Chapter 257 - Rescue

"Wow, that's actually surprising. I don't know if it's because I grew up in a world where killing others was necessary for your own survival, however hearing that someone has never killed another really surprises me. Especially someone that's supposed to become the new explorer of heaven. Or at least trying to do that. Unfortunately for you, I'm competing against you so the best you'll get is to become my assistant or something like that," said Julius to which Lyla seemed to have giggled before smiling.

"I think I would be okay with that," said Lyla which confused Julius and just make him think that she was joking before the two continued to walk for a bit more until they came across a cave of some kind however it seemed to have been surrounded by a group of people which instantly made Julius as well as Lyla assume that it was a dungeon as it the the only reason that such a large group of people would be there. Nevertheless, the two walked closer to the cave so that they could talk to the people surrounding it and get an idea of what was taking place.

"Excuse me, why are there so many people here?" Lyla asked as she stepped forward as if Julius was the one to have done so, there would surely have been trouble for both hun and Lyla.

"Oh, apparently a large group went into this dungeon and it's been a couple hours with no signs of them even planning to return. We're all worried that they might have chosen a dungeon far too strong for them and all of us surrounding the dungeon have begun to accept the worst," said the man as he replied to Lyla.

"Well you heard the man, let's just go somewhere else. We don't need more trouble that we're already in," said Lyla as he tried to drag Julius away from the scene which wouldn't obviously work.

After all, Julius had absolutely no reason to abide by the rules that Lyla had set. Even if she was making a good point, he tried to argue just so that he could feel more powerful.

"I want to try and see what I can do," said Julius, which just made Lyla feel sick to her stomach. 

"You can't be serious right? I mean seriously, would it kill you to listen to me for once? I'm not trying to harm you, all I want is to protect you so please put in even a fraction of the effort," said Lyla.

"Relax, it's not that big of a deal. I'll be fine," said Julius before smiling and leaping right into the cave where he was entered into the dungeon. Without having asked any questions, he simply ran forward as he wanted to see everything the dungeon had to offer.

After walking for quite a while, Julius had found a rather bright room which he assumed was lit by lights; however , as he walked in, he realised that the light was coming from an opening in the cave. As for what was inside of it, it was a large spider net that had a bunch of people stuck to it while they tried to get out.

"We've been saved! I seriously can't believe our luck," said a man who was stuck to the net.

"Huh?" Julius said, which confused the people who were stuck to the spider net.

"Why do you look so confused? Aren't you here to rescue us? Just do your job already, we don't have much time," said the man to which Julius simply shook his head in disagreement.

"Nope, I'm really not here for this. I'm only here to challenge the final boss of the dungeon," said Julius, to which the people on the net noticed that he was a human and was not a person from heaven.

"You! You're a human being! How dare you disobey us?! A single one of our lives is worth 10 million lives from your realm. Know your place and do your job by rescuing us, you good for nothing insect," said one of the people on the net.

"Wow, for someone stuck to a net and about to die, you have a lot of nerve speaking that way to me," said Julius before smiling.

"Well, good luck with everything in life. Well more realistically good luck with the following few minutes you have left," said Julius as he prepared to leave to which the people still continued to grow even more angry as for even a second they didn't consider that Julius would have helped them if they had been just a little more kind to him.

"Wow, you're all quite noisy. Even so, I would have loved to just leave you all to die here. Although unfortunately for me, I cannot do that. I have someone to return to so I'll just defeat the monster from here and leave quickly," said Julius and right as those words left his mouth, he was hit on the back by an object that felt like a strong and sturdy whip.

"Ow! What was that?" Julius asked and right as he turned around, he was faced by a spider at least 4 times the size of himself as it had a large piece of string in its mouth which it had used to hit Julius.

"Wow, so you're going to be my opponent? Well at least make this fun for me," said Julius as he began to rush towards the spider before leaping into the air while taking out his blade from his ring at the same time.

"Let's see how you do against this?" Julius yelled out with a sinister smile on his face which made him look like a pure psychopath as he cut all of the legs of the spider bite quickly cutting it into uneven and uncalculated pieces before deceiving that his job was done as such decided to leave the cave.

"Wait!" one of the people that had tried to force Julius save them said in a rather sad tone.

"We apologise for any offence which we might have caused. Thank you so much for saving our lives. Even if it's not much, if you need a job, we would be willing to hire you as a servant or pet," said the maths which just annoyed Julius to the point where he didn't care and simply went on with his day without caring.

"I don't think that's how gratitude works but as long as you're happy," said Julius before starting to leave the dungeon without a care in the world.

"Seems like you managed to escape. Judging by how you have little to no scratches, I'm going to work under the assumption that you ran away when you saw the thing that had trapped the entire squad inside the dungeon," said the man outside.

"Actually that's not true. I fought the spider and killed it. It just wasn't as strong as I had liked it to be," said Julius with a rather disappointed voice as he had wanted to face a stronger opponent but had to settle for what he could get.

"Okay Lyla, I'm ready to leave-" said Julius before getting cut off without saying so much as a word, Lyla leapt on to Julius' arm and almost died.

"Don't leave me behind like that," said Lyla to which Julius simply patted her on the head and the two continued to walk in search of their next obstacle.

"Hey Julius, what was the human realm like?" Lyla asked suddenly which had caught Julius by surprise.

"Well, it wasn't much. However I preferred it compared to which realm. This place is just so empty. In the human realm, there's much more to do and explore in the world. So much to learn and discover. Even if you tried something new every day for every day since the day you were born, you would still always have new activities to participate in. More than that though, it was a lot easier to live without being hated by the majority of the people in that realm as opposed to this," said Julius, while Lyla simply looked confused.

"What do you mean? Can you name at least one of the things which can keep you busy for a while?" Lyla asked.

"Well arcades are pretty fun," said Julius.

"Arcades?" Lyla asked as it was the first time she had ever heard of that term.

"Don't tell me you've never been to an arcade! Oh my, you seriously have never had fun ever in your life," said Julius to which Lyla looked rather sad.

"Don't worry, when I become the emperor of this place, I will make sure that every last corner of this realm is filled with games from arcades," said Julius as he began to think about the situation the time he had went with Jun to explore the other half of the planet which the humans lived on in the human realm. 

"Trust me Lyla, you'll love it," said Julius with a bright smile.