Chapter 115

(Play Dragon Quest 1 Ost Dungeon extended)

Everyone stepped into the Dark Temple and once inside the party immediately noticed that something was seriously wrong with this place, Harry looked around with a serious expression on his face "There's that feeling of dread and darkness we felt when we came in here the first time but... there's a pressure here that seems rather heavy".

Harry turned his head towards the girls who were looking around "Are you both okay? This place can suffocate anyone with all of this evil floating around".

Eri frowned but nodded "I'm fine Daddy... this place reminds me of where you found me, it's unpleasant but I think I've gotten used to places filled with evil like this one".

Harry nodded and even though what Eri said was true he wished it wasn't, what had happened to her during her time in the Shie Hassaikai left its mark on his daughter, and the fact that one of her Digimon partners was of the dark and virus type was proof of that.

Harry moved his gaze towards Lily who looked up at him "I'm okay Papa Harry, it's a little unnerving in here but I don't seem to be affected by it very much".

Harry nodded "It must be because of your nature as a Dragon Knight, you remember what sort of beings they are right?".

Lily nodded and then looked at both of her hands "Dragon Knights... beings with the power of a dragon, the magic of a demon, and the heart of a human...".

Harry smiled at his goddaughter and then gave her a head pat which made her smile and looked up at him, Harry gave her a grin and then turned towards Jessica "and you Jessica? How are you holding up?".

Jessica grinned at Harry and then gave him a nod "I'm fine, it certainly feels horrible in here but all of us have experienced places like this Dark Temple before that makes this place feel insignificant I'm comparison though I sure wish that the first time we came here I was this powerful...".

Harry nodded in agreement to Jessica's words "Yeah me too but at the time we were just working with what we had... in any case let's move on".

Lily walked up to the front and looked around watching as some very powerful monsters roamed around the area, hell gladiators and fowlfighters were cautiously walking around at the ready to attack any intruders.

Lily then turned her head towards everyone "Okay let's be careful I don't think we should rely on what Papa Harry and Aunty Jessica know about this place, something might have changed so let's move on while being careful".

Lily then turns her gaze towards her godfather "Papa Harry you said you are trained as a ninja and that you even specialized in assassination right?".

Harry raised an eyebrow at Lily's question but nodded to confirm what she said to be true "That's right, I was a member of Anbu and even went on to become the captain of Konoha's Anbu Corps".

Lily smiled and then nodded "Okay! Then can I ask you to use stealth as me, Eri, and Aunty Jessica move forward? That way while the monsters are distracted with us you can take care of most of them with stealth".

Harry grinned and nodded to his goddaughter liking her plan "Sounds good, I'll then move in stealth mode and cover you guys".

Lily nodded and her godfather suddenly disappeared in a flurry of leaves, Lily was awed at that "So cool! I wonder if he can teach me that!".

Eri and Jessica giggled at Lily's enthusiasm, Lily then smiled at both of them and turned around towards the inside of the Dark Temple "Okay, let's go but keep an eye out even if Papa Harry is covering our back we should still be cautious of this place".

Eri and Jessica nodded in agreement and then the three girls moved forward into the Dark Temple ready to face whatever awaits them in this dark and evil place.

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On the first level of the Dark Temple, they only found big numbers of monsters but they quickly took care of any that were stupid enough to attack them or get in their way, and as they fought Harry would appear behind monsters and take them down without alerting the rest.

Before they could even notice the monster's numbers decrease rather quickly leaving only small wisps of light from their disappearing bodies, however, the girls and Harry didn't stop and continued to quickly move.

Luckily for the group, they didn't have to go around to look for mechanisms or anything like that since everything was still on and open since Harry and the groups of heroes came here to face off against Dholmagus a long time ago

So everyone could just head straight down to the first level basement, here is where things had physical change from the last time Harry and Jessica were here. Before there was water all over the place but now only pools of disgusting purple poisonous grime awaited everyone.

This became a problem because that meant that they couldn't walk around freely so they opted to take off flying which in hindsight might have been a bad idea since the moment the monsters noticed them in the air they began to try to shoot them down with magic spells.

Eri and Jessica retaliated by using Reflectaga sending those spells back to the caster and killing them off with their own spell while Lily began to shoot down at the monster with fireballs and lightning magic.

Meanwhile, Harry would continue to move undetected while killing monster after monster making Lily wonder just what sort of training her godfather had to go through to learn how to do that flawlessly.

Still, right now it wasn't the time for pondering and so Lily continued to launch spells at the monsters who were trying to shoot them down, eventually, they took care of them all and they were free to look around.

Eri found two chests in an upper corner of the basement and the group immediately when to check them out, inside they found a mini medal and something called saint's ashes which according to Jessica had the power to purify curses and evil energy.

Thinking that it might be useful someday Eri put both the mini medal and the saint's ashes into her witch's hat, after that the party had a quick look around but didn't find anything else useful so they continued onward.

They got to the stairs leading down and walked them down to the second-level basement which was another big chamber with several floors heading up and down.

There were many staircases allowing access to every floor however there were a bunch of new monsters roaming about and they look powerful and downright evil to the girls.

Lily frowned and then turned her head towards her aunty Jessica "Aunty... what are those?".

Jessica was frowning as she watched this new type of monster "Those are hellstalkers and hellspawns... hellstalkers are completely immune to fire and lightning magic and hellspawns are immune to physical attacks".

Lily frowned "That's a very effective combination to have... this was planned right?".

Jessica nodded "Yeah, these monsters were specifically left here to slow anyone down... as a matter of fact since we haven't seen Yangus or Red I assume they made it past here and I'm impressed they did so, Lily what are you going to do? Fire and lightning are your main elements and you can't physically attack the hellspawns, Eri and I can handle it since we have a lot of perks that help us ignore defenses or resistances".

Lily grinned "Papa Harry has been teaching me some new things every night, something about not being a one-trick pony so I have a few new techniques I've been wanting to try!".

Lily raised her Dragovian God Sword and suddenly it began to let out cold air as frost and ice began to engulf the blade, Jessica raised an eyebrow in surprise "Harry taught you ice magic?".

Lily nodded "Among all other elements! He said that being ready for anything is always the best course of action, and so he's been teaching me all sorts of sword skills and magic spells! This is the 'Blizzard Slash!'".

Lily tapped the floor with her Dragovian God Sword's engulfed in frost and ice "and this technique is the 'Frost Wave!'".

As soon as Lily called out the name of her technique a massive wave of icy cold air shot from the tip of her sword into the ground and spread out forward in front of her.

The wave spread to the entire chamber and the monsters roaming around were instantly frozen solid, Lily let up her technique and sighed a puff of white mist from her mouth from the sudden drop of temperature her technique brought.

The monster's frozen bodies suddenly cracked and then shattered signaling their deaths, Eri cheered and hugged Lily "That looked amazing Lily!".

Lily grinned at her friend and nodded "It took me a while to get it down and to be able to resist the cold but thanks to Papa Harry's time manipulation I had all the time in the world to perfect it".

Jessica grinned as the girls cheerfully spoke about Lily's new technique, it certainly was impressive and Jessica was even surprised with Lily's control over a volatile element like ice {She certainly has a knack for learning techniques and spells, it's like she adapts at an accelerated pace}.

Harry came down from somewhere and landed beside everyone surprising the girls a bit "Well done Lily you destroyed all the monsters in this chamber".

Lily nodded and then looked around "Alright let's look around a bit and see if we can find anything useful in here and then move on, Papa Harry are we close to the end of this Dark Temple?".

Harry nodded "There are only two more chambers before we get to the inner sanctum of this place".

Lily nodded "Okay then you don't have to keep taking enemies out with stealth, but you're going to teach me how to do that later!".

Harry chuckled and nodded "Alright but Anbu training isn't easy, you sure you can handle it?".

Lily nodded "I'm sure I can! but for now let's get a move on".

Harry smiled at his goddaughter and then everyone quickly took a look around, they found two more chests, and inside they found a mini medal and a recovery ring.

Eri and Lily stared at the ring in curiosity since both of them can feel a good amount of magic in it, they both decided to ask Harry what it did and he happily explained.

Apparently, this ring is blessed by the goddess and it heals the wearer as they walk around granting them a small healing factor, it was nothing to impressive to Harry, Jessica, and Eri's standards.

But to Lily, it was one of the most amazing things she's seen and it brought a sense of nostalgia to Harry and Jessica, it reminded them of how they used to react whenever they found a new magical item or equipment.

Eri enjoying Lily's happiness decided that she should keep it and use it which surprised the little Princess of Trodain, she asked her friend if it was really okay for her to have it.

Eri just smiled at her and nodded, she then let her know that she had no need for the ring since she had quite the strong healing factor already and that it would be more useful to her right now.

Lily understanding Eri's words nodded and put on the recovery ring, with that done the group headed towards the staircase leading down and went down to the third basement level.

Once they arrived down there what awaited them was a massive empty chamber but they could see that there was a massive battle that went down here not that long ago, there were holes, cut, burns, and destroyed walls and floors all over the place.

The two monuments that used to stand in here were also completely destroyed, Harry looked around "This seems recent... whatever went down here it must have happened not so long ago".

Jessica stared at the cut on the wall not far from her "This was made by a scythe... the cut it's too thin to be from a sword or an axe".

Harry raised an eyebrow "That means Yangus and Red fought something here and by the looks of it, it was something huge... a trap of sorts or did they just run into some kind of guardian monster?".

Lily frowned as she looked at the battlefield "This was a big fight, I can still feel the tension in the air... what sort of monster could fight this hard against Uncle Yangus and Aunty Red?".

It was a good question, unlike Hiro and Angelo both Yangus and Red continued exploring the world for treasures and fighting so they only got stronger for it.

But what they fought in here obviously fought them hard and the party can only hope that they were okay, since it was just the both of them in here and had no magical support between them Luckily Red has some healing techniques but they're not as potent as healing magic is.

Harry sighed and shook his head "We have to move on, Yangus and Red must be up ahead and they might need some help after the fight they had in here, they might even be injured right now".

Everyone nodded and decided to rush off to look for their friends hoping to find them close by rather than deeper into the Dark Temple but hopefully, they decided to rest somewhere for a while.

That would allow them to catch up to them and so the party of four walked down the stairs into the fourth basement level.

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Once on the lowest floor of the Dark Temple, the group found themselves looking at a dark and ominous hallway however everyone noticed a light coming off to the side of the corridor where a part of the wall had been destroyed a long time ago.

Harry smiled knowing that there was a pool of healing water in that little cave and had the suspicion that both Yangus and Red were there right now, so he walked forward with Eri, Lily, and Jessica following close behind him.

As soon as they arrived they all smiled when they saw both Yangus and Red sleeping on the ground by a campfire though both Harry and Jessica frowned when they saw that they were still injured.

Harry looked towards the pool of healing water and was disappointed to see that it had become a pool of dirty purple and poisonous water, now worried for his friends Harry quickly walked up to them and then kneeled beside Yangus.

Harry poked Yangus on the belly making him groan and then a few moments later he opened his eyes and stared at the smiling face of the Dragon God "Harry?... Mate am I dead or something?".

The Dragon God grinned at Yangus and shook his head in amusement "Nah, not yet Yangus but you look like you were one step away from it" Yangus soon grinned happily that Harry was really here right now.

Meanwhile, Jessica was checking up on Red while Harry helped Yangus sit up while giving him a miracle gel, Yangus stared at the gel in confusion which in hindsight is understandable since at the time Harry didn't have access to them the first time he was in this world.

Still, Harry couldn't help but smile at his friend, he hasn't changed in all of these years, still the chubby funny looking guy he always was "Eat it Yangus, it will heal and restore your energy".

Not even doubting his words for a second Yangus immediately chucked the gel into his mouth and ate it, his eyes widen in surprise as he felt all of his wounds disappear and his energy return "Blimey mate, that hit the spot!".

Harry nodded and helped Yangus up to his feet, a voice suddenly brought our attention towards where Jessica is "They sure do... these might have come in handy a while ago".

Harry grinned a Red who was now on her feet and grinning at him and Yangus with her arms crossed under her chest "Red, looking good and tough!".

Red shook her head and laughed a little "Harry, it's good to see you again and I'm certainly glad you're here right now, we didn't know what we were going to do to get back to the surface".

Yangus huffed "You saved both our butts that's for sure, we were both too injured and tired to go on but what are you both doing here, oh it's good to see you again too Jessica".

Jessica grinned at Yangus and nodded while Harry began to explain "Well we came to visit this world and I wanted to see all of our friends but no one knew where you both were so I went to Kalderasha and he told me how to find you guys".

Jessica nodded and went on "Imagine our surprise when we heard that both of you headed here but that raised some very loud alarms in our heads, we both knew that Yangus wouldn't have come back here unless something serious came up".

Yangus and Red frowned, Yangus then nodded "And your right, I wouldn't have come here unless something serious was going on... Red and I had been hearing about something strange going on here in these ruins and for some reason, I just couldn't get this feeling of dread that appeared in my heart to disappear so Red and I decided to come and investigate".

Red sighed and shook her head And it was a good thing we did too, the amount monsters that are spawning here and the fact that all of them are very high-level ones just smelled of something shady going on here".

Harry nodded "Yeah we saw, plus the current of evil and darkness flowing in from the top of the mountains and the Dark Ruins is a little disturbing but it is a big sign that something very big is going on in here".

Yangus and Red narrowed their eyes, Yangus then spoke up "Current of darkness and evil? That wasn't there when we arrived here a few days ago... damn whatever is going on must be close to happening".

Jessica then spoke up "Why did you guys come here alone, and why were you that hurt when we found you?".

Red sighed "In the last room we found a monster we hadn't seen before, not only was it huge but very powerful as well and took everything we had to take it down but we were left in no condition to continue... we were resting and trying to recover a bit so we could leave and get everyone together".

Yangus nodded "I didn't want to make the Guv nervous without at least confirming that something was really going on in here, he's a very busy guy you know?".

Suddenly Lily who was quietly listening to everything that was being said suddenly spoke "But dad would have at least sent someone to check, you didn't have to risk yourselves like this Uncle Yangus!".

Yangus who hadn't noticed Lily nor Eri jumped in both surprise and fright "COR BLIMEY! Lily! What have I told you about sneaking up on old Yangus! Do you want me to die of a hear-wait a minute... Lily! What are you doing here princess!?".

Harry and Jessica shared a laugh because this reminded them of how King Trode would surprise Yangus all the time, it seems Lily had the same knack for doing that to poor Yangus.

Lily grinned at her uncle "I've been here all this time, it's your fault you didn't pay attention Uncle Yangus and I'm here to help you!".

Yangus huffed but then grinned at Lily and gave her a head pat which made her giggle, he then turned towards the other little girl who smiled and waved at him "And who are you?".

Eri twirled while colorful sparks shot everywhere from her body "I'm the Witch of Destruction! Eri Potter!" Eri stopped in a cool pose while smiling.

Lily clapped in excitement while Harry and Jessica sweatdropped, Red laughed a bit while Yangus just stared at Eri "Potter?".

Eri nodded, Harry then decided to explain "She's my daughter in all but blood Yangus" Harry then turned to Eri "and you little missy, you have been hanging out with Serafall too much!".

Eri giggled but didn't respond to Harry's words practically confirming what he said, Red walked up to Eri and picked her up in her arms "Well aren't you the cutest witch I've ever seen~".

Eri brightly smiled at Red while Yangus chuckled "Well, isn't that a surprise! Harry Potter the Dragovian Hero has a little daughter!".

Harry grinned at Yangus and nodded "I actually have a lot of kids now but let's catch up later after we deal with whatever is going on here first".

Yangus nodded and everyone put on serious faces, Red put Eri down and then turned towards everyone "There's another big monster blocking the door to the Inner Sanctum, and it's very powerful too...".

Yangus frowned and nodded "Yeah... it looks similar to a gigantes but it's bigger and orange in color, I've never seen a gigantes like that".

Harry raised an eyebrow and hummed "An orange in color gigantes? I think I know which monster it is but I have to see it first".

Everyone nodded while Harry turned towards Lily confusing Yangus and Red "What do you want to do Lily? We can get out of here and inform everyone or we can go ahead and deal with this".

Lily frowned and crossed her arms while she thought about her options, Jessica noticing the confused looks on her friends decided to explain "Harry decided to bring Lily with us on this trip in order for her to see a bit of the world and have an adventure so she's the leader of our party".

Red nodded in understanding and having had to fend for herself since she was a child she can certainly see the benefits to this, Yangus grinned and nodded "Ah so the little princess took the Guv's place?".

Jessica nodded confirming Yangus's statement, he knew that Harry knew what he was doing so he trusted him with this decision so he would follow Lily's orders.

Lily then nodded to herself and then looked up to her godfather "Going by what you said and what Uncle Yangus explained, it seems like whatever is going on here is about to happen... I would have gone out and told dad about all of this but we might not have time, so I think we should deal with it now".

Everyone nodded agreeing with Lily, the little Princess of Trodain then nodded "Okay then let's go see these weird gigantes monsters first".

Everyone smiled or grinned at Lily and nodded, then the party of six now followed the corridor and looked around the corner to see the monster.

Like Yangus had described the monster is a massive orange gigantes, a cyclops that looked both very powerful and intimidating, Harry frowned at the monster and then turned towards everyone "That's an atlas... an s-class monster".

Lily who had read the Dragovian Archives recognized the name "Atlas? That's a fiend and a demon-type monster...".

Harry nodded "Yes... as you can see this monster is mostly a physical type and a very dangerous one, any hit that connects might cause massive damage but he also has access to ice and death magic".

Yangus huffed "Great, that overgrown monster is going to be hell to take down".

Lily nodded and then looked up to her godfather "Papa Harry, what else do you know about it and what would you recommend?".

Harry smiled at Lily "He's highly vulnerable to debuff spells and status conditions so let's weaken it first and then hit him hard".

Lily nodded "... Eri, Aunty Jessica and you are immune to instant death magic right Papa Harry?".

Harry nodded and waited to see what his goddaughter had planned, Lily smiled "Okay, so let's hit him with as many debuff spells as we can, if it starts throwing death magic than Papa Harry, Aunty Jessica, and Eri can block them!".

The Potter nodded in agreement while Yangus and Red smiled at Lily, after that everyone began to get ready for the upcoming fight.

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Atlas was keeping guard of the gate to his master's chamber while he was busy when it was suddenly blasted off his feet by a big explosion, luckily for the massive monster his back crashed against the big sealed gate behind him and stopped his fall.

But before he could even right himself up he was suddenly hit with a bunch of debuff spells, atlas felt its strength, speed, and defenses lower and that made it angry not appreciating the sneak attack he was hit with so it got up, grabbed his massive oaken club and rushed forward towards the tiny humans that dared attacked him.

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The ground shook with every step atlas took as it approached the party, Yangus suddenly yelled "It's on its way towards us! Look alive everyone it's frothing mad at us!".

The atlas approached and then swung its oaken club at the party, everyone quickly jumped out of the way but Yangus, Red, and Lily felt the air blast that was released as the massive club passed them.

Red landed on her feet and then looked up at the atlas, she then began to juggle a few knives before throwing them in rapid succession toward the atlas's face.

The monster protected its face with its free hand but growled in pain as the knives stabbed into his hand, It then raised its club to try and hit red but Lily appeared flying at his side and kicked the club away from Red.

Losing its balance the atlas couldn't protect itself as Jessica whipped at its face causing it to roar in pain but he wasn't even allowed that because Yangus jumped onto his arm and then kicked off it with his scythe at the ready.

The atlas was then slashed in his single eye by Yangus who was sent flying when the massive monster began to flail around in pain but he was caught by Eri who appeared on her boom and caught him by the collar of his vest.

Eri then quickly flew down and let go of Yangus as soon as his feet touched the ground she pointed her staff at the massive cyclops while she began to chant "'Gentle winds, gather before me and transform into blades of air... Cyclone!'".

A massive green cyclone sprouted from beneath atlas's feet and raised up, the monster began to roar in pain as his entire body began to get cut by Eri's sharp wind spell.

Lily then took a big breath and then breathed a big gout of red-hot flames toward the atlas, the flames mixed with the wind of Eri's spell turning the cyclone into a fire tornado.

The monster flailed around as it roared in pain but then it suddenly stomped into the ground releasing a blast of ice outward, everyone jumped out of the way while the flames were snuffed out by the icy cold air of atlas's spell.

Harry then flashed forward in a burst of darkness and appeared above the massive orange cyclops, the Dragon God then raised Oblivion while it began to release a big amount of darkness.

Harry then stabbed his dark keyblade into the atlas's head "'Dark Impact!'" the monster's body was engulfed in an explosion of darkness as soon as Oblivion collided with its head.

The blast threw the atlas off his feet into the ground as Harry disappeared in a blur only to reappear beside Jessica who had a massive fireball above her head, she then waved her hand towards the downed monster "'Kafrizzle!'".

The massive fireball suddenly shot forward and landed on top of the atlas's chest causing it to be engulfed in a pillar of swirling flames, the monster roared in pain as it was once again set ablaze.

The flames soon dissipated and Lily got ready to finish the monster off while it was struggling to get up, the little Princess of Trodain held her Dragovian God Sword up which then let out a massive amount of light.

Lily then took off running towards the down monster and jumped up, she then twirled in the air a few moments before dropping sword first on top of the Atlas's chest causing the massive monster to gasp in pain.

Lily then pushed the sword as deep as she could into the orange cyclops' chest and then loudly yelled "Take this! 'Heaven's Blade!'".

The light engulfing Lily's Dragovian God Sword exploded outwards from within the atlas's chest causing the monster to roar in pain and begin to aggressively squirm underneath Lily until it stopped and growled at her.

It then did something that surprised everyone "Puny humans... you're all too late! Lord Hargon is about to summon the god of destruction and there's nothing any of you can do about it! gack!".

The atlas twitched once and then dropped dead on the ground where it quickly burst into little wisps of light but no one cheered at their victory right now, now everyone was worried about the dying words of the monster.

Especially Harry who recognized the name it just said, Hargon a corrupted cleric monster, a demonlord of the rank X but the fact that this demonlord was known as a religious cultist who worshipped the evil God of Destruction Malroth is what had him a bit concerned.

The fact that Atlas mentioned the evil God of Destruction before dying alerted Harry that he and the rest of the group were about to have a big fight on their hands.

But then he turned his head towards Lily and Eri and watched as they willfully stared at the door seemingly ready to deal with anything coming their way and he couldn't help but smile proudly at both of them.

No matter what they might find in the chamber Harry knew the girls can handle it, of course, he will be ready to intervene at any time to show this so-called ancient evil God of Destruction how insignificant it is compared to him a Dragon God.

But for now, he'll leave it to Eri and Lily and keep an eye on everything, Harry then turned his head towards Jessica who smiled and nodded at him already knowing what was going through his head right now.

He then looked at Yangus and Red and even though they looked worried both of them smiled and nodded at him, both of them trusted Harry with their lives so they were willing to go along with whatever plan he might have.

Harry then called out to the girls "Eri! Lily! Come here a second, there's something we have to speak about real quick".

Both Eri and Lily turned their heads towards Harry and then immediately ran up to him, Lily looked up at her godfather with a worried expression on her face "Papa Harry, did you hear what that cyclops said".

Harry nodded ad patted her head "Yes which is why I have to explain a little bit of who Hargon and the evil God of Destruction Malroth are before we head in to fight them".

Lily nodded along with Eri, given how serious Harry is they knew what he was about to tell them was really serious so they will give him all of their attention and got ready for what was to come.

Lily already had an idea of who Hargon and Malroth is since she had seen their names in the Dragovian Sanctuary Archives and a part of her was very nervous since both of these monsters almost destroyed the world once.

But as her godfather told her, she is a dragon, and dragons do not hesitate and don't succumb to fear so she will be ready to do anything to protect her world even if it meant fighting two demonlords.

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Inside the inner sanctum a monster who was praying on an altar suddenly and maliciously grinned as it then stood up straight "It seems the atlas was taken down but no matter... the preparations are almost complete and soon my god will descend into the world and bring salvation through destruction!".

The monster chuckled and then turned towards the massive gate leading to his chambers "and no one will be able to stop me, not even these meddlesome humans that have come here, so come little heroes... and find your deaths!".