Neze pov:
Alise: Worry?
Neze: A little, he was weird yesterday.
Kaguya: His project on the stones is strange. Are you sure what he wants to accomplish?
Neze: Not really, since he is trying to create pseudo magic objects I suppose he wants to unlock mystery.
Ryu: It's strange, why is a werewolf so interested in magic.
Lyra: That's racist, Ryu. Because he is of such a breed, should he focus on drinking, bar fights, and forcing Neze into his bed?
Ryu: No, I didn't mean that, it's just...
Neze: It's just that all the adventurers of my race are like that. don't worry Ryu we know, Lyra bothers you.
Ryu sighed: Why always me...
Smiling Lyra: Because you still don't know the difference by dear Ryu so it's more funny.
Lyra's thought: And it teaches you to seek the senses to devin the intention of others.
Alise pounting: He didn't even come to enjoy the superb Alise Lovell, yesterday... Neze keeps it just for her...
Neze: It took you three months to come. I never locked the door.
Kaguya: Oh our captain is becoming shy? What has become of the Alise jumping into Ryu's bed only 2 days after his arrival?
Ryu blushes.
Alise: But she's so adorable when she blushes, look at her, hmm you're cute Ryu.
Ryu: Alise... please... we are in public...
Neze: So if you were in private, would it be Ryu, interresting? We can go back if you want?
Thought of Ryu: Alise... me... holding hands... AH! Disappear, dirty thoughts! I am not that kind of elf!
Kaguya: Oh she blushes, our useless elf has evolved into a lewd elf.
Ryu: KAGUYA! I AM NOT THAT KIND OF ELF!
Lyra: So why are you blushing so much? It's the sign that you thought about it, maybe even imagined...
Ryu: Stop... I'm not that type of elf...
Alise: We know Ryu, you are an adorable romantic elf. Aren't you Neze? Neze?
Neze: Do you feel?
Lyra: The last time you asked us that we know we found trapped in the Dungeon.
Alise serious: What did you feel?
Neze: The burned flesh... but...
Ryu: But?
Neze: Tank...
Kaguya: Is it Tank who catches the grilled pig?
Neze: I'm almost sure.
Lyra: We are next to the hospital of the family Dian Cecht, if he were injured he would go there.
Alise: Good idea, we can go see. Not many people today.
Kaguya: The injured will come back later.
Airmid: Famillia Astrea, it's been a long time since I saw you and today I see the whole family including your new recruit.
Neze: Tank came here?
Airmid: Indeed, these hands were black with a burn and fragments stretched planted in the bone, he needed surgical intervention.
Alise: Can we see it?
Airmid: No, he left right after, he seemed in a hurry.
Lyra: Do you know where?
Airmid: No, but he had his equipment with him. I would rather think about the Dungeon. I told him to stay but he refused.
Alise: Thank you Airmid, we'll let you work.
Ryu: Do you think he went down?
Neze: No, he's not the type to take extraordinary risks.
Kaguya: Unless he needs extra stone.
Lyra: He did not go to the Dungeon. I rather think that he went to have his equipment repaired.
"The justiciers hammers", workshop of Asta and Cecil:
Alise: Girls is still your favorite redhead!
Cecil: We are working quickly but not as fast what do you need?
Neze anxious: Did Tank come by this morning?
Asta: Yeah he left all his gear, and he left.
Cecil: Why is there a problem?
Kaguya: No, she just learned that her boyfriend had his hands blown off and seemed to want to dive with a ragged excitement and without having slept for two days.
Asta: He looked good, but in a hurry to leave.
Cecil: Yeah, usually he takes the time to discuss a bit, but there's nothing. He let everything pay and then he left running at the limit.
Alise: Is it the Dénatus that concerns him so much?
Neze: I doubt it, Tank doesn't care about the opinions of others. Whether he has his title now or later does not influence him.
Lyra: We just have to ask him?
Tank pov, Stardust Manor:
6 days... I have 6 days left to succeed in this quest... Mystery unlocked with two ranks in advance... but for that I have to make this fucking magical object. *yells.
Astrea: How are your hands?
Me: Looked after, Airmid is a miracle maker. I'm going back to work.
Well, let's resume. My magic causes the crystals of the purple moths and the blue paillons to explode. Why? And why are the stones of other monsters not reacting? Ah, yesterday's dragons' stones are empty. So let's test them.
Ok my magic is progressing, I'm starting to see the magical structure... come on, we're almost there... Boom!
Me in pain: MMMHHH!
Mmh, what a pain! Mmh, *breath,*exhale. Ok we try again. We slowly infer magic... we take back the magical structure left empty... here we now apply our spell... slowly... we fill and there... BOOM!
Me: MMMMHHHH !!!!
FUCK! Breathe, breathe... Ok let's start again... What's wrong... if I compare with normal stones, what do I do differently... Thoughtful...
Distant voice: Tank...
The authors all say that the stones are identical, so the process that works for one should work for all.
Distant insistent voice: Tank.
Yet my experience proves me otherwise. The majority of peirres are compatible but the effect obtained is extremely weak, therefore not compatible to validate my quest. The stones of the purple moth and the blue butterflies explode instantaneously as if they rejected any alteration, and those of the infante dragon they...
SPLASH!
Furious: HIS HEAD DOESN'T FIT! MMMH MY HANDS!
Kaguya smiling: It was that or I cut off your arm. It's been 6 hours since Alise and Neze came to talk to you in the void.
Me: Well, they don't want to let me work! MMH...
Kaguya: You should get it treated before it gets infected. And we're going to eat.
I turned to dive back into my experiences. Kaguya she walked away in silence.
Neze pov:
Neze: Is he going to come?
Kaguya: I doubt it, he dived back into those magic pebbles.
Astrea: And his hands?
Kaguya: Bleeding and black from a burn. The water hurt him.
Alise: We need to get him to stop these experiments.
Ryu: How? He can't even hear us.
Neze resolved: So let's help him finish what he wants to do.
Lyra: Ok, question how do we do it? He wants to obtain mystery by practicing the making of magical objects, everyone thought about it and nobody succeeded because it's impossible! How do you want us to help him?!
Neze: I don't know...
Tank: If you want to help me let me work... and I would need other stones if possible. I will refund you the difference.
Astrea: Where are you going?
Tank: See Airmid, I need to have my hands treated, the pain is unbearable.
Tank out of the room.
Neze: Tomorrow I want to go to the 13th floor.
Alise quickly looked at the other members of her famillia before exclaiming: PERFECT! The famillia Astrea reattacks the Dungeon! Under the direction of the superb Alise Lovell we are going to conquer the 13th floor!
End Neze pov:
Over the remaining 6 days, the first three passed quickly. The girls became increasingly aware of my condition, especially with the little sleep I was taking. But the end of the quest and the Denastus is approaching and I have to find a way to finish this quest, and to increase my stats as well. To help me achieve these two objectives, I had to dive back into the Donjon, on the 7th floor in particular. I went back to the Pantry to look for new stones and wings of blue butterflies for Airmid in exchange for my care. To push my stats forward, I plogned without armor and let the powers poison me in order to push my limits. The girls gave me samples of magic stone from monsters on the middle floors. And with that, I was able to progress again. I almost miss nothing to succeed, I'm pretty sure but I don't know what I'm missing and it makes me...!
Ryu: Tank-san, take this. I hope it will be as useful to you as it was to me.
Me: « Specificity of magical structures according to the type of spell, by Riveria Lost Alf. » Where did you find that?
Ryu: Lady Riveria gave it to me to help me manipulate my two spells. I don't know if it will help you but I hope so. Neze and Alise are looking out for you.
Me: I know. But I'm almost there. Thank you for that Ryu, I'll return it to you as soon as I'm done.
Hopefully this is the last piece of this puzzle.