Chapter 72

I was swiftly running down a hallway lined with blood splatters which was a fairy obvious tell as to which route, they were taking as besides an occasional spot of soot from Bell's fire I had no other tell for which to follow my fellow Familia members.

But after I made a decent way into Knossos, I was starting to see bodies on the ground and were obviously dead and worse I could tell they weren't the result of my Familia's weapons with the way large chunks of them were ripped out and it was only when I started to see large yellow monster stones littering the ground that I understood that Violas were getting involved with our battle.

With a loud crashing noise as I continued rushing past the dead bodies littering the ground one of the larger Viola broke through the wall just beside me and attempted to swallow me whole as it didnt even bother to slow down after breaking through the wall.

But at this point I was far stronger physically not to mention how much more powerful my own conjured flames have grown an entire tier stronger in comparison to the large Viola I fought during Monsterphelia.

With one negligent sideways slash of my sword, I split the viola in half and also shattering its magic stone with a combination of my own strength and the sharpness of my sword. With my sword shattering the corrupted magic stone within the Viola the loss of its magic stone made it instantly burst into smoke and the smoke could only pass beside my body as I kept running towards of combat which carried entirely too far within these tunnels.

Finally, I reached a large open room that was in pure chaos as it looked to be a four-way war as what seemed to be normal Xeno's fighting the members of Ikelos as well as feral Xeno's, fighting both their captors and their previous brethren. Then there was my Familia trying to fight off the Violas casually breaking into the room and threating to possibly collapse it as I could see the large holes of their entry going through all the walls including the floor and ceiling.

But the biggest problem seemed to be just arriving as a fuck off huge black dragon head was roaring and shoving its head through one of the side tunnels obviously stuck and trying to get into this room and was constantly bathing part of the large room in its flames as it attempted to kill everything within the room, including the Violas.

I had no idea how to stop the Violas other than trying to fuse the walls back together but that would only be a stopgap so I simply decided to dive into the Ikelos members seeing how their Captain Dix, was a level five and I could see a number of Xenos laying on the ground around where he was fighting.

I didnt make a loud proclamation of my arrival or challenge him as I blasted towards him using my jet boots and it didnt even take a full three seconds for my me to traverse the whole room and slam my sword into his spear as he whirled around on me.

"Get out of the way!" I yelled seeing the non-feral Xeno's attempting to blindside Dix, but he was able to use the force of our collision to push himself several meters backwards and out of the encirclement even hurting some of the Xenos as he was launched by twirling his cruel and jagged red spear.

As a couple feral Xenos attempted to attack me I didnt kill or likewise injure them too bad, just batting them aside with my sword and tried to throw them to their non feral companions as I didnt know how to treat them.

But I had to franticly block the rapid-fire stabs Dix sent at me and I couldn't just wreath myself with fire as this place was underground and I was scared of burning out all the air not to mention everyone except Bell and to a smaller extent Ryuu had no protection against the heat of fire.

He was both unfortunately stronger physically than me having a solid couple levels on me not to mention he definitely was more trained than I was with his spear as he was able to dance around even the small space blades, I sent at him. Not only could he dodge them but with his solid crimson Adamantine spear the magic resistance and ridiculous durability inherent to the metal kept it the space blades from doing anything worse than carving scratches into the blade and shaft of the spear.

"Not bad kid... You must be the Jake Barris kid, I heard so much about." I cut him off by attempting to length my blade with space cutting magic the point of my sword seemed to grow another three meters for a split second, but he was able to fall onto his back and roll out of the way of my downward chop with my Masamune that cracked the floor with its impact.

"Hey hey!" He laughed out as his follow up blow as he somehow rolled over his spears shaft and used to pivot and throw his body up in the air and stab forward with his spear in midair to collide with my armor which sent me a couple meter's back as my armor although damn near perfect at dealing with more exotic effects like poison, flames, water, and even explosions tended to falter at dealing with sharp precise impacts.

"Hey Dix, is the reason you have to kidnap so many female Xeno's because you got a certain fetish for them, or are you just so incapable of getting it up in general that you need to sell others into sexual slavery..." I candidly spoke as I cut off the head of Ikelos member as he froze hearing my words.

Not only that poor bastard I just killed, but all the people in the room paused hearing my words and I noticed the female Xeno and adventure's giving Dix a mix of pitying and disgusted looks.

"Oi I have no such problems in my life but hey if you guys don't want some easy mind broken pussy after the Daedalus magic scrambles the freaks minds then more for the rich and powerful outside Orario Haha!" He laughed hysterically and I could see the sheer insanity the blood of Dedalus's cursed his bloodline in forcing them to finish his project even past his large goggles covering up his eyes and a part of his face.

'Well looks like it will be best to just kill him,' I thought while also keeping in mind how Ouranos, Hermes, and Ganesha would probably support us after all this not to mention Loki is still bound up in the contract to not betray us. So, at worse she would be forced to be neutral should something go wrong.

Although I still didnt enjoy the thought of killing people, at this point after living within this fantasy land I had already learnt that sometimes you simply need to wipe the slate clean and frankly no jail would be able to hold a child of Dedalus. Not to mention he would be able to fairly easily get a new falna even should we have Ikelos sent back into Tenkai.

Instead of trying to duel the obviously much more skilled fighter I decided it was time to end this not to mention I could test my reality marble in an offensive manner.

As I deeply inhaled the very room, we were all within shook violently as a deep mist formed around me and Dix, it also pushed away the other entities within the ring forming as I deeply focused on him.

"The world was now of fire. Magma is spewing from all corners as the very earth roared its hatred of being bound for so long. Bring upon an endless apocalypse of ash and corrupted souls being released from their torment." My chant brought me and Dix upon the very peak of Mordor and just as I said this was the moment that it erupted with all its fury when Frodo threw in the One Ring, and it was destruction made Sauron's soul violently expire sending massive earthquakes around the southeast portion of the world and made the volcano of Mordor explode and it was only Gandalf and the demigod eagles that managed to calm the volcano down enough not to shoot enough ash into the sky to bring about a small ice age.

Dix franticly looked around before coming to his own conclusion. "Is this the Black Desert were the original Behemoth died?" He mused before visibly shrugging at simply hefted his spear in my direction.

But now that I was out of an enclosed room deep underground, I simply snorted seeing him charge at me. A massive explosion of purple flames roared into existence around me and burnt him a bit but I noticed him wearing Salamander leather clothes which was made from a fire spirit.

"Why is that every damn enemy I fight seems to be so damn fire resistant?" I asked rhetorically.

"Because every decent mage has a fire spell for kill large amounts of monster." Dix almost conversationally told me as he tried to stab into my helmets eye hole.

But I grabbed his spear and wrench it behind me as I tucked it beneath my armpit, seeing as he wanted to hurt my face so badly, I had no compunctions in returning the favor by just slamming my full helmet covered head into his face and I could hear both his nose and goggles breaking from the impact.

"That was rhetorical you walking bag of dicks joke." I responded as he instinctively flinched back from the blow and with his spear still tucked in my arms and the flames raging around us and obscuring his already fucked vision with the broken goggles, I saw a lava flow making its way down the cliff side we been fighting on.

With a harsh kick to his chest, I sent Dix who choked as he now couldn't breathe from my diaphragm collapsing chest into the shallow river of lava starting to pick up speed as it made its way downhill.

"Ahhh you bastard I am going to kill you!" He screamed but I could only stare at him as the probably cursed lava quickly overflowed around and over his body as the Salamander clothes began to fail at protecting him and it was when a particularly large deluge of lava flowed over him and over his face that I started to dismiss my reality marble.