Is It Wrong For A Gamer To Be In The Dungeon? Familia Myth Of Zetta

At the fountain near the tower of Babel, Argo find himself seated from the side, as this is also a part where adventurer rendevouz point before venturing inside the dungeon

Light radiates the Orario's babel this early in the morning from the suns bright drawn with colors red and orange and as if clouds are dancing and celebrating.

Argo deep within his thought; covered with short cloak with hood and a face mask with only exposed emerald eyes which is ironic, because one of his sleeve is fully open with only an elbow guard. don with looking expensive long clothes; a fiber on par with chainmail and a scarf hanging from his neck, with his 2 sword hanging on his waist; a wooden sword and the so called [Spirit sword] where the ego of the element spirit resides—is waiting silently when the white haired boy with ruby eye step towards him, calling his name. . .

"Argo-kun, goodmorning!" With bright smile, the ruby eyed captain of Hestia Familia greeted the emerald eyed half-elf of Loki Familia as he stands up.

"Uhm good morning Bell-kun"

As if the same person is self talking but Argo's voice is more manly. The member of Hestia familia chuckles from this scene.

One by one, they introduce themselves as they forget doing it yesterday because the certain half-elf is embarrassed and sprinted away.

Mokoto, Lilly, Welf, and the renard Haruhime, successively introduce theirs. . .

"Amazing! Haruhime-chan is a fox!"

With that a bit of weirdness reaction from Argo they then entered the dungeon without a nitch. After a couple of few talks did they arrive at the first floor.

"The 'Solo Adventurer' is in our party!" Mikoto who saw Argo's swordsmanship the last time is the most elated because of the urban legend of a man soloing the dungeon from the middle floors are still running through her head. . .

"Are any of you had movement skills?" Out of nowhere, Argo spoken but all of them shakes their head.

"Aw too bad. Its much faster if any of you had atleast one. Alright, still proceed as plan then; please carry those who have lowest agility, lets do the sprint"

" " "Eh?" " "

"Time is of the essence, so lets go?" Hearing their voices of surprise with gaping mouth, the elf faintly smiles and started to murmur as he take the lead, while—

Welf hefted Lilly, and Bell Hefted Haruhime and followed suit

"Is he—?"

"—Using concurrent chanting"

"At level 1!?"

Haruhime, Mikoto and Lilly look at their Familia member which made Welf gulp in surpised and Mikoto, but Bell is only the most oblivious.

Concurrent chanting is not something anyone could do, because when doing it, one has to chant their magic while moving not to become a sitting duck to enemies targetting them. And Mikoto knew the single elf who is master of using it. Ryuu Lion from Hostess of Fertility.

But the reality is, if one has to fail while chanting, they receive a backlash called 'Ignis fatus' in which, ones magic is going to burst out and explode, worst is, one might going to die. Thats why mages had someone supporting them or tanking monsters attack before unleashing theirs. So not only Argo is a level 1 who has magic that surprised them, but also his ability to concurrent chanting in which, even veterans of adventurer find it hard to do so. . .

"—Heroic Rumpant!"

"—rock the lightning, Jupitel!" Argo lift one of his sword

"—amplify them all, Alvs Lumina!" Consecutively, Argo raised his wooden sword. . .

With Argo's 3 successive callings, the Party's movement speed increases after the glint of blue aura surrounded them along with few sparks of lightnings. After then, all of them started to sprint like a rocket

Thud Thud Thud——!

Even the stone pavement couldn't take their very kicks; created crack within each of their strides in this landacapes

As for their support, why Welf could carry Lilly is because she does not carrying a bag for a supporter which is heavy, as she has now given by Zetta during their expedition which is convenient in their exploration since then. . .

Kyaak—!

And as the leading party leader, Bell and Argo kick the monsters assess before they know who strike them, which made the other members double their shock. This is the very first time they form a party but this two is already in synergy, paving their way forward without stopping as if they are comrade-in-arms for century. Of course Lilly sweeply looted them with her [Grab] skill after leveling up, other than her [Development Skill]. But the most surprising is, Argo too could one-hit every enemy in his way

"Do you know the way down below Argo-kun? I thought you're always grinding in the middle floor?"

"I didn't, but the map given by my Goddess is already inside my head"

Bell in surprised, asks the elf in which Argo nonchalantly pointed his head from the question while still in the lead.

"Amazing! L-Loki Familia, I-I see" Bell look at Argo with a bit of envy.

One is because, not many could receive a complete mapping from leading exploration group or if they did, the map is too costly for low level adventurer. Second is Because of what happened from the party of Apollo Familia' who caused the last War Game is still fresh from the back of his mind; which is the bickering of goddess Loki and his goddess.

There, he realize. . . the insurmountable barrier between familia that can never be overcome no matter what he did, so does the relationship of two different gender from two different Familia.

Remembering it made the knee of a rabbit turned limp in fear, afraid that—forget returning her love—he couldn't even talk with her casually side by side alone anymore. Because that is what separates them.

He is jealous of Argo because he could laugh and cry together with Ais. The very girl Bell Cranel's truly love.

"Hm? You okay Bell?"

"A-ah? I'm alright, its alright, l-lets haste please!"

Noticing his limped knee for a few moments, Argo look at him in worry and decelerate his track. But Bell continued his, which the former could do is to only follow. Others are still following and not far away, so they could heard their conversation.

Without any problem underway, they arrived at Rivira with only a few of hours. Argo is amaze by this scene. The crystalization from everywhere, the forest, the trees, the landscape, terrains. Its as if, he isn't inside the dungen. But because he urged to become stronger, they didn't stop over in this place. . .

After then, they all decided to venture the lower floor which is at floor 20th. The last floor called 'Lower Floor'. Because beneath this floor is what they called 'Deep Floor'. . .

Noticing the monsters here, Argo's heart skip a beat. 'Strong!' is the word what swims within his mind right at this moment seeing that monsters here are walking in two legs and look stronger. Lizardman, Stag Beatle, Flaming Bird and even the rarest monster of this floor, Flame Trolls that could drop rare items such as flame-nullification and amplication item.

And after a couple of another hours, the group take their break for a moment.

This time, Mikoto asks "Argo-dono, is it alright if we saw your face atleast?"

She bow repeatedly as if she was wronged. No, she was quite curious, so does the remaining members.

Surprisingly, Argo accepted. But he prompted "but don't fell in shock, I too cannot understand whats going on, so. . ."

Again, for who knows how many times already, those who saw his beautifully dyed green hair and emerald eye and pointy ear. Even Lilly called him handsome but rather she followed a word "a green rabbit!"

Its only for a span of moment and Argo cover himself up again.

"I'd never thought, I'd saw another Bell infront of me" Welf politely answered

Bell is frozen in stiff as if he saw a mirror of himself but then he said a word which is unexpected "Argo-kun, is an elf? I-I'm sorry from shaking your hand from the last time!"

FLASH——! Sadly, Argo isn't infront of him anymore and didn't bother his word

"Now then, beautiful missy Haruhime-chan, Mikoto-chan, now that you see how charming I Argo right now, can I ask you two for a date?" Argo's switch has flip up atlast. Its sad that he become passive from this past few days but now, he return from his old self.

"K—kaaaa!" Comically, Bell also flashes infront of him too and covers his two familia member and sweated profusely, as if his harem is going to snatch away.

"Its alright Bell-kun, how'bout it? I'll date Haruhime-chan, and yours is Mikoto-chan? How'bout a double date? Hm? Hm?"

"No! Argo-sama, why did you change much just because we saw your face!?—rather, why would Bell-sama dated Mikoto-sama!? Hestia-sama would be angry if that might happen!" Lilly covers her Bell-sama this time.

"Oh Lilly-chan kawaii~ but this is the battlefield of an a.d.u.l.t Lilly-chan so, please I want to hear Haru-chan and Miko-chan's answer"

" "N-No!" " this time, Bell and Lilly objected "and why Haru-chan and Miko-chan!?" as the little Pallum then retort

"A-Argo-dono, I'm very sorry but I already had Lord Take, so I'm very sorry"

Hearing her answer heartfully, and saw that Mikoto is very serious, Argo then look towards the renard, in which hardly grabbing Bell's clothes, hiding from the poor elf. He too saw her shy but brightened face.

The elf then pocketed his hand "Heh, how unlucky, you girls are satisfied by how things work from the present, I didn't see a bit of discomfort or negative emotion. Its rare very occurence, I say" and with that faint smile, Argo back to serious mode.

It is indeed very rare because every woman or lady he encounters, they always covered with gloomy atmosphere no matter how they mask their happiness but he saw this two ladies, clearly had bright lightings hanging from above of their head, so in a sense, they are genuinely happy at this very moment which made Argo accepted in defeat.

Not knowing what he meant, Bell and Lilly sigh in relief. Welf who is not in this crossfire scratches the back of his head as if he had a phobia having a war game for the second time. His captain is very indecisive, if Argo isn't joking, he'll make wars with them for sure like others.

And because Argo is from Loki Familia made him even more of distress. But alas, he could relax right now.

After then, Argo unconsciously become their temporary leader which gave Bell enough room of purely attacker, Argo at the same time look at him in amazement.

And because Hestia Familia already ventured deep floors with the Godhood alliance and their formation, and battle instinct has been strengthened thanks for recorrecting their flaws given by the goddess of the hunt that made their current hunt become easier and more accurate, did their fight become easier. After that, they dispersed yet again and the next day arrived. . .

Second day of grinding with team Hestia Familia, and they're on the same spot at 20th floor. . .

CRrR——!

Somewhere not far away from the wall they are grinding. They heard a cracking sound much greater than the spawning monster. It become even more stronger until—

BOOM——!

From that said crack and after created smokes, emerged an amazoness with a scruffy hair and flat ironed c.h.e.s.t as she looks slightly beaten

"Ah Tiona-san!?" Argo said the name

"Tiona-san!?" Bell is also surprised, afterall they've become close when he sparred with Ais before War Game, thanks to their master at that time that the goddess of the mischief, approved to borrow Ais. . .

Hearing her name, Tiona glance towards the party, "Ah, Argonaut-two-kun! Eh, Argonaut-kun!?" as if confuse and not worrying about her body, Tiona stand herself up but then she dash out of their sight towards to much lower floors without looking back

"Ah Tiona-san—!"

BOOM——!

Argo's voice then accompanied by another booming sound, but this time its much bigger. Who emerged is the minotaur from the same crack where Tiona emerged, 2.5 meters in height equipped with greatsword and heavy metal c.h.e.s.tplate, but for his physique it only looks like a chainmail.

"Haa! where is she!?" The minotaur snorts then stated

"Wah!? Did it. . ."

". . .Said a word!?" Saying a word in terror. Hestia Familia is ready to attack the minotaur blocking their path.

For the record, this minotaur is 'Asterius' of Xenos affiliation. The one who is beaten by Zetta twice because of his stubborness to fight him and unfortunately destroy one of his horn.

"That!" Consecutively. Welf is only looking towards the Minotaur's greatsword. His eye are sticking at the sword the moment minotaur swings his.

'The worksmith of Catana!? How did that!?—' Welf is with Catana of Artemis Familia who created that weapon from the last time. So he knew very well its shape, length and even where the sigil or the signature of the said blacksmith is engraved!

For now, Argo couldn't follow Tiona because infront of him is a monster called minotaur blocking his and their whole party's path

"Ah!" Noticing the enemy from his side, Asterius look at them and—

"My Rivals!!!" Screamed at his lungs content

On the other hand, near the said minotaur is the hidden Fenrir, Yurica; and muttered 'they are the group who resued Zetta-sama from deep floors according to Marie-san so'

"Stop it Asterius-kun!" She then emerged from the shadow with her Fenrir form with two different colors of horn, walking in four legs.

"What now!? This time is a hellhound? No, what is that creature, its also speaking!? Are we really going to die right now?" Lilly's head are spinning in fear after the emergeance of another talking monster. whats more, this monster is not weaker than the minotaur

"No, that creature stop the minotaur" Bell who is an observant, commented and saw the minotaur, named Asterius look at him straight and glance towards Argo from time to time

"But! My rival is here!" Asterius answered, clenching his hilt hard, enough to create clacking sound produced by his bone. Argo at the same time didn't stop muttering, readying his magic at any moment

"No, we have to follow them! Or Weine and others would be in trouble!" Yurica's voice is muffle sound that only Asterius should have heard them, but the ear of the green haired half-elf, twitch as if hearing their words clearly

"Kah! alright then, as you wish!" Asterius then pointed his sword towards the party and shouted

"Bank—! *cough* Vanquished!" Because of his d.e.s.i.r.e to defeat a man who humilates him, twice, and even destroyed his horn, Asterius' skill materialize not too long ago.

BAM——!

He didn't aim properly but the terrain from his opposing party's side has been destroyed. And with the help of—

"Thats!"

"A curtain of lightning!?"

"Was it you, Argo-kun?"

Yes. That was Argo's magic again, and this time saves them from greater harm. Defending the first and last attack from the talking minotaur.

Walls, ceiling and even floors has destroyed and creates cracks from the skill of a minotaur who produces ghostly silhouette figures armored soldier and attack their party with its different equipped weapon—

Argo's mind has been exhausted from using this magic as he fell on the ground after that, afterall, they are grinding nonstop ever since. Good thing he didn't taste having a mind down right here and now.