[Calvin Pov]
As I was wondering what would happen now that a god used its power inside the dungeon, every crystal in the floor lost its light making the entire floor dark.
For a moment everything was weirdly quiet, no one moved an inch.
*Crash! *
Suddenly the crystal ceiling got smashed by a dark figure th fell all the way down to the center of the floor.
*Booooooom!*
The figure collided with the ground making a loud booming sound and lifting a cloud of dust.
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH*
I heard a loud screaming coming from there, then a figured appeared between the smoke, a giant humanoid 9 meters tall with black skin and red glowing eyes.
*ROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR*
"A floor boss" Ryuu said.
As the black goliath was walking slowly, some of the third-rate adventurers that fled were being attacked by monsters that were spawning all around.
"Oh no, Lets save them!" Bell said, just to get his shoulder grabbed by Hermes.
"Are you really going to save them? Even after what they did to you?" he asked.
"I... I... yes! I'm going to save them even if they are bad guys, even if they hurt me, I'll save them all because... I want to be a Hero!" Bell said confidently.
Hermes just looked at him for a while before letting him go and ordering Asfi to help the other adventurers.
After they made their plan and went to fight the monster only me and Hestia were left.
"Are you going to help them?" she asked whiout looking at me.
"No, they could all go to their deaths for all I care" I answered honestly.
"Just how much did you kill to not care about others at all?" she said turning around and looking at me in the eyes.
"And how did you know that I killed a lot of people?" I ask her.
"When I released my divine power through our Conexion I could see the surface of your soul, it was all tainted Red and Black, killers barely have a tainted soul even if they kill, sometimes they regret it so it doesn't reflect on the soul" she said
"But yours is completely tainted in blood and death" she continued with serious eyes.
"I don't know, I killed a lot of people and stopped counting after the first" I said.
"You... you didn't feel anything for them?" she asked in a soft tone.
"No, I didn't feel anything for them, even if they were kids or they were begging for their lives" I answered and looked at her.
"But even after all of that I can feel that you are still a good person, I feel that you are searching for your family, but that time you said 'I'll bring them back' so you want to revive them?" she said looking at me with glassy eyes.
"Yes, I want to bring them back from the dead, I have a way to do that, but I need to get much stronger than I already am" I said clenching my fist remembering how weak I was against those insects.
Seeing this Hestia grabbed my hands.
"It must have been hard for you, seeing your loved ones die, but don't worry if that's your wish then I'll help you get stronger, so go fight those who are a threat to your new Family" she said bringing my head to her bosom and releasing that nostalgic motherly aura that makes me want to hug her and never let go.
"You want to get stronger? What better chance than now" she said pointing at the black goliath.
"Yeah, and you better stop treating me like your Kid" I said letting her go.
"Oh? Are you sure you don't want to? The moment I release my aura you hug me like a baby" she said teasing me.
I just kept walking forwards while using [meditation] to calm mi irritation.
Looking at the goliath it had many weapons attached to it meaning that its skin was hard to pierce and it was regenerating the few deep wounds that it had.
It was shooting shock waves from his mouth, in that I feel a powerful aura coming from the side, it was bell, he was glowing white and was aiming his hand at the goliath's head.
'Damm it, even if you blow his head off, the concentration of warp and bent it's on his middle section, and I believe it will regenerate a new head in seconds'
The goliath aimed at bell making bell release his attack, I got in the middle of the two attacks tanking the shock wave and guarding against bell's attack.
*BOOOOOOMMMMM*
As the shock wave deflected to the sides decimating the surroundings.
"WHAT!? CALVIN!" Bell shouted in fear.
When I guarded against bells attack with Gram using [sword circulation] I tried redirecting it to the goliath's middle section but weirdly enough it got stuck in my sword.
While gram was glowing a fiery white and the runes in the center of the blade were shining blue, I swung Gram in the air aiming at the goliath.
"Space-cut!"
A feeling of euphoria made words come out of my mouth as Gram cut the 'space' between it and the target making the slash reach it instantly.
*swiiishhhh*
The goliath was cut diagonally and behind him there was a deep gash in the terrain that extended for 50 meters reaching the walls of the floor.
"What...?" I exclaimed looking at the now white bladed Gram.
[Calvinian swordsmanship has reached level 3,4,5!
Ability: [Space-cut: Cut the space between you and your target making it reach instantly]
[the user's bent has made contact with an ability named 'Argonaut' it fuels the feelings and wishes of the holder into a powerful attack, but due to the user 'redirecting' the previous attack using your own bent, 'argonaut' got fueled by the user's wishes that are:
-Summon back Kala and Ella
-Surpass Karen
-Learn [Dimensional slash]
-Become the Wizard King, again
Due to the user doing the first one and the second one being thought impossible by the user, it jumped to the 3rd wish, unlocking the extremely watered-down version of it, 'space-cut' from [Calvinian summoning] and empowered it by 10 times the original strength.]
"Ha haha hahahahahahahahaha!"After reading that I could only laugh 'cheats! Just a cheater! That's what it's called'
*Cough* *cough*
I cough a lot of blood in the ground 'ugh even if [Beli ma] deflected 75% of that shock wave it was still super strong, I think some of my internal organs are fucked'
I just lay in the ground as the goliath exploded into particles.
In that Bell comes.
"Calvin! Are- are you all, right? I didn't see you and shot by accident" he said knelling besides me.
"I'm all right *cough* maybe not, do you have potions? *cough*" I said while coughing more blood and getting up.
"No, I don't have any, let me help you" he said putting my arm around his neck.
"Thanks, bring me to that elf girl, she surely has some healing magic" I said while walking.
"Yes, by the way how did you do that?" he said looking back at the destruction.
"Did you saw what happened?" I ask.
"Not really, all I saw was a white flash" he answered.
"that" pointing at the gash in the ground "was you, I just took your attack and directed it in the right direction, I guess I could say that you are very strong"
'As long as he believes in something he can probably do it, cheaty as hell but he doesn't know that'
"R-really? It was me?" he said
"Yes, without you I could not have done that" 'I probably could have killed the goliath alone but I don't know how long would it take'
"You should learn to control that power, and think about what you want to do with it when using it" I could have said 'believe in yourself' but that was way too cringy.
Then the group finally reached us.
"Good work Bell, Calvin" Hestia said hugging both of us making me wince in pain.
"That was awesome Bell-Sama! How did you do it?" Lili asked.
"Ehhh I don't know? Ah! Ryuu, could you heal Calvin? He got injured" bell asked Ryuu.
She looked at the surroundings before nodding putting me on the ground, she started her chant.
"Noah Heal, it's going to take a while" she said as the chant finished.
"Thanks for that" I greeted her feeling slightly better.
Everyone was cheering and saying 'little rookie' and 'Sword prince' ugh that name is getting old really fast.
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Easily the best chapter of the fan-fic and it got unintentionally lined up with chapter 20 so, that's a plus.
Anyway, I hope you liked it and see you on the next chapter. Bye =D