" I see you enjoy being a sugar baby, " she said, and came to a stop in front of him and sat down on his lap.

She took his lips and pushed her tongue aggressively into his mouth. Alaric kissed her back taking control of the kiss.

His hands went into her loose shirt and touched her breasts. For once she wasn't in leather. She was wearing a loose t-shirt and a knee-length skirt. It made her look so different. Less aggressive.

Alaric separated from her but didn't remove his hands from her boobs.

" What are you doing here? Why are you dressed like this?" He couldn't help himself, he was genuinely curious.

" I've got a hit, but someone distracted me," she said, her hands rubbing around his V line.

Alaric stopped her hand, " How about you come to me tonight? I miss you, and I have something that might interest you."

She was quiet for a while before sighing, "Sure, I don't want that S class sensing me."

She kissed him one last time before slipping out of the door. Alaric walked towards the mirror and looked at himself. His lips looked fine.

" Al, I don't think they have any more that fit you maybe we should go to another store," Laura's soft voice came through the door.

" Darling, I love everything you bought for me, but that's enough, let's go and do something else," he said, walking out of the dressing room.

She was quiet for a second, looking at him, before nodding with a smile, "Okay."

Alaric was beginning to feel tired and the day had just started. He looked at the bags around his arms and felt like putting them in space, but Laura seemed to enjoy it when he carried them around.

They spent more than three hours in the mall just buying completely useless things. Laura seemed to be enjoying the outing. She spent most of her time inside rather than outside, and this was probably the few moments she had the urge to visit the outside world.

Alaric organized all her shopping in her car after she rejected using the storage ring she had. She kept on saying she wanted to experience the normal joy of shopping.

Alaric did as he was instructed, if doing that made her happy, then he would do it a hundred times over.

" Get home safe," he said to her and kissed her before she sat in the front seat next to her driver. The back seat was full of the things she bought and Alaric was sure they would be discarded eventually or forgotten.

He also had a large pile. Laura had gone full sugar Mommy on him and he won't refuse such a generous offer.

He watched the car disappear as it joined traffic, he stood under the hot sun, wondering what he could do with himself.

He didn't want to go back to the mansion since he had already had an appointment at night.

" Dungeon it is," he murmured to himself. He walked towards the awakeners' association. The place wasn't far away, only a ten-minute walk.

He arrived to find the place less crowded. Since it was almost lunch time most of the people had probably gone to dungeons or got tired of the burning sun.

He wanted to go to his first C-class dungeon despite being a B-class. It was more of a ritual; he had messed it up before, so he wanted to go back.

It had not been a week since he registered as a C class; he couldn't just go advertise to everyone that he had increased his level to B class first. It wasn't impossible but it was almost ridiculous. Only a small handful of the first awakened had accomplished this feat.

That was almost fifty years ago, when the dungeons first appeared. He walked directly to the same booth, but this time he found another person. It was a girl wearing full armor and carrying a sword on her back.

Isn't it hot, Alaric thought, looking at her back. Just from the amount of mana she was releasing he knew she was strong.

" Move aside I have to attend to him," the man's voice came.

The girl turned to face him. Alaric's eyes widened, he looked from her, then the old man, then to her again. She looked like a younger female version of the man.

She wasn't masculine but not overly feminine either, she was a balance of both.

" Is she your daughter?" He asked the man. Who laughed out loud.

" No, I'm his granddaughter," the girl answered.

" You really take after him. "

" Right, she's my granddaughter after all. So what brings you here? " The man changed the topic.

" A C-class dungeon, " he said, pushing his card to him," can I solo it, or is that not allowed? "

The man paused his typing and looked at him for a moment before going back to typing. After a few minutes, he gave him the card.

" You can Solo this one, people don't want to go in it," he said.

" Thanks, " Alaric took the card and left the counter under the gaze of both the granddaughter and grandpa.

The dungeon was in the former red light district. He took a cab there. After arriving, he looked around curiously. The place had really changed.

It seemed they all eventually moved. The buildings were flattened, and the place had three dungeon openings distributed around.

He had stopped following anything about the red district after those old women attacked him.

He walked to the handout area and gave them his card. The girl who was checking the card looked at his card and hesitated.

" You shouldn't go to that dungeon, most of the awakeners who have entered never returned. "

Alaric smiled at her," It's okay, I want to go big or go home."

The girl looked at him as though he had gone mad. Who wouldn't, the girl had warned him, people were dying in that dungeon, but he still wanted to go.

" Okay, good luck," she stamped his fate.

He walked over to the dungeon and looked at it. It was white so he knew it was a C class. He wasn't in the mood to attempt another B class.

He looked behind him one last time before he stepped into the dungeon.

The moment he stepped out on the other side, he was hit by a searing heat. He looked around to see that the place had black, cracked rocks everywhere, and there was magma flowing in rivers around him. In front of him was a mountain spilling magma-like water.

The air was a bit foggy from all the floating volcanic ashes. He now understood why those people were dying like flies. They were either too dehydrated, or burnt, or killed by whatever monsters lived in this magma-filled hellhole.

If this were a C rank, Alaric thought, he could already imagine its upgraded version.

The heat was getting to him but he wasn't affected much. Only the feeling of thirst. The temperature inside the B class mountain while fighting the boss had been hotter.

He had even gotten a few burns, but they were easily treatable and never left a scar.

He released his whip. He could feel the fire part getting excited as it absorbed the heated mana in the air.

Alaric moved forward slowly looking around the dungeon.

In front of him, the lava started to bubble vigorously, then oversized lizard-like creatures started to crawl out of the lava.

They had large red crystals spanning their backs and a tail twice the length of their bodies dragging behind leaving magma trails.

On the end of their tails were the same crystals but made into a huge ball. He could already imagine the pain of being hit by them.

There were almost ten lizards in total in front of him blocking the way.

He flicked his wrist and the whip swung and hit one of the creatures on its head. The whip cut right through it, killing it in an instant.

The others jumped at him after seeing their partner dead, but Alaric swung his whip sideways, cutting through three of the lizards.

He bent down and kicked one of the lizards that had moved below back into the lava.

He swung his whip again, catching most of the remaining creatures. He looked at the corpses on the ground before putting the monster into his space.

Alaric lifted his leg and stepped down killing one of the creatures that had been trying to sneak a bite from below.

He looked around at the bubbling lava, only to see their heads popping out of the lava before sinking inside whenever they met his eyes.

He didn't try to attack them it was a waste of time.

He wanted to go through the dungeon as fast as possible. He looked towards the bubbling mountain and cursed inwardly, he just hoped he didn't have to climb it.

Alaric walked for a few minutes, then he felt the ground shaking under him. He jumped backwards instantly.

The flowing lava changed direction and started to combine together in a huge ball of lava then it started to split itself in the air into smaller balls of lava.

Alaric looked at the spectacle, wondering what kind of monster was being produced. But he wasn't stupid enough to sit there and wait.

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