Chapter 73: Quest 67- Luck or Fate

Some time later in the Dungeon.

“It’s nice of you to take us so deep within the Dungeon, Zephyr.” Said Rethusa.

“Hm! We only made it to the 3^rd floor!” said Cale one of Artemis’s children.

“So how deep did you go?” asked Phi, another one of Artemis’s children.

“Hmm…about the 37^th floor, I would have gone deeper, but I had to do other jobs.” Cirrus said leading the Artemis Familia down to the 10^th floor.

“Maybe we’ll get as strong as you and we can go down further on our own!” said Cale.

“Maybe one day, say did you go with the members of the Astraea Familia come with you?”

“Yes, but they didn’t let us fight any of the monsters, so it was just a tour.” Said Rethusa.

“Hmm…it’s a shame your archery is good. Fsh! You’d make excellent back-up when killing flying monsters.”

Cirrus shoots a few arrows with one of them hitting their marks.

“All thanks to Lady Artemis!” said Phi. “When you first started you couldn’t even fire the arrow half-way to its mark but now you can at least shoot it straight!”

“…At least that’s progress.”

“Say what’s that weapon on your back?” asked Cale. “It looks like…well I really don’t know?” she said looking away from it.

On Cirrus’s back he was carrying a weapon that looked like a one handed black great sword with a green gem embedded in its hilt. It gave off an uneasy feeling if one looks at it.

“Oh this? I made it with my blacksmith; this item is rather special.” He said while he taps the sheath of the weapon. “Maybe if we encounter a threat I’ll pull it out.”

“Is anything down here a threat to you?” Rethusa said as she shoots a monster between the eyes.

“Everything is a threat if you’re not careful.” Cirrus quickly turns and fires one of his arrows.

Thud!

“Riii!”

They looked to see an Imp dying from the shot Cirrus fired.

Gulp!

The whole Familia gulped at this monster sneaking up on them.

“W-we will make sure to keep your words to heart.” Rethusa then reorganized their formation to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

With the monsters they killed they went about getting the magic stones with Cirrus being the lookout.

Shiing!

Shing!

‘Faint fighting…another group of adventures-no...just one?’ Cirrus thought to himself as he focused on the sounds of the area.

“Just a heads up but someone is coming.” Cirrus said with his eyes trained on the direction.

“We’ll hurry and collect the stones!” said Cale.

The fighting would start and end quickly as the sounds of fighting got closer and closer until.

           

Appearing from a corner of the dungeon was Ottar, a tall muscular Boaz with rust-colored eyes and hair along with a pair of boar ears. In his hands were two greatswords.

“It would seem I finally found you White Beast.”

“!!” That same emotion when he met Freya sprang up.

‘Calm yourself!’ Cirrus thought as he looked around to find he really did come alone but even then; he still kept his guard up. ‘Why is this finally coming out!? Was it Freya? Did our meeting draw out a long buried emotion?’

“Warlord Ottar, the Vice-Captain of the Freya Familia. what pleasure do I have to meet you by chance!” Cirrus said in a forced joyful tone of voice while observing Ottar’s body language. “Or was this by plan?”

‘Why is he here? Does he know? But then how? Was it Freya? She is a goddess so who fucking knows…no matter my only priority is keeping the girls safe.’ That emotion raced across his mind and heart. He wished to fight him. ‘No!! They will get involved! I can’t have more innocent blood on my...’

“…” he remained silent. He noticed the nervousness on Cirrus so he before taking a few steps forward he sheathed his weapons. “I came here to challenge you to a match.”

“Eh?” Cirrus was surprised and a bit ecstatic at the fact.

He didn’t think he would get challenged by a man who has fought against some of the strongest Familia’s and lived to one day overthrow said Familia’s.

“I wish to know your strength and what better way than by the blade.”

“…Fine, how about in like 3 days from now? Down on the 18^th floor. Right now I’m these adventures guide.”

Ottar looks at the girls and nods his head.

“Very well I will see you in Rivira.”

He then took his leave.

“…Phew…” Cirrus breathed an air of relief, that emotions calms as Ottar leaves. He turned to the others, and they were finished.

“I-is everything okay?” asked Rethusa.

“Yeah…I just didn’t expect to meet one of such renown in the dungeon!”

‘Especially when I met his goddess a 3 weeks back.’

Cirrus brought them back to the surface, he bid them farewell as he was returning back home.

 

Walking back he saw a familiar person being cornered.

A little girl his age with aqua blue hair and glasses.

“What’cha got there little girl! Seems you have some-“

“Go away! It’s nothing!” she shouted.

“We’ll be the one to-“

Fsh!

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            Thud!

“!?”

            Cirrus had fired an arrow near where they were and as soon as they saw those golden antlers they quickly panicked.

“S-shit!” said one of them running.

“Run!!!” said the other.

“Not today!!” shouted Lydia coming in and lariat-ed both of them with her arms.

“Lydia!!” shouted the girl.

“Ah sorry Asfi! I was getting a drink when you left my sight!” she looked up to see Cirrus. “Ah Zephyr! Thanks for having her back!”

Cirrus drops down and picks up his arrow.

“It’s no problem but what the hell did you have that they wanted uh Asfi was it?”

“M-my name I Asfi Al Andromeda, I’m one of Hermes’s new children.”

“Al? Andromeda? Your-“

“F-forget I said it!!” she shouted nervously.

“Hmm…Asfi tell me if Hermes is holding you against your will me and Lydia will make sure your fine!” Cirrus said to her.

“N-no! I-I came…because I liked him.” She said with a blushed face.

            Cirrus looked at Lydia and she shook her head in agreement.

“Well can I see what you have there?”

“Ah! Well um!! Um!” Asfi started to fumble a bit before Lydia placed her hand on her head.

“Come on! Show him!”

“U-um could I show him back at home?”

“Zephy do you have anything to do?”

“Not really I have some time to burn.”

Returning to the Hermes Familia home Asfi lead Cirrus to her workshop that was filled with several material and broken objects.

“Heh…are you a level 2?” Cirrus asked.

“Well um-“

“Yup! Sure is! She leveled up after 2 years!” Lydia said with a proud smile.

“L-Lydia!”

“Ah, so you have the Enigma development ability huh?”

“Y-yes!”

“Hmm…so what was it that you needed to show me in your Familia home?”

Asfi rummage her bag and pulled out a familiar item.

“I-I saw it on that p-pirate ship you were on, I-I asked one of them how it worked, and he removed the ring and threw it into the sand, and it exploded.”

“…Did they throw them all?”

“Y-yes they got them all and threw them all into the sands and we enjoyed the spectacle. They said these were called hand bombs, I tried to recreate it, but I haven’t quite got it down.”

“Hmm….that’s because the shell is to fragile, when you throw it a crack appears and lowers the explosiveness of it.”

“E-eh! You know how they work!”

“Of course I was the one who made them.”

“!!”

Asfi quickly got up and bowed profusely.

“I’m sorry I'm-!!”

“Its fine, hold on, shit does this place not have like a quill and ink?”
“I-I ran out of ink…” Asfi said. "I can go and get some if you can wait a second!"

"By all means." He took a seat as did Lyra.

Asfi quickly rushed out to get more ink.

"So how have you been?" Lyra asked.

"Good, good...You and Hermes still go our drinking?"

"Sure are! You wanna come? I bet you have a good Immunity rank!"

"Um...maybe some other day."

After a bit Asfi returned with a bottle of ink.

Cirrus took a quill and quickly drew up the basic structure of the grenade and left it on the desk.

“You can make them but promise me one thing.”

“Sure!”

“These stay with you, once you learned how to make them without my plans burn it. This knowledge stays between you and me alright?”

With her starry eyes she nodded her head.

“Good! Well I need to get going, I look forward to what else you make!”

Cirrus walks away waving goodbye. Asfi waved back with a big smile on her face. After he had left she got to work.