Revis had been "lying in ambush" in the city for a long time, just waiting for Isagi and the girls to enter the Dungeon!
She had essentially followed Filvis's advice.
Ever since their encounter in Rivira that day, the woman had brought her people to the surface of the city, awaiting the young boy's next adventure.
The result?
She ended up waiting for so many days in a row!
She was getting a bit impatient. Biting into a Magic Stone, the woman, also draped in a black robe, followed far behind the boy's team from a distance, just as Filvis had instructed.
Must she follow them to enter the [Special Dungeon]?
Why?
Revis could not understand it, but after seeing the figure of the girl with beautiful golden hair in the boy's team, she decided to comply to the end, no matter how incomprehensible it seemed!
Aria (Ais) was really there!!
That fellow Filvis hadn't lied after all. That was perfect; she would figure out exactly what this Special Dungeon was, and at the same time, capture the target and take her to the Deep Floors to offer her to "Mother".
The red-haired woman quickly made this decision.
Ais was not her match.
As a fellow Level 5, Revis was confident in defeating her. As for the girl's teammates, they were merely Level 4 fellows. While considered strong within the city, compared to a First-Class Adventurer of Level 5 or above, there was a world of difference.
However, a group of people was still somewhat troublesome. But it didn't matter; she had brought helpers too.
A group of believers of the Goddess of Murder.
They all came from outside the city—assassins who made a living specifically from bounties.
The Goddess they worshipped, Sekhmet, had created an organization in the form of a Familia and accepted commissions and bounties on a global scale—except for Orario.
The City of Adventurers was too dangerous.
This time, it was the Dark Familia that had paid a high price, causing the believers of the Goddess of Murder to turn out in full force.
It was said.
The Goddess of Murder, Sekhmet, was a deity of the Pyramids.
The gods naturally had their factions. For instance, Astrea and Demeter came from the incredibly towering mountains of Olympus, while Freya and Loki came from Asgard, and so on.
And a long, long time ago, the gods of the Pyramids, led by the Osiris Familia, held considerable power in the city. However, in the struggle against the formerly strongest Familias of the city, Zeus and Hera, they were eventually swept out.
The gods of the Pyramids were driven out of the city and never returned. It was unknown whether the Goddess of Murder, Sekhmet, had once been one of them.
Regarding these secrets of the city, Revis knew a little. perhaps it was her memory as an "adventurer," or perhaps—
Unlike Filvis and Olivas, the woman did not have many memories from before her death. She didn't even know why she had become a Creature. The only thing she was certain of was that she must absolutely obey "Mother" and complete Her missions.
She shook her head.
The woman decided not to think about these things. Silent, she continued to lead this group of believers of the Goddess of Murder, weaving through the Dungeon.
And what even she didn't realize was that at this moment, two young girls following far at the very tail end of the procession were also completely hiding themselves within black robes, whispering quietly.
"Stupid cat, is this reliable or not?! Why do I have a bad feeling..."
"What are you afraid of, meow! If you're timid, don't do this line of work; go home and find your mommy, meow!"
"Are you looking for death?!"
"Keep your voice down, meow! Don't let anyone hear us, meow!!"
If Ryuu Lion were here, the noisy voices of these two girls would certainly make her feel extremely familiar.
Back in that incredibly dark period of time.
Living in the "Suspicious Longhouse" at the edge of the city, close to the city wall and run by Gnomes.
These two girls were neighbors Ryuu "knew." The Cat Person among them had even helped send a dark deity into the Dungeon.
[Black Cat] Chloe Rollo.
Ryuu did not know the other's name, only that she was an assassin, and powerful—a Level 4, just like herself at the time.
As for the other human girl, Ryuu was even less familiar with her.
[Black Fist] Lunor Faust.
Also a Level 4 adventurer, but not an assassin; she was a "Bounty Hunter."
In truth, both were currently famous figures in Orario's underworld. After all, First-Class Adventurers of Level 5 and above were too distant for more than ninety-nine percent of the people in the city.
Moreover.
Those high-level ones were almost all Captains of large Familias, or at least named executives. No matter how much money or power the merchant tycoons or nobles of other countries offered, they could absolutely never invite them, or get them to "serve" them.
The strongest adventurers they could contact were Level 4s.
And during the time these two had been in Orario, they had never failed a mission, no matter what it was. Their names resounded through every street and alley of the city as synonyms for "terror"—
"After finishing this job, we can retire, meow. I only called you along for your own good, meow!"
"Heh, isn't it just because you're scared?"
"Who said that, meow! I'm not afraid at all; I just pity you, meow!"
"I wonder who it was that got chased all over the streets by the Captain of the Ganesha Familia, after overestimateingly trying to assassinate him."
"Aren't you the same, meow! You were almost killed by those few shorties (the Four Warriors of Flame and Gold) from the Freya Familia, meow!!"
Daily bickering.
The two girls found each other disagreeable, but even so, they could only cooperate now to complete the "task" at hand.
There was no helping it; it was all for money.
As long as they finished this job, they could find a place to retire and live a leisurely life.
The reason the two came to strive in Orario was originally for this.
One was an assassin who had been trained in the organization of the Goddess of Murder since childhood, stood out, and then left the organization to wander the world.
The other was a Bounty Hunter who, as a war orphan under a distant empire, had survived countless slaughters and battlefields.
Two girls with no families. Their only goal was to earn lots and lots of Valis, then run to a place where no one knew them and live a wealthy life.
Originally.
Their target was actually [Gale].
The Guild's bounty alone was as high as eighty million Valis, and that wasn't even counting the share from the black market!
Unfortunately, neither of them knew that the Elf girl who had once lived under the same roof was exactly the fellow they were looking for.
And now, [Gale] had already returned to the Goddess of Justice's Familia. The Guild had directly revoked the bounty, following the devouring of two dark deities in the Dungeon.
On the black market side, all bounties regarding her were simultaneously revoked as well.
With no other choice.
Chloe could only find another way, and she really did find a path.
First, she discovered that assassins who were once from the same organization, all believers in the Goddess of Murder, had come to Orario.
Although she had long broken away from that place.
The Cat Person girl still used secret codes to infiltrate them by pretending to be a newcomer. She learned that their mission this time was to head to the Artificial Labyrinth and assist the Dark Familia in dealing with the "General Offensive" the city was about to launch.
She immediately realized this was a good opportunity!
Chloe thought that if she infiltrated the Artificial Labyrinth and figured out the "intelligence" on the Dark Familia's side, couldn't she then sell it at a high price to the Loki Familia or the Guild later, meow?
She wasn't stupid.
She wouldn't really go and risk her life in the Artificial Labyrinth.
But going deep into the lair of the Dark Familia was still extremely dangerous behavior, meow. So after thinking about it, Chloe decided to drag Lunor along, meow.
It was just that—
They hadn't expected that after following that leading red-haired woman and staying in Rivira for several days, they would end up back in the city, and now they were going into the Dungeon again. What on earth were they doing?!
Whispering complaints all the way.
They passed through those incredibly deep caverns, effortlessly wiping out the small-fry upper-floor monsters that appeared along the path.
The team moved very fast, the reason being that the boy and girls walking in front were even faster.
Just like that.
Following the other party, they arrived at the corridor connecting the 12th and 13th floors of the Dungeon.
The leading Revis walked inside without hesitation.
She was incredibly familiar with this corridor; she had walked it several times recently. According to her memory, shortly after, she would arrive at that area full of huge gray-white rock blocks.
There were always gaps of varying sizes between the stones. The light was dim, the air was damp, and it always gave a gloomy and cramped feeling.
And those complex "pathways" that interwove up and down were even more annoying. One moment of carelessness, and it was easy to deviate from the main road and lose one's direction.
However—
This time was different. Very quickly, Revis discovered that the corridor before her was incredibly long and pitch-black.
It was as if there was no end.
The believers of the Goddess of Murder behind her also couldn't help but start whispering to each other. They hadn't been to the Dungeon much, but they had followed her along this path before, which was why they felt strange.
A long, long, long time passed.
Finally, Revis arrived at a small platform.
She stopped in her tracks because within the huge hollow space in front of her, there were several iron chains constantly churning. It looked just like the kind of elevator commonly seen in the city?
Hah?
She couldn't understand why such a thing would appear in the Dungeon.
Undoubtedly, the corridor had reached its end, and she couldn't possibly jump down—god knows how deep it was down there!
So now she could only wait.
After another long, long, long time, as the iron chains creaked and groaned, an iron cage covered in spikes and bloodstains returned to this small, dark platform.
Revis was stunned for a moment.
Then, she took the initiative to lead the way in.
Thus, once the last person had walked into the iron cage, it began to descend again, until they finally arrived at that deep pit piled high with Goblin heads.
!!!
Revis looked at the scene before her in disbelief.
Even a Creature like her, who came and went freely in the Dungeon and treated going to the Deep Floors like going home, had never seen such a spectacle.
What the hell is this?!
On the other side, the two girls following behind the numerous black-robed assassins also felt only disbelief at the scene before them. Neither Chloe nor Lunor had visited the Dungeon much; they had absolutely no interest in adventuring.
But...
Even if they hadn't eaten pork, hadn't they seen a pig run?!
When did the Dungeon turn into this? This is too strange, isn't it?!!
"Hey, hey, hey, stupid cat, something seems really wrong here."
"Meow..."
For the first time, she didn't refute the fellow beside her.
The two girls pursed their lips, seeming to have already sensed a rather bad premonition.
"Ahead is the Cold Region."
After Isagi and the girls arrived in the Dungeon, they used a "shortcut." Utilizing the whistle Ma gave him, at the dark Grace in front of the initial Goblin Outpost Camp, he summoned the massive crimson Fire Bird.
Subsequently, riding the bird, they arrived at the dark Grace point located at the very top of the "Garden Area."
Don't look at the surroundings right now.
Everywhere was a sea of colorful, blooming flowers, with beautiful petals fluttering down. But as long as one continued up a little bit, unknowingly, the surrounding environment would undergo a drastic change.
This change itself was very bizarre.
It was simply like walking through a "transparent" door; in front of the door and behind it were completely different areas.
Because he had expected this.
So this time coming to the Dungeon, Isagi and the girls brought a lot of "Spirit Cloth."
These fabrics blessed by Spirits had considerably good magical protection. Even if just used as scarves draped around the neck, they could resist the severe cold to a considerable degree.
The "cold" in the Dungeon was definitely different from the winter in the city.
Isagi had been up there before.
He knew that cold region was incredibly biting and freezing. At the time, he was focused on flying upward, so he quickly exited that area.
But now it was a group of people walking up slowly, so they definitely needed to be well-protected.
Soon, preparations were complete.
"Next, we will first subjugate the BOSSes of the Cold and Heat regions. After taking them out, we will explore the corresponding areas to search for storyline clues."
He informed the girls of his arrangement.
Further up, there was a region that was pitch-black, with absolutely no light.
That place was very different from below.
Isagi felt that place was the key. Especially since he had encountered a rather strange BOSS there whose name was entirely garbled text.
He only knew its prefix was [Hero Who Subjugated Miracles].
What did that mean?
Given that "Miracle" likely referred to the Monster Rex Goliath located on the 17th Floor, then was this monster a fellow who had once gone to subjugate the giant?
Just like the [Pale King] from before?
In this area full of flower seas, Isagi and the girls naturally encountered the NPCs they had met before.
"Pilgrim Nick," who was still striving to climb upward and was very polite, repaid the act of kindness when Isagi gave him food earlier by handing over a very large Primordial Residue.
The old bug twisting its obese body, intoxicated in the vast flower beds as if "poisoned," unable to extricate itself, even invited him and the girls to experience it too.
As well as.
That "Great Tree Priest" hiding in the tree hollow, revealing many eyes. It continued to be a riddler, speaking words that people simply couldn't understand—
[The fellows of the Anthropomorphic Church are creating Paradise. Before it is completed, no one can arrive. But the problem is, they also do not know what Paradise is, hehehe...]
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