Chapter 16

Chapter 16

After the in-house show ended and us having to stop the occasional casual maid's walking by and stealing a slice of our pizza the Hestia Familia soon finished up out food and I wanted to head home have our probably angsty talk and then get back to the dungeon in the morning because of a crucial detail I've just heard.

"So, Bell do you actually want to go the Monsterphilia coming in a couple days?" I asked Bell as personally I knew Freya was likely to use it as another one of her 'pushes' to get us to advance faster and I would rather take my chances in the dungeon.

"No not really, festivals are always super expensive, and I need to spend as much time in the dungeon to get stronger." Seeing the girl's reactions to us both denying any interest in going they slumped in their booth making me chuckle a bit.

Hmm if Freya were to try and push us to a higher stage what would she do... Ok let's assume she has been able to see my every move in the dungeon like the stalker she is, with both me and Bell in the foggy floors she likely wouldn't do something as simple as train a minotaur for us both. Not to mention the foggy floors would make it albeit not easy to lose whatever monster she could send it would still be doable so long as it's not a monster from those specific floors which are almost attuned to the fog.

Wait I just remembered those Soma people saying there was an infant dragon hanging around could that be her play?

My mind was consumed with thoughts of possible monsters that Freya would have boosted to a stronger form as we all walked home, and it wasn't until we were all in the basement and Bell was kicking off his boots already buried into the plush couches and covered up with a blanket. Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

I likewise just copied him while also taking off my shirt and groaned as my body relaxed into the soft and comforting bed. Lili ever the opportunist crawled over me and tucked herself into the space between the bed and the wall and left Hestia the quandary of being known as the person who not only refused to allow a new member of family to sleep on a bed, we also literally didnt even have any other fabrics after fixing her clothes to even make her a mat to sleep on the floor.

Hestia grumbled and then with a sigh she leapt into bed and instead of just laying on my side she laid directly on my stomach as though to protect my 'Chasity' from a thirsty Lili in the night.

"Bell wake me and Lili up in the morning so we can get going early I want us on the tenth floor for as long as possible."

"Kay." Bell groggily answered

Thankfully Hestia was pretty light and wasn't a hindrance to getting to sleep. It also didnt take long for Lili to lose her patience and gently hold my arm as she drifted off to sleep.

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I awoke from sleep to someone shaking my hand as he couldn't grab my shoulders as Hestia had climbed up my body as we slept and was almost smothering me in her bosom making me strain to even hear Bell's muttering. "Alright Bell I am up." I groaned and after patting beside me I noticed Lili already moved so I gently pushed her to my side and put my pillow in her arms so she could go back to sleep.

I staggered up the stairs and saw Lili also looking like a zombie as she sat on the restored pews.

After nibbling on some bread and chugging a cup of cold water we set out and it was so early we seemed to have missed the Hostess prepping to open so we stopped by some of the street vendors in front of the dungeon and bought a few prepacked lunches from them.

We turned to Lili and despite it only being a so-called light bow gun Lili was laid out on her ass with the gun lying on the ground beside her. "WOOOH!!!" Lili cried out ecstatically after collecting herself.

Lili didnt even leave the weapon on the ground as she launched herself into my chest and hugged me tightly with her free arm. She pulled back after a second and we heard her mumble her thanks.

Bell looked to be even more jealous than usual he looked at the weapon and I just realized if I made that a heavy bow gun with how Bell fought, I bet I could make it like Ruby's Crescent Rose with the recoil and his love of bouncing around.

It didnt matter that I was willing to trade my weapon with Bell and even if he almost forced himself into mind down messing with the fire conjuring ability, he was pretty quiet the whole day in the dungeon as he clearly was dreaming about the weapon, I was going to make him.

Lili now has become a terror as she herself has learnt the secret of recoil jumping as she was able to hop off the ground and when kicking off the chest of an orc to shoot at point blank range, she would be launched a dozen meters back and with her big bag and thick coat running into the thin dead sticks on the trees didnt hurt her if anything she learned she could mount the gun on some of the thicker branches and just safely sit there and shoot power shots into orcs and send the weaker shots into the smaller monster's.

"Roar! Nooo!" A feminine voice screamed and carried through the dungeon's fog shook us all as me and bell shared a terrified expression at seeing the burst of flames through the fog and then the unmistaken sounds of bones being ground up in a monster's mouth started to peter over to us.

I grabbed the frozen Lili beside me and after grabbing Bell who looked to be about to rush over to... 'I don't know avenge the dead?' I hissed "Thats the infant dragon those Soma guys talked about we need to get the fuck out of here..."

Lili nodded and Bell seeing us in agreement slumped and lost some of his fervor shrugged and we started jogging off towards the upper floors to get the hell away from the monster that could kill level 2's.

"Crack." A series of pebbles fell towards us making us look up.

A set of two glowing red eyes met our gaze as the infant dragon duo stood up menacingly and started stalking towards us and I knew we had to fight and quickly lest the other one heard our battle and joined.

"Bell, we got to do this quick so the other one doesn't join.

At an unknown signal me and Bell met the Infant Dragons who were started to rush at us and as I hefted my charge axe in its great axe setting I made a large fireball bloom in front of me and push through the flames thrown at me by the dragon itself till I came in front of it and seeing as it was literally only 150 centimeters tall, I was able to step on its bent legs as it rushed past me.

"Bang!" Lili shot the Infant dragon who was giving Bell trouble seeing as he had to dodge all its flames in its throat making it choke and I could see the flames building up in its throat as a glowing bulge formed right below where the large bolt pinched its air-pipe.

Knowing that infant dragon would be dealt with quickly "Pop" I almost tripped at the sharp little explosion that rang out behind me and I knew the infant dragon must have killed itself trying to push its flames past the blocked throat.

I buried my charge blade in its sword form into the eye of the infant dragon and I could feel the crunch of my blade making its way past the skull and into its brain thankfully the idiot dragon was stunned at seeing its partner die making it slump with its brain destroyed due to its distraction.

Despite shaking with fear at how close we came to dying because frankly if I couldn't push away its flames with my sword's own, I wouldn't have been able to kill it without Bell helping me distract it for me to make a critical hit... Which in the end he did anyway?