Chapter 237: The Spirit's Blood and the Jeweled Embryo
The Dungeon training of a day and a night ended. Liam led Ryuu and Ais in a retreat within the Dungeon.
Dungeon Eighteenth Floor.
The artificial labyrinth happened to have an entrance and exit here on the eighteenth floor.
On the way to the entrance and exit, Liam's perception discovered a suspicious figure.
"Come out!"
"Don't kill me!"
A female beastman adventurer appeared from a dark corner. She was holding a package in her hands.
From the outside, one could only see that this was a spherical package.
Only by opening the package could one know what was inside.
"Mr. Liam, my name is Rurune. Can you please not kill me?"
Liam nodded, "As long as you haven't harmed the people around me, I have no reason to attack you."
Hearing Liam say this, Rurune finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then she told Liam, Ais, and the others her story.
"We previously received a commission on the surface. The client asked us to carry an item to a designated location.
Not long ago, my companion was killed because of this mission. To complete this mission, I could only continue to carry out this task with this item."
Liam was a little helpless, "This kind of mission sounds wrong just by listening to it.
Think about it. This mission sounds so simple, so why would they entrust it to you?
If the money given was not small, wouldn't that mean that this matter was even more undoable?"
"I can't help it. The money given for this mission is really too much. Other adventurer commission missions simply can't reach this level."
Ais extended her hand towards Rurune, "Then hand this thing over to us for safekeeping.
You should return to the surface as soon as possible. It should be much safer on the surface."
"Okay!"
Rurune handed the item to Ais. This kind of matter was simply not something her level could participate in.
That expensive commission fee was just a last meal.
Ais opened the cloth on the item, and then saw a pale green transparent crystal, and a worm-like monster sleeping inside the crystal.
A feeling of heart palpitations appeared. Ais felt uneasy just by staring at it, as if something bad was about to happen.
The worm-like monster inside the crystal suddenly opened its eyes and was staring fixedly at Ais.
Ais was so scared she jumped, directly throwing the crystal ball in her hand. Her face was pale, and her legs couldn't help but go weak, and she staggered back a few steps.
Liam caught the thrown crystal ball, and then immediately supported Ais.
"Beep..."
A dense sound of a flute was heard in the distance. A clear earthquake was felt on the ground where Liam and the others were.
"No time to explain, Rurune! I feel this crystal ball is not a good thing."
Liam threw the crystal ball out, and then six sword aura flying swords appeared around his body.
These flying swords were like swimming fish, continuously hitting the falling crystal ball in the air.
Because Liam's method of exerting force was very clever, the crystal ball could only be continuously collided with, and was almost suspended in the air.
And the crystal ball, under this situation, had more and more cracks, and then it was cut into countless fragments by the sword aura flying swords.
"Ah, it's shattered! Oh no, my commission!"
Rurune had a look of despair on her face. The commission she had put so much effort into, how could it be gone just like that?
The sword aura flying swords automatically returned to Liam's body. Liam's face was not very good.
Just with the current Liam, Ais, and Ryuu directly going to the fifty-ninth floor was too dangerous.
The best way was to cooperate, for example, with one of the Loki or former Freya Familia dependants to form a joint expedition.
The most reliable was naturally to form a tripartite alliance.
Liam guessed that the strength of the Corrupted Spirit was at least several times that of Ottar.
If Ottar fought it alone, he would only be killed.
Dungeon eighteenth floor, the adventurer-built town of Rivira experienced a riot.
The earth was trembling, and one after another, Lv4, and even Lv5 man-eating flowers drilled out of the ground.
These man-eating flowers were all emerald green. When the thorns on their heads opened, they would bloom with crimson flowers, and a ferocious giant mouth would appear at the position of the pistil.
Their outer shells were very hard, and some tough branches would appear around their bodies, serving the function of arms.
Liam looked at Ryuu, "Ais, Rurune is up to you. Ryuu, come with me to slay these monsters!"
"Okay!"
Liam picked up Ryuu on his back. In her flustered mood, Liam had already stepped on a flying sword and was flying with his sword.
Ryuu Lion's face immediately turned red. She tried her best to suppress her emotions, and then began to chant in a loud voice.
Liam, on the other hand, began to directly condense a qi sword. The production of First-Grade armaments in Orario was already beginning to fail to keep up with Liam's demand.
Therefore, he had to improve the strength of his Sword Control Art himself, so as to replace the weapons needed for the Extreme Ghost Sword Art.
"Slash!"
A dazzling thunderflame qi sword tore through the air, and then bombarded these man-eating flowers that had broken through the earth.
He only saw six flying swords turn into six streams of light, pulverizing the man-eating flowers like a high-speed cutting machine.
Ryuu chanted in a loud voice, and then condensed a large number of green magic balls.
A huge number of magic balls fell from a high altitude, and the dense attack directly suppressed all these man-eating flowers.
One by one, the man-eating flowers turned into black smoke and dissipated, and then magic stones shimmering with a green flowing light fell to the ground.
While Liam was leading Ryuu to support Rivira, a large number of man-eating flowers also appeared on Ais's side.
A strange man in a ninja outfit appeared, and then approached Rurune's position.
A high-pressure airflow erupted from Ais's body, directly cutting open all the approaching man-eating flowers.
And this stranger also instantly approached Ais, and a fierce clash began between the two.
"So strong!"
This stranger actually had the strength of a Lv6!
In Orario, after an adventurer reached Lv6, each one was a famous existence.
Even at just Lv5, adventurers would have heard of each other's names. Even if they had not cooperated together, at least they would know what they looked like.
So the other party was either an adventurer from outside Orario, or had hidden his identity, or his face was also a disguise.
This stranger took off his human-skin mask, "I didn't expect you to have this kind of strength. It seems I also need to get serious!"
The stranger removed his disguise, revealing his original appearance.
It was a red-haired woman, wearing a tight and revealing combat suit.
The red-haired woman held a weapon and clashed with Ais's attack. In terms of strength, the red-haired woman had the upper hand.
And after Ais used her enchantment magic, the combat power of the two sides became equal.
"So you are Aria?"
Hearing the words spoken by the red-haired woman, Ais showed obvious wavering.
Why would she call out the name Aria? Could the other party be an old acquaintance of her mother?
Aria was her mother's name. So should this battle continue?
Elves, half-elves, these races' parents and children often looked very similar.
Coupled with the fact that after an elf reaches adulthood, their appearance almost never changes. Only with illness or old age will their appearance change significantly.
Ais had the blood of a spirit in her body. Her mind was in a whirl. Just as she was about to ask the other party a question.
At this time, a crystal ball flew from the sky. Inside, there was still the same kind of worm as before.
The crystal ball directly stuck to a man-eating flower that had broken through the earth, and then fused into one.
Then the head of the man-eating flower grew a human upper body. A half-human, half-flower monster with no face stared at Ais for a few seconds, and then the man-eating flower's body immediately condensed numerous vines and stabbed towards Ais.
"Aria! Aria!"
Ais was a little dazed. She already didn't know what the current situation was.
A sound of breaking wind appeared in the sky. Liam had already arrived, flying on his sword.
As for Ryuu, she continued to stay in Rivira to hunt monsters.
For the small town of Rivira, the level of the adventurers here was too low.
Therefore, this place needed at least one high-level adventurer to be stationed for support.
Liam's gaze fell on this half-human, half-flower monster. Afterward, he directly unfolded his Selfless Sword Domain.
Then hundreds of armaments emerged from the sword domain, bombarding this monster at high speed like meteors.
"Its self-healing and defense are very high."
Around Liam, six of the Seven Sins appeared respectively.
Afterward, he controlled his flying swords and began to mince the monster in front of him.
The red-haired woman, on the other hand, continued to suppress Ais, not letting Ais go to help Liam.
While the flying swords continued to suppress the monster, Liam released Raging Dragon Slash and fell from the air.
Afterward, Liam held two armaments in his hands, and with six flying swords, he simultaneously attacked the monster in front of him.
"Illusion Sword Dance!"
The high-speed slash landed on the monster in front of him. This monster's self-healing power could no longer keep up with Liam's damage.
In the end, it was directly slain by Liam's attack. A golden magic stone fell from the monster's body.
Liam took the magic stone in his hand. Just as he touched it, the magic stone directly turned into powder and disappeared.
"Plop!"
Following the sound of falling into water, Liam looked to the side, and then found that the red-haired woman had disappeared.
Another change different from the original work. The strength of that red-haired woman had improved a lot.
"What should I do next?"
If it were the original plot, then the strength of that red-haired woman would not be a threat.
Now the strength of the red-haired woman had already been raised to Lv6. So what about the others?
...
Inside the Guild's underground facility.
While Loki was advancing alone, the Guild manager, Royman Mardeel, with a face full of cold sweat, led the staff and wanted to ask Loki to leave.
It was just that Loki was a goddess. Even the most down-and-out goddess, her status was nobler than the various staff members of the Guild.
Especially Loki, who was still a top-tier Familia in Orario.
Royman simply couldn't afford to provoke her. And he didn't want Ouranos to be frequently contacted by the outside world.
Otherwise, his position would not be secure.
"Goddess Loki, please do not continue to advance. Ahead is an altar for offering prayers to the god Ouranos to calm the Dungeon.
The Guild was originally absolutely neutral. Even a god cannot disturb it."
Loki looked at Royman with a grin. She was the god of trickery. She could naturally tell whether Royman was lying.
Even without using divine power, just by thinking with her intelligence, this guy Royman was a rather selfish person.
Saying something about not disturbing the altar was just an excuse to snatch more power from Ouranos.
Loki felt it was not worth it for Ouranos. Such a Guild that managed all of Orario, its management authority was just handed over to Royman like this...
But, since Ouranos didn't care, she was also too lazy to explain in detail to Ouranos.
Loki grinned and put her arm around Royman's shoulder, and then with one hand, she pinched the other's beer belly, like kneading dough.
After playing with the other's belly, she used her hand to lift the other's fleshy chin.
"Aiya, don't be so impersonal. I just have something I want to ask."
Even being teased like this by Loki, without any dignity of a superior, but the other party was Loki, so Royman had to endure.
"No, only this is absolutely not allowed."
At the end of the stairs, Ouranos's voice came, "It's fine, Royman, let her in."
Since it was the consent of the god Ouranos, Royman had no reason to continue to obstruct.
To put it bluntly, he was just managing the entire Guild on behalf of Ouranos.
Therefore, Royman could do anything, but he absolutely could not violate his service target.
This service target was not all the residents of Orario, and the registered adventurers.
But the source of Royman's power—Ouranos.
"But, God Ouranos..."
"I said it's okay!"
Royman and the staff behind him immediately bowed. When the god said so, they just had to obey.
Loki said goodbye to the group and arrived at Ouranos's location.
Ouranos was still sitting in his seat, "Loki, what is it?"
"I have some intelligence I want to ask you about. For example, what's with the monsters that suddenly appeared on the surface?
I even ran into some in the sewers of Orario..."
Loki stretched and opened her eyes to observe Ouranos's expression.
"So I want to consult with God Ouranos. The recent chaos on the surface of Orario, was it done by the Guild?
Or is it related to you?"
"It has nothing to do with me or the Guild."
"I see."
Loki turned and left. She got some useful information from Ouranos.
Although the other party was inconvenient to disclose, the other party being willing to see her already explained many things.
As long as the other party did not explicitly stop her, then she could continue to investigate.
"Ais, I'm so sad without you."
Although the Loki Familia was very strong, after Ais left, Loki felt a sense of loss in her heart.
Ais had joined her Familia at the age of seven and had been in the Familia for nine years.
She had watched this cute little loli, Ais, grow from a child into a perfect young woman.
And then she had watched her leave her and join the Hestia Familia.
Although she could see that Liam had unprecedented potential, she still missed Ais very much.
Fels appeared from the shadows, "My lord, why did Loki suddenly visit? I thought there was going to be a conflict."
"It's normal for a god to do whatever they want on a whim. After all, they are really too bored."
Fels came before Ouranos, "My lord, it's also possible that Loki was instigated by someone.
At least for now, it's better for us not to be enemies with her."
Excluding the god's own divine power, just comparing the available combat power of the two sides.
The combat power on the Guild's side was indeed not as good as the current Loki Familia's.
(End of this chapter)
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