Chapter 102:Ascended Dangers

Simon surveyed the scene before him.

Amy, who had a massive hole that ran straight through her was now on her feet shaking off the damage like it was just a slap. The damage already mostly healed. Her pride, though, was shattered beyond repair. Simon could feel her frustration.

His monster girl was never outdone like this and it was bothering her. The fact that despite the threat had passed and her muscles were still tensed was proof of her frustration. The fact that she also felt the threat of death once more did not help matters. But unlike last time when the feeling completely crippled Amy right now it only seemed to agitate her quite a bit.

Stella for her part looked far less affected by the encounter as she had dutifully started setting up a campsite. Her body bounced in a way that was very unique to the playful cat species she was a part of.

Flora only looked relieved, her damaged body also healing before his very eyes as she looked on carrying a weighed relief in them.

Simon turned his focus onto her and asked the thing he wanted to for a bit now.

"So... Why did we allow the guy to just leave us behind?" He asked more curious than anything.

Flora said in a rather wistful manner.

"The reason is actually pretty simple. So that the dungeon did not consume an ascended. Bad things happen when a dungeon consumes an ascended."

Simon nodded along, though he did not understand any of what she had said but could infer that it was something very very bad.

"Alright... Two things I want to ask about that statement. First, what is ascended? And second, how is it bad if a dungeon consumes one of these so-called ascended?" He asked.

"Well, you know what dungeons are correct?" She answered him with a question of her own.

"A supernatural entity that feeds on existence if you follow the book definition. My personal understanding is that they are living things that feed on Tamers that delve inside. Anything we inside the dungeon empowers and feeds it and in turn it gives us rewards to entice us inside."

Simon was no longer completely unprepared when it came to common knowledge and he easily rattled off his answer.

To which Flora nodded approvingly as she continued probing him.

"Yes, and what is the worst thing that can happen to a Tamer?"

Again he answered swiftly.

"Getting devoured by a dungeon. The myth is that if a Tamer dies inside a dungeon the dungeon subsumes the Tamer."

Flora seemed to be in her teaching mode as she continued answering his questions probing him into figuring out parts of it himself.

"Correct, the soul becomes another 'monster spawn' location more or less. Now what do you think happens when a powerful Tamer becomes consumed by the dungeon?"

"The dungeon gains a very powerful monster spawn?"

"More or less. Now what would have happened if the monster girl fed on the Tamer to death and the dungeon gained that Tamer's monster girl as a spawn?"

"Oh... OH... Yeah, that's got to suck. And I am going to assume an ascended is a very powerful Tamer?"

Like a light bulb going off in his head, he realized how fucked the other Tamers would be if that super monster became a challenge in the dungeon. Little did Simon know just woeful of an understatement it was.

Flora, however, did not explain further. Mostly because the information was very dangerous and if Simon blabbered to the wrong person, there were going to be lasting consequences. Such was the danger of what they narrowly avoided.

In fact, Simon was also under threat of having to happen to him but he had so much power behind him(and she did not mean the monster girls he bonded to) that he was all but immune to the consequences.

If not for the occasional talks with the powerful disembodied voice, she would have guided Simon away from ever delving into dungeons. But if that voice could invade the Planar University and fuck with the minds of random monster girls and talk to her while they were INSIDE A DUNGEON, a feat so extreme that it all but proved that the voice was deific.

So she danced around his question and did not properly explain just how much danger he was in. Allowing his imagination to fill in the gaps.

"Yes. An ascended is such a powerful Tamer that they start breaking normal Taming rules and giving that to a dungeon is a very big no-no."

She answered giving him just enough information for him to get needed answers without making said information too dangerous for him to hear. There would come a day when that danger would not matter but such a day was still far off and their master still needed to grow.

"Master! The meal is ready!"

And Stella dragged his focus away cementing the end of their conversation.

Flora had a mysterious motherly smile as she watched her bonded sit down and dig into the food while his other girls started to move to get a meal on their own. She too walked towards him. She was not hungry but there was no monster girl who would say no to a meal.