Chapter 90 - War Hero

"What is this place?" Julius asked himself as he tried to see in the dark room before the place lit up on this own.

"This is a dungeon. Most of the time, the dungeon is composed of more than a single monster with them making a group and forcing you to battle them all at once," said Cece.

"Then we must be lucky since we only have to battle a single one," said Julius with a smile of his face.

"No, it's the complete opposite, it's horrible when it's a single monster because it's strength along with its other aspects are astronomically boosted. This dungeon could be a B if not a B+ tier!" Cece said as she placed her hand in front of Julius so that he doesn't get hurt in the battle while she pointed her blade at the centaur in front of her.

The dungeon's inside was much larger than expected with there being many trees and bushes in the area. It looked much to peaceful for the half horse-half human hybrid.

Nevertheless, Cece jumped into battle as she went in to cut off the centaur's head so that the battle would end quickly but before she could so that, the centaur raised its two front feet and kicked her back into the dungeon's wall.

Although it was a devastating blow to Cece, she still got up from the ground and rushed to the centaur's side before swinging her blade at the monster. Even though it had made contact with the monster, no damage was dealt to it. It was as if Cece had hit a block of solid steel. That was when things became clear. This dungeon would be her grave. Even so, she had to try to defeat the monster, not for her but for Julius.

"I can't allow him to die here. He still has much to live for. My luck ended on the worst time possible," said Cece as she one again stood up from the ground so that she could charge at the centaur.

However the monster had enough of letting Cece attack all she wanted to. As such, the centaur kicked her back and before she could get up, it charged at her and began to endlessly stomp on her until she couldn't move.

"I should probably intervene. Honestly, I should've interrupted this a long time ago. I really thought she stood a chance though," said Julius as he began to walk towards the unconscious Cece.

"R-Run Julius," she said in her weak voice.

Seeing that Julius was walking towards it, the centaur turned to Julius as it prepared to kill the boy. However before the centaur could land its feel on Julius' face, the prince quickly leaped up and slapped the face of the human which was on top of the centaur.

"Wait!" said Julius which the centaur instinctively listened to as it watched Julius pick Cece up and lay her in a way were her back was on the dungeon's wall as if he was trying to make her watch because in truth that was his intention.

After laying her on the dungeon's wall, Julius quickly disappeared from the centaurs vision and nothing seemed to happen for quite a while.

The centaur just waited for something to happen but for a long time nothing happened. However in truth, that wasn't what happened at all

The moment right after Julius had disappeared from the centaur's line of vision, Julius had decided to constantly punch every single part of the centaur until all of its bones were shattered. Even so, that wasn't enough as right after that, Julius got of the centaur's back before it could fall and wrapped both his hands on the centaur's head.

"I don't know what your name is glowing white figure, but you were the one who taught me this," said Julius to himself before twisting the centaur's head and decapitating the monster before dropping its head in front of Cece.

"I feel a bit sleep for some reason. Well a little nap won't hurt anyone," the centaur thought to itself before closing its eyes, never to open them ever again.

Seeing as his mission was completed, Julius grabbed Cece by the shoulder and began to drag her out of the dungeon until they had made it out of the double doors of the dungeon. Once outside, the dungeon disappeared on its own before leaving behind a large pouch of golden coins.

"How am I supposed to carry the both of them?" Julius asked himself before he thought of a ridiculous idea.

Julius placed Cece in a princess carrying position before placing edge of the the pouch which contained the golden coins in his mouth and then leaping off the mountain and with a single jump, Julius went down from the top of the mountain, all the way down until he had reached the place where the caravan was waiting for them.

"We're ready to leave," said Julius as he placed Cece inside the caravan along with the pouch of gold and himself inside too.

"The man who had not been sure if he just saw a man jump off a mountain and land like it was nothing, rubbed his eyes to make see he wasn't hallucinating before beginning the ride back to the small kingdom where his new clan was in.

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"We're here," the caravan driver said which woke Julius up from his slumber since he had finished the mission during the night and made it back in the morning.

"Oh thank you," said Julius before giving the caravan driver 10 gold coins which he assumed to be more than enough to pay for the ride and took Cece along with his pouch of gold back to the guild building. To add on, he had also placed Cece's black blade in the pouch of gold but not far enough so that it wouldn't poke a while in it.

Once inside the guild building where Jun and Ozel where still talking, Julius entered the room with Cece in his arms and a pouch of gold in his mouth as if he was some war hero.