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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.