What everybody saw just now was the true power of Daki, the power that she herself didn't know about which was expected due to how her life was, you remember when Alex saved her in the brothel, she seemed had nothing left in life, although she managed to keep her purity which was the only thing left for her.
Alex was like the light in her darkest days, the warm ray that made her feel safe, reassured and secure, she experienced with him everything she didn't experience, he took all her first times, he became everything to her and she wouldn't let anything take him away from her or harm him in the slightest.
But being beaten like that in front him, in front of her warm light and her dear husband, she felt like the worst nightmare ever, the worst thing in life she had ever seen, which made her so angry, very very angry at that, which resulted in her unleashing, unconsciously, her true power and strength.
Alex knew about it actually, and that was because of a tool or an ability he'd created that could tell the hidden power of the person you want.
Then why he thought of making such an ability? Well simply he was bored so he wanted to creat something new, although he could have made a better one like Observation, but he wanted it simple and not contain too much information. But he may do it in the future.
Of course there are other ways to know the one's hidden power by looking at the soul itself, but it needs someone with high manipulation over souls which is something Alex doesn't have yet.
But knowing and making her unleash that power were two different things as he couldn't go and tell her that she had some hidden powers inside her and she should try to unleash it so she could get stronger.
It doesn't work like that, if he tells her, then she won't progress at all, besides her reckless nature and how she is so depending on her strength to go through everything.
So Alex wanted her to fight against an enemy, who had more experience in fighting than her and high instincts, so he choose the Minotaurs, who was the same as her, excelled in strength and stamina.
He wanted her to learn that always, there was a sky above another sky, so she should train and gain more control over her strength that she use rather inappropriately.
And that when that happened, when that Minotaurs hit her hard that she crashed into the wall, her excited and mocking character changed to something so cold and calm.
Although she can't use magic to cast spells, but that's because her body itself is abnormal, she even has some muscles in some areas, Ahem! Let's not talk about it.
Anyway, he knew all of that from the beginning, so he'd created that situation for her to learn as well as to discover her new and hidden power, he didn't have a name for it yet, but he would name it in the future as it was something so dark yet pure, representing her personality so well.
Daki who was engulfed in darkness, looked at how the Minotaurs disappeared with just pointing her finger at him, and didn't feel anything, she didn't feel excited or like she won something, but simply felt...nothing.
Nothing, that's it not bored, but nothing.
Then looking at her hands that were so dark with green hue, she felt familiar, as if it was with her from the beginning and she didn't know about it.
But suddenly, she felt something wrapping itself around her body, it was a pair of arms hugging her and she knew those arms very well from the warmness it emitted.
"You did very well, dear. You can rest now."
Alex whispered to her, making her body fall in his embrace where she hugged him tightly and closed her eyes.
The scene of their husband hugging something dark with glowing green eyes, made Alex's wives feel slightly weird, but they knew that she was one of their sisters, one of the older ones at that, so they didn't find it weird anymore.
Slowly, the darkness began to back away from Daki and went inside her, revealing a stunning woman with a stunning body and very long white hair and a pair of light green eyes with a skin so white link snow.
Although she is a demon, but her skin isn't like one of them.
It could be because she is a variant or something.
Anyway, Daki felt very tired suddenly and wanted to sleep, which was because of the power of darkness that engulfed her, it drained all of her stamina tiring her out.
Alex took her in his arms and went back to his inner dimension and put her in the bedroom where he slept in the palace, then went back again to continue with his wives.
He of course fought with them while using the minimum of his power as he wanted to train his body, not magic, he already had a perfect control over magic, but his body was so weak in his opinion, he needed to train even harder and master different types of martial arts and create his own style that would be his own that make best use of every technique in existence along with creating new spells that could have even more destructive powers than the any other spell.
Humans know no limits in evolution, although he wasn't anymore, but he once was one of them.
But let's be honest, the dungeon is very good, filled with many strong monsters but to Alex this is not enough, this won't make him progress, it may be the case for his wives as they aren't like him, but to him this isn't enough and even if he went to any other world stronger than this one, it wouldn't be enough at all.
So he thought of a project he was working on with his first wife, Vine.
The project was about creating something filled with so many strong monsters, stronger than any monster in any anime world, for him to train there.
Similar to the dungeon, but at the same time different. It would be more like a tower that could create powerful monsters easily.
Vine decided to name it the The Tower of Doom, as it would be filled with creatures no one heard of. Alex used his knowledge about a game in his last life to create these monsters but he added some adjustments to make them so strong that if anyone fought them, they would die in one breath or in an instant.
The creatures were simply undefeatable, which was something Alex wanted so he could train until he defeat them.... probably.
See, as simple as that.
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The Tower of Doom, a tower that Alex decided to create for himself so he could get stronger faster and efficiently.
The Tower had so many dangerous monsters and major and mini bosses that would terrify anyone if saw them.
.
Alex used his knowledge of a game to create this tower with the monsters in it, although the game was an FPS game, Alex made some changes to the skills and the powers of the monsters.
Vine helped him in that, as she used the souls of long deceased warriors and their information to improve these monsters and made them have some intelligence and gain several dangerous techniques.
Although she told him that she put some surprises in that tower, but that made him more excited to try it.
The Tower will exist inside his inner dimension with a flow of time very different than the time in his inner dimension.
So we now got three different flows of time, one is the original flow, the flow of the inner dimension and the flow of the Tower.
Of course in the tower he could spend so many years with just months and days passed in the outside in his inner dimension which would be typically some days in the original flow.
The Tower will help him to stabilize his energy and get control of it beside getting stronger and have a sufficient martial arts and dangerous techniques. And one more thing, his information about the game and its monsters will not help him much in the tower as the tower itself is alive and can change its environment if sensed that the invader is killing the monsters easily, so it can create a new type of monsters that can kill him or pose a challenge to Alex.
All in all, it would be so dangerous but useful for Alex himself, but his wives would stay in Danmachi world and train in the dungeon, while Alex would experience death, despair and misery in the tower.
One last thing, the invader in the tower had only 3 lives and could be increased by buffs that could be get by killing monsters.
Only by killing you would survive, that was the moto of the tower.
Now back again in the dungeon, the group headed through the floors 16 & 17 until they reached the 18th floor which could be called the Safe Zone for the adventurers as no monsters could be respawn here, there was even a little city made by adventurers in this floor.
The adventurers called this floor the Under Resort, though some monsters could come up through the floors below.
The floor was filled with large forests and lakes covered the floor giving it the beauty of nature with fresh air couldn't be found outside of the dungeon, within the forests were blue crystals of different sizes that reflected the light from above, causing the forest to be filled with pale blue glow.
The sight was mesmerizing to any adventurer who just gotten into the floor even for Alex and his wives, they were amazed by the sight and beauty in front of them. It was so beautiful that if Alex had a camera right now he would have taken many photos of it.
'Well, I can make it, right?' Alex thought as he remembered that he could make a camera with a flick of his fingers, and so he did, he flicked his fingers and a small ball of light that had violet hue was created on his palm, then suddenly the light disappeared leaving behind a digital camera of the highest quality.
'Now here we go.'
And like that he started taking photos of the sight around him through the camera, although some of his wives were surprised by his actions, but others understood what he was doing very well that if didn't they would find a way to do it themselves.
He took photos for the sight along with his wives who were surprised by his skills in taking photos, every single photo he took of them was so beautiful along with the nature background, it made them more beautiful than ever.
"I'm amazed by your skills Dear~ that's amazing." Hinata said as she appreciated his skill in taking photos, not only her but his other wives.
Although those who knew about the camera wondered how could he create a camera out of nowhere, they shrugged it off as they thought 'It's our husband, so it's alright.!
Anyway, they decided to explore the floor a little before going back home, inside Alex's inner dimension as he got a notice from Vine that she wanted him to see someone.
Although he wondered who was it, but he didn't care as he would soon find out.
Anyway, they continued to move and explore.
Looking above, the ceiling of the floor was filled with bright shinning crystals of two colors: one in white color resembling the sun and the other in blue color resembling the moon, it was one of the things that made this floor special.
While walking, they noticed a group of people walking ahead of them and it seemed that they were going to the direction of Rivira the city that was built by the adventurers in this floor.
The group had a very short man with blond hair leading them along with two women with dark skins resembling each other, and a quiet beauty with long golden hair and yellow golden eyes, there were more but Alex didn't bother to describe them as he was quite. lazy to do so.
The group which was walking ahead, heard some foot steps behind them, so they looked back to see a group of a very beautiful women with very hot, sexy and attractive bodies along with one man in the middle with dark black hair like starless night and dark violet eyes that looked like an abyss making you attracted to it but it was dangerous to be near.
Although like that, the women emitted a very dangerous aura that if any of them showed any hostile actions, they would be killed on the spot.
But although they were very dangerous, especially the one with a long Katana on her waist, with dark skin and animal features like the ears and tail, the man in the middle was the most dangerous among them, the aura around him was so... chaotic.
Only one word could describe him, it was madness, like a mass of madness and chaos walking on earth driving anyone who looked at it to madness.
That was Alex and his destruction, an energy that devoured anything in its way.
Alex who looked at them, knew them immediately and was surprised to meet them here.
'Anyway, it's not of our business, I need to go. He thought as he started to move with his wives behind him.
"Hey wait!"
'Well, a one with stupid stuff in his head appeared.' Alex thought as he sighed.
Alex and his wives turned around to look at the one who stopped them to see a man that seemed to be a werewolf with grey hair and matching pair of ears along with grey tail.
He seemed to be quite the agressive temperament person.
Alex looked at him and seemed quite annoyed as he didn't want anything or anyone to interrupt his walk with his wives besides he didn't want to be late on his wife, Vine.
The werewolf shuddered at Alex's gaze as he felt terrified from those dark violet eyes that seemed to lead anyone who looked at them to madness, but he didn't give up, then looked at Ghislaine who was the only one among Alex's wives that was quiet and had animal features like the ears and the tail.
Her white T-shirt that revealed her sexy six packs and her massive breasts that seemed wanting to jump out, along with blue comfortable jeans fitting her very well and finally, a long Katana on her waist to complete the masterpiece with her dark skin. She was so hot and sexy to any man and that was evident from the looks that the men in that group gave her and Alex's other wives.
But of course Alex noticed this as he knew those lustful eyes very well which made him have a cold expression that any wrong word or move would lead them to their death...on the spot.
Alex's wives noticed how he became so cold suddenly and had a look that swore to kill, which made them happy about that, he was simply too possessive of them and didn't want anyone to look at them like that.
But then, Ghislaine held his hand gently and looked at him which made him also look at her.
They looked at each other and Alex understood what she wanted so he sighed and let her, which earned a very lovely smile from her as her husband trusted her.
Of course he will, he trusts his wives unconditionally and they do the same.
Then Ghislaine walked in the front and looked at the grey werewolf.
A Tiger Vs. A Werewolf which seemed hilarious in Alex's point of view, Ghislaine was simply OP to him, so if they fought, it would be just a one side massacre.
But what happened was unexpected as it made them confused and amazed at how courageous he was, even his group thought the same.
They didn't stop him as they were also curious about Alex's group that seemed filled with power, a power that made them shudder and shiver from how it was overwhelming.
Besides if he did something exaggerating, they would stop him immediately, so it was fine.
Alex knew that anyone would be curious if they saw his group and that made him dive into the dungeon when no one was at the place he was going to or simply casted a distraction magic to make them go away and not give them any attention, but this time he forgot to cast it which made him annoyed, he didn't want to be late, and due to that, the air around him was heavy, so heavy that if anyone was beside him they would find a difficulty in breathing.
"I fell in love you from the first sight, please go out with me!" He said with proud look and excited smile.
That was unexpected thing, his group knew that he was stupid but not to this degree which made them sigh.
On the other hand, Ghislaine had an expressionless face while looking at the werewolf who didn't care about his life and went straight to the tiger's mouth without any fear of being eaten.
Although inwardly she was confused and surprised by his courage, Ghislaine didn't put him even in her eyes, she only had one man she succumbed to and took her as his woman and that man was Alex.
He was the only person in her heart and no one else as he already filled it completely without leaving any space left which made her had this expressionless face.
The grey werewolf was so excited as he didn't see a woman like Ghislaine before, strong with toned muscles and animal features that resembled him, although Alex's other wives were strong, but he didn't care about them and just looked at Ghislaine, it was a love from the first sight to him which was something he experienced for the first time in his life.
But too bad, she was someone's else woman and he already owned her possessively.
The one who had her was a Yandere which was the most dangerous type of men if the matter concerned his wives or lovers.
"And why do you think that I will go out with you?" She said with indifferent tone.
"Because I'm strong and strong men need strong women." He replied with even proud and excited expression.
Although he was right but that didn't apply all the time and there was a man here that could destroy this whole place with one spell if he wished to.
"Are you dumb?" She said with the same tone.
"Huh?!"
"I don't need any man who is weaker than me,"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that you are so weak that I totally couldn't see you among your group, you don't even meet my standards,"
"Wha-"
"Besides, I'm already taken and has a husband already who is so strong, even than me and I love him more than anything in this world or the entire universe." This time she had a lovely smile that no one had ever seen before and couldn't imagine her to have a smile like that.
The group of the werewolf who were apparently Loki familia, were surprised by that revelation, they didn't think that this woman in front of them who had an aura that seemed to cut the space was already taken and on top of that was married.
And now, the grey werewolf wasn't grey anymore as he became a tomato, he was so embarrassed at the moment.
The woman he fell in love with rejected him and embarrassed him in front of his friends and group and that made him angry, so angry that his body trembled and his veins popped up in his head while his eyes became red from anger.
"You, you, YOU! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME!" He shouted at her while his claws sharpened and his muscles expanded.
His group was about to stop him from doing anything rash but in an instant his body exploded as blood flew everywhere.
Silence filled the place that any step could be heard from miles.
No one could understand what had happened just now especially the Loki familia as they saw one of their comrades had his body exploded like that, they had their eyes wide from shock, even the indifferent Ais was shocked and sweat slid on her face.
All members had their mouths agape from shock and fear as they didn't understand what had happened.
Only Alex's wives including Ghislaine understood what happened very well as they felt the air around them became so heavy and the ground began to tremble under them slightly while increasing with every moment passed.
Everyone felt the ground tremble under them, not just at their place but the whole floor had the ground trembling chaotically.
It was something shocked everyone in the floor that they thought that the floor was being ambushed by a horde of monsters with their bosses.
But it was just one person who caused it all, one person just because he was annoyed and agitated made the floor tremble and shake like that just because someone so dumb shouted at his wife, someone he cared for dearly.
No one expected something like that at all.
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Alex was annoyed at first because someone stopped him and interrupted his walk with his wives but seeing someone who was rude enough to shout in his wife's face because she rejected him but he had the guts to confess to his wife.
He really thought that this person didn't really care about his life and wished to die so Alex skillfully made his wish come true by making his body exploded from the inside out by controlling his heart beat and enlarging the sounds of his heart beat and making them hit his internal organs in a huge force exploding his body from the inside out.
It was something easy to someone with perfect control over magic like Alex.
But he was still agitated that he expanded his aura out of his body and making it affect the surroundings until it reached the whole floor as the it trembled as if titans were stepping on the ground with their huge and gigantic bodies.
It made him remember a certain scene from a certain anime he watched in the past that gave him chills so he decided to create it using his huge and thick pressure.
And the result?
The adventurers panicked and were running everywhere like headless chickens while certain numbers of them were acting calmly and collected, although barely.
The floor was trembling so hard and the group in front of Alex and his wives aka Loki familia, were also panicking at the sudden scene around them.
Everything was shaking to the core.
"W-what is happening?" The short blonde boy in the front, Finn, said with sweat sliding on his face but he was quite collected trying to understand the sudden occurrence of the floor trembling under them, some of his group was actually panicking as they didn't know the reason for this sudden occurrence.
One of them, the high elf Riveria looked toward Alex's wives and found them not panicking and just standing there casually which made her think of something.
"Oy, you know what is happening, right?" She said looking at Ghislaine.
"I've a name which is Ghislaine Diodara Quinn."
"Sorry, about that. Then Mrs. Ghislaine, you know what is happening right now right?"
"Hmmm? Although I do but you don't care about your friend that has died right in front of you?" Ghislaine asked back.
Rumble! Rumble!
The floor was still shaking and Alex seemed still didn't want to stop.
Everybody looked at Riveria waiting for her answer. Although they were shocked by Bete's death in front of them but the situation wasn't appropriate for them to question Alex and his group right now.
But they still waited for Riveria's answer tho.
"Well, I don't care about him that much, after all all I care about is one person and nothing else." She said while glancing at Ais with slightly flushed cheeks as she remembered what her goddess used to call her because of her caring and kind personality toward the other members of the familia, especially Ais.
'And what I was expecting from someone who earned the nickname 'mama' from our goddess herself?' Finn face palmed inwardly.
Ghislaine understood what she meant and didn't ask further, then looked at them before looking back at Alex who was still having the same cold expression.
She walked to him and hugged him pressing her massive breasts against his chest while rubbing her erect nipples on it slightly.
Alex looked down at her with his eyes now had even darker shade of violet like two black holes.
She smiled at him and continued hugging him without saying anything which was something only Alex's wives understood.
Alex raised his hand and put it on her silver hair and started caressing it tenderly while his eyes softened and at the same time the trembling disappeared as if didn't happen from the beginning.
Loki familia was surprised and shocked yet horrified, except Ais who was looking at Alex with slightly surprised expression although that wasn't evident from her expressionless face but the slight wide eyes were a proof of that.
They finally knew the source of all of that and it was the man in front of them who was surrounded by sexy hot women with one of them was his wife, according to them.
'I knew from the beginning that he was so dangerous, especially this chaotic energy around him that seemed looking at me everytime I tried to look at it, I nearly went crazy just by looking.' Finn thought inwardly while sighing in relief that he didn't offend him too much, although he was sad that Bete died but a small sacrifice to save all for them was worth it, logically speaking.
But he was his friend and he was sad for his loss, and not only him, all of the group were like that.
Then suddenly, magic circle appeared on the place where Bete was standing before exploding. It was stained in his fresh blood.
Saki who saw the blood didn't feel any excitement at all as it didn't make her eager to drink it only her husband's blood was the best and the most delicious in her eyes.
The magic circle was dark violet with complex drawings and complicated runes rotating around it.
[Revive]
Suddenly it brightened and the runes rotated even faster, it became even more brighter making the group close their eyes for a second until the light diminished and disappeared.
There on the ground, Bete was there while having a confused expression on his face.
"Bete!" Finn exclaimed in surprise along with his familia who became even more surprised with Bete appearance out of the magic circle.
"W-what happened? And why are you looking at me like that?"
"I got him back out of the realm of the dead, in the next time better be careful or else even your soul won't even be spared." Alex said calmly with a hint of coldness in his voice making Bete shudder and nod quickly.
"Then, until then. We better not meet again." He said as he glanced at Ais who also looked at him with her yellow golden eyes before seeing him disappear into nothingness.
She smiled secretly without anyone noticing as she saw Alex smile smile at her, although was confused by the sudden smile but for some reason it made her want to smile.
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Alex along with his wives and the others appeared inside his inner dimension and went straight to the palace where Vine was waiting for him with the guest along with Anna.
Inside the living room, Vine was sitting along with Anna while opposite to her a red haired beauty with her hair tied in a loose ponytail and wearing a white shirt and leather waist pants along with black gloves, but the most noticable thing about her was the eye patch she was wearing covering her right eye, beside her was another beauty but different from the red haired one.
If we said that the red haired one had a mature charm the other one had a cheerful charm along with a childish touch. She had long black hair tied in two twin tails with blue ribbons.
She had small physic with huge breasts that seemed to jump out of her clothes.
"So is he coming?" The red haired one said.
"Oh, yeah... Actually he had just arrived." Vine said with a sweet smile making both women quite jealous.
Anna was beside her playing with Melody who was giggling happily. Her cute appearance and actions were so cute that it made it like an arrow hit the heart directly and making people eager to protect her somehow.
Suddenly, the door of the room opened revealing Hinata, Saki, Tiamat, Ghislaine and the others walking in while Alex was between them.
Once he entered he noticed the new guests and he had admit that he didn't expect them to appear in his dimension like that.
Once the red haired beauty saw him, she looked quite hopeful as her heart was throbbing with nervousness although she didn't let appear on her face.
"Welcome, dearest~"
"Yeah I'm back."
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Although Alex was surprised by their visit here, in his inner dimension, but he shrugged it off as they were his wife's friends, but if they were males, then it would be a completely different matter, and you know why.
Anyway, he walked toward Vine who happily made room for him between her and her sister, Anna.
He sat between them while his daughter looked at him with a happy smile.
"Papa!" She said.
Suddenly Alex felt his mind blowing up and his eyes widened in shock and surprise. He absolutely didn't think that something like this to happen soon, and her first words were calling him 'Papa' and for you to know when your new born daughter call you with that name as her first words, you as a father would be beyond happy.
And that what happened to him, while his other wives present in the living room as some of them weren't here like Hinata and Tiamat as they went to do some things in their own rooms, with Hinata developing a new artifact and Tiamat cleaning her treasures as usual.
His other wives widened their eyes in surprise and amazement when they heard Melody said that, they knew that her development would be much different than any other normal child as her body and mind would develop much faster than the other children, but beside that, the time in the dimension was moving faster than the outside tho not like before as Alex adjusted it.
But definitely the most affected ones were Alex and Anna being her mom and dad.
He looked at her and a smile that was so dazzling making those who saw it felt like the world was so beautiful.
"My baby girl called me Papa~ say it again Melo~" He said was a voice filled with affection and love for his daughter while Anna was smiling like no ever feeling so happy at the moment.
And Melody seemed to understand what he said and said it again.
"Papa! Papa! Hehehehe~" She said it again while laughing happily at his smiling face.
Alex immediately felt his heart was pierced by an arrow and held her right away and hugged her lovingly.
"I love you so much, Melo~ my baby girl~"
She laughed in happiness and hugged him back, although awkwardly, but she managed to do it in the end and hugged him, rubbing her cheeks against his expressing her happiness and love.
Everyone in the room looked at the pair of father and daughter while smiling warmly, feeling very good and relaxed somehow seeing them like that while thinking if they had a child would he/she be like that.
But unknown to them, their children in the future will only be girls and not boys, but that's a story for another time.
Anyway, after some time, the atmosphere calmed down and Alex had Anna resting on his shoulders with happy smile while looking at her lovely cute daughter who was sitting on his lap resting her back on his body while hugging his arm that was wrapping her. His other wives and the girls sat on different areas in the room as some were sitting on the bed resting their bodies.
He looked at the red heard beauty and the Loli woman in front of him.
"So, Vine, are they the ones you told me about?"
"Yes dearest, they are. Let me introduce you.
The red haired one is Hephaestus the Goddess of Smith in the Greek Mythology while the Loli beside her is Hestia the Goddess of Family and House in the same Mythology."
Hestia had the corners of her lips twitched when she heard her calling her Loli but she didn't refute it as she knew that she was right, but still it made her annoyed.
"Hello, I'm Hephaestus, nice to meet you." She said with a smile introducing herself to Alex and his wives.
He nodded and looked at Hestia who smiler and pushed her chest making her large breasts bounce while putting her hands on her hips.
"Hoho, now it's my turn, my name is Hestia the most beautiful and important goddess of all times." She said proudly making Hephaestus sigh at her antics.
Alex only nodded while Vine smiled at her with a smile that wasn't a smile to her as it felt like the grim reaper was smiling at her which made her shudder.
"Well, anyway, what is the matter?"
"I wanted to ask something from you dearest," She said while Alex who heard this looked at Hephaestus and her eye patch and knew what she wanted to ask.
"You want me to heal her, right? But couldn't you do it? You are a goddess after all." Although somehow he knew why she didn't do it but he wanted to make sure.
Vine smiled awkwardly before saying "Well, although being a goddess but my domain is not healing but destruction and annihilation, so you know, I only can destroy but not build or heal anything."
He nodded in understanding as like she said, her domain wasn't something related to healing or something like that but destruction and annihilation that was why she was called the Goddess of Destruction.
Alex didn't ask further as he knew that Hephaestus's injury was something related to her soul and the soul of the gods and goddesses were so much different than any other soul, more powerful and robust but at the same time difficult to heal in case if injury.
It's like a double-edged weapon.
Actually, Alex was planning on healing her when he first arrived in Danmachi world, but he didn't have time as his wives wanted to try the dungeon beside his case with his power that happened 8 months ago.
He didn't want anything from her as he would have it in the end, may be sooner or later.
"Okay, I will do it."
Hephaestus smiled happily inside as she tried desperately to heal her wound in the past but nothing was successful.
Alex with his perfect control over magic and the increased control over souls due to how he increased his control over the destruction energy as his was much different than Vine that he doubted that it was the power of destruction anymore and was something else he didn't know, but he didn't think about it right now as he had a matter to do.
He looked at Anna "Honey, hold Melo for a moment."
"Yes darling~" And she took Melody from Alex who had a disappointed look on her face making Anna laugh slightly.
"Don't worry, he will hold you again~"
Then Alex stood up and walked to Hephaestus and sat beside her, making her have a look of his face closely which made her blush slightly which was something he noticed and smiled at her for that, making her blush harder.
"Take off your eye patch and let me see the wound so I can heal you properly."
She didn't say anything and nodded while taking off her eye patch but inside she was worried that he would feel disgusted with her deformed eye like how others felt when they saw it.
But Alex didn't care about that and just wanted to help her while slightly making her fall slowly.
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Hephaestus didn't expect that a kiss would be so good like this, she didn't imagine that at all.
Although she is a goddess from the Greek Mythology and you know how they are, all bunch of people who want to fuck anytime, and a solid proof of that is Zeus, the God of Lightning.
But to his surprise, he felt like she was a beginner at kissing as if she didn't kiss before, although in the original she wasn't a virgin tho, but the one in front of him was like an innocent person who didn't experience a kiss before.
Anyway, he had a job to do and wanted to focus on it.
And he did so, by injecting his pure energy, not the energy of destruction but pure spiritual energy that was within him but he didn't try to use at all although he knew how to use and had a very high proficiency in it as, but not to the point of perfection as he needed to train it as well. He had the knowledge about how to control it to this degree but didn't how he had it, so he didn't think about it too much as he would know eventually.
He felt Hephaestus not rejecting his energy which made his job easier.
Once he injected enough energy, he began to control it and direct it to the damaged part of her soul, then started to heal it.
Slowly, her wounded soul began to heal and returning back to how it was before the damage occured, it was noticable that Hephaestus herself felt her powers going back slowly to its full potential and capacity.
But to Alex, he was dissatisfied with that, he wanted it to be perfect and whole.
So his eyes glowed with violet, with dark hue, as he controlled his energy in a way to heal her soul more efficiently and at the same time enhancing her whole soul, making it more robust and denser than a normal divine being soul.
And as a result, her power increased and her potential and capacity also increased, making her stronger than before by several levels.
The session took nearly 4 hours as controlling one's spiritual energy to affect others' souls was something that burdened him as the souls domain wasn't a thing that one could control easily and efficiently.
Besides, in the process of affecting one's soul, any slight mistakes or interruptions could damage the controller's soul heavily, decreasing his power by many levels or even could lead to death in some cases.
That's why he told his wives to not interrupt him, but if he remembered correctly, his tone when he said that wasn't convincing enough as he smelled their aroused smell right there.
Anyway, Alex ended the kiss and they separated with a line of saliva connecting their tongues together while Hephaestus was panting with flushed cheeks as she looked at him.
He felt amused by the look on her face right now.
But now looking at her face clearly, with her damaged eye back to what it was, she looked so beautiful, making Alex admire her beauty even more.
"As I thought, you look so beautiful with those red fiery eyes." He said while smiling, making her blush even more before thinking about what he said.
Her eyes?!
"There is a mirror right there, you can have a look." Immediately, she went to the mirror to look at herself.
And what she saw made her widen her eyes while tears began to fall because now her wounded eye that made people look at her with disgust and compassion was now healed and perfect.
She felt like a dream came true, her wish, her only wish was granted and now she could see with both her eyes and feel refreshed.
Alex came behind her and put his hands on her shoulder while smiling at her in the mirror.
"Try checking your soul."
And she did, she checked her soul and saw something made her completely speechless.
Her soul that was wounded, was now healed but that wasn't what made her shocked.
What made her shocked was how her soul changed and became more powerful than before, it became denser and more robust, more polished that its color changed from the usual golden with red hue to the completely red, like a fire flickering and moving as if it had its own life, swirling around it.
"H-how did you do it?" She said with shocked and amazed expression while looking back at Alex.
"Remember the feeling you felt when we were kissing?"
She blushed as the kiss was still so vivid in her mind but then she remembered the feeling she had when they were kissing, she felt something invading her body and soul, but it didn't have any hostile intentions, so she let it.
Looking at him as if making sure of something, Alex nodded back.
"Yes, when we were kissing, I injected my pure spiritual energy then controlled it to heal your soul and at the same time enhancing it, making it more powerful. Now look at your body again."
He said making her surprised at how easily he said it as if it was nothing, as she knew that something on the spiritual level wasn't something so easy to deal with.
Then she looked back at the mirror and observed her body again.
Her body changed as she became taller reaching slightly below Alex, she became more beautiful and sexier than before as her breasts became bigger reaching F-cup or something, her hips became wider and her thighs thicker. (The legendary feeling.)
Her legs were more slender along with her slim waist, but if you touched her hair, you would feel the heat emitting from it as well as the air around her that was hot.
She needed to train to control her powers again as it was different than before and that was something she understood.
"Then, how do you feel?"
Looking at him, she smiled a very genuine smile that came from her heart.
"I feel like I had gained my freedom back, like the world suddenly became so colorful in my eyes and that's all thanks to you."
"With pleasure~"
She felt so thankful for Alex and wanted to compensate him, but she didn't know how, but then she remembered the kiss and blushed while feeling her body became hotter than it was.
"Okay, let's go back. There are some people that need to be punished so they won't make the same mistake again."
He said making Hephaestus confused a little but didn't think much about it and just shrugged it off as her happiness right now was overwhelming.
Alex held her hand, which was something she didn't refuse and rather liked, before both of them disappeared from the room, with Hephaestus having a happy smile on her face making her more beautiful.
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Alex and Hephaestus appeared in the living room again in front of everyone.
He looked at them and smiled a smile that made them shudder and shiver as they knew that they fucked up.
Anyway, Hinata and Tiamat along with Daki, who finally woke up, were with everyone and seemed oblivious to what was happening, but that didn't matter as what they saw next made them speechless as they looked at Hephaestus.
Daki knew about Hephaestus from others and saw a photo of her from Vine after she woke up.
She became like a completely different person with her long red hair that reached her hips as if she took some pills or something that made her hair grow to this extent.
I bet if women knew about something like this, they would look for it like hungry beasts.
Back to the subject.
Her body now that went through some drastic changes made them also amazed and surprised.
"Hephaestus! What happened to you?!" Hestia's voice snapped them out of their state.
"Yeah, what happened dearest? It's like she became a completely different person that if one saw her right now, they wouldn't recognize her at all." Vine stated.
"That's true." (Daki)
Hearing her voice, Alex looked at Daki and smiled before walking to her and hugging her.
"Glad you are okay my dear~" He said lovingly making her blush in happiness as her heart was beating faster at the moment.
She hugged him back and sniffed his smell which made her relaxed and meit.
"Thank you darling~"
Hephaestus looked at how he hugged and treated Daki and felt slightly jealous, but then she shook her head to get this thoughts out of her head.
'Wake up, this is not the time for something like this.
"Dear, can you tell us what happened to Hephaestus for her to be like that? I know you went to heal her and you did clearly, but can you explain this." Mirellia pointed out Hephaestus drastic changes and everyone nodded.
"Damn, her body became even more erotic and sexier than mine." Lieselotte said with frustration while her sister looked at her helplessly.
"I must admit, the air around her changed so much than before and became hot as if you will burn if you get closer." Akio continued.
"Indeed." Mira nodded while Arin just looked with an expressionless face at her breasts and felt depressed.
"Onee-san is so beautiful." Yui said excitedly with sparkling eyes which made her look cute.
Everyone began to talk about how Hephaestus changed this much with amazed expressions.
"Well, I just wanted to make her soul better so I just enhanced it a bit." Alex said casually.
"A bit?! This is not a bit at all, she became a completely different person dearest, besides, you said it like it was something easy to do. The soul realm is something so mysterious and hard to access and need some specialized persons to do it." Vine pointed out.
"Of course it wasn't easy for me, if any of you interrupted me for a moment I would fail and damage my own soul in the process or even die." He said making everyone shocked by this revelation.
'We were about to kill our husband?!!!! Everyone shared the same thought except those who didn't participate like Hinata, Tiamat and Daki.
They felt like their bodies became weak suddenly and their hearts beat faster than ever from fear. They didn't think that their little game turned out to be something so dangerous that could kill their husband, it made them feel so sour and bad.
Even Vine herself was so shocked that her body trembled as tears was threatening to fall from her eyes.
Alex noticed the change in the atmosphere that became gloomy and sad, and sighed.
"You don't need to blame yourselves this much, the most important thing is to learn from our mistakes so we won't repeat it again. Let it be a lesson for you and everyone."
"But... But you were about to die if we interrupted you. If.. if you died, I....I...I...I don't want even think about it." Vine felt like the world crumble in front of her with just the thought of her husband dying because of her. He, after all, meant the world for her, he meant everything for her.
All of his wives were afraid of that possibility, even the quietest ones like Ghislaine and Esdeath, although they didn't show it but inside they were shaking.
But without a doubt the most affected one was Vine because she was the one who loved Alex the most and was stalking him since a very long time as she became more obsessed with him to the point that it became like sickness.
Hinata, Tiamat and Daki were furious with them, but they didn't say anything as they left it for their husband to deal with them.
Alex kissed Daki's lips before going to Vine and hugged her.
"I'm here with you, I won't leave you. You are my life, my love, my wife, the one who supported me the most. I'm not gonna leave you alone, not even death can take you away from me. You hear me Vine, not even death."
"And my words are for all of you, you who chose to be with me cannot run away from me and I won't leave you alone or run away, for I'm a very possessive and obsessive psychopathic bastard who love his women to the extent that if I were to choose between you and the universe, I would gladly chose you over it."
All of Alex's wives and those who weren't felt so attracted to him right now, as if he was a magnet that attracted them to him.
They felt so warm and sweet with his words, although they weren't a words of a normal person, but they weren't normal either.
His wives weren't normal as they fell deep in love with Alex and became so obsessed with him that the thought of leaving him didn't cross their mind at all, on the contrary, the more time they spent with him, and the more they thought about him, the more obsessed they became.
Even those who weren't his wives felt something deep inside them trying to awake, making them attracted more to Alex.
Vine hugged Alex tightly, snuggling in his embrace while a twisted smiled appeared on her face that no one saw except Alex who smiled lovingly at her, he loved this obsession crazy smile of her.
After that, the atmosphere retuned back to what it was again, filled with relaxation and comfortableness while all of Alex's wives were now sitting around him, Melody occupied the best place in the room which was his lap while having a smug expression on her face making the others feel defeated by this little girl.
Hephaestus and Hestia who saw all of this, felt like they ate dog food and thought that it would be good to have a boyfriend or something, but unknown to them, their fate was sealed from the moment of their meeting with Alex.
As he wouldn't let them go and train them to be the perfect women for him, for he desired them since the beginning.
***
Now by looking at Hephaestus now, many would suspect her as imposter or something as she was known for her eye patch and slightly short red hair that she always kept in a loose ponytail.
But now, she became a completely different person with no restrictions on her power and divinities as Alex updated her soul making it change to keep with the update and along with the physical changes. The restrictions that Ouranos had put on the gods and goddesses who descended to earth had disappeared from her.
That could be seen from the aura around her that was hot and warm.
"If I went back like this, there will be an uproar because of my appearance and my divinity that became unrestricted after you enhanced my soul." Hephaestus who was sitting beside Hestia on the sofa opposite to Alex spoke.
"You are right, even me who know you well didn't recognize you for a second." Hestia said.
"Well, we can solve this problem," (Alex)
"How?" (Hephaestus)
"I will put a seal on you that will prevent your power from leaking and help you control your divinity without it getting out of control. With this, no one will find anything wrong with you even Ouranos."
"That's good, but what about my appearance? I can't just go out like that."
"Just focus on your energy and imagine your old appearance, then circulate your energy throughout your body to change your appearance. But your height won't change, are you okay with that?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
She closed her eyes while taking a deep breath, then imagined her old appearance before circulating her divine energy throughout her body, slowly as she didn't have that much control over her new energy and power.
Suddenly, her body began to emit red bright light that increased its brightness with every passing moment untill the light of the red energy covered her whole body..
It wasn't blinding light but it emitted heat and fire that danced around her body.
And soon enough, the light diminished and slowly disappeared revealing Hephaestus with her old appearance but without the eye patch of course.
"How is it?"
"Perfect, the same old Hephaestus I know." Hestia said while nodding.
"Old?" Veins popped in Hephaestus's head when she heard her friend saying that, but then she sighed as she knew by that answer her previous appearance was back, then she looked down on her breasts with a disappointed look.
They turned back again, huh.
Alex smiled secretly when he saw her disappointed look as if knew what she was thinking.
Anyway, with everything done, it was time to go back to do the usual which was grinding in the dungeon.
Now by looking at Hestia, Alex wondered about the time for the canon as he arrived to the Danmachi world without knowing the timeline.
"Hestia." Alex called, making her look at him along with the others.
"Do you have anyone in your familia?" He asked making her widen her eyes thinking that he wanted to be part of her familia or something, but then looked at Vine and sighed.
"No, I don't have one."
Alex nodded at her and thought that may be the canon was near.
"Anyway, I will leave you for some time as me and Vine have something to do." He said while looking at Vine who understood what he wanted to do and she nodded happily.
"Where are you going?" Asked Daki who was sitting near.
"A project." He said without going in detail.
"A project? What project?" Hinata wondered.
"It's quite complicated to explain, so you can come if you want."
They nodded, then Hephaestus and Hestia looked at Alex before sighing as that was something for his wives to see and they weren't his wives, that was what they thought.
"You two can also come." He said, making them smile and nod before following him.
...
Then all of them went to the back yard of the palace, which was a wide dusty place surrounded by walls with no roof.
Arriving there, they became confused as they didn't see anything around.
Alex saw their confused faces and didn't elaborate anything and just looked at Vine who nodded and stepped forward.
"You may go back a little." She said, while the others stepped back along with Alex standing in front of them.
Then Vine closed her eyes for a second before opening them along with them becoming cold and expressionless.
Her eyes glowed dangerously and her body was surrounded with violet energy that casted a very huge pressure on the whole place, making all people inside the place breath heavily to the point of losing consciousness.
But Alex helped them to ease the pressure a little as he casted a barrier using his pure chaotic energy.
Although it didn't prevent the whole pressure but it lessened it at least because Vine now with her complete control over her power, became the most dangerous person among Alex's wives.
While Alex didn't feel the pressure at all as his energy nullified it immediately.
Although the ground was shaking, but what happened next made it worse.
The ground under them shaked violently, making some of the women present to lose their balance and fall on their plumb soft asses.
But then, something appeared from the ground shocking them, it was so tall and huge yet thick surrounded by majestic aura.
It penetrated the clouds at this point, then stopped getting longer or else would be bad.
The ground also stopped shaking as well while Vine smiled proudly at her work. Although she wasn't proficient in building things like this, but with the help of Gaia, she managed to do it.
Gaia lended her the power of creation to create and modify a tower like that.
The Tower was majestic leaking a terrible and horrible aura of death and blood that could kill anyone if wasn't careful or strong enough.
It was the tower that Alex wanted to create and told Vine to help him create it, along with Gaia who lended them the power of creation to make it.
Once the power did its purpose, it would go back to its master which was Gaia in this case, she trusted Vine this much to lend her her power.
Anyway, now the tower that Alex wanted to create was in front of him right now based on the game he played in his past life.
Although it was a FPS game, but it had one of the strongest Zombie Modes Alex had ever seen.
It gave high rewards but with higher risks. As they say the higher the returns, the higher the risks. Any one in the financial markets know about this.
Now, the Tower of Doom has been manifested, making Alex excited to try it.
Even his smile didn't go unnoticed by Vine who looked back at him along with Daki and Hinata who stood beside him.
But one thing for sure, the one who experience this tower, will have his power increased by several levels.
It could be said that it was better than the dungeon itself at this point.
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