Chapter 23: Team

The dungeons and the things that crept over on the dungeon, the creatures. They were the supernatural beings created by demons to wage war against puny humans.

It is believed that they are the soldiers of the demon folk. But due to the sealing of the mightiest demons, they went to hiding.

Silence!

Isabella stood ahead of the crowd. Behind stood, Ms. Katrine and Mr. Seed, the academy professional knight. The examination is about to start.

Everyone is ordered to stay in a line, as in military knights and magicians.

Isabella has her nose high up. Isabella goes,' Calm down! This is the only time-'

The crowd suddenly cheers in full excitement. Isabella turns her head slowly and sighs.

'It's you-' Isabella gets cut again.

'IT'S THE STRONGEST PERSON ON THIS PLANET, STARRY SLEEPYHEAD.'

One of the people screams in the crowd. The crowd goes wild. Michael's always encaustic face makes a change into a frown.

All of the descendants are baffled by the presence of her. Starry reaches Isabella in a flash.

Starry goes near the ear, 'May I?'

Isabella tries to cuss her as always but they aren't alone now. She's got dignity to maintain. Isabella hands her mic to Starry.

"Hey y'aaaaaaaalllllll"

Starry waves her hand while her tan lines show.

The cat rubs her forehead while her ears grow red. The crowd goes silent.

But suddenly all of the crowd goes loud. Some people even faint at the sheer beauty of starry that she is completely unaware of. Even though I am fascinated by her beauty, it's a rare thing in our lands.

"I, Starry sleepyhead, am here to represent our empress of the glorious empire of fire and mystics."

Such a powerful sentence caused the crowd to go dead.

Everyone kneeled with the right hand on their chest and eyes closed.

I looked around in confusion, I had to act accordingly too.

So I hurriedly kneeled too.

The symbolic crest shines brighter even than the great sun.

Starry, Isabella, Katriné and mr. Seed kneel upon the mighty symbol.

A soft and a bit raspy voice goes,

"It is my heavenly pleasure to watch the next generation of heroes grow. Please, classes from C to The descendants, do well."

All of them say in a monotone,

"All hail the empress." as well as the teachers, the guards, civilians, and every other human on the land.

This empress gives me a similar sense to mother Lilith. She must be powerful as well, the way her voice trembles with bursts of divine mana.

This is the first time I've kneeled to others than mother Lilith herself but I feel no inferior. It's a bit free to be a human now.

The crest disappears. All of them get up.

Some people are still stunned out by the mana, that surrounded the voice. The mana exposure was too much.

Isabella takes the mic, 'I have assigned a team for each of you. It was done at random.'

The papers near the stage fly towards everyone, regarding the team members of five. Michael suddenly changes his expression to his usual one. Michael, Arthur, Sahana, Cyrus, the princess from another land, and Leviathan are on the same team. The win was already decided, everyone thought but it was worth the try.

Coincidentally, Hisa, yuna, and Cat are on the same team.

The two beauties and Hisa are conflicted but everyone is mesmerized by their uniqueness. Two guys from class C are in the same group as them. They flick their hair, they like the pointy and middle finger and adjust their eyebrows.

One of them speaks, 'Hey ladies, mind if we help you in the battle?'

Those three turned back with a killing aura, cat touched the shoulder of those two.

She was so mad Bel wasn't there and almost snapped their shoulder. Hisa almost snapped with her blade. Yuna was calm outside but on the inside, she was screaming and pulling her hair apart.

I saw my hisa, yuna, and cat, my classmates smiling to get stronger in the dungeon and getting along with others.

It makes me tear up.

Bel wipes his tears as if he saw those two grow up. And that Michael, his group is going to be a pain in the ass but instead of passing the dungeon with flying colours, he needs to complete the course.

Ares and Alice are together being lovey-dovey while the other teammates look at them as crazy.

Chunnibyo's hero's whereabouts are unknown.

Bel looks for his team but a frequency is passed on to his ear.

'Hey, bel. It's starrrrryyyyyyyyyyy!'

Bel covered his ears as it rang pretty hard.

Bel scowls at Starry. Starry waves her hand vigorously but he ignores her.

'Hey! Wave back!'

Bel ignores her again.

'Alright, I've rigged your team and placed you on the team where the dungeon contains the demonic sword. Be nice to them, they are just class B students.'

I nodded at her words, not looking at her, to not raise any suspicions.

'YAY! Bel Fight! Fight! Good luck!'

I'm counting on you!'

Bel covers his ears again with a frustrated face and disconnects the incoming frequency. Bel looks a while and at the farthest corner, ahead of the dungeon gate, this team awaits.

The team calls Bel.

I paced my walking a bit faster to look at them closely, now they were in front of me. A bright-looking guy with black hair and a scrawny body holds out his hand. Bel grabs it and both of them shake.

"Hey! Bel Silver from the descendant classroom, How nice to meet you here!"

'Yeah! me too. So, who are you then?' Bel replied in a sweet tone.

"Oh! I am Leon from class B." Leon greeted in enthusiasm.

'Nice to meet you, Leon. So, will you introduce your teammates too?'

'Yeah! So, The little girl with a big magical hat and purple hair with a wand that is double her size is our mage. She is Kathy.'

Kathy tears up a bit, she grabs Leon's clothes off Leon and gives bel and him a crooked smile.

Bel thinks that is very cute, it reminds him of the duck and its little child that he saw in the lake.

Kathy speaks up, 'N- nice to meet you, bel.'

Bel's eye twitches as he wants to hug her and squeeze her cheeks.

He holds himself back and says, 'Hello! Kathy, I hope your little magic will aid us.' while grinning.

Kathy is shocked.

'L-Little, it is not little. It is big as you.'

She demonstrates with her hand wide open and her round mouth going, 'Big!!'

Leon points at a redhead girl, 'She is the second fighter, angel.'

'Nice to meet you!' Bel smiles.

Angel looks up and down at Bel and with a huge silence. She conceded, 'Hmph!'

Bel's veins pop, 'Ohhhh! You are a bitch, huh?'

Leon with an awkward smile, 'Don't mind her. She is a bit introverted. And our tank is him, Dobo.'

'Dobo?' Bel asks almost bursting out in laughter thinking someone's got bad naming sense.

'Nice to meet you, I am the tank of this team.' Dobo shakes his hand and exchanges his greetings.

Leon points out the last person, 'She is the assassin and scout of our team. Bella the badass.'

Bella goes, 'Is it necessary, Leon? and nice to meet you bel! Our name goes quite similar.' while pinching Leon's ear.

'This guy's a dungeon comic's main character.' Bel felt jealousy for the first time. Bel lets out a sigh.

Leon says, 'Are we ready to enter?'

They all agree but Angel only lets out a classic sentence 'Hmph! It's not like I need a team or anything!'

All of the others laugh except the clueless Bel and Angel.

'You've been saying that since all of our childhood.' Bella shrugs her shoulder and Leon slightly but softly grabs her shoulder.

'We've all been friends since childhood. There is no point in arguing.'

Leon joins the conversation.

All of them are grinning at her. Bel is far apart, mesmerized by humans' strange ability to bond and be together. It's a little bit sad and nostalgic for Bel as he grins softly remembering something.

Leon shouts, 'ARE WE READY NOW FOR REAL?'

They all shout, 'Yeah!!!!'

Bel follows them inside behind all of them.

Leon stands before the gate as there is a guard beside the gate.