Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 78- Massacre

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A wet suctioning sound echoed in the area around the dungeon.

Aster looked grimly on as her knife she'd meant to kill monsters was now dripping with elven blood from a certain someone's lackeys.

Florent and Petra were also trying their best not to show how mentally and emotionally tired they were after killing people of their own kind amongst others who were clearly life forms that could have been their friends, maybe.

The dead bodies didn't need to be cleaned up after being killed. We'd killed them in defence once they tried to kill me. For that to be all done under the watchful eyes of our stream viewers... It was honestly more embarrassing than making us feel bad. They should have been stronger. But all that was left was a sense of justification brought by our overwhelming evidence.

Florent stepped towards me, alert in case someone were to attack his back when he did. "Should we still go in?"

Aster added, "Yeah, there are probably a lot more killers inside the dungeon."

"It would be different if we had some time to prepare or practise our fighting a bit more.", Petra said darkly enough for us all to look at her in worry. These people now weren't strong, but we were all aware that quantity can kill. We were also keenly aware that these lives were clearly just used as throwaways, testers and bait used before the real fight.

However, I was determined to dive regardless of the circumstances. "No, we'll have to go in to clean up, but before that we should enter the dungeon that we wanted to enter. It's not the same dungeon as the one we're at, so you can all calm down now. Few would care enough to know how to get into the dungeon we're going to anyway."

"Right!"Petra shouted half relieved, "It's one month for one hour in this world's reality, right?"

I nodded and then went over to a space near the dungeon portal's sign-up area. The officer's there had already ran away to get away with letting all of the killers set up camp here. People will undoubtedly blame the government and those in charge of the dungeons after I pointed out that the things left with identification for them were probably purposefully put there. A scapegoat that they wanted to fire to escape blame. A scapegoat that could just be looking after his own life. Only a fool will stay here without any immediate support when they see a whole gang of people coming to fully lay an ambush in and around the dungeon here. Aster looked indignant for me when I pointed it out, but calmed down after stating that we can freely go to their offices to kill the people there anyway since they can't blindly hide forever if they ever did hide that deep.

A kicked table came crashing down across the floor and my hands lit up to open another portal that would close immediately after the four of us enter unless we want to come out later on.

The milky portal opened a person sized hole that a six foot tall person might have to duck their head to get into. Once we were in, the other side with its ruins on full display appeared in front of us.

We wandered around harvesting and exploring for the first week. After a week we'd mapped out and harvested from the whole dungeon. We returned to the places with ruins we could analyse and went to work.

About two more weeks passed. We'd finished analysing and paid more attention to our combat training we had been doing continuously since entering this dungeon in our breaks from other tasks.

Another week and a few days passed. We'd come out of the dungeon to find nothing had changed from our previous departure from the dungeoning entrance area. The dead bodies were still on the floor, only an hour old. Nonetheless we checked to make sure everything was the same before killing the newly arrived officers who'd arrived, because they had watched a stream of a couple teens. It seemed like they didn't watch our streams like they had said and were lazy enough not to have remembered our faces seeing as they attacked us whilst shouting this explanation. I guess we'd become the scapegoats in some people's eyes for some reason, which led to the aggressive attempts to arrest us. Needless to say that they died quickly and idiotically. A fitting end to them who looked no different from the dead pile of corpses they joined.

Before entering the dungeon we threw in some half alive or dying corpses that couldn't speak into the dungeon. The portal screen rippled a couple of times showing that there were explosions inside the dungeon as soon as they entered.

In response Petra turned her ability on to freeze minerals and the rest of us manipulated our energy.

We entered and fought until there were no people or monsters left in the trampled swamp-like dungeon. By the time we came out the wooden administrator was sitting on a more official looking pile of corpses waiting for us.

"You were slow." The wooden administrator noted gruffly.

"We're not that well practised against people who'd been trained in any retrospective to kill people. Not to mention that they appeared to be going about it in an annoying way. But enough about that", my hand picked off a piece of flesh or a bloody piece of vegetation in the dungeon that had soaked in during our battle, as I told a blatant lie that we all knew, but none attested it. "Why did you choose to arrive?"

"I thought it might be interesting to expose the officers and the Trina girls 'family'. And get this, she's not even their daughter. She apparently killed their daughter when she turned five and found out that someone had switched the cots with the baby labels around. Apparently someone hated the hunter couple that were her biological parents that gave birth to a baby and changed their cots. Now those parents are all coming out clean. Trina's pair of parents are especially volatile when they've found out about it all. Imagine how Trina killing a little girl now has a trial being requested to occur again and her rich parents seem keen on killing her. I don't know what her official adopted parents are thinking trying to protect her. Yet I never knew why the officers sided with her either. So I'm going to look into it, but judging from the failed inheritance tests that I checked myself with Trina's blood, I can't guess why they still support her like that. Aeon weren't those your adopted parents too, before they immediately tried to send you to be assaulted to death in one way or another?"

I didn't comment on it for a while, but felt it was necessary to help him in his investigation. "They were and I didn't spend more than an hour with them. But I could tell that only 'their' son had the blood of the actual family and had any ownership of the property. What's more is that they went out to get a prophetic reading that morning before they picked me up and were going to pick it up after they disowned me or dumped my body somewhere. I just sped up the process. But if Trina does have a failed test on her I think she and they are going to pay the price now. That house's energy was all wrong for those types of weak people to live there from the start."

"Greed blinds people to believe that their pride overcomes things like that." The wooden Administrator hummed in interest and walked us all back to the Idol effigy university whilst killing people. We also noticed that a lot of strangers and staff members on the campus were dead. They were lazily cleaning up when we arrived making it all the more obvious.