(not complete) EVILS CONCUTING AND FELL UNTO DEATH TRAP

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=LOCATION: Unknown=

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{FLASHBACK TO MINUTES BEFORE}

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An unknow vast halls with numerous columns lit by magic stone lamps. A gathering complex room for certain individuals covered by robes and capes while few aren't.

This dark complex room is filled with scent of rusty blades mix with splattered bloods—creating a creepy atmosphere upon the room.

"PLEASE SPARE ME LADY VALLETTA!" An evilus believer goon of certain familia pleaded while kneeling to their pink-haired leader that's raising her bloodied multi-bladed greatsword into the sky.

*SLASH*

The blade slashes the believer before he could scream. His blood splatered all over his white robe and the room mixing with already spilled blood of his fellow dead believer.

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Silence filled the complex

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Other believers silent in fear. How could a bunch of level 1 goons retaliate nor raise their voice against her?

She's Valleta Grede, a captain from the Thanatos familia faction of evilus. She have the might of a level 5 and the strategic intellect rivaling Orarios' first-class adventurers, especially the Loki familia's Braver.

Valleta Grede is a dangerous women.

What makes her dangerous is her sadistic desire of murdering all, adventurers or not. Valletta along with the certain duo from Alecto Familia have the record for the most murder count on Orario.

There's a rumor circulating that she's capable of massacring more lives than recorded if not for the Loki Familia Captain, the Braver, interventing her everytime.

She along with many Evil deities of different factions, other executive members and an army of believers banded together and branded themselves as 'Evilus', the criminal worshipping cult that appeared after the strongest Familias were exiled 6 years ago.

Staying from the shadows hidden the Labyrinth City. They are responsible for keeping the labyrinth city into the living hell and make both civilians & adventurers continuously live in suffering and fear.

The Evilus made Orario currently live in Dark Period or Dak Ages.

*SWING*

Valletta swung her cursed blade in the air to clean the blood stains.

*SPLASH*

Bloods splashed into the floor, even nearly to a shoe of one of the many individuals present along with Valleta.

Those individuals that witness what Valleta did. They didn't care for the dead as long as their not their own faction. Few of them are the Evilus' higher ups also called as executive members wearing a black robes, each one belongs from different factions.

Their apathetic eyes shown devoid for sympathy

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devoid of empathy for any lives.

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As they're clearly entertained by the death of others.

Valleta smiles while looking all the mangled corpses—taking delight to her victims' screams, cries & torments before dying to her blade.

Valletta enjoyed her 'artwork'.

"You guys. Clean up the mess later. Inform these fools death's to their own factions." Valleta orders her servants wearing white robes and belonging to Thanatos faction.

"Roger that!" Rhe servants enthusiastic replied wanting to avoid to be her next floor artwork while adoring the death of his fellow goons.

Instantly, She looked at the remaing believers of different factions.

"Oi! Tell me why 50 scums are still missing, Half-wits?!" Valleta demand an answer with hint of fury completely and quickly changing emotion.

She broke the silence in the room. The other silhouettes in the dark looked the white-robe goons as they're confused too after hearing the report.

As soon as she finished speaking,

*BABOOM!*

An individual or more accurately, a god begun blarring his oppresive divine aura within the room. His aura created this oppressive atmosphere felt by mortals.

"How come 50 of my servants capable of destroying villages and armies outside of Orario croaked overnight?! Confess the real truth... Now!" A brown skinned figure adoring purple eye-shadow demanded with authoritative tone. Him being a deity, knew the exact moment when his men died but not where, whom, what nor how they died.

Having lost an monumental amount of firepower, He requested this very meeting with the Executive members.

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Frightening

Is what all evilus mortals on the room felt while shivering at the wrath of a god.

Only the other god on the room could resist the daunting killing aura.

"We don't know Lady Valletta and Rudra-sama. We still can't open the gate of 20th floor. Please spare me." Evilus beliver 31 reported with fear in her eyes.

"When we arrived to the gate of 20th floor—They are melted by what we pressumed from lava from the heat and sulfuric smell. We are still trying to open the gate but our efforts still prove futile even with the magic swords." evilus believer 25 described.

"We've been telling the truth Rudra-sama! Please have mercy on us." Evilus believer 16 pleaded with dread.

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*SWISshhhh~*

The pressure disappeared.

After hearing the reports, Rudra disappointedly scuffed while subsiding his divine aura and wrath.

The divine authority is what deities use to make mortals be afraid of them and not lie within their presence.

Every mortals present are now relieve and return to their original composure.

Getting over from the divine,

"He-he-he! A door made of Orichalcum completely melted." Valleta rediculed while giggling after getting over from Rudra's wrath.

But one person reacted differently from others,

"That's Impossible...Orichalcum is the most indestructible metal in existence that can survive from Valgangs' flames. It cannot be destroyed by upper class adventurers. It cannot melt easily." A deathly pale skinny man expressed having prideful eyes behind his long white bangs despite being skinny.

His name is Barca Perdix, the gates' creator and the man-made labyrinth they're in, called Knossos. A man belonging from Thanatos familia.

"But it did." His brother whose wearing an leather goggle, Dix perdix, replied while cleaning his blood-stained cursed spear. The captain of Ikelos familia and Barca's half-brother.

"I'll look into it. You! lead the way. If you what you reported was false, I'll kill you." Barca begrudgingly ordered his underlings. He holds the might of level 2 despite having frail body.

He left with a few evilus believers.

Seconds later,

"We aren't needed here. Hey, you lot. Quit Dawdling and get to movin." Dix clearly wanting to go somewhere besides this complex. He ordered his men to continue what they're doing before this meeting.

After Dix's goins & Barca left,

"What do you think happened to Rudra's dead believers, my lady?...Could a first-class adventurer or Maybe an Irregular monster kill them?" A red haired man with fox-eyes hiding behind the shadow asked looking at Arachnia. A man belonging from other familia/faction of Evilus.

"...Faceless. No threats on that floor could kill them, especially with a handful Level 4 scums, their idiotic captain and his b***h. Or... Could were they ambushed by adventurers' troops thats stronger than them? " Valletta, known as Arachnia replied.

Considering the ambush as another cause.

"We need more information on whom or what killed them when that gate is open." Valletta ordering the believers

"They have a lot of resources with them. We need to salvage their valuables too from their dead bodies, especially retrive the Daedalus' Orb." Thanatos said starting a new topic.

Followed by,

"Find their dead bodies. Collect everything!" A green-eyes with snake pupils named Olivas screams at the remaining evilus believer. His torso on display. He's one of the Evilus executives and a firm believer from another evilus familia/faction.

Few evilus belivers ran after hearing Olivas, adding manpower to the case.

"No...That's useless now. If the Orichalcum door melted. It's feasible that they died along their junks. Their death and that Orichalcum junk being melted at the same day is no coincidence... A monster or an unknown troops ambushed them while the gate melted too." Valletta hypothesizes.

"Unknown perpitrators comes into play. Ha-Ha! Not bad. I ought to meet them in face soon. " The former pissed Rudra whose resting his head on his hand then smiles.

His curiosity has been met. He become interested on the 'Unknowns' more than his deceased forces.

Other individuals reluctantly agreed.

What followed was,

"Thanatos, I lost a great deal of powerful men because of Arachnia. I want compensation." Rudra from Rudra familia faction blaming his fellow deity planning to recover his familia's firepower.

"No need for anger..Rudra. This forsaken city has endless amount of gullible 'sheeps' everywhere, I will obtain 60 believers from surface and transfer them to your residence soon." Thanatos promised to Rudra, the another male deity and head of his own faction hiding behind his hood.

Being satisfied to the compensation. He shift towards another topic.

"Where is your patron deity, Faceless...No, Vito?" Rudra wanting to find something new asked the red-haired man.

"Rudra-sama. He's a god after all, wondering around the city. Inquiring me he found something familiar." Vito with the moniker 'faceless' politely answered.

"Tell him I want him attending gatherings. See that you do." Rudra added while still having the fixation on finding that 'Unknown'.

Vito nodded and thus their ending the conversation.

"Where are the Apate familia and Alecto familia?" Vito asked the believers addressing important topic.

"Sir Vito, both factions still on the Deep floors attempting on reaching Level 3-5 for months. Each captains attempts reaching level 6. They inquired us to not disturb them until their return. Other members are currently gathering multiple monsters from the surface upon Lady Valleta's requests as we speak. Apate Familia requested to attain more mages and hexers for their 'Trump cards'." Evilus believer 19 reported while trying her best to avoid dying by her psychopathic executives.

"What am I? Their sh*** m***? Tell both Apete Familia geezers to move their old joints. Make catch for themselves." The pissed Valleta harshly denied their 'request' while the evilus believer backed down and relief she didn't die today.

Changing the topic,

"50 servants died suddenly. Our strongest factions dwelved the dungeon. We are only left with a level 5, few level 4, multiple level 3 and myriad of lower-tiers. Were no match on the surface even with great schemes. Orarios will be safe and at peace until we amass enough power." The god, Thanatos stated the fact.

"We can't risk of executing plans either, even those involving escaping right after destroying. Finn will catch on that were lacking forces. That damn bastard. " Valletta added.

"It appears that we cannot accomplish many plans without the strength of those you've killed today and the full might of Rudra familia, my lady." Vito added.

Hearing those exchanges,

Both the evilus Higher-ups, the Individuals and evilus believers presents in the room are repulsed by that single statement. Especially, The silver-haired man with green eyes and snakelike pupils.

"THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!! I want Orario to collapse. It's Destruction should not stop even for a second." Olivas eye's expressed with madness and obsession, He's itching for more destruction. He's obsession earned his infamously moniker 'the fanatic'.

He's not alone who craves Oriarios' Annihilation. The gods, the Evilus higher-ups and the Evilus believers present silently agree to Olivas' dedication too.

"We gotta remind those idiots above of the hell they're livin in! They don't get to feel peace and happy till they die!" Valletta told everyone as if swearing her purpose in life while her bloodlust was ever present.

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"Gather our forces outside of Orario...or any other villages. I don't care what methods. Recruit more believers. It could take months to replace them. We can't accomplish many plans if we can't replace them soon." Valleta ordered

2 evilus believers ran out the room following Valleta's Order .

"Where's the King from Freya Familia?" Vito asked

"Sir Vito, The Freya familia members are patrolling Orario and were not seen entering the dungeon yet." Evilus believer 6 reported

"Did Finn and his cronies killed the scums of Rudra familia?" Valleta asked

"That's impossible Lady Valleta, our spies reported us that Loki Familia are still in their headquarters after their expedition last month ago." Evilus believer 4 reported

"I won't let Orario's destruction stop. Hey you there! Rally our men. Halt them from collecting surface monsters anymore. We need to keep Orario's in chaos." The fanatic expressed his malice while leaving meeting room with his underlings or fellow elivus believer.

Seeing Olivas and his faction leave the meeting room.

'Tch.... Olivas, you useless bastard. You're starting it off with a mess?' Valletta sneered at annoyance but can't stop Olivas nor the other factions' actions besides her faction and those weaker than her.

As while different factions gathered under the banner named 'Evilus'. Without the use of cold brutal violence nor without other factions being benifitted.

They're not cooperative and mostly butt heads while greedily exploits each factions for the reasons of manisfesting Chaos and total Destruction upon Orarion and for their own manaical ideologies to come fruition.

They're a mess.

Second passed by, the other factions departed from the room following Olivas lead.

Only Valletta, her underlings and her god, Thanatos remained on the room currently discussing their own plans.

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=LOCATION: Chambers of Prayers=

A dark place found beneath the Guild. The room's only distinction is large stairhalls that leads to a platform.

*Crackle* *fshh* *sparks*

On every corners of stone platform are 4 medieval standing torches at every corner.

In the middle is a tall throne made from polished stone that displays authority.

Where torches shines and seating alone in the throne is a stoic old man wearing white rob, black hood & sandals. That old man continuously prays.

"Ouranos." A shadow tall figure fully covered in a cloak called upon the praying individual, the god Ouranos, sitting on the throne platform with four wooden standing torches.

Ouranos opened his eyes and look the cloaked-individual

"Fels, What are t-?" Before Ouranos could finish his question.

Ouranos stood up feeling something is happening especially in the dungeon.

Fels is surprise to see his god standing

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"It has strayed far from the zone where it 'birth' and is descending the floors. Its not alone. A juggernaut has spawned and started" Ouranos said as he sensed the presence of a certain creature on 17th floor.

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Ouranos can sense irregularities currently happening on 17th floor

An anomaly never happened before on the history of Orario.

But just like a god monitoring the mortals at the skies of heaven.

"Fels!" Ouranos called upon his follower name, speaking as the elder god as his face doesn't express even a slight of being being intimidated by the terrible tremors currently happening within the city.

"Have Royman send Letters of Request for Ganesha Familia-"

Fels could only listen while Ouranos immediately and sagely relayed orders upon another orders unto Fels. As this time turned into chaotic more than they experience daily.

"Fels, continue the investigation accompanied by the Xenos. We need to know the happenings, especially the unknowns' location and intentions. As soon as possible." The elder god order.

"....Understood, Ouranos. I shall return." Fels obeyed without hesitation.

Fels existed the Chambers of Prayers, leaving Ouranos to pray for halting the tremors and monsters production altogether.

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{FLASHBACK ENDS}

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=TIMESKIP: PRESENT=

=LOCATION: Floor 17=

This floor belongs to few floors above it called the Middle floors. Each floors are vast, complex and made of bedrocks.

A dimmed-atmosphere floor with fissures spreading across the entire floor and above.

Most prominent,

Are the humongous hole on the ceiling that penetrated through floors above, reaching to 12th floor. Each floors have massive holes on the center comparable to a massive Colosseum

*CRACK* *RING*

The dungeon floors 17th to 14th continues shakes and rings. Creating frightening feeling for Grithra currently while creates more cracks on the bedrock walls and floors.

The most unexpected events currently happening

*SHCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!*

The horrific high-pitches screams shrieking the floors. Among the continuous eery symphony of multiple voices

"IT HURTS! THOU ART IN AGONY!" Multiple heavy voice unitedly angrily screech.

Grithra fearing for to the dungeon shaking right now while hearing a high pitch symphony sound.

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Alex is hearing these Dungeon's words despite his throbbing ears stained in blood.

The screeching continues

"BY THY ORIGIN! BY THY AUTHORITY! BY THY NATURE!

THOU ART SPAWN FORTH CHILDRENS! SERVE THY ORIGIN!

GOLIATH SPAWN FORTH! SERVE PROTECTION! SERVE THY ORIGIN ONCE MORE!

SPAWN FORTH CALAMITY! APOSTLE OF MURDER!

FAST AS WIND! MAGICAL COUNTERPOISE! GNASHING JAW! SNARLING FANGS! WHIPPING TAIL! LACERATING CLAWS! SINK THOU MORTAL FLESHES!

SPAWN FORTH DECIMATOR! DECIMATE THINE PUTRID MORTALS!

HONOR THY ORIGIN!

HONOR THY PROMISED TIME!

THOU ART ASCEND THY SURFACE!

SERVE ENMITY! THOU ART BELLIGERENT THY MORTALS!

BANQUET OF CALAMITY!

THOU ANNIHILATORS!

THOU BESEECH ONSLAUGHT THINE TRESPASSERS!"

The accumulation of heavy voices ended eminating creepiness, hostility,sinister,danger &bloodlust towards Alex, Grithra and the unconscious.

*SCREech ends* *SHAKing ends* *CRAAAacks ends*

The floor stopped tremors and the symphony ends.

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The whole place became silent. A creepy and eerily experience.

Both Alex and Grithra retrieve their hands from their ears and stood up.

They then check themselves before the whole floor expecting something.

Those sentence only Alex heard. And he's not mistaken that the dangerous voices he heard last night, the screech and the voices spoke are the same.

He concluded that the source of the voices is from the dungeon itself.

Alex suspects it wasn't just speaking from reading multiple fictions and multiple experiences from military.

Both Alex & Grithra guard themselves.

*Shing*

Grithra's wand lights up and so her danger sense too. It tells her something is gonna happen, even if this is her first encounter despite dwelving the dungeon for years.

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*drop*

An object dropped something larger than humans

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*drop* *drop* *drop*

It doesn't stop with one. Objects dropped variying from differentlt sizes

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

Objects dropping from 14th floor, 15th floor and 16th floor towards 17th floor.

Some are miniscule, most are enormous

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

One after another kept falling towards 17th floor.

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

*drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop* *drop*

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*drop*

The object completely stopped as the sounds. Many objects still 'floats' mid-air.

A Minute passed, both Alex and Grithra still in their place on their guard for something they don't even know.

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Alex used Giro Giro no Mi and counted monsters, excluding the dead ones from dropping.

70 monsters set their red shining bloodlusted eyes on them but staying in their place

Some howls

Sone roars

Some with walls scractches the walls and ground

Some gripped their weapons

Some kindle flames to their mouth

Some grinds their fangs,

Some spread their wings

Some are small

Few are bigger than their kinds which Alex recognized those as Enhanced species.

Most slammed their tails to the ground

All sneered their fangs

All of them roared revealing readiness for slaughter

Adding Goliath and that unknown fast monsters that Alex now compares it to the Alien creature from a famous movie but have demonic-looking face instead of what he's imagining.

A sight of doom

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A Picturesque scene of Hell

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Feeling hopeless and death lingering

*thud*

A sound of wood dropping appeared behind his back.

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Alex look behind him

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"Hey! What are you doing?" Alex asked the person behind to her who looks down the ground and dropped her wand that lost its light.

"Are you seeing this clearly?!! Even with your strength, How could we survive this many monsters infront of us?!" Grithra erratically said this with one emotion

Joy? No!

Battle-readiness? No!

Murderous Intent? No!

Revenge? No!

Sadness? No!

Fear? No

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DEMORALISED

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She lost all hope of surviving. Gone like smokes.

Tragedies experienced now and yesterday completely made her dread feels stronger.

She didn't raise her fighting spirit nor scream to death.

She just-

"Even yesterday was telling me, I was meant to die from the beginning. Please let me see my sister now." She dreadfully whispers.

Her luck rans out

*thud*

Her knees fall to the ground which supported her demoralized body.

Her claims isn't false as Dungeon have always kills dventurers life ever since the beginning of humanity.

Having the Goliath more than 70 monsters and still raising surrounding them and blocking their exists spells doom and death to everyone who witness.

The army of monsters that requires more than 30 groups of high-class adventurers

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No, Every kingdoms armies outside of Orario to deal them.

Alex understood her despair.

*Step* *step*

He went toward Grithra

"GRITHRA STAND UP AND PICK UP YOUR WAND! This is no time t--!"

"i...I can't..." Grithra softly murmers which he halted after hearing her. He realize something she's trying to do, something he's unfortunately familiar with

*grab*

Alex picked up Grithra's wand and presented it to her while saying these below

"What do you mean you can't?? Snap back! Grab your f*****g wand and heal these unc--"

"I DON'T WANT ANYMORE! NO!!!!" Grithra yelled interrupting him and not caring anything anymore.

Next,

*SMACK!!!*

Grithra strongly attempted to slap away the wand away from his hand but failed as Alex still holds her wand infront of her.

Grithra isn't even reacting to her hurting hand as she look down to the ground again, being aghast from her sentence and action.

Confusion

Conflicted

Frightened

Anxious

Disparity

Dispirited

Hopelesness

Rejection to save lives

Shame

All these emotion felt by Grithra within less of a second.

*Dart*

After seconds, She darted towards the cart while

Alex stoically watched Grithra begun hiding inside the cart continuously conflicted from guilt, fear, regret and realizing the shameful thing she did.

'She's gave up. Her eyes from vengeful turned hopeless. She wants to join her dead team. She's conflicted, feeling guilty for abandoning her one teammate on the cave who died. She's experiencing both Survivor's guilt and guilty conscience. Based on the knowledge I gathered, the magic effectiveness depends on the mage's emotional strength and intention. It's no use to convice her to heal them if she's conflicted and given up surviving. I have to give up convincing her to help.' Alex understood as he's familiar of what she going through right now—He saw it in different faces, including his own too during his first time experiencing war

*step* *step* *step*

He walked towards the cart while holding grithra's wand.

"There's an army of monsters surrounding us and blocking our escape routes. There's small, gigantic ones, crawling, insects, flying and fire breathers.There's only us two that's alive and there's Loki familia's unconscious members that could die any seconds if not healed. Looking at our situation, it makes sense to believe that we won't survive in this encounter." Alex uttered not caring if Grithra could hear him.

*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!*

Monsters growls and roars can be heard surrounded them but Alex still walk towards without being intimidated.

*step*

He's in front of the ashamed, frightened and defeated Grithra.

*thud*

"You'll be returned home safely. Don't be afraid, This will all be a terrible nightmare for you." He calmly told her while placing Grithra's wand beside her.

Before she could even react.

*Zzaapp*

Alex used electro knocked her unconscious to the cart.

*INHALE*

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*EXHALE*

'She's unconscious for the time being. She's safe inside the cart. Unfortunately, Both loki familias dead and surviving members are scattered everywhere. Those who survived are unconscious and are bleeding to death with 2 member got their legs dismembered.'

'We're in the killbox zone surrounded by these monsters, The Goliath is resurrected. The adrenaline rush is here again whenever something like this extreme fight or flight. situations happens. Looking at it now, this situation right now is comparable to the Dungeon Mania Trial. Focus! I need to finish this quickly'

*WHOOSH!!!*

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{Anti-Monsters Barrier Remaining Time; 11 Months : 29 Days : 19 Hours : 45 Minutes)