bell pov

Thus, for next couple hours while Sir Fluffykin's the First rode on my Wulfrim Drone and my new Sea Star summon just messed around with the Sea Star chasing the Wulfrim Drone and avoiding Sir Fluffykins the First's thrown acorns as it was chasing, I followed my old experience in playing Mine Craft to count the blocks to make an outline for the tower and once completed I just built up the exterior walls until I reached the roof of my prior building.

Once I got all the walls raised up, I tore out of the roof of my previous building so I could continue up the tower before I got to like five stories tall and thus towered over the neighboring medieval style buildings. "There we go that should be tall enough." I muttered after I made sure to put a flat roof on top of the building so people couldn't break into the tower in anyway.

With the tower that now fully encased Seshat's old shop built now, and I ignored the people watching me build something that would typically take people months here in the bustling city of Orario. Looking at the bare shell of the tower I ignored it for a while as I took the time to take down the old structure and now with the old massive box, I used to build around all of Seshat's property gone I had a greater idea of what I could build.

I looked up to the sun and saw that it was well past noon, so I had been working for more than six hours and I had gotten an unimageable amount of work done with even using my grappling hook to ferry me around at fast speeds.

"Let me get Seshat first to run some ideas off though first." I muttered and I tore open a door in the solid stone wall of the tower I created before boarding it up much to the dismay of the people watching outside.

With the tower main structure completed I went inside to check up on Seshat and froze as I saw that the goddess had used the ropes, I left anchored to the roof to glue glowing dungeon crystals from the Rivira floor onto the walls and roof of the tower to recreate the Danmachi night sky, with its stars and a prominent moon in the very middle of the roof of the tower.

"Wow it actually looks a lot like the stars normally do." I remarked honestly amazed as although I didn't recognize the constellations of stars that would show up during the night as they were different from the Earth ones, but I could recognize the super recognizable shapes they had.

Seshat smugly grinned as she stretched her hands over her head. "Yes, praise me more! But yes, the stars generally match the heavenly constellations but if you can make more of those Mana crystals these stars can be used to empower rituals and as a goddess with Ritual's in her domain Hehe." Seshat cackled and I patted her on her head and scratched behind her ears.

"So how should I decorate the outside of the tower then?" I asked as honestly, I kind of liked having the natural sunlight blocked out and would only have bright star light coming down. So, it would kind of need to fit the star like theme.

Seshat then asked me a couple questions about how 'indestructible' my materials were and finally we settled on her creating a magical system that would synch to my Terraria technology as she was somehow able to pick up and understand the weird cord and electrical system within moments so within half an hour she had me boiling stone into lava and she had me make a lava waterfall that would infinitely flow over the corners of the tower down its sides between the blocks and land in a small moat built beside the tower. And thus, the electrical system that she put together basically had a bridge open up and would allow people entry into the tower.

"Well, no adventure regardless of level wants to deal with lava..." I muttered as I realized that pure red hot glowing lava was something even Ottar would fear being thrown inside of even if he could escape it with only some light burns if he got out quick enough.

"Now we just need some lava piranha's and large crocodiles to live on the banks of the lava pools and it will be just like the Solar River back in Tenkai." Seshat said dreamily and I shook my head at the thought of living in Tenkai with all the crazy crap Seshat would offhandedly mention existed there.

Because it was basically the Percy Jackson universe with all the gods existing with all their divine monsters and crazy landmarks. So, when all the Pantheons got smooshed together, they regularly got into scuffles and things got mixed up that most certainly shouldn't.

"So, with the tower done I think I am going to head off into the dungeon for a bit. I need a fuck load of rather nasty stuff if I want to make the next bosses I want to fight. Plus I want to take Staryu into battle." I said pointing to the large Starfish that was able to roll fast enough on the points of its limbs that it could scale the tower's walls as it was still chasing around my Wulfrim Drone that was carrying Sir Fluffykins the First.

In order to make the Eye of Cthulhu and the other pre-hard mode bosses I needed a bunch of very nasty ingredients that I could only get from the monsters in the dungeon and would need to actually dissect each monster to get the ingredients before taking the monster stone and allowing the monster to fade into smoke.

To create the Demonic Eye that will allow me to summon the Eye of Cthulhu I needed to harvest literally a hundred pounds of eyes from any monsters or just any life form in general. Thus, I didn't particularly want to ask other people to do it when I needed to hit the dungeon in order to get stronger myself.

Not to mention I needed the hundred pounds of both spines and brains to make the Eater of Worlds and Brain of Cthulhu boss summons respectively.

"Ok Jake you be careful. Wear a large cloak around your armor so you aren't so easily recognized when you head into the dungeon." Seshat advised me and after a moment of thought I switched around my sand cloak so it would cover over my armor and not be in my inventory, so they weren't hanging on my body like my accessories typically were.

"Hmm that works. Ok I am going to try to fill this open space inside the tower around my old shop with some furniture and what not, so it can be our little getaway!" Seshat said excitedly as she ran back towards the back of her shop that had her workshop.

"Huh I wonder what she is going to build herself." I muttered as I clicked the button system that would remotely open the bridge system and part the lava waterfall that guarded the gate.

After I exited the tower, I was welcome by the sight of guild employee's having gated off my property with foldable chicken wire or something. "Oi get off my land!" I yelled as my summons ran out behind from behind me and spread out seeing how I wasn't happy seeing all these people crowding around what they considered my territory.

"Jake Bariss, you made that hazard to public safety!?" I heard a woman screaming and I mentally groaned as I saw Eina stomping towards me.

"Relax guys, let me take care of this." I said as I saw my Wulfrim Drone's laser audibly warming up to shoot the stupid half elf stomping towards me.

"Eina this is the private property of the Seshat Familia. Should I enlighten the Loki and Freya Familia that the Guild is now sealing up private Familia properties?" I spoke loudly and I saw Eina's face twitch as I made this a whole new ball game of instead of being this the Guild securing a possibly dangerous area, now it was the Guild invading a Familia's private land and was attempting to censor them for their private practices.

"This is private land, and the lava is a security system. People will not be harmed randomly and if someone were to cross the wide-open area that is the area separating the area and leaps into the lava for whatever reason. The Seshat Familia is not responsible for people committing suicide by jumping into the lava!" I said loudly and clearly with a tick mark appearing on Eina's forehead.

"Jake this a serious concern! What if the lava has noxious fumes coming off of it or what if children wander onto your property?" Eina continued but I shook my head.

"Nope I have a retaining wall that should keep out unaffiliated people and all intruders face the consequences of invading a Familia's private domicile and that is a law that Orario has always followed." I spoke before continuing. "As the Captain of the Seshat Familia I will remind the Guild representative here at this day that my lava is a magical construct and thus has no natural noxious fumes and thus the only danger is to people who actually touch it. So please leave my Familia's land." I finished and Eina could only sharply nod and throw a dirty look at me.

"Fine Jake but you better hope no civilians gets hurt or the Guild will come down on you like a ton of bricks." She warned and I rolled my eyes.

"The Guild should focus on cleaning out all the imported slaves in the entertainment district before they focus on Exploration Familia's. Oh, wait it's because they bride you guys so much you look the other way." I muttered at the end as Eina stomped off while the Guild people quickly pulled up the chicken wire, they were going to use to fence off my land despite my land having a nice ten-foot-tall privacy wall made out of solid stone.

People just need to mind their own damn business.

After sending the Guild on their way I quickly made my way into the dungeon, but my mind was filled with thoughts of how the Guild was so uncustomary getting involved with my Familia and tried to actually block it off.

When Apollo literally attacked Hestia's church, blew it up and chased Bell/Hestia across Orario causing damages and scaring the civilians the Apollo Familia only had to pay a small fine for their actions but then again, it's not like the Guild actually has any real power as there was absolutely nothing simple bureaucrats could do in the face of an adventurer who refuses to obey their orders.

Well other than put a large bounty on them like what they did to Ryuu when she slaughtered the majority of the remnants of the Evilus organization and refused to stop punishing evil when the Guild tried to step in and take control of the situation.

Good riddance for bad rubbish when it comes to Evilus. They were insane anarchists who wanted to live by their own insane rules or were being led and brainwashed by equally if not far worse deities who reveled in bringing 'evil' to the world.

As I entered the dungeon cloaked in my new Desert Cloak I noticed I was already actually being followed so with my summons put away as I walked through Orario I just paid the toll to the take the elevator down towards the first floor and joined the train of adventures going deeper into the dungeon.

"You with Ishtar." I asked softly as I was pinned in a diamond formation as the crowd of adventurers began splitting apart quickly as we reached the wide-open floors of the ninth floor where the rooms and tunnels basically completely opened into wide open fog filled chambers with larger monsters within like the Orcs and Silverbacks.

"Just keep walking kid." I heard a woman speak from behind me and I felt a metal weight hit me on the shoulder making my face twitch, but my Armor Rating held up but the impact... But yeah no, I wasn't going deeper into the dungeon to come meet with a larger ambush.

"Then you four can just die." I muttered as a long golden trident appeared in my hands and with a dash forward, I stabbed the person who had taken the point position and was keeping other adventures or monsters from looking at my situation.

I could hear the woman in front of me drowning in her blood as the triangle pronged trident went through her spine and into her lungs as I forced it through her skimpy amazon clothes.

But the moment I let go of the trident I was engulfed in a skin tearing sandstorm as I used my Desert Cloak, I got from the Desert Scrouge to blind and sand blast the almost completely bared flesh from their bones.

The amazons around me only got to scream for a couple seconds before they fell in agony to the ground as being sandblasted on your bare skin by sand going at insane speeds were debilitating to say the least.

Wordlessly as even when the nearby adventurers quickly made space around our altercation and watched without saying a word, I walked over to the amazon who was behind me and was probably a level two maybe three with how her skin weren't completely blasted off her leaving only a bleeding muscular mass.

"Fucking Ishtar." I cursed as I used my foot to roll the amazon over onto her stomach so I could look at her back after I finished her off with a laser bolt to the back of her head to make her Falna rise to the surface with her death.

I looked up and saw more than a couple adventures literally just walking by and going deeper into the dungeon without a care, but most of them were just watching my actions with only entertainment in their cold eyes, and I was reminded how fucked up this world of Danmachi was...

"You guys can have the other two girls. I have no use for them." I said as I looked at the two sandblasted messes of barely recognizable Amazons and I wondered if Ishtar was so arrogant to think a single level three could deal with me.

I mean sure I was still a level one and all, but I was obviously an outlier with the stuff I could create, like how a Crozzo could make magical nukes in the shapes of swords that didn't rely on levels to use.

"Fuck it... Just need to get my materials and get home." I cursed as I walked deeper into the fog of the ninth floor to escape the scene of my outburst and begin my slaughter of monsters as I went towards one of the isolated main chambers of the floor.

Because I had a trick to heavily increase the monster spawn rate while I made a small base to kill the much larger monsters that can't even fit within the little base I can create.

"Fuck you Skeletron. All I needed is bone ashes mixed in with candle wax to make Water Candles." I said joyfully as I made a large box room in the middle of the of the chamber and literally put down a dozen such Water Candles but my trick was that I had knocked large holes into the box so I could easily shoot lasers or water bolts from my Aquamarine staff while the smaller monsters like goblins kobolds and Imps on this floor couldn't get in at all.

"You ants though are annoying." I muttered as the Killer Ants and especially the mutated and aberrant ones were able to stick their heads into the hole and block it off so I would need to blast them open with my Aquamarine Staff's magic bolts.

After like twenty minutes of slaughtering monsters that helplessly beat upon the kill box I created to no avail, I took down the Water Candles and after clearing the last monsters I quickly summoned my summons outside my base to clean up and surviving enemies before only then, did I chance going outside my safety box to begin the grim task of harvesting the materials I needed.

Because I needed a lot of fleshy materials to make the Eye of Cthulhu, Brain of Cthulhu, The Eater of Worlds, and Skeletron. And of course, the two alters being the Corruption and Crimson Alters that I would need to make to begin to make the boss summons to begin with...

Yes, it was a pain in the ass but after making those alters and killing those bosses, I would be set for prehard mode stuff in terms of Terraria gear and with having killed those four bosses my growth Skill would become much stronger, and I will grow much faster.

As I was doing the delightful task of helping my Wulfrim drone rip the spine out of an Orc I heard someone or something purposefully making noise as they approached through the fog, so I stepped away from the orc as I braced myself to begin laying a hail of magical laser bolts from my Space Gun at whoever was coming.

But seeing the mountain of man approaching I got rid of my Space Gun and instead held onto a stick of Dynamite and held my Magic Mirror just below my sightline so I could teleport home in an instant.

"Ottar what do you want... Stay back!" I said with the dynamite in my hands coming to life with an ominous hiss as it reacted to my mana and begin burning down its wick and Ottar finally paused as he eyed the explosive.

"Lady Freya ordered for you to return to the surface... You are not ready for the challenges that seek to harm you." Ottar said bluntly and my face twitched at his probably truthful words.

"I am not a child to be escorted to and from at Freya's behest despite her being the top goddess of Orario." I said calmy and Ottar's boar ears twitched as he frowned.

"My lady has ordered your return. I cannot not disappoint my lady, but she will want you to grow stronger... Very well I shall watch you from the shadows and keep other adventurers from interfering with your growth but only the adventurers." He said after a moment of thought, and I nodded in agreement as that fitted me perfectly.

I needed monster materials, and I could easily deal with hordes by hiding in kill boxes but to be frank the only thing I feared other than a Juggernaut appearing out of nowhere. Were assassin adventures like Chloe Lolo and the other girls that Mia suckered into working for her restaurant.

So, I quickly continued my monster farming operation with Ottar on the edge of my senses and twice I heard screams in the distance that were quickly silenced, and I prayed that whoever ran afoul of the strongest adventure was truly after me as being probably beaten to death by his bare hands as he disdained using his weapons on small fries was probably a painful way to go.

"Got enough flesh and stuff for the alters, so I need to move back up to the upper floors to get the chitin to make parts of the Skeletron and Eater of Worlds item.

I mean sure I was getting a few Killer Ants, but I wanted to get back to the floors where they were more common, and I could trigger a small monster party on myself so I could easily gather all the materials I needed in one fell swoop.

I quickly made my way back up from the Ninth floor to the seventh floor and once I got a nice and isolated room, I began my strategy of using Water Candles and leaving wounded Killer Ants to call upon its brethren to create a massive monster party that attempted to kill me but with my Space Gun that and all my mana cost reduction stuff I was able to just kite them as my summons helped deal with any aberrant and mutated monsters.

"That should me enough materials ughhhh!" I groaned stretching out my back after the umpteenth time helping my Wulfrim Drone extract the pieces of chitin from the Killer Ants. "Well lets going home." I muttered as I took out my Magic Mirror but before I could look into it and be teleported back home, I heard an unusually loud crashing noise coming from the tunnel leading to me.

"The hell is that? Did some mage come try a new spell or something?" I muttered thoughtfully but my thoughts were broken by a scream, no a roar of primal fury.

"Thats not a monster roar from these floors." I realized cursing as I wondered with the Monsterphelia coming in a couple of weeks, if something that was carted up early got loose or something.

But my thoughts were answered as from the tunnel that led to my chamber, limped in the bloody form of Bell Cranel with a landform stone sword/axe thing protruding from his chest and with a sick crashing noise the young man was punched mightily in the back sending him crashing into my room as the huffing form of a fucking golden furred Aberrant Minotaur stomped into the room towards Bell's probably almost dead form.

For a split second I wanted to just teleport out of the dungeon and leave Bell to his all but inevitable fate of death as for whatever the hell reason Ottar had. He is allowing Freya's other interest to face an opponent that was hilariously out of his league.

Monsterphelia hadn't happened yet. So Bell had neither his Hestia knife, nor did he have his Firebolt spell, and this Aberrant Minotaur was stronger than the enhanced Minotaur he fought in canon that almost killed him if Ais hadn't bought him time to recover.

My hand snapped up and with a loud sizzling noise I shot the Aberrant Minotaur several times in the head making it roar in pain raising its large thick hands to block off the lasers that were shooting it in the face. "Drone carry Fluffy around to harass him, Staryu take out its legs." I ordered quickly as I began retreating as I took out my Aquamarine staff and shot both it and my Space Gun onto the Aberrant Minotaur as I sought to drone it in magical bolts.

"Allen, you dare to ignore the orders of Freya!" I heard Ottar roar and then a loud crashing noise rang out as obviously Ottar swung onto his lieutenant or whatever Allen's official rank was in the Freya Familia while being the second strongest adventurer in the Familia.

The loud crashing noise thankfully did make the Minotaur flinch and stop its charge toward me and was thus open for Sir Fluffykins the First to nail with a couple grenades but with another roar it swiped through the dust of the explosions showing off the scalded and blasted chunks of flesh missing from it.

"Asterios you in there?" I asked loudly as I continued to blast the Aberrant Minotaur in the upper chest and face with each Aquamarine bolt of magic blowing off like a golf balls worth of flesh off the monster.

Me calling out its prior reincarnation only made the Minotaur shake its head and I saw its glowing red eyes once again lock onto me and with a loud cracking noise it shattered the stone floor of the dungeon beneath it as it charged at me at full speed.

I could only curse and use my Grappling Hook to pull me across the room as the seemingly high level three speed of the Minotaur gave me no damn time to actually maneuver on the ground and I was reduced to getting yanked around the room as I quickly burnt through my mana using my two magical weapons to kill this damned minotaur.

I soon felt my Mana dry up and I began using my Mind to fuel my magical weapons making me curse and throw the weapons in my inventory and with a flourish I whipped out a golden trident to stab the rushing Minotaur that got close to me in the split second it took me to put away my weapons and take out a new one.

"Just die dammit!" I yelled as before I got punched so hard, I felt my Armor Rating all but disappear as the golden fur covered fist smashed into my armored chest and I could feel the wonderful feeling of when you are on a swing, and you are going entirely too fast backwards.

I was punched so hard by the Aberrant Minotaur that my form literally skipped across the rock floor of the dungeon for a whole dozen meters like a rock being thrown across a lake.

"Squeak!" I heard Sir Fluffykins the First yell out and then a much louder explosion rang out as the squirrel obviously took out the emergency bomb, I gave him and somehow made it go off the moment it collided with the minotaur and once again I was sent skidding across the ground but this time with my ears ringing from the massive explosion that could easily blow up the dense stone of the dungeon.

My golden trident had stabbed the Minotaur right in the throat and Sir Fluffykins the First's bomb had completely blown off the damned monsters legs leaving it on the ground oozing its monster lifeblood from its missing lower body.

I wordlessly crawled over to the Minotaur that was likewise with crawling towards me with only its arms pulling its body across the floor and seemingly only spite pushing the Minotaur to kill me before it would finally lay down and die.

As we finally met together, I took out my Copper Longsword and as the Minotaur went to weakly roar at me, I just fell forward with my long sword pointing outwards and the sword rammed into the Minotaur's mouth and pierced through its brain making its body stiffen as the Minotaur died instantly from its brain being pierced and separated.

"Boop!" My Wulfrim Drone beeped at me loudly making me groan as I tried to get back my footing, but my drone and Sir Fluffykins pushed me over to where Bell was.

"Holy shit you are still alive?" I questioned seeing Bell's chest lightly rising as his one still working lung desperately tried to keep the young man alive, but I could hear him gurgling with each breath and knew that he was only minutes if not moment from drowning on his lungs filling up with blood or likewise him just bleeding out from the internal bleeding and the massive stone weapon that got pushed through his chest.

I looked at Bell for a moment and then I realized I couldn't save him with the Terraria healing potions I had... They didn't 'instantly' give health like they did in game, and I only have a tier two healing potion which I didn't think was enough to fix a gaping hole in someone's chest.

"Squeak Boosh!" Sir Fluffkyins the First yelled and as I looked to him, I saw him making miming motions over his chest and realized he was making a boobs reference before point to Bell, and I realized what the damn squirrel wanted me to do.

"The Gender Bender potion will fix him?" I asked dryly and the squirrel hurriedly nodded...

The problem with using my only Gender Bender potion was I only had one as the Deathroot flower substitute I needed could only be gotten from the Death Flowers that grew in the desert where the Behemoth died, and every single flower took the life of someone to harvest.

So, I only had the one that Freya gifted me for spawning those bosses and entertaining her.

"Fine... I guess this is my harem world now." I muttered at the end as I took out the softly glowing blue and purple potion and forced the neck of the bottle into Bells mouth and allowed the magical potion to slide down Bell's mouth.

I realized why the Genderbend potion could save Bell when my tier two healing potion couldn't as I used my alchemical knowledge that came with all my Terraria knowledge and came to the realization that the Genderbending potion used the conceptual death inherent in the death root to literally kill his 'male' identity and the mana crystal and other life-giving flowers revitalized his truly genderless form and fill in the void as a woman.

Bell's wiry muscular form softened, and her shorter silver hair lengthened greatly as it came down to her waist and even as I watched her waist hips get wider, I count help but notice through her very torn apart shirt was her previously flat chest growing a set of large breasts.

Seeing her body so quickly changing I saw Sir Fluffykins fly over atop my drone and begin slapping the large stone sword still buried in her chest and realizing she would need the sword out to fully regenerate I quickly ripped it out of her chest and shivered as Bell whimpered in pain, so I took her hands into my own as I watched the whole in her admittedly nice boobs quickly disappeared under the potion's effects.

Then I heard Ottar roar again along with Allen yelling but the sounds were coming closer and closer...

"Well looks like you are coming home with me Bella." I said with a wry smile as I hefted up Bell's very feminine frame in torn apart clothes and I quickly dismissed my summons as I saw Allen get smashed into the room not all to dissimilarly to how Bell got smashed into here.

Wordlessly I took out my magic mirror and before I could get dragged into the fight between a level six and a level seven I and 'Bella' Cranel were teleported out of the dungeon and into the safety of my tower.

"Seshat you there!" I yelled out as I hefted Bell into my arms in a better position now that I wasn't holding my magic mirror before laying Bell onto one of beds so I wasn't moving them anymore and so they could finally get some rest.

I faintly heard something in the distances, so I quickly made my way through the building and found Seshat working under some dungeon crystal lights to create some decorations for the interior of the large empty tower I had created.

"What's up Jake, you look like the world is about to collapse or something?" She asked with her head cocking to the side in confusion.

For a moment I considered if that was really the case but then remembered even in the Danmemo game and other stuff Bell never really 'saved' the world or anything he just got pulled into a bunch of shenanigans that had little to no real consequences to the greater world outside of Orario. Nor were there real threats to the world outside of Orario other than the One-Eyed Black Dragon but that monster would only burn down some villages every once in a while, before flying back to the uninhabitable Dragon Mountains in the far north of the continent.

"Soooo... I saved Hestia's newest Familia member and had to bring them to rest here as Allen and Ottar of the Freya Familia were fighting one another on the upper floors and could very well call a Juggernaut on us with the damage they were causing." I started off and Seshat's face twisted at the knowledge that Allen and Ottar were going hard on one another in the dungeon as should they kill one another that will severely weaken the Freya Familia either way if any of them dies.

Seshat threw down her carving tool and covered her face as she dragged her fingers down her face as she gave me a side eye. "There's something you aren't telling me. What happened Jake?" Seshat asked dryly and I wryly scratched my head.

"Uh yeah. Well, you remember that super expensive gender bending potion I made to threaten Ishtar with forcing her to drink if she became a problem. Well Bell had lost an entire lung on an aberrant Minotaur's landform weapon and was currently drowning on their blood and none of my potions could save their life, so I used the Genderbender potion to basically reset their body into a perfect condition... Just you know with tits." I said as Seshat looked at me like I was a dead man walking.

"Hestia is either going to love you for saving her beloved Familia member or she is going to hate you for ruining her crush on that pure soul." Seshat spoke as she shook her head, and I shrugged my shoulders.

"I literally had no other choice. Either Bell died there, or they got tits. There was literally no other ending to the scenario as it would take me too long to teleport back here and run to Miach or Dian Chet's store for them try to heal him." I responded wryly and Seshat nodded in understanding after a moment before she got a weird look on her face.

"Wait is that why I could see a ribbon of fate from Bell trying to connect to you back at the Hostess?" She asked herself and when I asked what the hell she meant, she waved me off. "Put the thought out of your mind Jake. Karma and Fate are so far beyond your mortal worries at the moment it's not even funny. Now let me get Bell's clothes fixed a bit before we try to escort them home as Hestia is going to throw a fit..."

I had already explained to Seshat how Bell's upper clothes got shredded from being torn apart during their fighting with the minotaur to say nothing of the soccer ball sized hole in the middle of her chest area of the shirt and jacket that left her chest wide open to see.

I sat outside the room while Seshat tried to get Bell's clothes into some kind of order, and I heard Bell mumbling in her unconscious state as my goddess shifted around her form to make sure her pants weren't going fall off or whatever with how their body had changed greatly.

"Alright Jake come in." Seshat called out to me. "I sowed a couple seams into her shirt so her new breasts have some room while closing up the shirt, so she doesn't flash everyone in Orario as we take her to Hestia's place."

"You know where Hestia lives?" I asked as I carefully hefted Bell into my arms again, and I noticed Bell had cutely leaned into my chest and grabbed onto the hoodie I was wearing after taking off my armor.

"Aww... The threads of fate are tightening around one another Eeek!" Seshat cried out looking at me and Bell with literally glowing eyes and my hands tightened around Bell as I reflexively stopped the thought of dropping the form within my arms.

"Seshat wake up! Where are we going." I said exasperatedly as I wanted to just go to bed and sleep after this debacle.

When I get super stressed or depressed, I don't get violent or just sulk. I just go take a nap and, in this situation, I was rather stressed as I had no idea of the ramifications will come of what has happened today.

Seshat pouted but she still led me who had to carry Bell's still unconscious form across Orario and thankfully with Seshat obviously leading me, I didn't have to deal with any white knights who wanted to jump in seeing some dude carrying a woman into the ghetto decrepit section of Orario that had never gotten fixed after Evilus went crazy, after the Zues and Hera Familia got booted out of the city.

"Well, this is the church Hestia mentioned she lived at. Hopefully she is home." Seshat muttered and I could only nod as I took in the familiar heavily decrepit Hestia Familia church. God I was glad I didn't live here. I bet it had bugs everywhere with all the broken windows and such.

I then shifted Bell in my arms as I followed Seshat past the little gated fence that surrounded the church and then Seshat took one look at the rotting wooden door of the church and then instead knocking on the door she began kicking a less rotten side of the door creating a large racket with the impacts.

"Hestia! You there!" Seshat called out as she kicked the door and finally, I heard another door slam open or closed from within the church but as all the racket was going on I felt Bell shifting in my arms and for a moment I wanted to hush Seshat so Bell could sleep but then I felt the bit of soreness in my arms that were the result of carrying Bell for like half an hour. So, I mentally encouraged Seshat to kick the door louder...

Finally, however the church's door swung open swiftly and there was the panting form of Hestia who had obviously run from the church's less decrepit basement to greet us. "Whew... Seshat you came to visit! Helloooo..." Hestia spoke excitedly as she greeted Seshat before her words drew off as she took in the long white-haired beauty resting in my arms.

"Bell!!!" Hestia's scream instinctively made Bell jerk and thrash awake in my arms and with a loud ripping noise as the Bell almost fell out of my arms she had shrugged her shoulders too far and the stiches Seshat put into her shirt to keep it together gave up the ghost...

Seshat, Hestia and I all froze in dumbfounded silence as Bell's new breasts jumped out of her ruined shirt clearly showing Bell's new changes and then Hestia tilted back and forth in place.

"Don't die Hestia!" Seshat cried out lunging forward to catch Hestia who collapsed into a dead faint as I coudnt remove my eyes from the sight of Bell awakening and as she laid within my arms Bell looked up to me with her large innocent red eyes and then they looked down.

Saw their large milky smooth breasts. Looked back up to me. Back down again. Back to me. "I am a girl!" Bell screamed and I mentally said fuck it as she began struggling again and this time I just 'let go' and with a loud thump Bell just fell into the floorboards of the church.

"Why is my Bell a girl!" Hestia screamed as she pointed at me and Seshat as she had somehow come back to reality hearing Bell's very feminine new voice.

"Bell maybe you should start off on how an aberrant Minotaur of all things got down to merely the seventh floor and I will explain how you got turned into a girl." I said and Hestia's eyes' lasered onto Bell who cringed at the sight of Hestia's angry eyes.

"Bell! You promised you weren't even passed the fifth floor yet!" Hestia scolded Bell who shrunk in on herself.

"I was doing fine with the Killer Ants and War Shadows so I didn't see a problem in going to the floors before the next big monster changes with the fog filled floors of the tenth floors and what not." Bell said as an excuse but Hestia wasn't having it.

"I don't give a damn Bell Cranel! You went too deep without preparations nor a party, and what happened? Another damn minotaur jumped you!" Hestia yelled stabbing her fingernails between Bell's new boobs before Hestia realized what she just did and jumped backwards blushing and then she whirled on me.

"And you! How did my precious Bell get so cute and have boobs that match mine!" Hestia cried and my mind short circuited a bit on that last bit making me cough and give her a look making her lightly dusted with pink darken as she realized I caught her on that slip of the tongue.

I took a deep breath and let the joking atmosphere dissipate and Hestia's blush died as she realized I was being serious. I looked to Bell and said clear as day so both Goddesses could confirm my words as the absolute truth. "Bell Cranel you were dying. You had no other option other than me pouring a gender bending potion into your mouth because your entire chest cavity was ruined as the Minotaur had pulped one of your lungs. You were drowning in your blood in the other lung, you had plenty of ruptured organs from the Minotaur beating you to death. And with Freya's Ottar and Allen fighting just outside the corridor I was in for whatever reason." I could only shrug as I looked Bell in her red eyes.

"You were dying as I pushed the drink into your mouth... No ifs ands or buts. There was no scenario in which you survived if I didn't use the potion." I spoke and Hestia's face fell as I fully explained how I had no way of saving Bell without taking the steps I did.

"And the Minotaur? How did you even kill that?" Hestia asked me pointedly and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Magic... I am an accomplished magic user and it's not like I beat it unscathed, I got a couple bruises and may have torn some muscles, but I never noticed it as I was busy saving your Familia member and then fled as two of the arguably strongest adventures were fighting for whatever reason." I responded reminding Hestia that I went out of my way to save Bell.

"I see..." Hestia drew off looking between me and Bell before she sighed. "Look I am deeply and utterly grateful to you for saving Bell for me as I have no idea what I would do if I felt their Falna disappear from my senses but do you... You know?" She said leadingly.

"Can I get another gender bending potion." Bell asked blushing as she covered her bare chest with her hands, and it was obvious that she didn't know how to properly do it as she used her hands to cup her chest to cover it rather than using an arm.

"No... The primary ingredient used in it is the Deathroot Flower that comes from the Desert that the Behemoth was slain. And that flower is well known for magically cursing whoever picks it with an instant death so no one will pick it anymore as just finding it in the toxic desert is nightmare to begin with." I explained softly and Bell slumped downwards a bit.

"How can I be a great adventurer if I lost all my muscles and became a girly girl." Bell almost complained/whined but I got how she was focusing on how things had changed rather than well the things she lost.

"Well, plenty of ladies especially Amazons do perfectly fine in melee as the Falna will make you stronger. Or you can get into magic I guess." I spoke and I saw Bell relax a bit at my reminder and then with a moment of thought I took out a Wand of Sparking which literally cost me damn near nothing to make.

It was only a stick with a couple magical runes cut into it, but it could shoot out burning magnesium hot like sparks from it.

"Here this can burn out the eyes of monsters and deal with weaker things. Plus, it can help you drain mind and train your mind stat before you get your own spell." I said shooting a couple small sparks of painfully bright light that scored the stones outside the church.

"Isn't a staff that can cast magic without the caster having a spell like one of a kind or super expensive?' Bell asked pensively as she took the staff and I saw it shoot the same bolts of magic.

"Yes, Bell such a staff would be an heirloom! But this one is a bit weak?" Hestia said excitedly but looked a bit pensive at Bell's giddy expression at shooting the magical bolts.

I wrapped an arm around Seshat as I smugly spoke. "Yeah, well I made that staff, and I made much better ones!" I said smugly as I took out my Aquamarine staff and with a shriek a curtain of blue magical bolts shot out and tore a trench through the around dry dirt in front of Hestia's church.

"Anyway, I wanted to bring Bell back home to you Hestia so they wouldn't wake up at my place changed and with their last memory being hunted down by the Minotaur." I said as Bell and Hestia mutely nodded still shocked by the sight of my chant less magical use which went against all of Danmachi's magical conventions.

"Seshat its already dark and although I wouldn't mind inviting you guys to come spend the night at our place, but we cannot stay here." I spoke and as though in mockery of my words a pew within the church shattered and fell apart making Hestia and Bell's face twitch.

"Actually! Thats a perfect idea Jake. Me and Hestia need to talk plus we got to teach Bell stuff on how to be a woman too. As I am sure Hestia doesn't have any mortal feminine items, do you?" Seshat asked pointedly and Hestia choked as she pointed weakly at my goddess before she slumped.

"No, I don't... I thought it was going to be just me and Bell." She whimpered before she looked at Bell and spun around. "Fine give me and Bell a few minutes to pack up for a couple of days and update Bell's Falna!" Hestia yelled as she pulled Bell towards the basement.

The moment the church door and Hestia had dragged Bell downstairs into the basement Hestia threw herself face first into the bed and screamed into the pillows loud enough to make the goddess's ears pop.

"Goddess.... I am sorry for bringing you trouble." Bell whispered after Hestia's scream of frustration ended and she merely slammed her feet repeatedly on the bed as she had to live with all the change that was coming.

'I need to focus on Bell... They just went through almost dying and to say nothing of their new status.' Hestia thought as she weakly rolled over and off the bed before lunging at Bell and the goddess of the Hearth's face scrunched up as instead of her face hitting the wiry physique Bell once had and she was well familiar with as she was a very touchy-feely woman...

Nope she ended face planted into soft boobs that only highlighted how Bell had changed and Bell instead of just chuckling when Hestia would lunge into a hug back when he was male actually whimpered as they cupped the boob Hestia smashed into.

"Hestia that hurt... Are they always so sensitive?" Bell asked as she held Hestia against her in a hug despite the flash of pain.

"Yes, they are rather sensitive... Gods it's so ughhhh!" Hestia cried out as she threw her hands up as she pulled back from Bell and began quickly throwing her extra outfits and even her couple nice dresses that Hephaestus helped her get for when there was a divine get-together like a Denatus into a travel bag.

"So, I guess I am stuck like this Hestia." Bell said sighing as she brushed her hands over her face and took out a newer shirt, she could throw on so she wouldn't be flashing her chest all the time. "Honestly... I was always called girly back in my village., I was always invited by the younger girls to learn how to sow, cook and other stuff... I mean that's how I keep these clothes in decent shape after fighting in the dungeon all day ha-ha." Bell chuckled softly as she stared at the roof of the basement.

"I mean my grandfather always told me to come to Orario and save a girl in the dungeon that way I could become a hero and get the girl you know... But what if Jake is the hero and I am the girl now?" Bell said wetly as she wiped a tear away as she couldn't help but feel like her dreams of catching up to Ais slipping away as she couldn't help but face the reality that every single time she had gotten in over her head and tried to go on and 'adventure' to become stronger... She always was slapped down by reality and only escaped by the skin of her teeth.

But this time she didn't escape... Bell realized. She literally was a dead man walking as Jake was the only one who could have saved her other than maybe Orario's two best magical healers but the odds of running into them was nil.

Hestia sighed with her twin tails going as limp as they could as the goddess walked over to Bell and cupped Bell's chin so she could make contact with her only Familia member. "Bell I will go to the ends of the earth and even use my Arcanum to change you back, if you want...

What do you want to happen now?" Hestia asked as her eyes flickered with pink light as she truly loved Bell to the ends of the earth and was fully willing to wait the couple centuries it would take Bell to die and meet her back in Tenkai if she were booted back to Heaven for using her Arcanum.

"No Goddess don't use your Arcanum!" Bell all but screamed as she knew all too well that he would never see Hestia again if she tried to fix him if she could even before she got sent back to Tenkai. "Just let me figure it out... I can learn and use magic with Jake as he is obviously wanting to party with me. But he was right about girls though." Bell said scratching her head wryly.

At Hestia's deadpanning raised eyebrow at Bell's somewhat iffy statement the innocent looking rabbit of a girl with her long white hair and red eyes could only awkwardly chuckle. "Sorry Hestia I kind of forgot you were a girl too and not just my amazing goddess Hehe..." Bell said awkwardly and Hestia's eyebrows twitched with barely concealed fury as Bell continued. "I actually tried lifting our bed and I still seem to be just as strong with my Falna enhanced strength so I can still fight in melee if need be. But I really want to use magic!" Bell said excitedly and Hestia just clamped her hands on Bell's cheeks making the girl go silent.

"Alright Bell let's get your Falna updated as who knows how long it will be for when we have some privacy to update it again if we are staying over at Seshat's place.

Hestia then helped Bell take off her shirt and then she froze and coudnt help but take a second as she noticed how smooth and soft Bell's feminine skin was. "Goddess is something wrong with my Falna?!" Bell asked almost hysterically as Hestia had never paused when she sat on Bell's lower back for more than a couple of seconds before she got to work on her Falna before.

"No! Not at all Bell I was just noticing you uhhhh have nice skin Hehe." Hestia awkwardly laughed before she quickly took a drop of her blood with a needle, that she kept handy for updating Bell's status.

But as Hestia activated Bell's status her entire face scrunched up and she gave the back of Bell's head and evil look as she mentally cursed Bell to a thousand deaths. 'Oh, that's how it is... My Bell is just a slut! She just latches onto anyone who shows her some attention and saves her in the dungeon Mhoooo I am so mad!' Hestia mentally screamed and literally began almost convulsing as she kept herself from smashing the vase that was on the bedside table onto the back of Bell's head for being such a traitor.

Bella Cranel

Level 1

Strength 345 G

Endurance 499 F

Dexterity 420 F

Agility 432 F

Magic 2 I

Skills- Liaris Freese - Increases the speed of User's growth as long as she is in love. The strength of the effects is related to the strength of User's feelings. As a side effect, it makes her immune to charms. It also allows her to exceed the limit of her abilities.

Socius Fati - In the act of supporting designated partner temporarily raises stats. Raises stat gains with designated partner. Enhances partners growth.

"Why can't you get a skill from caring about me Bell!" Hestia screamed slapping down the Falna to inscribe her Falna onto the paper and then she just hopped off Bell's back as she couldn't help but focus on the fact that even on Bell's Falna, that Bell's name had changed to reflect that literally down to her very damned soul that she had accepted her change into woman.

"Hestia I am sorry!?" Bell cried out reflexively conditioned to cry for mercy when Hestia would freak out but feeling Hestia move off of her body, she grabbed the Falna and gapped as her eyes widened at seeing not only her magic stat growing only from using Jake's magic staff a bit, but she had two skills!

"Hestia, I have two skills! This is sooo awesome! Wait.... I love..." Bell's face turned pink as she choked, and Hestia could barely hear Bell's whispers about how she had no idea if the first skill meant she loved Jake or even Ais Wallenstein.

"Come on Bella! Its time to go meet our new besties and who you are going to be bunking with Hahah!" Hestia said loudly with spiteful laughter ringing from her as she dragged Bell who quickly grabbed her bag of spare clothes that could possibly fit her new feminine form as she asked what in the world was wrong with Hestia and why she seemed too so mad.

'Bell is stupid!' Hestia mentally screamed as she threw open the doors to the church and with not even a blink she spoke to Jake. "Hey, Jake, how about you and Bell bunk together tonight so me and Seshat can catch up on old times. Plus, it will allow you two to get used to being close to one another in the dungeon." Hestia said shamelessly and she took great joy in how Bell choked on her air and turned bright red as her soft red eyes took in Jake's form.

Jake gave Seshat his goddess and indescribable look before he shook his head and focused on Hestia and Bella. Hestia couldn't help but notice how Jake's eyes had an almost unreal nonmortal depth to them and was curious to know how his soul looked under Seshat's and other gods with soul sight. But Hestia's ruminating thoughts were brought back to reality as Jake nodded speaking.

"Thats fine. We can go over strategies as my dungeon hunting practices... Are original to say the least." He said with a wry smile that made him look so much more approachable and even Hestia had to wonder how 'original' his dungeon hunting strategies were as the dungeon had been plumbed for literally millennia after Ouranos threw the cap on it from Tenkai and the mortals and spirits of the world fought to seal the dungeon and prevent and monsters from overflowing from it.

Then Jake leaned forward and took Bell's heavy bag from her with nary a thought as he slung it over his shoulder and then he turned around and spoke as he walked down the church path. "Well let's get going. This place is right next to the Daedalus District, and I don't want to get caught walking around it at night." Hearing Jake's reminder all the girls quickly followed him with Seshat taking his arm and throwing Bell a look of thought before the cat goddess began talking about how Jake was so great and could summon boss monsters and had the whole of Orario practically wrapped around his fingers. Well, the Familia's that wanted to easily rank up anyway.

-

Across the city Freya was sitting in her penthouse suite near the upper floors of the Tower of Babel's living quarters and she was livid.

"Allen..." Freya's voice of velvet and seduction carried over to the male cat beastkin. But the voice may have velvet in it, but the voice's tone only had pure wrath dripping from each syllable. "I am going to give you a chance... Why did you disobey my orders and instead had an aberrant minotaur attack my Bell instead of the simple enhanced one that Ottar had tested to be the right fit for Bell's strength."

Allen normally wearing a body clinging armor that allowed him to take advantage of his status as the fastest fighter in all of Orario was in tatters and had none of the honed edge such an adventurer should have. Ottar had thoroughly broken his fangs in the dungeon in rage at how his second in the Familia had so flagrantly shattered their beloved goddess's plans.

"You have changed Lady Freya." Allen spoke gutturally as he had more than a couple broken ribs. "Before Bell came into the picture the only time you would mess around was when you would switch places with Horn and become Syr and wander the mortal world... We were all fine with that, no we even respected you as our beloved goddess that worked a menial job to connect with the mortal world."

Allen then shook his head as his yellow slit eyes locked onto the form of Freya who was sitting in her lounge chair in the shadows not even looking at his broken form and only staring out towards Orario.

"But you obsess over that brat despite how each and every single one of us, here in your very Familia bleeds and dies for your attention in the pits." Allen spat some blood from his mouth onto the ground and Ottar who was behind Allen growled at the perceived offense, but Freya held up a perfectly manicured hand to stop Ottar from snapping the Cat beast kin's neck from behind.

"So, you set up Bell to die out of jealousy?" Freya finally asked and the room went dead silent as even the wind above Orario seemingly didn't dare to enter the tension filled room.

"Yes, Lady Freya I wanted Bell to die by that Minotaur and I would do it again if only to return you the edge you had before Bell came into Orario." Allen said straightforwardly without shame or trying to weasel out of any form of punishment. Because Allen had his own pride.

Freya went silent as she digested Allen's heartfelt words and for a split moment she wondered if her desire to polish Bell into her Odry or husband was for naught especially with how Bell had literally been turned into a woman... A fetching woman to be fair especially with her pure soul. But a woman none the less.

But whether it was Bell with her pure soul that Freya wanted to hold within her bosom or even Jake's kaleidoscope of a soul and the infinite potential growth he would bring to Orario. Freya realized something. Allen's jealously would very well bring such plans to death as he just said he would do the same thing all over again.

So, Freya sighed and her eyes glowed purple with a mind shattering Charm as she paralyzed Allen's mind before she looked to Ottar behind Allen. "Ottar my dear... Do it." A loud wet cracking noise rang out as the strongest man in Orario simply took a step forward and with both hands he grabbed Allen's chin and with a sharp twist and jerk, Allen Frommel's neck and spinal cord snapped ending the level six's life as his head got twisted around.

Freya with her glowing purple eyes stared silently at Allen's form as it slumped when Ottar gently laid it down on the thick carpeted floor and finally Freya spoke as her eyes stopped glowing with her Charm. "Ottar my dear. Take Allen and bury him in the Familia grave and..." Freya paused before she shook her head. "Remind the others that shattering my dreams will not be tolerated despite my care for them."

Ottar knew all too well that the warning was for the likes of the Gulliver brothers and the elf duo Hedin and Hegin who were all very attached to Freya and that they must not do the same actions that Allen took to 'return' Freya Familia to what it was before.

Ottar ever Freya's most devoted tool and supporter merely nodded while mentally categorizing who may become an issue as he had long accepted Freya's love was a freely flowing wind and that obsessing over it was like lamenting that sun went down at night. He would do everything and anything for Freya, but he wouldn't limit or even dream of chaining her desires as Freya was everything to him.

"Yes, my Lady it will be done... Goodnight my Lady and as you requested Heith Velvet will be guarding your suite for the night." Ottar said as he picked up Allen's form and began carrying him out.