Chapter 739

Lefiya felt somewhat embarrassed; as someone who also frequently spent time with Mr. Broly, only she and Miss Ais had received full benefits, while Tiona had gotten nothing at all.

Well, she had still received some guidance on actual combat experience, but compared to the temporary skill 【Invisible Wings】 they had obtained from Mr. Broly, the other party's gains were somewhat negligible.

【I heard from Loki that acquiring the temporary skill (Invisible Wings) requires meeting certain conditions, one of which is getting on good terms with Mr. Broly; Tiona should meet that one, but who knows what the remaining conditions are. Perhaps I should find a chance to ask Mr. Broly and see if he can grant Tiona a similar temporary skill as well...】

Lefiya thought this way, clearly no one had told her the specific meaning represented by the Wings skill; this elf girl still hadn't understood the price she herself would have to pay for obtaining the Wings skill — that was wanting to take away the bride price of her future life, something similar to that.

"Miss Lefiya, you all hurry over; we're entering the Food Storage."

Just then, Broly up ahead turned his head and shouted toward them following behind, then raised his hand and grabbed forward; the wall of green blocking the Food Storage, which looked quite tough, was torn to shreds like a block of tofu.

Lefiya and the others, jogging over, looked at the Food Storage with its breach torn open and felt an eerie sensation, as if the cave before them was a ferocious beast waiting for prey to arrive, its maw wide open, about to devour whoever entered.

"Let's go in."

However, whether it was Broly or Ais, neither stopped; they walked in first without hesitation.

"These wriggling green things are practically living lumps of meat; if we barge in directly like this, won't we fall into the enemy's trap?"

Looking at the scenery of the cave around her, Lefiya couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"That's possible, but I will protect you all, protect Lefiya well."

The Sword Princess girl turned her head from the front and said this to Lefiya, also glancing at the White Shrine Maiden following behind.

Filvis: "..."

The Sword Princess looking at her — was it to put her at ease? To let her know the curse of total party wipe absolutely would not happen to them.

"Quite bold, knowing this might be a trap yet still forcing your way straight toward me?"

The green flesh writhed, opening a breach on its own; a tall white-haired man wearing a sheep-skull mask stood at the other end of the breach, shouting loudly toward this side.

"Since you have this much courage, it would be a bit impolite for me, this villain, to continue hiding."

The white-haired man raised his hand and snapped his fingers toward their direction.

"Come out, my cute flowers!"

As his words fell, the ground rumbled; with the sound of shattering rock, enormous numbers of Man-Eating Flowers appeared all around Broly's group and on the path they came from, these monsters densely surrounding them.

"Another Beast Tamer, huh..."

Asfi tensed up; surrounded by this many Man-Eating Flowers, even with Invisibility it would probably be hard to escape. She was glad now that she and her Familia companions hadn't rashly barged in earlier, but she was also worried about the current situation.

"Wasn't there said to be another guy? That woman named Revis — is she planning to hide in the dark and sneak attack?"

The Werewolf Bert asked; Broly searched within the dense swarm of Man-Eating Flowers. If the other party was hiding among these monsters, given she could previously fight the Sword Princess to a draw, it would be quite troublesome. Hmm, he'd probably have to run circles killing the surrounding plant-type monsters to prevent that Rivira Town murderer from approaching Lefiya and the others, becoming a threat to them.

"Huh? Compared to me, you're actually more wary of that guy Revis?"

The white-haired oni was a bit displeased, looking directly toward his companion's direction.

"Revis, what are you doing hiding there?"

Revis was indeed hiding in the Man-Eating Flowers, and she indeed intended to sneak attack and kill, but she hadn't expected the white-haired oni to directly call out her position.

"Olivas, are you an idiot? I'm hiding my presence in the Man-Eating Flowers, obviously able to restrain that group better, but you, this pig-like thing, directly exposed my position?!"

Seeing her position exposed, Revis could only walk out from behind the hiding Man-Eating Flowers; her face was hostile, but she wasn't looking at Broly's group — she was looking at her pig teammate.

"Hiding and sneak attacking is a sign of lacking confidence in one's own strength. Now my Man-Eating Flower army has already surrounded these intruders, yet you still hide and sneak attack; if these guys misunderstand and think I also lack confidence, that would be bad."

The corner of Revis's mouth twitched. Truly, not fearing god-like opponents, only fearing pig-like teammates. Her monster army surrounded the intruders, and she thought her side held absolute advantage — simply laughable. Didn't she see the people surrounded over there? Not a single one looked afraid.

She had already born thoughts of retreat.

"Olivas, isn't that the name of the Dark Faction Executive who caused the 27th Floor Labyrinth Nightmare incident six years ago? But isn't that person already dead? Are you an imposter?"

Having encountered teaming up with the White Shrine Maiden, Asfi's mind had already reviewed some matters related to the White Shrine Maiden; now hearing Revis's address for the sheep-masked white-haired man, she quickly thought of the culprit of that Nightmare incident, and directly questioned the masked man opposite.

"I did indeed die back then, but I was resurrected by That Person."

The white-haired oni removed his mask, revealing his true face; his appearance was indeed exactly the same as that past Dark Faction Executive's.

"That Person?"

Ais frowned; Lefiya looked nervously at Filvis beside her. The White Shrine Maiden's eyes widened; she bit her own lip until it bled, looking at the white-haired oni with eyes that seemed to want to eat him alive.

"Right. Anyway, you might become one of us, so telling you in advance doesn't matter. It's the Dungeon's Fairy Spirit, she granted me a new life."

As the white-haired oni spoke, a large orange Magic Stone emerged on his chest.

"A Magic Stone? Are you a hybrid of human and monster?"

Asfi asked.

"Correct. It was precisely That Person, using the method of implanting a Magic Stone, who bestowed a second life upon me. I can hear her voice. She wants to see the Sky. She wants to possess the Sky. To let her, sleeping deep underground, see the Sky, the city of Orario is too much in the way — an existence that must be eliminated. Compared to those ignorant humans and Gods, she is more fit to rule the World.

She differs from those Gods who call everything entertainment yet insist on saying they respect life while doing nothing. She granted me mercy. I am the one she chose. Only I can fulfill her expectations. Only I can achieve her wish — which is to destroy that city above our heads."

The white-haired oni's spirit seemed to have fallen into a state of self-satisfied madness; he spoke like a Commentator, narrating his and the existence behind him's purpose.

"Olivas, you bastard brought me so much suffering, yet you still dare appear before me?"

Filvis stepped forward, glaring angrily at the white-haired oni opposite.

"Eh, the survivor from back then?"

"You still dare say that?!"

The White Shrine Maiden directly raised her short staff and began chanting the short spell 【Supreme · Wine God's Staff】 Thunder Magic at extremely high speed.

Shining lightning blasted toward the white-haired oni, but a Man-Eating Flower was controlled to block the attack path; it was turned to flying ash in one hit, but the lightning's power was also exhausted.

"Heh, want to attack me? Deal with my cute flowers first."

The white-haired oni laughed arrogantly, waved a hand, and ordered the Man-Eating Flowers surrounding everyone to attack.

"Ais, Bert, Tiona, you protect Lefiya and the others. As for this group of monsters, leave them to me. Just right — the monsters on the Forest Road earlier were too weak, didn't let me properly stretch my body."

Broly gave one instruction, then charged out from the crowd.

"Tsk, really stupid. Not properly struggling and resisting within the encirclement, actually running out alone to seek death. Even if you have the aptitude to become a monster, there's no need for That Person to grant you the Dungeon's blessing. Man-Eating Flowers, no holding back on that guy — directly devour him."

The white-haired oni gave the order; Broly was already jogging, making contact with the first Man-Eating Flower to charge.

"Bang—"

The giant man-eating flower was blasted up by its roots, and after its head exploded, its plant body still flew out and smashed into the rock wall beside the white-haired ghost.

"?!"

The white-haired ghost's eyes widened slightly, and he quickly saw the Saiyan boy clearing out his own man-eating flower monster swarm like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

As if his own man-eating flower army were not monsters with the strength of deep-floor monsters, but merely small insects by the roadside that could be casually crushed to death.

The man-eating flower monsters disappeared at an extremely fast speed, and the white-haired ghost's originally confident, everything-under-control expression was also gone.

"Giant Flower, you go up too."

He even dispatched his own trump card, a Giant Flower King with absolutely Lv. 6 strengthened species monster strength, three times larger in size than the man-eating flowers.

But...

Broly was like a rushing great fortune; after the Giant Flower King rushed over to block his path, he just treated the opponent as a speed bump and crushed it.

The Lv. 6 strengthened species monster Giant Flower, and those man-eating flowers with only Lv. 4, 5 strength, had absolutely no difference in front of him.

After the update, the 11s ability values let Broly perfectly demonstrate what is called the "Left Fist high damage, Right Fist damage high" numerical crushing situation.

"No, what on earth is this monster, my Giant Flower!?"

Olivas was somewhat wanting to cry but having no tears, but now was not the time to care about this.

The attracted enemy was too strong, he had to flee, while the man-eating flowers still had some left.

The white-haired ghost moved quickly, finding his companion who had already protected the man-eating flower swarm in front of them amidst the chaos.

"Revis, didn't you say you left a back road? Now is the time to open our back road!"

The red-haired woman glanced at him, then directly detonated the Flame Stones she had pre-arranged earlier.

Rumbling explosion sounds rang out throughout the entire Food Storage; huge rubble began falling from overhead — she had actually blown up and collapsed this cavern.

"No, your trump card is for us to perish together with them?!"

The white-haired ghost froze.

"Idiot."

Revis only replied with this one sentence, then rushed toward the cavern depths.

And if there had been time, she actually wanted to recover the Magic Stone chunk inside this idiot white-haired ghost's body.

Devouring the other's Magic Stone, she herself should obtain enormous strengthening.

But unfortunately, the enemy who came this time was too terrifying.

Hmm, Revis also suddenly understood why the Fairy Spirit clone she had summoned in Rivira Town last time had fled immediately upon appearing.

"Wait for me..."

"Want to run?"

When she leaned back and jumped into the crevice she had ordered the man-eating flowers to dig out last night, letting herself fall into the Dungeon's deeper Labyrinth, Revis saw that bastard white-haired ghost, who had reacted and also wanted to follow her and escape, get chased down through the man-eating flower swarm by that little person race who was strong to the point of simply not being in the same league as them.

Before her vision was blocked by falling rocks, that bastard Olivas's legs were directly kicked and broken by that person.

The opponent grabbed Olivas by the hair, just like dragging a dead dog, his gaze looking over this way, making her feel heart-palpitating fear, as if he would chase over to her too, but fortunately, perhaps due to the influence of the entire Food Storage cavern collapsing, the opponent did not pursue toward this side.

"Bang~"

The blocking giant stone was kicked flying, Broly brought a group of people charging out of the continuously collapsing Food Storage, and after reaching the outside, he threw the wailing captive in his hand into the midst of everyone.

"Hmm, in order to capture this guy alive, I let the other person escape."

Broly scratched the back of his head somewhat embarrassedly; if he had directly captured the ringleader first, actually not a single person would have escaped, it was just that he subconsciously went to clear those man-eating flower small fry, preparing to leave the two obviously leading guys for last to deal with.

"Ah, you just killed that many man-eating flowers and can still directly capture a Beast Tamer weirdo, this is already extremely absurd okay."

Tiona loudly complained.

"Speaking of, why not kill him? Could it be you want to interrogate intelligence from his mouth?"

Werewolf Bert was somewhat confused by Broly's behavior of capturing the enemy alive.

"Hah, wanting to force intelligence from my mouth is an impossible thing, I absolutely won't..."

The legless Olivas had just prepared to say some tough words when Broly shook his head and answered the werewolf's question.

"Ah, it's not that I want to interrogate him, just that Miss Filvis's tragic encounter should all have been caused by this guy, so..."

Broly looked at Filvis, who had been staring at the white-haired ghost with a vicious gaze ever since coming out, and just as the White Shrine Maiden looked over in surprise at his words, he said to her: "Miss Filvis, this is your enemy, so I'll leave the disposal to you. Hope you can, through disposing of him, soon break free from the influence that the 27th Floor Nightmare event caused you."

Filvis's lips moved twice, and finally she bowed deeply to the Saiyan boy; she also hadn't expected the boy capturing the white-haired ghost alive was actually for her sake.

"No, what are you doing?"

Seeing Filvis not directly draw her sword and kill him, but instead disembowel him and reach in to pull out his Magic Stone, the originally tough white-haired ghost directly panicked.

Between being killed and being killed, there are also distinctions; a single sword beheading is the most painless way to be killed, but the current method of being pulled for the Magic Stone is undoubtedly the killing method of dull knife cutting flesh.

"Ah..."

The painful sensation of the root-like tendrils connecting the Magic Stone inside his body, like a plant, snapping one by one, directly caused Olivas's eyes to become bloodshot.

"This kind of torture..."

The white-haired ghost suddenly realized something.

"I understand, so it turns out..."

This person's words were not spoken; the Magic Stone in his chest was already entirely pulled out by the White Shrine Maiden.

【You are also a weirdo just like me...】

Olivas, whose Magic Stone had left his body and began gradually dissipating like a Dungeon monster that had died, saw the final words he wanted to say surface in his dying consciousness.

The white-haired ghost's dimming pupils reflected the White Shrine Maiden's twisted hateful expression, and unlike Olivas who could accept his weirdo identity and live at ease, Filvis had been suffering because of her identity as a weirdo.

But she could pull out the white-haired ghost's Magic Stone, yet could not pull out the Magic Stone inside her own body; suicide was not allowed for weirdos like her by that filthy existence that turned them into weirdos, the command implanted in consciousness, and the Main God's soothing after learning of her situation.

"Miss Filvis, are you alright?"

Watching the White Shrine Maiden standing silently in place gripping the blood-dripping Magic Stone, Lefiya forcibly endured the discomfort of seeing a humanoid creature killed, walked over, and spoke to Filvis.

"I'm fine, thank you, Lefiya."

The White Shrine Maiden turned her head, and toward the elven girl and those behind her, revealed a smile of heartfelt sincerity.

Regardless of what the future holds, at least she has now personally completed revenge against the enemy of this body of hers; she is grateful for Lefiya's concern, and thanks Broly for catching the enemy for her and being willing to hand him over for her to deal with.

"Investigation Mission — this should count as completed, right? We can go back and report now."

Broly nodded at the White Shrine Maiden who was casting a grateful gaze his way, as if signaling her not to mind it too much, then said to those around him.

"Investigation Mission, huh..."

Asfi somewhat wanted to retort — what kind of Investigation Mission is this? It's clearly an Extermination Mission — but in the end she said nothing.

After all, their Hermes Familia had been carried through to complete a handsomely rewarded commission without taking any damage, and even had the risk of being reported to the Guild by that Black Robe figure lifted.

Of course, on the road back, when Asfi learned the client's identity was the Guild Main God's private troops, she still directly cursed up a storm about "abuse of power" and such.

(Chapter End)