Chapter 238: Hellish Training for Haruhime
Liam led Rurune and the others back to the surface. Rurune was a dependant of Hermes. Although it was unclear why the other party was so short of money, logically speaking, Hermes should not be lacking in funds.
After sending Rurune back to the Hermes residence, the three of them, Liam's group, returned to the Familia to rest.
Liam came before Hestia, "Lady Goddess, I have discovered some special monsters.
There is a special jewel that can parasitize plant-type monsters and can promote the evolution of this monster towards a human direction..."
Liam couldn't explain why he knew about the Jeweled Embryo and the Corrupted Spirit, so he needed to guide others to know this information.
"What? Monsters can evolve by being parasitized?"
The expression on Hestia's face was abnormally rich. She had never heard of such a thing.
"Liam, then what should we do next? No matter what you want to do, I will support you!"
"Okay, then I will go to the Loki Familia home base next and apply for a joint expedition between our two Familias!"
At night, Liam came to the Guild's underground altar.
With his skills, no one could stop him from reaching this place.
Ouranos looked at Liam. He was still sitting in his seat, motionless.
"Liam, what is your purpose in coming here?"
"God Ouranos, I want to inquire about the intelligence I encountered in the Dungeon. That kind of monster that can suddenly evolve, and what on earth is that kind of gem?"
Ouranos did not answer immediately, but was silent for a moment, "It seems this kind of thing can't be hidden anymore.
But Liam, this information is very important. I hope you don't publicize it."
Seeing that Ouranos had loosened up, Liam nodded.
"Don't worry, I will only tell the Loki and Freya Familia dependants about this information.
If I only discuss it with their leaders, the confidentiality of the information is still acceptable."
Liam took out a drawing paper and handed over the pre-drawn pattern.
Ouranos nodded slightly, "If the information you're talking about is true, then this thing is most likely a Jeweled Embryo.
Actually, in the deep levels of the Dungeon, there are still Corrupted Spirit avatars, and even the Corrupted Spirit's main body.
The strength of a Spirit is beyond doubt. These are some races that are already close to or possibly equal to the divine power of a god..."
No wonder.
Liam thought of Ais in his heart. Although on the surface Ais was a human, she should have half a spirit's bloodline in her body.
This noble bloodline naturally also destined Ais's upper limit to be very high.
If not for the fact that he had a cheat, his growth speed would have been far surpassed by Bell.
He might not even be able to reach the level of Lv6 in his entire life.
"Liam, I need you to form a joint expedition with the Loki Familia, and explore the space below the fifty-eighth floor."
"No problem!"
Liam nodded, and then led Ais to the Loki Familia home base.
"Ais, it's been a long time since you've come back to see. How do you feel?"
"Pretty good."
Ais was still uneasy because someone had called her Aria before.
Inside the home base, some of these dependants were conducting daily training, while some were slacking off.
Upon seeing Ais's arrival, a group of young women directly surrounded her.
Ais finally left the crowd with great difficulty and followed Liam to continue forward.
Liam had come prepared this time. Sun, Moon, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, as well as the seven branch schools of Flower, Insect, Snake, Love, Sound, Mist, and Beast Breathing methods.
All of these were brought over by Liam.
He came to the reception room arranged by Loki and happened to see the arriving Loki.
"Liam? Ais! Ais, I missed you so much!"
After seeing Ais, Loki was so excited she directly flew towards Ais's side.
"I missed you so much! Ais! You have no idea how sad I was after you left!"
"I didn't miss you."
Ais had long since gotten used to Loki's movements and very skillfully dodged all of the other's moves.
After playing with Ais for a while, Loki once again sat down in her seat.
Then she saw a stack of parchment on the table that Liam had placed, "Is this a breathing method? So many kinds?"
"That's right. I hope everyone in Orario can improve their strength faster. So I contributed these breathing methods."
"This favor is really huge. Aren't you afraid that our Familia's strength will surpass yours?"
Loki sized up the man in front of her. Recently, the Guild had also been distributing the Water Breathing method to residents and adventurers for free.
Her dependants had also learned and initially mastered some of it.
"If I can't surpass you because of this, it means this is my only level.
I came here this time to discuss a joint expedition with you.
Have you heard of the Corrupted Spirit?"
Loki quieted down, and then, while sizing up Liam, her long-squinted eyes also opened.
"Corrupted Spirit? Tell me in detail."
...
Leaving the Loki Familia's side, this joint expedition was then set for ten days later.
Because they were going to the area after the fifty-eighth floor, the time for this expedition would be at least ten days, and if it was long, it might even exceed a month.
Just the most basic water and food would take up a lot of space.
And other supplies, such as armor, recovery items, and so on, also needed to be carefully prepared.
While Loki's dependants were preparing supplies, Liam also arranged for Lili to make preparations.
However, Liam's side was relatively more worry-free. Regarding the exploration of the Dungeon, Lili and Daphne had long since made professional preparations.
After that was the special training for the Familia members who had been promoted to Lv3.
According to Liam's arrangement, Ais and Ryuu sparred with each other.
As for the remaining dependants, Liam himself would conduct personal teaching.
Coincidentally, Liam also needed to cultivate his Sword Control Art.
For example, the flying sword art, sword intent release, and so on.
Being besieged by numerous Lv2 adventurers, Liam still stood where he was, waiting for their attacks.
Haruhime used the magic Nine-Fold on the others, applying the power of the Magic Mallet to their bodies.
Mikoto began to chant, and then gravity magic bombarded the area around Liam.
Then Lili used a hand crossbow for a long-range attack. Wien released a medium-range sword aura from the Secret Sword Art.
Then Cassandra used a bow and arrow to aim and shoot. Daphne was always guarding by Cassandra's side, defending against the flying swords that flew everywhere!
"Even if you have temporarily raised your level to Lv3, this level of gravity magic can only serve to restrain me."
Liam stayed within the effective range of the gravity magic. The gravity around him was very great.
He couldn't even release the flying swords around him. However, didn't this just happen to allow him to cultivate his sword intent?
"Sword Intent, release!"
Just like the innate aura of an ancient giant beast, even if this beast did not move, it would still have a deterrent effect on the surrounding weak animals.
And once the beast proactively roared in anger, just being by its side would be affected.
And Liam was releasing his sword intent in all directions without any blind spots at the same time.
The light in the surroundings was distorted, as if it were a heat haze phenomenon in hot weather.
The air appeared with ripples like water waves. An invisible but tangible force rushed towards Mikoto and the others.
And then they felt a pressure from the depths of their souls.
As if a sharp blade had appeared at the position of their soul's neck. It seemed that with any movement, their neck would be cut open by the blade.
Mikoto subconsciously took two steps back. It seemed there was an air wall in front of her, crushing her with an unreasonable weight...
And then Mikoto removed the gravity magic.
Daphne, Cassandra, and the others also immediately turned deathly pale.
This violent impact, they simply could not withstand.
And it was precisely because of this that six sword aura flying swords instantly condensed around Liam and once again attacked the surrounding targets.
Lili barely recovered, and then immediately ran away with a disheveled face, "Lili is just a supporter and a commander! Lili feels like she's about to die!"
The spine of a sword aura flying sword knocked on her head, making her cry out.
And so Lili had no choice but to continue running. Under this desperate running, she thought her agility and endurance attributes would be greatly strengthened.
Just as Haruhime was slacking off a bit, a flying sword also came before her.
"Wow, it's a flying sword!"
Haruhime was so scared her little face turned pale. The spine of the sword knocked on her head, and it hurt so much her tears were about to fall.
Such a high-intensity battle directly began to crazily squeeze the potential of these young women.
In the process of Daphne and the others' ability scores rapidly improving, Liam's Sword Control Art was also rapidly improving.
"I really can't fight anymore. Please let me rest for a while?"
Haruhime squatted on the ground pitifully, panting heavily.
Liam, on the other hand, called the five of them, Mikoto and her group, together.
Haruhime, Mikoto, Cassandra, Daphne, and Wien, these five were not clear what Liam was going to do.
"Liam, we are really tired now."
Haruhime secretly observed Liam's expression, hoping to rest for a while.
Liam sighed, "I feel there is a shortcut to improving ability scores and levels. It's just that this shortcut is relatively hard.
A great feat, no matter which direction, as long as one can break through the limit, one can obtain it.
So, this time, I will let you experience the spiritual impact of death.
I hope everyone will not be timid, and will proactively counter-attack in the face of this impact!"
Haruhime's ears drooped completely, and she looked at Liam, trembling all over.
Mikoto, on the other hand, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and gripped her own weapon tightly.
Liam's right hand formed a sword finger, and then his sword intent condensed on it.
Apart from physical and magical attacks, Liam had also mastered a means of attack that targeted the spirit and soul—sword intent.
Liam raised his right hand and gently swung his arm from left to right.
The killing intent condensed from his sword intent was released from his sword finger. It was as if a real sharp blade had appeared and then cut their throats.
It was as if their cognition had been tampered with, their brains deceived.
Or, their souls had really been impacted because of this.
Afterward, the young women, one by one, fell limply to the ground.
Mikoto, Daphne, and Wien gritted their teeth and barely stood up again.
It was just obvious that their stamina and spirit had also reached their end and would fall at any moment.
Lili and Cassandra, on the other hand, rolled their eyes and fainted directly.
Liam apologetically picked up Cassandra and carried her on his back, and then, like carrying goods, he held Lili by the stomach and brought them back to their rooms underwater.
"It seems I was too hasty. But there's no other way. To let them improve quickly, I can only train them like this, like a devil."
This training lasted for a whole week.
And the effect was obviously very gratifying. These five young women, at least one of their ability scores had reached A-rank or S-rank, and only after their ability scores could no longer be improved did they upgrade.
That is, from now on, Liam's adventurer team squad was all Lv3 and above!
Because of the hellish training for Haruhime, the current Haruhime had a very obvious increase in her total magic power.
The number of releases, the duration, and the cooldown time had all been optimized.
It was a new day. Liam was about to continue the hellish special training for the young women when Eina came to visit.
"Miss Eina, good morning."
"Liam! This is a temporary commission sent over by the Guild."
"Okay, then I'll take it."
Liam picked up the commission and glanced at it. This was an investigation commission for him to go to the twenty-fourth floor of the Dungeon.
"Haruhime, let's go. We'll go to this mission together!"
Liam and the others put on their cloaks. While hiding their figures, they went to different artificial labyrinth entrances in batches.
Afterward, they met at the eighteenth-floor artificial labyrinth exit.
Liam and the others happened to run into Asfi on the eighteenth floor, and then they teamed up and continued to advance.
Asfi held a map, "Everyone, I won't say any more. There's an anomaly on the twenty-fourth floor this time.
Please follow me to continue to advance. There are several food storage locations. We need to investigate them one by one.
The food storage is a place where monsters automatically gather. There may be their food there, or they may devour each other there."
Ryuu and the others nodded, while Ais remained silent, and then raised her head to look at Liam.
"Liam, there's a situation over there! There's a monster's aura."
Liam looked at Asfi, "Asfi, I think we should follow Ais and see first."
Asfi nodded. Although she had a map in her hand, it was clear that Liam and his group had more people on their side.
So, it was better to see what the monster aura Ais was talking about was first.
Afterward, the group advanced along a complex road and saw a large number of monsters that were gathering into a formation.
They gathered into a monster group, just like an ant colony, advancing along a fixed path.
Liam and the others stood on the edge of a canyon and looked down. They only saw this canyon, which was ten or twenty meters deep, was packed with a large number of monsters.
Their number was even more exaggerated, like a tide. Just a rough look, there were thousands.
Each row had ten or twenty, almost completely covering the ground in the canyon.
Liam was a little excited, "This number is very good! Everyone, let's go down together.
You fight here, and you will also be trained!"
Mikoto nodded, "Okay! To break through oneself, this kind of bitter battle is essential!"
A golden light enveloped these Lv3s, Mikoto and the others.
Liam condensed his sword aura into a flying sword, and while protecting the backs of Mikoto and the others, he launched an attack on the other monsters.
The flying insect monsters in the sky were just about to approach when they were directly slain by Liam's flying sword.
A large number of monsters were quickly eliminated in an instant.
The other monsters, after seeing Liam and the others, did not panic. On the contrary, they swarmed over even more densely.
For this dense tide of monsters, Liam only felt happy.
It was like leeks that proactively stretched their necks for him to cut. They were really too obedient.
He deliberately left a group of monsters for Mikoto and the others that would not cause serious injury. The other monsters were all slain by Liam.
In the background, the reminder of the increase in experience points was constantly jumping. Although the experience value for each one was very small, the number was very large.
It was as exhilarating as mowing grass in Dynasty Warriors! In the sky, a series of monsters flew up, and then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
This was simply Fruit Ninja slicing!
(End of this chapter)
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