"Hahahaha, what are two children doing in the dungeon at this time? Especially so far from the main road? Didn't you know it is dangerous to go around in the dungeon this way?" Said a greasy-haired man with waxy skin as he dangerously eyed Ais while licking his lips greedily.

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Five minutes prior, in the Loki familia compound.

"What do you mean Ais and Aidan didn't come back from the dungeon yet?" Asked Loki, rarely serious. "What about the guard who had been shadowing them?" She asked once again.

"It seems that the two of them left even earlier for the dungeon this morning, and the man was asleep. We asked the chefs who were working at the cafeteria, and they said that the two of them left the mansion at four this morning." Explained Finn with a severe demeanour.

"Alright. Both know that to enter the next floor, there is a need for the corresponding stats, so they can only be on the fourth floor to train; you go there with Riveria," Ordered Loki with a frown on her face. She hadn't expected that the two of them would leave so early in the morning. While she didn't show it outwardly due to her usually joking behaviour, she cared for the two of them not just because of their powers but because she found them pleasant and exciting. She was happy to have them in her familia.

As she thought about what could have happened to the two of them, she rarely showed a nervous expression on her face as the two executives were on the way to the dungeon at full speed. After all, even if their goddess hadn't given the order to find them, they would still have gone since they did grow attached to the two of them over their small interaction over a few days.

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Staring at the man who just threw a flaming arrow to his face, Aidan slowly backed off with Ais beside him.

"What are you doing? Do you think the two of you would be able to escape from me?" The man asked with a weird chuckle, his eyes never leaving the two of them.

"How about this? You." He said while pointing at Ais. "Come and accompany me for a bit. It's been a long time since I've had fun with lolis. And as long as you can satisfy me, I will let you go; how about?" He said with a mad chuckle as a bulge appeared between both of his legs.

Without answering the man, the two of them continued to back off. They didn't understand what he wanted, but from his tone of voice and that weird bulge down there, Aidan knew it wasn't something good.

"You can't run from me." He continued with his weird crackle as he saw the young silver-haired boy push the scared girl behind him. "I'm a strong low-class adventurer, and there is no way you can do anything to me." He said with complete confidence before starting to run towards them.

Aidan gave a quick look at Ais's scared face, who took a deep breath and nodded imperceptibly as the two separated on the left and right.

The man who seemed weirdly attracted to the young girl immediately turned towards her, ignoring the boy behind him. He immediately stretched his hand forward towards her chest area as Aidan took out his magic arrow, fireball and his shield card.

Throwing the shield card towards Ais and the magic arrow card towards the man, followed closely by the fireball spell, Aidan willed the shield card to activate multiple times as three shields appeared in front of her. At the same time, Aidan controlled the Magic arrows to transform and attack his weak points such as the head, the neck, the heart, and the bulge in the middle of his pants. As for the fireball spell, he sent it directly towards his torso.

Seeing weird magic activate in front of him put the man on guard. However, no matter how on guard, the magic arrows still made their way to his weak spots. After all, while the magic arrow spell was weak, at the right place, even a tiny hit could be fatal.

Seeing the man rapidly block his head, neck and heart with his arms, Aidan smiled slightly as the last arrow went straight through the bulge, making something fall on the floor. Moreover, as the man was about to shout in pain, he noticed the card right in front of him. With shocked eyes, the man barely had the time to block in front of his body before the huge fireball appeared and exploded on his body.

Unfortunately, the disgusting man had already done his best to block the spell. Apart from having his arms completely burnt and broken from the explosive force and having his clothes and hair on his body burnt, nothing more happened. However, it was enough for Aidan, who rushed forward, this time attracting the complete attention of the man, which gave enough time for Ais to stab the man in the leg.

Due to the stab in the leg, the man lost his balance for a moment which gave Aidan's the opportunity to hack at the second leg, completely cutting it off, making the man fall on the floor.

The man had no clothes on his body, his hair and eyebrows wholly burnt, his arms broken and burnt along with a missing bulge in between his two legs which now became one along with a pierced one.

Rapidly moving to his head, Aidan gave a kick right in his face, breaking his nose and knocking him out, effectively finishing the fight.

Turning to Ais, who had slight tears in her eyes, Aidan came closer and hugged her gently as tears fell from her eyes. She had been scared of the man who had wanted to do bad things to her. She couldn't imagine what would have happened without Aidan by her side. She soon firmly hugged him back and put her face in his shoulder, with Aidan rubbing her back gently.

"It's alright now. That man can't do anything to you anymore." Said Aidan as he tried his best to comfort the young lady in front of him. "Hum." She nodded as she hummed a response to him which made him smile slightly, happy she relied on him.

As they were hugging, Aidan kept a close look at his surroundings to make sure no one would attack them during this time of weakness and instead of an enemy, he saw a bag not far away. 'This should be his loot and various equipment. Well, he probably won't need it anymore, so I might as well take it off his hands.' Aidan thought with a weird internal chuckle as he remembered his broken arms, which obviously wouldn't allow him to take much weight.

After a few minutes of hugging, Ais slightly calmed down as she took a small step back, not going too far from him and looked at Aidan with puffy eyes. "Alright, we need to deal with this problem. Let's start by looking at our loot." He said decisively, ignoring the almost dying man next to him. He had tried to kill them and do weird things to Ais; in their hearts, he was nothing more than a monster, which allowed them to stay calm.

Approaching the bag with Ais abnormally close to him, Aidan took it and opened it immediately, only to see a considerable amount of magic stones and monster drop items. In addition to these, they found some magical potions, which he most likely used to help him fight with his magic. 'Now that I think about it, I didn't hear the chant of his spell. Oh, he probably murmured it not to be discovered in this case.' Thought Aidan as he continued to look through the loot.

Finally, as he looked at the bottom of the bag, he found some randomly mixed equipment with some blood on them. It was evident that the gear didn't come from the same person as the sizes were completely different. "We certainly weren't his first prey, and the man most likely killed everyone else." Said Ais as she trembled slightly at imagining what would have happened to them both had it not been for their surprise attack.

"Yeah." Said Aidan before getting up and taking his sword full of nervousness as he heard some noise behind him.

However, he turned only to see a blue-eyed pallum, and all his worries disappeared from his face as he relaxed. "What happened here?" He asked as he gave a cursory glance over everything.

"This man attacked us." Answered Aidan as he pointed towards the attacker. "He wanted to kill us and do some weird things to Ais." He continued, which made the pallum's face harden. "In the end, he tried to attack us, but we won." Finished Aidan as the pallum gave a quick worried look at Ais, who didn't leave Aidan's side.

"I see. We'll wait until Riveria arrives before going back to the surface." He nodded with evident relief on his face seeing that the two didn't have any injuries.