rainbow.
Then he stepped forward and cut the Hydra in half.
Yes, he just cut it off! Like it was a piece of fish that you were using to make sushi. As if the Hydra was just an insect to be stepped on. And of course that caused.
""...""
Are you kidding me? Hajime and Yue thought.
This monster that they had to give their all to defeat. This monster that gouged out Hajime's eye. The last boss of the Orcus Dungeon was simply cut down!
This scene was so shocking that Yue even muttered, "Have I been hypnotized again?
"He never changes, why does he always do things so casually?" Hajime muttered.
"Hajime, who is she, and why didn't you ever tell me about her? Is she your girlfriend?"
From the looks of it Yue was jealous of the super strong 'pretty girl' who came to Hajime's rescue and even called him by his first name.
Hajime felt a chill run down his spine at the look on Yue's face and hastily replied.
"No no! That's not a girl! That's my brother Rimuru!"
"Ohhhh I see. You said he was strong, but I didn't think he was that strong."
"I didn't think he was that much either."
Hajime and Yue spoke. At that moment Rimuru approached them.
"Yosh! That was a great final boss. Hajime-kun how about we talk in the next room? From the looks of it you have something interesting there."
"-Sigh- that's fine, let's go Yue."
"Hmm."
She nodded in agreement, and they headed for the last room.
They opened the door that was at the end of the room and saw a huge mansion in a large courtyard. This place was lit by an artificial light that looked very much like the sun. They left it to investigate later and Rimuru picked up chairs that neither Hajime nor Yue could tell where he got them from.
They sat down and started talking.
"Wow! You really had a rough time. And about who threw the fireball at you... it was Hyama right?"
Hajime finished recounting the events since he fell off the abyss.
"It was probably him."
"I see... But you better not hold a grudge, I didn't want my brother obsessed with revenge."
Rimuru turned to Yue and spoke.
"So you are a vampire?"
"Yes."
"And you were trapped in that room for how long? It was 300 years right?"
Hajime made a strange expression when Rimuru asked that. It was as if he knew what answer was coming, but he was also surprised that Rimuru knew the answer for which he had to press Yue several times.
Yue was surprised, but then looked away and spoke.
"It is rude to talk about a Lady's age."
"Ah... Yes sorry."
"So you are a vampire?"
Hajime who didn't want to continue on that subject interrupted.
"Ok, I already talked about us, But how did you get here so fast?"
Hajime asked.
"Oh that? Well I came down."
"..."
"What do you mean you came down!? What about the monsters!?"
Hajime asked half shaken.
"Ahhhh yes, yes...
He shook his head in agreement and continued.
"They kept wanting to 'play' when I was coming. They kept attacking me all the time. And I found that very annoying, so I killed them all. Oh Hajime-kun did you see that there were some monsters that looked like the ones in the video games? that really cheered me up."
"Well yes..."
Hajime was a little embarrassed, but he couldn't deny it. He was also excited when he saw the Treants and some other monsters.
"Well now that we're done how about we see what's in that house? Maybe it's a treasure chest or a super strong weapon, or maybe there's someone in there who will say something like 'hahaha you thought it was over?' I'm pretty curious."
"Well yes I'm curious too but I hope there isn't another final boss."
Hajime who saw that Rimuru was wishing he had someone else to battle wanted to ask "why are you so excited?" But he decided it was better to ignore that.
It seemed that Rimuru had received some influence from his subordinates who were fighting maniacs.
They arrived at the house. The door was open, so they went in. It was a very well designed mansion with two stairs going up to the 2nd Floor is a throne in the middle of the room on this throne was a skeleton dressed in men's clothing and in front of it had a distinctive magic circle.
"Well I'll go first."
Hajime spoke and climbed into the magic circle.
The magic circle glowed and Hajime felt his memories being searched. It was probably to see if he hadn't cheated somehow to get here.
When that process was over...
"Hello I am Oscar Orcus."
A hologram of a young man dressed just like the skeleton on the throne appeared.
"I have a story to tell you, it is about the purpose of the creation of the Great Dungeons."
He began to speak and the summary of the story was "The gods have gone mad."
In the era that is now known as the ancient era the races were at war over different religions and a group of Humans fighting this war realized what the purpose of their God was.
God just wanted to have fun watching men fight, so this group of Humans decided that their goal would be to protect humanity from God, this group started to call themselves the "Liberators".
God, who didn't like this one bit, made both humans and demons think that the liberators wanted to destroy the world. The liberators who were attacked by those they swore to protect were wiped out. Only the 10 strongest were left, these 10 had a special magic that today is called ancient magic or god-age magic.
The 10 liberators got together and created 10 Great Dungeons leaving their special magic to those who completed the dungeons in the hope that in future generations someone strong enough to defeat the gods would appear.
"That is the purpose of the Great Dungeons. I'm not going to ask you to kill God or force you to do so, I'm just telling you this story so that you don't blindly follow God's teachings. I don't know if you are a good person or a bad person, and I don't know why you are here? The only thing I want is for people to be able to live by their own will."
Leaving that message the hologram disappeared.
"Hajime are you okay?"
Yue asked.
"Yes and it seems I have gained a new magic it can interfere with materials and modify them."
"You can make artifacts!?"
"Yes."
Yue was wearing an amazed expression.
"Do you guys want to try it too? Ancient magic doesn't hurt anyone."
Yue agreed and climbed into the magic circle. The message repeated itself and she stepped out of the magic circle.
"Did you get it?"
"Yes, but my compatibility with that magic is low."
"Good my turn."
Rimuru stepped up into the magic circle and when the message ended...
[Warning. supreme skill King of Metals Polyphemous acquired.]
Ohhhhhhhhhh! So these ancient spells are supreme abilities?
[Yes and since they are natural to this world they could help us get back to our universe].
I see.
"Hey Hajime-kun I think this Skill will be much more useful for you who are a Synergist right?"
"Yeah I think so too and even have some ideas. Well let's take a look at the rest of the house."
The three also received a ring with an 'X' in the middle that could be used to open the doors of the house. They found a library with notes of various things that could be done with the new skill.
They also found a workshop, a luxurious bathroom. Several rooms, and when they found a room with a portal out of the labyrinth they celebrated.
After exploring the house Rimuru remembered something.
"Ah! That's right Hajime-kun I forgot to tell you that I have a way to get your arm back if you want it."
That way was the total healing wells he had brought from his world. Ciel was also developing a healing skill, but it wasn't ready yet.
"Really? Well I'll have that, but not right now."
"Heh?"
"After reading some of those books I found that I can make an artificial arm and eye. They would be much more powerful than my normal arm and eye, but when we get back for Japan I'll take that method."
"I see. So when you say you are going to do things to get stronger are you planning to stay here a while longer?"
"Yes Yue and I have decided to stay here a while longer, but if you want you can go ahead."
"No I will stay too, I have some ideas for some artifacts we could create too."
"Okay then."
Rimuru actually wanted to look for Shizue, but he realized that Hajime had changed a lot in that month in the labyrinth and he wanted to make sure that Hajime's soul didn't fall into darkness. So he decided to stay put.
Hajime actually became much kinder than before after knowing that he had not been abandoned. Not only did Rimuru come to rescue him he also found out from Rimuru that Kaori still believed in Hajime's survival which made him feel less lonely. He also had Yue by his side now.
So they stayed for about 1 month producing artifacts.
The day after they killed Hydra.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh. I missed that."
Hajime was in a large jaccuzi relaxing. It had been weeks since he had taken a relaxing bath.
"It's really good."
Someone spoke next to Hajime.
"Yue I told you I wanted to take a bath alone."
"Fufu"
Yue laughed as she took off her towel.
"Wouldn't it be better if you covered yourself with something?"
Hajime asked looking away embarrassed.
"No. I want you to see."
"Yue I..."
"My body doesn't please you?"
He fell into the trap.
"No, it's not that it's just..."
"Then come, you can look!"
She stood in front of him and spread her arms wide.
He looked directly at her and tried an evasive motion when he realized that a certain part of her body was growing.
"I think I'd better go. My brother is probably waiting."
"No. I told him to give us privacy."
"Good anyway..."
He tried to get up.
"I won't let you!"
She spoke happily as she held him up.
In the dungeon Hajime always avoided Yue's advances, including when she rubbed against him sleeping. He couldn't have any distractions, but now he had no imminent danger so...
"Ah what the hell."
He kissed her as he lowered his hand to a certain spot.
"Hun."
Yue gave a cute moan.
And the rest I will leave to your imagination.
After a month of producing artifacts Hajime, Yue and Rimuru decided to return to the surface.
Hajime now had a black metal arm. And a magic eye. Both had various uses, and the magic eye was covered by an eye patch.
They produced various weapons and even some vehicles. They stored everything in the ring they made called the Treasure Chest. Hajime and Yue had one, but Rimuru didn't need one because of his separate space ability.
They also made new, sturdy clothes. The sturdy clothes were the idea of Rimuru(Ciel) who taught Hajime how to make them.
Hajime and Yue have been training hard this time as well and have become much stronger.
By the way Hajime's status now was:
Name:Nagumo Hajime
Age:17
Level: ???????
Blessing:Crest of the Storm
Class: Transmutation Artist
Strength:11,950
Vitality:14,150
Stamina:11,.670
Agility: 14,450
Magic power: 16,780
Magic resistance: 16,780
Abilities: Accurate Transmutation] [ Mineral Investigation] [ Mineral Separation] [ Mineral Fusion] [ Replicate Transmutation] [ Transmutation Compression] Magic Manipulation [ Magic Emission] [ Magic Compression] [ Remote Control] Stomach Iron Stomach Lightning Cloak Divine Pitch [ Aerodynamics] [ Teleportation] [ Great Kick] [ Speed of Light] Aerial Claw Night Vision Long Range Vision Presence Detection [ Special Perception] Magic Detection [ Special Perception] Detection of Presence [ Special Perception] Detection of Magic [ Special Perception] Detection of Presence [ Special Perception] Detection of Magic [ Special Perception Special Perception] Heat Detection [ Special Perception] Conceal Presence [ Ghost Step] Poison Resistance Paralysis Resistance Petrification Resistance Panic Resistance Resistance against All Elements Foresight Vajra Magical Penetration Great Arm Coercion Telepathy High Speed Magic Recovery Magic Conversion [ Vitality] [ Regeneration] Overcome Limit Magic Generation Language Comprehension.
The maximum level for Humans was 100 but since Hajime was no longer fully human his level exceeded the limit and became ???.
Yue didn't have a status board so it wasn't possible to tell how much, but she also became very strong.
Still they couldn't beat Rimuru in 2vs1 training. Every time they lost Hajime would say "As I thought, you're a cheater."
Rimuru thought he was someone else who was playing for the second time with the character from his first save.
The divine Crystal finally stopped dripping leaving them with a few jars of ambrosia.
He used pieces of the divine crystal to make some mana recharging artifacts for Yue.
And here they were.
"Ready?"
""Yes!""
They activated the magic circle and went to the surface.
