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Walking out of the red district, the Ishtar Familia headquarters, made me finally see the beauty of the city instead of the beauty of the city bitches(nothing against them...).
The crowd at the street fair opened the road and stared from the sidewalks when we passed towards the great tower in the middle of the city.
The few minutes of travel were something. Since while I admired the construction style, and remembered the cultural knowledge of the city I was also being provoked by the exploration members, especially the girls from the last night.
'I'm losing the determination to flee... maybe I'll be safe until Ishtar's vacation ends and I can join those better behave goddesses familia's.'
'Maybe being a member would protect me from that frog... Maybe I don't have to do such things for power... maybe, maybe? maybe!... Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm mad?'
"Ciel, are you okay?" Shaya asked making my self deprecating smile melt from my face.
"Probably no, Instead I could say I'm very "bad" right now but thank you Shay" I said smiling.
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When we approached the tower's plaza the group started a ruckus because a team that just got out of the dungeon ignored them, the other party being mostly level three well equipped with The crest of Freya familia.
After that we finally entered the Babel's tower and descended to the dungeon upper floors halls.
It took some minutes after passing by other adventurers to our group be attacked by the first monsters I saw in this world.
"Grrrrrrraar" two packs of kobolds, a lupine small humanoid monster surrounded the two ends of the hallway, their claws making grinding noises when they charged at our party.
I was a bit surprised by the ferocious way they looked, only tough that I won't wanna be clawed by those claws.
Funny that I just remembered that the dungeon kobolds don't bite unless you got your flesh in their faces.
The other adventurers don't looked over cautious of being surrounded at the upper floors and some even put their weapons back in their hosted, sheets and belts, and prepared their punches while letting a enjoying smile escape as if they would toy with the poor kobolds.
From the smiles on the others I thought the majority who don't did the same only continued to hold their weapons because they don't had holders to them.
Well, it was prove right when they started massacring the kobolds, some even exploded in ashes when their magic stone where danified.
I did my part throwing axes and knifes when the kobolds entered in range to do so, my throwing skill wasn't bad and remembered me of the roleplaying and the strange memories of being in the HS...
Also was fun Killing kobolds when the weaker level two members where trying to make them in punch bags or directly smashing then around.
They looked very confused after the toy they're playing suddenly died or directly disappeared when I pierced their backs.
After throwing only few blades the fun already ended since those few kobolds aren't enough for an party of mostly level two Amazon's.
Then I was asked to pick up the stones with the other level ones of the party.
One of them looked to be a slave from its metal collar, I won't pity him but it remembered me how cruel and unfair this society could be.
Shay was one of the stone collectors and showed me how to do soo.
The deed remembered me from the banishing of bosses on Hunt showdown, but it was.just a semblance since it was a lot faster than waiting for a monster corpse to get banished.
The exploration continued like this, monsters keep attacking getting brutalized, then butchered for their stones.
when where at the 3°floor a dungeon lizard jump scared a younger amazon while she was distracted torturing a kobold.
"Tifa caution!" another Amazon yelled while a lizard fell from the ceiling and bite the young Amazon's head.
she managed to put her hands and stop the beast from biting her neck.
The d.lizard had swallowed half her head and was trying to crunch her skull only to fail since she was a level two amazon.
"Yuck, stinks" Tifa yelled disgusted.
She doesn't looked afraid of it trying to eat her head but she was still very pissed of from the mucus in her hair and the fact it was stuck in her head while it's teeth pierced her face.
I wouldn't say It wasn't funny see a level two young girl that can crush kobolds with her bare hands trying to get a lizard near her size of her head.
Soo since I was near enough and I saw someone pull a giant halberd looking if she would use it to help I helped her first.
"Tifa, smack It on the floor and I'll pierce it's stone" I yelled with the most calm tone I could put in my voice.
"Huh?"
"Decide, or your hair will start to be digested or someone will cut it off with the lizard"
She looked convinced and dived forward slamming the lizard on the floor.
I jumped on it and pierced the place I thought it core would be, fortunately I was right and it turned into ashes.
Tifa stand up and and put her hands on her head.
"Ahhh is sticking to my hair yewww"
The other Amazon's approached her now and after seeing she was ok started to joke probably trying to distract her.
While this I approached Shaya and started to chit chat while our team leader was calming down Tifa so we could continue to explore.
"Good job Ciel you finally acting like a man instead of hitting the monsters from distance?"
"Thank you Shay, but I prefer to not risk my novice ass fighting those weaklings while the real monsters are throwing then around until I get some status upgrade"
"Make sense" She said while holding an arm like it was injured and making a "I remember it" face.
"Well Shaya, I see that Amazon's don't care much about bathing in blood but care about some lizard mucus?"
"Don't think we are some wild barbarians, we are proud Berberas" she said proudly.
"make sense to me..." I said joking.
She was about to reply but I pointed the fact our leader was making everyone move again.
While she was moving forward I approached her and whispered in her ear "Also I don't think I have to prove it to you Shay~" and watch her freeze her steps for a second.
Then I moved to my place behind the leader...