Chapter 1.6 Two miracles
BOOM!!!
Mmm… that was my thunder, it’s sunrise, good everything is working, most likely in at most an hour Emma will wake me up, let’s try to get a bit more sleep while I can…
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Someone is running on the stairs, looks like it is time to wake up.
SBAAM!!! Emma runs inside all excited, did she break the door?
“Helix, Helix, the dungeon, the dungeon, God Helios, me, he, the village, my friends, the adventurers…”(Emma) what? She is way too excited.
“Emma, calm down if you speak so fast I can’t understand anything.”
She took an ample breath and then spoke again:
“an hour ago, just as Viggo entered the central square a great lighting struck, didn’t you hear the noise? You really have a deep sleep. Anyway when he calmed down, he noticed that at the centre of the square there was something that wasn’t there just a few hours prior. An Altar!!! A beautiful marble altar has been erected by God Helios. He said that because me and my friends believed and prayed to him, he decided to claim this land by hands of Goddess Aria, he even restored the dungeon. At first we thought that it was some kind of prank, but they went to check and the monsters are back. We are blessed, Aria now Helios Village is not going to die.”(Emma)
“I just prayed to him like you told me, you really didn’t lie.”(Emma)
“I already told you that I would never lie to you”
“mom even told me to not trust him and that he wouldn’t help us, but now she has to admit, that she was mistaken.” (Emma) she seem pleased
“You need to come, You are the strongest Adventurer in the village, they want you to check the dungeon.” (Emma) this is the first time I have heard her talking this much.
“Ok, tell them that in a few minutes I will come”
“Are you trying to trick me to get more time to sleep?”(Emma) she isn’t convinced, umhh
“I would never trick you, I just need some time to get ready as I don’t know what danger I can meet in the Dungeon.”
“Mmmm” (Emma)
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Congratulations!!! Your first dungeon is now operative.
Various people are praying to you +1600 DP
Congratulations!!! Your religion got eighty-two new believers
My poker face had an hard time while talking to Emma with these blue screens before my eyes.
Freyja?
Athena where is Freyja? I wanted to ask the conditions of the dungeon
“She is napping inside your deity core, she was very tired” (Athena)
Inside the core?
“Yes, she is a part of you, and since she is not chained by a human body she can stay there (indefinitely) , as long as you, or me as your proxy, allow it. Should I wake her up?”(Athena)
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No let her sleep a little more, if needed you can wake her when we are in the dungeon.
For appearance I am wearing an armour and a sword that I won’t need.
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“So, Emma told me that God Helios restored the dungeon and you want me to check it” I said when reaching the altar and the group of villagers near it.
“Yes, the children told us that they have been praying to this new God for a few days now, and all of sudden this altar appeared. We already sent someone to check the dungeon and they saw some monsters inside, you are the strongest adventurer in town could you please check it out?” the old grandpa who happens to be the mayor of the village says with a troubled face. Sensing my slight hesitation he adds “naturally the other adventurers will help you”
“No need; I am used to venturing alone” Even if this was a normal Dungeon dive I would never bring with me adventurers of that rank.
“As you want, are you going now?”(Mayor-Grandpa)
“on my way”
Well I thought I was going alone but apparently almost the whole village is accompanying me to the entrance of the dungeon.
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While making sure that the villagers that I left behind can’t see me anymore I sheathe my sword, and call Freyja out. Even her tail swings happily, while she shows me around the dungeon. Its however quite strange for an experienced adventurer such as myself to see monsters kneel or bow at our passage.
Overall my new dungeon is pretty bland. A somewhat big cave with some traps and some monsters. Realistically the whole dungeon is less dangerous that the first room of some of the big dungeons I have conquered.
Looks like the villagers have prayed for me quite a lot, the amount of DP that I have is way more than what I can earn in a night.
“You are constantly receiving prayers, even now.” (Athena)
Good.
I pass a good part of my DPs to Freyja who, overjoyed by the opportunity to upgrade her dungeon so soon, starts a purring session. But the new dungeon is identical to the old one for a reason, so her upgrades will have to wait. Now I have to find a way to pass a few hours, I can’t exactly exit the dungeon after only a few minutes and expect the villagers to still believe that I am a normal C Rank adventurer.
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When two-three hours later I exit the dungeon, everybody is still here. Some are sitting, some are kneeling and praying, a few in groups of four or five are chatting, and the children, well the children are happily playing.
When Emma notices me and starts to run in my direction, the others notice also. While Emma and the other children start to circle around me to see if I am hurt somewhere, the adults encircle me and start to bombard me with questions. After a few minutes of confusion they stare at me, there is hope in their eyes, a short pause, and I start to answer their questions, well the one that I remember at least.
“Yes there are monsters and traps” I say while showing them a few monsters’ cores that Freyja made for me. “Everything is working. I have never been in Aria Dungeon before, but if the stories I have heard were truthful then this dungeon, this Helios Dungeon, is an exact copy of Aria Dungeon. Well there wasn’t however any boss monster, and the dungeon core was a bit different.” Hearing me mention the dungeon core a few of the adults frowned.
“You didn’t touch the core, did you?” Said one of them with a voice full of worry.
“I am not mad, after all the troubles this dungeon had who would touch the core? While exiting I even had to re-kill a few monster that had respawned.”
After some moments of silence, shouts of joy fill the air. Some fell on their knees and started to pray. The children didn’t have a visible reaction but they started to laugh while watching the adults going crazy. One of the children is calling his friends while pointing at something. When I see what captured his attention, I jokingly tried to cover his eyes, but he easily evaded me. Some of the adults noticed too, but most of them are too distracted to notice that Viggo,a few meters away from the group, is kissing a girl.
The two are so into each other that they aren’t even noticing that the focus of the group is slowly drifting towards them. The couple slowly separated, but still didn’t notice as they started to intensely stare into each others eyes. Just as they were about to kiss again some of the adults started clapping, and the rest of the village followed the trend.
While children are laughing until their stomachs started to ache, and adults were shouting things like: Finally!; I Can’t believe it took you two so long!; Viggo you did it!; These two are together is this another miracle?; Will I finally be able to have a grandchild?. The couple finally returned to our world, and they got so embarrassed, especially Elle. Eleonora, often called Elle is a one of a kind girl. She isn’t an indescribable beauty, she possess however that kind of subjective beauty that would lead to conversations such has: “did you see that beauty?”; “who that plain girl?”; “plain? Do you have ham in your eyes?”.
I have never actually spoken to her but she is Viggo’s favourite topic of conversation, so I know quite a bit about her. She is a shy girl that rarely express her feelings, this led Viggo to be unsure of how she felt about him, which led his childhood crush and adult love to be kept as secrets. Well not really as everybody in the village knew about their reciprocal feelings. Maybe the joy of the moment made them win conquer their shyness. Today there is going to be a day long feast.