I apologize to everyone reading and or caught up waiting for chapters to be realized the last two days. I was attending a funeral for family and decided it'd be best if I took those days off. Again I apologize.
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Waking in the morning to a squirming Vel in his arms Aurelian smiled.
"Let go," Vel said. While continuing to squirm.
"I want a kiss," Aurelian said turning her body to face him.
"Only one," Vel said looking into his eyes as he leaned in in response.
Vel's heartbeat was speeding up. She was nervous because all the other times he caught her off guard.
Yet now he was cupping her face in his cold hands. A chill went down her spine as she gulped and leaned in.
Aurelian's lips connected with hers passionately for only a second. Causing Vel to scream in her head, 'Why kiss me like that if you're not gonna continue? Stupid man.'
Meanwhile, Psyche who had entered the room as Aurelian woke up was standing with a blush on her face as she stood there not looking.
"Vel you should put clothes on we have a guest," Aurelian whispered in her ear.
"Huh, What." Seeing psyche Vel pulled the covers over her head as Aurelian was already standing to go dungeon clearing.
Vel seeing that she already had her Black dress from when her soul merged was furious, "Aurelian you stupid man. I'm gonna kill you."
Ignoring her and just responding with a smile as he looked at her he grabbed his bag prepping for the day trip.
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30 minutes later 3 people could be seen outside a teleportation portal in the center of a large clearing in the center of town.
Four guards were on each corner taking a silver per person. As the three paid they stepped onto the platform and a small light illuminated their feet.
The next moment they were in a dark space with just enough light to see the path to follow.
From the books Aurelian read he knew the dungeons had many rooms on each floor. This is where they could encounter monsters, rest in safe zones, and travel towards the boss of each floor.
As they entered the first room he saw a dome-shaped roof spanning 50 meters in diameter.
As he took in his surroundings 1 Boar-type monster that was 2 meters in size appeared across the room.
Aurelian immediately stepped forward and controlled Revitalize to probe outwards and enter the boar's chest grabbing the soul and ripping it out.
As the boar dropped dead the soul entered his body then his soul space was transformed.
"Vel that one had a pretty weak soul, I think I can cruise like that until the 3rd floor. Then let's start teaming up." Aurelian said as he smiled towards the ladies.
One of which nodded in agreement, "I agree no need to waste energy fighting them if you can just do that." While the other was utterly confused about what she had just seen.
'He just snatched its soul the heck is that power.' Psyche said in his head.
As they continued through the first floor toward the boss room Aurelian repeated the same process. Stealing the boar's souls until they reached the boss room 15 boars later.
When they reached the one closed-off entrance on the entire floor they saw two giant red doors which opened automatically as they stepped closer.
As the doors closed behind the group of 3 a giant red-furred boar 10 meters tall appeared. It had tusks double Aurelian height which were aiming straight at the group.
When the boar spotted the small humans across the two-hundred-meter square-shaped room it snorted and began its charge.
"Girls this monster still isn't very strong." He paused looking at the ugly thing then saying, "At least its soul isn't," then proceeding to rip its soul out as well stuffing it within himself.
"Aurelian you know that thing is strong it's just your attack is cheating," Psyche responded. As she got used to the boars just falling dead over the last 15 minutes she started to just only think it was that attack that was unfair.
"Maybe," he responded while looking at Vel who was getting impatient to fight. He swiftly decided to go the stairs to the second floor at the back of the hall. "Let's go, I want to leave before the end of the day."
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After they reached the second floor Aurelian proceeded to do the same thing with the slightly bigger boars.
When he finished his kill on the 12-meter-tall second-floor boss he was completely clean with no injuries or blood.
"Hey Vel you ready," Aurelian asked looking at her cute annoyed face. Walking over to her he took in the view of her black dress, and fair white skin that contrasted the darker space around them. As well as her black eyes giving a playful angry look.
"You look beautiful in that dress Vel, I just didn't want you to get dirty with the weak ones," Aurelian said as he grabbed her hand and began to walk towards the 3rd-floor stairs.
Psyche who just has to watch him flirt with her is still not used to it because she's never seen Vel before. 'Why would she be wearing a dress here, isn't it weird.' She thought.
Then she looked at Aurelian's receding figure which had a Black gown covering his whole body until his ankles with a golden band around the waist showing off his slender figure.
'Both are weird.' She thought beginning to follow them.
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On the third floor Aurelian and fell stepped into the first monster room. When the three boars appeared in front of them Aurelian started what he liked to call target practice.
As Vel sprinted towards the far right boar. Aurelian began solidifying his power into golden white spears as tall as the 3-meter tall boar heads. Then focusing his attention on the eyes of one of them the two spears shot forward.
Only piercing one of the eyes and closely missing the other eye Aurelian looked troubled. "It's just like splitting the soul grabbing I can't focus on both at once. Such a pain," he murmured.
Vel who had reached the middle of the room was now swinging the long scythe straight downwards at the boar's lowered head trying to impale her.
She felt the scythe easily split the skull and other parts of the head through the middle leaving it in two pieces on the ground next to her.
With only one boar left due to Aurelian's first target dying in about three seconds after the one light spear went into its brain.
They had only one enemy left. The boar was confused it just watched its team die around itself. It was angry and rashly charged at the small woman with priestess clothing.
Only as it came in line with the enemies on either side it saw the roof and floor in quick succession. As well as feeling a strange hole going from one ear to the other.
Finally, the head came to a stop pinned to a wall over 40 meters away with a golden white rod that was disappearing through it.
"Dumb decision," Aurelian said as he walked to Vel and Psyche who had a smile on her face surprisingly.
Vel was confused just as much as Aurelian yelled at her, "Crazy person if we weren't here you be dead why are you smiling."
Although Psyche didn't hear Vel she started to speak, "It had zero chance haha. You guys are insanely strong just like mom."
"That's exactly why we're insanely strong. We have the lineages which work directly together with hers in a way." Aurelian said as he walked to Vel smiling.
While leaning towards Vel to hold her hand and move to the next room Aurelian whispered, "My death princess is the strongest."
Turning away pulling Aurelian along Vel was blushing.
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As they continued through the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors using the same strategy of Vel going forward and slicing down board. While Aurelian either spear their faces or used Revitalize on their souls.
They arrived at the 5th floor boss room which was also the last room with only a boar monster. If the people outside the dungeon knew they'd be in awe as they had only been in the dungeon for 90 minutes.
This time was the fastest ever in the Red ice town dungeon to the end of the 5th floor.