Arc 2 Chapter 167 Earth Kinda, At Last

The darkness of the night slowly devoured the world. Be it the side facing the sun, or the one opposite of the sun. The world was simply being eaten by an eternal dark. Unbeknownst to the mortals on the world, a celestial was causing the mischief. In it's attempt to shake of it's pursuer it made the world it's territory. But the celestial made one little mistake, it only increased the chances of getting caught with it's actions. For the being it wished to hide from was Nightwater. The eternal flow of the night. Wherever, or whenever the Nightwater will always have influence over everything as long as the eternal darkness has touched that specific part, or thing. Meaning the little celestial's scheme to hide in the night was useless and after minutes after throwing the world into eternal darkness it was caught.

"Ratri-sama where do you think you're going? Weren't we supposed to visit earth?" A creature all to similar to the darkness that consumed the world said. It didn't have an ounce of a resemblance to humans. It looked more like a demon straight out of hell.

"Ragnar-kun where do you think I was going? I was running straight to the cathedral, as quick as this world could withstand. Sadly it wasn't that much so you caught up to me!" The celestial know as Ratri said, whispering the last bit and frowning at the demon like creature that had the celestial in the palm of it's gigantic hand with six claw like fingers.

After the celestial known as Ratri said it's final piece a gigantic eyeball popped out of the darkness surrounding them. It was slowly ascending from the bottomless darkness that had concentrated and was now acting like some liquid. There were even some waves as the eyeball popped up. After it came four dark horns that looked like a combination of dragons and demons from Christianity.

"Great, let's go then!" The celestial knows as Ratri proclaimed and freed itself from Ragnar's grip. Within a millisecond of freeing itself it had infiltrated the city and entered the cathedral, now awaiting Ragnar.

"Wait for us!" A blond young man yelled as he ran towards the concentrated darkness. He wasn't able to see a thing, but could somehow reach Ragnar position without falling, or going the wrong direction.

"What do you want kid?" The demon like creature asked as millions of dark sticks started to come up from the ocean like darkness that had gathered around the being.

"Please take you with me, I want to go home!" The blond man yelled, with conviction.

"What about your little harem young man? Will you just leave them behind, or will you kidnap them like they kidnapped you here?" The creature of darkness asked and it's question wasn't answered by the blond man, but by the two who followed him.

"We want to go with him too!" The two young girls asked. The Archmage even went so far as to attempt to run to Ragnar and the blond man, but she ran to far and managed to reach the ocean of condensed darkness and fell right through. Her scream echoed through the dark world and made he young man try to follow her. But a tendril made out of darkness stopped him and returned the young blond Archmage. Her blue eyes were wide open, even if she couldn't see anything. She was overwhelmed by fear. The feeling a third dimensional being would go through falling into a concept in one of it's purest forms.

By some miracle the young man reached the women and held her in his arms. He relied on the other five senses most mortals have. "It's okey, I have you now!" He said and hugged her tightly.

"Stop with this cliche shit, fine I'll take the other two with us." Ragnar said and fully ascended through the ocean of darkness that gathered around him thanks to Ratri.

"Thank you, so, if I can ask, how are we getting home?" The blond man said, as he stood up with the women in his arms. She was in a Princess carry and didn't seem to have any intentions to get out of it.

"Leave the details to us, we just need you there mortal Minato!" Ragnar said, as he used his powers to overwhelm Ratri's authorities and return the world to day time. Then he returned to his human form and grabbed the trio using his powers and puff, just like that, in the blink of an eye, he and the other three appeared in the cathedral where Ratri was waiting for them. She flipped her long dark hair to the side and said "I see you brought those insects with you too, so, do you want to do the honors, or should I?" Ratri asked and walked towards Ragnar and the trio of mortals.

"You can do it if you wish!" Ragnar said and on cue Ratri changed into a naked blue women with three pair of arms. Then she grabbed the blond young man by the head with all her left arms, while the other three arms started orbiting over his head for some seconds and just like that, a see through hologram started to come out of his body, almost like a ghost, only it wasn't a ghost it was a women, a goddess to be precise. A weak goddess of life who blessed this young hero.

"Lesser being by my orders you are to send all five of us to this one's home world, or you will face retribution!" Ratri claimed, leaving no room for the goddess to protest, even if she seemed to be very irritated by the current situation. Someone had grabbed her apostle and forced her to come to such a disgusting place with her avatar.

"As you wish." The goddess said and disappeared and some seconds later all five of them did the same.

In a cave lit up with artificial light similar to torches a group consisting of five appeared. This was of course Ragnar, Ratri, Minato and his two women.

"This looks way too fantasy to be Earth!" The young blond man exclaimed and Ragnar looked at him and sighted, before saying words he wished wasn't true. "This is Earth, seems like the world went through an apocalypse!" The second those words left Ragnar's mouth the young hero came to a halt and breathed in deeply before asking. "Then what is this place?"

"This my good friend is a dungeon, rift, whatever the humans calk them. I've made things similar to this many times and trust me on this one! If we destroy some boss monster we're out of here. Haven't you read manga?" Ragnar said and Ratri gazed at him with judging eyes.

"Of course I have!" The young man said and walked past Ragnar and Ratri, ready to face down the monsters of this place.

Some hours later they reached the boss room, after some hectic fights. A bunch of monsters attacked them over and over again. Some even reaching the liked of A rank. Something that surprised Ragnar. Because A rank is the line between mortal bound to one world and mortal free from the restrains of space. For example an S rank could survive in space and an S+ could travel through space to different worlds within it's universe of course.

But the thing that shocked Ragnar was that the normal monsters were A rank meaning the boss will at least be S rank. Is this something Earth can deal with? He wondered as the Hero and his party opened the door to the boss room. It was an important thing to know, the hero is SS rank while his companions are both S rank, so this fight shouldn't be to much of a hassle, hopefully.

The boss monster was a S ranked dragon, which was hilarious, as a dragon within a cave is really at it's weakest. It's advantage in size and being able to fly disappear quickly and just as predicted the fight was over when it begun. The priestess buffed the hero and the Archmage casted an attack spell at the dragon while the hero charged up some killer move and like that the fight ended in the dragon's absolute defeat.

(Meanwhile)

"Man this is scaring me!" A man with a bow on his back and knives strapped to his waist said. He was walking together with five others all as strong as him. They were the final forces of humanity, their last hope. They were sent into this dungeon to clear it before it breaks and destroys the world. But wi5 every passing second they grew more and more afraid.

"Is that a Death Mantis?" A man with a gig shield and small sword in his hands said, as he stopped in front of a corpse.

"Why is an A rank monster such as this dead. What the hell is going on. What can kill such creature and everything else in this dungeon. I'm growing more and more fearful for the future of humanity!" A women in pure white clothes said as she put her hands together and started praying.

As the six of them continued through the dungeon they found more and more monsters dead. But they came to a halt when they heard a roar and then an explosion.

"Is that?" A swordsman said before someone else filed him in. "A dragon?"

"It seems to be fighting something, come on guys, let's hurry, maybe we can kill it while it's distracted and clear this god forsaken dungeon!" The man with a bow said and started running and the rest followed him to the place. But they came to a halt when they reached the supposed fight. For all that was there was a dragon split in two and five humans. Well what they thought were five humans.

(Back to main character)

Ragnar smiled and looked at the hero who seemed caught of guard. Then he felt something crawling at his skin, that wasn't a kind smile, it was a sadistic one.

"Ratri, follow what I'm doing!" Ragnar whispered and then instantly got on his knees and bowed to the young man and his crew before saying. "Thank you oh mighty hero, us civilians were caught in this dungeon for so long, but with your power and kindness you and those two girls saved us, thank you so much. I don't know how I can ever repay your kindness!" As Ragnar bowed Ratri did the same and said some bullshit words and before they could question what they were doing six humans rushed inside.

"Oh my go, did you three really defeat that dragon? You saved the world, thank you, thank you so much young man. May I ask what your name is?" Five of the adventures who entered the dungeon asked, as Ragnar and Ratri were greeted by a women in pure white clothes.

"You two must be scared, don't worry I'll bring you outside. This dungeon after it's first clear will be weakened and become part of the tower and this will only be a shell of it's former self. So you two don't need to fear this place anymore. In three minutes we'll be brought out of this mess and you two can finally come back to human society. May I ask how long you were here?" The women asked and Ragnar used his powers to find out the dungeons age and when it appeared to create a perfect answer, before manipulation the world slightly, making him and Ratri actual members of this world. Then he said.

"I don't know how long, but the time we were trapped here was the third day of march 2028!" Ragnar said and the women gasped.

"You two have been here since the dungeon appeared two years ago, how are you still alive?"

"I don't know, the dragon kept us alive by feeding us some weird energy!" Ragnar said and with that the women's interrogation was over and they were given some time to rest.

After waiting for some time a blue light started to consume them and in the last second Ragnar winked at Minato who seemed very irritated by everything that was happening and like that they disappeared again.

(Author here: as said before, fixing my sleep schedule, anyways hope you like the chapter. Mc will soon spend some time on Earth growing stronger and stuff. By the end of this volume you will most likely be surprised, anyways have a great day author out :) )