Chapter 3: Dungeon

On the other side of the door was literally another world…

There’s no other way to describe it, it was heaven yet at the same time hell!

The place looked as if it was perfectly cut in the middle.

On the left side was like heaven, a marble palace styled like the ancient Greek’s pantheon of gods sat in the middle of a huge forest, that was beautiful beyond compare. The lake was pure and so clean that it was sparkling, while the fruits on the trees were perfectly ripe.

The people were beautiful beyond compare and not just one or two, but every single one of them. They had ten wings, five on each side and they each wore full metal body armour that covered their body from the neck down and they all looked young while radiating light. With all sorts of weapons in hand, they lived in perfect harmony with nature around them.

The light radiating out of each of the beings, filled their world with light. So much that it even made me forget I was underground for a second.

I even saw the water in the lake rising before forming a human shape and slowly, the water fell off, revealing the figure of a beautiful naked women with ten wings. As she walked out of the lake, the earth rose around her and hardened becoming full body metal armour and a spear.

The other side, however, was like hell…

It was a lifeless black land, filled with pools of magma. There were no signs of nature on it from one end to the other. The wall of earth on the other side seemed like a safe haven compared to the eerily black land. The pitch black land consumed all light and not just in a figuratively way. Light that got in from the left side fell to the earth as if it was as heavy as metal and disappeared as if it were consumed. The only source of light on the land, was light being radiated from the magma and that red light mixed with the eerily dark land made it seem like it was hell itself.

The residents of the land were also human figures of great beauty wearing little to no cloths. They had dark red skin with magnificently large horns protruding out of the two sides of their head. With two great black wings, a long jet black scaly tail, claws for hands and three big talon for feet, they were like demons from books brought to life.

They lived however they want on the land. Some bathing in the magma, others fought painting the black land red, while others eating each other both figuratively and literally. And whenever one dies, the land itself opens and becomes a big jaw with teeth that rises and devours the body before spitting the being out again in perfect shape and returning back to being earth. The being that was spat out continues his previous actions as if he never died.

Yup, I’m avoiding the right side. It wouldn’t be funny if the beings or even the earth tried to eat me or kill me.

Slowly walking down the stone stairs that led to the door to my room, I moved towards the left side and as soon as I stepped on the grass, every single one of the figures turned to me.

The beings all stopped what they were doing before turning to me…

What am I supposed to say in this circumstance?

“”Um… hi?””

I said a single word! JUST A GREETING! And every single one of them took to the skies and rushed towards me! WHAT THE HELL!

I mean they look strong!

And there’s over a hundred of them!

Turning around the twins ran back up to the stairs for the door, but once they reached the top, two figures landed before the door.

The demonic looking one was the same as the others. She was wearing what seems to be lack stripes that coil around her body with a blood red double sided sword in hand. The angelic looking one, also looked the same as the others,  but her armour only covered her chest, arms, legs and lower area. In her hand was two blades that bent back. A blue line was stretched across the two tips of the blade forming a bow, but no arrows were anywhere in sight. Looking closer, one can see the yin and yang symbols floating around their eyes in opposite directions.

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While Yuiitsu and Sei were sizing up their opponents, the angelic and demonic figures from the back has also caught up, so the twins are pincered from both sides.

There’s nowhere to run, so I guess I have to fight. I hope Daeneries wasn’t lying when he said we can’t die, because I think I’m about to find out.

Pulling their twin swords out from the inventory, the twins took a stance and was ready for battle, but what happened next was out of their expectations.

“Goddess-samas, what are your orders?”

Both the angelic and demonic figures kneeled around them, with bowed heads and a big smile on their face, they stared at the twins waiting intently for their masters’ orders.

Staring at the scene in front of them, Yuiitsu and Sei’s mind blanked out. The actions that the beings were doing was so incomprehensible that they had no idea how to answer.

“Is something the matter goddess-samas?” the angelic and demonic figure at the top of the stairs asked.

“”Why’re you calling me goddess-samas?””

The angelic and demonic being with had a puzzled face and looked at each other. Then with tilted heads they replied,

“Well goddess-samas, there are two of you, therefore we call you goddess-samas instead of goddess-sama?”

Oh right… I have two bodies now, I really need to remember that or people are going to call me odd. Better start using us before it’s too late. But that’s not the main problem.

“”No, I do not mean why you call us goddess-samas, but why do you call us goddess?””

“You are the god of balance, the god of our race, the Byosu.”

Oh… so these are the race I govern… weird why’re there two types of them?

At least my race looks strong, I mean they look extremely similar to devils and angels from my old world, and I heard all kinds of myths about their power.

I wonder if they hate each other like in the stories, having my race gone extinct because of an internal dispute is not going to be funny…

“”Do the two of you hate each other?””

“No goddess-samas, we live separately in balance, so neither side bothers the other.”

“And even if we had to pick yes or no, we’d pick no ya know, because we change depending on which side is in charge ya see.””

That’s a load of relief, I guess my race isn’t going extinct any time soon.

“Goddess-samas, do you have any orders for us?”

“”Ah, no there are no questions at the moment.””

“I see…”

The white Byosu answered with a sad look.

“”But we do have a question. How do we get out of here?””

“Oh, you can climb the stairs on the other side. There are 100 floors in the Dungeon of Origin, so please be careful goddess-samas.”

EH!? 100 FLOORS!? WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE WE?????

“Also, are we allowed to follow you goddess-samas? Since ya know, we can demonstrate our usefulness.”

I hope she doesn’t mean what I think she means…

*gulp* “”All of you?...””

“Yup!”