[4] Dungeon Dive

--- Chapter 4 ---

"Bell, let me sleep a little bit more..."

Two figures could be seen inside of a broken down room. A loli with a humongous chest and a silver haired boy with ruby red eyes.

"Bell, please a little more..."

The little loli spoke softly to the boy, named Bell, standing next to her with closed eyes while the latter tried to wake her up.

He kept on doing this for a few seconds before giving up.

"*Sigh*, Hestia-sama I'll be going to the dungeon to train."

After saying that he ran out the church with his armour and a sword strapped on his waist.

'Time to go and train inside of a dungeon.'

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*Growl*

Bell could be seen walking in the middle of a road while looking left and right. One of his hands were placed in the hilt of the sword and another was stroking his belly.

'I forgot to eat...'

After thinking to himself for a while, he decided to eat after he finishes his dungeon dive but that quickly changed when he felt a weird gaze.

He turned his head to look for a few moments before focusing his gaze on the people who were walking by.

'Is it someone walking?

Bell thought to himself while feeling the gaze on him intensify. He slowly moved around to see a few times before stopping.

'It's gone?'

The gaze that was on him a few seconds ago suddenly disappeared as if it was never there, making Bell narrow is eyes with vigilance.

*Bump*

His attention that was focused on the gaze before was quickly taken away by a figure who had suddenly bumped into his chest.

"Ah? I'm sorry for bumping into you!"

A voice spoke out apologetically from below Bell, causing him to look at the person who had just talked.

A woman with blush grey hair, the same colour as her eyes, was scratching her head awkwardly while looking at him.

After taking a quick glance at her, Bell was about say 'no problem' but stopped when his stomach suddenly rumbled.

*Growl*

Bell laughed awkwardly when his belly suddenly rumbled, making the blue haired woman next to him smile slightly.

After thinking for a while, she decided to 'compensate' Bell for bumping into him.

"Ah, it seems that you are quite hungry..."

The woman then suddenly put on a thinking pose for a few seconds before running towards a nearby cafè.

"Wait here for a few seconds!"

She quickly spoke out to Bell while running away making the latter look at her back in slight confusion, wondering what she was about to do.

After waiting for a few minutes, the woman came back running with a basket filled with bread and cheese.

Bell still looked at her in confusion while the woman moved the basket towards Bell's hands and gave it to him.

"I hope this will be enough. Oh, and you don't have to repay me, you can think of this as compensation for bumping into you."

Bell who was looking at the basket, now turned his head to look at the blue haired woman with a smile.

He then lightly shook his head and decided to pay her back after he finishes going his dungeon.

Bell quickly said goodbye and ran towardd the Babel Tower before stopping when the woman called out to him.

"Can I get your name?"

He moved his head to look at the silver haired woman who had a wide smile plastered on her face.

Bell then returned the smile before answering her question.

"Bell Cranel, what about you?"

The woman looked at Bell and smiled widely while taking out a hand to push away the strands of hair that travelled near her eye.

"Syr. Syr Flova."

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*Clang*

Bell could be seen on the wielding his sword against a couple of goblins on the second floor of the dungeon.

His sword that was clashing against one of the goblin's dagger suddenly moved to cut one goblin's head before swiftly going after another.

*Swish*

Two of the goblin's body suddenly disappeared and dropped a magic stone while the other two backed away from him.

Bell saw this and moved swiftly towards the nearest goblin and lunged his sword forward, percing its heart.

"GRAHH"

The goblin let out an intense howl of pain and slowly converted into ashes while the other goblin started running away.

After the goblin that got his heart pierced disintegrated, Bell decided to throw a dagger towards the running goblin's head, killing it.

*Poof*

Two magic stones dropped again but this time along with a goblin's fang.

Bell saw all these items and smiled widely before packing them inside of his backpack.

'My sword skills improved a lot...'

After getting into this world, Bell felt like the dagger didn't feel right to him. Not as much as the sword that he picked up from the dungeon when he first came.

(A/N: There will be a reason for this.)

After deciding to use the sword, Bell started to hunt some goblins to hone his skills, only to find our that he was improving tremendously.

He lightly shook his head and put the 4 magical stones inside of his backpack and counted them.

'20...21....22! That's a huge improvement, last time I couldn't even get 10! Hmm, each magic stone of the goblins I killed are 1,200 Valis meaning I earned around 26,400 Valis.'

Bell's lips curved slightly when he saw the amount of Valis he had earned in a few hours.

'This should be enough for me and Hestia-sama for today. I'll also have talk to Eina and then visit Syr Flova.'

Bell then nodded slightly and decided to exit the dungeon to visit Eina, not knowing that a certain statue was shining slightly.