It feels good.

Aiz thought this to herself at the sensation of the water surrounding her.

“Ah……”

The breath escaping her lips felt distant. The sound of splashing water tickled her eardrums as the
foam lapped at her skin and ears with soft, gentle caresses.

She was as naked as the day she was born.

Her eyes closed as water droplets drew rivulets down her smooth skin. They traced the curves of
her breasts, down past her navel and slender stomach, before returning to the water’s
surface. Her beautiful golden hair was spread out like a fan, lilting to and fro in the water together
with her glistening body.

She was gorgeous, her features rivaling even those of a goddess, and the sight of her lying where
the water’s surface met the air created a spectacle reminiscent of forest nymphs—mysterious and
surreal. Had an artistically inclined individual been present to witness it, the scene would
undoubtedly have been captured by brushstrokes.

It was a moment of pure bliss. She could actually feel the tension leaving her muscles as the pent-
up fatigue racking her body melted away.

It was here and only here that she could forget everything, wrapped up in this protective world of
water.

These thoughts trickled through her head as she let out another sigh that vibrated in her slender
throat.

“…?”

All of a sudden.

Something blocked the white light shining on her closed eyelids, shrouding her face in darkness.

There was someone nearby, peering down at her—she could feel it in the ripples breaking against
her skin.

She opened her eyes…revealing the pink-flushed cheeks of a certain elf maiden at point-blank
range.

Lefiya…?

As the girl’s name rose to Aiz’s lips, the elf in question began appealing to her vehemently, her
hand shielding her mouth and nose.Aiz, however, couldn’t make out the words, her ears still
beneath the water.
She was frantic now, and Aiz couldn’t help but notice that Loki was right—the elf really was
maturing. In fact, her bust behind the cover of her arm was almost the same size as Aiz’s.

Aiz lowered her feet to the bath’s floor and righted herself in the water.

“—have it all wrong, Miss Aiz! While I must admit the fantastical sight of you floating there in the
water borders on the alluring, I…! I-I mean, were I artistically inclined, I would love to capture this
scene in a painting to adorn my chambers, but I…! I-I mean I would never dream of sinking to the
level of that lecherous goddess of ours! I-I merely noticed you over here and thought I would pay
you a visit…!!” Lefiya was blushing hard as she sputtered out one excuse after another.

Though the young elf nearly idolized her, Aiz noticed none of it.

As the golden-haired girl cocked her head to the side curiously, a gleeful voice from off to the side
drew her attention, and she turned.

Her eyes moved across the green leaves, countless trees, and blue crystals surrounding the wide
pool she was currently occupying.

And in the middle of all that, she saw her companions—the other girls of Loki Familia—similarly
disrobed and enjoying their time in the bath.

“Ha-ha! It feels amazing!!” Tiona squealed in delight as she pulled her head out from under a small
waterfall dribbling down from a crack in the rocks. She proceeded to shake her drenched head,
spraying water all over her nearby sister, who responded with an angry bark.

“What are you—a dog?! Stop that!!”

The two girls showed no modesty, baring to the world their robust tanned skin, slender waists,
and ample chests. Their bodies had a different sort of elegance from Aiz’s, but every celch of them
was salaciously Amazonian.

“You’re all so wonderfully…put together. Makes a girl shy,” Leene mumbled to herself.

Next to her, Aki was busy washing the slender tail protruding from her backside. “You’ve got a
plenty fine pair yourself there, Leene!” she replied with a twist of her hips.

“It’s…it’s only because I’ve put on some weight!” Leene’s face reddened instantly. The girl’s long
hair, normally done up in braids, flowed down the length of her back as she brought both arms up
to hide her chest.

Aki just shrugged. The velvet-haired, velvet-furred catgirl boasted very shapely breasts herself.

“Good gravy! Seems to me like Loki Familia’s a bunch of babes! Guess that’s to be expected with a
deity like yours, though, huh?”the half-dwarf woman, Tsubaki, mused aloud to herself as she
meditated beneath the ten-meder-plus waterfall in the middle of the pool.Wiping her dark bangs
away from her eye, she rose to her feet before heading toward the group, ever-present eye patch
over her left eye.

Beads of water turned into tiny streamlets that worked their way across her olive skin, trickling
enticingly down the nape of her neck and into the deep valley of her chest. Though normally
restrained by a single sheet of cloth, her breasts were shapely enough to rival even Tione’s.

The Hephaistos Familia smith let her eyes rove over the multiracial group of radiant women.

“Bet this’d be hard for the menfolk to resist. What would ya do if they came a-peekin’,
huh? Alicia? Narfi?” Tsubaki asked the two beautiful blondes, elf and human respectively.

“Punish them. And if their peeking just so happened to grant them an eyeful of Lady
Riveria? They’d wish they’d never been born.”

“Ah-ha-ha…I suppose you could say that even if they wanted to peek, they wouldn’t have a
chance.”

The two second-tiers who had participated in the fifty-ninth-floor raid together with Aiz and the
others fired a glance toward the pool’s perimeter, where another set of female familia members
stood vigilant with arrows and swords poised. The guards were fully prepared to administer an
absolutely merciless whooping to anyone who dared trespass on these sacred grounds of
femininity—monsters and men alike.

Thanks mostly to the fact that their patron deity was a female Casanova, there were decidedly
more women than men in Loki Familia. Even including the leaders of the familia, a comparison of
pure attack power undoubtedly favored the women’s side.

This, in turn, led to feelings of inadequacy among the men of Loki Familia, surrounded as they
were by this bevy of able-bodied women.

The elf and human pair waved appreciatively at their lookouts—they’d be trading places soon
enough, and then it would be their turn to keep watch. The group of demi-humans responded
with their own smiles.

The sight of so many young women stripped of their garments and armor was enough to make
even the flowers blush.

It was moments like these that allowed them to let their hair down, even deep within the
Dungeon’s depths.

“Ahh, the eighteenth floor really is the best!” Tiona sighed leisurely as she floated on her back
among the bluish glow of the surrounding forest. “Beautiful crystals and clear-blue water!”

Aiz couldn’t help but mentally agree with the other girl.
While it was easy finding a place to wash in the Dungeon’s various safety points—like the one on
the fiftieth floor—it was just as easy to find a flowing pool or river to cleanse one’s skin. That being
said, this particular pool on the eighteenth floor was in a league of its own.

A brook of pure crystalline water cascaded down from deep within the floor’s recesses. Cleaner
and clearer than any river on the surface, it was an ideal spot for quenching thirst and soothing the
bodies of humans and monsters alike. Even its name, the Under Resort, was in no way an
overstatement.

“…”

Yes, this was the eighteenth floor.

Where Aiz and the others had stopped for a moment of respite after their incredible battle within
the Dungeon’s depths.

Their expedition to the unexplored frontier—the fifty-ninth floor—had come to an end, and it had
been six days since they’d left their base camp on the fiftieth floor.

By all rights, they should have continued straight through to the surface, skipping this paradise
entirely, so what were they doing there?

With the chattering of her peers and Lefiya’s continued red-faced sputtering in her ears, Aiz
turned her eyes up toward the giant, encompassing dome of the forest, letting her thoughts drift
to the events that had led them there.