Chapter 762: Impure Immortal Essence: Encountering the Saiyan Monster Once Again, I

In the evening, in front of the garrisoned camp, Finn stood on a temporarily erected wooden platform and announced the personnel who would serve as the vanguard to delve deep into the Dungeon Labyrinth tomorrow.

Among them were the members of the Loki Familia's First Party led by him, followed immediately by Broly, this powerful external combat power, and Chun Cobrand, who serves as a smith but has reached Level 5.

"Captain, do we not need to go?"

Raul raised his hand and inquired.

"Starting from the 52nd Floor Labyrinth, cross-floor strikes will appear. Although we didn't encounter them last time, that doesn't mean we won't this time.

With the Second Party's strength, it is insufficient to respond to those. I need you to stand by on the 50th Floor, ready to provide support at any moment."

Finn replied.

In the floors beyond the 50th Floor, those with insufficient strength will only become a burden.

Of course, if it weren't for the Personal Space appearing, he would probably have let Raul, who is Level 5, follow down as a supporter.

However, with the Personal Space, it is another matter entirely. The smith who repairs weapons is the only one who must be brought along.

"Does anyone else have any questions?"

Finn asked the crowd if they had any other thoughts, and the Sword Princess girl raised her hand.

"Ais, do you have a question?"

He looked over and asked.

"Lefiya, are you also going down with us tomorrow?"

"Mm."

"But she's only Level 3, isn't that a bit too dangerous?"

"Although Lefiya is Level 3, her Magic Attack Power is at the Level 5 tier……"

Finn first explained the reason for bringing Lefiya, but then nodded, affirming Ais's concern for the elf girl's personal safety.

"However, what you say also makes sense. The vanguard will indeed bear more risk. Lefiya, what are your own thoughts?"

Finn threw the choice to the elf girl.

"Lefiya, no need for any reservations. Even if you don't want to take the risk, that's fine. With Broly joining, the vanguard's strength is sufficient."

Riveria also looked at the elf girl beside her and said this one sentence to her.

"I have already become able to proficiently use Parallel Chanting. I can be of help. I want to go along and do my part."

Lefiya declared her stance.

Seeing this, Ais didn't say anything further.

"Then, that's how it is."

Finn announced the meeting's adjournment.

The Joint Expeditionary Force personnel: those who should repair equipment repair equipment, those who should stand guard stand guard.

As for what the vanguard main force needs to do tomorrow, it is to properly rest and adjust their condition to its peak.

However, after the meeting adjourned, Lefiya ran alone to the edge of the camp.

Sitting on a large stone, she just spaced out.

"Lefiya……"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind. The elf girl hurriedly stood up.

"Lady Riveria, why have you come?"

The one who came was precisely the Nine Magic Princesses.

"I saw you seemed a bit unhappy, so I came to take a look."

Riveria explained her reason for coming.

"How come? Is something troubling you?"

The elder elf sat down beside the young elf girl and asked directly.

"No……"

Lefiya first denied it, but soon couldn't help but blurt it out.

"It's just that Miss Ais, even now, still treats me as a junior who needs extra looking after."

When saying this, the elf girl's tone carried some resentment.

"So, you feel that you have already reached the point where you don't need extra looking after?"

"I……"

Lefiya wanted to say she had grown stronger, that she no longer needed extra looking after now, but those words simply wouldn't come out.

"Do you feel that you've grown, become powerful, but still can't keep up with Ais's and our footsteps?"

"Ah, Lady Riveria, do you know Mind Reading Jutsu?"

"This isn't Mind Reading. It's that you've written all your thoughts on that small face of yours."

"Is it that obvious?"

Lefiya subconsciously touched her own face.

"Of course."

Riveria nodded, then asked again.

"However, you should have other troubles, right?"

Seeing Riveria read her like a book, Lefiya hesitated a moment, then told the other troubling matter.

"Lady Riveria, you said Mr. Broly has already expressed his intention to pursue multiple women. Yet Miss Ais, after learning of this kind of thing, why does she not care at all — even looking willing to accept that shameless behavior of his?"

"You're worried just because of this?"

"Lady Riveria, Miss Ais is a senior I deeply respect. It is precisely because of her that I chose to join the Loki Familia."

The Nine Magic Princesses' "just that" demeanor made the elf girl a bit angry.

"What about Broly?"

"Uh, regarding Mr. Broly, before this I also respected him quite a bit, until he told us he wanted to start a harem."

"So, what is your impression of him now?"

"A guy with ulterior motives who approached us with impure intentions."

Listening to Lefiya's somewhat indignant evaluation, Riveria nodded.

"As an elf, it's not that I can't understand your rejection of someone who wants a harem, but what I want to say is, Ais and we are different."

"Where is the difference?"

"Ais bears hatred; her reason for wanting to become strong is for revenge, while Broly possesses the ability to let her continuously grow stronger."

The Nine Magic Princesses' words caused the Thousand Elf's breathing to hitch.

"So, Lefiya, you don't need to be so conflicted about this kind of thing. You dislike people who want harems, then just directly refuse.

Broly already told us before this that he wouldn't force anyone, whether it's you or Ais."

Riveria patted the elf girl's shoulder. The reason she came to say this was to apologize for the situation of sending her to stay at Hearth Manor without first understanding Lefiya's true thoughts, and also to let her not have any psychological burden.

"Then, you think it over properly. I'll head back first."

Riveria stood up and left, leaving the elf girl alone on the rock to think.

But before Lefiya could figure it out, an explosion occurred in the camp.

"Enemy attack!"

Someone shouted, and the Joint Expeditionary Force instantly went on alert.

Finn arrived at the blown-apart tent, his brow furrowing deeply at once.

Because this wasn't a monster's attack, but a Flame Stone explosion.

"Is anyone injured?"

"No, close call. The members staying in these few tents just happened to be the ones on watch duty tonight, so..."

Raul explained, looking like they had luckily escaped disaster.

"Finn, how do you see it?"

Riveria also walked over.

"Has the attacker been discovered?"

Finn asked.

"No. It's possible the attacker took advantage of our meeting to sneak in and set up the Flame Stones, or perhaps..."

Gareth didn't continue, but Finn understood the implication behind it — or perhaps it was the handiwork of a member from within the Joint Expeditionary Force itself.

As for the reason, a Dark Faction spy or something, that's possible. The biggest suspect is the smiths from the Hephaestus Familia side.

However, Finn didn't actively speculate in that direction, because baseless random speculation would only create a panic.

"Captain Finn, how is it?"

Broly, Ais, and the others walked over, asking about the situation here.

"Man-made, but the attacker is unknown. Could be Dark Faction people, or those weirdos you encountered before."

A sudden attack put the Joint Expeditionary Force on heightened alert for the night, but by the next day, no new attack incidents had occurred.

"What are you doing?"

"I am carrying out Lord Enio's orders."

"Heh, carrying out orders, this is how you carry them out? Setting a half-baked trap, not even blowing up a single person — it's like you did it on purpose, like you were stirring the grass to startle the snake?"

Facing the questioning of the black-robed masked person opposite, the figure dressed in the same black-robed masked style merely responded with silence.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. It's just that you were coaxed by some guys' sweet talk into developing pointless feelings.

And those feelings are nothing but an illusion woven from lies, deceiving others, and deceiving yourself.

Ah, my cunning other face, recognize the so-called reality. We are merely aberrations hiding in the crowd, relying on the Divine Garment bestowed by Lord Enio to conceal the abnormal parts of our bodies. However, our essence is unchanging — a monster is a monster."

"Shut up!"

"No matter how much you deny it, that is also fact."

"I told you to shut up."

The short staff pointed at the black-robed masked person opposite. The Wine God's Staff's thunder blasted straight over. The opposite person's mask was shattered, revealing the appearance of the White Shrine Maiden Filvis. However, unlike a normal White Shrine Maiden, the other's face was full of sneers and mockery.

And at the injured spot, tiny vines spread out, filling and repairing the damaged part at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Heh, take a good look at our own selves. Do you think if Lefiya and the others saw you like this, they would still treat you as a normal person, as a companion who adventures in the Dungeon together?"

"Don't say anymore..."

The one who launched the magic attack instead collapsed to the ground herself. Ye En did not pursue the attack further.

"This matter, I will truthfully report to Lord Enio. You think carefully yourself about how to explain to that Lord."

The White Shrine Maiden with a somewhat sinister temperament finished speaking, and her figure vanished into the shadows.

The next day, because of last night's Flame Stone explosion incident, Finn had everyone heighten their vigilance, then led the team toward the deeper floors of the Dungeon Labyrinth.

"Spring Breeze Green Gauze!"

Before departure, Riveria cast protective magic on everyone, but she instructed them not to trust her protective magic too much — attacks that should be dodged still needed to be dodged.

Everyone set out. The 51st Floor Labyrinth, under the condition of just pushing forward, was quickly mapped out. And just before entering the 52nd Floor Labyrinth, Finn gave a reminder: "After entering the 52nd Floor Labyrinth, watch out for cross-floor attacks. Everyone pay attention."

And this place, it was Broly's second time coming. Last time he came, he used gravity magic to pulverize an entire floor behind.

Broly looked at the flame pillars rising from the ground and knew that the floor he had pulverized should have already been repaired by the Dungeon by now.

"The bombardment seems a bit excessive."

Running through two floors under bombardment, the floor ahead was already riddled with molten fire pits.

"If this keeps up, we might not even have a path behind us."

Gareth said, and as Finn pondered, he heard Broly say: "I have an idea."

"What idea?"

"I'll go down first and take care of those fire-spraying big lizards."

Before activating the Super Heavy Weight Training, these bombardment attacks couldn't even get near Broly's body; they would be isolated by the twisted force field or Qi around him.

But after activating the Super Heavy Weight Training, although these bombardment attacks still posed no threat to Broly, he also couldn't prevent the situation where these attacks might injure the people around him.

So, rather than passively dodging, better to actively sortie; Finn and the others only saw the Saiyan boy finish speaking and directly jump down toward the nearest pit.

"I'll go down and help too."

Ais didn't hesitate, directly following and jumping down.

"Me too."

Tiona also followed close behind.

These two, somewhat had the meaning of husband singing, wife following.

"Seems a bit high."

Chun originally also wanted to follow, but looking at the distance below, still stopped her steps at the edge.

"The rest of you don't jump; while Broly and Ais and them draw fire for us, we'll just take the stairs down."

Finn stopped the people who still wanted to jump down; after all, there were still Mages and Smiths here whose physical quality wasn't very powerful.

The warriors all ran down to draw fire, so what about this side? Don't forget there are still hidden enemies.

Finn considered things very thoroughly, however, his worry was actually surplus.

"Snipe the Loki Familia's Expedition Force?

Haha, although I don't mind you guys using me to do some things, I also have no intention of lightly staking my own life for your matters.

That girl of Aria's goes without saying; that's also not something I can easily take down. And that guy called Broly, his strength is even more like a monster. Me going to snipe a team with him in it, what's the difference between that and a moth flying into the flame, courting death?"

Ye En sought out the female monster Revis who had fled the 24th floor Labyrinth before, wanting the other party to join hands with her and ambush the Expedition Force's vanguard, but was directly refused by the female monster.

Gnawing on Magic Stones, she might not be human, but damn it she's also not a brainless Monster; really going would simply be like decisively handing over a free kill.

"Aren't those people still going to the Deeper Floor Labyrinth? Anyway, the Fetus Jewel further down has already matured fully; just let them deal with it?"

Revis buried her head eating Magic Stones, not wanting to feed kills at all.

Regarding this, Ye En was also somewhat helpless.

Her own side's people: one is another self with thoughts of going easy, the other is a fellow monster loafing on the edge.

For the current plan, it seems she can only send the 59th floor Corrupted Fairy Spirit Clone to C.

"Ais, Broly, Tiona, we're here!"

People not yet arrived, voice arrived first; Finn and the others ran out of the 58th floor Exit.

"Yo, waited for you a while."

Tiona stood on the slope, waving to the crowd running over.

"The Monsters here?"

Tione asked.

"As you see, all were wrapped up by Broly and Ais, the two of them."

Tiona shrugged her shoulders, and spoke of the situation after Ais and Broly, the two of them, directly jumped down while others were normally running the map down.

"Those two were simply like tigers entering a flock of sheep, directly killing that group of high-level Dragon-type Monsters like chickens; you guys dare believe it? I who followed only snatched five Dragons; the rest were all wiped out by them......"

The crowd walked to Tiona's side; only after arriving at the slope did they see the 58th floor Dragon's Pot Heath, covered in drops and Magic Stones.

And Broly and Ais were still in the Distance chasing and killing what should be the last few, still flying in the sky, Flying Dragons.

"What's that?"

Lefiya took a glance and directly pointed at the Heath, a very eye-catching huge Gully.

"That's a red big guy that suddenly appeared, launched a bombardment and caused it."

Five to six meters wide, nearly a hundred meters long huge Gully; even if not a Floor Lord, it was also a very powerful Strengthened Species elite Monster.

However, that kind of elite Monster had a huge body, dodging capability simply didn't work; after appearing, it only output one ineffective attack, then was mixed-doubles slashed by Broly and Ais, slashed into fragments and ashes.

"Wuu~"

With a few Flying Dragons wailing as they were slashed from the sky down to the ground, the 58th floor Labyrinth Dragon's Pot counts as cleared without loss.

Broly and Ais got MVP, Tiona got some assists, everyone else completely free-rode.

"People rest a bit, weapons repair a bit, others swap out non-durable Element Equipment, then we'll prepare to enter the 59th floor."

59th floor Labyrinth, where the Corrupted Fairy Spirit is; Ye En arrived a step ahead here. Upon hearing Aria was about to be lured over walking into a trap, this Corpse King Flower-hatched Corrupted Fairy Spirit Clone was smiling, directly praising Collaborator Enio as a god who does real work.

However, upon seeing a familiar face she had seen before when she herself was an immature body among the crowd coming down, this Corrupted Fairy Spirit Clone lady birthed by a parasitic plant-type Monster, her originally green face instantly turned even greener.

She clearly still remembered Broly, remembered this polite one who introduced identity before her, comforted her not to be afraid, collapsed the entire 58th floor Labyrinth, crushed the Dungeon-birthed Monster specialized for destroying Invaders, 【Zagnat】, like crushing a stinkbug, the Saiyan Monster.

【I, can I still survive?】

(Chapter End)