In a room at Babel a certain THO— Godess was looking at a crystal ball "Hm? Are there new addition to the Loki Familia? This mischievous goddess really need a beating...." She was looking at two supporters in the group of adventurers, both were childs.
"She really was thinking that she could hide them from me.... the kid that fell from the comet and the daughter of one of the strongest adventurers... She will have to decide about one of them in the coming Denatus~ Now I wonder.... who will you choose~?"
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Thep and Ais suddenly had shivers as they were talking. Talking wich is Ais nodding at everything Thep say or shooking her head. "We're gonna start the expedition. Everyone start the formation!" A Chil– Youth looking man with blonde hair ordered the group of adventurers as they all got into different places.
There were 52 people in total not counting the people from the Hephaestus familia. 15 at the front, 15 at the back and the rest were in the center helping when the back or front needed support. It was an expedition to obtain some materials for the Hephaestus familia at the Lower floors. In short an escort mission.
Looking at the ceiling at the Dungeon entrance Thep and Ais were gobsmacked not only by it's size but also by the ceiling wich seemed to have been created from the sky.
They didn't have much to do as supporter for now as while they asked to be supporter, not only the Hephaestus familia only payed for an escort service but they also wouldn't be able to go to the lower floors as only adventurers level 2 or more could be there.
Loki actually wanted them to stop at the 18th floor and take one person of the main party to look after them while they leveled up in the Upper floors. 'With that I should be able to level up in this expedition...' Thep was actually quite happy about this development as even if he wanted, it would be much more difficult to kill monsters while at the 34th floor and so.
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Being in the center of the party was honestly boring. There were some surprising things like how the dungeon reacted to this formation by lauching the monsters from the ceiling. But it was pretty uneventful.
Except when Bete killed the Goliath by himself showing them what was a "true adventurer." The path to the 20th floor was pretty boring.
Thep and Ais were able to see what a level 5 adventurer was able to do and honestly he moved at unthinkable speed and all his blow carried a might wich they didn't imagined the angry wolfman possessed.
They now were all at the 18th floor and it was beautiful, landscapes of green were visible everywhere a forest or a river wasn't seen. The ceiling were crystals of light every one on top of another and in the centre, A towering tree almost touching the ceiling.
The duo of kids were shocked by the size of the floor, they obviously did not show it on their faces but they were still shocked. "I will be the one looking after you two, come the Loki familia have a camp here." Riveria stepped out of the formation with the two of them as they made their way to the Familia's camp.
Before the expedition started most of the people in the familia introduced themselves. Thep learned that Ais arrived only a month or so before him and that she already trained quite hard.
His competitive spirit manifested for the first time since he arrived as he asked. "Ains, let's see who kills more monsters. Riveria will hold the count" A fire started burning in Ains eyes as the duo looked towards Riveria for her approval.
"Fine... I will count the kills but if I sense anything is wrong I will stop you two are you okay with that?" Riveria was currently talking with someone from the familia but she heard the discussion from the back of her ears
"Yes/Yes" She couldn't understand how thoses kids weren't afraid of thoses monsters. At their ages she was still trying to sneak out of the palace, she would jump at the sight of a soldier with a scar.
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After resting into a tent in the camp, Thep came out looking for Riveria and Ais. Before he could search further someone approached him. "Thep-san I have an idea." A golden haired girl with a expressionless face approached him.
"You don't have to use the "san" Ais.... aaah.. now it seems weird to call you without using honorifics..." She just smiled slightly maybe finding it funny that someone like him was acting like that.
"Don't worry" 'Because soon it won't be of any importance' Thep suddenly was thinking that the ever stoic Ais was going to say something stupid.
"The winner of the competition will be the big one and the loser the small one" Thep was confused at her words so asking what she meant he was surprised when she said.
"We need to determine who will be called Onii/Onee in our relation." Yes she wanted to determine who will be seen as the oldest child. After losing her family she was mostly emotionless.
So seeing someone like her and of similar age she couldn't help but relate to them. She knew she couldn't measure to him as his stats and movements were superiors to hers.
Her objective was to obtain a big brother. But she couldn't just tell him that. Even for her it was really embarrassing, she talked about this with a surprised Riveria while they were bathing and Riveria said to just add it to the game as they were no chances for her to win as it is now.
So while she was quite dejected at her predestined loss she couldn't help but be happy at the prospect of having a big brother.
"Wait Ais this.... is actually a really good idea." Seeing the sadness in her eyes at the first words of his response, he quickly changed what he was about to say.
'Well I mean.... I gain a little sister, what could possibly go wrong in that competition anyway?' Thinking that Thep along with Ais and Riveria started going towards the stairs of the floor.
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Looking closely at the monsters now Thep couldn't help but feel that the anime didn't really show much about them.
They were currently at the 5th floor and He along Ais were slaughtering the monsters. Goblins and Kobolds limbs were flowing everywhere, as while they most of the time tried to get the killing blow, the goblins and kobolds were much more responsive to them.
With his skills it was easier for Thep to kill them most of the limbs and heads cut off were his work. But Ais was really pushing herself to the limit, using her rapier to pierce the goblins and Kobolds to the head or cutting their feet to incapacitate them.
Riveria looking at this was just seeing a bunch of kids having fun while being tattered in blood. She already talked about the challenge to most of her friends wich then relied the information before it spreaded like wildfire. Now even the gods knew that "the little ice princess" of Orario had challenged someone and the conditions. All in less than 3 hours... Gods just gossips to much...
Ais made herself quite a name in the month she stayed at Orario, even without going into the dungeon the Gods still were able to identify her as "their futur wife" but due to the amount of bloodlust Loki would reveal at that name and her cold demeanor they decided to just call her "the little ice princess."
Most of the gods fumed with anger and jealousy, as for the goddess they were just taking the information without really having another feeling than hapiness for the cold child.
But not everything can go the way we want right?
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After three hours of killing bunches of monsters Ais and Thep were finally exhausted, in the middle of the battle Ais seemed to have awakened [Ariel] making her go on a killing spree.
Now along with Thep they were smiling at each others, Using stones as supports. "So.... I think I win this one no? Imouto-chan~" Thep immediately started teasing her now that his status of Big was secured.
Ais pouted but a sligh smile was visible on her face. She then got up from the ground turning around going to one of the corridors leading to the room were Riveria was standing.
"We still need to obtain the scores from her.... I think even if you won I did a pretty good Jo—" But before she could continue she sensed a slight breeze on her back. turning to see what it was she was shocked to found a dungeon wall in front of her.
Panicking she called Riveria to help with the events playing. "Riveria! It's Thep-Onii-san! He has been locked inside a room! I was out of range before it started, you have to help him please!" Tears started swelling up in her eyes, she just gained a family member. She did not wanted him to die like this, in the dungeon again.
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The person they were currently talking about licked his lips looking at all the monsters in front of him.
[Generating quest....]
[Doom]
Rank: Hellish
Info: There is no demon, no evil, no heroes, no good.... there's only Doom. Kill everyone in the room that was present at the generation of the quest.
Rewards: Random ☆☆☆☆☆ monster or more; Your life.
Looking at the screen in front of him the composed expression on Teph quickly disappeared only to be replaced by a twisted feral grin."I still wasn't able to vent my frustration with just that.... [Resplenish]" His wound closed and all is fatigue was transformed into energy.
His eyes and hairs started glowing and moving trough the air like in water. Two horns grew from his head and a bull like tail with thick fur sprouted from his back. His teeth got sharper as his muscles swelled up.
Releasing a puff of smoke from his mouth, he said "You all seems to taste really great~ But with who should I start?" the army of kobolds and Gobelins shivered in fear at thoses words.