Is it wrong to let yourself be beaten up in the dungeon?
Riveria freaked out but thankfully didn't ask how, and who taught him a magic system that involves runes. It was probably his visible discomfort that made her not question him. Bell understood how big of a deal knowledge of Runes and hieroglyphs are only when Riveria took him to her room and declared that they will learn here in order to make sure that there will be no unwanted eavesdropping.
When a woman takes you to her room, you know that shit is serious.
At the end of the day, Bell knew something about this world magic, and Riveria had notes about the runes that Bell knows to study. Everyone is happy, no one is sad. YAAAAY!
Boring.
So let's skip a couple of hours, and see Bell once again going dungeon diving!
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The spiraling sphere in Bell hand burned. The maelstrom of pure MP changed into a maelstrom of fire and shoot out at its target. It hit, It connected!...with the floor. The group of kobolds didn't have the time to react, as the flaming Rasengan hit the rocky floor near them and exploded into a small dome of spiraling flames, burning them to death.
"So it can be mixed." Bell smiled.
The Idea of making the Rasengan and combining it with the {Fire Bolt} was something he came up with on his way to the dungeon. And it was a good idea, it worked after all! Casting the {Fire Bolt} with the hand that holds a Rasengan causes the spiraling ball of energy to catch on fire and shoot out, just like a ranged spell. While It's still nowhere near the damage an actual fire release Rasengan can do, it's still powerful.
After all, Bell doesn't add the fire to the Rasengan while he creates it, he does it after its creation. So technically, it's not a true "fire style: Rasengan"...or would that be a "fire style rasenshuriken"? Meh, who cares?
Walking up to the place where the kobolds were standing, He picked up the magic crystals and put them in his shoulder bag. Seeing that his newly invented spell managed to crack the walls of the dungeon, Bell sat down and decided to relax a little. After all, monsters can't spawn if the walls are damaged.
"Use the daily lottery spin"
While he waited for the pop-up screen to stop freaking out, Bell took out a single hand-made sandwich from one of the shoulder bag pockets and started to eat it.
{Golden Apple} (A/N: thank you "R_O_B" for the suggestion.)
Bell stopped for a second when he saw the result of his lottery spin.
"Man, what's with my luck lately?"
The Necronomicon, the Rasengan, and now a golden apple? Is lady luck finally being merciful to him? He hopes that this kind of lottery spin will be happening more often, but he doubts it. Bell put the apple into his shoulder bag and didn't think much more about it, he just finished his sandwich and once again started wandering the dungeon.
An hour? Two? Five? Seven? It truly amazes him how much one can lose the track of time when you are underground. The last time he thought he spent 2, maybe 3 hours in the dungeon, but it turned out he spent an entire day! The night sky truly shocked him when he saw it.
As he finally started to get tired of committing mass genocide on the bloodthirsty monsters inside the dungeons, Bell decided to find himself a group of monsters, summon 6 angels, make the angels disarm the monster from all their weaponry, get the monster attention and let himself be beaten up by them...
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This..."interesting" activity was something he came up with in order to raise his defense stat. After all, how else would you raise a stat that raises only when you receive physical damage? Well, at least he was not just letting himself be beaten up and tried to fight back with his dagger. Bell managed to somehow kill 2 goblins before the third took the dagger from him and stabbed Bell between his ribs.
Bell knew that it would hurt and that it would hurt bad. But as someone who never has been stabbed (A/N: Bell clearly is not from the UK) he had no idea what kind of pain he should expect. The feeling is not something he could prepare for. It hurt in a way he was not able to describe, the feeling of sharp steel entering his chest brought tears to his eyes.
The angels blasted the monsters with their magic attacks, one of them ignored the fight and approached Bell. The angel removed the dagger from his summoner chest without any grace or gentles, making his Bell let out a quick scream of pain.
The warm sensation of healing magic that fallowed made Bell let out a moan of relief. "If I don't get 10 points in defense for that, I'm gonna lose my shit! I'm not doing that again!" Yet despite his words, Bell found another group of monsters and did it all over again. This time he didn't kill any monsters, he just managed to wound them before he got overwhelmed by them, forcing the angels to save him.
he did this over.
and over.
and over.
and over.
and over. and over.
and over. and over.
and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over.
When he finally decided to take a break, Bell ordered the angels to damage the walls of the dungeon and sat down. If one would hear how deep he was breathing, one would probably think that Bell was hyperventilating.
"At least I will not have any scars." The boy said to himself, trying to cheer himself up. But after being beaten over and over, not to mention STABBED, it did a little to improve his mood. "Alright, I'm done, no more dungeon crawling." with that decision made, Bell started to make his way back to the surface while allowing himself to be escorted by the 6 summon angels. After all, he is not sure if he can even fight back with how sore he feels.
<The Magus of Flowers is wondering if you are a masochist.>
"fuck off, I was farming my Defense stat!"
<The Magus of Flowers doesn't believe you.>
Bell eyebrow twitched. His annoyance was however quickly replaced by vigilance as he saw his summoned angels going into a defensive position. He could see a bunch of silhouettes moving toward him, a faint sound of laughter heard in the distance.
Before he could blink, all his angels burst into motes of light.
His confused gaze meets the equally confused stare of Aiz Wallenstein.
"uhhh." was his clever and wise response to what just happened. "Did I do something to aggravate you?" he asked once he managed to process his situation.
"No." the blonde responded with an emotionless voice.
"So...why did you kill my summons?" he asked and saw two amazons and... OH NO! ITS BETE!
"Oi Aiz, why did you run like that all of a sudden?" The werewolf asked and noticed Bell shortly after. "Huh? And who are you." he sneered at Bell.
Bell should be afraid, or at least he thinks he should. But as he looks at the werewolf, all he feels is...nothing, to be honest... Maybe it's his past life experience of constantly dealing with arrogant assholes that causes this?
"Bell Cranell, a rookie of the Loki Familia."
Whatever Bell expected, it was certainly not a single "Hmm" followed by silence. Wasn't this guy supposed to make fun of him for being an LV1 or something?? Did the fanfictions and original Danmachi story lied to him??
"Are you okay?" the sword princess asked.
"Yes? Why would I not be?"
"Winged monsters."
Bell blinked. Once. Twice.
"My summons?"
"Summons what's that?" the flat chest Amazon inquired as she decided to speak. Her more...*endowed* sister seemed to share her sister curiosity as she looked at Bell, waiting for his answer.
Bell decided it would be better to show rather than tell."{Summon Angel 2nd Tier}"
None of them had any noteworthy reaction to the angel coming out of the magic circle. Bete raised an eyebrow, The Amazonians let out a hum, and Aiz...she had a poker face.
"Woah..." Tiona said and approached the winged figure.
One love tap later, the angel crashed into the wall with his torso bent in ways Bell didn't know were possible.
"Oh, sorry, I broke it." Tiona said sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head.
"I- uhh... I have more of them" Bell responded absentminded. Tiona just tapped the angel...TAPPED! It was a poke at best! And it resulted in...this!? H-how powerful is a level 5?? And how powerful is a level 7 like Ottar!? What about the level 8 and 9 captains from the now disbanded Hera and Zeus familia!
...is...
...is this how huge the gap between him and them is ...? Yes, of course, it is! after all, he just witnessed it.
His shock was apparently somewhat humoring to the amazonian, as she giggled before walking away. "Sorry about killing your winged human monsters, see you later." with this simple apology and goodbye, Tiona quicken her steps, making the others start to follow her.
"Sorry," The sword princess said when she passed Bell.
And when he was about to go in his separate way, he saw Bete purposely move in a way that made the werewolf bump into him. 'Is this guy serious?' Not allowing himself to fall for this provocation, Bell started to walk away.
"Oi! isn't it normal to apologize after you bump into someone!" Bell froze, and the amazonian duo groaned after hearing their idiot companion.
Apologize? Why would he apologize, it's not his fault that the werewolf wants to pick up a fight! ...it...it annoyed him, no, angered him! 'Just because you are stronger...' Bell tightens his fist. 'Does not mean I will bow my head and apologize for your mistake or attitude.' His posture relaxed, his mind already decided on his response.
"You bumped into me, I have nothing to apologize for" Bell didn't try to defend himself. Would he even be able to stop the werewolf? He is a Level 5 just like Tiona who completely WRECKED his summon with a FUCKING tap! He doubted his new shield spell would help him, and he had no hopes of dodging the possible attack from the werewolf either. 'Go on, punch me. Maybe it will raise my Defense stat by 100 points if it's from you.' Bell thought humorously.
What came next, however, made Bell mind crash, he was unable to believe or process the next words that came out of the werewolf mouth.
"Yeah, you're right, sorry for that."
*BRAIN E.X.E has stopped working* And it was a feeling shared by Tiona, Tione, and even Aiz who have never heard Bete apologize, EVER in their life. The werewolf didn't react to his fellow familia member's shock, he just walked forward. His goal? The deeper floors.
"Wha?" Bell questioned.
"huh?" Tiona said.
"Am I dreaming?" Tione pinched herself.
" (O_O) " was Aiz face.
Life is weird sometimes.
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welp...that was an awkward and weird interaction!
What were Aiz, the sibling Amazonians, and Bete doing in the dungeon? What is their destination?? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z!...oh wait, wrong show...
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