Chapter 49 Whatever can go wrong. Will go wrong...

Jake Barris

Level 2

Strength 945

Endurance 963

Dexterity 1022

Agility 1045

Magic 1130

It's good to see that my rocket boots are counting for leveling up my agility and dexterity as they have always been the slowest growing stats previously.

"So, want to explain what you did to go up a hundred-plus stat points so quickly?" Hestia asked and thankfully it didn't look like anyone was mad at me for running off on my own but I didnt want to be digging out the lantern while there was a monster rex stamping around and God knows if it would cave back in our teleportation area after I left.

Not to mention I wanted to be able to test my own strength on my own without Bell and Ryuu as a safety net.

"As I said before, I saw Hermes Familia mucking around with an enhanced Goliath going crazy, and mutated monsters almost only come around when deities start doing stupid stuff within the dungeon," I answered Hestia and Freya nodded to my answer.

"Yes, I have heard of such tales like when Athena and a few others thought themselves too powerful or intelligent to be within the reaches of the dungeon." Freya didnt need to explain what happened to such idiots but then again gods are idiots for a reason.

Well, either way. I have grown a lot stronger, and I want to push the limits to my fusing abilities with my growth since my mass limit must have changed with my growing magic and endurance.

"Hey guys let's all leave Orario and go vacation in the Beol Mountains for a few days I want to try to fuse a mountain together." I said and Freya frowned.

"Jake the Beol Mountains can be a dangerous place with it being so close to Orario there are a lot of monsters that escaped there during the old times and managed to reproduce even now."

I rolled my eyes in exasperation. "We have a crew of level threes essentially with our gear along with Haruhime being able to boost up Ryuu to level six if she gets two levels like I did."

A soft cough interrupted me, and we all looked at Ryuu who lightly blushed. "Actually, I just reached level five today when I went to get my Falna updated by Astrea so I would be level seven..."

I threw my hands up as I laughed. "See even Ryuu could be Level seven and if she couldn't protect us with such strength than we should be having bigger problems if there were so many monsters just running around."

They couldn't really argue against me as my reason was a fairly good enough one. Not to mention we were already pretty strong as it was.

Soon enough we gathered a collection of tents, and I fused a pile of futons to make a comfortable enough series of beds that could match our bed in the basement, and we got an extra wagon for us to all ride in as there was simply too many of us at this point to all fit in just one and carry everything.

"Jake come sit up here with us and teach me how to drive a horse!" Hestia called out and Freya was sitting beside her along with Syr and Ryu were sitting in that cart.

Bell on the other hand was the only one of us with decent horsemanship with his farming background so he directed the other cart carrying Lili, Aisha, and Haruhime.

We spent the greater half of the rest of the day just peacefully riding along the road to the Beol mountains as it was a popular place to mine for minerals along with getting timber, so it was pretty often clear of monsters, so we had literally only a single group a dozen goblins who pitifully tried to waylay us...

They didnt live long to say the least. But it was weird for the monsters to not poof into smoke and frankly, if I wanted to hunt surface monster I was going to want to change weapons as my charge blade was too messy with these weak monsters.

After cleaning up my weapon using one of the spare towels, we brought which I threw away after using it to clean the nasty monster remains off my weapon, we found a nice clearing not far away from the start of a rather steep incline denoting the start of the mountain we planned to setup camp.

"Fuse." I called sitting in the dirt. no sitting in a pit of my own making as I was fusing all the ground in the surroundings and steadily sinking as my fusion's reach grabbed more and more materials in the area till the people watching quickly retreated which made me stop hearing them cry out in shock as I couldn't see past the hole, I was in.

"You guys ok?" I called out awkwardly and I heard Bell shout they were alright just surprised at the ground being pulled away from them like a sinkhole.

Well now that the soil was all fused, I left the big pile of what looked like highly enriched potting soil and put my hands on the bedrock beneath the soil started fusing it which was far more taxing.

My fusing magic seemed to stretch more than twenty meters in all directions and the ground sunk down even further in a bowl like indentation. But like before I was left with the fused product which was instead of a silverish limestone I was left with a pure white stone speckled with streaks of red and some black.

After popping a potion to recover some mind and drinking some cold water to recover some energy I kept fusing and thankfully my fusing was basically going down like a giant took a big scoop out with an ice cream spoon, so I was able to crawl out to recover and talk with the girls as Bell left to go try his luck hunting in the mountains.

A massive roar and a bombastic explosion rang out throughout the forest shaking the hole I was in and almost buried me alive as I franticly crawled out pissed beyond belief.

"Bell what the fuck did you do!" I yelled seeing everyone save and sound except for the after mentioned Bell who left to go hunting.

A mighty crash was my response and then I had a heart attack as a massive black dragon stomped its way through the tree line.

It took my brain a few seconds to reset and realize I wasn't dead as it wasn't actually the One Eye'd Black Dragon itself as it still had both of its eye's and wasn't bigger than Godzilla.

It seemed however Freya had zero interest in either case as with a wave of her hand the dragon was impaled by a massive icicle that grew from the ground and hoisted it up into the air.

The still massive dragon that was probably at waist height for a black Golaith roared even with being impaled all the way through and started struggling and Freya just snorted and snapped her fingers and where the dragon was impaled on the ice obviously grew violently in several directions as spikes of ice pierced out of its body from within.

Freya frowned as she muttered about it being possibly a descendant of the actual One Eyed Dragon but I was looking for Bell but soon enough my worries were settled as he waved and called down to us from his perch on a treetop as the dragon threw him up there and lost track of him.

"Whelp looks like we are having dragon meat for dinner?" I said ponderingly but I was worried the monster itself was toxic or something.