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These White Walkers are enough to take down Rias' peerage and even Sona's. Except for Loup. Best he can do is take on 20 of these before dropping ~(Ethan)

"These specialized in speed, yes? Why not dominate them in that category?" Ethan buried his foot on the ground where a small whirlwind gathered

Skill: Sprint has leveled up!

Skill: Sprint (Lv. 2)
Active Skill
Mana: 1 per min
Movement speed is increased by 40%

"Forgot to add, master. With sprint activated, you're fast as Vali with full armor."

"It's nice to see you comparing me and that...weird hairstyle guy. Kinda reminds me of someone from a webcomic."

The 6 days, Ethan went from 10th floor to the 30th with the help of his Shadow soldiers. There weren't any new bosses to add to his collection of Strongest soldier which puts him in a state of unsatisfactory. Njal and Raynare both were the top baddies in his army, both having more kills and more experience hanging around with the king.

"How many floors are there?"

"My best guess is 100."

"...if that's true, than taking on 100 floors in one week might be impossible....gonna have to extend my vacation to about...3 weeks?"

"Yeah, seems fair to add. Things in the Academy will be different than before once we return home."

Intelligence: 108

Mana is hitting above 4,000 which is a lot for a devil to hold, and I'm a human. Beat that! ~(Ethan)

There is a ominous feeling about floor 31, no beasts were around, trees are covering the surrounding space of this floor, blood of beasts are painting the snow with a few being different colors, and the snow...it fell normally in the human world. Ethan's hair spikes up in this chilling discovery.

"The heck...happened here?"

Don't know. We'll revert back into your minds just in case ~(Elle)

It's growing more suspense just from hearing the howling winds with a dash of snowy trees, nothing like this happened in the other floors so it's a change of scenery after a few days. Elms kept his swords held up high while maintaining a calm composure as to never seek in the fear of an empty forest knowing its danger. With each footstep, the snow would crunch due to the weight of Ethan's shoes, making him anxious. His sense stats couldn't pick up any presence of magic beasts, not even the size of his neighborhood. His soldiers stayed close to him to ensure there's nothing to fear if his Shadow soldiers are there, some may be sacrificed but that's the risk Ethan's willing to take. Plus, it's natural for Shadow soldiers to reform back despite killed in the battlefield. The amount of soldiers being extracted is increased to 130 with 116 being saved. Then....exiting the forest, Elms' eyes widened at the gruesome sight of bodies belonging to soldiers - human soldiers.

"H-humans?!" Ethan's hands are shaking "f-f-fuck..."

Kid, snap out of it! These are not real humans. They're created from the system. Pay close attention to details, okay? ~(Ian)

"O-o...okay....just....traumatized, that's all." Says Ethan, being brought up a horrific memory of a bank robbery that had 17 civilians gunned down by 4 robbers that also were gunned down "...what led to their deaths?"

Think ~(Elle)

"...arrows are stuck in tree barks, claw marks, a shard of ice sticking out their backs....another skinned as some act of insanity....piles of dead ice bears....white walkers....draugrs....war....a war happened here." Elms hurled at the skinned human part "just 40 more soldiers to save and I'm full. I wanna start with the ice bears.....whoa! Ones a baddy here..."

Once extracting them, Ethan went back to staring at that skinned human. The more he looks at it, the more it becomes normal very quickly. It only took 5 minutes to become another normal thing Ethan has faced.

"You....human...."

A tongue not familiar to humans spoke out to him. Twisting his head, he stopped at a magic beasts, impaled to a tree...miraculously still alive.

The bloods are dry. Must've been alive for hours ~(Ethan)

Correct ~(Ian)

"Tell me. What caused an outbreak to occur in your homelands?"

"....a voice.....there was a voice that reached to us.....It said....'kill the humans'....kill the humans is what we did, or exact replicas of them...."

"Kill the humans? Tell me more of what you know!?"

"When we opened our eyes.... we were here..... I wished to go home..... until some fella with stone face picked us up and dropped us here..... bastard must be laughing..... war...... war.......it was all these lands were filled....."

it aggressively takes a hold of his collar to pull him in, his voice shaking as to why this occurred. Or...he could be talking about some other kind of war.

"War?"

"Kid...I know you're his successor..... go back..... and prepare for war..... Ragnarok.... Prepare for Ragnarok.... build your army, there's only a few that can handle this much! Protect them. Protect those dear to you, human!! This battle is only the minuscule of what's to come...."

Ethan yanked his hands away as a freakout of its behavior. To see a magic beast express fear gives him a consideration about killing them. Do all beasts bear the same emotions such as humans? It died seconds from blood loss.

"War....the hell was he talking about?"

"I don't know either kid. You heard him though, get going and build your army."

"He mentioned Ragnarok. A prophecy told about the end of the world. It starts with Baldur dying, then comes fimbulwinter.... worlds cladded with endless white particles, gods turning against each other, worlds together... now broken apart, fend to themselves. It brings out the selfishness that are hidden away..."

"It's nature with gods. They choose to become caring but with the power they have...it's a different story when showing their true colors."

"Man should never bow to gods."

"Indeed [indeed]."

"There are proof that some are good gods. Believe us that we know of this."

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During the 7th night since Ethan's partway, Kuro has been bored and had no one to cuddle with. There's the growing red dragon but that won't due since Issei's way weaker than Ethan and coming close to Vali in everything, at such am alarming rate that took Vali years to reach which could be declared as an insult to him. Coco's been keeping Asia company but her familiar didn't take it too kindly as he wanted her attention all to itself, and would attack any creature that is male. Rassei collected his energy into his mouth, sparking electricity and gaining a green aura around his body. He had intentions to kill Coco, but Kuro....didn't like that. Kuroka's eyes became narrow towards the he-dragon, sending one single message that anyone could understand.

"Listen here you shitbag: if you so dare to harm him, I will return the pain 10 folds...and see how you like it. Go ahead, shoot. I dare you too." Kuro pinned the he-dragon's head on the floor "this cat is precious to someone I grew to trust. How would you like it if I hurt your master? Not so lightly, huh? Think about how my favorite person were to see his cat, fried up and left dead in front of the house, thanks to your bitchass pride."

Rassei became shaken by her threat, and released all tensions on hurting Coco. Seeing him oblige, Kuro removes her paw.

"There you go. It's not the end of the world."

Rassei heightened senses came to realize that this cat isn't a cat, more like a dangerous breed of creatures that are endangered. If he picks a fight with her, then the fight would be way over before the damage could even commence.

It's boring without Ethan....waaaaahhhhh!! I've been sleeping most of the time. I need attention from him, special attention that fills my needs. A month being in this cat form has become more comfortable, more so that I never want to go back to my original ~(Kuroka)

Coco had the spirit to nuzzle his head under her chin, purring at the softness Kuro's fur sustained.

Hmmm...it's not like me to protect my owner's - owner? Have I mistaken Ethan as my owner? Nooooo...oh crud. What have I become? I must return back to Vali before I become a fully fledge cat! ~(Kuroka)

Or she could transform back to a humanoid neko and regain her senses as a prideful race of only a few nekomata's.

"Coco! I'll return home soon! And YOU! If Coco becomes ill from shock, I'll fucking hunt you down and hurt you enough that even in death...you won't close your eyes. Capeesh!?"

Rassei nodded aggressively.

"Good." Then she transported herself back in the underworld, relieving a sigh "Vali! I have returned!"

"Oh....okay...." He shrugged, as if this was useless information

Kuroka reverted back into a devil now, returning to her normal live as raiding noble demons and collecting artifacts to make Vali grow stronger and regain the title as Lucifer. Bikou, a battle maniac, always requested Kuroka a showdown to see if she lost her way of being a member of Khaos brigade. But to her refusal, he became sad.

"My head is killing me. Arthur! Get me a drink." Kuroka asked

"What am I? Some kind of butler?"

"You dress like one...?"

"....*deep sigh* fair. Fair. What would the endangered pussy like?"

"Water."

"Water? Y...you want water?"

"Did I stutter?!"

"This bitch."

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Ethan finally arrives at the 50th level of this dungeon, and uh....his encounter with one enemy caught his attention in a bad way per say. Part beast, part celestial.

Descendant of the Great One

The great one stood in posture similar to a lion, who's showing whose the king of the jungle. It's body had masses of ashy colored fur with a few areas exposing its skin to signify its decay for how long it lived. The descendant had 6 arms in total with the front and back supporting its posture as the extras were far larger and more humanoid than its counterparts of a beast, leaving the tail... having 3 with sharpened harpoon-like weapon that could be considered an average human's height. Its face consisted a mask with white tentacles growing out of it, making it look strangely familiar to Cthulu, a God-like being who seeks to destroy earth and conquer its humans to torment and have them serve. What about the height? Well....stood around 5 meters tall with its humanoid arms laying flat on the floor.

That thing...can it see? ~(Ethan)

I advice to stay away from it ~(Elle)

Fucking....agreed ~(Ian)

Should I quit? Yeah. Sometimes it's better to run away ~(Ethan)

You cannot leave the dungeon.

The descendant of the Great One is Preventing
the player from leaving its field of graves. To
Escape, you must slay it.

Quest: Kill the Descendant

The Descendant has live far too long in

Descendant killed: 0/1

Rewards:
1: Active-Skill change
2: +1,000,000,000 gold
3: +50 stat points
4: Holy Light Chestplate

Oh fuck...why are the rewards a lot better than the main one? ~(Ethan)

Master? Why aren't you leaving? ~(Elle)

Kid, you're actually scaring me ~(Ian)

...it's preventing us from exiting the dungeon. If I must continue climbing or to exit...I must kill it ~(Ethan)

WHAT!?!? ~(Ian)

THAT IS MADNESS!!! ~(Elle)

Level: 46

Ian, Elle. Ready to take down a celestial being? ~(Ethan)

....ready when you are ~(Ian and Elle)

Kid, wanna know the real reward after this? ~(Ian)

Tell me before I loose my mind ~(Ethan)

The real reward is you boasting about yourself on how you killed The Descendant of the Great One. He...or it, vanished decades ago. It created chaos in all realms, blood and death was everywhere it walked on no matter who it was. The gods had a hard time containing the creature from causing more havoc, but it only angered it more. It left a gushing hole on Zeus, Odin. A few scratches on the Current Lucifer of the underworld, previous users of Red and white dragon, the great Satan's, and...even the Strongest evil dragon to exist. Honestly amazes me that he would coexist with the others to bring this creature down ~(Elle)

If our previous owner were to be alive in that era, it would be nothing but a chipmunk, munching on treats ~(Ian)

"For me...is to have it become my own. I'll be able to contain the creature the gods had struggled to do."

What are you waiting for? It's waiting for you ~(Elle)

"Can't wait to add another soldier to my collection." Ethan summoned his shadow army to stand by his side "Njal, Raynare. I'm tasking you two to handle groups. Njal, take the close range combatants. Raynare, you handle them mages and ice elves. Ready? Go."

Meanwhile, Rias considered a meeting with Sona, both bringing their peerage into the mix along with an additional member on Rias'. She goes by - yeah, you can already tell who it is. But there is an additional support joining them just for safety measures.

"Sona. I believe you know the reason I upheld a meeting as of today." Said Rias

"Yes. I do...."

"Ethan hasn't notified us for his return." Both presidents say in unison

"But president. You can already tell Ethan can handle himself very well. Why bother to show concern for him?" Kiba added

"Sure, yes. Ethan is very much capable of taking on enemies in his own, but it still worries me."

"We take the present easy on him, but his past..." Sona adjusted her glasses "disturbs me. I care for him to rid of them."

"Rias, did Elms ever tell you of his birthday?" Tsubaki asked

"......excuse me......?"

"Wait....maybe that was his reason of acting so down that day! President! We missed an important day!"

"Would I care to be given a room to ask?"

"Go ahead Irina."

"You all mentioned Ethan Elms. How or as to why do you know him?"

"....this seems suspicious. You two met?"

"Not just I, but Xenovia as well. We go way back to his orphaned days, our chances to meet happened to be at church. Ethan never quite Understood the meaning behind the church, nor cared to anyways."

"Ooh! Ethan's popularity is growing~." Akeno giggles happily "Elms is becoming more of a man as days go."

"Akeno, lately you've been talking about missing Ethan. What makes him special?" Tsubaki confronts her

"Mm? Is there any reason to miss him? I'm his friend, and he's my friend. Of course we'll both come to express emotions when a friend no longer is there. What's your reasoning of questioning our relationship?"

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe the fact he spends a lot more time with you than anyone else inside this room. Have you been treating him well? Last time I checked, he was really out of it."

"Out of it? What's that supposed to mean?"

"The play girl of Kuoh Academy doesn't realize what her mistake is. Does Ethan know? Do you know how much you hurt him?"

"Tsubaki, drop the attitude." Sona's eyes began to glow

"Sure, I'll drop it. If you own up to your mistakes, that is."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"...ha....I don't know what Ethan sees in you. If he can fall for a girl like you, then maybe you weren't some idiot who plays with his feelings! But I guess I was wrong. It's no wonder he chose me for comfort instead of you....prove it that you claim to know so well about him."

"Tsubaki....! Since when did you act so...uncanny?"

"...it's just....I'm worried about Ethan...... that's all."

"Is he well? Is that friend of his feeding him?"

The group fell to silent. It was strange having to hear Tsubaki defend Ethan from Akeno, what was the problem for that to happen? Well, reason 1 is turning him down. 2 is never show sympathy for a broken heart and went on as any other normal day in Kuoh Academy. 3, following someone else beside Elms.

"I'm giving a call to see if Ethan's doing well... there hasn't been any notification from him since the day he left." Rias shows concern for the human

In fact, he is not well. During his debut against the Descendant, Elms missing one arm along with a gaping hole on his left thigh, blood gushing out as seconds comes by. His vision blurred him with blood, as he had no sense where it is.

"KID! HEY, KID!! DON'T YOU DARE CLOSE THOSE EYES!!!"

"MASTER! STAY AWAKE!!"

"Haaaahhhhh...." He felt his consciousness fade

In the chaos of his soldiers clashing around him, Ethan heard a laughter coming from somewhere. It's mysterious, yes, but as to why there's laughter reminiscing at his local area.... who knows. The sound of laughter happened to sound playful, but also cheering. Nothing could beat that laughter, as it all sounded too familiar with the suffering boy. Is this trick made by the system? Or is his subconscious getting the better of him? Either way, the reflection of her seems to be a perfect Copy whatsoever, making the phenomenon hard to theorize. Alas.... she showed up..... the girl introduced into Ethan's long life.

"Delilah? Wha.... what are you doing here?" Taken back, Ethan felt tricked by this phantasm

[..... Ethan, you've done what you can. How about getting some rest?] Said Delilah [I believe it's time to go home... to me...... to us.....]

"B-but what about everyone? What happens if I l.... leave...?"

[...... My lovely Ethan, please get some rest now.] Raynare added [it pains me dearly to see you hurt like this again. You've been bearing this pain for far too long... I promise I'll make your favorite