“Are you guys sure you’re fine with me partying with them? Don’t you two need a healer too?” Holly asked, worried.
“We’re gonna be fine, you worry wart,” responded Alice. “Besides, me and prince charming here hadn’t been slacking off with healing magic! We also brought along a ton of potions just in case, especially those recent high-quality batches from the Alchemist Guild.”
“It’s like I’m drinking holy magic whenever I use one of them,” added Kain.
“Oh… haha…” Holly looked away in a hurry. That must be Rob! So that’s why I earned so much yesterday!
“So you don’t have to worry about us,” said Kain.
“Besides, we don’t want you to lose your precious time with that friend of yours,” said Alice, her eyebrows wriggling in a teasing manner.
“I already told you guys, it’s not like that!” Holly said, embarrassed. “He’s my tutor and business partner!”
“Sure, say all you want,” Alice teased.
“You shouldn’t tease her so much, Alice,” Kain said, intervening for Holly’s sake.
“Ugh, fine,” huffed Alice. “But see you later! And make sure you to espionage for me about that mysterious business Leo and Melvin are having.”
“Will do!” Holly waved her hand, bidding goodbye.
…
Elaine stood there, glancing at the strange man near her.
He stood at an average height of 1.7 meters, wearing an extravagantly luxurious set of armor made out of white magical metal covered in bright gold coating here and there. On his waist was a sheathed sword with a golden sheath and a golden hilt, and on the tip of the handle was a lustrous blue gem.
The obviously rich man had dark brown hair and emerald green eyes, with a handsome face and a charming visage.
Why is Rob always surrounded by hot dudes… Elaine asked, her eyes squinted and her brows furrowed. First, it was Melvin, then out of nowhere Leo. Both were understandable since they’re classmates and all, but how in the high heavens above is fucking Simon Belford here.
As she silently groaned over this strange mystery, she heard rhythmic steps from behind and turned to see who it was.
Holly came into view wearing a white, priestly rob, wielding a simple white staff with a white gem embedded on top. Her hair flowed like a golden river while her eyes shimmered with the sky’s heavenly luster.
“A-Am I late?” she asked Elaine, huffing from the quick run she had taken.
“Not at all,” Elaine responded with a sweet smile. In a way, this girl in front of her was kind of like her sister, the company she had in her misery called Rob’s Training Regimen and one she spent a lot of time with hanging out in her free time. Basically, she’s the only other friend she has besides Anna.
“Phew!” Holly heaved a sigh of relief and looked at her other teammates, but when she saw Simon fucking Belford in the mix, her eyes almost popped out of her eyesockets from sheer dismay. “W-W-What is he doing here?!” she whispered.
“I don’t know,” Elaine shrugged her shoulders.
The others seemed to have noticed her presence though, and Rob walked up to her with a smile. “Morning.”
“Morning…,” she responded; her eyes still slightly fixated on Simon.
Simon noticed her gaze and wore a warm smile. He walked up to her, grinning widely as he introduced himself, “Hey, Holly, fancy seeing you here!”
“It’s nice to see you here too, Simon,” responded Holly swiftly, and she regained her composure.
“If you’re wondering why I’m now a part of your party all of a sudden, well…” Simon coughed and nudged Rob, the party leader, on the elbow.
“Money,” Rob responded.
“Ahem!” Simon coughed once more. “I’m here because I want to spend more time with my new business partners, and also get higher grades. Fortunately, Mister Fortune here was magnanimous enough to take in my presence.”
“Business partners?” she asked.
“It’s a new… thing. Fufufu, and if I may ask, could you please send my regards to both Miss Lamuer and Mister Vizwel, I am sure they’ll be greatly interested in our little proposal, isn’t that right?” he said, winking at Melvin and Leo.
“Oh, so there’s is a thing going on!” said Holly, enlightened. “Sure, you don’t have to worry about that!”
“Nice!” Simon exclaimed and retreated back to Melvin’s side, whispering to his ear with a victorious grin, “Now that’s how you strike a deal.”
“Relying on nothing but your name, what a complete amateur,” whispered Melvin.
Simon rolled his eyes and retorted, “Why bother changing something that already works?”
“Okay, everyone ready?” Rob asked as he clapped his hands, brandishing a strange metallic machine in his hand, smaller and more compact compared to its previous version.
They all agreed with either a nod or a cheer.
“Well then, let’s go!” Rob shouted and took a step toward the shadowy entrance leading to the sewer systems below.
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“Fufufu, it seems I’m a lot stronger than I first thought!” Anna laughed jovially as a giant mantis-like monster standing over two meters tall was split into numerous portions, with green pus overflowing the dimly illuminated labyrinth of the royal capital.
“Of course you are,” agreed Noel, with a giant rock monster crumbling into numerous pieces in front of him. “Spirit magic is essentially the power of the spirits themselves. Gather enough and you can exert strength beyond your current mana capacity as long as you have enough control over your mana and the spirits.”
“In rare cases, the spirits would even align with your will and you don’t have to use mana at all to borrow their power, and you’ll essentially just be a spirit tamer,” said Noel.
“Maybe I’ve suddenly gotten so strong because of last time…,” mumbled Anna. “Back when I controlled such an absurd amount of spirits, it allowed my control to exponentially grow, and my mental resilience has gotten a lot better compared to before!”
“That’s probably the case,” said Noel.
“So, any luck with that divination of yours?” Anna asked. “You found any clues yet regarding my dream?”
“No,” Noel answered. “But it’s not like those instances with Mammon. I just lack enough points to bounce off of.”
“That’s relieving,” sighed Anna.
But as she was talking to Noel, a shadowy leopard suddenly dashes out of the shadow behind her, with sharp claws extended out to kill her in one blow.
Anna wasn’t flustered though, because as soon as the leopard reached her, it turned into numerous chunks of sliced meat, all bloody and gross.
“Damn!” Anna exclaimed. “I’m so glad I can do passive spells like this right now! Although they aren’t spells and more like just pure wind manipulation.”
“Hurry up, we should reach tenth flor by sunset,” Noel reminded.
“Coming!” Anna exclaimed and followed behind Noel.
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“Oh god, you’re so hot, babe.”
“Fuck, wriggle your tentacles more!”
“Ah~ I’m gonna lose control!”
“Lose control you slimy glob of goo!”
“AHHHH!”
Two slimes. Two gooey icky slimes squirmed and intermingled against one another with stretched-out slimy tentacles inside a dimly lit cave system by the glowing moss around the walls.
The two slimes then melted into a pile of black gooey stuff on the ground, bobbing up and down as if they were heaving profusely after a long and exhaustive intermingling session.
Slowly, the two piles of goo gathered and reformed, transforming into two humanoid beings draped in a black cloak from head to toe, with no exposed skin and their faces buried deep within a never-ending darkness. On their wrist, a golden four-leafed clover shone dimly in the darkness and gave the two entities a sense of warmth and fortune.
“God damn!” one of them exclaimed in a tired tone.
“Fucking hell, where did you learn those tricks, 106?!” the other one asked, perturbed.
“From 69,” 106 responded.
“Oh… that manwhore,” the other said, enlightened to the strange mystery. He then shook their head with a disappointed gaze and wore a smug look.
“Hey, you shouldn’t judge him too much, 127! Besides, we’re all fucking sluts anyways,” 106 retorted as he waved his hands erratically.
“I ain’t no whore! I only have like… three guys I hang out with, including you,” 127 rebutted and placed his hands on his waist.
“Yeah yeah,” 106 said with a roll of his hidden eyes. “Anyways, being mind fucked and enslaved by Golden Clover is so fucking worth it.”
“So true!” 127 agreed as he nodded his head. His arm then entangled into a writhing mass of dark tentacles as he mumbled. “We get to have Immortality and a cool new chimeric body born from the fusion of numerous monsters and was created solely for the sake of being the perfect tool.”
106 chuckled as a bright flame flickered above his open palm. “Not only that, but we gain access to forbidden tomes of magic scoured throughout the entire world, the best training regimen for practically anything including magic, and access to essentially endless resources.”
“Heh, our organization truly is unparalleled. I get to drink booze every day, gamble my savings and switch identities on the fly, and live a life of never-ending debauchery!” 106 laughed lecherously as his shadowy face turned a dark shade of red, like a blushing school girl thinking about her crush. “It’s like living the dream!”
“Ugh,” 127 sighed and sneered. “I guess that’s why I was sent here with you, the me who’s better, the one who doesn’t want to have sex with monster cocks and weird plants with holes all day.”
“Hey! Is it my fault for wanting to dual cultivate and steal some precious spiritual energy through intercourse? Hmm, I think I’m just being smart here, frankly speaking.” 106 shrugged his shoulders. “Tsk tsk tsk, what a fool.”
“Sure, sure, make all the excuses you want. You still got fucked by an Ogre at the end of the day, not me,” 127 chided and opened up an illusory map from the golden clover on his wrist. “Enough chit-chat, we still have some work to do.
“Fine, let’s go,” groaned 106.
The two then set off, descending deeper into the labyrinth beneath the royal capital.
As they walked with a casual pace, not worried at all about the danger that lurked in the lands below, they finally found an entrance leading to the level below.
When they arrived at Level 13, their eyes glossed over the strange, hulking stone ape that released the powerful aura of a Rank B monster. It was strange though, since from Levels 11-20, the monster should average around Rank D, and one would sometimes find Rank C monsters roaming around.
Not only that, the ambient mana here is high, while not as high as the levels where that stone ape should be living, it was still a significant increase compared to the surface world.
Although the ape seems to be a rare occurrence, because, with a casual sweep, 106 found the majority of monsters here were around C Rank.
The ape soon noticed their presence and turned to look at the two cloaked figures with its stone eyes. It released a loud roar and thumped its chest, before charging at the duo who stood as still as stone statues.
106 and 127 didn’t seem to fear the ape at all, and they remained standing at their place without a hint of fear in their hidden eyes. The golden clover on their wrists released a dim glow, and soon, the ape finally arrived before them.
It swung its arm to prepare a devastating blow, but like a comical twist of events, it appeared to have stepped on a hollow part of the ground below and its foot sunk into the ground, while its fists slammed against the floor.
“Damn…” 106 muttered.
“We’re really lucky as hell,” 127 sighed. “How does he even do this sort of thing?”
“He can mess with life, attain immortality in a month, have arch knight level strength, and so much more… I’m so wet already just by thinking about him,” said 106.
“You slut.” 127 rolled his eyes.
He then approached the stuck stone ape and stretched out his hand. A shadowy black blade formed that released a ghastly aura of death. With a swing, the stone ape found its head decapitated, like a hot knife slicing through a slab of butter.
106, who was mindlessly watching 127 kill the boss monster, noticed an indent on the ground beside the ape and approached it. Knocking on it, he heard a certain type of sound that meant the ground was particularly hollow compared to the other areas around.
“It seems like we can enter a level below if we break the ground here.” 106 examined. “Let me handle it.”
127 nodded his head and stepped back, while 106 raised his arm to the sky and transformed his normal human hand into a giant fist made out of a strange black goo. Hardening it to the level of solid metal, he slammed his hand down to the ground and caused a loud tremor to occur.
When the cloud of dust finally receded, the two looked down at the dark hole below and saw the same general scene. Tunnels, tunnels, and more tunnels, with patches of glowing moss or other light sources that barely illuminated the dark underground labyrinth.
“Floor 14,” 127 sighed before transforming back into his slime form.
“Sigh, I cannot wait for this task to finally end,” 106 moaned and also returned back to his slime form.
With the two humans now transformed back into two goopy slimes, they jumped down the hole, leaving the place in complete silence along with the giant stone ape that rested in eternal slumber.