Drakkon had explored the previous dungeon with a bunch of misfits. He wasn’t sure how this happened, but the group he was with previously were people he never thought he would work with. Well, the Zeta girl was someone he knew he could work with, but the other two not so sure. Still, they had gotten through the first cavern alive. He knew there were more around the world, so he was heading to the second one.

This one was within the country of the guild he was in. He knew about it for a bit but decided to go to this one second. He had to make sure he caught a glimpse of how strong these areas were, but they were too bad. That basically allowed him to enjoy the rest of his trip. He used his katana to travel from one place to another. There were other explorers who traversed into this place as well, so finding the location wasn’t hard to do.

He was within Stena Mountain, where it was said to be located in one of the caves there. He moved through the mountain as he knew where it was. It was a nice travel, he was on Hai Gone’s back. The Dragon could fly high into the air, but it was a slow flight, but it was smooth. He could see the cave that they were talking about and he would direct Hai Gone where to go. The Dragon made his way to the direction of where his father had told him to go.

“Do you think we will be here alone today?” He asked him wondering what he would say.

Drakkon thought about those words and he took two pills opened up his jug of alcohol and consumed it. He would sigh with relief as he looked at Hai.

“Nah, we won’t be alone in this. There will be others who come, there always is.” He said to his partner.

Hai understood this and made his descent. When the two of them got close enough, Drakkon was pushed off his son’s back and landed on the ground. Hai would change his form and land on the ground now that Drakkon was safe and on the ground. The two of them would look at the cave in front of them and wonder what they would face inside.

“Same as last time, we go in and bump into anybody as we go.” He said as he entered the cave.

When the two of them entered the place they would see a bunch of rocks shaped throughout the cave, they were covered in what looked like void energy and he could just see that this might be dangerous. The place looked ever-ending, but he started walking through it. While doing so the two of them would hear and feel the rumbling coming as if there was a stampede making their way.

“It seems like we got company get ready.” He said to Hai.

The Dragon heard this and he looked around to see if he could become a dragon here. When he saw the area was too small, he decided to just go to the ceiling with his form right now. He would do this and Drakkon kept moving. It was then he would see a bunch of Void Knights running toward him. It was like they knew that they had visitors the moment he stepped in. They didn’t stop for Drakkon as they were trying to ram into the man and deal some damage. He found it amusing and he would pull Enma out from its sheathe as it had finally accepted him as its master.

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Emil had started heading for the next carven area that he had heard of he was flying with lightning wheels spinning next to his ankles and Indiana was on his shoulder holding on to him as Indiana was not pleased that the other man had not let him fully explore the last cavern with him and the others that had joined him Emil had to take him this time to make it up to him and to make sure that they were allowed to start hunting around if the exceed can find something that was worthy of his past triumphs in dungeon, ruin and cave diving for goods he needed to find something that will help to get them richer and not fall behind on rent or Lumikki might kick them out of the guild housing and keep the children as collateral for it. Lumikki seemed to have been getting more worried about it.

Emil got closer to the area and he could see the place that he was needing to head toward and he swears he had seen a dragon or something that had been ahead of them but he knew dragons were dead and banished so there shouldn't be any unless they were starting to invade this country and Emil was going to stay on guard as he didn't need any nasty surprises here when he was so close to a dangerous place to him and the exceed he had no idea if Elise was still coming or if she was staying away as she seemed to have been avoiding him since she cut him down during the last cavern they had taken part in together. Emil wasn't even sure what he would say to her if he did end up coming face to face with her as he wasn't happy with what she had done and in front of someone that could have been an enemy to them that was something that was not needed for her to do as she gave away his weakness to someone else without even thinking about it and he needed to make sure that he didn't swell on it as he headed down toward the area that they would be going into as Emil wasn't going to wait and Indiana just wanted to explore.

The exceed ran in ahead of Emil and Emil followed after him as he couldn't let the exceed go in and just get hurt or worse killed his children would be very sad if they lost their friend Indiana and they would end up crying and Emil didn't want to risk having his children crying so as he crossed into the cavern he looked around as he could feel the area rumbling and he wondered what the hell was going on if it was an earth quake or if there was something else that was making this happen. Indiana looked like he was frozen in place in fear as if he had seen something and then Emil looked up to the ceiling and he saw the dragon above them. "Get down here and stop shaking the cavern before you start some kind of issues, or I will get you down with lightning!"

Indiana kicked Emil in the shin and Emil looked the way that the exceed was pointing and he saw the very big creatures that were coming right for them and they looked like some horrible breed that was a mix of humans and horses and that was not a good sight so Emil started charging his gauntlets as he wanted to be ready for when these monsters come into their faces.
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It was now time for the next part of the cavern, Surely this could be a lot easier at this in theory, But maybe Elise needed to lighten up for the most part. One of these days she would learn, but at least she was going to make sure she was done smoking before getting back on the job. While still not really talking to anyone. Mostly because she had not needed to out right have a long term conversation with anyone yet, But Elise like this showed she just focused on many other things compared to what other might work on.

But there was always more and yet to come, But since they where between parts of the mission she was still smoking, it mind taming but unhealthy habit. Even then some one could even ponder eventually if she actually ran out of them, no one has really seen her actually shopping for these items. But the mundane things Elise normally enjoyed was things she just was merely seen with and no one ever saw Elise shopping. But minor mysteries in life aside, Elise was still smoking she had been not as slow as other times catching up to the group

This time the only thing she was doing was muttering to herself. But the most clear part was."F--k off Zeus...I'll deal with your temptations later."Elise had done well for the most part. But at times Zeus was unhappy with how Elise handle his desires, It was a fight she figured Zeus settled on after they met and Elise got his god soul. But suppose if anything Elise should have expected it, But this is just how life for her. There was always other things to worry about and she other ways to funnel Zeus' desires.



They are here, back at it again. But Elise seemed to be slightly busy in her mind dealing with some one everyone else around her really could not see at this time. At least if anyone knew she had the power of Zeus her muttering to herself could be understood. One was merely fighting what was in their head. But starting another cigarette and continuing on her way. Eventually she would put her head on straight, After all she just needed that moment to settle Zeus or attempt too in some manner. She was just distracted for a bit.

Just not too much longer. Elise would be in view of people sooner rather then later. She needed to get her head straight. So she would after this cigarette she was currently smoking. Elise's various thoughts seemingly not over whelming her mind. At least for now. It would be odd as Elise seemingly at the start of all of this was casually walking in and smoking but at least some one finally heard Elise finally mutter to herself."Finally the annoying pervert is settled."She muttered to herself like she finally was free from a headache she had.

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Some time has passed since her first adventure into the void cavern to uncover its rumors. The rumors were true and she found treasure and encountered a rowdy bunch of travelers. One of them was from the same guild as her, Drakkon. Before leaving the dungeon he spoke to her as if they would see each other again but After that encounter not a word nor an inkling of his visage was seen of him. Zeta returned to visit the guild in Pergrande to rest and break down what she had experienced.

After waking from her long slumber, it was time to bring out the map and her notebook to log her findings. The creatures found inside the cavern were unlike any beast she hunted or read about. Faceless constructs that took on the form of a crystalized avian. When disposed of they return to their natural mana state as if not having existed to begin with.

“Will all these void pockets contain such strange beasts or will it just be more of the same bird-like creatures but evolved? Hmmm, I wonder but I will find out soon enough” Zeta questioned herself while jotting down the information and drawing an image of the void birds-like creatures she encountered. When looking at the map to scout the location of the 2nd void cavern that needed conquering she found it relatively close to the guild's location.

“It was at Stena Mountains all this time, huh? How convenient for me” Zeta tapped her nail on the map location several times while contemplating her next move. She stood up from the table and rolled up the map. “Aster, new plans. I will be traveling to Stena Mountains for the next Void dungeon exploration” She announced to Aster knowing he was watching her from somewhere as she smelled his scent. Afterward, she made headway to her closet to get geared up for the journey to come.

Zeta had planned to explore more of the country but got caught up in missions so it prevented her from doing so. Now with this new discovery that she had overlooked, a new opportunity was born, traversing the Stena Mountains of Pergrande was next on the list.

“Aster can you take us straight to the mountain summit? Also, would you like to join me on the exploration of Stena? I’m sure Drakkon and others will come in due time so we have some time to kill” She happily invited Aster along with her while completing the finishing touches to her prep work.

Aster created a rift in front of the doorway to Zeta’s room, gesturing for her to come.

She double-checked, no, tripled-checked everything before making her way into the rift Aster conjured. The warmth of her room was quickly fading from her as she took each step within the corridor of darkness. The survival training she underwent during her teenage years until her young adult life paid off, perfectly preparing her for such weather conditions and terrain.
As she reached the end of the corridor she could see the sun’s light and some trees in a clearing.
Once out from the rift, she pulled the map from her pocket to identify the area in question she was in and marked it off.

In front of her was the summit of the mountain but there was a small opening on the side. Some voices could be heard in the distance but they were extremely faint. It seems she had found a scenic route to enter the cavern. The familiar scents were that of the same band of misfits from before.

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Hai looked at him in his humanoid form when he told him to stop shaking the cavern. He looked at him and wondered what he was talking about. That wasn’t him, he knew he couldn’t turn into his dragon form here.

“Do you have to be so loud? That wasn’t me shaking the cavern.” He said as he pointed to the direction where he could see the incoming enemies.

Drakkon looked at Emil and he would just ignore the words that he said. They were working to clear the area, make jewels, and become richer than they are today.

“We got company.” Drakkon said this as he would pull out his Senbozakura, and his Yamato.

The creatures that were coming straight toward them were big, there were a lot of them as well. This wasn’t going to be easy now, was it? He didn’t think so, but his nose twitched as he caught the scent of everybody that was there. There was one new person here, and it seemed like the Exceed was it. He looked over to the creatures and rushed toward them with amazing speed. When he got to them, he would see they were not stopping with the charge. He moved to the side, and as he did that, he would cut through one of them with both blades in his hand.

They would fall to the ground and disperse from where they fell. He noticed that he sucked his teeth because it was like the damn birdy things. That meant from what he gathered last time that thing would return. When he turned to look at the horse-human thing, he noticed danger coming his way. He titled himself back as a spear was thrust in his direction. It went over his face as he could feel the breeze on his face.

He looked over to the creature as it would raise its front legs to him and it would try and stomp the Dragon Slayer. He would take the hit, and at the same time, he would pierce through the bottom of the horse's body. Once he was able to get through, he would slide the blade down. It would take out the beast, but no blood would come out. It would just be an abundance of mana being thrown everywhere as the creature had dispersed. He cracked his neck to look around to see what was next.

Hai looked around from the sky and he would see that there were too many of these creatures. He would slowly make his way behind one of them, and when he got there, he would slash through one of the horsemen, killing it in one blow before rising up to the ceiling of the cavern again. He was not much a chaser. If he fought he would stand still and go blow for blow, but he knew not everyone fought that way.

Drakkon saw what his son had done and that was good to see he was hoping that he would do more, but for now, that would suffice. At the moment he would make his move again. He pushed forward and made his way to another victim with his blade. The Dragon Slayer had swung his blades down to another creature. This time his blades went through their neck like butter. It would slide off before it turned into mana and he sighed. They had to go deeper into this place if they were going to find this treasure that was said to be here.

The son of chaos kept destroying any of them that were close to him hoping to clear the room, so they could push forward.

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Emil had heard Elise walk into the place that they were at and he looked at her. He nearly asked her a question but stopped himself and just ran forward then slammed his fist against the ground releasing lightning into the ground and it erupts up out of the ground at some of the monstrous creatures funneling his anger into the lightning that he is unleashing and it was jumping from one of the creatures to the next Emil's lightning was nothing to be messed with and right now he was frustrated and needed to blow off some steam so this task to fight and destroy these monsters were right up his ally and he was not sure if any of them would get caught in the cross fire not that he would care as long was it wasn't Elise that gets caught in the cross fire as he doesn't want to hurt his own teammate the other two were fair game to not care about as he had no care to if he deals with them here or not as he still doesn't like Drakkon and the other woman seemed to not really pay any attention to him either.

Emil starts throwing punches as he plows right into more of the monsters and his lightning keeps just jumping from monster to monster Emil not seeming to care as if he was blind to the chaos that was going around him laser focused on just making these monsters regret this day and that they were ever born as he tore through them as he went as he was not being careful he was not showing any real form of compassion to these things to him they were just in his way and with every punch he landed on them thunderous sounds of lightning cracked off into the place echoing and reverberating as he wasn't stopping and he was smashing into the horsemen monsters. Emil was not here to play around he was here to work and that was it break, destroy, leave nothing of these things that dared to cross his path on this day. Emil had also slightly changed in appearance as drums had sprouted out of his back and as he hit them they made loud noises as well. Emil never used this form as he hated how it looked and felt to him so it was off the table at all times just know he had stopped caring.

Indiana was watching the man make the most use out of his god soul that he could and he looked at Elise. "Do you have any kind of romantic feelings for that idiot? I think he likes you like that, I just want to know where you stand on that." Indiana wondered if Emil was going to be okay after he had just taken off and gone in so deep into the monsters that were ahead of them or if he was going to get in over his head. Indiana saw the man using his thunder wheel spell to fly and get into the creatures faces and hitting them in their ugly messed up faces but Indiana knows that he can't go out there and fight so like usual he will be stuck back here all alone just to watch as he was more of a brain companion than he was a fighting one so he often felty a bit left out and like he could be doing more for the man he worked for besides just being a babysitter and a bench warmer but he knows that was all he could do for Emil besides help him with maps and finding paths.
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Elise's thoughts where clearing out for the most part, While she heard something else talking to her. Elise almost assumed it was either another god trying to talk to her to barter with her. But then looked to see an exceed, Since they were asking about Emil, Or seemingly asking about her feelings towards Emil. Elise figured since Indiana did not exactly know that well compared to her. Elise had to wonder if this was really the right time as things where developing into a combat zone and casual speaking might get them hurt, But suppose everyone had their own things to worry about.

But Elise would be taking her time pulling out her swords and would answer their question, Eventually but she had to ask them one thing."How important is that to answer right now?"Elise asked them while she, Elise did have two swords, but she stopped for a moment. Before she pulled out her second sword, Flicked her cigarette away, After she had taken it out of her mouth."I don't have a solid answer for you, If anything he deserves some one far more tame to deal with than I." Elise was just being herself with that statement she was some what a handful to deal with, Already still feeling Emil had better things to do with his time, Better women to chase if anything. Elise did not feel worth the effort. She was monster who sparingly expressed loving emotion, Even then it was out Elise a lot of times seemed to have it come out fair different then actual love.

While Emil tried to drill it into her head she could feel actual love, Elise still felt like it was not the case yet, She was raise to be an aggressive matriarch not just a standard woman. She was meant to raise people up to make herself better, not mutual work towards a wonderful future. At least for the most part. This was all Elise problems."Now if you excuse me, I have other things to do."Elise left it at that. Everyone else was either starting to or were fighting things Elise needed to do her part so she would be joining in on it. But since they were larger beings. Elise be cutting them to piece with her swords with a odd, twisted and almost blood lust ridden smile. Elise was still in control but it was not that she was cutting and slices these beings to pieces.

It was how she was doing it. She was doing to much slower then anyone else here, Like she was making them suffer a bit longer compared to other people, Almost like watching these being just last a bit longer was settling something with in Elise, Something she was not telling or told anyone yet because she was trying to deal with it herself. But the well versed monster hunter, hunting things slowly with her normal finesse, Just add in blood lust. It was how she funnelled out Zeus' desires of lust since Elise did not really sleep around or try too lead anyone on in such a lewd manner. Any keen eye would pick up Elise was getting carried with what she was doing, As well she was not slowing down.


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