Chapter 758

"Don't worry, Miss Eina. Your safety — I'll take responsibility for protecting it."

No sooner had Broly finished speaking than it was as if to verify his words.

Behind him, an ambushing monster fish suddenly lunged out from the river.

Its massive maw, bristling with fangs, gaped wide, biting straight at his back.

"Broly……"

Eina's "Careful" from behind hadn't even left her lips when she saw the Saiyan boy's tail flick behind him, and the ambushing monster fish was sliced vertically into two halves.

Thud. The two halves fell to the ground on either side, their bodies turning to ash, beginning to dissipate.

"Miss Eina, is something the matter?"

Broly asked curiously, as if he'd done something trivial and irrelevant, while Bell and the others wore expressions of having seen it all before, walking over to where the ambushing monster fish had fallen and calmly, practicedly, picking up the dropped loot and magic stones on the ground.

Eina's lips moved, then she said in a small voice: "I just wanted to remind you to be careful, but it looks like that's unnecessary. The rumors about you outside really can't be trusted."

"What rumors?"

"They say you're only good at swordsmanship, caught Miss Ais's eye, clung to the Loki Familia's coattails, that sort of thing……"

In Orario, the rumors about Broly among adventurers, while not quite reaching the level of calling him a kept man, still contained no small amount of jealousy, envy, and hate from adventurers who completely didn't know his actual strength, feeling he merely relied on a swordsmanship that could gain the Sword Princess's acknowledgment to eat a nice bowl of "clinging-to-coattails rice."

That's right. Compared to believing this greenhorn really possessed high-level adventurer strength, most people thought he was just a lucky bastard with a bit of combat skill who got carried by the Loki Familia.

And this discrepancy in perception was, to some degree, related to the Loki Familia's side not widely publicizing his true strength because of the temporary skill "Invisible Wings."

Of course, even if someone occasionally spoke of it, without having seen the actual situation, most people only half-believed it.

Even that time Broly acted in the city to eliminate the man-eating flowers, adventurers who hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes attributed the vast majority of the credit to the Sword Princess and the others.

Coupled with the fact that he got abundant drops every time he went into the Dungeon, some even called him the lucky boy.

【But looking at it now, the rumors are false. This kid fundamentally isn't relying on luck — his own strength is genuinely hard enough.】

Eina thought, then reminded the Saiyan boy: "Broly, if your level has already risen, you need to go to the Guild to do a level update certification.

Otherwise, it might be treated as tax evasion. Once discovered and verified, your Familia would suffer a fairly severe fine punishment."

"Okay. If I've leveled up, I'll definitely go to the Guild to do the level update certification."

Broly didn't know why the half-elf lady suddenly said this, but he still nodded seriously in agreement.

Then he signaled to the Dungeon Advisor lady before him that she could proceed with the labyrinth environment ecology investigation she wanted to do.

Eina didn't waste words, starting directly with investigating the 25th floor's geographical environment, and afterward still needing to investigate the 25th floor's monster distribution situation.

"The Guild actually dispatches staff to do this kind of investigation quest?"

Ryu hadn't left; she followed behind, and upon seeing Eina making serious notes in her notebook, couldn't help but ask.

"No, the Guild doesn't require staff to do this. It's something I myself wanted to come investigate."

"Investigate what?"

"Whether the actual 25th floor labyrinth situation completely matches the Guild's internal paper records for this floor."

"Eh?"

"The Guild's records of labyrinth information basically come from the oral accounts of adventurers who've reached the current labyrinth. But if we Dungeon Advisors only go by such third-party descriptions to inform adventurers wanting to explore this floor of the safety precautions they need to heed, there's a possibility of errors and omissions……"

Eina explained while gathering the moss and soil on the ground, incidentally stepping on it with her foot to feel the degree of slipperiness, then recording in the notebook she'd brought those things not often paid attention to but genuinely useful, safety precautions that needed attention — when exploring the 25th floor labyrinth, wearing a pair of shoes that can prevent slipping on mossy ground is very necessary.

"Miss Eina is a serious, responsible Dungeon Advisor. Her doing this kind of investigation is entirely voluntary on her part; even the hiring fees are paid out of her own pocket, for the purpose of taking responsibility for the safety advice she gives to the adventurers she's responsible for as a Dungeon Advisor."

"Of course, if adventurers under someone else's charge come to consult her on Dungeon precautions, Miss Eina also won't be stingy about informing them of the specific intelligence."

"And it's all free, too."

"Aside from the fact that learning and memorizing these things makes the head feel comparatively painful, for adventurers it's simply content that must be remembered for the guarantee of their own safety……"

Bell and the others helped supplement Eina's situation from the side, making Ryu listen in a somewhat stunned, stunned way.

She'd seen bastard staff who secretly sold adventurers' private whereabouts to the Dark Faction for their own profit — even killed some with her own hands.

But staff who paid out of their own pockets to do information investigations for adventurers and update the Guild's existing intelligence — that was a role she'd never seen before.

This made Ryu's heart involuntarily produce some admiring feelings toward a person like Eina.

"Ryu, are you going to do escort duty for Miss Eina together with me? If so, I can split half the quest reward with you."

"Ah……"

Hearing this, Ryu belatedly realized and hurriedly indicated she was also going to kill monsters to earn money.

Time, in a turn, slipped away.

"Ryu, we're heading back. Are you done on your end?"

After Eina finished the 25th floor environment and monster type distribution investigation, Broly was also preparing to wrap up and return to the surface. He followed Ryu's battle traces to find her, and upon seeing the elf standing ahead in a pile of monster drops, he called out loudly, incidentally taking care of a metal blue crab that had just been newly spawned by the Dungeon.

"Going back already?"

Ryu was a bit puzzled; she felt not that much time had passed.

"Under full encumbrance, we can't take the gap shortcuts. If we don't head back now, we might have to sleep in the Dungeon tonight."

Broly explained a sentence.

Ryu suddenly understood, subconsciously looking at the spoils around her.

"Uh, okay. I'm already done."

Asfi hadn't deceived her — teaming up with Broly really could let her mooch good luck.

Normally when she grinded monsters alone, she definitely didn't have this high a drop rate.

"But, can this many drops really all be taken away?"

Ryu was a bit worried.

"No need to worry. Our backpacks are all enlarged versions."

Bell ran over carrying a big bag, and together with Kashima Sakura, packed the drops on the ground into it, just filling one large backpack to the brim.

And on the other three's backs were packed Ais's and Lefiya's plus Tiona's spoils. Tiona and Lefiya two people just right one backpack each, while Ais — the flying swallows she grinded were all moths-to-the-flame, suicide-collision monsters; lacking a monster-finding process, her harvest was actually more than the two of them combined.

On the way back, upon learning that Ais had the most loot, Liu kept glancing at Ais; the Sword Princess girl noticed and couldn't help but ask: "Do you have something you need?"

"Next time, Miss Ais, could you let me kill monsters alongside you?"

"Eh, Miss Liu, do you also want to practice Fast Sword and body techniques?"

"No, I just want to kill more monsters and earn a bit more money."

Ais looked thoughtful, while Tiona leaned in closer.

"If you really want to make money, you still have to go to the Death Colosseum on the 37th Floor; the monsters there are truly numerous, and their spawn rate is almost seamless."

"Ah, Miss Tiona, is what you're saying true?"

Hearing this, Liu's eyes lit up.

"Of course, Broly earned over 900 million Valis there in just one week, and that's even after splitting a portion of the profits with our Loki Familia Logistics Team."

"Then are we going there tomorrow?"

Liu felt her earnings today should break ten million Valis, but compared to Adi's massive resurrection costs which still had no visible cap, it was a drop in the bucket; thinking it over, she asked.

"We're not going; the 37th Floor Labyrinth is already the Deep Floors, just a round trip takes two days, if we go there to farm monsters we'd have to stay overnight in the Dungeon."

Broly answered Liu's question.

"Also, our Familia is about to start a United Expedition; going to the 37th Floor Deep Floors Labyrinth to train would easily leave us short on energy and weapon Durability insufficient."

Ais added a line as well.

"Based on these two reasons, we won't be going to the Death Colosseum in the 37th Floor Labyrinth recently; however, if we have time later, we can go together."

Broly noticed Liu's mood was a bit low, thinking she also wanted a hearty, unrestrained battle against unkillable monsters, so he changed the subject and said.

"Really?"

"Really."

Liu's mood lifted, which made Broly sigh inwardly: 【A hearty, unrestrained battle that doesn't require much thought truly is a rather attractive thing; hidden beneath Liu's frail exterior is actually the heart of a fervent berserker...】

Mm, although Broly misunderstood a bit, it's true that Liu longs to kill more monsters that provide loot and drops.

"Then, Broly, after you Level Up, remember to come to the Guild side early to update your Level information."

Before parting with Broly at the Babel Tower entrance, Eina still didn't forget to instruct the Saiyan boy once more.

"Broly, you're finally back~"

Just as he returned to Hearth Manor, Fels ran out to greet him, directly grabbing his hand with her claws and pulling him toward the Magic Laboratory.

"I used different kinds of animal bones to assemble a new set of animal remains, and also pieced together a complete set of remains using animals of the same species and similar build; now, try using your Resurrection Magic to resurrect the two sets of remains I assembled under different conditions~"

Fels raised her hand, pointing at the magic experiment table, where a Magic Circle reducing blue consumption had long been engraved.

"By the way, what about that broken bone regeneration magic you wanted to research?"

Broly asked, then downed a Magic Power Recovery Potion while casting Resurrection Magic on that pieced-together, but chicken-shaped, animal remains.

"Mm, making broken bones regenerate is a bit difficult."

"......, Dio Orpheus, so your attempt to research magic to regenerate broken bones failed?"

Broly finished chanting the Resurrection Magic spell, then followed up with the question.

"It's not exactly a failure; it's just that when regenerating broken bones, I can't quite control the shape of the regenerated bones."

Fels raised her hand and pointed at the pale-colored, extremely irregularly shaped object beside her, answering the Saiyan boy's question.

"So this tumbleweed thing is the broken bone you regenerated?"

"Yes, magic to regenerate broken bones is actually very similar to Healing Magic, but the manipulation of Magic Power is far more difficult than Healing Magic.

I spent most of today trying hard to control the Magic Power, but they still run wild inside the bones, thereby deforming originally normal bones; being able to make a piece of bone grow into a tumbleweed shape instead of a withered tree or coral shape is already the result of my efforts.

However, don't worry, what if the bone-patching plan succeeds?"

Fels pointed at the Chimera Chicken, mixed with features of seven or eight animals, that emerged after the Resurrection Magic light faded.

Only to see that chicken head look up and let out cock-a-doodle-doo cries, then pitch forward and fall on the magic experiment table, twisting its body in a bizarre posture.

And where the chicken butt should have been, a short cat tail was attached; two feet covered in different fur slid eerily at different frequencies on both sides......

How to put it, this is a creature whose different body parts are doing different things, yet this resurrected strange creature's life force is very stable.

"No matter how you look at it, this doesn't look like a normal life form."

"Alright, even if you grind all the bones into the shape of the same animal's skeleton, in the judgment of Resurrection Magic, they are still judged as their original Species."

Fels wasn't disappointed either, leaving her expectations for the next combination.

"Then, Broly, look at how my second combination turns out!"

Remains of a chicken pieced together from two chickens of the same species and similar build.

Broly downed a potion again, using Resurrection Magic.

And the chicken resurrected this time was much better, not appearing in a bizarre chimera form.

After resurrection, it was just a perfectly normal chicken.

Except its movements looked somewhat uncoordinated, as if two consciousnesses were fighting over one body.

"Mm, very good; using bones of different Species to repair missing remains — this path seems unworkable; while using bones of the same Species to repair Defective remains, there's also the problem of Composite consciousness."

After silently twisting the necks of the Chimera Chicken and the uncoordinated Resurrection Chicken, Fels began recording in her Magic Research Notes.

The page recording different Species bone repair was marked with a big X by her, while the page for same Species bone repair was written by Fels with 【Possibility of removing heterogenous bones' heretical consciousness resurrected together — Magic Research on partial consciousness erasure, Soul destruction】 and similar rather terrifying words.

"If bones of the same Species but different individuals don't work, then can special materials with high Magic Power conductivity be used as prosthetic bones to repair remains?"

Fels clearly has many ideas, but this research direction doesn't even need the names of materials to attempt making fillers for missing remains parts written down for one to vaguely smell the scent of money (Valis) burning.

(Chapter End)