My Upgrades Are Invincible

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

'Cutting through these monsters truly isn't all that difficult so long as you treat them as feral animals at least these goblins and kobolds are that simple we will have to see deeper in...' I absently thought stomping on the head of a hamstrung goblin who screamed as my boot dropped onto its face.

Meanwhile Bell was slaughtering the lions share of Monsters who were intent on popping out of the walls to kill us as quickly as possible as we walked deeper into the dungeon.

As I was pulling stones out of the monsters and listening to Bell's advice about weak points to monsters and where to find them I asked him seriously.

"Hey Bell how far are we going, I don't think I can kill the Killer Ants quick enough with how strong I am currently so can we just stick to the fourth floor for now?"

Bell sighed and nodded understandingly "That's alright its still very hard for me to kill them quick enough when several of them come after me at once so sticking around the fourth floor for a week or something to get your stats up to H rank would be best."

He then grinned happily. "I actually have someone to teach and rely on me so I will make sure nothing happens to you!" Oh my god save the Shonen speech please.

"Hey Bell what do we do when we meet a Adventurer down here by the way?" Granted I was given a bunch of paperwork to sign and work on to be signed up as an Adventurer but one thing they didn't specify was how we were to approach our fellow Adventurer's down here other than not kill stealing in particular, so I was curious as to how Bell would deal with hostile Adventurer's.

"Hmm typically in these lower levels people just leave each other alone unless you are doing something like parade passing." I shuddered at the though of an ass literally leading hundreds of monsters to chase them and then purposefully drawing them into other people to loot later.

"There's also the fact that the Guild is so close by in comparison to the deeper floors, so if anyone were to escape from an attack they would be able to easily report them and the Guild would sanction there Familia which could cripple them in the long term." He said solemnly and I agreed being an Adventurer was a seriously expensive profession with how many potions alone we went through not to mention our weapons and other gear which all the crafting Familia's happily gouge us on...

"So we are mostly safe from the our fellow Adventurer's around here is what I am getting correct?"

Bell nodded before frowning. "Yeah Eina told me most bandits and people who hunt adventures typically hit others at the ninth through twelfth floor because for one the deep mists that hide anything more ten meters in front of you and more importantly its when adventurer's start to carry more expensive weapons and, take supporters to carry the days loot." Hmm makes sense seeing as that's where Lili ganked Bell and left him for dead... Speaking of which what am I going to do about that emo midget, should I get involved or not?

Pulling my thoughts to the present I saw a small group of three goblins huddled together sitting on the floor of an open room facing another tunnel as we were going around a bend. "Hey Bell let me try to take this one my own." I asked him offhandedly as I needed two more kills to finish my goblin extermination quest and I wanted to get them on my own this time.

Bell quietly nodded and stuck to the walls to give me space and I am guessing to make sure nothing stuck me in the back as I fought what was in front of me.

Walking forward with my sword held at my side and I approached the group and I guess they were so engrossed in playing sentry duty that even with me not bothering to tiptoe or something I was able to get within a couple meters of them without them noticing so I threw Bell a 'What the hell' look to which he just shrugged so I sighed which got there attention so I swung my sword with both hands as hard as I could and cleaved through the neck of the closest goblin easily and then as the other two stood up and ignored the fallen body of there compatriot my sword got buried and stuck half way into the chest of the second goblin with the left over momentum from my first swing, who I could now tell was trying to shriek in agony but it could only drown in its blood.

Taking a step back I let go of my thoroughly stuck blade as the almost bifurcated goblin was holding onto the blade buried in its chest on purpose and dodged the enraged claw swipe from the last goblin sent at my chest and kicked it in the knee making it drop to the ground. Taking my gutting knife out I slammed it into the back of the goblin and could both feel and hear my knife crack its ribs making the goblin shudder and go limp.

"Slow down Bell!" I called out seeing Bell leave my sight after turning a corner and I was already panting. I certainly wasn't fat or even really out of shape but trying to keep up with someone who back in your old world was probably close to the peak of humanity's agility when you don't have those enhancement's will quickly exhaust you.

I stopped running as I couldn't even hear Bells footsteps and I luckily had a good idea of the first couple floors maps so I wasn't worried about getting lost in here and I knew seeing as I was the damn supporter the idiot would have to run back when he got to the surface and tried to turn in our stones only to realize I have all the damn stones.... No I am not mad at him just disappointed really.

Click click! a series of sharp tapping noises came towards my way and seeing as I was besides the entrance what ever was coming wouldn't be able to see me so I readied to slash at whatever ran past me.

"Swoosh" I swung at the fast running blur that sped past and I just barely managed to clip the head of what seemed to be an extremely colorful rooster which seemed to daze it to the point of falling to the ground.

I wasn't sure what the hell it was so I just leapt forward and stabbed it before it could it could recover and this time my blade seemed to just glide into it making it stiffen and collapse.

"Mumble Mumble" I think I could hear people coming a couple tunnels away so I immediately just grabbed the bird and stuffed it into my oversized bag and didn't even bother getting the stone out of it and started booking it towards the entrance of the dungeon I didn't want to be accused of kill stealing even though the monster had clearly managed to get away from them.

As I managed to correctly find my way back to the entrance I saw a clearly nervous Bell standing next to a fuming Eina who looked to be one moment away from exploding at the poor boy and deciding to nip this in the bud so we can get back and Hestia can give him his own earful for fucking leaving me behind on my first day... "Heya Bell its nice seeing you here. Oh hey Eina did you know Bell was so excited at the thought of leaving the dungeon early today he literally left me all alone on my first day. Just fwoosh he just ran off leaving me all on my own sigh..." I said forlornly like I've been abandoned by the world.

Mount Eina exploded whirling onto the poor boy and grabbed him by the collar and started shaking and berating him.

I could see the light reflecting off her glasses making her prey unable to even see her eyes how terrifying. Also is it a skill possessed only by strict women I wonder?

"Bell how could you leave him alone on his first day! No how could you be so irresponsible in general do you want him dead or hurt?" Eina shouted and I kind of felt a bit touched because we haven't really had any interactions but she truly did seem to care for my safety.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Bell helplessly cried out as the alpha female established her dominance by shaking him silly.

After a few more moment's of Bell crying out apologies and Eina's starting to threated Bell with homework? I cut in to stop the bit with a cough "I think Bell has learned a good lesson on what not to do now, right Bell?" I offered him a lifeline and he took it like a drowning man.

Bell started furiously nodding with the shaking which made him look like a bobblehead. "I wont ever leave you in the dungeon alone again I promise Jake so stop shaking me Eina!"

Having conquered her prey Eina turned to me with a welcoming and friendly smile that was the complete opposite of her previous wrathful state which almost made me reflexively take a step back but I kept my ground. "Ok Jake seeing as you are the one will all the drops lets go take care of those real quick then you gentlemen can head home."

Remembering the weird bird that wasn't covered in the little lessons about the first levels of the dungeon I hesitantly asked. "Hey is it ok if we go to a private room for this I found something weird on the way back."