Walking The Wrong Path

Untitled Part 22

Regardless, they moved on, Bell didn't have much time to relax anyways.

(Italics represent Bell's voice recordings.)

" Is this thing recording? Goddamn it, Asfi made another dud." Bell cursed. "oh it's on, hello world. I am Bell Cranel, Level 8 executive of the Loki familia, hopefully you know that. Uh... 17 years old, married to a beautiful elven princess and-" Bell began talking.

"oi, Belluchi, I swear you had a limited amount of time to speak into that thing?" Lyd asked from the distance. He was right and what Bell was doing was accurately called, wasting precious recording time.

" Damn how'd you know that? Uh right. So, I am in the 20th floor safezone, I shall head down to the safe zone in the 39th floor. Obviously, I will be avoiding to fight the weaker monsters and since my falna can be updated by myself, I have no real worry besides hunger and sleep. I'm heading down with Asterius, the minotaur Xenos that is somehow hellbent on killing me in battle. Do you have any words?" Bell asked as an interview. They just watched him from the sidelines, it was clearly wasting the devices space.

"I'll kill you one day." Asterius huffed. Not the best thing to say, considering his position, but hey... Asterius tries his best.

"uh... ominous, I feel very safe with you having my back? You sound like Ganesha. Speaking of, say hello to Ganesha. Anyways, you probably won't hear this for another 5 days when this gets sent up. I'll start my logs, they'll be fast and concise, so don't expect too much." Bell recorded. Honestly, he was acting like an idiot, but it added to his charisma of sorts. "oh, ah right. Riveria, don't miss me too much okay? Just remember. With every bell toll, I'm there." he finished.

Was it arguably romantic? Was it efficient? Who knows, he was honestly just kidding around, very characterful of him.

"All right, that's enough seriousness. Let's go Asterius." Bell smiled and turned to them, who only looked flabbergasted.

'th-that was him being serious?' they questioned simultaneously. Thankfully however, Bell's charming personality, should help him from going crazy, after all, he was going to live amongst monsters for an entire month or more. According to his plan.

Bell and Asterius head down using the secret Xenos passage. They momentarily stopped to kill Udaeus real quick. He would've gone for the Amphisbaena but that thing had been killed recently so there was no point in doing so.

"Asterius, let me handle this." Bell smiled. He remembered Ais killing Udaeus single handedly when she needed to go to level 6 so this wouldn't be tough for him.

"hm." Asterius replied. Short and sweet, it was just the affirmation Bell required. He grinned, and put on his mask. The same mask he used from his Evilus killing days a year ago. After all, the final goal was the extermination of Evilus. He released an immense blood lust, the red fluid like aura filled the air. Asterius watched with a glint in his eyes. This was certainly new, from Asterius going off to train all the time, he didn't know much about Bell's situation and if Bell hadn't come around this time, he would've gone back up himself to test him.

Fortunately Bell came down instead. Obviously, for the sake of training but at least there didn't need to be a massive minotaur wrecking the surface apart.

The beady eyes of the Udaeus looking down at Bell from his usual giant stature. The red glow being the only distinct feature available for sight. It grabbed it's sword, something it would do only when a single fighter came forth. The usual cannon fodder also began to be dispensed, an immense number of monsters ran straight towards Bell. It was like the dungeon recognised how much of a threat Bell was, and decided to pour all of this floor's resources into killing Bell.