Chapter 763: Ultra-Long Incantation Magic Opener, Can We Reconcile?

"Haha, this time all the equipment we're carrying has the indestructible property, so our weapons won't be so easily corroded by you lot anymore. Die, new species monsters, as revenge for my trusty two-headed greatsword Urga Generation I!"

Upon entering the 59th Floor, monsters resembling enlarged Cauliflower Worms swarmed them. The situation from their previous visit here, where they were forced to retreat because their weapons were corroded by these new species monsters' body fluids, no longer occurred. The indestructible property equipment Finn had spent a huge cost to forge demonstrated its effect at this moment.

Tiona charged at the front, taking revenge on these Cauliflower Worm-like monsters for the 80 million Valis weapon she had previously lost here.

"And my Throwing Flying Knives!"

Her older sister Tione was in much the same situation. The direct economic loss from equipment damage this pair of Amazoness Sisters suffered on this floor previously exceeded 150 million.

"Be careful. This floor differs from the Cold Ice Domain in the intel, and we didn't explore deeply last time either. There might be unknown dangers hidden here."

Finn had to warn the two Amazoness girls at the front, while the Earth Fairy Spirit hiding in the Great Forest, manipulating subordinate monsters to attack intruders, was indeed nurturing danger.

Although she didn't know why, that Saiyan monster she'd seen among that group before didn't give her that unmatched sense of terror he had when they last met.

When facing the monsters she dispatched to attack, that guy actually still needed to personally move to cut them down.

Despite still appearing powerful, he was absolutely not an existence she couldn't withstand. The Earth Fairy Spirit merely pondered for a bit, and the thought of wanting to devour that girl (Ais) in the party surpassed the thought of not wanting to fight that monster (Broly).

【As long as I kill the other party, I can obtain Ailya...】

The moment this thought arose, the fully-formed Earth Fairy Spirit began preparing.

"Roar, earth. Come, come, come, earth's carapace, black iron's flash, stars' heavenly punishment, reverse through the Contract of Creation.

Burn the sky, shatter the earth, build a bridge, become heaven and earth. The sky's axe falls like violent rain — this is the calamity of destruction. I order in the name of the Proxy.

The name bestowed upon me is 【Earth Fairy Spirit】, avatar of the earth, queen of the earth, stars fall!"

Right from the start, a surprise attack of ultra-long-range, ultra-long-incantation Magic.

However, although it was a surprise attack, midway through the chanting of this ultra-long-incantation Magic.

That excessively intense Magic Power Fluctuation was also sensed by Riveria.

"Something's coming!"

The Nine Magic Princesses alertly looked toward the distant forest, while Finn quickly scrambled up a nearby Big Tree.

"That is..."

Looking past the dense monster horde, Finn, having gained a high vantage point from atop the tree, instantly spotted the massive Earth Fairy Spirit in the distance, and the Magic Circle patterns being constructed with Magic Power around her.

"It's a long-range Magic attack!"

The Pallum hero recognized it and shouted a warning.

"Riveria, quickly deploy a Magic Protective Barrier."

"No good. This Magic Power Fluctuation should be an ultra-long incantation. Trying to prepare a corresponding Protective Barrier now is a bit too late."

"Since that's the case, everyone, let's retreat in order, pull back distance, evade the attack."

By the time the final spell 【Stars Fall】 was chanted by the Earth Fairy Spirit, the entire vanguard party was already falling back, distancing themselves from their original position.

When a massive meteor shower fell from the sky, like air-to-ground Missiles conducting saturation fire coverage on this area, the entire party had already retreated to the edge zone.

Although they still couldn't avoid being caught in the wide-area AoE Magic's fringe, they avoided the core bombardment zone. The original location turned into a piece of scorched earth.

Large numbers of the new species monsters and Man-Eating Flowers that had just been sniping the vanguard party were eliminated. Ye En stared blankly, and couldn't help asking the Earth Fairy Spirit beside her.

"What are you doing?"

The opponent retreated in time, showing almost no damage, while her own side's leading Boss instead struck down a bunch of her own small fry. She truly couldn't understand what kind of play this was.

To this, the Earth Fairy Spirit had no intention of explaining, merely absorbing the Magic Power from the small fry's bodies around her, replenishing her consumed Magic Power while continuing to chant a new spell.

Only this time she switched to a short incantation chant: "Fly, spear of roaring thunder. As Proxy, my name is 【Thunder Fairy Spirit】, avatar of lightning, queen of lightning, lightning arrows!"

Arrows composed of lightning whistled toward the vanguard party's halted position. Attack speed was incomparably swift, but a petite figure blocked in front of everyone else.

The Short Sword in the Saiyan boy's hand emitted a dazzling red light, like a flower of flame blooming in place, blocking every last lightning arrow.

"Broly, well done!"

The lightning power dispersing from the deflected lightning arrows spread faint electric arcs across the ground. Everyone's body hair stood on end. One could imagine the power of these lightning-composed arrows. If they hadn't been intercepted and instead struck everyone, the damage would be unimaginable. The Nine Magic Princesses couldn't help but cheer for the Saiyan boy who intercepted the Magic attack in the nick of time.

"Is that the guy who attacked us?"

Trees toppled. Looking from afar at the increased distance, everyone could also see the instigator who launched the Magic attack.

"Earth Fairy Spirit. Looks like a strengthened species too. New species monsters really are behind her after all."

"Finn, attack or retreat?"

Gareth asked, but the distant Earth Fairy Spirit launched yet another Magic.

Large numbers of rock pillars rose from the ground, completely sealing off the path the vanguard party came from, the passage to exit the 59th Floor.

"Looks like the opponent doesn't intend to let us have any possibility of escaping from here."

With their retreat cut off, Finn raised his Long Spear, aiming at the distant Earth Fairy Spirit.

"Then the only choice left to us is to subjugate the opponent."

Though he said that, actually fighting would be very difficult. Because of the butterfly effect Broly caused, the 59th Floor Earth Fairy Spirit clone that grew into a complete form earlier than in the original story chose a different combat strategy against Finn and the others than in the original.

In the original, she only started fighting after closing in. But now, the Earth Fairy Spirit didn't dare let Broly get anywhere near her at all, directly adopting the combat style of a long-range Magic artillery turret, chanting attack Magic of various Elements and smashing them down on the vanguard party in overwhelming numbers.

Finn and the others were stunned by the bombardment. Because the Earth Fairy Spirit's Magic was simply as if it didn't consume Magic Power and had no cooldown.

"Ah, is this really the same type of monster as that Earth Fairy Spirit clone we encountered on the 18th Floor before?"

Lefiya couldn't help questioning. The Earth Fairy Spirit clone individual they encountered before and the one now — the difference in strength was simply heaven and earth.

The previous one appeared and ran away. But this one, using nothing but continuous Magic attacks, could blast them to the point where even with a Magic Barrier up to block, they could barely hold on.

"Continuing to defend will only get us whittled down bit by bit. We have to charge over and kill the main body that keeps releasing Magic!"

Riveria, feeling her own Magic Power being rapidly consumed from maintaining the Protective Barrier, said to Finn without turning her head.

"Broly, the Red Mist Crystal Sword in your hand is the only weapon on our side that can break Magic of various Elements. I need you to serve as vanguard and make a frontal charge."

"No problem."

"Bert, Ais. You two are fast enough. Charge from the flanks to relieve pressure on Broly's frontal charge."

"Received."

"Hmm."

"Everyone else, stay behind the protective barrier Riveria is maintaining and advance toward the enemy's direction."

"Understood."

The Pallum hero gave the command directly, and the charge team, which had been passively defending and waiting for the enemy's magic power to run dry before counterattacking, actively launched an offensive into the magical attacks coming from that side.

What greeted them were new species monsters coming to block their steps, and magical output that became more precise and more powerful the closer they got.

As an object of wariness, Broly was treated as a priority target by the Corrupted Fairy Spirit; nearly half of all the magic was thrown at his head.

The Fire Joy Sword's anti-magic sword blossoms bloomed time after time, slicing apart the magic attacking him, but the chain phenomena caused by the magic itself could not be stopped.

For example, with fire magic, the magic flames themselves could be sliced apart, but the rise in temperature caused by the flames, and the phenomenon of oxygen being rapidly consumed, could not be eliminated.

However, these were only minor problems for Broly; the Ki wrapping around his surroundings — not a large amount — was protecting him, and before the Ki was consumed clean, a mere perceived temperature rise of several hundred degrees and an oxygen-deficient environment were not enough to make him lose combat ability.

The Saiyan boy was like an arrow, plunging straight through the herd of new species monsters blocking his path, racing toward the direction where the Corrupted Fairy Spirit was.

"Ah, a monster after all!"

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit's expression turned somewhat ugly.

"Hey, aren't you going to help!?"

She looked at the black-robed masked person beside her.

Ye En didn't waste words; she drew the long sword at her waist and, stepping on the bodies of new species monsters, went to meet the Saiyan racing toward her.

*Clang—*

The collision of long sword and short sword let out a piercing sound of metal striking metal.

Broly, Level 1 but with S-rank stats, had his charging steps actually blocked.

"No wonder..."

Ye En, spinning in mid-air to unload the force and landing on the head of a new species monster shaped like a cauliflower worm, felt the trembling of her sword-holding right arm and suddenly understood why Revis had refused to come; because even with Level 7 strength, despite not being a dedicated frontline warrior class, she had not gained the slightest advantage in the exchange just now.

"An even stronger怪人."

Pulling his deeply sunken legs from the ground, Broly also looked warily at the guy who had stopped him; the man's strength was a bit above his own current super-weighted training state, but not by a huge margin — at the very least, his base ability values should be above Finn and the others.

Only pausing for a moment, the two began exchanging blows rapidly amid the new species monster herd, and those cauliflower-worm-shaped new species monsters posed no great threat to Broly; their only function was to serve as stage props, used by Ye En as cover to block the Saiyan boy's line of sight.

Another cauliflower-worm-shaped new species monster had its head severed and turned to ash, dissipating, but the black-robed masked person hiding behind it lost all trace.

A sound of wind came from above his head; Broly took a stepping retreat backward, and the next instant the black-robed masked person descended from above in a two-handed sword-grip diving thrust pose, failing to hit the preemptively dodging Broly, but the diving thrust's high damage directly eliminated an unlucky new species monster beneath.

A classic case of immortals fighting while mortal monsters die from a mere brush; and this evenly matched situation was actually only temporary — Ye En clearly knew this was merely because she held the advantage of knowing Broly's swordsmanship (intelligence), and she could already feel the Saiyan boy gradually grasping the rhythm of this battle; her own defeat was only a matter of time...

And just when Ye En formed the thought of withdrawing.

*Crack—* the ground on this side suddenly split open.

"Great Earth Collapse!"

Ye En hurriedly looked back, only to discover her teammate the Corrupted Fairy Spirit had just finished chanting a super-long-incantation magic.

And this magic caused the ground-splitting phenomenon, but the target included her as well.

"Broly!"

Just as the temperature rise caused by fire magic cannot be eliminated by the Fire Joy Sword.

Likewise, the phenomenon of the Labyrinth ground cracking open and ceiling rocks falling down caused by earth magic also cannot be eliminated.

Amid the cries of alarm from Finn and the others in the rear, Broly fell together with the怪人's existence and a whole herd of new species monsters into the cracked ground, and then was pursued and buried by the floor rocks falling from the cracked ceiling above.

The rumbling sound was like a bolt from the blue on flat ground; the ground underfoot was trembling, just like an earthquake had occurred.

"Ha, hahaha, the biggest threat has been eliminated; next, it's your turn..."

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit laughed triumphantly; although because of the focused attention on Broly just now the others had broken through to her front, she did not put them in her eyes at all.

"Advance, flames, burn burn burn, flame tornado, crimson barrier, hellfire roar, borrow the gale's power to seal the world..."

"Stop her chanting quickly."

"Pierce through, arrow of certain hit!"

Lefiya did not hesitate, using Spirit Bow Light Arrow.

The magic-formed arrow of light shot toward the Corrupted Fairy Spirit's direction.

However, the Corrupted Fairy Spirit merely closed the petals around her body and easily defended against this strike.

"How can this be, my magic arrow has no effect?"

"High magic resistance?"

"Ais, Bert, get back here!"

Seeing they could not stop the Corrupted Fairy Spirit's long-incantation chanting, Finn hurriedly recalled Ais and Bert who were roaming outside.

Given that Corrupted Fairy Spirit's style, she completely would not care about the life or death of the monsters and怪人 she manipulated, and would attack including her own people.

And the opponent's magic power was undeniable; being hit might mean casualties and deaths; Broly was smashed into the ground, life or death unknown; now the only thing they could rely on was Riveria's protective barrier.

"Ignite the sky, ignite the earth, ignite the ocean; this is the salute of anger and sighs, this is the life price of the hero I love; in the name of the Proxy I order: I am granted the name 【Fire Fairy Spirit】, avatar of flame, queen of flame, Scorching Storm!"

The purple flame stream of the super-long-incantation 【Scorching Storm】 gushed out from within the magic circle patterns; the surrounding forest turned to ash in a single instant, and cracks appeared one after another on the protective magic barrier Riveria was maintaining.

"Gareth, protect the others well!"

The Nine Magic Princesses could barely hold on.

And at this moment she finally knew the power of the magic attacks Broly had faced just now.

"Hide behind me!"

Gareth rushed forward, raised his shield before Riveria, and roared.

The others obeyed one after another, either crouching or lying prone on the ground.

As the protective magic barrier shattered, scorching flames blasted onto the shield.

Sizzling sounds rang out; after the flames dispersed, Gareth also fell.

And the arm he braced against the shield was practically fused to it, as if it had been roasted cooked.

"Gareth..."

"I'm not dead yet, don't worry about me, seize the opportunity, go!"

The close-range release of the flame storm also solved the new species monsters guarding around the Corrupted Fairy Spirit; this is a good opportunity to solve the opponent.

Finn didn't waste words, led the team and charged up, and before the Corrupted Fairy Spirit could prepare to release a second short incantation thunder magic, he threw the long spear.

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit's surrounding petals couldn't close in time, the long spear directly pierced her body, and a violent explosion occurred.

Half her body was blown to pieces, the magic she tried to release was finally interrupted, but extremely strong regenerative ability let her injuries recover.

"Don't give her a chance to recover!"

A group of people charged up, but the next moment, thick vines rising from the ground struck everyone flying.

That's right, this Corrupted Fairy Spirit is not only a magic cannon, but also a melee creature.

The massive body isn't for show; as her host body, the Corpse King Flower itself has very high resilience.

Even without using any magic, she's a genuine Lv. 7 monster, and one with intelligence at that.

Toward the people blown away by her vine sneak attack, the Corrupted Fairy Spirit didn't recklessly pursue, but instead took a defensive stance.

Mobilizing new small fry from the rear to guard herself, she also began replenishing the massive magic power she had just consumed.

This Corrupted Fairy Spirit is cautious to the point of not giving Finn and the others any possible chance to counter-kill her.

"Fly, Spear of Roaring Thunder..."

Close-quarters grappling?

Doesn't exist.

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit chanted thunder magic again.

Even if the people who climbed up again struggled to resist, they were still struck down by thunder arrows.

"Ais, after a long time, we've finally reunited~"

Vines coiled around Ais, the Corrupted Fairy Spirit's gaze toward the girl showed a gentle color.

"Wait a bit, I'll eat you, and make you one with me."

The gentle gaze quickly turned greedy, the instinctual desire to devour dominated her consciousness.

"But before that, let's try increasing the number of high-quality monster people..."

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit looked at the others on the ground, and used vines to stab to death several maneaters nearby.

Taking out magic stones emitting faint yellow light from inside them, she prepared to implant them into Finn and the others' bodies.

However, just as the magic-stone-wrapped vines approached, a streak of fierce fire destroyed the approaching vines along with the magic stones.

"You still have the capacity to keep fighting?

Huh, potions and a magic sword, where did you pull those from?"

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit was somewhat confused, looking at the half-dwarf who stood up again.

"Why don't you guess?"

The busty artisan replied with one sentence, threw away the broken flame magic sword in her hand, and took out a new magic sword from the Crystal Palace Space.

"Miss Chun..."

Lefiya wanted to get up to help, but magic overuse had exhausted her mental power, and the magic power recovery potions she carried on her person had long since been drunk up.

"Let go of Ais!"

Tiona, on the other hand, after drinking a panacea and physical recovery potion taken from the Crystal Palace Space, recovered some combat strength.

"Merely the end of a strong captive, why engage in futile struggle, just obediently let me modify you into monster people, gaining the possibility to survive, isn't that good?"

"Surviving is good of course, but will you let Ais go?"

Tiona refuted the Corrupted Fairy Spirit with a question.

"Ais must be eaten, she can become a part of me, no need to modify her into a monster person."

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit spoke the truth.

"That settles it, Ais is my companion, I won't watch her be eaten by you."

Tiona said seriously.

"Is that so, pity you're powerless to stop me from doing so."

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit controlled new species monsters over; modifying monster people only needs to guarantee the modified person's body is intact enough, and doesn't need to guarantee they're alive.

Of course, if modified while alive, there's a higher probability of retaining self-awareness, rather than becoming muddleheaded.

"Ais, do you still remember the time you caused a huge ruckus at Twilight Manor?"

Tiona took a deep breath, and loudly asked the controlled Ais.

"Mm."

The vine-controlled Ais realized her meaning, and nodded.

"In a bit, Miss Chun and I will take the others and run far, you just use that."

Tiona lifted her face.

"I promise you, I'll definitely hide, hide well."

"What are you saying, do you still have a trump card?"

Chun was somewhat confused, and couldn't help asking.

"There is a trump card, but it's comparatively dangerous, the others have to escape far away for it to work."

Finn and the others barely stood up, none of them intending to save Ais, and together retreated backward.

The Corrupted Fairy Spirit didn't understand the situation, but also couldn't just watch this group leave, so she controlled her subordinate monsters to pursue.

"Poor Ais, looks like you've been abandoned by your companions, but I'll accept you."

Vines bound Ais and brought her over, and the Filthy Fairy Spirit looked at the Sword Princess girl with a gaze of pity.

"You are those Fairy Spirits who were devoured by the Dungeon in the distant past, right? Please rest assured, I will help you be freed later."

Ais looked at her, her eyes likewise holding pity.

"Hm?"

And just as the Filthy Fairy Spirit was bewildered by the girl's reaction, Ais closed her eyes and began to imagine things that would make her feel anger, preparing to stimulate the 【Anger】 Skill.

"Bang—"

In the area of the 【Great Earth Fall】 Magic just now, a rock pressing on top suddenly shattered, and immediately a figure covered in blood stood up.

"Damn that hurts, you bastard did a real number on me, yet aside from Giant Goliath, you're the second monster to make me eat defeat."

Filthy Fairy Spirit: "?!"

This Saiyan monster wasn't smashed to death?!

More importantly, the other party was not far from herself, while the subordinate monsters around her had been ordered by her to pursue the fleeing group.

"Fly..."

She wanted to chant a short Spell Magic, but before she could finish chanting, the blood-covered Saiyan had already arrived before her.

The main body vines swung out, but were directly severed by the Saiyan boy's Short Sword, and Broly just like that jumped onto the Filthy Fairy Spirit, facing her face to face.

"We, can we reconcile?"

The Filthy Fairy Spirit swallowed her saliva, her voice trembling as she subconsciously asked.

"This way of speaking, come to think of it, you're that little guy who was afraid of me that I ran into on this floor last time, right?"

Broly rubbed his temples, retorting with a sentence.

"Mhm."

The Filthy Fairy Spirit nodded repeatedly, hoping to be let off again; although this wasn't her Main Body, each split body also had a survival consciousness.

"Last time, I saw you could speak and had wisdom, so I didn't make a move on you; this time, I came again, and you not only didn't welcome me, but used Magic to wildly bombard me — is this your thanks for my previous friendliness?"

Filthy Fairy Spirit: "..."

"However, don't worry, I'll only strike one sword; if you can survive, letting you off once more doesn't matter."

The situation was stronger than the person; the Filthy Fairy Spirit put down the Sword Princess girl, obediently stood before Broly, and waited for the other party's move.

"Ais, are you okay?"

"Mhm, rather it's you, nothing serious, right?"

Due to the Wings Skill's effect persisting, when Broly was smashed into the ground, Ais didn't think the boy had died, and his return wasn't unexpected either; she was just somewhat worried about the injuries on the boy's body now.

"When I was smashed into the ground, I used Qi to wrap my body and enhanced my Defense Power; although some bones were still smashed broken, it's fine — by the time I crawled out from underground, I had already healed myself; now it just looks comparatively miserable on the outside."

"Alright, caring about my injuries we can talk about later; now, I want to teach you a new Swordsmanship Secret Art."

"What Swordsmanship Secret Art?"

"This is a Secret Art I learned from a Treasure Sword that can Manipulate Gravity; although not very practical, most of the time it can't hit people, but when facing enemies that are unavoidable and have comparatively astonishing recovery power, it can achieve a comparatively powerful killing effect."

Broly raised his sword, and before Ais, facing the Filthy Fairy Spirit who had released several protective Magics and closed her flower bud into an absolute defense posture, he used the Muryu Ryuo Ken version of the North God Style Secret Art — Extreme Gravity Sword.

"This is, the one sword you spoke of?!"

Pressure even more terrifying than the super-long-chant Magic 【Great Earth Fall】 acted on her body; the Corpse King Flower body the Filthy Fairy Spirit parasitized simply could not withstand such heavy pressure.

The 59th Floor Labyrinth ground was torn open again, a huge Pit appeared before them; Broly was still comparatively fair — the Filthy Fairy Spirit made him fall into the ground once, so he'd let the other party fall into the ground once too.

And him surviving is his own ability; as for whether the other party can survive, that also depends on the other party's ability.

However, seeing the scene of the other party's body being crushed and dissipating, she probably couldn't survive.

The remaining small monsters were solved one by one, the Crystal Palace Space's potions were taken out, and Finn and the others, who all had injuries on their bodies, caught their breath.

And facing the question of whether to continue deeper into the 60th Floor Labyrinth, Finn decisively shook his head: "But we're only at the 59th Floor Labyrinth and we've been beaten into this state; if not for you, Broly, we might have been wiped out; going deeper would just be reckless adventure."

Although the Filthy Fairy Spirit probably wasn't an original monster of the 59th Floor, who knows what dangers are waiting for them deeper in the Labyrinth.

Rice must be eaten one mouthful at a time, roads must be walked one step at a time; completing the exploration of the 59th Floor Labyrinth with zero personnel deaths is already a very good result.

Finn decisively gave up the idea of continuing deeper into the Labyrinth.

"Let's go back."

On the road returning to the 50th Floor Labyrinth, they encountered no other dangers; compared to this arduous 59th Floor Boss Battle, the monsters above with no threats seemed somewhat cute.

(Chapter End)