Kyle, he’s awake.  Kyle was looking around the area and making sure the buffed-up shark that fell down was dead. It seems that the village down here is another base of a cult.


    “Ugh, my head, did Shade send you? I shouldn''t have gone over my deadline yet.”  Uhm, no we were on something else, this was purely a coincidence. Can I ask what you''re doing here and what your mission was?


    “Sure, I will fail anyways if I don’t tell you. I was tasked to guard the daughter of the Vice President of the Adventurers Association. She was to travel to Gittrian for the S-rank assessment that will be held in 2 weeks. He was afraid that she would be kidnapped and held hostage, or worse, assassinated, so that''s where I came in for counter-assassination.” Vice Daddy had a daughter? Didn''t he have a son?


    “You know the vice president?”  Kyle that''s not important let Esher talk!


    “...”


    Esher groaned. “So 2 days ago we got ambushed by this strange group. There were so many of them and they weren’t pushovers. They called them Ouroboros or something.”  Hoo boi.


    Kyle clenched his fist. “These fuckers again.”


    Esher groaned and checked his inventory. “We took out half of them but they seemed to have a strange object that could undo certain actions so we got caught eventually. I managed to escape several hours ago but the vice president''s daughter and some of the guards are still stuck in there.”  I know this might sound cold but do you know if they were planning on something because those lives don''t matter much if this cult has something worse planned than just kidnapping randoms.


    “The vice president’s daughter isn''t just a random person but they said something about gaining immortality.”


    I saw Thalia react from my eye corner. “Did they say how they would achieve it?” Thalia acted on her interest.


    “No but it might have to do with that ancient looking structure they built their base around."  Oh no, you gotta be kidding me. Kyle, send out shadow clones to find exits immediately, I need your real body, this… might get very dangerous.


    I climbed on a big rock and inspected the base. They had an ancient building in the middle of their base. The primal runes read ''Warning'', ''Sealed'', and other things. It didn''t read ‘Demon’ but at this point, it didn''t matter. The cultists were using some item that I recognized as a Dimsha, to slowly undo any seal on whatever was inside. They seemed close to succeeding. I spotted the prisoners so I sent 2 shadow clones to save them.


    Esher got up. “I’m going in too this is my mission!”  I’m not going to stop you but realize that you might die if you go in like this.


    “I am a Silent Night this is our pride, complete the job even at the cost of our life!” I saw that Kyle was listening.  I will send my shadow clones to deal with the cultists. It is your mission so you save them!  I put my hand on Esher''s shoulder.


    Don''t die, this kid here is my successor, he could learn a lot from you.


    “Heh, finally had enough? We were wondering when you would have had enough. I can''t promise anything but I have no intention of dying.” Even while injured Esher still gave off an air of confidence and coolness. He left to save the Vice President''s daughter.


    “So that is Esher, your… my boss.”  Yeah, I don''t know him that well but he always stays calm and he is more skilled than he lets on. This place has over 3000 cultists. How he even escaped alive after getting caught as a human. I’m impressed.


    “I admire his spirit; I hope I will be as cool as him one day.”  Fat chance Toxic Donkey!


    The cultists were using the Dimsha to undo things our clones did and it was very annoying. I tried to swap it with a dagger I was holding but it didn''t respond. Strange. I touched the magma and used [Ignis] and sent him to terrorize the cultists. They undid him but he just reformed and continued to harass the cultists. The problem was this ancient building. It says ''Divinity''.


    I surely hope that there isn''t a god is sealed here. That would be worse than a demon, I think.


    I tried to get close but something pushed me back. Divine energy? What the hell? The cultists summoned a huge magma golem in response to [Ignis]. [Ignis] was a glass cannon so he got one shot but kept reforming. Take that jerks! Well, Ignis was only keeping them occupied, he wasn’t doing a lot of damage because he gets one shot the moment he reformed. I need to one day refine this technique…


    “See I told you I would be back alive!” Esher returned only 10 minutes after he had left.


    “Wait is that you Agnis?!” A woman said after pointing at me.  Do I know you?


    “It’s me Tania! Stop forgetting me!”  Tania? Doesn’t ring a bell sorry.


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    “But you do remember my father, right?”  Yeah… Ohhh you’re Daddy’s girl! Yes, I remember!


    “I’m not Daddy’s girl anymore, I’m an adult now, how about it, I turned out beautiful eh?” She spun around. I looked at Thalia and pulled her toward me.  I’m sorry I prefer Thalia.


    “Wha?!” And this is how I made the two chicks talk to each other so that I didn''t have to deal with some nonsensical rivalry by appointing Thalia as my favourite. Now I need to deal with this divinity bullshit.


    “Hey Agnis answer me! Who is this chick!”  I already told you her name is Thalia and she’s capable to tell her yourself, ask her, I’m busy. Hey Toxic Donkey, anything about the exits yet?


    “Nothing yet, some collapsed passages, we might have to get out how we came in.” Kyle and I looked up and the others followed.


    Daddy''s girl was still being a nuisance. “Wait, you came from up there? How?! Hey Agnis explain!”  Esher, please…


    “Right, Tania let''s get somewhere else, you’re wounded, and we''re still in the middle of the enemy base.”


    “Hey what about them?" Daddy''s girl pointed at us.


    We’re going for risk mitigation; you guys get out of here first.  I put some illusion layers on everyone because nothing good will happen here, it’s best to be cautious.


    Esher, I can''t explain how or why but I put something on you guys that allows for you to die 5 times before it is game over. Normally it''s a bad idea to say this but I’m sure someone of your caliber can exploit this to its fullest potential. After 5 times it''s as if everything works like normal, Don''t let it get to a 6th time.  Esher nodded and he guided Tania and the 3 guards away. Kyle sent him in a certain direction because there was a passage that seemed decent. It would bring them close to where they could climb up and enter the space from where we fell down.


    “Hey, Agnis shouldn''t we go too? I have a bad feeling about this place…”  And you’re completely correct Thalia, get the Toxic Donkey and get out of here.


    “Wait, what about you?”  I told you about the duties of an immortal right? I don’t care for these cultists but that building there is something I have to deal with.


    “If you''re staying in staying too, it won''t matter, right? If that thing comes out and you lose, we will probably all die, I might die if I stay here but if I can be of help, we might win.“  These runes read ''divinity''; I don''t think a human can do anything against that.


    Thalia grabbed my hand. “Did you forget who I am? I’m the Alluring Desertflower, I’m only as strong as the strongest link in our party, and that is you.” She closed the distance. “I am going to buff you so much that you can''t help falling for me, so what if there is a god in there, can it stand against a fully buffed nine-tailed spirit fox?”  I surely hope not, we have a huge problem if it can.


    “Right then we have a deal. Kyle! We’re staying!”


    Kyle kicked a cultist away and turned his face toward us. “Wait what? Are you guys insane?”  You can run with your tail between your legs Toxic Donkey!


    “Fuck that!”


    The place started to slowly crumble and the magma started to rise. The cultists were in panic. I tried to stop the last seal from breaking but I had no clue how to deal with divine energy. I noticed that 3 layers had broken on Esher. There seemed to be some strange mutated trolls that gave the same vibe as the piranhas, they even had super buffed-up trolls. He was in a very rough situation but he seemed to have made some bets with his life that paid off. The dungeon exploded.


    "Yeeees! I am finally free! At last! I can finally see mother!” A black-haired bulky guy broke out. I created a [Frostwall] around him and boxed him in with myself, Thalia, and Kyle inside. Kyle picked up Thalia. He would be her legs.


    And who might your mother be?  He slowly changed from a body language that indicated that he was happy to one of being annoyed. He slowly turned his head toward me.


    “Ugh, disgusting creature. I admire your curiosity for the divine though, I loathe to think that I share half my blood with these disgusting creatures but at least my mother''s side is beautiful.” By the words, looks and manner of speech I can already take a guess.


    Hmm, demigod, we’re not quite as fucked as I thought, should be doable, let me guess your mother is Tomato head Biian?  My head felt like it exploded and all kinds of memories flooded in that I seemed to have forgotten.


    Oof, that was unpleasant, but that explains my headaches and nightmares.


    “You filth! How dare you call her that and to even utter her beautiful name on your filthy tongue! You shall be excised from existence!”  Well, there you go guys, we’re quite lucky it''s just a demigod.


    “Just a demigod he says… Watch out!” I dodged a strike. This guy swung his golden staff at me. He was fast but I could easily dodge them all.


    “Hmm, I sense more filthy creatures!” He spotted Kyle and Thalia and sent a [Light ball] at them. It was huge. Kyle evaded it and it exploded and took down a part of my [Frost wall] My eyes told me that divine energy doesn''t give a fuck about my wall being made out of frost. Good to know.


    “Ugh! They’re crawling everywhere!” He sent out [Light waves] that broke the other [Frost walls] and one shot the cultists. He then charged a punch and punched into the air.


    Oh shit!  I created multiple [Frost walls] because he was aiming for Esher and his group. My walls didn''t help and they got blasted. Esher’s last layer broke and he was quite bloodied. I wanted to help but I can''t go easy on a demigod. Hoping Esher will survive I turned to the Demigod.