After despair.

Alessia's heart still racing from fear,Tessia paralyzed next to the burned Wolver and Dragonove was deep a sleep.

"Hah! That was so dangerous" Wolver got up suddenly.

The two girls eyes gained there brightness and they woke up from their trauma.

"Wolver ! Why did you heal yourself" -Alessia scolded him-

" Don't worry am fiiin.. Cough Coughcough.!.." -Wolver coughed blood-

"No your not!"

He drunk his blood and grinned slightly: "This is harder than I thought especially without drinking fresh blood"

His eyes turned red and his fangs sharpened.

He grabbed the left side of his chest, right over his heart when he begun to pant heavily.

"Hahe.. Hahe..Quick Tessia .. before it turn to a massacre."

His skin was as pale as ice and as hot as fire.

Tessia grabbed his collar slowly and shyly, and took it off from his neck. She wore it then herself.

The collar begun to flash continually before the light covered the entire body of Tessia like a bright armor.

The light disappeared gradually in the dramatic way of the beginning of every transformation.

Tessia's silky golden hair turned dark purple, her sparkling green eyes became bloody red, her innocents looks turned dangerous and her tree-colored dress burned from top to her toes and changed it shape.

"Aaa~h!" - she cracked her neck- "Finally some time outside"

She spotted Wolver who was agonizing from thirst to blood in her feet.

" Dumbass, you only call me when you want something from me!"

"Hahahe ! Cough.. And why else I would call you?! Esthit." -He smiled slightly-

She added mocking him: " Look at yourself, you look like a little cat who is begging for meat. That's kinda sexy!"

Esthit bit her lips till her fresh blood dripped.

She approached to Wolver's face and grabbed his cheeks. The lips locked slowly.

She kissed him tenderly , like a woman who parted from her lover for a long time. They kept kissing passionately while Wolver was regaining his flesh color and restoring his normal heat.

Alessia remained at the back totally ignored, the eyes wide open and her looks stupid like she was saying ( keep on, don't mind me, I'm just thin air).

"Uhm"

Esthit moved her face when Wolver recovered all his energy. She looked at Alessia with satisfied eyes and wiped the blood from her pretty face.

"Is this too much for you? You little girl"

"You were intimidating my other self with your continuous orders". She cracked her left hand fingers like threatening her.

Alessia was terrified because Esthit is waaay stronger than her. She was always oppressed by her power so the only way to have her 'revenge' was bullying Tessia whenever she had the chance.

Wolver stretched his back and stood up

"Aa~ghe! Ok time to go back"

Esthit looked to the frighted Alessia and added: "I'm just kidding, I don't really care about the other Tessia .Even if we share the same body, we don't share the same existence." "She need to resolve her problems alone."

" Esthit, the collar please!" -Wolver said when he was smiling and stretched his hand-

"You really are annoying! You just finished your business with me and you already want to ditch me!"

"Stop joking! You will not disappear"

She was taking off the collar when she added: "That's what I love about you; straight to the point."

She tossed it to him.

Alessia ,who didn't hear there conversation, was waiting for the bright light to appear again. But there was no shining light this time because there was no transformation. Alessia put a disappointed look since she was waiting for the weak version 'Tessia', who didn't came back, to play the boss again.

Esthit ,realized that she wanted her to despair, replied coldly: " Did you think that I would help Wolver without gaining anything in return? Now, I have the power to remain my self till the morning."

Alessia looked at Wolver to verify the veracity of her statement. As expected, he was not surprised, but went quietly and carried Dragonove's big body. He went in front of the girls and said: " enough chitchatting, We need to go and mark the next entrance. That was our original orders."

Alessia replied with a sort of terrified tone: " Did you forget what happened earlier? We almost got killed by a single dragon! And you tell us to go even deeper where we can encounter stronger creatures than him!"

" We can handle a single dragon, I was just reckless earlier."

" There is not only one of those. There are at least five dragons out there! Besides, they all run away earlier intimidated by a greater presence. And that killing intent , I've never felt so much fear in my entire life" -Alessia interpreted-

"You mean those black metal dragons? I can slay them easily" -Esthit replied confidently-

"You see!" -said Wolver-

"But only if I want to help!" - Esthit added derisively-

Alessia looked at her with her dumb look.

"There is nothing to fear captain, with my nose around we will sence them even before they move." -Wolver consoled her-

'Captain', that was the magical word for Alessia to agree to anything. Yes she is their captain so she shouldn't back off before her team. She seized her courage and went ahead of them to the front.

"ok, let's go finish this!"

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The path to the next entrance was surprisingly quiet. There was not a single trace of life. The team footsteps were the only thing that could've been heard.

The footsteps stoped in the order of Wolver.

" I sence a faint presence."

Wolver led his team to the way of the entrance vigilantly.

The huge door who had to be closed was wide open and a figure was collapsed in half of the entrance.

They though it was a girl considering that they spotted a feminine dress.

Wolver was the first to approach to the figure.

"Pft !" He took out a laugh when he saw a black haired guy dressed in a feminine clothes.

Yes that's no one other than Youno.

"Hahahah! What's that?" - Said Wolver who can't contain his laugh-

"That's strange, we should have been the first team to reach the 51 floor" - Alessia analyzed the situation calmly- "And his clothes are clean and not torn. How did he manage to get this far without a single scratch?"

Esthit was the last one to arrive. She froze in the sight of Youno.

" That aura and that presence. No way! That's.."

The atmosphere blackened and the time froze. A girl's hands stretched to Esthit shoulder and grabbed her. "Do you want to die?" . A terrified look appeared in Esthit's face , her pupils were spinning insanely in her eyes and she was sweating in cold. There was no oppressing aura nore intimidating crashing power but she recognized that person who only her presence was enough to shake her entire core.

Esthit had not the slight courage remaining in her knees to look back and see her. Her eyes lowered down to look at her shadow but there were no shadow. Esthit was now certain of the girl's identity.

The mysterious girl added " You have to bring him back with you to the academy, and never talk about what you was going to say earlier or else you will disappear for good this time"

Esthit's emotions were mixed between rage and immense fear, but she knew that she could do nothing for now.

The atmosphere cleared and returned to normal. Esthit was still mired in her thoughts.

"That's what?" -Alessia questioned her-

She snapped out of her shock. "That's.. that's a normal human"

"Are you sure, how could a single human arrive here unharmed when those dragons were out there?"

"Believe it or not, but there is a lot of humans stronger than you out there! And I never mistook something, or rather you don't trust me!"

She was already upset from earlier so she gave a scarier look than usual to Alessia.

"Oh no no! I just found it hard to believe."

"ahahahe! That's a nice dress he had there!" -said Wolver who couldn't get over Youno's funny apparence-

Youno opened his eyes. They were like a golden ocean who is dancing burning in fire. The flames were wriggling like raging sea waves and spinning like shiny twilight in the darkness of an endless night. They closed then slowly and immediately when Esthit looked at them. She was the only one to look at this beauty.

" Never mind, we have to bring him to the academy with us, besides Dragonove also needs sanitation." (That was for sure Ariel's eyes that I saw) -she told her self-

Alessia agreed with her.

"Wolver, carry him and let's go!"

"I'm carrying Dragonove now, can't you carry him yourself"

"Ok,then just give me Dragonove."

"Why? Why you don't want to carry that man ?"

"Just give me Dragonove and you can carry him instead. I'm not asking much, so don't ask me!"

"ok, whatever"

Wolver gave Dragonove to Esthit and carried Youno at his back.

"You sure about that? he is way lighter than Dragonove."

" Just let us go will you?"

" But if you two carried a person, how will you fight monsters in our way back?" -Alessia concluded-

"Don't worry, we will not even encounter even an insect in our way back!" -Esthit said with confidence-

" How are you so sure?"

" You know that you two are a pain in the ass, just folow me and no other word till we reach the top. Do you understand?"

"Hay Hay! just be in ease." Wolver said when he followed her.

Alessia remained at the back as always followed them after a brief time and murmured "Am I not the captain here?"

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The team got to the top and as Esthit mentioned there was not a single being in there way. It was like the monsters just vanished or they was hiding from fear in the sight of an oppressing creature. Or rather they cleared the way to let them pass like kings.

Alesca was waiting for them in front of the abnormally huge entrance of the tower.

"Oh! President, what are you doing here?" -said Esthit-

"Don't worry we already finished our mission"

"Yeah, I was expecting that much from you, other way I would be disappointed to even call you my fellow comrades in our Dragon slayer guild. But I'm not here for that. I'm here to take a specific person in the old man's order." " You did find a black haired guy right!"

"You mean this guy!" -said Wolver, who just arrived, referring to Youno at his back-

Alesca was staring at Youno dumbly as expected.

"And how I would know? He didn't give me much description!"

She glanced another time to Youno and his weird clothes and added: "Are you sure that is him?"

"Ah yeah, this is the only guy we found there!" -Wolver answered-

Alesca was not satisfied with his answer because why the almighty god would be interested in some strange guy and very weird one at that.

But she had to act quick and ask questions later.

"Ok! ... Just give him to me!"

"No!" -Esthit yelled suddenly-

"What's wrong?" -Alesca put down her hand that was already stretched to Wolver-

"Ah!.. No I just meant why not to let Wolver keep carrying him!" -Esthit explained herself-

"Hey! Why do you insist since earlier for me to carry him, I just don't want to!"

"I'm sorry but I can't do that. My orders was clear to not let anyone beside me bring him back" -Alesca said when she ordered Esthit to step aside with her gazing look-

Esthit stepped aside. She was shaking, when Wolver was about to give Youno to Alesca, like she was expecting something bad to happen when Alesca will touch Youno's body.

Youno floated in the air near Alesca when Esthit's face stoped sweating. She forgot that Alesca despise above all to do any physical activity. And it was obvious that she wouldn't carry Youno if she could just control the cold wind around him and make him float in the air

"That was close!" -She mumbled-

"I will go back now, but for you three, I don't know what the consequences for bringing an unknown creature would be" "But I wish that wouldn't be the case." -she said when she left the team accusing Esthit for her doing-