A week has passed since the first time they meet each other. They continued on their adventuring, getting experience and learn many things about the dungeon and one another. The three were excessively successful within their raid, especially the prum. She has been honing her skills more than anything else for the past 6 - 7 years when she was being a supporter, eclipsing the progress within a week of dungeon diving with the two.
Today is no exception.
"Today was a bit intense don't you think sir Bell, sir Aurelius?" Lili ask about the raid they did for the day. "Especially those killer bunnies. They were relentless!"
"Uh-huh." Bell said with an exasperated expression. "That actually took a lot out of me to be honest. They all of a sudden jumped us out of nowhere like they crave carrots or something."
"HA! you two tired already? If I'm raiding alone right now, I would go for more!" Aurelius said with a prideful, haughty tone of voice. "In fact, I can go even deeper below the tenth floor if I wanted to!"
""Of course you would mister / sir Aurelius"" Both the rabbit and the prum said as they had a deadpan face as they both thought, 'such a brute.'
They continue to walk towards the guild after a long day of hunting. Upon arriving, they went straight towards the money exchange to trade in their monster core for valis.
"Quite a lot for todays' dive isn't it you three?" The prum male staff said a bit impressed with the amount they have accumulated. "It's a bit more than yesterday and the day before it as well."
"All in a days work." Aurelius said towards the prum staff, giving a nod of appreciation. "If we need to, then we'll strive for more than the normal amount."
"Well, hardworking adventurers are very well respected from me." He said, giving compliments towards the three. "Just make sure not to kill yourselves in the dungeon you three."
"Will do." Aurelius said.
"Okay!" Bell said.
Lili just nodded towards the staff.
They then left the money exchanger and went out of the guild. once they were out, they search themselves a spot to distribute their earnings between the two Hestians and the prum. Once they found one, they immediately go ahead and went towards the place.
"Woah! we really got a lot this time is it?!" Bell said, very happy towards the earnings they had gotten. "Almost more than twice the amount!"
"Yeah sir Bell! Usually we got around 40k to 50k Valis!" Lili said also happy upon the hard earned rewards. "Today, we got ourselves a staggering 120k Valis from just continuous hunt on the ninth floor!"
"You bet! If we keep this up, we'll be able to afford new stuff that'll help us much more." Bell said, practically grinning like an idiot. "Oh this just motivates me to get stronger even more!"
"Heh, are you trying to get stronger because of money or to achieve your goals kid?" Aurelius, a mocking smirk appeared on his face.
"A-Ah, well, I-I wanted to achieve my goals of course! Yeah! That's totally my intention!" Bell said as covering his greed.
"HAHAHA, it's fine to strive for money kid! Just don't make as a primary goal and replacing it the one you have." Aurelius said laughing at the antics of the rabbit.
"Now, I'm going to distribute our earnings between us and you, little girl." Aurelius said as he started to divide the earnings for themselves. The titan then gave the prum a decent size pouch. "Here you go."
Lili, seeing the size of it, was stunned. "U-Um, sir Aurelius, isn't this a bit too much?"
"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about? It's the perfect amount." Aurelius said, confused towards the words of the prum. "It's precisely 20k Valis."
"That's too much for just a supporter sir Aurelius!" Lili said, not accepting the salary. "It's okay if its just around 5k valis like usual, but 20k is just too high of a salary for me."
"No. Take it. You deserve such a reward."
"B-But-"
"Take. It." Aurelius said, sternly. "No buts girl."
"O-Okay..." Lili said, hesitated to take her prize
Lili then took the pouch, bowing towards the titan upon his kindness. "Thank you sir Aurelius! sir Bell! This past week has been very knowledgeable towards me. I could only wish to progress this far within the years of being a supporter. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you!"
"No problem. If it weren't for the fact that you're from the Soma Familia, I would've snatch you up and let you be a part of our familia instead. A shame that you're not a free agent." Aurelius said, a disappointed tone present at the end.
"That's right. If only you are not from a different familia, we could've been a good team by now." Bell said, saddened by their unfortunate fate.
"Yeah....if only...." Lili whispered the last three words form her mouth.
"Alright then, see you tomorrow. Same place, same time." Aurelius said towards the prum.
"Goodbye Lili! See you tomorrow!" Bell said waving at her.
"Okay! See you two tomorrow!" Lili said while waving back towards the both of them.
Lili then watched the two walk away, going back towards their home.
'If only...' Lili thought on her different fate, thinking about if she were to be in their familia instead the one she's in right now.
'This is better then nothing I guess. I should appreciate this more rather than lamenting it.'
She then starts to walk the opposite of the direction where they departure towards, leading herself to her familia base.
In the distance however, has been seen four people spying on the three.
"So that's what the useless supporter was planning. Trying to run from us huh?" An adult looking young man, wearing a red jacket, with his hair in a ponytail, says as he heard the conversation of the three.
"Heh, as useless as ever I see? running off to other people for help. fucking bitch." A middle aged demi-human man with dark brown hair says.
"I wonder how much profit does she has from them? it's been a week since she didn't given us anything to us." Another adult young man, with green hair wearing a black shirt, says as he was infatuated upon the girls' loot.
"More importantly the two she's with. That's some nice weapons they got there. wonder how much they sell for?" A man with an afro brown hair says.
"Now relax, tomorrow we would get what those two rookies have. we'll make sure they die too." The red jacket said.
"The guy with the shield looks tough. Look at how massive he is." The demi-human says.
"He's massive, but a rookie is still a rookie. He's easy prey for us." The red jacket said, extremely happy upon the thought of getting those weapons that the Hestians are carrying. "Tomorrow we make sure to get their fancy weapons from them."
The red jacket then shift its direction towards the where the direction of the prum. The four of them quickly follow her towards the alley that she is going through.
Lili meanwhile is happily thinking about her time together with both the titan and the rabbit. She looked down on her pouch, reminiscing the kind gestures of the two.
However, she then suddenly heard a voice that she doesn't want to hear.
"Hey there you are, useless prum. What you got there in your hands?" the voice said towards the prum.
She then turns around and see the four that she hated to be in the presence of.
"You!" Lili said, angry upon their appearance.
"Hey there little girl. Got some nice money you have there in your hands." The red jacket said as he smile smugly towards the prum. "Be a good girl and give it to us. we won't beat you up if you do."
The other three laugh upon hearing the red jackets' remark, knowing that it was just a lie.
"....No."
"What?"
"I said, no! that's enough from you ordering me around as if I'm your lap dog." Lili said, with a stern and commanding voice of her stature. "I'm done running away from you!"
Lili then puts up a stance as she use her spear to defend against the four hooligans.
She has been using a proper spear since both the Hestians bought a spear for her. She insisted at first on not to accept, but in the end, she accepted it, further owing the two.
Now it seems like she is very thankful for the gesture, via the spear.
"Oh no~! She has a spear with her~! What will I do~!" The red jacket said as the three behind him laughs.
"Well, if you really want to die so badly, I'll do the honors brat. I'll have that money to buy me some more of that soma wine." The red jacket said as he drew his sword to fight the prum. "And afterwards tomorrow, we'll target those friends of yours! HAHAHA!"
Lili hearing this, was livid. Though she didn't rushed in to them. Only clenching her spear tight.
The red jacket then rushes towards the prum as he intends to kill the girl.
"HAHAHA, DIE!" The red jacket said as he swung his sword towards the the prum. However something unexpected happened that the four didn't expect.
*CLANG*
"W-What?!" The red jacket said, stunned upon the unexpected result.
As it turns out, Lili parried the sword to the side using the body of the spear. She then spins her body while charging up a thrust towards the red jackets' abdomen.
*SHIIIKK*
The spear then plunge towards the mans' torso. However, it only slices the skin layer and a bit of the muscle beneath it. The reason being is that the red jacket dodge it at the last second. So, it landed on the side of his abdomen, scrapping his muscles bare.
"Tch, you bitch!" The red jacket said as he clench the damaged area, beside his abdomen. "You three, attack her!"
The three without hesitation proceeds to attack the prum. Lili then went ahead and put up a stance once more, ready to defend against the three barbarians.
The first one to attack is none other than the demi-human. He went with a thrusting attack with his sword in hand, thinking that the prum would clueless to know the way of defending against it.
However, he guessed wrong. Lili dodge the thrust that was thrown at her. Before he got to realize that he was in a grave situation, his hands was then stabbed through, completely immobilizing it.
"AAGHK!" The demi human then uttered a pained sound. He then backed off, gaining distance between him and the prum.
""HAAAA! / YAAAA!"" the other two, the afro head and the dark green haired yelled, raring to strike the prum down.
Lili, however took a distance back. She knew very well taking on two of the hooligans wouldn't be a bright idea, even with the excruciating hunting and training with the two Hestians.
Once she got distance, she then put up a stance once more. The green haired person then attacks the prum, furious in its intent to kill the little girl.
However, Lili responded with the same charge as he is. The green hair was a bit surprised by the sudden action of the prum. Lili then took the opportunity to land a quick thrust attack towards the thighs of the green hair.
*SHIIIIKK*
"AAAAGGGHH!!" The green haired then screamed from the pain she had inflicted. He dropped down immediately, laying on his bed as he rolled around to accommodate his pain.
"Three down, one more to g-" she was cut of from the sentence she was speaking as she senses someone behind her.
Suddenly, the afro head that was beside the green haired before, was behind her without her noticing.
"Gotcha you! You damn bitch!" The afro head said as he is ready to land a kick towards the right shoulder of the prum. Lili, knowing that she didn't have time to counter, then turns towards the kick while putting up a guard, readying herself of the inevitable.
However, the impact didn't came.
"Huh?" the afro guy said as he is confused upon the unexpected interuption.
Both Lili and the afro guy turned to look at the source. They saw a delicate hand was resting on the shin of the hooligan.
"Don't you know it's not nice to hit a lady like this, nya?" The voice said as it seems to be a feminine one.
The voice belongs to a cat woman with brown hair and brown eyes and is wearing a green waitress outfit.
"You should learn some manners, nya!" The cat woman then threw the hooligan away towards his buddies.
"Are you okay, nya?" the cat woman then said towards the prum below her.
"Hmm, I am miss...um" Lili said as she didn't know what to call her savior.
"Anya Formel. Just call me Anya, nya." The cat woman, now Anya, said.
The hooligan that was thrown by Anya then shouts towards the cat woman. "Who do you think you are huh?! Do you want to die als-"
Before he got to finish, a knife was suddenly going in front of him, missing him by only an inch and went towards the wall of the building beside him, effectively planting it into the wall.
The man then looked towards the direction of the knife thrown. What he saw is an elf with light green hair, dark green-ish blue eyes and also wearing a green waitress outfit.
She was none other than Ryuu Lion her self.
"Stop this instance. I don't want to get violent, so stand down." Ryuu said with a stern voice.
"Oh so what?! do you think that a couple of waitresses could stop m-"
"I said, stand down!" Ryuu said as he gazed towards the hooligan, eyes seemingly glowing, showing intimidation towards him. "Do not do this, I tend to not to hold back when I am let loose."
The hooligan hearing the elfs' intimidation, scoffed. He then bring his buddies with him, going out of the area to avoid any conflict.
"Hmph! Bunch of petty cowards, nya." Anya said towards the fleeing hooligans.
Ryuu then went towards the two. "Are you okay?" Ryuu ask on the prum.
"I'm fine miss..."
"Ryuu, just call me Ryuu." Ryuu said.
"Okay then miss Ryuu, miss Anya." Lili then bowed down towards the two. "Thank you so much for rescuing me."
"No problem, nya! Girls should have each other after all, nya!" Anya said with a smile on her face.
"As long that you're safe, then everything's fine." Ryuu said.
Anya then proceeds to help the prum get up from her position. She then helps the prum dust off some dirt or dust that was on her robe. "There ya go, nya! All clean!"
"Thank you miss Anya, you didn't need to do that." Lili said.
"Well, I better get going now. It's about to be night time now and I-" Lili said, her sentence unfinished. She then remembered about the hooligans saying that they would attack the two Hestians.
"Oh no! I need to warn sir Bell and sir Aurelius!" Lili said as she then starts to storm off into the area of the two that she's with in the dungeon.
However, suddenly, she started to loose consciousness.
'What?' Lili thought as she felt like she was falling down. 'Ah I see....I'm too exhausted. Didn't eat anything since this morning.'
She then lost consciousness as the last thing she heard are the two waitresses shouting her name.
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Meanwhile.
The two Hestians walked towards their familia home, leisurely talking to each other.
"Hey, mister?" Bell calls the titan besides him
"What is it kid?"
"Do you think Lili is going to be alright?" Bell ask, concerned about the well being of the prum. "With the condition that she's in right now with all the drama the Soma Familia is, I don't think that it's a good idea to stay there."
"What can she do? sure we can go ahead and just break into their familia, force their god to change the falna and becomes ours, but, the Ganesha Familia isn't going to take lightly of this." Aurelius said.
"That's a bummer." Bell said, saddened by the titans' words. "I would thought that negotiating with the Soma to let go of Lili would be a good catch, but, it's not like they would just let go of Lili isn't it?
"Nope. They had her on a tight leash." Aurelius said as he further fuels the rabbits hopeless feeling. "But hey, who knows? Maybe one of these days, miraculously, they would let go of her."
"So don't get your hopes down kid. There's always a way." Aurelius said as he brightens the mood of the rabbit.
*sigh* "Alright mister." Bell said, as he looks upset with the situation.
They continue on walking towards their home. They then passed the hostess, taking a glance towards it.
"It's as lively as ever don't you think mister?" Bell ask.
"Hmm. People really liked the food. I don't blame, it's really good." Aurelius answered the rabbit.
"Oh! how about we invite Lili next time to eat together at the hostess? that'll be fun to do!" Bell suggest, excited on the idea.
"Why not? That should be a good idea. How about tomorrow after we done dungeon diving?"
"Yeah that sounds good!" Bell said, fist high in the air signaling his excitement.
They then started to walk once more. However, as they slowly walk away, a voice called out to them.
"Mr. Bell! Mr. Aurelius!" Syr calls them out while gesturing to come to her. "Come here, I have something to show you!"
"If it's another scamming session of food, then we would want to head on back." Aurelius said.
"No! I really wanted to show you something! Especially for Mr. Bell!" Syr said, shouting at them.
Bell looked at the titan beside him. Aurelius shrugged towards him telling the rabbit the confusion he is also having.
They then followed the waitress, going inside the hostess. Once inside, they were led towards a room upstairs. Upon entering, Syr then went ahead and goes toward a book shelf situated at the corner of the room. She then took a book out of the shelf as she brought it to the two.
"Here you go Bell." Syr said as she gave the book towards the rabbit.
"A book?" Bell ask, confused with her offering. "Why do you want to give me a book Ms. Syr?"
"Hihi, it's not a book silly, this is a grimoire." Syr said towards the confused rabbit.
"Eh?! A grimoire?! Why give it to me?!" Bell said, stunned by the revelation. He then looked towards the titan beside him. "isn't this worth a fortune?!"
"Yeah it does." Aurelius said skeptical towards the grey haired waitress. "The question is, how do you have a grimoire in the first place?"
"Well, the other day, a merchant who came to this restaurant said that he doesn't want this book. So, he opted me to take it instead."
"I took the book as he left from the establishment. I then gave the book towards the Ms. Mia. I was a bit warry about what this book is so I ask her what exactly the book it is in nature. She then checked the book and told me it was a grimoire." Syr explained towards the two Hestians.
"And then, you just decided to give to us? isn't much more better to sell it?" Aurelius ask, curious on the waitress' thought.
'It's not like I don't know she just lied towards us. The reason that I even allowed her to do so and not find a way to eliminate her is because she actually buffs little Bell here. If she has intentions on, let's say eliminating the Hestia Familia entirely, then I would've grinded like crazy in the dungeon.' Aurelius thought.
"Well, rather then sell it, I might just gave it to an adventurer. It'll help on taking care threats better that way rather than be greedy about it." Syr explains her reasoning. "And who's better to give it to towards the two of you! maybe that this specific grimoire isn't compatible much with you Mr. Aurelius, but with Bell, It's better for him to have it....I think."
"But are you sure that it's alright for you? I mean, it's a grimoire we're talking about here..." Bell said, hesitating on accepting the expensive book.
"Don't worry! I know very well that you would use it for good!" Syr said with a smile.
Bell then took the book, albeit hesitatingly. Bell then say his appreciation and gratitude towards the grey hair as they left the hostess and went straight to home.
Once arrived, they see that their goddess is not home yet.
"Huh? The goddess isn't home yet?" Bell ask, puzzled upon Hestias' absence as he took a seat on a stool. "Usually she would be home earlier than us."
"Probably more work she had to do." Aurelius said. He then change the topic towards the grimoire they received. "Go ahead and read the grimoire kid. Let's see what it'll give you."
"Oh okay!" Bell said.
"Before that though, do it on the bed. You'll pass out after reading the contents of the grimoire, so better to be passed ou-" Aurelius said, not finished with his explanation as he heard a bumping noise.
*THUD*
What Aurelius saw is a passed out Bell on the stool, the book now on the ground as he unconsciously dropped it while passing out.
"..." Aurelius seeing the boy in an awkward position, started to sighed an said, *sigh* "Couldn't be a bit patient now aren't you kid?"
Aurelius then picked up the book on the ground and put it on the table. He picked Bell afterwards as he brings him to the sofa, laying him on his back.
After doing so, Hestia appears at the perfect time.
"I'm home!" Hestia said, a cheerful tone to her voice. "Huh? Bell's a sleep? That's not like him to do so."
"He slept while reading a book actually." Aurelius said, showing the "book" towards Hestia.
"Aww~, that's adorable." Hestia said. "What book that he read to have him sleep in the middle of it?"
"Actually, it's not a book goddess..." Aurelius said, scratching his hair a little. "It's a grimoire."
"....."
"Eh?" Hestia uttered with a bit of a surprised look.
Aurelius then gave the grimoire towards the little goddess. Hestia took the book and opened the it to see the contents, only to see that it's empty.
"EHHHHH?!" Hestia utters, shocked and a bit panicked on the revelation. "How do you get yourselves a grimoire?!"
"Well, it happened as we went back from the dungeon today....." Aurelius then explain the events occurred prior today. from the first time around that Syr called them, until Bell fell asleep from reading the grimoire.
"....And that's basically it."
...
...
...
*sigh* "At least it doesn't belong to anyone anymore. Having to pay for the weapons is already expensive enough. The grimoires price is just the icing on the cake if it were to actually belong to somebody." Hestia said as she messages her temple. "While waiting on Bell to wake up, how about we update your status?"
"Yeah, sure thing." Aurelius said.
Aurelius starts to take of his shirt. He then went towards the bed, back towards the ceiling.
Hestia then got on top of Aurelius' back as she starts updating his stats. She then afterwards paste the contents of the stats on to a piece of paper.
"Not a bad increase. Although, it can be higher if you were to go down deeper into the dungeon, but this progress is not bad at all. Considering that you're an abnormal level 2, going through essentially a average veteran level 1 would be going, I'd say you've grown faster than you should've." Hestia said as she gave the status paper towards the titan.
Aurelius then looked towards the paper given.
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AURELIUS
LVL 2
STR > D 581 ---> C 674
END > D 558 ---> C 651
DEX > G 227 ---> G 269
AGI > G 215 ---> G 252
MAG > F 378 ---> E 404
MAGIC:
- TAUNT
- RULERS AUTHORITY
SKILL:
- VIRTRUS TRANCENDENS
- IUSIURANDUM GOLIATHIS
- POTENS VOLUNTAS
DEVELOPMENT ABILITIES:
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"Woah! I can technically level up again if I had a worthy feat right now." Aurelius said, surprised upon his increase in stats.
"Well, part of it is because of your skills. All of them do work in tandem with each other." Hestia said towards the surprised giant child of hers. "If you were to go down in the deeper floors, your stats would be more significantly higher than this."
"mhmm. A shame though, Eina said I need to wait for bell to level up first before getting deeper inside the dungeon." Aurelius said having a disappointed face.
"It's fine, there's no need to rush, you're plenty strong already for your level." Hestia said, cheering him up.
As they were talking, both of them heard a groan coming from the direction of the sofa.
"Hngh..." The groan is from the sleeping it self, Bell Cranel. "Where am I?"
"You're at home, Bell." Aurelius said as he pointed towards the grimoire. "You read the grimoire remember?"
"Oh, yeah, I remember now..." Said Bell as he stood up in a sitting position. He then spotted Hestia and said, "Oh, umm, H-Hello there goddess Hestia, hehe."
"I already know Bell." Hestia said as she gestures the rabbit to come towards the bed. "Come now, let's update your status."
"Yes, goddess!" Bell said as he took off his shirt and scurried towards the bed.
Hestia then updated Bells stats and paste the contents from the falna onto the paper.
"A big increase for one day Bell! Congrats on your increase!" Hestia said happily
Bell then looked towards the paper given.
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BELL CRANEL
LVL 1
STR > SS 1012 ---> SS 1103
END > S 902 ---> S 933
DEX > SS 1101 ---> SS 1192
AGI > SS 1161 ---> SSS 1207
MAG > F 393 ---> E 473
MAGIC:
- FIREBOLT
SKILL:
- LIARIS FREESE
DEVELOPMENT ABILITIES:
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"Nice! that bombardment of killer bunnies just done the trick for my stats." Bell said as he was feeling joy from his progress.
After some time talking afterwards, they then went to sleep.
Well, all but one.
"Seems like both of them are asleep now." Bell said as he looked towards the two sleeping family of his. "Alright, let's go."
Bell then quietly go and leave the room as he entered the hall of the church. He was about to go out of the building until a voice was heard behind him.
"Going somewhere kid?" Aurelius said as he noticed the rabbit was about to storm out of the building.
"O-Oh, I was j-just wanting to t-take a stroll. Yeah! Just about to take a stroll because I can't sleep." Bell said, voice stuttering as he confess his fake reasoning.
"Kid, you can't lie to me." Aurelius said with a neutral face. "You were about to take off towards the dungeon aren't you?"
"Eh?! W-What n-nonsense are you talking a-about mister?" Bell said, trying to convince the titan.
Aurelius however didn't give in towards the rabbits' tomfoolery.
"Alright, I was about to go to the dungeon to test out my new magic." Bell confessed with a gloomy posture.
*sigh* "Alright, let's go" Aurelius said.
"Eh?" Bell uttered, confused upon the titan sudden answer.
"What? Let's go to the dungeon brat." Aurelius said as he starts to walk towards the buildings' door, not before dragging the rabbit along with him.
They then go ahead and went towards the dungeon. When arrived, they went straight towards the first floor of the dungeon.
"Alright, now, whip out the magic." Aurelius said, asking the rabbit to use his new achieved magic. "Attack that goblin over there."
"Alright!" Bell said as he is ready to take aim.
Bell then charges up the magic in his hands, while pointing his palm at the goblin. He then shouts the name of the magic.
"Firebolt!"
Bell shouts as a fire stream shoots towards the goblin. "Ohh! That's awesome! I have my own magic spell now!"
"That's cool to see kid." Aurelius said as he then pointed back towards the way they came from. "Now, how about we go ahead and get home? We don't want to be tire-"
Aurelius didn't get to finish his words as he the rabbit was already running off towards the opposite direction.
"Firebolt!"
"Firebolt!"
"Firebolt!"
"Firebolt!"
The rabbit shouted, as he continued to attack the monsters that stands in his way.
"Oi! You dumbass! The exit is this way!" Aurelius said as he started to chase after the rabbit.
Time went on as the two was playing cat and mouse.....sort of. The titan was chasing the rabbit as the rabbit was spamming firebolts towards any incoming enemy.
At one point, they both stopped as the rabbit had finished having fun with his new toy.
"Huh? where am I?" Bell ask as he was confused on where he is currently at.
"Where are you? WE'RE EXACTLY ON THE FORTH FLOOR BRAT!" The titan shouts as the rabbit was taken aback by it. "You were so focus on killing the monsters that you don't remember what was going on around you idiot!"
"O-Oh, well, I'm done now. How about we go back?" Bell said scratching his cheeks.
A tick mark appeared on the titans forehead.
They then went ahead and started to go towards the surface. However, something happened to the rabbit.
"Huh?" Bell said as he started to feel himself passing out from exhaustion.
More specifically, mana down.
"Mister, I don't feel so good..." Bell said as he dropped to the ground.
*sigh* "Should've listen to me first kid." Aurelius said as he shook his head towards the fainted rabbit. "Well, it's one job now for me to carry your ass back home."
Aurelius said as he then picked up the rabbit. As he was about to head out, voices were heard in the distance.
"Everyone would be surprised to hear this," A mature female voice said. "the fact that you defeated a floor boss on your own is worthy for your level up."
"Yeah Ais! That was pretty awesome! to see you beat it alone is just so cool!" Another voice said, seemingly praising someone.
"..."
The people in question is no other than Riveria, Tiona and Ais from the Loki Familia.
They continued walking in the fourth floor. Suddenly, they saw a big figure carrying a small boy with white, fluffy hair.
"Hmm?" Aurelius looked towards the source of the voice, only to see the three in front of him. The three then as well looks towards the tall man.
"Oh?" Riveria utters, seeing the titan in front of her. "Aren't you the captain of the Hestia Familia? The that leveled up to two in just under a month? Aurelius isn't it?"
Aurelius realizing who they are, started to give them ahis greetings.
"Hello there lady Riveria. Indeed I am Aurelius." The titan replied towards the elf princess.
"May I ask, why is it your friend there like that?" Riveria ask as she saw the fainted rabbit on the titans' shoulder.
"It's a long story really, but to shorten it, this idiot right here wanted to try out his new magic he acquired, but he went overboard and went in mana down because of it." Aurelius answered the elf princess' question. "It took me to chase him up until the fourth floor."
"I see." Riveria said.
Aurelius then looked towards the battered and bruised sword princess behind the elf.
"Um, pardon for my rudeness but what happened to the Sword Princess?" Aurelius ask, curious on why the infamous Sword Princess got injured like that.
"Oh. Ais here thinks she's ready to level up to 6. So we brought her to a floor boss on the 37th floor of the dungeon." Riveria answered and explain the condition of Ais was in.
"Oh? A floor boss? Alone?" Aurelius ask again, as if not believing her answer.
"Indeed, she did it alone. Although, me and Tiona here was there to assist if anything went wrong, nothing of the sorts happened."
"Incredible! to think a floor boss would be defeated alone....that's madness." Aurelius said, seemingly with a tone of surprised.
'I do remember this. She actually went ahead and soloed the Rex Udaeus. What a monster.' Thought Aurelius. 'Well, it's not like I can't do it anytime soon. Just wait until Level 3. I'll solo that skeleton ten times over.'
"Well, congrats on your soon to be level 6, Sword Princess." Aurelius said, respecting the the blonde swordswoman.
"mmh, thank you." Ais said, replying towards his appreciation as she nods.
"I better get going now. We both did got here without the permission of our goddess as she was asleep." Aurelius then walks away form the three of them as he says his farewell.
However, before he got to leave, Tiona called out to him.
"Wait!" She said as the titan then looked backed towards the amazonian. She then says to him with a big smile, "My name's Tiona! Nice to meet you!"
"NIce to meet you too Lady Tiona." Aurelius said as he nods in appreciation towards the introduction of the amazonian.
"Just call me Tiona, Aurelius." Tiona says as she puts a thumbs up towards the titan.
"Will do, Tiona" Aurelius said as he then walks away from them.
Tiona watched the titan carrying his comrade go towards the exit of this floor, possibly towards the surface.
"Tiona?" Riveria calls. "Is there something the matter?"
Tiona then looked towards the confused looks of both Ais and Riveria.
"Oh nothing~." Tiona said with a tinge of pink on her cheeks.