“I can’t trust you” I finally broke the silence between Miko and I

“I see, I’ll leave your team then” Miko dropped her head once again, did she finally give up

“Sir Udon”

“Papa Udon” Umi and Vnaa said softly, their voices seeming to break

“You four, cease your fighting” Yuki came over to us, it seems they had defended the village from the attack

“I can not listen to this anymore, Lady Miko leave this weak human to his own device, if he wishes to leave I will give him safe passage to the seventh floor”

“Do it” I told Yuki

“But Sir Udon, Rival Miko” Umi tired to plead her case to keep Miko

“You saw it with your own eyes Umi, she stood against us”

“Papa Udon, I don’t want Big Sister Miko to leave” Vnaa was now vouching for Miko!

“Its ok you two, if Master Udon can’t trust me then I am nothing but a nuisance to him” Miko said keeping her head down

“I told you I wouldn’t harm you Master Udon, it appears I was wrong, I’m sorry” Miko turned around and walked off

“Rival Miko”

“Big Sister Miko!” Umi and Vnaa called out to her, but she just kept walking

“Leave her, lets get going”

“How pitiful, I don’t know why Lady Miko ever associated herself with a weakling like yourself” Yuki said sticking her nose up at me

“Just bring us to the seventh floor before I change my mind and destroy this village” I glared at Yuki

“Once you reach the seventh floor you will need another party member to move on, I don’t know how you will acquire another member with your attitude, I see the only team you can get yourself is through weak familiars like these two, pathetic” Yuki was about to wave her fan but one of the Barbegazi called out to her

“Mistress Yuki! The Yeti’s are invading with their full force!”

“Tsk, could there be a worse time” Yuki covered her mouth with her fan and turned to us

“As much as I hate to ask this of you, if you wish to have safe passage to the seventh floor I ask you to help protect us from the invading Yeti’s” Was she seriously asking for help, I turned to Vnaa and Umi they still had their heads down, did they not see Miko betray us!

“No way lady, I’d rather watch this village go down in flames”

“You wretched human, I will reward you with rare Ice Dragon Materials, all I ask of you is to protect the Barbegazi” Ice dragon materials?

“We’ll help” Huh, I turned to see Umi accept her offer, what the hell!

“I’ll help to” Vnaa stepped forward, what is with these two!

“I might have been wrong about you two, please protect my Barbegazi” Yuki gave a small smile to the two girls then glared back at me.

“Defend the gate!” Yuki called out, Vnaa and Umi ran after her and guarded the Barbegazi

“Idiots, every last one of them” I mumbled to myself, I wasn’t lifting a finger to help

“Get to the front! They are breaking through” I sat down and leaned against one of the posts we had been tied up to, the village was losing against the Yeti’s, fire arrows were burning the huts, the picketed tree fence was coming down already and the gate had just about had it

“They’ve broken through!” One of the Barbegazi shouted out, the Yeti’s ran into the village, some of them were even riding Nykur’s, come to think of it, what even is this?

“You shall perish here Floor Monster, our leader will take the title of the sixth floor Ancient Floor Monster!” One of the Yeti’s raised its frozen wooden club into the air and shouted

“So that’s what all this is, I didn’t realise monsters fought like this” I mumbled to myself, the Yeti’s were swinging their clubs around sending the Barbegazi flying one after another

“You truly are the embodiment of a human” Yuki appeared next to me

“What is your problem lady! You start a fight with me and then mock me, to me this is your own fight, if I was true in my human ways, I’d kill you why your back is turned and let the Yeti’s slaughter your weak dogs” Yuki glared at me, she wanted to kill me herself, ever since I acquired this ghost seed my anger had been starting to increase.

“To think Lady Miko would ever trust you, and The Creator grant you the Ghost Seed Hero Weapon, has the dungeon gone mad” She knew about my seed?

“Miko was only acting, you saw her stand against me, now stop talking and go save your little pets” I waved Yuki away, that seemed to annoy her even more

“You’ll die a lonely and painful death” Yuki mumbled walking off attacking the invading Yeti’s

“All ready have” I mumbled punching the snow

“Cease the fighting! Where is the Woman of the Snow!” A deep rough voice echoed through the village

“I have come to take my rightful place as this Floor Ancient Monster!” A giant Yeti appeared through the gates, it wasn’t as scary or big as the one Neptune sent to kill me, but it was stronger then the others

“You will never gain that title Miche of the Yeti’s” Yuki stepped forward facing the leader of the Yeti’s

“Is that so, ha! It seems your weak Barbegazi is no match for my army” Miche laughed at the carnage that had fallen upon the village, he did have a point though.

“I will defend this village with my life” Yuki still not backing down

“Why don’t we have a one on one fight to the death, when I win, I will be the rightful Ancient Floor Monster” Miche challenged Yuki, this jackass is so full of himself, I wanted to smack some sense into him, but, it wasn’t my fight

“When I kill you, your army will leave this place at once and crawl back into the caves they came from” Yuki retaliated, Miche grew angry at that remark.

The Yeti’s and Barbegazi circled around Miche and Yuki, it seemed they would uphold the rules of a one on one fight, interesting.

“You will die like the weakling you are” Is that the only threat Yuki knew, calling people weak.

“Don’t make me laugh you lowly human hybrid” Miche responded condescendingly

“Human hybrid?” If she was the same Woman of the Snow in the legend back in Japan, she was once a human.

“Ha! You call me a weak human and you’re just like me” I couldn’t help but laugh, Yuki turned to me, a cut throat expression took over her

“Hmm, that puny human over there, is he apart of this village” Miche pointed to me, what did I have to do with this?

“Don’t be absurd, to let a human be apart of this village will be the day I die” Yuki responded back charging at Miche, the battle for the sixth floor was finally beginning

Miche waved his arm forward and then blocked the razor sharp fan heading towards his throat

“Not bad, but you’ll need to be stronger then that” Miche pushed Yuki back and landed a hard punch into her stomach sending her back

“Ugh” Yuki spat some blood out of her mouth and looked hurt already

“You weak hybrid” Miche charged at Yuki, he raised his frozen wooden club above his head and swang it down on the ground. The ground started to shake, the loose snow flew into the air making it hard to see

“Take this!” Miche landed a hard blow into Yuki’s side and sending her flying into one of the burnt huts. What was left standing from the hut had now collapsed onto Yuki, she was buried in ruble.

“Man, this Yeti must be strong if its just playing with Yuki” I mumbled to myself

Enemy detection activated, 1 enemy behind you

“Master Udon!”

“Huh?” I turned to see a frozen sword swinging down at me

*Clang

“Miko…” Miko jumped behind me and fended off the sword with her dagger, is that what Miche was indicting when he waved his arm forward

“Tsk” I turned to see Miche click his tongue, it was! What did I have to do with his fight!

“Master Udon, they want to kill you because they believe you are paired up with Yuki” Miko explained to me

“What! I would never team up with that lady” I stood up, I could feel my rage exploding again, this is strange, it was never this intense, even when I killed Carn and his party, I was never this angry.

“Kill them all!”

“You’re right, I’ll kill them, I’ll kill every last one of them!”

“Master Udon?” I picked up my sword and thrusted it deep into the Yeti’s throat and sliced, half the Yeti’s head off, it dangled from its body and fell into the snow

Udon:

*45 Exp Points Acquired, 3 SP Acquired

Miko:

*40 Exp Points Acquired

Vnaa:

*43 Exp Points Acquired

Umi:

*43 Exp Points Acquired

“Why you little!” Miche seeing one of his men die was now targeting me

“You should never have attacked me!” I ran towards Miche and managed to duck the attack from his swing and sliced part of his leg

“You dare fight me, know your place puny human!”

“I wasn’t the one who started this, you tried to kill me through one of your men, whose the real puny one here” I mocked Miche, he clenched his fist and charged for me again

*Pow

“This fight is between you and me, stay out of it human” Yuki was finally back up and landed a hard kick to the side of Miche

“Stay out of my way lady, he tried to kill me, I’ll make sure karma gets him!” I glared at Yuki

“Master Udon, please come back”

“Stay out of this Miko!”

“You leave me no choice, I apologise in advanced Master Udon” What was Miko on about now, I just wanted to make this piece of shit monster pay for tying to kill me!

“Hear my words dungeon, I ask to be surrounded, filled and illuminated with the dungeons flowing energy, hear my plea ‘The Power of Light’ Sweet Aroma”

A pink mist appeared out of Miko’s hands and surrounded me

“Betraying me again!” The pink mist started to fly into me, it felt…calming

“W-what is t-this” My vision became blurry and I stumbled on my feet

“Tsk, why help such a worthless human, Lady Miko” I could hear Yuki talking

“His not a worthless human Yuki! Please stop insulting Master Udon! This is what started this whole mess in the first place!” Miko caught me in her arms, I was still dizzy but I felt more like myself, the anger that was exploding from me was evaporating every second

“This fight isn’t over!” Miche shouted out charging towards Yuki, he swung his weapon high in the air and down towards Yuki.

“To slow” Yuki jumped out the way and sliced Miche’s arms in the process

“Damn you hybrid” Miche clenched his cut arm, his white fur was becoming stained with his red blood.

“Master Udon, are you ok?” I was starting to see better now, my head had stopped spinning

“W-what happened” I grabbed onto Miko’s hand, I still felt weak from her spell

“You weren’t acting like yourself, I cast a spell that calmed you down, you'll feel a little dizzy and weak for only a little longer, I’m sorry” Wasn’t acting like myself? She must be talking about my rage becoming stronger, why did she help me? She was the one that betrayed me…did she? She never attacked me and didn’t stand with Yuki, she didn’t stand with me though.

“Begone” Yuki jumped up into the air and sliced her fan down towards Miche

“Ha! Bad mistake”

“Huh” Miche grabbed Yuki’s leg and threw her into another burnt hut

“Mistress Yuki!” The Barbegazi’s shouted out, watching their leader smash into another hut

“Where are you, you worthless hybrid” Miche rummaged through the rubble and picked Yuki back up and through her back into the centre of everyone

“This doesn’t look good Master Udon” I could hear the fear in Miko’s voice, we would need to escape fast if Yuki dies here

“This is the Ancient Floor Monster! How pathetic and weak!” Miche stomped down onto Yuki’s head smashing it into the snow

“To think you have been the Woman of the Snow all these years, and yet, you are just a pathetic weak human hybrid” Miche raised his frozen wooden club ready to smash Yuki’s head

Hero’s Blessing Skill Unlocked-Ancient Floor Monster ‘Woman of the Snow’ selected-Use Hero’s blessing?

“Huh?” A command came before my vision, Hero’s blessing? Might as well see what it is

“Hero’s Blessing-Ancient Floor Monster ‘Woman of the Snow’” I spoke the skill

“Master Udon!?” Miko seemed surprised at the skill I just used

“What is this!” Miche shouted out shielding his eyes from the light surrounding Yuki

“Don’t group me in with those disgusting humans!” Yuki pushed Miche off of her and stood up, her hair was risen, her horns had grown in size and were now dark black blue, her nails looked more like claws and her eyes were glowing a powerful red.

“This can’t be, this power is not yours!” Miche was grinding his teeth at the sight of Yuki

“Leave my village at once!” Yuki shouted out, all of Miche’s men looked on in terror, they quickly stumbled out of the village screaming

“You weak fools! Come back here!” Miche shouted out

“You will die for attacking this village!” Yuki flew into the air and waved her fan to the side

“Arrr!” A chunk of sharp ice pierced Miche through the stomach and plunged into the snow keeping him in place

“This can’t be h-happening” Miche coughed up blood, he watched Yuki hover above him

“You die here” Yuki waved her fan once more sending a gust off wind toward Miche, in a blink of an eye he was cut in half along with the chunk of ice.

“Mistress Yuki!” The Barbegazi ran towards Yuki, she had returned to her normal form and fell into the snow

“Master Udon, was that you?” Miko looked down at me, I was getting my strength back, I pushed myself out of Miko’s grip and face planted into the snow

“Sir Udon, are you hurt!” Umi and Vnaa ran over to me and helped me back on my feet

“I’m fine, we should leave here” I told the two girls

“What about Big Sister Miko” Vnaa still wasn’t letting that go, she might have saved my life then, but she didn’t stand with me against Yuki

“Where do you think you are heading off to” Yuki walked over, she was surround by her Barbegazi

“I won’t allow you to hurt Master Udon Yuki” Miko jumped in front of me and put her arms out to guard me.

“Huh, Miko what are you doing? You can stop this act of yours”

“I don’t care if you believe me or not, I am not acting Master Udon! I understand the trust you want, I will stand by your side at all times even if it costs me my life!” Cost her life? I didn’t want that

“I will stand by Master Udon!” Yuki looked surprised at Miko’s outburst

“I see, well then, lets settle this right here shall we” Yuki smirked behind her fan