"Soullight!..."

Cassandra made a face while she still tried to focus on her magic. They had given her the last mind potion and even when she had an enormous headache, Cassandra held her magic up.

After all, there were a few broken bones and other strong injuries in the party.

Thankfully it looked like they had enough stuff to heal everyone. For now the ones with minor injuries watched over the others, gathered equipment that fell to the ground, collected the dropp items and such.

They held back their good mood for beating the Goliath, tending their injured comrades came first.

"Ungh...ouch..."

"Mikoto, hang in there, please!"

Mikoto smiled wryly. "There is no need to cry, Haruhime. I merely fulfilled my duty as a samurai."

"You did much more!"

Haruhime was on her knees, let Mikoto´s head rest on her thighs and her tattered body got cushioned by her tails.

The fox girl gently carressed Mikoto´s forehead. "You did so much more, Mikoto... Lord Takemikazuchi will be proud of you."

"That would be nice."

They only whispered to not disturb Cassandra.

"Kuuuh...I will only forgive you this one time, Boss."

Both looked to the side when they heard Lena´s voice. Bell carried her towards Cassandra, in a princess carry style! Lena´s head still felt dizzy and she couldn´t walk straight, that was why Bell carried her.

"Bete Loga is the only man that is allowed to touch my b-"

"Shh now. I don´t intend to touch you like I would Haruhime. But you´re a member of my familia and a friend."

"Hehe, can see why Haru-Haru fell for you."

"You still fought well, Lena."

"Kuuuh...how I want to hear these words from Bete Loga!"

Bell gently put Lena down on the floor, her head came to rest next to Mikoto´s.

"Your thighs are really soft, Haru-Haru."

"I´m glad you like them, you fought really good, Lena."

"Hehe, it was really exciting to fight like this. I just wished I would´ve already had my mirror swords. Your blood really starts to pump when you´re in such a situation. One mistake means death, never felt that much alive!"

"But it was dangerous."

"Such is the life of an adventurer."

Haruhime smiled gently and carefully stroked the heads of her two friends.

Chigusa tried her best to support Ouka when they came to the group, but Welf also had to help.

Luan looked actually quite happy as he carried Lily to the group, holding her also in a princess carry. Even after the Goliath sent her flying, Lily never let go of her banner. She took immense pride in never letting go of the banner of her familia. Luan looked pretty happy when he carried Lily, her head rested on his chest.
She did that mostly because she was so exhausted and felt dizzy.

"Cassandra, hang in there."

"Ngh...my head..."

Daphne held Cassandra carefully from behind. Cassandra wanted nothing more than to let go of her magic and relax, but since her only job was to heal people, she would do that until they were healed or she fainted. Thankfully, due to Bell, Lily, Lena, Haruhime and Cassandra being close together, their condition improved quickly. The passive effects of their skills helped a lot.

Bell turned to Welf. "Your magic sword really was even more impressive than I thought it would be."

"Same. Can only guess it has something to do with her."

Welf knocked onto his chest, but there was no reaction from Ursu, since his mind was too low.

"You really have a spirit inside you, hm?"

"I guess, in a way. But she said that most of her strength is gone ever since she formed the pact with the first Crozzo. So she´s around twenty percent."

"Still amazing."

Bell grinned. "It feels like a part of the old fairy tales come to life. With Lily looking like that, the fire spirit in your blood. Exciting!"

"Glad that you have fun, brother."

Welf grinned and held his hand towards Bell. Bell closed his hand around Welf´s wrist and viece versa.

"Hnghghghghghgh!"

"Ah, Welf!"

Bell tried to let go of Welf, but Welf´s hand cramped around Bell´s wrist. It took him two tries until he broke the handshake.

"Jiiautsch! Man, get your lightning under control, Bell!"

"Sorry! There was still a rest of it on my hand."

Welf shook his hand. "Man, imagine you touched Haruhime with that hand."

"Sorry..."

"Don´t look like a bunny that was left in the rain again! You always do that! I´m not your Mom, that won´t work with me."

"Do I really do that?"

Lily, who was barely awake, nodded weakly. As did Haruhime slightly.

"Kuh...you´re so mean."

With a low groan, Cassandra finally broke her magic, she was barely awake, very close to a mind down.

"Sorry...I have to rest..."

"Lena, Daphne, can you two help Cassandra?"

Both women nodded. Daphne was the obvious choice since she was so protective of Cassandra and Lena was needed to help her regenerate her stamina.

Daphne closed her arms gently around Cassandra. "You did well, Cassandra."

Cassandra smiled weakly. "Thank you...Daphne..."

Lena looked curious. "You two are sure you aren´t going all Yuri?"

Daphne sighed and rolled her eyes. "Do you never get tired of that? Not everyone that acts friendly to each other are in love. Cassandra is my best friend, of course I care for her. So please stop to ship every person you see. Who would be next? Our smith and the fire spirit?"

"Uuuuh...that would be hot!"

Daphne sighed again. "Can someone do something against this all time horny amazon?!"

"I am not horny at all times! But the fight earlier really got my blood pumping."

"Whatever..."

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"Mikoto, how is your leg, can you move?"

"Yes, it´s okay."

One of the extreme benefits of healing magic was, that it always healed the worst wounds first or the ones that were the greatest threat to a person. Which meant Mikoto´s broken leg got healed before her arm. Her leg felt pretty good again, the arm was still numb. They had still a last few potions in their camp and on top of that special ointments. The effect of them was similar to a potion, but they only worked slower.

It was one of Nahza´s new inventions after creating the double potion and the potions that worked on contact instead of having to be swallowed.

"So, we should go back to the camp. Looking over the dropp items will have to wait. Safety first."

The others nodded after Bell gave his order.

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When they finally returned to their camp, the armored figure of Viana waited for them, wearing her helmet again.

"Thou slayed the vile beast."

"We did, it was a hard fight."

"Congratulations."

"Thank you. And thank you for looking over our camp."

She shrugged her armored shoulders. "It was our sworn duty."

At first since she was bored, Tiona had offered to go with them and look over the camp. She could also help them against the Goliath, but Bell had declined her kind offer. It wouldn´t have worked anyway, Tiona hadn´t thought about the plans of her familia when it came to Knossos.

When everyone sat down and took care with the ointments, it was time to look over the dropp items.

Since she was still the main supporter, it was Lily´s job to take care of the dropp items. She rammed the end of her banner into the ground, the banner moved slowly in the wind that was natural on the 18th floor.

"Is everyone here and awake?"

They all nodded.

"Good. The first thing is obvious, it is the magic stone of the Goliath!"

Lily pointed at the enormous magic stone. Ouka had used all of his strength to carry it, the magic stone was the biggest they had ever seen.

"Woah!"

"So big!"

"Is that normal?!"

Lena nodded. "Jup, completely normal. The one from the Amphisbaena is even bigger."

They could hear Viana´s muffled voice. "And from Udaeus."

The magic stone was one meter tall and around seventy-five centimeters wide to each side.

Ouka groaned and rubbed his shoulders. "This thing is freaking heavy."

Lily nodded. "And worth up to 15.000.000 Vals. Depending on how big it is and how damaged."

""""""WHAT?!"""""""

"Why are you surprised?! We talked about this before!"

"But...15.000.000 Vals..."

"And most of it will go to the Dian Cecht Familia. After taking the new equipment for Ms. Mikoto and so on in account, one million Vals will go to the Takemikazuchi familia, the rest to the Dian Cecht familia to lower our debt."

"One..."

"Million..."

"Vals..."

Mikoto, Ouka and Chigusa looked shocked. They could send so much more money now into the far east, to support the shrine and Tsukuyomi, the goddess surely would be happy since she could help the other orphans with the money.

Lily smiled. "This is only the money from the magic stone. We will have the dropp items from the upper floors and from the Goliath. Now to the other dropp items."

Lily picked something up, it looked a bit like leather or something similar. "We got two...TWO! Goliath hides!"

The others cheered loud, two hides were a good number. The hides would fetch a good price, they were pretty valuable. Goliath robes or capes like the one that Bell used were made from the Goliath hide.

"We talked about this before. The Takemikazuchi familia will get one third of the hides, we keep two thirds."

It was a fair deal.

"And now to the last dropp items of the Goliath. We haaaaave..."

Lily leaned down and opened a bag, showing what was inside.

"SEVEN! Seven Goliath teeth!"

""""""Oooooooh!""""""""

Seven really was a lucky number. There were quite a lot of teeth this time.

Viana tilted her head. "Thou sure are lucky."

Bell looked as excited as all the others. "Lily, how valuable are they?"

"That depends on many things, the quality of the tooth, how many were collected during the last times when the Goliath got slain and so on. But one thing is sure, we made quite the haul! So far this Expedition is a huge success!"

The others cheered loud.

"A-Ahm..." Chigusa raised her hand shyly.

"Ms. Chigusa?"

"What...are the Goliath teeth used for?"

Lily pointed with her thumb to Welf. "Smiths use them to make weapons of various kinds."

Welf nodded. "I could use one as the base for Lena´s mirror swords, the biggest tooth there would be perfect."

Lena´s eyes sparkled. "Really?!"

"Jup."

Lena looked with puppy eyes at Bell and Lily, it was their decision as the party leader and loot manager."

Lily smiled, this let her look like a saint again. "Lily would say yes, Ms. Lena absolutely earned it."

Bell nodded. "I agree, Lena, the tooth is all yours to let Welf use it."

"Yeeeaaaaah!~~~~"

The amazon cheered like a child that got a new toy.

"Oh, oh, oh! Welfy, but don´t let my swords look dull like a tooth, okay?! I want them to shine like mirrors!"

He shrugged his shoulders. "That will most likely happen anyway."

"Hehe~~~~"

After they had talked about the dropp items...there were even more from the monsters they had defeated during the fight with the Goliath.

Among other things, they had found the fur of a Liger Fang, a saber tooth also of a Liger fang, one Minotaur´s horn, a few Bugbear and Lizardman nails, as well as other things from above.

It got already decided that when they had the chance, they would go for the Goliath again next time. With their current strength it was a very valuable source of income, gave a lot of Excelia and would surely count as a great deed.

Sadly, Bell was the one that got the least out of the whole fight, since they had to use Haruhime´s magic. He was the one that dealt the killing blow, so he would receive the most Excelia, but it got halved when Haruhime used her magic. Which wasn´t that bad, it was more important that they slew the Goliath.

For now they decided to take a break and recover their strength.

Each one of them used the break time in their own way. Chigusa took care of Ouka, with a bright red face she put more of the ointment onto his wounds. Mikoto went to take a bath, she said it was important after a such a fight.

Daphne soon joined Cassandra to take a nap, both were exhausted and Cassandra slept better when Daphne was close by, her presence calmed her down.

Luan helped Lily with the dropp items, to put them in the various bags.

Welf did what he always did, taking care of the equipment first. He said he didn´t like how Lily´s spear banner looked, the shaft took quite the blow from the Goliath.

Lena decided to try and talk a bit with the shy dark elf from the Astrea familia, who waited for Lefiya to show up so she could go home.

And Bell and Haruhime...

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"*smooch* *kiss*"

Haruhime was overwhelmed by the image how Bell looked when he slew the Goliath. He looked like a hero..her hero. And Bell´s blood was still running hot, the fight was pure excitement. Especially since he was allowed to be the David and deal the finishing blow to the Goliath.

When they were out of sight and sat down close to a small lake, they kissed all too soon. At first shyly and very gentle for around two hours, then a bit more passionte than they had planned. At first they sat next to each other, kissing shyly and carefully. Then Bell couldn´t hold himself back for the first time. He leaned closer to Haruhime, she squeaked happy when he pushed her to the ground, leaned over her and kissed her more passionate. Soon his body pressed slightly down on her own, for the first time they weren´t embarrassed that her breasts got pressed against his chest...it felt good.

Bell leaned with both hands on the gras, Haruhime´s arms were put around his neck, her tails wrapped around his waist...one touched his butt. Her instincts didn´t allow her to let him get away.

He knew that Haruhime had a passionate, wild and pretty forward side in her, she had shown this more than one time...mostly by accident. Bell developed a new form of communication with Haruhime and Lefiya. When he had kissed Haruhime, he observed closly how her tails moved, this told him everything. It was the same with Lefiya´s ears, but the elf wasn´t so straight forward like Haruhime could be anyway.

Haruhime felt immense joy, feeling Bell´s body press down on her own was heavenly! The way he fought against the Goliath, how he stood there...so manly! So...heroic!

And a hero that fought like this deserved a reward. In her mind, her hero had fought to protect her, so it was only fair that he got a kiss in return...or a few more.

"Bell...wuv you..."

"Haru...I love you..."

Their lips met again, their bodies were still heated up from the battle, so it felt really good to "make out"...how Lena would call it.

At some point they rolled around, so that Haruhime was on top of Bell. Now her tails were free to move around and wag from happiness. Both enjoyed it to be alone as much as they enjoyed it when Lefiya was with them.

They got lost in each other, kissed, cuddled and were just happy. Since Bell was now on the ground, his hands moved along Haruhime´s back, which felt very good for her. She shivered a bit when his left hand moved a bit too far south and touched against the base of her tails. This area was really sensitive, her hips jolted.

"S-Sorry!"

Haruhime looked at Bell with a longing gaze. "Please...do it again..."

"Huh?"

She leaned down and nibbled at his neck. "Pweashe..."

Bell saw her right ear in front of his eyes, he couldn´t resist but to pinch the tip gently with his lips, while he touched the base of her tails again.

"Mmmmh~~~~"

Haruhime sighed happy, then she kissed Bell´s lips again. Her hips curled a bit up, so that his hand got pushed against the base again.

"Bell...please touch me more..."

"Haru..."

"Moooore~~~~"

He saw desire in her eyes, her cheeks were flushed when she took his left hand...and pressed it against her right breast, which was still covered by her kimono. His eyes widened in surprise, Haruhime moaned into the kiss and got even more passionate. This was the first time that Bell touched her body in such a sensitive, special place on purpose. And Haruhime even led him to do it, wanted him to touch her!

Bell was a young man...he couldn´t resist. His left hand gently groped her breast, while the right closed around the base of all her tails.

Haruhime shivered more and more.

Then...

Bell pulled slightly on the base of her tails.

Immediatelly, Haruhime´s hips started to jerk up and down, she moaned loud into the kiss and threw herself onto Bell. His hand got sandwiched between his chest and her wonderful, soft mound. Even when he was the one touching it, it felt like her breast got pushed against his hand.

"Mmmmmh~~~~~~!"

The feeling that shot through Haruhime´s body when Bell pulled on her tails and gently groped her breast was completely new...a new height. She moved a bit up, pulled Bell into a sitting position and straddled his waist.

Now she became really passionate with her kisses, her tails wrapped around them while she basically knelt over his crotch. As if her hands had a mind on their own, Haruhime took Bell´s hand from the base of her tails and moved it to her other breast.

"Pweashe...touchf me..."

Her teeth were a bit longer again, only slightly did Haruhime remember what Lena said about her heat.

And Haruhime was indeed in heat!

Bell couldn´t and didn´t want to resist.

So...for the first time in his life.

Bell Cranel gently squeezed the breasts of one of his girlfriends.

Haruhime cried slightly out, then her lips crashed against his again. She started to grind her hips against his...started to grind her crotch against his raging tent.

Haruhime...was extremely horny.

Her hands found the hem of Bell´s shirt, then she quickly moved it up and took it off for Bell. Haruhime´s eyes were glued to Bell´s upper body, she touched it how her heart demanded, leaned down and kissed Bell´s chest, licked along it, let him shiver.

His body reacted more to that and he poked against Haruhime´s nether region.

If she weren´t in heat, she would´ve freaked out and started to scream in terror the moment she felt Bell´s errection. Even when she was a virgin, the trauma about the pleasure quarter was deep inside her. She was not afraid of men in general...Haruhime was afraid of male genitals...because it reminded her of what she had thought all these years had happened to her during many nights.

The only one she didn´t fear was Bell´s...because it was Bell.

But still...this would´ve normally been too much for her. While it sometimes looked like Haruhime´s tails had a mind on their own and touched what her desires wanted to touch, they never moved towards Bell´s crotch, yet they did, always flinching back before they touched that place. Haruhime longed for this place and was afraid of it at the same time. Her heart fought against the desire in her loins, coming from her heat.

"Bell..."

"Haru..."

She looked at him with a red face, moved her upper body back a bit and touched her kimono. "Do you...want to see them?"

Bell gulped, he didn´t know what to say.

"Do you...want to touch them directly?"

He saw how she bit her lower lip, her tails moved strongly. Haruhime really wanted it in her current state. Having Bell touch her more, press her body onto his, their naked upper bodies touching, maybe have Bell touch her butt...her nature screamed to do that!

Not to cross the line, but to do all that other stuff.

She saw his answer in his eyes, Haruhime´s heart raced in her chest but it was ready.

Haruhime slowly started to open her kimono, it was open and pulled up enough around her legs so that Bell caught a glimpse of her white...slightly wet...panties.

Her tails wrapped around Bell´s wrists, moving his hands towards the upper part of her kimono...towards her breasts...she wanted Bell to touch them as soon as they became bare...

Bell´s eyes were glued to the spot where her kimono parted, more and more of her wonderful soft, big mounds became visible. He also saw the leather cord that Haruhime always wore, with the tip of the unicorn horn on it.

Around one third was already revealed, Haruhime moaned a bit louder when she sat up and her hidden lips got pushed against Bell´s tent...

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"Ahm. Sorry to interrupt you two. Really sorry."

Haruhime and Bell shreeked loud when they heard a female voice behind them. They jumped away from each other, Haruhime immediatelly closed her kimono again.

Lena bowed down. "I´m so sorry for interrupting your make out session...really sorry! But we have a visitor, the situation is very serious."

Haruhime´s teeth returned to normal, her canines had only grown a little. Neither she nor Bell were able to say a word, both were deep red.

The amazon looked like she was feeling even more down than they did.

"Really sorry...to interrupt something like that is unforgivable..."

The couple wasn´t able to say something, they just went back to the camp with extremely red faces.

Haruhime couldn´t believe what she had done just now! As soon as she was alone with Bell, she had attacked him again! Well it had taken two hours after they were alone...but still!

I´m so lewd! Just like Lady Alfia said! I´m a naughty fox! Will every time be like this when I´m in heat?! Was Aisha right about me? Am I actually a perveeeeert?!

Haruhime was a bit troubled, she hoped it would get better in the future.

And Lena...she felt incredibly troubled and bad.

I can´t believe it...I´m a...cockblocker...

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Lily raised an eyebrow when she saw Bell and Haruhime return with red faces, Lena followed them and looked sad.

But she wouldn´t ask what they were doing, Bell´s pants made it still obvious. Lily knew they were a couple and were free to do what they wanted when they were alone.

The visitor in their camp turned out to be a familiar face, but it wasn´t Lefiya.

It was a certain, tanned werewolf woman.

"Ms. Neze?"

She nodded. "Hey. Sorry to make this so sudden, Vi we have to go. Bell and Haruhime, Lefiya won´t come into the dungeon. The situation on the surface has changed, the gods talked about something. Our full familia will move into Knossos, Lefiya is too strong to let her out of this mission."

"Is the situation dangerous?"

"Of course it is, that´s why we go out in full strength, as well as the Loki, Freya and Dionysus familias. The Ganesha and Artemis familias spread out in the city. Our attack on Evilus will start within an hour."

"Do you need our help?"

"I thank you for the offer, but no. You aren´t strong enough to help us and you´re all exhausted from your fight against the Goliath."

Viana was already fully armed and held her strange spear in her right hand. "We are ready."

"Good."

"Ms. Neze, is there anything we can do?"

"Don´t go up to the surface, stay on this floor. The dungeon might become a battlefield and extremely dangerous when you move up. You´re as safe as possible on the 18th floor, in the worst case go to Rivira, but this camp spot here is enough for now."

Neze wouldn´t tell them that they were pretty far away from the gate into knossos that was located on the 18th floor.

"Then...good luck."

Neze nodded and was about to go.

"Please wait a moment."

The werewolf turned to Haruhime. "Yes?"

Haruhime took the leather cord off and held it towards Neze, the unicorn horn tip was visible. "Please give this to Lefiya. Tell her that Bell and I are with her in our hearts."

"I will do. Be aware that Lefiya won´t be part of the vanguard. She will stay with Filvis, a few members of the Dionysus and Loki familia and escort our gods into Knossos."

"Lady Astrea, and the gods Loki and Dionysus go into Knossos?!"

"Yes, no more questions now, we have to hurry. Vi, come."

"We follow you, midnight wolf."

"I told you not to call me that!"

The two adventurers left the party behind.

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Viana followed Neze, but she noticed soon that they weren´t moving towards the exit to the 17th floor, but rather another direction. Towards the gate to Knossos.

The dark elf said nothing, just followed the werewolf.

After ten minutes they arrived close to the gate, the 18th floor was really big...

A group of adventurers from mixed familias awaited them.

Four were heavily armed pallums that stood close to each other, they belonged to the Freya familia.

The next looked like an amazon at first, but was actually a half dwarf...a pretty tall half dwarf. Tsubaki Colbrande smiled towards the Gulliver brothers or rather...towards the oldest brother Alfrigg.

The largest part of the group came from the Loki familia, led by a black haired cat woman. She was also the one that held two strange orbs in her hands. One looked a bit like an eye and was called a "Key". The other orb was something she got from her captain, a special magic item to allow them to communicate.

"Man...I wanted to see Welfy before we go into the fight." Tsubaki sighed. "Wanted to hear how the fight against the Goliath went."

Anakitty raised an eyebrow. "Since we passed through the 17th floor, they obviously won."

Tsubaki sighed. "Of course this is obvious young lady! But I want to hear details!"

"Could you please focus on our mission?"

"Sure." Tsubaki shrugged her shoulders.

They would attack Knossos from different directions.

The communication orb in Anakitty´s hand buzzed.

"It is time, let us move to the gate, the attack will soon begin."

The Gulliver brothers said nothing, they just went with them. Freya personally had asked them to be nice and "watch over the weaker adventurers that they would accompany". Each of the pallums had received a kiss on the forehead and Freya promised them an additional kiss if they did a good job.

So their blood was boiling and they would do their best!

Freya had even promised a date for the child of her that did the best work in Knossos! The Gullivers counted as one adventurer in that case, so they would go all out to not lose against Ottar!

"Say, little Ms. Kitty."

"It´s Anakitty!"

Tsubaki grinned. "I heard the gate is made from Oricalchum. What are the plans when Knossos is defeated? Can I have one of these gates?"

"I don´t think so, they are meant to get sealed."

"Meh...not even a tiny piece?"

"Not a chance!"

"Mh...gotta talk to Gareth, bet I can get a tiny piece when I ask him nicely."

Tsubaki had a direct contract with Gareth and she also accompanied the Loki familia now and then into the dungeon.

"Would you even be able to get something out of the gate? Oricalchum is indestructible."

"Nearly indestructible. That makes it a nice challenge."

It took a few minutes to arrive at the hidden gate.

"Say..Kitty...weren´t we supposed to be the ones that go through this gate?"

"Yes..."

"Then why is the gate open?..."

The hidden gate to Knossos was indeed open. And it didn´t look like someone had used a key to open it. The gates had been pushed open by some titanic force, they saw claw marks all over the gate, but the metal itself was only slightly scratched. As if something tried to get through the gate, got frustrated and then had slowly pushed it open.

Not even Gareth had been able to do that.

"What do we do now?"

"Secure the area, I will inform our captain."

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Something moved through Knossos, something that couldn´t think straight, something that only felt rage in it´s head. Something that got even more agitated when these strange, fake monsters came at it, accompanied by a few other monsters and PEOPLE in robes! This something hated people more than anything else...except from the gods maybe.

With a scream of pure rage, that something crashed into the people and monsters. The people struggled and fell to their knees before this something got even close to them, as if all of their strength left them.

This something showed no mercy, it ripped all the monsters and people apart, the whole hallway became a slaughterhouse. Every person became a corpse, pierce by an enormosu claw and then got the head and a part of the upper body devoured by the black monster.

Black scales glistened from all the blood that splattered onto it.

The mind of that black monster was gone, it´s mother had called it to destroy the ones that created a fake mother.

This was it´s purpose, to destroy what threatened the mother, to free it´s mother, to take revenge. All it felt at the moment was rage! INFERNAL ALL-CONSUMING ANGER AND RAGE! Only when blood and body parts splattered through the air did it feel a tiny bit satisfied, but that feeling was gone after 0.5 seconds, replaced by even more rage.

It started to scream when it burst into a room that was filled all over with strange plants and some weird green flesh. In the middle of the room was a kind of giant flower, with a female upper body on top of it.

This female upper body screamed in anger and...fear.

Fafnir´s rage filled scream was louder than ever before.

He would show that he was the best and true child of his mother, the dungeon! For that he had to become stronger and devour more!

The demi spirit inside the room screamed from immense fear when it felt it´s strength withering.

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Bell and the others remained in their camp, all weapons drawn and they eyed the surroundings.

The dungeon was shaking, they heard a deep groan.

The attack on Knossos had begun.

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Five hours after the begin of the attack, an earthquake hit Orario.

Up in the city, the people screamed in fear when the earth started to shake.

Then...a pillar of light shot up into the sky... A god had returned to heaven.

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"The shaking stopped for a while now."

"Maybe it is over?"

"In just five hours?"

"Maybe?"

The party still remained on the 18th floor, when they looked up to the crystals in the ceiling, it was probably afternoon, maybe around three or four o´clock.

"Hah...I´m going to take a bath."

"Lena, we should remain in the camp."

The amazon shook her head.

"My body is sticky from all the sweat and dirt from the fight. I didn´t have a chance to wash myself, I don´t like this feeling."

"But..."

Lena leaned to Haruhime and whispered in her ear. "This could be your chance to take Bell and finish what you started earlier...I´m sorry for interrupting it..."

"L-L-Lena!" Haruhime got deep red.

Now that the strange feeling had washed off, there was no way Bell and Haruhime could do that again. Haruhime couldn´t believe what came over her, how she had been able to be so forward, lewd and pushy.

Maybe it was because of the life and death fight with the Goliath. Aisha and Lena had once told her that it was for amazons like that.

But I´m not an amazooooon!

Yet...she grew up among amazons, her big sister was one, as well as her very good friend.

"Well anyway, I´m off to take my bath, until later."

Lena left with fresh clothes, her towel and...a rubber ducky. Lena Tally loved her little rubber ducky. Even when it strangely looked more like a grey haired wolf. Basically a rubber wolfy.

"Shouldn´t I come with you? Being alone could be dangerous."

Lena winked. "It will be okay."

"But.."

Lean whispered into Haruhime´s ear before she left.

"I want to bath alone ...if you understand what I mean."

"O-Oh..."

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"Hmmmm~~~~ I love to bath on the 18th floor...so nice here."

Lena hummed happy, relaxing in the water after she took care of her burning desire, she really wished she could do that together with Bete...that would be so much better.

She closed her eyes and listened to the sounds of the floor. There was the gentle sound of wind in the treetops, the occasional faint squawking sound of distant monsters...and a slight creaking...and cracking.

Cracking?

There was a sound of cracking and breaking trees...and it came closer. Fast!

"Fueh?"

Lena opened her eyes and leaned up.

She didn´t have much time to react or to be shocked, the trees nearby suddenly broke and revealed a...tree?

No...not a tree!

"A Violas?!"

She jumped backwards when she noticed that it was one of the plant type monsters. As usual, Lena had her weapon with her, she was an amazon after all. Lena grabbed her Scimitar and got ready to defend herself...was there enough time for her magic?

The thought turned out to be useless, more Violas appeared from the forest, maybe five or six and all rushed towards her.

"Crap!"

She could move back to the camp, but it was probably too far away. So there was no other choice, Lena readied her weapon.

All six Violas launched at her at the same time.

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"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

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A burning boot collided with the head of one of the Violas, smashing it to pieces. Then the second boot came and destroyed another head. The Violas´ roared in anger and tried to attack the naked amazon and the other person.

Lena Tally knew exactly who came to rescue her!

When another Violas burst out of the ground to her feet, a hand suddenly grabbed Lena´s body and pulled her to the side. She got pushed against the body of Bete Loga, who had an infuriated face and destroyed the Violas with enormous speed, howling like a true wolf.

Words couldn´t describe how happy Lena was!

Bete Loga held her naked body pressed to his own, while he showed his true strength and protect her from the monsters! If one would look at Lena right now, they would see hearts in her eyes.

Lena wouldn´t have a chance against so many Violas...maybe one at most, these things had the strength of at least level three adventurers.

But for Bete, a level six, they weren´t much of a threat.

The fight didn´t even last a minute.

After the last Violas fell to the ground...without a head...and started to dissolve, things got quiet again.

"Huff...Huff...Huff..."

Bete´s breath still went extremely fast, his eyes flickered around, looking for a threat, he bared his teeth. He acted very much like an alpha wolf that protected his female.

"Bete?"

His face turned slowly into her direction.

"You okay?"

"Yes!"

"Good."

He looked around again, not letting go of Lena.

"Why are you here, Bete?"

"These things here escaped Knossos. Someone had to hunt them down."

"And you volunteered?"

"I knew that you are on the 18th floor."

Lena´s heart tried to burst out of her chest, she felt great heat in her loins, after hearing that she wanted to push Bete down, right now!

"And you came just because the little me is here?!"

He blinked when he heard her extremely happy voice.

"I knew you would be too weak to defend yourself against them."

Lena knew exactly how to take Bete´s words. Out of all the people that knew him, she was the only one that truly understood each word, Bete was actually a huge softie.

"So you came to protect me?!"

"What other choice did I have, huh?"

"Bete Logaaaaa! That makes me so haaappyyyyy!"

Lena immediatelly clung to his body.

"Oy, let go of me!"

"Nope! Not happening!"

"Let me go!"

"Why? When you´re holding me like that! I know you want my body!"

"What?!"

Bete only noticed now how exactly he had grabbed Lena. His left hand was closed around her left breast, out of reflex his hand twitched.

"Ahn!~~~"

Lena´s noise was way too happy!

"Haaaah~~~ You´re finally touching me! This is a wonderful day!"

Bete tried to let go of her. "This wasn´t on purpose! Hey, why are you blocking my hand!"

"Keep touching me! I know you want it!"

"No I don-Oy!"

Bete felt Lena´s free hand touching him too, below his belt.

"Oh myyyyyyy!~~~~ Bete! That makes me so haaappyyyyyy!"

Lena really, really liked what she felt in his pants.

"I told you to let go of me!"

"Kyaaa~~~~!"

"This is a natural reaction!"

"Take me! Right now! Make me a baby!"

"Not now!"

"Then later!"

Lena´s eyes sparkled so much, they rivaled the sun...no...they put the sun to shame.

And of course...exactly then...

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"Ooooy, Beteee! Did you get th-What the hell are you doing to perverted dog?!"

An amazon came chasing after Bete, she swung an enormous, double sided sword in her right hand.

"This isn´t what it looks like!"

"And what else could it be?! When she is opening your fly with such eyes?!"

"Oy! Stop touching my pants."

"Show it to meeee!~~~ I felt how big it is! I want to see iiiiit!~~~~"

Bete had a lot to do to get Lena off of him.

"Did you get all the Violas?"

"Yeah, all done. What about Ais?"

"Tione and Riveria are with her. Amid was healing her when I left."

"That damn woman monster sure got her."

"Yeah, but Amid said she will make it, Ais refused to let go of her shattered sword even when she fainted."

"Did someone get the woman monster?"

"No, even the Freya familia is looking for her."

"Damn..."

Only moments later, Bell and the others arrived, they heard the loud sounds and came to look for Lena.

"Lena! Are you okay!"

"Haru-Haruuuu! I couldn´t be more happy! Bete Loga finally came to take me to bed!"

"What?!"

"I TOLD YOU I DIDN`T!"

Tiona smirked by Bete´s shout. "But you sure as hell ran as fast as you could when you noticed that the Violas went to the 18th floor..."

"Shut up, you virgin amazon!"

"So what if I´m a virgin? You´re a virgin too!"

"Whaaaaaat?! Bete! You are a virgin?! Yyyeeeeaaaah! I will take good care of you!"

"Give me a break!"

"Nope!"

Bell came closer to the two adventurers of the Loki familia. "Ms. Tiona?"

"Ti-o-na."

"Tiona, why are you here?"

"A few monsters escaped Knossos when we were cleaning up. Bete here went first to protect Lena." Tiona grinned.

"Are there still monsters around?!"

Lena beamed all over her face. "Nope! Bete Loga took care of all of them! While he shielded me with his body! And groped me all over!"

"I didn´t grope you all over! I touched your chest by accident!" The werewolf growled.

Haruhime, Mikoto and Chigusa looked shocked when they heard this.

"""I-In brought daylight?!"""

Tiona sighed. "Let´s leave these two lovebirds alone. Bell, you´re done with the Goliath I heard. You should return to the surface now, I will come with you."

"But we intended to go back tomorrow."

"The dungeon isn´t safe right now. Extermination teams from our familia, the Freya familia, Ganesha and Astrea familia moving through the dungeon."

"Is Knossos..."

"We took care of it, but a few strong monsters escaped into the dungeon...as well as one really strong one. That one got Ais really bad."

Haruhime´s ears perked up. "The Sword Princess? Is she okay?"

"Not at the moment, she has more than a few broken bones."

"Oh dear gods!"

"She will make it, don´t worry."

"Oy, Tiona. Don´t tell them stuff about our familia."

"Bete...Haruhime and Bell know Ais."

"Is that so? Whatever, I will go back to Finn and the others."

"I will come with you, Bete!"

"No you don´t."

"You forbid me to come to Knossos when it was active, you said you´re done! Now I´m coming with you!"

"Y-"

Lena suddenly leaned forward, hugged Bete´s waist and put her forehead against his chest. "I was worried about you...you know?..."

"Lena..."

"I love you, you know?"

"Mh.."

She smiled with all the love she felt for him. "Don´t be too worried, I don´t intend to ever leave your side."

"Come now."

"Mhm! Boss, Haru-Haru, everyone, I will go up with the Loki familia, I will come back late at night...or maybe tomorrow!"

"You won´t sleep at our home."

"Mouh..."

They watched how Bete and Lena left.

When they returned to their camp to prepare everything to go back up to Orario, Tiona accompanied them.

"Tiona?"

"Yes?"

"You said extermination teams of your familia, the Ganesha, Freya and Astrea familia are in the dungeon. What about the Diyonusus familia?"

Tiona´s expression darkened. "They´re...gone."

"What?! How?!"

"I didn´t see it directly, you should ask the Astrea familia, they were with them when it happened."

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When they got out of the dungeon after a long while, Tiona wished them goodbye and went home. Bell and Haruhime went to the Stardust Garden, while the others went home. They just had to hear what happened, so they could report to Miach too...and both were extremely worried about Lefiya.

Also..Bell had to report to Alfia that everything was fine.

When they arrived at the Stardust Garden, there was no need to knock. The dwarf Asta stood outside, still wearing her armor.

"You can go in, but try to be as quiet as possible."

"We will."

In the moment that Bell and Haruhime walked into the big living room, Lefiya too entered from another door.

"Lady Astrea, she is asleep now."

"That´s good...did you take care of all of her wounds?"

"Yes, Filvis stays at her side."

"And how is your sister?"

"Mostly okay, I think."

The goddess sighed, then she noticed Bell and Haruhime, Lefiya did it too.

"Bell, Haru."

The young elf immediatelly went to her two lovers and surprised them much by pulling them into a tight, loving hug. "Thank the gods you two are okay."

"Lefiya, what happened?"

"Lefi?"

"We should take a seat, Lady Astrea can I explain it to them?"

"It´s okay. I will take a look at Ryu and Alise."

"Mhm." Lefiya nodded slowly.

"Lefiya, is your familia okay?"

"Let´s say they´re not injured anymore. The captain is just extremely exhausted."

"Lefi, can you tell us what happened?"

"Yes, you should know it...it was really horrible."

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Lefiya started to tell the story to them.

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They had fought their way through the hallways of Knossos, Lefiya was part of the group that protected the gods.

Traps had waited for them, attacks from hidden doors and hordes of monsters.

But they went through Knossos like a hot knife through liquid butter. The Freya familia alone slaughtered countless enemies.

Ottar told Finn important informations about Knossos, he didn´t say in detail how they got these. According to him, his goddess had just asked a captured member of Evilus "nicely".

Knossos was far bigger than they thought it was. There were seven special chambers, six of them arranged around the seventh. Inside each of the chambers was a giant plant, growing. The Loki familia seemed to know what these plants were, Finn had ordered the various familias how they should work together. Even Freya´s children listened to him...but only after Ottar told them that it was Freya´s order to "play along" and "be nice".

Apparently, Evilus had planned a ritual in Knossos, the whole attack was actually a trap by Evilus, to unleash something truly unholy to keep them away and devour as many adventurers as possible.

Lefiya didn´t know what was in the middle chamber, but it was something that frightened even the Loki familia. .

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"The Braver had asked our captain if she could take care of it."

""Alone?!""

A new voice came from the side, it was Kaguya. "Alise is crazy strong, her strength only is at maximum when she is alone."

""Oh.""

Lefiya continued.

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She didn´t get to know everything that happened, at some point Loki went another route, protected by a few of her children, while Astrea and Diyonisus continued their way. Diyonisus seemed to be as stressed and worried as Astrea...they would only discover later what that exactly meant.

From what she heard, a big group of the Loki familia fought an extremely strong monster in another part of Knossos, together with the Dea Saint.

Knossos really was a labyrinth, but thankfully the Loki familia was extremely well prepared, the others followed their plans.

When they went further, it was when hell got unleashed.

In another part of Knossos, something happened which resulted to the god Thanatos stabbing himself and returning back to heaven. Everything above the eight floor of Knossos got atomized, leaving an enormous hole in the streets of Orario.

And then...the "Altar" got activated.

In the six rooms that surrounded the seventh in a giant circle, the flowers bloomed suddenly, revealing the upper bodies of female figures...corrupted demi spirits.

In all six rooms?

No.

Only in five of the six rooms.

In the last one, the plant already withered, everything inside had been killed by the incarnation of true carnage. The demi spirit´s head and most of the torso was missing, devoured by something with way too many teeth.

The dungeon had send it´s new favorite child, had warned it to stay away from the strong adventurers since it was not ready to take them on.

So Fafnir had done what it´s mother had told it and devoured one of the demi spirits.

The adventurers couldn´t know all this, but since only one of the six rooms was missing, the trap went horribly wrong.

A sudden tsunami of weird, green flesh errupted out of the other rooms, filling the hallways, rooms and everything possible, devouring monsters and adventurers alike.

The Diyonisus familia got wiped out...all but one member, the captain of the familia.

The Loki familia was about to close one of the gates to stop the weird, green flesh. Filvis was close to the door and she risked her own life to pull back the captain of the Diyonisus familia. Aura Moriel screamed in agony when she had to watch her familia members getting devoured like that.

In her panic she tried to get to the gate, but Filvis held her and pulled her back, pulling her fellow elf into a hug and stopped her from looking at the gate.

Aura had a breakdown, she cried without end, which was easy to understand.

But the flesh tsunami suddenly stopped and washed back, the magic that the demi spirits used weren´t perfect since one of them was already dead.

And a second started to scream in fear as the Avatar of Carnage and Rage exploded into the room, cleaving, hacking and biting his way towards the demi spirit.

As Fafnir came closer, the strength of the spirit suddenly vanished and it couldn´t defend itself anymore.

It was as if there was something on this special, black monster that made the demi spirits and Evilus members with a blessing weak.

When Fafnir ripped off the head of the demi spirit, he screamed out his victory, then he started to devour again.

Two of the six rooms were dead, with that his work was done.

The green flesh collapsed as the magic flew backwards suddenly. One of the corrupted spirits reacted too slow and detonated when the magic recoiled.

With that, the adventurers were on the move again, they charged into the remaining three rooms and attacked the demi spirits.

Filvis carried the devastated Aura and reunited with Astrea and Lefiya, telling them that Alise was about to unleash her magic.

Ryu wasn´t with them, she accompanied Riveria´s group, the fairy force.

So the only children of Astrea currently in the room were Lefiya, Kaguya and Filvis. The only others were a few members of the Loki familia.

It was this moment, that Diyonisus suddenly drew a hidden dagger and threw himself onto Astrea, trying to ram it into her chest, screaming like a maniac.

"You destroy everything, you bitch! You fools! I will not let this happen!"

Astrea was too surprised to react.

Lefiya didn´t even have time to think, she couldn´t believe what she saw.

Thankfully, Kaguya was different.

Her sword left it´s sheath before Diyonisus was too close at Astrea, hacking the dagger out of his hand.

"Diyonisus?!" Astrea backed away.

Lefiya moved instantly towards Astrea, raising her staff. "What is the meaning of this, God Diyonisus?!"

"You destroyed everything! Everything! I will not let your foolish captain destroy what we have built over such a long time!"

"Shut your fucking face, Diyonisus! Or should I call you, Enyo?!"

Loki arrived at their location, a few members of her familia behind her.

"Loki?!"

"Astrea, get away from Diyonisus! He is the culprit of everything!"

"What?!"

Astrea noticed that Gareth carried an unconcious woman, one that she knew. From the form of her body and the blanket it got obvious that the woman was missing a hand, an arm and a leg...

"Persephone?!"

The Goddess of Justice clapped her hands over her mouth when she saw Demeter´s captain.

"What is she doing here?!"

Loki´s face darkened. "She was held captive here, as well as other children of Demeter. They told us it was Diyonisus that captured them. This piece of shit cut pieces off Persephone and sent them to Demeter for some reason."

"THAT STUPID DEMETER DIDN`T DO HER PART?! WHAT A USELESS WHORE!"

Diyonisus screamed on the top of his lunges, tears streamed down his face.

"Lord...Diyonisus?..."

Aura got weakly up to her feet.

"What is...the meaning of this?..."

"Aura...my dear...come here to me."

"Yes..."

Aura moved on unsteady feet, Filvis went and grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Don´t!"

"Let me go! My god calls for me!"

"Didn´t you hear what Goddess Loki said?! He is the culprit here!"

"No...not Lord Diyonisus..."

Aura had a strange smile on her face...her sanity was breaking apart.

Diyonisus smiled. "Aura...my lovely Aura..my good Aura...come here my beloved child. You know, I really love you...even with your many mistakes. Only I can ever love you, you know?"

"Yes...Lord Diyonisus..."

Filvis didn´t let go of her. Aura tried to break free but she was a level two, Filvis level four.

"Let me go!"

"Calm down!"

Filvis slowly dragged the screaming Aura away.

"Lefiya...go and help Filvis."

Lefiya looked to Kaguya, who nearly snarled, she held her katana pointed at Diyonisus.

Loki continued to reveal what she found out, Thanatos told her absolutely everything before he returned back to heaven on his own.

Astrea´s expression darkened the more she heard.

What Diyonisus had done was beyond disgusting.

"Why?! Diyonisus, why?!"

"THIS WORLD SHALL BREAK APART! THE DUNGEON SHALL BE UNLEASHED AGAIN!"

Loki shook her head. "Astrea, don´t even try to talk to him. He is beyond nuts. Soma told me some interesting things earlier. Apparently I smelled like divine wine after I visited Diyonisus, stronger than anything that Soma ever made. I will make it short, Diyonisus hasn´t changed one bit since he came down from heaven, all he ever did was an act. There is no need or reason to talk to him."

Astrea noticed that Filvis nearly foamed from her mouth when Aura broke down and cried without end, Lefiya remained at the side of the broken elf. The goddess had never seen the black haired elf that enraged.

"Aura..my dear child...please kill yourself."

"Lord...Diyonisus?..."

"This is all that you´re good for now. Come on, use your knife to kill yourself, paint the floor with your blood, hm? I´m sure it will look beautiful...just like you."

Even when Diyonisus wasn´t a god of beauty, Loki and Astrea started to understand how he had manipulated people...he somehow managed to sneak into their minds with his words.

"Here...use this..."

Diyonisus pulled a strange orb out of his clothes, it looked like a tiny creature was inside it.

"Aura...catch."

Diyonisus threw the orb towards Aura. Out of reflex, the elf opened her hands.

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"Issen!""

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Kaguya´s katana had returned to it´s sheath and now left it again in a quickdraw.

She cut the orb right in half, which let Diyonisus scream in horror.

"YOU BITCH! WHORE!"

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"Gokou!"

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Kaguya summoned her magic, swords appeared in thin air, slashed and hacked the two halves of the orb over and over, reducing it to shreds. Whatever creature had been inside the orb, it was more than just dead.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Diyonisus cried out when the orb got destroyed.

"Diyonisus, enough of this! Surrender! We will take you prisoner!"

"YOU?! Take me prisoner?! Don´t make me laugh, Astrea!"

The Goddess of Justice looked truly fearsome after she heard what Loki had to tell. "You are disgusting, you will pay for your crimes."

"SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH BI-!"

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In another room in Knossos, Alise unleashed her magic onto the demi spirit dragon that was still far from awakaned.

"AL-VERIAAAAAAAA!"

She hammered her sword down and unleashed a tsunami of fire.

Her target...detonated.

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This was the reason for the earthquake that hit Orario.

When Nidhöggr exploded, parts of Knossos collapsed, especially the parts close to the hole that Thanatos had left when he returned to heaven.

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Every person in the room, gods and mortals stumbled when a big part of the floor collapsed and fell into the darkness below.

Diyonisus tried to use this chance to charge at Astrea and kill her.

But before even Kaguya could react, a white shadow with long, black hair charged past her.

Filvis screamed in an anger she never felt before, not only were Diyonisus deeds disgusting to no end, he had mentally tortured and broken a fellow elf! This was something she couldn´t forgive.

Even for a level four adventurer a god that knew how to fight could be a strong opponent.

But not Diyonisus...

Filvis blocked his dagger with her sword, Tear Pain, hammered it to the side and...

Kicked with all of her strength between his legs.

She let his testicles burst and broke his manhood, the scream of the god went up to a note that shouldn´t be possible. Even Loki flinched when she saw that.

Diyonisus fell to his knees and screamed like never before, holding his bleeding crotch.

"YOU DARE TO ATTACK A GOD! THIS IS MADNESS!"

Filvis became suddenly extremely quiet.

"Madness?..."

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"This!"

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"Is!"

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"JUSTICE!"

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With the full strength of her level four body, Filvis kicked Diyonisus straight in the face, breaking his nose and shattering multiple teeth. The god fell backwards into the hole that had opened in the ground.

Filvis knew what happened when a god "died", she couldn´t risk that this happened close to Astrea and her little sister!

She knew that she was probably cursed since birth, her black hair gave it away, so Filvis would even dare to do that to a god and send him back to heaven, which was a great sin for a mortal.

But no pillar of light shot up, Diyonisus didn´t return to heaven.

Did he survive? Or...did the dungeon absorb his essence when he died? Gods knew that this could happen.

No...what happened to Diyonisus was something else.

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"BUHARG!"

Diyonisus hit the ground, his legs broke by impact, as well as his arms. He hit his head on the ground, his skull cracked and blood flew over his once handsome face.

This shouldn´t be possible! His Arcana should´ve activated before he hit the ground and he should return to heaven! But now he was here and felt a pain that no god ever felt before.

Wha-..Damni-...Eh-...

He wasn´t able to form a clear thought, his body was shattered.

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"Rrrrrr..."

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Thick strings of saliva fell onto the ground next to Diyonisus.

His one good eye rolled up, looking at a monster that towered over him.

A black scaled Draconith.

"Wha-IAAAAAR!"

Fafnir leaned down, moved the extremely long claws of his left "hand" almost slowly through Diyonisus´ back and lifted the god up. The claws came out of the front, Diyonisus couldn´t breath, his lungs were pierced.

Yet the god didn´t return to heaven.

The expression in Fafnir´s eyes was beyond hate and rage.

I am a god! I am omnipotent! What is going on here?!

Diyonisus couldn´t speak anymore.

But he didn´t die...nor return to heaven.

He couldn´t even scream when Fafnir opened his maw wide and started to devour the god.

Diyonisus screamed in never known pain in his mind, he felt Fafnir´s fangs cracking open his skull, piercing his eyes, ripping his divine flesh apart and swallowing it.

Yet...Diyonisus didn´t die...

His ripped body ended in Fafnir´s stomach, it was as hot as molten lava inside here.

Yet...Diyonisus couldn´t die and return to heaven.

As if he was inside the dungeon when his body got destroyed, Diyonisus couldn´t return to heaven.

His essence got trapped inside Fafnir.

The monster roared in victory, but the rage and carnage left from his eyes.

His mother, the dungeon, had allowed Fafnir to devour this one god, as a reward for a job well done...he was her current favorite child after all.

Fafnir was a true irregular monster. Like all irregular monsters he was born from the dungeon, by using the dead body of an adventurer as a vessel.

When an adventurer died in the dungeon, the weak ones got eaten by monsters. The strong ones, with skills and magic, got absorbed by the dungeon. The dungeon used them to create irregular monsters.

Neither gods nor mortals knew this.

Years ago, when one of mother´s favorite children got slain on the 18th floor, a really strong adventurer died on this floor. The one that had killed her beloved child, Behemoth.

The soul of the warrior went up to heaven, the dungeon didn´t care about that, it wanted the body.

Mother absorbed what the body was, held the essence of the flesh inside her.

When Fafnir´s first body got destroyed by that disgusting child who had the blood of the same god on his body, mother knew it was time to use the remains of the Behemoth slayer.

Due to that, Fafnir got something like a skill, Gluttony, everything that he devoured made him stronger.

The Xenos, the members of Evilus, other monsters, the two demi spirits...but always only a portion of their strength.

And by eating Diyonisus...Fafnir got smarter.

Cunning.

That together with the special ability that the dungeon had given Fafnir made him an enormous threat.

Nega-Divinity.

When Fafnir got close to someone blessed by the gods, was a god or created by a god, they lost this power. Fafnir´s ability severed the bond in a certain area.

But only up to a certain strength for now, strong adventurers were still immune against him. It was something else for the demi spirits, since spirits were made by the gods in the past.

That was why Diyonisus was unable to go back to heaven...Fafnir was basically a living, moving part of the dungeon.

A fate awaited Diyonisus that was worse than everything imaginable. He felt the constant pain of getting eaten, crushed, cracked, ripped apart and being digested...while he was unable to die and return to heaven...and not even able to become insane.

At every second that passed...Diyonisus felt all this pain...and it would never go away as long as Fafnir continued to exist...

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"Did they find god Diyonisus?"

"Not as far as we know, but Evilus is no more. Not a single member of them was left alive."

"Then...it is over?"

Lefiya shook her head. "We know about two strong monsters that escaped Knossos, but no one knows where they are. The first is that strange woman creature, the other wasn´t seen by anyone, but only a monster could do what this thing did."

"That sounds pretty dire."

"The Loki familia will seal Knossos and investigate further."

"Good."

Bell and Haruhime sat on both sides of Lefiya on the couch, while she talked, both had started to hug her from the sides.

When Astrea returned, she smiled gently.

"Lady Astrea, how is the captain?"

"Ryu is giving her a lap pillow currently, so she is feeling pretty well."

Astrea saw no need to mention that when she glanced into the room, Alise had put one hand on the back of Ryu´s head, pulled her down a bit and kissed her, the elf got extremely red but didn´t pull back.

Haruhime looked to the goddess. "Lady Astrea?"

"Yes?"

"You said before that Ms. Filvis is with someone who is asleep."

The goddess nodded with a sad face. "Aura. She is the last survivor of Diyonisus´ familia...she has nowhere to go, so we took her with us. She isn´t feeling well at all."

"I hope she gets better..."

"We will see, Diyonisus treachery is like nothing I have ever seen before. Even Erebus´ actions had a "noble" reason..."

"Mh...Lady Astrea?"

"Lefiya?"

"Can I...go with them for tonight?"

The goddess nodded. "Of course. Kaguya?"

The vice captain came into the room. "Mylady?"

"Could you escort them? I don´t want to risk anything."

"Of course."

Kaguya wanted to take a look at her "little sister" anyway. Calming down by drinking some nice far-eastern tea with people who knew how to appreciate it would be nice.

When Bell returned home, he would find a letter in his room.

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