When she wakes up, Lily was confused at first before starting to fearfully look around. She remembers stealing the golden egg before making sure that he would follow. She was proud of herself, but she needs to ensure her survival. The next thing she feels was her Flana or the lack of feeling.This has never happened before, she had to bear it since birth, always feeling the creping feeling of Soma blood in her, but now, everything had vanished, leaving her with a sensation of lightness like never before.
All her thoughts came to a halt as she smells the luring scent of the breakfast mindlessly lading her to the kitchen not far.
When her brain kick starts again, she stood frozen at the sight of the very same adventurer she was sure she guide to his demise. At the table a black-haired, white dressed, a child-like woman was happily munching on the food in the plate in front of her.
When she captures his attention she cringes a little, fearing the blows that never came. Opening her eyes, she sees another plate in front of her.
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Once Lily finally start to eat, I keep watching until the two finish.
"Now that we"re done with breakfast, ti time for our little thief to pays her debt." I could see her flinch but continue." As you have tried to steal something from me, it only natural that you work it back. Hestia needs a helping hand in the store, you will work with her. I will go to the guild and sell the egg, when I know the price it will be the amount you will need to pays back before being free, questions?"
"I... I can"t... they, they will come to me." She shakily starts, finishing in a whisper.
"Don"t worry about that, I have gone to Soma last night, is Familia wasn"t really very cooperative at first, but I was able to persuade them that thief can"t be that easily done. In order to pay off for his member action, he had free you from your Familia. UNtil your debt pays, you will be a member of ours. Hestia, I leave it to you."
"Mmm, count on me Alex! Come!" Hestia bolts away to the second floor, dragging a still lost Lily with her.
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Taking all his pouches with him, Alex goes to the Guild. Looking through the few present, he rapidly catches his advisor.
"Miss Flott, I need your help."
"Hmm? How! I didn"t see you for quite a time! what do you need?"
"A private room, I have quite some crystals to exchange."
"That much?"
"I was fortuitous enough to be able to go with some of the Loki Familia in the dungeon, I was able to gather quite a few."
"Alright, follow me."
Leading him to one of the available room, he starts to empty his crystals in boxes shipped off by some guild members while he takes out the others. She rapidly understands why he asks for the room when he starts to take out crystals from the middle floor. A know level taking out that much of them would bring unwanted attention. When he takes out the golden eggs, she couldn"t take her eyes off.
"Alright, for the crystals it easy, but the egg could take a few days, it will all depend on the buyer. I could give you a million straight and the rest after?"
He nods at her While putting all the coins in a pouch before exiting the guild.
The previous day exploration had brought him a little over three million alone after taxes have been deducted. The egg was another million and the majority of the drop another one. 5,000,000.00 valis was an enormous sum from low Familia, even if a good part would be used in weapons maintenance, foods, and other expenses, it would leave them with sufficient resources to live comfortably for a time.
For Alex, it was nothing more than pocket money. His weapons didn"t need maintenance, his food problem has been taken care of the instant he reopens the link and he had already an house. All this money would go to Hestia the moment he quit this world. He didn"t think that she would come with him. As much as they had become close, it was nothing compared to the friendship she shares with Hephaistos.
Other than Ais, he didn"t really care from those of this world, the only one he would need to ask was Haruhime. Even then, all he would need was to bring her to the Mikazuchi Familia and be done with it once he deals with Ishtar.
Poping in his territory, he directly calls Sunny.
"Sunny!"
"Yes, master?"
"How many elves have we that are free?"
"Around 60, the same that have gone the previous night."
"Alright, I want them to return to the outside world, a part of them will enter the dungeon and use this." As he was speaking, his hands were constantly full of different materials, and translucent night blue cubes would fall on the ground once completed." Those are my version of the map, I need them to run through the dungeon and map as many floors as they could without being seen nor in danger. Another group of elves will need to go through Orario this night and gather a drop of blood from each G.o.d present her, other than those on this list. If they found criminal one along the way, send them here."
"Yes, master!"
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While Sunny pop away to deliver its order, Alex pa.s.sed the day with the girls he hadn"t seen from three weeks. A good part of the previous Death Eater houses was brought down and trans.m.u.ted to simple material.
Soon, all that was left standing was the differents building of the old Evan clan, his newly constructed house, the castle of Hogwarts, and to his surprise, the plot of land he had brought from Orario, with a replica of the house and shop.
"Do you have any idea why it also came here?"
-I fact I do, all that had been considered ad your territory had been added, when you brought the land in the city, it became yours, so it had been added here to.-
"Wait, does that meant that if I were to take over an Island in One Piece, or under my protection..."
-Yeah, they are a good chance that it would be added too, I wonder if that also concern the surrounding waters of the island, after all the kingdom their have a certain area of the surrounding waters as their territory, so...-
"That would be nice, I don"t have an ocean here yet, it would bring another source of water. We can"t continue to pump in the lake here, it would run dry one day."
-True, so, what are you going to do with Ais?-
He sighs at this." I don"t know, I aware she search for the black dragon to kill it and save her mother. I have sent few others elf search for it on the surface. If they are able to found it, I would be able to drag it here and bind it for Ais, but after that, it will be her choice between following us or stay here with the Loki Familia."
-How much time do you think you will stay here?-
"No more than a week, this world has nothing more to offers for us, once the elves return with the map of the Dungeon, I will complete the mission and allow me to create one here, with the blessing of Hestia and her blood in me, I could easily recreate another orb that will grant us Flana without the need of G.o.ds. As for the last mission, I have already 42 of them ready to be used for the seal, the 25 other will be for adventurers to receive blessings."
-Wouldn"t the other G.o.ds oppose to those?-
"Ho, the sure would, but I have made clause in the contract their own children sign that they would no more steal adventurers from others, nor interferes with any other form of blessing, seeing that Loki hadn"t said something, it just that they hadn"t discovered it yet. All those that would rise against this system would be sent back to heaven without a chance to return back here. That why I need a least a drop of blood from those G.o.ds I didn"t go. While it was adventurers that sign, the contract has taken a sample of the G.o.d blood as they do so, so the contract his binding. Once enhanced, the ear of G.o.ds will end in Orario, leaving adventurers frees. I know that I don"t leave them a choice but neither does the G.o.ds do when they appear here first and play around with their lives.
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While Alex pa.s.ses a great part of the next week between the girls and dungeon exploration with Ais, the Elves have been busy gathering the blood samples of the different G.o.ds. Like in his previous world where they were dismissed, there, not a single ward was able to spot them, leaving them to enter the most guarded place of the city without impunities. The only time where they need to be careful was when those G.o.ds were with strong adventurers able to feel their presence.
Thank their bound with Alex, even G.o.ds with authorities related to the soul weren"t able to see them.
While their counterparts were busy on the surface, the ones delving in the dungeon weren" slacking either. Due to an unforeseen event, they were seen as adventurers by the dungeon. When the first elf had killed a goblin, all of them had felt a slight increase in their brethren magic. Like a hyperactive child on caffeine, those elves have torn through the dungeon, like sharks sniffing blood after that.
No matter how much the Dungeon would send monster after them, facing a force of 60 strong elves wasn"t the monster of the higher floors could compete with. Like a swarm of locust, crystals and items were harvested and directly send in the territory. They rapidly learn and start to create a formation. It wasn"t something that advanced but it was enough. 20 elves would deal with the monsters, 20 would pop the loot away and the last 20 would make sure no one sees them. As they rotated every floor, all of their progress skyrocket.
Their action didn"t go unseen as monsters were cleaned from every floor for a time after they pa.s.s, leaving more than one adventurers looking deeper into the floors to found monsters. By the time it was reported to the guild, they have already gone past the first safe floors and deeper.
On the side, Alex decided to deal with Antares while he was still there. The task was ridiculously easy, all he had to do was send an elf, made his pop it to Antares, bring it in his dimension before he could react and kill it once in. That was one of the perks of his dimension. Since it was linked to his soul, he could feel and interact with everything inside. After that, it wasn"t different from how he deals with the soul shard of molddyshort, takes the soul out, and cleans it. Thank this, he was able to create a soul orb for Artemis, reviving her somewhat.
When he wasn"t dealing with monsters outside the city or pa.s.sing time with his girls, he was in the Dungeon with Ais. Venturing alone in the Dungeon for hours, she rapidly warm to him when she sees that he was a little like her. She shares her past life while he does the same. When she learned that he could bring the Black dragon to her, and deal with it, she wanted to immediately go, until he says to her that he would need to found it first.
During that time, Orario was slowly plunging into chaos, at least the G.o.ds do. After a few days, they finally realize that G.o.ds started to vanish, alongside a good portion of adventurers. The fact that G.o.ds vanish without them being sent to heaven started to drive them crazy.
Due to the tension, past and actual rivalry explode and a lot of war games have followed. The stakes have rapidly grown vicious and 36 G.o.ds have already returned to heaven, their Familia disbanded or absorbed.
Because of the rapid increase of force, some Familia started to threaten the hold that Loki and Freya had.