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Chapter 8 - Dungeon diving.

The carriage stops ten minutes after leaving the city gates as we exit. The Knights move to the front of the long line as I exit, holding Cora, my loveable Halfling, in my arms. She kisses my neck and gets a little frisky as I let her do what she wants. A pair of Knights come back and talk to us.

"We can head into the Dungeon now without waiting in line."

I see the line and many people of different races and ages. As we walk, some people make a fuss about us cutting in line but don't stop us when they see the S-Rank plates on our clothes. As we reach the front, the Knights standing guard salute us, and we walk into the portal. 

A damp, musky cave tunnel shows up before us. A Knight lights a torch. As we stand there, I can't see the cave's ceiling. I put Cora down and turned into my wind Avatar. As the wind lightly flows around us, my sister Amaka speaks up. 

"Everyone stand behind us three."

As the Knights and my girls move behind my sisters, Amaka talks to me.

"Are you going to send out your wind to paint a map in your mind?"

I nod at her question and lift both hands as a light flow of wind leaves my body, covering the walls and floor and spreading 200 meters above us to the ceiling. The wind moves down the tunnel and makes contact with a goblin, but it doesn't notice as I mark it and the two with it. As my wind moves through the tunnel, after fifteen minutes, my wind hits a door with carvings on it.

I move to a stone boulder and use my wind elemental magic to carve out the map, marking where the enemies are. The Knights look on in wonder, having never thought about using wind magic in this way before. The Head Knight speaks to his second in command, telling him to remember that, as he pulls out some paper and writes it down.

I finish as the map shows four chambers and four paths, with a bigger group of monsters in each chamber and three in the paths leading to them. I undo my wind Avatar and turn to the ladies.

"We will do a full clear. The circles are slimes, and I will deal with them as magic works best on them. As for the goblins, I want Teia to kill most of them as she needs to get used to killing something that desires to make her suffer. But don't worry, Teia, I will wound their legs, and they aren't strong enough to hurt you. I just want you to fight something that has bloodlust for you, as taking the first step to kill something that wants to kill you is the hardest step."

Teia has the sword dancer class and two short swords as her weapons, which are easier for her now.

"Teia, when you use your skill, sword dance. Don't fight it and follow the flow of your body; the books I read in the library told me skills make your body move on their own, so you should get used to the guiding act of using a skill. Let it move you."

"Ok, Tom, I trust you."

We begin to move as we hit the first group of monsters: two slimes and three goblins. I cast Wind blades with one hand, hitting the legs of the three goblins. I lifted my other hand, pulling the water out of the slimes, making them shrivel. I cast Fireball, and two fireballs hit the shriveled-up slimes, killing them as Teia ran at the closest goblin.

The goblins haven't recovered yet. Teia uses her skill and lets it guide her. She cuts off the heads of the three; she starts shaking, and I walk behind her and hug her.

"You did very well, you must remember. They won't think of you as someone to be nice to. To them, you are nothing more than something to fuck and eat; they won't show you the same kindness that you grow up with. It's kill, be killed, or even worse, depending on the monster."

I look at the monster; two slime cores and three goblin crystals appear. The goblins' flesh and guts melt into the dungeon floor, leaving their bones and crystals. The Knights bag everything for us as we head to the first chamber; this time, it's four slimes and five goblins. 

We repeat the same act, and Teia doesn't shake after this time as she remembers my words. It helps that everyone here is so strong that if anything does happen, she knows that we will step in, so she plays around for a minute, getting used to fighting the goblins, as her skill only does three strikes. So, the two goblins aren't killed, so she lets them get up with their clubs.

She fights them without using her skill to feel her strength, as she already has a rough understanding of her speed and wants to train in blocking. I stand there watching her, and Freya yells out advice, and Teia responds.

"Freya and Ai, can you two train her? You two are some of the best swordswomen I know."

They both nod and say yes as Teia kills the last one. She took a couple of hits, but nothing hurt her. She will remember her mistakes as we collect the drops and head to the next chamber. Nothing outstanding happened, as these monsters are way weaker than the weakest monsters on Earth. If it wasn't for the fact that slimes resist physical attacks, I wouldn't be attacking, and I would let Freya loose.

We cleared the first floor, and Teia and I went up three levels. She levels her class with the class points, and I do. My class learned a needed skill to increase sperm volume as I chuckled. The great God-level Elemental Warrior is a stud, not that it bothers me, as I get to make my women enjoy even more fun. She learned a parry dance, which she wants to try on the next floor.

I map out the next floor, and it has one more chamber, but it's all goblins this time. I look over at Freya and speak.

"Why don't you fight alongside Teia? To teach her how it is to fight with a teammate."

Teia's eyes light up as she looks at Freya.

"Big sister Freya, please fight alongside me."

As Freya is the youngest sister, she has never been called a big sister by another girl, making her happy as she nods and we walk. This time, I don't injure the goblins and let them fight while advising Teia. She learns fast, and as she starts getting covered in blood, she even begins to enjoy fighting, which is a good sign that she will adapt to the battlefield much better.

It took about forty minutes to clear this floor, while the first was thirty minutes because it was more of a training floor. Teia has had time to understand her ability, and I want to finish the third floor fast as I wish to meet up with Luna. The monsters here, even if starting monsters, are way weaker than what I trained on at the age of four.

I bet the high-level monsters aren't even mid-level monsters from our world. But at least I feel that the Chaos Demon Lords won't be a problem for any of my family members as they are said to be stronger than dragons, and dragons are high-level monsters in this world. If I am a betting man, they may just be as strong as mid-level monsters that I have fought or low-high level at best.

We get to the third floor as I speak.

"I will kill all the monsters on this floor, and we can go to the door. Teleporting out from the fourth-floor circle."

I retake my Wind Avatar form, but this time, after mapping the whole floor, the number of goblins is twice as many as on the last floor. But I cast a spell called Vortex Wind Tunnel, which begins to pull all the goblins on the floor toward me. As the first one enters the vortex, it's cut to pieces as blood covers the dungeon walls.

Goblins get sucked into the vortex like a blender cutting them into meaty chunks. As the last one is killed, my level jumps to ten. I leveled my class again; this time, my stat boost passive leveled up, and I got ten skill points as I placed them into my stat boost passive, leveling it to three. Now, my girls will get a 3% boost on top of the ones I already gave them. This dive was worth every minute. I smiled as I went back to my normal mode. 

Still in shock, the Knights snap out of it and begin to collect the spoils for me. As they finish, the girls, other than my stepsister, look at me in wonder. Their eyes sparkle with worship, and I smile. We walk as I lead the way to the next floor. We get there within fifteen minutes of walking as we head up, step foot on the fourth floor, and into the teleport circle.

Once we are out of the dungeon, Teia smiles at me. She jumps into my chest and gives me a kiss before pulling back and speaking.

"Thank you for guiding me. I think I can understand why you feel that the people who were summoned are fools courting their deaths with their hubris like they deserve special treatment. The only reason I could fight so well was the gift of your stat boost and your knowledge. No one else went to the library once we got here and only want to talk and bullshit about how they are going to be heroes that they dream about."

We head to the carriage and move back to the city. We stop at the guild, and I get out. Tell the girls to head back and to let the Knights know that I will head back to the palace later as I have some business to attend to with Luna, and they smirk and nod. They know no one will be able to hurt me from how I handled myself in the dungeon, so they don't need guards, and if I kill someone, they won't care, as I am worth so much more than other people.

I walk into the Guildhall, and Luna is at the desk. She looks up to see me enter and smiles as I walk over to her. I handed her the drops for the quest and returned ten silver coins, as we had completed the goblin quest four times and the slime once, giving us ten silver coins as the price. 

One hundred copper coins equal one silver coin, repeating the same for one hundred silver coins equal one gold and one hundred gold coins equal one platinum coin. Granted, the Emperor had already given me one hundred platinum coins to use as I saw fit.

"Luna, can you leave your job early?"

She smiles and nods.

"I already have the go-ahead to leave once you get back. Let me go change, and I will be right back."

She heads into the back as the other female employees look at me and giggle. The word of my stats and class has already made their rounds, and I do not care if people find out. Worse it can do is let me sleep with more women, and what's so bad about that?

I feel bloodlust from a werewolf looking at me with his friends as I smirk, which doesn't make him happy. He gets up, walks over to me, and gets in my face.

"Stay away from Luna, or I will kill you."

I smile as I thrust my hand through his chest and out his back, pulling his spine out as his friends stand up.

"I told you all, don't try to take what is mine. Or I will kill you." 

The whole guild is quiet as I hear the door to the back open; I throw his spine on the floor and use Water elemental magic to wash my arm off. I smile at Luna, and she looks at the floor before she can ask.

"Oh, him, he fell and broke his back. What a horrible accident shall we go?"

She smirks and nods.