Chapter 24:

Vol.2 – Chapter 1 – To the 28th Floor

To the Roots of Akasha


Ah...

It's warm...

The sunlight hits my face, and before I realize it, my hands are trying to reach through that light, severing the sunrays into six diverging paths against my palm. Despite the heat of the rays, the wind feels moist and wonderful on my skin. The sweat on my chin is starting to chill.

"We're here..."

I bring my hands down and look at the land from an elevated position. I can see the legendary river where an ancient beautiful mermaid is said to live. The land is green and sprinkled with different kinds of colorful flowers. Some are highly tinted red, the Blood Flower; some are polka dots blue, the Poisonous Meki Petals. But I'm trying to spot a rare flower said that its rareness and its beauty is paramount to any... the Blue Plops. Still, no luck in finding them, but maybe if we explore more, I could finally see them.

In the sky, large birds with feathers of different colors are flying. On some parts, their feathers are outgrown, while on others, they are thin almost balding. I guess that thing is a wild carnivorous bird called Morgons. There are also large herbivores that look like dinosaurs, little white creatures that live underneath a big mushroom, and then the giant black metal thing that looks like a walking tower in the shape of an animal.

We're here... In the settlement of Homorotabi! "WE'RE HERE! FINALLY!" I scream while stomping my feet in excitement. "Keeee!"

"Don't get too excited, Fielma," the leader of our party, Vinetra, warns me. Did I make a strange sound? Oops, that's embarrassing. But the excitement is just too much; even I couldn't control myself.

I clasp the hands of a young girl beside me, then blurt out, "Shasha, I'm going to marry you!"

The young girl turns red, almost like a giant tomato. "HUH!? NO! H-HELP!" She tries to run away, but before she can, I make her fall using my weights and pin her to the ground.

"I'm going to grope you until you become pregnant!"

"HUH? THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS! W-wait!"

Of course, I pay her no mind, groping her large breasts, much larger than what I have, then grope her harder even if she tries to resist. This is no sexual harassment if we are both girls! Part of me believes that I'm doing this just for fun and excitement, but somehow, that turns into rage when I realize the disparity of our chest sizes... You dirty woman! I'M NOT GOING TO FORGIVE YOU FOR HAVING LARGE TITS LIKE A COW!!!

"AGGHHHHH!" Shasha screams from the top of her lungs. When suddenly... her tits dislocate...

No... her chest is not large... she just has layers of layers of padding!! I look at her face, and tears start to swell in the sides of her eyes. When I think that she's about to cry, she grabs my two breasts and tears them off! NO, MY PADDINGS!!

Two guys in our party are looking right at us, with the particular priest having a strong gaze directed at our chests. It's my fault; I need to protect Shasha's dignity, so I cover Shasha's body and mine with a hug. I'm going to kill this priest!

"Mark, don't look," Vinetra says, and Mark, a young lad who is unexpectedly already a Sapphire class adventurer, complies quickly in a snap. However, the priest is still gazing at us while making weird faces with a creepy grin.

His name is... "Hans..." Vinetra speaks, yet she doesn't warn him not to look. SHE JUST PUNCHES HIM RIGHT IN THE FACE, AND HE FLIES AWAY, BLOOD SPLATTERING ON THE LEADER'S FIST!

Vinetra grabs a spoon from her bag and throws it right at Hans's corpse... She says, "Remove your eyes," with a clear indication that she's not joking around.

"Leader, go easy on him. He could die because of your punch, you know," Jacky warns the leader. Yes, he could die if Vinetra used her full power since she is already an Emerald class adventurer. Hans is also an Emerald class despite appearances, so probably he is fine unless he's caught off-guard.

If I map out the adventurer classes in standard light novel adventurer ranking, it will look like this:

Rank S - Diamond
Rank A - Ruby
Rank B - Emerald
Rank C - Sapphire
Rank D - Alexandrite
Rank E - Aquamarine
Rank F - Opal

Not to brag, but I'm Alexandrite class, as well as Jacky. Shasha is still an Aquamarine class, though classes don't really define the strength of an adventurer but their accomplishments after they apply as an adventurer at the guild.

"Tch, that's what perverts get for existing." Vinetra argues, and I agree. Perverts should just be killed by lightning or whatever.

"Hans, come on, wake up," Jacky starts slapping Hans repeatedly, left and right until it turns into a straight-up punch in his face. "It's your fault for being a pervert even though you're a priest," they really hate this priest.

"Ah..."

"Tch... Don't pretend like you're dead, you shitty priest. If you wanna die that badly" Vinetra pushes Jacky away.

"Wait, leader!"

"Then fucking die, die, DIE! DIE!" Vinetra repeatedly mutters "die" while stomping on Hans's little balls. However, Hans doesn't revive from death or anything fancy like that. It's getting irritating.

"Oh, You're still not going to wake up? George, do something!"

George quickly comes after the leader calls; this adventurer is also a newbie, much like Shasha, and he's still an Aquamarine class, as indicated by his necklace made of aquamarine stone. If I were him, I would hide the fact since if we meet foreign adventurers he will get bullied, killed and loot his equipment once they determine he's weak.

George holds Hans's hands and tries to detect his pulse. He then puts his ears on Hans's nose... His face becomes pale...

"...," George looks at the leader with terrified eyes.

"What?"

"He's dead."

Huh? Dead? I look at the priest, and his face starts to turn blue... Oh...

"Hahaha... W-what are you talking a-about? D-D-Dead? It's not like I crushed his skull or anything" Vinetra defends herself. SHE JUST MURDERED A PRIEST!!

"B-B-Blood!" George, terrified, jumps out after he sees blood on his hands when he tries to lift the priest's head.

"C-C-Calm down, e-everyone. Let's think w-w-where can we hide his body."

LEADER!

"Let's throw him off the cliff!" Mark raised a hand and suggested.

"We could plant illegal drugs in his pocket..." Shasha stated. Well, that's a good idea since if somebody sees the corpse and finds the drugs, we'll just say he's a drug addict and he's under the influence when the leader attacked him.

"R-Right... F-F-First, we're going to chop off all of h-his limbs... Then, boil it... or a-a-acid..."

Vinetra is so brutal!

"Calm down, leader!"

Jacky tried to calm her down, but it's too late; her mouth bubbled, and she passed out. In the end, we decided to throw Hans's corpse into the river and let it get swayed along with the evidence.

This was the first casualty of our party, the Chronic Backpain party. Let's forget all that stuff and start our adventure in this new world.

[Dungeon Trial: 28]

[In the shadows of the arcane, where the echoes of malevolent whispers dance, a clandestine decree resonates: 'Kill or be killed, the cryptic law of the lawless demons.' Veiled in enigma, he stands as the formidable barrier that guards the upper echelons. He embodies the very essence of lawlessness, unbound by any code, yet himself imposing an inexorable code upon all. Unravel his dominance through the language of violence, for in the echoes of brutality lies the mercy that will compel his submission.]

[Hunt down the King of the Demon Outskirt]

[author] Hi there, Milky here! With the recent failure of the volume 1, the inexplicable hunger that's growling in my stomach, the fact that my cellphone broke today and my GPU is corrupt, I posted a new chapter with extreme agony in my heart. No! Don't cheer me up!

I'm gonna pipe down the sexual content in this one and introduce a heroine, Fielma. But beware, there's a lot of dirty jokes everywhere. Like how dirty your mind is even if you pretend to be such a cutie-patotie

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