13 Evolution and getting stronger
Last Time:
Ava explained her blessing to which the three girls happily accepted. When the process was complete the four felt a strong connection tying each of them together and an even stronger connection to Akio, unknowingly this blessing had truly in every sense of the word combined them together. The four spent the rest of their time talking mainly about Akio but also about their own lives, and like that they eventually left the dreamscape closer as sisters than ever.
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(3rd person POV)
Waking up Akio opens his eyes to see the same beautiful girl in his arms. Komi remained staring at Akio for some time even while the other girls got up to observe their new bodies. Seeing Komi's passionate gaze Akio couldn't help him self and kissed Komi deeply. The kiss lasted a couple of minutes before they both backed away breathing roughly. Akio than rolled himself on top of Komi and continued raining kisses on her. Before she was even aware of it their clothes were gone before an extreme pleasure assaulted her nether region. Like that the two lost themselves in carnal pleasure until they were interrupted by Kaori and Shizuku who also joined in.
4 hours later..
After their passionate morning all four of the lovers took a shower before getting dressed and eating breakfast. They sat in the living room preparing for their further exploration of the dungeon. "How do you guys feel" Akio curiously asked wondering about their evolution. "Like a new person" responded Shizuku, "I feel like everything about myself has improved". She wasn't wrong her base attributes were multiplied by 3 following her evolution. The same experience was told by Kaori and Komi as well. He then told the three to show their new status plate to which they complied, but when they tried to view it, it was only read as unknown, to which Akio had to show them how to allow their soul to be read.
Name: Shizuku Yaegashi
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Race: High Human
Level: 2
Class: Sword Saintess
Strength: 35->105
Resistance: 35->105
Magic: 25 ->75
Vitality: 30->90
Agility: 105->315
Magic resistance: 25-> 75
Skills:
-Swordsmanship genius
-Acceleration
-Language comprehension
-All element affinity
Name: Kaori Shirasaki
Age:17
Gender: Female
Race: High Human
Level: 1
Class: Holy Priestess
Strength: 20->60
Resistance: 25->75
Magic: 50-> 150
Vitality: 20-> 60
Agility:20-> 60
Magic Resistance: 50-> 150
Skills:
-Holy healing
-Evaluation
-Language comprehension
-All element affinity
Name: Komi Shouko
Age:17
Gender: Female
Race: High Human
Level: 1
Class: Ninja
Strength: 25-> 75
Resistance: 25-> 75
Magic: 30-> 90
Vitality: 30-> 90
Agility: 50-> 150
Magic resistance: 30-> 90
Skills:
-Stealth
-Camouflage
-Silent movement
-Language comprehension
-All element affinity
What the status was unable to show was Ava's blessing that gave them complete immunity to any form of disease, a 25 times growth rate, increased charm that brought them the peak of mortals, and lastly a soul that wouldn't be able to be tampered with by anyone unless allowed to by themselves. With the new information Akio teleported out of the dimension and back into the labyrinth to officially start their decent.
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Back at the Heiligh Kingdom it was soon found out that four of 'gods chosen' had disappeared. The castle was in a frenzy looking for them. Among the chaos of course was the pope Ishtar who was pacing back and forth around the room trying to draw up a conclusion.
"Damn it!, this is not good". Ishtar banged his hands on a table before finally having the decency to sit down. Across from him sat Eliheid S.B Heiligh, the king of this kingdom. Normally such insolence in front of a king would warrant a death sentence but the person in front of him was the Pope of the Holy church, his authority was even higher than Eliheid's.
Ishtar wouldn't be making this big of a fit if it was some of the weaker summoned heros, like the boy who could only use transmutation. However the three of the four who left were very promising and would have been a very good ally to combat the demons. Ishtar had no idea of Akio's capabilities as he wasn't able to see his status, and thanks to his disappearance he lost the chance of finding the reason.
Ishtar grit his teeth, his veins bulging as he was constantly reminded of the loss they faced. Not only did they disappear some of the students who looked up to Shizuku as an older sister had the spirits lowered. The same goes for the friends of Kaori.
In the classroom Akio showed a cold attitude towards the students as he didn't want them getting to close with him, as he knew of their nature. As such even with Akio's appearance being several times greater than Kouki's, his classmates still flocked around Kouki as they like his always smiling happy go lucky personality. Komi of course didn't need to be mentioned as people thought she was a cold beauty, and simply had no desire for friends as a result of her communication disorder. Like that they never made friends with any of their classmates.
"Have you sent out a tracking party?" Ishtar spoke to the king. "Yes, the best of my men were sent all we have to do is simply wait." Ishtar sighed and plopped down in his chair hopeful that they would be able to find Akio's party, little did he know all his efforts were futile.
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A week had passed in Tortus since Akio's group had started their decent into the labyrinth. A lot has happened in this time. After having reached the 20th floor with ease the group had stumbled upon a teleportation trap designed to look like a crystal. Akio was aware of this and conveyed it to his lovers.
Over the day they had first spent exploring the labyrinth their parameters and abilities had skyrocketed, thanks to the 25x growth rate given by Ava. Their abilities easily passed that of Kouki's making the journey down from the upper floors boring. They had gotten use to killing monsters and could do it without batting an eye. Akio also killed a few monsters just to bring up his level. In doing so he learned that in order to for his level to have any significance to him, he would need to get to level 50. At that level he would be able to choose a skill to be added to his arsenal. It was not entirely purposeless though as after each level he received 500 points.
The girls stopped getting as much of an increase in status as they were before. Akio used his magic too see where the trap would lead. He smiled as this would be the first real challenge the girls would face. He told them where it led and said that they would challenge it.
"Are you sure were strong enough, it sounds scary" The words Kaori said conveyed the emotions Shizuku and Komi were feeling as-well. "You are more than prepared, have confidence in your strength." All three nodded and gripped their respective weapons that Akio had gifted them. He then touched the crystal which instantly activated a teleportation circle, they all allowed themselves to be transferred.
When the light of the circle died down they were met with the sight of a long and narrow platform. Suddenly a magic circle appeared and a gigantic dark colored, 4 legged monster emerged. It had 5 horns 2 protruding from its head, another two near is shoulder blades and one more on his snout. It eyes, were glowing red and its teeth were sharp.
The girls didn't falter and were only slightly intimidated. Looking behind them they saw another magic circle form, it spawned in a lot of skeleton soldiers similar to those they had seen in previous floors. Taking a deep breath the three got into a fighting stance Kaori facing the back while Shizuku and Komi stood facing the behemoth. Akio used his magic to fly in the air, acting as a spectator has he's done multiple times by now.
Akio had took the time to give each of them manuals that would help them learn magic. They took their time learning, they had an affinity for every element but their were those they had a stronger resonance with. Shizuku showed a talent with air and space magic, in the short time she worked with them she was able to create extremely sharp air blades that could cut through almost anything as well as develop a instant teleportation technique that would allow her to instantly arrive anywhere that was visible to her at that moment.
Kaori had the highest affinity with holy and healing magic. She could make a ray of light that would obliterate undead beings. The extent of her healing magic remained unknown however as there hasn't been any cases where the girls were seriously hurt besides a few surface level bruises and cuts. Lastly was Komi, she had a really high aptitude for dark magic and was able to make a technique that would allow her to travel in shadows, she could also send dark magic out in pulses that would corrode anything it touched. Akio was confident they wouldn't loose this fight as they had come far.
Suddenly, the behemoth began it's charge to which Komi and Shizuku quickly reacted. Shizuku shot out a wind blade which hit the behemoths hard skin and made a shallow cut that didn't penetrate it's armor.
"Be careful it's armor is really hard" Shizuku yelled out to her teammate.
While this was happening Komi also shot a pulse of corrosion it hit the side of the behemoth weakening its skins durability and causing a surge of pain to shoot through it. Even with the pain the monster still continued to run straight at them the horn on his nose slowly starting to gain a glowing red color. Making a quick decision Komi shot two more pulses of corrosion at the two front legs of the behemoth, Shizuku took advantage of this and immediately used her instant teleportation to appear directly in front of the behemoth before slashing at its legs effectively rendering them useless. The behemoth still with its same momentum had his body flipped and his burning hot horn was following a path that would ultimately rip apart Shizuku if she remained there. Staying calm she simply looked at the only place that was still in her field of vision one of the walls of the room. She used her ability instantly teleporting to the wall before slowly she started to fall toward the abyss down below. Quickly looking to finding where Komi was she teleported to the same location. Finally out of the danger zone Shizuku exhaled a sigh of relief. Komi took the opportunity while the Behemoth was down to stab it in its eye not quite reaching its brain but effectively killing it either way. The two finally had a chance to breathe since the fight started. To them it seemed like it took a long time but truthfully the fight only lasted for 23 seconds. While the two were taking deep breath's they turned around to see Kaori finishing off the rest of her opponents.
"Great job you three that was remarkably done." Akio praised all three for their hard work earning him humphs of confidence as if it wasn't a struggle at all.
Following those next days Akio and co followed the same pattern of traversing the dungeon, going back to their dimension to study magic and spending some 'quality' time together, that almost always involved loud moans echoing around the house, and sleeping.
That was how that week was spent. The girls without even eating monster meat were growing explosively. If they were fight the behemoth again one slash from Shizuku would be able to sever the leg completely even without Komi's corrosion. By the end of the week the group had finally reached the start of the true labyrinth.
They quickly took note of the naturalness of the levels as if they had never seen the hands of humans. They also witnessed first hand how the strength of the monsters had increased drastically. Still it didn't stop their descent down the abyss. Occasionally Akio would step in and raise his level a bit, easily obliterating anything he saw as hostile. This world was far to easy for him, and he had no plans on limiting himself to it's standards.
A couple hours since they started down the true labyrinth they arrived at the 5th floor, what greeted them was a door with 3 engravings, and two statues of cyclops guarding it. Once they stepped closer and touched the door the grayish coloring of the cyclops was soon lost as two extremely tall bipedal, one eyed creatures loomed over the party.
(Swish, BOOOOOM!)
Akio simply swung his hand bisecting not only the two cyclops but also the door obstructing them. "That was underwhelming" Shizuku sighed before she and the rest stared into the now open room. Along with the transformation into being a high human the girls also gained a increased vision that somewhat gave them night vision. The three curious to check if what their seeing is real walk into the room, and as they continue their walk with the lights turning on as they go, the visual of a beautiful yet small girl with long flowing golden hair and red eyes trapped in a cube becomes more clear to them. "Please help me" the girls hoarse yet begging voice filled the room.
A/N: I was fairly busy this entire day so this is the only chapter for today. …Probably if I'm unable to sleep I might write another. I know the last few chapters have been focused mainly on the girls and not the mc and I apologize for that but it's something necessary. Yue's name will stay as Yue, as like someone from the previous chapter said "If something isn't broken don't fix it". I'm gonna wrap up the Orcus labyrinth by next chapter most likely focus more on the mc. As always if you notice any errors please comment.
