Lars and the gang continued on their slaughter. Beating the ever living hell of any monster they went against.
"Why aren't we using our weapons, ha!" Tione slugged a charging boar.
"It's so we can gain more excelia!" Tiona boxed against a troll and a small girl beating the shit out of a 3m tall monster was ridiculous.
"He adjusts the difficulty depending on the situation." Airmid was calm and cool, refreshing her magic when it expired.
And Lars continued to micromanage the monsters trickling in.
He was luring them in with pheromones and taking them on for himself.
"Shitty monsters! Come get some!" Lars absolutely used Airmid's magic to the limit.
He was receiving blows from monsters at all sides to raise his vit. The stat that he thought was the hardest to increase.
Because if you get injured, you were practically dead in the dungeon.
'My dex will also increase nicely.' Lars used Alfia's teachings well. And due to the amount of monsters.
His usage of martial arts to deal with them is necessary. In his opinion, it was the second most hardest stat to raise.
Thankfully, he had Alfia so there would be no problems on both accounts anyways.
The twins also now understood why Airmid could level up so fast.
"This is crazy, I feel like I could fight forever with Airmid here." Tiona's fatigue and wounds disappeared.
Tione looked at her limbs and was gobsmacked towards what was happening.
After exhausting theirselves in fighting monsters nonstop, they would rest for 30 minutes.
Airmid will heal them and she'll top up her mind with potions.
Rinse and repeat. The cycle continued on and on and the twins felt that Lars' excelia farming strat was insane.
"Hmm? Are you amazed by my leveling strat?" He smiled at them and they shuddered.
"Amazed? More like terrified. We amazons like fighting, but even we think it's too much." Tiona commented.
Lars laughed at that. "Then it's perfect, because people won't be able to copy us then."
"I doubt anybody would want to." Tione chimed in.
"Even I was forced into this, not that I mind now." Airmid shrugged and he pouted at her.
"Look at you now though! The fastest level up, aren't I amazing?" Lars puffed his chest in pride.
They then continued their dungeon dive. "Hmmm? It's quiet." Tiona squinted her eyes.
"Yes, it's too quiet." Tione looked at the ground and she saw some traces of Ash.
"Isn't that because there was a battle here earlier?" Airmid also saw the ash.
A typical phenomena when monsters die and disappear.
"Well, if this is recent. Then we should have heard their battle." Lars squinted his eyes.
His pupils turned into slits and he sniffed the air. He was trying to feel for scents and how faint they are.
But while he was focusing, the ground started to lit up.
"Run to the sides!" Tiona who noticed it sooner tackled Airmid with all her might.
Tiona who grabbed Airmid didn't suffer much as the firestones that were on top of Lars and Tione were detonated specifically.
"Tione! Lars!" Tiona shouted out after recovering from rolling around.
Airmid's ears were still ringing and she was still shellshocked by the explosions.
"Get rid of the amazon, tch. She got too close to the target." Jura clicked his tongue.
"You! You're the cause of this!" Tiona's vision went red with rage as she used one of her DA's; Berserk.
"Come on, she's injured. Let's get this over with and extract the target." One of the mooks started to walk towards them.
He was a level 3, so he arrogantly thought that they were done for.
But Tiona suddenly lunged at him with her double sided sword. And he was bisected in two.
"I'll kill you!" Tiona ran at them and Jura walked backwards in shock.
"No! Get away from me!" Jura looked terrified at Tiona's glare that promised death.
"Just kidding~ Bang!" He shouted and Tiona who was in a beeline towards him was hit by a firestone mine.
"Gah!" She ragdolled into the air and the blast hit her right on.
Airmid who sobered up after seeing Tiona fly into the air began casting her magic.
But another level 3 who she still can't oppose, gagged her with a cloth and her magic died down.
"We can't be having you heal your friend over there." The man grinned.
"Well done boys, let's get this show on the road." Jura smiled and he nodded at one of his lackeys.
A man raised his sword and was going to stab Tiona. But he suddenly stopped.
"Oi, don't go soft on me." Jura snorted. "B-boss! L-look!"
Jura took a look and his lackey had a throwing knife in his forehead, hilt deep.
"You've got some nerve, ambushing us. You pieces of garbage." Tione was ready to kill them all.
And her grip on her kukris were like hydraulics.
"Lookie what we have here... Wait, why isn't she that injured?" Jura raised a brow.
"Urgh..." He suddenly felt a searing pain behind him and he looked downwards.
There was an arm coming out of his midsection. And the arm slowly slid off of him with a wet squelch.
"So you're trying to ambush us to kidnap Airmid huh? Too bad, I kidnapped her first. And that's not going to change soon." Lars looked at them coldly.
"Puah! H-how?" Jura thought that it would be impossible to sneak up on him.
Especially if it was a measly level 2. Lars took out something from his inventory.
A longsword materialized out of thin air and he went into a stance.
"I've always wondered how people felt like when you cut them in half." Lars suddenly disappeared as his muscles ballooned.
Jura's squad started dropping like flies and screams resounded in the area.
"L-Lars?" Tiona who got healed by Airmid, looked at him cut them down in horror.
"Shhh, don't look!" Airmid covered her eyes. Airmid saw her expression. She didn't expect it at all.
Soon though, monsters were attracted by the prior explosions and they began hounding them.
"Hmm, this will be a pretty good end for you. Being monster chow sounds great, doesn't it?" Lars carried Airmid and he looked at Tione.
She nodded and carried her sister as they made a run for it. Leaving the remnants to the horde of monsters.
"Lars..." Airmid gripped on his clothes and she was shaken.
"It's okay, they're gone now." Lars patted her head and she nodded slowly.
"Lars, was it really necessary? To show that much brutality?" Tiona couldn't help but ask.
She viewed him with rose tinted glasses ever since they started dungeon diving.
And in her opinion, heroes shouldn't be like that.
"Well, what do you pick? Die, or live?" Lars looked at her with a glare and Tiona whimpered.
"That's right, you choose the latter. You even split one of them in half Tiona. The world isn't that kind.
You twins must know this already. Being amazons and all, not to mention so strong at that age." Lars squinted his eyes.
The twins winced and they slowly nodded. Remembering unscrupulous things.
"Why would you even ask me that question?" Lars sighed and he decided to dig deeper.
"Well... I thought you were a budding hero. And heroes are supposed to be you know... Heroic." Tiona had a wry expression.
"Ahhh... Do you know the familias that cleared two of the great quests?" Lars asked them and they nodded.
"Un, those guys were heroes for sure." Tione replied.
"Then what if I told you, that they would definitely kill those guys?" Lars remembered Alfia.
And based on her stories, one of her only friends; Zald. Would even eat those guys with his skill, Deus Ambrosia.
"That's..." Airmid could definitely see it. Alfia looks and feels like a person who would kill you if you look at her wrong.
"How can you say that?" Tiona didn't quite believe him and that made him sigh.
"Hah, if I show you why. You won't freak out?" Lars asked them and Airmid looked at him anxiously.
"Are you sure?" Airmid mouthed out to him.
"I have a good feeling for them." Lars whispered to her.
"Well, what are you going to show us anyways?" Tiona raised a brow.
"Airmid, can you keep them busy for a moment?" Lars asked of her and she nodded.
He then called for the kidnapper extraordinaire, Alfia.
After a minute, Tiona and Tione suddenly felt a breeze behind them. But before they could look back, Alfia chopped them on the neck.
"Really? A new pair of subordinates again?" Alfia didn't understand why he would risk their cover.
"They hit level 3 at that age, Alfia. Without the help of the dungeon. And they could definitely hit level 4 soon." Lars calculated their stats.
They most likely had level D's or C's on physical stats.
As amazons, those are their primary stats. They weren't even teenagers yet, and they could already level up to 4.
That's talent that could be said to be 1st class.
"Without being in Orario?" Alfia raised a brow. If they really were that strong already, then they'll definitely be 1st class adventurers.
"I see, you have found good members for our group. It would be a shame if we need to get rid of them though." Alfia looked at the twins.
Airmid then gulped and she thought that what Lars said was true.
"Let's go." Lars urged Alfia to ferry them over to home base.
Not knowing that someone from the group they thought was going to be ripped apart by monsters had an elixir in hand.
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Tiona was the first one to wake up and she groaned.
She was tied up to a chair. Tiona then thought she could just power through it.
But when she pulled on her bindings, she couldn't use her strength at all.
Her joints were locked down and she couldn't produce any torque.
Heavy footsteps then resounded and what she saw made her sweat bullets.
An arachne appeared. 'I'm wrapped in webs from an arachne! So that's why I can't move...'
Tiona thought they were going to be monster chow. But something was wrong.
'Why are we on chairs inside the dungeon? And where's Airmid and Lars?' Tiona's mind was running a mile a minute.
"Ugh, my head hurts." Tione groaned and she woke up as well.
"W-what!?" Tiona almost rolled her eyes as Tione screamed upon seeing the arachne.
"They're awake." Ranye spoke and that made the twins bug out.
"A... A monster just talked... It just talked, Tione." Tiona was shocked to the core.
"Am I hallucinating?" Tione blinked dumbly and Ranye rolled her eyes.
"She's not a normal monster by the way, thanks Ranye." Lars appeared and she nodded at him.
"I don't want to talk to adventurers, Lars. They're all yours." Ranye walked out and the twins focused on him.
If stares could bore holes, he would definitely have holes on him.
"What are you looking at me like that for?" He chuckled and they glared at him.
"Are you... Perhaps an ally of the dungeon!?" Tiona accused him.
"Heh, well what if we are?" Lars smirked at them and two more people arrived.
"Are you in on this too!? Airmid?" Tione glared at her, not having it in her to get furious on Lars.
"Well, if you're asking. I wasn't a willing participant at first. I got kidnapped here." Airmid shrugged.
"Ano who are you supposed to be!?" Tiona shouted at Alfia and her mismatched eyes looked at her coldly.
"Noisy, be silent. Gospel." Alfia raised her hand and she shot a block of air right beside her.
Everything got destroyed at Tiona's side and she froze.
"This here's the almighty plane, Alfia-sama. An executive of the Hera familia. The one who killed the Leviathan and fought the one eyed black dragon." Lars introduced her.
And when they heard that, the twins were flabbergasted.
"Whaaaat!?" Tione and Tiona's soul almost left their bodies.
"She's the best ferry too, pretty efficient." Lars patted Alfia on the butt and she froze.
Alfia smacked him and Airmid squinted her eyes. "You deserved that."
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Thanks for reading everyone, ciao.