My Upgrades Are Invincible

The rest of the day was spent just hanging out and frankly destressing as we had been working hard in the dungeon for the last week along with the shenanigans that also followed.

The next morning after ample rest and simply cuddling with my girls, as we walked the streets of Orario we noticed the whole city seemed tense and were whispering about something, but we couldn't tell what was going on exactly and none of what we caught seemed to make sense in any way shape or form.

For example, there was a rumor that Rakia invaded secretly through hidden tunnels and used monsters from within unexplored parts of the dungeon to decimate the Freya Familia and was barely stopped when the Loki Familia joined in the battle leaving both Familia weakened heavily with many dead.

There was a bunch more rumors each getting weirder and weirded as time went on as we closed in on the dungeon. Like Freya was caught sharing her bed with Loki. So Ottar and Riveria dueled over who got to keep both women and Riveria won taking Loki and Freya home to have her wicked way with the frightened goddesses.

Frankly at this point I was refusing to believe any of this nonsense after we heard that Freya has went into hiding as apparently, she hid the fact that the level 6 elves she had in her Familia were assassinated by a group with cursed weapons and tamed monster's and the Gulliver Brother's the only level fives left in her Familia wanted to take Freya as there wife and share her like in the seven dwarves tale.

"Master Jake something must have happened right?" Lili questioned quietly and I couldn't help but nod.

"Yeah, rumors tend to have a grain of truth but finding the grain in a sea of nonsense is normally difficult thing, but we can be sure basically something must have happened with the Freya Familia as almost all the rumors have them playing a prominent role."

Bell didnt really seem to have an opinion as he was just too excited to finally be able out his new spear finally and we were already getting looks for our frankly outlandish gear that didnt match the fantasy gear around us as Bell wasn't shy about showing off the miniature sun within the half-moon on the spear.

Frankly with the gear we had so long as there weren't a couple level fours or something trying to rob us, we had a good chance at this point at just burning anyone to death that would bother us especially with the emergency shields we had to tank a blow and surprise them.

It also seemed that the Hostess was closed, but I wasn't really surprised if something did happen with the Freya Familia it would make sense that Mia would go help them or something.

We quickly made our way into the twelfth floor as I wasn't all too enthusiastic at going into the Cave Labyrinth floors just yet plus I wanted to farm out the tier 5 daily quests as we moved along as that would be the most efficient.

"Jake wouldn't it be better for us to go deeper and fight the stronger monsters." Bell grumped as we took our lunch break after killing several groups of Orcs and smaller monsters.

I was about to answer but Lili cut us off suddenly. "Bell, do you want to be the captain?" She questioned and I blanked as personally I kind of already became the captain as I've been setting up the dungeon dives helping Bell do paperwork and playing negotiator with other Familia's

"Isnt Jake already the captain?" Bell asked innocently.

"I guess I am then." I shrugged and continued. "Bell we will need to go to the guild and get that in writing and if that's the case I will be taking over all the paperwork and Familia management work." If anything, it looked I told him Christmas came early and he eagerly nodded not caring for the added responsibility

After our break we found an especially large monster party ambling around out of a tunnel and Lili shrieked. "Thats the pantry we need to leave!"

Oh yeah, the pantry, A place where monsters come together to drink a weird sap that comes from large crystals embedded in the ground, but monsters don't actually need to eat so no one knows what the sap is really for.

Hmm nope I grabbed the clearly about to flee Pallum as I noticed that the tunnel leading into the pantry was rather small so monsters wouldn't be able to come at us more than two at a time at least with orcs, but honestly the smaller monsters were easy enough to kill now as I was strong enough to swing my sword form of the Charge Blade with some finesse now.

"The tunnel is only wide enough to allow a small number of monsters to pass through and we will hold the tunnel itself we won't be going in there so we won't get pinched." As I explained Lili calmed down and prepared her ammo for extended combat.

After making plans on how to effectively hold the tunnel and what to do if a large enough came that would overwhelm us, we made plans to escape and meet up at the floors entrance just in case.

"Crunch. My axe made swift work as it sliced and crushed the hips and legs of the orcs and made them drop to the ground to become easy pickings for me. Meanwhile Bell has already learned a couple tricks on making small explosions from his Insect Glaive to push him in different directions in midair because it took too much flame to maintain flight.

So, he was able to use his explosions to launch himself and his spear into monster's heads or other vulnerable parts.

"Oww" Bell groaned 'Well, there is still some kinks to his style.' I thought wryly as he managed to clothesline himself on a branch and with the speed, he was moving at did a double back flip as he landed on his back knocking all the air out of himself but thankfully there weren't any monsters near him as Lili started sniping the monster's closing in on him as well as watching the mist behind us as I held the pantry's entrance.

As larger groups of monsters started to come out of the tunnel and even a few infant dragons I was already starting to have to lean on the fire of my charge blade as I sent solid blades of fire that would cut through the legs of orcs and halfway through an infant dragon as I was slowly but surely pushed back till with a huff, I called out seeing a trio of infant dragons together with several orcs behind them running at us. "Bell send a wave of fire down the tunnel!"

Bell complied and I saw he didnt hold back in using probably half the remaining sun in the glaive as he sent a torrent of flames into the tunnel drowning the approaching monsters in the all-consuming heat. "Too much fire Bell." I called seeing how inefficient it was and he hollered his affirmation and for the next half an hour we held the tunnel to the pantry as more and more monsters tried to push into it or exit but we managed to hold it until I finished all my daily quests in this relevant area.

As we were holding the pantry, I noticed a flash of purple in the corner of my eye and as we retreated from the pantry I called out. "Hey Medusa, want to come out for some lunch?" It was silent for a moment as Bell and Lili looked at me in confusion but as I was staring into the fog, I saw the beautiful woman step out of the fog.

"It's impressive you are able to catch me now or have you noticed me previously?" She spoke and she seemed to be alright at least she didnt look to be injured or anything.

"Either way I wanted to thank you for helping me hold down that plant monster the other day you may have saved our lives that day."

Medusa shrugged as though it wasn't an important deal. "You likely would have survived even without my help with lady Riveria being just around the corner." She deflected but i could see the appreciation was well received if the way she cocked her hips and pushed up her large breasts as she folded her arms in embarrasment.

Bell then asked, "So did you fix up whatever happened with your Familia?" Lili kicked Bell in the leg as Medusa obviously became defensive.

"It's complicated and I don't particularly want to talk about it now, but I am glad you three are doing so well." She deflected.

For the next little while we shared some small talk and I found out some details about her such as she had two younger sisters in her old Familia and a missing older sister who was recently lost within the dungeon and her appreciation for books despite there high price in this medieval world.

'Million Valis is on whoever she ganked was responsible for whatever happened to her older sister.' I thought sadly as she looked truly broken hearted about it and so I gave her a quick little bro hug in solidarity. "Medusa I am sorry to hear about you sister, but can I assume that person earlier was responsible for what happened?" I alluded to the man who screamed like a bitch as he was devoured by the infant dragon.

"Yes, he was the younger brother to the captain of my Familia and did something horrible to my sister and now that it's known that I was the last person to go into the dungeon with him even if I was innocent which my god doesn't particularly care either way, he still won't update my Falna so I've just been wandering as I have basically been black balled by my own Familia.

'Hmm to simp or not to simp' I considered offering a place within the Hestia Familia as frankly I was seeing a pattern in my women as they literally barely came up to hips or not even that with Lili and a woman who was actually my height would negate any rumors that come up because I have zero interest in my level up alias being that "Midget Fucker." guy they whisper about in taverns.