Chapter 751 Before The Boss's Room

Chapter 751 Before The Boss's Room

Gojo sat on a large boulder, eating lunch with Tempo as they watched the new dungeon grow. "Do you think we should help? There are over seventy students stuck there!" Tempo asked with a large smile as he munched on his grilled chicken thigh.

Gojo lifted a finger, conjuring a tiny ball of energy. "I don't know. I would love to leave this to brother to take care of."

"He might not be able to save everyone! I can't have people die here. It'll be bad if they die while I'm here trying to make peace!" Tempo stared at Gojo. "Innocent people shouldn't die!"

"Innocent people die all the time. You can't save everyone." Gojo smiled. "But, this isn't that far from brother's abilities to solve."

"Do you think they can beat the boss?" Tempo looked at the dungeon, still munching.

"Taking brother out of the picture, I can see them winning, but not without deaths. As long as Aella doesn't get harmed, I don't care how many else die." Gojo replied.

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Aella, Matilda, Ganta, and Selina managed to drive away the large spiders and started heading deeper into the dungeon.

"It's been a while, and not a single monster showed up." Ganta looked around. "But I still feel them slithering around."

"Even monsters can understand it when a fight is unwinnable." Aella replied to her. "They are avoiding us."

After a while, they reached a dead end as a massive boulder blocked their path. Selina walked toward the boulder with a tiny flame on her finger for light and inspected it. "Look, those scratches are new. It just fell down." She looked at the ceiling, seeing the spot where the boulder was before.

"Is this why those large demon spiders are reinforcing the tunnels with their webs?" Ganta approached the wall and looked at it, only seeing dirt and stones.

"Are you stupid?" Matilda approached the wall that Ganta looked at and pierced it with her claw. "Look." She pulled her claw and the deeper dirt looked to be mixed with the spider's webbing.

"They already reinforced this tunnel. They dropped that stone here." Matilda said with a proud face, puffing her chest as her tail spiked. "I'm smart, aren't I?" She looked at Aella, her ears wiggling.

"Matilda is right." Aella approached the stone. "But why would they do that? Are they trying to lock us away from the rest of the dungeon?"

"That's possible." Selina replied, "But I doubt it. I've read before that different dungeons would have different architectures, and this might be how doors are made here."

"So this is either a door to a level that isn't built yet or..." Aella looked at the other girls.

Thud! Ganta smacked her fist together, "The boss room." She smiled.

"Don't jump in." Aella glared at her.

"That..." Aella tried to think of her words carefully... Albeit she couldn't help but think. ^Who am I to say anything while getting on with a dragon? No, wait, dragon's offspring are "That..." Aella tried to think of her words carefully... Albeit she common and accepted due to how much power they could get.^

"Isn't that like a half-dragon?" Aella looked at her.

"Blame the bards for that." Ganta growled, "Until now, I've never seen a woman that doesn't want to spread them for a dragon, or a man that doesn't want to marry a drakaina. Only because dragons made a name for themselves as a symbol of power."

"You're right. A dragon would be strong. But it has to be a metallic one, they need to be able to take a humanoid form." Matilda joined in.

Aella and Ganta stared at her for a second and then sighed. "See?" Ganta pointed at her. "But, the only power I have is being able to change my magic based on what I eat. That change only lasts for a few seconds. You saw it earlier when I ate those spiders, albeit I should apologize for how gross that might've looked, it's one of the reasons people hated and drove me out of the village."

^I'm sure Sebas can only get power from dragons, but she seems to be able to get it from anything. But the catch is that she can only keep the power for a short period of time, unlike him who keeps it for weeks.^

As the three kept talking, Selina was swimming in her own thoughts, imagining herself living alone with a dragon inside a cave away from the cruel outer world.

The girls stared at her daydreaming. "Selina, what are you thinking about?" Matilda asked.

"No! No! Nothing!" She gasped with a red face.

As they talked, Aella kept thinking, ^If only they knew I was already married to a dragon.^

"Say, Selina." Ganta approached her. "How do you think it'll be? Being a dragon's bride?"

"How would I know." Selina gasped.

"Who knows?" Aella looked at them. "He might fly you over the clouds, be a bit rough, but caring. Money won't be an issue and neither safety...but you'll probably need to be in peace with the idea you're not the only wife." She looked up. "Even if you wanted him all for yourself, he'll end up with other wives, and you'll most likely live under the same roof."

"More wives? I don't mind that, but I rather live with fewer people around me." Selina mumbled.

"More wives isn't a problem." Ganta stared at Aella with a large smile. "We gorillas live in large families of one dominant male, a silverback, and usually he has multiple wives, the more the better." She sighed. "That's why my father's cheating wasn't that big of a problem, and rather with whom he did it."

"We aren't like lions, we only have families of a mother and her cubs." Matilda replied. "We don't have a marriage like the other races, but instead the father usually goes on his own way after mating."

"Is it like that with tigers?" Aella looked at her.

"The beast queen has been nagging our heads about it for decades. She managed to get us to register the cubs with their father but wasn't able to get it any further." Matilda sighed. "She said it's problematic, but that's our tradition and she can't take it away."

"But you can't fight and hunt alone. You can't be a lone mother." Ganta glared at her.

"Shut up! That's why I came here, either to find a husband and settle by this place's rules, or get strong enough to return and live my life." Matilda growled.