The second floor opened and we got instructions to save a dumb golem, named Bunai, out of the prison.

  I still don’t like how you call me dumb!

  It was dumb how you ended up there…

  This floor might be rough on us mentally. Are you sure you guys can do this?

  Yeah.

  I got this don’t worry!

  Same roles as before?

  I want to give fighting Cygnus a try.

  Me too!

  Ok I will save Bunai and then watch you guys getting owned by Cygnus.

  Hey! Frost magic is just unfair!

  Agreed.

  Whatever.

  We sneaked into the prison quite easily, just as we had sneaked in easily when we did this for real. Not much changed at the start. I had to sabotage the teleporters again. I made the [Time Ring] and Greg made the anti-gravity anklets. We split up after that.

  My first destination was to sabotage the electronium plant again as it would make escape easier but it wasn't necesary anymore as these weak adventurers could use all the help. I sneaked in but I could use [Fade] this time so those stupid androids had no idea I was here. I could fight them but I wanted a speedrun. I can always do a kill run another time.

  I was familiar with sabotaging electronium plants so this wasn’t a problem. Next up is was to go for Bunai, as Greg and Raishin will harass the guards and androids. I created a clone to deal with the canteen stuff.

  Although... Scrap that I will fight Arby! I didn’t had the chance to avenge Esher but now I will.

  Speed running this dungeon was a better idea than I thought. I didn’t need to disguise myself because this dungeon will just blindly accept anyone as a cook. I get to cook fish again! It’s not real fish unfortunately. Just illusions. Highly realistic illusions. Tasty illusions. My mouth started to water.

  Ok guys I will be in charge of the fish! You! Do whatever you do to make soup! You! Heat up the oven! You! Ehh you can make the salad, I guess.

  I started bossing people around as if I owned the kitchen. Nobody protested. The challenge was to make edible food and possibly poison it. I had ran out of Millennial Foxbite but I still had some poisons on me. These were lethal though. Not the weak shit Greg gave me back then. Time to wipe everyone out! But no poison allowed in my fish! Fish is sacred!

  I snacked on some fish while preparing various dishes. There was steamed fish, smoked fish, boiled fish, broiled fish, baked fish, raw fish, fish snacks, fried fish. Anything that had the word ‘fish’ in it got prepared. I’m quite garbage in making things that don’t contain fish but that’s what the other cooks are for!

  Well garbage is a bit too harsh; it is edible but I wouldn’t say it’s to canteen standards. It often tends to have… secret weapons in it.

  An edgy man in the canteen reacted. I know that’s Arby but the viewers might not. I had to change him up a bit to make sure that sharp adventurers won’t notice that the Arby here is the Silent Night.. We had our dialogue a bit and the battle in the freezer could begin.

  He was weak to the cold so I might have lucked out when I was still a brat. I drew Nilah and slashed at him. We had a brief exchange but I had the range advantage because Nilah is a katana and Arby used daggers.

  I made a shallow cut in his shoulder and instantly froze it with [Frostbite]. This slowed him down and I used [Blindside] to finish him off. He used [Dark Pulse] but I used [Mirror], reflected it and cut his head off.

  Whoa I haven’t used [Mirror] in forever. So many skills I keep forgetting about.

  This event was cleared so I went to free the dumb golem. I didn’t have much information on the lower floors only that Ted and Greg got lost and fought something. I didn’t get lost and easily freed the dumb golem. I did get spotted when I escaped to layer 3. “What the Quack? How did you get in here!?”

  Oh, don’t mind me I’m just ducking along.

  “I’m not a duck! Quack!”

  I know that he roughed us up back in the day but I was somehow glad to see this ducker as long as he doesn't hit me with [X-1].

  I grabbed the dumb golem with my tail and evaded [Frost Swans]. A Teleroad like message rang through my head.

  “Alert! This is Cygnus! A prisoner has escaped! Geminga, Cassiopeia. What the qauck are you guys doing? We have infiltrators! Get to it! Quack!”

  Still as loud as ever but it’s not me who’s gonna play with you this time.

  “Get the quack over here!” I evaded all the stupidly strong frost attacks and went up to the floors where Greg and Raishin were. Cygnus started flying to pursue me.

  Right, I forgot that you were stupidly strong and obnoxiously annoying.

  He used [Blizzard] and I had to dispel it. It took a while but I got some distance in and finally arrived at the floor where Raishin and Greg were. They were already fighting Geminga.

  Sup guys, I have a present for you!

  I pointed at Cygnus behind me.

  Can you deal with Geminga?

  Uhh... oh I had made another sword exactly for opponents like this!

  I took Ruba out of my dimensional pocket.

  I’m using a lot of forgotten things here.

  It’s time for dual wield!

  I used [Water Dragon Dance] and let water dragons fly around me. The temperature around me decreased and I had Nilah glow blue. Hehe I’m truly a walking natural disaster now.

  Geminga wasnet fazed and threw large weapons made out of gems at me.

  So, I wanted to dual wield but Nilah can’t deal with these since I need to do some power feats. No dual wield then. I fed Ruba fire and its power increased which allowed me to easily knock the weapons flying at me off course.

  Geminga used [Earthquake] and I jumped up and rode the water dragons. I swung Ruba at him and it exploded. Geminga got sent flying as if I batted a baseball away. That was more or less the purpose of Ruba.

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  Well, I didn’t defeat him but it’s unlikely that he will return from that.

  I sat on a cell and looked at Raishin and Greg’s fight. Raishin was complaining that frost magic was overpowered. Greg had used his [Shadowcat] again and it was pressuring Cygnus but that was all. It was making sure they wouldn’t get overwhelmed as Raishin couldn’t do damage to him.

  Raishin remember when I turned into a popsicle?!

  What!? No don’t do that again!

  He means that if you throw enough mana at him, he will freeze over. It’s somewhat the only weakness of this stupidly overpowered element. Just go loose like you always do.

  So I can use [Petanova Blast]?

  Yes, huh wait what? You can already use that?

  [Petanova Blast] it is!

  Wait let me use [Shadow cloak] first!

  I covered myself in a [Frost Cloak]. Nilah would take care of the surplus of energy that I would get hit with. I stored Ruba back in my dimensional pocket while awaiting Raishin's attack.

  Raishin used his [Petanova Blast] and he missed as Cygnus flew up.

  Stand still!

  Raishin attempted another [Petanova Blast] but Cygnus used [X-1] and it sucked up all the energy.

  Guys! You don’t want to get hit by that! It’s a laser!

  Greg made the [Shadowcat] block the [Frost laser] causing it to get almost torn apart.

  This power is insane! How did you survive against him for so long back then!

  Just some luck, skill, some power of will and a lot of pain.

  Can you for once give a normal answer?

  I pointed at another [X-1] that Cygnus was making.

  Watch out another one is coming!

  Can we borrow a [Frost mirror]?

  It won’t be just you 2 fighting him if I do that?

  Ugh fine! [Shadowcat] it’s time for [Monarch of Darkness]!

  I almost fell off the cell. Haha what? Monarch of Darkness? Greg are you sure?! Haha

  Raishin lost focus and fell down too. Whahaha what’s with that edgy name!’

  Ok assholes then how else should I call this then?

  The [Shadowcat] grew and got some sort of humanoid form and it did look like it was wearing a crown made out of darkness.

  I don’t know maybe [Edgelord’s Dream].

  How about [Edge sharper than a knife]!

  I was wrong, Cygnus isn’t my enemy, you two are!

  The [Edgecat] turned to us after Greg pointed at me.

  Hey whoa whoa we didn’t mean that! Watch out Cygnus is doing something!

  “I won’t end up as cat food Quack!”

  Go!

  Greg stretched out his hand in an edgy fashion and waves of shadows assaulted Cygnus and the [Edgecat] picked up Umbra Noctis, which grew to enormous size.

  Raishin another [Petanova Blast] please. And stop laughing you asshole!

  Haha, sorry one [Petanova Blast] coming up!

  Your time is up Cygnus! Umbra Noctis will claim your life! Go for it Raishin!

  Raishin’s aim was far off and he vaporized several cellblocks.

  Raishin what are you doing!

  I’m sorry! My hand slipped! ‘Umbra Noctis will claim your life’ wahahaha.

  Raishin’s imitation of Greg was quite accurate and made me laugh uncontrolably.

  Cygnus started another [X-1] as nobody was pressuring him.

  Raishin please…

  On it!

  They succeeded. Raishin oversaturated Cygnus which caused him to freeze and fall out of the sky. [Edgecat] slammed town Umbra Noctis and ‘claimed his life.’

  Agnis! I can hear you snickering!

  I have no idea what you’re talking about!

  Cygnus was defeated and I picked up Bunai and we took the escape route and cleared the second floor. We entered the third floor and nostalgia hit me. it was my home. At least an illusion of it.

  Ah right, this place got destroyed. Are you ok?

  Yeah, let’s go with the plan.

  Our plan was to lose terribly to Asshole the jungle dragon and get kicked out. We pretended to be tired to make it a bit more realistic. I took some ‘hits’ and got almost knocked out. At least I pretended to. Greg handled most of the defense and he got ‘overwhelmed’ and Raishin was the last one standing and he ‘dragged’ us to safety and we got kicked out of the dungeon.

  How are the adventurers supposed to believe that dragon is tough? It was a pushover.

  They won’t, it will take a while before they can defeat Cygnus, they will also have to deal with the gravity and time dilation somehow.

  Yeah, he is no joke. It’s hard to beat him without all my tails or go into my three tailed shadowcat mode.

  Well, everything is recorded lets drop it off at the AA!

  We will become so famous!

  That’s not the point! It’s to show how shit everyone is!

  That works too.

  We submitted the recordings and it didn’t took long before many had seen it. I was enjoying the comments on our performance. The sentiment that I was a ‘tragic hero’ disappeared after seeing this. Most of the comments were like. ‘I guess this is why a role was named after him.’ I would have rather they never remembered me but this is better than being a ‘tragic hero.’

  We returned back to Alledra 2 weeks after our stellar performance and we were chilling in my house. I was sipping on some mango juice in my comfy Jarn bathrobe, Raishin was looking on his newly purchased tablet enjoying his new fame and Greg was using his new ability to read super-fast to catch up on literature.

  A strange message arrived and it created a pop up on my tablet. It read: Present at the door.