Chapter 825

"Mr. Broly, how come I didn't see any magic stones today?"

"I have other uses for the magic stones; you just bring the monster materials up."

Broly didn't explain anything, and Moduo didn't ask further, taking today's monster materials and leaving the 37th floor Labyrinth.

After the people left, Broly farmed monsters for another day, and when it was time to rest, he carried a big bag of magic stones to the refresh point of the 37th floor Labyrinth Layer Lord 【Udaeus】, and after clearing out a pile of Xenos small fry there, he dug a large pit in the place where 【Udaeus】 was being conceived, poured all the magic stones harvested today into it, and then took off the heavy armor on his body and lay down inside.

This is a method Broly discovered during the process of sleeping in this super-large tuba-like lifeform sleeping pod called the Dungeon recently, to increase the sleeping pod's sleep quality.

Hmm, Qi exists throughout the entire Dungeon, and the gaps that can quickly conceive monsters are the nodes where the Dungeon's Qi is most abundant; the physical sensation of sleeping in this kind of place is the best.

At first Broly sought out nodes that gave birth to ordinary monsters to sleep, but it has developed to the point where he directly steals the super-large nodes that conceive Layer Lords to sleep.

For better sleep quality, he also pours magic stones inside; it can be said, the higher the concentration of Qi in the Labyrinth nodes, or rather magic power energy, the more comfortable the feeling of lying inside to sleep.

Recently, Broly has been eating less, but not because of a bad appetite; it's simply that his body gets filled with the energy of those nodes while sleeping.

Broly feels he is like a machine with extremely high power consumption; eating is like replacing the batteries inside his body to replenish energy, but now resting in the Dungeon's gap nodes is like being plugged into a high-power charger; just resting for a while is like deep sleeping for eight hours, and upon waking his whole body is full of energy.

The days of Broly solo farming monsters and cultivating in the Dungeon passed simply yet fulfillingly, every day spent in farming monsters, eating, and sleeping.

Of course, the cost is that the growth rate of the Encounter Target's Happiness Value has become flat.

However, it is true that he lives comfortably and freely, without having to think about those marital matters that make him feel annoyed.

Just as Broly was preparing to continue living for a while longer in the 37th floor Dungeon Labyrinth, in Udaeus's magic power node lair, a person he found somewhat unexpected came looking for him.

"Miss Filvis, are you also down here to farm money and cultivate?"

The person who found Broly was the White Shrine Maiden; she seemed to have come alone to this deep floor area.

"I'm not here to farm money, nor to cultivate; I heard from Riveria that you've been in the Dungeon for a period of time, and came specially to find you."

", what do you want with me?"

Broly was a bit puzzled, but still threw a fist mixed with Qi Jin at the monsters surging endlessly toward him.

"Bang~"

A roaring sound rang out; Filvis only felt the ground under her feet tremble, and in the direction Broly swung his fist, the 37th floor Labyrinth's Death Colosseum was directly smashed half-collapsed by this one punch, large amounts of rubble falling and burying the monster groups that kept refreshing and coming as reinforcements.

Broly dusted off his hands, just like doing housework at home but suddenly having a guest visit, the host temporarily stopping the work at hand to receive the visiting guest: "Miss Filvis, come sit at my place."

He led the White Shrine Maiden toward the lair of the 37th floor Layer Lord he had taken over.

Arriving at the place, he dug a hole out of the rock wall and invited Filvis to sit down.

"Ah, you want me to sit right next to you in a cave you dug out?"

Filvis was a bit startled; the cave Broly dug out casually wasn't large, two people sitting side by side could be said to be just right.

"Miss Filvis, don't underestimate this cave; once you sit down, I'll show you the good thing I recently discovered in the Dungeon."

"Uh————"

Although it felt a bit subtle, Filvis still sat into the cave.

Broly also took off the heavy armor on his body and sat down next to her.

Then, he used Qi to link with the Qi of the surrounding rock walls, reverse outputting Qi to guide the dug-out cave to quickly heal and repair.

Watching the surrounding rock walls squeeze over, Filvis subconsciously wanted to jump out, but was grabbed by the hand by Broly: "Don't worry, Miss Filvis, it's fine, these are all good things."

Filvis tugged her hand, couldn't pull free, and didn't continue struggling.

Broly was very calm, controlling the cave to continue repairing.

"So, Mr. Broly, you pulled me to have our bodies wrapped by the Dungeon's repairing rock walls, and now only our faces are left exposed outside; is there some special meaning to this?"

The two people's bodies could no longer be seen; on the rock wall only two faces remained, looking like they were embedded on it; only then did Filvis couldn't help but ask.

", Miss Filvis, don't you feel that the rock walls wrapping your body are infusing energy into your body?"

"Uh————"

Hearing this, Filvis carefully perceived, and then felt that the magic stone inside her body was indeed being infused with a strand of fine, trickling-stream-like magic power energy, simply like she had taken a magic stone.

"This is my latest discovery in the Dungeon; as long as you dig open the Dungeon's walls, bury yourself in the walls, and let the Dungeon grow the walls back, we can obtain treatment similar to the magic power infusion when the Dungeon conceives monsters, yet it is an excellent resting place that can be created anywhere in the Dungeon at any time————"

Listening to Broly talk on and on, Filvis felt somewhat dumbfounded regarding the excavation of the Dungeon environment's new function.

What normal person would bury themselves in the Dungeon's walls to rest; this hellish function, not to mention Adventurers not discovering it, even she, a weirdo, hadn't discovered it.

"Back to the main topic, Miss Filvis, what business do you have coming to find me?"

Inside the rock wall, after Broly finished introducing his latest discovery, he asked the White Shrine Maiden's reason for coming to find him.

"I came to find you to ask, why have you stayed in the Dungeon for such a long time?"

"Uh, I've only been down for five days; the time shouldn't be too long, right?"

This question made Broly feel a bit weird, but he still replied to the White Shrine Maiden.

"No, the time has been very long, especially for your Encounter Target; Lefiya has been talking about you leaving a note to enter the Dungeon these past two days when chatting with me, and I came down on her behalf to check the situation."

"Monster farming cultivation is going smoothly, and I discovered a new resting method in the Dungeon, which made me a bit immersed in it, causing Lefiya to worry."

"Then Mr. Broly, when are you going back?"

"I still want to continue staying in the Dungeon for a while."

"So, you're actually avoiding Lefiya and them, right?"

Filvis suddenly asked.

"?"

The youth's face on the rock wall suddenly tilted its head, looking toward her side.

"This reaction, looks like I guessed right————"

Not waiting for Broly to pursue the question, Filvis explained first.

"When Lefiya chatted with me, she said you seemed to have a bit of an intention to avoid them.

Her mind is indeed sharp; at first I thought she was overthinking, didn't expect it to actually be true."

Pausing a moment, Filvis then continued asking: "So, Mr. Broly, can you tell me, why are you avoiding Lefiya and them?"

Broly: "————"

"I know this question shouldn't really be asked by me, but Lefiya and Miss Tiona, they are also my friends."

"I've heard others say that males are full of enthusiasm for pursuing females before marriage, but after marriage, this enthusiasm may rapidly fade and even turn into a psychology of feeling tired and wanting to avoid it."

"Hmm, Mr. Broly, you are also my friend. Is it because you have too many Encounter Targets and are somewhat overwhelmed, so you chose to come to the Dungeon to avoid Lefiya and the others?"

Seeing Broly not speak, Filvis continued to ask.

"If so, then tell me. I'll go back and reveal it to Lefiya and the others, persuade them not to exploit your body too much————"

When the White Shrine Maiden spoke to this point, her face was already somewhat red. Broly and Lefiya and the others treated her sincerely, but she could not treat them sincerely in return, so this was the only thing she could help do.

"Uh, Miss Filvis, you misunderstand. I don't have any issue of being overwhelmed. Every time Lefiya and the others gang up to exploit me, I satisfy all of them every time, absolutely guaranteed quality and quantity."

"Since it's not being overwhelmed, then what's the situation with you suddenly running to the Dungeon to hide from Lefiya and the others?"

Filvis also turned her face away, looking at him with some puzzlement.

"How should I put this matter————"

Broly was somewhat at a loss, meeting the White Shrine Maiden's curious gaze.

"Alright then, you're also my friend, I'll tell you the situation————"

Broly, not wanting to be misunderstood as an incompetent husband who can't perform, chose to tell Filvis his situation.

"So you're not overwhelmed, but rather your energy is too vigorous, yet because of a prior agreement with someone else, it's not good to give your first time to others, so that's why you hid?"

"Hmm."

Broly nodded, and Filvis was somewhat at a loss whether to cry or laugh.

"I thought you couldn't do it."

"Joking, I'm super capable."

"But since it's an agreed matter with someone, why not just tell Lefiya and the others directly and clearly? Is there a need to run to the Dungeon to hide?"

"But Liliruca, that is the cute Pallum girl you saw by my side before, she told me it's better to keep some things hidden."

"But Mr. Broly, you can't keep hiding in the Dungeon from Lefiya and the others forever, you always need to go up and face them, right?

You hiding alone down here for five days isn't long, but what about ten days, twenty days? Lefiya and the others will definitely come down to find you, right?"

"That's true."

"So, instead of hiding, why not go up and be frank with Lefiya and the others? As for Miss Liliruca previously advising you to conceal some things, that should have been when you hadn't caught up to Lefiya and the others yet. But now Lefiya and the others are already willing to be close to you, shouldn't you be more honest?"

"Hmm, Miss Filvis, what you say makes sense."

"Rest assured, your harem group is mostly understanding people. If you explain the situation clearly and apologize sincerely, they probably won't be too angry with you."

"Hmm, after I go back, I'll be frank and apologize properly."

Things having come to this, it seems there's only the path of being frank left.

Looking at the worry on the youth's face that still hadn't dissipated, Filvis added as if possessed by a ghost: "If————

I'm saying if, Lefiya and the others can't help you solve the problem of excess energy, perhaps————I can also help a bit————"

Her voice grew lower and lower, finally almost inaudible.

Broly turned his head in shock, only to see Filvis tightly closing her eyes.

Her long eyelashes were trembling, her whole fair small face red as if it would drip blood.

If her body wasn't stuck in the rock wall, she might have covered her face by now.

"Miss Filvis, the meaning of these words is————you like me?"

Facing this straight ball, Filvis took a deep breath, as if making a certain determination, suddenly opened her eyes, meeting the youth's gaze.

"Yes, Mr. Broly, I like you. It started from the moment you and Lefiya were willing to accept me————"

This answer left Broly somewhat at a loss. He was the one who often said he liked others, but the experience of being confessed to in return was very few.

"Then————Miss Filvis, will you come be my wife?"

When asking this, Broly's mood was somewhat subtle, somewhat embarrassed.

"I'm willing."

Filvis answered without any hesitation, but immediately added: "But not now————"

"What do you mean?"

"I think the matter of letting me become your wife needs to be prudent. You should wait until————you understand me more."

"But I feel I already understand you fairly well now."

"No, you still don't understand enough. You have to understand me more."

Filvis's attitude was abnormally persistent.

Broly was somewhat puzzled, but didn't refuse the matter of understanding the other party more deeply.

He thought for a bit, then controlled the Crystal Palace Panel, generating Filvis's figure in the Crystal Palace Space.

Then he said to the White Shrine Maiden: "Then Miss Filvis, can you tell me more about yourself?"

"Sorry, Mr. Broly, I can't tell you on my own initiative. You have to discover it yourself."

Filvis clearly expressed willingness to become his wife, but needed him to understand her more.

And he wanted to understand her more from her mouth, but was directly refused by her.

【What does this mean?】

Broly frowned, thought for a bit, and soon thought of a possibility.

This situation might be due to the conservatism of the Elf race in this World itself.

Because the Elves Broly encountered were all like this, shy to take the initiative.

Even though now it's Filvis actively making a move, wanting this White Shrine Maiden to also make a move in actual action is really a bit difficult for her.

【Hmm, in terms of actual action, I have to take the initiative myself.】

The rock walls surrounding his body were a bit in the way, so Broly directly shattered them.

"Miss Filvis, then I'll start getting to know you now, is that alright?"

After breaking free from the rock walls' binding and arriving outside, Broly began inquiring about the White Shrine Maiden.

"What do you want to do?"

Broly's hand moved slowly up along her forearm, making Filvis somewhat flustered.

"Getting to know you."

Broly answered as if it were only natural.

Yet it had already brushed past her slightly protruding wrist bone, traced the tight lines of her forearm, and arrived at the elf's rounded shoulder.

Gripping the warm shoulder, he could clearly feel the body beneath his hand stiffen in an instant.

And then, the faint trembling that followed.

He paused for a moment, and only after confirming Filvis did not refuse him did Broly continue onward————

Filvis's softness did not have Alicia's scale; it belonged to the type that fits perfectly in one hand.

Through the thin layer of fabric, he could clearly feel the perfection of the other party's shape, and the astonishing elasticity.

Just as he prepared to undo the buttons, to feel the delicate skin, Filvis grabbed his hand.

"Mr. Broly, please do not continue any further."

Unlike a half-hearted refusal, Filvis's voice now carried a sobbing tone.

Broly realized she truly did not want him to continue any further.

"Alright."

Although he did not know the reason, he still stopped his hand.

【Her own clothes were divine garments handmade by Lord Dionysus; if they were undone, it might expose the fact that she is a monster————】

Fortunately, the youth stopped, letting Filvis breathe a sigh of relief.

"As long as you don't take off my clothes, you can touch haphazardly————"

Immediately, worried her refusal might be misunderstood by the youth, that her words about becoming a wife were false, she hurriedly added another sentence.

"No need."

Broly shook his head, gently grasping her hand.

"Getting to know each other can take it slow; if Miss Filvis is nervous, then let's start with holding hands."

"Ah? Is that okay? Won't you be unable to help solve———— the problem of excessive energy?"

"That kind of thing doesn't need your help for now, Miss Filvis only needs to hold hands with me."

Filvis's hand was tightly wrapped in the youth's palm heart; Broly did not continue doing anything further O

"Then after holding hands, what do we do?"

Filvis asked; she had completely no experience, only feeling that the current situation of being held by the hand made her feel at ease.

"Return to the surface, confess and apologize to everyone, and conveniently announce that you have also become my wife."

"But, I haven't truly become your wife yet————"

"After I get to know Miss Filvis better in the future, you'll agree too, won't you?"

"Mhm——

Filvis replied softly, yet her heart felt somewhat uncertain.

She coveted the warmth of the youth's palm at this moment, yet feared that when the truth comes to light in the future and her true face is exposed, she would face his rejection.

Hearth Manor, Broly led the White Shrine Maiden back.

"So, Broly, this time you insisted on going to the Dungeon Labyrinth alone, it was actually to have a tryst with Miss Filvis?"

Just as they entered, Hestia stood blocking the front door with arms crossed, puffed up with anger.

Obviously, the act of leaving a note and sneaking away had made this Main God quite displeased.