Chapitre 18: When does this end?!
Alex woke up, it seems he slept while he was holding a closed eye. He saw that Chris was sleeping with her head on his lap, so he shook her a bit.
Alex: Wake up Goddess.
Chris: Hnn… Just 5 more minutes, Aqua-senpai…
Alex then flickered her head, and she immediately stood up.
Chris: Are we being attacked!?
Alex: No.
Chris flinched at his sudden voice and looked around the room.
Chris: Oh right, we are stuck here.
Alex: Yeah, let's go, the faster we end this, the better it is.
Chris nodded and prepared her items, before following Alex to the next room. In the next room, there was a gate that was at least 10 times bigger than them and there was a button on the ceiling, connected to the closed gate.
In the room, there were the same undeads with parasites attached on them. Chris remained unfazed until her eyes widened and her face turned completely red.
Chris: D-Do we need to get naked again…?
Alex: Don't worry, we won't need to kill them.
Alex summoned a Overfiend Blade of Nulgath and reached the button, pressing it, then the gate opened, and Alex and Chris went in.
The room was really big, and countless undeads were there, looking at Alex.
Grimskull: Gather 50 souls IF you think you have enough stamina to continue.
Alex: You heard him, let's kill them all.
Chris: Yes!
Then Alex summoned 3 Oblivion Blades of Nulgath and sent them towards the undeads to fight, meanwhile he summoned one for himself and wielded it against the most nearby ones, for doing things faster, he activated Shackle, with the new upgrade increasing his speed of the 50%.
At the end, Chris killed 10 of them while Alex killed 40 of them, and then Grimskull's voice arrived on their ears as the next gate opened.
Grimskull: Are you not exhausted?
Alex and Chris ignored him like every time and reached the next room, Chris' trap detector activated, and saw two levers, one was connected to the next gate, while the other was connected to the ceiling full of spikes.
The levers were near two signboards, one said "Do Not Pull", while the other said "Pull".
Chris: The one which say "Do Not Pull" is the right one.
Alex nodded and went towards it, before he pulled the lever, then the gate opened and the two of them entered in the next room.
There was again the bag of gold at the other side of the room, and Chris said
Chris: Follow my steps.
Alex nodded and let Chris take the lead, they walked towards right, but not by too much. Then they went forward until they reached the middle of the room, they turned left and walked towards the way for the bag of gold, and then they walked forward again while taking the bag.
Finally they reached the gate and entered in it.
Alex: Phew, thanks Chris, at least I saved mana for some fight instead of flying there.
Chris: It's nothing.
The next room was full of Grim Shelletons, and Grimskull's voice was heard.
Grimskull: Find the Princess' Key and you might just survive another room.
Alex: Alright… You were the goddess of luck, right? Pick one of them.
Chris: Ehhh?! But luck doesn't work like that!
Alex: Just do it!
Chris: A-Ah! Alright! That one!
The Grim Shelleton that she chosen was smashed to pieces from three Overfiend Blades of Nulgath, and something shining was seen there.
Alex: See? It worked.
Chris: Oh…
The other Shelletons got away when they saw their companions getting destroyed like that and let Alex pick up the key and open the next gate, where he could muffled "Help me!" coming from there.
Grimskull: Oh yes, YES! Open the door heroes!
After opening the door, Alex got inside the gate, followed from Chris.
This time, they were on a short large bridge, and over it there was… A third Princess Angler…
Grimskull: Since you didn't save the second Princess, maybe you'll do better this time around…
?: RAAAWR!!
??: RAAAAAAAWR!!
Alex raised an eyebrow and he looked down from the bridge.
Alex: For the love of everything that is holy…
Chris was curious and looked at where he was looking at… It was a literal sea of Princess Anglers, there wasn't a single spot where they could see the ground..
Chris: Kyaaa!
She jumped back in shock, attracting the one that was on the bridge, Alex turned around and summoned a Combat Soulreaper of Nulgath, before fighting with it.
…
Grimskull: Another one? You sure are a disappointment as heroes…
The door opened, and Alex even leveled up, reaching level 40 and gaining 5 skill points with the 3 he ripped off from the Princess Angler. Right now he has a total of 6 Skill Points.
Both of them entered in the next room, and found yet another room with a bag of gold. Like before, Chris took the lead.
They got to left, towards the edge of the room, then they reached the mid of the wall and headed towards the mid of the opposite wall, before going forward again, meanwhile they picked up that bag of coins too and then entered in the next room, that was full of fire mages.
Grimskull: This dungeon's a bit chilly. Slay 5 of my Fire Mages to heat things up.
Chris: And here are his bad puns…
Grimskull: Hey! Those are great puns!
Alex: Ignore him, Chris, let's just kill the 5 fire mages…
Chris: Alright…
Then she threw her enchanted dagger on the skull of one, splitting it in two. And then Chris rushed towards it, meanwhile Alex summoned 4 Champion Blades of Nulgath and sent them to the other remaining 4 to kill them in 1 strike.
Grimskull: Not interested in heating things up I see, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Alex's eyebrow twitched a bit and the two of them walked towards the other room while he made the swords disappear.
In the next room, there were still undeads with parasites on their bodies. At the other side of the room there was a really small door connected to a button that was on the ceiling.
Alex: Welp, this time we need to get naked…
Chris: ...Hey Alex, can you promise me you won't do anything strange and not look?
Alex: Don't worry, I'm not a molester, just kill the monsters with the purple flower, I will use my weapons to reach the button.
Chris nodded and hesitantly got naked before she rushed to the monsters. Soon, both Alex and Chris got small, but this time Chris couldn't kill more because her dagger was too big, so Alex lifted her and the dagger with a sword and then the two fell over the last skeleton, before she shrank at the right height.
And after Alex sent a weapon to the button, he opened the gate and both of them entered the next room while taking their clothes with them. While they walked to the gate, Alex remained unfazed while Chris was blushing the entire time.
Chris: ...After this you need to take your responsibilities…
Alex: What?
Chris: ...I… I said you need to take your responsibilities for seeing me naked!
Alex raised an eyebrow, not understanding what she meant with those words, before he shrugged and headed to the next room.
They magically turned back to their own size and then dressed up. When they were done, they looked around.
There were 5 levers, 3 rings to pull, and 2 red buttons. The walls were filled with spikes.
Alex: Which one is the right one?
Chris pointed to a stone on the wall, Alex went towards that stone and moved it, revealing a third button.
Alex: Neat…
Alex clicked that, and the gate opened, and so they headed to the next room. The next room had 3 liches, and surprisingly a painting.
Grimskull: Slay 3 Grim Lich to pass into the next room. You are getting closer…
The liches immediately summoned spears from nothings to 3 different places, Alex immediately went beside Chris and summoned 4 Overfiend Blades of Nulgath, before spinning them around to avoid any spear to reach them.
After he blocked the spears, he grabbed one greatsword and rushed towards a lich, who used its staff to shoot a lightning bolt at him, the other 3 blades went for the other 2 liches, who froze them immediately, sealing their movements.
Alex: Chris! Take care of one!
Chris: Yes!
Then Chris rushed towards one while Alex held back two of them. Chris was halfway from reaching one when it teleported behind her and slammed its staff on her side, but she blocked the attack with her free arm, even if she was sent rolling in the ground.
She immediately stood on her feet and extended one arm towards the lich.
Chris: [Bind]!
A rope appeared from nothing and coiled around the lich, surprising it and interrupting its spell, so it tried to cast another one while Chris rushed at it.
But before it could teleport away, Chris used Skill Bind to block the teleportation and then she stabbed it on the head, killing the lich. It was fortunate that this wasn't like the lich of her world, because that would be almost impossible to beat.
She turned around, and saw Alex releasing some bloodlust as he crushed the liches' skulls.
When he finished, the bloodlust was gone and turned around.
Alex: Done.
Strangely there wasn't any communication from Grimskull, so their concentration went to the painting than the opened gate.
There was the black silhouette of a swordsman fighting against the black silhouette of a giant that was roaring. Under the painting, they saw a text...
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
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