Chapter 18

*3 weeks later*

Grinding daily in the dungeon, killing monster and pushing myself to the limit everyday was starting to take its toll on me. My dungeon advisor said that I should rest today but I felt that I should still continue pushing myself.

Fighting monsters in the dungeon helped keep my mind off the faces of the people I killed that I saw in dreams. Some may say I have a weak mindset and that they were evil but a lot of these actions break all the morals that I grew up with.

I should have talked to Bahamut or Hephi about it but it was hard to open up. For guys like me tend to bottle up all their worries and insecurities to remain sane. I just needed someone to say that I did the right thing. Not because I saved them but because they truly believed that I did the right thing.

The adventurers I saved may not have been much better than the evilus and I didn't know them in anyway. The trigger that brought me to these spiralling dark thoughts were the events that occurred yesterday.

The first newbie adventurer group which consisted of 4 human men and a male dwarf, whom I saved from an evilus attack in the dungeon, they did something that subverted my views on my actions. They were not evilus members but newbie adventurers too.

"Aaaah help me"

I was on my daily grind yesterday on the dungeon 12th floor. When I suddenly heard a scream for help. The fog obstructed my view so I used the wind tracking spell after summoning my grimoire. I was curious as to what was occurring.

I soon found the location of the scream. Assuming it was an evilus attack, I drew my fire rune for damage. But I was shocked as by the time I arrived the one who screamed looked dead. I did not recognize the 5 men who I assumed were the perpetrators but in a moment of clarity I remembered. It was hard to forget the first person you saved. They really looked like nice people but these people I assumed were good just killed and were looting the bodies of their victims. I thought maybe the victims were the attackers before but the next words I heard debunked that thought.

"Shit, it's the black hunter. We've been seen, we gotta kill him or he will report to the guild" one of the men, who seemed to be the leader said. They didn't even try to convince me that they were innocent and just decided to kill me even as they knew my identity.

"Bu-u-t it's the black hunter" the dwarf stuttered.

"There only one of him and five of us, besides he is a level one like us" said the leader as they took battle stances and attempted to surround me.

I had never felt so much rage before. The thought that I saved these murderers infuriated me, if I had just let the Evilus kill them would these other adventurers be alive or were they also like these men. The world was already fucked up with the evilus running around and now this.

I put my grimoire in my side book holder as the grimoire just needed to be in a summoned state for me to draw runes. That way I had my hands free.

In my rage I transformed my hands to claws, my heterochromatic eyes glowed and my tail ready to attack.

They finally surrounded me and were ready to attack.

*Fwosh*

I cast 'fire wall' in front of me to buy me time while I deal with the ones behind me.

In a burst of speed I used my claw to a attack the human on the left behind me. But his sword was ready to parry my strike. I was also prepared and used my claw tips to counter. I then used my tail as a whip to slam the side of his chest.

*Crunch*

The sound of bone breaking could be heard as my tail slammed against his ribs puncturing his lungs. He then dropped his weapon and dropped to the floor while clutching his side.

*Clang*

The sound of a sword that hitting the scales on my hands could be heard as the second human to the right had tried to sneak in a hit while I engaged the one on the left. But I had fast reflexes and quickly countered. Unfortunately the hoodie of my cloak dropped revealing my face. The sight of me startled him, giving me a chance to end him by slashing my claws on his throat.

*Gurgle, Gurgle*

He then held his throat while chocking on his blood. The guy with the broken ribs would die even without me attacking him more but I wasn't so cruel as to let him suffocate with the blood filling his lungs. So I walked over and ended his misery.

I then dispelled the fire wall to use my remaining mind for the other 3 left.

As the wall disappeared what greeted them was the sight of their two dead friends and my handsome face.

"Are you a monster" said the leader as he seemed scared of me.

"Me a monster, then what does that make you" I replied even more enraged.

"Flame Immolation" I gathered the rest of my mind and cast the the immolation spell. This was a spell I thought of from the dragon age inquisition game that I played in my old world.

*Boom*

An explosion of flames engulfed them as the smell of burnt flesh permeated the air. I quickly drank a mind potion as the spell required a decent amount of mind to engulf all three of them. The smell of burnt flesh and the sound of the explosion seemed to have attracted a large amount of monsters towards my direction.

I put my cloak hoodie back on, hiding my features once again. I knew that I would spend  the next few hours dealing with monsters. The battle with the monster horde will be tough.

Since I was alone, I didn't want a frontal battle. So I drew an earth rune and made earth walls in a shape that would limit the number of monsters that would attack at once. Fearing that some monsters might be strong enough to break the walls, I doubled them. This cost me a lot of mind but I drank potions to keep me in peak form. I also put some potions for quick access in my side pouch.

*Roar*

The monsters arrived and started to filter in the funnel that I built. The first to arrive were the orcs and dealing with them in bulk wouldn't be easy. Only 1 orc could come in at a time so it was easy to kill them. All I had to do was target a vital spot for instant kill. 'This is  low key a good Exelia farm' I thought as I mechanically kept slashing my claws at the monsters that kept coming. I drank stamina potions when I felt tired and the mana ones when necessary.

I prayed to any god that an infant dragon did not spawn as that could mean my death. I planned to fight an infant dragon solo as  my adventure to level up. That was when my stats were maxed so facing one now was going to kill me, after fighting this large monster horde.

*3hours later*

I felt relieved that the monsters stopped coming as the floor was littered  in piles of magic stones and monster drops. I had burnt through almost all my potions as I was left with the 5 healing potions, 2 stamina and 1 mind potion.

I barely ever need the healing potions because of my regeneration but no harm in keeping a few on me. Now all that was left was the most annoying job, which was picking up my loot. So I dispelled the earth walls and drank a stamina potion and got to work.

*Gasp*

I heard the sound of someone behind me. This made me go back to full combat mode so I tried to find the source of the sound.

"Help me" said a small voice. I ran to the voice location and to me surprise it was a female child looking to be around 5 to 7. But what was a child doing here or was this a pallum, the answers I didn't know.

The little girl seemed to be bleeding from a sword wound so I quickly brought and fed her the healing potions that I had in hand.

The healing potion I had wasn't the best possible one but it was a mid grade healing potion. After giving the potion, I summoned my grimoire once again and drew the water rune. Quickly casting 'mending waters' which was a healing water spell. Water had the element of purification, regeneration and healing, so it wasn't hard to create water spells that did such when I was younger.

Feeling relieved and wanting to be safe, I cast 'Cure poison' which was a water spell that used water attributed mana to cleanse the system from poison. I was still level one so I could only heal poisons of that grade. When I level up my spell potency would increase. The girl soon regained consciousness for a brief moment, so I asked her name and she replied.

"Liliruca Arde". She said before falling back to sleep. I was shocked for a while  because of the revelation. So I quickly checked her back but there was no familia symbol. I found it weird because Lili's parents were part of the soma familia, they died in the dungeon but Lili was part of the soma familia from birth so what was happening??? Which brought the question why a 7 year old pallum with no familia was in the dungeon and this deep no less. It was easy to guess her real age because I remembered Lili was 15 years old when she met bell.