The Strength of Many in One Warrior
Bell watches in awe of how amazing Leina is right now with that declaration and striking such a cool pose, he could have sworn that he saw a bright golden light shining down on his first girlfriend like the Heavens are on her side.
"Go get him! Leina!" Bell cheered.
"I will win this, and you won't dare mess with my Familia again." Leina glared at Mord.
"Missy, you seem to have mistaken something. I'm not here to win…" Mord smirked as he slowly raises his sword above his head.
"I'm here to make you suffer!" Mord shouted and threw his sword down to the ground to smash some crystals into dust to blind Leina with them.
She quickly blocks the dust crystals with her shield and charges forward to attack almost immediately, but she stops herself when Mord has suddenly disappeared from the battlefield though she knows the bastard is still here.
"(He's still here, yet I can't see him. Could be some invisibility spell of item?)" Leina thought tried to find out about this guy.
Suddenly she felt a strong blow on her right cheek that knock her down, but she quickly gets back up and put on her defense stance.
"I knew it, he is invisible!" Leina said with a glare.
"Aw! Someone give her a prize!" Mord said sarcastically and punched her on the side.
"Oh no, Leina!" Bell worried.
"Haha! Your bitch is unfortunate to be battling for you, how pathetic!" One man with dog ears insulted.
Leina felt a few more punches hitting her though does her best to keep herself from falling onto the ground again, she needs to stay strong until she can find a way to land a hit on her invisible opponent. Just need to wait for the right opportunity.
"(Stay calm, I need to remember one of the lessons Echidna taught me.)" Leina thought recalled what the dark elf woman told her.
"You know, you should really be careful with your long hair otherwise someone might try and take it!" Mord advised while pulling hard on Leina's hard.
However, the second after Mord pulled on her hair is when she starts her counterattack as she throws a kick behind her that actually managed to land on the stomach of her dirty tactic foe making him stumble back a few feet.
"What the fuck?" Mord gasped.
"I felt something that made contact with my foot, that means I got him." Leina smiled.
"Fucking bitch. You got one lucky shot in; don't think you'll get the best of us!" Mord angered and goes in to attack Leina again.
Unknown to anyone on that fighting ground, Hermes and Asfi are watching the fight from afar and the high view too.
"That's the magic item called Hades Head." Hermes knew what magic item Mord is using, having seen it before.
"It's quite a fight, isn't it?" Hermes asked his top child.
"You're sick in the head, Lord Hermes. Have you got something against that poor boy to even drag the girl in this too?" Asfi asked.
"I rather think of it as some tough love, but it seems my plan was altered thanks to Leina because was supposed to be the one fighting the man. Although, this could still work." Hermes watched Bell looking worried and a bit scared of seeing this fight.
"Bell is still naïve to how nasty humanity can be. Maybe I am sick in the head, so I wanted him to witness this." Hermes explained his reason setting up this fight.
"Though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little entertained." Hermes said.
"Okay, well, what are we supposed to do if this breaks Bell for good if anything were to happen to Leina?" Asfi asked, not liking how her God does things.
"Then that would mean he didn't really have what it takes, especially when he can't show some strong support for his lover." Hermes answered, then looks to the left seeing a bunch of people coming up to the fight.
"Ah, the cavalry has finally arrived. I swear, Adventurers are fascinating." Hermes commented.
Outside the fight, three arrows were fired and about to hit one of the thug Adventurers only for one of them to deflect those arrows with his armbrace.
"We got company!" The dog ear thug Adventurer alerted the others.
They turn around to see Welf, Mikoto and her Familia group, Echidna, Mirim, and Melpha are running together to help Bell and Leina from their situation.
"There they are! Bell and Leina must be here too!" Mirim pointed out.
"They must've wanted to get them alone." Welf guessed.
"What a bunch of cowards." Ouka disgusted of how those fools are disgracing Adventurers everywhere.
"Cowards with their pride almost shattered when Bell and Leina came here since they're still rookies in the Dungeon with their levels having gone up fast too." Echidna stated the reason for doing this.
"And now they must be punished!" Mikoto said before she jumps and fired two more arrows.
"Crap! It's their friends!" The bunny ear thug Adventurer gasped.
"How were they able to find them here?" A blonde Adventurer asked shock.
"I don't care, just chop them up!" The dog ear thug Adventurer said and both sides are now charging toward each other.
"Chigusa, let me see that spear." Ouka ordered.
"Right." Chigusa handed him the spear and he twirl it over his head while charging ahead toward the enemies.
(With Hestia)
The sounds of blades clashing and some people yelling can be heard from where Hestia is being kept prisoner.
"What's that sound?" Hestia asked worry.
"Oh, sounds like things are starting to get rowdy." Scott said.
"Man, why do we have to get stuck here babysitting?" Guile complained, not liking being in this stupid position.
"You can't ignore me like that! Do you have any idea who I am?" Hestia asked angrily that she is being ignored.
Then Scott got himself an interesting idea about leaving the Goddess here to go join the fight.
"Shall we?" Scott asked with a grin to his comrade.
"I'm sure she'll be fine. Let's go take a look!" Guile agreed to the idea and they both leave for the battle.
"Don't leave me here!" Hestia screamed, those ungrateful jerks are going to pay for this one way or another.
But then something came out of a brush, coming out revealing to be a Almiraj looking straight at Hestia with its cute little nose sniffing her.
"Easy there…" Hestia worried this monster might've come to hurt her.
"The clock strikes midnight." The Almiraj somehow spoke in a familiar voice, and it transform revealing herself to be Lili.
"Lili! How were you able to find me, and how did you do that?" Hestia shocked, she never knew Lili could transform like that.
"Not only do Almiraj have super keen sense of smell, but that perfume you wasted your money on is kind of hard to miss." Lili answered while begin to cut the rope with her knife.
(With Welf and Others)
"Ignite Heretic Spell: Will-O-Wisp!" Welf unlashed the spell to cause two casters messing up their spells to backfire on them.
One thug with the dog ears charges in to stab one of them only for Mikoto to catch his arm with the knife and slams him down onto the ground, he tries to get up, but Ouka points his spear to his neck making him scared to stay down.
Two of the thug Adventurers goes in to attack the group and swings down their weapon, but they are suddenly shattered into pieces by Melpha's nun-club, the thugs were shocked and looks toward the nun.
"I don't suppose it would be possible for you men to stand down." Melpha said with a gentle, but firm look on her face.
Both men look at each other for a moment then try attacking her again, but she easily dodge their punches and knocks them out with one blow for each of them.
"You damn bitch!" One thug archer fired three arrows at her, but Melpha reacted faster as she deflects the arrows with her shield.
"Oh man, they're strong!" One afro brown hair guy shocked.
"Yeah, well, we got them outnumbered. Take them out!" The blonde thug ordered, and they all charge toward the group of friends.
"Perfect, now we can't reach Bell and Leina." Welf said, seeing these men aren't going to open a path for them.
"Look out!" Mirim stood behind Welf to block an incoming attack from Scott.
"Wowie wow, don't you look sexy! Is your skill to seduce your enemies to death?" Scott mocked while finding Mirim to look great in that great.
"This wasn't my idea!" Mirim screamed from embarrassment.
"But… I'm not going to let you bullies hurt my friends!" Mirim determined and her body starts to glow red a little, and then her sword pops out small blades from the edge moving at incredible speed to cut through Scott's dagger and send him flying.
"You little bitch!" Guile jumped to attack Mirim, but Ryuu knocks him out with a single pressure point attack on the head with her stick.
"You should've known better than to cross me." Ryuu said.
"Damn you!" One big muscle thug stomped toward Ryuu to give her a strong punch in the face.
However, Echidna jumps right in front of the large thug's face giving him a knee-kick to the face that causes him to stumble back a few feet with a nosebleed.
"How the fuck did you hurt me so much?" The large muscle thug gasped while groaning in pain.
"There's more to strength than just being bigger than others." Echidna leaped at the muscle unleashing a barrage of slashes all over his body.
Then she grabs his arm and shoulder throw him down toward the trees crashing through some branches and land hard on the ground.
"You should've trained better." Echidna scolded with a sly grin.
"Do you think Bell and Leina are doing alright up there?" Melpha asked concern.
"I'm sure they're fine, and I bet Leina is already winning the battle as we speak." Echidna smiled, having faith in her student.
"Although, I would feel a lot better to see the fight with my own eyes instead of having these chumps in the way." Echidna stated, seeing a lot of guys blocking the way.
"Mind giving us a hand with one of your poses?" Echidna asked.
"I may have just the one." Melpha said.
"Hey guys, get behind Melpha and you'll see something amazing!" Echidna called out to her friends.
They weren't sure of what Echidna is planning exactly with having Melpha out in front of them, but they need to get to Bell and Leina as soon as possible, so they decided to trust her with this as they get behind Melpha.
"What are they doing?" One thug asked.
"I don't know, and I don't fucking care. Just get them!"
Melpha gets ready in her position, by spreading the legs in a squatted position with the hand over head.
"Huh, what is she doing?" Ouka asked.
"You'll see." Echidna said.
"Holy Pose: Binding!" Melpha said and unleash a bright powerful light that shines toward the thugs with a strong shockwave.
The thugs suddenly find themselves unable to move almost like they're frozen in place by a powerful force that is coming from that weird church woman.
"What did she just do to them?" Welf asked shock.
"What was even that anyway?" Mikoto asked her own question.
"This is known as Holy Poses, a series of techniques utilized by the believers of my homeland that was founded and lead by my grandmother. This style is strength by those who have the strongest belief in the Gods and challenge divine energy through our bodies to attack, weaken, and even resistant those who would do others harm." Melpha explained.
"That's great and all, but why do you have to strike such strange poses?" Mirim asked.
"Because it is required to do so even though it can be a little embarrassing." Melpha answered.
"Now hurry and knock all of them down! This technique I just used won't last for long." Melpha informed.
"She's right, we better get going now!" Echidna agreed that they have to hurry and charges at the frozen Adventurer thugs.
(With Leina vs Mord)
Some would have a really hard time fighting against someone with a magic item that can make one invisible and getting beaten to a bloody pulp for not being able to do anything, an unseen opponent can be one of the deadliest things for Adventurers.
However, Leina is not like one of those Adventurers.
"There!" Leina swings her sword to block an attack from Mord and perform a fast spin to slash the invisible man.
"Damn it, damn it…" Mord groaned as he stumble back a few feet.
"Your tricks aren't going to work on me, so you might as well reveal yourself and fight me like a warrior!" Leina called out.
"Wow, Leina is able to hold her own against this guy who is completely invisible!" Bell amazed.
"(This doesn't make sense. How the hell is this bitch able to know where I am and when I'm going to attack, it's almost like she has a sixth sense or something.)" Mord thought angered.
Leina smile, proud that the training she went through with Echidna before coming down to the middle floors are finally paying off.
(Flashback)
"What's this?" Leina asked holding a piece of cloth given to her by Echidna.
"Part of your new training session, to right without your eyes." Echidna revealed as she walks up to her.
"Huh, you mean I'm going to learn how to fight blindly?" Leina asked shock.
"That's right, every warrior must be able to utilize more than just their sight such as their hearing, touch, smell, and taste. More than that, a warrior must always be able to feel everything around them like our feet on the ground or the very air we're always surrounded by." Echidna explained as she walks around Leina.
"Feeling all of these things can help you sharpen your instincts better to alert you of certain things like when danger is about come at you and you must be able counter that danger, or dodge, whichever works." Echidna explained a bit more.
"I don't know, it sounds really hard." Leina commented.
"It is, but you're the one who asks for more of my training. So, might as well make the most of it." Echidna pointed out.
"Alright, guess I got my choice." Leina said before putting the blindfold on.
Echidna goes on to attack Leina at any random time she chooses while Leina tries her best to sense the attack coming, but this is becoming harder for her than she realizes.
"Remember, don't think, feel." Echidna advised before attacking her back.
The training session continues on until Leina was able to parry an attack again which Echidna is pleased to see.
(Flashback End)
"(Concentrate, I must feel my opponent's attempt to attack.)" Leina thought remembered the lesson.
Mord in a fit of rage goes in to attack Leina again trying to make this bitch bleed and teach her to respect the older Adventurers, but his attack never came true as Leina swings her sword harder this time to break his sword in half and thrust her shield forward to smack on Mord's face so hard that the Hades Head helmet came off while knocking him down with a bloody nose and mouth.
"Shit… This can't be happening." Mord groaned in pain.
"Do you yield?" Leina asked.
"Not on your life!" Mord refused as he gets up to attack despite his sword being broken.
Leina then held her sword upside-down like Bell does with his knife and charge in with a strong slash attack that knocks Mord down.
"You're fortunate that I did not go for the kill, but now I believe you will let our Goddess go." Leina demanded as she points her sword down at Mord.
"Well, Leina definitely shows some backbone. Looks like she too has some potential." Herms commented.
"You did it! You won!" Bell smiled as he ran up to his girlfriend.
"Bell! Leina!" Hestia called out as she and Lili run up to them.
"Goddess Hestia! You're okay!" Bell smiled as they run up to their Goddess for a group hug.
Everything seems to have settled down for everyone now that Hestia is free and Leina won the fight for her Familia, now they can go back home with their minds being clear.
But suddenly an earthquake comes in ruining the happy mood.
"Is that an earthquake?" Mirim asked shock.
"This earthquake… It feels evil." Ryuu said, sensing this to be no normal earthquake.
"Evil earthquake? You gotta be fucking kidding me." Risty complimented.
Then everybody looks up to see a phantom image of a giant black being with a literal skull head above and saw the crystal on the ceiling is cracking very hard that send fear to everyone.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Leina won the fight against Mord thanks to the training she went through with Echidna, and everyone got to help with the thugs like Melpha showing her Holy Poses, but the celebration will have to wait because the entire 18 floor is shaking with something evil coming.
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