Freya was still unconvinced when Hephaestus told her that David was still alive however when the two maids woke up from their slumber she was beyond gobsmacked.
Two souls greater than ever have shone brightly while easily encompassing the whole Orario, while with different red and blue tints their base has the same similar feeling as David and she can also faintly feel a stronger one down below.
She was once graced to be embraced by his soul and she is very confident in her guts that it was his deep beneath the dungeon.
So while saving the delicacy in front of her she ignored Loki that was stupidly claiming to "sacrifice" herself for the sake of the future.
She never heard that she can turn back time and it was out of her Arcanum to do it, even Hermes who can barely go back in time told her that the timeline is always fixed even when he travels to it.
Changing small things is still possible but those events that will mold the future is impossible to change, like a joke of fate it will and will always will happened.
So even if Loki can travel to time, it would only bear no fruit but her ultimate demise.
She had no plan to stop her anymore as she know how hard-headed the trickster is, way harder than that washboard of hers so instead of wasting her time she tried to think of a way to venture into the dungeon to safely rescue David.
Freya has told Otar to bring the Hephaestus Familia members and a few remaining adventurers to the 18th floor to organize and prepare for their last hurrah but it seems impossible now as death has shown in her very eyes.
Freya is widely known to be the goddess of only love and beauty but some can never forget her as the goddess of war, that's why she can nurture so many strong adventurers in her Familia.
However seeing the One-Eyed Black Dragon that was like a spit in her effort to train her children to defeat it, she can only blankly stare at how it easily demolished the Babel with just one attack.
Hestia quickly covered them with her petite body but it seemed futile as even if the restaurant can withstand the effect of its attack, the shockwave that traveled from this place will surely kill them easily.
Now that they couldn't use their Arcanum to protect themself, she know how easily they can be killed.
She tried to use a fraction of herself to barely protect them like how Loki planned to do it but a large figure suddenly appeared in front of them.
Larger than her past captain and bulkier than Otar, a man with a shield and a mustache easily dispersed the shockwave that threatened to kill them.
Boom*
The whole place was blown away like a piece of scrap under its assault, everything was destroyed with Babel as its center.
But like a safe place before a stone in a raging waterfall, they were spared from their doom.
The OEBD glance at their location but seems uninterested as it dives down from its location towards the deeper part of the dungeon.
Hestia was still hugging Hephaestus under her and midway to sacrificing herself to protect the others but the impact that she was waiting for never occurred.
"Ooff"
Like a cat she glance up at the towering might in front of her, she had never seen a body so magnificent as his, and his figure that was completely blocking the sun is truly amazing.
"Heshthia."
Hephaestus underneath her mumbled between her breast, she could have slept throughout the whole process but dying is not worth it as she couldn't breathe.
"Who are you?"
Hestia didn't even bother to listen to her friend as she saw four more figures appearing around her but she became more panicky when her view turned upside down.
Hephaestus forcefully pushed her friend away from her when she already reached her limit, gasping she shrieked to tell them to move out already or else the Black Snow will touch them.
Without a safe place to hide they can only look towards the place where the OEBD descended, perhaps it knows that death only awaits in this place and the only safe place under the heaven is in the dungeon so it left them alone to die in there.
*Don't worry ill carve a path for us."
They were wondering how a man with a shield and a spear can drove the fleeting death around but they were surprised when a pair of wings grew behind him.
"A dddragon!"
Hestia panicked when he saw his transformation but it quickly ended when a wind of shield covered her.
Like a blur, he disappeared with a leap towards heaven before heavily crashing towards the dungeon like a meteor.
Hestia no longer knows what to believe, after losing her children she thought that there would be nothing in this world that can shake her, but it was easily broken consecutively.
She look around her to see that all of her friends were safe from the OEBD attack but noticed that the figures that suddenly appeared had also quickly disappeared.
"Where are they?"
She asks them but they are also speechless except for Freya that points towards the broken Babel before them.
"Sorry goddess but we have to hurry, even if my shield cannot withstand the Black Snow that would soon fall."
Rem told them with a troubled smile, the snow not only restricts the gods Arcanum but also the magic that the adventures cast and the life that it touches.
So quickly they were thrown away towards the burning hole that was once known as the Babel inside a bubble of air.
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After a large amount of time in free fall, they arrived at their destination, the once mighty dungeon that can never be destroyed with its regeneration is now slowly crumbling inside.
Deep dark smoke is coming below the eighteenth floor as the large labyrinth of wood is burning while barely supporting their current floor.
Quickly they discovered Otar that was beyond recognition with his burnt body and missing limbs, if not for his now broken sword they would never think it was him.
"Don't worry ill take care of you."
With her soothing voice Rem immediately come to heal him up, after they awake from their slumber a large unexplainable change occurs to them, they didn't get stronger but it seems like they can do anything.
They had asked Hephaestus what happened to them but it was Freya who answered them and with a flustered face she had answered that their soul has now become larger and pronounced.
Maybe that's why the limit of their summoned clone that was based on their soul was now removed and their trait is closer to their character.
It was also the reason why they only summon the Legends of Runetera to their call as they would never rebel per the rule of the summoners rift or else they would risk a more dangerous being than the OEBD.
Thankfully both Ram and Rem were called before their change so their base was still originally his, in the future, they had to carefully copy someone to avoid any problem that may occur.
While Rem is occupied with Otar, Ram is looking for any survivors while quickly piling them on Rem, thankfully or not the Babel is still burning so the Snow above them couldn't reach them.
Boom!*
A rattling explosion exploded below them resulting in large chunks of land on their floor crumbling like dust in a wind, choking dark smoke still covering their view, and if not for the shield around them they would already die in suffocation.
"Hey, I couldn't see."
Loki grumbled while holding Aiz in her embrace, she know that her stupid child of hers would go straight to fight the OEBD so She had to hold her in place.
"Aria"
Everyone looked in her direction with startled expressions, especially Ram with a very annoyed face.
"I just wanna see the fight."
With a meek voice, Aiz cowered in her gaze, she don't know why but looking at her fierce eyes that told her to not mess around turned her stomach purple.
So gently like being careful to not startle the red-haired oni, she sweeps her power to clear the smoke in their place.
Except for Freya that can clearly see the outline of their soul, they can barely see a large figure way deeper in their place while fighting a group of five people.
"Subarashi~~"
With an intoxicated face, she leaned on her champion that was now fully healed, unknown obscene things running in her mind while thinking about David.
"Should I help Freya-sama?"
Otar respectfully inquires to her goddess, now that he is fully healed he wants to battle again with an adversary that he can never win against to sharpen his blade but looking at her goddess that seems to never hear him, he can only stare carefully at the fight below him.
"Subarashi~~"