This is a is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon fanfiction only.
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The following morning I got up early and started to prepare something hearty for me and the others to eat, something made me think that we were going to need as much energy as we could get, because I simply could not get the feeling that Ais was going to give was something only Spartan Troops would get.
Welf and Lily showed up at the chapel and they were surprised to see that I had prepared a rather nice breakfast platter for them and Mirha, I managed to eat as I cooked the food, so there was no need for me to prepare food for myself. Welf began eating and asked me as I was drinking some tea what sort of training I was expecting, without any hesitation I simply said Spartan Boot Camp. I still remember seeing her kill my friend, and she couldn't look less like a Spartan if she even tried.
Speaking of which Mirha was still apparently angry about who was one of the people who was supposed to train her, it made me think that she would have a very hard time ever forgiving Ais for what she did to her, and it was not only due to the way she was killed as she once told me, it was also the fact that she as going to basically declare her love for me on the same day that Ais killed her before she could do that.
Ais was famous for having a deep hatred for monsters, in fact, she was known to be one of the most vicious adventurers when it came to killing and hunting monsters, using my observation ability I noticed something about Ais that apparently not many people knew or even were told of, apparently Ais is not completely human, the status window with her detailed information showed something I was not expecting under species, I was expecting human, but no, I found that the observe skill actually considers her a chimera. This means she is only partially human and part something else, from the looks of it, her mother apparently was a spirit.
Which even right now baffles me, as I kept wondering how did her father managed to sleep with a spirit and got her pregnant with Ais when spirits usually are beings who have no corporeal forms to begin with. So her father somehow slept and impregnated a spirit, and I sincerely doubt Ais is even aware of this fact, because the fact that she is considered a Chimera, technically means she is not human but rather she could be considered a monster herself.
I honestly think that I will have to explain this to both Mirha and Ais, in order for them both to come to terms and eliminate any potential animosity that may still persist between them. But if you really think about it, it is also kind of funny, that the person who is famous for single-handedly defeating monsters that others considered impossible to be defeated by one person, is technically a monster herself. Never mind that so many guys actually want to date or even marry this accomplished young woman who again could be considered a monster.
I have to figure a way how to best break this information to Ais if I am blunt about it, it could end up being harmful and could even spark some hatred towards my Familia, the notion of my Familia being considered nothing more than liars was the least of the harmful consequences, the worst is that Loki herself might want to take revenge on us, which means we would have gained the Loki Familia as a potential enemy if not rival, so from friend to enemy if I don't handle this information correctly, so no pressure.
As I walked towards the place where the training was going to take place, I noticed Lily, Welf, and Mirha, Mirha was the least enthusiastic about this, apparently, no matter how much time passed, she was still very much angry and bitter towards Ais. I greeted them as we all walked towards the spot on the wall where we were supposed to meet with Ais and the two elves who apparently were going to teach us how to properly harness and cast magic. I honestly do not think they would be as enthusiastic to teach us, considering that at least Riveria would have needed extra incentive to even consider being near me much less teach me anything.
I decided not to apologize for what happened to between me and Riveria back on that dungeon floor, it did not matter if I did, no matter what I said she would accuse me of either being a pervert or that I groped her, even if I insisted that was accidental at best, and that I had little to no actual control over that since it was simply a bodily reflex and not a conscious decision on my part, not that it matters in any way possible to Riveria.
The other elf was apparently glaring at me for some reason that I could not phantom, it might have something to do with the fact that Ais greeted me specifically in such a cheerful and friendly manner, and I mean the first she did when she saw me and my friends is walk over to me greet us and give me a tender hug, not that it made things better between her and Mirha who was glaring at her since the moment the hugged ended.
"You might know Welf Crozzo from the Hephaestus Familia, and Lily from the Soma Familia, who apparently is still wishes to leave her Familia as soon as possible considering what her fellow Familia members attempted to do with her. These three ladies are going to be our instructors in teaching us both fighting and magic. Riveria is the vice-captain of the Loki Familia and is the most powerful practitioner of magic in all of Orario, I believe that she is currently mentoring the young elf near her and her name is Lefiya if I remember correctly." Lefiya was glaring at me when I said this and looked to me like she was not happy with the way I introduced them, I wanted to make them feel welcome by showing that I actually put in some effort in trying to remember things about them, but I guess that was a moot point.
"Again thank you again for offering to provide us with this training Ais, especially since we are not even part of your Familia and you had no obligation or benefit in doing this. Sorry that I had to ask to include my friends, since I knew that they could benefit from the training a lot more than I could, in fact at most for me it is just trying to regain my physical condition back to normal and process some information I got due to some rather disturbing dreams." Ais looked concerned when I said this and placed her hand on my shoulder for emotional support as she asked if there was anything she and her friends could do to help me feel better, which honestly caught me by surprise.
A few moments after this happened, the sound of footsteps echoed up the stairs, causing them to turn in surprise as Ryuu appeared with another individual.
"Ryuu and another person whom I did not expect actually showed up for this supposed training, I know for a fact that Ryuu is a member of a Familia which was almost systematically eliminated, more than likely she came under the direct orders and direction of Freya. We already have members of the Soma and Hephaestus Familia, not to mention I was a member of the Hestia Familia, so adding members of both the Loki and Freya Familia should be something I would be expecting.
Never mind that I found myself still confused about being both a Legacy and a child of both the Zeus and Hera Familia, I just finished paying off to have their exile ended, but somehow I would be crazy to think that this would be accepted without anyone objecting to the fact these two exiled Familia may after this return to Orario, never mind that they did not have as many members as before since most of them were killed, but they were however two of the strongest Familia Orario has ever seen, and if given a chance they could quite easily rebuild and once again become as strong as they once were.
The colossal amount that I needed to pay told me that there were many people who wanted to make it nearly impossible for these two Familia to return, but do so by asking for such a large amount of money it would take generations to earn or collect such a large amount, so the amount was to restrict them and to buy enough time so that the Familia already present could build their strength so that they could eclipse any potential strength that the Hera and Zeus Familia could ever hope to regain.
To have this many different Familia train with each other, and the fact that the Loki Familia are in fact the ones providing instruction and guidance, to me it seems that the Loki Familia is hoping that by doing this they can gain the favor and support of not only the Familia participating but rather also the Familia that are aware of this happening. I don't usually think highly of Loki but even I have to admit this is not only beneficial since it promotes peace between these Familia, but also creates a potential way for Loki to eventually cash in the favors that this will earn her in the future should there ever be a circumstance where her Familia requires aid.
I for one expect Riveria and Lefiya to avoid me like I am the city's equivalent of a person infected with Leprosy. The way that I ended up interacting with Riveria on that dungeon floor pretty much guaranteed to me that the chances of us having a friendly if not sociable relationship with each other is nearly impossible, I still believe Riveria wants to have little to nothing to do with me, and she hates my proverbial guts.
So Riveria and Lefiya will provide essentially training in the area of magic energy and casting spells, an area I do not require any help with for two reasons, they must due long incantations and spells in order to cast a spell, I don't need to do that at all, in fact I can cast spells without having to utter a single word or hand gesture. As for knowing about Magic, I happen to be fully educated on the subject as it was part of my mandatory education when I lived on Asgard. My education growing up was quite extensive which funny enough includes many languages that some people were quite shocked to know I knew and understood quite clearly.
I still can't help but to crack a smile when Rocket actually finds out that I understood and was fluent in Groot, granted I do not have the required vocal cords to speak it as well as a native, since it requires hardened vocal cords, and I simply do not have or would want to have that, but I understand the language rather well since I am fluent in understanding the spoken language. The entire language when spoken by any person who is not a member of the Groot species would say that the entire language only has a few words, I am Groot, and yet I know that these words can communicate a vast number of things depending greatly on the person speaking them and the tone they use.
Learning that language taught me that I need to look at situations past the surface level and really think deeper into what is being communicated, as such my understanding of Magic is quite vast, having learned from several wise mentors in the past, my knowledge of combat is not meager by any means, having spent centuries as a warrior. So the only thing that I could say about this training is that to me it is more of physical and mental rehabilitation than anything else. No matter where I am, and even in my diminished and weakened formed, I will never forget the experiences and knowledge I gained on Asgard and thanks to the loving support of those that I truly consider members of my family, and yes that includes my sister, Loki.
Mirha did not like her lessons with Ais, in fact, I do not imagine spending any time with Ais could be called pleasant to her at all, her hatred of Ais was easy to see and understand but the only reason she continued that training, and the lessons with Riveria is that I asked her to do that for me, to become stronger, for the good of our family, to protect those we hold dear and those we would never wish to suffer or loss simply because we were not ready to face the threats that are sure to come for us in our future.
Lefiya was much more direct with me than I expected from an elf, she flat-out said that no matter what I did, or how much time I spent with Ais, I would never manage to steal her heart, and that she would not lose to me, whom she called me her romantic rival, which for once I had a hard time not laughing when she said that. She apparently is under the delusion that I asked Ais for this, when in reality I had no need for any of this training, to begin with, and had Ais told me that only I was to train, I would have refused her training proposal the very moment she mentioned it, it was only due to the addition that my friends would also benefit from this training that I accepted in the first place.
This young elf makes an awful lot of assumptions that the only saving grace to it is that they are simply so ridiculous that they are an absolute riot to even think about. I have never once thought of wooing anyone, and the only person whom I actually did anything to start and still maintain a relationship with is my steady lover Hephaestus. In fact, that is why I originally wished to restore my physical and mental condition to what I once had as a warrior of Asgard, so that maybe at one moment, I could once again spend a night of absolute bliss and passion with my lover, and make love like we once did, doing things I still miss.
Come to think of it, we were lovers for what seemed to be centuries, and yet for the life of me, I can't seem to remember if we ever managed to conceive a child. Was I truly that pathetic as a lover that I never once managed to impregnate my lover even once after countless times we made love? That is something to think about later, but right now I need to focus on my rehabilitation and help my friends in their lessons. I joked when I initially called it Spartan Boot Camp, but in reality, I never realized that I actually was quite accurate in my description of this training, Ais certainly took a great deal of inspiration from how Spartan Warriors were trained.
I honestly expected Welf to receive training more along the lines of swordplay, but to think that her training would encompass things like archery and other forms of Melee combat, including combat that required no weapons at all, was amazing. Riveria's training when it comes to magic was both imaginative and demanding, it was truly something to see, tearing down the very understanding of magic of her students only to build them back up again with greater understanding and with greater complexity that even they dared to think magic was. I could be corny and say that seeing their training was a magical experience but the thing is it was not a fun comment because if a person truly saw everything each lesson involved, they would say it was an apt description of what a person would see.
Mirha was excellent in her understanding and patience in learning new things, she was showing her maturity and putting aside her own bias and negative feelings and was actually doing her best to follow the instructions of those people who were teaching her, even if one of the people teaching her was someone that under any other circumstances, she would absolutely want nothing to do with or even attempt to get bloody revenge against. The reason for these negative feelings if not outright hatred of Ais was largely still due to what happened when she was still a minotaur whom I enjoyed many evenings sparring with, only for me to later learn that she actually considered our many training sessions to be for her at the very least romantic dates. The day when she was to profess her feelings and offer her sincere love confession, also happens to be the day that Ais ended up killing her ruining that tender moment for her, so it was understandable that she still very much holds Ais with a degree of anger even after she was brought back to life, as a dark elf.
I honestly worry that if she was able to return to life, I don't want to imagine what sort of horror her brother will become if he returns back to life because if I know him like I clearly do, he will without a doubt wish to pursue me for the mere purpose of revenge, while pretending to do this under the noble goal of defending his sister's honor. I honestly had no clue that she considered all those times we met as dates until later, but knowing that now, it makes much more sense that he would be so against me meeting her, never mind that her brother once had the obsession of actually wishing to make his sister the mother of her own nephews, that is right her brother wished to make his sister the mother of his children, some people would say that is a sick idea.
As the training progressed they finally decided that the final phase of the training for the day would be to have real sparring matches between the the students and the instructors. The instructors decided to divide the students into two groups, four of them, meaning Lefiya, Welf, Mirha, and Lily would fight and see how others fight both Ais and Ryuu, while Bell would be left under the care of Riveria, who was glaring at Bell in such a way that made him think that her intention had little to do with training and instead she was out for bloody revenge for what accidentally happened with her.
The only other problem is as Heith mentioned that fighting using actual weapons could end up causing some actual serious damage to the wall and this place was essentially owned and maintained by the city so causing property damage might be something they would or should attempt to avoid doing.
"Look people, you need to come close to death as to no longer be afraid of it, and my magic allows me to heal a person to perfection even when they are two breathes away from kicking the bucket, so you got to know you will not die, but you will surely feel like you are, we are fighting using actual weapons and spells, so horrible amounts of bloodshed and pain are sure to come, but tell me how are we really not going to cause this entire part of the wall from being destroyed?"
Thanks to this book I read, I gained many abilities and one of them is actually being able to create a pocket dimension, a dungeon if you will, and we can enter that dungeon and fight to our heart's content and once we exit it, nothing will be damaged, it will be exactly as the moment we entered the dungeon.
Real convenience when you want to be able to practice, exercise, and master a skill but don't want to destroy the area you are in and don't want anyone to know about it. All they need to do is touch me and when I create the dungeon and call for it us to enter we do, so touch me and I can get this dungeon thing started anytime we need it. Ais asked how could such skill even exist, and the only way I can think of it existing is that at one point, a wizard or a sage spent an awfully long time thinking of the very nature of what we call the dungeon that is on Orario and tried to use magic to create something similar, and after decades of trying the dungeon creation skill were made, but nobody believed him, thought he was insane, and so it got passed down to friends and families, and eventually it ended up being written in that book as a sort o a joke.
"Let's face it there is only one person that wants to beat my skull to the point that if Heith was not here, I would be dead, so that is the person more than likely I will spend my time fighting against or at least trying to survive her wrath. You four will have to face two who are much nicer, and calmer that would be Ryuu and Ais, she can try to hide it behind her being stoic like most elves, but even I can see that Riveria without a doubt hates my guts, and what is worst she does because of an accident and a bodily reaction I had no control over." Riveria called what I said absolutely a lie since she swears she could feel my hand caressing her breast when that happened.
"Do I wish I could kill him, by Loki I do, in elven custom doing something like that is essentially forcing himself on me, it was no better than rape, and as a noble of my kind, I do want revenge on this perverted bastard that dares to lie to excuse his actions and does not even dare to at least offer a sincere apology." I looked at Riveria and told her once again I speak only truth, that I would have no desire or intention of doing anything like that to her at all, it would be a base betrayal of my lover's trust and I would not do that. Before all this happened to me and I found myself the way I was, I had fully planned to marry my lover and live by her side, but thanks to this happening to me and finding myself the way I am, I know I better become strong once again, the threats that are coming for the people of this world and especially for the one I love warrant that I do no less.
"You wish to get your revenge get your anger out and bash me with it, well Heith here will hopefully revive me after every one of our fights, so feel free and fight me, but make no mistake I am not going to sit there and just take it, I will defend myself." Riveria smugly said that she would have it no other way. How much could a mere human do against her, never mind the vast differences between their levels, he can try to defend himself but to her, it would be as easy as taking a piece of candy from a baby.
They each placed their hands on my back and immediately I used the dungeon creation skill to create something I called Empty Dungeon, they all were confused when they opened their eyes finding that the place did not look any different than what the place they were looked until one of them said they could smell nothing, or hear any sounds of the nearby people, it was as if this was Orario but completely and utterly empty of people, animals and even things like cooking food and smells even the weather was missing as there was no moisture in the air.
"This is the Empty Dungeon, it is a perfect replica of our world except that as the name implies it is empty, we can fight here to our heart's content do as much damage as we wish, and in the end when we exit this place no harm would have fallen on Orario and anything on it. So ladies by all means feel free to go all out and fight as if your lives depend on it, knowing what I will face with Riveria over here, I know I will."