Chapter 41. A Night of Terror for the Soma Familia.
The Adventurers in front of me stared at me with clear disbelieve showing on their faces, they must have thought that no one would ever dare to attack them much less in their home base, too bad they decided to be assholes and hurt one of my friends.
Suddenly I received a Quest notification, and I quickly checked it while these guys were too surprised to move.
[Ding! Ding!.
The Soma Familia has moved against Bell and severally injured him and Lili Arde, the God Soma's negligence has allowed criminals to thrive in his Familia, show them what happens when they mess with someone a Heavenly Dragon cares about!.
Objective 1: Kill all criminally inclined Soma Familia members.
Objective 2: Chandra Ihit, Kaede Tsukinokami, Shinonome Momiji and Coco Collins are the only good and kind members in the Soma's Familia, don't hurt them!.
Objective 3: Punish the God Soma for his negligence!.
Objective 4: Make sure to release Lili from the Soma Familia.
Reward 1: Three Common Pokemon Tokens.
Reward 2: One Pseudo Legendary Pokemon Token.
Reward 3: One Legendary Pokemon Token.
Reward 4: One Mystical Pokemon Token.]
I'm not surprised that dealing with this guys only gets me three Common Pokemon Tokens, they're not that strong, the only reason they were able to hurt Bell so much was because he was already tired from fighting so many monsters while protecting Lili and despite having triple S stats he's still a level one adventurer and these guys are level two and three.
Still that wasn't important right now, I mentally closed the notification and glared at these guys.
I don't take kindly to anyone hurting anyone I care about so I'm going to make sure none of these guys escape from here with their lives except the four good adventurers the Quest notification mentioned, I raised my hand and summoned Excalibur from within my soul, sensing my anger Excalibur began to let out a visible golden purple light from it blade, this is her way of letting me know that she's ready for anything.
Of course the current Soma Familia is full of thieves, greedy liers and killers and I wasn't in the mood to let anyone escape so the moment one of them tried to make a run for it I just swung Excalibur towards his retreating back sending an energy wave that sliced him in half.
His fellow Familia members actually screamed like little girls while watching their partner's body get cut in two and split before their very eyes.
One of the Adventurers before me, a slim man with grayish hair and a pair of glasses on his face nervously began to speak as more scream of horror began to echo throughout Soma's homebase "err l-listen, I don't know what we did to make you angry! b-but I'm sure we can talk this out! I-I'm Zanis Lustra, captain of the Soma Familia! p-perhaps you will like a dri- arghhhhh!".
I didn't let him finish, the moment he said his name I recognized him as the one who had made the Soma Familia what it is right now, I also remember his face now because when I watched the anime I wanted to punch it so bad, he's a greedy and manipulating asshole and I have no time for people like him so I swung Excalibur and cut off his entire arm off "I'm going to ask just once! where is the God Soma?!".
Zanis held the stump that was his arm tightly, while glaring at me but I raised Excalibur up into the air again and was about to cut off his other arm when he suddenly spoke in a panic "wait! wait! please! just wait! Soma is in his room in the third floor! it's behind two giant wooden doors! you can't miss it!".
Just to make sure he wasn't lying I closed my eyes and used Aura Sense to scan the entire place and indeed I could see Soma in a big room stirring some sort of liquid in a big cauldron, I frowned because despite all the screams and sounds of battle going on around him he hasn't even flinched.
This is why I hated Soma in the anime, this God only cared about making wine and let his Familia turn into monsters, he let them do whatever they wanted as long as he could continue to make wine unbothered, many people suffered for his negligence and I quite dislike him for it, the fact that he actually made Lili drink if his wine as a condition to release her piss me off as well.
Zanis and the other members of his Familia in front of me thought I couldn't see them since I had my eyes close, too bad I can perfectly see with Aura Sense and saw them draw their weapons while approaching me to attack me.
I was about to teach them why that was a bad idea when I saw Gengar and Gourgeist appeared besides me scaring Zanis and his little gang of thieves.
Gengar immediately shot a Sludge Bomb that hit Zanis head on, the Poison Type Move was so condensed and powerful that Zanis actually melt and became a puddle of sludge from the toxins inside Gengar's Sludge Bomb while Gourgeist used Giga Drain turning three of the Soma's adventurers into dried out corpses that drop into the ground dead.
The other two tried to run away screaming but Chandelure appeared above them and fired of an Inferno attack incinerating the fleeing adventurers and instantly turning them into ash.
I smiled at me Pokemon and open my eyes "thank you guys, now go and take care of the rest, also there's a few good adventurers in this Familia a Dwarf, a black fox girl, a gray haired bunny girl and a small Prum with dirty green haired, I don't remember their names but do not harm them, let the other know as well okay?".
Gengar, Gourgeist and Chandelure nodded and then vanished in thin air while I make my way to Soma since I have a couple of things to say to the failure of a God.
Kaede Tsukinokami a gray haired Hume Bunny awoke from her nap when she heard a blood curling scream echo throughout the entire Soma Familia homebase.
The poor girl stood up in a panic and reached for her weapon, a katana that was hanged just above her, she then immediately ran out of her room and headed straight to where she had heard the scream only to stop and gape.
The entire hallway was frozen in ice and even a few of her fellow adventurers were frozen solid, they all had this frozen look of horror and were positioned as if they were running away from something.
Kaede began to shake as she stared at her now dead Familia members, sure all if them were greedy and manipulating bastards but they were still Familia and she couldn't believe they were now gone.
Suddenly she jumped when a giggle echoed throughout the empty hallway causing her to wildly look around but to her dismay she couldn't see anything or anyone.
Until she felt the cold air hitbon her back and she turned around to see who had sneaked behind her only to tremble in fear and she watched a strange creature floating there staring at her with its crystal blue eyes.
The frighten bunny Hume watched as the strange creature approached her and stared at her intently, she also noticed how this creature almost looked as if it was wearing a kimono "y-yuki onna?...".
The strange creature tilted its head and then giggled, it the raised one of its kimono like arms and pointed it towards her, Kaede closed her expecting pain but then a few whispers began to echo throughout the hallway.
Kaede opened her eyes and watched as the strange creature seemed to be listening to the whispers, it the nodded as they same creepy whispers suddenly stop and the strange creature lower its arm and then disappeared.
The poor terrified bunny Hume drop on her knees and sighed in relief, never in her life had she been so frighten and she was sure she almost became an ice statue too, shakely she got up and decided to look for her friends to make sure they were alright.
As she walked throughout the hallway she saw more and mores frozen statues of her fellow Familia members "... I guess karma has finally come to get us back for everything bad this Familia has done...".
Down in the dungeon, sitting alone in a empty cell is a short but muscular Dwarf male named Chandra Ihit was silently frowning towards the ground, he hated what his Familia had become, what they were doing and what they had done to others.
But the moment he voiced his complaints he was immediately incarcerated and kept inside this cell so he wouldn't go and report all of this to the Guild, the proud Dwarf was forced to sit in his cell as his Familia continued to do horrible things.
However it seems like it was time for them to pay from their crimes as screams of horror and agony began to echo throughout the entire Soma Familia homebase, the guards posted to make sure he didn't do anything were frighten to no end and refused to check out what was going.
The three cowards opted to just stand in a corner trembling in fear and wait for whatever was going to stop, however it wasn't meant to be as the door leading to the dungeon slowly opened.
The three cowards began whimpering in horror while Chandra stared at the door in curiosity wanting to see their executioner only to sweatdropped when a small creature wearing some kind of yellow puppet on it head walked in and looked around.
It might look silly and even harmless but Chandra knew better, this creature, whatever it was, it's extremely dangerous.
Every hair on his body stood up the moment he looked at the creature letting him know of it danger, however his fellow Familia members sighed in relief and even laughed at it, one of them even approached it and swung his feet to kick the creature, what a fool.
Chandra watched as a claw of pure darkness sprouted from underneath the yellow puppet the creature is wearing and slashed the fool that tried to kick it, cutting him open and splattering blood everywhere.
The creature just stood there and watched as the fool dropped on his knees, gurgled something and then dropped dead on his face, the creature then swiped his claw made of darkness to the side splattering even more blood all over the wall besides it.
By now the other two adventurers were horrified and were trying to shrink themselves into the corner where they were standing, the creature turned to look at then and then suddenly fired an orb of darkness at the adventurers.
They didn't even get to scream, as soon as the orb collided with them it exploded in a shower of darkness, when the explosion subsided there was nothing left of his fellow adventurers.
Chandra shook his head and sent a small prayer for their souls, sure they might have been cruel to him but still no one deserves to die like that, suddenly the small creature turned towards him and the Dwarf just stared at it back "so it's my turn huh?...".
The creature raised it claw of darkness and was about to swing it when it suddenly stopped as whispers began to echo throughout the Dungeon, Chandra watched as the creature seemed to be listening to the whispers.
Then those creepy whispers stopped and the creature stared at him for a long minute before swinging his claw of darkness and destroying the door to his cell, it then turned around and silently left the dungeons.
Chandra just sat there in his cell for a second in confusion but then stood up "... I don't know what's going on but I have to go check on lord Soma...".
The Dwarf then walked away from his cell and left through the same door the creature just left from, screams of horror and pain continued to echo as he walked towards where his God was working.
Shinonome Momiji and Coco Collins where running through one of the many hallways of their homebase looking for their friend Kaede, they don't know what's going except they were under attack so they were worried about her.
They had seen the dead bodies of their fellow Familia members as proof that someone had come to repay them for what their Familia had done and made them want to find their friend even more, they can only hope that she's okay.
Soon they arrived at the common area only to freeze in shock as they watched what they can only describe as a Egyptian coffin grab two adventurers with what seemed to be arms and hands made out of shadows by their necks and easily lift them up in the air.
The creature then snapped their necks and threw their bodies towards a third adventurer who screamed and launched himself towards the creature with is weapon raised above his head, the two bodies throwned by the creature crashed against him before he could even get close to the creature.
The creature then gathered some sort of dark energy and then shot a pitch black wave of energy that collied against the two bodies and the attacking adventurer exploding on contact.
The poor girls were terrified as they watched this creature easily kill their fellow Familia members, suddenly three more adventurers arrived and they immediately ran to attack the creature but then out of their shadow rose a cackling creature wearing a witch's hat.
It cackled and the let out the most horrendous screech they have ever heard right behind then rushing adventurers who stopped in their tracks to cover their ears as they screamed in pain.
The creature then took a big breath and then blew a pinkish glob of fire that hit the adventurers and lit them in fire, they flailed around on the ground screaming until they stopped and slumped onto the ground dead.
The girls were holding their ears in pain and took a step back in fear as both creatures turned towards them, they began to approach them but suddenly stopped and seemed to be listening to something.
But since they couldn't hear anything yet they could only watch as the creatures nodded and then silently left, it took a while but both Coco and Shinonome recovered their hearing.
Coco was trembling but was still worried about Kaede "we have to find Kaede and fast! she could get attack by those strange creatures!".
Shinonome nodded and frowned "yes let's go!" with that said both girls took off running praying that they wouldn't encounter another one of those creatures.
The screams began to let up as I made my way towards Soma's room, it seems like my Ghost Type Pokemon are doing a good job cleaning house.
It didn't take me long to reach the room where I had seen Soma continue to make his wine unbothered by the chaos that was going on in his home, I stared at the big wooden doors with a frown on my face.
I sighed and then punched it, destroying the wood doors instantly, I stepped inside and turned to where Soma is standing.
He was still stirring that weird liquid in his cauldron not even caring that a lot of his Familia are dead, I'm sure he felt it too, so is he ignoring it or is he really that distracted?.
But either way I don't really care so I swung Excalibur towards then cauldron and unleashed a Demon Fang that traveled throught the ground and crashed against the cauldron destroying it and sending its contents all over the floor.
Soma stopped stirring and stared as the wine he was working on splattered all over the floor, he then turned towards me and stared at me "... did you come for my wine?... you didn't have to destroy my cauldron though...".
I narrowed my eyes at him, he looks so out of it "do I look like I care about your stupid wine! I came here to kill most of your Familia and to talk with you about all the trouble they have caused in Orario lately!".
Some tilted his head and seemed very confused "I don't know what your talking about but... as long as I can continue to make wine I don't care what my Familia does...".
I glared at Soma "I see so you don't even cared that most of your Familia is either dead or even dying right now?".
Soma shook his head "no... I just want to make wine in peace..".
This guy is hopeless and I really could care less about him anyway so if he wants to be this stupid then I'll show him what happens when you pissed me off "some members of your Familia robbed, beat and almost killed my captain... but since you don't seem to care about anything other than making wine then.. I'll take that away from you!".
Now that got a reaction about Soma, not the part about his Familia attacking Bell, no he only cared about the part where I make sure he can't make more wine.
He literally looked very afraid right now and tried to run but I stopped him with Psychic and then brought his now paralyzed body to me.
The look of horror in his face as he slowly floated to me showed me where his priorities laid, he didn't even react to his Familia members dying but here he is almost crying because I'm going to take his ability to make wine.
As soon as he got closed to me I grabbed hold of his head and then used my Skill Orb Create skill and absorb his ability to make wine and turn it into Skill Orb.
I now have a Legendary Rank Wine Making Skill Orb but since I wasn't really interested in making alcohol I put it away in my inventory, who knows? maybe I'll find an use for it later.
I then threw Soma into the ground where he crashed against it and grunted in pain, to further make things difficult for him I began to destroy his entire office with my POD to make sure he didn't have any sort journal or anything like that.
I left his entire office empty, nothing was left except a shocked God laying on the ground staring at the ceiling with wide eyes full of horror "... I can't remember how to make wine... what did you do?... you not only erased my memories but...".
I didn't respond to his question, there was no need after all, the only thing I did is activate Excalibur's Rule Breaker Skill and stab Soma in the leg causing all the Falna that he has a bond to, to disappear and that included Lili's.
Now she was free and my job here is done, I pulled out Excalibur from Soma's leg causing him to grunt in pain, my Ghost Type Pokemon having finished getting rid of the Soma Familia appeared around me.
Soma looked up at me still in shock and unable to fully understand what just happened to him but before he could even say anything I teleported myself and my Pokemon back home, the ward around around the manor shattered after I was gone.
Not a moment later Chandra arrived and saw Soma on the floor, he quickly ran up to him and helped him sit up but Soma was just unresponsive, soon after Shinonome, Coco and Kaede 'who they found on the way' arrived and also began to fuzz over Soma who was still in shock about what had happened to him and about the fact that he no longer knows anything about wine making.
My Ghost Type Pokemon and I teleported right into the living room where all the girls, Bell, Hestia and Lili where sitting around in the living room waiting for me to come back.
Kunou immediately ran up to me and I happily lifted her into my arms and twirled her around "hahaha! papa! I'm getting dizzy!~".
I smiled at my daughter and put her down, she immediately when to play with the new ghost Pokemon who cheerfully began to float around her while making funny faces, meanwhile I walked up to my girlfriends and gave them all a kiss.
Soon after I sat on the couch and smiled at Hestia and Bell "it's done most of the Soma Familia are dead except a few good people I found in that Familia, I also made sure to punish that selfish God as well... just talking to him pissed me off".
The girls frowned, they knew that Rean was not one to be angered easily as a matter of fact they have only seen him get angry a couple of times so the fact that his eyes were glowing and had taken their dragonic form told them exactly how angry he felt right now..
Lili trembled in fright but no one can blame her, she doesn't know Rean like Bell and Hestia do plus she was genuinely afraid that he might do something her, it was her fault and her plans to steal Bell's knife that had put them in that situation.
Still it was hard to believe that her Familia was gone, she knew they were all bastards but she never thought that they would be killed "y-you said most of them are dead right?".
I turned towards Lili and nodded "yes".
Lili looked down and frown "w-who survived?".
I mentally opened my Quest Notification and read over it to look for the names of the Adventurers my Pokemon spared, I also confirmed that I had completed all of the objectives but I left the Tokens alone for now, I'll used them later "hmm I believe their names where Chandra, Shinonome, Kaede and Coco".
Lili looked up at me and sighed "oh them... they were the only ones who were nice to me, they tried to help and even try stop he others from doing everything they did but in the end they gave up...".
I shrugged, honestly I didn't even know about these adventurers much less that they were in the Soma Familia, the only reason I told my Pokemon to not hurt them was because of the Quest objective.
However I smiled at Lili "also, your now free of that Familia Lili, if you check you'll find out that you no longer have his Falna, you no longer have to worry about that Familia ever again".
Lili's eyes widen and she stared at me for a long minute before she let out a sob and then began to cry, the girls and Hestia immediately hugged her and let her vent while I just smiled at them.
Bell then smiled and turned his head to look at me "Rean, I level up! I'm now a level 2 adventurers".
I grinned at Bell and gave him a thumbs up, it seems that fighting all those monsters and then having fought and survived getting attack by the Soma Familia was enough for him to level up.
At least some good came out of this entire situation "that's great Bell, looks like we'll have to up your training even more now, I hope your ready".
Bell nodded and then gave the most serious look I have ever received in my life "yes! I want to get stronger... I won't be beaten like I did today ever again..." he turned towards Lili who was still crying and stared at her "not ever again".
I smiled at him, I must admit that I'm feeling pretty proud of Bell right now, as his friend I'll make sure to help him grow stronger, perhaps it was time to give him a few new skills.
A few days passed by, a few interesting things happened during these days, one of the biggest ones was the fact that the Guild had apparently approved of my actions against the Soma Familia.
Eina explained that it was an order from Ouranos, the oldest God and the boss of the Guild, according to the order, he had been aware of what the Soma Familia had been doing but he himself hadn't been able to do anything about it.
Ouranos is usually very busy maintaining some sort of seal in the Dungeon's entrance that doesn't allow the monsters from leaving the Dungeon which is the reason that he leaves the Guild's day to day business to Royman Mardeel, who's an Elf and the Guild head.
But he had seen what had happened to Bell while watching over the Dungeon and knew I would do something about it so to give me a hand and as thanks for taking care of the Soma Familia he proclaim the entire situation an official order from the guild so everything I did was made under their jurisdiction.
This was announced a day after and no one questioned it, the fact that many adventurers had already complained about the Soma Familia helped my case and I was even regarded as a sort of hero for putting a stop to their criminal antics.
Though the fact that Ouranos seems to be aware of me and even supported me, made me very suspicious but as far as I know Ouranos was a good God so I decided not to worry about it to much and besides if he knows about me then he more than like knows that I'm not one to mess with.
Two days after I dealt with the Soma Familia, Lili moved into the Hearth mansion and joined the Hestia Familia, as such we told her what we told Bell and Hestia about me, the Pokemon and the girls.
She was stunned for a while but quickly recovered and accepted everything we told her, I'm not surprised though, Lili has lived a hard and lonely life so I'm sure she's seen a lot and had to learn to adapt.
Which is why all of us made sure she felt accepted, she is family now and we take care of our family, Kunou drags her around a lot play, much to Lili's begrudgement.
It seems like Kunou thinks Lili is the same age or at least close to hers which is why she always drags poor Lily everywhere, only for Lili to always tell her that she wasn't a kid but Kunou either didn't care or just didn't believe her.
But this was the main reason the Pokemon took a liking to her, especially the Poison Type Pokemon which if I'm honest about it, I still don't know why.
Still it seems like Lili's found some peace in taking care of the Pokemon, she even helps me and Asia take care of the Miltanks, Wooloos and Shuckles, everytime she's helping us she has this easy going smile and happy look in her face.
I'm glad, the poor girl has suffered a lot and she deserves some happiness, she's still Bell Supporter though, according to her she had to take care of Bell and make sure no one tricks him like she did.
We all think she stills feels responsible about what happened and sure, it is sorta her fault so we decided to let her do it.
I did enchant her clothes and Bag though, I expanded her bag so she can put more inside plus I made sure to enchant it with a weightless enchantment and a unbreakable enchantment as well.
For good measure I even added a recall enchantment on the bag as well, this way if she has to drop on or she looses it she can just summon it back to her with a snapped of her fingers.
Her robe and clothes were enchanted with all sort of resist and protective enchantments as well as a self repairing one, needless to say that she was both impressed and excited was an understatement.
I also began to forge her special bolts for her crossbow, these bolts were also enchantedwith all kids of special Pokemon moves like Sleep Powder and Thunder wave, this way she can support Bell better in battle.
Though I had to use a Shadow Clone to always make a good stock of them, this way I can be free to forge other things and make sure that Lili has plenty of ammo all the time.
Now the Bell I a level 2 adventurer Greninja, Lucario and I began to increase his training two fold, I also began to spar with him so he can get used to fighting human opponents, at some point even the girls began to spar with him.
Which always ended up with Bell on the verge of dying... the girls just don't know the meaning of holding back, in any case all of this made Bell grown more and more not only in stats but also in experience and skill.
He also got the development skill Luck though no one knew what it did, my guess is that it causes all kinds of good things to happen to him, in fact this skill might the reason why in the anime Bell has been able to survive a lot.
Sakuya also grew interested in training Bell and began to instruct him in dagger fighting and throwing so I had to begin to forge him sets of throwing knives for him to use.
Both YunYun and Wiz began to instruct him in the magical arts even further, he has been improving a lot in that regard and both mages began to teach him how to quick trigger the spells he already knows.
I and the girls continue to explore the Dungeon almost daily but we decided to stay between 20th and 30th floors for now, the monsters there give us plenty of Exelia and there were a lot of different types of materials to be found in these floors, materials that we were already stock piling.
We are all already approaching the S rank stats of level 2 and soon we'll be able to level up to level 3. meanwhile I continue to grind my Blacksmithing skill and spend time with the girls and my friends.
I also decided to level up the three Eevees so now we had all the Eeveelutions running around the house causing all kinds of mischief with Kunou usually being the leader, though none of us minded since she was having fun and we all wanted to enjoy her childhood as much as possible.
I also used the Pseudo Legendary Pokemon Token and summoned a Lavitar (male) cause it was one of my favorite Pokemon along its Evolutions then I used the Legendary Pokemon Token and the Mystical Pokemon Token.
I summoned a Moltres (Female) and a Zacian (female), everyone was in awed at the beauty and regal appearance of both Pokemon, despite both of these powerful Pokemon's appearance they were both very friendly and even sisterly to everyone.
Which I found funny, Moltres would roost somewhere close by and then grab you with her beak and stick you under her wing as if you were baby chick.
When someone goes missing in the mansion we can always find them under Moltres's wing sleeping, it seems like it's so comfy and warm in there that no one can't help but to fall a sleep though it's usually either Bell, Kunou or Lili who become the usual victims to Moltres.
Zacian would follow everyone around or lay her head on someone lap to take a nap, for a Legendary Pokemon she had some very dog like mannerism, she did however have her favorite laps to take a nap on.
Mine was number one but because I'm usually doing one thing or the other I don't get to let her relax on my lap often, her next favorite is Yasaka's or Wiz's who are always happy to let her sleep on their laps.
However there's one lap she never uses and that is Serafall's, for some reason and to Serafall's dismay she just refuses to lay her head on her lap which always annoys Serafall to no end.
She has tried everything to get Zacian to lay her head on her lap but like Rayquaza, the Legendary Pokemon just ignores her and leaves Serafall quite shocked at being ignored but but the ice maou is not one to quit and so keeps trying only to keep failing.
It's very funny to watch though, this few days were fun and full of many things happening but that's an everyday thing now.
Today however I was on my way to the Hostess of Fertility to spend sometime with Ryuu and to talk with Tione, Tiona and Lefiya who had been waiting on me to hang out for a while now and I decided to do so today.