Chapter 144 - Danmachi Finale...Part 2...

Orario~

At a certain bar within the city...

"So you participated in the expedition two months ago? Can you tell me how did it go? Did you guy reached the last floor? How was it? Is Chaos Familia really strong? The Strongest? Come on man, tell me" excitedly fired a young adventurer at someone sitting in front of him who has scars all over his face and a muscular built.

When the young adventurer asked the scar-faced man, everyone inside the bar went silent and looked at the scar-faced man, waiting for him to speak and tell the tale.

"Wait. Can you just ask one by one? I can't answer you like this!" complained the scar-faced man.

"Alright, alright. So, how was it? Too bad I couldn't come back before the expedition began. I would have joined" said the young adventurer.

"Can't you let me rest for a bit? We've just come back earlier you know and I'm tired and yet here you are dragging me here too drink! Well, anyway, since you want to know. I will tell you" said the scar-faced man.

"Just hurry up and tell us!" shouted a drunk one nearby their table followed by the others.

"Shut up! Just listen! There's nothing much to say anyway" said the scar-faced man.

Hearing the scar-faced man say that, everyone quickly quieted down. Some leaned forward whilst the others stood up and went near the scar-faced man, waiting for him to tell the boring tale.

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Two months ago...

When Silver and everyone entered the dungeon, leading everyone for the expedition, Silver frowned when they encountered a monster. 'Right. We are still at the weaker floors' he thought. When the thinks about it, he told the adventurers to clear the path as they all slowly proceeds.

While some are killing and fighting, some provided supports, and some were tasked to do the picking of magic stones.

Smoothly proceeding with Silver leading the group and reach the 18th floor in less than nine hours. Seeing that many are tired and need resting, he told everyone that they would continue later and take a rest there since it is a safe place.

Even though there are more than a thousand adventurers that join, they were able to reach the 18th floor in nine hours since they were forced to 'run', making most of them tired, from running, fighting, supporting, and picking the magic stones.

As everyone proceeded to make their camps to sleep at for the night and rest better, 'The Problem Group' didn't. Taking Ais along with Albert and Aria with them except for Mira and Hanc.o.c.k because they wanted to rest, they continued exploring down, saying. "Don't worry, we'll come back later" then left, leaving everyone on the 18th floor.

Silver said nothing because he knows that nothing could make any trouble for them inside the dungeon and just told them to come back before midnight. Saying nothing back to Silver, their figures soon disappeared in his sight.

Going somewhere that he could see everyone and soon found a place which is high enough, he sat down and leaned his back on a tree and took out a bottle of his 'favorite beer'. Removing the cap, raising it up and took a gulp, he said, "This thing is really good. Accompanied by this 'great view', I can't ask for more" as he looked somewhere and let out an 'ooh' sound while saying nice.

Seeing everyone cooking, drinking while laughing merrily, and the 'great view', Silver is satisfied and nod his head.

'Hmm... Seems like I'm getting affected by that nature, huh' he thought as he finally realizes that the 'nature' he took out from Bell and integrated with himself.

"Oya? Seems like you found a great place, huh, Silver-kun" said a playful male voice.

Hearing the voice, Silver got startled. Tracing where the voice comes from which is just beside him, Silver asked. "What are you doing here, busybody Hermes?"

"Aiya~, I was looking for you everywhere and found you here. This is a nice place you've found" said Hermes as he looks around and finally sat down.

"I just want to thank you for giving this chance to the children. Truly, thank you" sincerely said Hermes as he looked at Silver.

"For what?" asked Silver.

"For giving them a chance to explore to the end of the dungeon. Truly, this is the greatest gift we Gods could gift them" said Hermes as he looked at the cold beer in Silver's hand.

Seeing Hermes look at the bottle of beer in Silver's hand, he took out another one, more like made one and gave it to Hermes. Hermes took it and took a gulp, tasting the beer Silver gave him, Hermes said in a delighted tone. "This... What is this? This taste great"

"It's my favorite beer, Redhorse. Anyway, after this expedition, I still have a gift to the world. Look forward to it" said Silver not wanting to tell Hermes what is it.

Silver and Hermes have known each other long ago before Chaos Familia was even born. Silver liked the character of Hermes who also got along well with him, but even though they have known each other for a long time, this is the first time they both sat down and drank.

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Morning came and the expedition began early wanting to reach the 30th or 50th floor until sundown since there is another peaceful spot there that Goddess Daisy made so everyone could rest.

(She change the whole dungeon when the 'Problem Group' came here before and Silver doesn't know)

With Silver leading the group and injuring and letting the others kill the monsters so they could enhance their strength even for a little, they smoothly proceeded down.

As they proceed, the monsters started getting more stronger when they reach the 25th mark, but with Silver leading, it didn't hinder their progress.

Reaching the 30th floor, Silver wanted to continue, but seeing the tired adventurer, they didn't proceed any further.

To confirm his suspicions since Silver doesn't remember that the monsters were not that strong on the 25th floor, he asked Goddess Daisy about it. The Goddess said, "I change the whole dungeon starting from 25th floor and made the monsters stronger. But the real changes would start at floor 51"

"I see, this might be better than the old dungeon," said Silver.

'Since the monster would be stronger than before, I should let the adventurers fight and see what needs to be done' he thought.

Early morning, they continued their advance still with Silver leading, but this time he wasn't injuring the monsters and just let the fighters fight and the supporters do their work while the monster core pick uppers do their duty.

At the 31st floor, when Silver told them to do the work, there was almost no teamwork. It was a chaotic scene, some got injured amongst the chaotic teamwork, but since there were too many of them and the passage wasn't really that big, it couldn't be helped. But as they proceeded onwards, slowly but surely, everyone started being able to cooperate with each other.

With Alber, Aria, Ais, and Ella as the vanguard and Hermes, Loki, and Freya (Who was forced to join) telling them what to do while the Chaos Familia just watched everyone.

Out of nowhere, Goddess Daisy started eating popcorn while watching everyone and following them, Rose and Erza wanted to join and fight the monsters so did Ophis but was told to just watch for now by Silver. Reluctant as they were, they couldn't refute him since this expedition was meant for the adventurers to gain experience and many more.

With nothing to do but watch, Chaos Familia joined Goddess Daisy at eating popcorn while commenting and pointing at the fighting adventurers and laughing from time to time.

Since there was a thousand more adventurer before they started exploring from the 31st floor, Silver divided the group to 50 people for a group, each group would clear a floor and go behind when they reach the next floor and let the next group do the work while they rest and heal at the back.

Of course, with Silver here, no one would die, and if there would be, he would bring that person back to life, making the adventurers at ease and give their all when fighting.

There are 23 groups in total, each has 50 people except for the Chaos Familia.

Soon they encountered monsters that shouldn't be at the dungeon at the 45th floor after hours of hard battle.

The group that fought the monsters had a hard time fighting them, although they are strong, they just couldn't kill it so they request help from the group that should be clearing the next floor. Seeing their fellow adventurers struggling, the next group assisted them and finally able to kill the trees that are attacking them.

After some time of a hard-fought battle, they finally won, and both groups went at the back to let the next group clear the next floor for they are dead tired.

The next group consisted of Hestia Familia and Hermes Familia and some other adventurers from different familias. When they arrive at the next floor, what greeted their sight was more trees, but this time, there were minotaurs numbering at least 20.

Seeing the monsters and knowing just how hard to kill the monster trees and now coupled with minotaurs monsters, another two groups joined them.

A hundred and Fifty people fought the monsters for hours and were finally able to clear it. Going at the back, the next group of fifty went forward and advanced but when they reach the next floor and seeing more trees and more monsters, three groups joined them. Killing and clearing, a group after another went forward to give help until they finally reached the 50th floor.

When the group saw that they could finally rest, those who were too tired and injured plummeted to the ground, panting heavily but with a smile on their faces so is the others.

50th floor ah! This is the deepest everyone had ever reached!

Happiness filled everyone's heart, even the Gods/Goddess who came also did.

As everyone was feeling happy, a group didn't for they are bored. This bored group is no other than Chaos Familia.

They would say, "This is only the 50th floor, not the last. Why so happy over it?"

And if, only if someone asked and they answer, that person might spit out blood and die on the spot.

Seeing so many injured, Silver decided to let them all rest for 3 days, to heal their injuries and clear their minds since from the 51st floor, the monster would be at another league.

The changes Goddess Daisy made at the dungeon was, there would only be one type of monster from 51st floor to the 60thh floor but as they go up, there would be more monsters after clearing the first one and after clearing the 60th floor, there will be a safe floor for everyone to rest and this would continue until reaching the 100th floor.

How did she do it?

Well, she created the dungeon so she could do everything she wanted with it. As for the monsters? She multiplied them while making them stronger than the former floor.

For example, if there was 100 goblins at the 51st floor, the next would have 200 and so on.

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Three days Later...

Everyone is healed and ready to proceed onto the next floor.

What awaited them?

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