"This doesn't look very secure to me." I said while walking into the cell with Aurora ahead. 

"Oh, I am sure it's not to your standards... miss dragon." said guild master while stroking his beard and followed me after Phoenix.

I looked at him annoyed but said nothing.

Magra with a few guards was already inside, I recognized Melody with pixie on her shoulder, and her role was easy to guess. From two minotaur guards only one I have seen before.

As for our party... Darson with his slaves was probably on the way to meet his family. Not long ago he received a message that his brother wants to talk with him.

Tia with the others are either at the Guild or trying to get materials I asked them to buy. As for why only trying... while the crisis was over, that doesn't mean all shops opened their business as if nothing happened.

She wanted to join us but was rejected by Magra.

As the information that might be revealed wasn't for the public eye, Captain was against even Phoenix joining us, and only after a long argument, he gave in.

I think Phoenix was worried this was a trap or that something might happen to me. After the incident with petrification, he became very protective of me.

It was so... cute.

"... why it had to be me?! ...Hey! Don't ignore me!" shouted Rin angrily at Magra.

"Stop whining. You should know better than anyone that Sil isn't a person to keep secrets." stopped her Magra and then looked at Averon. "By the way, what was that about dragons?"

"Just a little rumor." chuckled guild master.

"I see..." he then looked at me and continued. "Well, you don't need to worry. This cell is made to keep the most dangerous criminals. While enchantments are meant to prevent outside intervention, they should make it difficult to teleport even from within."

Only difficult?! Just before any of us could express our concerns he continued.

"Yes, yes, I know. Like I said, it was meant against outside intervention." he said and then pointed at the end of the cell. "Those shackles will do the main job. None of her tricks will help her when she can't use any magic and her strength is drained."

At the place he pointed, I could see a few shackles lying on the ground, they were attached to the wall by thick chains. With my metal manipulation, I could tell they were made from mithril. And thanks to my mana perception, from all their enchantments looked as if glowing.

Large blocks of mithril were hidden behind the wall and chains were connected to them.

That's a lot of enchantments. I wonder if this would be enough to stop me...

The cell itself was spacious. Too spacious. I suspect that at some time it was a torture room. There were still some old marks on the walls indicating something was kept there, and X shaped cross at the corner left some room for imagination.

"Kinky~." said Aurora while licking her lips. "Now I know what my bedchamber was missing."

"I will go check enchantments." said Phoenix and started inspecting shackles one after another.

I couldn't do that as only my phantom tail was preventing Aurora from using magic.

"Hmm, I think it should be safe." finally said Phoenix.

As I heard that, I led Aurora closer. With metal manipulation, I turned her handcuffs into a liquid and reshaped into a ball. 

"What?" I asked when stored the ball in my pocket dimension.

All guards looked at me with wide eyes.

"That was mithril, right?" asked Magra.

"Yes. So?"

"By the might of Deimor..." grasped one of minotaurs.

"N.. nothing." answered Magra with a weird smile.

He then gestured for the guards to put shackles on Aurora. With my phantom tail still keeping her in check she obediently let them do that.

"If you don't mind, I have something that might help with the interrogation." I said while retrieving some alchemy ingredients.

For a moment they floated in mana bubble between my palms, I extracted what was needed and after quick transmutation let liquid float into a bottle.

"What is this?" asked guild master with interest.

"Truth serum." I smiled while looking at Aurora.

The language I used wasn't of this world, and I was hoping Aurora to make some reaction... but there was none. I guess she also thought I was a Champion.

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While with Rin we will know if what is said is the truth, it wasn't why I suggested to use it. Even without lying one can hide a lot if right questions weren't asked. The serum on another hand makes one having loose lips so to say. As long as Aurora herself thinks it is important, she will reveal everything there is to know.

Torture is outdated and just a waste of time.

While I knew a lot from memory fragments of Qin, it is a fact that much of knowledge is still missing. It's like reading a book with almost half words gone. You can get the meaning from context, and it is possible to fill gaps when the similar information is repeated here and there. But many important details, mentioned only once, are lost for sure.

Aurora should fill many gaps.

*

When we left the building, I could see guards and other people working to remove the bodies. While I suspect it will take weeks, maybe months for everything return to normal, little by little streets were already coming back to life.

Our next stop was the Guild. We agreed to meet here with Tia, and there was also a matter of receiving our rewards for the emergency request. What I didn't anticipate was raising our rank. 

We were now D rank adventurers. Well, some of us.

Even with guild points, normally that would be impossible, as the next ranking test wasn't planned for a month, but that was hardly a problem for guild master.

I don't know what was his game. Maybe wanted a favor or was hoping I will feel indebted... Whatever it was, I saw no reason to decline.

*

"Say, Kitty, do you think their enchantments can prevent Aurora from using her scent?" asked Phoenix.

As we waited for Tia at the bar, Phoenix was stroking my ears while I was leaning on him.

As he said that, I realized I was still releasing my pheromones to counter Aurora's. I was doing it unconsciously and didn't even notice before Phoenix mentioned about her scent.

"Hmm, even if they can't, it's only her who will be in danger..." but as I was saying that, a doubt started to creep on me.

Back then I have interrupted her, and it still had such a strong effect on men around us... and that was in the open. What will happen if she uses it within her cell?

Both of us looked at one another and without delay activated teleportation.

*

Enchantments prevented us from getting to her cell directly and we appeared at the barracks. When we did, guards were shouting and arguing, but when noticed our presence, quickly surrounded us. I let Phoenix do the explanation and charged to the dungeons. Some of the guards tried to block me, but I just used phantom shift to pass through them.

With dragon claws and sometimes phantom claws stabbed into the stone, I quickly reached an adequate speed.

Dragon Claws reached level 4.

I wasn't slowing down even at the turns, and just ran on the walls.

When I reached cell of Aurora, doors were slightly open and none of the guards, were in sight, but from a commotion inside, it shouldn't be too late.

The moment I entered, a strong smell of pheromones and semen entered my nose. Aurora was completely naked and minotaur, with barely any clothes on, was having his way with her pinned to the wall. Scraps of her clothes along with armor of guards were scattered over the floor.

With chains binding her hands, Aurora was laughing while choking him, the minotaur was so absorbed in his activity that didn't even notice she was killing him.

There were many guards in the cell. Some were guards originally stationed at the door, others were probably reinforcements.

Some of them were fighting one another, others tried to peel off minotaur from her body, most likely only to get their turn. Quite a few were lying on the floor. Some knocked out, others heavily wounded.

Marks on the neck of a few hinted Aurora's handiwork with the chain.

A bit to the side, a single dryad was defending herself from her former comrades. Her armor was bent in a few places and some of her clothes were torn, but she wasn't helpless and kept guards at bay with her magic.

A wolf beastkin and a few humans were already dealt with, vines and roots coiled around them so many times that they looked like cocoons. It was a different story with minotaur. While vines and roots were constantly sprouting from gaps in the floor and walls, minotaur was easily tearing them apart and was slowly approached her.

It was evident she won't last long.

I summoned my phantom tail and grabbed minotaur, trying to reach her. I quickly absorbed his mana, and released his unconscious body.

"Hey!... they are myyy!" complained Aurora between moans and after releasing chains from minotaur in front of her started to kiss him with passion.

It was hard to believe she was trying to kill him just a moment ago.

I paid her no mind and dealt with others one after another.

For those with armor, I used metal manipulation to bind them by reshaping their own armor into chains, for others I used devour soul to absorb their mana. Making one faint from mana exhaustion might be harmful to the body, but in a situation like this, it couldn't be helped.

If dryad wasn't there I would just use paralyzing gas, but...

"What happened?!" rushed in Magra with Phoenix, and more guards were right behind them.

"Get out of here! The room is still tainted!" I shouted at them.

The concentration of Aurora's 'scent' was at least twenty times higher now so even for me it will take some time before I neutralize it, but it was too late.

Their breath became hard and a familiar madness started appearing in their eyes. At first, Aurora only giggled when saw their gaze, but when noticed Magra with a few orcs looking at her, a bit of fear appeared in her eyes.

[FoUnD YoU!] suddenly a loud voice echoed through me.

It was as if thunder started forming a sentence. It wasn't ears nor mind that I heard it with, the voice reached me through the soul itself.

Fuck!

Was all I could think when recognized the entity from beyond. With my petrification resistance at maximum, I was hoping it will be enough to hide from it...

A scream of dryad brought me back to reality. A few guards were rushing to her with lust in their eyes.

I don't have time to deal with this!

I quickly summoned a few paralyzing grenades and activated all of them at once. As the gas spread through the cell I already started channeling more mana through the bond with dungeon, overloading my body in the process.

Even if that thing is a God, I won't go down without a fight!

A few guards flew past me and crashed hard into the wall. Blood was dripping from their mouth as they slid the wall. A dent in their armor showed just how much force Phoenix has used.

His stats were now not that far from mine, those guards made a terrible mistake by trying to attack me in his presence.

Phoenix looked at them a bit longer, rage radiating from his body, and then turned to others. Even without his interference one after another, guards fell to the ground as the gas was taking effect.

Only Aurora wasn't affected yet. From her fight with Phoenix, I already suspected she has quite high resistance.

I quickly stopped paying attention to my surroundings when an overwhelming pressure started suffocating me.

[YoU CaN't HiDe FrOm Me!]