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[Dungeon] Chapter 27 – Gremory Princess’ Madness
🕑 Added 2025-03-23 13:02:04 +0000 UTCThe devils pushed the door.
Creak-
Heavy metal door creaked, opened slowly, revealing a snow covered ground with a blizzard raging wildly.
It was cold, freezing.
A white mist escaped from their mouth with each breath. A snow storm raged, obscuring the visibility of the entire forest, making them unable to see beyond 5 meters.
However, there was no need to see through the storm to find their enemy.
"RRROOAAARR!"
Because the monster was standing in a pile of snow, with bodies laying around it, and a familiar red hair was hanging above its head.
Rias, who was looking at her fallen servant, held in the monster's grip, gasped and her eyes widened in shock.
"HOW DARE YOU?!" She shouted loudly, watching as her servant, the boy who loved her, almost got swallowed whole. Her expression turned grim, and her aura changed. The red hair that was once beautiful and elegant turned dark with aura. Her eyes, too, became crimson and her aura became more and more sinister.
The Yeti opened his mouth and lowered the boy into his mouth.
Seeing that, Rias got enraged. Destruction factor gathered around her hand and her aura changed. She didn't hesitate to shoot the ball, aiming for the monster's face. She was in such rage that her power, a red colored sphere of light, expanded and created an explosion.
"Grrr!"
Getting hit, Yeti threw away Issei's corpse and screamed. Blood gushed out of its mouth. Its fur was torn, revealing a bit of its pale skin. For a moment, Yeti lost his balance, and his legs almost buckled. But, he was a big and strong creature. It didn't take him more than a few seconds to recover from the destruction power that ate away at his face.
"OOHHH!" The monster screamed and ran away from Rias, drumming the earth and disappearing into the blizzard, escaping from his demise.
The Gremory princess was about to follow and hunt it down, but was stopped by Sona. Her expression was still grim as she stared into the bodies on the ground.
"Are you not going to check on them?" Her expression was grim.
Rias didn't answer and only knelt in front of Issei. She checked his pulse, and after a while, she despaired. Color disappeared from her face and she knelt down on the floor. Her eyes were empty.
"..."
Her face was filled with sadness, regret, anger. She was shaking. The one she loved was dead, her peerage members. And the one she blamed was herself. Her heart ached, her stomach turned. Her eyes started watering, and tears dropped to the ground, freezing upon landing.
She didn't care about her surroundings, didn't see how the others looked at her, how her fellow rulers checked on her, and how her group was on high alert, ready to defend her against any enemy. Her mind was in turmoil. Her heart was shattered. Her world collapsed.
The death of her peerage, her precious people.
"Uu... uuh..." Tears kept dropping and she kept crying. Her hands reached to her chest, holding her heart.
Gremory Princess, Rias Gremory. The next head of the Gremory clan.
The young woman who had a bright future in front of her, whose life was as smooth as silk. The woman who was loved and admired, a leader who shouldered the hope of others, the symbol of hope for many. A young woman, barely 20 years old.
The one who was supposed to live and be loved.
Now she cried and her world turned black, as the color of despair filled her heart. As her mind and her body were filled with pain.
Her eyes became dark, her expression was of pain.
Destruction aura seeped out of her body, destroying everything but the bodies she cared so much about. She cried, and then stood up, her face blank.
"Rias, are you okay?" Sona asked worriedly, knowing full well her rival and friend wasn't fine.
"I will destroy this place." Rias said.
She didn't wait for any reply and shot a ball of destruction at the Yeti, who was watching her from afar.
Yeti screamed in agony, a cry that shook the forest and the snow around the mountain.
Yet, Rias wasn't done. Her body was covered with dark aura and she walked toward the monster, a small part of her heart wanting to take revenge on the one that killed Issei and the others, while the rest was just wanting to destroy.
Raising her hand, she controlled the destruction factor around her and attacked, creating an explosion that shook the entire mountain.
And then another.
And then another.
A series of explosions.
A sound of the world being destroyed.
A sound that echoed in the air.
Blizzard didn't stop her as her body became one with the dark element. Destruction spread through the snow and ice. Everything turned into nothing.
And she stopped after 5 minutes of continuous attack. Her breath ragged, she stared at the pile of snow where she had attacked the monster. It should have died, leaving nothing but a large crater in a sphere shape.
But even so, the feeling of satisfaction didn't fill her heart.
No.
It only filled her with emptiness, sadness, regret, anger, hate.
"This place... I will destroy everything. Everything..."
Her words were full of hatred.
Cain was sweating.
"Shit."
He never expected this kind of reaction.
No. He had expected it, but this was… wilder than his imagination.
It was true that Rias was crying, and it was the perfect chance to get coins from her. However, he underestimated how far the Gremory princess was willing to destroy everything.
Cain didn't expect that the first attack from her would destroy the Yeti, making the second floor's main dungeon empty. Even the weather that tried to stop them from advancing forward was destroyed by the layer of destruction that covered her in a sphere shape.
"Maybe a dungeon with E difficulty isn't enough." He murmured.
"This is not a show, this is a slaughter. While she's in a madness state and her power surged up suddenly, I think I should make the third dungeon harder. There is a chance she might break through the third floor and go straight to the final boss. I got a nice reference now."
He paused to think about what to do next.
For now, he was happy to see Rias' uncontrolled emotion. This would yield him more coins.
Fortunately, he deliberately made the entrance to the third floor hard to find. They would probably wander around the second floor for a few minutes. While they were at it...
"Oh, the Ninja group is about to enter."
Naruto and the others entered Fun Fun Dungeon!.
