Terrarian in the Dungeon
By: Azazyel0714
[NSFW] - Terrarian in the Dungeon by Azazyel0714
Status: ongoing
Published: 2022-11-28
Updated: 2024-04-16
Words: 170672
Chapters: 88
Original source: https/forum./threads/20469
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Terrarian in the Dungeon
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 Partially commissioned
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 Commissioned by TimoteosJkim
Chapter 12 Various POV's, Commissioned by Neo in order to preserve Kira's sanity.
Chapter 13 Commissioned in part by P Anthony.
Chapter 14
Chapter 15 Comissoned
Chapter 16
Chapter 17 Commissioned by TimoteosJKim
Chapter 18 KATL_Chief has Commissioned a bunch
Chapter 19 R-18 First Waifu get
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24 Various POV's
Chapter 25 TimoteosJKim has commissioned an extra chapter for today.
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31 Various POV's
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 36
Chapter 36 R-1,8 Final Commissioned chapter from KATL_Chief
Chapter 37 Commissioned chapter by Ernestorecinos
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40 TimoteosJKim has commissoned a chapter
Chapter 41 The rest of TimoteosJKim commisson
Chapter 42
Chapter 43 Ryuu POV's
ChapterChapter 44 Dionysus/Enyo and Loki POV
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48 Asuna Kirito has commissioned several chapters.
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52 Noctis117 has commissioned a couple chapters.
Chapter 53 Silencian has commissioned a chapter.
Chapter 54 Commissioned by Lostmonk28
Chapter 55 Faultlesselm has commissioned a couple chapters.
Chapter 56
Chapter 57 Commissioned by Kriegan
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60 Orario POV
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69 R-18
Chapter 70 Commissioned
Chapter 71 Jeffrey has commissioned a couple chapters
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75 Commissioned by GoodGodISuck
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80 Freya POV
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 1
When I arrived in Danmachi, the first thought I had, was how lucky I was, that I was given a whole damned set of metal tools and a small copper short sword that I could suck into my pocket space that I could see within my mind as a row of squares.
But once I begun to walk the streets of Orario and just to test my abilities I gathered up some trash wooden planks that were left behind on a jobsite for an abandoned building and attempted to build a Terraria workbench, I realized that I was going to need help to use this cheat.
Going to craft the simple wooden workbench, I was only given the mental equivalent of a step-by-step guide how to do it and just because I had the wood didn't mean I had the tools to make said workbench even if the way it showed me, how I made it didn't need nails, I could still use nails to make said workbench much easier.
"I need a backing…" I muttered as I took in the three broken not at all working bench's but as I went to break down the bench's I couldn't at all. Like literally I used some frankly crappy wood to build it and I knew quite well that I could easily snap the thin wooden stubs with my hands or over my knee but no matter how I tried to break down the broken bench it simply wouldn't break.
"Wait let me try the pickaxe and axe." I muttered and after taking out the tools I learned that literally anything I crafted operated on the Terraria logic of laughing at the idea of durability if it wasn't a consumable but thankfully my tools seemed to bypass that very immutable state.
Staring at the pile of now pristine wooden slabs in my inventory I brushed my hands over my face as I considered how I could work towards joining a forging or some kind of architecture Familia as I needed training on how to make my stuff, I couldn't just waste weeks if not months attempting to make a single workbench that I would give up on in less than a single week of being an adventurer.
"Fuck it. I am going to the guild and seeing if I can join any crafting Familia's… Would joining Hestia be a good idea?" I mused before shaking my head as although she was a goddess of architecture she was pinning after Bell and frankly all their shenanigans seemed like a pain in the ass to get involved in as I could feel in the depths of my soul that if could craft Terraria item's then I could create boss summoning items and I didn't need Bell making it even worse with his bullshit luck.
"Ok Jake. You got two options, a crafting Familia or an exploration based one that could help you gather the shit you need later on…" I muttered before I realized that with the help of a crafting Familia that I could just make the weapons that will draw the exploration Familia to help me to begin with.
"Alright let's get going to the Guild." I said assured of my plan to try and join a crafting Familia.
Thankfully I was sent on this merry adventure in a collared long sleeve shirt and some blue jeans, so I didn't feel like too much of an outlier in the Guild but then again half of the people here were dressed in fantasy clothes which went as far as the Guild workers being in full business suits attire to the Barbarian Men in loincloths or Amazons wearing silk like almost see through clothes that hid nothing of their figure.
Finally, I noticed one line was all but empty due to its receptionist being a beautiful red haired wolf girl had her cold eyes practically staring daggers at all the adventurers, so she was practically left alone with only a couple of adventures quickly emptying their sacks of monster cores to get paid.
Hoping I wasn't doing the wrong thing just walking up to the receptionist and having needed to setup an appointment or something I entered her line and after the last guy quickly scurried away with his money under her cold eyes, I asked her where I could find a crafting Familia looking for new members. "Hello, I am new to Orario and was wondering if you could point me towards a Familia that is focused on crafting and recruiting?"
Hearing my question, the woman blinked, and her cold eyes softened a bit taking me in. "Ah a blacksmith hopeful?" She asked looking at my arms in particular and my face twitched as although I wasn't scrawny or fat, I certainly didn't have the corded muscle that came from a blacksmithing background.
"Ah just crafting in general. I don't plan on trying to join Hephaestus or Goibniu I just want a Familia I can apply myself and learn a trade." I explained not wanting to get stuck in the hyper competitive Familia of Hephaestus that was trying to earn their goddess's approval.
"Hmm… There is a brand-new goddess who has arrived here in Orario a few weeks ago and just got all her paperwork setup and got a building for her Familia that fits your criteria perfectly and best of all the goddess is rated to be among the more reasonable ones. Hmm yes, her name was Seshat," The guild receptionist explained, and I nodded in understanding.
"Well seeing as you aren't formally signing up as an adventurer yet, here is a small map to her workshop she has setup, come back for when you decide to jump into the death trap that is the dungeon." Ah now I remember who she was, she was Ais's advisor back when she was younger. Rose Fannett, I believe her name was.
"Alright, thank you for your time." I said respectfully nodding to her and then I got out of the much more filled line as Rose had softened up when she was talking to me and then I literally saw a couple people actually leave her line as the scarlet haired dog girl turned back on her icy persona and begin taking peoples monster drops again.
Leaving the Guild, I looked down on my map and saw that at the center of the map was the Guild building and across the map was several buildings of note like Hephaestus's shops, Loki's Familia manor, Freya Familia manor, and just generally a number of Orario landmarks and smack dab on the other side of the damned city was a large X that supposedly Seshat was living in.
'Well let's hope I don't get lost.' I thought and what do you know, I did just that as the business district the goddess that was recommended to me was a damned maze of small alleys and finally, I began stopping people for directions for Seshat's Perch which was the name of the hobbyist store the goddess was running.
"Oh, that nice goddess, yeah she is running a shop just down there and into the alley with the massive bushes in front of it. It kind of hides it but she has a heavy smell always following her which wards off people attempting to join her Familia." The guy I was questioning explained and my face twitched as I thought the Goddess was some dumpy nasty goddess of filth or something as I didn't know jack about the goddess named Seshat nor what her divine symbol looked like.
A couple minutes later I arrived at the so-called hobby shop and could only deadpan so hard that my damned eyebrows hurt… "This is a fucking dispensary." I cursed seeing the literal marijuana plant bushes in front of Seshat's store not to mention the thick 'skunk' smell that came from all the weed being smoked around here.
'Wait… This is a hippie hobby shop, no wonder no one would join this Familia.' I bemoaned at wasting the entire day as even if Seshat was the perfect goddess, if she wanted her Familia members to have nothing to do with the dungeon for its violence and harsh vibes then no one in Orario would join her as the whole damned city revolved around that death trap.
"Let's go try the guild again." I muttered as I turned around not wanting to put my life and future into a goddess who was probably only a step away from Soma.
"Hoh, I didn't believe mortals gave up so easily." A voice reached my ears even a couple dozen meters from the goddess's store and I realized I may have insulted or worse gathered her interest with how I clearly was looking for her shop but then after some thinking and muttering turned away to leave the way I had come.
"Lady Seshat, I merely turned the wrong way, please excuse me and have a wonderful day." I said bowing towards the building and only received a throaty chuckle in response before her velvet voice reached me again.
"Come in lost child, not of this world, I wish to see your fate up close." Hearing her words, I was this close to sprinting off, but I decided fuck it… I was already dropped into this world with no warning, the worse she could do is tell other gods I was foreign to this world and by that time I could flee Orario and take up some apprenticeship in another city where gods and Goddesses aren't on every other street corner.
Wordlessly I approached her building and as I closed in, I saw how much of a marvel it was and from the barebones knowledge I had of acoustics, I saw the building had tiny pipes built into the brickwork that would probably carry sound or something.
Not to mention despite the other buildings looking rather run down I saw practically every stone that made up the building was polished and even the mortar that held together the building was of a pleasing ivory color and looked to be smooth to the touch.
I just focused on the marijuana plants in the front of the building and I kind of felt a bit bad about it now.
"Hmm, I see realization and regret in your eyes, how quaint…" The voice purred and it truly was a purr as when I entered the darkened front room, I saw like a queen would overlook their subjects was a heart stopping beauty with mocha skin and more importantly sharply angled cat ears atop her ebony tresses of hair that was streaked with some gold strands that broke apart the almost midnight black hair.
As I regathered myself from the sight of the goddess, I noticed that I couldn't smell the weed at all from the inside and seeing me smell, the goddess merely tittered again, and I saw black, and gold covered leopard tail flick from behind her seemingly in amusement.
"Your stars… Do not fit within this worlds star system of course." Sesha cursed after likewise staring at me and I realized she might have had some kind of prophetic seer ability like how Freya could see souls even in her limited mortal form.
"May I close the door for this conversation?" I asked dryly and the goddess huffed and then she pulled a string which made me move quickly out of the way as a massive almost vault like door silently swung through the air suspended only on some strings that Seshat was maneuvering from her long couch she was laying upon.
"Satisfied? No actually why are here anyway child haaa?" Seshat asked demonstrating her cat like nature in wanting to sleep I guessed.
"Well originally I wanted to see if you were worthy, frankly of me joining your Familia and then going from there I would do so… But now I am wondering if I can get answers about how many other deities will notice or care about me being thrown into this world against my will and most importantly whether I need to flee." I spoke candidly as I took a small stool for a seat making Seshat huff and groan.
Seshat then sat up and I was able to fully take her in fully, coming to the realization that Seshat with her darker skin and now the rather scant almost Egyptian style clothes I marked her being a part of the Egyptian pantheon. Sesha was wearing a golden top that covered her fairly hefty sized breasts but left her sculpted stomach bare and she was finally wearing a skirt that seemed to be dozens of layers of thin silk that would obscure what was beneath except where it was pulled taunt.
"Do you know me mortal from beyond these stars?" She asked suddenly and I shook my head. "Say it. Speak the truth." She said with her golden eyes tightening in their slit forms.
"Look Seshat I literally never heard of you before today. Hell, I literally was just dropped into this world less than an hour or two ago. I was just told by the guild that you were rated to be rather reasonable and more importantly my name is Jake Bariss, quit just calling me mortal." I said throwing my hands up a bit making Sesha giggle.
"Fine Jake. So, what makes 'you' worthy of joining my Familia." She said leadingly and I realized I may have fucked up when I said I came here to see if she was worthy of joining. as that came off as an extremely arrogant move.
"I apologize for the way I said that… I have certain abilities that will lend too possibly making me quite powerful in the dungeon and just generally very powerful." I said as I realized all the magic items, I could craft not to mention how I could craft accessories that can give weaker skills to people.
Seshat hummed and gave me a very interested look hearing that, as all deities came down to Genkai to find the burning stars within the mortal races and watch their stories.
"Wait! Don't tell me! You have unlimited mana or some kind of super regeneration!" Seshat threw out excitedly with her leopard tail swishing back and further behind her excitedly and my face twitched as I shook my head.
"You can teleport even in the dungeon? You can make mortals fall in love with you despite your slightly above mediocre face at will?" She continued excitedly and now I was deadpanning at her dumbass.
"No… Actually, seeing as you don't want me to tell you how about I just keep it a secret." I teased and her tail went ram rod straight as she hissed at me.
"You a mortal dares, to withhold information from this divine scribe!?" She truly looked affronted and offended so I grinned and nodded.
"I Jake Bariss will freely say this, the cheat I have is better than anything else you have seen or heard of down here in Genkai in its sheer breadth of its influence that it can bring to Orario." I said gleefully as even with normal Terraria stuff once I get to hard mode weapons and shit… Yeah, Hephaestus will demand to have my children should she see the Zenith or even just the Terra Blade.
"I know you aren't lying to me… Fine! I will allow you the honor of scratching my ears and rubbing my belly when you join my Familia!" Seshat said as though it was some great sacrifice and I wanted to point out that getting a good belly rub and head scratches should be worth more to her but then I remembered how cats even if you gave them the perfect belly rub, they would still bite the shit out of you for daring to take liberties in rubbing for too long.
"Alright so how are we doing this?" I asked after a moment of silence after the cat girl goddess recollected herself.
"Hmm let us retire to my solar, from there I can still hear any customers come in and I can enjoy the sun warming my mortal frame." Seshat mused as she gracefully slipped off her perch and then her deceptively strong tail wrapped around my wrist and began pulling me along behind the goddess.
The goddess known as Seshat then led me up a small flight of stairs and then after going down a small hallway she pushed open a door and then I was met with a flood of light as the solar room definitely lived up to its name as the roof of the room had glass panels that seemingly magnified the sun's rays coming in from above and then the goddess had her admittedly soft tail let go of my wrist as she pointed at a large disordering pile of blankets on one of the large circular cushions littering the room.
"Take off your shirt and go lay down on that bedding. You will be sleeping here as well seeing as the other four rooms in the building are my personal bedroom, a kitchen, the workshop, and of course the storefront." Seshat explained and I nodded honestly just thankful I didn't have to sleep outside or something.
Wordlessly I took off my shirt and then laid upon the pile of blankets, and the thick cushion, waiting for my soon to be personal goddess to mark me with her divine sigil.
"Don't worry this won't hurt you a bit." She muttered giving my shoulder a squeeze as I slightly jumped feeling the goddess sitting atop my thighs so she could hunch over to presumably engrave my Falna onto my very soul.
With the goddess so close and my face laying atop her blankets I could smell the sun warmed fabrics and more clearly recognize her honey and cinnamon like scent that she carried.
Then I could only describe the sensation of feeling like a cold syringe being injected into my body as I felt the drop of divine blood Seshat used to make the connection between us seemingly merge into my whole body and then I heard Seshat exclaim in wonder as she was working through my Falna before coughing as she pinched me. "What the fuck is a Terraria Mod and why can you only get one per level instead of development abilities?!" She asked pinching my side to the point of making me squirm not out of pain but in surprise.
"It has to do with my cheat!" I explained and then went onto explain how I had the knowledge of an entire crafting tech/magic tree sort of downloaded into my mind, but I needed help learning how to make stuff in general, and not to mention the tools to do such things.
"There are literally thousands of these damned mods?!" Which one do you even want to take?" She asked completely overwhelmed due to the information in my Falna and then after a moment of thought I realized in the end if you were going to play modded Terraria, there was one mod above all others you typically added to give more content and better stuff as I made sure to ask if there were straight up cheat mods which unfortunately there weren't.
"Download the Calamity mod." I said after a moment of thought as I realized that after I get Calamity mod, I could get crafting recipes for most weapons that were drop exclusive and while she was scanning the mods, I could get a sense of what they could do, and the Calamity mod had all its side mods as well except for cheat mods like the damned Dragon Ball Z mod that will not be spoken of.
For a moment I felt her freeze and then she asked me very dryly. "And what does this calamity mod give you? Will it allow you to make some monsters that will resemble the beasts of calamity that escaped the dungeon?"
"Uhhhhm nope they will be weaker?" I answered weakly as I had little clue as to how strong even the so-called weaker bosses in per hard mode in real life would be. As I have seen the Eye of Cthulhu and it was a massive scary eldritch monster that gave me nightmares.
"Fine! At least you will bring me entertainment and the only real reason I accepted you into my Familia is because I cannot see your fate… Watching you mortals grow is boring when I see your ultimate end anyway." Sesha muttered and then I twitched as I felt the Calamity mod be installed and then heard a little mental ding as a goodie bag was dropped into my inventory.
"Is that why you have no Familia members?" I asked as Sesha crawled off of me and just face planted in the warm covers a bit away from me and she silently nodded, not answering any further.
"Sooo… When can you teach me some woodworking for me to get started as it were." I asked after a few minutes after just relaxing into the nice warm blankets.
"Ughhhh… Fine let's get you started then." Sesha muttered and then she once again wrapped up her tail around my wrist as she dragged me across her building to the back workshop to hopefully begin teaching me how I could make myself a wooden workbench so I could in turn keeping working and make an anvil and a furnace so I could go into the dungeon with a full set of metal armor and a decent weapon.
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Chapter 2
Watching Seshat work was to put simply a work of art in of itself. Every motion that carved a piece of wood off was as smooth and natural as a river brook's gurgling water in the spring. "To engrave or work with wood is to be as natural as the wood itself, just as you do not fight the tide, you carve and cut along with the grain of the wood." Sesha spoke softly as she followed the directions, I gave to make the wooden bench I needed to make for myself.
"This is a lovely bench, plenty solid and all… But there is nothing supernatural about it?" She wondered as she played with the hip sized bench she made, and I nodded as her words but then armed with watching her make it I took the very tools she used to make the bench and began the same process.
"Follow the grain!" She would yell at me repeatedly. "You're pushing that chisel like you're a woman trying to give birth, just relax!" Yeah, although the way she taught me left much to be desired but in the end all her pointed out mistakes were things I could improve on.
So, after failing my attempt under her supervision with her wood and making a basically indestructible lopsided table as the legs weren't equal in height, I decided to get back at Seshat.
"Alright try to break or harm the table." I said pointing at the table that with each movement would have its feet clatter and the table would wobble with its legs being not uniform in length.
"What? No just take the top off and sand down the left leg so it matches the damned sized it needs to be?!" Seshat yelled at me, and I smiled wryly and then with a mighty crashing noise I brought down a wood chopping axe used to chop wood to feed her furnaces and the axe merely bounced off the table making my hands go numb.
"What…" Seshat was completely speechless as she saw me utterly smash the axe on the table yet whereas the axe should have exploded into pieces, this one merely shook in place and not a damned thing happened to it, no scratches, no gouges, nothing.
"Go ahead. oh, great goddess… See the bad side of my bullshit skill and its only fault. I have to damn near perfectly make anything I want. Otherwise, its worthless, and just as a bonus everything I make is already fucking basically got the Durandal enchantment and is indestructible so it's it a pain in the axe to break down." I cursed making my goddess looked at me like I was an alien.
Wait I actually was an alien.
"Are you using Mind for this?" She asked as she took out some tools and begun to attempt to take samples from the table and even used some kind of magical laser thing that was probably to laser etch things, but nope nothing worked. She couldn't get a splinter off of it.
"Nope!" I said cheerfully even though I did in fact wish it did use Mind so I could train my magic while using it.
"I have to break it down with my own indestructible tools in order to get back only some of the materials." I explained as I took out my copper axe out of my inventory and the sight of the tool made her eyes twitch at me having a sort of dimensional storage as such a thing hadn't really been seen here in Orario.
"Yeah… That little disappearing trick is something." She muttered before shaking her head. "Don't let other people see that or you will end up disappearing just as quickly or face something worse." She warned and I nodded.
After showing her how my copper axe could break down the wooden bench, she attempted to do the same with some of the pieces and thankfully she could actually damage it but when I had her smash the very axe on the copper shorts word and pickaxe I had, no damage was done to any of the freely given items.
"So, you can only break that which isn't properly created to begin with?" She mused with her leopard tail swishing through the air in interest as we worked out my skill's secrets. "Hmm in that case sit here on my stool… I am going to guide your every move to see the true scope of your skill." She said and then I was moved to sit on a long bench of a stool so she could literally sit behind me and wrap her arms and hands around my own hands so she could control my every move.
"Relax. I am merely your teacher in this so keep your mind clear of my beauty Hehe." She teased me and the reminder helped clear my head of the feeling of her literally divine body being practically draped over mine.
It turns out however that my cheat was completely heartless and with Sesha, a literal goddess of architecture guiding my hands we were finally able to create the work bench successfully and I felt at the moment of its completion, my mental library of crafting recipes expanded greatly with the wood and odd ends in my inventory.
"I can't carve it anymore is it done?" She asked and I nodded as I went over all the stuff I could make and then I remembered the starter bag hanging in the corner of my inventory.
"Yup, I got a lot more info downloaded into my head about stuff I can build but first let me try this." I said as I mentally focused on the Starter Bag Calamity gave me and from the bag burst out into my inventory was a full setup of several potions, but I knew that the mining, spelunker, shine, and gills potions weren't of all too much use whereas the recall potion however was a game changer…
Drinking it would teleport me to the last place I laid down and relaxed in and with that last point being here I had an excellent way to escape a bad situation should I get the star shaped potion into my hands and drink it before I got hurt.
But other than the potions I was given a better sword than my Copper shorts word, Copper Broadsword and even a Copper short bow and a hundred arrows to go with it.
Lastly were the far more interesting items to me in the Topaz staff and the Squirrel Squire Staff along with a mana crystal that would supposedly enhance my mind should I break it in my hands which was the smartest thing to do now before I went into the dungeon.
"Thats condensed astral mana? What are you going to do with that?" She asked and I smiled, as her tail froze and went ram rod straight as I crushed the crystal in my hand with the blue mana filling my body and with a hum, I felt it congregating in my head before the weird feeling dissipated leaving me with the irate goddess who was yelling about how stupid I was to use Astra Mana as a mortal when supposedly only deities could handle it when they traveled from Tenkai and Genkai.
"This isn't raw Astral Mana as you say though. At the very least its highly refined and it was literally given to me by my skill so it wouldn't hurt me." I said and she couldn't gain say me with how I spoke only the truth.
"Ahhh! My child is a cheating cheat!" She yelled acting childishly as she waved her arms up and around having a small tantrum.
"Sooo should I get into the magic staff that can instantly shoot a single prepared spell and the staff that can summon a magical squire that will fight for me?" I asked grinning as Seshat literally just threw up her hands in the universal constant of saying 'fuck it go ahead'
"Fine go-ahead Jake, show me all your goodies. I can tell you are getting even more out of my reactions then being happy with the gear itself" She said rolling her eyes making me chuckle at figuring me out as I truly wasn't all to attached to this stuff as I would probably be quickly replacing it to be honest.
First thing I was going to do once I got an anvil was making a full set of metal armor, all new weapons, and even a new summon item that only required some wood, snow, ice, and a flower that grows in a tundra area. So yeah, I wasn't all too attached to this stuff honestly.
"Well now what are your plans, Jake?" Seshat asked me and I bit my lip as I held onto my Copper broadsword before I dismissed it into my inventory.
"Well, I need dungeon drops for materials to use in special weapons and a lot of other stuff." I mused as I went over the crafting recipes and noted how certain items that most certainly weren't going to be in Danmachi like the robotic Wulfrim stuff could be crafted using only some iron and copper stuff whereas in the game I would need to kill the Wulfrim mobs in order to get the items that I would need.
Now why did I want Wulfrim stuff in particular? Well besides giving some decent armor it also allowed me to summon the weakest boss in the game which I felt even as a level one I could have a fantastic chance against once I get a grappling hook or something that will allow me to maneuver around.
"You can't stay here? Where you are safe?" She asked me and I tore my consciousness out of my mental plans to look at the somber and if anything, sad goddess, as she continued seeing as I was now focused on her. "No one says that you must go to the dungeon in order to level up or even get status points for your Falna, you must merely do things that would impress a god back in Tenkai who could be watching you."
"Seshat, I need to grow stronger and hiding here won't help me even if I could actually grow stronger by crafting some of the low-level debris I can now… Besides as you just asked earlier, I am perfectly capable of creating floor bosses basically and even taming the monsters I summon in the future." Thinking of the female elementals I could summon in post Hard mode after I kill the Wall of Flesh, well to be frank I was very excited for such an opportunity.
"I… Yes, a mortal will seek to temper themselves in the furnace of battle. But not being able to see your fate and future makes me feel antsy I suppose." Sesha explained weakly and I nodded in understanding and then to cheer her up I decided to use my Familia privilege to give my goddess so head scratches.
"Come here, I am calling in the head scratches you promised." I said holding in my chuckles as she looked back up to me both dismay and excitement I couldn't tell honestly. She was a woman and a cat girl to boot, no man in the universe will be able to tell what she was thinking.
"Impertinent mortal, you reach beyond your position… Very well! I will allow you the honor of touching my ears!" She said as though it was some great sacrifice for herself in order to comfort me.
"Oh, great goddess Seshat this humble mortal acolyte merely wishes to thread his fingers through your midnight locks of hair while paying grace to your absolutely adorable cat ears." I spoke hamming it up and making her chuckle as she sat in front of me this time and then bent her head over so I could begin scratching her ears.
"My ears are fierce not adorable." She muttered and my lips only twitched in response as I took my time just scratching her leopard ears.
"Alright Seshat… Well, I guess I am going to try to make some wooden armor now." I said pulling my hands away from the Goddess and for a brief moment I saw her pout, but she put on an amused expression as she saw me take up the carving and other wood working tools to the work bench, we created.
"Hoh? You are confident enough to do it on your own and not ask for my guiding hand?" She asked cockily and I guilelessly nodded making her tail twitch before I spoke and seemingly earned her approval.
"I need to get used to doing this myself, and although I certainly will listen and appreciate whatever advice you got, in the end all this needs to pass through my hands in order for my skill to work." I said as my mind drifted onto how I was going to make said wooden armor and even took note of its set bonus should I wear a full set of wooden armor.
'Under direct sunlight I will get minor enhanced healing and stamina recovery.' I mentally read out and could only deadpan at how utterly useless such a thing was in the dungeon as there was absolutely zero sunlight in the dungeon no matter the floor as far as I was aware.
But indestructible armor was indestructible armor, actually I didn't have a mana or health bar or anything like that except for having the inventory and the armor/accessory slots on the side of the mental construct so I wonder how the armor will protect me and what the armor rating itself does in anycase?
To start off with making the wooden armor I decided to work from the easiest piece being the chest plate work towards the most difficult part being the boots and leg armor due to all its moving parts.
"Using little wooden hinges to act as the connecting point for the back and front chest plate… If I didn't know your cheat was so stupid, I would want to slap you upside the head for having such a prominent weakness where the small hinges could break, leaving the chest plate to just fall off of you." Seshat muttered looking at the four hinges with two on each side of my shoulder that held together the chest plates for my front and back.
"Hmm it doesn't really defend my throat much, but it covers my chest and will keep the goblins from shanking me in the back." I said taking in the armor and actually putting it on and had to grimace as it obviously wasn't all that comfortable.
"Wait how did I succeed this time?" I muttered honestly confused as I took in the pile of wooden scraps beside me and Seshat scoffed.
"Bah that workbench is just as much of a cheat as you are. It seemingly allowed you're every carving motion to take the perfect amount of wood off and just generally make your crafting work like ten percent better so it went from garbage that a street rat wouldn't fight with, to an armor that a poor brand-new adventurer could go into the dungeon with to get money to get real armor." Seshat criticized and I realized from the mental information that the discomfort I was having with the armor was due to its low quality and it literally in my inventory had a negative epitaph naming it as Shoddy Wooden Chest plate that supposedly made me slower somehow.
"Well at least I succeeded to begin with." I muttered pouting before a stupid idea came to me and I sighed looking to Seshat. "Seshat please take that hammer and hit me in the chest with it, I need to see what this Armor rating means." I asked and for a moment Seshat looked at me like I was an idiot before she sighed and grabbed the hammer before hesitating and then reached into another cabinet and took out a red potion that was obviously a healing potion.
"Alright Jake… You asked for it." She said taking the large wooden carpentry hammer and winding up for a baseball swing and my face twitched as I noticed she was most certainly far more gung-ho in testing this than I was.
So, like a man who got dared by his buddies to do something stupid, in order to not be called a punk bitch I squared up and got ready for the ass kicking I literally asked for.
With a sharp crack of wood meeting wood, I squawked like a rubber duck being squeezed under water as the wooden armor only braced for a moment before her hammer slid down past the armor's chest plate and allowing the rest of the hammer's force of impact to smash into my stomach and needless to say I bent over at my knees at the feeling of a fucking hammer sliding itself onto my lower stomach.
"Shit you okay Jake, did I burst your spleen or something?" She asked with some actual concern as she leaned over and I waved her off as I gathered my breath and in the corner of my eye, I saw how the so-called armor rating went from its prior 3 to zero and was beginning to regenerate as it went to a one and then remembering the brief moment of where the armor cold stopped the hammer altogether I realized that the Terraria armor worked somewhat like a forcefield as it pushed aside blows and after the armor rating was used up I would take damage and actually get hurt then.
"Yeah, I learned something very important." I spoke as I stood back up while rubbing my sore belly and then launched into an explanation of my findings.
After understanding my findings Seshat nodded as she gave me a pat on my head. "Good job Jake you made your dungeon survival much more assured, now let me help you make a better chest plate and the other two pieces so in the morning you can get registered at the Guild and then try your luck in the dungeon." She spoke and after a moment of hesitation of where I wanted to work on my own armor, I was reminded of the Shoddy epitaph on my armor that could very well bring about my death in the dungeon.
So, I hung up my pride and accepted her offer of help with only making a mental note to practice making stuff on my own time without her help.
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Chapter 3
It turned out that Seshat's domain of craftsmanship/architecture was no joke as the end product armor pieces made out of naught, but wood literally had the Warding epitaph which was the best add on as it added an extra defense rating points to the armor and with it being only wood armor to begin with… Yeah, a full set of wooden armor with the warding addon was more than double its actual value in defense points honestly.
In the following morning after a hearty breakfast Seshat offered to help me get ready for my first day on the job.
"This is bullshit… How are you better at using my cheat then myself?" I spoke dryly as the goddess helped suit me up in the armor and hearing my words she tittered and as she moved to check if the back of the chest plate was on correctly, she flicked me in the nose with her long leopard tail.
"Peh!" I coughed at the surprise attack. "What if I am allergic to you?" I whined and she huffed and slapped the back of my armor.
"Bah, quit being a baby and get going, go do your mortal paperwork announcing yourself as my child and then make me proud in the dungeon." She said as she spun around to my front and grabbed the front of my chest plate and pull my head to lay against her own, so I was absorbed in her slit amber eyes.
"Do not die in the dungeon Jake Bariss… I don't have a domain to do with the dead, so finding you in Tenkai will be a pain in the ass, if your soul isn't just destroyed for being foreign to the system of reincarnation to begin with." She said dryly at the end and let go of me, with my form straightening up from the bent over position she pulled me into.
"Yeah… I have no plans on dying in the worst case I can always go the lichdom route or something." I muttered with Seshat scoffing but had an interested look to her face and with the Egyptian Pantheon being so death related I wasn't surprised she would know of such a thing.
I then left Seshat's Perch and the goddess within to head off to the guild.
Arriving back at the guild I saw that Rose Fennet actually had a bit of line as apparently, she wasn't at all a morning person. So, the crimson haired dog girl beauty was merely sleepily glaring at the people who flocked to her line as she honestly looked cute rather than scary.
Then seeing a rather empty line I headed to that receptionist even though I coudnt see them through the line of adventures who were handing in materials and just generally taking some paperwork to work on their own time.
But after a few minutes I could only blink as I saw the rather familiar receptionist, a half elf wearing the standard Guild attire that was quickly and efficiently working through the whole line of people.
For a moment I thought about leaving the line, but I realized that would be weird as hell and it's not like I could be sucked into Bell's sphere of influence and mayhem simply by getting my paperwork from his guild advisor Eina Tulle.
"Good Morning! What can I do for you today?" She spoke cheerfully and I coughed at her honestly enthusiastic greeting this early in the morning.
"Ahem, yeah uhm I would like to register myself as the first member of my Familia, do I need to do anything special?" I asked and she hurried nodded before she rung a bell above her little window with the voice of someone in the back yelling out how they were coming.
"Yup! In fact, there is a lot for us to do. We got to get your Familia in the system as an exploration Familia even if it was a crafting one previously and then we need to get your personal information down, plus as the first member of your Familia you are entitled to the services of a Guild Advisor at no additional costs other than paying your guild taxes on time." Eina explained clearly as another guild receptionist came out of the back and took Eina's place.
"Here follow me into one of the meeting rooms so we can get this straightened out." Eina spoke as she walked through the backside of the Guild Reception area until she reached a gate for her to exit and then she led me into one of the side rooms.
The side meeting room was rather sparsely decorated being only furnished with a couple couches and a rather tall table between the couches. for people to obviously do paperwork on without bending over.
"Please take a seat." She said gently pointing to the right-side couch and then she continued to speak as she organized the small stack of paperwork. "My name is Eina Tulle, depending on your paperwork I may or may not be your Guild Advisor so it's nice to meet you." She offered with a nod in my direction and knowing how elves and even half elves were very particular in who they allowed to touch them I nodded in return.
"My name is Jake Barris, and I will entrust myself in your care if that ends up being the case." I said as I leaned forward to take in the small stack of papers she handed to me.
Thankfully I could read and even write this worlds language or at least it was just auto translated into my mind as English either way I didn't think too hard on it and was just glad I wasn't completely illiterate.
"All you have to do is sign at dotted lines with X's next to them, the rest of them are unfortunately for me, having formally recognized you and your Familia as being an exploration Familia. Ah make sure you fill out the info of what kind of Guild Advisor you would prefer. Don't just write, Whatever, its fine I can handle anything." Eina said putting on a kind of macho voice making me chuckle.
"So, I can write, I would prefer a cute half elf?" I teased and she rolled her eyes at my harmless flirting joke as she could tell I was just joking.
"If you do write something like that, you will be automatically slotted to have our Amazon advisor and she was once an adventure. Who now takes great joy in beating the lessons on how to survive in the dungeon quite literally." Eina deadpanned and I froze as I was about to write some kind of snappy one liner, so I just behaved and wrote a simple request.
-I wish for my Familia's Guild Advisor to be of the more reasonable sort, discreet, and is knowledgeable about the dungeon and its perils/opportunity's. -
Then after filling out the rest of the paperwork during a mostly silent ten- or so-minute period besides where I had a couple questions like about the small math test they snuck in to see if I could actually do math and Eina explained how yes, the fantasy land did have like a third or like forty percent of the population being completely ignorant of how to read and do math beyond counting the coinage in front of them.
But with Amazons and Barbarians being a thing, I cannot blame the Guild from wanting to get a metric of people so any guild advisor they give to the new Familia, can help them not get screwed over as the Guild gives the Familia's Advisor a bonus every three months if said Familia survives for the first five years.
"Alright Jake, it seems all your paperwork is in order, here is your Guild ID that you will need to present in order to turn in your Monster drops." Eina said giving me a pretty standard identification card made out of some kind of bendable wood with my info on it, so I mimed putting it in my pocket but instead put it into my inventory.
"It was a pleasure Eina, when can I expect news as to my Familia guild advisor?" I asked and Eina hummed in thought.
"Hmm… Probably in two or three days, so I highly recommend you don't go into the dungeon before you actually get an advisor who will walk you through the dungeons top three floors where newbies can flourish." Eina explained and I smiled and nodded with all intentions of running into the dungeon after I left the guild anyway.
But in order to not hurt Eina's feelings or just make her think I was an arrogant asshole who was going to refute her very smart advice, I didn't say that I was literally going to throw myself blind into the dungeon that regularly killed adventurers… Actually, now that I think about it more, that sounds like a stupid as hell idea.
"Well I wish you to have a nice day then Eina, I am going to go do a bit of looking around for dungeon supplies." I made up as an excuse to get away from the guild and the strict half elf nodded as she sorted up all the paperwork I left behind.
Leaving the guild, I continued on past it and then I came to the most obvious landmark of the world of Danmachi, the Tower of Babel that acted as the mega mall for rich Familia's to setup it stores on its floors as well as the wealthiest of deities having an apartment within its upper floors.
But I was here for what laid below the Tower of Babel, the massive gaping pit with a spiral staircase that led down into the dungeon and its first floor.
But going down the massive staircase was in of itself a life changing experience as every step I took I saw literally thousands of adventures going down into the dungeon or going up the staircase and I could see plenty of them being injured or worse some people being literally carried by either stoic or crying Familia members which left made that person's fate look bleak.
Other than the staircase and coming across my first humanoid corpses… I also saw the other end of the fence as rich or more powerful adventure groups took the elevator system that was made in the center of the pit and whether it was going up or down, they always seemed to be of great cheer and optimism.
"Probably already lost the feelings of loss for one of their friends getting chewed up" I muttered as I saw another group taking the lift up who had obviously lost members or possibly looted weapons from some fallen adventure as one dude had a sword and shield set and next to him was a massive battle axe that he was awkwardly lugging around.
But finally, after like ten minutes of endlessly walking down the staircase that seemingly wanted me to walk down into the center of the world or something. I finally reached the first floor of the dungeon.
After I managed to get away from the crowd of people still walking deeper into the dungeon for the daily grind of possibly losing their lives, by going into one of the first floors side passageways. I then took out my copper broadsword to arm myself in my right hand and then after a pause I took out my staff and placed it in my life hand as it's not like I had a shield, nor would I get one that could strengthen myself until I killed Eye of Cthulhu or got its drops.
"God, I look weird as hell." I muttered taking in my wooden armor, a broadsword made out of copper of all materials and of course the magic staff with being made of damned tin and topped with a thumb sized topaz gem.
Going deeper into the dungeon's side passageway I was met with a four-way intersection, and I froze as I realized that I didn't actually have a map of the dungeon's first floors so after a moment of thought I just went straight as I could always retrace my steps by simply going straight.
"Hiss!" I heard a monster hiss and then from the shadows between the eerie dim lights came a duo of goblins all but sprint at me and the brief moment of losing them in my vision as they ran between the more lit sections of the dim corridor for a moment made me panic, but then I took a deep breath and with a mental flex I sent out a bolt of magical energy towards the goblins from my Topaz Staff.
The amber light from the Topaz Staffs rather slow-moving bolt of magic light up the corridor and then with a loud snap the light collided with the sprinting goblins chest who couldn't move out of the way quick enough from how it was sprinting towards me.
Feeling the drain on my Mind I didn't chance using the staff again, not exactly afraid of Mind Down after just two spells but I didn't know what would happen if I became actually low on Mind plus with only one Goblin still rushing at me, I made my Topaz Staff disappear into my inventory so I could hold my broad sword with both hands to meet the flying tackle coming from the charging goblin.
The flying goblin however was not met with the colliding with my armor so it could attempt to take me apart or whatever murderous ideas that was running through its head, nope it was met with the brutal overhead chop from my downward swing that caught the goblin on its shoulders and despite the Copper Broadswords poor stats the combined momentum of both my swing and the charging goblin made my sword slice/crush its rib cage and with a poof of smoke I felt my sword collide with the magic stone and shatter it within the monsters chest magic the monster poof into smoke leaving me with nothing.
With my first ever killed monster out of the way I looked up and saw the Goblin who I hit with a bolt of magic was struggling to its feet and the sight of it made me shudder, as the Topaz Staff despite being one of the first magical weapons in Terraria, still was a weapon and it did its job perfectly as the bolt of magic had all but cored out a human fist sized chunk of the goblins upper chest leaving its busted rib cage and organs plain to see.
Wordlessly I took out the Topaz Staff again feeling myself already having regenerated the bit of Mind I used previously and then with another mental flex I sent another bolt of magic at the goblin and with a wet popping noise, the goblin fell over as the bolt of magic hit it, right in the face evaporating a chunk of its brain or something.
"Yeah… I definitely want a supporter to do this." I muttered grimacing as I took out of the carving knife Seshat loaned me so I could pry aside the ribs of the dead goblin that I killed so I could grab its fingernail sized monster crystal at the center of its chest.
Even as I took the time to pull out the magic stone, I realized that this single monster crystal from a common goblin was all but completely worthless despite the goblin technically doing its damned best to tear out my throat with its nasty claws despite me taking the front of its rib cage off with a spell.
The next group of monsters I saw was a trio of Kobolds and the fuckers were just jabbering with one another with growls and grunts. So rather them attempt to hit them with the Topaz Staff from like twenty odd meters way I silently took out the Copper short bow and was so grateful I had a background of living in the damned sticks and knew how to use a bow even if I was more used to compound pulley hunting bows.
"Twenty meters in an enclosed area shouldn't need much adjustment." I muttered drawing on the Copper short bow with a wooden arrow pulled and after a breath I centered my shot at the Kobold that was facing me, and I let go the arrow fly from the bow with a soft zipping noise as it cut through the air.
Thankfully with my wooden armor I didn't have to worry about any chaffing from the string snapping forward as I certainly wasn't used to this bow and got caught by it, but thankfully my aim was still true and with a choked gurgle of surprise the arrow slammed home into the upper chest just below the kobolds neck despite me aiming more for the humanoid forms heart.
Then I once again switched weapons with a mental flex as my copper broadsword appeared inside my hands and once again, I did the same strategy as before by hitting one of the mindlessly charging kobolds with a shot from my Topaz Staff and then instead of breaking the monster crystal on the last charging Kobold I just side stepped its flying tackle so I could bring my broadsword down onto its spine which with a whimper left it crippled and dying.
Looking over to the Kobold I shot with an arrow I saw it had already ripped out the arrow I hit it with and was making its way toward me with that said arrow as though it was going to stab me with it. So not wanting to deal with being stabbed I took out the bow again and as it reached the ten-meter mark I hit it with another arrow in the chest making it stagger as it was still choking on the blood that came from its first arrow that hit just below its throat.
"Just die dammit." I muttered grimacing as it took another three arrows for the damned Kobold to collapse onto the ground and I sighed with suppressed almost hysterical giggles as the monster collapsed onto its front but with my Terraria arrows being indestructible the arrows just went completely through the Kobold with the sharp pointed ends poking through the monsters back.
After cleaning up the site of the battlefield and taking all the loot while collecting my arrows I just had to take a break and clear my head, so I just slid down the rough walls of the dungeon and just held onto my head with my hands as I tried to bring back up my metaphorical sanity meter.
My gear was perfectly fine for here in the dungeon, I wasn't a bad fighter as I knew how to take care of myself and not expose myself to too many risks, but still… "I don't like doing this alone." I muttered as I furtively stared down the side hallways and couldn't help but think about how utterly alone, I was here in the dungeon.
I had no backup, I had no friends here in Orario, and even my Goddess who was part cat may just enjoy watching me suffer in the name of getting stronger at times…
"I need to use my summons, fuck Orario's opinion. I am special, and I doubt people will bother me unless I get into some super summons anyway." I spoke with more confidence and then with a flourish I dipped Squire Squirrel Staff downwards and with a rattle as the large acorn on the end shook colliding with the wooden parts of the staff it was attached to by a vine, I heard a chattering noise as the knee high tall muscular squire appeared out of nowhere.
Thankfully this summon although it was clearly labeled a 'sentry' and thus more of a static turret than a freely roaming being, I was able to cheat the system by place the large squire on my armored shoulders and above my head.
"Well let's see what you can do." I muttered as I heard the chittering of a single goblin coming around the corner and then as per usual at the sight of me, it screamed in fury at seeing a mortal in the dungeon and ran at me with murderous intentions clear within its red glowing eyes.
But as it closed in on me, and I waited for it to approach while I held onto my Copper Broadsword I could only burst into honest laughter as the damned goblin was met with a brutal soccer ball sized acorn of all things being thrown into its face like a baseball pitcher attempting to break his own record at throwing his ball as hard as he could.
"I name you Sir Fluffykins, The First!" I said through coughing chuckles as the insane demonic squirrel above me chattered as it gleefully kept throwing its conjured acorns with bone breaking force at the goblin who just gave up at life and just rolled up in a ball to avoid the pain.
Seeing how pitiful the Goblin was I put it out of its misery by stabbing my copper broadsword down into its head as it cowered under the cruel battery of Sir Flufflykins The First's barrage of acorns.
"With you throwing one of those acorns every like three or four seconds and being able to disable a goblin or kobold, I can be bolder, I suppose." I muttered as I considered how many goblins I could actually safely manage and came to the realization that so long as I had some space to control the fight, I could easily deal with four or five goblins by using my Topaz staff as the Goblins and Kobolds always ran at me with zero sense of self-preservation until they themselves got hurt.
Then for the next couple fights I tried to be more melee focused so I could and be used to up and close fighting, As I refused to be a weak squishy mage who would fold over when some monster attempted to bowl me over. Like Lefiya Viridis, for example… Even as a level four, if even a couple later level one monsters like a Silverback were to get past the other Loki adventures, I would bet on the monsters killing her as she had no way to defend herself besides her magic which needed an incantation.
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Chapter 4
With Sir Flufflykins the First, riding atop my shoulders I was invincible… No seriously. I actually was able to steam roll small groups of the goblins and kobolds that made up the first floor due to the fact that the damned squirrel's acorns did not miss. He was literally Tom Brady and Peyton Manning rolled into one as he beamed the monsters with his soccer ball sized acorns of doom.
Granted sure the nuts didn't do much actual damage other than occasionally breaking the monsters' noses but try getting a light hollow bowling ball chucked into your face at full force and try to continue fighting… Yeah you can't, which allowed me to easily harvest the lives of the dungeon mobs to the point that I was considering getting rid of the Squirrel as it was just that overpowered.
Unfortunately, my fantasies of world domination using my squirrel staff was cut short as I heard a gasp from behind me and I turned around with Sir Fluffykins chittering as he took out another large acorn just in case, as we looked at what seemed to be a Pallum boy just staring at the massive squirrel that had been riding on my armor.
"Uh… This last tunnel is a dead-end you should turn around." I said pointing with my thumb to the right tunnel behind me which did in fact lead to a dead-end.
"Why do you have a monster on your shoulders!" He yelled pointing at Sir Fluffykins the First and I perked my head to the side with Sir Flufflykins the First doing the same as we looked at the Pallum in confusion before we looked behind us for the mysterious monster he pointed to.
Finally seeing nothing I looked up to Sir Flufflykins the First and he looked down to me, sky blue human eyes met tree bark soft brown eyes, then we looked to the Pallum who looked about ready to scream.
"Chitter pak!" Sir Flufflykins the First, spat towards the Pallum dropping his acorn to fold one of his arms across his chest and point at the Pallum and then… He flipped off the Pallum.
"No fuck you! I won't be… I won't be flipped off by a damned squirrel, screw you both!" The Pallum yelled and turned around on his heel and took off sprinting down one of the side tunnels and for a moment I held up my hand to stop him as the scene and interactions happened entirely too damn fast for me to react or get a word in.
Taking Sir, Fluffykins the First off, my shoulders I held it in front of me and as I stared into the summoned sentries' eyes, I realized something chilling… These summoned beings had personality so should I throw the summon stuff into the little trash icon in my inventory, would that kill the soul or whatever that was bound into the staff?
"Sir Fluffykins, the First, can you understand me?" I asked and just as I feared… The squirrel nodded making eye contact with me and that clearly told me was he anything but a dumb animal.
"Can you speak the human language or something?" I asked dryly as I respectfully put the squirrel, I had been hauling around on my shoulders for like the last half an hour down onto the ground.
But thankfully the squirrel shook his head and began chattering to me as though to prove through the act and his chittering didn't mentally translate to me or anything, he was just a squirrel with a lot of character that could understand me.
"So… Next people we see you, you can't flip them off alright." I all but ordered and the squirrel seemed to deflate at the order but still nodded and then with it agreeing I straightened up and took in my days' work. I had a small chunk of my inventory filled with monster stones and with their only being two types of monsters down here to begin with, obviously the monster stones would only take up two slots in my inventory and then there were the couple kobold teeth and goblin claws I got that took up there up their own slots.
"Thankfully everything stacks." I muttered as I saw that Sir Flufflykins, the First was making grabby hands at me to obviously pick him up and put back on my shoulders making me roll my eyes while chuckling.
"Before we get back to work, I got one last question. If I summon you again after you get hurt or I get separated, will it actually still, be you?" I asked and he nodded while pointing at the staff and then himself several times while making several other motions and chattering noises.
'Hmm, seems like his soul or whatever is bound to the staff itself… Well, I can talk to Seshat and see what she thinks after we are done today.' I thought before looking back to the squirrel
"You aren't getting tired, or anything are you?" I asked and the squirrel actually nodded and pointed at me and back to himself before a though struck me and I took back out his summoning staff and he clapped his hands in excitement as I so easily caught his meaning.
"Ah you mean I need to top you up every once in a while?" Yeah, apparently that wasn't the case as he made the 'kind of' meaning with his hand moving back and forth.
Just to be sure I resummoned Sir Flufflykins the First and seeing him still making the grabby hands motion for me to finally get done with the questions so the sadistic squirrel could get back to pelting monsters to death I felt assured of his condition as I felt the tiny drain on my Mana/Mind I don't know what energy source I was using for my magical Terraria stuff dip down slightly.
Then Sir Flufflykins and I's adventure in the dungeon continued with us harrowingly surviving by the slimmest of odds, we dodged death with each encounter… Yeah, nope I was still a cheating cheat who had every intention of surviving as I used every trick to kill the monsters without putting myself into dangers way.
Granted making things more difficult for myself simply using my sword and dashing gloriously into life and death combat may have given me a couple more stat points on my Falna, but in the end it was the monster you were killing that gave your Falna the Excellia the energy it needed to make you gain stat points for the most part not the experience in doing so unless I was far more powerful than the actual monsters.
But finally, after another hour of grinding in the dungeon and with the first floor starting to get filled up with weak adventures just doing their best to earn a living, I decided to head back up to the surface so I could go speak with Seshat and see how much killing these monsters did for my Falna and then with being around my workbench I could attempt to make even better gear with the goblin and kobold drops I got.
"Chitter! Squeak!" Sir Flufflykins the First chattered as we were making our way up the staircase out of the dungeon, and I steadfastly ignored all the people's reaction to myself powerwalking out of the dungeon with a stony face with a 'monster' riding my shoulder even as Sir Flufflykins the First, for whatever reason loved to point at any elves we passed by which garnered… Reactions to say the least.
Such as. "What kind of squirrel is that?" "Why the hell are you taking a squirrel into the dungeon?" And of course, my favorite. "Why does that squirrel look like it should live on my peoples World Tree?"
Yeah, I don't know, miss half elf with amazon skin tone and the same dressing habits, I am just trying to turn in my monster stones and no, I will not sell Sir Flufflykins the First, as he is my best friend and trained supporter…
Anyway, dealing with the people who were curious to all hell about the animal riding my shoulder wasn't that much of an issue once people noticed he didn't have the same all present glowing red eyes all monsters had.
So even the Guild Employee's watching the front of the Dungeon entrance itself didn't give me issues, as there was no actual squirrel like monsters up till like Rivira and its heavily forested floors that came up after that safe zone.
"Alright Sir Flufflykins the First, I am going into the guild, so I am going to dismiss you as this is going to be super boring." I said taking on his staff and quickly dismissing the squirrel from my shoulder after I went into an empty alley so I could sort out the summon and add some of the monster stones I got into a backpack I kept in my inventory to act as an excuse.
As I went into the Guild, I saw the lines to the receptionists were filled with it being around lunch time with lower-level adventures turning in their early haul so they could get a meal or just turn in yesterday's haul.
Seeing Eina working her own line I decided to take a different line rather than deal with her possibly exploding on me for not wanting for an advisor to teach me about the dungeon which was honestly a fair concern. But I wanted monster stones to work with and see what they could be crafted into.
"This is my first solo turn in, do I need to do anything special?" I asked the pink haired kind of petite receptionist running the line I joined.
"Huh? Uh no just show me your adventurer ID and your set!" She said cheerfully giving me a thumb's up.
Happy that it was so simple I just emptied my sack of tiny goblin and kobold monster stones into the divider between us and then the receptionists face twitched before she smiled and gave me a look. "Hey, it's alright with Kobold and Goblins being worth the same but when you get deeper into the dungeon, you need to sort out the monster stones or the Guild charges a fee to use the magical sorter. Otherwise, it will take hours for us little civilians to sort all your monster stones!" She said fiercely and I nodded in understanding making sure to keep other sacks for just that.
"Alright I will keep that in mind." I said raising a hand in surrender as honestly, I should have probably already done did that, but I simply didn't think of that. "Anyway, thanks for the help and have a nice day." I said wryly as I took the two thousand Valis I got for like four hours of farming which was far less than the prescribed twenty-five thousand a group of five new adventures could get in a day but I had to spend like forty percent of my time actually just getting the monsters stones out of the monsters as it took me a whole like forty seconds at best to extract each monster stone compared to Lilli's precise like five second to wrench it out of the corpse of a monster.
While I was walking home, I was deeply pondering on how the hell I could get past this whole little supporter issue as I honestly couldn't be bothered to get these damned monster stones out of the corpses of the monsters until it hit me like a ton of bricks. My summons.
I needed to summon an actual summon and not a sentry like Sir Fluffykins the First that could actually move around at will and what better than a flying little drone with tools on it and could shoot weak lasers to extract the monster stones for me.
Once I arrived back home to Seshat's store I went straight in and saw that very goddess lazily lounging on her couch she had setup in her shop so she could watch over it in comfort.
"Hmm? You are back so soon? I thought you would have camped out in the dungeon with how gung-ho you were about it haaa…" Seshat sassed me with a rather stereotypical cat greeting while she yawned at the end.
"How does your shop even stay open I haven't seen anyone buy anything?" I asked dryly as I looked around at all the little knickknacks she had out on the display.
Seshat scoffed and threw a hand in front of her as though to pointed at all the objects in the room. "Bah all this? Yeah, I literally have sold like half a dozen things in here all together in the weeks I've been in Genkai, I just get commissioned to decorate and build my fellow deities' homes if they even have the money to afford it." Remembering how Seshat had only been here in Tenkai for like a couple months at most I had to shrug.
"So how many such projects have you gotten?" I asked curiously as I threw the Valis I collected into my inventory seeing as I was now in a safe place and then with another thought I took of my Squire Squirrell Staff and resummoned Sir Fluffykins the First onto my lap as I sat across from Seshat.
"Hmm I got a wine tasting room project from Loki for three million Valis that took me like a whole week to do, and then I had some weird project from Dian-Chet where he wanted to me make a kind of bathing house and that got me a whole ten million Valis. So, I am set for money for like the next human lifetime unless I decide to buy a bottle of Soma… Then I guess I will have to go to work again." Seshat said as though she having to actually find work would be most terrible thing in the world.
"So… What's with the furball?" Seshat finally asked as she watched me holding Sir Fluffykins the First, in my lap.
"I made a friend… Can we keep him?!" I asked childishly holding out Sir Fluffykins the First in my hands as though to show Seshat how cute my summon was.
Silently Seshat and Sir Fluffykins the First stared at one another until with a loud series of thunking noises rang out as Sir Fluffykins the First looked up to me and rapped his knucks on a seemingly empty acorn he summoned and then kept pointing at Seshat whose caramel dark eyes tightened in there slit shapes as she hissed. "Are you calling me empty headed you damned overgrown Rat?!" She demanded and at Sir Fluffykins the First shameless nod, my goddess leapt from her perch like the cat she was.
"I am going to skin and make a damned Cossack hat out of you!" She yelled as I ran away from her before Sir Fluffykins the First could brain my poor goddess in the head with one of his acorns and possibly kill her which would be just my bad luck.
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Chapter 5 Partially commissioned
Seshat and Sir Flufflykins the First, then made peace with one another after me and Seshat both got exhausted when running around, with me running away from my goddess with said chattering squirrel and Seshat chasing the squirrel in my arms.
"Maybe you did make some progress in the dungeon." Seshat panted as we were both lying face down in one of the stacked-up bedding in her sunning room.
"Doubtful, ugh…" I groaned as I rolled onto my back and held a hand to cover my eyes of the bright light coming in from above.
"Well Jake, I got wonderful news for me." Seshat said cheerfully and I looked over to my goddess as she reached into the small satchel she kept on the side of her hip and from it she withdrew a rather formal looking letter with what looked to be gold lettering on it.
"Ouranos has sent out a very important message to all deities of Orario." She said to get my attention and my eyes sharpened at such news as no such thing had happened in my knowledge of canon, but her words kept on coming. "Due to the dungeon spreading its influence not only Vertically through the dimension that holds together Genkai but even Horizontally, in order to prevent such spreading after the side dungeon Knossos integrating and strengthening the main dungeon, Ouranos will be focusing on suppressing the dungeons expansion so that it doesn't open another entrance to the world." Seshat then looked to me, and her eyes carried some kind of pity and I gulped at the sight.
"Therefor with Ouranos suppressing the dungeon's growth rather than lulling it into a stupor, the nascent will within the dungeon will be more aggressive meaning more monster parties, more mutated monsters, more aberration level monsters, and most importantly the dungeon itself will be more active in killing people through its monster control." Seshat explained before then getting into how the stronger mutated or aberrant monsters albeit more dangerous were actually a bit of a boon for Orario as their monster stones were more valuable as well as the challenge in killing the monsters will help the massive number of weak adventures finally get stronger.
That or they will die.
"So, do you plan to get into a party or something? The dungeon is going to be very dangerous while everyone gets used to the new changes." Seshat asked me and I groaned as I buried my face into the pillow in denial.
"I am just going to make a new summon staff that can help me and some other stuff… Do we have a lot of iron and copper stored up or do I need to go mine for some?" I asked my goddess with my mind completely focused on what the hell was going on that made this world follow Danmemo's dungeon with the different forms of monsters.
'If this world is going to go off of Danmemo lore does that mean Titans from Attack on Titan is going to be here???' I thought somewhat hysterically before I recalled I was now an adventure and had access to Terraria stuff… I could literally craft wings and fly away from anyone causing issues.
"Why in the world would you go mining for ores? This is Orario you can just go buy whatever metal you need and yes, I have plenty of copper and iron for some of my projects what do you need it for?" She asked after huffing at my stupid ass question about whether I needed to go mine for it myself.
"I need to make a furnace and an anvil to help my crafting, then I am going to make a summon that will be very useful." I muttered and my goddess huffed at my non answer before giving Sir Fluffykins, the First a look as though wondering I meant another semi sentient being like his fluffiness.
Once I absorbed the fact that the dungeon was going to be quite a bit more dangerous then I expected and that I was unlikely to be able to steam roll my way through most likely with my lower-level Terraria gear, I decided to get to work making the bread and butter in getting started in a Terraria world in the iron anvil and furnace.
"So in what confounded way are you going to make a furnace this time?" Seshat asked me as I walked into her working area and with a hum, I took a bunch of remnants of some marbling work and some wooden chunks from some carpentry she left behind.
"Wood and Stone is all I need really." I said mostly telling the truth as I just needed to use my mana to light the wood on fire as I was assembling the stones into the furnace's shape and unlike the damned workbench, I created previously, I could easily move the stones around if they weren't in the right place so even though it took me a couple hours, I was able to successfully create an indestructible ever burning furnace that melt down my scrap metal I had collected while running around Orario.
No literally, it called all the scrap metal bits and ends I collected just 'scrap metal' in my inventory so thankfully it only took up one slot in said inventory.
"Forty ingots of iron, some tin, and finally a tiny bit of some gold and silver." I muttered nodding at the small haul I got though it was nowhere near what I wanted but, in the end, an interesting thing to note was that my ingots didn't have the same indestructible nature the other things I had created had, so I could sell these or something.
"Alright I am going to try to make an anvil now." I announced but then awkwardly noticed that as I was so absorbed in making my ever-burning furnace that Seshat had left already.
Thankfully making the anvil itself was another very easy task as all the mental recipes had me do was make cast out of some sand and pour the molten metal into the sand depression and then sand down the rough edges of the casted anvil.
Instantly the moment I filled finished the final bits of sanding, my ability considered the anvil to be good enough I felt my mind fill with ever more crafting recipes such as the Wulfrim scraps and how to make the Wulfrim controller and other accessories that will buff the weak machine summons/weapons/tools.
"Alright now to make a Wulfrim Controller." I muttered as I cracked my neck already honestly feeling sore from moving all the metals around and sanding down the anvil which was a lot of work in and of itself.
The Wulfrim Controller similar to my Squire Squirrell Staff would summon a minion to help me, but whereas Sir, Fluffykins, the First was a sentry and thus unable to move from its position, the drones the Wulfrim Controller would summon were very much not, a static turret of sorts.
They were circular drones that could fly around and had laser batteries on it that could shoot small red lasers to hard enemies as well as small set of tools on it for picking up stuff.
I am hoping I can have the drones be my supporter but if this doesn't work, I can just keep at what I am doing until I can get like another more humanoid summon to do said work.
Orario had deep waters and my abilities could put a target on me that I couldn't handle just yet.
I continued working on making the Wulfrim Controller well and through the entire day basically, I had to learn how to make the Wulfrim metal alloy that was a mix of Iron and Tin, and then I had to make weird circuity boards with said hunks of Wulfrim metal and then finally once I assembled all the pieces of Wulfrim my abilities wanted I filled up the palm sized drone remote control with my mana to activate it and make it 'finished'.
With a loudly series of beeping noises that rang out through the workshop, the head sized flying circular drone appeared out of nowhere and began flying around myself.
As I took in the drone honestly, I thought I was going to hate it for being a weird thing to have in the middle of fantasy land Danmachi but with its green tone and… How emotive it was flying and making its beeping and booping noises.
"What the hell is that racket Jake Barris!?" Seshat yelled stomping into the workshop and froze seeing the flying drone flying around me and I saw that Sir Fluffykins, the First who was riding on Seshat's shoulders wave to the drone and the drone responded in a series of loud beeping noises and flew up and down quickly seemingly as a form of greeting.
"Fuck it… Its past 7 PM it's time for my fourth nap, no more banging on that damned anvil, go get cleaned up, eat, and go to bed, I need my beauty sleep." Seshat muttered taking Sir Fluffykins. the First into her arms and as she went down the hallway, I heard Seshat call back to me.
"I am keeping this squirrel as a shop alarm by the way!" She yelled and for a moment I wanted to deny her as I wanted to snuggle his floof but then I shrugged as I realized I could just summon him back later on in the dungeon after I deal with the Guild and talk to whoever is going to be set as my guild advisor.
The next day when I finally got Seshat to wake up I was able to get her to update my Falna in order to see my growth with the single day in the dungeon as well as the crafting I had also done.
Jake Barris
Level 1
Strength 17 I
Endurance 22 I
Dexterity 15 I
Agility 17 I
Magic 24 I
Skill-
The Terrarian- Enforces Terrarian world logic upon user, restricts acquisition of development abilities and Falna backed spells in order to host mods, mods may not be taken/disabled/traded for another mod. User's alien logic to the world, prevents mental status effects from affecting user.
Development Mod-
Calamity and all addons. Allows the creation and summoning of Calamity mod objects.
Looking at my Falna I nodded at the information within and was rather happy with my stat growth as it wasn't like I had Bell's super cheat, nor did I imagine I would get something like that as my Terrarian body prevented me from getting normal development abilities and magic itself from like a Grimoire… But nothing is stopping me from making a magic staff or something that could do crazy magic bullshit and by that logic with my inventory I could easily run around with twenty different magic items and have a spell for every occasion.
"Not bad growth for the first day. Anyway, make sure to bring home some actual money today, you couldn't buy a days' worth of food with what you brought in yesterday, let alone pay rent and such." Seshat said making me want to retort with how it was my first day in the dungeon, but I swallowed it as I saw my goddess's eyes were looking at me with some kind of pride.
She just wanted me to work harder, longer and just to do more for my own sake, so I nodded before speaking. "I will be back home for dinner then."
Heading off to the Guild was an uneventful trip until I actually reached the very guild itself and saw a decent sized protest of… Poorer adventures all standing outside the Guild chanting something I couldn't make out in the mass of noise.
"What are they saying?" I asked a human who was like me watching the protest and probably wondering how we could actually get into the Guild itself for whatever number of reasons.
"What else could it be, last night more than five percent of the level ones all died in the dungeon in the matter of a couple hours. People are pissed and want things to go back to what they were like before." The man shrugged and then he seemed to take me and in and noticed that although I was wearing wooden armor it was well made and probably mistook my copper sword for some kind of alloy or something.
Now wooden armor and weapons here in Danmachi isn't something to be ashamed of, as elves were notorious for lording how they could cultivate and treat a single branch over the course of years that could make a metal sword snap under the magical wood's durability.
"You been in the dungeon and saw the changes yet?" He asked and I shook my head.
"Nah I got out just after lunch as I go in tpyically pretty early… Any advice to the changes, how common are the new monsters?" I asked the more pressing question and the man hummed in thought making me think he wanted me to bribe him or something.
But it turned out that he just wanted someone to lord over his new information as he coughed and looked around furtively. "Me and my squad are pretty decent level ones with all of our stats above the C rank but when we were testing out the whole usual Killer Ant farm technique where you have them call their friends, we damn near got overwhelmed as there were like one in every five Killer Ants being a mutation, and one in every twenty being one of those damned aberrations…" When he mentioned the aberration, I saw him clench his fist as the thought of it maybe him tense up.
"Are those Aberrations really that bad?" I asked and the man didn't respond only staring ahead into the crowd for a moment before he finally spoke low and softly.
"My best friend who is a very strong dwarf and has beaten newer level twos in pure strength had his shield ripped of his arms destroyed in the pincers of the ant and even worse, his Warhammer couldn't crack the golden armor the aberration Killer Ant had…" The man spoke honestly sounding haunted as he brushed a hand over his face and shook his head.
"I have seen that man tank punches from a Silverback on that tower shield, but that damned ant just ripped it out of his hands like it was nothing. But then again the ant was literally the size of a small pony so maybe it's that whole ant being so strong for its size haha." The man weakly laughed before he took in the protesting crowd and spoke one last time. "We aren't the heroes of the Loki and Freya Familia; we just want to earn a living. But in this new dungeon a lot of us may not survive floors we had long conquered, so be careful kid, no one knows what's coming next." The man said patting me on my shoulder before merging into the crowd surrounding the Guild.
"I want to go home…" I muttered groaning at how Ouranos change to the dungeon will likely lead to an untold number of deaths as in all honesty, most adventures had gotten set in their ways in not getting past level three and just farming the monsters before Rivira.
"Fuck it, let's see if I can talk to a receptionist at least." I muttered heading through the crowd of protesters until I finally broke through the line and saw that there was a number of Ganesha Familia members standing guard in front of the Guild keeping the rowdy adventures from doing anything stupid.
"Halt! What is your business with the guild today!" The guard roared leveling his halberd in my direction making me raise my hands up in surrender.
"I am a member of a new Familia and was told to report here to meet with my new Guild Advisor." I answered and the man frowned as having an appointment with the Guild itself should allow me in.
"Alright go on ahead, but don't pull anything, my Familia members are taking no shit today with all the chaos." The man warned and withdrawing his halberd and with a look to his fellow guard they made some space for me to enter the thankfully quiet Guild to hopefully get some information.
The guild was miraculously empty with only a couple of adventures silently talking with some of the Guild employees so seeing a berth of empty lines and free to be spoken too receptionist's I decided to take a chance and go talk to Rose Fannett the crimson haired dog ear girl who was seemingly resting her eyes in her empty hands with how empty the guild was.
"Hello, I am here for my guild appointment to speak with my appointed Guild Advisor." I spoke softly and Rose's eyes snapped to me from her resting position and for a moment I saw her struggle with my face for a moment before she snapped her fingers as she recalled.
"Ah yes Jake, you wanted to join a crafting Familia. One sec let me get your paperwork." She said turning around to head into the back of the Guild, but I noticed her eyes twitched seeing me in adventure gear. And I had a wry smile come to my face as I kept in mind that she merely wanted to keep her distance from adventures because she got really depressed after several of her protégés that was in charge of advising got killed in the dungeon.
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Chapter 6
Once Rose finally got back with my folder, I saw her eyebrow was twitching so I knew I was in some kind of trouble.
"Jake Bariss, did you specifically request me to be your Guild Advisor?" She all but demanded and I quickly shook my head as honestly, I expected to get Eina.
"Nope not at all. I simply requested my advisor to be professional and know the dungeon very well." I responded waving my hands to the side to further show my innocence making Rose frown before she snapped my file closed with a loud snapping noise.
'"Fine follow me into the side room, we have much to discuss." She muttered and I saw the red-haired beauty all but stomping off towards the side room's Eina brought me into to do my adventurer paperwork.
'Why did I get the one with emotional baggage…' I mentally bemoaned wondering if I got stuck with her because I didn't try to get absorbed into Danmachi's already plentiful drama by joining the Hestia Familia or whatever.
Once I entered the side room, I saw Rose Fannett pull out another file from within my own file and put it on my side of the table. "These are my qualifications, while you read over mine, I will read over your personal details and then we can compare information before I get into giving you a quick informational dive on the first three floors of the dungeon."
Then her face scrunched up and I barely heard the werewolf mutter as she picked up my file to read its information. "Ouranos only knows if they info the guild has, is of any damned value anymore."
Silently ignoring how her information was probably completely worthless with how the new monster variants were coming out of the woodwork and leading monsters in groups I read how Rose Fannet was a whopping 28-year-old Christmas cake and had tutored a great many numbers of adventures with several of them becoming level three's and fours with her highlight being Ais Wallenstein, the Loki Familia's crown jewel.
"Why does your file say in three different places you still haven't married?" I asked kind of weirded out as just after age was inputted it said 'unmarried' and then towards the middle of the page it described her personality and once again said the dreaded 'unmarried' line and the finally at the end of her accomplishments it once again said how she was still 'unmarried'.
Rose froze and blushed at my question and honestly it matched her hair and distracted me allowing the werewolf to yoink her file out of my hands and hurriedly scan and lose her blush and going pale at the… Embarrassing remarks.
"Misha Flott… I am going to throttle you, you damned brat!" She growled and I saw her tap into her races inherent beastification ability as her eye's lightly slitted before she took a deep breath.
"Excuse me for the outburst… My colleague who may very well not survive the coming week, has decided to fill out my reference file with impertinent information as a prank." She said before taking a deep breath and mentally resetting. "Now let us begin to discuss the dungeon and what knowledge is assuredly still relevant such as the floor layouts as Ouranos has assured the guild privately that despite the monsters changing and becoming more plentiful and dangerous. The whole reason he allowed such a thing was to prevent the dungeon itself from changing and growing larger." Rose explained.
Then I was given a series of pocket-sized foldable maps that depicted the first three floors of the dungeon which was the area known to host the weakest of monsters with there only being Goblin's, Kobold's, Lizard's, and the rare Cave Bat's. Of course, she also briefly touched on the Jack Bird monster but very sternly told me to ignore the damned thing because it was a trap.
Especially now with the monsters becoming stronger and more plentiful. The Jack Bird was a rooster sized and shaped monster with tropical colored plumage that wouldn't even attack adventures and would merely lead them on a merry chase through the dungeon as it's drop item was worth at least a million valis due to it being a potent alchemy reagent.
The problem was how the Jack Bird would lead people into deadly monster parties, which would typically end up with the chasing adventure or party being wiped out.
"Of course, with the dungeon changes I highly suggest you get team members to work with in the dungeon, as many people have died in the last twelve hours as they didn't pay any attention the guild employee's warning them at the entrance of the dungeon." Rose said after finishing her guide through the first levels of the dungeon and I nodded in understanding.
"I won't go into the dungeon alone I promise, I have interest in dying just yet." Hearing my words Rose merely rolled her eyes.
"Adventures go on an adventure and thus they die young." Rose retorted and I couldn't deny that she was absolutely right as otherwise how else would adventures accomplish feats worthy of leveling up if they didn't throw on their yolo hats and jump off their position of power and into a dangerous or otherwise legendary life defining moment in their story.
"Now it was a pleasure working with you Jake, but I have to get back to work and I imagine you will be throwing yourself into the meat grinder… Just take it slow." Rose said kind of crossly at my occupational choice, but I still heard her softly spoken words at the end just before she closed the door to the side room with a sharp snap.
For a moment I just brushed my hands over my face as I took in the maps that Rose left for me and then realizing if I wanted to meet Seshat's expectations I couldn't just sit here overly analyzing the absolutely nonexistent at this point info on the new monster variant's so deciding to get going, I likewise got up from my couch and headed towards the dungeon in search of life defining moments.
When I came to the dungeon for life defining moments, I didn't want that life defining moment to be meeting my first human corpse in real life. Which I did.
I saw the mangled corpse so torn apart by a small squad of four kobolds with one of the off-colored variants leading the pack of five wolfish kobolds into tearing apart the corpse that I couldn't even tell its gender or race as all of its clothes were ripped apart and along with the body itself being covered in blood and dirt from the dungeon.
Wordlessly I summoned my Wulfrim controller into my hand and with a loud series of beeping noises the wulfrim drone appeared beside me as I took out my topaz staff and advanced on the kobolds.
I wasn't going out of my way killing these monsters and the enhanced monster for some kind of revenge for whoever they mauled, I didn't do it for honor or anything like that. I wanted to kill that tiny flicker of fear within me that was terrified that the world had deviated from the Danmachi I considered canon and I should just go hide somewhere away from Orario and its insanity.
Normally kobolds were bipedal dog like monsters with brown fur that came up to my lower chest with how I was like six foot even. But the mutated version had like an off blue fur and was more muscular in build, plus it was significantly taller with how its head reached my shoulders instead of their shorter normal cousins.
Hearing the loud beeping noises coming from my drone, the Kobolds all but tore themselves from the corpse they were desecrating and began sprinting at me with the blue tinged one being so half again as fast of its brethren allow it to easily outstrip the others and once it approached within five meters of me and looked about ready to pounce on me.
The mutated Kobold then had its face melted into mush as the Wulfrim drone and I both each sent two bolts of magic into the Kobolds face and even as the monster dropped the ground screaming in horrible agony I saw that it was still alive despite other kobolds only taking two such topaz staff magical bolts to the face to die, to say nothing of my Wulfrim drone that had its laser weapon that although it didn't do as much damage across a larger area like the magical bolt did. It's heat and its laser properties allowed its attack to penetrate deeper into its target than my Topaz staff's magical bolt.
"Fuck these enhanced monsters…" I cursed as I took out my Copper Broadsword and my Copper Shortsword in my off hand after I launched the rest of my magic at the other kobolds running at me.
It didn't take a genius to figure out why so many adventures died in just a day if a monster you been killing for years suddenly became five times more durable not to mention faster and strong. Not to mention if they got several mutated or even one of the aberrant monsters dropped on them in a monster party…
Thankfully just like Sir Fluffykins the First, my wulfrim drone was very accomplished at targeting monsters that were getting to close or looked to be about to overwhelming me as I did my best to chop apart the Kobolds with my Copper swords.
But finally, after I killed the trash kobolds, I saw the mutated kobold still struggling on the ground despite its face being literally melted off. "Should you have died of shock or something at this point." I groused before I looked to my drone. "Try to collect the monster stones within the monsters like this." I said and then showed the drone how I used a thick carving knife to open up the monster's upper stomach and push my hand up past its ribs so I could easily pull out the fingernail sized monster stone at the heart of the monster.
According to Rose, the fastest way to get a monster stone out of a goblin or kobold was to forgo breaking or pushing through their ribs and instead just reach up from under there ribs and just pull it out that way as it was far easier on whatever knife you used to butcher the monsters not to mention much less effort.
But my drone had a small pool of infinite mana and once I showed it exactly where the monster stone was again on another monster I saw it use its laser at a lower setting to literally surgically remove the kobolds ribs and then use its little claw machine like grabbers to pull aside any muscles and take out the monster stones faster than I could do the whole process of kneeling down, cut open monster, reach into monster, pull out monster stone, and then stand back up to move over to another monster I killed.
"Great! Screw supports and midgets that will fuck me over in the dungeon, summoner life!" I cheered seeing the drone happily go about the grisly task of using its laser to surgically open up the kobolds chest cavity's so it could rip out its monster stones.
"Now it's just you." I said walking over the mutated kobold that had exhausted itself in its agony filled struggling.
But before I could shove my sword into its head or throat to kill it, I saw its ears flicker as my boots scrapped across the floor just next to it and then in a flash, it rolled towards me, and I cursed as I felt it's unbreakable iron grip around my ankles as it wrenched me down to floor as it pulled my feet out from beneath me.
"Fuck!" I yelled feeling the monster climb atop me in the brief instant I froze as the air got knocked out of me at landing on my back but even as I rammed the thick knife, I used to butcher the monsters into the arm pit of the kobold. I still was slashed across my head, with only my helmet possibly saving my life before the third laser from my Wulfrim Drone finally penetrated the mutated Kobolds skull and fried its brain making it stiffen and collapse atop me.
I hurriedly pushed aside the mutated kobold as I quickly crawled away from its still corpse but in my panic all I could feel was the throbbing headache from my head still ringing from the blow of the Kobold that shattered the tiny magical 'armor' protection and rang my noggin like a damned bell.
"This fucking sucks…" I cursed nursing my head as I realized just how damned stupid, I was going up to the mutated monster without double tapping it from a distance even as I was well aware of its enhanced durability.
This wasn't a learning moment to me. No this was my Terrarian helmet saving my head from being caved in as should I have. Had not for that tiny little force field and I was instead wearing some normal hide or leather helmet, that kobold would have bashed in or even slashed open the helmet itself with its inhuman strength.
"I have to be more careful." I muttered even as I took a tiny sip of the health potion Seshat gave me to alleviate myself of the headache I had.
"Boop!" The Wulfrim Drone went, softly announcing its presence to me as it handed over the small collection of monster stones to me and as I looked down at the five monster stones in my hand I saw the mutated Kobold's monster stone was instead of the typical purple stones were of a lighter shade and close to blue than anything and then as I held onto my mind was filled with a couple more crafting recipes and I realized these mutated monster stones could be used to craft Mana Crystals.
As I stood up and took in my Wulfrim Controller I realized a very important fact that would define me as an adventurer here in Danmachi. "Fuck fighting monster stronger than I am in close combat!" I said and I felt my mind click into place seemingly as I realized that with all the guns/bows/yo-yo's/magic/ and most importantly the various summons. I had no damned reason to get into close combat with monsters that were far stronger than me physically.
Hell, I was stupid to do it, to begin with.
"Let's go." I said taking out my Topaz staff in my off hand and had my bow in my main hand as I walked with renewed purpose deeper into the dungeon towards the second floor as I had all the means with my summon to survive small groups so long as I kited the monsters and picked them off from a distance.
Not even an hour later my new strategy was proven to work for the best, as the Wulfrim drone could fly over the lunging swipes of the monsters and lay upon a suppressive spray of lasers while I just jogged backwards with my topaz staff just shooting magical bolts first at the mutated monsters I ran into before taking out my bow to pick off the normal monsters when they got closer and I ran out of mana.
Then having learned from my prior mistake I would stand a full like five meters away and just shoot the mutated monsters in the head and upper chest after they collapsed with my wooden arrows to make sure they were dead, and even then, I didn't get close to the corpses just in case the dungeon itself was controlling the creatures and were having them play dead.
The only time I touched the results of the battles at all, was the few monsters drops my drone gave me as well as all the monster's monster stones.
Then as I came out of an intersection, I saw a small party of three adventures, all elves with all three of them, being women who tightened their grip on their weapons at me coming around the corner.
"Excuse me ladies I will head that way." I said pointing in the direction that led to a larger open dead-end room that would typically have small parties of Kobolds or Goblins that would take over it and just hang out for adventures to stumble onto them.
But the lead elf who looked to be a dark elf or maybe a half elf with amazon heritage with how she showed off her ample cleavage shook her head. "No human, we are going to clear out the monster party. So, take the other path." She said and I saw her, and her party tighten their grasps on their bows and noticed how they each had three arrows nocked at once and frankly I didn't want all three of them shooting all nine of their combined arrows into me, so I held up my hand.
"Wait! I just want the mutated and aberrant monster stones, if you are willing to let those go, we can work together, and I am a magic user of some skill with a magical familiar." I said with my drone coming down from the ceiling it was hiding within the uneven sections making the elves flinch at the obviously alien mechanical construct flying over their heads. And obviously being in a good position to kill one of them should the encounter had gone hostile.
The elf looked to her compatriots and seeing them both shrug she sighed nodding in acceptance. "Fine just walk beside us so there's no funny business and when we get into the Party Room, you will walk to the side so no one is behind the other, so no one is worried about the other stabbing the other in the back." She explained and not seeing a problem with her little stipulation to working with an unknown I acceded, and we walked down the hallway towards the open room.
"So, what kind of magic user are you?" The elf next to me asked and now with the leading darker skinned elf not commanding my attention I saw she was a cuter thing, being like just over five feet tall and rather petite and was obviously going the fashion souls path of an adventure as she was wearing a skirt and a tight-fitting blouse here in the dungeon. With the only armor she was wearing being was some bracers to protect her wrists probably from her very bow, a choker, and some kneepads.
"The kind that kills monsters… Actually, I am more of an alchemist for the most part. I make magical items like this you see." I said pointing at my 'familiar' who loudly booped in response making the elf giggle.
"So, what's your name? Mine is Jake Barris." I offered quietly while the other two elves were discussing the number and status of their arrows they had left, as the entryway to the Party Room approached.
"Oh, my name is Mia Song." She whispered as we approached and as I looked into the Party Room I almost just whirled around as I saw the damned room was certainly a party…
Wordlessly I threw my hand in front of Mia and the other elves making them growl but I didn't let them say anything as I pulled them back from the entrance and seeing my stony expression, they didn't burst into screams about their elvish disdain at being touched without permission.
"There are two camps in there. A Goblin and Kobold camp with each one has at least three mutated and the Goblin camp has an Aberant leading their camp… Should we leave?" I asked and the elves realized really quick how dangerous this was. As each mutated was dangerous enough of its own with how much hardier than their natural brethren not to mention the aberrant that could give a higher level one issues.
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Chapter 7
"Shouldn't we try to get another party Roseanne?" The green haired elf that I didn't talk with and was next to the curvaceous darker skinned elf who was leading the party asked obviously worried about how strong in particular the aberrant was, because for all we knew it could be a level two monster and could just rip us apart.
Well rip them apart anyway, I had potions of swiftness and even recall potions so I could flee if necessary.
"No… More people could have the dungeon respond by trying to drop a monster party on us." Roseanne muttered frowning at the room's entryway.
"Entryway is too big to funnel them as well." I threw in to shut down any such idea as the dungeon hallway was a solid like fifteen meters wide which meant the whole monster party within could rush down the hallway anyway.
For a moment Roseanne clearly thought about whether she wanted to chance her survival doing this mad monster cleansing and I could see from the way her shoulders untensed that she came to her decision.
"Mia, Nyana, we are retreating. We don't know how dangerous these aberrant and mutated are in a group." Roseanne said shamelessly as I was ready to go in and take advantage of how much faster the aberrant and mutated were and kill them with the archers as they would be the first rushing over to us.
"Goodluck young man." The curvy elf said placing her dusky skin toned hand across her exposed cleavage and bowing to me slightly. Then the three elves literally after posing and arguing for the damned room, just walked off for fucks sake.
"Well, dammit… Do I want to chance this now?" I muttered as I watched the three girls turn around another hallway and leave my sight.
Looking back towards the room and then my Wulfrim Drone I sighed as I took out my Squire Squirrel Staff and summoned Sir Fluffykins the First, as I knew my bro wouldn't abandon me like those girls did when the going's got rough.
But as I summoned the very expressive squirrel he whirled around as much as he could from his sitting position and when he locked eyes with me, he began laughing and pointing at me and I remembered how Seshat claimed the squirrel as her shop's security guard or something.
"Seshat is going to be pissed, isn't she?" I asked and he firmly nodded while making the motions that meant Rest in Peace.
"Well, Seshat can't kill me if I kill myself in the dungeon, can she?" I mused as I picked up the squirrel and put it on my wooden armor and as I mentioned killing myself, I earned a rather hard bonk on my helmet from my summon slapping the helmet as though telling me to get serious.
The reason I was chancing this honestly slightly suicidal test of courage was… Well, my Terrarian crafted items were for sure strong and could help me bridge the gap especially later on with the higher-level adventures. But I had nothing helping my growth like Bell had with his cheat skill.
Not only that but I wanted to be strong and known for being strong as I didn't want to spend months running around the world of Danmachi trying to get certain resources that I would need and likely be highly uncommon if not impossible to find here in Orario like certain weird flowers for potions, wood from the elvish lands, and countless other things I could literally commission other people to get for me in order to earn my favor and get one of my creations.
Hence why I was going to fucking cheat and use grenades to kill all these monsters.
"Grenades are literally craft-able with just some iron scraps and gunpowder, gunpowder being just charcoal, and sulfur mixed together." I mused as I held out a grenade in both hands that I had made in my off time. Calamity add-on's that allowed for the crafting of certain Vanilla items were proving more than ever their value as without it I wouldn't have been able to craft grenades at all as far as I was aware and especially important as Terraria NPCs just weren't a damned thing here at all so it's not like I could just go buy gunpowder and bullets in mass.
"Here." I said handing a bag filled with grenades to Sir Fluffykins the First. Just because Terraria never finished the thrower class didn't mean my homeboy insane squirrel couldn't just throw bombs and other crap at my foes from atop my shoulders. The only limitation on him as a sentry seemed to be that he physically couldn't walk around, not that I couldn't arm him with other munitions than his summoned acorns.
"Bwah Chick Snick!!!" The insane squirrel cheered shaking the bag over my head making my butt pucker as it seemingly worshipped the bag filled with highly explosive ordnance
"Alright at least let me die by monsters…" I muttered as I took out my Copper short bow and finally entered the resting room of the monster party and I saw the Kobolds and Goblins were already up and moving to investigate the cheering noises Sir Flufflykins the First made when I gave him the bag.
"Dammit!" I muttered as I began shooting arrows at the crowd of monsters that saw me as they came into view and began rushing toward the entrance way of the room.
Realizing I was certainly outnumbered I began a jogging back pace as I did my best to send arrows towards the red skinned Goblin aberrant monster that truly outstripped its compatriots in speed.
The other mutated weren't really much of a concern but just as I began worrying, I saw Sir Flufflykins the First, opening action since the battle make its impact, as his insane aim even while bouncing along on my shoulders was still true.
With a loud thunking noise that rang out even through the sounds of the screams of monsters and of the laser fire coming from my Wulfrim Drone I saw the round bottom end of the metal grenade nail the rushing goblin right in the eye making it stagger and trip in its all-out sprint towards me.
Seeing the grenade, approaching the goblin to begin with, I quickly covered my ears as grenades in Terraria had an interesting mechanic when they impacted living creatures. "Boom!" With a roar of sound and an explosion of flames the grenade exploded filling all to small hallway with its explosive might and I winced at the phantom feeling of my armor rating emptying at the hit to block out the concussive force and protect me from harm.
But it was more than worth it, as the aberrant monster was just a shredded burnt corpse laying on the ground with its mutated brethren and the mutated kobolds that were behind it reeling at the grenades obviously blowing out their ear drums with how we were in an enclosed space.
Thus, the rest of monster cleanup was easy enough as I took away Sir Flufflykins the First's grenades as the floors were too damned small for him to be using these things and for the rest of the monsters, I used my topaz staff to kill the reeling mutated and then got into close combat with the dozen or so utterly normal versions that although they scratched me a bit, I still was able to defeat them with my copper broad and short sword combo.
"Now let's see what I can do with you." I said as I took the aberrant monster stone from my wulfrim drone that was acting as my supporter and honestly not too unexpectedly it merely counted for five mutated monster stones in my crafting menu's which although wasn't really all that great but in the end having more ways to get Mana Stars was the most important bit as making them was ultra-important for upgrading my own internal mana storage as well as making magical items.
Of which even with only having an anvil and workbench at home I could already create a great deal of magical tomes/weapons, but I wasn't sure which one I wanted to make. As trying to conquer the first floors of the dungeon with the Golden Shower were just asking for a humiliating epitaph from the gods for when I ranked up.
"Well let's head to the other monster party site's." I said giving Sir Flufflykins the First a fist bump to congratulate his amazing throw and even as the squirrel chittered away in a smug manner, I felt his fuzzy and soft paw's fist meet my own.
"Beep!" My Wulfrim drone went zooming around me so quickly I was getting dizzy not to mention with it doing the zoomies I couldn't move forward.
"Alright alright! You did good as well." I said laughing weakly as I patted the drone on its head as it stopped doing zoomies around me.
Was this why you could only have so many summons's in Terraria? Because they all had character and would pout and throw a fit if they didn't get enough attention?
Then just as we had done before I would sneak up into the monster party rooms and then me and Sir Flufflykins the First would both chuck a couple grenades at the aberrant and mutated monsters leading the monster parties.
Needless to say, having three to four grenades exploding in a tightly packed group of monsters made our efficacy completely out of the norm but although the charcoal was all but free in Seshat's shop, I was made well aware that Sulfur was a rather rare material due to it needing to be harvested from dangerous area's that not only had its natural poison gases from where the Sulphur came up from the ground. But there were also highly toxic monsters that thrived in that environment.
So, each grenade cost me literally like five thousand valis worth of Sulphur which was why I was only using it for the aberrant and mutated as I could justify its use as I couldn't beat the monsters anyway and most importantly, I needed their monster stones so I could upgrade everything to do with my magic basically.
So, no matter what even if I turned in all the monster stones even the aberrant and mutated ones, I was at a net loss in Valis after using like a dozen grenades over the course of the day.
"Some type of mage testing his magic?" I heard a voice speak from around the corner and low and behold I saw Roseanne leading her little trio of beautiful elvish ladies who froze seeing me standing over the charred and torn apart corpses of the monster party in this particular room while my drone was busy tearing out all the monster stones.
"Ladies… As you can see, I have already cleared out the monsters. So please turn back." I said seeing Roseanne's eyes flash with greed at seeing the couple dozen monsters lying on the ground.
"Hmm? Do you need help clearing these out then? Our little Mia here is very adept with her hands and can help your… automaton out." She said confidently and I felt a bit of dismay as Mia's little facade of happy go lucky energy changed into a rather serious and if anything, cruel smile.
"Look… Walk away or you will die here." I said swallowing as I held my last grenade in hand… In that tight corridor as long as I didn't throw the grenade too far past them, they would be in the so-called kill radius.
Roseanne merely sighed as she looked at me and then tilted her head. "Human… I can see you are as green as it comes, being here in the dungeon. I will not have nightmares should I slit your throat to take your haul of the day, now lean against the wall with your face to the wall so we can loot you and then we will leave you to try to make it back up to the surface." She very clearly explained, and I realized what the cruel smile Mia had was for.
She loved the knowledge that I was going to attempt to make my way up to the surface unarmed…
A whole five seconds of stunned silence passed by as the three girls approached me with their bows drawn and I saw Sir Flufflykins the First who was sitting beside the wall next to the entryway trying to push himself to help but with him being a sentry he couldn't do anything, and my Wulfrim Drone was already hovering beside me seemingly prepared to intercept the elvish arrows.
But in the that long moments of silence I realized the little murderous instinct all soldiers and people thrown into battle had against their fellow man, and even if they were hot elves… In the end I pushed the bottom to activate the grenade and then I called upon all my prior sports knowledge to fastball pitch the grenade right into Roseanne.
Even as I chucked the grenade, I felt the thumping impact of three arrows slam into my chest and hip shattering my armor rating and then I felt the arrow that hit my hip pierce through the space between my chest plate and the leg armor that got separated with my sort of exaggerated motion to throw the grenade at the elves as hard as I could.
With another loud explosion I was thrown onto my back and all I could feel and acknowledge was the all-encompassing ringing in my ears as I didn't have my armor rating to shield me from the concussive force the grenade going off like ten meters away from me.
But after a moment when the stars left my vision, I could feel the gut-wrenching agony coming from my stomach and as I groaned, I saw the arrow sticking out and being pinched by my armor.
"Fuck… Drone! Grab the girls bags and bring them to me." I said as I laid upon the dungeon floor and I could barely hear the Wulfrim Drone's panicking beeping as it quickly brought Sir Flufflykins the First over to protect me first and then cut off the girls' bags that they were keeping their loot with its laser.
"I will resummon you in a bit." I grimaced after I threw all the girl's bags into my inventory and with a single glance at the clearly murdered elves, I summoned one of my five recall potions in my inventory and chugged it after burning in the image of the girls Falna's emblem.
Taking the recall potion was weird to say the least as I wasn't magically whisked away in a kaleidoscope of light or whatever. Nope my eyes went dim like I was falling asleep and then just as I was wondering if that arrow hit something vital and I was dying. It was like I was half asleep and was jolted awake as I was welcomed by the harsh light coming down from Seshat's solar room.
"Seshat!" I yelled out as I quickly resummoned my summons, so they weren't left panicking in the dungeon.
Next thing I knew, I had a dusky skinned goddess fretting over me as my summons were tittering in the background obviously worried about me.
"Here take this." She said having me down health potion and as I went to chug it down, I choked and screamed as Seshat in one swift motion just ripped the arrow out of my gut.
"Drink the potion and you will be fine, you big baby." Seshat scolded me but even if her words were harsh, she still held onto my head and held my shaking form to drink the red potion that was already dulling the pain.
Thanks, Seshat…" I whispered as I pulled one of the neighboring blankets over my eyes, so I didn't have the magnified sun beaming down directly in my eyes.
Seshat just ran her fingers through my hair, and I realized as I was so scared of getting my stomach torn up more from the arrow and just laying as still as I could that my goddess had moved my head onto her lap, so she had been giving me a lap pillow while she took care of me.
Sure, my goddess may not have been some ultra-busty figure of fertility like Freya, Hestia, or Demeter, but with her lithe and tight frame she was certainly an exotic beauty and having my face resting against her thighs and smelling her honey and sandalwood scent was definitely relaxing.
"What happened in the dungeon Jake… No monsters use bows at all. So which Familia has barred its fangs at my only Familia member." She all but demanded.
"I am not sure… All I could tell, was that it had a dove and a woman's face atop something that may have been a clam maybe." I said as I recited what I memorized, and I truly didn't know which Familia they were from.
"Hmm… A dove, a clam, and being so egotistical as to add your face to the stamp you bless your child's soul with… Who could that be." Seshat pondered and I heard her mutter about Freya but quickly threw that though out as I would have died if Freya's little psychopaths wanted to kill me.
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Chapter 8
After solid couple minutes of Seshat mentally running down a list of thotty goddesses that could possibly fit the three symbols I mentioned, she snapped her fingers as she seemingly came to a conclusion. "Aha! It must have been that Aphrodite!"
Hearing her answer, my prior mythology lessons came to the forefront of my memory, and I could confirm her thoughts as the dove was her normal symbol, the seashell could symbolize her birth out of the ocean, and Aphrodite was definitely vain enough to slap a depiction of herself on her Falna's design.
"Was there any survivor's or did you merely escape from them?" Seshat asked as she inspected my rapidly healing wound.
I swallowed back any words for a moment before I looked to my Wulfrim Drone which loudly beeped and fly side to side as though to say no.
"No… I very much doubt they survived me throwing a pretty powerful explosive directly into them. Or at least even if they were on their last limbs its highly unlikely for them to have escape from the second floor of the dungeon as I was pretty deep into the floor." I explained making Seshat nod in understanding.
I mean they were all rather wrecked and torn apart plus they didn't really move at all when my drone took their bags from them so I could loot them of whatever they had.
I then took out the bags out of my inventory and experimentally leaned forward to test my wound, and other than a deep tight soreness in my stomach. I was feeling much better which made sense as healing potions were magical for a reason as healing in the dungeon would be terrible if the potions took literally hours to heal up a single arrow wound.
Seeing the obviously girly bag's I had looted Seshat scoffed. "Yes, most definitely Aphrodite's ilk… Were they beautiful? Oh, and good job on looting the corpses of your enemy such a practice is the best way to get ahead my darling child.!" Seshat congratulated me with all the care that a mother would congratulate their son from coming back with a bag of goods he got from killing some bandits.
"Uhm, yeah there were three elfish girls, and they were beautiful." I said thinking back to Mia and just how cheery and nice she was in our first meeting and then she completely flipped.
"Hmm… Do you think more on this because they were beautiful women? Do you regret protecting yourself out of some kind of chivalry?" Seshat asked not even condescendingly but honestly with true curiosity, and I was reminded about how she was a goddess and didn't at all have a human's mindset about this kind of thing.
For a moment I was silent as I organized my thoughts before I nodded. "I mean I certainly never killed or even really hurt anyone before outside of a bit of wrestling and schoolyard scuffles… With them being beautiful women, yeah I think it weighed on me more than if they were some drunk nasty looking dudes who attempted to mug me." I said speaking truly from my heart as my goddess would know if I lied and would get me nowhere.
Seshat patted me on my head making me chuckle and then gave me some more life advice. "Jake as a goddess I will give you some advice I have learnt both in my life and watching watched you mortals for many thousands of years." She said before clearing her throat.
"Pride is worthless in this world unless you are the strongest, and even then, you are just more liable to being stabbed in the back… So, it doesn't matter what you need to do." Then Seshat held my face close to hers with her golden slitted eyes staring into my own as she tried to somehow download the next words into my head. "The heavens don't give a shit what you do down here if you are defending yourself… When you are judged by my fellow gods all they see is, so and so attempted to kill you for no reason other than their personal gain so there is no negative karma on you regardless of the person you killed, age, gender, race, or position."
"So just screw everyone else and just focus on yourself Jake." Seshat consoled me and I nodded in understanding even if her speech hadn't entirely sunk into my head yet.
"Ah Seshat… By the way I used all the Sulphur Hehe." I said weakly and Seshat's eyebrows twitched.
"Good… Now I have an excuse to have you go shopping for me so I can nap all day. Go to the southern district close to where Hephaestus and Loki have their holdings there is a decent store that sells all the materials you and I need for your next armor set as well as to replace as the stuff you been wasting you little shit!" Seshat scolding me and I let out a cry as the cat girl leapt over the huge pillows filling the room and grabbed onto my back so she could begin giving me a noogie for using all her expensive Sulphur.
Once she was nice and satisfied at bullying me, she sent me off with a final message. "You can use those little elvish tramps' money to buy the materials. Don't you even think about using Familia funds to pay for the list." Seshat warned me and I sighed as I adjusted my plans to go straight there and instead go to the guild first and turn in the normal monster stones so I would have enough money.
"Yes dear! Don't worry I forget your special cream for your rash!" I loudly joked as I exited the store and had to duck as a wooden ornament whizzed over my head as I Seshat hissed at my joke.
Making my way to the guild I saw a number of the adventures were seemingly back into the swing of things and weren't rioting in front of the Guild or anything which allowed me to easily enter the Guild without being questioned by the Ganesha Familia people like last time.
Entering the Guild however was whole different beast as it was completely overrun by adventures so I just joined the shortest line I could see.
Once I got closer to the front of the line, I saw Misha Flott was my receptionist for today. And she was in fine shape… Nah she was franticly sorting out monster stones and getting her adventures out of the way and this time I remembered to use two different bags to hold the kobold and goblin monster stones so I didn't have any issues with her.
"Hmm no mutated or aberrant monster stones?" She asked and I shook my head.
"Nope I kept away from them, as they always seem to be in a decent sized group." I responded and she nodded in understanding muttering how I was one of the smarter ones.
"Alright here is your haul of the day. Fifty thousand valis, do you need it to be split up into multiple bags for your party member's?" She asked and I realized she knew that all these monster stones were far too many for one person which was true as I turned in all the monster stones those three girls had.
"Nah this is all going into the Familia coffers." I said waving her off and she nodded in understanding giving me five ten thousand Valis coins.
"Have a nice day and be careful in the dungeon, never know what else can change!" She said as I walked away from her till and out of the Guild.
Making my way down south to the more business and rich side of Orario was also not at all an issue other than having to ask for some directions to the store in question I needed to go to.
"There you are." I muttered as I found the aptly named the Fog Depot, helmed by the small Achlys Familia which made their living gathering dungeon and other more exotic materials to supply the larger crafting Familia's.
"Hello welcome to the to the Deathly Fog… How may I help you." The receptionist asked me as I came into the large store/warehouse.
Looking at said receptionist I saw it was guy with rather dark bags under his eye and clearly just wanted to be anywhere but here. "Yeah, uh can you mark which aisle I can find all the stuff on this list, so I don't have to keep coming back." I said offering the list to him earning a blurry eyed glare from the man before he sighed.
"Fine… Just when you get all the stuff you need, ring up the purchase in the back with Anna." He said pushing the sell onto his coworker and seeing how tired he was I nodded making him take my list and begin writing down which aisle's all the stuff I needed was on.
"What kind of ice flower did you need?" He asked and I blinked before I recalled I put that there so I could make myself an actual magic mirror as being able to teleport home would make my life so much easier.
"Any flower that blooms surrounded by subzero temperatures." I said making him nod and scratch out what he wrote before adding something else.
"And the unrefined meteoritic ore? Does it need certain elements or materials within the meteor and much more importantly is it an astral mana infused meteor?" He questioned and I shook my head stating I only needed meteoric materials for a vanity project and the cheaper the better.
Because in the end I was going to need to do a other whole project to refine the meteoric ore with my mana to ignite it back into Terraria grade meteor ore and then refine it into ingots that I could use for stuff, such as the Meteor armor.
That armor set would easily last me a long while allowing me to skip the whole iron-silver-gold armor sets and get one of the better armors sets even with the Calamity mod's armors before the so-called hard mode starts after I kill the Wall of Flesh.
While I was running around the store, I was thinking about my Terraria progression and was honestly wondering when I could chance trying to kill the King Slime or even the Trojan Squirrel which was the so-called easiest boss I could fight.
The biggest thing that worried me honestly about fighting these bosses was how they would react to the dungeon's monsters and if they focused on them I could easily stay in the back and just shoot them but the last major concern I had was what I should do about other adventures interfering as it would be a while till I was strong enough to get down to the eighth floor as that's when the tunnels and rooms go from being four meters high to ten meters high which would allow me to use a grappling hook to maneuver around the weaker bosses with some impunity.
And that's the floor when the number of adventures heavily thin out as the dungeon only gets bigger the deeper you go.
I quickly went around spending all my money grabbing all the stuff I added to the list but thankfully a lot of it was rather cheap like simple sand for me to make my own glass for a multitude of other things. But just getting three ice flowers was expensive as all hell…
Either way after I emptied my wallet of all the money, I made in the last couple days including the three elves money that I looted I went to the lady running the back register named Anna supposedly.
"Hello… Are you Anna?" I asked with my face twitching as I saw the lady running the back was literally asleep with her head on the table to ring up purchase and seemingly in answer to my call, she loudly snored.
For a moment I wanted to summon Sir Fluffykins the First to bonk her over the head with an acorn or something. But I settled for poking her with my poking stick I had in my inventory to see if a monster was actually dead.
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Chapter 9
Upon being poked several times with my corpse testing stick Anna eventually lolled back and I saw she had brown hair and hazel-colored eyes that fit her pale skin tone.
"What… Why didn't you ring up all this in the front with Adam?" Anna groaned as she wiped the crust from eyes and then pouted at me.
I shrugged and spoke wryly. "Adam went through the effort of writing where everything I wanted and in return, I had to come back here so he could go back to sleep."
Anna just sighed and I wondered why they of them were so tired and whether they were related or something? "Alright then, let me just wring you up then." Anna muttered as she walked around her table and over to where my cart containing all my stuff was.
It took a couple minutes due to there not being scan codes or anything as convenient as calculators to do the math, so she had to manually do the match with a sort of magical abacus that would recall numbers but wouldn't actually do the math for her.
Today's total is 79,000 Valis… For an additional fifty valis would you like all of this bagged up?" She asked but before she even got an answer her head was resting in her hands obviously waiting for me to pay so she could just go back to sleep.
"No. Thats fine." I said passing over the money I had and then as Anna's face made a thumping noise as she faceplanted into her arms and audibly went back to snoring. So, seeing no witnesses I then gleefully stuffed all my purchases into my Inventory and all but skipped past Adam who was also sleeping in the front of the store.
After I exited the store, I quickly made my way back home as I had entirely too many hot items filling my inventory and after the next couple days, my danger level was going to go through the roof as I have well set myself on the magic/summoner Terraria path.
"Jake why do you have that same manic look you had when you made those stupidly expensive grenades?" Seshat all but demanded as she held Sir Fluffykins the First in her arms while watching the front of the store.
"I got goodies!" I said proudly and my goddess only raised an eyebrow while Sir Fluffykins the First chittered at me skeptically. "Bah just watch me, I am going to as I said make something awesome!" I said as I stomped back into the workshop muttering about hopeless goddess and traitorous squirrels.
But as I reached the back my face smoothed over as I took out all the aberrant and mutated monsters stones and quickly made them into Mana Crystals and after a moment of hesitation, I set aside three of the six I made before absorbing the three extra's to bolster my mana.
"Alright now to double my magical damage." I muttered as I took out my Topaz staff and began the arduous process of upgrading it to an Aquamarine staff.
Thank all the crafting gods of all pantheons that it was actually an easy just long process as it was merely using seashells and stone from the bottom of an ocean to cast around the Topaz staff and make a full for the compressed magical energy to come through.
After a half an hour of casting the Topaz Staff into becoming the Aquamarine Staff I took it outside and began sanding down the slag that came from melting the pearls and other things to make the new focus of the staff, until finally the staff seemingly became static as it registered as a Terraria grade item and became impervious to normal sandpaper from messing with it.
"Hmm? Hurtful is good enough." I muttered as I took in the epitaph, I got for completing the Aquamarine Staff and saw how it was a ten percent increase in power, which was fine even if I would prefer a mana reduction cost.
Taking the staff in hand I posed as I pointed it at one of the logs that were set aside for Seshat to carve into statutes or whatever.
"Have at ye, thou foe beast!" I mimed as I pushed my mana into the aquamarine staff and then instead of a single brown bolt of magic being launched every couple seconds like from my old Topaz Staff, with my Aquamarine Staff literally every half a second I sent two ocean blue balls of magic that exploded when it hit the log.
"Jake what the…" Seshat drawled off seeing me use my new Aquamarine staff like a machine gun as literally every second four bolts of magic would be launched from the staff.
But not even twenty seconds later I felt my magic drain out and deciding to try and see what mind down felt like in a controlled environment I kept pushing my mana into the staff only to realize that I wasn't using Terraria mana. I was now using my Danmachi mind to fuel the staff, and such fast paced expenditure without any training made my eyes dim and go foggy as true Mind-Down came to me.
"So that's what Mind Down feels like." I cursed as I held my head and I heard Seshat inspecting the damage I did to the back lot with the staff as to say the least the log I used as target practice was all but evaporated.
Huh? What log you were going to care a statue out of? Never heard of it.
"Well thanks to you I don't have to worry about this stretch of land having any rocks… So, I guess we can make that garden for the herbs and stuff you said you needed to begin on making potions." Seshat muttered shrugging as she herself liked the idea of me making potions she could actually sell as her normal business of craftworks was kind of dead.
"So, how's that Mind-Down? you need help getting inside?" She offered with some care in her voice, and I shook my head as I just sat back down on one of the seats that were on the back porch. I wondered if the neighbors were going to complain but then I remembered all my neighbors were also workshops they were probably used to weird noises.
For a minute Seshat then just stood beside me and inspected the staff before she spoke. "Good job. You have improved." Then she rubbed my head making me chuckle. "Would you like to hear where you could do better?" She asked and I nodded as she scratched my head.
"You didn't leave a good enough hole for the casting materials to breath when you poured the molten materials into the mold. Your old staff wasn't properly placed in the mold altogether as it was turned on its side by half of the staff's rotation which is restricting the mana flowing out of the staff." Seshat then listed off another five issues I made with the staff, and I mentally noted it down so I could improve my craftwork so hopefully one day I could make a weapon with the Godly or Mythical epitaph to it.
"Alright now for me to make myself a magic mirror that can do the same thing as my recall potions." I said sending my staff back into my inventory.
"Do you need any help?" She asked me and for a moment I wanted to deny her but then I thought that although the magical mirror didn't have all that much in terms of complicated parts nor were they inherently expensive other than my Mana Crystals which I would need to get from aberrant and mutated monsters, messing around with an item that deals with spatial nonsense needed to be done carefully
"Sure, the ingredients are super simple. Ice, silver, two mana crystals and some glass." I listed off and then explained the process in which I had to magically attune the silver and glass together and then magically attune the Ice to merge together with the silver/glass mixture to make the magical mirror.
"Hmm reminds me of the magical mirrors deities had back in Tenkai that would allow them to scry even down here in the mortal realms." Seshat muttered and then I relaxed as my goddess sat behind flush behind me and practically wrapped her whole tanned body around my frame so she could control my every movement.
"Go ahead Jake, I will prevent you from wasting your movements even if I cannot assist you in the magical elements of this." Seshat whispered into my ear, and I nodded grateful for her help regardless of how distracting her curvaceous frame was pressed up on me.
Then like I explained previously I boiled the glass and silver into a mixture before shattering and adding one of the three mana crystals I kept aside to fully merge the glass and silver into an alloy and likewise did the same with the ice.
"The side of the frame is ragged over on the left side." Seshat whispered softly as I began making the frame for the mirror and at her words I moved to sand down and clean up the side that I missed before I melted down the magically attuned ice atop the frame of the glass/silver alloy plate I made to hold the mirror and as the glowing water slowly pooled atop the alloy frame I pulled the lips of the side of the mirror over to pin the rapidly cooling back into its hardened form of ice.
Then I began the cleaning up phase as I buffed the mirror with Seshat whispering advice and sometimes taking control of my arms to buff out things I could only see when she pointed it out.
The Ice Mirror then flashed with light as it became active and the brief moment, I looked into the mirror I saw the warm comforting room of Seshat's resting room and my eyes dimmed before I hurried threw the mirror into my inventory.
"Wait! That was so cool why did you put it away?" Seshat pouted giving my poor body a full squeeze with the arms and legs wrapped around my midsection.
I just put my hands backwards and gave Seshat's thigh I good pinch for attempting to kill me with a bear hug making me hiss in surprise and before snorting as her griped loosened up against me.
"Not bad! I didn't have to control you like a puppet on strings like I had to with that workbench you practically had me build for you." Seshat teased me making me chuckle.
I just leaned against Seshat and although my hands were getting sore from making the two items, I still needed to do a lot more work. I needed to make all the Meteor bars so I could make the Meteor armor, which with the armor giving me a bonus towards magical damage I would be set until after I somehow killed the wall of Flesh.
But not only did I want to want to make the armor with the Meteoric bars, but I also wanted to make the Space gun which was a star was pistol like blaster that used mana to shoot a rather weak laser but combined with the Meteor armor and a Mana flower it would use only twenty percent of the mana it should.
"So should I make another artifact or should I start making armor as this wooden armor isnt cutting it in the dungeon." I said and Seshat gave said armor a slap which did all of nothing to me as her slap couldn't break through the Armor Rating.
"Bah if you are only in the first couple floors do you even need better armor?" She asked and then her scolding expression froze as she realized that yes. In this new dungeon environment and if I should get picked on for being a solo adventure, I needed better armor.
"Alright Jake let me help you again… I don't want you dying on me so let's make that armor and then you can make the accessory in the morning. It will be getting late by then anyway." Seshat muttered at the end as she glanced at early afternoon sky but making a whole new set of armor was going to be an all-day event really.
I didn't need help however or Seshat literally couldn't really help me at all when it came to smelting down and magically activating the meteoric ore so that it maintained a scalding high heat even when it supposedly cooled down into its solid bar form.
"You seriously plan on running around in glowing armor looking like it came just out of lava?" She asked and I gleefully nodded as with this armor even if a level three got the drop on me with its armor rating I was fairly sure I could survive their opening attack so I could begin throwing grenades at them while I teleported away.
But not even half an hour later when we started forging the armor into shape she began whining and crying about how this armor made no damned sense in how it would passively absorb the mana in the surroundings to fuel my own magic to make it stronger hence how it accomplished its armor set bonus.
"This is bullshit! A flat ten percent bonus magically power no matter someone's strength or level is cheating! No wonder you outlanders are called bullshit." Seshat cursed looking constipated at the realization she couldn't make something as great without tapping into her Arcanum or halfway cheating with some divine fire like Hephaestus did.
"Thank you dearly Seshat this is going to be very nice." I grinned as I took in the flee footed epitheted leggings that would make me faster while the chest plate gave me more flat armor, and my helmet gave me the much-wanted mana cost reduction for all my magical weapons.
But as I stood up from my workspace and my body creaked in protest from coming out of my sitting position, I saw that the sun as Seshat had predicted was hanging low and shrouded the walled city of Orario in a dark shadow.
"Come on Jake, let's get some dinner. I heard about a great restaurant for adventure's and don't worry I will pay for it." Seshat assured me seeing how my face scrunched up. But it wasn't money that made my face scrunched up.
Because what were the odds that the restaurant, she mentioned was the Hostess of Fertility?
I brushed a hand through my hair as I took a deep breath. "Uh Seshat which restaurant did you want to go to?" I asked with cautious hope that my mind was being too overreactive.
Seshat's leopard ears twitched as she eyed my stiff form and then she cocked her head to the side. "The Hostess of Fertility? It's almost a rite of passage at this point for Familia's and their deity to dine there at some point together." Seshat said shrugging.
"I will just make some dinner here…"
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Chapter 10
"Make it be known that I am going there under protest!" I announced on the way to the Hostess of Fertility.
"Let it be known that your goddess doesn't give a damn and why the hell are you wearing your damn meteor armor!" Seshat demanded with her eyes twitching as damn near everyone stopped to gap at the guy wearing glowing molten like armor leading his goddess in skimpy Egyptian clothing around.
For a moment I didn't answer and when Seshat coughed to continue to demand an answer I blew out and exhale of air. "I know for a fact I am going to get into trouble and face issues for going there. And no, I won't explain why the place is troublesome, it just is." I said making Seshat snort.
While Seshat might have pushed or slapped at my armor-clad form for refusing to answer. She had learned already the hard way, that the meteor armor I was wearing was scalding hot on the outside and she tried to push me out of her shop and began crying when she burnt her hands. Then she began guilt tripping me with how she had burnt herself on the armor she oh so lovingly helped forge into perfection I didn't feel like I had much of a damned choice but to go to dinner with her.
Thankfully the armor was magically cooled on the inside, so I didn't need to worry about such heat.
When we got to the Hostess of Fertility, we easily entered but the restaurant's speech died down at the sight of my fully armored form and lithe goddess following behind me.
But then the awkward scene was saved by who I recognized as the waitress named Chloe who has green eyes and black hair with cat ears and a tail of the same color. "Ello! So, table for two?" She questioned with her cat tail swiveling behind her in interest at our arrival.
"Yes, a booth would be nice please." I said and then she led us to the booth in the back corner somehow guessing that we didn't want to be gawked at as much despite my ostentatious armor.
After handing out the menu's Chloe pulled out a little writing pad and spoke "So what can I getcha two for drinks while you look at our menu?"
"Water." We both said in unison neither of us wanting to drink alcohol and walk across the city at night.
"Alright, well just wave to me or Syr as we are in charge of this side of the restaurant tonight." Chloe said and it was an Oscar award winning act of my own to not twitch at the name Syr.
"Oh, and where is Syr?" I asked guilelessly making sure to ask where and not 'who' Syr was, as I very well could recognize her curly silver hair anywhere.
"Oh, she is in the back at the moment probably grabbing someone's food. Uh she is a pretty lady with silver hair, she is unmistakable Haha." Chloe joked and went on her way after she poured us some drinks, that I really didn't even want to touch with her history as an assassin.
But not even a minute before Chloe left and Seshat slapped down her jug of water and was going to talk to me, we were rudely interrupted as a hand slapped down on our table as some drunk dude leaned over us.
"Hey… Why's you armor all glowing and shit? Is it like those magic swords, but you made all the swords into armor?" He asked slurring a bit but I saw not only his friends were staring at us with interest I saw even Mia the owner of the restaurant was watching with interest.
"Sure. It's made out of magic swords, now go back to your friends and drink the fine drinks of this finer restaurant." I spoke calmy as I mentally readied to summon my Aquamarine and staff and just blast the man across the restaurant if he decides to get handsy.
And what do you know the man grinned and looked to his friends. "Boy come on I found what's going to pay our tab!" Then the man looked to me as his friends drunkenly stood up. "Alright buddie so give me a shoe… A shoe made out of magic swords out to be good enough right Mia!" He shouted at Mia who legitimately blinked in surprise at being addressed so bravely.
Mia already getting tired of the tom foolery looked poised to have the men thrown out but blinked in surprise as I winked to her. "Alright here then." I said pulling a chair over from one of the neighboring tables and throwing the boot clad leg atop it. "You can have my boots if you can pull them off." I said and then obviously the man tried to yank off the boots but screamed as he burnt his hands on the scalding meteoric armor.
"Anyone else want to pull magical armor off me?" I asked and everyone snorted and went back to their drinks as they probably thought I had some kind of skill that enhanced my armor or something.
"Alright you gits, take your friend to get some burn cream on those hands!" Mia ordered the drunks who grumbled but dutifully paid their debts and took there cringing friend with burnt hands off to probably buy some burn cream as monsters with fire abilities weren't all that common in the dungeon so most of the time adventures didn't really run with it on them at all times unlike a general healing potion.
Finally, we got some peace to look over the menu and after we compared what we wanted. Seshat ended up getting a baked fish with some roasted vegetables and I ended up getting the loaded spaghetti with meatballs and some vegetables.
"So, Jake do you think you will be going deeper into the dungeon with your new armor?' Seshat asked me conversationally and I nodded as Kobolds and Goblins weren't at all a threat to me with how I picked them off at a distance, so I planned to move onto like the fifth floor where the number of differencing monsters varied greatly.
"Yeah, with the new staff and this armor I am very confident in my chances even with the weird new monsters." I said as wondered how debilitating the heat coming off my armor would be for an aberrant monster of the fifth floor like Killer Ants and War Shadows if they were to attempt to dog pile me.
Well, I knew for a fact that the Frog Shooters would be completely helpless against me, as their tongues certainly couldn't/wouldn't wrap around me.
But from the kitchen backroom of the restaurant, I saw Syr Flova come out with a service tray tucked under her arm and was bee lining towards my table.
No, she was a missile locked directly onto me.
Syr was a beauty with gray hair that she keeps tied with a small knot in a ponytail style. Her eyes are the same color as her hair, and she has a light peachy colored smooth skin that just barely looked human with how almost perfect she looked despite working for several hours.
"Hello! Welcome to the Hostess of Fertility, my name is Syr and what can I get you two?" Syr asked and Seshat quickly said she wanted baked fish platter.
Syr quickly wrote down Seshat's order without much change from her service-oriented expression but when she looked to me, I could see the 'deeply' inquisitive light within her eyes, and I wondered what sighed filled either Horn's or Freya's eyes as she hungry stared at me.
"I will take the house special loaded spaghetti." I said simply and Syr didn't respond still staring at me almost spell bound.
"Ahem!" Seshat coughed frowning as she realized the way the girl's dilated eyes were staring at me, that something was up and remembered how I didn't want to come here to begin with.
Yeah, I could tell it was Freya in the Syr guise as I didn't think Horn would so smoothly get out of such a blank moment with merely a blink. "Oh, I am so sorry I was just trying to recall the spaghetti's complimentary sides, would you like garlic bread or salad?" She asked with no shame and seeing Seshat not calling her out on lying straight to our face. I knew damned well that this was Freya…
'Fucking should have put my foot down and just made my goddess a sandwich or something.' I mentally cursed as I kept a smile and just nodded not holding the girls weird staring against her.
"I will have your orders brought right to you guys so please be patient!" Syr said cheerily and even waved to us as she strutted back to the kitchen with an entirely too much series swaying to her backside which sent her long skirt swishing about.
"Hmm? You like her Jake?" Seshat teased me and if I was drinking my water, I would have spat it on her face as I already damn near choked on my own breathing at the thought of asking Syr of all people on a date.
"I would sooner tame and marry a harpy from the dungeon then ask her on a date." I whispered seriously and even made sure to cover the side of my mouth so no one could read my lips with my words making Seshat's eyes widen dramatically as the words rang out true.
Seshat then took a drink looking at me with a raised eyebrow before she shook her head. "Ah I see… You have already fallen in love with your beautiful and oh so helpful goddess, haven't you? Well too bad I won't court you until you hit at least level five and gain an extra century of lifespan." Seshat teased me making my eyes roll.
"Granted you are certainly a great goddess who is actually useful unlike a great number of deity's who just sit around and suck up all their Familia's wealth to buy ridiculously priced crap like Soma wine." While I was lambasting said useless gods Syr happened to be nearby cleaning off a table and knocked off a glass breaking it on the ground as my words made her body twitch.
"But either way it wouldn't be you courting me, it would be myself earning your affections as I am no bumbling boy stumbling about." I said with some confidence as I wasn't some dense cowardly harem protagonist that would get knocked out with a nosebleed at seeing some tits.
Seshat hummed in thought and her finger twirled across the rim of the small jug of water we were drinking out of and when she spoke it came out with a husky tinge and Syr still working to clear off the table and clean up the dishes she dropped and broke listened in as well. "And how you go about… Seducing me, my dear adventurer?"
Seeing everyone else loudly drinking and finding this to be kind of exciting I leaned forward unknowing as Syr herself was only miming her brushing motions to pick up the shards of the plates she broke.
"Well for you, I imagine a fun little date could be going to look into high quality materials and taking them home to work together would be fun… But no for a romantic night for you. I would take you outside Orario on one of the casino boats that heads down to Melen and we could travel down the river at night watching the moonlit riverbank pass by us." I said verbally painting a romantic picture of a trip of going down the Nile River with my goddess.
"Hmm… You better not excite me anymore Jake or I will bite my claim onto you." She huskily and I saw her eyes tightened and locked onto my shoulder like a cat about to pounce.
"Foods here!" Syr practically yelled as she hurriedly split us apart by pushing the server tray across the table loaded with a hearty amount of food.
"Girl, you ruined the moment!" Seshat complained folding her arms under her handful sized breasts and grumped before she took the fork and stabbed the fish right in the eye as she looked at Syr who only smiled innocently.
"Oh whoops, the restaurant is so loud that that I didn't really notice." She said once again lying through her teeth, but with how the kitchens were behind Seshat's side of the booth, she couldn't have seen her coming, to refute her words.
"Whatever…" Seshat muttered and then waved Syr off who was still wearing her smile as she bounced away over to the blond form of Ryuu who was working to clean off the bar.
"Anyway, as nice as such a date with you sounds like. You need to level up a few times before you even think about barking up my tree… I want a relationship that will last a couple centuries not get with someone that will grow old and die in a handful of decades." Seshat said mercilessly and I had to respect that she was undoubtably at the minimum many thousands of years old.
"Fair enough… To be fair I want someone that can give me children anyway." I said shrugging making Seshat's eyebrow crop up in interest before she nodded happily, obviously having her own thoughts about my statement.
After a couple more minutes of enjoying our food, I was already feeling stuff and Seshat herself managed to eat most of her large baked fish, so she dropped a few coins on the table before she stood up. "Alright Jake come on let's go going home together." She said and for a moment I didn't understand while she specified why she said about us going home together. But as I stood up Seshat took my arm and pulled it flush against her chest as we walked towards the exit of the restaurant.
But in the stretch of time as Seshat walked to the exit with me, I could almost feel the world freeze as Syr who was working on another table between us, and the door, looked up sensing our motion.
Both Syr and my goddess made eye contact and I felt Seshat's arms pull my arm against her chest tighter, and I could feel her smug feline pride with her tail flowing side to side as we walked past the frozen form of Syr, whose face was a stitched together rictus of a grin as she bade us goodnight.
As we made our way home Seshat spoke up with chuckle. "Yeah… That girl is going to be trouble. If I didn't know that she was a human, I would have thought she was a goddess of the dead with how she was looking through you and trying to like see your soul or something."
Seshat then stretched throwing her arms behind her and having her thin satin clothes pull taunt against her frame before she came back, and her amber slitted eyes locked onto my own blue ones.
"Jake as I said, she is trouble, so I admit you were right, let's just stay away from there." Seshat muttered as we headed back home in silence as I held her hand.
But even as I laid into bed all I could replay in my head was the moment Syr looked into my eyes and her own grey one's dilated at the sight of me and I knew deep down that my Outsider soul was going to be an oddity for her. Thats not including whatever Terraria had done to my soul either.
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Chapter 11 Commissioned by TimoteosJkim
The last little addition for my new dungeon kit was a Mana Flower, it was an accessory that reduced the mana I used by some seven percent, and minorly increased my mana regeneration and more importantly. It was literally the easiest thing I've made period.
As all I had to do was coat a desert flower with my mana to make a Nature's Gift and then stick the Nature's Gift into a mana potion and then it became an accessory, I could then slot into my inventory section of the accessory's.
After making the Mana Flower I also made the Space Gun, a comically looking 'alien' gun even with little circles of metal around the barrel that would shoot little lasers that were more condensed than my Aquamarine Staff's magical bolts but obviously did less surface widespread damage on a foe with also having a slightly slower firing speed.
With my summons already being unsummoned and ready for their next battle I entered the dungeon and this time I just kept following the group of morning shift adventures as they all made their way down, deeper into the dungeon and with such a line of adventures the dungeon didn't even bother trying to throw a monster party or whatever at us.
Because any monsters that popped up, were just instantly killed by the line's archers or spellcasters. And this line of adventures basically stuck together until we all reached the ninth floor which was when I decided to peel off to start fighting the stronger variants of Goblins Kobold's and all the new monsters that started to appear.
Which included the likes of War Shadows, Killer Ants, Bad Bats Slimes, Dungeon Lizards, Purple Moths, Blue Papilio, Frog Shooters, and lastly the newly found bane of my existence in Needle Rabbit's.
Needle Rabbits were a sign that the many Gods in this world hated us mortals… They were normal sized rabbits that could leap at insane speeds and would shove there sharp as hell needle horn that was atop their heads into you. Their insane speed and lethal horn that easily could pierce through leather and chainmail armor made it one of the leading causes of early adventure deaths other than War Shadows assassinating an adventurer.
The way the dungeon's layout at the eighth and above changed to mostly large rooms with short corridors between the rooms did however make my life easier. As I was more easily able to abuse my newly made Aquamarine Staff as not even aberrant Killer Ants with their stupidly thick exoskeleton could withstand a dozen bolts of magical crashing into their frames.
"I need to make you an infinite grenade pouch." I muttered as I checked Sir Fluffykins the First's little bag of grenades I gave him and saw how many were left.
But while I was on the ninth floor, I was paying more attention to the dungeon itself and by looking at the map I picked up from one of the stalls outside the dungeon that a retired adventure was selling that had lost his legs, I decided to test the Wulfrim Pickaxe I made to see if my Terraria mining bullshit could allow me to bypass floor's altogether as the staircases made the distance between floors at like some fifty meters deep at least up here in the first ten floors.
Well actually I was going to pick up some Dungeon ores and the act of doing so would ring the metaphorical dinner bell… But I was broke financially and if I wanted to make any more accessory's I needed ore's that didn't cost me a dime as Seshat had cut me off from her stores.
"You guys keep watch I am going to work." I ordered my Wulfrim Drone and Sir Fluffykins the First who saluted in the squirrel's case with an acorn at the ready at the side while the drone beeped loudly and then did a back flip in the air? To show its enthusiasm, I guess?
I can't even understand girls, how can I ever hope to understand a sentient drone that gets its jollies off by ripping monsters flesh off so it can extract its valuable organs.
Thus, with my summons keeping watch for me I begun mining the off-colored stone walls that had the dungeon ores. And as my Wulfrim Pickaxe bit into the wall several times and did all of jack after half a dozen blows. A perfectly square meter wide hole appeared in front of me with my inventory receiving some titanium ore.
But my act of ripping a chunk out of the very alive dungeon didn't go unpunished, as throughout the room I was in, the rooms wall's loudly crackled and from the wall's surface came monsters of all shapes and mutation levels.
"The dungeon is being a big baby bitch at only getting some skin taken off…" I cursed seeing the crowd of War Shadows with even an aberrant leading the posse of a dozen or so. Not to mention the crowd of Frog Shooters and literally all the other monsters that could spawn on these damned floors.
"Fuck you guys I am going home!" I said flipping them off and instead of literally teleporting home, I simply hurried up my mining with my summons overworking themselves and explosions ringing out behind me as Sir Fluffykins the First, gleefully began taking this as an opportunity to begin chucking grenades fucking everywhere.
But as soon as I hollowed out a little tunnel that was like four meters into the dungeon's walls and made a whole meter little room at the end of the tunnel. I resummoned both Sir Fluffykins the First and the Wulfrim controller in front of the little tunnel I dug out and laid new stone upon to hopefully keep the dungeon from regenerating it.
"Come into my parlor, little darlings!" I taunted the dungeon and it answered with a cacophony howling's filled with murderous rage as the monsters outside my little tunnel tore each apart to push themselves into the meter wide entranceway.
And I gleefully allowed them… Until they almost reached my little room and as the much stronger aberrant goblin tried to tear my face off, it was met with a torrent of blue magical bolts from my Aquamarine staff and the laser bolts from my Wulfrim Drone.
So, I had the tightest killing field literally possible, and I had somehow pissed the dungeon off so much, that even the normally cowardly Blue Papillo butterflies that would typically fly at the roof of the ten or so meter tall dungeon rooms. And would just heal the monsters actually attempting to push into the tunnel in order to batter me with their wings…
'Which I happily allowed!
Because literally the Blue Papillo butterflies healing was indiscriminate, and I wanted to see if I could tame Danmachi monsters without a taming skill coming off my Falna. Granted I wasn't brave enough to try to screw the dungeon monsters like that one guy I read about in another Danmachi fic to tame them… But harpy feathers are stupidly expensive so I would like a mount or something to carry me around the dungeon as running around for hours on end was tiring.
So, with the Blue Papillo monster having only a healing ability and just generally being super fragile, I wanted to see if I could tame it rather than trying to bully a kobold or goblin into being tamed and removing its connection with the dungeon.
When I ran low on mana, I quickly chugged a mana potion and then switched to my Copper bow and shot some Jester Arrow's that conceptually didn't give a shit about whatever foe it hit as they would only stop when it hit a 'wall' or in other words, it would shoot through the entire horde and would only stop when they collided with the rooms opposite wall.
Hell, the arrows weren't even affected by gravity so they could technically fly forever due to me making them with pieces of the last Mana Crystal I saved last night so they had a bunch of astral mana affecting them.
But after I shot a dozen arrows over the course of a couple minutes I switched to my Space Gun and with the insane mana cost reductions I had stacked with my Meteor Armor set, Helmet, and the Mana Flower accessory I was barely using more mana than I could regenerate passively when I carefully measured the amount I was shooting.
My cheesing method of killing the monsters truly paid dividends as I killed at most three or four dozen monsters without getting a single damned scratch on me and having incurred no costs other than the grenades Sir Fluffykins the First threw to give me enough time to mine out a little room and fill it with stone.
With the monsters all dead and in a gory mess on the ground I decided to take a minute to practice the whole stone placement technique as the Terraria style stone I had in my hand was a cube about the same size as a Rubik's cube on all its sides but once I went to place it against a wall or on the ground it would become a full meter square.
"Should I make a house and just torture the monsters?" I verbally pondered and then recalling how the monsters and dungeon didn't damage the stone I lined the little tunnel and room I made I decided that yes making my own little safe houses and even for other adventures could be nice.
Eventually anyway. For now, I don't have the mechanical accessories that will allow me to make traps/teleporters and all kinds of goodies… Plus, I want the Guild and other Familia's to pay and protect me while I build, as the dungeon very obviously doesn't like my Terraria bullshit mining.
"Maybe I should open up to the Loki or Ganesha Familia about my building abilities and have a party of high-level adventures escort me in the dungeon setting up safe houses and stuff in the dungeon that cannot be destroyed except by my pickaxes in particular.
It's not like I could summon a Terraria Boss and kill it on my lonesome with it not attracting every damn adventurer in the next three floors in each direction.
"It's not like they could force me to join their Familia's for a full year anyway…" I muttered as I went over the pros and cons of showing off my safe house building abilities which would be huge to the land of Orario not to mention I could have all the huge Familia's love me by being able to create bosses on demand that they could use to get high quality Excellia as the first couple floor bosses of Danmachi were in short supply for the hundreds of Familia's that made Orario home.
Because there were plenty of level three and four's in Orario, I mean sure they weren't common or anything but with the Goliath and the Amphisbaena only spawning once every couple week or once a month there was a reason why there weren't too many high-level adventures.
While helping my Wulfrim Drone clear out the many corpses of monsters that I made sure to smack over the head with my corpse testing stick I eventually got tired of repeatedly bending over while trying to pull open the monsters and went over to bully the three Blue Papillo's I captured to act as a pixie dust dispenser by just fluffing them against me and getting their healing powder bullshit on myself.
"So… Become my loyal slaves or whatever?" I ordered the Blue Papillos just flapping their somewhat mangled wings on the ground with their very prominently red glowing eyes showing they were still under the dungeons control.
My only response was a nose clogging amount of their healing powder being blasted into my face like an overused set of chalk dusters being clapped in front of my face which made me cough heavily.
Thankfully my armor burnt away and blocked the Purple Moths poisoned dust that they loved to drop on people, but the armor seemed to allow the healing powder to reach me?
"Ok so… I am not really into torture so either you submit, or I will see what happens when I test Terraria physics and how much damage being smashed between blocks do!" I warned them and once again they threw a deluge of healing dust at me seemingly in hopes that I would suffocate on it.
"You know what… Fuck you, I don't want a butterfree rip off. Imma go waifu a Xeno's and you shitty dungeon monsters can just rot." I cursed and then I killed the damned chalk throwers that had thoroughly clogged up my nose with my Space Gun.
"Chitter!" Sir Fluffykins the First called out to me and when I looked over to him, I saw the squirrel repeatedly wiping its face before pointing at me and after getting its message I wiped my face and felt my hand get coated with the Blue Papillo's rainbow healing dust.
"Fuck dungeon monsters!" I yelled as I realized that my whole damned face was covered in damned rainbow-colored dust.
And then seemingly draw to my voice, a little squad of Killer Ants heard my voice and came at their honestly pretty slow speed with a mutated Killer Ant leading the little party.
With a loud zapping noise, I simply shot the Mutated Killer Ant and bisected it at the waist leaving it laying there screaming the Killer Ant screech's that would call upon more of their kind.
But with the little house behind me I was fearless when it came to monsters trying to attack me as my Jester Arrows would go through them like butter and they were nowhere near the size they needed to be to walk off having a slow flying arrow tear through their bodies.
After finally dealing with all the monsters and boarding up my little house after I picked up the rest of the ore's I realized something as Sir Fluffykins the First was riding my shoulders up the dungeon lift with my Drone also beside me.
"Can't I just give you like a rocket launcher or guns?" I asked the squirrel, and the squirrel froze before it leaned over to look me in the eyes before firmly nodding and patting me on the head for the wonderful idea.
"Alright… Operation make a minishark for my squirrel is a go." I muttered with Sir Fluffykins the First shuddering in delight at the thought as I could actually make a musket pouch so he would have infinite ammo quite easily.
After turning in a couple mutated monster stones along with the rest of my normal monster stone to keep up appearances, I was called off to the side by Rose Fannette my guild advisor to discuss my dungeon experience so far as a newbie to the dungeon.
"Hmm so in the last week you been stick to the second floor and being careful with how the dungeon has been changed. Thats good news. And your average income is a good deal above average except for the day you worked with a party apparently. That day was quite beyond above average for that day." Rose read off my files and made little notes as she went before the meeting room's door, we were in had a loud series of knocking resound.
"Come in! And here is the third to fifth floor maps you requested." Rose said pushing the maps over to me and I compared the maps I got from the disabled adventure outside the dungeon and saw the ones I bought had a lot more details on it and no discrepancies compared to the one the guild gave me.
Coming into the room was Eina and her eyes snapped to me with her eyes literally glowing behind her spectacles as she smacked down a paper on the table between me and Rose. "Jake! You went down to the ninth floor today solo!" She yelled at me, and my face froze as I forgot with how monsters grew stronger their monster stones would change slightly and would thus be worth more.
And both Eina and Rose were very much in the don't go adventures in the dungeon camp…
"You have only been an adventurer for not even a week… Why in the world were you that deep in the dungeon?" Rose asked frowning at me.
For a moment I thought to deny it or say I was with a party, but I knew those words would be a blatant lie, so I just took a deep breath.
"Familia secrets." I said using the universal, butt the hell out of why I am so special expression people used when people still asked about your skills and such. "Plus, Eina… You literally didn't even close the door when you stomped in. Misha is right at the damn door peaking!" I said pointedly as Misha cursed and her short hair flashed out of the doorway as she hurriedly went back to work making Eina's face twitch at my evasion.
"Anyway, I was hilariously overprepared to be at that floor depth and I wasn't alone I did have a chaperone as I am a mage." I said truthfully and Rose picked up on that and she came to the conclusion that I had a higher-level friendly adventurer who was coaching me basically as mages always made friends easily as we were far more valuable typically then just another sword wielding warrior.
After Rose asked me a couple more questions about what I was doing in the dungeon, and I firmly and somewhat truthfully answered how I was standing as far away as I could to cast my magic upon my foe's she gave me even more maps of the dungeon to try to memorize.
"Just be careful Jake, even level threes can get overwhelmed in the early parts of the dungeon if the dungeon is feeling vindictive enough." Rose warned me and I nodded taking her words to heart as I mentally made a note to further reinforce the killing room on the Ninth floor of the dungeon.
Then the red-haired beauty strode away back to work as I put the maps into my inventory, and I went on my merry way to ask Seshat if we could make a deal with Loki or Ganesha to have their middle level adventures escort me into the dungeon and make little safe zones and just help me with the bosses I could summon.
Because making safe zones in the dungeon that said dungeon couldn't break would be a feat worthy of the Falna giving me a skill that my Terraria abilities wouldn't mess with.
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Chapter 12 Various POV's, Commissioned by Neo in order to preserve Kira's sanity.
Freya POV
Freya was stumped, she was bamboozled, she was baffled, bewildered, befuddled, dazed, and most importantly confused… Freya wasn't a goddess so easily perplexed by anything after the many millennia she had lived.
Freya laid there on her lounging sofa overlooking the city and watched her newest enigma go about his day and doing errands for his lazy ineffectual goddess. But she had no idea what the hell she was looking at.
Bell Cranel's soul was blinding purity in its innocence and such purity could be polished ever more. Which was why she had been considering throwing challenges in his wake to push him ever further. But this newcomer. This Jake Barris she only saw in her guise as Syr and finally captured the sight beyond of the outer shell of his soul…
"Such filth, such depravity. Yet such overwhelming purity that it will enforce a stillness of order that which is death." Freya muttered as she used her divine mirror to gaze upon Orario remotely and like a connoisseur of painting art she had to pause and literally drown herself in the endless beautiful vistas within the young man's souls and the equal horror filled landscapes that she had to gaze upon equally to get the full picture.
"My Lady?" Ottar spoke with a questioning tone, but the giant of a man dashed forward to check upon his goddess as Freya's wine chalice slipped out of her hand when she used both hands to cup the mirror.
"Where did he go!" Freya all but screamed as her viewing session was torn apart like she was being deeply absorbed in the middle of the movie's climax and someone just rips the tv's cable out.
Ottar looked into the divine mirror and saw how where Jake Barris had entered an alley and even as the mirror panned over to keep the young man in view, the young man literally disappeared into thin air with the alley having no such obstructions that could have hosted a tunnel or something that would allow him to hide.
"Lady Freya relax…" Ottar's deep voice reverberated, and Freya took a deep breath as she calmed down her overly stimulated emotions. "Lady Freya please look upon his goddess's home, I have a theory."
After a moment of hesitation Freya did so. The Queen of Orario didn't fear discovery and getting in trouble with the Guild. But she did have to respect Seshat as a god who reveled in magic, craftmanship, and most importantly rituals, and had like many other deities skirted the rules when it came to using their arcanum so her little abode was just as protected as her Folkvanger filled with all its adventurer's.
Within moments Freya had reoriented her divine mirror's gaze upon Seshat's workshop and low and behold easily visibly through the Cat goddess's sunning room's windows. Was Jake Barriss hiding behind a small hill of pillows of cushions that he was using cover for his duel against his weird squirrel summon, in a pitch pillow fight that sent said pillows careening into one another at speeds that even level twos would nod in respect at.
"That Squirrel reminds me of Ratatoskr… He gave my Pantheon back in Tenkai many a headache. Hell, he even stole Heimdall's horn Gjallarhorn and almost started Ragnarök when he ran around all sides of the Norse Pantheon blowing the damned thing as hard as it could." Freya spoke with a haunted tone to her voice as she watched the damned mirror of the squirrel that gave her Pantheon, sneak a massive acorn into a wadded-up pillow and knock Jake over as the pillow unfolded midflight sending the acorn right into Jake's head.
"My lady shouldn't you focus on how he teleported back home? Isn't teleportation the domain only the gods could have in Tenkai, and only in the dire needs Hermes could down here in Genkai?" Ottar questioned bringing Freya's mind back into order.
Freya silently nodded but looking into Jake as he repeatedly summoned his squirrel at the roof of the room, so the squirrel was caught in an endless loop of falling, she couldn't find whatever magical implement that allowed him to teleport across Orario and not trip every god's senses for the spatial distortion such a thing would undoubtedly cause.
For the next half an hour Freya merely watched Jake talk to his goddess and although the way the normally so calm and collected Seshat being driven to chase around the young man and his squirrel riding his shoulder's made her chuckle, but she had to raise an eyebrow as Seshat took out an obviously preprepared signboard.
"It's a pity I cannot hear what is happening through my divine scrying mirror… But in the end, we merely need to go to the shop in the morning." Freya smiled as she read the signboard and had to chuckle as she realized the young man was going to be swamped as even with his low level, his odd actions within and outside the dungeon has already alerted elements within the city that would be very interested in seeing what he could offer… Whether they could just buy or just take off such treasures off his corpse made little difference to some people.
Freya's eyes stared at the sign that went below Seshat's shop sign and committed it to memory as she knew the store was going to be the center of Orario's next little bit of hubbub. 'The Terrarian's Inventory.'
"Ottar." Freya spoke up. "Bell's progress has slowed, unleash that minotaur that we discussed you to begin training." Granted Freya hadn't given Bell his gift in the Grimoire yet. But a true hero and a man worthy of being her soul mate needed to be above all others… He could do without it and beating the Minotaur, her dear Ottar had trained would be a wonderful reason to gift him the Grimoire afterwards.
"Yes, my lady… Shall I post myself close to the battle? Even with his talent and progress the minotaur I have trained has slain a number of adventurer's and has since mutated into a full aberrant. Bell likely won't be able to defeat it as a middling level one. I couldn't defeat it at such a level." Ottar frankly admitted and Freya paused as she pondered over her most faithful servants warning.
"No Ottar… If he is to be worthy of my eternal love, he will overcome such a hurdle." Freya said confidently and with finality as she glanced over at little Hestia's little church and her eyes tightened seeing the shameless form of Hestia herself slipping out her bed to crawl into the couch that Bell was sleeping within.
"I will begin the preparations then." Ottar said as he turned to do just that, as getting such a dangerous aberrant down into the sixth or seventh floor where Bell had been fighting as of late would be troublesome as he would need to muzzle and only release the minotaur when one of his Familia members gave the signal.
"I want magma armor as well." Gareth demanded and Loki's face twitched at the sight of her normally gruff and easy-going dwarf executive being so demanding. No this was literally the only time Gareth had demanded anything at all, well that wasn't just raising the alcohol budget with each of his level ups to get past his ever-rising Endurance stat.
"Bah what the hell good is magma armor good for anyway? Would he even be able to make the armor in your size you fat dwarf Haha!" Bete Loga yelled out laughing but then such laughter was abruptly cut short as Gareth threw his tankard so hard into the werewolves' face that it deformed on impact and knocked the werewolves chair over with the werewolf with it.
The room was filled with the Loki executives and were supposed to be going over the details for their upcoming expedition but nope Gareth and Bete had been arguing about trying to find out the new kid on the block that had been running around in enchanted armor and was seen going in and out of the dungeon with unseen before tamed monsters.
"Enough!" Riveria finally snapped shutting the two up as she had noticed Ais had given up on the meeting and had mentally checked out to just munch on the fried potato snacks she adored.
"Thank you Riveria." Finn said after he coughed and tapped some papers, he had on his side of the large circular meeting room table. "I will just say that as one of, if not the strongest Familia here in Orario. That being seen coercing such a new adventurer even if he has an interesting crafting system, could be seen as us taking the same path of being the overlord of Orario and none of us want to deal with the hate and constant attempts to sabotage our Familia that Hera and Zues had to deal with when they loved to interfere with other Familia's." Finn explained logically and everyone nodded with Ais nodding with her jagamarukun bobbing with the motion.
Finn gave Gareth a look and then spoke. "Gareth you have been spending thirty percent of your armor and weapon funds on alcohol, so you are free to use the millions of valis you waste on exorbitantly expensive booze to commission armor or whatever you want. Just don't come off as strong arming him as attempting to bully a talented craftsman is a good way to get Orario's blacksmiths to blackball you as we all know." Finn finished with Gareth chuckling at the memory of one of Freya's little pets stealing some super expensive bauble for her goddess and for a week the Freya Familia was blackballed by all the craftsmen of Orario until Freya herself apologized for the girls' actions.
People liked to look at Freya and Loki's Familia's as the lifeblood and back that held up Orario's economy and was the end all, be all, that dictated how the world spun… But the truth was absolutely not that case.
The crafting Familia's that made the cities weapons, armor, potions, had a strangle hold on the adventurer side of the economy, along with the Guild that controlled all the monster stones that allowed people to have clean water, and attuned monster stones that would fill all the monster stones machines that made life so easy, and thus controlled the civilian side of the economy.
"Think he can make me a pair of boots that will burn people?" Bete quietly pondered as the little bar tale that Loki confirmed as truth stuck to him as his boots were his very weapons and being able to burn opponents without needing to use magic to do so, could be useful. Plus, Loki was able to easily recognize who Jake's goddess was. As she had Seshat over here to the Twilight Manor several times to work on special rooms for herself and her executives
"Bah let's just go there tomorrow and find out Bete. Just don't pull your little strength is everything crap Haha!" Gareth said jovially and seeing Gareth and Bete making plans to do stuff other than prepare for the expedition Finn literally just threw his hands up in the air sending Loki into a series of cackling laughter.
"Ah… Can I go as well?" Ais asked raising her up her hand and Riveria just face palmed.
Finn's eyebrow twitched at seeing the majority of his Familia decided to play hooky and for a moment he considered asking his Goddess to tell everyone to stick to planning the expedition but seeing the expression of interest on Loki herself, Finn realized he would need to push back the expedition a day… Because no matter if Finn was the Braver and hope of the Pallum race, he still couldn't carry the Loki Familia on his back if all his damned Familia members decided to go mess around.
"Fine! Tomorrow we will be escorting Lady Loki to the store." Finn said scratching out some details on some paperwork and then threw his pen on the table. "All of you get to bed at a reasonable hour, we are heading out early that way we can still try to stick to the expedition timeline we outlined." Finn ordered as he hopped out of his booster seat and stomped out of the room.
"Wait captain, don't be mad!" Tione called out as she chased after her love interest out of the meeting room while her sister Tiona finally snapped awake after curling up at the very start of the meeting.
"Hmm? We are going grocery shopping in the morning?" Tiona muttered wiping the sleep from her eyes as she looked around to see what was happening.
Ais shook her head and spoke as she stood up. "Nope we are going to a new magic shop apparently." Then Ais herself left the room as Gareth and Loki began sharing some of the vintages they had picked up in the last couple of days.
While Loki's Familia was a hubbub of action for the next few hours, the rest of the city tuckered down as it welcomed the night to welcome the new day coming.
The next day I awoke bright in early so I could happily throw Seshat's super strongly smelling marijuana bushes into the back garden that way the whole front area didn't smell like skunk. Then I nailed in my own decorated sign board that Seshat made me for my own section of the shop to sell my own stuff.
After nailing in my 'The Terrarian's Inventory.' signboard just below Seshat's store signboard I took to my corner of the store that was like half of Seshat's floor space and it took a while to think up what I should sell here at the shop…
Then I realized money of course was valuable but rather than that, I needed and wanted adventures to go get me my materials for me.
Health Potion- 10,000 Valis Tier one, Tier two 25.000. Tier three 50,000 valis or half off if materials are traded, being the crystals from lights in Rivira, and dust from Blue Papillo butterfly.
Mana Potion- 10,000 Valis Tier one, Tier two 25.000. Tier three 50,000 valis or half off if materials are traded, being ten mutant or five aberrant monster stones of any monster.
Then I just generally added a bunch more potions I could create through vanilla and modded Terraria that I could.
Then I also quickly made some ultra-simple accessories like some Hermes boots that I was already wearing and considering upgrading when I had some more obsidian, but I also put on display Sandstorms in a Bottle as well as Anklet of the Wind and lastly some Lucky Horseshoes that will negate peoples fall damage supposedly.
"Jake the accessories are phenomenal, but you should consider putting up armor and weapons as that's the bread and butter for an adventurer." Seshat advised me after seeing me place all the little early game Terraria accessories on display and seeing them even I knew they were kind of broken when you consider how fast just wearing some feral claws would make Ais's sword swings as a flat twelve percent melee speed on her could be very important.
So, taking Seshat's advice I wrote down the armor sets I could make, their cost, and most importantly the special effects they would have. I then placed what I wanted for the armor sets being mostly harpy feathers and other deep dungeon materials I couldn't get. As the other crafting Familia's of Orario had such materials on lockdown as there was never enough to go around.
I mean there was no way in hell I was getting past Revira and such in the dungeon with how strong I was currently. I needed to amass a bunch of money so I could buy materials like rubies and such to make heart crystals to inflate my terrible endurance stat and countless other things.
So just taking it easy and working on my crafting was the smart thing to do for now, especially building my contacts with other adventures.
With two hours left to the opening of the store I got to work and rather quicky made three tungsten broadswords and a tungsten short sword as well of the tungsten I got from the dungeon last time. Then just for the hell of it I decided to use some of the gold ore I got from the dungeon to make a Trident.
Then I made a note saying for magical weapons they must be commissioned. Because such things at least for me were going to expensive and time grating but such a thing would be perfect for building up such contacts with the adventures of Orario while I sold my potions for stupidly cheap.
"Alright Jake, get settled in for a nap." Seshat called out as I excitedly sat in my side of the mostly empty shop and my face twitched as I recalled how people knew Seshat's shop as the weed smelling shop and that she had sold less things in this shop then you could count on one's fingers in the couple months she had been in Genkai.
Then Seshat lived up to her prior words as she literally just held Sir Fluffykins in her arms while she pulled a blanket over herself, and she just lounged on her long couch that was raised up high into the air to allow the cat goddess to overlook the shop.
"Should I go make some flyers or approach other Familia's directly?" I muttered frowning as I realized I may very well just be sitting on my ass as it's not like I had a reputation or anything that would attract people to chance their lives using my products.
But before I could literally just leave the front door of the store was thrown open with a loud banging noise as a foot had clearly kicked it open with how said foot was still extending past the door.
"Chater!" Sir Flufflykins the First squeaked obviously freaking out, and as Bete Loga of the Loki Familia strutted in like he owned the place he was greeted by the shops defensive measures made by Seshat. Which overlooking the front door was a large pillar of extremely dense stone dropping down from above his head, which he stopped with a grunt of effort using both his hands but as his hands were up, that left his face and more importantly his groin available to be nailed by soccer ball sized acorns being thrown at level two speeds.
"Fuck! Guys help!" Bete screamed as he jumped backwards out of the shop allowing the stone pillar to fall down to the ground and block the entrance.
Then a loud howling noise rang out from around the store as the pillar being move opened up the air holes and lines across the shop, so every breath of wind traveled through the stores perfectly crafted breathing tube like it was some kind of Amazonian death whistle.
"Hmm with this level of a racket the Guild and Ganesha will be here soon." Seshat said cheerfully as I covered my ears to block out the ear-piercing screaming noises coming from the infernal acoustic system my goddess has created with the building.
As I looked to her wondering how my cat girl goddess could even deal with this, I saw she was wearing a full fuzzy helmet that blocked off all noises and even had mickey mouse like ears to shield and protect the leopard ears on her head.
"Seshat knock off the racket dammit!" I heard a voice cry out from outside somehow and Seshat made no sign that she heard the voice which was fair seeing as she had helmet on her head.
I waved to her and as she focused on me, I said repeatedly that the person outside wanted you to shut off the noise.
"Fuck you Loki I don't wanna. You owe me fifty thousand Valis to fix my door and any damage done to the ground when Bete activated the trap." Seshat yelled out and I heard Loki curse but couldn't make out the words and then I heard Bete yelp as he was seemingly hit with something.
"Fine you damned Egyptian Goddess. I will pay you the money, just open up!" Loki yelled and then Seshat had me begin pulling on a pulley system that was hiding in the drapes surrounding the walls. And the system was so good that I was able to lift up the large stone pillar even with my own meager strength.
Once the pillar was up and out of the way and with the remains of the door's splintered remains from Bete and the pillar obliterating it shards that went everywhere, I heard Loki now clearly ask if she and her Familia could come in without the pillar being dropped on her head.
"Yes, Yes Loki, I won't drop the pillar again, but the traps inside here consist of behemoth toxic gases so maybe don't pull anything Haha." Seshat boasted and I saw Finn who was walking into the store pause as he seemingly revaluated whether he should even be on this side of Orario before the short man was pushed in as Loki all but bounced into the store.
"Ahaha there you are!" Loki said literally ignoring Seshat and just pointing at me as her almost closed eyes locked onto my position in my side of the store.
"Me?" I questioned pointing myself in surprise as I thought Loki had come to get Seshat for another build project or something.
"Yes you, you are the only one wearing glowing armor and…" As Loki kept talking about my armor being such a dead giveaway the rest of the Loki Familia executives funneled in, and my face twitched as the entire Loki Familia lineup seemingly entered the store.
"So, what do you want for such armor and hmm? What's these thingies do?" She questioned as she approached my side of the store and took in the accessories I created.
I let Loki and the rest of the Familia read the general guide I had setup for the accessories I had set out and the small list of other ones I could create by order.
"Can I see the sword?" Ais asked pointing to the tungsten shorts word I had laid out and I nodded with the blond beauty picking up the sword to inspect it. "It's not that sharp and its heavy." She complained and the weight comment was far due to it being tungsten of all things.
"Ais Wallenstein, and the rest of you actually… Check the magic in my accessory's and understand that I and my products are legitimate. Then I challenge you guys. Break that sword and I will build any custom weapon with enchantments you want." I bet confidently and I saw Gareth, Tiona, and even Ais eye the poor tungsten shortsword with malicious intent.
"Hmm? Then as the creator of these magical goods what would you recommend for us?" Finn asked smiling and I realized this was a test as blacksmiths after years of working with adventurers would know what they needed with just a few questions and some measurements.
"Well, I have these Luck potions that give you a watered-down Luck development ability which will make any monsters that die around the drinker have a higher chance of dropping Drop Items. Surely such a thing would be useful for an expedition when you guys' are planning to kill floor bosses?" I said leadingly and Loki began vibrating at the sight of the star shaped potion bottle.
"Lets see there is all these potions but no you want to know what gear or magical tools I can sell that will help you guys in particular… Lady Riveria, please try this on and cast a healing spell on Bete to get rid of any aches and pains he has." I said gently taking the extra Mana Flower I had in my inventory and put it inside a felt sack for fragile purchases.
"Tie the sack around your wrist or something before using it. It will cut the cost of your magic by fifteen percent and make your Mind regenerate faster." I advised Riveria who raised an eyebrow at the small sack I offered her.
"You mean no harm to me, and this won't have a negative effect on me?" Riveria asked bluntly and understanding where she was coming from, I coughed and responded.
"No, I mean no harm to you, and this accessor will only do as I have said it was capable of doing." I clearly said with Loki nodding in the background and with her goddess's assurance of myself speaking the truth Riveria took the Mana Flower pouch and tied it around her wrist like I suggested.
Then Riveria spoke "Breath of recovery. My name is Alf!" Then Riveria's ornate staff glowed as Bete took on a soft white glowing hue and the man straightened up as the high elf's magic cleared away the aches and pains that our little confrontation had.
"He spoke the truth… What do you want for this magical tool?" Riveria bluntly spoke as she more securely tightened the string that bound the sack containing a crystal flower sealed inside a mana potion to her wrist as though she was telling everyone she had already claimed it.
And her fears seemingly proved true as from the front entrance I hears Tione and Tiona curse and a velvety smooth voice carried within the shop. "Ohoho Jake don't sell anything too interesting yet, I would like first pick." And then I died a little on the inside as the goddess Freya, with fucking Ottar and Allen of all people escorted her into the now cramped store…
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Chapter 13 Commissioned in part by P Anthony.
The normally wide open and spacious two hundred square meter shop front filled with barely a dozen people felt incredibly tight now… Each and every one of the people in the room could snap or the rivalry between the Familia's could erupt and even if Seshat did have toxins from Behemoth ready to go in order to kill them all. Most likely we would already be dead should a battle between the Familia's erupt if I couldn't teleport out quick enough.
"Well Loki? So, what does that adorable little bauble do then?" Freya asked as she threw back her hood and stepped out of the cloak with Ottar taking it from her before it could hit the ground. My mind blurred Freya's divine beauty/charm filled the room and clouded my mind before I could shake my head clear of the sight of her body glove clad form.
Loki hissed like a cat with its tail being stepped on as she pulled Riveria away from Freya who staggered under the full focus of Freya's charm.
"Oi Freya, you snooze you lose… My darling Riveria already picked this accessory, and we are just negotiating a price for it!" Loki said fiercely making Freya raise an eyebrow in amusement at Loki's actions.
But Freya finally broke eye contact with Loki and Riveria to look to me, the maker of this whole situation apparently. "So, Jake of Seshat's Familia, what does Riveria's trinket do? And how much for me to buy it instead of her?" Her gaze upon me was like a weighted comforting blanket that clouded my mind, but I refused to be enthralled by here mere prescene and merely glancing at me… The weight of her charm was literally just her passively being here. I had no illusions that she was actually trying to use her charm on me as I would have caved.
"Hmm not bad for a kid new to this kind of life Haha!" Gareth laughed seeing me shake off Freya's passive charm.
"I apologize Lady Freya. But just as you wouldn't release the information on a Familia member, I shall also not disclose the names of magical items that people buy so they can keep it as a trump card." I said with my words ringing true which made Freya nod and clap her hands happily.
"Very well then I want one of everything." She said proudly and my face twitched at that amount of work I would need to do to replace such an order…
"For large commission's I do not accept money, I only accept materials and one of your higher-level adventures will need to help me out with a quest to kill a very special monster." I said brushing a hand through my hair as I realized that my solution to killing the scary as hell bosses was staring me right in the face with the dour face of the strongest known adventure in Ottar.
"Ahem! What kind of monster is it, and Freya you can't just hog the shop by filling up his entire que of projects!" Loki shot off like a machine gun and Freya only smiled softly obviously caring little for Loki's words except for the beginning.
"Yes Jake… Loki had a good question." Literally everyone in the room focused on me as Freya clearly was asking for an explanation of the monsters, I wanted help with.
"I… I have the ability to create special monster rex's…" At my words everyone's face sharpened with Ais's face freezing as her hands tightened around her sword but seeing Seshat nodding in the background for me to continue and that she was supporting me I continued. "I can create items that will spawn bosses that once killed everyone that participated and actually harmed the monster will get a 'goodie bag'" I said making quotation marks around the goodie bag part. "Whoever helps me can keep the magical items that drop from the goodie bag I won't contest or request that. But the ores and materials, I ask to be given to me in return for the high quality Excellia you gain for killing the monster." I said making both Loki and Freya look at one another as this went beyond me just having magical items.
The issue that was stopping Orario's adventure's from leveling up was the boss situation. For level one to two, people were supposed to kill an infant dragon or something to get the Excellia needed for level up. For level two to three, they are supposed to survive a monster party being dropped on their heads comprised of minotaur's and other stuff. But level three to four is the major divider line as the only monster that can give the high quality Excellia or situation to do so is fighting the Goliath and that monster only spawns once every two weeks to once a month…
To say the least, there wasn't enough bosses to go around the fifty thousand something adventures that kept the entire world's economy rolling.
"How dangerous are such monsters though? If there are more than what we can handle wont that mean you could destroy the world? Do you even have any control over the monsters?" Loki steamrolled and I smiled as I shrugged.
"Well some monsters… Yeah they are super dangerous." I admitted with my mind thinking about the Wall of Flesh and the hard mode bosses. "And yes, I have no control over the monsters at all. They will rampage and kill everyone in sight whether they be human or the dungeon monsters which is where I was planning on summoning said monsters."
"You will make us stronger?" Ais said and cut through whatever Loki and Freya were about to say and I saw even Ottar and Finn nodded to her words that were the most important.
"Yes Ais… Helping me kill bosses will make you stronger and the magical items I sell will also make you stronger. Like take that sword you're holding. Its conceptually indestructible, you cannot break it at all. Not to mention my weapons can also make you stronger like this trident gives you a weaker version of the Dive development ability." I said showing off the trident I made which made Finn and Allen's eyebrows rise in interest as they were both spear users.
"Sword Princess. Let's test the swords durability outside." Ottar said with his voice rumbling with combative intent and in response Ais merely nodded and followed Ottar as Allen stayed beside his goddess while we all went outside to see how my simple Tungsten sword dealt with a multimillion valis great sword that Ottar was wielding.
"Come Ais Wallenstein." Ottar said stoically as he pulled out one of his large hooked great swords and held it before himself.
"Yes!" Ais yelled and she became a blur of motion with each second more than a dozen full powered swings hitting the side and back of Ottar's blade that he merely used to seemingly allow Ais to get used to very different blade as she typically wielded a thin long sword with a bit of curve to it.
"Get him Aizu!" Tiona cheered with Bete likewise cheering while Loki and Freya stood next to one another watching with great interested.
"Tempest!" Ais yelled out obviously kind of frustrated at Ottar not even moving to dodge or more easily block her full powered blows. With her single word Aria of magic activated Ais was coated in a whirlwind of green winds that boosted her speed, strength and sent ripping winds at Ottar that tore apart the ground around him but seemingly did nothing to the man as he calmy batted aside every blow Ais sent at the Boaz.
Such a dance went on for a whole minute before Freya coughed and Ottar tenses and for a moment I felt death hang over me as Ottar grabbed Ais's wrist to stop her next swing and with Ais frozen the mountain of a man calmy let go and stepped back and bowed to his goddess. "Lady Freya, are you satisfied?" He asked and Freya stared at him for a moment… No she was staring at his fifty million valis sword.
"Ottar… My dear look at your sword." Ottar did so and noticed that although it wasn't cracked or breaking apart, it still had a great number of scratches and more importantly the edge was lightly pitted where the metal broke off or folded due to the edge-on-edge impacts the two swords had.
"Now please look upon Ais's sword." I said proudly and all the adventures with their enhanced senses focused on the simply made tungsten sword and saw that it was still flawless. No ding's no scratch's and more importantly no pitting on the edge that would ruin its cutting.
"It wasn't that great for channeling Tempest… But I don't have to worry about it breaking. How much is it?" Ais asked me with great desire to the point that Loki's swooned at seeing such emotion from the taciturn and silent girl.
"Such a simply forged sword is fifty thousand Valis and that's it." I said with even Ottar staggering as his set of swords were literally fifty million Valis and no matter the special ability the swords had, if the sword broke in the dungeon, it was worthless compared to a sword that just didn't break.
"Jake why don't you come live at the Twilight Manor, we have a nice castle and plenty of room for you to setup a workshop and no one will be able to bully you for these priceless weapons." Loki offered and I realized that she was offering me a place in her Familia altogether.
Freya's face went cold, and I saw her lilac eyes flicker to Loki before she put back on her smile as I responded. "I apologize I have only recently joined my Lady Seshat and won't be leaving her."
"Damn right he isn't!" Seshat yelled from the window she was overlooking this whole outside event.
Before anyone else could say anything Ais just walked over to me and held out her hand with five coins within it, with each coin being a ten thousand valis coin. "Here, this sword is mine now right?" She said and my lips twitched as I held in a smile at how simple Ais could be.
"Ais… Thats literally the most basic sword. I can make. I can make much better ones should I get help to get the better materials. Hell with how I have just started up I am willing to wave the cost of the forging if you just help me gather extra materials from some bosses I need to kill as well as go into the dungeon and collect some drops I need." I explained with Ais blinking with her head tilting to side.
"See like this." I said and with a flourish I took out my Aquamarine staff from behind me and I saw all the adventure's flinch at the sight of me whipping out a four and a half feet long magical staff out of nowhere.
"I can program weapons with spells so that they can send out elemental attacks which will drain and use your Mind rather than the mana within the weapon so instead of those stupid Crozzo Magic Swords these won't break, plus you also strengthen your mind with such weapons."
I said as I shot a couple bolts of the staff into the ground to show proof making Riveria's face twitch at the staff needing no damned incantation which was needed for all magic in Danmachi.
Ais nodded and then looked to Finn and Loki who were behind her. "I want to fight one of his monster rex's." Ais said with it not even being a question merely a statement that she was going into the dungeon with me to kill an unknown monster.
"In that case I have a sword in mind that can do some magic on its own once we get the materials." I agreed as I realized with my excess materials, I could just make an Aquamarine sword for her that's similar to my Aquamarine staff.
"Let's go inside if we plan to discuss this further." Freya interjected and then she continued. "Oh, and Jake don't forget about my little Familia, we will be buying the artifacts inside and if you need help to kill a boss, please come us first. As its well known that my adventures are the strongest, Hehe." Freya tittered as she threw her silver mane of hair behind her and walked back into the store with her hips swaying hypnotically with each movement.
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Chapter 14
It turns out that when the Loki and Freya Familia are interested in something, grabbing the weird shit, I needed to make a boss spawner was not at all difficult for the two most powerful families in Orario, even if I needing 10 pounds of gold and five whole ounces of rubies made Loki's face cringe at the cost, but Freya didn't even bat an eye at the cost. Then I also had them get me the materials for the Desert Scourge as well too as they were literally dirt cheap with it only being some actual desert sand, mandibles from a killer ant, and feathers from a desert bird.
Once I got the materials, I had no problem letting Loki, Freya, and their captains watch me create the Slime Crown and the Desert Coin and then we went back into the main shop with Bete asking me what the hell I made anyway.
"So… How does a gaudy ass crown make a boss spawn?' Bete asked rudely as I held the large crown that would have fitted upon a silverback monster in the dungeon rather than a human.
"It's simple… A king does not allow someone else to wear a crown in their presence." I said as I made the crown disappear into my inventory.
"Well let's get out of Orario as we cannot take our goddesses into the dungeon as I imagine they will enjoy the sight of their adventures dealing with a couple never before seen monsters." I said and not only did Seshat and Loki eagerly nod but even Freya had to nod as it's not like they could commandeer the coliseum on such short notice for a wide-open place for them to fight.
"Very well our level three and four adventurers will watch over us on the Orario walls while Jake spawns and the other adventurers kill these new Monster Rex's, what say you Loki?" Freya spoke to her counterpart who looked to Finn who nodded his assent.
"Alright lets get the show going haha!" Loki said cheerily as I stepped over to Seshat and allowed her to hold my arm as I escorted her from the shop and me and the leopard woman goddess divided the Loki and Freya Familia as we formed a line that drew all the adventurers eyes as we marched towards one of the walls.
Once we reached the walls and although people weren't supposed to be on the walls normally but honestly rules for Loki and Freya were merely suggestions with how level three and four of both Familia's blocked off the stairway up the several hundred-meter-tall walls that acted as the cage to Orario.
"Jake, you need help getting down the wall?" Freya asked with some actual concern as I looked down at the ground oh so far below on the backside of the wall.
"No… But why couldn't we just go out the gates?" I asked weakly as I mentally thanked Seshat, I took the time to make a set of Tiger Climbing Gear and a ruby grappling hook so I could easily make my way up and down the wall while also having a lucky horseshoe so technically I should conceptually not take fall damage.
"Hehe, the guild would have kittens if they saw the Loki and Freya Familia going out of the city without giving them warning! They would either think we were going after some super monster in the dead lands or worse going to kill one another." Loki said frankly with such little care that even Freya threw a side eye at her.
Makes sense… But anyway, time for me to take advantage of having an army of high-level adventures to carry me to victory. "So, Jakie what kind of boss is this super slime you mentioned? Oh, and that Desert Scrouge what's up with that?!" Loki demanded excitedly even messing up my name while I also saw Seshat perk up at the mention of the Desert Scourge as it was a desert monster which fit her whole Egyptian motif.
For a moment I tried mentally translating what the hell the true 3d real version of Terraria monsters were going to be like, so I weakly smiled. "Well… The King Slime is just that. The King of all slimes, it is going to be ten meter or so meters tall, and like a dozen meters wide slime.
Pure physical blunt attacks are completely worthless, water magic heals it, ice magic only freezes it in place and won't hurt it. Its main attack is jumping like fifty meters in the air and bringing its multi tons of weight onto whoever it lands on, and the interior of the slime is a super concentrated acid that can melt even Adamantine which is why my indestructible weapons are so important." I ranted with Loki and Freya's face tightening.
"And this Desert Scourge?" Freya asked dryly as she cupped her chin and my face scrunched up before I took a piece of paper out of my inventory and drew a very rough form of the Desert Scrouge which was a very large hundred or so meter long centipede like worm with spikes adorning its dark brown carapace. Its mouth was a series of four jaws with powerful spikes/teeth that was perfectly suited to tearing through the sands of the Terraria Desert and being capable of tearing through the weaker sandstone with little issues with the four powerful jaws being capable of crushing the stones and swallowing them to digest for trace minerals to reinforce its carapace.
"Thats the main Desert Scourge it's however a pack boss like Udeaus with its skeleton minions when it spawns, a max of four much smaller versions of itself will spawn and attack everyone in the vicinity but with the ground around here being well forested and the site of the dungeon the Desert Scrouge won't be able to burrow into the ground much at all." I explained with practically everyone exhaling in relief as the monsters making their way under the massive wall that surrounded Orario and attacking the people within… Would be troublesome to say the least.
Loki and Freya shared a look before they nodded and looked back to me. "Jake go down with our adventure's and summon the Slime King before we get ahead of ourselves." Freya said and I shrugged but noticed a light skin and darker skinned elf duo came up the stairs together and obviously both of them didn't like one another.
"Lady Freya, we have secured the permitter." The white-haired elf said proudly with regality filling his every step and only Freya and Riveria seemed to be the people he would look at with a modicum of respect as he took us all in and seemingly found us wanting.
Freya hummed before she looked to Ottar. "Ottar, you and Hedin go down with Jake and Loki's adventure's and kill the beast, Allen and Hogni will protect me from here." Freya said with Ottar grunting in approval as he stepped away from his goddess and I heard Loki also sending Finn and Ais down to fight the summoned boss.
"So how you getting down the wall Jake?" Finn asked me friendlily and I decided to be an asshole for both these Familia's literally just popping up into my shop without making an appointment or something.
"Like this." I said hopping atop the walls and like an assassin from Assassin's Creed I jumped off the wall with my arms fully splayed out to create as much drag as possible and I heard as I flipped through air Freya yelling at Ottar to get me as I looked up into the blue sky above me. But even as the giant of a man dove off the wall towards me obviously trying to stop the Level One me from splattering across the ground, I had already fell onto the ground with a thud that could be heard from the top of Orario's walls.
"Landed it!" I yelled like my belly flop off the massive wall of Orario didn't leave a clear indentation of where I landed on the ground, and I just casually dusted myself off as Ottar and the others landed a bit away from myself.
"You are alive?" Ais said in honest confusion as she could see the mold of my armor being pressed into the ground from where I landed.
"Yeah?" I replied as I took out the golden horseshoe out of my inventory. "Remember this? Yeah, the actual impact of gravity making you hit the ground will not harm you while wearing it… Sure it's not as useful in the dungeon but hey if I ever need to jump off a flying mount or something while traveling this could be useful."
"It's an interesting trinket but get to summoning the beast human." Hedin interjected my sales pitch before I could show off more artifacts to Ais and get her weapon funds that she wouldn't need with having an indestructible weapon.
Wordlessly I nodded and with a deep breath I moved away from the wall by a couple hundred meters and then I took out the large Slime Crown and I felt a weight settle over me as I held it over my head and my helpers likewise stiffened their holds over their weapons as they could feel the seeming warning coming from my motion. 'Well here goes nothing.' I muttered mentally as I brough down the crown and just as it was going to go around me head despite it being obviously way too large for such a thing, the crown teleported out of my hands and onto the ground a dozen meters away in front of me and began jiggling violently in place.
"Here it comes!" I called out as like a spring of water violently erupting, the King Slime came to be as it pushed through the ground and the large crown adorned with a large ruby laid upon the top of its head.
Hedin the elf that Freya sent down immediately began chanting at the sight of the massive slime that tensed as it prepared to leap into the air, and the elf's powerful magic filled the air and a golden magical ring bloomed beneath him as Finn, Ottar, and Ais, spread out to allow the mage to seemingly test the durability of the slime king. "Fight eternally, indestructible soldiers of lightning! Caelus Hildr!" The blond elf roared and from his magical circle, dozens of beach ball sized spheres of lightning that hurt my eyes to look upon, shot at the slime and just as the slime leaped mightily in the air, it procced to be smashed with the barrage of balls of lightning in the middle of the air creating a storm of eye burning light and ear-popping sounds as all the lightning exploded.
Honestly, I was hoping the Slime King to land perfectly fine so they would respect and fear the Terraria bosses more… But the man was a level six mage and his offensive power left nothing to be desired.
With a soft thumping noise, I saw a blue bag that could carry a good-sized shoe box land in front of Hedin…
"Dude… You didn't even let us like touch the boss, we didn't get a goodie bag you asshole!" I yelled out aggrievedly as my first bosses experience was ruined… Is this what it's like being a girl and your guy jizzes at the sight of some tits or something???
"Ah… My apologies? Was this monster rex supposed to be something interesting?" Hedin spoke arrogantly and I wanted to stomp and have a tantrum as the elf bent over and picked up what should have been all of us having a goodie bag.
But from where the King Slime had died, I noticed it's non goodie bag item landed on the ground with a soft thud, so I walked over to get it and saw that the King Slime trophy was on the ground.
"What's that?" Ais asked softly as she saw me pick up the large plaque that showed the King Slime.
"A trophy… Now let's see what Hedin got out of his goodie bag." I said after I also scooped up the large golden crown that was next to the plaque so I could resummon the boss again as with Calamity I didn't need to make a new spawner each time I wanted to fight a boss.
"I am going to summon it again! Hedin at least let us whack the thing!" I scolded the elf with the man's eyebrows visibly twitching and I saw Ottar tense, and the elf did the same as he side eyed the giant who was beside him before he loosened up.
"What is inside the bag?" Ottar grunted and I shrugged.
"There is like half a dozen items possibly in the bag… Let's just get some more bags that way we can show our goddess some of the magical stuff as the bags only have a couple things at once." I explained and the man grunted in approval.
"It's fine, the Slime seems much less dangerous than the Goliath other than it's acid. But with your trident it shouldn't be an issue, right?" Finn said with a cunning light to his eyes, and I nodded as I understood what he was getting at.
"Ah yes, here Ottar." I said tossing over one of the larger Tungsten Broadswords I made to sell and the size difference between Ais and Ottar holding the sword. Ais holding the large broadsword made it look like a proper large sword but Ottar holding the weapon made it look like only a short sword. "Ok let's do this again!" I called out again as I put the slime crown towards my head and just as before the crown teleported out of my hands and the large King Slime made its presence known.
Finn hummed smiling and his form was barely a visible blur to me as he stabbed his trident into the King Slime.
Likewise Ottar and Ais dashed forward to take chunks out of the slime and I do mean chunks and seeing the Slime probably about to die again to the murder blenders that were level five and above adventure's I quickly shot the Slime King with some Jester Arrows before Ottar tensed and he wielding the tungsten broadsword carved through the Slime so powerfully that the gale of wind he sent with the sword swing, scattered the slimes remains and the slime dissolved into the ground as a series of soft thumps rang out as we all received a goodie bag.
"This is good enough for now." Finn called out as he picked up his goodie bag. "This is boss is perfect for being a good challenge for a group of level ones and a single level two to transcend their levels but for us, this monster is too slow and weak to compare to the deep dungeon monsters like Valgang dragons and such."
"Here Jake, use your storage magic to hold these while we kill the Desert Scourge." Finn said throwing his bag to me while Ottar did the same with little care but Ais hesitated before handing it to me.
"Don't open it please… I want it to be a surprise." Ais said almost cutely despite her not meaning too leaving me to only nod in agreement as I stored her bag to the side of the other bags I was given in my inventory.
"Alright give me a bit of space to summon the Desert Scourge." I said as I placed down several blocks worth of desert sand that spread out across the ground. Turns out I needed to be standing on desert sand to summon the Desert Scourge which was an annoyance…
Taking out the Desert Scourge's summon item, the Desert Medallion, I squeeze it and the very earth I was standing upon shuddered and then the ground exploded as the ten meters thick massive, armored and spiked worm hissed as its massive head broke through the surface and with a crash it attempted to push into the ground towards my direction but my thoughts were correct as it couldn't break down more than five meters through the top soil before it had it literally chew its way through the hardy Orario soil that wasn't at all loose like simple desert sand.
But the Desert Scourge had its metaphorical eyes locked upon me and even as the other adventures sliced through the monster easily with their great strength its great size allowed it to weather the blows as it single mindedly chased after me as its smaller minions broke off to attack Ottar and Ais.
"Fuck this!" I cursed and with a mental thought, my Ruby Grappling Hook shot out from my waist and grabbed onto a nearby boulder that was on the ground, and I was yanked across the battlefield with the Desert Scrouge screeching out in fury as its prey evaded it.
Landing back onto my feet I took out my Aquamarine staff and my Wulfrim controller and with my newly summoned drone I began laying a hail of magical bolts onto the boss monster.
Seeing as we all already 'damaged' the monster, Hedin yelled out so I could hear. "Clear out I am going to use a spell." He clearly was warning me to get the hell out of dodge so feeling his lightning magic clearly ramping up I quickly used the grappling hook to quickly pull me the hell out of there even if I ended up bashing into the tree I hooked onto.
"Strike forever, indestructible general of lightning! Varian Hildr" He yelled and instead of a hail of lightning spheres from the elf came a pure beam of destruction in the form of blinding lightning that tore through and all but evaporated the Desert Scourge as the lightning swallowed the boss.
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Chapter 15 Comissoned
Whether it was the Slime Kings we killed or the couple Desert Scrouges we summoned I quickly learned a very important fact…
"Bwahaha the brats summoned monsters will focus on killing him above all others haha!" Loki hysterically laughed as she held onto Bete for dear life and pointed me while she was laughing, and I couldn't help but pout. As even Freya and Seshat found my suffering funny enough to giggle at the site of myself having to flee for my life, due to the massive Desert Scrouge trying to devour me while ignoring the likes Ais and Ottar tearing large chunks of its flesh apart with each blow.
"Well, it is a load off our minds to have proof that he cannot control said monster rex's. Now let's get to the real fun, these goodie bags, were it?" Freya spoke as Ottar, and that blond elf named Hedin respectfully laid the bags in front of goddess on a couple tables that the Loki and Freya Familia members dragged up on top of Orario's city walls.
"My lady would you care to inspect our rewards?" Hedin asked as he took his position to the right of his goddess while Ais and Finn went back to Loki's table but only Finn handed over his goodie bags to Loki.
"Aizuuu! Come on gimmie the goodie bags or it's like back when Freya always got more Christmas presents back in Tenkai!" Loki all but petulantly bawled as she made grabby hands at the half dozen boss reward bags Ais was carrying in her hands.
"No? I want to open them." Ais replied and with the way she held her new Tungsten sword I could tell she was considering if she was going to need to once again brain her perverted childish goddess over the head with the pommel of her sword.
"Why am I not surprised Loki was the unwanted redheaded stepchild back in Tenkai." I whispered to Seshat as I gave her a Slime King and Desert Scourge bag to be nice and although Loki and Freya couldn't hear my whisper, but Finn and Gareth could. and they burst into chuckles making Loki whirl around and ask what was so funny.
"It's nothing important Goddess, now let's open these bags, the bosses aren't that useful to us old timers but for the new blood. This will set the trend of Orario as we cannot hide this at all." Gareth said nodding in the distance towards the Babel tower and I realized that Freya likely wasn't the only one who had ways of monitoring Orario.
"Hmm alright! Let's start with the Slime stuff! Hehe he I wonder if I will get a slime gun that can melt Ais's clothes Hehe." Loki literally drooled while cackling like a dirty old man, and Ais took an exaggerated step away from her goddess that was more of a leap then a step towards me and Seshat with a look of utmost disgust and even Riveria looked ready to bring her staff down upon Loki's head.
"There actually is a slime gun that has a weak acidic effect…" I spoke weakly and I saw Loki's closed eyes slowly open as she stared at me.
"You better lock your doors Jake, or you may have this goddess stealing you away with my bodies wiles, so I don't even have to do a Wargame haha!" Loki 'joked' but with the way her slit eyes looked at me I was more than aware her little joke was possibly more dangerous than Freya's current interests me.
But then as Loki opened up the pillowcase sized goodie bag and all the stuff dropped onto the table in front of her as the bag disappeared into nothingness the whole top of the city wall went deadly silent as Loki lasered in on and reverently lifted an object that made me feel pure dread.
She lifted it with all the care of a mother cradling their baby, she held it above her head as though it was an idol worthy of worship despite her being an actual goddess…
She got the damned Slime super soaker that had a weak acid. Now it did no damage and in Terraria that would be it, but here in Danmachi where everything had stupid things like durability and could break down after time…
"Beware all beauties of Orario, Loki has arrived Muahaha!" Loki joyously screamed as she somehow recognized what the super soaker was and how to use and thus with no shame, she sprayed it in the direction of Ais and Riveria who screamed a feminine cry at the most based of 'betrayal's'
"Don't look at Lady Riveria!" Hedin, Hogin, and all the elves said righteously after Freya gave them a nod and all the elves regardless of gender of Familia crowded around Riveria with the ladies in the center and the men on the outside so none could peer past their forms.
But Ais didn't have an entire race of people that simped for her and thus we all got to see her white dress, like out of some kind of Hentai literally melt off of her.
"How bold!" Seshat clapped seeing Ais wasn't wearing a bra under her thick battle dress.
"Here Ais." I said as I had opened up on my own loot bag and luckily got the Ninja torso armor. Ais grabbed the thrown armor piece and after a moment of hesitation she pulled it over her head, and I caught a flash of pink as her arm that were covering her chest dipped out of the way.
"Loki… Your dead." Ais spoke with a visible tick to her eyebrow as Loki was wrestled by Finn and Gareth and got the slime gun taken away.
"So, Jake, other than stripping people of their clothes does this slime gun have any other use?" Freya asked as she folded her hands in front of her face.
"Uh yes anyone who has been shot by the slime gun is uhm quite a bit more flammable as Slime is a very flammable product to put lightly, so Ais and Riveria, I suggest you go take a shower once this is all complete." I explained and Freya nodded but before I could continue, I was knocked forward as my Armor Rating took a small dip.
"Haha, I have a mount! And it's so squishy!" Seshat cried out as she had opened her own bag and actually got the slime mount that summoned a large beachball sized slime that had a saddle upon it, and she was just hopping around childishly without care while I went to give Ais a shirt.
"I think its best we reconvene in a few hours at the Hostess of Fertility, I will rent it out tonight that way everyone can let all this fun sink in. And thus, we can meet together with calmer heads." Finn called out with a wry smile, as too much had happened and was still happening all at once. Because in the last two minutes two beauties got their clothes melted. A couple elves of the Loki Familia were trying to strangle Loki, and I was trying to chase Seshat around who refused to get off her damn mount.
Riveria then pushed herself out of the throng of lady elves that surrounded her. "Yes… I need a shower and a bath. Finn you can deal with the details, Ais and I are leaving now!" Riveria said laying an arm around Ais's shoulder and directed the clearly embarrassed girl off the city wall and I realized that Ais's legs were almost pretty clearly on display as well which could explain her embarrassment.
So, while I wrangled my Goddess off the damn slime mount and almost got broken bones for my effort as a cat goddess didn't like to be taken from her perch, who could have guessed that? Anyway, after Loki was tressed up in some ropes the Loki Familia got from somewhere, we all went on our separate ways While Freya walked away with her Familia with grace…
Yeah, I wish.
"Why you two following us?" I asked with some confusion as Tione the Loki Captain's Amazon waifu simpette and one of Freya's hooded Gulliver brothers were following us quite openly.
"I am escorting you home under the request of my Lady Freya. Please continue on home, Jake of the Seshat Familia." The Gulliver brother spoke, and Tione nodded.
"I mean you guys already know where I live, and I doubt people got enough info to start an attack within not even a half an hour after the little demonstration." I complained but I held my obviously irritated goddesses' dusky skin toned hand as she obviously wanted to snap something at the two higher level adventures that were escorting us home.
"You don't know the tricks all the deities of Orario have when it comes to gathering juicy little bits of information." Tione muttered as she kept an eye seemingly atop the many buildings that surrounded us in search of archers or something despite us still being surrounded by the later morning crowds of people going about their business on the streets of Orario.
Taking that bit of information to heart as soon as me and Seshat got home and Tione and the Gulliver who wouldn't answer who he was, both left to go about their business while we were supposed to meet at the Hostess of Fertility, I asked about the stores around Seshat shop.
"Oh, those shops, I bought all that out but without a Familia I haven't gotten around to building it up yet. Why ask?" Seshat asked but then frowned as I pulled her out of her store.
"Seshat help me make an impervious house not even Ottar could break into Haha erk." I chuckled quietly and I then I violently shivered as a previously unfelt gaze seemingly tightened on me.
"Right… Anyway, I am just going to make a shell to surround your shop so people cannot launch magic or something at it." I said as I symbolically put on a miner's hat with a flashlight atop it, making Seshat blink in surprise at the sight and then I quickly used some of the large quantity of stone I got from the dungeon that was actually completely normal stone without any dungeon monster spawning effects to build a large one block thick wall around Seshat's shop tearing through the nearby shops with a pickaxe like they were nothing and also getting more building resources.
Then to give myself plenty of room after making the large box of stone walls I put a kind of stone pyramid atop with glass making up the last couple layers so a good bit of natural light could still come in.
"Alright let me make some torches to fill in the rest of the light needs." I muttered and then with the grand effort of literally stabbing a little ball of slime on a stick of wood and then using my mana to activate the slime I made a bunch of normal ever burning torches.
"So where is the door for us to get in and out of here Jake?" Seshat asked sassily as she stood not too far from me after I ran around the big stone box, I built around her shop with her arms wrapped around her chest and looking at the pockmarked stone I used to make the building with disdain.
"Isn't much of a shelter if there is a door people can just open at will, is it?" I answered just as sassily before I scratched Seshat behind the ears making her eyes roll up at my finger having learned her weak points from when she would allow me belly rubbing privileges.
"Ok I am going to get a shower first; you get the cold-water Haha!" I joked running past Seshat while she was still lost in the ear scratches.
"Neow you don't Jake!" Seshat yelled and I could hear her running after me into her shop so we could get ready for the late lunch with the Familia's. Oh, and I needed to finish opening up my Loot boxes/Goodie bags.
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Chapter 16
Not even twenty minutes later our newly made stone house shell was being beaten upon by someone or something with all the grace of an angry bull in the center of an Apple store.
"Jake! Go look and see who it is." Seshat groaned as she reluctantly placed Sir Fluffykins the First atop my Wulfrim drone so the drone could fly the immobile sentry around.
"Nope its Christmas time, we still have these goodie bags plus Loki and Freya's adventurers aren't even here, so I rather just not deal with whoever is out there." I said frankly earning an eyeroll from my goddess but then after a moment of introspection as I pulled out the last two Slime King bags and the Desert Scourge bag, she nodded in understanding.
Deciding to say the hell with it I immediately just opened up the Desert Scourge bag and did a fist bump when I saw what I got… Well discarding the massive piles of shells and other things that were all but useless to me as Danmachi wasn't short of such things at all.
Every boss gave crafting supplies for their theme of items and Desert Scrouge as was its previous lore was a massive beach worm that got pushed into the desert because of how the ocean became super acidic somehow.
"Wow… you helped kill a massive monster worthy allowing a trio of level ones or even a level two to level up and it's reward is looking like you raided a beach? Do these shells and stuff even have mollusks we can cook or something?" Seshat teased and in response I became the adult in the situation by grabbing the item I wanted Seshat was welcomed by a wave of sand impacting her and throwing her little swing backwards into a flip.
"Call me High Priest Imhotep for I shall cover this world in endless sand!" I boasted as my new Desert Cloak gave me the ability to create an extremely dense screen of sand around me that I could control and among the sheer utility of summoning a strong enough sandstorm that could shear flesh from bone, but the storm aspect also made me faster and increased my life force regeneration somehow.
"Jake… I am a goddess of the desert but if you throw sand at my face again, I will smother you with a pillow in your sleep." Seshat said dryly as she moved the blanket, she instinctively used to block out the impact of the weak wave of sand I sent at her.
"Alright alright." I said disarmingly as Sir Fluffykins the First waved a fist at me silently in fury at how it now had sand all over its once so luscious fur. "Well let's summon my new minion." I said taking the last whole item I got with it being the Seabound Staff.
Before Seshat could question what, I was going to summon I pushed my mana into the staff and with the rattle of water rushing over sand a knee-high tall sea star appeared and just fell to the ground with a wet slapping noise.
But after the large Sea Star landed on the ground it's scaled body audibly and visibly hardened as it lost its more light-colored pigments and the jagged scales covering the Sea Star darkened as it became hard and as reflective as seashells.
For a moment I wanted to call it Staryu or something. But I shook that thought off, as Seshat and I heard an even louder series of banging on the stone walls surrounding the shop.
"Well let's go see who is there… They don't seem to be interested in walking away." Seshat muttered as she hopped off her perch and gracefully walked over to me and took my arm and thankfully, we learned that my meteor armor only burned that which had the intent to 'harm' me, so I didn't like burn everything I bumped into. Which is why Seshat could hold my arm or hand, when I escorted her places, but when she attempted to slap me that one time, she basically slapped the equivalent of a red hot, hotplate.
Once we reached the square of stone wall, I place four torches against the wall to kind of outline the exit as that was where the shop door was angled directly, I could hear muffled voices coming from the outside.
Taking out my pickaxe after Seshat got back a bit I quickly busted a hole into the wall and the voices came in loud and clear before someone yelled for them all to shut up.
"Excuse me, but can I assume that the person who knocked a hole into this eye sore of a building is the creator of the structure and if not the owner of the building that lays within this abomination?" I heard a snooty voice come through the hole I smashed open.
I looked to Seshat for permission to basically say yes this was my property and she swiftly nodded smiling as she knew I had some mischievous banter already prepared for whoever is out here.
"Yes, this is my property, now. Who is it and what do you want?" I questioned and the female voice paused as if she didn't expect to be so rudely asked two questions in return.
Then I felt through the stone the same presence that surrounded Seshat, Freya, and Loki, the lady outside was a goddess… Oh joy.
"I am the goddess Aphrodite of the Aphrodite Familia! I run a sizable portion of the more respectable section of the Red-Light district as well as being the chairwoman of the Orario homeowner's association. This… Building is most certainly not up to code both in terms of aesthetics for being on one of the major roads in Orario and it obviously doesn't have municipal access." Aphrodite droned on and I shuddered at the thought that Orario had a damned homeowners association.
"What do you want specifically?" I replied again shortly and this time I heard Aphrodite huff and stamp her feet at how uncooperative I was being.
"Well obviously I, and the rest of the acting members of the Orario Homeowners Association will be putting together a referendum on whether to demolish this abomination in the next day or two! But if you actually take some time to fix this building up, using the obviously magical manner in which you built it to a level that appeal to my level of beauty, I will bless this building to stand here in Orario forever more without HOA taxes Haha!" Aphrodite proudly.
Before I could just tell her to fuck off, I felt Seshat smack me with a wooden board that visibly blackened and smoked at the impact with my armor, and when I looked to her, I saw her pointing at Aphrodite's voice's direction and franticly nodding for me to accept the deal.
"Why!" I hissed as making a nice house was cool and all, but I needed to get back into the Dungeon as I bet Freya and Loki were going to keep a level three or something on me, so I had a decent little safety net.
"Jake, this building and the surrounding property I bought is centrally located and each year we have to pay like five hundred thousand Valis! Take the damned deal!" She hissed and I nodded as being able to skip paying my property taxes were worth wasting a couple days messing with the whole building aspect of my Terrarian powers.
"Fine Lady Aphrodite I will make the building nicer looking! But I do have an engagement in a couple hours so I may very well not finish until tomorrow afternoon is that fair?" Although Aphrodite here in Danmachi was… Annoying but she was nowhere near the thot the myths would portray her as. Hell she, Hestia, Demeter and Hephaestus all cried together when they came together, as the news of Artemis's death became wide news in Danmemo.
But the main problem was my last little interaction with her Familia members… Thankfully there was no way for God's or Goddesses to find out who kills their Familia members remotely.
"Good! I shall peer upon your work in the coming days then. Don't disappoint me!" Aphrodite called proudly as she probably began to walk away but at that point, I had patched back closed the hole I made, which also ended up silencing the Familia members Aphrodite brought with her.
Wordlessly I looked to Seshat and she patted me on my head as I didn't like wearing the helmet if I wasn't going to be fighting. "It's ok Jake, with your building speed and my guiding hand we can easily make this into something more than just a box and a pyramid on top… Maybe a true pyramid with a large bust of divine self-hanging over the entrance way? Or maybe we could even terraform the surroundings and make a little self-contained river surrounding our property with an authentic villa sitting in the middle of the river… Ah that would be just like back home at Tenkai!" Seshat rambled on and my eyes dulled at the sheer amount of work it would be for me to terraform the chunk of land Seshat had bought out.
"Seshat… Can't we just make an easy castle or something?" I asked weakly and my goddess looked at me like I asked her to push aside her skirt and bend over or something.
"Ach! Absolutely not Jake Barris! If we are to build something that isn't a mere stop gap, then it must be something grand and worthy in the eyes of a goddess of architecture and another with the domain of beauty!" Seshat said excitedly and seeing my normally lounging around goddess so excited to do something that wasn't going to a restaurant gave me the motivation to do all this.
Plus having a bigger area, I can actually use for my store rather than using a little corner of Seshat's cramped store would be for the best.
"Alright Seshat. We will be built something that will stand out." I said softly as I began threading my fingers through my goddess's ebony hair and instantly attacked her weak points in behind her leopard ears making the Egyptian goddess lean against me weakly with all her strength melting and her eyes going cross-eyed. The only other major weak point she had that would mess with her was at the base of her tail…
"Well either way let's get going to the Hostess of Fertility, we can discuss what we should make on the way." I said slowing down the ear scratches so Seshat could regather her mind.
"Nyah ok…" Seshat nodded and then she headbutted me a bit seemingly wanting the more intense head scratches, but I just let go of her earning a pout.
"Come on. So much affection plays with this poor mortal's heart!" I teased earning a chuckle and mild blush from Seshat.
"Bah you are the tease who makes it difficult for me to stand… Anyone let's get changed seeing as this is likely to come as close to a formal dinner as it gets." Seshat reminded me as although the late lunch/dinner was to be taking place at the Hostess, it was going to be private little party with Loki and Freya renting out Mia's restaurant for the night.
"So, armor is no good?" I questioned grimacing as I didn't really even have any dress clothes and Seshat recalling my outsider nature to the world remembered I only bought a few different sets of under clothes to go under my armor.
Seshat sighed then took my arm. "Here let's put you together an outfit." She said and then took me into her private bedroom for the first time ever.
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Chapter 17 Commissioned by TimoteosJKim
After Seshat got me into some nicer clothes while I kept my armor and such in my inventory for easy retrieval, we without any issue made our way to the Hostess of Fertility to meet with the Loki and Freya Familia's.
But I bet the reason why the two goddesses had been treating me and Seshat with kid gloves probably out of fear of the consequences of putting me in a corner when I could just refuse my service and there would be little Loki could do to force it even if she forced a War Game on Seshat.
"You nervous Jake?" Seshat asked me while squeezing the arm of mine that she was holding in a gentleman's escort.
I shook my head before softly speaking as we continued to walker ever closer to the restaurant and I could see in the distance a number of adventurer's crowding around where the Hostess is. "No… I am not nervous, sure this whole spawning bosses for them can be a bit inconvenient to put lightly but I brought it up knowing if I could control the process in which the cities adventurers earned their High Quality Excellia then Orario would be all but in my palm… If I don't get killed by some asshole anyway." I said in deprecation knowing all too well, that as with any man who soars to the top even if he provides a one-of-a-kind service, people will want to tear him down just because they cannot bear to see someone else in a higher position then they will ever be.
"Hmm yes, if Loki, Freya, and the other larger Familia's desire to keep Monster Rex's on tap as it were. Then they will need to work with you as they themselves cannot activate the boss summons as we have seen." Seshat remarked as Ottar had once tried on the Slime king crown summon to no effect.
So, for better or worse I was the only one who could summon bosses.
But no more words could be shared with a modicum of privacy in now cramped streets of Orario as we closed in on the Hostess of Fertility and then I could only deadpan as I saw a number of higher-level adventure's I could recognize that were most certainly not Loki or Freya adventures.
"Well… Looks like the news got out much faster than we expected." I muttered squeezing Seshat's hands as I couldn't see a way through the crowd of adventure's pressing to get through the line of level three and four adventures of Loki and Freya's Familia.
Looking through the crowd actually managing to push into the Hostess I saw the Dea Saint, Airmid Teasanare the captain and head doctor of the Dian Cecht Familia, and the other more pressing person I saw was Tsubaki Collbrande the captain of the Hephaestus Familia as well as a master smith.
I saw both those two leaders of their Familia's leading their God/Goddess through the throng of people trying to get in and seeing the famous people the Loki and Freya adventure's just let them through.
"Jake how about we just go home… We can't power through that crowd, nor do we get any recognition for forcing our way through a riot and come out looking like a group of disheveled stray cats when we meet with Loki and Freya." Seshat spoke and for a moment I thought about just doing just that. We could literally just go back home…
"Yeah… They been controlling the speed of these whole meetings a bit too much. We can meet at our place after we rebuild it and plus with that crowd, I bet Mama Mia the owner of the store is pissed anyway." I said shuddering at the thought of getting on Mia's bad side.
Sure, Ottar was stronger than Mia and all, but Mia liked beating people halfway to death with her bare hand's way too much… Her hands were rated E for everyone and had no problems throwing down with anyone that causes her restaurant any problems.
"Alright! Time to go home!" I said cheerfully and then I took back out Seshat's mount out of my inventory and used it.
With a soft splattering noise, the jumbo beach ball sized slime with a saddle atop it formed on the ground. Once I got on, I just patted my lap and Seshat just giggled and sat sideways in my lap so she could hold onto both the saddle horn and my waist.
"Am I the first lady you rode anything with?" She teased as the slime began bouncing back home and you would think we would be thrown up in the air and it would be a terrible experience, but you would be wrong. Sure, it did bounce a lot but there were no jarring motions, it was almost like riding a ship with the constant motions of the slime bouncing forward.
"Yup!" I said frankly as I maneuvered the slime mount around the people who instantly cleared out of the way of the duo who were riding a weird blue blob thing.
"Oi you are going the wrong way to the Hostess!" I heard a voice call out from the side and I looked up and I saw atop the nearby building was Tiona who was obviously looking for us…
"Thats right! We are going home there is too damn many people there and I didn't sign up to be the showcase of a mini Denatus!" I yelled back and with a mental nudge the Slime Mount trudged on.
"Wait! Captain sent me to escort you there!" Tiona cried out and I mentally cursed before I slumped against Seshat who patted my head consolingly.
"Fine!" I said giving up on the idea of taking Tiona through a high-speed escape through Orario atop my Slime Mount.
With a loud thumping noise, I made my Slime Mount leap from the streets of Orario and we landed right beside Tiona atop her building making her cry out in shock.
"Woah so cool! Aiz got one of those but hers didn't want to leap up and stuff?" Tiona asked excitedly and I hummed in thought as I had the slime mount follow Tiona at a sprint for me across the buildings the high-level amazon just jogged across the buildings but thanks to the slime's bouncy nature, we weren't jostled around much at all.
"Was she actually riding it?" I asked as we closed in on the Hostess of Fertility and Tiona firmly shook her head.
"Nope she said slime is perverted and the slime was just moping around the Loki Familia until Lady Riveria gave it the task of pulling around carts and it perked up a bit." She said raising her hands up in a what can you do motion.
Well with Ais's last interaction with slime stuff being with Loki's slime gun and having her clothes melted off of her… Yeah, that would make sense.
"Well, this is a Slime Mount… If it isn't the mount of someone it can get depressed as these things do have some personality." I explained and I was rewarded by the Slime Mount bouncing even faster somewhat overtaking Tiona making her laugh at the sight of the slimes' competitive action.
"Huh I bet Loki wouldn't mind treating it like a mount and just ride around the castle with it…" I heard Tiona mutter before she shrugged, and she had us get off the roofs so she could help push us through the throngs of people surrounding the Hostess of Fertility.
"Alright out of the way! VIP's coming through! I am going to start stomping on people's feet if they don't move!" Tiona yelled and people scampered out of the way at the threat of Tiona's level five strength being put to pulverizing the feet of others.
Once we finally entered the Hostess, I saw the damn inside was packed in a way I feared. It was practically a mini Denatus or otherwise known as the Meeting of the gods.
"Oh, why hello Seshat it's been a while. Is this your first Familia member?" I heard a soft voice reach us and from one of the side booths I saw a brown-haired beauty quickly approach us and all I could think was the word soft.
Her presence was soft, her voice was soft, and most importantly the hug she gave me and Seshat was the definition of soft as she pulled us both into her massive bosom. "Demeter don't seduce Jake!" I heard Seshat finally call out as she managed to pull her face off of Demeter's boobs while I more carefully pulled away not wanting to push the friendly goddess away so violently.
"Lady Demeter thank you for the hug and yes I am Seshat's first Familia member." I said nodding respectfully to the goddess who all but owned Orario's food supply with her massive Familia.
"Aww you are so precious!" She cooed seeing me not utterly freak out at not being pulled into her tits like most people would have gotten a nosebleed or some other nonsense. "Here come sit over with me and Hestia, Seshat it will be just like when the Greek and Egyptian
Pantheon's would meet in Tenkai." Demeter said taking Seshat and my hands and dragging me over as I blanked at the news that Hestia was here.
And low and behold was the short black haired goddess Hestia and squirming beside her was the clearly nervous form of Bell Cranel who was shrunk down and hiding his presence at being in the same room as his crush Ais Wallenstein.
"Ah Seshat you are here in Genkai!" Hestia cried out dramatically pointing at Seshat and my goddess just rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I been here for a few weeks Hestia, how you been other than famously mooching off of Hephaestus?" Seshat asked teasingly as she slid into Hestia's side of the booth, and Bell got pushed into the booths wall as two goddesses sat next to one another and began talking.
I then noticed Demeter didn't have a Familia member with her as she sat down in the other side of the booth, and I sat down beside her. "Demeter you don't have an escort?" I asked but seemingly in answer a server slammed down two jugs of beer or something in front of Demeter and Hestia and I almost whipped out my Aquamarine staff beneath the table to start blasting before I only weakly smiled seeing who it was.
"Oh, Lunor am I so alone here Hehe?!" Demeter giggled as she patted me on my arm and Lunor Faust, the highest-level adventurer of the Demeter Familia and a bounty hunter only scowled to her goddesses pointed question.
"Yes, you are Lady Demeter!" Lunor said rolling her brown eyes and then the blond spun around and stomped back towards the kitchen leaving Demeter to pout.
Both Seshat and Hestia broke into laughter seeing Demeter's dejected expression before Hestia asked the more pressing question, I was even curious about. "Hey so me and Bell got stuck here as we came in earlier so what's even happening anyway?"
Demeter merely shrugged and for a moment I wondered if I wanted to get closer to Bell and his nonsense before I firmly shut down those thoughts and decided to not volunteer the information that Hestia wanted.
And seeing my not respond Seshat threw me and imperceptibly smile and she herself didn't say anything as we all just settled in for a bit.
"Oi what is the man of the hour doing with the Chibi and Demeter!" I heard Loki yell out and I looked over to see Loki stomping over to me and then the flat chested goddess grabbed me by the lapels of my dress shirt.
"Help me get another slime gun! My damned brats encased it in molten stone and buried it in the Familia graveyard!" Loki cried out and I saw Lefiya who was given the thankless task of pulling the goddess back blush as the gods of the room burst into laughter as apparently the news about Riveria, and Ais getting their clothes melted in public had spread.
"Ais's clothes really melted!" Bell squeaked out and a quick glance at the man showed him looking beet red at the thought.
"I rather not every woman in your Familia attempt to kill me Loki." I said dryly and then while Loki slumped in defeat at my clear refusal Lefiya pulled Loki off of me.
But before Loki could be pulled all the way to the side of the restaurant her executives had commandeered, Ottar stood up with his chair loudly scratching against the ground silencing the room as The Kings pressure filled room.
"Lady Freya will now speak, then Loki will speak, do not interrupt us… Just as we allowed you to join as this event which will strengthen Orario and its Familia's, you can also lose such a privilege. Ottar spoke with his voice.
Freya then stood up from behind her wall of adventure's and I even saw Mama Mia was standing on the edge of the bar closer to her old goddess to show her support I suppose.
"Gods and Goddesses of Orario we stand together on a rather interesting occasion… A mortal born with the abilities to create uncontrollable Monster Rex that can be killed and harvested at will has been found." Freya spoke grandly and I felt every divinity in the room laser focus on Freya's words and not just her tits.
"The monsters are perfect for level ones and twos to fight in groups to earn High Quality Excellia for level ups and just generally gain large amounts of status points and best of all, other than creating the item that spawns the bosses, the spawning of the monsters only requires the creator to make a couple motions to summon them!" Freya explained and I frowned as she downplayed my actions.
"Now the best of all is that whoever does any amount of damage to the bosses will magically get a goodie bag full of materials and ready-made magical weapons and tools." Freya continued before she looked at me for a moment and smiled seeing my cool expression and then she looked to Loki.
"Eh Freya got the point of it all, so not much for me to say Hehe." Loki said carelessly as she sat down beside Finn.
Freya then nodded and her eyes went back to our table, and I felt her eyes jumping between me and Bell as though wondering which one she wanted to bite into first.
"So, Jake, the man of the hour and creator of these bosses do you have anything you want to say?" Freya asked putting me on the spot.
I nodded and stood up ignoring the people whispering about how I was sitting next to Demeter. "Thank you, Lady Freya, for hosting this party and yes I do have something to say. I will be hosting Monster Boss parties on the weekends outside the city of Orario, at one of the abandoned castles that line the countryside." I spoke and I saw both Freya and Loki's smiles disappear as I stole all their momentum and control.
"All are welcome that won't cause issues. My only job will be to spawn the bosses as I have no control over the bosses… So, whatever happens to any adventure's that try their luck isn't my responsibility." I continued hearing nods from most of the adventurers.
A hand clad in white and gold gloves rose up and I looked over and saw Airmid Teasanare looking for my attention and having my attention on her she spoke softly, but her voice easily carried over to me. "The Dian Checht Familia would like to setup a triage at the site to treat adventure's and sell potions for the boss battle would that be alright?" I nodded obviously not going to turn down one of the best healers in this fantasy land.
Then Hephaestus's Tsubaki Collbrande volunteered to look into bringing some spare weapons and smiths to check up on people's weapons and thus with other Familia's chiming in, even Hestia shyly raised a hand saying she could bring a snack cart over there.
"We might as well just have someone use their Arcanum to stream the boss battles here in Orario rather than just running over to it every week." I heard another voice speak out and thus came the great argument over how big such an event should become.
Chapter 18 KATL_Chief has Commissioned a bunch
But the great atmosphere in the Hostess was ruined as one of the level four Loki adventures were suddenly pushed through the door and only another adventurer standing up and stopping the young man from crashing into several tables.
"Kek Kek, so many Familia's were invited but the Ishtar Familia was skipped over?" From the entranceway of the Hostess of Fertility stomped in literally the greatest divide in beauty I have ever seen.
Ishtar the goddess was definitely beautiful objectively, but her vile core was known to me, and I was able to throw aside the passive charm nonsense she put out far easier than I could push off Freya's influence. But beside Ishtar was her captain Phryne Jamil…
For an anime world with most people being air brushed and looking at least pretty good, Phryne Jamil was none of that… She hit ever damn stair when she fell down the Ugly Staircase in other words.
She literally looked like a toad. She had sideways split putrid yellow eyes and her head was comically large atop her body with her seemingly not even having a neck at all.
"I told Freya not to invite you myself if she wanted to host this party at my restaurant… Now get the hell out of my restaurant as I already need to replace the boards your filthy feet have walked upon." Mia said coldly and everyone shut up as they felt the bloodlust coming off Mia.
"Hmm very well I can see where I am not wanted. But Jake Bariss you are welcome to host your boss parties with the amazons in the entertainment district… I am sure you can find greater offers there then with Loki and Freya's toys." Ishtar said proudly turning around as even with how arrogant she was, she knew her single level five was nothing in the face of Freya or Loki's Familia.
She had no right to force her place here.
With Ishtar's words hanging on me I could feel her Charm worming into my head trying to twist me into chasing after her but with a mental shrug I spoke instead of following Ishtar like some lost child about to be abducted into a van.
"I would sooner commit suicide then seek any pleasure from your broken dolls Ishtar." I said cold as ice and Ishtar froze with Phryne Jamil also looking back to me with a dangerous smile. "Yeah, Phryne Jamil's little taste for little boys to torture isn't much of a secret nor is how you use your divine charm to keep your Familia members as little broken toys a secret. Why do you think no one of any talent will join you?" I said mockingly making Ishtar shatter her smoking pipe she was carrying.
"I would beware the dungeon little man… The monsters are the last thing you need to worry about now." Ishtar blatantly threatened me.
But I only laughed as I had zero fear of her. I had Loki and Freya behind me at the moment and in the worst-case scenario I can literally teleport faster than someone could assassinate.
"The only fate I fear from your broken toys is that toad attempting to sit on me." I said pointing at Phryne and I could hear Tiona burst into cackling laughter. "But go ahead. Have your adventurer's attempt to assassinate me in the dungeon… But can they outrun a monster rex spawned on them?" I said cheerily making the room go silent as they realized if I was pressed in the dungeon. Whelp fuck everyone on that floor.
Ishtar snarled and I felt Phryne Jamil's murderous eyes take me in as she seemingly memorized my appearance before she nodded and left with her goddess and with Ishtar out of the restaurant, I just sat back down in my seat next to Demeter with the table's occupants staring at me.
For a moment the Hostess went awkwardly silent before Loki stood up and spoke boisterously. "Next rounds on me! Let's knock one back to forget the last couple minutes Haha!"
With Loki buying everyone a drink the previous atmosphere returned and finally the Loki and Freya Familia's made their move to retake control of this whole Boss Farming event.
Freya then stood up with everyone nice and more settled in. "The Freya and Loki Familia will be working together to be using Jake Barriss's lower-level bosses for level ups and general high quality Excellia farming so while my Familia takes care of Jake's direct safety, Loki's Finn Deimne will be coordinating where and when his bosses should be summoned as they cannot be summoned directly in Orario's Colosseum due to how mobile they are." Freya explained much to the consternation of the gods who wanted easy access to the bosses.
But even as Freya got into talking about the logistics with Finn, I realized that while I loved the whole material support the jumbo Familia's would bring but I realized that while summoning the bosses although was a bit of a chore, but such a tiny chore only requires me to participate until I get all the materials, I need for my builds up to hard mode.
Once I got all the materials to prepare for Hard mode then I could throw off the other expectations of Orario's adventures regardless of my level.
"In that case seeing as you guys have everything well in hand. Me and my goddess will be returning for the night." I said as I escaped Demeter's now drunken grabby hands and helped Seshat stand up.
"Hmm? Aww you are leaving so early Jake!?" Loki called out as she took another swig of her tankard with Gareth.
"Seems like everything is well in order for now but before all you guys get drunk and rowdy. And Mama Mia cracks some skulls, I am going to escape Haha." I joked as I pointedly looked at Allen and Bete who were sitting next to one another and unsubtly cursing at one another with pressure building between the hotheaded young men.
But before anyone could say anything Bete snapped drunkenly to Allen about how weaklings need to just shut up. "You are level lower than me you stupid mutt!" Allen yelled out infuriated and then I could hear the crunching noise as Ottar squeezed his metal tankard into a wad silencing both of the drunks.
"No fighting." The King spoke and the drunk adventures listened. But while Ottar had everyone's attention I lead Seshat out of the restaurant.
For a moment I thought about walking us back home but then remembering how I pissed off Ishtar I got a better idea and as soon as we walked out of view in the restaurant's side alley, I took out my Magic Mirror while holding onto Seshat and with a blur we arrived back home atop my room's bedding and Seshat collapsed against me groaning.
"Ugh give a goddess a heads up before you teleport!" Seshat complained but I simply patted her on her back consolingly as I didn't really have much of a choice.
If I just told her, it was possible people could have heard me but now surrounded in my impervious stone structure we were literally untouchable as I had replaced even the ground in case someone dug under the house, we were safe.
A couple minutes later with Sir Fluffykins the First acting as our mascot we had finally cleaned up from the day's excitement, but I had noticed Seshat was looking rather pensive.
"What's up Seshat?" I asked as I took my goddess in my arms to give her a belly rub making her grumble at my audacity.
"Impertinent!" She snorted as but still as I sat with her on my lap while we were atop her pile of mattresses and pillows in the sunning room as we just relaxed, I just kept rubbing my cat goddess's tummy and she calmed down as the belly rub clearly showed to be worth more comfort then slapping me for not begging for the opportunity.
Eventually though Seshat told me what was weighing on her mind. "This is all happening so fast… It's unreal and I don't know what to do honestly." She said weakly and I nodded in understanding with my hand moving from her stomach to begin scratching behind her ears.
"Seshat we will just take one day at a time. We made a good showing and although summoning the bosses for them can be a bit of a chore but its only on the weekends. For the rest of the time, I can continue to work here in the shop or go into the dungeon to strengthen my Falna." I said as the biggest thing I cared about my Falna was actually my Magic, Dexterity, and Agility stats as doing as much magic possible and simply not getting hit was my best bet.
Seshat purred into my hands, and I just enjoyed the comfort that came from my warm goddess pushing into my hands for harder scratches.
"Seshat could I get my Falna updated? It's been a few days and with those bosses I messed with I am curious if I got anything." I said softly and I chuckled as Seshat growled at me.
"Nooo just let me rest." She bemoaned but she still got out of my lap and crawled behind me and over to an end table with some paper she had setup here to do my Falna upon.
"Lay down Jake so I can work easier." Seshat ordered me all business and I silently obeyed by lying face down so Seshat could sit upon the back of my thighs so she could lean over me and update my Falna.
"Well… You are still definitely a cheat Jake; it seems the spawning of those bosses did actually have an effect on you." Seshat spoke aloud as her hands drew divine arcane symbols onto my very soul and I felt her motions that engraved a new skill onto me without her even saying anything.
Jake Barris
Level 1
Strength 123 H
Endurance 210 G
Dexterity 152 H
Agility 170 H
Magic 304 F
Skill-
The Terrarian- Enforces Terrarian world logic upon user, restricts acquisition of development abilities and Falna backed spells in order to host mods, mods may not be taken/disabled/traded for another mod. User's alien logic to the world, prevents mental status effects from affecting user.
King's Fall. Killing of all Monster Rex tier opponents for the first time encourages potential growth with each subsequent kill of monsters already killed only providing High Quality Excellia to fuel growth.
Development Mod-
Calamity and all addons. Allows the creation and summoning of Calamity mod objects.
Huh this skill reminds me of, The Community. A super accessory that provides an insane number of stats and abilities and grows even stronger as you continue to kill more Hard Mode bosses for the first time. But this skill actually simply makes me grow faster each time I participate in the death for a boss.
"Wait! Did you get this skill in order to level up faster in order to seduce me, Jake!" Seshat yelled out dramatically as she held her arms against her hand full sized breasts as though 'scared' I was going to eat her up.
For a moment I blanked before I chuckled and raised my hands to my goddess as though I was going to grab her. "Muahaha my goddess has caught my dastardly plan to grow so fast you would fall in love with me now with you having found out all I can do is give you, my body." I said dramatically as I 'lunged' at her.
"Nooo! Don't defile this humble goddess! I haven't even gotten a chance to use the divine baths to prepare!" She joked and I couldn't help but burst into laughter as Seshat used her feline grace to hop off the beds to avoid my grabbing hands.
"Bah fox girls are better!" I said pointing at Seshat who sat smugly across from where I had collapsed onto the overly dense bedding but before I could even fully roll over to get comfortable, I felt Seshat leap onto my body and grab my collar and start shaking me.
"What the hell do you mean fox girls are better! I am so much better than those overly formal goddesses Inari and Amaterasu!" Seshat demanded still shaking me while riding on my lap.
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Chapter 19 R-18 First Waifu get
With Seshat all but straddling my lap in her thin Egyptian silk like dress and bouncing on me as she showed her fury at my truthful statement in preferring fox girls to cat girls it was no surprise when I got put in an awkward position with all her bouncing around.
"Seshat stop bouncing on me, or your demand to have me be a level five or whatever is going to be thrown out the window." I warned her and my goddess froze as she seemingly understood the situation we were in finally.
Seshat's amber slitted eyes tightened and then slowly she sat down fully in my lap, and she pinned my manhood against my stomach and her pubic area as she leaned forward to press her forehead to mine.
"Or what? You going to throw your goddess on the bed and take her?" She taunted as her legs tightened around my waist and I felt her using her tight abdominal muscles to minutely grind herself against my length.
"Is that what my goddess wants?" I growled as I pushed her beneath me, so she was lying flat atop the bed spread with her long ebony hair splayed across the bed spread and I saw her bite her lip as I took her hands with one of mine and pinned them above her head which pulled her silk dress taunt across her chest highlighting her erect nipples that stood out in the rooms soft torch light.
At my demand Seshat froze for a moment but when my free hand went between her legs she keened, and her lower body rose from the bedding as I dragged a knuckle across her silk covered womanhood.
"Does my needy goddess need to be taken or does she want to make love with me?" I asked as I leaned down and whispered the last part directly into her leopard ears making her whimper and her legs tightened around my waist again before they loosened.
"Take…" She whispered and I took her in submission as her head rolled to the side as the perfect chance to roll her completely over and with her tan backside automatically rising and pushing backwards towards me needily, I readily accepted her motion as I took advantage of my inventory to take off my clothes instantly.
"Come on!" Seshat cried out as I pulled aside her dress and after running my manhood along her lower lips a couple times to make sure I was lubricated, I sunk into her depths, with her long black tail going ramrod straight as her ass cheeks clapped against my stomach.
"Nyah!" She yowled as I went about doing just what she asked for. I took the goddess Seshat as my woman and lover with her voluptuous backside announcing our rapid coupling as I used my body enhanced by her Falna to fuck her in powerful full-bodied strokes.
I reached forward with one of my hands to grab her smaller handful sized breasts as I wrapped the arm around her chest and pulled her back flush against my chest as I continued to her hammer into her depths. "God Seshat you are so tight." I whispered to her as I lightly pinched her nipple and with my other arm, I kept Seshat nice and flush against me as I dug my manhood into her depths not thrusting back and forth but like trying to core out some new depths in her womanhood.
In response to my slowing down her fucking to grind into her I was welcomed by Seshat biting the shit out of my arm making me hiss and I felt her tighten up on me as I hissed at her.
"Alright I get it." I said pulling my arm out of her grasp and then I used that arm to grab her by the base of her tail making her whimper as I spanked her ass with my other hand as I went back to doing my best to slam fuck Seshat through the bedding.
"Disobedient cats in heat need to just be mounted and fucked right Seshat?" I said as I pulled on her tail making her choke out a moaning denial.
"Nyah I good! I won't bite!" She cried out but I leaned down and pushed her tail to the side as I once again pulled her back flush against me but this time, I bite her neck and Seshat went wild as she howled at the feeling of my dick slamming into her core and my teeth actually biting onto her neck and tripping her feline instincts in cascade that made her violently orgasm on my dick and I reached my own orgasm as I shot my load into her divine depths.
I gently pulled my goddess fully into my arms and atop my lap as we recovered from our peak. "Hmm that's a good sleeping aid Hehe." Seshat giggled as she leaned against me for a moment before she grunted as she swung a leg off of me so she could spin around, and I couldn't help but squirm as her she didn't pull out my still hard length that was buried in her depths as she spun around.
Now with Seshat sitting on my lap in the Lotus position and our eyes were meeting one another I could see her glowing slitted amber eyes as she seemingly took me in and saw a different side of me. Our introspection of one another was broken as Seshat leaned forward and our foreheads met one another with our eyes still locked onto one another.
"Jake Bariss you are mine." She spoke simply but with her glowing eyes I knew this was no joking matter.
But I wasn't going to be just 'claimed'. "No Seshat, you are mine. You are my woman." I said and I felt a pain in the back of my head blossom into being as Seshat's divine nature leaked out of her glowing eyes with her desire to establish some form of dominance upon me plain to see.
"Jake you!" Before she could continue, and I lost this contest I spanked her on her ass making her reflexively blink and whatever divine nonsense she had going was lost as her eyes lost their savannah like colors and returned to her natural golden eyes.
"Nope no power play bullshit, you are mine that's it." I said strictly and I felt Seshat shudder atop me and then she leaned forward, and I realized she was barring her neck to me in surrender while her head's leopard ears softly bumped into my bare chest.
I just hugged Seshat and stroked through her hair lightly scratching behind her ears as she calmed down and finally Seshat looked back up to me with hazy eyes. "Fine Jake, I will be yours's." And then I once again hissed as Seshat bit me but this time it was atop my shoulder, but I didn't resist or push her off as she marked herself as my mate.
Or something as this wasn't just any beast kin claiming me as a true mate. This was a true goddess taking me as her mate permanently.
I could feel her saliva burning through my body like her blood would activate my Falna and a small part of my mind realized Seshat was taking this claim all the way and with how I could feel her claim fully enveloped my Falna and thus my soul was within my goddess's claim.
But as Seshat broke off my shoulder two beads of my blood shot off my shoulder and shot into her shoulder making her whimper. I saw the same imprint of my teeth marks that I laid atop her neck when I bite her during our mating session, imprint atop her her shoulder before softly scarring.
"Now I am yours Jake." Seshat said tiredly as she leaned against my chest with her long leopard ears gently scratching under my chin as I held my goddess in my arms.
"Just get some rest… We can find out what all this means in the morning I just want to hold you for now." I whispered to her gently as I finally pulled out of her and laid her beside me on the bedding so I could pull a random blanket over her and myself.
I was awoken later from my sleep by the soft tickling sensation of Seshat who had moved to hug me was kissing and nibbling at the scar she left upon her claiming me.
"As a human do you know what it means to bear my mating mark?" She asked before she shook her head. "No, you aren't even from this world so of course you are ignorant." She spoke not with condescension or anything but merely a statement of fact, so I didn't get angry or anything.
"Does it mean we are married or something?" I asked wondering how Chloe and Anya from the Hostess will react to the sight with them being beast kin girls.
Or hell Rose Fannett my Guild Advisor who is a civilian.
Seshat snorted at my words shaking her head as she gave me a look and then she leaned down and kissed me fully as her arms tightened around me before she broke off the kiss as I held onto her hips.
"Jake, the fact that all Beastkin have an inborn skill called beastification on their Falna's should tell you that things aren't so cut and dry." She said mischievously and then she pointed at the already faded bite mark she left upon my bare shoulder.
"That bite marks us as mates and any beastkin will be able to tell you are mated to a beastkin goddess as they will feel it in their senses. So female beastkin will see you as a worthier mate seeing as you snagged me, and males will see you as a challenge or something. I don't really know it's not all that documented." Seshat said throwing her hands up to push my demands for a better explanation off.
"Now seeing as you made it so I cannot walk… Go make me a tuna salad sandwich and then get to work on making the building you made livable." Seshat practically ordered and then she even had the audacity to spank my ass.
I then made Seshat a sandwich…
Walking outside after I took a little shower, I stared up into the darkness of the impenetrable roof I made with only a small bit of early morning light coming through the small glass cube I put on the ceiling.
I realized that I didn't want to make a supersized building even if I had all the materials and time I wanted too after mining a bunch of simple stone out of the dungeon. So, I decided to just make a simple circular tower around Seshat's main shop so that way we could simply just build floors atop her shop if we ever wanted more space.
Thus, for next couple hours while Sir Fluffykin's the First rode on my Wulfrim Drone and my new Sea Star summon just messed around with the Sea Star chasing the Wulfrim Drone and avoiding Sir Fluffykins the First's thrown acorns as it was chasing, I followed my old experience in playing Mine Craft to count the blocks to make an outline for the tower and once completed I just built up the exterior walls until I reached the roof of my prior building.
Once I got all the walls raised up, I tore out of the roof of my previous building so I could continue up the tower before I got to like five stories tall and thus towered over the neighboring medieval style buildings. "There we go that should be tall enough." I muttered after I made sure to put a flat roof on top of the building so people couldn't break into the tower in anyway.
With the tower that now fully encased Seshat's old shop built now, and I ignored the people watching me build something that would typically take people months here in the bustling city of Orario. Looking at the bare shell of the tower I ignored it for a while as I took the time to take down the old structure and now with the old massive box, I used to build around all of Seshat's property gone I had a greater idea of what I could build.
I looked up to the sun and saw that it was well past noon, so I had been working for more than six hours and I had gotten an unimageable amount of work done with even using my grappling hook to ferry me around at fast speeds.
"Let me get Seshat first to run some ideas off though first." I muttered and I tore open a door in the solid stone wall of the tower I created before boarding it up much to the dismay of the people watching outside.
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Chapter 20
With the tower main structure completed I went inside to check up on Seshat and froze as I saw that the goddess had used the ropes, I left anchored to the roof to glue glowing dungeon crystals from the Rivira floor onto the walls and roof of the tower to recreate the Danmachi night sky, with its stars and a prominent moon in the very middle of the roof of the tower.
"Wow it actually looks a lot like the stars normally do." I remarked honestly amazed as although I didn't recognize the constellations of stars that would show up during the night as they were different from the Earth ones, but I could recognize the super recognizable shapes they had.
Seshat smugly grinned as she stretched her hands over her head. "Yes, praise me more! But yes, the stars generally match the heavenly constellations but if you can make more of those Mana crystals these stars can be used to empower rituals and as a goddess with Ritual's in her domain Hehe." Seshat cackled and I patted her on her head and scratched behind her ears.
"So how should I decorate the outside of the tower then?" I asked as honestly, I kind of liked having the natural sunlight blocked out and would only have bright star light coming down. So, it would kind of need to fit the star like theme.
Seshat then asked me a couple questions about how 'indestructible' my materials were and finally we settled on her creating a magical system that would synch to my Terraria technology as she was somehow able to pick up and understand the weird cord and electrical system within moments so within half an hour she had me boiling stone into lava and she had me make a lava waterfall that would infinitely flow over the corners of the tower down its sides between the blocks and land in a small moat built beside the tower. And thus, the electrical system that she put together basically had a bridge open up and would allow people entry into the tower.
"Well, no adventure regardless of level wants to deal with lava…" I muttered as I realized that pure red hot glowing lava was something even Ottar would fear being thrown inside of even if he could escape it with only some light burns if he got out quick enough.
"Now we just need some lava piranha's and large crocodiles to live on the banks of the lava pools and it will be just like the Solar River back in Tenkai." Seshat said dreamily and I shook my head at the thought of living in Tenkai with all the crazy crap Seshat would offhandedly mention existed there.
Because it was basically the Percy Jackson universe with all the gods existing with all their divine monsters and crazy landmarks. So, when all the Pantheons got smooshed together, they regularly got into scuffles and things got mixed up that most certainly shouldn't.
"So, with the tower done I think I am going to head off into the dungeon for a bit. I need a fuck load of rather nasty stuff if I want to make the next bosses I want to fight. Plus I want to take Staryu into battle." I said pointing to the large Starfish that was able to roll fast enough on the points of its limbs that it could scale the tower's walls as it was still chasing around my Wulfrim Drone that was carrying Sir Fluffykins the First.
In order to make the Eye of Cthulhu and the other pre-hard mode bosses I needed a bunch of very nasty ingredients that I could only get from the monsters in the dungeon and would need to actually dissect each monster to get the ingredients before taking the monster stone and allowing the monster to fade into smoke.
To create the Demonic Eye that will allow me to summon the Eye of Cthulhu I needed to harvest literally a hundred pounds of eyes from any monsters or just any life form in general. Thus, I didn't particularly want to ask other people to do it when I needed to hit the dungeon in order to get stronger myself.
Not to mention I needed the hundred pounds of both spines and brains to make the Eater of Worlds and Brain of Cthulhu boss summons respectively.
"Ok Jake you be careful. Wear a large cloak around your armor so you aren't so easily recognized when you head into the dungeon." Seshat advised me and after a moment of thought I switched around my sand cloak so it would cover over my armor and not be in my inventory, so they weren't hanging on my body like my accessories typically were.
"Hmm that works. Ok I am going to try to fill this open space inside the tower around my old shop with some furniture and what not, so it can be our little getaway!" Seshat said excitedly as she ran back towards the back of her shop that had her workshop.
"Huh I wonder what she is going to build herself." I muttered as I clicked the button system that would remotely open the bridge system and part the lava waterfall that guarded the gate.
After I exited the tower, I was welcome by the sight of guild employee's having gated off my property with foldable chicken wire or something. "Oi get off my land!" I yelled as my summons ran out behind from behind me and spread out seeing how I wasn't happy seeing all these people crowding around what they considered my territory.
"Jake Bariss, you made that hazard to public safety!?" I heard a woman screaming and I mentally groaned as I saw Eina stomping towards me.
"Relax guys, let me take care of this." I said as I saw my Wulfrim Drone's laser audibly warming up to shoot the stupid half elf stomping towards me.
"Eina this is the private property of the Seshat Familia. Should I enlighten the Loki and Freya Familia that the Guild is now sealing up private Familia properties?" I spoke loudly and I saw Eina's face twitch as I made this a whole new ball game of instead of being this the Guild securing a possibly dangerous area, now it was the Guild invading a Familia's private land and was attempting to censor them for their private practices.
"This is private land, and the lava is a security system. People will not be harmed randomly and if someone were to cross the wide-open area that is the area separating the area and leaps into the lava for whatever reason. The Seshat Familia is not responsible for people committing suicide by jumping into the lava!" I said loudly and clearly with a tick mark appearing on Eina's forehead.
"Jake this a serious concern! What if the lava has noxious fumes coming off of it or what if children wander onto your property?" Eina continued but I shook my head.
"Nope I have a retaining wall that should keep out unaffiliated people and all intruders face the consequences of invading a Familia's private domicile and that is a law that Orario has always followed." I spoke before continuing. "As the Captain of the Seshat Familia I will remind the Guild representative here at this day that my lava is a magical construct and thus has no natural noxious fumes and thus the only danger is to people who actually touch it. So please leave my Familia's land." I finished and Eina could only sharply nod and throw a dirty look at me.
"Fine Jake but you better hope no civilians gets hurt or the Guild will come down on you like a ton of bricks." She warned and I rolled my eyes.
"The Guild should focus on cleaning out all the imported slaves in the entertainment district before they focus on Exploration Familia's. Oh, wait it's because they bride you guys so much you look the other way." I muttered at the end as Eina stomped off while the Guild people quickly pulled up the chicken wire, they were going to use to fence off my land despite my land having a nice ten-foot-tall privacy wall made out of solid stone.
People just need to mind their own damn business.
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Chapter 21
After sending the Guild on their way I quickly made my way into the dungeon, but my mind was filled with thoughts of how the Guild was so uncustomary getting involved with my Familia and tried to actually block it off.
When Apollo literally attacked Hestia's church, blew it up and chased Bell/Hestia across Orario causing damages and scaring the civilians the Apollo Familia only had to pay a small fine for their actions but then again, it's not like the Guild actually has any real power as there was absolutely nothing simple bureaucrats could do in the face of an adventurer who refuses to obey their orders.
Well other than put a large bounty on them like what they did to Ryuu when she slaughtered the majority of the remnants of the Evilus organization and refused to stop punishing evil when the Guild tried to step in and take control of the situation.
Good riddance for bad rubbish when it comes to Evilus. They were insane anarchists who wanted to live by their own insane rules or were being led and brainwashed by equally if not far worse deities who reveled in bringing 'evil' to the world.
As I entered the dungeon cloaked in my new Desert Cloak I noticed I was already actually being followed so with my summons put away as I walked through Orario I just paid the toll to the take the elevator down towards the first floor and joined the train of adventures going deeper into the dungeon.
"You with Ishtar." I asked softly as I was pinned in a diamond formation as the crowd of adventurers began splitting apart quickly as we reached the wide-open floors of the ninth floor where the rooms and tunnels basically completely opened into wide open fog filled chambers with larger monsters within like the Orcs and Silverbacks.
"Just keep walking kid." I heard a woman speak from behind me and I felt a metal weight hit me on the shoulder making my face twitch, but my Armor Rating held up but the impact… But yeah no, I wasn't going deeper into the dungeon to come meet with a larger ambush.
"Then you four can just die." I muttered as a long golden trident appeared in my hands and with a dash forward, I stabbed the person who had taken the point position and was keeping other adventures or monsters from looking at my situation.
I could hear the woman in front of me drowning in her blood as the triangle pronged trident went through her spine and into her lungs as I forced it through her skimpy amazon clothes.
But the moment I let go of the trident I was engulfed in a skin tearing sandstorm as I used my Desert Cloak, I got from the Desert Scrouge to blind and sand blast the almost completely bared flesh from their bones.
The amazons around me only got to scream for a couple seconds before they fell in agony to the ground as being sandblasted on your bare skin by sand going at insane speeds were debilitating to say the least.
Wordlessly as even when the nearby adventurers quickly made space around our altercation and watched without saying a word, I walked over to the amazon who was behind me and was probably a level two maybe three with how her skin weren't completely blasted off her leaving only a bleeding muscular mass.
"Fucking Ishtar." I cursed as I used my foot to roll the amazon over onto her stomach so I could look at her back after I finished her off with a laser bolt to the back of her head to make her Falna rise to the surface with her death.
I looked up and saw more than a couple adventures literally just walking by and going deeper into the dungeon without a care, but most of them were just watching my actions with only entertainment in their cold eyes, and I was reminded how fucked up this world of Danmachi was…
"You guys can have the other two girls. I have no use for them." I said as I looked at the two sandblasted messes of barely recognizable Amazons and I wondered if Ishtar was so arrogant to think a single level three could deal with me.
I mean sure I was still a level one and all, but I was obviously an outlier with the stuff I could create, like how a Crozzo could make magical nukes in the shapes of swords that didn't rely on levels to use.
"Fuck it… Just need to get my materials and get home." I cursed as I walked deeper into the fog of the ninth floor to escape the scene of my outburst and begin my slaughter of monsters as I went towards one of the isolated main chambers of the floor.
Because I had a trick to heavily increase the monster spawn rate while I made a small base to kill the much larger monsters that can't even fit within the little base I can create.
"Fuck you Skeletron. All I needed is bone ashes mixed in with candle wax to make Water Candles." I said joyfully as I made a large box room in the middle of the of the chamber and literally put down a dozen such Water Candles but my trick was that I had knocked large holes into the box so I could easily shoot lasers or water bolts from my Aquamarine staff while the smaller monsters like goblins kobolds and Imps on this floor couldn't get in at all.
"You ants though are annoying." I muttered as the Killer Ants and especially the mutated and aberrant ones were able to stick their heads into the hole and block it off so I would need to blast them open with my Aquamarine Staff's magic bolts.
After like twenty minutes of slaughtering monsters that helplessly beat upon the kill box I created to no avail, I took down the Water Candles and after clearing the last monsters I quickly summoned my summons outside my base to clean up and surviving enemies before only then, did I chance going outside my safety box to begin the grim task of harvesting the materials I needed.
Because I needed a lot of fleshy materials to make the Eye of Cthulhu, Brain of Cthulhu, The Eater of Worlds, and Skeletron. And of course, the two alters being the Corruption and Crimson Alters that I would need to make to begin to make the boss summons to begin with…
Yes, it was a pain in the ass but after making those alters and killing those bosses, I would be set for prehard mode stuff in terms of Terraria gear and with having killed those four bosses my growth Skill would become much stronger, and I will grow much faster.
As I was doing the delightful task of helping my Wulfrim drone rip the spine out of an Orc I heard someone or something purposefully making noise as they approached through the fog, so I stepped away from the orc as I braced myself to begin laying a hail of magical laser bolts from my Space Gun at whoever was coming.
But seeing the mountain of man approaching I got rid of my Space Gun and instead held onto a stick of Dynamite and held my Magic Mirror just below my sightline so I could teleport home in an instant.
"Ottar what do you want… Stay back!" I said with the dynamite in my hands coming to life with an ominous hiss as it reacted to my mana and begin burning down its wick and Ottar finally paused as he eyed the explosive.
"Lady Freya ordered for you to return to the surface… You are not ready for the challenges that seek to harm you." Ottar said bluntly and my face twitched at his probably truthful words.
"I am not a child to be escorted to and from at Freya's behest despite her being the top goddess of Orario." I said calmy and Ottar's boar ears twitched as he frowned.
"My lady has ordered your return. I cannot not disappoint my lady, but she will want you to grow stronger… Very well I shall watch you from the shadows and keep other adventurers from interfering with your growth but only the adventurers." He said after a moment of thought, and I nodded in agreement as that fitted me perfectly.
I needed monster materials, and I could easily deal with hordes by hiding in kill boxes but to be frank the only thing I feared other than a Juggernaut appearing out of nowhere. Were assassin adventures like Chloe Lolo and the other girls that Mia suckered into working for her restaurant.
So, I quickly continued my monster farming operation with Ottar on the edge of my senses and twice I heard screams in the distance that were quickly silenced, and I prayed that whoever ran afoul of the strongest adventure was truly after me as being probably beaten to death by his bare hands as he disdained using his weapons on small fries was probably a painful way to go.
"Got enough flesh and stuff for the alters, so I need to move back up to the upper floors to get the chitin to make parts of the Skeletron and Eater of Worlds item.
I mean sure I was getting a few Killer Ants, but I wanted to get back to the floors where they were more common, and I could trigger a small monster party on myself so I could easily gather all the materials I needed in one fell swoop.
I quickly made my way back up from the Ninth floor to the seventh floor and once I got a nice and isolated room, I began my strategy of using Water Candles and leaving wounded Killer Ants to call upon its brethren to create a massive monster party that attempted to kill me but with my Space Gun that and all my mana cost reduction stuff I was able to just kite them as my summons helped deal with any aberrant and mutated monsters.
"That should me enough materials ughhhh!" I groaned stretching out my back after the umpteenth time helping my Wulfrim Drone extract the pieces of chitin from the Killer Ants. "Well lets going home." I muttered as I took out my Magic Mirror but before I could look into it and be teleported back home, I heard an unusually loud crashing noise coming from the tunnel leading to me.
"The hell is that? Did some mage come try a new spell or something?" I muttered thoughtfully but my thoughts were broken by a scream, no a roar of primal fury.
"Thats not a monster roar from these floors." I realized cursing as I wondered with the Monsterphelia coming in a couple of weeks, if something that was carted up early got loose or something.
But my thoughts were answered as from the tunnel that led to my chamber, limped in the bloody form of Bell Cranel with a landform stone sword/axe thing protruding from his chest and with a sick crashing noise the young man was punched mightily in the back sending him crashing into my room as the huffing form of a fucking golden furred Aberrant Minotaur stomped into the room towards Bell's probably almost dead form.
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Chapter 22
For a split second I wanted to just teleport out of the dungeon and leave Bell to his all but inevitable fate of death as for whatever the hell reason Ottar had. He is allowing Freya's other interest to face an opponent that was hilariously out of his league.
Monsterphelia hadn't happened yet. So Bell had neither his Hestia knife, nor did he have his Firebolt spell, and this Aberrant Minotaur was stronger than the enhanced Minotaur he fought in canon that almost killed him if Ais hadn't bought him time to recover.
My hand snapped up and with a loud sizzling noise I shot the Aberrant Minotaur several times in the head making it roar in pain raising its large thick hands to block off the lasers that were shooting it in the face. "Drone carry Fluffy around to harass him, Staryu take out its legs." I ordered quickly as I began retreating as I took out my Aquamarine staff and shot both it and my Space Gun onto the Aberrant Minotaur as I sought to drone it in magical bolts.
"Allen, you dare to ignore the orders of Freya!" I heard Ottar roar and then a loud crashing noise rang out as obviously Ottar swung onto his lieutenant or whatever Allen's official rank was in the Freya Familia while being the second strongest adventurer in the Familia.
The loud crashing noise thankfully did make the Minotaur flinch and stop its charge toward me and was thus open for Sir Fluffykins the First to nail with a couple grenades but with another roar it swiped through the dust of the explosions showing off the scalded and blasted chunks of flesh missing from it.
"Asterios you in there?" I asked loudly as I continued to blast the Aberrant Minotaur in the upper chest and face with each Aquamarine bolt of magic blowing off like a golf balls worth of flesh off the monster.
Me calling out its prior reincarnation only made the Minotaur shake its head and I saw its glowing red eyes once again lock onto me and with a loud cracking noise it shattered the stone floor of the dungeon beneath it as it charged at me at full speed.
I could only curse and use my Grappling Hook to pull me across the room as the seemingly high level three speed of the Minotaur gave me no damn time to actually maneuver on the ground and I was reduced to getting yanked around the room as I quickly burnt through my mana using my two magical weapons to kill this damned minotaur.
I soon felt my Mana dry up and I began using my Mind to fuel my magical weapons making me curse and throw the weapons in my inventory and with a flourish I whipped out a golden trident to stab the rushing Minotaur that got close to me in the split second it took me to put away my weapons and take out a new one.
"Just die dammit!" I yelled as before I got punched so hard, I felt my Armor Rating all but disappear as the golden fur covered fist smashed into my armored chest and I could feel the wonderful feeling of when you are on a swing, and you are going entirely too fast backwards.
I was punched so hard by the Aberrant Minotaur that my form literally skipped across the rock floor of the dungeon for a whole dozen meters like a rock being thrown across a lake.
"Squeak!" I heard Sir Fluffykins the First yell out and then a much louder explosion rang out as the squirrel obviously took out the emergency bomb, I gave him and somehow made it go off the moment it collided with the minotaur and once again I was sent skidding across the ground but this time with my ears ringing from the massive explosion that could easily blow up the dense stone of the dungeon.
My golden trident had stabbed the Minotaur right in the throat and Sir Fluffykins the First's bomb had completely blown off the damned monsters legs leaving it on the ground oozing its monster lifeblood from its missing lower body.
I wordlessly crawled over to the Minotaur that was likewise with crawling towards me with only its arms pulling its body across the floor and seemingly only spite pushing the Minotaur to kill me before it would finally lay down and die.
As we finally met together, I took out my Copper Longsword and as the Minotaur went to weakly roar at me, I just fell forward with my long sword pointing outwards and the sword rammed into the Minotaur's mouth and pierced through its brain making its body stiffen as the Minotaur died instantly from its brain being pierced and separated.
"Boop!" My Wulfrim Drone beeped at me loudly making me groan as I tried to get back my footing, but my drone and Sir Fluffykins pushed me over to where Bell was.
"Holy shit you are still alive?" I questioned seeing Bell's chest lightly rising as his one still working lung desperately tried to keep the young man alive, but I could hear him gurgling with each breath and knew that he was only minutes if not moment from drowning on his lungs filling up with blood or likewise him just bleeding out from the internal bleeding and the massive stone weapon that got pushed through his chest.
I looked at Bell for a moment and then I realized I couldn't save him with the Terraria healing potions I had… They didn't 'instantly' give health like they did in game, and I only have a tier two healing potion which I didn't think was enough to fix a gaping hole in someone's chest.
"Squeak Boosh!" Sir Fluffkyins the First yelled and as I looked to him, I saw him making miming motions over his chest and realized he was making a boobs reference before point to Bell, and I realized what the damn squirrel wanted me to do.
"The Gender Bender potion will fix him?" I asked dryly and the squirrel hurriedly nodded…
The problem with using my only Gender Bender potion was I only had one as the Deathroot flower substitute I needed could only be gotten from the Death Flowers that grew in the desert where the Behemoth died, and every single flower took the life of someone to harvest.
So, I only had the one that Freya gifted me for spawning those bosses and entertaining her.
"Fine… I guess this is my harem world now." I muttered at the end as I took out the softly glowing blue and purple potion and forced the neck of the bottle into Bells mouth and allowed the magical potion to slide down Bell's mouth.
I realized why the Genderbend potion could save Bell when my tier two healing potion couldn't as I used my alchemical knowledge that came with all my Terraria knowledge and came to the realization that the Genderbending potion used the conceptual death inherent in the death root to literally kill his 'male' identity and the mana crystal and other life-giving flowers revitalized his truly genderless form and fill in the void as a woman.
Bell's wiry muscular form softened, and her shorter silver hair lengthened greatly as it came down to her waist and even as I watched her waist hips get wider, I count help but notice through her very torn apart shirt was her previously flat chest growing a set of large breasts.
Seeing her body so quickly changing I saw Sir Fluffykins fly over atop my drone and begin slapping the large stone sword still buried in her chest and realizing she would need the sword out to fully regenerate I quickly ripped it out of her chest and shivered as Bell whimpered in pain, so I took her hands into my own as I watched the whole in her admittedly nice boobs quickly disappeared under the potion's effects.
Then I heard Ottar roar again along with Allen yelling but the sounds were coming closer and closer…
"Well looks like you are coming home with me Bella." I said with a wry smile as I hefted up Bell's very feminine frame in torn apart clothes and I quickly dismissed my summons as I saw Allen get smashed into the room not all to dissimilarly to how Bell got smashed into here.
Wordlessly I took out my magic mirror and before I could get dragged into the fight between a level six and a level seven I and 'Bella' Cranel were teleported out of the dungeon and into the safety of my tower.
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Chapter 23
"Seshat you there!" I yelled out as I hefted Bell into my arms in a better position now that I wasn't holding my magic mirror before laying Bell onto one of beds so I wasn't moving them anymore and so they could finally get some rest.
I faintly heard something in the distances, so I quickly made my way through the building and found Seshat working under some dungeon crystal lights to create some decorations for the interior of the large empty tower I had created.
"What's up Jake, you look like the world is about to collapse or something?" She asked with her head cocking to the side in confusion.
For a moment I considered if that was really the case but then remembered even in the Danmemo game and other stuff Bell never really 'saved' the world or anything he just got pulled into a bunch of shenanigans that had little to no real consequences to the greater world outside of Orario. Nor were there real threats to the world outside of Orario other than the One-Eyed Black Dragon but that monster would only burn down some villages every once in a while, before flying back to the uninhabitable Dragon Mountains in the far north of the continent.
"Soooo… I saved Hestia's newest Familia member and had to bring them to rest here as Allen and Ottar of the Freya Familia were fighting one another on the upper floors and could very well call a Juggernaut on us with the damage they were causing." I started off and Seshat's face twisted at the knowledge that Allen and Ottar were going hard on one another in the dungeon as should they kill one another that will severely weaken the Freya Familia either way if any of them dies.
Seshat threw down her carving tool and covered her face as she dragged her fingers down her face as she gave me a side eye. "There's something you aren't telling me. What happened Jake?" Seshat asked dryly and I wryly scratched my head.
"Uh yeah. Well, you remember that super expensive gender bending potion I made to threaten Ishtar with forcing her to drink if she became a problem. Well Bell had lost an entire lung on an aberrant Minotaur's landform weapon and was currently drowning on their blood and none of my potions could save their life, so I used the Genderbender potion to basically reset their body into a perfect condition… Just you know with tits." I said as Seshat looked at me like I was a dead man walking.
"Hestia is either going to love you for saving her beloved Familia member or she is going to hate you for ruining her crush on that pure soul." Seshat spoke as she shook her head, and I shrugged my shoulders.
"I literally had no other choice. Either Bell died there, or they got tits. There was literally no other ending to the scenario as it would take me too long to teleport back here and run to Miach or Dian Chet's store for them try to heal him." I responded wryly and Seshat nodded in understanding after a moment before she got a weird look on her face.
"Wait is that why I could see a ribbon of fate from Bell trying to connect to you back at the Hostess?" She asked herself and when I asked what the hell she meant, she waved me off. "Put the thought out of your mind Jake. Karma and Fate are so far beyond your mortal worries at the moment it's not even funny. Now let me get Bell's clothes fixed a bit before we try to escort them home as Hestia is going to throw a fit…"
I had already explained to Seshat how Bell's upper clothes got shredded from being torn apart during their fighting with the minotaur to say nothing of the soccer ball sized hole in the middle of her chest area of the shirt and jacket that left her chest wide open to see.
I sat outside the room while Seshat tried to get Bell's clothes into some kind of order, and I heard Bell mumbling in her unconscious state as my goddess shifted around her form to make sure her pants weren't going fall off or whatever with how their body had changed greatly.
"Alright Jake come in." Seshat called out to me. "I sowed a couple seams into her shirt so her new breasts have some room while closing up the shirt, so she doesn't flash everyone in Orario as we take her to Hestia's place."
"You know where Hestia lives?" I asked as I carefully hefted Bell into my arms again, and I noticed Bell had cutely leaned into my chest and grabbed onto the hoodie I was wearing after taking off my armor.
"Aww… The threads of fate are tightening around one another Eeek!" Seshat cried out looking at me and Bell with literally glowing eyes and my hands tightened around Bell as I reflexively stopped the thought of dropping the form within my arms.
"Seshat wake up! Where are we going." I said exasperatedly as I wanted to just go to bed and sleep after this debacle.
When I get super stressed or depressed, I don't get violent or just sulk. I just go take a nap and, in this situation, I was rather stressed as I had no idea of the ramifications will come of what has happened today.
Seshat pouted but she still led me who had to carry Bell's still unconscious form across Orario and thankfully with Seshat obviously leading me, I didn't have to deal with any white knights who wanted to jump in seeing some dude carrying a woman into the ghetto decrepit section of Orario that had never gotten fixed after Evilus went crazy, after the Zues and Hera Familia got booted out of the city.
"Well, this is the church Hestia mentioned she lived at. Hopefully she is home." Seshat muttered and I could only nod as I took in the familiar heavily decrepit Hestia Familia church. God I was glad I didn't live here. I bet it had bugs everywhere with all the broken windows and such.
I then shifted Bell in my arms as I followed Seshat past the little gated fence that surrounded the church and then Seshat took one look at the rotting wooden door of the church and then instead knocking on the door she began kicking a less rotten side of the door creating a large racket with the impacts.
"Hestia! You there!" Seshat called out as she kicked the door and finally, I heard another door slam open or closed from within the church but as all the racket was going on I felt Bell shifting in my arms and for a moment I wanted to hush Seshat so Bell could sleep but then I felt the bit of soreness in my arms that were the result of carrying Bell for like half an hour. So, I mentally encouraged Seshat to kick the door louder…
Finally, however the church's door swung open swiftly and there was the panting form of Hestia who had obviously run from the church's less decrepit basement to greet us. "Whew… Seshat you came to visit! Helloooo…" Hestia spoke excitedly as she greeted Seshat before her words drew off as she took in the long white-haired beauty resting in my arms.
"Bell!!!" Hestia's scream instinctively made Bell jerk and thrash awake in my arms and with a loud ripping noise as the Bell almost fell out of my arms she had shrugged her shoulders too far and the stiches Seshat put into her shirt to keep it together gave up the ghost…
Seshat, Hestia and I all froze in dumbfounded silence as Bell's new breasts jumped out of her ruined shirt clearly showing Bell's new changes and then Hestia tilted back and forth in place.
"Don't die Hestia!" Seshat cried out lunging forward to catch Hestia who collapsed into a dead faint as I coudnt remove my eyes from the sight of Bell awakening and as she laid within my arms Bell looked up to me with her large innocent red eyes and then they looked down.
Saw their large milky smooth breasts. Looked back up to me. Back down again. Back to me. "I am a girl!" Bell screamed and I mentally said fuck it as she began struggling again and this time I just 'let go' and with a loud thump Bell just fell into the floorboards of the church.
"Why is my Bell a girl!" Hestia screamed as she pointed at me and Seshat as she had somehow come back to reality hearing Bell's very feminine new voice.
"Bell maybe you should start off on how an aberrant Minotaur of all things got down to merely the seventh floor and I will explain how you got turned into a girl." I said and Hestia's eyes' lasered onto Bell who cringed at the sight of Hestia's angry eyes.
"Bell! You promised you weren't even passed the fifth floor yet!" Hestia scolded Bell who shrunk in on herself.
"I was doing fine with the Killer Ants and War Shadows so I didn't see a problem in going to the floors before the next big monster changes with the fog filled floors of the tenth floors and what not." Bell said as an excuse but Hestia wasn't having it.
"I don't give a damn Bell Cranel! You went too deep without preparations nor a party, and what happened? Another damn minotaur jumped you!" Hestia yelled stabbing her fingernails between Bell's new boobs before Hestia realized what she just did and jumped backwards blushing and then she whirled on me.
"And you! How did my precious Bell get so cute and have boobs that match mine!" Hestia cried and my mind short circuited a bit on that last bit making me cough and give her a look making her lightly dusted with pink darken as she realized I caught her on that slip of the tongue.
I took a deep breath and let the joking atmosphere dissipate and Hestia's blush died as she realized I was being serious. I looked to Bell and said clear as day so both Goddesses could confirm my words as the absolute truth. "Bell Cranel you were dying. You had no other option other than me pouring a gender bending potion into your mouth because your entire chest cavity was ruined as the Minotaur had pulped one of your lungs. You were drowning in your blood in the other lung, you had plenty of ruptured organs from the Minotaur beating you to death. And with Freya's Ottar and Allen fighting just outside the corridor I was in for whatever reason." I could only shrug as I looked Bell in her red eyes.
"You were dying as I pushed the drink into your mouth… No ifs ands or buts. There was no scenario in which you survived if I didn't use the potion." I spoke and Hestia's face fell as I fully explained how I had no way of saving Bell without taking the steps I did.
"And the Minotaur? How did you even kill that?" Hestia asked me pointedly and I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Magic… I am an accomplished magic user and it's not like I beat it unscathed, I got a couple bruises and may have torn some muscles, but I never noticed it as I was busy saving your Familia member and then fled as two of the arguably strongest adventures were fighting for whatever reason." I responded reminding Hestia that I went out of my way to save Bell.
"I see…" Hestia drew off looking between me and Bell before she sighed. "Look I am deeply and utterly grateful to you for saving Bell for me as I have no idea what I would do if I felt their Falna disappear from my senses but do you… You know?" She said leadingly.
"Can I get another gender bending potion." Bell asked blushing as she covered her bare chest with her hands, and it was obvious that she didn't know how to properly do it as she used her hands to cup her chest to cover it rather than using an arm.
"No… The primary ingredient used in it is the Deathroot Flower that comes from the Desert that the Behemoth was slain. And that flower is well known for magically cursing whoever picks it with an instant death so no one will pick it anymore as just finding it in the toxic desert is nightmare to begin with." I explained softly and Bell slumped downwards a bit.
"How can I be a great adventurer if I lost all my muscles and became a girly girl." Bell almost complained/whined but I got how she was focusing on how things had changed rather than well the things she lost.
"Well, plenty of ladies especially Amazons do perfectly fine in melee as the Falna will make you stronger. Or you can get into magic I guess." I spoke and I saw Bell relax a bit at my reminder and then with a moment of thought I took out a Wand of Sparking which literally cost me damn near nothing to make.
It was only a stick with a couple magical runes cut into it, but it could shoot out burning magnesium hot like sparks from it.
"Here this can burn out the eyes of monsters and deal with weaker things. Plus, it can help you drain mind and train your mind stat before you get your own spell." I said shooting a couple small sparks of painfully bright light that scored the stones outside the church.
"Isn't a staff that can cast magic without the caster having a spell like one of a kind or super expensive?' Bell asked pensively as she took the staff and I saw it shoot the same bolts of magic.
"Yes, Bell such a staff would be an heirloom! But this one is a bit weak?" Hestia said excitedly but looked a bit pensive at Bell's giddy expression at shooting the magical bolts.
I wrapped an arm around Seshat as I smugly spoke. "Yeah, well I made that staff, and I made much better ones!" I said smugly as I took out my Aquamarine staff and with a shriek a curtain of blue magical bolts shot out and tore a trench through the around dry dirt in front of Hestia's church.
"Anyway, I wanted to bring Bell back home to you Hestia so they wouldn't wake up at my place changed and with their last memory being hunted down by the Minotaur." I said as Bell and Hestia mutely nodded still shocked by the sight of my chant less magical use which went against all of Danmachi's magical conventions.
"Seshat its already dark and although I wouldn't mind inviting you guys to come spend the night at our place, but we cannot stay here." I spoke and as though in mockery of my words a pew within the church shattered and fell apart making Hestia and Bell's face twitch.
"Actually! Thats a perfect idea Jake. Me and Hestia need to talk plus we got to teach Bell stuff on how to be a woman too. As I am sure Hestia doesn't have any mortal feminine items, do you?" Seshat asked pointedly and Hestia choked as she pointed weakly at my goddess before she slumped.
"No, I don't… I thought it was going to be just me and Bell." She whimpered before she looked at Bell and spun around. "Fine give me and Bell a few minutes to pack up for a couple of days and update Bell's Falna!" Hestia yelled as she pulled Bell towards the basement.
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Chapter 24 Various POV's
The moment the church door and Hestia had dragged Bell downstairs into the basement Hestia threw herself face first into the bed and screamed into the pillows loud enough to make the goddess's ears pop.
"Goddess…. I am sorry for bringing you trouble." Bell whispered after Hestia's scream of frustration ended and she merely slammed her feet repeatedly on the bed as she had to live with all the change that was coming.
'I need to focus on Bell… They just went through almost dying and to say nothing of their new status.' Hestia thought as she weakly rolled over and off the bed before lunging at Bell and the goddess of the Hearth's face scrunched up as instead of her face hitting the wiry physique Bell once had and she was well familiar with as she was a very touchy-feely woman…
Nope she ended face planted into soft boobs that only highlighted how Bell had changed and Bell instead of just chuckling when Hestia would lunge into a hug back when he was male actually whimpered as they cupped the boob Hestia smashed into.
"Hestia that hurt… Are they always so sensitive?" Bell asked as she held Hestia against her in a hug despite the flash of pain.
"Yes, they are rather sensitive… Gods it's so ughhhh!" Hestia cried out as she threw her hands up as she pulled back from Bell and began quickly throwing her extra outfits and even her couple nice dresses that Hephaestus helped her get for when there was a divine get-together like a Denatus into a travel bag.
"So, I guess I am stuck like this Hestia." Bell said sighing as she brushed her hands over her face and took out a newer shirt, she could throw on so she wouldn't be flashing her chest all the time. "Honestly… I was always called girly back in my village., I was always invited by the younger girls to learn how to sow, cook and other stuff… I mean that's how I keep these clothes in decent shape after fighting in the dungeon all day ha-ha." Bell chuckled softly as she stared at the roof of the basement.
"I mean my grandfather always told me to come to Orario and save a girl in the dungeon that way I could become a hero and get the girl you know… But what if Jake is the hero and I am the girl now?" Bell said wetly as she wiped a tear away as she couldn't help but feel like her dreams of catching up to Ais slipping away as she couldn't help but face the reality that every single time she had gotten in over her head and tried to go on and 'adventure' to become stronger… She always was slapped down by reality and only escaped by the skin of her teeth.
But this time she didn't escape… Bell realized. She literally was a dead man walking as Jake was the only one who could have saved her other than maybe Orario's two best magical healers but the odds of running into them was nil.
Hestia sighed with her twin tails going as limp as they could as the goddess walked over to Bell and cupped Bell's chin so she could make contact with her only Familia member. "Bell I will go to the ends of the earth and even use my Arcanum to change you back, if you want…
What do you want to happen now?" Hestia asked as her eyes flickered with pink light as she truly loved Bell to the ends of the earth and was fully willing to wait the couple centuries it would take Bell to die and meet her back in Tenkai if she were booted back to Heaven for using her Arcanum.
"No Goddess don't use your Arcanum!" Bell all but screamed as she knew all too well that he would never see Hestia again if she tried to fix him if she could even before she got sent back to Tenkai. "Just let me figure it out… I can learn and use magic with Jake as he is obviously wanting to party with me. But he was right about girls though." Bell said scratching her head wryly.
At Hestia's deadpanning raised eyebrow at Bell's somewhat iffy statement the innocent looking rabbit of a girl with her long white hair and red eyes could only awkwardly chuckle. "Sorry Hestia I kind of forgot you were a girl too and not just my amazing goddess Hehe…" Bell said awkwardly and Hestia's eyebrows twitched with barely concealed fury as Bell continued. "I actually tried lifting our bed and I still seem to be just as strong with my Falna enhanced strength so I can still fight in melee if need be. But I really want to use magic!" Bell said excitedly and Hestia just clamped her hands on Bell's cheeks making the girl go silent.
"Alright Bell let's get your Falna updated as who knows how long it will be for when we have some privacy to update it again if we are staying over at Seshat's place.
Hestia then helped Bell take off her shirt and then she froze and coudnt help but take a second as she noticed how smooth and soft Bell's feminine skin was. "Goddess is something wrong with my Falna?!" Bell asked almost hysterically as Hestia had never paused when she sat on Bell's lower back for more than a couple of seconds before she got to work on her Falna before.
"No! Not at all Bell I was just noticing you uhhhh have nice skin Hehe." Hestia awkwardly laughed before she quickly took a drop of her blood with a needle, that she kept handy for updating Bell's status.
But as Hestia activated Bell's status her entire face scrunched up and she gave the back of Bell's head and evil look as she mentally cursed Bell to a thousand deaths. 'Oh, that's how it is… My Bell is just a slut! She just latches onto anyone who shows her some attention and saves her in the dungeon Mhoooo I am so mad!' Hestia mentally screamed and literally began almost convulsing as she kept herself from smashing the vase that was on the bedside table onto the back of Bell's head for being such a traitor.
Bella Cranel
Level 1
Strength 345 G
Endurance 499 F
Dexterity 420 F
Agility 432 F
Magic 2 I
Skills- Liaris Freese - Increases the speed of User's growth as long as she is in love. The strength of the effects is related to the strength of User's feelings. As a side effect, it makes her immune to charms. It also allows her to exceed the limit of her abilities.
Socius Fati - In the act of supporting designated partner temporarily raises stats. Raises stat gains with designated partner. Enhances partners growth.
"Why can't you get a skill from caring about me Bell!" Hestia screamed slapping down the Falna to inscribe her Falna onto the paper and then she just hopped off Bell's back as she couldn't help but focus on the fact that even on Bell's Falna, that Bell's name had changed to reflect that literally down to her very damned soul that she had accepted her change into woman.
"Hestia I am sorry!?" Bell cried out reflexively conditioned to cry for mercy when Hestia would freak out but feeling Hestia move off of her body, she grabbed the Falna and gapped as her eyes widened at seeing not only her magic stat growing only from using Jake's magic staff a bit, but she had two skills!
"Hestia, I have two skills! This is sooo awesome! Wait…. I love…" Bell's face turned pink as she choked, and Hestia could barely hear Bell's whispers about how she had no idea if the first skill meant she loved Jake or even Ais Wallenstein.
"Come on Bella! Its time to go meet our new besties and who you are going to be bunking with Hahah!" Hestia said loudly with spiteful laughter ringing from her as she dragged Bell who quickly grabbed her bag of spare clothes that could possibly fit her new feminine form as she asked what in the world was wrong with Hestia and why she seemed too so mad.
'Bell is stupid!' Hestia mentally screamed as she threw open the doors to the church and with not even a blink she spoke to Jake. "Hey, Jake, how about you and Bell bunk together tonight so me and Seshat can catch up on old times. Plus, it will allow you two to get used to being close to one another in the dungeon." Hestia said shamelessly and she took great joy in how Bell choked on her air and turned bright red as her soft red eyes took in Jake's form.
Jake gave Seshat his goddess and indescribable look before he shook his head and focused on Hestia and Bella. Hestia couldn't help but notice how Jake's eyes had an almost unreal nonmortal depth to them and was curious to know how his soul looked under Seshat's and other gods with soul sight. But Hestia's ruminating thoughts were brought back to reality as Jake nodded speaking.
"Thats fine. We can go over strategies as my dungeon hunting practices… Are original to say the least." He said with a wry smile that made him look so much more approachable and even Hestia had to wonder how 'original' his dungeon hunting strategies were as the dungeon had been plumbed for literally millennia after Ouranos threw the cap on it from Tenkai and the mortals and spirits of the world fought to seal the dungeon and prevent and monsters from overflowing from it.
Then Jake leaned forward and took Bell's heavy bag from her with nary a thought as he slung it over his shoulder and then he turned around and spoke as he walked down the church path. "Well let's get going. This place is right next to the Daedalus District, and I don't want to get caught walking around it at night." Hearing Jake's reminder all the girls quickly followed him with Seshat taking his arm and throwing Bell a look of thought before the cat goddess began talking about how Jake was so great and could summon boss monsters and had the whole of Orario practically wrapped around his fingers. Well, the Familia's that wanted to easily rank up anyway.
Across the city Freya was sitting in her penthouse suite near the upper floors of the Tower of Babel's living quarters and she was livid.
"Allen…" Freya's voice of velvet and seduction carried over to the male cat beastkin. But the voice may have velvet in it, but the voice's tone only had pure wrath dripping from each syllable. "I am going to give you a chance… Why did you disobey my orders and instead had an aberrant minotaur attack my Bell instead of the simple enhanced one that Ottar had tested to be the right fit for Bell's strength."
Allen normally wearing a body clinging armor that allowed him to take advantage of his status as the fastest fighter in all of Orario was in tatters and had none of the honed edge such an adventurer should have. Ottar had thoroughly broken his fangs in the dungeon in rage at how his second in the Familia had so flagrantly shattered their beloved goddess's plans.
"You have changed Lady Freya." Allen spoke gutturally as he had more than a couple broken ribs. "Before Bell came into the picture the only time you would mess around was when you would switch places with Horn and become Syr and wander the mortal world… We were all fine with that, no we even respected you as our beloved goddess that worked a menial job to connect with the mortal world."
Allen then shook his head as his yellow slit eyes locked onto the form of Freya who was sitting in her lounge chair in the shadows not even looking at his broken form and only staring out towards Orario.
"But you obsess over that brat despite how each and every single one of us, here in your very Familia bleeds and dies for your attention in the pits." Allen spat some blood from his mouth onto the ground and Ottar who was behind Allen growled at the perceived offense, but Freya held up a perfectly manicured hand to stop Ottar from snapping the Cat beast kin's neck from behind.
"So, you set up Bell to die out of jealousy?" Freya finally asked and the room went dead silent as even the wind above Orario seemingly didn't dare to enter the tension filled room.
"Yes, Lady Freya I wanted Bell to die by that Minotaur and I would do it again if only to return you the edge you had before Bell came into Orario." Allen said straightforwardly without shame or trying to weasel out of any form of punishment. Because Allen had his own pride.
Freya went silent as she digested Allen's heartfelt words and for a split moment she wondered if her desire to polish Bell into her Odry or husband was for naught especially with how Bell had literally been turned into a woman… A fetching woman to be fair especially with her pure soul. But a woman none the less.
But whether it was Bell with her pure soul that Freya wanted to hold within her bosom or even Jake's kaleidoscope of a soul and the infinite potential growth he would bring to Orario. Freya realized something. Allen's jealously would very well bring such plans to death as he just said he would do the same thing all over again.
So, Freya sighed and her eyes glowed purple with a mind shattering Charm as she paralyzed Allen's mind before she looked to Ottar behind Allen. "Ottar my dear… Do it." A loud wet cracking noise rang out as the strongest man in Orario simply took a step forward and with both hands he grabbed Allen's chin and with a sharp twist and jerk, Allen Frommel's neck and spinal cord snapped ending the level six's life as his head got twisted around.
Freya with her glowing purple eyes stared silently at Allen's form as it slumped when Ottar gently laid it down on the thick carpeted floor and finally Freya spoke as her eyes stopped glowing with her Charm. "Ottar my dear. Take Allen and bury him in the Familia grave and…" Freya paused before she shook her head. "Remind the others that shattering my dreams will not be tolerated despite my care for them."
Ottar knew all too well that the warning was for the likes of the Gulliver brothers and the elf duo Hedin and Hegin who were all very attached to Freya and that they must not do the same actions that Allen took to 'return' Freya Familia to what it was before.
Ottar ever Freya's most devoted tool and supporter merely nodded while mentally categorizing who may become an issue as he had long accepted Freya's love was a freely flowing wind and that obsessing over it was like lamenting that sun went down at night. He would do everything and anything for Freya, but he wouldn't limit or even dream of chaining her desires as Freya was everything to him.
"Yes, my Lady it will be done… Goodnight my Lady and as you requested Heith Velvet will be guarding your suite for the night." Ottar said as he picked up Allen's form and began carrying him out.
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I could all but feel Hestia and Bell's gaze on my back as me and Seshat led them through the ghetto side of Orario and more towards the business section of the labyrinth like city of Orario.
That wasn't an exaggeration at all either… Literally if you got lost in the Daedalus District without a guide who had lived there for years, you could literally die of the elements before you got free of the place if the criminals within the area didn't hunt you down and kill you for your shoes.
"So, Jake is all this… Well, is all the nonsense Seshat saying true? I mean we were there at the Hostess when you were talking but this is all so hard to believe you know?" Hestia said skeptically as the 'lesser' Familia's got little to no say in how the Freya and Loki Familia were going to open up a boss arena for the adventures of Orario to kill and grow at a better rate.
"Yes Hestia. I can summon Monster Rex's of various levels of danger and the monsters I summon will leave materials that can be used to make more magical weapons or may just outright drop magical weapons and gear once defeated." I spoke concisely so there was no misunderstanding.
"Huh and I thought my Bell was broken… Well at least she will be in 'Good Hands' right Seshat!" Hestia said weirdly and my goddess only weakly chuckled as she shrugged.
"Well perhaps. My Jake isn't much of a melee fighter so maybe your Bell can teach him to be braver in the Dungeon." Seshat said trying to push the attention on me and I only raised an eyebrow at my goddess.
"I literally create killing fields and kill hundreds of monsters in less than as many minutes… If I was a blundering oaf who wanted to smash each monster with a hammer or valiantly cut the monster's down with a gleaming sword, either I would die of exhaustion or I would die by being overwhelmed Seshat." I said raising matter a factly to Seshat as my deeds in mass slaughter of monsters even if it were done in a cheesy method was making my Falna soar with the numbers.
Because in the end the monsters themselves were around my 'danger level' to begin with. But the way I exploited my magical gear and perfectly sealed myself away from danger basically tricked my Falna into thinking I was relying on my 'intelligence' to make grand heroic plans to slaughter an army of monsters without even getting a scratch while relying on my own strength.
"Still the coward's way to do it…" Seshat muttered but as we were on an empty road, I took out a bag filled with Valis that I got from my monster slaughter.
"This bag of seven hundred and fifty thousand Valis I made yesterday says otherwise… Hell, I didn't even turn in the matching number of monsters stones I got today from farming seeing as I saved Bell and never went to the Guild today." I said to Seshat pointed as I shook the big burlap sack of Valis in front of her face her roll her eyes.
"Woah… Will I be able to make as much as that if I party up with you Jake?!" Bell asked excitedly and my eyebrows twitched as she had run forward to me and grabbed my free arm that Seshat didn't have and had dragged against her chest.
Even as Seshat's arms around mine tightened and I heard her actually hiss at Bell with her dark black hair spiking up as she got territorial, I decided play ignorant after Seshat called my efficient farming of the murderous dungeon cowardly.
"Oh yeah! I mean it can probably take a couple days for you to get used to actually efficiently farming the dungeon of its resources but it's safe, but your magic stat will shoot up into the sky!" I said confidently with Bell's red eyes shining with pure excitement at my words especially when Hestia and Seshat couldn't call me a liar or anything.
A couple minutes later we arrived back at our property and both Hestia and Seshat took one look at my tower with lava pouring down its side and the two goddesses spoke in unison. "Men!"
I just chuckled and I opened up the lava waterfall and Bell even having been turned into a voluptuous young woman oohed and aahhed at the sight of the lava waterfall parting to allow us to enter before the lava waterfall closed behind us. Leaving the massive interior of the tower only lit up by the bright dungeon crystal's that Seshat had embedded into the ceiling to look like stars.
"Well today has certainly… Been a day. I am going to turn in early." I said stretching before I looked to my goddess. "You good to play host and get them settled? I am going to take a shower before you girls settle down and decide to hog it." I joked at the end making Seshat roll her eyes before she paused and nodded.
"Yeah, teaching Bell how to properly wash and take care of her white long hair is going to take a while so its best if you get your shower first and head to bed early." Seshat mused with Hestia firmly nodding and Bell cocked her head to the side in confusion.
"How hard can it be to keep my hair clean? I didn't have problems with my hair when it was like shoulder length?" She continued but the thing was… Shoulder and butt length hair were two entirely different things.
"Oh, my dear Bell, I have to teach you the joys of wrapping your hair up in a towel for hours, so it actually properly dries without roughly drying it and tearing up your precious hair." Hestia said like a mother about to teach her daughter the joys of puberty or something.
"Alright I am out! Bell, I will get you fitted in some armor tomorrow so we can let whatever happened in the dungeon die down… I am going to get cleaned up and go to bed before I am dragged into getting my hair cut or something." I said jokingly as I powerwalked away from the tittering goddesses who grabbed Bell who may or may not have wanted to escape the grasp of the two goddesses once she realized such a discussion about feminine stuff was going to be embarrassing to say the least.
The next morning was… Yeah honestly it fit with this being an anime world basically.
I awoke to the wonderful feeling of a soft feminine form clad in a thin extra t-shirt of mine that went halfway down her thighs but clearly left her pale smooth legs visible in the rooms softly lit morning light.
For a moment I literally thought with the long white hair that was spread across the bed and form of whoever was cuddled up on my arm that Freya somehow managed to get into my tower and sneak into my bed… But then I recalled that Freya had silver hair instead of white.
"Bell. Wake up please." I said with a twitching eyebrow as I had… Well, I was having some conflicting thoughts honestly.
Because in the end all my sleep deprived mind was thinking was Hur-Durr hot girl in arms must go for boobies.
"Mhmm?" Bell muttered and I couldn't help but think that maybe Hestia could have picked up her aggressively affectionate sleeping habits from Bell to begin with as she just fully rolled against me and threw one of her legs over mine and I felt one of her t-shirts covered breasts pushing against my chest as I was shirtless as per usual when I slept.
'This is the sign of a harem protagonist… Now do I falter, or do I strike while the iron is hot?' I thought before I smacked the thought aside as I extracted myself from Bell's grasp and good thing I did as when I sat up and rubbed my eyes, I saw a form standing in the doorway of the room.
"Hestia. You need something?" I yawned as I took in the already dressed Greek goddess who nodded at my question.
"Yes, me and you need to talk for alone for a minute so please follow me." Hestia said not really ordering me, but it was clear that she wasn't messing around so I just grumbled as I took a pair of shoes out of my inventory to slip on as I followed Hestia through Seshat's shop and into the backyard.
"Seshat and I got drunk last night so she won't be waking up any time soon." Hestia said frankly and I just shrugged.
"Well, I hope you had fun? I mean was pushing Bell onto my bed spread a drunk Hestia plan or did you have a reason for it at all?" I asked bluntly as I took a bagel to begin munching on it to awaken my brain.
Hestia sighed and brushed her hands over her face as she shook her head. "Actually, I thought Bell would wake up first, see where she was and try to get more comfortable with you… She was the one who sought out your protection after we kept her up all night teaching what she needed to know about being a woman and frankly allowing Seshat to make her a bra for today so we could get her some clothes that actually fit her." Hestia almost ranted before she took a deep breath.
"Look Jake. Its plain to everyone that you have a super special skill that unique to you that allows you to make the nonsense that you do… I don't care if you are some kinds of super Crozzo or whatever, but Bell literally a skill now that allows her and you to grow faster the more she supports and cares for you…" Hestia shook her head and I saw her eyes flash pink with divine light as she stared me straight in the eye.
"I love Bell… From the bottom of my heart to the surface I love Bell Cranel but it's plain that she loves or obsess over you and another girl to the point that her soul shifts and contorts to make a skill that symbolizes that love and obsession." Hestia then leaned toward me with her Arcanum barely held back on a leash as she continued softly.
"Break my Bell's heart and I will never forgive you I will hmm!?" I broke off her jealous tirade by head patting the goddess making her raising twin tails collapse out of the air as I cut off all the steam she was building.
"Hestia look. I saved Bell and I will take responsibility for that… Just we will see what happens. I have zero intentions in 'breaking' Bell's heart anyway." I said patting Hestia's head with the patented technique I got from learning how to scratch Seshat's head and maneuver around her ears.
"Muohh!" Hestia groaned as her face pinked and then she stepped away from me and stomped her way back inside the store and house, but I could literally hear her grumbling as she walked back in. "I am going to have to teach Bell how to avoid no good playboys like him Hmph!"
I couldn't help but burst into honest laughter at just how ridiculous things had become here in Danmachi has canon had practically been thoroughly thrown out of the window as it were.
But then again when I am summoning the remains of outer gods as Terraria bosses, I couldn't expect the world to remain the same when I handed people the key to much easier level ups and access to high quality Excellia.
I just finished my breakfast outside as I stared up into the bright false stars Seshat had made on the ceiling that match Danmachi's constellations and I couldn't help but wonder if any of those stars were actually in the same place as my Earth.
"Jake you ready to fit me for armor!?" Bell excitedly asked and I chuckled at how pure her desire to get my magical stuff was.
She didn't want it for a short cut for power. She just wanted it to protect herself and it was plain after my tales on how to 'properly' farm the dungeon that she was seeing my side of how to treat the dungeon as a resource rather than a 'trial' in which to grow with how our bullshit cheats made such suicidal pursuit of challenges inefficient.
"What kind of armor you want?" I asked Bell who beamed and threw out the most outrageous of stuff like armor that could make her fly or armor that would allow her to teleport…
"Bell! Relax!" I said cutting off her excitement before I continued. "Bell all that stuff I make with accessories. See." I said cutting her off as I wrapped an arm around her waist pulling her against me as I took out my magic mirror out of my inventory.
"See with this mirror I can teleport back to my room." I said and as I looked into the mirror, we were both teleported into my room and Bell hobbled a bit as his vison didn't dull like mine did in the teleport and had to thus deal with the spatial distortion apparently.
Then after I showed how my Specter Boots gave me super speed, I had to stop Bell from spazzing out as she asked what all the accessory's I could and have made do so I took her to my side of Seshat's shop and allowed her to take a magic loadout of accessories that will cut down on the cost of casting magic as the damage our magical weapons did plenty of damage on these smaller weaker dungeon monsters I had been dealing with.
"Alright Bell… Uhm, I need you to get down into a T-Shirt or something thinner so I can get your measurements so I can make your armor." I said wryly as Bell was wearing a thick jacket and making armor for someone in a thick padded jacket that was designed to absorb some monster hits was a fools errand.
"Alright Jake! Uhm just let me go get changed!" Bell said as she went to lift her jacket and I caught a flash of her belly before she remembered she couldn't just change in front of a guy anymore and then a crimson blush came to her face as she glanced at me and then she all but fled as she ran to a side room.
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Chapter 26
Fitting Bell for armor was an awkward affair honestly. She was sensitive to say the least and thus as I went about using a tape measure to take her measurements that way her larger breasts would actually fit in the chest plate, she squirmed a good deal but thankfully Meteorite Armor was the only armor I would need to make Bell for a while. As being able to give her a Space gun to augment her melee capabilities would make her a much more balanced fighter even if we both didn't have powerful damage burst potential.
"Can I help you make the armor Jake?" Bell asked me earnestly, but I had to shake my head as Bell most certainly wasn't Seshat who could all but puppet my body into making perfect items with powerful epitaphs.
"Sorry Bell but the process doesn't really require you to even help bring me stuff as I have all the materials in my pocket space for easy access." I said patting Bell on her soft fluffy white hair making her make weird noises.
"Ok well I will at least bring you wet cold towels so you can cool down after working at the forge to make me such cool armor!" Bell all but shouted in her determination to 'Halp' me and I couldn't help but find her earnestness adorable.
"Alright Bell thanks for the care." I said chuckling as I reached into the forge's coals with my meteorite clad gauntlets, and I mentally began hating the coals and the furnace itself and thus my meteorite armor glowed to life as it turned red hot and began burning red hot at the same temperature apparently that meteors reached when they came into the atmosphere and began burning up.
Thankfully my Meteorite armor's burning effect only effected things that it was directly touching so I wasn't a walking multi thousand degrees' bonfire as it were. But its effect was definitely useful for igniting some coals really quick so I could begin forging quickly and easily.
I began making Bell's Meteorite armor from top to bottom as I began making the helmet by taking thin sheets of the meteoric metal plates and I attuned them into their Terraria form by flooding them with pure astral mana from the Mana Crystals I made out of the all the aberrant and mutated monsters I had been killing lately, and then used the Meteor plates to make the helmet around the horn of my anvil according to the shape of Bell's head.
"He still has a long way to go, but I can see him making the greatest of weapons and armors with the formulas downloaded into his head." I heard Seshat praising me faintly to Hestia but I was so in the zone as it were as I switched over to making Bell's chest plate that Hestia's words just flew over my head.
"Hmm… Better be careful Goibniu doesn't hire an assassin or something. He is more straight to the point and will want to preserve his business though Hephaestus will likely use Jake as an example to push her own blacksmiths further." Hestia warned Seshat who only scoffed.
"Yeah, the crafting Familia's are going to hate Jake. No if and or buts will change anything, they will inevitably clash but maybe if they didn't charge ridiculous mind-boggling prices for their weapons despite the adventurer being the one responsible for bringing most of the materials for custom orders that Jake won't hurt their high-end business." Seshat spoke snidely as in the end of the day a Blacksmith that made a weapon for a level five or above literally made tens of millions of Valis at bare minimum.
And where did all that money go? Most of the time into the red-light district as the blacksmiths pissed away the money on whores, gambling, or just getting outrageously priced luxury products like some lotion that cost five million Valis for a bottle to smoothen and rejuvenate the skin that Tsubaki Collbrande the Captain of the Hephaestus Familia was famed for buying one literally every couple weeks.
"Bell come here and try on the armor." I called out as I broke out of my stupor after I finished grinding down any imperfections on the boots and it snapped into being a Terraria item I couldn't really mess with anymore.
"Yes Jake!" Bell said excitedly as she ran over with another wet towel and began wiping down the sweat that beaded on my brows and ran down my neck as I adjusted the straps on the chest plate so I could help her put on as she didn't have the ultra-convenient accessory and armor options, I had in my inventory to take off the armor in a literal flash of light.
"Ok so tell me if anything pinchs or anything." I asked as I helped her into the chest plate before Bell stopped me.
"Wait. Ahhh I need to use the body glove Seshat warned me I would need. Its pinching my clothes and uhm my breasts don't fit with the under the armor thick clothes." Bell explained with a blush at the end, and I nodded in understanding.
"Alright go get changed then." I said and Bell quickly ran into a side room to apparently get changed into whatever body glove Seshat made for her overnight.
"Seshat I thought you were drunk all night and couldn't do anything?" I asked jokingly as I finally registered the two goddesses sitting on a wicker sofa a good distance away from the forge so they could watch me work without enduring the heat coming off it.
Seshat chuffed and rolled her eyes at me. "Jake, I knew you were going to make that scrumptious rabbit a set of armor and unlike your cheating ass with the armor perfectly fitting you. I knew Bell was going to need an under suit and such a thing…" Seshat smugly smiled as her big leopard ears stood up straight with her excitement at bragging. "Yeah, such a trifling bit of clothing I can make when I am drunk and sleep walking Haha!"
"Uhm Lady Seshat… It's kind of embarrassing. Is this supposed to cling to me like this?" I heard Bell ask as she pointed her head out the door to peek towards Seshat.
"Come on Bell you are going to wear armor over it, so no one is going to see it! You aren't going to be like that Ais Wallenstein and wearing a backless dress and flashing the sides of her boobs all the time Haha." Seshat laughed out loud as Bell pinked at the realization that Seshat was speaking the truth.
Then while Bell was obviously thinking about Aiz's side boob action Seshat snuck up and pounced pulling Bell out into the main room and I couldn't help but wolf whistle as I saw how Bell was clad in a white tight-fitting spandex like clothing and her chest area and thighs had extra layers and a bit of padding so I couldn't like see through it like the rest of her body glove, but it was beautiful sight.
"Ah! Don't look!" Bell cried as she blushed at my wolf whistle and covered up her bottom as apparently that was the most important part to her.
"Bell calm down. No one can see anything. Just get in the armor and no one will be able to see anything." Hestia spoke through some giggles as she calmed down Bell and I had to point out something.
"Bell relax. Look at Seshat and remember what amazons wear. You are literally the definition of conservative in comparison." I said dryly as Seshat herself was wearing clothes similar to amazons in her basically wearing what amounted to being a thick bra and a bikini bottom with a multilayered silk skirt to cover her bottoms.
"Yes, and I look damn good!" Seshat said proudly as she cocked her hip in my direction all but twerking her backside in my direction for a couple seconds making Bell cough and break into giggles.
Finally, I managed to get Bell into her armor, and I had to say she actually looked rather heroic especially with how her helmet was actually a circlet so her long white hair was able to flow down the back of her armor.
"Hmm the clothes make the hero, and, in your case, you look like a right heroine Bell." I said looking her up and down as she stretched and tested the mobility of the armor.
Bell grinned earnestly kicking her foot back and forth as a small pink hue came her cheeks, and I heard Hestia gag or something and I looked over to see if Hestia was choking on the sandwich the goddess was eating but she seemed fine?
"Well anyway let's get going… I have a feeling farming the dungeon isn't going to be so easy with how Ishtar's adventures attacked me on the way down into the dungeon." I spoke as I reflexively checked my inventory for my potions.
"Wait Ishtar's whores attacked on into the dungeon?" Seshat asked frowning and I nodded carelessly.
"I mean I did insult her in front of the Familia's of Orario. To not expect a reprisal would be the stupid thing as her personality seems built on her arrogance in being the one to light up a room or something right?" I asked and both Seshat and Hestia nodded.
"I didn't spend much time with her Pantheon's gods, but Ishtar is well known around Tenkai for being a troublemaker and would always try to drag people down to her level so don't get my Bell involved in your troubles!" Hestia said fiercely and I wanted to correct her on how Bell was likely the one who is going to drag more trouble onto me anyway.
"Alright Hestia calm down I will keep your bunny save and sound." I said confidently as I patted Bell's soft head and she giggled at my affectionate action making Hestia's face scrunch up like she bit into something sour, and I realized she was feeling jealous to say the least.
"Hey Seshat. You take Hestia to the Divine Baths today. Then we can all go on a group date or something." I said shamelessly as I continued patting Bell's head and then I winked at Hestia who blustered and turned purple then she lost all gas as she realized I was playing wingman for her, and she grinned throwing me a thumbs up.
"Alright Bell get out into the dungeon and make your goddess some good money Haha!" Hestia shouted as she pushed me and Bell out of the tower and onto the road of Orario before she powerwalked back into the tower to obviously talk to Seshat about this 'date' or whatever I threw out there.
"Uhm, I guess let's get going Jake?" Bell said unsurely as she held onto my wrist, and I nodded as my face twitched as I realized a number of people were going to flip on Bell's recent 'change' like Eina for example.
Eh she can handle it when I turn in my monster stones.
I allowed Bell to hold my wrist as we made our way through the streets of Orario and now even more looks were given me, as not only was Bell and I wearing glowing armor. But I could hear several people cursing me as they muttered about the beautiful Bell all but holding my hand as she didn't want to get separated in the morning rush into the Dungeon.
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Chapter 27
As we got into the dungeon, I could sense that we were already being followed and Bell who had been watched from Freya's spyglass for weeks on end had picked up a sixth sense for when people were watching her.
No literally I could see on her neck tiny goose bumps rising up as Bell shivered at the feeling us being watched as we entered the dungeon.
"Jake, should we go a different way?" Bell asked me as we broke out of the line of dungeon farmers heading deeper into the dungeon for their day of work and I nodded at Bell's question as I smiled with evil apparent on my face.
"Yup screw the dungeon and anyone who is going to mess with us. Let me make our own dungeon Haha." I said boastfully as I took out a Titanium pickaxe and quickly built an almost airtight box of Terraria stone around us before I began digging downwards at an angle so there was admittedly steep as hell steps as I dug into the very dungeon itself.
Even as I continued my digging, I could tell the Dungeon was to put light fucking pissed at my audacity at not playing its rat race of a game in following the staircases between floors nonsense. But the Guild had explored and mapped out the dungeon for centuries and knew the literal exact layout of these Upper Floors and where the tunnels where in relation to the floors below damn near perfectly.
Now as for how the dungeon was reacting to me being the equivalent of a sentient splinter? Well, the walls as I dug down visibly tried to regenerate the dungeon stone I broke away but with a couple hits of my pickaxe I would take a literal meter square of stone disappear into my inventory so it wasn't able to match the speed of my mining to say the least of when I put my own stone that it couldn't break down or integrate in place of the dungeon stone I broke away and took.
This wasn't going to be some little one-time deal. I was purposefully taking my time to hollow out a good five-meter-wide and three tall tunnels downwards at an angle as I already was picking up bits of dungeon versions of normal ores like iron and other things, so I was literally going to make a rail cart system ride through this tunnel.
"Be careful this should be the next floor." I said before a loud crashing noise rang out from the back of the tunnel and I realized some asshole was trying to break into the large stone box I made at the top of my tunnel.
"Damn assholes… Better not be Ishtar's." I muttered frowning as Bell, and I broke through the walls of the dungeon and into another tunnel, so I quickly literally walled off the tunnel's sides from top to bottom.
But before I could fully finish walling off the area and break all the native dungeon walls and replace them with my own stone to prevent monster spawns. From the dungeon wall I hadn't managed to break in front of the tunnel's entrance as we came from the walls violently
shattered as the Dungeon showed its wrath at my disdain towards it.
From the dungeon wall came a squad of literal 'Black' as in Dungeon enhanced monsters designed to respond to divines whipping out their divinity in the dungeon aberrant version enlarged Dungeon Lizards.
Normal, Dungeon Lizards literally didn't even come up to your shin, but they were fast agile and had a decent bite. But aberrant Dungeon Lizards where actually quite dangerous as their bodies came up to my hip and I was a flat six-foot man, so they had the size to actually knock down an adventure and tear them apart which is how ninety percent of all adventures die.
Because in the end sure some people got their throat slit or crushed and ended up dying really quick, but the vast majority of accounts of monsters killing adventures consisted of the poor mortals getting knocked down and torn apart when they couldn't get the momentum to free themselves.
"Bell use the space gun." I ordered her and I took out mine and laid a hail of laser fire upon the enhanced Aberrant's that most shouldn't be spawning as no god whipped out their arcanum but then again no one had ever been able to just simply burrow into the dungeon before.
Despite the squad of dungeon lizards being the literal strongest version of that monster breed, they simply didn't make the ten-meter distance between Bell and I before we cut them down with a hail of laser fire along with my summons dealing with them. Sure, they were more durable but, in the end, enhanced durability and a minute regeneration factor didn't matter when a single blast from our Space Guns could melt the heads of the monsters, and these didn't have the black Goliaths regeneration so once the monster's brains flash boiled within their skulls at the lasers entry they died instantly.
After we killed the monsters, and I quickly broke the walls and replaced them so now we were in a new box of my stone Bell finally spoke. "Jake how sentient is the dungeon? I mean it obviously planned that ambush and Eina told me black monsters only come out when divines use their arcanum. Should we keep doing this as its going to be super dangerous if a bunch of enhanced Aberrant Silverbacks or what if we get jumped by like a bunch of such high-level Infant Dragons?" Bell pointed out and I had to concede his point.
Sure, before the bigger fog floors where the rooms opened up greatly, Bell and I could easily deal with the dungeon throwing a fit but once we get down to such floors and it opens up a lot. The dungeon could quit playing games and literally throw a damned Juggernaut or something at me… And with it being conceptually immune to magic. Yeah, I will without a doubt die against such a foe.
"Bell the dungeon wants us to die simple as that. Yes, it's alive in its own way but yeah… We can't go past the eighth or ninth floor where it opens up greatly without the likes of Loki or another Familia helping us deal with the Dungeon's retaliation for us cheating." I said pointing at the clear staircase up between floors with not a single monster in sight as they couldn't get past my stone.
Bell nodded in understanding and bit her lip in thought before she sighed. "Jake if you can make a perfectly safe tunnel to Rivira the whole dungeon experience is going to be a completely different experience as all the huge Familia's are limited literally by the cart size, they can drag into the dungeon. To say nothing of how much of an impossible task it can be to safely push the extremely heavy carts down the large and long staircases between floors." Bell spoke as though she was reciting something Eina had probably drilled into her poor head.
I sighed feeling a bit bummed at my trick being plan being pushed back but trying to push through the dungeons concentrated effort to explicitly kill us with the same measures used when gods are being stupid made me well aware that this was entirely too dangerous for just the two of us.
"Loki owes me a favor… Here you turn in a few of these aberrant stones for some money for our double date tonight. I am going to the Loki Familia to try and explain my plan and how important it can be for Orario." I explained to Bell.
Bell took the aberrant stones from the enhanced we killed and honestly, they were more than triple the size they were supposed to be due to them being enhanced ones. "Alright where should I meet you, Jake?" Bell asked me and I just told her to wait for me at the entrance of the dungeon after she… Yeah, after she meets with Eina her Guild guide and deals with her inevitable freaks out.
If I was lucky, I could snag a Loki executive like Tiona who would probably come help just to see the dungeon flip its shit as such monsters even if they were Enhanced Aberrant's were a joke to her or other level fives.
Me and Bell quickly made our way back up through my new tunnel and reached the first floor in record time as it were. And thankfully whoever or whatever smashed onto my stone box at the top decided to leave without bothering to wait us out.
"Alright Bell let's get going." I spoke as I had Staryu the summon I got from the Desert Scourge check out the area outside my stone box and give us the all clear, before me and Bell quickly made our escape from the Dungeon and temporarily went our separate ways.
Making my way through Orario I was assured Bell was going to be fine as attacking someone in the guild well… Even during the heights of Evilus's age of terrorism against Orario they didn't dare directly attack the Guild building as Ouranos had no such compunctions about using his arcanum in the depths beneath the guild to protect it and people only needed to see their compatriots turn into a pile of ash as they started chanting a spell at the guild building a couple of times before no one dared to directly strike at the guild.
Me however I was quickly making my way through the streets of Orario in the most populated and busy sections of the city in order to deter anyone who may be following me from doing anything. So I was still facing a bit of danger with how much of a target I had made myself being the one to create these new boss monsters.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the 'villains' of Danmachi in Enyo/Dionysius and others were trying to find a way they could have me spawn a bunch of boss monsters in the middle of Orario to have them destroy the city.
Thankfully despite my paranoia I safely made my way to Loki's Familia castle without being harassed or assaulted.
Coming up to the front gate of the Loki's large front gates I threw back my hood as I approached the two Loki Familia members guarding the gate.
"Hello, I am Jake Bariss and I have come to speak with a Loki Executive about our business between our Familia's." I spoke as I took in the two guards and recognized one of them as the leader of Loki's second string of lower-level executives in Raul something or another.
"Ah you are the guy who can create boss monsters and swords that Ais cannot even break!" Raul said excitedly and my face twitched as I realized he seemingly was focused far more on how I made weapons Ais couldn't break.
"Yes… Thats me. Is anyone available? I know the Loki is planning a lesser expedition soon to acquire funds but its rather important." I said clearly and Raul raised an eyebrow in thought before he nodded.
"Yeah, come on in. I will escort you into the waiting room and get one of the Executives." Raul said as he looked to the dwarf guard that was guarding the other side of the gate. "Brock, you got this?" He asked and the dwarf just grunted in assent as he waved Raul off to lead me into the Loki Familia's compound.
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Chapter 28
The doors of the Loki Familia's meeting room were violently thrown open as Tiona followed by Ais stomped into the room. "Jake there you are! We tried getting your goddess's attention around your weird tower but no wanted to mess with it because of the flowing lava!" Tiona complained and I nodded.
"Keeping away people is the very reason my home is covered in lava… Can't evict me from my home if you can't actually evict me, can you?" I asked conspiratorially and Tiona giggled as she shook her head.
"Well anyway what do you need Jake?" Tiona asked and then likewise Ais spoke softly.
"Did you have a stronger boss?"
I shook my head to Ais before shrugging. "I mean yes I certainly do but I haven't made the summon items for them. I have a plan in the dungeon in the works that will make transport and traveling issues through the dungeon an issue of the past." I said proudly and I noticed Ais's hand on the tungsten broadsword tighten at the mention of the dungeon.
"Anyway, I need an executives help especially a Loki Familia one as I don't want to get involved in whatever drama is happening in the Freya Familia that's severe enough for Allen and Ottar to be fighting in the dungeon." I explained and the two girls shared looks.
"Do you know what happened between Ottar and Allen?" Ais asked me but I shook my head saying all I knew was that Allen apparently disobeyed orders from Freya and Ottar was pissed to say the least.
"Anyway, the problem is whenever I am actually tunnelling through the dungeon to make the path between floors. The Dungeon gets royally pissed off and spawned a black enhanced aberrant monster party on my own party… Thankfully it was only dungeon lizards but if it was an army of War Shadows that could have been dangerous." I sighed and the girls nodded in understanding.
"Yeah, these new weird Aberrant and Mutated monsters are a major pain! But thankfully they are worth more Hehe. Anyway, Aizu you want to help Jake with this?" Tiona asked Ais and before the blonde could verbally answer despite her simple nod another person stomped into the room.
"Wait just a minute! I cannot be the only one hearing about enhanced monsters that should only spawn in the presence of a deity, correct?! And yet you fools wish to push through such monsters?" From the ajar door came the mother of the Loki Familia alongside Tione the bustier amazon sister.
"Riveria." I said in greeting drawing her eyes to me. "I do not wish to 'push' through them but think. If the Loki and other Familia's had an easy tunnel in which they could ride carts down from the top floor of the dungeon down to Rivira without having to deal with a single monster or the obnoxious stairs that make taking carts of supplies into the dungeon such a pain. How valuable and useful would that be? To say nothing of the hours it would shave to get to and from Rivira to the surface." I pointed out and Riveria frowned.
"Plus not to mention, before Rivira, the dungeon has literally zero record of ever even with a couple gods flexing their arcanum summoning an actual Juggernaut as the floors literally are too small for such a monster to freely move as they cannot get into the hallways between the chambers in the deeper floors." I explained with Riveria grudgingly nodding in acceptance to my words.
"That is true… Fine, I and the rest of these executives have the rest of the day and tomorrow free after getting well ahead of our expedition planning." Riveria said before added on as an afterthought. "Disregarding how you can actually break the dungeon enough to build tunnels through it. But how in the world are you building a tunnel it cannot close?" She asked.
I stood up with Ais and Tiona standing up beside me as Riveria had all but taken over the negotiating for this work in the dungeon. "I don't know about you Riveria. But when I make something, I want it to last. When I build something whether it be a weapon, armor. clothes, or even an outhouse. I always make sure to throw on my own version of the Durandal enchantment that all but freezes the item in time so it cannot be changed in anyway shape or form." I said before looking to Ais.
"Ais had you had a single issue with your sword?" I asked and Ais nodded making me blink in surprise.
"Yes, the shape, weight, and sharpness are terrible… But I like how it cannot break." Ais said nodding to me in 'appreciation' as Tiona giggled in the background at my face.
I brushed my hand down my face as I deadpanned. "In that case I should just give you a stick that cannot break…" I muttered but Riveria heard my words and took them seriously.
"Actually, blunted wooden training weapons would be a worthy purchase to make. So after we assess your dungeon plan, we can discuss such an order of training weapons." Riveria said seriously and I wanted to shoot her with the slime gun I had in my inventory…
But taking it out in a room filled with only women? Yeah, I would like to see the coming day as they would just need to roll up my corpse in the carpet before burying me in the backyard of the estate.
"Whatever! Come on Jake let's get going into the dungeon!" Tiona said excitedly and I nodded as there wasn't anything else to say other than some small talk that would inevitably take place in the space between floors.
"By the way just a heads up my party member is the sole member of the Hestia Familia. Of which the Familia is temporarily staying with mine as they had a bit of an incident when Ottar and Allen were fighting. Apparently somehow a damned aberrant Minotaur got to the upper floors and well Bell found it." I explained in preparation to meeting Bell and Ais perked up.
"Ah that white haired boy I saved from another minotaur?" She asked and I nodded, and she frowned with sorrow clear in her eyes as she sighed. "Ah I am sorry for his passing if he was your friend." Ais said awkwardly and my face froze before I couldn't help but giggle.
"Well, it's complicated but yeah… Bell is still alive though I had to kill that Minotaur and that wasnt fun at all." I couldn't help but brush my hands over my chest where I could feel the phantom pain of my ribs being heavily bruised due to being smashed by the minotaur.
"How long have you even been an adventurer" Riveria asked the pressing question and I whistled.
"Man, I think it's been a week, week in a half but it's not like I decided to punch out the minotaur. I fully took advantage of my chant less magic to drown it in magical blasts so although it got a couple hits in on me. I was the one to walk away." I said proudly and I noticed both Tione and Tiona giving me looks of 'interest' in the amazon sense even if Tione's were more of a look of taking note of my potential.
Tione was still firmly interested in her eternal shota captain who was literally forty-one years old in comparison to Tione's current age of only seventeen. Who had zero interest in her and only wanted to find a strong Pallum to marry to help with his quest to bring up the Pallum people.
"The path of magic is the path of ultimate strength in the world Jake. If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer an aspiring mage despite you not walking the orthodox path of magic." Riveria offered freely and I wanted to ask her how her nine spells were going when I could pull out literally more than a couple hundred different magical items that had preprogrammed spells within them. But instead, I had a better question to ask rather than insulting her for being beholden to the stupid Danmachi magic system.
"Riveria what would you do for like. A secondary magical energy pool within yourself so you could more freely cast magic. I mean the limited Mind pool within mages is literally their greatest weakness once they have companions and can use concurrent chanting so they can dodge and still fight." I asked and Riveria gave me a dumbfounded look before she shook her head sending the curls of green hair that escaped her loose ponytail flying about.
"Jake, I fully acknowledge you to be an unmatched craftsman besides gods and possibly some spirits but giving or creating a new mana pool within someone is impossible. The elvish race has done studies upon such a topic for dozens of millennia and has broken no ground other than storing mana inside some extremely rare gems but the mana within the gems will break down the very gems so it's just not worth it." Riveria said hotly and I smiled with the cockiest grin imaginable.
"Yeah… About that. Oh, lookie there's my bestie Bell." I said ignoring Riveria who squawked in outrage as she was wise enough to see my shit eating grin as proof. On how I was beyond proud to have gotten something over the normally so damned haughty about their superiority with magic elves.
I all but skipped towards Bell who noticed me waving to her and as she smiled seeing me, her eyes widened as she noticed the party behind me, and most noticeably her previous crush Ais Wallenstein.
"Ais! Jake Ais!!" Bell said utterly spastically as she bowed to Ais and me before turning to flee but I grabbed her by the back of her backpack with both my hands and literally just lifted her off the ground as she ran fruitlessly in place for a couple moments before she realized that, no she wasn't running faster than the ground could support her and instead she was off the ground and her backpack straps was lifting her armor clad arms.
"Bell say hello to the Loki Familia. May as well introduce yourself." I said holding Bell in front of me so she as she died a little inside, she waved to the Loki Familia members who frankly didn't care one whit about Bell as they thought she was just a huge fan of the Loki Familia and was just super nervous to be around them.
But Ais was different. Ais had seen her previous form so as Ais's head tilted to the side, and she spoke I couldn't help but giggle before my mouth snapped shut in incredulous silence at the reply she got "You were the one I saved from the minotaur? I thought you had short hair and was maybe a boy… I guess it was just all the blood covering you." Ais said carelessly with the same damned lack of tact that she used when describing the sword that even now she was using.
But Bell's reply… Bell's answer made me stagger and let her go of her as she spoke. "Yes! I was always a girl. I just had my hair up that day Haha…" Bell lied weakly as I woodenly turned towards the dungeon and away from the group so they wouldn't see my face.
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Chapter 29
"This is bullshit. How are you doing this…" Tione bluntly asked after she and the rest of the Loki executives that were following us into the dungeon saw the entrance to the tunnel I made and how no one and not even the dungeon could break the stone I place around it.
I looked at Tione and smiled as I looked over to Tiona. "My secrets are just that. Secrets, now Loki exec's help me do some actually dungeon mining and I will give you guy's free passes on the upcoming Rivira Expressway." I joked as I began placing down rail tracks on the way down the flat path that went downward until eventually, we landed at the end of my tunnel at the fourth floor where the dungeon spawned a horde of enhanced aberrant monsters on us.
"Ok guys, the moment I break into a new floor kill all the monsters as I am immediately begin going around walling off the dungeon so it cannot spawn more monsters in the tunnel." I explained and all the girls nodded with Ais standing right beside me as she prepared to dash forward, and with a couple more smashes with my pickaxe, I broke through the wall of dungeon stone in front of us and we landed on the fifth floor. Well, we would have landed there if there wasn't a literal tide of Killer Ants waiting to dive into the hole I knocked into the floor.
"Tempest!" Ais yelled and with her magic being called into effect she sent a small tornado of dense wind blades out through the hole I opened, and I could hear the wind blades shattering the killer ant's chitin killing them instantly as their monster stones shattered under the level five's powerful wind magic.
I quickly began clearing the rest of the wall and replacing the corners of the hole I dug out with stone as Ais periodically sent a wave of wind blades to slice apart the monsters that spawned in retaliation of my bullshit tunnel system.
"Alright Aizu let me go in Haha!" Tiona laughed as she dashed past Ais after she finished sending some wind blades into the tide of ants that seemingly refused to stop spawning as I fully opened up the tunnel which allowed the Amazon to run into the crowd of monsters and freely swing her large double-sided sword Urga with impunity smashing and cutting through all the monsters into with her inhuman strength.
"Heh, I guess I will join as well." Tione then muttered as she also dashed into the crowd leaving Ais who pouted at having to protect Bell Riveria and I as I went about walling off the area so I could continue the tunnel downwards.
"I am going to use some magical constructs don't attack them." I called out as I summoned my summons and quickly threw Sir Fluffykins atop the drone so it could be mobile as the starfish summon, I got from the Desert Scrouge quickly got to tearing through all the monsters as it spun through the monsters with its razor-sharp star sides.
Eventually though I managed to wall off the floor so I could begin to safely continue the mineshaft downwards at an angle and as I continued, the girls caught their breath as even Bell had to deal with a few enhanced aberrant Killer Ants that got past the other level fives as they were literally stacked and running atop one another to eat me in particular.
"This reminds me of when that time Loki got drunk off of mixing Soma and Dionysus wine and ended up walking into the dungeon and we had to deal with hordes of enhanced weak monsters." Tiona spoke up as she stretched and flicked some of the gore off her double ended sword but at her words her older sister just smacked her upside the head.
"Any who." I cut in to stop that topic and possibly have the Loki Familia think about silencing us. "Riveria this little horde nonsense is likely to happen each floor. Do your think if I open a hole that you could directly just shoot a spell into the next room to clear it out?" I asked and Riveria shook her head.
"I could certainly send a tightly woven spell through it, but the resulting back blast would be entirely too dangerous even if it was my ice spell." Riveria explained and I wanted to ask what good she was down here then…
"Alright well then plan b." I then turned to Sir Fluffy kins the First and then refilled his grenade bag while I kept a mental eye on them in my inventory. "When I open up the area just let me throw some small bombs in there. With it being the sixth floor there will likely be War Shadows and other stuff among the Killer Ants swarm." I thought aloud before shrugging.
"I will not be useless if that is your thought, Jake. We merely need to reach level ten where the rooms and tunnels open up into the fog filled chambers and I will easily be able to use my fire magic to burn away the entrance you open up and direct the remaining explosion deeper into the floor." Riveria confidently spoke as she had somehow realized my thoughts but then again, she did have the century of wisdom going for her as she was literally ninety years old.
"Alright." I shrugged as I looked to Bell who was looking at Sir Fluffykins who was riding my drone and hovering out of the reach of the grabby girls.
As I continued digging deeper into the dungeon continuously replacing the edges of the tunnel, I was digging out with my pickaxe Tiona loudly sighed and obviously asked me. "So, Jake I get that you want to keep your secrets and all, but any chance I can get my own cute animal summon like the squirrel?" She asked and wordlessly I threw my slime pet summon that would summon only a slime pet and not the actual slime staff that would summon a slime that would attack someone.
'The Royal Delight' in Tiona's hands instantly summoned a small shin high blue slime with two small eyes and a much smaller King Slime crown that kept bobbing with each of the slime's bounces. "Oh my god! It's so cute!" Tiona screeched as she picked up the slime and all would have killed it as she pressed it into her flat chest if it didn't flatten and hang over her arms.
"That slime won't fight by the way." I warned her and she instantly pouted but she still didn't let go of the slime as it was clear she had instantly imprinted on the adorable slime.
"Do you have any more summons that can fight." Ais asked quietly and I saw Riveria raise an eyebrow in interest as she knew all too well that having summons that will stand beside the summoner and defend them like my starfish one would be very useful. Especially the summoners that didn't have Concurrent Chanting to dodge or defend themselves while chanting some stupid long spell.
"Not on me. And frankly the ones I can make with the materials I have cannot match your level. If you want something useful from me, get my accessories that give miniature skills like preventing you from getting hurt from falling or any number of the things." I explained and Ais nodded before she looked at both me and Bell.
"What about the armor? What does it do?" She continued to ask, and I shook my head.
"It strengthens my magic while allowing one of my magical items to take no mana to use as it's so attuned to the item that it can use the worlds surrounding mana to fuel the weapon without using my own without any issues." I said as I stopped mining to show off my space gun and how it could score a powerful burnt line on the dungeon stone.
"Hmm… Any armor that can strengthen wind magic or otherwise make me stronger or faster?" She asked and I hummed in thought as I recalled the pumpkin armor among other things, so I nodded.
"Yeah, there's such things but let's save the details for when we reach my shop as I have everything written down for convenience." I finished the conversation as I went back to mining.
But as I was mining and getting between floors, I noticed how Tione a lot of times would throw her machete like kukri blades and would need to retrieve them. Then I couldn't help but wonder if she would like one of the bladed boomerangs or chakrams I could make that would return to the user after being thrown.
"Tione have you ever tried bladed boomerangs or something that would return to you after being thrown?" I asked as I also realized Yo-Yo's would fit in that area as well and I just barely held in giggles at the thought of her using a super high-level yo-yo to clobber a boss to death.
"Nope boomerangs don't do nearly enough damage and don't return to the user after smashing into something here in the dungeon. Its best to just use weapons that can be both thrown in a pinch and also used as a primary weapon." She said giving me some actually good advice even if that wasn't likely going to be my fighting style.
Finally, though after we hit the deeper floors of the tenth floor and past that, Riveria was able to use her powerful Level Six fire magic to blast the opening's that I opened up in the floors and render any waiting horde into nonexistence as the raging flames of Surtr that her fire spell that took after washed over all the monsters.
Thus, after more than six hours of mining we broke into Rivira after dealing with constant hordes of monsters every damn time we entered a new floor but breaking into the Eighteenth floor was a solid relief as for whatever reason the dungeon didn't spawn a horde on us and we were greeted with the almost surface sun level light that filled the floor from the massive crystals that hung on the floors ceiling and filled with a pure light.
"Woohoo we are finally here! Let's go get some early dinner in Rivira Haha! Tiona cried out as I finished creating a good-sized building around the tunnel that led right up to the surface.
"I admit having a tunnel with zero monsters in it will be phenomenal for the process of carrying out our expedition. So, Jake I assume the tunnel and these rails will be available for Loki Familia use for our hard work in escorting you down thus far?" Riveria asked and in response I handed her gold key that would open the door into the building.
"I promised the Loki Familia a pass… And I keep my word. Come to my shop I got special rail carts that can use a smidgen of mana to propel them that way you dont have to walk up the tunnel at an angle the whole way." I spoke ever drumming up business and Riveria nodded smiling as she knew all too well the value of today's work could change Orario's treatment of monster farming in its entirety.
As with Rivira being so easily accessible, the Guild could even begin extending its influence down here especially after I build a stone canopy over it so monsters cannot destroy it again.
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Chapter 30
Just as I expected and knew beforehand. The food and just everything in general down here in Rivira was ruinously expensive which made me, and Bell dumbfounded at the prices until Riveria patiently explained how the pseudo guild that was run the strongest adventure's down here in Rivira would only pay forty percent the value of any monster stones sold to them. Which inflated the prices down here as people tried to make up for the losses in a vicious cycle.
Which with the fake guild down here taking the monster stones to the surface, well to say the least it allowed them to make a killing selling all those monster stones to the Guild at full price.
Now as for why adventures didn't just take the stones up to the surface. Well, any number of reasons but most boil down to caravans taking almost a day or two to get down to Rivira safely and plenty can happen by then so people will need to stock up on new potion's weapon's or get their weapons repaired otherwise they would be stuck down here without such supplies and tools to make it back up to the surface.
"Gods a simple dinner of just potatoes and some chicken costs more than a full platter from the Hostess of Fertility…" Bell muttered as she held her head and shook in place making me remember how she and the Hestia Familia didn't really have a strong income yet as she hadn't gotten with Lili and exploited her cheats at their best speed.
I consoled the glum rabbit by patting her white-haired clad head making her make an 'umu' noise as she looked to me in surprise as I rolled my eyes. "Bell we literally dealt with hordes of aberrant monsters, so we have picked up weeks of income due to the others not thinking to bring a bag to pickup the monster stones." I said dryly as I pointedly looked at the scantily clad amazon ladies who shrugged.
Well, I planned on selling some of the monster stones at least for a bit of cash. But for the rest I needed to make mana crystals so I could make Bell a better spell caster as well as making more magical weapons and artifacts.
"So now that the tunnel is built, now what do we do?" Tiona asked before she continued. "Wait Jake, can me and my sister actually get to fight one of those bosses down here! I bet that will be so much fun!" She asked excitedly and Ais perked up at the mention of fightning a boss which had my head tilt to the side as I hummed in thought as I looked around the massive floor of the Eighteenth floor and knew we would have plenty of space basically.
"Riveria, you ok with that?" I asked the mother of the Loki Familia and the elvish woman sighed before nodding with a wry smile.
"Very well, I myself am getting a bit tired but we can deal with those bosses you mentioned without too much issue." She said confidently and it was most definitely true as my Terraria bosses were real living monsters with anatomically correct bodies so when a level 6 or even 5 nukes them with powerful magic they just die instantly.
Well, these low-level bosses do. When something like the Wall of Flesh or other hard mode bosses come to the fore the whole level advantage, they have will get shot out the window.
"Just remember to let me and Bell stab the monsters before you blow them up Riveria… Otherwise, we get no goodie bags and you don't want to make Bell cry do you?" I asked holding Bell in front of me and as Bell's soft red eyes looked up at Riveria through her white hair I saw Riveria clutch her chest in sympathetic pain at the pure adorableness that was Bell pouting.
Riveria silently nodded but I heard her mutter as she walked away from the group to get a good position for any magic she was going to cast. "That girl reminds me of Ais when she was younger and acting cute on purpose… She is dangerous."
Ais just tilted her head to the side as she could obviously hear Riveria she asked Tione and Tiona. "Did I use to act cute on purpose?" As she said that her head tilted to the side a bit with her blond hair catching in the wind making the amazons face palm before shrugging.
"Alright! Let's get this going before we end up comparing who is cuter in Bell or Ais." I joked making Bell squeak and look at Ais in mortification, but Ais didn't really care as people had been comparing and harping about her looks for years.
I then took out the king slime crown out of my inventory as I most certainly wasn't going to leave such an item outside of my inventory even if I was the only person who could actually use it and summon the monsters. As who knows if some god or goddess was capable of walking the line of using their arcanum and forcing a way to summon the boss attached to it.
Using the King Slime went just fine as the massive slime grew up in a nice clearing, we found in the woods which allowed Bell to get a good few stabs and jabs with the tungsten shorts word I made her before she dashed out of the way as the slime attempted to squish her and me at the same time as the Loki adventure's gleefully tore through the monster with little issues.
"Stand aside." Riveria called and I grabbed Bell as I zipped away with the help of my grappling hook latching onto a tree on the other side of the field as Riveria began chanting loudly.
"The flame will soon be released. Creeping war, unavoidable destruction. The horn of battle sounds aloud, the cruelty of conflict will envelop all. Come, crimson flames, the ruthless inferno. You are the avatar of hellfire. Sweep completely, bring a close to the great war. Burn them through, Sword of Surtr - my name is Alf!" Her voice rose at the end as a large magical glyph formed in the air above the slime that froze at it looked up and stopped chasing me as the bit of intelligence within it felt the powerful mana inside the magical glyph, but its frozen state didn't matter as from the magical glyph came a deluge of white-hot flames that burnt away the King Slime into nothingness.
As we all received goodie bags from the king slime, we all came together to open them.
"Haha you Loki girls must be fated with that item haha!" I couldn't help but burst into laughter seeing how Tione and Riveria both got the slime launcher gun that would melt normal clothes and to say nothing of how Riveria's face twisted in disgust at the sight of it even Tione looked angry at the drop she got.
But both Tiona and Ais got slime hooks whereas surprisingly Bell got the slime summon staff that would actually help her fight somehow?
Was that a new addition in the latest version of Terraria or is it just because of how the item so closely fit the slime theme? I couldn't help but ponder.
Best part about seeing Riveria with the slime gun… Was how even with her level 6 strength even if she wasn't focused on that stat. She had no way of shattering or otherwise breaking it within her hands despite how her hands flexed and attempted to subtly break it.
"Uhm I can get rid of it?" I offered holding a handout to her and Tione. And thus, the elvish princess quickly pushed it into my hands, but Tione hesitated oddly.
"Tione… Give Jake the slime gun." Riveria all but growled as she had a light blush at the memory of her clothes being melted off her.
"Ahem, I need to borrow it for an experiment Haha… I am going to go see the captain good luck guys!" Tione yelled running off with the slime gun as I slowly lowered my hand.
"I am not responsible for whatever someone does with my weapons or magical tools." I said quickly as I covered my face shaking my head at the thought of the ornery amazon running back to the surface and literally melting off Finn's clothes.
"It's ok Jake, I don't believe you are a pervert or anything." Ais said as though to console me but her deadpan delivery made me think she was being sarcastic…
I just threw up my hands as I called this dungeon excursion a success even if the Loki Familia was still filled with weirdo's. "Screw it. Bell lets go home." I said taking her into one of my arms as the Loki executives looked at me in surprise at my action with grabbing Bell to me. "Bye guys, see ya latter." I said to Riveria, Ais, and Tiona as I pulled out my magic mirror and I wish I could have seen their faces as me and Bell literally just teleported out of the dungeon in front of their faces.
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Chapter 31 Various POV's
Being able to travel unmolested to and from Rivira was an utter game changer in terms of dungeon exploration and more easily acquiring the valuable materials that were so much more common in the water and jungle floors of the dungeon. But Jake of the newly formed Seshat Familia didn't seem to care one whit about how valuable such a service was to Orario… But as Riveria looked down at the key in her hands and she knew all too well how every single rock that Jake placed down had the equivalent of a Durandal enchantment. She knew that somehow breaking into the tunnel would be a fool's errand.
"Soooo teleportation… Can we buy that from him?" Tiona asked blankly at the sight where Jake Bariss and Bell Cranel literally just said screw the tunnel they just built and teleported probably back to the surface.
"No! Teleportation is supposed to be something only within the domain of the gods and that's when they have their Arcanum." Riveria all but snarled as she felt like a child being shown countless magical and technological wonders that made absolutely no sense as they simply should not work without divinity forcing them to do so.
"He teleported… No footprints, no wind from them moving under illusions, they teleported Riveria." Ais reported blandly making the elvish princess's eyes twitch at Ais's knowingly made points to distress her.
"Fine he teleported but that is ridiculous… No, he is just ridiculous!" Riveria all but yelled having reached her breaking point for the nonsense Jake kept pulling out of nowhere. Sure, monsters that give drops to everyone that participates is one thing but the only off thing about it was how the monster he summoned would drop stuff for everyone. That bugged Riveria as it was too convenient.
But teleportation to and from the Dungeon? Wouldn't that make the countless years she and other adventurers put into the dungeon and even losing their lives to map out the dungeon and pushing onto lower floors be wasted? What if Jake could teleport from the surface all the way down to the fiftieth floor and skip the weeks of travel it would take others to make the journey?
It was demoralizing to Riveria honestly.
"Uh Riveria I noticed the throwing knives he loaned me don't break either Hehe." Tione added making Riveria just roll her eyes as she realized the other girls were just trying to get a rise out of her.
"Yes yes every damned rock the human touches become indestructible. Are you really so surprised his knives also don't have such an effect?" Riveria pressed making Tione pout at not getting Riveria to react.
"Anyway, we should test how long it takes to make the trip from here on Rivira back up to the surface via the tunnel and whether we even need to buy those carts from Jake as I wouldn't be surprised if those carts just happen to need some kind of fuel or something only, he sells." Riveria spoke as she still carefully tied a silken string through a hole in the large golden key and wore it as a necklace and tucked it under her dress to nestle between her bosom that way she couldn't lose or have the key stolen somehow.
"Ah I wanted the key." Ais muttered earning a slight smile from Riveria as she led the girls away from the field in which they fought the King Slime boss and towards the tunnel they helped create.
"We need to meet up with Jake and give the tunnel a super cool name though!" Tiona said exuberantly as although the tunnel was to be fair rather dull with its lightly toned stone walls, but that didn't at all diminish its inherent value.
"Dungeon Shortcut 1?" Ais surprisingly volunteered but everyone grimaced at the thought.
"It was made possible due to Jake's abilities so leaving the name up to him is for the best… Now let's go." Riveria spoke trying to salvage Ais's feelings at having a terrible naming sense but Ais's remark about it only being the first such shortcut stuck to Riveria.
Not even an hour later the Loki executives reached the top of the tunnel and standing in front of the small house was a comparatively large party of adventurers from several different Familia's but more pressing was the smugly smiling form of someone who most certainly shouldn't have been in the dungeon at all.
"Lord Hermes, what is the meaning of this, and why are you all waiting here." Riveria spoke with her staff held in front of herself as even if she doubted that the Hermes Familia and what looked to be members of the Ganesha Familia would just attack her for no reason, but the dungeon was a lawless place with no consequences for what happened within it should it be kept secret.
"Woah woah woah little Riveria I am but a humble traveling god who learned of big juicy news and Ouranos himself sent me down to investigate… Because if it wasn't for the big man himself lulling the very angry dungeon back asleep you guys would have had to deal with a monster party of Goliaths down in Rivira when Jake broke through the floor Haha!" Hermes burst into laughter seeing the expressions of the Loki Familia tighten at the thought.
"Haa… You children don't understand how terrible the dungeon used to be when it used to be a gaping maw with goliaths and thousands of monsters from all the floors breaking through to the surface daily. You guys only deal with a goliath that spawns once every two or three weeks… Tsk tsk." Hermes chided the Loki Familia, but his trap shut when Ais spoke.
"Why are you down here with your Familia being so weak in comparison to Freya's adventurer's if the dungeon was possibly going to revolt?" Ais pointed out making Hermes's face twitch as his comparatively weak Familia was his weak point.
"Hahaha Ais don't be so mean… Anyway, the Ouranos trusts me to report on what was happening down here and I see things a bit differently from you mortals you know?" Hermes tried to excuse himself, but his easy-going appearance disappeared as Riveria locked the door to the tunnel behind her.
"Oi don't lock the door behind you Riveria! I need to see if the tunnel is safe and report to the guild about it and let them decide on the fees to use it, will be!" Hermes all but moaned childishly but Riveria only smiled a saccharine smile to the troublesome god that loved to throw himself into all the situations he could.
"Ah I apologize but the tunnel is made by Jake Barris, and he expressly gave the key to the Loki Familia thus if you want the rights to use Loki property you should negotiate with my goddess or better yet have Jake give you another key." Riveria spoke as Tione and Tiona flanked her as they stepped forward away from the door to the tunnel.
Left unsaid was how Loki was going to skin him alive if he wanted the key.
"Riveriaaaa! You have no idea how hard it is to find the brat! It's not like I can knock on lava to get his attention. He is always hiding or just disappearing!" Hermes whined but Riveria steadfastly ignored the troublesome god as she noticed that Asfi his captain and minder wasn't here and thus the god was toothless as it were. With only a couple level three's guarding him with mostly level twos filling the crowd of Ganesha and Hermes adventures there wasn't anything Hermes could force.
Meanwhile, whereas Ouranos had a more first-person view within the dungeon and as to what Jake had been doing. So did Freya in her apartment within the massive Tower of Babel as she had a magical mirror that could view upon that which she desired to see even within the dungeon itself.
"Heath my dear." Freya spoke up and the woman kneeling beside her seat lifted her head as Freya switched the legs that were folded over the other as she continued to watch the Loki Familia exit the dungeon.
Heath Velvet the second-best magical healer in Orario had long red hair done in two twin tails but thanks to her being moved to care for Freya directly as Freya needed Ottar watching her jealous Familia members in case of another Allen incident, Heath no longer had tired bags under her eyes due to constantly overworking herself due to having to constantly heal the Freya Familia members that push themselves almost to death in fighting one another in the pits that were the highlight of the Freya Familia home of Folkvanger.
So having a cute red-haired beauty in a nurse outfit had definitely lit up the room more than Ottar's staggering weighted presence would.
"Do you think I should take steps to push Jake and Bell ever further? Or do you think the shenanigans Jake is leading them into is good enough?" Freya asked wryly as she had little clue at the moment what Jake could and couldn't do. So let alone craft some kind of challenge that could push Bell and Jake's soul to burn ever brighter to rise to her challenge she had no idea if whatever she pushed the two into if Jake would just deny it and teleport back home.
Back home into his home surrounded by lava and an indestructible impregnable structure that not even the best thieves in the world wanting to steal his magical weapons and goods could find a single-entry point.
"My lady from the information you have graced me… No, there is little the Freya Familia can push towards them." Heath respectfully spoke before she continued. "Lady Freya, Jake is capable of fleeing any battle that will push them to the brink of death that you seek to push them too into in search of pulling out their potential. But more than what we can push them into, you should pay mind to Apollo, Ishtar and other gods that cannot restrain their greed and attempt to force Jake under their heel." Heath reminded Freya.
Freya's closed relaxed eyes snapped open with a purple light filling them as she gazed down on Orario as her divinity roiled in disgust the thought of filth like Ishtar and Apollo squashing Jake's talent and ambitions that have already changed Orario in its entirety in but a day with the tunnel he built.
Sure, the bosses he could summon could one day bring Orario's adventures to greater heights as they more easily level up, but the tunnel was an instant game changer in how the dungeon was to be treated and who is to say that another system of tunnels couldn't be dug all the way down to per say the late forty floor's where Udeas and his skeleton ilk haunted.
"Hmm, that is true my darling Heath." She cooed to her healer and the mortal blushed at Freya's charm filled mind addling gaze as her mind all but melted under Freya's affection. "Haa… Don't break on me Heath." Freya tittered sighing as she looked away from the red-haired girl who shuddered and looked to her with total worship.
Freya mentally sighed and bemoaned how Ottar wasn't here as his will was that of diamond and even if Freya actually directed her charm at him, he would remain as mentally fit as ever which is much more than even most gods and goddesses could claim.
"Heath. You need to clear out your mind for a couple days… Go watch over Jake personally. I don't care how personally. Go up and speak to him, follow him like a shadow or something in between it doesn't matter. But keep Ishtar's broken toys from him and if you see Phryne pop the signal and Ottar and the others will come deal with her." Freya spoke and put emphasis on popping the signal as although Heath could deal with some Amazon level threes with her level four abilities, but she wasn't a real fighter as a healer and thus would need to retreat in the fact of Ishtar's pet abomination of a woman.
"With how Jake teleports around my lady if I to actually pay attention to him I will need him to willingly allow me to follow… So how do I get him to allow me to do so, after he knows of Ottar and Allen's fight?" Heath respectfully asked as she stared at Freya's bare leg with a thirst that disappointed Freya as she hoped the girl would have a stronger will but only watching over her for a couple days had driven her a tipping point.
"As I said previously… Do what you will. Jake's kaleidoscope of a soul is just as interesting as Bell's pure soul but hers… Well, the husband of Freya cannot be a woman, Haha." Freya weakly laughed with some true sadness as she had her mirror swivel to Seshat's home and looked within to see Jake, Bell, Hestia, and Seshat all sharing dinner together, but it was plain to all that Bell was looking up to Jake if not other feelings coming to the fore for her savior.
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Chapter 32
Teleporting into our bedroom as per usual with my tag along's, via teleportation they didn't get their senses dulled with the teleportation, so they were dizzy and wobbly to say the least so Bell with a loud clanking noise headbutted her circlet covered forehead against my chest plate making her groan in surprise but thankfully not pain.
"Lady Seshat said your teleports would make you think you had been held upside down and spun in a circle for several minutes, but I didn't think it would be this bad." Bell muttered as she held onto her head in order to keep herself from falling over.
"Oh, Jake and Bell! Welcome back!" I heard Hestia yell out and from the downstairs section of the shop Hestia powerwalked through the building and I saw how nicely dressed up she was, and I recalled how we had planned to go on a double date or something of the sort.
Hestia was wearing a similar dress to the one she would wear during more fancy meetings like at a Denatus or something.
Hestia then helped Bell take off her armor by removing the clasps on the side of the chest plate and removed the leggings before glomping the surprised white-haired girl who cried out at how tightly Hestia was hugging her.
"Hestia! I can't breathe and they are pushing against one another!" Bell cried out with embarrassment clear in her voice as Hestia was all but bear hugging the poor girl and both of their chests were being pushed against one another as Hestia did her best to fuse with Bell's form.
"Wow Hestia is shooting for the stars isn't she." Seshat whispered to me as she came up behind me and I nodded seeing Seshat in a full dress instead of her more amazonian style of clothes that left little to the imagination.
"Hestia! Let go!" Bell cried.
"Bell hug me!" Hestia cried out equally with as much 'passion'
"Or she just wants a bite of her rabbit." I said jokingly and both girls blushed at my words with Hestia whirling on me as Bell fled her goddess's hands and hid behind me and Seshat.
"My love for Bell is pure and without mortal follies!" Hestia announced trying to sound imperious, but I cut her down at the knees as it were.
"Yeah no, all the greek gods are deviants and perverts… I know what Poseidon and Zues got up to in their animal forms." I said as dry as a desert and Hestia just pointed at me in dumbfounded silence as she tried to find a rebuttal.
"I am not like them! And most definitely not like Poseidon or Zues!" Hestia screeched but I only had two words for her.
"Seahorse. Killergoose." I said drily as I brought up the oh so lovely monster creatures that the two idiotic gods brought about when they decided that in their infinite wisdom, they could combine spirits and monsters to create avatars on Genkai. That they could control from the upper realm and still have some of their power without using their arcanum and possibly destroying Genkai.
Yeah, all it did was create a couple new monster breeds that still haunt the surface world. As all monsters were perfectly capable of breeding to maintain their numbers with the only caveat being that surface monsters were a good deal weaker than their dungeon counterparts due to not having a monster stone fueling them with magic from the dungeon.
"But I am not a deviant, am I Bell?" Hestia asked Bell after she had absolutely no response and could only turn to her only adventurer. The only person who believed that she could have a Familia and wanted to join her.
"I mean… You did sneak into my bed all the time and even now you keep trying to touch my uhm… Boobs." Bell said blushing at the end as she held her arms in front of her body glove clad chest to block off the rooms gazes as she brought them up.
Hestia just slouched over so I went over and patted her back as I walked past her towards the room's bathroom. "Alright I am going to get a shower so I can put on some nicer clothes. Bell you can use Seshat's bathroom or something." I called out but Seshat loudly coughed and as I looked back, I saw her holding her arms up in an X in front of her chest.
"Nope, nadda, not happening! My bathroom is mine remember Jake! No one and nothing gets to use my bathroom regardless." Seshat said putting her foot down and it was honestly a surprise as other than discussing my Falna and my more extreme actions she was rarely so serious.
"Ah its ok… I can just wait for Jake to finish?" Bell said tilting her head to the side and hearing such an easy solution I went into the bathroom and with a loud snapping noise I closed the door behind me as I went about discarding my armor into my inventory.
As I enjoyed my shower and just relished the hot water cascading down my back I couldn't help but sigh as I just unwound from all the mining and building I did today to say nothing of the stress of having squads of enhanced abberant minotaur's trying to kill us. Honestly, I was surprised Bell didn't freeze up or have a panic attack at the sight of those minotaur's that matched the one that all but killed her previously.
My literal shower thoughts were cut off in a couple minutes as the door to the bathroom snapped open and through the foggy glass that separated my nude from… Yeah, it seems Bell got shoved into here as I could hear both Seshat and Hestia giggling as Bell began blubblering to be let out but was too scared to break down the door as the two goddesses seemingly kept it closed.
"Bell just get Jake out of the shower, he is taking too long plus you need your own!" Hestia vindictively spoke through the door, and I couldn't help but hear that 'spiteful greek' in her.
"Bell just sit on the toilet and close your eyes or something until I am done. No need to freak out." I said rolling my eyes at how the goddesses were bullying Bell.
"Goddess Hestia asked me to help you get clean and out of the shower and I know people of the same gender aren't supposed to share a bath or shower but… Should I wash your back or something!" She all but forced out making me deadpan as I stared at the tiled bathroom walls as I counted to ten in my head in order to shut down the horny.
"Bell, I can tell you are not at all comfortable with doing that, I can tell the goddesses to stop being weird with you if you want." I offered sighing as I rinsed some soap out of my hair.
But my only answer through the loud sounds of the water hitting my body and clapping as it hit the floor was some soft thumping that I ignored for a minute before I finally got all the soap out of my hair so I could actually open my eyes without getting soap in them. And let me tell you fantasy soap wasn't tear free and had some natural harsh stuffs that made it feel like I was getting winter fresh mint bar soap in your eye's kind of pain.
"I got your back Jake… From the dungeon and even here I have your back, Jake." At that I felt a soft small hand against my back making me freeze in shock as Bell somehow opened the shower slide without me realizing as I was focusing on getting the soap out of my hair.
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Chapter 33
"Fine just my back then." I said rolling my eyes as I knew turning around was only going to lead Bell into freaking out at me 'looking' at her in a towel or if she was even naked or something.
Sure, this world didn't follow to many anime or even hentai tropes but Bell being a good-natured spaz was hard wired into her very being. I knew damn well that Bell didn't join me in the shower for perverted reasons, so I didn't get my hopes for such a thing. She just had some weird ideas about skin ship, which probably came from this world's melting pot of degenerate gods pushing weird cultural stuff onto the mortals.
Bell was only here to be nice and wash my back… Well, that's after the two goddesses decided to bully her and push her into here.
One of the three divine treasures that the divines brought down to the mortal world was literally bikini's… Not some cure all medicine or even technology from more advanced worlds. Nope it was bikinis and other weird crap.
So, I just let Bell scrub down my back only saying softly if she needed more strength or less in certain areas as it turned into a bit of a quick massage before Bell's arm retreated from my back.
"Would you like me to get your back as well?" I offered and after a moment I heard some rustling before Bell responded.
"Yes… I guess, just be gentle my skin is sensitive." She spoke and I finally looked behind me and saw that Bell was wearing a towel around her bottom and using her arms to cover up her chest but even as my eyes roved her body for an instant before rising to her face Bell only had a light blush as I wasn't acting weird on her or anything.
Bell then squeezed past me and into the hot water and sighed in comfort as the hot water drenched her long hair down onto her chest and back.
She wasn't lying when she said her skin was soft though. Even as I used a different soap covered washcloth to wash her back, I couldn't find any scars divots or any major imperfections in her skin other than the tiny pores that kept her from looking like a mannequin or something if she didn't look to have them.
"Alright Bell I got your back; I am going to get out so you can have some privacy to do the rest." I spoke as I pulled my hand from Bell's back, and I didn't hear a reply from the shy girl as I got out of the shower dried off and just used my inventory to equip the clothes I was going to wear before leaving the shower.
When I went to push open the door to the outside, I only got a couple inch's out before something hit the door and slammed it back closed in my face…
"Girls I am going to give you one chance. Move from the door, or either I am going to force you out of the way, or I am going to teleport behind you and remove you. Now which is it going to be ladies?" I asked the childishly acting goddesses who were obviously holding the damn door closed.
There was only a couple moments of silence before the door swung open showing the pouting faces of Hestia and Seshat who grabbed me by my arms and dragged me out into the bedroom.
Hestia and Seshat tried to push me onto one of the nearby beds but I wasn't having it anymore. This prank or weird nonsense had gone on long enough and I wasn't going to be bullied by the cat goddess I put a leash on in and pulled on during fun times making her yowl like some alley cat.
"Seshat enough!" I snapped sharply making the cat goddess stiffen under my harsh gaze and lower her gaze before I snapped my eyes to Hestia. "And you, what the hell are you doing putting Bell up to that? Don't think I am blind to how much you love her. So why in the hell are you pushing into a naked man's space?" I demanded as although Bell was a cinnamon roll. She was innocent and had no lustful intentions which is why I didn't bully her or anything.
Hestia's face flashed with shame, but she rallied her motivation and spoke despite wilting under my gaze. "Bell has a special skill, kind of like you." At her words I kind of freaked out and wondered if she got some kind of Terraria skill or something, but Hestia's next words made me almost exhale in relief. "It helps her and her chosen partner grow faster the stronger the feelings between her and the partner are on both sides… I want Bell to get stronger and it brings me no lack of pain pushing her into there. But seeing and feeling from Bell's perspective her life blood flowing out of her chest after that minotaur attack." Hestia shook her head with a soft smile.
"I much rather see her in someone else's arms then feel her soul travel to Tenkai and lose her probably forever, if I didn't just go back to Tenkai with her." Hestia said looking through me and towards the bathroom where Bell was cleaning up after our eight something hours in the dungeon.
While I was wondering if Bell even had Liaris Freese Hestia spoke up again. "Jake, I don't know you. I don't know if I even like you as a person, but I have to ask you as the person Bell trusts down to her very soul to help protect her. Help her grow to whatever level you can. As her goddess that's all I can ask of you." I couldn't help but snort at the thought and shake my head making Hestia frown but her face as well as Seshat froze as I spoke.
"Hestia whatever dreams Bell has an adventurer; I will go beyond it. I will summon true gods as bosses to slaughter in order to refine into materials. I will go so far beyond the Falna that Ouranos is going to one day look at me and decide he needs to make a whole new system as I have and already am breaking the game with how me and Bell can wholesale slaughter monsters above our level with our magic." I spoke almost arrogantly but my words rang as sturdy as a mountain as they were all truth in the end.
The trick was that the Falna was slated to give mages an easier time getting Execllia otherwise how in the world would Riveria have her stats other than magic comparative to other adventurers that didn't focus on a single stat, when all she typically did was stand far away chant a chuuni as hell poem and nuke a boss or army with powerful spell. Not even including how actions of our summons also gave us Excellia though I haven't given Bell one yet.
Hell, even now with how I have killed helped kill Terraria bosses and actually killed that Aberrant Minotaur I already had the high quality Excellia to level up. I just wanted to pad out the rest of my stats.
And when I leveled up and got all the Fargo's mods and the absolutely ridiculous accessories within? Yeah, I was confident in fighting even level threes when I had a full set of enchantments and other stuff from that mod.
"So, if anything look at me as the trouble magnet, but I will protect Bell as she is my family or something now. If she truly considers me her partner down to her very soul." I said brushing a hand through over my face as I tried to conclude this nonsense.
"Huh… I can kinda see how Seshat and Bell have fallen for you a bit." Hestia joked making me roll my eyes as I head patted Seshat and pulled her against me making her purr at my dominate affection.
"Yeah, well I haven't even gotten to see how Seshat's claim on me will interact with beastkin so I am kind of a bit scared to meet my guild advisor as she is a Christmas cake in search of a husband." I likewise joked back making Hestia giggle before she looked at me in interest.
"Ohoho you have that Rose Fannett girl who was the advisor for Ais Wallenstein? How's that going for you, and I have something to tell you." Hestia said and then deviously leaned in as her joking smile became evil. "Congratulations on getting claimed by a beastkin goddess you are going to be literally catnip to beastkin and probably even Amazons so Bell will still be mine Haha!" Hestia manically laughed but choked as the bathroom door opened.
"Ah Hestia I heard you laughing, so is everything fine now?" Bell asked as she walked out in a rather modest white dress that ended just above her knees and only had a small slit on the top to expose a bit of her cleavage.
"Everything thing is fine Bell, and you look great in the dress Seshat made for you!" Hestia evaded my gaze as she pranced over to Bell and looked her up and down and praising how Bell had so quickly taken to doing her hair up in a nice braid with her white hair.
"Jake, girls let's get going to dinner before I take my man to bed for the night." Seshat spoke as she took my hand in hers and softly pulled me out of the room as Hestia took Bell's arm into her own and more forcefully dragged her to match us as we left the building.
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Chapter 34
When it came done to it. We had absolutely no idea what good sit-down restaurants were here in Orario, I mean sure the Hostess was alright, but it was a Familia hang out for a reason not the place for a candle lit dinner.
Not only had I not really explored Orario due to how huge and dangerous it could be to wander the alleyway's and such, but for Bell and Hestia? Well, they had always been broke as hell, money wise to put simply. When you have to live off of primarily the leftover thrown out food from the food cart you worked at, that meant you were very much below the poverty line.
So, in the end we settled to going to this restaurant on the edge of the Entertainment District that was pretty upscale, and we all shared a circular booth in one of the corners of the restaurant.
The interior was softly lit up with pink and red shaded monster stone lights so there was a nice romantic atmosphere and all the servers were girls probably even from the Entertainment District that had a good running with customer service as they stuck the fine line in getting what we wanted without getting into our space and interfering with our date.
"Hmm, the place is nice. It's surprising that it doesn't smell like the entertainment district you know." Hestia wryly spoke as Bell naively tilted her head.
"What's wrong with the entertainment district? Its where the colosseum is, and the Ganesha Familia is always keeping it clean and what not?" Bell spoke and I wanted to facepalm as she didnt think of the flip side of things.
"Bell, she means the night side of the entertainment district when Ishtar is queen, and it becomes the Red-Light District where her amazons prowl on the hunt for unsuspecting prey for them to pounce upon and drag them into their parlors to suck them dry." I spoke completely truthfully as Bell in canon got 'dragged' into there without his consent and with Phryne taking him… Yeah after that monster got done with him, he likely would have been better off dead.
"Jeez Jake, you make it sound like they are vampires or something." Hestia joked but that got me thinking.
"I mean there are werewolves, is there or were their vampires?" I asked the two goddesses who shared a look before shrugging.
"Thats a good question, and I don't personally know as I frankly didn't spend too much time watching Genkai due to the amount of work I had in my Pantheon. But if there once were Vampire's in the sense that they needed to drink the blood of mortals in order to survive then it's perfectly possible they did exist at one point but died out when the mortal population's hit the point of extinction in certain areas." Seshat explained and I nodded in understanding as the era before the dungeon was sealed was a literal hellscape of a world.
"Nope never heard about actual vampires for me either but I know some people got some blood manipulation skills or spells after the Falna became more popular so maybe from their?" Hestia offered and I thanked for the info as I dug into my baked chicken and potatoes.
"So, Hestia perhaps you would like to work with Seshat or myself running our shop which sells magical artifacts?" I offered as I had noticed Hestia was getting a bit fidgety about staying in our tower without an official chores, duties or ways to provide for our dual Familia's as Bell had managed to convince her to quit working at the fried potato stand, she had been working at.
Granted even I hadn't really been running the shop either, Seshat had a good handle of it and only Freya and Loki's adventurers had been allowed into the tower to buy stuff from us so as to avoid nonsense like a Soma druggie trying to rob the shop while I was gone and Sir Fluffykins needing to kill the druggie as he typically spent his time guarding the shop.
Hestia's twin tails actually twitched and flew around in her excitement as she smiled and threw me and Seshat a thumbs up. "Alright you got it!"
"Yay Goddess got a new job!" Bell said excitedly clapping her hands making Hestia smugly grin and making me especially want to ask if getting a job from the people you been living with for a week was an actual accomplishment?
But instead of pulling at Hestia I just enjoyed the happy atmosphere as I held Seshat's hand beneath our table as she leaned against me and slowly ate her smoked fish with some vegetables.
"So, Jake, I had a bit of a personal question if you don't mind?" Bell started off and I looked to her with a raised eyebrow. "I see you're a pretty responsible person for the most part. But I was curious when you planned to like to start a family, or do you plan on being devoted in your relationship to your goddess?" Bell asked making me honestly hum in thought for a minute as I gathered my thoughts.
I mean I was back in my like seventeen/eighteen-year-old form so I obviously wasn't needing to go about rushing into starting a family. Though I wouldn't hate if I snagged a certain fox girl and made a wife out of her as Haruhime was best girl.
"Me and Seshat already discussed how she understood as a mortal I would need to have progeny as well as being a beastkin goddess she finds the thought of me creating a pack or similar attractive." I spoke bluntly as Seshat chuffed in amusement at Hestia's scandalized expression.
"But what about the love between you two Seshat!?" Hestia hissed.
Seshat languidly looked at Hestia with her golden slitted eyes as she bluntly responded with zero tact. "I love Jake, I love his dick, and I would love to hold his children whether they be from my womb or another's… So long as he stays away from Ishtar, I don't care what he does or who he takes, as I don't want to catch something even if I am immune to all mortal sicknesses." Seshat joked winking at Hestia meaningfully making the virgin goddess squawk in outrage as me and Bell chuckled.
Though now that I was sitting in a rather enclosed area and not just walking around Orario I noticed the Beastkin girls working here were giving me extra looks and making excuses to bend over so I could see down their shirts and see their unmarked shoulders as they came literally every time, I took a drink out of my sweet tea.
The sight made me curious how Anya and Chloe from the Hostess would react or even Rose my guild advisor were going to react. Especially with Rose who was woman in her later twenties who was getting desperate to settle down and get married. I was even scheduled to meet her tomorrow for my biweekly Guild Advisor tutoring as I was still the first member of my Familia and had thus, I was supposed to have no backing or real teachers.
Because most Familia's treated one another as enemies for whatever the hell reason… No seriously the dungeon was massive, and it wasn't like we were struggling to kill enough monsters to make ends meet. But it was perfectly natural for you to meet someone in the dungeon and kill them as it was lawless area where only strength mattered…
I was dragged out of my thoughts as once again one of the beastkin girls came over, this time this one was a very voluptuous blond with soft brown eyes cow beastkin with a motherly air similar to Demeter came over and bent over to pick up the plate with her large breasts hanging next my face as she spoke softly with a literal southern drawl that made me actually want to take her into the back. "Thank you sweety for cleaning the plate. Would like 'anything' at all for dessert? I make an absolutely to die for milk shake." She offered and Seshat reached forward and squeezed my dick not in warning to say 'No' but instead in a. 'Go get em tiger' method as she visibly pushed me towards the girl, so my face got pushed into her wide-open chest.
"Ah Beatrice was it? I am his goddess, and he adores milkshakes so please take him and get him a drink as he needs all the fluids for when he takes care of me tonight… Also make sure he gives you a drink as well" Seshat said with all the innuendo in the world as the blond cowgirl quaked as I stood up beside her and despite how voluptuous she was, she was still a mite short thing that didn't even hit five feet tall in comparison to my flat six-foot height.
"Yes, Sir and Lady Goddess." The cowgirl spoke and I noticed her eyes dilated as she stared up at me and then Seshat asked another question.
"Oh, and what Familia are you part of girl?" She asked nonchalantly and Beatrice just shook her head as she stared up at me.
"No Familia… The gods who wanted to recruit me only wanted to perv on me and the other Familia's didn't want to take me as I just want to make good food." Beatrice spoke with a bit more clarity to her eyes and then she blushed as she seemingly came back to her senses at the questioning.
"You still want to give Jake a custom 'milkshake' or you back to your senses girl?" Seshat teased her and the waitress hurriedly bowed and quietly asked for forgiveness as this was one of the best places for her to keep working to become an actual chef and honestly this was making me feel a bit bad as I thought she was just a thirsty woman out of the entertainment district trying to get some side action on a guy who was interesting.
"Bah its whatever, Jake is a good man so it's understandable you would attempt to project your desire. It's what mortals do after all." Seshat spoke wisely as waved off the cowgirl's apologies, but I had noticed she had been writing some kind of note for the last minute or two during this whole scene was playing out. "Here read this note, follow it after you are done working, and we can see what happens. Now skedaddle little morsel before I ask Jake to push you under the table Haha!" Seshat laughed showing off her cat like disregard for others as cowgirl took the note and made her getaway.
"Uhm Lady Seshat I don't know what was happening, but what was on that note you gave her?" Bell asked a couple minutes later as we finished off our food and I was leaving some money to pay all our food as well a nice tip for the waitress's that had taken such good care of our table.
Seshat smiled but it wasn't a loving, kind, or even a joking smile, it was the smile of a cat who ate the canary in the most literal sense of the term.
"Oh, I just gave a lost mortal some divine inspiration. If Jake can recruit Hestia to man our store so I can nap more often, than I can recruit a chef who can save us money on the packed meals that go into your dungeon meals." Seshat said proudly like she actually accomplished something…
I needed to spank my goddess again for being troublesome.
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Chapter 36
After we got home and Hestia and Bell each took one of the sides rooms, I built that were a little bare in terms of decoration and furniture, but the rooms had beds and a dresser for their stuff while I meanwhile needed to have sit down with my goddess about what the hell is up with her messing with that cowgirl.
"So Seshat want to explain what is up with how you want to recruit that cow beastkin? We know literally nothing about her, and should we even get someone involved in the nonsense I am going to bring about, just by existing?" I questioned the cat goddess.
The only response I got for a moment was a smug catty smile but seeing my dull look she finally spoke. "Jake, frankly we need a 'servant' or someone to take care of us. We simply don't have the time to deal with cooking, cleaning, and all that other menial stuff when you spend half a day in the dungeon growing at ludicrous speeds admittedly but the other half of the day you spend either crafting or creating lists of materials that you will need for crafting in the future!" Seshat said strongly and I grimaced at the truth of her words.
I had spent literally hours a day reviewing my memories of the stronger Terraria mods, the resources they would need, and obviously what path I should take my growth as once I hit level two finally after a month or so of adventuring, I will be able to get Fargo's and that's when my strength will skyrocket due to being able to make all those enchantment accessories.
But the crafting of those things was going to be an indescribable resource sink thus I was trying to account for everything I needed.
"But still, we literally know nothing about her and her being a cow beastkin in a sexy maid costume isn't a good enough reason to recruit her to your Familia Seshat… Don't be a Loki." I added on making her hold her chest as my statement shot into her chest like an arrow.
But Seshat recovered and gave me another catty smile. "Whelp too bad. This is reality, if I want to recruit new adventures then I need to reach out to them and as your goddess your only response should be. 'Awesome Seshat thank you oh great goddess of the sands and rituals. I always wanted a big titty cow girl maid to lewd at my leisure!'" Seshat said victoriously as though the cringe as hell statement won this agreement and I was going to begin clapping thanking her for her wonderous foresight and cunning.
Nope I just pulled Seshat over my lap and just like Riveria the Loki Familia and all the other leaders of Familia's here in Danmachi did. I discipled my deity with a spanking even though mine was just by hand whereas Loki typically got beaten over the head with a swords sheath or bonked by staffs when she was a pervert.
"Boohoo!" Seshat cried literally trying to ham it up and make me feel bad, but I could smell her reaction to me putting her in her place. That and her all but swinging her backside on my lap to encourage more made me roll my eyes.
"Well I hope that set you straight Seshat becau-"
Before I could continue Seshat cut me off. "Wait so all I have to do to earn a spanking from my big strong captain is to recruit scantily clad girls who are already all but drooling over you due to carrying my mark?"
I closed my eyes and counted to ten as I held in my ever so slight desire to smother the troublesome goddess with a pillow… I had to remember that all gods were down here in Tenkai for entertainment in the end, sure they fell in love with the mortals they attached themselves to and grew more human with their affection towards us. But in the end their mindsets were completely alien to us mortals.
To say nothing of a goddess's mind as a bonus.
"Fine Seshat. You can have this… Beatrice girl, after you ask some questions about whether she plans to steal from or harm us so I can hear her intentions. But in return I am in charge of recruitment, I don't want a bunch of random people joining our Familia as I have plans and our Familia growing too large and having too many interests will harm that." I laid out and Seshat sighed looking at me like I was stupid.
"Jake, she wants the dick of a man who tamed a goddess… Your scent is literally a divine sign board saying, 'I am a perfect mate for strong children' to Beastkin." She said flatly making my eye twitch but thankfully she shrugged and continued.
"But I thought she would make a good little sub for you as our love making is more a competition and fight most of the time as I buck against you. Either way I accept your deal, I get a cute maid to take care of me and Hestia, if she actually doesn't have any weird intentions." Seshat said basically accepting my deal of being in charge of recruitment.
I nodded not exactly all too happy about it but honestly, I needed to get over it. I likely wasn't going to be able to fill my Familia with just the canon characters of note, but I still needed and wanted more Familia members as the massive tower I made was extremely empty to say the least.
Like it or not I needed other people as I literally couldn't trek all around Genkai hunting for certain ingredients like even common desert sand… The nearest desert was literally a whole week away from Orario on the back of tamed wyverns that the Hermes Familia had. So, if I wanted to get all the rare resources, I needed I had to play nice with everyone to an extent as otherwise I couldn't create jack.
"Anywho. She should be here soon, let's go outside and meet her!" Seshat said excitedly as she dragged me outside her shop, into the tower and towards the tower's exit.
"Hold on let me get the lava parted." I spoke as I took the remote out of my inventory and had the draw bridge system lower itself which blocked the lava from flowing over the doorway allowing us to freely exit the tower.
"I had an idea… I should get a massive amount of sand and turn it into glass and make a glass sphere around our property so we can fill the property with tree's I can grow that are made literally out of gems!" I said just imagining people trying to break through the glass sphere with no success as they see the Gem Trees with fist sized diamonds and other fruit shaped gems hanging off them.
Would be a good source of actual income as I was all too aware that I was selling my weapons and accessories for ridiculously low prices but in the end, I was selling them for connections and favor rather than profit.
"Where would you get that much san- Actually yeah the river that leads to Melen and the sea would have plenty." Seshat shrugged as we walked outside our tower, and I took in the star filled sky above us as night had long fallen while our Familia's had walked home together.
Me and Seshat just generally made some conversation with the main bit being the whole Boss Party bash that was set to happen in a couple days with several Familia's going to one of Orario's surrounding old fortresses to fight the summoned boss monsters so their level ones and twos could level up.
But I was going to have a surprise for them. I was all but ready to create the Eye of Cthulhu spawn item, as well as the Eater of Worlds along with Brain of Cthulhu's spawn items.
"See Jake, even hours later she came here knowing what was offered." Seshat spoke as we both clearly saw Beatrice clad in her somewhat revealing maid uniform walking towards our tower and us by extension.
Obviously, she was nervous as her first words showed that clearly. "Uhm hello… I am here I guess." She spoke unsurely and Seshat grinned seeing her look so demure.
"Hello dearie this is just a precaution as our Familia shop is here but to clarify you don't have any goals to steal or harm us, do you?" Seshat asked straightforwardly.
"Oh, dear's gods in heavens absolutely not! I have never harmed anyone outside of an accident and I have zero interests in commit crimes or even fighting!" Beatrice said strongly and if anything, Seshat's grin grew even larger as she looked to me.
"Well Jake, go get her." She said pushing me towards Beatrice in a matching method of how she pushed my face into the shy cow beastkin's large breasts. But this time as she pushed me, I only had the shorter girl's face pressed into my chest and I could audibly hear her inhale my scent as she leaned into me with her body molding against myself.
All I could think as I felt the girl's temperature literally rise while against me was, I needed to find out Danmachi's contraceptive measures otherwise I was likely to have a litter or something.
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Chapter 36 R-1,8 Final Commissioned chapter from KATL_Chief
Walking Beatrice into our tower I felt secure in the knowledge of Seshat's godly lie detector ability, but I also realized something on a more subtle cultural level here in Danmachi.
The world itself was more open and daring in people's pursuits of relationships or liaisons not only because it was a fantasy world with degenerate deities pushing for that type of culture, but because the world was a death world and in order for the various races to have survived to this point they had to frankly breed whenever they could.
And even with the dungeon capped that didn't eliminate the dangers of the world or even within Orario itself. Sure, if you were a simple civilian your life was rather secure barring a psychotic adventurer snapping. But for adventure's? Our lives were very much on a timer of a clock as eventually the dungeon would catch us in a monster party or something.
So, with adventurer's always going to the redlight district to burn off the stress of fighting for their lives, the civilians who looked up the said adventurers would follow the same outlook especially beastkin who were more intune with their instincts and went after people they considered to be a caretaker and protector.
"So, Beatrice. You do recall that my goddess wanted to temp hire you as a sort of caretaker for our living area while also joining her Familia." I stated more than asked with the cow girl nodding shallowly.
"Yes Jake. I want to join the Familia even though I am not much for combat though." She said wryly and I raised an eyebrow as I never told her my name, nor had Seshat unless she included that in that note, she wrote to the girl that had our address.
"You already gathered some information on our Familia?" I asked with as I led the girl to what was once the solar room but with the tower built over the shop only the faint false star light of the star map Seshat made filled the room as I led her to a nearby couch so we could actually talk for a bit, and I could get to know her a bit.
Beatrice actually chuckled at my question as she sat down on the couch, and I noticed that even as she sat down gracefully her large breasts still bounced mightily in the motion.
'Honestly maybe she thinks her boobs were too big to be running around in the dungeon?' I thought holding back a giggle at the thought as I listened to her response to my previous question.
"The Seshat Familia is already famous here in Orario, not only is the tower you made covered in lava. but its lava coated sides are visible almost everywhere in the city due to how it is the same height as the Colosseum and the literal maps of Orario have been changed to account for the glowing tower that can easily act as a sort of glowing beacon in the night Haha!" She replied laughing at my wry smile as I didn't account for that honestly.
I thought it would be about me making a tunnel to Rivira, or summoning boss monsters… But nope I and Seshat's Familia were already famous for making a giant lava lamp basically.
"So why do you want to join a Familia or even mine in general?" I asked as I leaned back into the couch, and I watched as her eyes dipped down to my chest and waist as I stretched with the motion.
Thankfully she didn't go into a complete stupor of a heat like previously, so she shook her head and answered my question. "Well, I want to be a great chef you know? I mean I most vehemently refuse to go into the dungeon to fight monsters, but I want to get skills and maybe even a development ability to cook better as it's my favorite thing to do."
Hmm I wonder if the Falna can actually give a chef development ability… At least I never heard of such a thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were such a thing.
"But uhm… I kind of like you as well? I mean even after only half a day since it has happened all of Orario has heard about how you have literally made a completely safe tunnel down into the dungeon through all the floors and into Rivira even if it was only 'With the help of the Loki Familia'." She said making quotations around the Loki Familia helping bit as her eyes shined while she stared up at me.
I nodded as they truly were indispensable in creating the tunnel as the pissed of dungeon most certainly didn't like me tunnelling through its flesh. "Yeah, Loki's executives helped a lot with killing the monsters as I used my magic to build the tunnel. But I'm surprised you already heard of it?"
Beatrice's eyes widen at the question, and she lunged forward grabbing on my hands into her own as she stared up at me earnestly. "No Jake! No, you don't understand at all! For us common civilians who can't make it as an adventure, we never ever see you adventures create or do anything of note, that isn't killing something or just doing something that isn't inherently violent. Plus, the potions you guys been selling for super cheap has been a boon to the poorer people who can't pay adventurer prices to get healed at magical clinics!" She rushed and I honestly never really thought about how people. would love the potions.
I mean I literally made them in fifty-gallon drums as all it took was water and magically attuned mushrooms, I could literally create garbage bags full of before getting tired.
"I mean… I appreciate adventurers fighting in the dungeon to keep our lights lit, our stoves going hot. But more often all we civilians see or hear especially around the redlight district is some drunk adventure going on a rampage as they have nightmares of their dead comrades or just don't want to pay the men or women they sleep with." Beatrice spoke and with how she mentioned the redlight district I was once again reminded on how for whatever reason STD's weren't a thing here in Danmachi due to the robustness of our adventure bodies.
"So, you would be content cleaning up after us, cooking for us, and even selling stuff for us in the shop with Goddess Hestia and my own Goddess Seshat?" I questioned her as I pulled her closer to me.
With the shorter busty cow beastkin girl still in her maid outfit all but in my lap, she was forced to look me right in the eye rather than us looking at each other on the side of one another. At my final question she knew it would set the tone and pace for her activities here in this Familia and although she likely didn't want to merely be a maid and still wanted to be a chef. But to do one dream job you had to do other things to get there.
She finally bit her lip and looking very demure as she nodded lightly as she spoke softly. "Yes captain. Please take care of me." Then our lips met with her soft brown eyes closing as she instinctively scooted as close as she could, so she could wrap her legs around my waist while our lips remained locked in a quiet dance.
But finally, our lips broke apart and as she dizzily leaned back, I saw her eyes were darkened with lust but before she could lean back in for another kiss my hands which had been behind her back pulled the strings to her dress in the back making her shiver as her top loosened.
Even as we shifted, her white and black maid top slid off down her shoulders and her exposed cleavage gave up the ghost with her large tear drop shaped breast being fully unveiled to me.
"Damn… These are nice." I could only whisper to her as I hefted one of the soft breasts and my fingers sunk into the tit as I massaged it within the hand making her exhale in comfort as she leaned down to me and my lips were recaptured as she silenced me and even began grinding against me as I sent all my clothes into my inventory making her whimper as my unbound manhood bounced and her grinding panties hotdogged it for a stroke.
I then used my spare hand that wasn't mauling her breasts to move aside her panties and I took my manhood and pressed it against her lower lips while I held Beatrice firm against me making her break the lips lock as I stopped her grinding.
Our eyes met and I could see beyond the cloud of lust in her eyes was acceptance. She wanted me to continue and as she whined and was about to speak, I just pulled the cow beastkin down my length with her wet womanhood spreading to accept me while I also felt the thin film of her hymen splitting to accept me.
"Fuuuckkk your too deep." She exhaled softly as she leaned on my chest holding me tightly with both her legs and arms to stop the movement and allow the sting of her hymen splitting to pass aside as I just held the busty beauty in my arms and enjoyed the feeling her stiff nipples from her breasts dragging across my chest with every heavy inhale she made. "Ok be gentle please this is my first time Jake." She whispered as she kissed my shoulders.
Even as Beatrice kissed my shoulders and I slowly pumped into the voluptuous woman on my lap I noticed that her every kiss avoided the scar on my shoulder that Seshat left and Seshat was most certainly correct about this girl.
She was as subby as it got when it came to me bouncing her in my lap and playing with her breasts. Like she just let me use her body for my own pleasure and did her best to bring more pleasure for me as well, while she kissed and sucked on my neck to show her own affection as she did the best, she could to match my thrusts into her.
But finally, she reached her own peak making a soft keening noise between a whine and strangled scream of pleasure when I find out the amount of force, I needed to use to massage her breasts as well as playing with her nipples.
Beatrice was at this point a bit of a sweaty mess as her civilian endurance wasn't too much of a match for my adventurer endurance so I just laid her down on her stomach and moved some couch pillows so I could prop up her soft heart shaped bottom and push back into her.
"Haaa… Jake pull my horns!" She moaned out and I did just as she asked, taking the conveniently hand sized ivory horns and using them as reigns to power fuck the subby cow beastkin into the couch.
No longer was it dance of love making now it was me fucking Beatrice with thrusts that made her thick backside clap and ripple repeatedly and more than the loud slapping noise was the young womans voice reaching untold levels of volume as I just kept fucking through her orgasms until I finally reached my own peak and then like I did to Seshat I firmly held my girl by the throat as I pulled her back to my chest and I bit her shoulder and left a hickey though with her it didn't magically scar with whatever divine nonsense was going on with Seshat.
"Good girl…" I cooed as I gently cuddled up with Beatrice who pushed her head into my neck and just held onto me tightly as she softly kissed neck while she laid atop me.
"Hmm, Seshat can give me a Falna in the morning… I just want to be held tonight." She muttered and I stiffened as I heard a door close in response to her words but with Beatrice's breathing slowing and relaxing from our exertions, I just took my own deep breath as I settled in with the Beatrice's curvy form molded to my body.
I could deal with whoever was being a voyeur in the morning.
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Chapter 37 Commissioned chapter by Ernestorecinos
I was awoken in the morning by the feeling of Beatrice's curvy form burrowing into my blankets, but it seems the actual thing that had her move to begin with was Seshat who came into the room, and was silently walking/stalking towards us. But as my eyes snapped to her, she stilled like a cat in the midst of pouncing but ended up getting caught.
The cat goddess pouted at being caught but she shrugged and continued to walk to us with a sway to her hips as she finally stood over Beatice and I.
"Beatrice it's time to wake up you little morsel." Seshat spoke aloud making the cow beastkin burrow her head into my chest and pull the blanket over her head as she attempted to avoid waking up.
"Come on wake up." I chuckled as I gave her a good shake, which had made her groan as her eyes lazily opened up with her dull brown eyes staring up at me. "It's time for you to get your tag of ownership I guess." I spoke looking up to Seshat who nodded before leaning down to pull off the blanket that laid atop us.
"Uhm can I at least get a shower first?" Beatrice asked embarrassedly as the scent of our joining let alone the sticky feeling was a bit of a mood killer for the event of her getting her own Falna.
"Bah fine take Jake with you. Bell is already up and ready to go to the Loki Familia as the whole Boss Party event is today." Seshat reminded me making me groan at how the weekend had crept up on me too damn soon.
I wanted to pad out my stats more, that way when I killed the next three bosses in the Eye and Brain of Cthulhu and the Eater of Worlds. I could level up with damn near or perfect stats. But I suppose it will all work out even if I take a couple more days.
After fooling around for a bit with Beatrice in the shower where I got to explore her body in brighter light, we both got cleaned up with us separating after she got her Falna with nothing special upon it.
"Alright Bell you ready to go!" I called out as I finished making the daily couple hundred health potions by just taking a bottle I don't even need to make, and I had literally rigged up a tray so I could push the tray with bottles attached to it in the tank of Health potion fluids so I could fill a dozen bottles at once.
But thankfully I had finished the boss spawners for those three bosses in my free time though I had to hide the corruption and crimson altar's I made out of fresh and rotting flesh because… Well, they were alive and could get grabby when you weren't looking.
And neither Hestia nor Seshat were into tentacle play, thank all the deities within Tenkai for that.
As me and Bell were heading towards the Loki Familia's mansion of the Twilight Manor as that was where we and the caravan of people heading towards one of Orario's neighboring castles were supposed to meet up, Bell asked me for advice as she knew even with her grappling hook she could get caught and smashed as I very clearly told her I had new boss monsters and that they were dangerous.
"I will explain when we get into things, so I don't have to repeat myself a dozen times… Just keep moving no matter what." I left open ended, as I really had no 'perfect' advice for any of the bosses other than fly way above the Eater and bomb the crap out of him, but who knows if that will even be possible here in a 3-dimensional world.
Once we arrived at Loki's Twilight Manor it was a bit of a mad house as the whole street in front of the manor was filled with covered carriages obviously for carrying supplies and people from Orario to the site of the soon to be destroyed castle. To say nothing of the crowd of people loading up into the carriages along with supplies.
"Let's go find Loki members to see where we need to be." I muttered to Bell as I wrapped an arm over her shoulders, so I didn't lose her as horses trotted to and from along with the people rushing in and out of the Twilight Manor.
Not only that but the guards were so swamped with directing the goods and people that we literally walked through the front gate with no issue as we walked in with purpose.
Once we got into the enclosure of the Loki Manor, I saw Riveria directing some female elves that were looking to her worship on where to store and transport the potions that were being taken to the site.
"Riveria, I wanted to know where Bell and I should be in this caravan." I asked and Riveria looked up to me from her clipboard and blinked in surprise seeing me in the middle of Loki's compound.
"How did you get in here; shouldn't the guards have directed you? No, it's irrelevant now, anyway yes Finn is at the front of the caravan, and he wanted to speak with you about how this is to all go anyway." Riveria explained before waving her hands at us for us to shoo or something.
"Here follow us, Lady Riveria is very busy right now." A brunette elf spoke to us, and I just held up my hands as I nodded taking Bell with me as I left Riveria to her list as the Loki Familia elf escorted us out of the compound and literally watched us walk towards the lead caravan.
Once we reached the lead caravan, I wasn't at all surprised to see Finn also doing some check work for supplies for the literal three or four hundred people apparently as to say the least people were hopeful for their chances to fight a weaker Monster Rex that could guarantee their level up without needing to force themselves to fight Minotaur's or Infant Dragons which could be more dangerous than a Slime King.
But the aspect that wasn't at all surprising was how Tione was hovering over her captain and all but growling at anyone who came to take up his time.
"Finn, I will be in the back of the cart so we can talk on the way. I got news of the new Monster Rex's I can summon and will need help clearing as they are more dangerous than the last two." I spoke up with Tione's face twisting into a snarl at my voice directly addressing her beloved captain but seeing it was me her face dropped the fierce visage and adopted a smile.
"Oh, new monsters… Alright just be aware the Freya's caravan will be catching up later, apparently, they will be guarding the Dian Chet Familia members who will be coming to setup a healing center." He told me even though I had no idea why he saw fit to share that information before I realized he was telling me that if the new monsters were so dangerous, we should leave them till Freya's adventures got there.
But he told me in that way he could save Loki Familia's face rather than just saying 'Just in case the monsters were too dangerous, let's just wait.'
On the way to the castle Finn joined us in the cart allowing one of his level 3 Familia members apparently drive the cart so I began to explain to him the general abilities of the three bosses though I made sure to not share their names as the whole Cthulhu and Eater of Worlds bit could drive the deities of Orario into doing something… Stupid to say the least.
"So how long or huge is the new centipede like monster you mentioned." Finn asked and I shrugged as my estimates for the Desert Scourge were wrong with the monster being almost double the size, I mentioned but people never really called me on it, as it was already so huge it made little difference.
"I cannot say but putting level twos and threes against it will only lead to their deaths probably. Even if it solo focused on me." I replied wryly as I realized I needed to get stuff that drew aggro away from me even if that would lead to other people's deaths.
Bell's hand that was on my arm flexed and she asked. "Jake but as a level one shouldn't you like not be summoning such a monster to begin with?" At that question even Finn's eyebrow rose as he looked at me with interest and I knew he was going to take whatever I said to put in a bit of a psyche file or something.
"I would like some of the drops that come out of the monsters… Not only that but facing those will obviously give me the Excellia I need to level up as well." I added on with Finn nodding in understanding as fighting Monster Rex's and boss monsters always gave the best Excellia and high quality Excellia always made your stats grow by far the fastest.
Which is how Bell's cheat Liaris Freese worked. The amount of drive and desire she had would upgrade the lesser almost worthless low quality Excellia to high quality Excellia which would make her stats shoot up into the stars at an unprecedented rate.
After a while longer we finally arrived at the castle, and I could hear Tiona yelling out in joy at the ride ending but before me and Bell could hop out Finn spoke again. "Also, Jake, the Guild and other forces are very much interested in the tunnel you made through the dungeon into Rivira. The Loki Familia can hold our own, but a safe shortcut through the dungeon is a very appealing target to people especially with how you locked it down preventing anyone from entering despite people being able to see through the windows you left open on the walls."
Finn's calm eyes held me in place as he spoke very deliberately. "So be careful as you walk through Orario. That key you gave to Riveria has become a symbol to easily getting to Rivira without dealing with any monsters and supposedly the arrogant merchants are looking for assassins to take hits out on you to retrieve it."
I just sighed shaking my head. "If they want to die that's their business. I won't die so easily especially to a blade in the dark, but either way if something does happen… Thanks for the warning I can handle it." I spoke as I calmy stepped down from the carriage while Bell was waiting outside obvious to what Finn was warning me about.
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Chapter 38
A bit of a history lesson for the surroundings of Orario. Way back before the gods put the cap on the dungeon that was the Tower of Babel. The surfaces world was a hellhole with monsters constantly pouring out of the gaping maw into the earth that was the dungeon, it was only when the gods capped the dungeon after some gods went into to explore it, and even with their Arcanum fully being used those gods died and never returned to Tenkai and to this day have never reformed and are the only gods to have truly died.
But with the dungeon being capped, the mortal races along with the spirits and newly arrived gods who blessed the mortals with the Falna system over the course of centuries eventually cleared out the area surrounding Orario of monsters. But in doing so they left hundreds of fortresses in the area surrounding Orario which are now used nowadays to host War Games if the chosen game requires such a location.
Now such a site was going to host several boss monsters.
"Do you think you will be able to summon like… Thirty bosses at once! That would be so cool Haha!" Tiona laughed as she found me and Bell just hanging out awkwardly as everyone set up their stuff.
For a moment I considered the logistics of fighting so many monsters rex's… And then I recalled with Fargo's the mod I was going to get next I will literally be able to do so.
"I can… Just I don't think its a good idea Tiona." I said wryly and then Ais walked over to us and following the blond beauty was the lesbian elf herself… Lefiya.
"Finn told me you had new monsters. Are they strong yet?" Ais bluntly asked and I nodded slighlty.
"Well, they will certainly be stronger than the others but also larger and much more dangerous." I said dryly but Ais only nodded subtly smiling like the battle-maniac she was.
"Uhm will these boss monsters help even level threes like me level up or just get high amounts of Excellia?" Lefiya asked and I just nodded for the uptenth time before I pulled out a new sparking wand.
"Here Lefiya I got you a gift. Go play with the magic stick." I said nicely and as she took it reflexively and her mind connected with the staff and shot out a couple sparks, she seemed to somehow miss how I was trying to get rid of her.
"Uhm Jake, Lady Riveria already gave me the Wand of Sparking you sold her. Apparently, it made her really mad because she couldn't figure out how you preset magic within the staff like a Crozzo sword but without the whole breaking bit." Lefiya awkwardly explained to me but then her eyes found Bell who was standing beside me.
"Ah sorry, my name is Lefiya Virirdis of the Loki Familia, it's nice to meet you." She said bowing to Bell rather than offering to shake her hand or anything, as elves were mostly racist against other races and literally didn't want to touch them.
"Hello Miss Viridis! Uhm is that why Riveria didn't want to talk to us this morning." Bell asked reminding me of how short and brusque Riveria was at the start of the caravan.
While Lefiya and Bell were gossiping about Riveria, Ais sidled up next to me as she spoke. "Could I commission a thinner or less heavily sword? This broadsword is too unwieldy." She asked tapping the Tungsten broadsword she still was wearing at her side.
I hummed in thought as I ran through the sword recipes in my head and realized a true melee sword would probably be for the best for her as she already had her wind magic to give her more range and such. But then I recalled another sword that would fit her pefectly from the calamity mod. The wind blade made out of Aeralite bars and some sunspot blocks would send tornadoes of sharp wind blades to suck up foes and tear them apart with each swing sending a small tornado.
"Yeah… I got an idea of how to make your sword. And it will actually make your wind magic quite a bit stronger as well." I spoke aloud as I thought about how I could kill the Perforator and Hive Mind Calamity bosses that were harder versions of the previous Crimson and Corruption bosses in the Brain of Cthulhu and the Eater of Worlds.
Ais literally gently grabbed my face as I stared off into the distance as I tried to with no success think of a way to kill those much stronger bosses. My eyes were all but forced to meet Ais's hard golden ones as she spoke softly. "You are thinking too much… What do you need to make that sword because I need it."
Ais didn't wrench my face around or anything but her gloved hands grabbing me out of my thoughts was a weird as hell thing to do… But then again so long as Ais was the one doing the motions, she had zero compunctions in throwing social ques out the door.
"Miss Ais there is no need to grab Jake's face!" Lefiya yelled building up steam.
But her building up tirade had its steam released as Ais just tilted her head to the side and replied dully. "I wanted an answer and Jake was too deep in thought. I didn't want him to forget my question."
More than one person face palmed at Ais's answer with myself just chuckling as I shook my head. "Yeah, sorry Ais I can't make the sword till I level up or something. The bosses we would need to kill are too dangerous for me at this time." I said frankly but Ais wasn't having it.
"But you can hide? You can zip across a battlefield or even teleport while stronger people fight them… What is the actual issue?" She asked pressing me with her usual lack of social tact making Tiona cringe as my face twitched with some irritation.
"Aiz lets let Jake go spawn the Monster Rex's for the newbies, they are looking antsy Haha!" Tiona laughed forcefully as she literally just threw Ais over her shoulder as she ran away with the blond beauty who held an arm out to me begging for salvation as the amazon ran off with her.
"Alright Lefiya if you end up fighting just be careful." I huffed as Bell quickly followed me as power walked away from the situation and towards the area that was designated for me to spawn the monsters.
As I got there, I saw Finn speaking with the blond elf member of Freya's Familia Hedin something.
"There you are Jake, are you ready?" Finn asked me as the Freya Executive shot me an imperceptible look I didn't understand while I told Finn I was ready. "Alright wonderful, we have taken some measures to give you some room to grapple hook away from the boss and more importantly when you do we want you to try to get fully away from the boss and see if it will instead focus on the other people in the vicinity so they can get the authentic boss experience." Finn explained and I hummed in thought.
"I mean I will try but this trick will probably only work on the King Slime and Desert Scourge boss. The next one's are just too damn big and have different senses then the last more normal bosses." Well as normal as a semi-truck sized slime could be anyway.
"Anyway, the Apollo Familia has paid a great price to fight the Desert Scrouge in particular as the first boss to be summoned here for all of Orario to watch remotely in the same style as a war game. Congratulations Jake you have ten million Valis sitting waiting for you back in Orario." Finn said shrugging as from the opposite of the field came a crowd of Apollo's lower-level adventurers.
"His captain isn't going to take part?" I asked drily seeing the level one and small squad of level two's standing together waiting for me to summon the boss.
"No… Apparently, he didn't deem it worthy of his time and that it was best for his weaker Familia members to fight the boss monster and earn a level up." Finn replied coldly and I looked over to Daphne Laurous Cassandra Llion and hoped they would survive this experience.
Especially Cassandra as she was a true seer, even if her predictions were always disbelieved for some contrived reason around her.
"Pity for them then." I muttered sighing but saving idiots from committing suicide wasn't my responsibility. To be an adventurer here in Danmachi was to walk with death and just because a group of level fives and above could slap these weak bosses around shouldn't give these fools such bravery. They needed a reminder of their place in other words.
With Finn giving the go ahead as the systems were in place in Orario to watch the coming battles I walked out alone into the middle of the field that was surrounded by woods that I was going to go hide within as soon as I summoned the boss.
As I got closer to Apollo's group, I saw Cassandra was a shaking mess and almost in tears making me sigh as I realized she may have 'seen' herself and the people around her dying… 'Well let's see if I can save another Heroine or two.' I thought wryly as I pulled out the Desert Medalion to summon the Desert Scrouge.
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Chapter 39
Hopes and dreams. Thats all I could see as the Desert Scourge announced its presence with a roar and although it tried to follow me through the thick forest that surrounded the clearing, but it lost me and thus obviously focused its all-consuming murderous fury on the Apollo adventurer's.
But just like hopes and dreams we all had to awaken from them.
Screams rang out as the Desert Scrouge showed the low leveled adventure's why even if level fives could kill it fairly easily. It was still a Monster Rex and thus far beyond humanity typically.
The spikes on the undulating body of the massive sandy brown centipede monster tore through flesh bone and armor alike if they weren't ultimately just flattened under the sheer mass that was the Desert Scourge as the monster rex was twice as thick as two elephants standing atop one another.
Even more pathetic was how their melee weapons broke upon his scaled body and only the few Apollo mages managing to get some distance to chant some spells to throw at it, made any headway in killing the Boss.
Seeing what had to be Apollo's high level two elf that had his face covered up with a scarf and had blond hair jump atop the Desert Scrouge and attempt to stab out its tiny eyes but only to end up shattering his longsword thrown up into the air and swallowed with one bite made me realize something very clearly.
People without the true strength and abilities of at least a Level three should just toss aside their delusions if they think they can take on the Desert Scrouge at least. Because Monster Rex's were horrors for a reason, only powerful magic or equally powerful adventures could hope to tear them apart to the point where their bodies failed and broke down allowing the extraction of their monster stone.
"Filthy beast you have done enough!" I heard a male voice roar and even the Desert Scrouge whirled onto the person speaking as it went to devour a pallum who was straight up just running away from the boss.
Hyakinthos Clio the Captain of the Apollo Familia finally strode into the fray and like I thought before only he with his actually well forged sword were capable of fighting the Desert Scrouge somewhat evenly as he had the pure physical strength to break through the boss's scales.
Then as Hyakinthos tore apart the monster systematically with grace, he seemingly tired of the trying to meet the much more physically powerful monster in a dance of melee and having to constantly dodge all the spikes on its sides, so he dodged to the side and dashed away before whirling on the Desert Scrouge as he quickly chanted. "My name is love, precious child of light. I offer my body to my sun. My name is sin, jealousy of wind. I call a gust of wind to my body. Released ring of fire - Come, wind of the west!"
A large ring of pure light, no condensed solid flames formed beside Hyakinthos and as the Desert Scrouge attempted to eat Hyakinthos along with digging under the ground to continue chasing the other Applo members, Hyakinthos sent the ring of fire into the Desert Scrouge's mouth before dashing away.
"Phoebus's Light!" He roared and the apparently swallowed ring of fire violently exploded blowing off the massive jaws of the Desert Scrouge who screamed an ear-piercing wailing noise as it suddenly whipped to and for in agony, and I grimace as one of the spikes on the side of the Desert Scrouge literally shot off like a missile and slammed through Hyakinthos leaving a basketball sized gaping hole in his upper chest and I knew the man was dead.
"Guess these bosses do have an enraged state." I grimaced as I dashed back towards the fight as honestly the Apollo Familia had failed this event. They were arrogant and didn't set up a proper fighting formation and they didn't even come to me for information on the entity.
If Hyakinthos actually fought at the beginning of the battle and allowed Apollo's dozens of magics to pepper the boss and with the help of that more agile elf and Cassandra who literally had a spell that gave her the speed of an upper level three they could have easily kited the monster to death.
I came swinging in on my grappling hook tearing me through the tree line and as soon I hit the ground, I took advantage of my Hermes boots to lay a hail of laser bolts from my Space Guns in my hands as with my armor they literally took no mana from me.
The Desert Scrouge seeing me screeched in primal fury as it locked onto to me. It didn't even bother dipping into the ground. No like a snake and a centipede combined it slithered and crawled over the ground in a desperate bit to end my life in the quickest way possible.
I just kept shooting the boss in the face before it got to close and then I hoped into the air, grapple hooking onto the hard scale covered back of the boss which dragged me over his head as he rose up to eat me. And once I was in the air, I threw three sticks of lit dynamite into its mouth before using another grappling hook to snag onto a nearby tree and drag me away as the Desert Scrouge snapped at me in the middle of the air.
I rolled across the ground as the second grappling hook was not at all a clean hook and I ended up getting snagged on some stuff before I detached it. But as I jumped back to my feet and faced the Desert Scrouge prepared to keep moving, I laid witness to its head violently exploding into a bloody mess as chitin and scales went everywhere as the three sticks of dynamite had more than enough force to blow off its lower section of its head where the dynamite landed in his gullet.
Then it faded into ashes as a soft thump rang out in unison as cloth bags landed at the majority of the Apollo members feet along with my own…
'Man, the people without bags got to feel devastated as even Cassandra who only had a couple healing spells got a bag which was good to note.' I thought wryly as I picked up my bag and strode towards literally the only level twos seemingly in Apollo's Familia in Cassanda Llion the Seer, and her minder Daphne Lauros.
"Are you two the only level Two's left in Apollo's Familia?" I asked rather bluntly, and Cassandra just stared me flabbergasted so I almost waved in her face before her minder Daphne spoke up.
"Forgive my friend she is just… In shock as well as being close to mind down due to all the healing she did… But yes, it seems we are the last as Hyakinthos won't survive that wound even with the Dea Saint's efforts." Daphne spoke softly as Airmid Teasanare and the other healers of the Dian-Chet Familia took this opportunity to try to drag people from the grips of death for their own Falna growth.
"How are we still alive… I saw us die! I knew we were to die just then!" Cassandra began blubbering and I gave her a look as I eyed Daphne who didn't expect her friend to spill the beans.
"Little seer, not even the gods know the concrete future. It is literally infinite possibilities and not even the gods of time itself, know what will happen in the infinite number of possible futures." I patted Cassandra on her black hair covered head bringing her out of her panic attack.
"Fate is what you make of it. Sure, you must face the inevitable destiny brought moments as an Adventure. But nothing says you cannot best it, overturn it, or otherwise cheat it. Like I broke your future of death that you saw. If I did not interfere, no one else would have and thus you would have died. But I did and now you are alive and will face countless other destined moments." I said and her eyes dilated as she softly nodded in my direction not really focusing on me though.
"I would get her out of the way… Things are likely to get ugly." I muttered to Daphne as I saw Apollo stomping towards me furiously.
"You! How dare you! Look at the state of my Familia do you have any Herk!" As Apollo grabbed the front of my armor, I noticed how it didn't burn his hands which made sense with how he was a god of the sun. But I wasn't going to be jerked around by some asshole so with a lunge I headbutted the shit out of the god with my helmet covered head.
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Apollo's head snapped back at my abrupt head butt, and I made sure to actually hit his own forehead and not shatter his nose or anything. Despite how Apollo was scum I didn't want the death of a god hanging on my shoulders.
"Don't fucking touch me, you pathetic worm. Your arrogance has destroyed years of growth for your Familia with so many deaths because your Captain wanted to sit on his ass and not even fight properly. Hell, you fuckwits didn't even ask me. The damned creator and summoner of the Monster Rex's capabilities!" I snarled in disbelief at the idiocy of the god.
Apollo unsteadily got back to his feet while he held onto his head, and he pointed at me in just apparently just a much disbelief as I was in at him. "You dare strike me! I will ruin you! I Phoebus Apollo declare a War Game upon the Seshat Familia for your insult!" He screeched and I idly debated the cost of being cursed by the god if I put a sword through his throat.
But in the end as the other Familia's who came to watch battle approached obviously paying great attention to this event I spoke dryly. "And what Familia will you challenge me with? A couple level two's? Why does that seem like such a joke Apollo."
I then turned to all the adventure's that surrounded us as Apollo slumped in place as he was well aware that Daphne couldn't beat me nor was Cassandra a threat at all with how timid she was.
"Adventurer's of Orario hear me! These Monster Rex's are not a joke. They are not a status symbol or something you can shrug off. These are monsters that are worthy for you to level up with… Thus, such a challenge is more than capable of reaping your lives if you treat this a joke." I spoke loudly with many of the more savy experienced adventurers nodding their heads in agreement, but such people were already level two or three, not the newbie level ones who treated monster killing as a bit of a side gig or something.
I then stared down Apollo who had stood back up. "This is a dangerous event far more lethal than any Wargame. Should you continue your claim I will finish your Familia in any case." I said before dismissively looking away from him, to the next Familia on the list of people who wanted to test their might.
"Takemikazuchi Familia, are you ready?" I asked looking to their captain Ouka who nodded hefting his large great axe behind himself.
"Yes, we will be fighting the King Slime monster and we have made plans to deal with it safely in a controlled manner. But do you have any advice Jake?" Ouka proudly spoke and I smiled as Takemikazuchi was a friend of Hestia, so I didn't mind helping them out with some advice.
"Beware once you deal a good bit of harm to him, he will become enraged jumping around much faster than usual and will shake off its acidic gel to land on you and such a fate of being covered in metal melting acid will not be pretty." I said with utmost seriousness.
Ouka nodded and everyone dispersed with the Takemikazuchi Familia staying to fight the next boss, but the crowd were kind enough to help with dragging the Apollo Familia corpses off the field so no one would trip over them or something.
"This isn't over Jake Bariss. There will be a reckoning for your failure to help or warn us." Apollo snarled and I looked over him one final time before I came to a conclusion.
"Alright Apollo. Fuck you and your Familia. I in the name of my goddess Seshat accept your War Game. I will see you at the Guild to formalize the details later today at sundown." I said strongly as I eyed Apollo. I was literally done with this degenerate red headed stepchild.
"Dammit Apollo!" Daphne hissed as she stomped over at hearing my declaration and in the middle of all of Orario watching remotely the crimson haired beauty grabbed Apollo and dragged the god away by his ear.
After getting the King Slime summoned, watching the Takemikazuchi Familia take care of it was a completely different experience from how the Apollo Familia dealt with the Desert Scourge. Because the Takemikazuchi Familia was a Familia that lived and breathed in the dungeon whereas despite the Apollo Familia having dozens more members, they were trash who only got the bare minimum letter requirement before leveling up by killing a minotaur or an infant dragon in a party.
First, they corralled the King Slime with Ouka carefully herding it away from Mikoto who at the moment of the Monster Rex coming into being, began chanting while her teammates used long bows to strike the boss with my own arrows, so they didn't just melt in the potent acid within the slime's body.
"I respectfully speak to you, my War God that can break through anything, lead me from the precious heaven. Give my petty body, divine power of your grand body. Rescue them light of purification, sword of crushing evil. Sweep sword of suppression, sacred sword of conquest. It arrives here now by my order. Descend from heaven, rule the earth - Shinbu Tousei!" She chanted yelling at the end as a pure black magical pillar captured the King Slime and squashed it flat under its crushing gravity magic that filled the pillar.
"Use the explosive bolts!" Ouka yelled as he pulled his own long bow off his back the half dozen supporters and other adventurers switched to alchemical bolts.
Then the King Slime once the height of a semi tuck was compressed to the point of only being as thick as a cinderblock and with each explosive arrow that collided with it its flesh was blasted apart until the King Slime died under Mikoto's powerful gravity spell.
While I stood in the tree line with Bell beside me watching the fight, Finn came over to me. "Well Jake got any idea's after seeing a weaker Familia properly deal with a Monster Rex?" He asked and I shrugged.
"Yeah, hook up to the roof of the dungeon in Riveria where it cannot jump that high and then just drop bombs on it, until it dies." I answered cheerfully and the Pallum snorted at my cowardly answer but in the end he shrugged.
"I suppose that's one way to level up. The Falna cares more for the success of a challenge then how difficult you make the challenge in any case. Thats how Perseus, or Hermes's Asfi Andromeda reached level four by bombing monster rex's to death after much preparation." Finn spoke candidly.
"So, Finn. Why are you here. Did you come to speak with me about Apollo's little challenge that I answered?"
Finn sighed nodding. "Look Jake, the Loki Familia can't be seeing interfering as that would be considered the highest degree of bullying with them only having some level two's and-"
Before he continued, I cut him off. "Finn, I do not fear Apollo little collection, whatever challenge the Denatus gives between our Familia's, I will win outrightly, or their Familia will not survive challenging me as I drop another Monster Rex on them." I said bluntly and Finn face palmed shaking his head.
"Well tamed monsters haven't been outlawed for use in War Games so Monster Rex's… Yeah, I imagine they will allow you to abuse such a thing for the first fool to challenge you so they can have cause to outlaw it due to you not having control over them." Finn said shrugging as that was the politics of Orario.
In the midst of the cheers of the Takemikazuchi as they happily took their goodie bags from killing the bosses Bell finally spoke as she had gone silent after the deaths of the Apollo members. "Jake please don't just kill all the Apollo members. I mean Apollo is obviously a terrible person and should be sent back to Tenkai or something."
Finn just snorted shaking his head. "Well, I said my piece. The guild has your cut of today's earnings also I wanted to warn you about something personally Jake." Finn's face both a cut of grim and wry as he continued to speak.
"Heith Velvet the Golden Witch, or Vana Mardel, of Freya's Familia who was helping the Dian Chet Familia with healing has been asking a lot of question about you and your Familia. Where you fight in the dungeon, your interests, how people can get into your tower to access your shop. Just a lot of questions to a number of people… This isn't Freya herself doing something, no this is Heath up to something." He warned me and then he nodded to me and Bell as he walked away.
'It's just never one thing alone now is it.' I thought sighing as I gave Bell a side hug making her squeak in surprise, but I paid her surprised noises no care as I refueled on Bell's cute energy.
"Alright there four more Familia's needing a boss. So why don't you go back to Orario and get my goddess to the Guild so she can get this War Game going." Before she could say anything, I put a finger to her lips silencing her. "Bell there's nothing for you to do here and I can tell you need to clear your head… This was the first time you saw people die right?" I asked and Bell bit her lips before nodding softly so I just pulled her head against my chest as I patted her head.
"Bell being an adventurer is a path that walks with death. I cannot comfort you and say this is never going to happen again nor are you not going to directly take someone's life, as its perfectly possible you may have to. Especially if they challenge your Familia to a War Game." I spoke softly as I brushed my hands over Bell's head to comfort her before taking a step back from her as she pouted.
"Now go on. Hestia and Seshat need you to escort them to the Guild to pick up all the money we made." I said trying to cheer her up with the millions of Valis we made today.
"Alright Jake I will." Bell nodded and then just like the rabbit everyone called her with her looks, she ran off almost literally bouncing as she dashed back to Orario faster than the trots of the horses that brought us here.
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After Apollo's frankly abysmal performance with the Desert Scrouge as a reminder there was only a couple more deaths in the dozen other Familia's who challenged the King Slime or Desert Scrouge, all of which were people who were obviously treating adventuring as a side gig and not their lives passion.
But as all the lesser Familia's cleared out and Finn approached me again I knew a more important moment has come. "Finn, you and the Familia ready for the stronger bosses?" I asked and Finn nodded tilting his head to the side and I saw the mages, archers and long-range specialists around Riveria while the melee focused were close to me and Finn in a circle so they could respond no matter where the monster appeared.
"Ok so I will be summoning a 'massive' monster that takes the form of a flying eye that can shoot some lasers and cursed fire from the center of its eye. After we greatly damage it, it will enrage like all monsters we don't instantly kill, and it will basically pull itself inside out and become a massive flying mouth spewing cursed flames and can dash really fast in a straight line." I explained before taking a breath while everyone listened. "I won't be running away so it will most likely stay focused on me so just try to do as much damage to it as you can as I imagine it being capable of flying will give you melee fighters some issues." I finished with Finn nodding.
"And what kind of drops can we expect out of this monster goodie bag, as you call them?" Finn asked and everyone perked up in excitement as opening the bag was the highlight for these people as literally everyone who participated got something even if they just literally threw a rock at the monster.
"Whew that's a loaded question…" I drew off as I categorized all the vanilla and Calamity items that would drop out of a bag so in the end I just shrugged. "You are guaranteed a magical shield that will give you a special dashing ram that will speed you up as you ram the shield into something while also giving you a magical shield in the act of ramming. Other than that guaranteed drop, you will get potions, materials and other stuff but it's all random so I cannot say." I was especially unsure as Bell had even gotten stuff out of the King Slime loot table though it was still a slime item. So, for all I know they could just directly get other weird weapons.
Finn hummed in thought for a minute before he looked over to Riveria and nodded and spoke again as he looked back to me. "In that case the Loki Familia will be helping you. Just do your best to keep the monster from the mages." He asked and I nodded in agreement.
The Eye of Cthulhu spawn item better known as a Suspicious Looking Eye was literally a football sized eyeball and how else did I summon the primordial remains of some space god. I had to literally poke the center of the eye with my finger and as I did so a primal roar filled with rage and pain rang out in the darkened afternoon's light.
"Jake did you just poke that nasty looking eye in the uhhh eye with your finger?!" Tiona asked as her face twisted in disgust.
I wasn't even given time to make excuses as from over the tree line came a damned blimp sized flying eyeball that locked onto me with its reddened eye and I wondered if the eye was so red and angry was because I literally poked an eye that shared some kind of voodoo sympathetic connection with it.
"Riveria spells now!" Finn yelled as I shot the floating eye in the sky with my space gun as I zipped away on my grappling hook.
The Loki Familia did all they could to hurt the flying eye that spitefully followed me through the forest shooting lasers and even burning down the fucking forest with widespread swathes of green cursed flames.
Weaker spells smashed into it tearing off hunks of flesh, Jester arrows I sold to the committee running this event tore small holes through the boss before dropping off back into the ground. But in the end, the meat of the Loki Familia in the melee fighters like Finn, Bete and Gareth, were simply incapable of harming the boss.
But Ais could use the slime hook she got from the King Slime to actually grapple atop the boss as it solely chased me and attempted to kill me via smashing its form into me or with its lasers or cursed fire.
So, Ais was the one actually dealing the most damage to the boss though she had to avoid friendly fire from spells and Jester arrows going through the bottom and sides of the boss and end up traveling all the way through it.
"Riveria kill it!" I called out feeling the strain of constantly dodging while keeping everyone else at a decent distance from the boss other than the people leaping up to try to take a chunk out of its flesh. Those people were only Ais, Gareth, Tiona, or Bete. The rest were content to bring down the boss in a death by a thousand cuts.
If I had the whole forest to run around in, I wouldn't find it as difficult, but I had to keep everyone else's position in mind and that was stressing me out as I didn't want Loki's people to die as that would sour my plans for them.
Because I had no delusions in thinking I was going to casually kill the Wall of Flesh though with getting Fargo's that may change with all its enchantments and stuff.
"Harbinger of the end, the white snow. Blow with the wind before the twilight. Closing light, the freezing land. Blizzard, the three severe winters - my name is Alf!" Riveria chanted her ice spell that called upon the frozen winds of the underworld apparently and a piercing silver light shot into the Eye of Cthulhu freezing it utterly solid in but a couple moments leaving it floating in the middle of the air.
"Riveria, mages, it's still alive chant your next spell!" Finn yelled out frowning as he pinched his thumb frowning heavily.
Riveria loudly began chanting again and I could feel her mana filling the air as a large fiery glyph formed in front of her as her chants drowned out all the other mages chanting. "The flame will soon be released. Creeping war, unavoidable destruction. The horn of battle sounds aloud, the cruelty of conflict will envelop all. Come, crimson flames, the ruthless inferno. You are the avatar of hellfire. Sweep completely, bring a close to the great war. Burn them through, Sword of Surtr - my name is Alf!"
But before her chant fully finished, the frozen Eye of Cthulhu shattered its ice with a great deal of its frozen flesh falling off with the effort, but then the Monster Rex's screamed a mind-numbing screech that made my vision fog over as the Eye of Cthulhu spun through the eye so fast that it blurred and seemed to grow even larger as it turned itself inside out into its mouth form that instantly lunged to snap towards me.
Riveria's beam of concentrated fire magic only swiped it, but the explosion of powerful flames was more than enough to blast it off its course as it screeched in fury as it smashed into the ground creating a large ditch as it tore through the ground before rising into the air.
"Thank the gods it can't no clip through the ground." I muttered as I just kept shooting the enraged Eye of Cthulhu until finally it just broke apart into ashes as Riveria's fire spell although didn't fully connect burnt through the monster's frame and had apparently fried its internal organs, so it was only working on limited time in its enraged state.
"Yay… Goodie bags." Ais cheered as she picked up her own while I had to backtrack a bit as mine fell to the ground, and I missed it as I was still in constant motion running around with my Hermes boots and being tugged around on my grappling hook.
But seeing how the Eye of Cthulhu fought and acted, I realized that until I got wings or something to give me a lot more mobility, by far the best bet for me was to keep using magic. As despite Ais doing plenty of damage with her level five strength literally carving chunks of flesh off of it. But in the end not even Gareth one of the physically strongest adventurer's in Orario could physically manhandle any Monster Rex at all.
They simply were too large and strong to match physically with human leverage.
"How do I look?" Ais asked dully as she hefted the Shield of Cthulhu along with her broadsword and I couldn't help but chuckle seeing how odd it looked on her.
The weapons were a bit too large and unwieldy for her honestly, though there was little I could do about that. "Uhm try to hold the shield in front of you and dash into a tree?" I asked and her head cocked to the side cutely before she nodded and advanced on one of the nearby trees.
"So, Jake I got this staff what does it do?" Riveria asked dryly as she held out the Deathstare Rod and I pouted as I opened my back and got the shield, the materials and the Teardrop Cleaver. "Ah that is a staff that will summon a much smaller eye to float over your head and will attack things that you have great negative intent towards." I said pouting as I didn't get the summon item.
Riveria pushed a bit of her mind into the staff and then flicked the grotesque staff that was literally a living eye looking around as it was seemingly impaled on an intertwined staff of two metal bars that met in the middle to impale said eye.
And then with a wet squishing noise a like a grape being stepped on, a fist sized eyeball appeared above Riveria's head.
"Jake… This is disgusting." Riveria said shuddering at the sight of the eye hanging over her head. "Do you make anything. Thats normal."
"Hey I didn't make that! It literally came from the boss! And don't even complain dammit. That eye can shoot lasers through the dungeon walls into other tunnels as its capable of sensing enemies with negative intent around you." I all but pouted as I swung the Teardrop Cleaver boredly.
Ais on the other hand literally only got the shield so she was just pouting as she poked my shoulder. "What does the sword do." She asked looking at the thinner more manageable sword.
I actually had to recall its effect before I smiled as actually it wasn't at all useless. "If something is cut or harmed by the sword its conceptually cursed for one minute to lose half of its strength and durability."
I had to make the sword disappear into my inventory as Ais's hand snatched for it and her pout became apoplectic, no even desperate as she looked up to me and I could see the thoughts in her head.
'What if the Black Dragon was literally at half strength?' Could her father have killed it with such a curse upon it?
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Chapter 42
A truly loud and brutal bonking noise that far eclipsed my head butt on Apollo rang out, as Riveria nonchalantly brought her staff down on Ais's head making the blonds eyes go cross eyed at the blow.
As Ais crouched down holding her head as she looked up to Riveria tearfully pouting with her bottom lip actually quivering in distress I couldn't help the thought crossing my mind. 'I mean Riveria actually drowned Ais when she called her an old hag. Maybe she legitimately isn't an airhead and actually has some brain damage due to always being conked over the head by superhumans.'
I shook my head at the thought and mentally reminded me to be careful with any kids I interact with. as I don't want to accidentally hurt them as I was already getting used to only interacting with people with superhuman physiques.
"Ais what have I said about taking things from people?" Riveria said imperiously as she leaned over Ais whose pout only deepened with her even blushing a bit in embarrassment at being scolded in front of so many people including myself who wasn't used to Riveria taking the Loki members to task as their den mother.
"You said not to… Jake how much are you selling the sword then." She asked as she looked away from Riveria who rolled her eyes at Ais's act in getting out from under her gaze.
"I'm not selling this one as it's my first one and going into a display case if I don't craft it into something better later on. But the Loki Familia literally had dozens of people who attacked the boss. I bet there are members who got the sword and won't mind selling it to you if they are mages or something." I offered and she hurriedly nodded before bowing to me.
"Thank you, Jake. Getting stronger is all I care about, and I have grown more from killing those bosses then going on shallow expeditions past Rivira. So, thank you again." Ais strongly thanked me as she stared into my eyes to convey her seriousness after she came out of the bow.
I nodded in understanding, as I knew her goal in killing the One Eyed Black Dragon though I knew she was far from its match as Albert her father was some kind of Sword Saint who could do cultivator bullshit with his pure sword skill being able to cut through space and time and was such a Chad that he could impregnate his spirit wife to make Ais. Which wasn't possible. Spirits were literally entities coming to life from the world itself and were the closest thing to a god.
"Give me a week or even just a few more days and I will have a bunch more accessories you can wear that's far less of a pain as my other things. You will get much stronger with them." I added on as I knew for my level two mod, I was going to get Fargo's which was going to make myself and the people I sell the Enchantments far stronger simply by wearing the pins.
"I will be there Jake… Do you want some sword training to beat Apollo?" She asked me after a moment of thought and chewing on her words.
"Ais the Loki Familia cannot be seen favoring another Familia about to get into a War Game." Riveria said tiredly and Ais blinked at the elvish princess before she covered her mouth with both hands and spoke towards me so no one could read her lips.
"Will you meet me atop the wall of Orario to spar and I can tell you about the deeper floors of the dungeon tonight?" She asked and Riveria just face palmed throwing up her hands at Ais's poor attempt at being 'subtle'.
"Sure, Ais it's a date I will see you tonight with all the potato snacks you can want." I said with a grin as Ais cocked her head to the side and Riveria snorted as Ais nodded slowly.
"Yes… I suppose us meeting alone with food being shared between us would be a date. Riveria what else do I do on a date?" Ais asked Riveria who choked on her laughter as Tiona burst into laughter.
"Haha Mama Riveria is a century old Christmas Cake with no dating experience and can't tell you Ais!" Tiona teased and a vein popped out on Riveria who slowly turned to the amazon who gulped under the murderous look of the level 6 angry elf.
"Yeah, that's my que to flee. See you guys… We can fight the other bosses later." I muttered at the end as Finn to no avail tried to hold back Riveria from bonking Tiona's head with her metal and crystal studded staff.
Just as I went to teleport, Ais who was standing beside me grabbed onto my arm and with the standard blurring of my vision I ended up in my room with a blond beauty hanging onto my arm as she shook away her disorientation at the teleportation.
"So, any reason you hitched a ride?" I asked and Ais nodded with little emotion.
"Yes, Apollo may empty his coffers to hire an assassin to kill you on the way to the guild. It's happened before to Familia's with only a single strong or couple strong members." She explained.
"I will protect you and when you make those accessories, I want three for free." She said proudly at her negotiation skills while holding up three blue gloved fingers to show her price for acting as my bodyguard.
I sighed just nodding as her following me wouldn't actually harm me even though making her the accessories enchantments from Fargo's would be a bit of a pain due to the pure time it would take to make them, I imagine.
But the sight of the Sword Princess, a strong level five would drive away a good number of assassins who may choose to make an attempt on my life. Which made it worth it in my book, as my actions as of late has brought the Guilds attention onto me and they obviously wanted to find some way to get some authority over my city changing actions.
And causing widespread destruction when level three or four assassins attempt to kill me could very well give them the excuse to attempt to censor me from Guild facilities which I needed.
"Alright follow me to the Guild I guess." I spoke shrugging as I walked out of the room and as I came out into the center of the shop, I saw how Hestia and Seshat had rigged up a system using their divine lie detector sensing to ask the people wanting to come in if they were going to cause issues.
"How business girls?" I asked and out from under a desk I saw Bell and Beatrice loaded up with potions they were restocking into the cabinet jump up.
"Jake your back! Why is Ais Wallenstein with you!" Beatrice called out while Bell all but cried out in surprise and I shrugged.
"Well things happened, and you know I got to go settle the date in the guild for the War Game, so Ais volunteered to walk me there, then me and her are going to go on a date or something." I said flippantly and Seshat only shrugged.
"Thats fine, I don't like stress, so go in my name and I will come out of the safety of this home when the actual War Game Denatus is called to decide what form of challenge the War Game will take." Seshat responded equally as flippantly as obviously Bell had told them all in great detail what had happened today.
"Jake, are you going to be alright? I mean I can't really fight." Beatrice said weakly and I patted the cowgirl between her horns.
"Yeah, don't worry Beatrice I will be fine. I can deal with them alone, to say nothing of me summoning a monster rex and leaving it to clean up their Familia." I said confidently, as physically I was the match of a level two with how my stats were reaching the peak and I was ready for a level up at any point now. I just wanted to finish filling them out, so I got a strong foundation.
"Anyway, I am going to the Guild to deal with the details. Bell, you got the money home, right?" I asked and Bell strongly nodded.
"Yup! I even used a small cart filled with firewood to disguise the money bag, so I didn't get bugged at all!" Bell said proudly at her achievement. And even Hestia cheered on Bell making the white haired beauty grin even wider.
"Jake the guilds going to close, we need to go." Ais said duly cutting through the atmosphere making Hestia pout and eye Ais with an angry look who just blinked and paid the short goddess no further mind as she took my hand. Then we walked out of the store and into the tower with her walking stopping as she looked up into the false stars above us.
"This is nice… Did you make it?" She asked and I nodded.
"I made most of all this, but the stars Seshat placed with her domain of Rituals as she knows where all the real stars needed to go." I explained with Ais taking a breath before shaking her head.
"Let's go." She simply spoke and thus we left the tower into Orario walking towards the Guild, but I noticed the Ais was filled with tension as she held onto her sword.
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Chapter 43 Ryuu POV's
'Jake Barris was a perfect example of committing blasphemy yet it was useful blasphemy at the same time.' Ryuu pondered as she duly watched the Apollo Familia get splattered across the ground via the remote viewing system that Hermes was streaming to all the clubs, bars, and places that people gathered to watch War Games.
On one hand Ryuu understood the sheer value of having High Quality Excellia on demand, yet Ryuu couldn't for the life of her forget the army of white cloaked absolutely mind broke individuals that made up Evilus. And what better tool to destroy Orario and even uncap the Dungeon then having an army of Monster Rex's summoned throughout Orario.
"Jake is not even a threat to Orario. No with his summoned Monster Rex's he is a legitimate threat to the world itself as that Desert Scrouge could begin breaking down the Tower of Babel." She muttered under her breath so quiet that not even Anya or Chloe her coworkers could hear, as a flicker of murderous intent rose up in her heart.
But then Jake swung back in after the Apollo captain was eaten and killed the Desert Scrouge and although seeing his heroic action did blow out the murderous thought she had. In the end she honestly considered hunting down Jake to save him from the torture that Evilus would use to break his mind even with their delusional evil gods no doubt being willing to dirty their hands to break in such a valuable mortal.
Then as Jake headbutted the Apollo onto the ground and accepted the fools War Game challenge Ryuu grinned. It wasn't a smile of triumph or even happiness that someone Syr had mentioned in friendly terms before.
No it was a smile of utter satisfaction… Because with Apollo's Familia being decimated in the Monster Rex but still being highly wealthy, it was obvious that Apollo was going to reach into the dregs of society to even the odds against the monster that was Jake with his no chant magic and being capable of dropping a Monster Rex on his opponents.
And who better to respond to such a call to action then the utter scum of society like assassins and Evilus… Ryuu worked and all but lived solely at the premier bar for adventurers, literally every rumor that passed through Orario ended up here at some point in the Hostess of Fertility.
Rumors of people in white cloaks, abducting people in the depths of the Daedalus District had been growing as of late and Ryuu even though she had hung up her mantle. Sometimes at night she wondered if the Gale should make a return and make the streets of Orario run red with the blood of sinners again.
"Mama Mia I am taking a week off. I have paid my dues for the month, and I need to take care of some things." Ryuu said as she watched the broadcast as Jake led that weird flying eye monster around the forest that got utterly wrecked by the stone pillar sized beams of magic the eye would shoot at him to say nothing of the obviously cursed flames that melted off the flesh of any Loki member who got too close to it.
Yes, such a monster could cause terrible damage to Orario and thus of course Evilus will not be able to hold back its desire to make a move on Jake. He is literally the perfect bait for the rats.
"Well business is probably going to temper down with all the damn customers getting sloshed watching the event tonight. But either way you got till that brats War Game comes up, as its going to be all hands-on deck you understand?" Mia said pointedly and Ryuu reflexively nodded shuddering under the heavy gaze of Mia Grande.
She had seen the fates of Chloe and Lunoire when they decided to skip work for a couple days and Mia had to hunt them down… She didn't want to be laid up in bed after Mia beat her to the precise point, she would need to rest for however long she had skipped out on work.
"Yes Mama." She said and then hurried into the back so she could finish her shift of work. Obviously following Jake Bariss was going to be the most trying thing in her years as even Loki and Freya's hounds couldn't follow the young man half the time due to how he teleported around and threw off any trace.
Like literally he is rumored to have the ability to teleport between toilets only? Because one time he said he had to go to the bathroom and with his space ability he left a toilet behind as he teleported, now everyone thinks Jake has the ability to teleport between all the toilets of Orario.
Ryuu huffed as she washed some dishes. Obviously, such a thing was a false rumor, 'What's next? Jake could only teleport to the last place he slept with a woman Ha!' Ryuu actually snorted at the thought making Syr who snuck up behind her loudly squeak in surprise instead.
"Oh Syr, it's just you. Is the broadcast over now?" Ryuu asked nonchalantly while hiding the smug little smile she had at actually scaring her troublesome savior under her elfish poised expression.
"Yup! It was so adorable! Apparently, Ais Wallenstein has a crush or something on Jake as she was making grabby hands and trying to beg for Jake's magical sword that he got from killing that weird eye Monster Rex!" Syr exclaimed gleefully, obviously taking great joy in the rumors that were going to fill the bar tonight.
But Ryuu frowned. 'Why in the world would the sword princess follow Jake around? And she most certainly doesn't like or have a crush on him as she is well known for having less emotional intelligence than the average tree stump.' Ryuu thought as she pondered how this was going to affect her stalk- shadowing of Jake to see how Evilus will go after him.
"Ais Wallenstein pining after a boy? That would be the day I suppose." Ryuu responded dryly giving Syr the validation she needed otherwise she would needle Ryuu for the entire night. No, she would actually go into her room after lights out and have a 'discussion' on why her theory or rumor had to be correct and the more Ryuu defended her point the more outlandish the points Syr would guess to bring validation to her claims, until Ryuu would give up and accept the rumor or theory as an iron clad fact so silver haired witch would leave her be.
"I know right! I mean Ais is obviously adorable and what not… But she is a broken doll and Jake doesn't need that in his life right Ryuu?" Syr's said energetically at first but spoke almost mechanically at the end in a voice that had Ryuu's senses tingle as she threw her coworker a side eye as she helped dry off the dishes beside the elf.
Syr's iron silver eyes dully stared ahead as she monotonously dried off the dishes and then she spoke softly. "It's just kind of pitiful you know… How she constantly reaches for him, wanting his things, only caring for him as a person that can make her strong. But I can't help but wonder how far she will push to get the things she desires to grow stronger." Syr continued to speak and now Ryuu was actually a bit concerned as although she knew Syr was a massive and even that was an understatement. But Syr was a massive meddler in the lives of anyone tangible related to her.
Jake could sort of fit in that category as she had seen them talk a couple times as Syr had just happened to meet the young man on the roads of Orario in quick exchanges as Syr dragged her to different parts of the city to get groceries from different stores.
'So maybe they were closer friends that she knew?' Ryuu thought as she coughed to get Syr out of her mental mess. "Jake is a smart human, isn't he? Then trust in him to know how to handle the Sword Princess. It's not like the she is going to seduce him or something." Ryuu said and Syr nodded taking a deep breath.
"Yes, yes of course. Jake doesn't even seem to be aiming for a life partner anyway… Always messing around with demi humans and what not." Syr muttered under her breath at the end at a level that Ryuu only thought Syr was grumbling about Jake not being romantically interested in anyone.
"Hmm maybe you should be more proactive then?" Ryuu spoke to get Syr out of her head. "I mean this War Game business is probably going to happen in either a few days or more likely get pushed back to this next weekend so everyone can watch. In the meantime, why don't you catch Jake on his way to the dungeon and ask him out on a date or something… I mean you already have a whole book on where you want to take Jake or have him take you." Ryuu said with a hint of red coming to her cheek.
Ryuu was a chaste elf and seeing Syr sordid diary filled with filth… Had made her feel some very unelfin desires.
"Ryuu! You can't just read a lonely maiden's diary!" Syr screamed with embarrassment as her face went atomic red and Ryuu only chuckled as she looked back down to her dishes while Syr pathetically asked what she had read, and Ryuu only hemmed and hawwed making subtle points that only drew more anguish from Syr.
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ChapterChapter 44 Dionysus/Enyo and Loki POV
Dionysus was a great number of things. Patient, kind, understanding, and anything else he desired to be at the current time. But when he looked at Jake Barris and looked at his latest project Filvus Challia all he could see was wasted potential in Jake.
The young man could tear down this whole charade of boring heroes who suppressed the masses with their mediocre deeds of merely traveling into the dungeon and dealing with monster's mortals without Falna's dealt with in ages past.
With the fall of the Zeus and Hera Familia, Orario itself has fallen into a pit mediocrity as the so-called kings of Orario in Loki and Freya languishing at the top and refusing to push their potential further…
Hence why he had begun creating the Violas and other monsters that were bent to his will merely years after the fall of the prior rulers of Orario during the rise of Evilus. So great was his care for his plans that he had done something that none other than Ouranos himself had done in actually permanently remodeling the dungeon's floors in order to have the dungeon breed the Violas for him.
But seeing Jake summon Monster Rex's like it was nothing made his decades of planning and resource collection seem worthless… And Dionysus was delighted!
"My lord will he be an issue?" Filvus asked and Dionysus knew she was asking if Jake needed to be dealt with, so the mad god hummed in thought.
Dionysus then gave his other project another look, as his mind whirled. Filvis his oh so loyal tool was an elf with long black hair, red eyes and typically wore a cool cold demeanor to keep others at bay due to her painful past. A past that he had orchestrated in the background to push her to the brink of delightful insanity and despair.
Filvus Challia had to wear a thick dress and a body glove across every bit of her flesh that wasn't below her neck because Dionysus had with great care mutated her body and form with monster flesh taken the Dungeon's heart itself. Added to the skill he never told her about which increased her strength and growth depending on how much despair and negative emotions she was feeling…
She was Dionysus's ace in the hole as even now, as merely a level four she had the pure physical ability to fight that boar of Freya.
"My dear, why would we kill him?" Dionysus asked as he propped up handsome face on his hand as he lazily looked at Filvis who looked at the ground at being questioned in response.
"He could be a threat… And him allowing other adventurers to break their limits could bring unforeseen variables as well as simply make it more difficult for us to uncap the dungeon." Filvis his delightful Creature spoke.
Because that's what she was now. She had the pure flesh of the monsters forced into her so she could grow by eating monster stones, thus tainting her once so pure elfish form with the greatest taboo of things.
Oh, how he adored twisting her little heart along on strings, but the love of the mortal children was such an ethereal yet heavy thing maybe a little more despair could tip the scales as it were… Honestly, he had hoped that having Revis kill her new friend Lefiya Virdis in the dungeon would break her completely but unfortunately the Sword Princess arrived with that confounded sword that cannot break and broke Revis's sword forcing her to flee and allowing Lefiya to survive.
"Filvis I have an important mission for you." Dionysus spoke holding in shudders of glee as the dirty broken little elf looked up to him with such trust. "Go to Jake, marry him or otherwise get pregnant with his child. His skill is obviously the blessing of some god or spirit who is breaking the rules. And such power is perfectly embedded within his form so it will pass along with his seed."
Dionysus seeing her face stiffen in shock at the order then continued as he held in his divine joy in his very domains at the insanity brewing within the girl as he continued to speak out his orders. "Filvis I want you to love him. I want you to give him everything you have in this world. I want his every desire fulfilled and him to want for nothing as you support him."
Dionysus just couldn't help a bark of mad laughter escaping him as he continued to speak. "Haha I am a patient god. I can wait a couple centuries at most for the human to die, but you… No, you are a Creature you will outlive all. breed with him and make me an entire family line like the Crozzo's with the gift, and then no matter even if the Violas and Evilus plans fall. And even if I am sent back to Tenkai one day! One of Jake's progeny will see the filth that is Orario under your teachings and will destroy it with Monster Rex's!"
'Haaaa There there it is!' Dionysus almost moaned with orgasmic pleasure at the pure despair on Filvis's face. For all the loyalty, adoration, love, and pure devotion Filvis had shown him after years of service. He her god just shunted her to the side and all but whored her out.
'Such joy to be found in the Genkai I truly cannot get enough Haha!' Dionysus madly giggled as his eyes flickered with a maddening kaleidoscope of colors as his grip on his arcanum slipped at his Enyo side of his being just so filled to the brim. "Now begone I will not see you again for a long time I suspect my dear." Dionysus said waving Filvius off who staggered in place as stared blankly ahead before tears of blood seeped down her eyes.
"Yes my lord… I obey as always." She all but choked out her as once ruby like gem eyes dulled like dirty blood and she stiffly turned around standing with her back to her god for half a minute and Dionysus couldn't help but wonder if he pushed her not to despair but madness and that she was about to kill him where he stood and send him back to Tenkai.
He wouldn't blame her. He wouldn't even curse her to a life of utmost misery until they died and then spent the next few thousand years torturing her soul like other gods would do to mortals who ended their fun down here in Genkai early. No, he knew what he was doing was wrong, but he had his domains and despite being a good boy for Zeus and Hera, now it was his time to let his hair down and play with the mortal world how he pleased.
Dionysus couldn't help but feel a tiny smidgen of disappointment as Filvis stiffly walked out of the room they had rented with him not seeing her reaction nor her actually even killing him. It was even… Anticlimactic and that above all else irritated him.
Loki was furious, no she was pissed, no she was… Actually, she was just super jealous! "Waaaah!" She cried pointing at the screen in her mansion as she watched Ais all but hugging Jake as she tried to steal the new sword he got. "I want Ais to rub her boob plate on me as well!"
Loki cried out with Anakitty Autumn her minder of the day sighing.
"I am so glad I am not in public with you Loki." Anakitty said dryly as she sat as far away from her goddess as she could, while still being on the same couch to stay away from Loki's groping hands that may lash out at her in a moment of 'distraction'.
"So, Aki, you think Aizu and the rest may level up after that weird eye monster?" Loki asked with a tilt to her head as she looked at her minder.
Anakitty was actually one of Loki's most talented level fours she had now. With her being expected to level up perhaps after the next expedition or two in the coming months. That and she was a well-balanced beauty that didn't have a lot of the weird hangups like all of Riveria simping elves did, made her one of Loki's more favored members as who didn't like curvy catgirls?
"Hmm Ais probably is getting close but she needs a true push I guess would be the way to put it. I mean the monster was strong and took a beating but they werent truly pushed with how Jake led it around." Aki replied wryly as she wondered if she herself was there if she would be coming home for a level up.
"Aww is my Aki feeling jealous! If you want, I can try to get Jake to summon another boss for just you to fight in the dungeon with the other lower levels?' She offered and Aki rose an eyebrow in surprise at the 'offer'
"I am not letting you touch my boobs Loki." Aki said automatically making her red haired flat goddess slump over in her couch and begin throwing a temper tantrum.
"Please Aki! Just one little fondle! Maybe just a quick cupping, come on your back has to be tired with just that tube top holding yours up!" Loki tried and before Aki could reply to Loki leapt into the air dive bombing at the level four cat girl.
But a level four had greater reflexes than a common mortal so before Loki even got halfway towards Aki in her dive bomb she was slapped by the fluffy hand of God as Anakitty smashed a thick pillow onto Loki's head so hard, she flopped over the couch and landed across the room.
"Why are the gods so annoying." Aki spoke aloud as she stared up at the ceiling as Loki hopped back to her feet as though nothing happened.
"Heh because we are bored, and we use you cute little mortals for our entertainment. So, we have to needle you lot to get you moving across the board Haha!" Loki proudly laughed but then her smile dropped as she spoke more seriously. "But nah seriously. You level fours in the second string of executives are getting ready for a level up to level five. I think Jake's bosses could be the trigger for that." Loki pointed out and Aki nodded.
"They very well could be. But his bosses are hard on weapons, and he simply doesn't sell enough to replace all of our weapons." Aki complained with some jealousy as she very much wanted a weapon that simply didn't break or even need maintenance. But Jake despite selling the weapons for stupidly cheap only sold a couple at a time which were instantly snatched up by the people who were tested and allowed into the shop.
Loki just smiled as she knew Jake will be make much more stuff with the massive influx of money that he would be getting for helping create this event. In the end all Loki had to do was get to his shop first and clear it out. "Loki! Ais just hugged Jake when he teleported back home!" Aki cried out pointing to the screen.
"My Aizu has betrayed me nooo!!!" Loki hysterically screamed playing it up as she carefully felt for Ais's contract inside her and sighed in relief at her being alive.
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Chapter 45
Walking with Ais down the streets of Orario was a test of patience as people always fixated on her as she was literally one of the most famous people here in Orario. Though thankfully with Orario's culture of strength and value being the most important. No one dared to run up on Ais to harass her as she was very clearly armed and walking with purpose as she kept one of her hands on her sword sheathed at her side.
"Ah let's get the potato snacks on the way." Ais said seeing an older lady working a stand and I nodded in understanding.
"If we keep in my pocket spell they wont cool down or go bad by the way." I added on and Ais's eyes lit up as she smiled and then as soon as she was able to order she gave out a ridiculous order.
"Fifteen of all three flavors please." She said shamelessly and the woman blinked as she looked down and saw that her order was literally everything on the rack she had precooked and thus shrugged and took a small bag of Valis from Ais. "Keep the change. I love the snacks."
She said softly as she handed me six potato snacks being two of the three apparent flavors while she had me put the rest away in my inventory for a midnight snack or something when she went back home.
"Cheese, red bean paste, and spicy shredded chicken and cheese flavor… My mom used to make these all the time because it was so simple." Ais spoke almost to herself but more as an explanation as to why she bought so many, I guess.
I knew how Aria, Ais's mom got vored by the One-Eyed Black Dragon and was supposedly somehow still alive within the dragon. So, I respected her desire to gain strength to free said mother.
"So how your expeditions going?" I asked and she shrugged.
"Difficult. Boring. And I suppose different now. With the tunnel you made we will be able to take more supplies down with bigger carts but for us level fives and six's to actually get challenged and grow we need to head past at least floor forty… Which can take more than a whole week of travel time." Ais said duly and I could feel the sheer disdain she had for the long travel time it took for the Loki Familia to get to the depths in which they could actually grow.
As me and Ais ate our potato snack and walked toward the Guild I noticed Ais twitching every once and a while as she looked into the alley's we passed by but with the late afternoon crowd filling Orario's streets I couldn't see anything in the glancing moment I had to look within the alleys.
"See anything?" I asked.
But Ais only shook her head as she changed the subject. "Is it true that you can give people an extra mana pool? Riveria is still freaking out about it and it's really funny when she flip-flops between wanting to demand the secret and denying your hints as a total lie." Ais asked with a small smile at seeing her disciplinary figure in life anguishing over something.
I likewise shrugged just to mess with her. "Eh so can you properly fly with your wind magic stuff?" I reposted and Ais's head cocked to the side.
"I probably can for a bit… But holding up my weight entirely on my winds uses a lot of Mind so it's not worth it, when I can just use it to dash around." She said and before we could dodge around each other's questions any further, we had finally arrived in front of the Guild.
Ais decided to stay back outside the Guild when she heard my guild advisor and contact was Rose Fannet as she was also a guiding figure for her in her childhood as an adventurer when she herself was her advisor and would always get on her case about being too reckless.
After waiting in line for a while Rose was notified to come out of the back where she was doing paperwork and seeing me, she rolled her eyes and made a come over motion with her hands as she walked into one of the Guilds side rooms.
"Well, you have been a busy bee… Building a tunnel through the dungeon, spawning Monster Rex's in Orario's backyard. Do you have a death wish or something. Why aren't you doing these suicidal things when you are like level five and can take the heat or flee from people trying to hurt you?" She demanded and I held up a hand in front of her face as she was all but about to leap over the table separating us.
"Doing those things will help me grow faster and I am not far from my level up with all the shenanigans I got drawn into." I said shrugging my shoulders as she couldn't refute me. "Now I came here to square away the details about the War Game that Apollo challenged me to."
Rose's nose twitched and I noticed how her eye's had dilated at being locked in this room and I couldn't help mentally sighing and pondered on whether Seshat's little claim on me was going to be more trouble than it was worth.
"So, what paperwork do I need to fill out for the War Game." I asked snapping her back to attention. Honestly although Rose was hot, but I had both Seshat and Beatrice who were more than willing to warm my bed.
Rose hummed as she bit her lip and took out a folder out of a stack that she brought in. "Well seeing as you are representing your goddess and the Familia in totality. You are capable of signing off on the documents to set the date of the War Game. Though be warned that your goddess will need to meet with the other gods during the mini Denatus to set the challenge for the War Game." She warned me.
"Alright." I said taking the paperwork from her and filling it out and while I did so. Rose coughed awkwardly.
"By the way Jake. The tunnel you made has become an issue of Orario's future and many people are curious about what you will be doing with it." Left unspoken was the Guilds desire to tax the shit out of it as they were the ones taking care of Orario's municipal needs and cleaning up after the irresponsible gods of Orario.
But that was my tunnel, and it didn't even break through the surface, so the Guild had no jurisdiction over it at all as the dungeon was literally a lawless land with zero hard rules and only courtesy rules that can and will be thrown aside to get ahead.
"The expressway I created is actually within the dungeon, so the Guild has no right to it as not only do they not have a way to safely get to the tunnel through the Dungeon without hiring mercenaries which the Guild isn't allowed to. But I am keeping it locked up that way monsters cannot travel to and through the tunnel to prevent floor eighteen or even lower monsters from getting to the surface." I said duly and she shrugged.
"Well, I personally don't care. But my manager ordered me to press on you to get a copy of the key you gave Riveria for Guild use." She said truly only with relief at getting it off her chest in her voice and then she went back to her more deadpan voice as she had me fill out some more regular guild paperwork.
"Also bearing in mind that you are about to level up. You should be aware that the Guild expects you to come back to announce your level up so we can adjust your Familia's tax rates as well as provide more detailed information about dangerous sections within the Dungeon." Rose recited from memory as she gathered all the papers I signed into another folder.
Then Rose took a deep breath as she walked away from me, and I quietly just put the files she left to me in my dungeon as I waited for her to leave.
"Should I just teleport home?" I pondered muttering lightly but then I recalled Ais was just standing outside the Guild probably still as stone patiently waiting for me…
Yeah, leaving the airhead to just stand there probably till dawn would just be mean as she would actually wait that long probably.
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Chapter 46
As I came out of the Guild, I saw Ais leaning against the wall of the Guild just blankly staring off into the crowd of people walking in and out of the Guild with our eyes meeting as I exited the building.
"You, done with the Guild?" She asked tilting her head to the side in curiosity and I nodded in response. "Ok. Let's go." She simply spoke as she bounced off the wall of the guild and we both began walking towards the western wall of Orario which was in the direction of my tower anyway.
But with night having firmly fallen over Orario I could tell Ais was especially tense.
"Ais, do you sense people or something? You are acting weird." I asked feeling like I should just say screw this and teleport back home to the safety of my bed. Hell, I could literally just teleport Ais home with me and we could just spar there in the wide-open area in the sides between the shop and the tower wall.
"Hmm." She grunted being completely unhelpful as she slowly unsheathed her sword, and I realized something. The previously crowded Orario street was completely empty. Which isn't supposed to happen on the main streets at all on the main streets. Its why they are considered to be safe zones nowadays.
With a flash my helmet popped back onto my head as I had only been wearing my chest plate and leggings and then I was armed with my two Space Guns as I looked down the alley directly to the side of us as the sounds of someone loudly whistling reached us.
Then from around the corner came a woman I could only call a fucking tweaker… She had electrified looking spiky salmon pink hair and yellow eyes that only exemplified the insane grin she was wearing.
"Valletta Grede… You were supposed to have died during the Nightmare all those years ago." Ais spoke as she leveled the sword in front of her.
But not only was there a person that Ais obviously respected as an opponent but on the roofs of all the nearby buildings were people wearing white robes that covered all their features except for their hands and leaving a slit so they could see.
"Jake those are Evilus members. They are enemies of Orario so don't worry about killing them… And they are all almost all super weak." Ais added on dully making the salmon haired psychopath walking us scowl and lose her insane smile.
"Hey, you blond little bitch. Only I get to call my dregs, wastes of space that should have ran down their mothers' legs Haha!" She cackled before her laughter abruptly died and she looked away from Ais with zero care and looked to me.
"Go ahead little Jakie… Teleport home we have setup bombs everywhere in the nearby homes, so everyone is going to go Boom!" She yelled out and just to prove it she snapped her fingers and a building down the road violently exploded sending shrapnel and wooden beams everywhere and I could faintly hear screams in the distance.
Before the bitch could say anything else or even make demands of me, my hands snapped up with the Space Guns aiming at her and they glowed red as they began shooting a cascade of red laser bolts that the level five had to dodge screaming as one of them pierced through her arm as she wasn't a boss monster with dozens of meters thick flesh.
She was a puny human and even with a Falna, a high-powered magical laser bolt on bare flesh would face little to no resistance.
"I have her. She is a level five. You deal with the trash." Ais said as she spun around me and cut dozens of almost invisible metal wires that were about to incircle me.
"Ais Wallenstein! You Loki fucks have always pissed me off so much! I am going to enjoy scalping your pretty blond hair off and using it as a wig!" She screeched as she swung a horrific looking sword at Ais that glowed with malefic purple light.
I took Ais's advice and left the insane level five to her as their high-speed sword duel stretched on with dozens of blows seemingly ringing out every moment as I reaped the lives of all the evilus members who most certainly coudnt dodge my space guns laser bolts.
Each laser bolt punched a fist sized cauterized hole in the chest or stomach of each Evilus member that dashed at me with nets, weighted ropes, or any number of capture devices.
"Jake, we have hundreds of members here! Come on let out a monster rex to save you Haha!" That pink haired girl cackled as with a grunt she managed to throw Ais backwards in an overextending blow.
But the obviously cursed sword kept Ais from trying to capitalize on the overextension as with a snarl I just grabbed the face of a Evilus member who jumped on my back and his screams as my Meteoric armor burned his body filled me a dull satisfaction as this was getting ridiculous.
It was obvious that they were trying to capture me as not a single member had attacked with weapons more deadly than a simple Billy club equivalent.
The only reason I hadn't just teleported back home was I did have some worry about those Evilus bombs in the neighborhood as that would weigh on my consciousness. As I knew damned well that, that woman would without a doubt blow up all those bombs just to spite me.
"Get fucked you salmon haired cunt. I bet you smell worse than your fish-colored hair would point to." I snarled and her insane smile deepened as she began chanting a few lines as I went back to killing the dregs.
"Shaldora!" She finally yelled at the end of her chant, and I staggered as I felt my falna literally all but shut off as I lost all my physical attributes. "Yeah, Jake how's that feel!? I cut off your Falna with that spell of mine Haha! Now surrender or we will break you in painfully rather than nicely."
Before I could freak out Ais spoke again as she stood up from the collapsed building she was thrown into. "She can only remove a single level of stats. With you being level one, it feels like you lost your Falna but you haven't." Ais explained for a moment I frowned at the thought before I shook my head, and I threw the Teardrop Cleaver at her feet.
"Use that… I will be fine." I said as I sighed and, in a flash, I switched out of my Meteor armor and switched into Platinum armor that almost shined with its polished metal and then I pulled out the massive Blade of Grass.
"If any of you value your lives run away." I said dully to the group of white cloaked people that advanced on me and I couldn't help but sighing as I swung the sword in front of me and then with it being a magical sword the large green sword sent a wave of green thorns that stabbed into the people who screamed literally turning purple as the poison within the magical bolt quickly began melting their very flesh from their bones as I hefted the literally largest sword in Terraria and swung it again in a wave sending another wave of green thorns that slaughtered the Evilus members.
"I am not some little mage you can bully!" I yelled as I cut through a net someone threw at me from atop one of the nearby building roofs but in response for whatever reason the person who threw the net at me seemingly committed suicide by jumping off the building and landed directly on his neck?
The sight actually made me pause and snarl as the Evilus members to advantage of my distraction to jump me but with my maxed-out armor rating I literally just popped a couple grenades as they dog piled me and in a couple seconds, I felt a flash of heat wash over me as my armor rating protected me from the sound and effects of the grenades going off almost next to me.
"Halt in the name of the Freya Familia!" I heard a woman yell and then Valletta snarled as she clapped her hands three times in succession and a titantic explosion took over my senses as she wasn't lying. Literally every single house on the street were on, and seemingly there were even bombs buried under the main road itself that announced its fury to the world creating pillars of flames as the magical bombs blew up.
"Watch yourself Jake I got your number Haha!" She cackled before screaming as her right arm literally disappeared off her body and a sword stabbed into the ground behind her.
"You talk too much." A deep voice rang out and I felt the Kings presence before he even stepped out of the alleyway at a sedate pace uncaring of the flames that danced across the collapsed buildings nearby that licked his body as he strode toward the woman. "Valletta Grede, you are a hunter of the weak and delights in the suffering of others merely for personal joy… You are weak, so die in the name of Lady Freya." Ottar spoke but then swiped his other hooked sword through the air as an exploding arrow filled with obviously toxic gases exploded when struck filling the air with purple fumes.
But with the exploding arrow distracting Ottar, that woman managed to jump into an open sewer or something that her bombs opened to the air.
"Jake teleport home and take an antidote. This is condensed purple moth dust. Nothing lethal for us but it can mess with your lungs as you don't have the abnormal resistance skill… Actually, take Heath Velvet with you. Freya won't want you to get sick." Ottar said as he pushed the red-haired girl that was right behind him against me as I took out my magic mirror in agreement in heading home as honestly my lungs honestly were starting to hurt even with my Falna coming back online from whatever bullshit spell Valletta used.
"Ottar wait I-" Heath began but the Boaz turned his hard eyes on her and feeling her quiver beside me I just rolled my eyes and took a deep breath to teleport back home but coughed at the act. My lungs were now beginning to legitimately begin to burn under the poison's effects, so I quickly teleported home not giving a damn about the red-haired woman in some kind of nurse fetish outfit that I took with me.
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Chapter 47
I kinda pushed Heath away after I got my feet back under me as I teleported back home and began stumbling towards the voices of Bell and the others in the shop.
"I need antidote, I got poisoned!" I coughed hacking up some phlegm as my lungs tried to isolate the toxic crap to no avail and hearing my demand Bell froze for a split second before sprinting off to her adventurer bag as I cursed myself for not making a Bezoar, so I didn't ever have to worry about poison.
But with my Meteor armor I never had to worry about the dungeon-based poisons as the armor would burn away any harmful chemicals but my Platinum Armor set although more defensive didn't protect me in that way.
"Here Jake!" Bell yelled about to push the antidote into my hands as she rushed back over to me but Heath Velvet who herself managed to make her way through the house stopped Bell from giving me the antidote.
"Wait he needs both a different dosage and a stronger antidote to begin with, due to the Purple Moth's toxic dust being concentrated." Heath said pushing Bell to the side as I grimaced at the feeling of my lung screaming in agony.
Heath then reached behind her back and pulled a bag/box that was embossed with a cross across its front and a number of vials poked out from the sides of the container that were marked with several little notes.
"Here." Heath said pushing a vial with darker purple fluid within it then the one Bell tried to give me, so I wordlessly just chugged down the contents despite how revolting it tasted, as I knew that I didn't have the time to make my own Bezoar as the stone needed to soak in an antidote for three hours before it would properly become a Terraria Bezoar that would nullify almost all poisons and toxins that touched me.
"Relax Jake, Purple Moth dust is easily cured despite it wreaking havoc on people's lungs. That arrow must have been the next step in trying to capture you but with Ais Wallenstein there they didn't dare use it at the start because of how she was too close to you. As she would just use her wind magic to throw it back at the Evilus members." Heath said wryly as I felt the antidote get to work clearing out my lungs of the purple moth crap.
Now as for why I trusted Heath Velvet with her antidote… Well for one I knew her appearance from the posters and frankly everyone knew the crimson haired witch of Freya. She was literally capable of healing people who just got decapitated or got their heart eviscerated in battle if she was on the site and instantly began chanting at the wounded person.
And she was considered the second-best mortal healer in Orario despite being capable of tearing people away from the clutches of death with her powerful magic. So, I knew for a fact with how Freya was likely interested in me and Bell that she wouldn't have Heath try to poison or kill me.
"Take a deep breath for me Jake." Heath asked me and I felt her give me a hug as she pushed the side of her head into my back after I made my chest plate disappear. "Alright good. The Purple Moth concentration wasn't high enough to melt your lungs… That means they either went light on the concentration or Evilus has a masterful potion maker." Heath seemed to speak to herself as she moved away from me.
"Thanks for the antidote. How much do I owe you." I said wanting to pay her back for the obviously expensive antidote that worked so well on me.
"Oh, don't worry I am a medical professional! I cannot charge you for stuff used outside the dungeon in an emergency." Heath said waving off my question as a flash of fear flew through her eyes and I imagined how Freya would react to her charging me through the nose for the stupidly expensive antidotes and potions that were so prevalent here in Orario.
I nodded before I sat down in the shops couch and just tried to catch my breath relaxing as my goddess finally walked over to me and gently lifted my head to look into my eyes.
Seshat's golden slit eyes looked into my blue ones before she hummed and looked away from me to Heath. "You, healer girl bearing the brand of Freya, did Jake bring glory to himself dealing with the filth that attacked him?" She asked calmly.
"Yes, Lady Seshat he fought well." Heath responded refusing to meet my goddess's eyes and her figure even further sank in of itself as Seshat followed up.
"I can see the karma of the souls he sent up to Tenkai… Why do you have none at all? Did you and Freya's men just sit back and watch Jake fight?" She asked with no emotions in her tone simply speaking flatly.
"I… Yes, Lady Freya ordered myself and Ottar not to intercede until Jake had thoroughly blooded himself on the Evilus members." She said looking to the ground as Seshat hummed in thought.
Finally, Seshat grinned, and her soft mocha colored finger tilted up the chin of the red-haired beauty. "And I thank you for that little girl. Your little game has pushed my Jake… Yes, you broken little girl I can see your mangled soul, Jake is mine and not going to be Freya's newest little baked addict to her charm." Seshat shook her head of any irritation as Heath's eyes flashed with the typically maniacal fanaticism for Freya that disgusted her.
"Anyway, thanks for help pushing my Jake to his level up that I shall grace him with… Hell with that poison dose he got, he probably will get a powerful anti-toxin skill… So, you just sit down next to Hestia while I take Jake to level up." Seshat said pushing Heath down onto the couch beside me as she gave me a wink as I stood up beside.
When we went into the next room before I could even scold her for being a bitch or something she coughed to cut me off. "Jake when I called her soul mangled, I wasn't lying. Her soul once a swirling red with slightly holy white light's coming through her cloud shaped soul has become a twisted rope of the same colors yet also tainted and self-perpetrating with Freya's charm… Literally she is so weak willed to Freya's charm that her soul is literally recreating the same sensation of being under her gaze so she can always feel her."
"Thus, such a girl needs to be kept on a tight leash. It's no secret or coincidence they helped you with whatever happened out there right at the end… Anyway, she needs to be kept at arm's reach unless you plan to replace her fanaticism towards Freya with yourself as every thought in that empty girl's head is going to be, 'What would Freya want me to do now'. Literally every thought Jake." Seshat put emphasis on the words, and I just exhaled just feeling done with today.
"Alright Seshat I will take your lead on this… I am a guy and dealing with a normal girl is enough. Dealing with a girl with her head being magically twisted around is too much." I said tiredly as I sat down on the love seat in the sitting room Seshat pulled me into.
"Heh it's not all bad Jake. You still got me, and I guess Beatrice, though you need to spend more time with her. She is going to think you only hired her on because we wanted a maid and not the breeding cow she wants to be." Seshat joked poking me in the sides making me jolt and reflexively smile at the ticklish feeling. "Now take off your shirt so you can break that Sword Princess's level up record over your knee!" Seshat said with true excitement in her voice, and I couldn't help but match her grin as I wondered if I should get Fargo's or something else as my new level mod.
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Chapter 48 Asuna Kirito has commissioned several chapters.
As Seshat filled my Falna with her power in order to update my status as well as to begin the accension process she tsked and I felt her knees that were resting beside my sides squeeze me as she was working. "Well Jake I got good news and bad news." Seshat began.
"Go on…" I drawled off softly wondering if just like in modded Terraria, something freaking broke and now issues are going to crop up.
But thankfully I was wrong as Seshat went onto explain. "Ok Jake, so for every two levels or here at level two, four, then six, and so on, you are allowed an auxiliary mod that primarily makes things easier for you. Want me to list them?" She asked and I nodded.
By God there was an exhaustive list, from mods that only allowed you to craft more unlimited ammo pouches too weird as hell mods that would allow me to automatically make tiny houses for NPC's that didn't exist in Danmachi.
"Huh, is More Accessory Slots or Magic storage in there for the quality-of-life mod?" I asked and Seshat hummed as she searched in my soul for the options.
"Yes, they are both in there. Well, that's interesting, each level would unlock three extra accessory slots for you so that way when you hit level ten you would have a supposed max thirty from this mod alone… So that could literally be thirty skills being in your inventory not hanging on you weirdly like how other people who want to use your accessories have to deal with it." Seshat explained before she looked over at the Magic Storage Mod.
"Does the Magic Storage mod still have auto crafting stuff in it?" I asked as she looked into the mod.
"Yes and no… It will only auto-craft items that you have already crafted by hand before. Though the system is a multitool apparently that will help you craft by holding all the workstations in its pocket dimension and will automatically move tools and the bench's to you as you craft… I fucking hate you Jake, this system makes me so damned jealous!" Seshat almost screeched.
I just chuckled as my mind whirled, both mods were to say the least extremely important to my future, but the question was, which one was more important now until I hit level four when I could get the other.
And the answer was honestly not much of a question at all really. I only had one life and I needed to be as strong as possible. Not have an easier time keeping all my materials together out of the storeroom I built. Sure, having it would help make the stupid amount of Fargo accessories much easier saving days if not weeks of work. But in the end, I needed the accessory slots to actually wear all that stuff to take advantage of it.
"Get the accessory slots mod, and for the main mod get the Fargo's mod collection." I ordered confidently.
"You don't want me to even look or see if new mods came up?" Seshat asked and I shook my head.
"No, that mod is the most important for me. Hell, I probably should have taken it for my first mod as now I need to kill all those bosses, I already killed for the new loot within them." I spoke taking a deep breath as I felt my soul get pulled at, with my bare bones HUD that I could see when I focused on it that had my inventory and stuff glitching out as the side bar stretched out with six more accessory slots opening up.
"You alright Jake? Opening this mod literally carved slots into your very soul to host these accessories, so tell me exactly what you feel." She demanded and I nodded as I relaxed in her divine power and began to explain how it felt like my soul was taffy or some kind of dough that had holes molded into it. I wasn't feeling pain or anything, just that now I had slots in my soul.
"Alright… I am going to install this Fargo pack of stuff inside of you. Do you have anything to declare? Like is this going to light you on fire or something?" She asked and I shook my head in denial. This wasn't the DBZ mod that could make me a Super Saiyan and sadly the mod wasn't a thing in my soul.
Seshat then fiddled with my soul and then like when she added the Calamity mod, I felt pure potential being shoved into my soul as foreign concepts tried to overtake my soul before my soul simply swallowed the weird energy constructs attempting to convert it into whatever it was.
I wasn't truly able to pay too much attention to the process as my head was filling with all new crafting recipes and a mountain of information about the items like how to summon the mechanical squirrel boss that was super weak and the exhaustive amount of weapons, armor and most importantly accessories within the Fargo's mods I got.
Just looking into the information on the Soul items like Soul of the Conjuror, Warrior, Ranger, and all the other things gave me a headache. Let alone trying to make the end game accessories in the Fargo's mod like the Soul of Eternity that was a literal handheld blackhole with dozens if not a couple hundred magical effects within it.
Fargo's was literally the reason I was selling my stuff so cheap. The sheer amount of stuff I needed help collecting around the world would take me literally years to find whereas instead I could pawn of collecting such things off onto other people in return for heirloom weapons they could pass down in their Familia.
But finally, the endless deluge of information slowed, and I sorted it all of it out mentally so my head cleared up as Seshat pushed the Falna closed, locking it from view and finally placing a paper on my back so I could read the Falna for myself.
"Here you go." Seshat spoke handing me the paper as she sat beside me to probably watch my reactions.
Jake Barris
Level 2
Strength 0
Endurance 0
Dexterity 0
Agility 0
Magic 0
Skills-
The Terrarian- Enforces Terrarian world logic upon user, restricts acquisition of development abilities and Falna backed spells in order to host mods, mods may not be taken/disabled/traded for another mod. User's alien logic to the world, prevents mental status effects from affecting user.
King's Fall. Killing of all Monster Rex tier opponents for the first time encourages potential growth with each subsequent kill of monsters already been previously killed only provides High Quality Excellia to fuel growth.
Development Mods-
Calamity and all addons. Allows the creation and summoning of Calamity mod objects.
Fargo's and all addons - Allows the creation and summoning of Fargo's mod objects.
Auxiliary Mods-
More Accessory's Mod. Allows for three additional accessories to be equipped per level.
"Honestly I think that Magic Storage mod would be better for our business at this time." Seshat began but I cut her off with a shaken head.
"No… I need more accessory slots. With these I can outright make myself immune to poison and a few other special effects… Not to mention with the death of the Eye of Cthulhu I can craft a bunch more things and I need better weapons if I am to be fighting the stronger bosses to come." I responded stonily as I despised the feeling of that poison weakening me and possibly bringing me a painful death if I didn't get an antidote.
"Fine. Anyway, let's go celebrate with the Familia and Hestia's! Oh, and make sure to give that Heath girl your thanks before you send her on her way or whatever you want to do with the broken girl." Seshat added on the end with zero care in her tone, showing off her cat like nature.
As she truly didn't give a damn about Heath Velvet unless she became an issue.
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Chapter 49
Coming back into the main shop area where the other girls were grilling Heath about what happened with Evilus, they all whirled on me as they wanted to get the story from the source and person who was there from the beginning.
Well, all the goddess's and Beatrice did. Bell on the other hand was far more interested in something more important at least to her. "Jake, you leveled up?!" Bell excitedly asked and at my nod she threw up her hands as she exclaimed. "Congratulations for breaking the record, Jake!"
Seshat proudly smiled beside me as though it was partly her own accomplishment as the other girls including Hestia gave me some form of congratulations or another. Though Hestia's were more along the lines of. "Good job Jake but don't rest on your laurels because my Bell is going to overtake you.' Yeah, that kind of nonsense.
"So, Heath would you like me to escort you outside so you can make your way home?" I asked the Freya Familia member that got shoved into my life. And like Freya herself she merely smiled shaking her head as she tried to have a reason to latch onto me.
"Jake if it's alright with you, I would like to discuss the pros and cons between my healing magic and perhaps your potions? Let's see if we can draw any inspiration from one another?" She asked excitedly with a welcoming smile being aimed at me but with Seshat's repeated warnings about her. I could see it.
I could see the trailer park, tweaker in her eyes. This girl was a broken mess and worse it wasn't even a chemical mess that you could sweat out. No, this girl had her soul twisted into knots under Freya's mere presence and was not even deliberately being charmed by the goddess. She literally got addicted and broken just on the contact high like people could just by touching Fentanyl and with the drug seeping in through the pores.
Did I want to try to, as Seshat advised, mind break the girl back to normal.
Like a badly set bone that never healed right and needed to be broken again to heal properly? No… Not particularly.
"Nah that's ok. Here is a gift for helping me with the antidote and tell Ottar thank you for interceding." I said pushing an extra shield of Cthulhu into her arms that I got for trading some Terraria mana potions to people who didn't even want the shield as they were mages or archers. I then firmly threw an arm over her shoulder as I escorted her outside of the shop as I continued loudly monologuing which prevented her from getting a word in.
"Yeah, seriously Ottar was so cool with how he cut off the arm off the crazy chick. But no seriously, did you guys see all the bombs going off. I hope the people around the area are alright. Hey actually that's a great idea! You should take these potions and make sure all the civilians are alright, so here!" I monologued before pushing a literally pile of potions into her arms with the pile of haphazardly stacked glass phial potions literally being taller than her face so she couldn't see how I pushed her outside the tower.
"Have a nice night and I wish the civilians of Orario the best of luck!" I said cheerfully as I closed the drawbridge into my tower which then had the river of lava continue to flow as Heath's wide eyes stared at me incredulity at my actions.
I spent just taking a deep breath to recover from my monologuing before I nodded as I muttered. "Got enough trouble in my tower…" Seriously it wasn't even like she was trying to hide how she wanted to spend longer here.
"Uh Jake you alright?" I heard Bell ask me as she came from behind me as I was just staring at the flowing wall of lava that was in front of myself.
I snapped out of my mental lamentations as I looked behind me to see the cinnamon roll had changed out of her armor and was now just wearing a backless dress similar to what Ais typically wore, but instead of being blue with some white highlights. Hers were predominantly black with some white highlights.
Honestly with her pale skin, white hair, and red eyes she had a bit of a Saber Alter vibe with the dress, but she didn't have a saber face at all. And frankly she had bigger breasts.
"Yeah, just wondering what Freya's game is. Evilus has risen up from the shadows and… Honestly, I can plan around hiding away from the adventures of Orario. But the freaks from Evilus are literally broken disposable tools that have no qualms blowing themselves up in suicide bombings." I shook my head sadly before I shrugged speaking. "I can plan for Ottar's strength, I can plan for Allen's speed. But how can I plan for a Pallum that looks like a child asking me to help find her parents only to blow herself up with an alchemical bomb." I spoke hauntedly.
I wasn't joking or exaggerating either. Both from reading the public files on Evilus's actions as well as actually seeing it in the Ryuu storylines in the Danmemo game and other things, I knew Evilus had zero qualms throwing their lives away in order to accomplish a goal. Because in the end the evil gods made a divine oath to take care of them in the afterlife so they could at least reincarnate even if it wasn't with any memoires or anything.
Bell just gave me a soft side hug as she squeezed my frame tightly for a second before only softly holding my arm as she joined me in staring at the lava. "I heard you even fought alongside Ais Wallenstein too. What was she like?" Bell asked me softly as she leaned her head against the arm she was holding.
I took a breath to calm myself finally after all the days stress. Which consisted of dealing with Bosses, Apollo dropping a fucking War Game in my lap, Evilus attacking Orario in order to get me, and even the stress of worrying about what mods I needed to take for my future development.
"Ais Wallenstein is certainly a great fighter. She was like a graceful dancer with each step being a step to kill a monster. But that's just it, her style seemed to be tailor made for sidestepping large monsters and carving them apart in the motion, so she had some issues with the level five that she was fighting but then again, the woman was wielding an obviously cursed sword. So, Ais had to be cautious and not get cut at all." I explained with Bell's grip on me tightening.
"Do you like her?" Bell asked me quietly and I couldn't help but softly chuckling at the question and Bell whined swinging my arm that was in her grasp around. "Don't laugh Jake! It's a serious question!"
At Bell's pouting face I couldn't help but laugh as I patted her white hair covered head. "Yeah, Bell I totally like Ais Wallenstein, she is so adorable when she is making grabby hands and reaching for anything I dangle in front of her." I joked.
"Bwahah!" Bell broke into giggles as she herself recalled Ais's face and actions when I mentioned how I could make a wind blade that would heavily strengthen her wind magic and be a lot more in-tune with her fighting style than the large cumbersome broadsword she had been using. "Jake that's not what I mean!" Bell added pouting but I just flicked her forehead as I shook my head.
"Ais is trouble, both for how Loki wouldn't let her date anyone, especially outside her Familia, but she also has a number of issues that makes dating difficult or better put impossible." I said dryly as I turned back to enter the tower. "Besides Bell, I got enough girls living in my house!" I joked making Bell grin wryly as I was certainly outnumbered in here.
"Oh, and umm would it be alright if we had a bit of a sleepover in celebration of your level up, like we had when we first came to stay with you guys?" Bell asked me and I shrugged feeling a bit miffed about not spending the night with Seshat or Beatrice in bed, but some time with Bell could be fine as she was a sweetheart.
I looked down to Bell head shorter form as she was walking beside me, and I agreed with a simple. "Yeah, that would be cool."
"Sweet! I will bring snacks and stuff!" Bell said excitedly as she ran into the shop ahead of me, giving me a moment to stop and just look up at the false star above me before I chuckled and went into the shop to hopefully just relax with a friend for a few hours before I slept and got dragged into Orario's mess in the morning.
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Chapter 50
With Heath gone I was able to finally sit down with the rest of the girls and just relax while eating a delightful thick stew made by Beatrice for dinner. "Anyway, how's Bell's progress looking? I mean she is close to leveling up right?" I asked Hestia in particular as Bell just wryly ate a dinner roll as her goddess rolled her eyes.
"Bell is being too anxious! She was wants to match your level up but honestly, she needs another week or something to polish off her stats." Hestia said crossly to Bell who refused to meet her eyes and only nibbled at her large dinner roll like it was the most delightful thing in the world. "But either way I imagine you two plan to hunt the stronger monsters that are on Rivira's floor?" Hestia asked and I nodded firmly.
With my water candles, and other spawn rate multipliers along with building a little base to fortify ourselves. We could fairly easily slaughter the level two-three monsters that were normally uncommon on the Eighteenth floor. Which would give us an amazing amount of Excellia to fuel our base stats, not to mention how Bell was still technically a lower level and to be killing those stronger lifeforms she would be compensated for the action however she accomplished it.
"Yes, we will be safe in my structures and little bases I make." I said confidently before wryly smiling as I continued with my words earning a snort from Seshat and Hestia. "The only issue with my mass slaughter plans is how damned long it takes to extract all the monster stones just to remove the stacked corpses that will pile over our bunker…" I said dryly as my eye twitched at the memory of building a sort of pill box that I almost got squished in as I tried to remove the bodies surrounding it.
Sadly, monster stones are very destructible unlike Terraria drops so should I make a lava pit and hide in a box of glass to herb all the monsters to fall into the pit of lava I would lose all the drops. Could be a decent attempt to drain the dungeon of energy though.
"Anyway, me and Bell are going to talk for a bit. Thank you for the dinner, Beatrice." I said respectfully to the woman who was now cooking all my meals, and just generally taking care of the chores of the house as Seshat and Hestia certainly weren't going to be doing them.
I ended my own little dinner early as I saw Bell was rather deep in thought, so I wanted to grill her on what was bouncing around in the head of hers.
"No problem, Jake. I am happy you enjoyed the meal but uhm do you think you could come to my room for a bit tonight?" Beatrice asked blushing as Seshat threw her a knowing grin as Hestia just cocked her head to the side in confusion.
But was more interesting was how Bell blushed with the red spreading up from her neck up to her face as I told Beatrice she was welcome into my room later on into the night as Bell likely was going to sleep in her own room later after we talked for a bit.
"Alright let's go Bell." I said lightly as followed behind her as she walked into the room that had truly become my own bedroom as I had removed the piles of bedding that filled the room to instead have some furniture that I crafted myself including my own sinfully comfortable bed that would perfectly support me.
Once I got Bell onto a couch and sat across from her, I started off by bluntly asking what she was on her mind. "So, Bell what's rattling in your head, you were quiet at dinner and Hestia was obviously worried about you."
Bell sighed before she bit her lip softly looking way to cute while doing it and then she shook her head as she finally met my blue eyes with her ruby gem like red eyes. "I shouldn't have left you at the event… If I was there when Evilus attacked maybe you wouldn't have gotten poisoned and you wouldn't have needed to even teleport home." Bell spoke and I wanted to face palm and tell her she would have likely been deadweight as the psychos wouldn't have batted an eye at killing or using her as a hostage, but I knew Bell would just get stubborn if I denied her and tried to keep her 'safe'.
Yeah, no she was the worlds protagonist and was thus destined to be fates chew toy until she reached her full potential. So, attempting to keep her safe was impossible.
"Maybe so… But I needed you to go to the Guild to get the money for the event, back home safely as no one knows you really whereas I am already a celebrity of Orario apparently. Not to mention Evilus is supposed to be long dead by now." I said grimacing as Evilus wasn't supposed to raise its head for a couple months at least according to the Ais timeline in the Sword Oratoria stuff.
But me being a silver bullet that could wipe Orario off the map is too much of an interesting target for them to ignore and allow me to grow outside of their control.
"So, if something happens next time, I will trust you to have my back, Bell." I finished as I gave Bell a reassuring smile and my words had definitely touched Bell as she literally leapt over the table separating our two couch's and got me into a tight hug.
"Thank you for believing in me Jake." Bell whispered into my neck as she held on to me and I just chuckled softly as I patted her bare back as she was still wearing that backless dress. Apparently, Ais's style of clothing had infected Orario as backless dresses or even virgin killer sweaters were modeled after her style of dress.
Ais and the rest of the high-level adventurers of Orario were no different from my old worlds mega celebrity's that would push people to wear their branded clothing to try to catch a bit of their idols glow. Or whatever other reason they used to get people to pay stupid amounts of money to wear Supreme and other stuff.
So, with Ais being Bell's idol I wasn't surprised she was wearing clothes that kind of matched her style even if the colors were almost completely flipped in darker colors and highlights.
"It's alright Bell, so anyway how are you and Hestia settling in with us hmm." I said grunting a bit as Bell was completely latched onto me so I just gave up and laid down across the couch as she laid atop my chest while lifting her head so her ruby eyes could star up at me like the times, she would snuggle up to me when she gets lonely as she and Hestia began sleeping separately.
Apparently, Hestia had conditioned Bell to literally have issues sleeping alone in the comfort of her own bed or even on the ratty couch they had at the church they used to live within, as she needed a big pillow to either hug… Or be hugged in turn before she could settle down.
Looking down at Bell's adorable ruby eyes looking up at me with affection I just ran my fingers down her bare back making her hum in comfort and push her breasts into my chest.
"Hey Bell, how about we go out on an actual date or something tomorrow?" I asked softly as Bell's eyes snapped open in surprise at my question and her deep blush made a return as she squirmed across my body but with my palm on her back, she couldn't run off to go scream in her bedroom or anything else insane.
Once Bell calmed down and her blush lowered from atomic red to a soft pink she whispered. "Jake… Aren't you and Beatrice or even Lady Seshat dating?"
Bell got to see my eyes twitch as I wryly shook my head as I moved the palms of my hand off her back to pull my shirt off so I could point to the scars on my left shoulder. "See this, Bell. This is Seshat's claim on me as I took her as my woman… Because of that, my actual dating pool consists of only human's Elves and maybe Pallums as the other more primal races see a beastkin goddess being claimed by me as a magical prime meat sign and the only thing on their mind is the actual act of passion instead of building a relationship." I said and Bell nodded in understanding as she softly spoke.
"That and you cannot build a family with Lady Seshat either… I am not blind to Hestia's affections anymore, but I want to build a family myself." Bell spoke softly as she laid her head sideways on my chest so she could listen to my heartbeat, and I noticed she was actually matching my breathing as she matched our bodies natural motions just like we would do together in the dungeon as we naturally fought together.
So, with my little reminder about my status, she fell silent for a minute before she snorted softly as she gazed up at me with not only affection brimming in her ruby red eyes but some other emotions I couldn't sort out at as she spoke. "Ok Jake. I accept your date… As the heroine you saved in the dungeon, I can't just refuse you Hehe." She giggled and then she leaned forward surprisingly pecking me on the cheek and in my surprise at her brave act she slipped out of my hands and all but glided out of the room as she went towards her bedroom with her sweet giggling following her path until my door was shut with a loud clicking noise.
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Chapter 51
After setting up some nice plans with Bell for us to have a simple date the following day I spent the night thoroughly slaking my lusts upon Beatrice and even picked her up to take her into Seshat's room so I could indulge within embracing both a mortal and goddess.
So super early in the morning I prepared for the date by doing something no one in Orario had seen before. First, I encased the entire property large property in glass blocks with the roof of the glass walls forming a sort of peak so no one could sneak onto the property at all as each time we leave the only way out would be using the locked door I made in the glass structure.
And with no one having a key to the place they had no way to get into the area unless they could teleport somehow.
Then with the whole area encased in a glass structure so no one could mess with our property I did want I had been dreaming off lately and planted the gem acorns around the glass walls to act as a kind of bush and privacy fence along with planting a circle of ruby gem acorns surrounding a nice little gazebo, I created over the course of a couple hours before the sun even rose.
But in the hours that I had been working to make a whole date destination as I knew going out into Orario right now was a fool's dream with how Evilus attacked, the gem acorns fully grew into Terraria gem trees.
I now had gem trees of all materials. Ruby gem tree's that had fist sized apples hanging from their stone and gem encrusted branch's scattered across the property. And all the other gem trees I planted across the property also grew with diamonds, sapphires, topaz, emeralds, and other gems creating a rainbow atmosphere around the property.
"Well, this is likely to get more attention, but oh well." I muttered uncaringly as I went back inside the tower and shop to get a shower so I could be ready for whenever Bell was ready for such a date.
Even as I went inside to get cleaned up, I definitely noticed people standing outside the glass walls that protected my property looking at the gleaming tree's that reflected the rising suns light that was starting to crest over Orario's large walls.
After I got out of the shower and just generally cleaned up after myself, I went and knocked on Bell's door as I knew she was going to be the first one up as I had assuredly tired out Beatrice and Seshat to say nothing of how lazy and prone to sleeping in Hestia was.
In the midst of my knocking, I heard Bell faintly call for me to just come in so I shrugged and opened the door to see how she was doing. Hopefully she wasn't being a bundle of nerves and actually got some sleep last night.
"Goddess. Why you waking me up so early?" Bell mumbled as she sat up and as did her loose sleeping shirts drifted… No that was one of my damn dress T-Shirts and the large shirt slid down her shoulders exposing a bountiful display of cleavage as Bell just kind of just rocked in place as her unfocused eyes blinked away her sleep.
"Bell it's me. You should wake up and get ready early I got a breakfast date planned for us so the goddesses don't spoil it." I explained and hearing my voice Bell stilled as her eyes finally focused on me and seemingly shivering in the cool rooms air as her upper body escaped her thick blankets as well as her shirt almost slipping off, she realized her state of dress in front of me as her shirt was literally being held up by her breasts at this point.
"I will be making breakfast Bell." I said closing the door after seeing how a blush traveled up Bell's chest, up her neck and eventually covering her face in a rosy glow so rather than put pressure on her I just left the room as I went to the kitchen to make us both breakfast.
Like five minutes later Bell came out dressed in another backless dress but this one having a longer skirt that actually went down almost to her knees instead of most of them going mid-thigh and wearing shorts under them.
"What do you like with your eggs?" I asked Bell as she came to stand beside me as I was cooking and silently, she just laid her head against my shoulder as held my free arm before she took a moment to speak.
"I like mushrooms, ham and tomatoes if that isn't too much work?" She spoke softly and I just removed my arm she was holding so I could just wrap my arm around her waist and pull her into a halfway hug as my other hand took ingredients out of my inventory, I stuffed into there for making actual meals in the dungeon whenever I wanted.
I hummed softly as Bell just hugged onto me as I went about basically making a lighter full English breakfast with the beans, sausage links, breakfast ham slices, fried chunks, and lastly just for a bit of sweetness I switched around the toast to instead do French Toast. "Jake… Is this what love feels like?" Bell asked softly and she refused to meet my eyes that snapped to her as she continued to speak. "I feel the warmth holding you matching the heat coming off the stove, and the thought of letting you go. To even go sit alone down at the table just to watch your back as you cook makes me feel cold already… Not only that but the smell of the food just feels even better when it mixes with your scent as I hold you." Bell explained with a weight of thick emotion in her voice.
'Damn she has it bad.' I thought wryly but in response I squeezed her around the waist drawing her frame tightly against me for a moment but as I loosened my grasp, she let out an ever so minuscule whimper of loss at the sensation of being tightly held by me.
"I am not sure Bell… I do like you and I would like to explore that though." I replied gently as I began plating our food together and Bell took a deep breath as she saw her plate ladled up with food. "Now Bell lets go outside, I made a nice little picnic area for us to eat and take in the sights." At my mention of the sights Bell's head cutely tilted to the side but she didn't argue with me.
While I put the plates of food in my inventory so they wouldn't cool down or possibly get dropped so I could take Bell's hand into my own as we left the shop and tower going outside onto the enclosed property.
And thus, with the morning sun light filling the glass enclosed property the first thing Bell saw as was walked hand in hand onto the property were tree's made out of stone with large gleaming gems reflecting the suns light breaking through the bark in places while gems in all shapes hung from the trees like fruits made out of the earth's most precious tears.
"Its so beautiful Jake… Did you do this for me?" Bell asked breathlessly as she looked up to me and I silently dipped down in and like she did last night but even further I stole a kiss from her very lips before I pulled back to look down at the blushing beauty that was all but leaning against me.
"What better date could there be then one surrounded by nature never seen before by mortals." I said as I squeezed Bell's hand in my own as I gently nudged her to follow me into the gazebo so we could enjoy our breakfast surrounded by Ruby gem trees giving us a bit of privacy as Orario's civilians came to gawk at the Seshat Familia's latest bullshit feat.
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After me and Bell enjoyed our breakfast, we moved to the thickly padded swinging porch bench I rigged up so I could have a nice place to relax in under the gazebo for long periods of time.
Bell and I then went and sat together holding hands on the swinging bench as we just saw through the morning sun light pierce through all the ruby gem trees to fill the Gazebo itself with a soft red tinted light to see Orario's reaction to the entire property being encased in glass with tree's laden with gems sparkling in the dawns light.
"You think that even the gods have such nice things in the heavens?" Bell asked softly as her hands squeezed in our hand holding.
For a moment I was silent before I hummed in though as Bell's head continued to rest on my shoulder while we stared through the thick covering of the ruby gem trees at the people surrounding the property. "Maybe. The gods don't really talk about Tenkai… And I don't think it's probably a nice to live up there. As most gods are cruel and only care for their amusement. Hestia is obviously not in that camp though Bell." I said hurriedly as Bell moved her head from my shoulder to look at me with a powerful pout making me firmly move Hestia out of the camp of troublemakers.
"Yeah, Lady Hestia is too lazy to be cruel to people hehe." Bell giggled as she went back to snuggling against me as she spoke again. "Jake, could you make it snow or something? I bet all these gem trees would look stunning if they were covered in icicles and a bed of snow was covering the ground."
I shook my head wryly as to make snow or ice stuff I needed the ice themed tools and to say the least summoning the Christmas event was a death sentence to say the least. "Maybe we could have Riveria blast the surroundings with her ice spell Haha." I joked laughing at the thought with Bell snorting at the thought of the prim and serious form or Riveria acting as some kind of snow machine to cover the area.
Thus for the next few minutes we just held hands talking softly with one another as we shared one another's company before I decided to spice it up as Bell was talking about how she first got to Orario. I gently used a finger to tilt Bell's head upwards that way I could lean down to softly kiss her on her lips silencing her as our lips met together in an affection filled embrace.
Bell made a quick "Hmm?" Noise as our lips came together and her hands grip within my own tightened but then she surprisingly swung a leg over my lap so she could straddle me and then pushed herself against me as her hands threaded through my blond hair for a minute as we shared the passion filled make out session until in unison, we broke apart with her leaning her forehead against mine.
Her ruby red eyes met my blue one's as we stared into one another's eyes and an unspoken message was passed between us as we could communicate between on another merely through our body language after fighting with one another in the dungeon for a few weeks at this point.
Silently we just held one another with her sitting on my lap and my face pressing into her chest as she played with my hair for an unknowable amount of time… At least until Hestia ruined our time as she came out of the tower yelling about what I had done to the property and then further flipped when she caught us canoodling under the romantic Gazebo.
"Bell you traitor! Why is your first kiss with him!? It's not fair!" Hestia cried out dramatically as she pointed at Bell before her accusing finger swerved in the air to point at me who still had Bell in my lap and with Bell sitting sideways in my lap her medium sized chest would barely touch my face with each breath the albino beauty would take. "And you! How could you seduce my precious Bell with something so beautiful as a forest of gems! How is anyone else going to compare when they hear about what you did for Bell huh?" She demanded as Bell tucked her head against my shoulder to hide her giggles at how wacky her goddess was being.
But myself I calmy met the Goddess Hestia's eyes as I spoke. "For the one I am courting with the intent of building a relationship with. No amount of effort is enough… Bell is a wonderful woman, I can trust her with my life in the dungeon, I do care for her alot, and best of all. She is a kind companion that will above all else do the little things to make me happier." I said softly as my arms tightened around Bell's waist.
No longer was Bell hiding her face in my shoulder to avoid Hestia's demanding, now she was hiding her face out of embarrassment at my words.
"Bah! You playboy you probably have broken the hearts of dozens of pure maidens haven't you to get a tongue that sly!?" Hestia demanded hotly but there was no mistake that my words struck within her as she herself was blushing at the thought of someone treating her the same as to create such a beautiful place for such a date.
But my dry response as I wore a sly smile made her face twitch as I leaned into Bell's chest. "Nope Bell is my first girlfriend in this life, nor have I gone out with anyone before." I said not lying at all as being sent here to Danmachi in a slightly younger form was a totally new life.
"Little Hestia quit being so jealous you little virgin." Seshat called at Hestia as she walked into our field of view and then she focused on me as she spoke. "Jake open up a passageway into the glass wall we have customers that I need your help dealing with… You can mess around with your little bunny afterwards." Seshat added as Bell as gracefully as she could got out of my lap and fixed the shorter skirt to her backless dress.
"Alright alright. Thank you for the wonderful morning, Bell." I said getting her attention and with her to look back up to me and then Bell gently pinched my shirt with her thumb and hands as she leaned up on her tip toes so she could kiss me again on the lips with my hands going behind her to hold onto the smooth skin of her back before Hestia loudly hissed like a tea kettle about to boil over.
With Hestia's warning that she was about to boil over I left the Gazebo with Bell holding my hand and as I left, I saw our future customers and why Seshat needed my held dealing with these Familia's.
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"Well… This day was going to happen at some point I guess." I said dryly as I looked at the forms of the deities Hephaestus and Goibniu standing with their arms folded over their chests as they waited for us to pay them notice, I guess.
Hephaestus's status as the premier Familia of weapon forgers of Orario needed no explanation but Goibniu was the patron of smiths and craftsmen within Orario in their totality as they were the ones who did much of the architectural work around the city.
And now they were standing outside my property with Hephaestus being with her captain Tsubaki and Goibniu being with a large stout dwarf that I admittedly didn't recognize but with how the Goibniu Familia forged the Loki Familia's weapons I wouldn't be surprised if that dwarf was at least level four or perhaps even level five.
"Seshat come here and let's make sure they aren't going to just attack us or something." I said dryly as I advanced with my goddess in tow as we approached the glass wall.
Standing in front of the two smith gods I then opened a small hole at face level so we could talk.
"May I help you?" I asked calmly as though I had no idea why they were here to begin with.
"Cut the crap and let us in. We need to have words." Goibniu snapped and I gave the short wiry god a look with a raised eyebrow before I looked back to Hephaestus while Hestia was slowly walking behind me towards our group with Bell flanking her.
In response to Goibniu's snapped order to me I just shrugged brushing a hand through my hair as I responded tiredly. "Look, I am being attacked by Evilus and although I can feel you two are gods that doesn't mean anything… And frankly I don't want to deal with whatever little gripes you have alright so please go away." I said bluntly as I stepped forward to put the glass back.
"Wait!" Hephaestus called out wryly as she held up a hand and I did so to at least hear what she had to say. "Look Jake, we respect your craft. Even though your weapons are rough and not all that sharp or well balanced." Hephaestus started making my eyes twitch at how she instantly began criticizing my work and seeing my face turn dark she switched tracks instantly. "Those imperfections don't change the sheer accomplishment you have accomplished in making such… Mundanely made weapons so durable." Hephaestus finished and I just stared at her and the other smith god.
"So. What do you want? The secrets to my craft or something?" I asked dryly making the gods roll their eyes.
"Brat we are well aware whatever Skill you have is playing a large part in your crafts durability and such. But we would ask that you do not flood the market with your weapons as that would hurt-" Goibniu started but I cut him off.
"Yeah, fuck that!" I said loudly making every jump in place as the captains in front of me gripped their weapons at my loud action. "I sell literally unbreakable weapons… Thats the end of it. I sell weapons that do not, will not, and most importantly cannot fail them in the dungeon… An adventurer should only die due to a lack of skill or the dungeon itself collapsing on them in their fury. Not because their overly expensive sword shattered like glass on a bit of bone or exoskeleton." I said with determination.
Both deity's shared a look as they couldn't refute my words as that would make them look like the worst kind of scum that wanted adventure's weapons to break on them in the dungeon so they could get the money to make more weapons. So as the gods stood in silence Tsubaki coughed. "Bold words for you to say that nothing can break them? Willing to make a bet on that?" She asked and I gave her a look.
"Oh, what bet then? One of your weapons to go against mine in a durability test?" I asked and her face twisted, and I realized that Tsubaki probably already got one of the weapons I made and probably been bashing her head to trying to even fucking scratch it.
"No… An actual forging competition based on who can make the more destructive blade." She spoke and I frowned as I realized what bullshit. she was pulling.
"You want me to have a competition with your pet Crozzo kid and have him make a damned Crozzo Magic Sword, right?" I said sharply, while frowning at the thought.
Sure, my weapons have the advantage in not breaking but Welf Crozzo's Magic Swords were literally pocket elemental missile launchers which were probably stronger than what I could create without getting better materials… But then I had an evil thought strike me, so I smiled as I nodded lightly.
"My weapon crafting skills are I admit not as destructive as Crozzo magic swords. Yet." I added making the gods in front of me wince as my words rang truly in their divine sense. "But what is the bet before I agree, or I put the glass back and we go about our days."
Goibniu coughed and I looked back over to Goibniu. the god was actually looking at me with a bit of respect for standing up to them. "It's simple lad. We will as Tsubaki said, have the two weapons made by you two used to test for pure destructive might on the Goliath that is spawning in the next three days. With whichever weapon doing the most damage or even killing the Goliath in a single blow." He said and that last bit pricked at my mind, and I realized the trick he was aiming for.
"Yeah, you know what. I admit that the weapons I can make now cannot match a Crozzo Magic sword that will only be swung once to deliver its total magical payload. I have no shame in admitting that but no. I am not going to play your game. If you wanted to test basically mundane weapons but crafted at the peak of our abilities that's one thing. But trying to screw me over as the magic sword would be used to one shot the Goliath… To say nothing of me suffering an accident in the dungeon regardless of what happens." I shook my head as Hestia stood beside me and looked to Hephaestus .
"Hephaestus, is Jake really hurting your business or something?" Hestia asked strongly and the red-haired goddesses frowned to her question as she shook her head.
"Honestly not really, but when adventure's see Jake's weapons… Reliability they ask why Goibniu's and my own hand-crafted weapons break." Hephaestus could only shrug as she continued. "He is hurting the image of all smiths in Orario as all adventures want a weapon that won't fail them in the dungeon as Jake so aptly put."
"Jake could you just sell the weapons to Hephaestus and the other smithing Familia's so they can handle the distribution and make some money at a mark up?" Hestia excitedly asked as she saw a happy ending for all parties involved.
I looked at the gods in front of me as I took in their expressions at Hestia's question. "And? Would your pride as gods of the forge allow you to sell another's work in your shop knowing people will choose it over your own work?" I finished and both Hephaestus and Goibniu's face looked like they bought something sour at the thought of that scenario playing out.
"Look I don't want to make enemies out of the smiths of Orario. Granted the fact that your weapons break after not even a years' worth of use is pathetic, whereas mine's indestructibility will last at least a century or so… But that doesn't change the fact that I cannot make weapons for all of Orario nor do I want to. I merely wish to outfit some people with the weapons and armor to help me kill the bosses I summon and get even better materials to make my own better stuff that will not be released to the public for years if ever at all." I finished.
Hearing my explanation, the forge gods nodded slowly as they shared looks with their captains before sharing an unspoken message with one another.
"Very well. The crafting Familia's of Orario won't stand in the Seshat Familia's way if they do not publicly sell more than a hundred weapons a year." Hephaestus spoke formally and then she stuck her hand through the hole I made and in the hand was a stamp. "This stamp is a guild issue stamp that is issued to Craftsmen Familia's that reach the standard. It will magically mark all items as products of your Familia so no one can make copies… Though your weapons and items are a different case as no one can copy them." Hephaestus explained as I gently took the stamp from her.
"Huh… Feels weird for my Jake to get the stamp for the Familia and not me." Seshat complained but Hephaestus rolled her eyes.
"You literally sold less than three things in as many months Seshat, don't complain. Anyway, the Guild approved stamp that's bound to Seshat's divinity has to go through a peer process to see if the Familia is worthy to be admitted to the ranks of approved Familia's and the cost of that approval for you is that single weapons ban. We were able to shout down the accessories and potions nonsense you guys also sell but the weapons." Hephaestus just smiled silently as I put the stamp in my inventory as I felt Seshat's divine signature coming from it.
"Fine I agree to your limit. As I said before I was selling my weapons for help to kill bosses and acquire materials for me anyway. You guys can deal with the fallout for banning me from selling my stuff to the public because you guys couldn't match my unbreakable weapons!" I grinned viciously as I finished shouting the last bit. That way the crowd that was behind the two forge gods could hear and their faces twisted as I placed the glass back to block out the screams aimed at the two forge gods.
I then turned around seeing Hestia pouting at me as she muttered. "That was mean Jake."
"They shouldn't have tried bullying me into a cheat of a bet. Or make me sell less stuff because they cannot match my products." I said shrugging before I patted Hestia on the head. "Look I get Hephaestus is a good friend but that was business not friends talking. Anyway, I am not even bummed about it as most of our money comes from our potions anyway." I said wryly as I sold the potions for literally the same price as my weapons and the things sold out every damn day regardless of me making a couple hundred of them.
Probably because my potions didn't come into stupid fragile glass containers like the rest of the Potion Familia's sold theirs in stupid fragile vials that could break if something bumped into the pocket they were placed within.
"Alright girls come on. We are going to be stuck here for a couple days while Evilus pulls its bullshit and the Apollo wargame starts, so let me introduce you to something called Monopoly. You all are just going to love it." I said with a terrible smile on my face as Seshat and Hestia's face scrunched up.
"How could you lie and tell the truth at the same time?" They spoke in unison, but they never received an answer as I pulled the girls inside to begin the long lesson on the game.
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The next couple days were filled with screams of agony, both filled with mental and emotional abuse as Familia ties of blood between mortal and Goddess were split in twain, the bonds of physical affection between mortals rendered naught but ashes in the wake of Monopoly's tearing apart our relationships.
"Wahh!!!" Hestia screeched in despair after three days of Monopoly she was finally kicked out leaving only Bell and myself in the game. "Bell how could you! How could you put three hotels on the Twilight Manor property! How could you invest in Loki no boobs!" She cried out in horror at her fate as Bell solemnly took not only her money but her last properties as well.
"It's nothing personal Goddess Hestia… It's just how the game goes." Bell said coldly as she had made the mistake of giving Hestia small loan of a million valis only for her to lose it all when she landed on the life event card that took away all her fiat money which included loans and other stuff.
I couldn't help but chuckle at the sight as Bell proudly looked down at the devastated Hestia who was begging for a loan or anything to keep her in the game. Truely Monopoly brought out hidden sides to people.
"Alright girls me and Seshat got to head out. The War Game, meeting to make up what kind of game it will be is going to happen in a couple hours." I excused myself making Bell pout at us not getting a definitive winner between the two of us, but she knew that to do so would take hours if not days of time to finish the game.
"Jake let's get going, and Beatrice you restock the shelves while we are gone." Seshat ordered with the demure cow beastkin girl nodding in understanding as she sent me an encouraging smile.
"Smash Apollo's face in Jake, you got it Haha!" Hestia cheered getting over her loss in Monopoly at the thought of that assholes Familia getting pulverized.
I nodded as Bell got up to give me a tight hug as silent encouragement.
Then me and Seshat set out into Orario.
The surrounding area around the property did have some people looking through the glass walls though more at the gem tree's then us but when I saw some people moving to talk to us or do God known's what. I just picked up Seshat and ran ahead with my Hermes boots boosting my speed through the streets of Orario.
Once we got to the Tower of Babel where the mini Denatus was going to be held Seshat told me what was going to happen. "So as an adventurer you won't be allowed within the meeting as its only gods and goddesses allowed unless it's a meeting about the future of Orario's existence in a crisis which only you would be able to join as my Familia's captain. Anyway, just go shopping or whatever in the Tower of Babel."
Seshat then gave me a thumbs up as she grinned cockily with her golden cat eye slit pupils sharpened. "Don't worry this meeting won't last more than a half an hour so just be ready to take me home afterwards… Don't want me to disappear, do you?" She grinned uncaring of such a fate as she would fight to the point of her dying and in that case, she told me if she ever died, I was to just join another Familia as she still would have my soul in Tenkai in either case do to taking me as her mate.
"Alright you little spitfire, just don't claw out that idiot Apollo's eyes." I warned her making her smile even wider at the thought with her leopard tail even sticking straight stiff in the air at the idea. "Anyway, I need to stock up on some more gems and stuff anyway so take your time." I said scratching Seshat on her head making sure to lightly brush over between her ears making her smile going from a feral sadistic one about to go on a hunt, to a more chilled smile.
Seshat's relaxed smile was worn until Jake took another elevator to go pick up whatever odd things he needed for his crafting stuff. But the moment Jake left Seshat's view, and the elevator took him away, her smile evaporated like a shadow being brought directly under the suns light. It was nonexistent.
Seshat silently and with no expression got onto another elevator that would head to the highest section of the Tower of Babel and with no one on that particular elevator no one saw her dull her devoid of any emotion filled face as the elevator began scaling up towards the divine meeting floor.
But as soon as the elevator door fully closed and Seshat was truly alone a loud banging noise rang out as she lashed out with a bare foot that twisted the metal of the elevator as she kicked the wall of the elevator with the still dull face covering her features.
Although her face and expression were as dull and tepid as still water what was going through her mind was anything but still and emotionless.
'Apollo must die… Not outcasted, not having his current Familia dissolved. I am going to have him returned to Tenkai to send a firm message to all these vapid fools that my Jake is not a piece for them to use for their entertainment… He is mine and mine alone.' Seshat thought coldly but a larger part of her divine consciousness had to poke up and remind her.
'Uh nope you are Jake's remember? You submitted to him like the little kitty you are when he got your neck in his jaws.' That niggling inner voice reminded her making her eye twitch as she wanted to lash out in another kick.
Sure, Seshat had no problem playing the loving little lazy housewife that pushed new members to join Jake's little pride of women that can help him grow. But regardless of that. It still galled her that she, a goddess older than civilization was playing second fiddle to her mortal mate.
It was only Jake's true potential that she could see taking him past level ten and thus becoming a demigod or even a true god that stayed her hand from challenging him again with hints of her Arcanum to strengthen herself.
"When you reach your peak, you will face me in a true dance to see if you are worthy." Seshat muttered with an ecstatic anticipatory grin before the smile faded away as she took back on her cold bored expression as she walked into the War Game Denatus filled with the dozens of gods that ran Orario.
"Oi Seshat is here finally!" Loki cried out pointing dramatically as Seshat regally strode across the room and took the center stage as she gracefully sat down on the end of the table with two chairs.
One for Apollo, and one for Seshat to sit upon.
"It's only five minutes till the meeting was supposed to start… Has Apollo decided to be a coward." Seshat spoke loudly cutting through the chattering god's and goddesses muttering making the room go silent.
In response to Seshat's accusation the opposite door was flung open dramatically. "The Apollo Familia is not a coward!" Apollo announced furiously as he stomped in.
"But they are willing to stand in front of the door like a damned fool in order to make some kind of grand entrance?" Seshat snarked cutting off the red headed god who grinded his teeth at Seshat's remark.
The god and goddess merely stared at one another for a moment before a loud cough broke the silence as a goddess strode forward.
"Haha what entertaining drama between you!" Loki laughed as she slapped a box down in the middle of the box. "Now seeing as Apollo is a prideful little bastard, he aint going to back down to Seshat's challenge and Seshat's little champion will likely spawn a monster rex in Apollo's mansion if we try to cancel the game… So no point in trying to cancel the game or come to some lame ass boring agreement! Now set your bets and I Loki will choose your War Game format Haha!" Loki proudly laughed as all eyes within the miniature Denatus was upon the god and goddess in question.
"Fine… In that case, should the Apollo Familia win I want one hundred broadswords and spears made by Jake to be checked by Hephaestus and Goibniu before delivery to my Familia as well as a public apology and that includes admitting that the Apollo Familia is greater than the Seshat Familia! Haha what do you think of that Seshat!" Apollo demanded as he all but panted in glee at the thought of both embarrassing Seshat and publicly shaming Jake.
Seshat just tapped her fingers across the marble table separating her and the god with her golden eyes staring into Apollo's red eyes before the crowd silenced as they awaited Seshat's demands and finally once her fingers rapped loudly atop the table, she leaned forward to brace her chin on the table as she smiled with a sadistic light in her eyes. "I want it all Apollo… I want your house. I want your money. I want everything… Not only that but you will return to Tenkai after the game is won in my favor. I mean it's only fair when it's just Jake in my Familia and you have dozens of members." Seshat said lightly as the room went dead silent at her demands.
Demanding that a god get sent to back to Tenkai was the ultimate punishment for losing a Wargame as that symbolized the complete annihilation of the Familia itself for it to likely never return as none of the gods who got sent back to Tenkai have been able to return as other gods who hadn't gotten the chance yet keep those losers well in check.
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After hearing Seshat's demand for Apollo, the gods and goddesses began yelling with no end in sight as such a demand hasn't been done for years as the one thing above all else none of the deities wanted to chance was getting sent back to Tenkai and having to go back to endlessly judging souls of the departed mortals from various worlds.
"Seshat! I will not even entertain such a foolish idea!" Apollo screeched like a small dog.
And the Leopard goddess Seshat cared little for the yapping screeching's coming from Apollo as she shrugged. "Well in that case I suppose I can settle for banishing you from Orario for eternity." Seshat offered with a cold smile but in reality, if Apollo didn't have a Familia of superhumans constantly guarding him… Accidents can happen on the road.
The surrounding gods all settled down at Seshat's new demand as in reality it wasn't nearly as bad as there was a great number of gods who within Genkai's lands although Orario was the center of the world. But it was also one of the most cutthroat places in the world despite its attempt to keep a civil demeanor. So, in the wise words of the deities who decided to stay out of Orario's bullshit.
'Why play PVP with all the tryhards, when PVE is already hard enough in the countryside.'
Granted whatever Familia he created outside of Orario would never amount to anything he could create with the dungeon helping fuel an adventure's growth. but people have gotten to level four outside Orario so it wasn't a death sentence for a Familia.
Apollo hearing Seshat's new demand paused thinking for a moment before he spoke. "Fine then regardless of the games end, Jake is not allowed to summon a Monster Rex as he obviously won't be able to control it. So should he do so, it will be automatically counted as him forfeiting!" He said loudly much to the groans of the gods who wanted to see such a spectacle. "You bastards just think about your own Familia, if you had to fight him in a Wargame wouldn't you want the same rule!" Apollo added making the assembled gods shut up and grimace at the thought.
"Irrelevant… Jake can and will deal with all the wretches within your Familia without a uncontrollable monster getting in his way more than attacking your members." Seshat snorted before looking to Loki. "Choose the game format. I tire of looking at that tomato soup themed buffoon." Seshat said coldly losing her sadistic veneer she put on as she looked at Loki with a bit of respect.
Loki looked to Apollo who nodded, and she just shrugged as she dipped her hands into the box containing slips of paper that held the details for the game format the Wargame would be based on.
"Huh… Well Apollo choose a number between one and ten." Loki asked making Seshat frown as that meant that it was a more objective based game then a pure combative one.
"Hmm… One as there is only one sun in the sky!" Apollo said as he folded his arms across his chest while staring at Loki with a serious face.
Loki hummed before she clapped her hands. "Well well well guys… The Wargame of the Seshat Familia's Jake Bariss versus Apollo's remaining Familia is… Capture the Flag with Seshat's Familia defending the flag, Haha!" Loki cackled ecstatically but Seshat didn't scream about how Jake had to unfairly guard a flag against dozens of Apollo members.
She just stood up from her seat as she stared at Apollo from across the table as the cheering in the room at such an interesting game format was decided as the room silenced down waiting for Seshat to say something. "Goodluck having your Familia swim through lava you disgrace of a god." And with that sentence said she spun on her heel as she strode out of the meeting room uncaring of the gods, she was aquatinted with that wanted to speak to her. She had done her part in signing the Apollo Familia's death warrant.
"Hmph, they don't wish to speak to me. They just want some of Jake's weapons or accessories… Astounds me how the fools haven't gotten obsessed with the accessories that give minor Skills in of themselves. But how could I be surprised that foolish mortals and gods all just focused on his metal poking sticks that don't break!" Seshat snorted rolling her eyes as she got into the same elevator that would take her down to where Jake was hopefully waiting for her.
A couple minutes later as she came out of the divine's only elevator, she saw Jake talking to an elfish waif of a girl that was clad in a fully covering white dress with her hands being covered in gloves and even her neckline was being covered in a dark body glove making Seshat's nose scrunch up in disgust at the sight and thought of wearing such restrictive clothes.
"Jake, I thought you said Beatrice was going to be only stray you would consider taking in!" Seshat called out with a hidden mischievous smile as she put on a more natural curious smile when she walked into the small private sitting room the Guild put next to the elevators so adventurer could wait for their gods to exit the elevators without just standing in a crowd outside for them.
Hearing Seshat's words I almost collapsed in relief at my excuse to finally get away from the very definition of a gaslit girl. For the last half an hour while I had been picking up stuff for my crafting, I had the distinct joy to be guided around the Tower of Babel by the woman know within the adventurer circle as Dionysius's Banshee.
Or the incarnation of bad luck who has led her Familia to being wiped out along with literally dozens of other parties that dared take the level four into the dungeon.
I didn't know how much she knew about her so called run of badluck but I knew her dear Dionysus got her Familia and friends killed to push her to the depths of despair because she had a skill that made her both stronger and grow faster dependent on her level despair. That, and she was half monster after Dionysus grafted the monster flesh into her body under the promise that it would make her stronger so none of her friends would die anymore.
Yeah, fat lot that did and thus we were left with a partially broken by despair elf who hung on her precious Dionysus words… And the damned god was actually one of the leaders of Evilus.
So, seeing Seshat come out of the elevator I was exhilarated to say the least to escape from the pyscho elf who was tripping over her words and obviously trying to get closer to me like how Heith Velvet from Freya's Familia tried to.
"Wait! Don't leave. I wanted to talk to Lady Seshat about a transfer to the Seshat Familia!" Filvis Challia said dramatically and Seshat's face broke into an eager grin at my utterly dismayed face with her going as far as taking Filvis Chalia's glove bound hand into her own as she looked into the dull wine-red wine-colored eyes of the elf.
"Ohya… And what do you want with my Familia you broken girl?" Seshat bluntly asked and I tensed with my knife being deposited out of my inventory and into my hand as I prepared to chuck the knife into the girls face if she attempted to hurt my goddess after being pointed out as the broke thing she was.
But instead Filvis just smiled sadly as she shook her head. "Ah you are one of those gods that can see souls." She started with her smile turning wry before she continued. "Well, my god has thrown me out. I did nothing to betray him, and he has wiped my Falna clear of his divinity…" Filvis bowed her head to the slightly shorter goddess as she took a deep breath as my mind whirled on why the hell hadn't Seshat called her out on lying. Like why in the hell would Dionysus throw aside someone that could fight Ottar for a while?
Granted Filvus hadn't done anything at all for Evilus yet as Dionysus hasn't even made an appearance as Enyo yet, nor has he even attacked Orario or Loki's adventurers with his plant monsters as Loki's expedition wasn't slated to leave for another couple days. So maybe I shouldn't judge people for the terrorism they may do in the future…
'Yeah no I am not that soft hearted!' I thought strongly but as I watched Seshat's reactions to Filvus sob story I realized that I was dealing with a goddess who had her whims.
Then Seshat got to my main concerns as she saw my poker face that didn't hide how I wasn't happy with this, so she coughed. "So Filvis Chalia are you joining my Familia with the honest intention of joining our family and do not plan on bringing harm to the ones within?" She asked seriously as she paid close attention to the dark-haired elf who sighed.
"I swear upon my name and the sacred forests that I desire to join the Seshat Familia while its still low on numbers so I can make a good difference. I want to join to have a family backing me. And… I just want somewhere people won't hold my title of Banshee against me." She said with her voice choking up.
The moment Seshat nodded with her leopard ears flapping about I knew I was doomed. "Alright I can tell you are telling the truth in everything you said… So, Jake pull down the shaders so I can slap my tramp stamp on her before another Familia can snap up a talented level four!" Seshat said excitedly.
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Chapter 56
"Uhm, do you mind turning around at least Jake." Filvis Challia said with an atomic blush which even with her circumstances. I understood why she was asking as elves were typically very aloof and distant to people of other races that hadn't broken their barriers.
Though elves were without a doubt the lewdest race of them all, even surpassing the baby crazy amazons. Look at Ryu, she fights for her life in bloomers of all things, to say nothing of Riveria the future queen of elves and her fetish for adopting and practically mothering everyone in her Familia.
"Alright… I will just be outside so you can have some privacy." I said frowning for a moment before I shrugged. If Seshat wanted to pick up a possible time bomb despite me not looking happy she can deal with the fallout. I can just teleport away when she inevitably explodes anyway.
I then went outside for a minute as I leaned against the door just watching the adventures of Orario picking up their gods from the Denatus and I realized that Seshat never even fucking told me the date or even what kind of Wargame I will be facing.
"Cat goddesses are the worst… They have the same care and respect for their caretakers that normal cats do." I cursed quietly as my eye twitched while I saw Tione and Tiona escorting Loki out of the building with Tiona waving to me as they left.
With Seshat making indistinct noises within the room I couldn't really tell she was either happy or just going over details of Filvus's Falna but after five or so minutes the door was thrown open with Filvus hurriedly fixing her dress as Seshat strode out of the room with a glow about her.
"Oh Jake… You bring me the best surprises." Seshat said hugging me tightly making me flinch as I had no fucking clue what she meant. And seeing my completely confused expression Seshat grinned with a bit of teeth showing as she patted my back and took my arm. "Oh, don't worry Jake… Just some delightful future entertainment is on the way. Oh, don't worry you little broken doll I won't do or even say anything. Whatever happens will only bring me entertainment either way." Seshat said waving at Filvus who just seemed to recall that engraving a Falna onto someone's soul revealed all that they were.
Memories, hopes, dreams. All that made a person who they were, were borne in the creation and updating a Falna, as it was called the Steps of Divinity for a good reason.
'Did I accidentally join an evil goddesses Familia or is she just a sociopath like all cats are?' I thought almost crying at the stress Seshat was bring me.
"Jake is still the captain though missy. Just because you are level four doesn't mean you get to be the captain! Jake already broke that Ais girls record into pieces so don't think your higher level will remain for long." Seshat told Filvis who demurely nodded.
"I understand… Joining a Familia only to be immediately made its captain would bring friction within the Familia and especially with the Wargame in the future people would assume that I was only a temporary member to sway the coming battle." Filvus spoke out but Seshat shrugged.
"If you want to look at that way sure. It's actually more along the lines of Jake is stronger than his level would suggest." Seshat remarked as she nudged me with a prideful smile.
"Anyway Seshat, when is the Wargame and what is the format of the game?" I asked.
Seshat chuckled with her arm linked in my mine tightened with her laughter. "Yeah, about that… The Wargame is technically tomorrow evening though you will need to be up bright and early as you are allowed six hours to fortify the objective of the game… Yes, Jake you alone will have to hold and protect a flag from being captured by the Apollo Familia for the next three days. Or until they surrender." Seshat said flippantly making my eyes twitch.
"What are the rules?" I asked tiredly as Filvus followed us from behind silently taking in the information about the up-and-coming Wargame.
"Well for one little Filvus won't be taking part. Admittedly as funny as it would be to see Apollo cry like a bitch, but the complaints about cheating aren't worth it. And literally the only two rules for the game are that the flag needs to be placed in an open area for people to see it and you specifically got a new rule added." Seshat explained pointedly and from her smile I could tell what it was.
"Let me guess, no uncontrollable Monster Rex's, right?" I asked dryly and clapped her hands sarcastically.
"Ding ding ding Jake. You got it in one." Seshat responded sarcastically before she wore a more serious face. "No, but seriously, Jake. If you summon one you automatically lose the Wargame so don't use your summons at all so people don't go asking why you can control those and not the monster rex monsters during the Wargame." Seshat ordered me and I understood where she was coming from.
"Alright fair enough." I responded patting her on her head between her ears making her grin.
"Uhm what should be my responsibilities?" Filvus quietly asked interjecting between our conversation.
Seshat just blinked before throwing an almost sadistic smile to the girl that made shivers go down my spine. "You already know what you have to do Filvus, don't be coy. Anyway, just help train Jake in actual melee combat as he is complete garbage at it. He literally hasn't had a teacher besides beating other kids with sticks when he was a kid." Seshat spoke making Filvus bite her bottom lip before she silently nodded and look down at the ground.
And Filvus didn't say a single word for the rest of the trip home.
Once we got home and explained to Hestia and Bell about the coming Wargame while Beatrice got started on dinner Bell hummed in thought.
"How open does the flag need to be? Like could Jake just tie it to his back and build a thin massive tower for him to sit on in the sky that people cannot mess with?" Bell asked cunningly and I couldn't help but chuckle at the thought making a nerd pole all the way up to the clouds to fuck with the Apollo Familia.
Seshat blinked as the thought never seemed to cross her mind before she shrugged. "Actually, I was hoping Jake would just make a small platform and surround it in a pit lava and just tell the Apollo Familia to fetch… But your idea has some value as Jake can just mock them upon the tower and throw rocks or bags filled with hot tar covered feathers upon them if they try to climb up." Seshat spoke as she laid out the sadistic vision of what I could do.
"Wouldn't just a small wooden house holding the flag with plenty of windows be better… I don't see the value in slaughtering Apollo's adventurer's, and I don't want to spend like three days just sitting in some stupid tower throwing rocks at people so why don't I make a whole house with a forge and stuff so I can spend the time making new weapons and stuff… Would probably piss off the forging and craftsmen Familia's seeing me just work making stuff they cannot during the whole wargame?" I offered to the assembled family of ours with Filvus kind of sitting off in the corner as we hadn't made her a seat yet.
The thought of me just living a normal day's life while Apollo's mages and adventurers tried to break into the house made Hestia burst out into laughter as she gave me a thumbs up in support as she obviously didn't want to see me tear apart people with either blade or spellwork.
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Chapter 57 Commissioned by Kriegan
The following day I was awoken at the damned crack of dawn by Bell gently nudging me awake. "Jake, you got to wake up for the Wargame. Come on I made you breakfast and a lunch to go." Bell spoke softly making me groan but I nonetheless opened my eyes to Bell's encouragement.
Bell was leaning over me wearing a loose too large dress shirt that hung down on her shoulders, a tight-fitting apron and some slightly tanned shorts that almost matched her skin tone that made it look like she wasn't even wearing shorts.
"Come on Jake you are going to be late!" Bell chided me as I rolled up out of bed while yawning and rubbing my eyes.
"Alright alright, Bell, I am up. Let me get washed so I can get ready for today." I said patting Bell on the head as I stood up to stretch and as Bell hurried out of the room to take care getting properly dressed herself.
Once I got all my tribulations of the day dealt with, I yawned as I exited the bathroom to go to the kitchen and eat a hearty breakfast made by Bell who blushed in happiness at my joy at her meal.
"Here Jake. I made you lunch for today and Beatrice and Hestia helped make meals for you to keep in your pocket space, so you don't have to worry about actually cooking. You just got to reheat the dinners and the rest of the meals are sandwiches and other simple stuff." Bell explained all but hovering and fretting for me as I was going to be doing the Wargame on my own.
"Don't worry Bell I got a plan." I soothed the bunny and even leaning in to give Bell a quick hug before I separated from her to give her a quick kiss on the forehead which made her squawk in outrage at my surprise attack.
As I separated from Bell, I poked her cheek. "Alright Bell I am leaving the safety of my goddess in your hands so keep the weirdo's away from her." I said wryly as I still was worrying about what in the world Filvus wanted and what Seshat saw in her soul as she inscribed the Falna upon her along with her weird fate sight stuff she kept from me.
Bell just hugged her head into my chest silently giving her own support to me leaving me to only pat her soft white hair as I introspectively thought about how weird my life had become.
I had gone from a Midwestern American whose only experience with the violence that was so common in Orario was smacking other people my age with sticks and video games… Which did little to prepare me for the sights of people being mulched by monsters even if the experience I had as the stick swinging king of my childhood did actually help me a bit in fighting other adventurers.
But the realization that the people I saw mulched under monsters affected me more than the people I killed with my own hands had filled my thoughts after the Evilus attack and hence why I didn't want to slaughter the Apollo Familia.
I may have come from Earth and maybe it was stupid or weak of me, but I was proud of my still mostly intact morals, and I refused to be some psychopath that just kills or tortures anyone who irritates me.
'But being a proud American I am a firm believer of lethal self-dense so if someone actually messes with me or mine, I will shoot them in the face with an actual shotgun!' I thought as I broke the hug between me and Bell as I smiled to her. "Ok Bell I am going to raid the storage facility for metal and stuff… Don't tell Seshat till after I leave!" I pleaded putting my hands together in a prayer in front of Bell who giggled at the sight.
"Fine just hurry up and get going. Beatrice will probably get up soon… Goodluck and be safe Jake." Bell said finally as I left the room to loot the storage room of stuff before the I left the tower and property to head to the designated spot, I was to be handed the flag.
A long while later as I dealt with the Guild and Ganesha members guarding the gates to Orario I then for the first time in this life, left the city and headed south of Orario quickly in case there were Evilus members in wait for me. But luckily there were nothing and no one on the lonely roads leading to Orario that bothered me other than a random squad of surface goblins that broke through the forest I was traveling through to attack me.
"God you guys are so weak." I muttered as I finished killing the surface goblins with my Teardrop Cleaver. Not only were they trash mobs but with them being merely surface monsters they were half as strong without the dungeon fueling them with a monster stone. That and level one monsters that weren't an Aberrant class of its race were a joke in of itself nowadays as the adventurer's of Orario had adapted to the new monster variants.
Finally, after another half an hour of traveling I found the castle I was supposed to 'defend' with a kiosk lit up with several torch's and a Ganesha Familia member standing outside the kiosk guarding the Guild member obviously waiting for me to hand me the flag or whatever.
As I approached, I saw the Ganesha adventurer nod to me, and I couldn't really recognize the lion beastkin dude, but just because I didn't know him didn't mean I was going to be rude or whatever. "Hey, I am Jake of the Seshat Familia. Can I talk to the Guild person?" I announced myself with the man raising an eyebrow.
"I recognize you. And that weird as hell glowing armor and fleshy sword is good enough proof that you are who you say you are. Anyway, go ahead, my name is Blaine, and several Ganesha members are in the area to make sure Evilus don't do anything stupid like ruin the Wargame, so don't attack people wearing bright orange clothes like mine." Blaine warned me and I nodded while taking in the… Disgusting combo bright orange pants and jacket the lion man was wearing.
"Jake get on in here! You can gawk at their stupid clothes later!" I heard a woman yell and as I entered the tent while the Ganesha member curse his god for making the uniform so neon damned orange.
As I walked into the tent, I saw a familiar half-elf sorting out a couple papers who wryly smiled seeing me enter. "Hello, Eina, how have you been." I asked politely as Eina shrugged.
"Oh, you know trying to keep Bell from killing herself in the dungeon. At least she doesn't bring me the stress of having a whole other Familia breathing down the solitary member in the adventurer's Familia I am guiding… Rose is pissed at you for that by the way." Eina told me matter a factly as she stacked her paperwork.
"Riighttt…" I stretched out the word before I continued. "So, what's the rules and how much can I cheat?" I asked directly making Eina roll her eyes.
"There is typically no 'cheating' in a Wargame. Well normally anyway for this event there is two rules. The flag must be in 'clear view'" she said making quotations are the clear view part as she looked to the large golden flag embroidered with glowing golden threads. "And lastly you cannot summon a Monster Rex or more specifically you cannot summon any monster you do not have control of." Eina finished before yawning.
"Now I have been here already for an hour waiting to give this message so when the guards rotate, I will be going home for a nice, pleasant nap before going back to work at the Guild. Do you have any questions?" Eina asked and I firmly shook my head as I smiled.
"Nope… No questions at all Eina. You have a pleasant nap. I know I am going to later as well." I said in a friendly manner making her blink in surprise, as I whisked away the flag and all but pranced away as I realized the gods of Orario are still dumbasses.
For all that they focused on my making of scary ass monsters, they neglected to remember everything I make is literally unbreakable without a Terraria Pickaxe/Axe which I have made sure to never give to anyone.
And in a defense style Wargame… I am going to live a comfortable next three days without needing to fight a single damned battle.
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Chapter 58
Six hours… In the course of six hours, I had from getting my flag to the official start of Wargame I may or may not have completely cut down a chunk of the neighboring forest to the point Eina came screaming at me from the Guild tent as the dozens of trees being felled to the ground obviously kept her from sleeping.
But Eina's complaints didn't stop me my valiant deforestation efforts and soon enough I had enough wood, and I quickly built the shell to an ultra large luxurious log cabin mansion with the back porch and area being encased in leaves/vines I took from the trees to let in natural light along with fresh air while I was working the smithy I made in the back area.
So, it looked like the back area was just encased in a giant thin hedge and like all my Terrarian stuff no one without the right tools could break it.
Finally, I made a sign saying 'Flag here' put beside the flag that was placed inside a locked see through ice chest on the side of the house with the sign next to and then I preformed the evilest thing ever.
I took the large amount of Ice I made by freezing a chunk of the river I passed by earlier to nerd pull / make a tower of slippery ice all the way up till I reached the very clouds and expanded the top while leaving an opening so people could actually climb up onto the platform. And what was at the top… Nothing at all, which was the evil bit as right at the bottom of this tower of ice they would have to scale somehow, I wrote on another sign that the key to the chest and thus getting the flag was at the top of the pillar.
So, with my mansion built with all the functions I would need to survive for the next three days. I began the more fun experience of using the smithy I created in the back to make all the luxurious decorations and furniture for the interior mansion like a nice bed, tables, chairs, chandeliers for forever burning Terraria torches/candles and of course the all-important toilet…
No idea why Terraria had toilets of all different materials and seriously why would I ever go through the damned effort to make a Terra Toilet out of like three dozen other toilets???
But eventually with noon coming I finally heard the grandfather clock I created loudly ding at the hour and I knew that the Wargame officially had started, and I grinned at how the gods and people were going to react to my treatment of this Wargame.
In the very gods meeting room where many gods and goddesses joined to watch the beginning of the Wargame, Seshat sat covering her face both in mortification at how Jake all but said 'fuck the competition' to build a mansion, but she also covering her face to repress the hysteric giggles at the sight of Apollo's Familia trying to scope out the mansion Jake obviously made to live within instead of taking over the old derelict castle he was offered to use to defend the flag.
"So… It can be said that your Jake has accomplished your great artistry when it comes to building but is he going to be just relaxing in his home?" Demeter asked wryly as she sat in their little divine trio that consisted of Seshat, Hestia and herself.
Seshat just chuckled wryly as she watched Jake literally take a rack of ribs out of his spatial storage and begin smother it in sauce and seasonings and start grilling it causing its delectable smell to spread much to Apollo adventurer's dismay as they only had light rations packed for the following three days.
"Jake is weird but he isn't a bad guy. He just doesn't want to slaughter dummy Apollo's adventurers." Hestia explained with Seshat rolling her eyes in ridicule as she would have preferred Jake taking a more hands on approach in dealing with Apollo's wretch's.
And thus, for the next ten minutes the gods watched Apollo's children running around like lemmings completely lost on what the hell to do until Daphne found the ice chest with the flag clearly within on the side of the mansion, and thus, they realized and understood what the weird ass ice tower was for.
"How the hell are they going to scale a sheer tower made out of slippery ice!" Loki cried out obnoxiously as she pointed dramatically at the screen with several gods crying out in agreement about how it was cheating.
But Freya of all people cleared her throat loudly making the room silence themselves as the beautiful goddess rested her chin on her folded over hands. "Jake Barris is merely one member of Seshat's Familia versus dozens… Granted it's not a brave and wonderful battle that could be sung of in songs for generations. But in the end what can we do to decry his method of success as his only rules were that the flag needs to be in a visible place and because it wasn't fair, we had to add he couldn't summon monsters he couldn't control." Freya eloquently spoke as she shrugged.
"In the end he is taking the best way to win as not only will this method not end up with himself losing. But after Apollo's Familia is banished from Orario its adventurers could join other Familia's and thus he wouldn't have bad blood for beating those adventurer's. As at the end of the day most Familia's are many times better than being bound to a fool like you Apollo." Freya spoke cheerfully and to say the least Apollo frowned with his face turning red, but he didn't dare to refute Freya.
One of the Far Eastern Gods then pointed out how the Apollo Familia were trying to jury rig together a scaffold to climb up to the top of the ice tower and seeing how long it was going to take Loki spoke. "Hey guys, let's get a spoiler and see what the hell is at the top of the tower what do you all say!"
A chorus of Ay's of agreement drowned out the small number of people screeching for no spoilers and with the general censuses of gods moving the vision off of Jake who was relaxedly in bed reading a book to look atop the ice tower.
At the sight atop of the ice tower the whole room… No all of Orario had a moment of collective silence as painted atop the flat surface of the platform of ice was a large bright red middle finger.
The one who finally broke the room's awkward silence was Freya as she sighed standing up. "Well, I stand corrected. Jake is a shameless sadist who may drive whoever climbs atop the tower to jump off… Anyway, seeing as Jake is obviously going to make a mockery of the Wargame by living in the lap of luxury in his…" It seemed to gall Freya to continue as she spoke. "Admittedly pleasant looking home, but I will be leaving. As watching him read and eat isn't as entertaining as the thought of him laying Apollo's dogs low." Freya finished as she strode out of the meeting room with several gods and goddesses shrugging and doing the same following the goddess of beauty out of the meeting room.
"Heh now that Freya is gone, I have an announcement to make by the way!" Seshat said proudly smiling with a mischievous light. "My precious Jake Barriss has broken Ais Wallenstein's leveling record over his knee at having only been an adventurer for three weeks!" Seshat announced and the room went silent for a moment before it was filled with screams of outrage most prominently from Loki who was about to follow the gods and goddesses leaving.
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Chapter 59
I took this time to as I was all but sequestered into this lovely log cabin to revamp my combat loadout in all manner of things except for my armor as I really didn't need or want to change it until I dealt with Slime God and could switch to Statigel Armor.
So instead, I upgraded my Space gun into a Magna cannon that instead of shooting a straight laser at something like its previous form, this new magical gun used my mana to send a ring of slower plasma that would collide with its targets. And to further round out my ranged options I finally gave up and did it.
I made the mini shark… Actually, I made like half a dozen as I needed the guns to make other stuff and it was literally an astoundingly easy thing to make as it didn't have all the complicated firing mechanisms a normal gun would. No instead it was a weird weapons system platform I made with some iron bars and then shoved into the gullet of a small dead shark like fish and then the sharks teeth would somehow merge into the gun and become a mini shark that I could carry around and shoot.
Did I think that guns were stupid and weird for a fantasy world? Yes, I most certainly did, and I wasn't and couldn't even rely on them until I could make the stronger ones as I knew damned well that Ais could move and fight at more than a couple hundred mile an hour if she wanted to, so she could cut and block bullets out of the air if the rounds could even pierce her enhanced adventurer body to begin with.
But the majority of time I spent in that cabin I worked at the arduous process of creating a couple enchantments from the Fargo's mod. Because with the Fargo's mod I had a massive list of things call 'enchantments' that were just badges that had whole skills attached to them like normal accessories I could craft did. But these accessories were different as there were literally seventy-six of them and I could combine them all together at some point allowing me to have the effects of all seventy-six of them in a single accessory slot…
To say the least the Calamity mod was the background of my combat strength but my foundation and what will truly make me ascend this world and become invincible was the Fargo's mod as once I reach the endgame item of making the Soul of Eternity that was the combination of literally a couple hundred accessories… Yeah, if I had it now at my current level two strength, I had no doubt I could roll Ottar without issues.
So, in the three days I spent in the cabin I made four enchantments with all the materials I collected that I knew would be useful for a good while anyway.
The Rain Enchantment which made me immune to getting wet… Also summon a small storm cloud above wherever I was looking that would every few seconds strike it with lightning. And apparently most importantly make me float at waist height in water. Granted this enchantment wasn't the greatest but the storm cloud effect was strong, and it was a good practice to make it as I used all premade things made by other people so I could get practice on how the hell to merge the weird objects together to make the enchantment.
The Necro enchantment that would perform some Necromancy on slain enemies and would revive them at a tenth of their natural strength which was a great loss of ability but when I slaughtered dozens of monsters in the dungeon when I called upon a horde or just dealing with the hordes called by the dungeon should I continue the premade tunnel system that would take a lot of pressure off me and it was also easy to make as all it needed was a bunch of stuff crafted out of bones.
The Snow enchantment that would bless all my spells, melee and even ranged attacks with a secondary effect of something called frost burn, basically reverse flames that would give extreme frost bite to whoever hit by me. While also giving me the ability to once every fifteen seconds send an all-consuming flash of icy essence around me that would freeze any enemies that weren't bosses or have special resistances.
And lasty the Wizard enchantment as it only required four robes made out of slightly magical materials. That last enchantment only had a single effect and that was to double the effects of other enchantments which wasn't much now but later when I had seventy plus of the damned things?
So, while Sir Fluffykins got used to riding the Wulfrim drone with its new weapon of choice a mini shark filled with non-lethal confetti rounds. I just enjoyed the screams of agony coming from the Apollo Familia members getting shot all through the nights by my terrorist squirrel and likewise during the day I kept them awake with the sounds of my beating metal in the outdoor anvil until finally at the end of the second day as I was cooking a pizza on the outside fire stove, I heard someone outside the hedge line call to me.
"Uhm Jake you there?" I heard a woman call out to me and after almost three days of only talking to an insane squirrel that wanted me to escalate into making confetti bombs for him to throw at the Apollo Familia I was honestly open to talking to literally. anyone.
"Yup I am here who is speaking?" I asked as I went to spin my pizza around in the stove so the back side of the pizza wouldn't get burnt from the flames in the background.
A heard some hurried whispering before the female voice spoke again and as I pulled the pizza out of the oven, I realized that the voice belonged to Cassandra, Apollo's seer.
"Jake the Apollo Familia has given up. We built a scaffolding to get to the top of the tower and of course there was nothing there… We can't destroy anything to get into your house as the wood blocks explosives and spells. So, we give up." Cassandra spoke tiredly and I paused as I wondered if this was a trick or something, but she continued in her tired voice.
"You have bullied us with great smelling foods, and we have been all but tortured for the last couple days with no sleep being possible to get. So, me and Daphne are calling it quits so we can actually get sleep tonight back in Orario and with us the only Level Two's left in the Familia leaving, the rest of the level ones should follow us." Cassandra finished and then moved away from the hedges, but I saw one shadow standing through the hedges where Cassandra was.
"You know what Jake Barris I cannot tell if this plan was cowardly or just you being merciful… Either way I thank you for saving our lives against that Monster Rex." I heard Daphne Llions, Cassandra's minder typically who kept the erratic girl who was messed with mentally by her prophetic dreams.
And thus, I was left alone for the rest of the night as the Apollo Familia truly just left the site of the Wargame as they threw their hands up in defeat without a single drop of blood being shed… Except for the people shot with exploding confetti and the one idiot who tried to climb the ice tower without any scaffolding only to fall off and break a leg.
"Wonder if Seshat spilled the beans about me leveling up and just what do the gods think of my treatment of Wargames?" I mused as I bit into my pizza, just enjoying the gentle soft noises of the wildlife surrounding my log cabin. Which was a big change from life in Orario.
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Chapter 60 Orario POV
"I do not believe I have seen a more cowardly and bullshit method of winning a Wargame in all my years of being an adventurer." Mia said with a vein on her head being proudly displayed. "Not only does this damned mirage never go away due to the gods not wanting to miss Jake actually do something, but all he is fucking doing is crafting weird shit which is making all these damned mages and smiths take up my whole damned restaurant!" Mia yelled out but the smiths and mages just ignored her after the last two and a half days listening to the owner of the Hostess of Fertility complaining.
Because they knew she just wanted actual entertainment and it wasn't like they were just loitering around. They were constantly buying food and drinks as they watched Jake combine rain and water themed clothes, an umbrella and a floaty of all things into a badge somehow that allowed Jake to summon a thick rain cloud that would repeatedly strike the area with lightning.
"Oh, Mia calm down. Don't you love the business anyway?" A skeevy voice spoke and across the bar was the god Hermes who likewise watched Jake making nonsensical things that only his precious Asfi could slightly match.
Just that weird badge that allowed him to summon lightning was probably worth the same value as Asfi's Hades Cap that would make people invisible, but it was plain that Jake made his with materials that were worth less than a couple thousand Valis whereas Asfi spent literally millions on the materials that came from monsters deep in the dungeon.
"Bah but there is no singing and merriment, Just a bunch of dumbasses just staring at a magical vision and trying to steal or copy someone's crafting abilities." Mia said bluntly and more than a few people's eyes twitched at the reminder that they had no damned way to copy what Jake was doing.
'Like seriously how does a common floaty and umbrella allow you to make small storms on demand?' More than one person thought despondently as they wanted to throw a fit at how Jake's crafting made absolutely zero sense especially with how certain weapons of his used mana and others didn't when they both clearly made magical effects happen.
"So Mia, I got some rather interesting news for ya." Hermes started off this time quietly and Mia leaned in a bit as Hermes began to speak. "So apparently with Valletta of the Thantos Familia coming out of the woodwork to bring back Evilus… Apparently the Dis Sisters Vena and Dina," Seeing Mia's look of complete confusion Hermes nodded grimacing. "Yeah, those complete psychopaths are also back as well and somehow they both reached level six and with their prior skills boosting one another?" Hermes left off and Mia brushed her hands over her face.
"But that makes no fucking sense Hermes! I was literally there when those two were fighting Freya's Hedin and Hogni with Dina dying in directly in front of me and I thought Vena died later in the dungeon?" Mia hissed heavily discomforted at this damned news.
She had interest in another Longest Night of Orario or dealing the masses of thousands completely mentally broken suicide bombers, that were convinced that if they gave up their lives, they would be sent to the promised land by the evil gods in Tenkai.
Hermes shrugged as he spun his drink around. "Mia, shit is going down and I need you to tell Freya that she needs to get off her high horse and tell her little sycophants to get off their asses and clear the underground and such. Loki cannot deal with Valletta Grede, the Dis Sisters, and Vito has also resurfaced this time working with Valletta and worse they are all level six." Hermes said hauntedly as he put down his mug.
Before they could react a thunking noise rang out as a wooden plate fell to the floor and as the two looked over, they saw Ryuu woodenly bend over to pick up the plate.
"My mistake Mia… I will be cleaning some dishes before turning in early" She said excusing herself as she kept her head down looking upon her plate so none could see the dull face the elf was making at hearing how Vito was still alive.
But she made the mistake of allowing Syr to see her dull eyes as she carried the dishes into the back kitchen of the Hostess of Fertility.
"Ryuu…" Syr could only mutter as she watched Ryuu silently doing the dishes before Syr's eyes firmed and she went upstairs to put on a cloak and left the Hostess of Fertility on a mission.
Within the tower of Babel, it was still pandemonium two days later after Seshat announced Jake being the new Record Breaker who had since broke Ais's level record over his knee.
"His new name is Cheating Cheat!" One god yelled and then another yelled over him. "No! He slept with Seshat so he needs to be called Furry Lover!" That god yelled but then yelped as Seshat sent him a tired scathing glare.
"This is not the quarterly Denatus, that will be determining our adventurer's titles so save your childish and asinine names for later… So Apollo you ready to accept your loss?" Seshat snarked to Apollo whose face twitched at Seshat's smug face.
Apollo snorted as he glared at Seshat as he could only watch as Jake simply slept in his bed comfortably while his own Familia had long given up and went home.
But the sun god although idiotic wasn't inherently stupid and knew he had no grounds to call Jake's method of winning the games cheating as at its core the Wargames was built around making mortals win the Wargames however, they could. Whether it be by killing all in opposition or just capturing the objective, it didn't matter so long as the inherent rules of the specified game were followed.
"Fine… Seshat you win." Apollo said tiredly as his head thumped against the wooden backrest of his chair. "My adventurer's will clear out the Sunset Manor and you can take-" Before he could continue Seshat raised a hand.
"Ah ah ah!" She said firmly. "I don't give a damn about your property I just want the monetary value of it in my Familia's coffers. As mine already has a far greater property anyway and its actually defensible and none can harm us within." Seshat said straightforwardly making Apollo's face twist as he closed his eyes and shrugged.
"Very well… I physically cannot sell the mansion on the drop of a hat. Nor do I have the liquid assets to pay for it so I will pay it in some installments over the course of the next five years. Is that amendable, or otherwise as my Familia is being banished from Orario I will simply pay nothing at all as I cannot meet your demands." Apollo said frankly and Seshat tsk'ed at not getting such an easy windfall.
"Fine do whatever you want. Rent out rooms in your mansion or something to actually make money but if you skive on me, I will go with Jake hunt your ass down and there won't be a guild stopping us from sending your ass to Tenkai." Seshat warned with a grin that had too many teeth to be natural.
And thus, the first Wargame of Seshat's Familia ended. Not with a climatic final battle and the triumphs of mortals. No it ended with a man sleeping through the night and scratching his ass to the viewers gaze in the tens of millions across Orario and the major cities scattered across of Genkai
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Chapter 61
On the final day of the Wargame I was awoken by an obnoxiously loud horn that was thankfully muffled by the building I was in but knowing that the game was officially over. I just tiredly rolled out of bed rubbing my eyes as I stretched and as my arms fell down, I just grinned at how I won this Wargame.
"Let's go see the Guild representative outside to make sure nothing fucky is going on." I muttered as I changed into my body suit that would keep my body cool and from chaffing within my Meteor Armor while I went into the kitchen area, I previously made to snag a sandwich.
As I walked out of the log cabin mansion, I created I couldn't help but smile as I took in the homely large house, and I wondered aloud. "I wonder if I can actually keep this place as a kind of vacation house… Well, I could set a teleport point or something to get out of Orario in a pinch." I said shrugging as I took out the flag, I was supposed to keep safe from its locket chest and headed towards the guild tent was.
The Guild ran tent that was officiating the War Game was only half a mile away from the cabin I made so it didn't take me long at all to get there. But as I approached, I frowned a bit seeing no one outside standing guard in case some goblins or other surface monsters popping up. But I could distantly hear some giggling seemingly coming from within the tent as I approached so I just stowed away my thoughts as I approached the tent.
Once I got closer the sounds of my metal feet breaking the dead leaf covered forest floor made the giggling cut off to a dead silence that filled the air as I myself stopped walking at the sounds of the merriment in the tent dying off instantly.
"Hey guys, it's just me. I wanted to come sees what I needed to do with the War Game being over!" I called out making sure that if there was a trigger-happy adventurer within the tent that they didn't try to take off my head if they thought I was a monster or something.
A female voice that was filled with amusement then called back to me. "Oh, Jake please come on in, we were just waiting for you in fact. We also got a wonderful gift for you from the Guild as well!" The voice said merrily making me blink in surprise.
'Why the hell would the Guild have a gift for me?' I thought they hated me after I told them to get fucked when it came to using my tunnel and such.
Walking into the Guild tent I froze at the sight before me…
Within the large Guild tent on the sides was a literal pile of bodies all seemingly frozen which sealed in the scent of their death and I could recognize the Ganesha style and matching dye jobs.
But sitting before the large table where I did the paperwork to start the Wargame was two lithe honestly rather beautiful female elves standing beside someone who was strapped to a chair and had a blood-soaked burlap sack over their head.
The elf on the left was an elf with pale almost cream-colored skin that was wearing a revealing low-cut dress both on the top and bottom while having almost sun like golden hair with blue eyes that twinkled with a mad joy as she saw me walk in freezing at the sight before me.
The other elf on the right side was a Dark Elf with mocha dark skin with silver hair and golden eyes. She was wearing a skintight body that clung to her ample curves with only a thin skirt that covered her lower parts.
"Oh, Jake we were so damned worried you would sleep in today and this wretch wouldn't live long enough to… See you come check on her!" The blonde elf said cheerily oddly pausing on why whoever that was sitting there wouldn't be able to 'see' me. So, I just I refocused on her with my Magna gun flashing into my hands.
"What the hell is this… And who are you two?" I demanded as sand from my Desert Cloak swirled around me to cloak me taking out my magic mirror so I could teleport back home in an instant if needed.
"Ohya you don't know our names?" The dark elf tsked as she pouted kicking the chair and apparently the persons leg making a loud cracking noise making the person bound up and with their head covered up moan pitifully at the feeling of their leg probably breaking.
"We are the Dis sisters!" They said in a parody of twin speak as their hands came together seamlessly with the hands aimed at me with their victim smooshed between the elfish ladies. "I am Dina and this is my sister Vena." The blonde one apparently Dina said while gesturing to her dark elf sibling Vena.
Then she continued speaking as their hands fell apart and the hand, she held her sisters with zipped in a blur to the covered head and apparently grabbed the persons hair as she thrashed her back and forth. "So, Jackie you want to play a game? I make this bitch squeal after I remove her gag and if you figure out who she is I will give her a quick clean death before I cut off all your own limbs and take you back home." She said cheerily even making me up a kind of nickname. But all I could feel was the sheer bloodlust coming off her that matched Allen when he was in a bad mood.
"Aww Dina that's not much of a prize at all… We can at least let him have a hand so he can wipe his own ass, right?" Vena said with actual 'kindness' in her voice. Like she honestly sounded like she was doing me a favor something and took pride in it.
As I stared at the burlap sack and as I saw beyond all the blood covering it. I could see trailing just out of the bag was long brown hair…
"Eina…" I called out softly and a cold murderous rage filled me as her head lolled with her moaning through her gag as she somehow registered me calling her name. I cooly stared back up at the two elves who grinned with true happiness and even clapping making their voluptuous curves bounce within their tight-fitting exposing clothes.
"Wow Jake you are so observant for a pathetic human being!" Vena excitedly clapped as she ripped off the hood from Eina and my blood went cold as I saw what the hell, they did to her.
Eina was a total wreck… And as I took in her new appearance the blond elf reached into a cup and threw onto the table several four parts of Eina that made me want to vomit despite having killed people in the dungeon and the Evilus members that attacked me before.
"All races are lesser than elves. All of them and the filth that is half elves especially need to be reminded of that… Plus she tried biting our hands as we were sawing off her mongrel ears so… Eye for an eye we took her eyes as well Haha!" Vena manically cackled as I saw Eina's pits where her eyes once were aimed at me with blood seeping from each of her eye sockets and the brutalized flesh where her half elf ears were before.
My jaw vibrated as I fought the urge to grind my teeth as I took a breath and looked at the cunts in front of me as I committed their very appearance to my memory. "She may not have been much of a friend to me… But she is a close friend and was the guide of my actual best friend…" I said as hiding within the sands of my cloak I took out an arm sized squirming worm. "She wasn't my friend… But she was connected to me anyway and this karma you will bleed for." I said flexing my hands crushing the squirming worm within my hands.
The girls' eyes widened as their senses went haywire as our tent was blown up into the air as the ground shattered beneath us and a tornado of sand filled winds shot everywhere as I dashed forward grabbing Eina and her ears and began all but flying backwards as I used the Rain Enchantment I created while living in the mansion to send a bolt of lightning at the two buying me the spilt second to get out of the tent's shade as a monstrous shadow filled the surroundings.
With an apocalyptic crashing noise, the Eater of Worlds that I summoned attempted to dive bomb the tent I was within but unfortunately the Dis sisters as they wanted to be known as were obviously fast and high leveled as they managed to deal with the bolt of lightning, I sent at them and get away from the Eater of Worlds.
"Have fun for a bit you stupid cunts!" I snarled as teleported back home with Eina in my hands as I could feel her ever so faint heartbeat as my hands held her blood covered nude upper body against my chest.
The moment I landed home I instantly began first aid pouring potions of healing and regeneration both on her wounds and into her mouth as I screamed out." Help! I got wounded here! Come here now!" I all but screamed and I could hear Bell, or someone literally pull a door off its hinges as they dashed through the store's living section as they got into the room.
Seeing Filvis come into the room I put Eina's ears next to her as I shouted. "Heal her with your healing spells, use elixirs and take her to Amid from the Dian Chett to get her healed, I got to go!" I snarled as I used a return potion to teleport to where I just was before teleporting.
And as I returned to where I was previously I was welcomed to the sight of the Eater of Worlds having tunneled several times through the earth creating massive tunnels as it bore through it in pursuit of the Dis Sisters who gamely fought it using their great agility and dexterity to avoid the gouts of green cursed flames coming from the sections of the Eater of Worlds and of course being either eaten or smashed by the monsters gargantuan bulk as they all but danced across its scaled form.
I was so fucking pissed that my friends were being targeted now by Evilus I just smiled as I flicked a large eye in one hand and in the other, I crushed a sandy medallion in the other spawning the roaring figures of the Eye of Cthulhu and the Desert Scrouge but this time… With how I had gotten the Fargo's mod they were much larger and stronger as they dropped even greater items now.
As three gargantuan monsters the filled the sky screeched, roared, and hissed as they did their best to kill us, I grinned viciously as I took off on my slime hook taking me through the trees that filled the forest. As I flew past those elves that blinked in surprise seeing me back, I took out my Mini-shark and introduced those brain-dead racist elves to the glory of a minigun spraying hot lead in their direction making their acrobatics stumble and dash around even harder to avoid the bosses that alternated between hunting me and them as they lost sight of me in the thick forest.
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Chapter 62
The Dis Sisters were definitely level six… Only Ais and Finn could move as fast and fluently without faltering as three Monster Rex's rampaged destroying the surrounding forest. But regardless of their higher level my hit and run tactics with a minigun of all things led to them getting shot a few times as they couldn't dodge or block every bullet while still keep moving.
But unfortunately, my simple musket ball rounds only gave the level six's wearing only thin dancers like clothes dark bruises as their hardened adventurer flesh repelled the metal balls like they were instead non-lethal rubber ones.
"Dammit just let us go you bastard!" Vena the dark elf screech as I used my grappling hook to zip away from her as I switched from my mini gun to instead shoot at her with my magna cannon making her screech as the maser like gun shot a circular ring of air that was superheated and chock full of electromagnetic energy so when it collided it, it basically acted like getting shot with both a bolt of lightning and getting a boulder slammed into you for an instant.
I didn't answer Vena's damned as I shot one of my slime hooks towards Dina and made her slide across the ground to avoid getting clothes lined by the sticky chain that was shot past her.
Wordlessly I sprinted away from Dina as she continued chasing me with her wielding some dual swords after easily dodging my Magna Cannon shots, but I didn't consider my shots taken at her as wasting my mana as it bought me the time for the Eater of Worlds to screech as it tore through the ground between us separating us as it whirled onto her as it saw her first and began breathing a deluge of green cursed fire at her.
"You fucking human I will enjoy breaking your mind and ego personally!" Vena yelled as she used some kind of spell create a stack of ten red magical circles that hovered over the Eater of Worlds head for a split second as it went to lunge back at her sister Dina and then with a loud sound of air combusting and screech like plasma being used to weld, a pillar of bright blue flames locked in place carved through the Eater of Worlds and although her powerful flames burnt away and 'killed' several chunks of the Eater of Worlds…
The thing about the Eater of Worlds was that it was literally basically dozens of worms locked together and as she carved and burnt through them, the nascent intelligence binding the creature together split apart and I blanched as now there was like fifty something flying Eater of World chunks flying chaotically in the air hunting the three of us as the Desert Scrouge and Eye of Cthulhu continued their actions.
"I would say the same about breaking you and having you birth me some good little half elves, but they say don't stick your dick in crazy!" I retorted before I grinned as I continued. "Well, that… And you two are old spinster's incapable of actually finding a man who wants even a twin paired deal like you two." I said viciously as although I didn't know how old they were being elves and all.
But as their bloodlust spike and Dina the dual wielding swordsman screeched and literally carved through the Eye of Cthulhu that was between her and me. I realized I hit a berserk button. But as she came within feet of me, she was smashed into the ground by the multi ton weight of the Sand Scrouge who like a boot on an insect dragged its armored and scaled form over her form as it turned to rush towards her sister Vena.
"Dina get up!" Vena yelled as Dina blankly got up and my vision became white as an all-consuming deluge of lightning hit the widespread bosses and I recognized Hedin's Chain Lightning spell that was also aimed at Dina who with unseen before speed rolled and all but flew across the ground as she grabbed her sister and took off at a sprinting speed faster than anything I had seen before.
But my snarl at them running away into the endless forest was cut off as the Desert Scrouge had to be killed along with the Eye of Cthulhu as Hedin's Lightning spell bounced between the two of them and killing the far more fragile Eater of Worlds chunks that couldn't withstand the full might of one of the strongest mages in Orario unloading on its singular segments.
"Don't kill it yet!" I roared as I sprinted towards the girls who looked back confused at my yelling but as Hedin of course didn't follow my damned order I saw the Eater of Worlds goodie bags falling to their feet and as they blinked in surprise and smiled as they leaned down to grab it, I shot at them with my minigun making them flinch and giving my slime sling shot time to zip over and steal their goodie bags. "Fuck you bitches, you get nothing!" I yelled triumphantly as the other two bosses died in less than five seconds as Ottar and Hedin, pincered around the two Evilus girls who just rolled their eyes at the Freya members collapsing around them.
Vena looked at her counterpart in Hedin with their contrasting skin tone and hair color and smiled a demented thing as her hand held her sister's waist and her sister likewise stared at Hogni who grimaced seeing the light-skinned counterpart that was so opposite of him.
"How are you alive… I cut you down all those years ago." Hogni quietly demanded as he eyed Dina who smiled psychotically as she held her bare chest that had several gouges across it after the Desert Scrourge ran over her.
"Ahh Hogni don't you know about the true love between pure elves transcend love and death?!" She demanded with an insane grin before it instantly died, and her head tilted to the side. "Oh, my dear Hogni I still love you… But after you tested my love I will do the same and if you come back after I kill you like I did, I will love you forever more my darling!" She crowed as she all but panted with her blue eyes turned a glowing red making me frown at how it was so alike to the dungeon monsters red eyes.
I felt a bit like a third wheel as the Freya elves squared up with the Dis Sisters but as I stowed away the Eater of Worlds and rest of the bags, I saw and heard the psycho twin girls sigh in unison as they eyed Hogni and Hedin.
"Well obviously we failed our mission so toodles!" They said with false cheeriness as they threw me a childish look of annoyance in my direction as they walked away and before I could shout or do anything to stop them the earth shook as a literal army of large plant monsters broke through the ground beneath us and I snarled as Freya's adventurers were hemmed in as the army of what I knew to be Violas surrounded us.
"Fuck it! Hold onto me so I can get us out of here. We have no idea how many of these things there are." I said tiredly as the Freya adventurer's likewise bore nasty looks before they looked to Ottar for his opinion.
"Lady Freya ordered us to escort Jake home and do some shopping for her at Jake's shop. Us leaving now is exactly what she ordered." He said dully as he laid a bear's paw of a hand onto my shoulder and within a second and a half the other Freya adventurers laid their hands on me.
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Chapter 63
If anything, having half a dozen people teleport with me made the spatial disturbance worse to the point that even I felt a bit nauseous with the Magic Mirror protecting me, but Ottar and others gamely swallowed down their bile only shaking and teetering for a couple of moments as their iron wills took back control of their bodies that reeled from being taken through space and time.
But as my mind cleared up, I saw Eina was laying up on one of the couches that was against the wall, so I went to check on her without touching her as I had no idea what else was wrong with her.
"Welcome back Jake." Filvis spoke tiredly as she crossed the corner of the room and at my unspoken demand for more information she sighed as she took in Eina's form. "I managed to reattach her ears as they had been… Cut off with a very sharp implement. But even if you saved her eyes, I wouldn't have been able to fix them, nor can the Dia Saint regrow them with her spell. Other than that she had some busted ribs and other bones that had been broken but I was able to set them so they can heal properly with the potions we have on hand." Filvus finished explaining and I saw with how she tottered on her feet that she must have been close to Mind Down so I tersely nodded.
"Thank you Filvus… She is a dear friend to Bell." I said feeling my own adrenaline leaving my own body and I could feel all the bruises and my own injuries that managed to get past my Armor Rating with how there was three bosses trying to kill us.
"Enough with the sappy shit. We came to do business so lead us to where we need to go." Hedin impatiently brusquely cut into our conversation, and I saw Hedin throw a dirty look at me for not leading them on.
I only blinked at them before I just looked back to Filvis. "So other than her eyes she will be fine?" I asked and Filvis nodded with a wry look on her face as I heard Hedin's teeth all but grinding in the background.
"Alright." I said taking a breath as I turned back to the Freya members. "I thank you for your patience and your help previously." I said thankfully with Ottar nodding, accepting the thanks as the other level sixes just shifted in place obviously not really caring too much for my thanks either way.
"Alright let me show you what I got up for sale and if you got any questions, you all are welcome to ask." I finished as I left them all out of the room so Eina could get some rest and I realized as I left the room that I would need to bunk with either Bell or Beatrice tonight. As it's not like I could just kick Eina into another room.
Bringing down the Freya members from my room only got a couple blinks of surprise from Hestia and Seshat but they didn't question their presence in the store. "It here says on the list that these Hermes Boots increase running speed by fifty percent and there's better forms of these boots. What's the best boots that boost running speed." Hogni enthusiastically demanded as he slapped the boots onto the counter I was sitting on.
I had to actually think about that question before I shrugged as with how I was still only in 'pre-hardmode'. The best boots I could make was Terraspark Boots.
"The best boots I can make as of now is Terraspark boots… Literally a half dozen times better than those boots and comes with a great number of extra abilities like, walking on lava, resistance to high and low temperatures, prevents you from slipping on ice and allowing you to walk on water." As I listed the boots abilities Hogni's eyes widened showing a lot more emotion past scarf that covered his lower face as he boggled at what I was saying, and as I added one more bit almost nonchalantly, he flinched. "Oh, and you can fly through the air a bit like Asfi Andromeda's flying shoes allow her to."
Ottar grunted as he brought his own paper over and placed it down on the table. "I want to commission a set of armor and the Freya Familia will commission ten sets of those Terraspark Boots so long as they have the same indestructibility your other items have." Ottar announced making my eyes twitch at his order.
"Ten Terraspark boots is equal to one billion Valis Ottar." I said straight up, and my frank answer made Ottar stagger in place as the price was ruinously exorbitant to say the least.
"Oi what the hell! You sell your other shit at prices that don't even reach a single million what gives!" Hedin all but howled as not even the Freya Familia had a billion Valis in liquid funds at all.
I gave them all an irritated look before I very clearly explained. "Alright so you guys saw or at least heard how I crafted these badges with magical effects using other items that don't make sense for the item in question as well as using other magical items altogether?" I explained and all of them nodded in agreement as they saw me crafting over the past three days at least at some point as the Wargame was played within their Familia mansion. "Well, the Terraspark boots literally takes more than a couple dozen magical items I have to make on my own and combine to make the final form of the boots. Hell, I only have a lesser form of boots as I haven't been able to get into the dungeon and get the materials needed to make the lava themed stuff to make the boots to begin with!" I said with honest irritation.
No way in hell I could get literally down to the damned fifty eighth floor in the Dragon Vase floor around all those damned Valgang Dragons and mine up the ores as I knew damned well that's where Hellstone was.
"So, you cannot even craft them due to lacking the materials?" Hedin interjected and I nodded as the blond elf looked to Ottar before back down to me. "Where in the dungeon would you need these materials and, would we need to retrieve them, or could we simply escort you there?" He continued and I blew out some air as I shrugged.
"Well Hellstone only forms in almost volcanic levels of heat so maybe I could get it from the volcano that is a week or some away from Orario in the heart of the Beol Mountains but if I go to the dungeon, I could also get the rest of the materials for the boots." Then I pointed to another sign that was to the side. "And remember I charge based on earning favors and getting help to get materials for myself. This whole business is just helping you guys to help me get better stuff myself except for the potions bit. Thats for money and keeping my goddess out of trouble." I bluntly said with Seshat snorting but turning introspective as she realized like ninety percent of our sales were our cheap decent quality potions.
Hogni groaned as he seemed to pick up more on the Hellstone bit making everyone look to him in confusion except for me who shrugged. "The only volcanic floor in the dungeon is the base of the Dragon Vase. We would need to get down to fifty eighth floor." Hogni said wryly as such an expedition would take literally weeks normally.
But I raised a hand. "Or!" I said loudly as I dangled a gold key in front of the Freya adventurers. "Or you guys can help me make the next tunnel to the next safe zone in the dungeon the twenty eighth floor to bypass the Water City floors." I said dangling the key in front of Ottar who understood what I was offering to Freya.
I was offering to give the Familia the right to travel through the dungeon using my highways with no monsters and with the carts I sold they could get down to Rivira in less than half an hour in comparison to the hours they would have to fight through the easy floors getting to the first safe zone.
"We will need to confer with Lady Freya… Loki Familia is already in the dungeon on their expedition and leaving Orario without a high-level Familia when Evilus is coming back from the dead could lead to issues." Ottar bluntly replied earning a nod from me in understanding.
"I see. Then I guess good luck in that. Either way if she denies this opportunity, I will be leaving Orario to go acquire resources for a while and frankly avoid Evilus's nonsense while I am gone." I said honestly making Ottar frown.
"Why are you leaving? Orario is the center of the world… What can you not get here?" He demanded and I shrugged.
"As I said, if I cannot get help getting to the lower floors, I will explore the surface of Gekai to get the materials I need to allow me to get down to said floors. Loki's Familia is already busy down in the dungeon and you guys are busy watching Orario so I got to do what I need in order to get stronger." I finished and hearing how I was going to strike out on my own to get stronger I saw the Freya adventurer's looking at me with a bit more respect.
"Anya… Allen's sister can lead you to the mid-thirties floors." Hedin grunted as Ottar threw a glare at him, but Hedin just snorted. "Come off it Ottar. She needs to step out of her brothers shadow and has played waitress long enough. I will get her here in two hours be ready for her." Hedin said finally to me as he left the shop with me sending an unspoken order to Bell for her to let him out of the tower.
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Chapter 64
Hedin didn't even give me a chance to deny him what with him running off, so I was left with Ottar as Hogni just went back to browsing my wares but avoided Hestia's unending questions as he was still shy.
"What kind of armor do you want. All my armors have magical effects to them so knowing what you want out of them is important." I spoke.
Ottar grunted before he spoke in his gravelly voice. "I want armor that will protect my heart and if possible, make me faster."
I frowned at his request before I shook my head. "I don't make armor plates like that to just protect your heart Ottar. For one my armor is magically fitting so it doesn't impede your movements besides its actual weight but for adventurer's its neligible." I then brought out the list of armor types I could make as of now and began to list them and their effects.
"Hmm… This Ninja Armor would give me the speed I want. But this Shadow and Crimson armor would make me stronger and either more durable or a potent regeneration?" Ottar pondered as Hogin walked over and took a copy of the list.
After a moment the dark elf spoke softly. "Would the Ninja Armor make me less noticeable?" He asked quietly.
I sadly shook my head before I spoke again. "In time I could make an armor that would make you invisible but not for a long while." At the letdown he slumped but I told him if he was willing to help me kill another boss, I would gift him a potion that would make him invisible for a few minutes.
"Ok… I will help you with the boss later on!" Hogni said with some actual enthusiasm in his voice as he obviously relished the thought of his crippling social anxiety being soothed for a bit.
No seriously his social anxiety was so great that he literally developed a Skill on his Falna or on his very soul that brought a second more valiant and bombastic personality to take over his body.
"I want the Shadow armor set… I believe in my own strength to not need the regeneration but the speed that the Shadow armor gives hmm…" Ottar grunted at the end as he walked over to me, and I quickly took his measurements.
"Alright Ottar I will have the armor done in three days as I want to make this trip into the dungeon myself." I said and Ottar surprisingly rolled his eyes.
"Don't rush… You are much faster than other smiths anyway." He said with a tiny bit of encouragement that I actually felt a bit of pride from his words.
Then Bell walked back in, and I noticed she was pretty downcast after leading Hedin out of the tower.
"You guys can read the lists. Bell, I need to talk to you for a bit about our little expedition coming up." I said gently but firmly grabbing Bell by her wrist as she listlessly wandered past me.
Everyone took a look at Bell who looked at me with a confused expression but they either being older and more experienced, or gods who could see more than mere mortals could tell Bell was distracted and thus was in no shape for going into the dungeon.
So I led Bell into one of the side rooms and I just pulled Bell into my lap as I held her against me in a tight hug, she buried her face into my shoulder and as I held her ever so tightly I felt her already superhuman strength being used to hug me as the walls she put up in front of Freya Familia came crashing down and so did her composure as she began crying into my shoulder.
"I know Bell." I soothed her as I rocked her in my arms. "We can fix Eina dont worry." I kept soothing her and at my words she sniffled and leaned a bit away so she could actually look at my face rather than drowning my shoulder in her sorrows.
"Rweally?" She sniffled with the word coming clogged up with her tears choking out her normally cute voice.
I gently cupped Bell's face and kissed her forehead before I leaned back with a wry smile. "I swear I can fix it will be very difficult, and we will need to be much stronger… But Bell." I said with my hands holding her face tightening ever so slightly. "We can do it! We can get new eyes for her and will make her the equal to even level fives in magical might so this won't ever happen again." I told her honestly making her nod and take a deep breath.
"What do we need to do Jake?" She asked after she exhaled and no longer did, she have that dour depression hanging over her. No now she had true drive in her heart. The very drive that would fuel her cheat Liaris Freese to make her grow and this desire to give her friend Eina her eyes back would make her grow even faster than her prior little crush on Ais Wallenstein if she even had that crush anymore to begin with.
"We need to get to level three at least and by then we should be strong enough to kill the monsters to make a powerful potion that will help regenerate her eyes." I said as I realized that to get the materials to make a Restoration Potion, I would need Pink Slime but seeing as Pinky cannot spawn naturally, I am going to literally need to kill the Queen Slime one of the Hard Mode bosses to get the pink slime.
I smiled as I patted Bell on her butt making her yelp and blush in my arms as I spoke more happily. "Bell, Eina is going to be just damned fine I promise. After all it only took me like three weeks to get to level two so at most in a month, I will be level three and we can fight the boss together so we can get Eina fixed." I finished as I dipped in and kissed her fully on the mouth for a couple of seconds before breaking off. "Now come on Bell. Let's tear up the dungeon so you can get that little bit more you need to fill out your stats and hit level two yourself." I said firmly and Bell nodded with a fire in her eyes that made me pity the monsters we would face in the dungeon.
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Chapter 65
Hedin took longer than expected to return from the Hostess of Fertility but thankfully by the time he did, Bell had her head in the game, and I managed to make some good money selling some of my more exotic potions to the Freya Familia. Like the Danger sense potion that would highlight traps as well as Hunter potions that would highlight people with murderous intent so they could try to sniff out Evilus members.
Granted I wasn't sure how it would work on people as when I tested it in the dungeon, it just visually highlighted the monsters within my vision for myself to see. Which made sense due to the dungeon monsters having little else to their personality other than murdering any surface dweller they came across.
When Hedin finally met us outside the property I blinked at the sight before us as not only was Anya there. But Ryuu was there as well.
"Uh hello, it's been a while since we been to hostess but are you guys going to be coming with us into the dungeon?" I asked seeing how Anya was still in her sort of maid outfit and was wielding an ornate mostly bronze spear while Ryuu was clothed in her tight-fitting white shirt and bloomers of all things with her wooden sword.
"Yes Jake, Syr asked me to help watch over in the dungeon… And for you to come to the Hostess to celebrate your level up as well." Ryuu added with a soft smile that hid a bit of steel making the request come out kind of demanding.
Bell on the other hand clapped her hands together gleefully at the thought. "Oh, the Hostess of Fertility has awesome food! Jake we should go there after our expedition to celebrate." She said and I shrugged as at this point the cat was out of the bag in terms of avoiding Freya. With Evilus running around, it was all hands on deck.
"Nya! Let's get going. The sooner we get into the dungeon. The sooner I get to my days off to relax!" Anya added rather excitedly which fit her more happily go lucky personality that I knew of her. But honestly as I looked at her, I noticed a sadness in her eyes which didn't really make much sense.
Taking in their weapons and such, I brushed a hand through my hair as I spoke. "Alright, well me and Bell are mobile mage fighters for the most part. As we use our magical weapons to fight from a decent distance. But if needed we are capable of fighting in close melee so long as the numbers of monsters aren't too ridiculous." I finished with Anya and Ryuu nodding in understanding compartilizing the information, so that later on our fighting could be smoother in the dungeon.
"That is fine." Ryuu said dismissively. "We have experience in running within all types of parties so we can act as front liners if you need to chant or something." Ryuu said without a change to her placid expression, but Anya nudged her making the elf look at the brown-haired cat girl in annoyance.
"Remember Jake doesn't need to chant to use his magic Nyah!" Anya said excitedly and my eye twitched as I remembered how Anya fucking said 'Nyah' in every single one of her sentences even if she was getting the crap kicked out of her, she could get a Nyah in the middle of her grunts as she got punch in the chest. "By the Nyah!" Anya started before Ottar bored of our small talk flicked one of her cat ears making said cat girl crouch down holding the top of her head with tears in her eyes at the stinging pain.
"Get going Anya… And be careful." Ottar said brusquely before his eyes snapped to his fellow Familia members and then sent an unspoken message between all of them before they in unison walked away shoulder to shoulder towards Freya's mansion.
For a moment we had a bit of an awkward silence before Anya stood back up pouting as she massaged her ears, but she was now wearing an 'odd' smile that confused the hell out of me. "Well lets get going I guess." She announced and then kicked her spear to make its bottom lash out so she could hold it across her shoulders as we walked through the streets of Orario.
But as we were walking through Orario I saw alot of people were rushing around and not paying other people more than a glancing glance before they kept on their business and was clearing trying to get to wherever they were needing to go and seeing my odd expression on how the people were seemed to be in such a rush Ryuu spoke softly.
"The people are scared of Evilus's return… Not only do they have a good deal of the Level sixes, but the commoners don't know if they have another great Evil that can match the previous generations Evil's great evil in the Silence and Predator, level sevens that came to wreak havoc on Orario for their own reasons." Ryuu spoke as Anya sighed.
"Nyah I remember those days… All the killing back then is kind of what pushed me away from being an adventurer to begin with." Anya said softly before shaking her head. "But if they are back, we as the good guys need to get a lot stronger as those crazies don't have limits and live truly only to make people suffer." Anya said strongly before she grinned taking me and Bell's hands. "Well come on lets go!" Anya yelled excitedly as she all took off running with me and Bell being pulled behind her.
Thankfully with our Hermes boots and other stuff me and Bell weren't completely swept off our feet and forced to crash and burn. But we most certainly couldn't match Anya who was a pure Dexterity and Agility adventurer with skills to match.
"Anya… Actually I stand corrected they managed to not fall when you pulled them." Ryuu started about to scold Anya as she caught up to us as the entrance of the dungeon but seeing us fine and not really disheveled at all she realized we didnt eat dirt when Anya pulled us along. "Jake will we be using that tunnel we made to get to Rivira?" Ryuu continued to ask me and I hummed in thought before heavily nodding.
"Yeah, the nineteenth to twenty fourth floor, has a lot of jungle themed stuff I need. For bosses and extremely potent potions, weapons, armor and a bunch of stuff." I said grinning at the thought of throwing a couple hundred Bee Nades at those damned Dis Sisters. Let's see how they deal with thousands of frothing mad bees with magically enhanced stingers and venom.
Honestly for as much as the dungeon here in Danmachi sucked ass and was even more annoying and dangerous, than the normal area's in Terraria… The jungle in Terraria was by far the worst area the game had and I was glad I only needed to deal with things that were half as annoying in the dungeons versions of the jungle compared to the Terraria version.
Damned turtles that can fly and jungle mimics gave me PTSD…
"Alright girls let me show you the glory of mechanical travel and not having to run and fight all the damned way to Riviria." I said proudly as I took out some simple carts for us to ride down into the depts of the dungeon to get to Riviria in literally record time with Anya and Bell screaming with joy as we headed down while Ryuu just held a stoic face that couldn't hide her unsettled expression when the tracks made abrupt turns as the tunnel had to curve lest I simply dig past the dungeon.
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Chapter 66
After the quick trip down to Rivira that saved us more than a couple dozen hours of trekking and fighting through the dungeon, we directly went to the nineteenth floor rather than mess around in Rivira due to the insane prices of crap within the small town.
As we walked through the eighteenth floor, Ryuu began explaining the monsters we would be seeing the Large Tree Labyrinth floors that were from the Nineteenth floor down to the twenty-fourth floor, and my gods there was both a great variety and the actual danger level of them had spiked up as there was a monster for every scenario the dungeon would need.
Plenty of large strong monsters like Bug-Bears, Battle Boars, Lizard Men, and the Mad Beetles for just front liners. For more long-range there's things like Firebirds Gun Libellula, which are dragonflies with guns attached to their backside to shoot people with. And that's not counting all the venomous monsters and toxic.
"You know, I honestly thought my minigun was going to be out of place in here the dungeon. But-" Before I could continue Ryuu cut me off.
"Jake, whatever method you have to kill monsters, use it. In the end, the slaughter of monsters is the goal, and you get Excellia even if you have skills like Hunter to make monsters easy to kill." She said strongly and I nodded in understanding so back to bunker slaughter, I guess.
"So…" I drawled out as Bell groaned as she knew exactly what I planned. "If I had a way to slaughter thousands of monsters while being in a safe area where we could slaughter the hordes of monsters attracted to our location would that be alright?" I asked Ryuu and her eyes twitched as she wanted to scream that using some kind of super monster bait was stupid as hell, but she just said to do whatever was needed.
"Uhm Jake maybe we can see what your plan is first." Anya offered wryly and I nodded and quickly threw down a couple of stone blocks making a little tower three blocks tall.
"Break or even scratch these stones and we can do your slow and steady method," I said and the level fours tried.
Oh, they tried… Anya dashed with blur-like speeds to stab her spear into it but only broke the tip of her spear Ryuu even casted her magic upon it but nothing they did broke the stone due to it being an out-of-context item that didn't have something as banal and stupid as fucking durability of all things.
"Here Anya." I said giving the sniffling cat girl a new spear so I could take hers and put it into my inventory. "That spear is made by me and obviously won't break. So, what we will be doing is this. I am going to build a bunker so that we can cast spells and other things outside the bunker. Which with the bunker keeping the monsters out we can easily kill them without issue!" I said excitedly as I handed over a Shadow scale spear made from the scales of the Eater of Worlds.
"What will you do when a venomous monster poison's you due to enclosed area?" Ryuu questioned and in response, I took out my Bezoar I had equipped and the one I had for Bell. "These are Bezoar's, magically attuned stones that feed and absorb toxins and poison, so we don't catch or get such afflictions," I said handing Bell one and Ryuu took a deep breath.
"I cannot gainsay you at this point as its well-known that your… Objects that you work with are all but indestructible. Even to forge gods trying to break down your creations to learn their secrets, so I will trust your judgment this time." Ryuu said nodding in assent to me as we began our trek down into the nineteenth floor and just as we landed on the floor, we were greeted by a Mad Beetle doing its business not far away from the entrance.
"Bell here." I said passing Bell a flame thrower and then I took out my Mini-Shark "On three pull the trigger. One. Two Three!" And thus, a scene born out of a war movie played as Bell shot, slime gel infused flames that coated the screaming Mad Beetle in basically napalm while my Minishark roared to life laying a spraying deluge of musket rounds down range that shattered the heated exoskeleton of the truck sized beetle.
Within a couple seconds the Mad Beetle just collapsed to the ground as Ryuu and Anya uncovered their ears with Anya looking at me sorrowfully. "Nyah! That was too damned loud!" Anya cried massaging her brown cat ears atop her head.
"Yes, Jake although your method was indeed effective, but it was in fact far too loud for the dungeon… As is evidenced." Ryuu finished dryly as a small crowd of monsters came streaming out of the thick jungle foliage filling the floor but in response, I did the mature thing to Ryuu's point about my methods being too loud.
I threw several sticks of dynamite into the approaching crowd and while the explosives blew them up to high hell I quickly spoke to Bell. "Watch out for me Bell." I ordered as I did what we always did when we went into the dungeon and while I created a simple pillbox bunker Bell jumped atop a little stone pillar, I made for her so she could use her dual space guns to infinitely shoot due to her meteor armor fueling the guns mana needs.
"Get in the bunker now!" I ordered the girls who had actually taken out a couple monsters while Bell acted like a turret laying a suppressing hail of laser fire onto the monsters, I quickly finished up the only like six or seven feet wide and eight feet tall, little bunker before I sealed it up as we got into it.
"Jake… You didn't account for Ryuu and Anya. And just made the normal quick bunker didn't you." Bell said dryly as we were truly a bit squished into the bunker as I went into auto-build mode mentally and just built the bunker me and Bell used while delving into the dungeon as I could build it in less than two minutes.
I could only nervously giggle as I saw through the light of the torch, I mounted on the wall that Ryuu and Anya weren't all too happy being so squished, so I just passed to Anya and Ryuu a couple of my old magic staffs I wasn't using anymore.
"Here, now stick the end of the magic staff in the little peepholes I left open and push your mind into the staff to use it." I said and Anya instantly followed my directions and screeched as the bright blue bolt of magic that blasted out of the staff shot out and collided with monsters outside that began crowding outside the bunker and began screaming in pain.
"Nyah I am now a wizard! Hey Ryuu does that make me stronger than you now seeing as I got magic hehe." Anya giggled and Ryuu actually twitched as she held the staff that matched Anya's and I saw a bland look pass over her face before a massive blue magical bolt shot out and wiped out a whole Bug'Bear.
Ryuu just snorted and flipped back her hair as she nonchalantly spoke. "No, I am afraid that being able to shoot a bolt of simple mana that even Jake and Bell level ones and two can match makes you nowhere near my equal Anya… I am afraid you just aren't on my level."
Bell held my arm as Anya looked over at Ryuu with glowing amber-slitted eyes before she hissed and whirled back, and her staff began shooting a cascade of magical bolts that unerringly collided with the monster's weak points as Anya replied. "Well my magic is far more efficient and I don't need to blast in the whole chest of a monster to kill it!" Anya replied haughtily and Ryuu didn't like that…
Honestly, until Ryuu and Anya emptied their bodies of Mind/Mana me and Bell were barely able to score some kills but once I took out a Water Candle and a battle potion that increased spawn rates… Once the monsters stacked too high I would just throw grenades out to blast them off the bunker so more monsters could approach as the bunker got literally buried at some points.
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Chapter 67
I think Ryuu and Anya were honestly disgusted…
Our method of slaughtering monsters although not too profitable due to the monster stones getting destroyed due to the explosives that cleared the corpses from the bunker. But no other method was as great in the pure slaughter of the monsters.
Finally, after half an hour of literally thousands of monsters dying in piles due to the battle potion and the water candle I had placed, the dungeon seemingly tiring gave up on sending an endless tide of monsters at the bunker.
"Jake put away the stuff, the dungeon has given up." Bell said gleefully as she stretched out her sore arms that had been holding her space guns and endlessly shooting while Ryuu and Anya were laid out due a whole another issue.
The two girls in their little competition got close to mind down before Ryuu's cooler head called off the competition after me and Bell kept giving her them weird looks. "So why even do such an asinine thing as call a monster tide upon us?" Ryuu asked as I broke a doorway out of the bunker.
At Ryuu's question I shrugged as I spoke. "With my various crafting being so valuable to say nothing of the massive amounts of money I get for running boss events, our Familia's aren't really hurting for money in the slightest… I am just here for materials and a lot of them." I said as I literally being breaking the ground to get the dungeons version of mud blocks so I could eventually create a Chlorophite much later on.
"Bell, you keep an eye out for monsters while I strip this floor clean!" I said gleefully as I took out an axe made out of Shadowscales from my inventory and Ryuu's eyes twitched seeing me just tearing down every single tree in sight within the jungle floor to say nothing of the herbs and magical reagents I picked up for potions.
Wherever I went I left a wasteland as every tree was chopped down, every herb was plucked, and especially every single monster that came within view was killed and had its materials harvested like a firebirds flame attributed feathers for example.
"Jake there's some adventurer's over there, what should we do?" Bell asked pointing ahead of us and I grinned as I kept swinging my axe cutting down every tree leaving a bald patch of earth behind us.
"Full send Bell! We deal with anything that gets in the way!" I encouraged her and her eyes lit up as she nodded strongly.
Fuck those other adventurer's we came to strip the dungeon bare and if they wanted to complain they could go to the Guild. With Evilus, on the prowl I wasn't going to play nice anymore. I was literally going to ruin this dungeon floor as I got everything, I needed to make all the jungle items I needed.
As I pushed forward, I could hear a loud snarling and crashing noises coming from ahead, so Bell came back to my side with a nasty look as she shook her head. "There's a lot of Lizardmen ahead harassing the party." Hearing her words I looked to Ryuu.
Ryuu knowing what my glance meant, nodded as she spoke. "We have the strength to save them so lets move faster." And with that said the elf took off at a quick pace into the thick jungle ahead of us.
Myself and the other two girls followed up behind Ryuu as we tore through the last hundred or so meter thick jungle before we broke through into a clearing and in the middle of it was a party of some five people fightning a squad of a couple dozen lizardmen.
Lizardmen were three-meter-tall bipedal lizards armed with impossibly hard land-form weapons typically being large swords and a shield, but they could also have some spears as well rarely.
In the middle of the party of the Lizardmen was an Aberrant lizardmen that had yellow golden scales that contrasted with his basic kins brown skin and his enhanced brethren having red skin. To say nothing of how the aberrant was able to slightly meet Ryuu's blows with its greater strength.
"Bell be careful of the enhanced." I warned her as I dashed into the battle swinging my large Grass sword slicing into the large basic lizard men while Ryuu and Anya tag teamed the aberrant Lizard men and quickly killed it as they were able to dance around it, allowing Anya to stab it deeply in the chest and neck several times in the course of a minute of fighting.
Having cleaned up the Lizardmen we looked over to the other party and the leader smiled before he began speaking and I noticed how they were all kind of scantily clad. "My thanks Jake, and congratulations on your level up and record breaking… Anyway, although we could have handled it I thank you for getting rid of the aberrant as those are always too damn strong without Captain Shakti helping take the heat of those bastards off our back." The man grumbled and from his mention of Shakti I knew this party was from Ganeha's Familia.
"No problem we did kind of kill steal. So, you can have the drops and stuff. But did you guys see any exposed ore while down here?" I asked and the man blinked before chucking.
"Oh yeah I forgot your little spatial trick. Uhm yeah there's a large ditch or ravine over there with several ores being exposed but be careful as the ravine is a trap and will spawn a bunch of monsters when you start mining." He advised and I threw him a healing potion in thanks earning a nod of respect as he and his group went back into the jungle to the side.
"We shouldn't have given the monster stones and the drops from the aberrant away Nyah." Anya said stretching as she flipped her new spear through the air.
She was kind of right, but I had a good reputation as someone who only wanted materials and wouldn't fuck over people that weren't stupid like Apollo was. And I didnt want to lose said reputation merely for trying to nap a aberrant monster's drops when we all but kill stole it anyway.
"It's fine. There will always be more monsters… And the Lizardmen didn't have anything I wanted anyway." I said shaking my head as I saw the ravine in front of us. "Alright Bell here." I said passing her back the flame thrower. "I am going to break some ore out of the dungeons wall and then when the monsters spawn, I am going to leave the ravine so we can easily kill them and then I can keep mining." I said grinning as the dungeon made the stupid mistake of thinking that almost sheer cliff walls could keep me in the damned ravine when I had a grappling hook that would just drag me out.
A couple hours later I had a great number of natural materials and monster materials so that I could make the spawner for the Queen Bee and along with a bunch of other things like an Anglet of the Wind that would raise my natural bodies and mana regeneration. And was also one of the core ingredients to make the Lightning Boots which were just another step in making Terra Boots.
And not only did I accumulate a great number of resources, but I also drove Anya and Ryuu crazy when I maybe tried to tame a Vouivre… It was a female humanoid dragon monster. It had a red stone in its forehead known unfortunately when I broke the monster's wings and asked Ryuu how to tame a monster Bell literally shot the monster in the head.
"No Jake… You can tame a mount or something but no weird monster girls!" Bell said fiercely while blushing while I facepalmed as I wondered if that was going to get thrown out the window when the whole Xeno's come to the foreground.
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Chapter 68
After another three hours of pillaging the nineteenth floor of all its resources, it was Anya who stretched shifting her arm back and forth as she spoke that broke the monotony of the grind. "Nyah Its been a long while since I worked this hard in the dungeon… Hehe I bet I will get a couple stats here as well today so I may be able to beat Chloe in our next sparing session." Anya joked pridefully.
But Ryuu mercilessly popped her bubble as she snarked. "That would require for you to actually get your Falna updated."
Even I winced as Anya's tail stiffened and the brown-haired cat girl looked at Ryuu with a very uncustomary snarl. "Yeah, and are you any different Miss I hide away from my goddess out of some stupid sense of shame at something you failed to accomplish anyway! Chloe Lunoire and I have been following you every single night helping keep Evilus from dog piling you. And you aren't even brave enough to see Lady Astrea to become strong enough to actually clean out Evilus!" Anya said sharply poking Ryuu in her chest.
Honestly Ryuu looked utterly gob smacked at how the happy go lucky girl just completely whirled around on her, especially with us third wheels were fucking right here.
"Then why haven't you gone back to Freya then Anya." Ryuu said crossly as she pushed Anya's hand away from her chest.
Anya's face twisted into a snarl at Ryuu's question before she smiled a sickly thing as she retorted. "I used to fear going home to the Folkvanger, nyah due to my brother's control over me and how he would beat true strength into me… But how could I ever go home specially to see my goddess when the man who snapped my blood brother's neck like a twig is Freya's most favored adventurer?" Anya asked rhetorically before she looked to me and Bell and reflexively my Magna Cannon raised halfway up as this was far to confrontation then I could accept.
"Why don't we all calm down… We can go our separate ways or whatever but fighting in the dungeon is a terrible idea." I said trying to calm the situation but both girls just rolled their eyes.
"We are not so stupid to actually fight within the dungeon Jake Barris… We are not amateur's." Ryuu seemingly reminded me primly as her hand moved away from her sheathed wooden sword at her side.
"Nyah its fine. Stress has been building up and we both needed to shout at one another a bit. Though honestly I may need to look for another Familia as the situation I have with Freya's is." Anya sadly shook her head before wryly shrugging. "I obviously can't be in the same Familia as Ottar is… My blood boils at the sight of him Nyah." She finished and after seeing so much death both in the dungeon and the Evilus people I could see some of that same acceptance for death in her eyes.
That of course wasn't too unusual as all adventurer's had some level of it but Ryuu, Anya and a bunch of others had a different light in their eyes that told me that although they would make death take them kicking and screaming but, in the end, they will accept it. Ryuu for wanting to eradicate Evilus and now Anya for wanting to kill Ottar for revenge for her brother, I guess.
Seeing the two nonhuman girls calming the hell down I sighed brushing my hand across my face as I eyed Bell. "Well, I think today's excitement has been enough for today. Don't you think Bell?" I asked and the albino beauty quickly nodded.
"Yup! Jake, you got plenty of materials right!?" Bell asked me loudly and semi rhetorically, and as I nodded Bell matched my nodding with double the enthusiasm as she grinned. "Thats awesome, now we can go on that date we agreed on earlier." She continued and my brain froze as I most certainly didn't agree to any such thing.
Anya and Ryuu both blinked in surprise with Ryuu actually blushing for a moment before she turned pale as she pointed between me and Bell. "Wait Jake Barriss, you and Mrs. Cranel are in a relationship? What about… No, I am sorry but when did this happen?" She questioned.
I shrugged as I counted the days and answered with a waving hand. "Oh, something like a few days or close to a week ago, I guess. Why ask?"
Before Ryuu could respond Bell poked my cheek and as I looked back to her, I saw she was pouting but blushing. "I mean we have been on a date once… Could we go to the Hostess for dinner please!" Bell asked guilelessly and I couldn't help but see how Ryuu cringed like she imagined something most unfortunate.
"Uhh sure, I guess. I could do with a late lunch." I said and then looked to Anya and Ryuu. "You girls willing to call it quits for now?" I asked and Anya excitedly agreed as she could have the rest of the day off but if anything, Ryuu looked kinda green for some reason. "Ryuu are you alright? Did you get poisoned or something you honestly look ill or something." I said honestly feeling concerned for the petite elf so I approached, and she choked up freezing in place as I placed a hand against her forehead to make sure she wasn't running a hidden fever to burn away any poisons or something.
And no, I knew it wasn't some dense harem protagonist crap as I knew damned well that Ryuu didn't have a crush or see me in that light or anything at least yet.
"Well let's just get going I guess." I said shrugging as Ryuu's face turned normal when I pulled back, so I tried to just put it out of my mind. "Bell, do you want to upgrade your space guns to jungle theme stuff like sending a stream of razor-sharp leaves at monsters?" I asked on the way back to make conversation and then I got pulled into a conversation with Ryuu about my Sword of Grass and how she was interested in possibly buying a smaller version of it.
Funny enough the conversation carried us all the way back into Orario as we took the tunnel, I made back to the surface but as we exited the dungeon and began walking the Hostess to get lunch Ryuu seemed to literally forget whatever issues she was having in the dungeon until we stopped right in front of the Hostess of Fertility. Then she had a weird face cover her features again.
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Chapter 69 R-18
Once our party reached the Hostess of Fertility Anya pranced within calling out. "Mama Mia! We got done early because Jake and Bell's packs got full."
As we walked into the restaurant, we saw Mama Mia was standing back behind her counter talking softly to Anya and I blinked in surprise seeing the older but still very strong and scary woman, with several bandages around her muscular arms and a couple across her face.
"Alright seeing as you ain't working today, git out of the way but first get cleaned up!" Mia yelled at Anya who scampered away as soon as the words. 'Get out of the way' were uttered. 'Ah its you two? What can I get you both." Mia asked as me and Bell took a seat at the edge of the bar so I could watch the entrance and the people going about their business in the restaurant.
"A nice hearty dinner for us both. Bell is going to be celebrating her rank up today." I said clapping Bell on the back softly making her grin in pride as Mia clapped her own hands.
"Ah! So, a bit of a celebration I see. Well, you're in luck as the first rounds of drinks for a party during a rank up are free so enjoy Haha!" Mia said happily as she dropped some large wooden tankards in front of us filled with some super fizzy beer.
Thus, me and Bell drank to her future level up and my own too of course as we clacked together our tankards spilling some of the foam that was at the rim on the bar table and Mia just threw us a rag to wipe it up with.
Ryuu as soon as she finished talking to Mia while she was serving people drinks also went upstairs into the residential section of the restaurant that Mia would sometimes rent out to girls.
"Huhu Miaaaa!" I heard Syr cry out and I couldn't help but smile as Syr's pitiful face poked out of the kitchen with a load of dishes in her hand and even a couple soap bubbles on her apron and a small one hanging on her nose that she didn't seem to notice. "Please ask Ryuu and Anya to help! I can't do all these dishes!" Syr begged and then her eyes lit up seeing me and Bell sitting at the bar.
But Mia coughed and snapped her fingers dragging Syr's eyes from me and Bell as she spoke with a grin. "Nah, you can't cook worth a damn, so Lunoire needs to do the cooking, and with Chloe being the sole waitress, you get dishes duty." Mia said gleefully making Syr's eyes widen with such profound sadness it was like Mia just said that her puppy died while she was at school and now, she had to go dig the hole to bury it.
"Waaah! Mama Mia is bullying me, Jake!" Syr tried to appeal to me for mercy, but I only stared at her coldly.
"Get back in the kitchen and do the dishes… You cannot even make me your husband a sandwich properly." I said before bursting into laughter at how Syr's face twisted in a dozen emotions before she awkwardly laughed and retreated into the kitchen as Bell nudged me.
"That was mean Jake." Bell pouted and I just patted her on her head. Bell may have been able to stomach Syr's terrible attempts at making sandwiches, but I wasn't going to suffer even more of that crap… Seriously who the hell uses bacon flavored Spam to make a pizza like sandwich she would then stuff into a lunch box?
"Here you two go. Enjoy the meal!" Mia said boisterously as she came out of the kitchen with a couple platters in her hands and I smiled seeing the wonderful meal she had laid out for us.
It looked like a large plate of thinly slice pieces of steak, along with a large loaf of French bread with another plate of stuff to make our own sandwiches with whatever cheese and sauces to slather on the pieces of bread.
After we were done eating and seeing Ryuu and Anya not come back downstairs, I waved to Mia as I left the paid bill and a heft tip pinned under our dishes. "Thanks for the meal and be safe you all!" I shouted giving the workers and even the other people in the restaurant a nod and a couple of them raised they drinks to me to accept the well wish as this was a hard time with Evilus being active again.
"Alright Bell hold my arm we are teleporting home." I said and she nodded with a groan as she sent me a wry smile.
"I hate how dizzy it can make me though." Bell pouted but she still took a hold of my arm as I took out my magic mirror and, in a swirl, we disappeared from the streets of Orario much to the pouting of Syr who had managed to 'sneak' out the front door but quite didn't manage to snag a finger onto my clothes before we teleported.
A couple hours later Bell went with Hestia to get her Falna updated and actually level up as we dealt with the last customer who came to buy a few health potions as well as one of the Wands of Sparking so they could start training their Magic stat.
Which was one of the bigger draws for my store as my magical items that drained mana could help train up peoples Magic stat and with how I could literally make dozens of Wands of Sparking in a half an hour as all it took was sticks of a certain size attuned to some mana to make, I didn't mind helping the world develop their magic.
"Haha! My Bell is still super talented and a cheat just like him!" I heard Hestia cheer loudly through the closed door and I paused as I finally put down my book and unwrapped my arm that was around Beatrice as she napped against me.
Then the door to Hestia's room slammed open as Hestia pranced out looking as smug as a peacock and literally danced in place for a whole minute before she dramatically pointed at me. "Haha my precious Bell has a never-before-seen development skill that is literally plot armor and divine protection! You watch out Jake, or my Bell is going to overtake you and you won't be able to philander around when she puts you in your place Hahaha!" Hestia cried out manically.
But before she could continue Bell came out of the room blushing as she fixed her shirt looking at me in relief, as Hestia left the door wide open when she pranced out and thus left Bell partially exposed.
"Hestia don't be mean to Jake… I actually want a big family! And if he gets other girls pregnant, they can help take care of all the kids when I go back to adventuring!" She said blushing an atomic red as Hestia choked on the very air, literally looking like she was going to collapse as she pointed at me and Bell.
"Bwah, you are all perverts!" Hestia shouted as she whirled around and dashed back into her room slamming the door closed with Bell smiling wryly as her face still was kind of pink in embarrassment as she looked at me who was sitting beside now awakening Beatrice who obviously couldn't sleep through Hestia's bullshit.
Beatrice blinked tiredly before she groaned. "Ughh I couldn't sleep last night at all. I am going to turn in early Jake, sorry." Beatrice said softly as she pushed her large breasts into my chest to give me a quick kiss on the cheek before she hobbled to her feet and went into her room with a wave to Bell and unbeknownst to me a wink to the albino girl who flushed at the cow beastkins innuendo.
As I stretched to get feeling back in my arm from Beatrice's form weighing it down and cutting off its circulation, I jolted feeling obviously Bell sneak against my chest as I lifted up my arms.
Opening my eyes with my arms falling onto Bell I lifted an eyebrow as my hands fell on her back and on hand poked her sides making her jolt in surprise and giggle uncomfortably as her womanly weakness was exploited. "You sneak." I teased and then stopped digging lightly into her sides allowing her to relax against me. Even with how I showed mercy and stopped her torture she still pouted but I silenced that pout as my hand trailed downwards to grab her soft backside and drag her up closer so I could fully kiss her.
"Hmm?!" She hummed stiffening on me in surprise as my hands went to her ass, but she then relaxed into the soft making out session with our tongues gently dancing between our mouths while my hand gently massaged her soft ass.
Granted she had a pretty athletic frame, but her ass was fantastic as it had a layer of plush to go over her strong core that born of being a highly agile fighter.
Finally, our kiss broke apart as Bell's red eyes stared up at me with a heat behind them. "Jake… Are you?" Bell led biting her bottom lip as I trailed a hand down the exposed back of her backless dress.
"It's whatever you want Bell. I would love to do more but if you aren't ready, we can just nap here together if you want." I said softly as my hand reached up into Bell's long silver locks of hair and pulled her into another kiss with her chest pushing into my own as I held her tightly against me with my other arm.
Bell in answer buried her hands into my shorter blond hair and pulled me up so she could sit in my lap and once I sat up on the couch, I was previously laying upon she wrapped her legs around my waist before she finally broke our kiss with her breathing heavily. "I… I think I am ready but if I say stop you will, right?" She asked looking up to me nervously and I nodded of course holding her hands within my own as I spoke.
"Of course, Bell." I said short and sweet. And at that she took a deep breath and smiled embarrassedly as she shifted her shoulders so she could pull her backless dress off her arms and allow it to slide down her body leaving her bare except for a pair of white panties.
I took in Bell's pale expanse of skin with her ample handful sized breasts had little eraser like small nipples in the center of them that fitted Bell's soft color's and with her breasts obviously bared to me I partook of what she offered me as my hands rose up and caressed them with both of my hands.
"Mhmm!" Bell moaned feeling my hands massage her breasts and roll her nipples between my finger and seeing her shift in pleasure at the feeling I pulled her closer so her breast filled my visage, and I could suck one of her nipples into my mouth while my hands drifted down.
As my hands drifted down past her waist her legs tightened around my back but as my hands gently slid down the front of her pantie and my fingers parted her thin slit to her womanhood, she covered her mouth with her hands as she cried out softly at the feeling. "Jaaake." Bell whispered as she uncovered her mouth to pull my face even tighter into her breast almost so she could anchor herself while my hand gently explored her woman hood.
"Not so rough there!" Bell hissed as her legs tightened into a lock around my back as my finger found her clitoris and I gently played with the hood of sensitive flesh.
I grinned as I lightly nipped at her nipple that was in my mouth making her squeak in surprise and after the love bite, I kept that grin as I teased Bell softly. "Oh, is my Bell so sensitive here?" I asked as I drew my finger in a small circle around her clitoris making her shudder and then she just screamed. She came all over my lap and my face twitched as I realized I was still in my clothes so with a thought I made my clothes disappear into my inventory so they wouldn't get any more feminine fluids on them.
With my clothes disappearing my manhood that was trapped against my stomach flopped outwards and with a soft slapping noise it collided with Bell's pubic region and even in the throes of her first orgasm at my hands she recognized what the hard length of hot flesh pressing against her stomach was.
"Jake… I." Bell started as she looked down flushed with the pleasure of first orgasm and when she saw how my cock went past her thighs as she sat in my lap and went a good bit up her stomach and ended a couple inches below her belly button, she bit her bottom lip in worry as she whispered wetly. "Dear Hestia, this is going to go right into my womb wont it."
I couldn't help but wonder if Hestia heard that prayer and I followed up with that as I pushed my manhood to hotdog between the soaked lips of her womanhood. "No Hestia here Bell, it's just you and me." And with that I positioned the head of my cock, so it spread open the petals of her vagina and the head slipped into her and she gasped holding me at the feeling.
"More Jake." She whispered dipping to kiss me, and I realized as I eased into her that her constant acrobatic during fighting must have worn away her hymen as I slipped into sodden depths with her keening as my cock stretched out her formerly virgin pussy.
I finally bottomed out in Bell with my cock buried to the hilt within her and then in that moment our eyes met in unison as we broke the kiss. "I love you, Jake." Bell whispered and I didn't need to be a fucking god and have a lie detector as I could feel Bell's second bullshit skill that was her chosen partner skill evolve or something as I could literally feel her true love pouring into me.
I couldn't help but choke up as never before had I felt so assured in love someone's before. I could literally feel the depths of the love Bell had for me as each clench of her womanhood coincided with her heartbeat that had changed to match my own.
As her feelings filled my own heart, I answered her in kind as I gently thrusted up into her. "I love you too Bell. I love you so much" I said as earnestly as I could while holding her tightly against me with her burying her head into my shoulder as we gently rocked back and forth making love.
A couple minutes later I slowed our rocking love making as I shifted to lay Bell across the couch, and she flushed as I took in her beautiful form laid bare before my gaze and her hand lifted up to trail across my chest as I remained buried within her but this time we were in a missionary position so I could hold one of her hands and slowly push back and forth into her hilting her depths with the head of my cock gentle pressing against her cervix that without fail made her inhale sharply at the sensation.
"Jake look at me." Bell whispered to me, and I looked away from her bouncing breasts back to her shining red eyes and I shuddered as I felt and saw the depths of emotions within Bell. "Look at me…" She repeated as she joined my slow pumping into her and the combination of the pleasure and love coming from her, and my own pleasure made me reach my peak.
And seemingly waiting for my own peak, the moment my hot semen filled her depths, Bell keened loudly that broke into a soft cry as our eye contact broke and she closed her eyes breaking some of the connection we had with my more frantic pumping into her depths made loud clapping noises as I shot my load within Bell as she buried her face into one of the couches side pillows to drown out her screams of pleasure as each pulse of cum somehow brought her another jolt of pleasure.
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"Hehe… You're so warm." Bell muttered giggling as she pushed her head into my shoulder waking me up with a yawn.
"Just imagine Hestia's reaction when she updates your Falna and sees this from your perspective." I joked and Bell looked up at me from my shoulder with her face twisted in mortified embarrassment.
"Oh, my gods! You can't joke about that Jake!" Bell hissed as she clearly imagined her goddess going through some kind of meltdown but even as she told me to stop giving her terrible thoughts, I could see she found the idea funny as well from how her lips curled up at the corner.
Then for the next couple minutes we just relaxed together holding one another and enjoying the warmth we shared between us.
"Alright Jake, let's get back to training and fighting in the dungeon." Bell whispered as she kissed my neck before she sat back up on my waist unveiling her slightly toned body and handful sized breasts as she rolled off of me to grab one of the towels, I kept to head straight to the bathroom attached to my bedroom to shower. "We have a long way to get to level three as you said to save Eina… So, let's get started." Bell said with far too much enthusiasm and motivation for someone who just lost her virginity and woke up.
But hey that's how much care she had for her friend, and I couldn't nor would gainsay her for that. As I knew that motivation would push her growth greatly due to her first cheat skill.
"Ok Bell I am up." I grimaced as I rolled out of bed to go join my albino lover in the shower and despite her claims that we needed to get going to the dungeon we still spent an extra half an hour longer than necessary in the shower.
Once we got out of the shower and rejoined the rest of the Familia for breakfast, I saw Filvis carefully leading Eina into the dining room where we were all eating breakfast.
"Eina, how are you feeling?" I asked carefully. I was honestly scared she would hate me or something for partly being the reason she was target by those insane sisters and if she hated me for such a reason, I knew that would mess with Bell though she would understand I had nothing to do with Eina's state.
But Eina displayed her maturity as she only weakly smiled before speaking. "I am recovering as it were… I obviously cannot go to back to my work with my disability which leaves me rather bored." Eina then folded her hands atop the table as she continued. "Jake, I want you to know I don't blame you for this honestly. The Dis sisters made it their lives goal to kill every half elf they saw and their kill counts after being active for more than fifty years are in the tens of thousands."
Eina shook her head as she huffed. "I can't blame you for a living catastrophe happening upon me. As it could have just as easily happened in an alley on the streets of Orario." She then smiled as she nodded to me. "Plus, with Filvis here, I have the help I need to survive in relative comfort as she helped get me a bunch of books with Braille as well as teach me so I can last until you get that potion to fix my eyes Jake… So, relax Bell, I don't hate your little boyfriend or anything." Eina finished with a mocking tone as Bell blushed.
Then came the terrible demon queen as it were. Hestia staggered into the room obviously just awakening from her sleep but as she saw Bell walking from the kitchen with another platter of eggs, she eyed Bell like she was going to fall apart or something.
"So anyway, Bell and I have a good system for dealing with the monsters past the eighteenth floor so I say we go down to the jungle floors and I summon a new boss that will help us get stronger… Also, the boss is a seven something meter tall bee that's super-fast and spawn's other large bees around it." I added dryly and Bell deadpanned.
"I hate bees… I always hated them, what does this boss even drop anyway?" Bell asked and I had to order my thoughts as I began explaining the bee themed weapons, armor, magic tools and other stuff.
"Well, that and we need to kill all the other bosses all over again. When I got my new Fargo's mod, they will now drop a bunch of new drops that are extremely useful and valuable." I spoke as I wore a wry grin as I realized with the Fargo's mod that the bosses were going to be much stronger and with their new drops, I came to the realization that I wouldn't be doing those boss events without trying to disable the mod somehow as I didn't want people, I had no influence over getting those bullshit accessories.
Filvis raised a hand up gathering my attention. "Jake I would like to come into the dungeon with you two. I am well into level four." As she spoke Seshat snorted at the level four bit, but Filvis only had a eyebrow twitch as she continued to speak. "I would like to earn my keep beyond merely watching over the homestead despite appreciating that you trusted me that job… Plus, I myself am curious as to the hype surrounding the weapons and gear you make."
Welp looks like I got a good pre-hard mode boss rush coming today with someone I need to fit with some armor and a sword to help her channel her magic. "Very well. Let's get going then." I said standing up from the breakfast table along with Bell and Filvis.
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Making our way to the dungeon was a simple task with how quiet the streets of Orario was with how the threat of Evilus hanging over people's heads was keeping them inside hiding at home.
"This reminds me of the dark days of Orario years ago… It's so quiet with how a weighty tension is hanging over the people." Filvis spoke softly as we walked along the roads, and I couldn't help but nod to her words as it was completely different compared to what Orario was like when I first got here.
I glanced at Bell and just thanked the heavens that her hair was much whiter and that she didn't have heterochromia eyes. If she did, she would have been a dead ringer for her aunt Alfia and in the climate of Orario recently that could have been a death sentence.
"Well at least the line into the dungeon is the same." Bell spoke trying to be cheerful and I patted her on her shoulder in support as I led the two girls behind me into the dungeon so we could take the highway to the Eighteenth floor.
Once we got down to the floor of Riviria I began to warn the girls about what we were going to face. "Alright we are going to start on the Eye of Cthulhu and then move on to the Eater of Worlds boss to get the new loot bags that will give us powerful new accessories that will basically be skills in of themselves." I explained and the girls nodded in understanding with Bell already knowing what the Eye was like, so I had to explain that it was going to be a different experience with the Fargo's mod installed and that she was to not at any moment, stop moving.
Then with an exhale of breath I smiled wryly as I activated the Suspicious Eye to summon the Eye of Cthulhu and with a wet gurgling roar the Eye appeared in the shadows of the surrounding trees and immediately began flying in my direction while shooting the comparatively slow-moving lasers out of the center of its eye.
"Shit!" I cursed as I grapple hooked out of the way as the lasers were moving much faster than usual and I noticed how the Eye of Cthulhu was glowing as no longer was it, it's simple form of a flying giant eye, but now it glowed with silverly green light with several features and segments of it making it look almost ghostly as it was looking more like an apparition of its true form belonging to the Moon Lord.
And then the eye screeched as Bell grappled hooked onto its form and began stabbing its soft ocular body with her massive Sword of Grass that began poisoning it while Filvis did the same with that Teardrop Cleaver that reduced the bosses physical strength by half.
"Get off it!" I roared as I saw beneath the eye a ball of cursed green flames were growing and the two girls knowing I wouldnt yell for no reason leapt from the Eye of Cthulhu and just in time as the large ball of cursed green flames exploded and the Eye of Cthulhu sat within the cursed flames as it obviously attempted to kill anyone that was stop its form.
'It can now make rudimentary plans and isn't just rushing after me or the most dangerous person it can sense.' I thought with a frown as I resumed shooting the Eye of Cthulhu with my Magna Canon and then switching to my Platinum Crossbow to shoot poisoned and fire arrows at the Eye of Cthulhu at a distance as I kept it primarily locked onto me.
With a screech of fury at being denied hurting either of the two girls the Eye of Cthulhu then blazed with more eerily ghost like energy and I wanted to teleport home as forming out of the powerful energy surrounding the Eye of Cthulhu was dozens… No literally more than a couple hundred basketball sized flying lesser Eyes that began flying at us all at great speed.
But as the Eye of Cthulhu screeched and blared its energy so carelessly, I staggered as the dungeon itself shook and the ceiling shattered as an even louder roar of primal fury rang out.
"Oh, this is fucking bullshit." I cursed as I realized that although the gods didn't either notice or care about the hints of divinity in the Eye of Cthulhu, but this far more blatant outpouring of divinity within this version was spitting in the eye of the dungeon as its cursed flames burnt down the surrounding forests and hurt the dungeon while slapping its corrupted divinity in the face of the dungeon.
Because from the shattered ceiling of the dungeon hung a large seventy odd, metered giant that fell to the ground of the floors of Rivira with a massive crashing noise that shook the dungeon and then to make it even better the bright crystals above us turned red with the Floor. Turning our surroundings much darker with the dungeon going essentially on lockdown as the giant got to its feet.
Even the Eye of Cthulhu stopped chasing me as it sensed the sheer malevolence coming off the Goliath and then it floated up in the air with its army of lesser eyes arrayed around it as the Monster Rex's met each other in a silence that weighed like gods weight upon the people within Rivira as everyone wondered if the Dungeon Goliath would attempt to work with the Eye of Cthulhu to kill everyone on the floor.
But shattering the moment of tranquility the massive Black enhanced Goliath with a swiftness that far exceeded its massive size swiped its massive hands at the flying Eye of Cthulhu but were instead of meeting the soft flesh of the eye, instead phased through it as the Eye of Cthulhu phased out of reality so its hands passed through it and as soon as it did, the Goliath had a deluge of green cursed flames sprayed into its face as the hundreds of lesser eyes began tearing chunks off the boss as they morphed into their flying mouth form.
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A loud crashing noise rang out as titans clashed in the air as the Eye of Cthulhu no longer the predator that sought to either smash or burn us to ashes with cursed lasers and flames took its time tearing apart the Goliath by phasing through the giant monster's blows either with its weird dimensional shifting nonsense that made it paler and almost see through. Or just by simply flying out of the grabbing hands of the larger Goliath that sought to crush the flying eye into paste.
But either way, I saw that the Eye of Cthulhu had to stop all attacks when it phased through a blow from the Goliath, and as it phased out of reality, so did the army of other smaller flying eyes also phase out. Another thing I noticed was that all of the Eyes regardless of the size couldn't phase back into reality when there was something inside of them or likewise in the case of the smaller eyes, even when they phased into the head of the Goliath, they didn't unphased which could have been a powerful tool.
Then as Bell and Filvis made their way back over to me as we watched the battle. Filvis asked the best question. "Which one do we even attack?"
Between the frothing fury of the Goliath that was healing away the cursed flames and the chunks of flesh taken off by the smaller eyes and the Eye of Cthulhu itself that was in its second phase and tearing chunks off of the Goliath with each dash along with blowing cursed flames… Honestly, neither choice looked all the great as it looked like the Goliath was going to win due to its insane regeneration and its sound waves attacks that could stagger the Eye of Cthulhu for it to hit it with its strong arms and fists.
"Want to see how much we can piss off the dungeon?" I asked with a wry smile as I took out the Eater of Worlds and Queen Bee summon.
And at the sight of the boss summons Bell shuddered as she visualized the insanity to come and then with a wry smile she spoke. "Jake your insane but with the bosses focused on one another we can see what happens when we summon even stronger bosses in the dungeon." Bell spoke and then I looked to Filvis.
"This is ridiculous plain and simple… But seeing the dungeon's enhanced monsters get beat down is most pleasant. I vote to do it." She said with a bit of a vindicative smile as she obviously recalled her old parties getting killed off by monster parties and such.
Whelp I got two affirmations to shake the metaphorical bees nest, so I crushed the worm and shook the beehive summon item, and with a series of hissing and buzzing the Eater of Worlds tore its way through the dungeon ground making it shudder while the Queen Bee formed in the shadows of the trees before its wings blurred into motion sending trees flying away at the force of the wind coming off the four wings that kept the Elephant sized bee in the air.
The Goliath seeing two more giant monsters meet it in the air roared in an even louder primal fury while we three made sure to sneak some attacks onto the large Queen bee and the Eater of Worlds before we went back to hiding in the nearby forests out of sight of the massive angry monsters.
"No wonder they say the Goliath is a level four monster at minimum," I muttered as I saw the Goliath literally grab the Eater of Worlds by its long body ignoring the wounds coming from its hands as the segmented body parts attempted to eat or burn the hands away as it used the massive and long Eater of Worlds like a chain to swipe through the air and even succeeded at hitting the Eye of Cthulhu and the Queen Bee a couple times.
But after a few more minutes of the Kaiju's battling the Queen Bee seemingly got tired of getting swatted around and flew directly over the Goliath and recalling the bullshit that it could do. I grabbed Bell and Filvis and dived for the floor as the entire battle went silent for a split second.
Then the entire dungeon shook as the Queen Bee activated its tiny hint of sun divinity it became the embodiment of a pillar of plasma that fried the Goliath for a solid five seconds and in that massive attack, the Eater of worlds that had been rolled up in the Goliaths hands to act as a weapon got fried to the point of dying so we got bags dropped on our bodies and even the Eye of Cthulhu got blasted off to the side as its phasing trick couldn't handle the pure power coming off the Queen Bee acting as the conduit to the sun.
Even though the Eater of Worlds died the Goliath was only partially regenerating as the beam of light had actually burnt all the way through its chest leaving it's core somewhat visible and seemingly understanding how the flesh was hurriedly regenerating over the large crystal several of the miniature Eyes flew over and began taking bites out of the Goliaths crystal until it violently shattered and the rest of the goliath's flesh burst into smoke and the dungeon shook as though in fury at their monster being killed by what it clearly considered to be gods challenging it within its body.
The dungeon's shaking even increased with our forms that were huddled together with Bell's chest against my shoulder and my face accidentally pushed in Filvis's chest, being the only reason we hadn't fallen to the ground anyway as the dungeon was clearly pissed beyond belief. Then the ceiling cracked and as another monster's head popped out, I literally felt a piece of me die inside as I saw the fucking Juggernaut shriek the dungeons fury as it tore its way out of the walls of the dungeon and it showed its insane speed as it literally broke the sound barrier as it tore through the air in its leap in which it used its claws to bisect the Queen Bee with no fanfare before it landed on the complete another side of Rivira in a crash that threw tree's and boulders at insane speeds.
Then as I saw the Eye of Cthulhu try hopelessly to dodge the Juggernaut's slashing limbs and tails, I saw the Juggernaut's immunity to magic at work as its magical barrier absorbed all the cursed flames before returning all the absorbed flames in a massive conflagration that stunned the Eye of Cthulhu long enough for the Juggernaut to leap into the air, capture the Eye of Cthulhu within its teeth and with a wet crunching sound eat it.
Wordlessly I grabbed the girls in a backbreaking hug and teleported home with our bags in my inventory as the enhanced Juggernaut was beyond us… We would no doubt die if we were seen as I couldn't even react to dodge that monster that could break the sound barrier with its leaping to say nothing of its magic immunity.
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Chapter 73
With a loud thumping noise our forms were thrown onto my bed with the air being knocked out of me as all the girls landed atop me and we honestly just laid there in stunned silence at how the dungeon so easily tore through the bosses I had prepared previously.
That Juggernaut's magic absorption and then reflection was just too damned powerful as it was able to sustain being bombarded by the Eye of the Cthulhu without any harm being done to it. Then to say nothing of its whole form being covered in a strong dense exoskeleton that would protect it from errant blows as well as act as the monster's weapons that it was able to use when it dashed around at speeds that broke the speed barrier.
"Jake can that Juggernaut kill the Queen Slime boss you needed the materials from the make the potions to heal Eina?" Bell finally broke our stressed silence and at her question I thought she wanted to back and piss off the dungeon again to the point of it summoning the monster again, but I could see the fear in her eyes and knew she didn't dare as I did.
"Yes… With its magic Absorbtion and exoskeleton I imagine it probably could kill the Queen Slime." I said wryly as I knew the Queen Slime in this more realistic world wouldn't have the massive health pool it had in the game and its body would still be slime. More compact and dense slime, but a slime body none the same and the Juggernaut would claw through it like it was nothing.
Bell just silently pushed her head into my shoulder as she took a deep breath, but I soothed her and Filvis that was still frozen at the sheer violence of the Juggernaut. "Bell, the Juggernaut is the defensive measure of the dungeon, and it can and has killed level fives like they were nothing… The Juggernaut is not our target, nor should it be as only through someone committing suicide and blowing themselves up with powerful bombs and spells have proven to harm it in the slightest." I spoke petting through her white hair.
The Juggernaut was the dungeon's fuck you and everyone in the dungeon button and I wouldn't be surprised if the thing could give Level Sevens like Ottar, Alfia and Zald troubles if they could kill it at all to begin with. So, I had absolutely zero shame running away as I knew the people in Rivira were well versed in running away and the moment the Goliath came out they probably fled the floor and with the monsters/source of divinity dead, the Juggernaut would merge back with the dungeon.
"Filvis you alright?" I asked softly as I finally got the girls off of me so I could take out our illegitimately gotten loot bags.
Filvis slowly rolled over to sit on the edge of the bed next to me and for a moment there was silence before she weakly spoke. "I could barely see the blur of the Juggernauts movements… It's hard to imagine even with my strength that the monster is still so far above me."
At that I mentally swore not to fuck with the Juggernaut as I knew Filvis due to being a Creature who could enhance her growth merely by eating dungeon monster stones had the equivalent of a new level sevens strength or physical abilities.
"It just means that we cannot summon monsters in the dungeon anymore I guess." I said frowning before I shrugged as I couldn't be blamed for this as I technically broke no rules. "Anyway, here is your bags, lets open them up and see what we get." I said tossing the two sets of three goodie bags to the girls sitting beside me.
Opening my own first bag the Eye of the Cthulhu bag. I got the Agitating Lens that allowed me to create a trail of demon scythes whenever I was dashing or running quickly. The scythes also scaled off my magic damage bonuses.
In my second bag, the Eater of worlds Fargo's drop was the Darkened Heart, when equipped, it grants 10% increased movement speed, turnaround traction and spawns 4 mini eater of worlds that could grow depending on the mana I pushed into them, and their strength and durability scaled off my strength and endurance.
And lastly in my last bag this one from the Queen Bee, I received the Queen's stinger that made me when equipped, immunity to becoming infested by spores for some reason as well as, increases armor penetration by ten percent and all Hornet and Bee monsters become friendly. Last of all the Queen's Stinger also gave a special dashing ability which would combine with my Cthulhu shield to give me a stronger dash that when I collided with something my surroundings would be covered in the acidic toxins that the Queen Bee used as venom for its stinger.
It was amazing that these three items from three different bosses were only three out of the five hundred and fifty odd items I would need to make the Soul of Eternity when they already gave me quite a bit more of power as each item was the distilled power and essence of each boss. So once I finished the whole Fargo's mod crafting tree and combined everything into the Soul of Eternity I had no doubt I would be on the level of gods due to all the already godly bosses I would need to kill to get to that point anyway.
"Excuse me girls, I am going to try to equip these accessories outside as the Blackened Heart gives me extra summons." I said with the girls nodding as they put the ore, weapons, and other stuff in the chests I had for clutter in my room and followed me out of the room.
"Seshat, Hestia, we did something super stupid in the dungeon, but we survived… Before you yell at us come look at my sweet new loot first!" I called out powerwalking out of the tower and into the wide area of the glass enclosed part of the property before the other girls could react.
"Jaaaakeee! What did you drag my Bell into!" Hestia screamed as she came running out of the building and I only giggled as I slotted in the accessories and Hestia screamed as she almost ran face first into the large sedan sized 'mini' Eater of Worlds.
"I got us mounts!" I joked as all four of the mini-Eater of Worlds retracted and compacted their blades and other things leaving their forms only with the scaled covering so I and the others could actually ride them though they were certainly slow flyers.
Like they were barely flying at like a brisk walk as they seemed to excel at launching themselves across the ground after tunneling through it. "Actually, could you guys' burrow into the dungeon for me?" I pondered aloud as Hestia gaped at the now semi-truck sized Eater of Worlds as I experimented on pushing mana into them to make them grow larger.
"So, I assume you are the reason the dungeon decided to have an earthquake?" Seshat dryly spoke as she leapt over the new summons and landed beside me, and I nodded to her question.
"Yes, with the new Fargo's mod's the previous bosses were made much stronger with them having pseudo divine domains or were the remains of a god… The dungeon wasn't happy at feeling gods fighting within it." I said wryly and Seshat visibly took a deep breath.
"You are grounded… Get back to making babies with Beatrice or Bell." Seshat said blandly making Bell trip as she almost fainted in pure embarrassment at Seshat's blunt orders.
But I shook my head as I patted Seshat between her ears. "No Seshat, I still have two more bosses to kill before I can rest for any amount of time." I said with all due seriousness. If we could succeed in killing the Brain of Cthulhu and Skeletron, I could make the, Supreme Deathbringer Fairy and that would free up my accessory slots so I could relax and do the more boring grinding and material gathering like fishing and other stuff before I tried to make my way into Hardmode stuff when I dared to fight the Wall of Flesh.
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Chapter 74
Hestia on the other hand frowned as she heard I still had plans to do other crazy things and fight more bosses that would inevitably do their best to kill me and by extension her Bell. "Uhh, can't you spend a couple of days upgrading your gear or something?" She asked awkwardly and honestly, I could.
As the killing of the Eater of Worlds had given me the mental schematics for making the Goblin Tinker's workbench which would allow me to reforge to make weapons have better modifiers for being a mediocre craftsman. While also allowing to combine more accessories together.
But I shook my head as although Hestia's idea would allow us to gain a bit more power. But with my Meteor armor even with the Calamity mod installed I had one of if not the best defensive armors in the game of Terraria while still being in prehard mode. And any weapons I could spend literal weeks grinding to make and perfect, wouldn't matter worth a damn as once I got materials from Freya's adventurer's that went to the Dragon Vase for me in the Dungeon once they got back with the materials, I could make Hell themed weapons and armor.
"No Hestia, as I said I still have two last bosses to kill to get some more materials and then I can take a break to digest all my gains… If it goes well, we could literally get this all done today after we run outside of Orario to deal with this." I said to persuade her, and the goddess of the Hearth frowned as she knew she I was right in these battles not taking long and that she was actually stalling us from just getting it over with.
Finally, Hestia sighed and while ruefully smiling she poked my chest with her finger. "You all be careful then." She said as she looked between me and Bell before she focused on Filvis. "And I am counting you Filvis to make sure Jake doesn't do anything too stupid… Bell is unlucky and gets dragged into nonsense, but it seems Jake just dives face first into trouble!" Hestia said stabbing my meteor armor covered chest. And just ignored the heat coming off from the armor as she was a goddess of the hearth and laughed at such a thing.
"Alright alright Hestia." I said dryly as I flicked her head making her yelp. "We are going now… If we are lucky the whole earthquake in the dungeon will keep the guilds scouts from bugging us to much when we leave Orario." I said as I grabbed Bell and began pulling her along with me as Filvis joined behind me at a quick pace as I sought to avoid Hestia's smothering gaze.
So, having escaped Hestia's bugging, we quickly made our way across Orario and rather than dealing with the Guild and by extension Orario's obsession in keeping adventurers within the city due to the damage we can cause as we wander the world. We instead used our grappling hooks to simply zip over the massive wall of Orario that was partially built by the gods hands like the Tower of Babel was.
"If Evilus, had these grappling hooks they would be far more of an issue." Filvis muttered after I set her down on the ground while keeping from saying anything as that was obviously a sensitive topic.
"Alright so here is how this is going to go. We are going to fight a massive flying brain that will use illusions and like the Eye boss did, it will summon a lot of smaller minion versions of itself. But rather than the Eye boss, we need to actually focus on those miniature versions of it as those mini versions are what fuels its powerful illusions that will allow it to phase through our attacks and what not." I explained.
While I was still talking, I also activated my Darkened Heart to summon the mini-Eater of Worlds and fueled them up with my mana to make them grow to the sizes of decent sized houses so we could use them as platforms to jump and grapple onto, while also mentally activating all my other accessories effects to strengthen myself.
"I am resistant to illusions." Filvis spoke while Bell nodded, and I remembered how her bullshit 'I love/simp over you so much that other people's mind control doesn't work on my love/obsession over you.' skill worked.
"Well, I am not, so be careful if I start hallucinating…" I said frowning as my Terrarian skill protected me from Charming and other Danmachi based debuffs but it seemed that I was still game to Terraria debuffs.
Sure, in Terraria, the Brain of Cthulhu would only make you hallucinate and see other versions of the boss itself, but God knows if that was the case here.
The worst thing about Fargo's upgrades to the bosses was that all the bosses had crazy debuffs that only the special accessory item you get after killing the boss like the Oscillating Eye from the, The eye of Cthulhu or the Darkened Hear from the Eater of Worlds will protect me from the debuffs those bosses could give us.
Honestly, the Eye of Cthulhu's Berserker debuff that would drive people and whatever it hits into insanity might have been why the dungeon spawned the Juggernaut as it was so pissed at the Terraria monsters beyond the apparent divinity use.
I then took out the large brain that would summon the Brain of Cthulhu and even more so than the summon for the Eye of Cthulhu, the girls cringed at the sight of it. "One of you poke the brain… I want to see if you girls can summon a boss or if only, I can do it." I said seriously and the girls looked at me like I asked them to eat slugs.
"No," Filvis said bluntly.
"If you make me touch that, I will not hug or kiss you ever again, Jake!" Bell said 'fiercely' as she hid behind Filvis shamelessly making me slouch in defeat.
'I need to try to meet Welf and become bro's with him… Or hell just hang out with Gareth as he is pretty chill and relaxed.' I thought despondently as I shook my head and cleared my head as I handed out some Potions of Iron to increase our defense for the next six hours.
"Alright so be careful of the illusions!" I warned them one final time as I poked my finger into the gooey flesh of the Brain of Cthulhu summon and at the sounds of the wet flesh pushing aside from my finger, I could see the girls shuddering in disgust just affirming my desire for bros that won't squick out as some of the future bosses will be completely nasty in all senses of the word.
The Brain of Cthulhu did not spawn with a shriek of fury nor with a glorious cry of battle. No, as it spawned in, I saw that it was already in its second phase with its purple fleshy brain matter pulled inwards in the middle to expose the eyes and purple gem that made up its core.
"Terrarian…" A voice whispered into my mind and my vision went black as the Brain of Cthulhu split into dozens of copies that each shot magical blasts and created large lances of solid blood from the ground that pushed Bell and Filvis away from me.
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Chapter 75 Commissioned by GoodGodISuck
Terrible lances of pain filled my head as the surrounding light greatly brightened and I saw how thick dense strings of what looked like light were stuck into the purple pulsating flesh and gems studded into the Brain of Cthulhu with the strings seemingly going all the way into the sky.
Then that powerful female voice that echoed with power and harsh divine might filled my ears again. "The Terrarian… Working with mortals so much is pathetic. Your predecessors did not and they slayed gods alone." The voice spoke and I realized as I could barely see out of my eyes at both the mental pain of whatever was assailing me and the harsh light holding the Brain of Cthulhu still, that Filvis and Bell were just frozen in place with their bodies twitching ever so slightly in place like they were in some kind of illusion.
Once again, the voice spoke to me and this time, I could tell the voice was at the end of its patience as she spoke boredly, and my lips twitched into a wry smile as I could honestly care less about what she said. "As the Empress of Light, I refuse to look down upon the Warrior who is supposed to lay low an entire Pantheon of gods. I refuse to be a footnote in your story whether you succeed with your fellow mortals and slay all and become gods, or simply die and be forgotten… I refuse, so know this Terrarian, I this Empress shall watch your actions from here on, and your next first great kills must be done alone lest I refuse to serve you after you defeat me and my fellow royal the Queen Slime."
I honestly couldn't give a shit less about Empress of Light 'serving' me in this situation as I very much preferred to kill the massive Terraria scary bosses with the help of powerful mages and strong adventures.
But seemingly in an understanding of my thoughts, the light filling the clearing we were fighting the Brain of Cthulhu within further brightened until right directly in front of me formed a solid pillar of light, and out of it staggered out an almost completely human woman with only large multicolored wings behind her. "You are nowhere near ready to summon me so this is being done on my own power, and it's difficult to shove down the instinctive desire to slay you where you stand to say the least…" She spoke while straightening up and her cold rainbow-shifting eyes stared into my own.
"Few will match you in might should you succeed in killing the Wall of Flesh and only should you arm and armor them fully in the weapons you craft and obtain, would any be able to stand beside you at all. As they can only wear a single Great Soul item without a Terrarian's soul to defend against the stress the items place on the soul." She explained and I understood that the Soul items were supposed to mean being the very powerful Fargo's Souls items I got from killing bosses.
"Once you get past the Moonlord and have to kill more powerful gods what then Jake Barris?" She whispered as she suddenly drew close and being so close, I could see her skin was all but clear of any imperfections and I truly was reminded of how the Empress of Light was a goddess above even the Moonlord.
"Do not disappoint me and yourself." She finished and with a crack of lightning or plasma arcing into the surroundings she disappeared in an eye-gouging bright light and then time all but resumed as the light strings binding the Brain of Cthulhu broke apart and the girls kept running towards it while my headache dulled down to nothingness.
"Gurgle!" The Brain of Cthulhu rumbled wrathfully honestly like a Nurgle Demon as it dived down towards me while ignoring the girls that sliced into the massive brain monster with their swords.
With a shout, I slashed my own oversized Sword of Grass across the full form of the Brain of Cthulhu while using my grappling hook to basically use myself as a Yo-Yo on a string and its body as the core, as my grappling hook's chains wrapped around the body and pulled me around the body so my sword could slice across it and fill it with the potent toxins that filled the sword.
After slashing the Brain of Cthulhu with my sword I disengaged my grappling hook and with my momentum as I was wrapping around the boss I was sent flying across the air flipping through the air until I saw green beneath me from the tree's beneath me so I shot my grappling hook and with a groan, I attached to something and the grappling hook drew me towards it but the sudden stop in the air made my chest hurt while thankfully my armor helped prop of my neck so I didn't get further whiplash.
"At the end of illusion, the spirit returns - forming an unbreakable bond, Einsel!" Filvis quickly chanted and as I skidded across the ground while landing, I saw a clone form beside Filvis armed with her staff but instead of Filvis's normal wine-red eyes, I saw this clone had bright almost sky-blue eyes. Then together in unison, the elves held hands and then pointed their palms at the boss and started chanting in unison together in twin speech as the Brain of Cthulhu briefly focused on Bell to shoot lasers at her. "Sweep, holy staff of crushing evil Dio Thyrsos!"
Then from the palm of each of Filvis's hands came a ray of golden lightning that struck the Brain of Cthulhu creating a powerful explosion of arcing lightning, and the force of the explosion of lightning blasted the house-sized Brain of Cthulhu out of the air and sent it across the landscape gouging out a trench as the lightning arced across its body obviously causing it great distress and as I went to stab it with my Fiery Greatsword I cursed as I fell through the illusion of its form stabbing into the ground and as a fleshy tentacle whipped at me I dashed into it with my Sheild of Brain of Cthulhu creating an explosion of air escaping as a far larger and powerful object met with an almost unstoppable momentum from me using the dash from the shield.
"Boom." I whispered as I threw a stick of dynamite into the central eye hole in the center of the Brain of Cthulhu, and I grapple hooked away as the stick of dynamite exploded making the Brain of Cthulhu scream in agony as it lost like half its body mass with me hitting its weak point with the powerful explosion.
As I got away and I saw Bell shooting the boss with her own Magna Cannon blowing off handfuls of its flesh I saw Filvis take a deep breath and then chant again as she used her lightning spell again. ""Sweep, holy staff of crushing evil Dio Thyrsos!" This time she seemingly put more than double the Mind or mana into it compared to the last one as the missiles of golden lightning lit the Brain of Cthulhu and fully encased it in a storm of golden lightning that took a few seconds to dissipate and before it even did I heard the soft thumping of the red Brain of Cthulhu bags hitting the ground signaling the bosses death.
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Chapter 76
To say the least, when the girls opened up the Brain of Cthulhu bag after killing the boss, their faces twisted in disgust as the 'ore' or crafting material being Tissue Samples which were baseball-sized blobs of pulsating flesh was disgusting. And the Fargo's soul item for the boss being the Gutted Heart was also disgusting as it was a basketball-sized heart with lava-like veins running through it and constantly pulsating with the heart beating.
"Yeah… I rather keep the Slimy Sheild within me and not have that." Bell said with her face shuddering at the thought of having the still beating heart put inside her and likewise Filvis didn't want anything to do with the gutted heart nor the other fleshier Fargo's soul items that came from bosses.
"Uhm I would be happy with the Queen Bee stinger?" She offered blushing and I just shrugged as so long as she was willing to use something I didn't care.
I understood that even if they were badass warrior ladies, they were still girls at the end of the day. And girls inherently wouldn't like the idea of a still living eye that looks around to be pushed into their chest and merged into their soul.
The girls then gave me the drops they didn't want as I pushed the Gutted Heart next to the other Fargo soul's items in my soul so now as I fueled the mini-Eater of Worlds that flew beside me I also had small flying brains that were flying beside me that made the girls shudder at the sight of them.
"Alright girls, I think that's been enough fun for now, right?" I asked and the two girls nodded with Bell nodding much more enthusiastically as she was clearly getting low on Mind from overusing her Magna cannon.
Filvis and Bell then grabbed hold of me so I could teleport them back with Bell actually hugging me around my chest but Filvis being a lewd elf held my wrist and blushed at the minor skin contact. "Ok, Jake teleport us back! I need to talk to Hestia as well." Bell said happily and I smiled at her infectious cheer at having killed the boss, but I couldn't help the nagging feeling about how the girls just never saw or heard the Empress of Light saying anything.
Once I teleported the girls back, I stepped back from the Bell who pouted at being released from the hug and I looked to Filvis for a moment before nodding and I began speaking. "Girls I am going to be out for a couple of hours as I need to do a couple of things so don't cause any trouble." I said jokingly to Bell more than anything and she just rolled her eyes and then her expression lit up.
"Jake, can me and Filvis go into the dungeon or something I want to test some of your extra magic weapons in storage over there?" She asked and I shrugged as honestly, I didn't care.
"Go ahead just don't get in trouble and stick with Filvis," I said giving the elf a look and she nodded silently promising to take care of the white-haired albino lest she be tricked into some kind of alleyway with how adorable she could be.
Then once the girls left my bedroom I sighed as I organized my thoughts about this whole Empress of Light situation. 'Did I care? Should I even follow her words and put myself in more danger?' I thought before it struck me that to all those prior questions was a resounding 'Yes'. In the end I did care and although I didn't want to die obviously, I still wanted to grow stronger so I no longer had to fear Evilus coming to slap my head off my shoulder should they get bored. Or worse for my conscious, begin targeting my friends even more.
So with that settled, I looked to see how I could get stronger and the largest amount of strength I could realistically gain at this point was combining my Slimy Sheild, Agitating Lens, Queens Stinger and when I get it, Skeletron's Necromantic Brew into the Supreme Death Bringer Fairy Accessory that will combine all four accessories into a single one that's even stronger than all four of them should be due to all the bosses souls being merged together with Hell stone bars and a new mana source I will need to make called Deviating Energy.
With the Supreme Death Bringer Fairy and Hell stone armor. I think that I will almost be ready to fight the Wall of Flesh… So, if I want to get at Hell stone ingots I need to go to directly talk to someone I really didn't want to.
"Well, time to go see if Freya's adventures actually did go to the Dragon Vase and get me any materials," I muttered as I left my bedroom and after talking with Seshat and Beatrice for a bit and making out with the latter as she walked me out off the property.
While I was heading towards Freya's mansion I was also noting down how I could upgrade from my Magna cannon to a stronger magic weapon along with just more weapons in general depending on how much materials Freya's adventures managed to get me.
"Oh god, I just remembered I am going to have to do a bunch of fishing…" I cursed as my mind reminded me of the crafting recipes that required me to actually fish out crates and other things to get certain weapons and accessories.
"Well, this could be the perfect excuse to go on a good vacation as Hestia and the rest want to do," I muttered as I turned around the corner of the wealthy section of Orario I was in and saw the Freya's Familia mansion Folkvanger in the distance and standing guard in front of the gate was one of the levels five Gulliver brothers.
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Chapter 77
Gods how I hated midgets…
The five Gulliver brothers were all Pallums at level Five with them all even being quintuplets. And they were ornery little shits because they hated Finn Deime for taking the spotlight as the leading Pallum of Orario.
Hell, other than Ottar who was just a silent dude who only spoke when he had to, no one cared for or really even liked any of Freya's high-level adventurers as they were all completely assholes as they seemed to abandon all their social grace to devote themselves entirely to being a simp for Freya.
Thats why everyone loved the Loki Familia so much, they were all a cast of characters and except for Bete Loga, you could easily just sit down with any of the Loki Familia executives and just enjoy lunch with them as they were rather relaxed people and friendly if you weren't harming their interests.
But this… Midget was irritating me, to say the least with his attitude.
"For someone with such a big head, you would think that your head would bobble around when you walk up the stairs." The Gulliver brother wearing a mask snarked.
"With how fucking short you are, I am surprised you don't need a kick stool to climb the stairs for adults." I deadpanned and I could all but feel his flash of wrath aimed at me for basically calling him a racial slur by remarking about his height.
But as we reached the top of the stairs, I wanted to groan at who was sitting in an ornate chair in front of a highly decorated wooden door. A woman with light red hair down up in twin tails and wearing a more low cut and well-decorated nurse outfit. "Heith Velvet. I hope you have been well." I greeted her with a smile as I put on a more natural smile as Heith's face twisted at the sight of me before smoothing over as she looked to the Gulliver brother.
"Alfrigg. Did Lady Freya summon him?" She asked bluntly ignoring me and I heard the man snort in response, but I was more focused on how Heath's eyes looked dull and fucked up. As her voice was beyond dull and more like she was a machine.
"No. But you know Lady Freya told us to bring him and the white-haired one in if they visited." Alfrigg said before swiping his hand aside. "Now move aside doll." He ordered and Heath blinked before nodding as she moved aside and honestly, that dull stare was starting to freak me out.
'Was that soul stuff Seshat told me about her even worse than she guessed?' I thought as Seshat's words about the red-haired healer's soul being a twisted-up knot due to Freya's charm were underestimated and instead her soul was falling apart or something.
Either way, Heath moved out of the way from standing guard in front of the door and Alfrigg the eldest of the Gulliver brothers knocked on the door and then a moment a later a bell beside the door gently jingled five times in a row as Freya obviously pulled a string or something so she wouldn't have to shout to come in.
"Don't do anything stupid as Ottar is just down the hall and before you can even climb out of a window you will be dead!" Alfrigg warned me fiercely as he glared at me before he glanced at the bell that was inlaid above the door and blended in with the dark wood of the door making me realize that the five rings of the bell were meant to be a code from her, to only allow me into the room.
For a moment I feared that Freya would attempt to fry my brain with her charm before I shook that thought away as that wasn't in her style at all for her targets of interest.
The door silently swung open at Heath pushing the door and I walked into the highly posh room and saw a beautiful decent-sized bed and a large couch positioned in front of the large open glass doors that led out onto a balcony. But my gaze was drawn to the form lounging on the couch and I saw that she was wearing a scandalous outfit that was her almost torn-looking body glove outfit that was black and red with the edges of the outfit being red.
"Lady Freya." I greeted while focusing more on her face as I realized her exposed skin was a bit too distracting. Sure, Freya was a trouble-making thot, but no one would ever deny her status as one of the purely most beautiful women in the world and I was still a red-blooded male, so my gaze wandered a bit.
"Jake Barriss, Record Breaker, Summoner of Calamities, Captain of the rising Seshat Familia… You have already earned an interesting number of names in so little time, that even with my own interest in your path that I cannot seem to catch up with them Hehe." Freya daintily giggled as she crossed a leg over the other as I strode to one of the seats arrayed next to the couch and sat down in it.
"Oh, you could have just sat beside me?" Freya pouted and I smiled wryly at Freya's pout that made me actually pity her a bit but thankfully with my Terrarian Logic, I didn't have to worry about her charm.
"Lady Freya, has your adventures had any time to go down to the Dragon Vase to get the ores I asked for?" I asked trying to get straight to business and at that, Freya clicked her tongue in annoyance not necessarily at me but at her own situation apparently that she began to explain as she swirled her wine glass.
Freya eventually sighed before she threw me an apologetic smile and my heart sank as I realized I was going to have to make a trip to get those 'Hell' themed resources on my own. Or more specifically I was going to have to travel outside of Orario to that nearby volcano so I could get the materials I needed from within it.
I had no way to survive getting to the Dragon Vase in the fifty-ninth floor of the Dungeon as the monsters were too numerous and strong for me to push that deep even if I cheated and tunneled. I would still get killed by the army of dragons that filled the dragon vase even if I tunneled outside the dungeon and down to its floor. "Jake, I apologize but with Loki's Familia down doing their own expedition that had already been pushed back, and with Evilus raising their head up again to cause trouble, my Familia cannot delve down to the depths of the dungeon to retrieve those ores as they are all needed to protect Orario," Freya explained gently and I nodded in understanding.
Sure, it was inconvenient but super terrorists were more important than my desire for some super-heated materials. It just meant I needed to get my own at the volcano that even Asfi Al Andromeda, the captain of the Hermes Familia went to get the materials needed to make her bombs that almost her entire fighting style revolved around.
"Then I apologize for my intrusion I will-" Before I could stand up Freya coughed raising an eyebrow as she looked at me with an unreadable emotion as she stared into my eyes and I likewise met her lavender eyes.
"Jake. Why don't you share lunch with me." She offered smiling softly with true welcoming care in her voice as she continued. "I would like to have some words with you. I would adore hearing about your adventures and how you came to be so… Strong and with such a vibrant soul to match." She finished huskily and I smiled wryly as her lavender eyes almost pinned me to the couch while I considered if I could teleport home and get Bell and the rest of the girls out of Orario before Freya can lose her shit at me ghosting her.
But then I just mentally shrugged as to what could go wrong with just having lunch.
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Chapter 78
The lunch between me and Freya was brought to me by Ottar himself with the meal itself being a whole selection of dishes that were fit for the most powerful goddess in Orario and I was welcome to eat at my will.
For a few minutes as Freya and I ate, we were silent. She would occasionally glance up at me with wonder and delight that seemed to change slightly at every glance she took at me and I just frankly enjoyed the meal that even world leaders in my old life couldn't scoff at.
But the delightful meal and silence were broken as Freya elegantly set down the fork she was using and then crossed her hands and placed them on the table as she spoke bluntly. "So, Jake, I can see partly see the emotions you feel from your soul, and I have to ask how you feel about me in particular as your soul is a kaleidoscope of things going on to say nothing of the items of power that are attached to your soul and look at me threateningly."
At Freya's excessively blunt question, I didn't know how to reply honestly as she always seemed to be the type to work in the background and not go on the direct attack unless her interests were at risk.
Even as I smiled wryly at the thought of mini-Eater of Worlds flying around my soul protectively like a dog would encircle their master to defend him I took a moment to respond to Freya. "What do I think of you… I have thoughts about you, not many too kind, the type of woman you are, the way you handle your Familia is not to my taste… And frankly, your obsessives love that is like a typhoon that comes and wrecks everything before passing on, is the biggest detraction you have." I responded equally bluntly.
Freya didn't speak or respond to my opinion of her for a solid minute and she raised a hand that was previously clasped to swirl her crystal wine glass before she took a drink of it.
"So, you see me as the Whore of Babylon? You see me as a loose woman who sleeps with everything with a pulse while also destroying people's lives as I pressure them and then move on when I get bored?" She asked wryly as she gently set her drink on the table and her lavender eyes no longer looked at her food and I could literally feel her passive divine charm as she fully met my gaze with her full attention.
"Jake Bariss… I am old, I am a goddess beyond your comprehension, and if you desire to make that tiny ambition to be beyond a mortal achievable. You should consider quitting looking at people that are far above you in such a disgusting way." She warned me and I swallowed as Freya's Arcanum rose to the surface of her being as a warning.
"I am the goddess Freya, beauty magic war, and all warriors themselves are my domain… I slept with who I desired, who were worthy of touching my flesh and you as a grand warrior are any different?" She asked scoffing before she smiled sarcastically. "Jake, you as a record breaker are prime mating material… You can decry me as a slut but the first time you found an easy woman in a bar on the side of the Red-Light District what did you do?" She asked and I grimaced as I did just what Freya would do with her Charm.
I used my status as the Record Breaker, I used my talent, strength, and Seshat's mating mark to string along Beatrice as a live-in free-use maid. I honestly wasn't any different from Freya with her passive charm.
"Why are you not treating this like a game, like the rest of the gods do?" I softly asked as I looked at Freya up from my own plate after I pushed down the shame, I felt for treating Beatrice as I had.
But I could fix and repay her situation when I got home.
Freya sighed with her finger twirling across her glass of wine and without looking at me she responded. "Remember this, Jake Bariss. I am the goddess of love who embodies it in obsessive love." Her lavender purple eyes then snapped back up to me as she spoke softly while smiling sadly. "I have already fallen in love with you and with your soul that has exceeded anything I have seen in countless millennia of living I will never forget you; I will never move on from your soul… There will be no other work of ages to polish that can match the brilliance of your being." She whispered at the end that I could barely hear and honestly, I didn't think I was meant to.
"So as to why am I not treating you like a game like other gods and even Seshat does? That's because I want you to win. I want you to go beyond level ten and I was even willing to have Ottar snap one of my strongest adventurer's necks when they brought danger to you." Freya spoke before she gracefully stood up and in a single smooth motion that reminded me of how she was a war goddess she maneuvered across the table in that single motion to softly pin her hands on my rising shoulders as I went to pull my chair back and sit up.
While I stood up she whispered directly into my ears. "I am willing to give up my Familia and everything to help you succeed if you would accept me as I will never hamper you in any way."
"I will never again take another lover as none can match their souls and even the thought of laying with them makes me mentally and physically ill. It honestly feels like drinking the finest wine your entire life and then being introduced to the most gut-rotting paint thinner of a brew, to my body with my domains revolting at the idea of coupling with others." She spoke wryly with her Charm filled eyes stared at me with such desire that I had never seen it in anything except for the obsessive desire for my death from dungeon monsters, and as her hands with despiteful strength tried to keep me in my chair but I gently moved her out of the way so I could stand up.
"Lady Freya, you have given me… much to think about but I have duties in my Familia, and I must return home," I said respectfully as I tried to move back, and Freya took a deep breath as her hands slide down from my shoulders and down my chest before I took a step back as her hands went low.
"I see." Freya said smiling demurely before she nodded and looked to me with some actual concern. "I wish you the best on your trip to the Beol Mountains but beware as the mountains are inhabited by monsters that aren't limited to the floor they are supposed to be in within the dungeon." She warned me with actual concern.
"Thank you for the advice, Freya… I guess I will see you again soon." I said more to myself at the end as I knew with Evilus acting up that the Familia's were going to be called to meetings and such. But Freya's eyes at my words lit up with glee as she considered my words to mean I was going to come to visit her herself.
"Wait!" Freya called out as I took out my magic mirror and I paused for a second to look at Freya who looked honestly nervous before she spoke. "I want to do something for you… I know you don't want anything to do with me, but I will change. I will become that what will earn you desire, and I will have you whether it's one day or millennia from now as I won't give up." She said proudly and I wanted to just teleport before a thought crossed my mind and I decided fuck it.
"Kill Ishtar for being a sub-leader of Evilus tonight then," I said and she blinked with her head tilting to the side in confusion.
"That's it? That's nothing alright, I will do it tonight dear." She said cheerfully and before I could recover from the yandere cuteness she used a dainty finger to tilt the mirror to my face and then I was teleported back home.
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Chapter 79
After dealing with the usual vertigo from teleporting I just face-planted into my bed and screamed with said scream being swallowed and kept from spreading due to the thick pillow with an Undine cloth pillowcase to keep it cool. Was spending like a hundred thousand Valis on a bedspread extravagant? Yes, most certainly but when you go to sleep with someone else and didn't want to wake up in a pool of sweat having water spirit cloth solves all such issues.
"Ughhhhh!" I groaned rolling over onto my back and stared up into the ceiling windows that led into the false night sky above. "Why couldn't Freya just be an insane bitch that will make it easy to hate her." I moaned as I petulantly kicked my feed up and down on my bed in frustration.
I just wanted to get some materials and take advantage of her but now I feel sympathy and worse my dumbass decided to get her involved with the best girl Haruhime. Granted I wasn't obsessed with getting Haruhime in my Familia due to my own strength growing so fast and apparently, I was needing to fight bosses on my own lest I face issues from the sentient bosses themselves… But still, Haruhime was the best girl in Danmachi and I feel like I should have taken care of her issues myself if I was going to drag her into my Familia and thus my mess.
"Fuck it. What's done is done. I just need to make the best of it." I grimaced as I rolled to my feet and took a deep breath and then I grinned as I realized that I was actually going to be the one to bring someone into the Familia on purpose. And if Seshat gives me shit for dragging in my own waifu stray off the streets, well then she could suck it up.
With the lovely petty thought in my head, I literally skipped out of my room all but gliding out of my room and also somewhat Bell's room when she didn't want to read at night on her own.
"How did the meeting with that Freya go?" Hestia asked me as I came into the lobby of our shop and I shrugged as it could have gone better and a lot worse but either way I was torn on what to think of Freya right now.
"Only got molested by her a little bit before I could teleport and flee… But either way, I am alright, though unfortunately with Evilus's actions, they cannot go into the dungeon to get the materials I need. So, I will need to go to the Beol Mountains to get the materials I need and might as well also pick up a bunch of extra ores and stuff that will be more difficult to get in the dungeon." I announced as I picked up some potions we had to put in my inventory.
"Huh, figures she flaked," Seshat remarked lazily as she lounged in her large throne couch thing that overlooked the shop. "So, you going to begin heading over there or do you have some kind of plan to get out of Orario without Evilus following your every move?"
I nodded grinning as I held up a Deathbringer pickaxe that I made from the Eater of Worlds drops. "Yup, I am going to just dig under the walls of Orario and go a couple miles before I hit the forests that surround the mountain range. Anyway, Beatrice, I got a few hours before I need to do some stuff would you like to go on a date or something?" I asked nicely and the cow beastkin smiled demurely as she nodded gratefully at me paying her attention.
"I would like that… In fact, I can quickly make some really nice grilled cheese sandwiches with some homemade cheese I made, and seeing as you have things to do later let's just do a little picnic in that Gazebo." Beatrice said gently and for a moment my mouth twitched at the mention of 'homemade' cheese…
Beatrice was a cow beastkin and funny enough here in anime land that translated to cow beastkin lactating at all times due to evolution over millennia made the cow beastkin women into the preeminent child caregivers with their voluptuous frames and very demure and soft personalities.
Those very qualities in this monster-infested world made it so settlements even with many races within them would focus on cow beastkin women due to them being universal child caregivers and thus even with monsters everywhere they survived more often than not due to other races loving those features and giving their lives for the milkmaids to survive a monster attack.
So, when she said 'homemade' cheese I was a little leery of it actually being made with her breast milk. Though that would require that she somehow managed to hide her breast milk from Seshat who was seemingly able to sniff it out wherever she stored it as the cat goddess would drink it all without shame.
A couple of minutes later I was relaxing with Beatrice in the Gazebo I previously made and for good or ill the cheese used in the grilled cheese was not actually her breast milk. "So how has your Falna progress been going?" I asked and she smiled as she wiped her hands of any grease that came from the sandwiches on a wet towel.
"Oh, I have gotten like thirty points in all my stats except for magic over the last few weeks. I got up to fifty points with magic due to always using one of your magic weapons to light the wood used in the smoker and wood-fired cook stove." Beatrice said giggling as she covered her face at my wry face at her 'terrible' growth.
I typically got a hundred and fifty stat points spread out across my Falna in a single day within the dungeon let alone if I was fighting a bunch of boss monsters from my summon items. But she was basically making under like ten stat points a day and that was actually insanely good due to the fact that she wasn't fighting at all.
"You will get there someday Beatrice," I said patting her on her head between her cow horns making her giggle softly. "I believe you will get some kind of skill or development ability based on cooking and when you do I want to be the first one to try your awesome magical cooking." I said softly before dipping in to kiss her on her forehead.
"I may not be the most attentive to you, due to your interests being more homely and my own being just running around getting into trouble." I paused as I sighed and pulled Beatrice into my arms. "But I do care about you so just make sure to remind me to get my head out of the Dungeon game," I said and Beatrice nodded more seriously and then she wrapped her arms around my head and pulled my head into her chest so my face was fully smushed into her exposed cleavage and I could barely hear her heartbeat with how large her breasts were.
"Alright, Jake. Just don't take back those words if I get needy." Beatrice said gently as she snuggled into me, so my face was pressed into her chest while she leaned against my shoulders and that's how we spent the next hour just enjoying soft words with each other until the sun went down and I sent her back inside as I knew Freya was going to start the event soon.
Half an hour later after the sun went down, I watched the Red-Light District's central tower being Ishtar's domain, be smote with a series of lightning bolts and I dove into the red light district knowing that Freya was making her mark probably using my information about how Ishtar was a member of Evilus to make an example out of her.
But I needed to try to find Haruhime before Freya did as you never know if those Freya simps would 'accidentally' kill her or something.
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Chapter 80 Freya POV
Blood and gore filled the red light district as Evilus took Freya's invasion inside as a challenge and thus the Red Light District of Orario became a charnel house of slaughter.
Freya's many adventures all seemingly at level three at minimum slaughtered Evilus agents clad in white cloaks while higher-ranking Evilus members killed civilians and the lower-leveled adventures that fought for their lives to just get the hell out of the Red Light District.
Freya's gaze was slitted with displeasure, distaste, and fear at seeing her adventures cut down Evilus and amazons alike, with the source of these feelings standing before her… No, she didn't feel displeasure, she felt true fear for Orario itself, at the sight in front of her.
"The Silence… How are you still alive?" Freya spoke as her face curdled not only at the bonfire of the ridiculously powerful soul in front of her but just how that soul was seemingly twisted by its prior sickness and tainted by whatever had brought the most feared killer of the last war with Evilus back to life.
"Who said I am alive?" Alifa asked softly as her closed eyes looked at where Freya was. "Isn't this world just a hell of never-ending suffering? Hmph even in death I live eternally to be in agony it seems." Alfia muttered as she sighed before she seemingly looked past Freya and towards the Tower of Babel that sealed the dungeon. Alfia sighed shaking her silver hair that crossed over her voluptuous frame that was covered in a revealing dress.
"Things are coming to the fore and although our desire to push you all to become the greatest heroes has failed with only Ottar pushing himself to match our talent… It's not enough." Alfia spoke uncaringly as she looked at the Boaz who was standing in front of his goddess protectively.
"Ottar. You can tell can't you?" Alfia asked softly and Ottar snorted with steam coming through his nose as his powerful body tensed with the ground beneath his feet shattering at the force pushing on it.
"You are stronger than me… No, you are just much stronger than you were previously." Ottar grunted out as with a loud rasping noise he unstrapped his large sword swords and wielded them in his hands.
"Correct hmph, it seems you aren't just a muscle head like Zald was," Alfia said dismissively before smiling as she looked up at the stars. "I wonder how Bell is doing?" She whispered before looking back to Ottar. "Anyway, you have disappointed me for not leveling up for almost a decade so die Ottar. Gospel!" Alfia whispered and a semi-invisible sound wave was born that pushed toward Ottar, Freya, and the other high-level Freya Familia adventures that were hurriedly trying to dodge with Ottar carrying Freya as he charged to the side as the sound wave obliterated all in its path.
The sound wave Alfia sent out at the Freya Familia cut a ditch more than five meters deep and ten meters wide into the ground as it carved a straight path for more than a hundred meters turning all that it touched into dust or wet debris depending if it was material or the hapless flesh that was in the way of the soundwave.
"Take Lady Freya!" Ottar roared as he tossed Freya into the air towards one of the Gulliver brothers that were priorly in the back of the procession to keep people from attacking their lady from the flank. So they had more time to use their super strength and speed to get away from the coming sound wave.
Then as Freya passed out of the range of the sound wave Ottar, Hedin, and Hogni met with the sound wave Ottar brought down his dual swords down it with a roar and likewise, Hedin and Hogni met the sound wave with their magic.
"It's still not enough," Alfia muttered as the green-tinged soundwave gained power, and with a shattering noise, Ottar's dual almost fish-hooked swords shattered like a mirror sending shards of ultra-hard adamantine into the large man's chest as shrapnel but it wasn't over as Alfia whispered. "Lugio." And then the sound wave's brightness increased and then exploded violently.
"So you came to destroy Orario Aflia The Silence!?" Freya demanded to know furiously as she watched Ottar stubbornly climb to his feet despite his chest armor being shattered and large gashes being torn across his body.
Alfia tilted her head to the side as her gloved hands creased into a fist as she spoke slowly. "I don't like shouting… But no, Zald and I gave our lives to better Orario, but you all have rested upon your laurels and have done little since then. I have decided to claw my way out of my grave to do it myself… But the sight of Ottar is an eyesore with how he has not leveled up despite him having stats at all S rank at level seven." Alfia snarled at the end as she stomped towards Ottar who held up his fists unwilling to go down without a fight.
"I will send him to level up then!" Freya said hurriedly as she caught the crux of the issue Alfia that was glowing and clearly about to send another sound wave that would kill Ottar paused as she looked at Freya in interest so the goddess of beauty continued. "I will send him a pilgrimage and he will level up or die. I swear by my name of Freya as I have held my end of the deal with Hera for all these years so you know my word is good." She offered and Alfia's hands that were at her sides pulled up to softly clap in front of her chest as she smiled at the goddess with her eyes still closed having never found the Freya Familia worth looking at.
Freya didn't even bother attempting to charm Alfia due to her ridiculous willpower that exceeded gods own willpower as she knew the moment her purple eyes glowed with her charm, she knew without a doubt that Alfia would kill her regardless of any curse she could lay upon her from Tenkai for the killing of her mortal form.
"You hear that Ottar… Go save a kingdom from a monster tide or something, and maybe you will be worthy of leveling up. But should I see you in Orario without leveling up I will kill you where you stand for disappointing me for the third and last time." Alfia said uncaringly to the plight of the Freya adventurers who was attempting to heal Hedin and Hogin that had their arms and most of their body mangled by the exploding sound wave previously.
Then Aflia turned around and walked into the darkness of a nearby alleyway leaving Freya's adventurers fearful of the future due to a stronger Alfia having made a return and more importantly not looking to commit elaborate suicide again.
For a moment there was a harsh silence in the street where Freya's executives stood but with a snarl, the goddess of beauty looked to the five Gulliver brothers who were still unharmed. "Kill Ishtar's adventures and drag her to me by the end of tonight now go!" She ordered with her fingernails biting into her hands so hard that her hands bled crimson divine ichor onto the street.
Then Freya turned around with Hedin and Hogni who were mostly healed by Heath Velvet guarding her as she made her way back to the Tower of Babel while Ottar silently and with great purpose walked out of Orario to find his fortunes in order to save his goddess from the Silence's displeasure.
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Chapter 81
When I asked Freya to get rid of Ishtar I had zero idea this event would explode into an incident that would shake Orario to its foundations. Ishtar's connection to Evilus was in full swing as from alleys and tunnels into Orario's sewer Evilus members clad in white cloaks poured out and slaughtered everyone that wasn't wearing a white cloak.
Within the Red Light District sure there was a great number of adventurers blessed by a falna that gave them strength above their civilian kin, but in the end, for the most part, the level ones and even levels twos were ground down by the white-cloaked psychopaths of Evilus who were brainwashed into only killing those that stood in their ways.
I could only hear the screams of the civilians and adventures that were unlucky to survive being mauled by the Evilus members who were armed with cheap weapons to say nothing of the people who were grievously wounded by the Evilus members with alchemical bombs strapped to themselves.
"Get out of the way dammit!" I snarled as I cut down any Evilus member I came across as I searched through the whorehouses for Haruhime. I truly regretted telling Freya to flip the switch as it were as I had damn clue where the Renard Haruhme was.
While I was coming out of a whorehouse I cleared out I heard someone scream from above me and as I looked up I saw an Evilus member get kicked off the roof of the four-story building I cleared and then collide with the ground to the right of me with a sickening crack as his neck and back probably broke and then I looked back up and saw a thin silhouette with the person wearing what looked to be a white shirt and a green parka or something wrapped around her with a hood over her head.
"Ryuu?" I muttered wondering if the other girls within the Hostess were out and about as I took in the form of the only person I knew that would go into combat with bloomers of all things leaving their legs bare. So I just nodded to her and went next door to the next large whorehouse to clear it of Evilus and to try to find Haruhime.
Honestly… Evilus was so cartoonishly evil for evil's sake that even when I butchered them I couldn't even see them as human, especially with how they covered up their entire bodies in the white hooded cloaks, I just treated them as monsters I wasn't going to bother getting their monster stones out of. So even as their blood boiled into steam off meteor armor, my mind and consciousness were clear of angst for killing these rabid animals.
"Where the hell do I find a fox girl in the red light district." I snarled kicking what I hoped was a Pallum Evilus member through a wall and pitched a grenade into his head to finish him off as the room he was kicked into was painted with his remains.
"Sir the exotic girls are at the back right section of the Red Light District in the wealthiest sector." An amazon nervously said as I looked scary as fuck with crimson mist from the blood boiling off my armor.
I smiled at the amazon who paled at my helmeted visage swinging to her. "Oh lovely well go north from here I cleared a path so Evilus members will likely be thinner in that direction or just hide here as that should be the last Evilus member," I said and the girl said she would hide here so I shrugged and as I exited the building I place a couple of stone blocks in front of it so no one could enter the door through the front door.
"Jake, what the hell are you doing here?" I heard someone shout and I saw Tiona armed with her dual-bladed weapon striding through the wreckage of a collapsed building I shrugged in answer to her question.
"I am here to aggressively adopt a fox, but I just need to find her." I said before smiling. "She is supposed to be at the core of the Red Light District and those Evilus pukes will probably be super concentrated there wanna come to help me clear it out?" I asked and Tiona wore a bloodthirsty grin as she nodded.
"Oh yeah, that would be awesome. I haven't gotten to fight with you since we made that tunnel into the dungeon and Aiz and I want to do that again as the sheer number of the enhanced monsters made us get some good Excellia." Tiona said happily as she spun her Urga in the air to get ready to kill some more Evilus trash.
With Tiona's help, I was able to use my magic weapons and my Minishark to slaughter our way through the throngs of Evilus members with Tiona keeping the Evilus members off my back, and as we reached the core of the Red Light district and I saw Orario's backbone of strength was at war with Evilus.
Aiz Wallenstein was fighting a sword fight against a voluptuous woman with red hair along with a man with silver hair, while Finne was fighting that psychotic woman with pink hair with a cursed sword… It seemed that everyone that was at level five in Orario including a couple dozen people I didn't even know of was locked in combat with Evilus people that seemed to match their numbers and levels if not exceed the native people of Orario.
"Aizu I am coming!" Tiona yelled as she cratered the ground she was standing on with the force she used to leap across the alleyway we used to enter the central area of the red light district not far from Ishtar's tower.
I took one view of the battle that was shattering buildings with all those high-level adventures and shook my head. "Nope fuck that," I said primly as I spun on my heel and kept on my way towards the right side of the red light district in search of my fox girl.
Five minutes later I was laying limp on the ground after one of the Evilus members caught me by surprise when they had a short chant suicide magic to go along with their alchemical bombs so my armor rating got destroyed but either way I killed the Evilus member and prevented them from killing the people that were hiding in this whore house but as I dissipated my helmet into my inventory and took out a health potion to mend up my ribs I had the potion stolen out of my hands by a smooth and thin hand.
"Sir your ribs are in terrible condition and I heard them break when you landed so don't move please." I heard a gentle woman's voice speak and I looked up painfully as the woman carefully brought the potion in her hands to my mouth I choked on the mushroom-tasting potion as blond hair trailed over my face with fox ears and green eyes looking down at me as Haruhime Sanjouno gave me a lap pillow to help me drink the potion after saving her life from a suicide bomber.
'Is it wrong to fall in love with a fox girl priestess after saving her life, and her nursing you back to health.' I thought jokingly to mentally push down the pain of my ribs unfucking themselves and healing with the potion so I could sit up with a groan.
"Hey… you are a slave aren't you?" I said frowning as I looked at the adamantine collar around her neck. Granted Orario had outlawed slavery but outlawing things in this city with petulant and evil gods was never a guaranteed thing.
I knew I couldn't just say. 'Hey Haruhime, you are the best waifu in the world please come with me so I can take advantage of your cheats and do my best to seduce you… No, I needed to play dumb to her circumstances though it was a bit scummy though it was undoubtedly for the best for her.
"Ah I am not much of a slave but my life is bound to the Ishtar-" Before she could say anything I poked the adamantine collar bound and welded around her neck, and it broke apart into motes of light as it instantly disappeared around her neck and entered my inventory and for a moment Haruhime froze.
"So… wanna join my Familia? We have cookies and I will give you head pats?" I offered goofily as Haruhime gingerly touched her pale neck that had obviously been covered by the collar and had changed the color of her skin like when people wear a caste on a leg or arm for a couple of months.
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Chapter 82
My abrupt removal of her cursed collar and stupid-as-hell method of asking Haruhime to join my Familia completely stunned her. So I decided that as she was so stunned that I should keep up the nonsense and just drown her in a tidal wave of nonsense until her mind shut down and she would just nod in agreement.
"You said your name is Haruhime right? Well as a hero, Record Breaker myself… Yeah anyway, I am kidnapping you so you can meet back up with your old friends in the Takamikasuchi Familia after joining my Familia." I said shamelessly as I picked up Haruhime in a bridal carry and kicked the sliding door aside as I went into the back little porch area.
"Uhm Jake I deeply appreciate your actions but the Ishtar Familia is going to give you trouble and I don't want to bring you trouble," Haruhime said softly but she didn't struggle in my arms as I leaped a dozen feet into the air to jump atop one of the nearby buildings.
To Haruhime's words, I just paused and took in the burning Red Light District, and then as though in a divine message a massive pillar of golden light pierced through the sky on the edge of the red light district and Haruhime inhaled greatly as her hand went to her semi-exposed cleavage as she hissed. "Ishtar's Falna. I don't have it anymore." She whispered grimacing and I doubted that having the divine framework that boosted your soul to demigod levels torn apart would feel great at all.
"Ahem see Haruhime. As you literally said Ishtar was going to be an issue, she died and got sent back to Tenkai… I didn't think you will ever see such a blunt sign from a higher power that you should come with me." I said smiling with Haruhime snickering at my words and then rolling her eye's as she relaxed in my arms.
"Fine, my dashing hero, take away the used whore and fall to fates machinations," Haruhime whispered so lightly that I could barely hear her but I was a level two that had superhuman senses and could make out her words but those words only made my own eyes.
Sure she was a whore in name but she was still a virgin in all senses of the word, due to her senses being overwhelmed and making her faint at the mere sight of a man's collar bone to say nothing of seeing more of a man.
"Yeah… Anyway, let me teleport us back home." I said popping my magic mirror into my hand and I held it awkwardly so I could look into it with Haruhime still my arms.
But before I could look into the mirror I heard a cough behind me and my entire body froze as a maleficent weight of power hung on my shoulder with my neck popping under the pressure as I slowly turned to the side as a hand with an adamantine grip gently grasped my shoulder and I realized I was beyond fucked.
"How may I help you, big sister?" I asked respectfully as the silver-haired beauty with her eyes closed held my shoulder in a tight grip.
Alfia, The Silence snorted and I felt her grip on my arm loosen as she smiled ever so slightly as her other hand slowly came up and patted me on my head.
"Good boy… Calling me aunty or something to do with being any form of older address would have led me to send you flying out of Orario with a sound wave." Alfia said sweetly as her hand patted my blond hair into place as she almost maternally sorted out my hair as I stood stock still due to her arm that had locked my shoulder in place. "So… I hear you are the lover of Bell Cranel? Materia is looking for her but with her being in the dungeon I couldn't let her go into there." Alfia said conversationally and my mind stalled and broke as hundreds of questions ran through it.
'Like I knew the dungeon could bring people back to life if they died within it and thus Alfia could be brought back. But how in the hell did Materia, Bell's mother get brought back to life?' I thought desperately but either way, I silently nodded to Alfia as I could feel she was above Ottar in strength and unless I summoned the Wall of Flesh right here in the middle of Orario I had no boss monster that could buy me more than a couple seconds.
Haruhime herself was stock still in silence as she barely was capable of shaking silently under the weighty gaze of the 'Demon of Talent' Alfia.
"Yes, I am the lover of Bell Cranel." I said simply confirming her question but I made sure to not stutter or show weakness despite both of us knowing she was far beyond my strength.
Alfia at my words smiled chuckling softly as her hand holding my shoulder squeezed softly making me grimace at a reminder of her strength as something above level seven as I knew being reincarnated by the Dungeon gave the person greater strength then they had in life to say nothing of how they could also eat dungeon monster cores to gain even further strength regardless of the Falna.
"I won't bother saying anything about hurting her as she is strong and talented enough to be only below your own talents having leveled up in less than a month… Nor will I bother with nonsense about you being worthy of her as she is a young adult capable of fighting in the dungeon and making her own choices. But don't get between her and my little sister Materia or we will have issues Jake Barriss." She warned me as she took a step back from me.
"Now go ahead and take your new pet back home. And welcome to the family Jake Bariss… We shall show this lower world of Genkai what the personification of Talent is and take over this entire plane of existence." Alfia said proudly as she walked away with her potent magic causally keeping soot and smoke away from her form as she walked back into the flames filling the Redlight District.
And you know what… Anyone who gets in her way can just bemoan their fate. 'Canon is fucked and I have no idea how to feel about that.' I thought wryly as I finally looked into the magic mirror and with a swirl of spatial magic I was teleported back home, and the moment I landed back in my room, I collapsed into the bed with Haruhime landing on my chest with a grunt at the impact. But she said nothing as her hands tightened in my clothes as she panted at the simple bodily reaction of escaping from death.
"She was scary," Harhuime stated and I trailed my hand up from her back to gently pet her golden fox ears as I just stared at the ceiling.
For a few moments I just stared at the false night sky above me as my mind ran through that whole encounter and as much as I was happy for Alfia not giving me issues with Bell. But that whole showing the world the personification of talent in the 'family' and taking of Genkai sounded like it was going to be a pain in the ass. "At least if you marry me, she will be your sister-in-law." I joked and Haruhime looked up at me with horror seemingly at the thought of sharing a Christmas dinner with the scary as-hell Alfia.
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Chapter 83
"So you really do have a Beastkin fetish huh?" Seshat pointed out as I brought Haruhime out of my room and into the living room and I face palmed at how Hestia just nodded at Seshat's words and threw me a look of blame.
"Hmph, you are being a playboy." Hestia spat and I just rolled my eyes.
"Don't talk too big Hestia or I may try to NTR Bell from you into my own Familia." I retorted making Seshat cackle and the hearth goddess pale with her mouth flapping open and closed as apparently, my words came out as true.
"Anyway," I said changing the subject as I pulled Haruhime in front of me. "I picked up this lovely Haruhime after her goddess was sent back to Tenkai due to Evilus burning down the Redlight District," I explained with Seshat and Hestia's eyebrows rising up in worry.
"Wait who was her goddess?" Seshat asked with a frown.
"Ishtar," I said flatly and Seshat gave me a look that only said. 'Are you fucking kidding me?' But I nodded to show I was serious so Seshat just groaned running her hands through her black hair.
"Huh, so the queen bitch was sent back to Tenkai…" Then in unison, Seshat and Hestia both loudly groaned as a commiserating look of despair came across their faces.
Hestia and Seshat both shared a look and at our confused looks Seshat spoke with a clear expression of annoyance. "Sure Ishtar was the queen bitch of Orario but she was a jealous queen bitch and kept to herself in the Redlight district for the most part. But now with the queen of whores executed, the other Goddesses of Love and Beauty will be gunning to take over the prime location to fuel their domains."
As she said that, I recalled how when I first went to the guild to find a Familia and was told by Misha how the Kama/Mara Familia was recruiting and I wondered what kind of goddess of love she was. As all the love goddesses of Danmachi were very different in how they used and were controlled by that domain.
"Ugh… Aphrodite, Kama, and the others are going to make a mess." Hestia grimaced and I wanted to scream at the oncoming thots with Charm nonsense that was inevitably going to cause trouble as they attempted to claw their way to power in Orario's meat grinder.
"And with Evilus causing issues it's almost certain those psychos are going to try to kill those Familias that try to climb the ranks or just arrive into Orario." Seshat agreed as she grunted at the sheer effort of getting up from her plush couch to approach Haruhime. "Alright, girly I am your new goddess Seshat, worship me for I am mighty blah blah… Yeah, I am slapping my tramp stamp on you, so don't cause Jake any issues as he is a bleeding heart with a dick that has bigger ambitions than his body can handle." Seshat said bluntly as she expertly pulled her hands across Haruhime's waist and before the Renard could react Seshat pulled open the rope that tied together Haruhime's kimono.
"Eep!" Haruhime gasped as she wrapped her hands around her chest as her kimono got pulled off and I realized that Haruhime went the traditional way in wearing a Kimono… So she was nude underneath it.
I turned a bit and focused on Hestia who was frowning at Seshat's treatment as Seshat manhandled the shy Renard so she could put a Falna on her I spoke to Hestia to try to break the awkward silence. "So is Bell still in the dungeon or something?" I asked and Hestia blinked and shook her head as she refocused on me.
"Nope! She just got back a bit ago and should be in the bath." Hestia told me and I blew out a bit of air as I nodded and Hestia rose an eyebrow at my reaction. "Why is something wrong?" Hestia asked with some concern for me.
I nodded slowly before shrugging as honestly I had no idea what Alfia's grand plan was but just letting Bell walk into that cluster fuck without knowing anything was not going to go well, so I decided to explain a bit.
"Yeah, I am not sure honestly. Somehow Bell's crazy aunt who demands to be called an older sister because she hates the idea of being called old got resurrected by the dungeon." I said drily and Hestia's face twisted at my words with Seshat looking over at me with some true concern which made sense with how her Egyptian pantheon was so into how the dead should be at rest and whatnot.
"The best part is 'Who' her aunt is…" I said as I sighed before speaking wryly. "Yeah her dear aunt is 'The Silence', Alfia, and apparently her mother also got resurrected somehow despite her not dying in the dungeon at all." I said frowning at the end as it truly made no damned sense to me.
Like plenty of people in canon got resurrected after dying in the dungeon. Literally every Xeno was the soul of a monster who decided to say fuck you to the dungeon after dying too many times and got tired of being used as cannon fodder. And there were a number of Evilus members that died during the old days and even just people that died to the dungeon monsters that got resurrected by the dungeon as a Creature like Filvis. But that didn't explain how Meteria, Bell's mother got resurrected at all?
Hestia went pale at hearing how Bell's ever so slightly deranged Aunt/'Big Sister' was looking for Bell with her nervously giggling. "Haha. So does she know where we live?" She asked weakly and I deadpanned at her.
"Hestia…" I said slowly as though I was speaking to someone about to learn they had cancer or just telling them some horrible news. "We live in a massive fucking dildo covered in lava… The whole world knows where we live." I said dryly and Hestia tilted back in forth in place before her eyes rolled up into the back of her head and her tits smashed into my face as I hurriedly bent over to catch the goddess who collapsed backwards in a dead faint.
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Chapter 84
Hestia although she fainted somewhat, she was still conscious enough to remember how her over dramatic fainting spell resulted in her being pushed into my face as I kept her from cracking her head open on the tile floor of the living room.
So she quickly made herself scarce as she blushed heavily while I left her to be so I could focus on Haruhime. "That's an impressive spell but in reality, we shouldn't really use it unless we are fighting something we cannot defeat at all,." I said as Seshat explained how Haruhime's spell would cut down the Excellia we would get after using it for a good while to allow the Falna to heal from being forcefully boosted to the next level without the needed high-quality Excellia needed to make up the framework of the foundation of a person's next level.
So I took out an elemental staff and passed it to her. "Just focus on walking the supporting mage path in the back while I fight up closer and Bell takes care of the mid-range stuff." I said patting Haruhime between her golden ears.
"But everyone wants to use my spell!" Haruhime almost whispered but I rolled my eyes as I lifted Haruhime's chin so she wouldn't just stare at the ground.
"Haruhime…" I said slowly as I smiled wryly. "I mass produce high-quality Excellia with my summoned bosses. The last thing I want is for my Falna to need to recover and slow down my growth. Our Familia's will only need your level boosting spell at the most grave of moments like fighting higher level adventures as we are very good at defending ourselves in the dungeon." I said grinning as I thought that we more like bullied the dungeon with the impossible-to-bypass bunkers we would build in the dungeon.
Though that cheat won't really amount to much when the later monsters like in the Water City floors can summon and manipulate the endless amount of water on the floors and using that water they could fill up our bunkers and drown us… That would be a terrible way to go.
"So don't worry Haruhime. We will not rely on you for your cheat spell. Instead, we will rely on you as a fellow compatriot within the dungeon that fights beside us." I said strongly and she nervously giggled looking shy as for so long her level boosting spell was all she was seen as.
Then Haruhime cutely stared into my eyes as she tried to find some courage and she asked with some steel in her spine. "So I will be able to make my own fate?"
I patted her head again before I let go of her as I spoke. "Sure why not… But you are behind us so you will need to work hard." I said grinning and Haruhime bravely nodded her head like she was trying to psyche herself up, to begin with.
Before I could continue to seduce my new pet, I heard Bell coming downstairs and I saw her wearing a fluffy robe with her long white hair flowing over her back as she wasn't wearing any kind of ponytail or bindings in order to let her hair breathe. "Oh, Jake you are back already!" Bell said excitedly and then blinked at seeing Haruhime grasp a corner of my shirt. "Soooo. who is she?" Bell asked tilting her head to the side slightly and I chuckled as I pulled Haruhime in front of me.
"This adorable cinnamon roll is Sanjouno Haruhime, the new member of my Seshat Familia." I said proudly as Bell pouted and looked over at Hestia.
"Hestiaaaa!!! Why haven't we gotten any new members, Jake's Familia has four members now, and its even younger than our Familia is!?" Bell whined and Hestia choked as she looked at Bell with a look of shock at her precious child's verbal betrayal and whining.
"Bell Cranel!" She shouted putting on a brave face as she tried to scold Bell for not being me and literally picking up people for her to put a Falna on them.
"Oh, so I just need to bring people for you to put a new Falna on?" Bell asked blinking in surprise and smiling as she clasped her hand in delight as she came to some kind of realization. "Well, then I got someone already! I found a supporter who helped me do some solo dungeon work and she is a nice Prum." Bell said and my eye twitched as I put together that she somehow came across Liliarcu Arde and actually if my timeline is right this was typically about the same time she was supposed to meet the troublesome midget.
Meh honestly I didn't care about Lili as she wasn't going to be in my Familia and if she caused Bell any trouble she would learn real quick not to do so when I find her.
"Uhh yeah anyway," I said cutting off Bell's way too innocent thoughts and mumbled words on how she could go about corrupting her midget supporter into her Familia as Hestia stared at her child in horror and was whispering something about NTR but I firmly ignored her as those thoughts led to madness.
I decided to just rip the band aid off and get it out in the open. "Bell… This is hard to say but your mother and aunt have been brought back to life and they want to meet you." I said with a straight face and Bell's face turned flat and if anything hurt as she looked at me for a second and took a deep breath.
"Jake, I don't even know who and what my mother looks like, let alone my aunt." She said firmly and I nodded as that was fair to say but I shrugged.
"Bell, listen to me and Hestia herself. Your Mother and Aunt have come back to life and I am sure they are the same as you look a lot like your Aunt with the same white hair and a similar facial structure." I said looking to Hestia and she nodded.
"He is telling the truth Bell." Hestia said softly and Bell's face twisted before she took a deep breath.
"So you want me to meet them or something?" She said softly and looking lost and I kinda knew what she was going through as my home situation in my past life was messed up as well.
I nodded as I pulled Bell into my arms before I sighed. "Bell, your mother Materia is fine and not much of an issue for you to meet as she literally died giving birth to you… But your aunt, Alfia, The Silence has a lot of baggage as she did some crazy shit before she originally died as she lost everything when the Hera and Zeus Familia perished fighting the One Eye'd Black Dragon." I explained and Bell went silent as she rested in my arms.
Finally though as Beatrice pulled Haruhime aside to show her around the house and the enclosed property Bell finally spoke when Hestia subtly snuggled up against Bell as well. "I don't mind meeting them I guess…" She muttered weakly and I patted her on her back as I took a breath.
"Well either way I wanted to ask you if you want to come with me to Beor mountains. I need to go mining for some special resources that I cannot get in the dungeon." I finished and Bell grinned looking over at Hestia.
"Alright! Let's go on a vacation as there is supposed to be a massive hot spring due to the volcano's in the Beor mountains!" Bell said excitedly and I nodded while Hestia chuckled and said she would also invite some of her other divine friends like Miach and Takemikazuchi.
With that in stone, I then realized I would need to tell Alfia that we were going on a vacation and that no we weren't fleeing Orario in order to not deal with her.
'Oh god Alfia is going to break my legs.' I mentally groaned as I wondered if I could use Bell as a shield for the inevitable sound wave that was going to yeet me across Genkai.
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Is there a picture of the MC somewhere? Cause so far of all the stories I've read from you the only MC to have a picture has been the Schnee in genshin
Yeah he looks like my profile pic or the blond younger anime version of Cloud I used to have as a profile pic. Either way, no Necromancy warning for you lol I gotchu
Chapter 85
I was right, Alfia was not at all fucking impressed with my desire to go mining for resources to make the better weapons, armor, and accessories that I needed.
To begin with, finding Alfia wasn't an issue as she made no attempt to hide her presence as she heralded her arrival into Orario by throwing all of Freya's furniture off her balcony when she claimed the love goddesses apartment near the top of the tower of Babel that only gods and goddesses should have been able to have. But apparently, Ouranos decided to make an exception for the new strongest adventurer of Orario.
So here I was, with my fucking body embedded into a wall as Bell fretted over me and a thin woman who looked a lot like Bell with green eyes instead, was scolding the unrepentant Alfia for blasting me into a wall. Truly the best first impression I could make to my 'mother-in-law'
"I just told him not even half a day ago that our family would be coming together finally and his very next conversation piece, is. 'let's run off across the land to go watch you mine a couple of miles into the ground and just stand around?' I would rather just directly take you all into the dungeon and at least watch you all grow stronger." Alfia said bluntly shutting down Materia who pouted.
Materia was the spitting image of Bell's feminine form but thinner with a soft appearance that made you want to protect her and her bright green eyes brought so much life to her face that it reminded me of how Bell's ruby eyes would light up when she got excited about something.
"Ok… Maybe that's true but I need to get to the dragon vase floors to get lava-themed items." I groaned and Alfia snorted as she eyed me as I stood up but seeing me get back up she smiled.
"At least your durability is pretty decent. That sound wave would have killed the new mediocre level three's of this generation." Alfia said with her closed eyes tightening in distaste at how pathetic this generation had become with how everyone chased their level-ups rather than maxing out their stats.
"Either way, with you mining almost straight down to the different floors and myself killing the hordes of dungeon monsters that spawn, we can reach there in less than six hours and get back even sooner as you place those tracks and such." She said bluntly and my face twisted as I wondered if we were in fact going to beat the Loki Familia down to those floors as they were still working their way down there the normal way.
"Uhmmm Aunty?" Bell spoke up and the metal chalice Alfia was drinking out of, loudly squealed and shattered under her superhuman strength. Alfia slowly looked at the rabbit who cowered behind me at the cold expression that Alfia wore even with her eyes still closed.
"Never call me Aunty… I am not old, so call me big sister." She said with zero infection in her tone and both of us nodded instantly as Materia giggled.
"Uhm Bell could you spend today with me while 'Big Sister' and Jake go into the dungeon?" Materia asked hopefully and for a moment there was silence before Bell nodded with a small smile but that went away as she glared at Alfia fiercely with the eyes of a rabbit trying to intimidate a lion into bowing its head.
"Alfia I understand you want Jake to grow strong as well, but I won't forgive you if you let him die in the dungeon for some kind of test!" Bell said strongly and Alfia just rolled her eyes.
"I won't allow your betrothed to be, die before making an honest woman out of you… Either way, let's get going, your noise is being too loud." Alfia retorted before she spoke to Materia. "Stay here with Bell and don't leave, I will be back by tonight for dinner." She said that like going down to the Dragon Vase was no damned big deal.
Then Alfia casually walked to the end of the apartment across its plush carpentry onto the balcony and with a flex of her heeled feet I saw her hop atop the banister. "Come on Jake, I refuse to take the elevator." She said smiling as she somehow 'saw' my not-all-too-happy expression at the tiny ants on the ground thousands of feet below me that were the people entering the tower of Babel to enter the dungeon.
But as Alfia did something magical to stop her drop as she all but slammed into the ground I literally unleashed my inner fucking Merry Poppins as I hurtled down towards the earth and as I came closer I used the Terraria, umbrella to cancel out all my momentum in a couple of seconds so as I gently glided down to the ground with my shoes barely scrapping the group Alfia looked at my landing and then at her own that shattered the tiles of the ground surrounding the Tower of Babel.
"That was… The most homosexual thing I have seen in my life. Please don't catch yourself the next time you think to break your fall with a rain umbrella." Alfia said with her face twitching as she obviously held in her own smile at my shameless smile at having landed without wasting magic or even causing damage to my surroundings.
"Don't make me tattle to Bell about you being mean. I already can tell that she inherited her puppy eyes and pouting from her mother." I joked and Alfia actually shuddered with her heterochromia eyes opening up to take me in.
"You could actually withstand a version of the Materia pout that could make even that bitch Hera cave into doing whatever she wanted?" She demanded with her hands on my shoulders in a flash and I blinked before realizing it must have that mega pout Bell sometimes used when I teased her by kissing her forehead instead of her lips or played a game and teased her by being over affectionate with one of my summons while she was sitting next to me.
Either way, I broke the ice with Alfia and I realized as Alfia walked into the dungeon being whatever she was… Yeah, she was hilariously overpowered as she smacked goblins, kobolds, and other monsters' heads. Not into pasting or knocking them off with the force just ripping the flesh away.
No Alfia had reached a level of physical power that her blows actually made whatever she struck explode into a blood mist and that realization made me realize how far above merely physically she was of me. To say nothing of how she was a mage that could already level Orario.
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Chapter 86
I had thought that Riveria, was a powerful mage but Alfia completely eclipsed the royal elf in the scale of power and control of her magic. It was like comparing the strength of a level five to a base level one who just got their Falna. It was truly that big of a difference compared to the times I was near Riveria when she had used spells around me, either on bosses or when I dug through the dungeon to make the tunnel towards the Rivira.
But even with Alfia's far greater power, even she had to wear a wry smile at how I seemingly effortlessly dug through the floor of the dungeon and its walls while she would just mutter the soft words of her single-word chant of 'Lugio' to wipe out armies of monsters that would be wiped out by an invisible sound wave that would make all the monsters just explode into a bloody mist as literally, the beings molecular bonds broke apart. It was honestly bullshit.
"Why are you an adventurer Jake Barris." Alfia finally asked as we entered the safe floor of the thirty-ninth floor, we were taking a small break so Alfia could recover her mind after pushing through twenty floors and their enhanced hordes of monsters that made their displeasure at us tunneling through the dungeon very fucking clear.
At my scary 'sister-in-law's question, I could only shrug as I had no definite answer. "To become as strong as I can? To protect the people I care for, to experience the finest things in life… Hell, I don't know. maybe the rush I get when one of my summoned bosses charges after me and I narrowly dodge it, kill it in a counter-attack, and then enjoy the loot I get from the bosses." I finished and Alfia chuckled.
"Heh. I hoped you had some grand dream-like changing Orario or killing the One-Eyed Black Dragon, but perhaps a smaller dream is better for a level two like yourself." She said somewhat uncaringly as I rolled my eyes.
"Alfia… Bell and I broke Ais's record who broke your records? We leveled up in less than a month with maxed-out stats, given a year or two we will probably be a level higher or match you at seven." At my reminder, her face twitched and her closed eyes looked toward me.
"Don't get arrogant Jake, the most talented warrior in the world is merely the most talented… Not the strongest and even the strongest can die to disease, their own hubris, or a monster or even a god if forced to that extent." Alfia said softly and I realized she was thinking of how her own Familia and the Zeus Familia got slaughtered by that dragon
At her warning, I could only nod as god knows what would have happened if Freya wasn't a thirsty slave to her domain and already was pining after my Terrarian soul. What if I came into this world with an ugly and foul-looking soul due to having a connection to the Corruption and Crimson from Terraria? Leading to her having Ottar kill me before I made a name for myself?
Not much I could do with Ottar even now. If he decided I was to die at that particular moment other than teleport away to safety.
"So what made you crawl out of your grave," I asked jokingly and Alfia actually chuckled as she followed me into the next tunnel that would lead us into the fortieth floor.
But before she could answer and I could react a tight grip grabbed the back of my armor and I felt my neck pop as Alfia threw me up the tunnel behind her as a massive spiked worm slammed into and dragged its form across the tunnel I built with a screeching noise and as it tensed its armored frame. It looked like it almost was instantly growing fur as it sucked in the air and then it made a large gaseous noise as all those thin hairs shot literally thousands of those hair-like quills into the tunnel.
But with a simple casually whispered Lugio, the hairs were rendered into dust and the monster with its level four ranked durability was only able to resist for a split second before it popped like a watermelon that had a firework stuffed into it.
"I didn't account for inter-floor monsters like the Worm Well. or Lambton to become an issue…" Alfia muttered frowning before she looked at the corners of the tunnel I made before snorting. "But if your structures can resist my spells then the Valgang dragons at the base of the Dragon Vase, won't be able to break through it." She said as she took in how the massive worm thing that was the same size as the Desert Scrouge I used to summon did nothing to the actual tunnel itself.
"Well, at least I am also almost fireproof as well," I muttered as I kept mining and replacing the walls with tunnels as we headed down towards the next safe zone on the fiftieth floor.
I understood that Alfia was a woman of few words typically, so I didn't bug her as she was actually going above and beyond in hovering over me to make sure I didn't get munched on by the hordes of monsters between floors as each floor we went down the hordes got thicker in numbers, with the stronger monsters coming in their variant and aberrant forms and at seeing the solid gem bones of the aberrant Spartoi warriors that were super strong skeleton monsters I knew I couldn't defend myself down at these levels at all
As even a stick of dynamite did nothing but blow the monsters away a good bit due to the force of the explosion.
"So what do you need in on the floor infested by Valgang dragons." She asked after another hour of digging and dealing with the hordes on each floor and it had gotten to the point in which even she had to take a break after clearing a floor's horde each time.
I chuckled as I mentally reviewed my mental list and at that chuckle, Alfia gave me a dirty look as she knew I was going to milk having a nanny keep the armies of massive dragons off my ass. As I was for damned sure not coming back down here without another level six or three because these monsters were just too dangerous for my prehard mode weapons, summons, and methods to deal with.
"So I need enough ore to make let's say a good five hundred or so ingots of Hellstone, I need a lot of obsidian, and lastly some of the vines that grow down here near the lava for some potions and magical stuff." I said with Alfia visibly taking a deep breath with her voluptuous chest rising and falling before she blandly told me to get to work as we broke into the floor and with an irritated whisper of 'Lugio,' the very dungeon shook as the invisible sound wave pulped the army of dragons and monsters that met us on the floor.
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Chapter 87
I think I was falling in love with Alfia… Dragon materials rained down on the ground as Alfie's sound magic which was a rip-off of Black Bolt's nonsense just vibrated all the monsters on the floor into piles of broken-down flesh literally just vibrating them so fucking hard that the monster stones just fell out of their bodies making their bodies disappear.
The pure magical strength to do so to all those monsters wasn't the mind-boggling aspect, despite how her actions should have been damn near impossible due to the dragon's inherent magic resistance and thick hide and scales. No, the mind-boggling thing was how she could control her sound waves to not only, not hurt me or my summons at all, while I casually mined materials. But the fact that her sound waves didn't even fucking break the monster stones or materials of the Valgang Dragons and other monsters she killed allowing my summons to collect them for me.
"A small flying pig thing to collect monster stones and drops… You are weak but your ingenuity and the casual ways you break the ways and needs of an adventure never cease to bring surprises to me." Alfia said wryly as she took in the football-sized flying piggy bank that was sucking all the drops from my summons collecting them into its own inventory that both I and Alfia could access.
"Hmm, can you make this thing into a cat instead of a pig?" She asked smiling softly as she scratched the miniature flying pig under the chin making it chuff in obvious joy.
"Do you want a flying pet or do you want the pocket dimension Alfia I cannot tell?" I joked as I wiped off some sweat and stretched from my hunched-over position from mining a bunch of materials out of one of the ridges on a hill.
Alfia snorted and then shrugged. "A little flying pig is cute and all… But I prefer cats who are more independent." She said not answering my question about the inventory so I just shrugged.
"Nope, it needs the sympathetic connection to a pig that devours all." I made up, making Alfia roll her eyes as she gently pushed the flying pig that wanted scratches away.
"Is that enough materials? Either way, we will need to move as the dungeon isn't happy with our actions of killing its monsters with impunity along with mining its resources and dealing with the traps that spawned as a result." Alfia stated and I grunted in acceptance and as we walked back towards our tunnel a large pillar of ice magic shot across the dungeon's surface making me blink as I recognized the spell.
"Holy shit… We literally did beat the Loki Familia down here Hahaha!" I said chuckling as I recognized that pillar of ice magic as Riveria's spell.
"That tunnel you created is just another reason I call you an aberration to adventurers." Alfia snorted looking at me with pride. "Not only the Loki Familia but even the Hera and Zeus Familia's working together would take on average a week to get down to these floors, the fact that your tunnel can take us to these levels and to the surface within three hours in one trip is just mind-boggling." Alfia groused with a wry smile as she obviously was ruminating on the time her Familia spent just getting down to these floors.
"Should we go say hello or something?" I asked and she paused before snorting with a soft smile.
"Oh… Such a reunion shouldn't be missed I suppose." She said elegantly and then she took my arm into the crook of her own as she continued to speak. "Well, Jake Barriss lead on, while I rest my eyes." She said with that same soft smile that gave me chills down my spine as I already knew that closed-eye smile meant someone or something was going to get blasted across the world by a sound wave.
We quickly made our way across the surface of the Dragon Vase floor and in minutes we reached the horde of monsters that were attacking the Loki Familia group of elite adventurers.
Then Alfia whispered her short chant spell and a haze of green light flowed around her for a moment as an invisible shock wave of power, of the sound wave, rushed through the air, and with a harsh cracking noise all the Valgang Dragons and the other monsters exploded by Alfia's sound waves.
As we walked down the small hill towards the Loki adventure's they were all in shock at seeing us down here with Riveria frowning especially seeing Alfia. "You are supposed to be dead… I heard from eyewitness accounts of you falling into the dungeon." Riveria said holding her staff tightly and Alfia merely sniffed.
"Yes, I did die, but staying dead is for the weak, so I grabbed my sister's soul in Tenkai and came back down to torment the living into actually amounting to something… And just like Ottar, you all except for Ais have disappointed me." Alfia said bluntly making me smile wryly as the Loki adventures bristled at the accusation.
"Hmm? Am I wrong? The Zeus and Hera families both had more than fifty level fives each. There aren't that many in Orario at all in this era under Loki and Freya's Familia's… Only Poseidon and his Familia seem to still be pushing themselves and they don't even have the dungeon to sharpen their teeth on." Alfia mocked before she looked towards Ais who stilled under the weight of Alfia's closed-eyed gaze.
"Aiz Wallenstein, you are a broken doll who has lost the fire you had when you were a child and settled into mediocrity in the name of calming down." Alfia said honestly disappointed before she nudged her head at me. "Look at Jake Barriss, only spent a month as an adventure and he has leveled up… Sure the mass production of high-level Excellia has done a good deal for his growth. But Ais I have a question." Alfia said smiling pointedly as she whispered towards Ais from across a half dozen meters that separated our parties.
"For all your skill, for all your talent, and even your heritage as half a spirit. Why do you only have a single skill, and magic spell? And before you bother, I know how to read a locked Falna and you run around in a backless dress." Alfia bluntly said and Aiz's handle on her sword that I made from the Brain of Chuthlu staggered in place.
"You rushed to level up, so all your stats except for your magic and agility were fucking D rank at each level, and combined with you being an unfeeling doll you literally only got a single skill that is an expression of your single-minded hate towards dragons and your wind spell was literally given to you from your mother a wind spirit. No, differently from a beastkin getting the bestial transformation spell at birth." Alfia said with disappointment clear in her voice.
At her explanation, even I myself looked at Aiz with a few different thoughts, as I realized literally every other person in the Loki Familia even lower leveled ones had more skills and often magic than her.
"Get better or die Aiz. You are wasting Jake's time asking for his weapons and accessories to fix the gaping holes in your potential that you wasted." Alfia bluntly said before looking to the rest of the Loki Familia. "If you value, your lives don't bother going ahead to the next floor as its a trap. Now, Jake, I am done with this conversation let's get back to Orario." Alfia finished and then turned around with her long dress swishing and exposing her heeled feet as turned her back to the Loki Familia.
I could only wryly smile at the group before waving to Riveria. "Yeah… Anyway, Riveria, we built a tunnel down here using the same tunnel method as before to Rivira. So you can use the key I gave you to get back up to Rivira and then take the other tunnel that's attached to this one." I quickly explained hearing the stomping of another Valgang dragon coming this way so I quickly turned around and ran to catch back up with Alfia as there was no way in hell for me to deal with it and with Loki's adventures obviously going to be pissed I wasn't going to rely on them to bail my ass out.
The sooner we got back to Orario, the sooner I could revamp my whole kit to become stronger and not need Alfia's dommy 'big sister' energy smothering me.
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Chapter 88
Sitting back home in the comfort of my workshop while Alfia went back to her sister and Bell who were supposed to have spent the day together, I stared at my anvil with a terrible weight on my shoulders.
The Soul of Eternity… Literally godhood in a fucking miniature black hole that could fit in my pocket but required over four hundred items I needed to personally craft to say nothing of the dozens more I needed to get from bosses. But such an item was far from me now. Now I was just making the damned best shoes I could get in pre-hard mode Terraria, being the Terraspark boots.
Green colored almost comic-looking boots that had a whole list of things that they could do and after I made sure the obsidian shoes merged into the other zephyr shoes and were thicker with denser materials, I got the warding enchantment on the boots so it provided some extra armor while I inspected the boots I spent three hours making.
"Terraspark boots… Allows flight, super fast running, and mobility on ice so I don't slip. Provides the ability to walk on water, honey & lava as well as improves my body's natural resistance to high temperatures." I spoke as I listed what the dozen-something accessories I merged into the Terraspark boots did.
With my centerpiece of mobility complete, I couldn't help but chuckle as I hopped into the air with green flames shooting from the bottom of my feet. And I felt my mana minutely drain as I directly fueled my boots to give myself a true flight for a couple of minutes before I cut off the mana dropping me to the ground.
"I got mobility out of the way so I don't need to be using my grappling hook as much until I get one that teleports me to wherever it grabs," I muttered as I adjusted my tools and took a breath. "Alright let's upgrade my weapons…" I said wryly with a sigh as my handling of all the 'Hell' materials filled my mind with all those crafting recipes.
And I realized how my Sword of Grass melee weapon even with its poison, was lacking compared to swords that used Hellfire that targeted the soul, or a sword that allowed my body to phase out of reality for a couple of seconds whenever my sword parried an attack. To say nothing of magic weapons that did any number of things from sending a spinning scythe made out of solid shadows to attack people.
So I got to work. I made the Demon Sycthe Book for magic, which would allow me to use that spell, and likewise made the Opal Striker, a strong revolver that I would end up fusing into my magna cannon anyway when hard mode rolled around and would become my ranged weapon of choice for a while, but for melee, I basically already had the best prehard mode melee weapon in the Teardrop Cleaver that I got from the Eye of Chuthulu which made anyone struck with the blade cursed to be half as durable and physically strong.
After I was done making the weapons and accessories with all the hell materials over the next half day when Seshat asked me something rather bluntly I realized her words were all too true. "So what else is there for you to craft in this supposed block of information and gear you face?" She asked and I was struck by that knowledge.
I realized that literally only two bosses remained in this pre-hard mode soft lock I was facing. Skeletron, and the Wall of Flesh. I already basically had the best armor for myself until I hit hard mode, and with the Empress of Lights warning I realized I needed to do this alone and more importantly out of the dungeon so it didn't freak out.
"Yeah, you are right… There's not much else for me to make as I can't use more than two weapons at once at most." I said wryly as I sighed before looking at Seshat seriously. "Seshat, I am going to push through my limits and reach the next major step in my growth so I don't plan on coming back for a week or so." I finished and her amber-slitted eyes tightened at my purpose-filled form and then she smiled softly.
"Very well Jake Bariss, go with my blessing. Hunt your prey and come back home with trophies of your kills." She said giving me a tight hug before tilting her head to the side as she looked up at me from the hug. "So I assume you will be not taking Bell with you?"
I smiled wryly and she giggled as she danced out of the hug with her snickering. "Oh, Bell is going to kick your ass when you get back Haha." Seshat laughed and then the door to the room was shoved open and I blinked as Haruhime came into the room with a large backpack on her back and she was wearing a look of determination.
"I want to go too! I want to get strong as well!" She said fiercely and I couldn't help but coo at the sight of the golden-haired fox girl trying to sound so determined. Then she continued. "Jake you need a supporter while you go on an adventure and I would happily take up that responsibility while you teach me how to get stronger." She partly argued and almost seemed to beg and I just nodded with a chuckle.
"Alright, Haruhime relax," I said smiling before I nodded. "You can come with and sharpening your teeth on the weaker monsters outside the dungeon can be a good way of easing you into combat anyway." I said partly to myself and then when I pocketed the large backpack hanging on her shoulders she pouted.
"But although I have no need for a supporter… I wouldn't mind a friend going with me Haruhime" I offered holding out a hand to her and she smiled brightly as she took it and I heard Seshat gag in the background.
I looked over and she rolled her eyes and began pushing us out of the sitting room of the workshop. "Ugh just take her into a tent and mount her later if you both are going to get so damned mushy. Now get out so I can have a drinking night to break into Flivis's shell." Seshat said bluntly as we were pushed out of the building and as we went past the kitchen I saw the elf in question blushing lightly with her ears turning pink as Seshat said the elf needed some kinship in the bath or something to get the stick out of her ass.
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