Chapter 799: Both Have Nightmares, Why Can You Rely on a Man to Solve Yours

My name is Jialuo, a member of the Latuola Familia.

Five years ago, I once schemed to trap and kill those meddling busybodies of the Astraea Familia.

The result: it succeeded, yet it also failed.

The success was that the Astraea Familia vanished from Orario; the failure was that the damn elf Gale Wind survived, turning into a Death God who reaps lives, madly hunting down everyone who had trapped and harmed her comrades.

Everyone connected to this matter was indiscriminately assassinated and ambushed by her. Although I luckily survived five years ago, I have been living in fear ever since.

Every day and every night, I always dream of that damn elf suddenly appearing before me, taking revenge for her dead comrades, hacking me to death.

Naturally, as those involved in harming the Astraea Familia died off over the past two years, Gale Wind also vanished without a trace.

There were rumors she might have died, or perhaps already fled Orario. From that day on, I gradually stopped dreaming of being hunted by her.

I thought I could once again embrace the life of a villain doing whatever I pleased, but a chance encounter in the Safe Floor's Rivira Town, seeing the tightly wrapped Gale Wind, reignited the fear long buried deep in my heart.

My legs trembled involuntarily; I questioned in my heart why that guy hadn't died, why she hadn't left Orario.

But no matter how I questioned, I could not deny the fact that the one who gave me nightmares was still alive. Once my survival was discovered by her, I would face her endless pursuit.

Fortunately, I discovered her first.

After hiding myself for several days in my hideout, Gale Wind reappeared in my dreams like a nightmare once more.

My spirit grew increasingly exhausted. I knew I could not continue hiding like a rat any longer; if I kept hiding like this, my spirit would eventually be tortured into collapse. I want revenge. I want to completely shatter the nightmare of the past. But as for exactly how to do it, I was stumped.

Gale Wind's strength is undeniable. In a frontal fight, a guy like me is simply no match for her. Even though I am now a Beast Tamer with two Deep Zone monsters of Level 5 in hand, it's the same.

I must think of a way, find an opportunity to kill her. So I began secretly observing Gale Wind. She seemed to be badly short of money, crazily killing monsters for money.

I wanted to strike when she was exhausted, but although she lacked money, she never let her condition fall into a bad state.

Gale Wind came into contact with some other Familia members. I thought about kidnapping those connected to her as hostages to threaten her, but, well, the Sword Princess of the Loki Familia is even more untouchable.

And the Hestia Familia, which looked like a soft persimmon — a nameless Familia newly appeared in Orario — transformed right before I was about to act, becoming an existence capable of pinning the Main God of the Ishtar Familia directly to the ground and beating her.

The people around Gale Wind are not only not her weakness; they might instead become a force assisting in hunting me down once she discovers me. This made my mental state worse and worse.

Finally, when Gale Wind came alone to the Dungeon to fight monsters again, I made my move. I contacted others from the Dark Faction, preparing to scheme her death. I deliberately let her learn the news that this enemy of hers was still alive, bit by bit setting bait, luring her to the 27th Floor Labyrinth.

My plan had two parts.

The first plan, naturally, was through scheming, to have Gale Wind kill the companions hiding their Dark Faction identities who had joined Rivira Town, thereby triggering a united front from the Rivira Town Adventurers against her.

If Gale Wind couldn't hold out, she would be besieged and killed by the Rivira Town Adventurers. But if she counter-killed the Rivira Town Adventurers and was severely injured in the process, then I, as the mastermind behind the scenes, could rush out and reap the kill on her last sliver of health.

However, this plan was disrupted. Gale Wind did not engage in battle with Moduo's group. The sudden intervention of the Tyrant of Extreme Desire caused both sides to halt their conflict directly.

And Taku was executing my second plan. On the surface, it was activating the Flame Stones pre-buried in the Dungeon, collapsing the floor to crush the enemy I wanted to trap and kill to death. But in reality, it was to lure out that thing — the one that only appears when large-scale destruction occurs in the Dungeon floor environment.

"Gale Wind, my nightmare is you. But it — it is your nightmare!"

The Zagnat — the special monster that appeared when Broly once destroyed the entire 58th Floor Labyrinth — has now been spawned by the Dungeon Labyrinth from the rock walls of the 27th Floor Labyrinth, whose environment has been severely damaged. It raised its head and roared, its voice like a wail.

And even more exquisitely, the violent trembling of the Labyrinth floor also caused that Floor Lord in the Blue Waterfall, the Twin-Headed Dragon, to rear its head from the massive Lake.

"Hahaha, didn't expect the Floor Lord to come too. Gale Wind, you're dead. My nightmare can finally end!"

Observing Gale Wind's desperate situation through the Magic Stone Device bound to Reimton, Jialuo laughed loudly.

When the Cat Person Taku ran over to rendezvous, what he saw was Jialuo laughing maniacally. Only, this person's laughter soon came to an abrupt halt...

"Ryu, are you alright?"

After the wail sounded, Broly noticed Ryu's condition.

"It's that thing!"

The elf's body began trembling uncontrollably on the spot.

"Who are you talking about?"

Broly was a bit confused.

"That monster that once killed my comrades..."

Ryu subconsciously took a step back. A scene somewhat similar to five years ago made her spirit become somewhat unstable. Her current condition is known in psychology as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, abbreviated as PTSD.

"A monster? It's fine. With me here, it can't hurt you."

Broly comforted Ryu with a sentence, then pointed behind him at the Twin-Headed Dragon starting to spew Anti-Magic Red Mist.

"Didn't you want to subjugate Amphisbaena? It's out. You go deal with it. I'll handle the rest. Okay?"

Ryu looked at the Twin-Headed Dragon, then at the Saiyan boy. Recalling his powerful strength, she nodded: "Okay. But Broly, when dealing with that monster, you must be extremely careful. Its speed is extremely fast, and it has a special ability to reflect magic."

"Boss Moduo, both the path forward and the path of retreat are blocked. Damn it, don't know who used Flame Stones to blast the rock walls. It'll definitely take us some time to dig out a road."

"No choice. Prepare for battle!"

The Rivira Town Adventurers split into two parts. One part faced the Twin-Headed Dragon emerging from the lake behind them. The other part faced the Zagnat that had fallen from the front rock wall and was now crawling over at high speed. Whichever one you looked at, neither seemed easy to deal with.

"Before the Anti-Magic Red Mist gets close, use magic to kill that weird thing first!"

Someone said, drawing a Magic Sword.

"No?!"

Ryu hurriedly turned back, but some people's magic had already been released — mainly lightning and fire-type attack magic — converging into a torrent of magic that shot toward the Zagnat. The oncoming monster didn't dodge; instead, it stopped, as if deliberately receiving these spells.

A glow of a Mana Barrier emerged on its body. The next moment, the surging attack magic was reflected back.

The magic torrent struck the ground, directly blasting out a gully dozens of meters long.

"A bunch of idiots. Didn't you hear what I just said?"

"G-Gale Wind..."

The people kicked away by the elf looked at the gully where they had just been standing, lingering fear in their hearts, yet also casting complex gazes at the elf.

This group of them had been hunting her down. If not for the Tyrant of Extreme Desire's timely intervention, they might have had to join forces to besiege her. But now they had been saved by her instead.

"Mr. Broly, what do we do now..."

Moduo was a bit panicked. The current situation: ahead, the monster called a monster by Gale Wind; behind, the strongest Floor Lord of the 27th Floor Labyrinth, the Twin-Headed Dragon Amphisbaena. And their paths forward and back had been blasted and collapsed by someone using Flame Stones. If not for the suspected even stronger boy beside him, he would probably be near despair by now.

"You lot step aside and watch, just cheer '666' for us."

Broly replied.

"Eh?!"

Moduo and the others faced each other in bewilderment, is this some kind of peculiar magic?

"Uh, well, 666..."

The one-eyed burly man was the first to put away his weapon, obediently ran to the side, and started shouting with his mouth.

Ryuu: "..."

Broly nodded in satisfaction, his foot tapped, and the spot where he originally stood exploded into a spray of gravel; he arrived in front of Zagnat at extreme speed, and before this monster that looked a bit like a swamp puppy could stab over with its sharp tail, he raised his right fist and brought it down on its forehead from above.

"Boom—"

Even louder than the commotion caused by the massive explosions earlier, Zagnat, whose entire body was constructed of highly condensed Magic Stones, had its supporting legs snap directly at the joints; the Magic Stone body that lost its support was smashed into the ground by the tremendous force, creating cracks resembling a Meteor Crater...

Zagnat's head lifted with difficulty, the struck spot was defective for the most part; it tried to climb up, but the cracks at the defective area began to expand, crackling sounds rang out, and its body shattered apart, half a head fell off, the red light in its eyes rapidly disappearing.

Before the Super Heavy Training Skill, Broly didn't need to lift a hand to instantly kill its kin born on the 58th Floor with Gravity Magic.

After activating Super Heavy Training, facing this thing born on the 27th Floor, Broly also only used one Punch, instantly killing it all the same.

And the price was...

"Hiss, this guy's head is so hard, hitting it made my hand hurt so much."

Broly shook his right hand.

Ryuu subconsciously looked over, and discovered that the back of Broly's hand and knuckles were indeed a bit red.

However, there wasn't even broken skin or bleeding, does this count as an injury?

Still, the monster that once brought her Nightmares, knocked down by the Saiyan with one Punch like this, Ryuu only felt her mood relax.

Of course, only her mood relaxed; her body could not relax yet, because behind there was still a Floor Lord she needed to Deal With.

The Elf rushed toward Amphisbaena; with the speed and power boost from the Rabbit-Ox Talisman, the already updated Ryuu had stats on par with an ordinary Lv. 6 Adventurer.

And the Two-Headed Dragon was only powerful against Mages; facing Ryuu as a Swordsman, after the Elf slashed off the blue dragon head that sprayed blue flames, the Win/Loss was actually already decided.

"This is a tamed Monster?!"

On Broly's side, Moduo was no longer shouting 666; he saw the youth suddenly rush toward a corner shielded by rocks, and pull out a Lympton from inside; catching sight of the Magic Stone Collar on its neck, he instantly recognized what situation this was.

"This really is a trap targeting Gale; damn it, we were used, Taku and that bunch, they're definitely Dark Faction bastards!"

Moduo cursed and grumbled.

"No wonder he was so eager!"

The others were much the same.

That situation just now, the schemer clearly also wanted to finish them off together.

If not for the Extreme Tyrant and Gale being capable enough, the ones facing being pincered by two terrifying Monsters front and back right now would be them, this group.

"A Communication-type Magic Stone Device..."

Broly found a surveillance Magic Stone Device on the Lympton that looked like a green-skinned giant snake.

Glancing at the Battle that had fallen into Ryuu's control over there, he ran toward the passage the Lympton had dug out.

"Eh, Mr. Broly, where are you going?"

Moduo was curious, hurriedly followed, and asked.

"This Communication Magic Stone Device has Magic Power directionality; the current Magic Power transmission direction is over there, the distance from here isn't very far either, I'm preparing to go pull out the person behind this."

Hearing this, a group of Rivira Adventurers instantly perked up, and followed in a swarm.

"Take us along."

"What's wrong, Jialuo, before I came I heard you laughing haha, how come you stopped laughing when I arrived?"

【I'm laughing at your mother?!】

Painstakingly prepared the trump card to Eliminate Gale, it debuted for less than ten seconds before someone One-Punched it to death, who could stand this?

"Eh, why are there still explosions?"

A roaring sound and a sense of vibration underfoot transmitted; the cat-man Taku doubted aloud — Broly had just knocked down Zagnat.

【Hiss, how can Gale be this strong, one-on-one, the Two-Headed Dragon Floor Lord Amphisbaena actually can't beat her!?】

【Bad, the Lympton's been Discovered!】

Just as this mastermind Jialuo was rejoicing in his heart that only his tamed beasts were present, he heard that Saiyan youth say he could locate this mastermind's location through the surveillance Magic Stone Device, and the position the other party spoke of was actually correct.

The Dungeon's Environment makes any Communication Device unable to be used long-distance; the straight-line distance between this side and Gale's side is actually less than a hundred meters.

"Pa—"

The Whip cracked on the ground, and a red giant snake poked its head out.

"No, what's the deal with you?"

Taku was a bit puzzled, just saw this red-haired cat-people companion, without a word, start following the Pit his tamed beast dug out and jump down.

【Gale's side exploded, if I don't run, am I supposed to stay put and Wait for Death, you idiots, just buy me time to Retreat...】

"Bang—"

His thought hadn't finished, when the rock wall in the Dungeon floor gap next to him exploded open.

"Eh, running away this Decisively?"

A hand pressed on his head, directly stopping him from his falling state.

Broly, somewhat covered in dirt, holding the surveillance Magic Stone Device in his hand, compared it with the receiving device on the neck of the cat-man he was pressing down.

After Confirming this was a set of Magic Tools, Broly grabbed this mysterious fleeing male cat-man by the red hair, and hauled him up jumping.

By the time they returned to the 27th Floor, Moduo and the others had also walked the snake path the Lympton dug out, and Surrounded Taku and the others who had sneakily run from among them just now.

"Boss Moduo, I can explain."

"Explain your ass! We're here representing Rivera Town to settle accounts with you traitors!"

Moduo's side had fifty-plus adventurers who directly swarmed Taku's group of only ten-odd people, beating them viciously; in short order they pummeled the bunch — whose real identities should be Dark Faction — to the degree that even their own mothers probably wouldn't recognize them.

Moduo didn't kill this group, but not because he doesn't kill — rather...

"Tie these guys up and hand them over to Mr. Broly and Wind to deal with."

As the saying goes, a grievance has its head, a debt its master; this group was merely used to deal with Wind.

Now, tying up the true culprits and handing them over — that's called the severance of justice.

Ryū had just eliminated the Twin-Headed Dragon when she saw Broly return carrying the past enemy she'd been looking for.

"Damn it, we both have nightmares, so why can you rely on a man to solve yours?"

Jialuo's words were disjointed, but Ryū still caught his meaning.

"Because I'm a woman."

Ryū answered her enemy's words, and with one sword thrust pierced this bastard's heart.

"Damn it, next life I'll be a bad person too, but I'll be a woman, latch onto a powerful guy, and won't have to suffer nightmares..."

Jialuo's freeloading remark left the surrounding adventurers who heard it speechless, but Ryū felt a wave of relief — her revenge had ultimately made these slip-through-the-net enemies feel pain after all these years.

(Chapter End)