Chapter 101 101: Story Of Mylene And Claire (2)
Same-sex marriage is legal on the continent, but not many people could accept that concept morally. Some people even find the thought of those kinds of couples disgusting.
Secondly, Claire is the child of a well-known and respected merchant. Mylene, on the other hand, was an orphan who had no last name or influence.
Being the daughter of a powerful merchant, her father already had plans for Claire. That was to use her as a tool to gain more connections through marriage.
Mylene was fully aware of that, but she just brushed off that thought and prolonged their relationship, the same thing Claire did. Mylene ultimately realized she had no chance of taking Claire's hand from her family.
But she would do anything to make Claire hers. She cannot just give up the bonds that they had made through the years. That's why she needs to regain what she lost before.
"Claire, please go with me. We will explore and discover the world."
"Mylene…"
"Don't worry, Claire. I will promise to protect you. Even if I am against the world. Will you go with me?"
"Yes, Mylene! I will go with you!"
"Let's go."
The day when she was supposed to meet her arranged fiance, Claire ran away from home with her paramour to escape her arranged fate.
Mylene and Claire decided to elope together so they could be with each other. To get rid of the ones who were on their way.
Their escape became successful due to the assistance of Steville and Dorothy, who had been supporting their relationship. They had been confusing their parents by not pinpointing their locations.
For Mylene to have Claire, she had to attain what she did not have but that Claire did: a family name. Mylene had decided to work hard to restore the Lavender family.
In order to regain her lost family name, she needs to earn enough credits for the empire to bestow her peerage, like her father and her ancestors.
But Mylene and Claire could not just enter the knights' order since they would be immediately found out by the Raevens if they joined.
And Mylene cannot wait years and decades to become a baronet. The simplest and shortest way she could think of at that time was to achieve a feat that even the emperor cannot ignore: conquering the Imperial Dungeon.
But both of them were relatively too weak to explore the whole Imperial Dungeon at that time. Their Levels were not enough to reach the 40th Floor by themselves.
For that reason, they agreed that they would be improving themselves in a place far away from the empire, a place where they could train their bodies and increase their Levels without being noticed by everyone, in the Great Forest of Darkness.
In their very vast training grounds, Mylene and Claire had been secretly slaying countless powerful monsters to hone their skills and gain experience.
With their vigorous trainings between the intervals of their monster slaying, they gained more stat growth than the average. Their whole time there was about eating, hunting, training, and having wild nights.
In just a few years of staying in the forest, they gained hundreds of Levels and even acquired their own unique and ultra skills.
Absolute Severance and Divine Sword Art for Mylene, while Claire acquired One Man Army and World Magic. All the efforts and sweat they had burned had not gone to waste.
To celebrate their achievements, Mylene and Claire decided to go to a nearby city to rest themselves for a while.
Since the city was too far from the empire, they continued their adventurers' lives to earn some money and rank up. In just a year, both of them reached the adventurers' rank of Supreme Rank C for the first time ever in the history.
Confident that they could successfully conquer the most difficult Imperial Dungeon with their strength, Mylene and Claire headed back to the empire for the first time in years.
No one had been tracking and pursuing them since Steville, who had successfully inherited the company a year prior, cancelled Claire's engagement and the chase on them.
The greatness of the duo of Mylene and Claire in the Great Forest of Darkness had reached the empire. They were quite popular once they stepped foot in the Imperial Capital.
Mylene was still surname-less and hadn't forgotten to revive her lineage. Mylene had to conquer the dungeon for the purpose of regaining her family name and marrying Claire.
Their dungeon days were a lot easier than they initially thought. The monsters that gave them a hard time before were too weak once they rechallenged them.
In months of exploring the dungeon, the duo reached the 50th floor and easily defeated a Vermin Kaiser. No adventurers had passed that floor since 50th Floor Guardians are unique skill holders.
Less than a month later, Mylene and Claire slew a hundred-meter-long Level 600 Sandworm on the 60th Floor. They were the first to reach the 60th Floor of the Imperial Dungeon after the first emperor.
Both of them gained Levels as they challenged the dungeon. A few days after they defeated the 60th Floor Guardian, Mylene ultimately reached Level 1000 and evolved into a higher lifeform, a High Human.
Historically, Mylene was the first Human ever recorded to reach a thousand mark and evolve into a High Human. A month later, while they were massacring monsters on the 69th Floor, Claire made the second record.
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"Ice Age!"
The entire floor of seawater in the 70th Floor Guardian Room of the Imperial Dungeon slowly turned into ice after Claire consumed a huge amount of mana and cast Level 3 World Magic.
The long limbs of the fifty-meter-tall sea monster they were fighting were stuck in the solid ice and rendered immobile.
Seeing the Level 700 Scylla immobile, Mylene, who had been hovering in the air, charged toward the monster with her sword.
"Heavenly Strike!"
Her tremendous fighting spirit extends the length of her blade. The Level 10 Sword Art technique flew at incredible speed, aiming straight towards the stuck monster.
"Absolute Severance!"
With just a single strike, her sword destroyed the extremely durable and tough exoskeletons of the Scylla. All the exoskeletons and flesh that touched her fighting spirit were obliterated to dust.
In addition to her Unique Skill, the Scylla was cleaved with frighteningly clean cuts.
The monster stopped moving and was declared dead. A part of the ice shattered and a chest manifested.
Seeing that, Mylene happily ran in the direction of the hovering Claire. Mylene gave her lover a tight embrace.
"We finally did it, Claire!"
"Indeed, Mylene. We really did conquer the Imperial Dungeon."
After they passionately exchanged their kisses, the pair claimed their rewards from the chest. They were actually surprised when they got their respective rewards for their deeds.
The rewards were actually different from their initial thoughts. They had heard of the first conqueror to obtain a piece of legendary article when he captured the dungeon.
From there, Mylene got the Demonic Sword Mammon and the Demonic Staff Beelzebub for Claire. They never thought that they were worthy enough to be recognized by the legendary weapons themselves.
Later on, the Emperor himself granted them a knighthood for their achievements and power. Both of them became nobles with the rank of baronetess.
Mylene finally gained a family name and ultimately resurrected the Lavender household. The emperor also granted her wish to forbid other nobles from offering her marriage.
But her Lavender last name didn't last long. Rather, it was replaced by a new last name. Mylene Lavender and Claire Raeven got married but cannot decide whose last name to bear since they are both female.
Which was why they decided to combine their last names to create a new one. Since then, the household of Raevender has been born.
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"Could you please stop licking the breasts of my wife?"
"I am sorry, Mother. They are so soft and massive."
"I understand what you feel."
"Fufu, he must have inherited that trait from his Mother."
"It is because you are spoiling him too much!"
Mother gave me a sharp glare for licking her wife while she was telling their story. I could not help it; Mom is just so thicc and succulent.
"But, I was actually amazed that Mom and Mother had been working hard to achieve each other's dreams. Your hard work had made all my efforts dwindle."
"Well, your Mother was just so persistent at that time that she really took me away from my parents and we eloped together."
"Not that I think about it, it's quite embarrassing."
Mother put her face on my back to hide her embarrassment from Mom. I rolled my body around the bed to face her.
"Don't worry, Mother. I would probably do the same if I had someone as wonderful as Mom."
"Oh, Raphael! You really are my child!"
Mother said while hugging my head, plunging my face into her cleavage. I hugged her back in response, then put a kiss on her soft assets.
"By the way, Mother. How did you acquire the Ultra Skill: Monarch of the Night?"
"That Skill? Well, it's kind of a long story. Would you like to hear it?"
"Of course, Mother."
My mothers didn't mention anything about that skill during the whole tale. I also have that skill woven into my soul, so I am quite curious about its origin.
"Okay, son. Listen carefully…"
Mother's purple eyes seem to gaze off into the past.