Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 652 The Mage's Nemesis - Two-Headed Dragon [Amphispina], Saiyan Grand Mage: Fist Techniques Are Also Magic!

"Water Blade~"

A group of hellhounds, the size of calf and capable of using fire magic, also known as pyromaniacs, were sliced ​​into pieces by blades formed from rapidly flowing water.

This is the 14th floor of the dungeon. The terrain is still like a cave, but the number of monsters and their respawn rate have far exceeded those of the previous floors.

If an ordinary adventurer sets foot in the middle level without adequate preparation, they will most likely die in this dangerous area.

"Hi~"

Above the higher levels of the cave, a demon covered in jet-black scales launched a sneak attack on the black-robed figure below who appeared to be unprepared and cleaning up the battlefield.

The speed was very fast, and the only sound was the wind-breaking sound caused by the fast speed and the smooth body. However, after getting within two meters of the black-robed figure below, it was as if they were hit by some invisible force.

With a thud, it crashed directly to the ground, its body covered in black scales making a cracking sound.

The gravity magic—the Pressure Field—exposed a force of approximately 20 times the normal gravity, which Broly maintained within a two-meter radius around himself.

Despite appearing completely unprepared for the lurking monsters, he easily crushed and killed the monsters that had ambushed him and crashed headlong into the pressure field.

Without using a sword, fists, or energy blasts, but only magic, Broly still moved freely through the middle level of the dungeon labyrinth.

Compared to his fist and sword skills, Broly's magic is unremarkable, but unremarkable does not mean unpowerful. Needless to say, he is already very familiar with water generation, which is related to his freedom to drink water in the early part of his life and was the first magic he came into contact with, taught by Aqua.

As for attack magic that uses water as a medium, such as water blades and water cannons, Broly had already mastered them during his multiple playthroughs in the Six Faces of the World while pursuing Loki.

Perhaps he's not capable of developing new water magic on his own, but learning, mastering, and using some water magic that has already been researched is a piece of cake.

Even disregarding swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat, Broly's skill in using water magic would be on par with the Dragon God in the Six Faces of the World.

Besides water magic, Broly's second most proficient magic is gravity magic, which mimics the inherent gravity magic of the Dragon King Sword.

The reason is simple: gravity magic is incredibly convenient for heavy-duty training, and its added benefit is that it enhances the power of energy blasts.

Of course, pure gravity magic is not very suitable for fighting monsters. The monster behind me was crushed to death by gravity magic, and the magic stone inside its body was also crushed by gravity. Fortunately, a relatively hard tooth was left behind as a fragment.

Broly picked up the tooth from the ground, canceled the gravity magic maintaining his surroundings, took out a lure, and entered the fifteenth level of the dungeon labyrinth.

"Moo~"

The bellowing of the Minotaur rang out, and drawn by the monster-luring bait, the brown minotaurs, which usually only appear below the fifteenth floor of the dungeon and are considered a mainstay even among Lv2 monsters, charged forward. But before they could reach Broly, these minotaurs were sliced ​​in half by the barely perceptible water blades.

The only obstacle these Minotaur pose to Broly is the magic stones they drop after they die and the occasional bull horn that drops, which the boy has to bend down to pick up.

On the way, Broly also encountered a group of adventurers who were fighting several Minotaur. When Broly passed by, he instinctively killed the Minotaur instantly.

"No, what's wrong with you? Don't you know that there's a rule in the dungeon that you can't steal other people's prey?"

The five-person adventurers immediately looked over when their prey was killed. Unlike the information broker who had been in danger yesterday, these people were seriously hunting monsters, so they were not grateful to Broly for stealing their monster, but rather somewhat angry.

"Uh, is there such a rule?"

Broly didn't know, but after thinking about it, he felt that there must be such a rule.

"Sorry, I killed him instinctively."

Broly said in a deliberately calm tone.

"Hey, are you trying to pick a fight?"

Upon hearing this, the female adventurer in the adventurer's party seemed to be angered by his words.

What do you mean by subconscious? They were working hard to fight monsters, and this person came over without saying a word, grabbed the monsters, and stole them. Does he have any sense of decency?

"Looking for trouble?"

Broly asked in confusion, and in the next instant, more than a dozen water blades swept past the edge of the group of adventurers with lightning speed.

"I didn't mean to cause trouble; the fact that you're still alive is the best proof of that."

Bro used his water blade to extinguish the adventurers' anger, and without even glancing at the magic stone dropped by the Minotaur he had casually dealt with, he walked straight past the adventurers' party members who were now frozen in place.

Only when his figure disappeared into the cave ahead and vanished completely did the adventurer team behind him recover.

Looking at the grooves and cracks on the ground and the wall behind him, the team leader swallowed hard before saying to the rest of the team, "Those must be high-level adventurers passing by. They weren't trying to steal our monsters; we misunderstood them."

The other members of the team nodded in agreement. The feeling of having just brushed with death made them all feel a bit tight in their bladders.

"But who exactly is that? I don't think I've ever heard of such a person in Orario?"

The female adventurer only asked the question after picking up the magic stones that others didn't want on the ground.

There are many adventurers in Orario, but most of them are low-level characters at level 1.

Those who can reach Lv2 are usually well-known unless they have just been promoted.

After all, the gods like this kind of thing; as long as someone advances to Lv2, they'll get together to give them a title or something.

They all make a living in the underground city, and most of them are colleagues who see each other all the time.

Not to mention that person just now, who should have the strength to kill their entire team.

"That spell they just used wasn't chanted at all, was it?"

"An instant spell that can be cast even faster than short spells—if it were an adventurer from Orario, it would be famous by now."

"In that case, he must be an outsider who has only been in Orario for a short time."

"Captain, I have a feeling that guy in the black robe will definitely become famous in the future."

Can you tell us something we don't know?

"The human captain said irritably."

"We've had a good day, it's time to head back."

"Hey, weren't we supposed to go to the eighteenth floor?"

"We were going to go, but that person was ahead of us, and the route was obviously going to a lower level of the labyrinth. We wouldn't gain anything by following behind. Rather than going to the eighteenth level and getting ripped off at the inn in Rivera, we might as well go back to the ground, sell what we have, and have a drink with the Harvest Mistress."

"Ah, what are we waiting for? Let's go back quickly. I love the mead there, especially the one served by the gentle and lovely Miss Seele."

The adventurer party quickly headed up to the upper levels, and by the time they left the dungeon, Broly had arrived at the seventeenth floor.

"Didn't you say there was a floor owner here?"

Broly was a little confused.

The so-called floor masters are powerful and huge monsters, the only ones in the entire dungeon, and they only move around on specific floors, like bosses.

After waiting for a while in the giant crystal cave and not finding any monsters, Broly went to the 18th floor of the labyrinth.

As soon as he left the sloping tunnel, a large, lush forest appeared before him, and the 17 layers of crystal overhead reflected a light similar to sunlight.

Floor 18, according to the adventurer's handbook, is one of the few safe floors where monsters won't spawn. There's also a transit town built by adventurers here, called [Rivera].

Water appeared beneath his feet, then froze into ice shards. Using gravity magic to counteract the force, Broly kicked the thick ice shards off the cliff and jumped up after them.

Now that he is a mage, he should naturally find a way to move around that is convenient for his mage identity. However, he controlled the ice shards to fly towards the town in the forest.

"Sigh, the new adventurers coming to the 18th floor lately are really disappointing. Can't they gather more high-value materials to sell, or even come and buy something from my shop?!"

"Boss Modo, the things you sell in your shop are expensive, and the purchase price you give for raw materials is low. It's good enough that someone comes to patronize your business."

"What are you talking about? Do you think I don't have to take any risks when I transport things back to the surface? Newbies who have just advanced to Lv2 can sell their stuff to me, go into the dungeon lightly, and their safety level will be much higher. Besides, the material purchase price is low, isn't everyone offering this price? Could it be that someone is secretly pocketing the money and offering a higher price?"

"Oh, how could that be? If everyone pays the same price, then there's no need for competition."

"That's right, that's right. Anyone who dares to engage in a price war is our enemy."

A group of people who run shops in Rivera were chatting when someone suddenly noticed something glittering in the sky that seemed to be approaching.

"Ah, it looks like something is flying over here!"

"Is it a monster?"

Although monsters don't spawn on the 18th floor, monsters from the 17th or 19th floors occasionally accidentally wander in. Some land-based monsters are quickly eliminated by the adventurers here, but some flying monsters roam the 18th floor, making it the only dangerous floor among the safest areas.

"Wait, it doesn't seem to be a monster, it seems to be a person."

"Go and have a look."

As Broly controlled the ice shards to fall, he noticed a group of rough-looking adventurers running towards where he had landed.

Of course, they did not approach rashly, but stood not far away, looking at the black-robed man on the ice with curious eyes.

"I have a question. Where is the master of the seventeenth floor of the maze?"

After putting down the ice shards, Broly looked at the male adventurer closest to him and asked.

"Ha, why should I? Well, Goliath, the 17th floor master, was defeated by the Loki Familia during their recent expedition to the Deep Labyrinth. It will probably take another two or three days for him to regenerate."

Modo wanted to refuse to answer the question, but someone flicked a coin of the highest denomination at him. It was reasonable to sell information that wasn't particularly valuable to the other party for money.

"I see."

Broly nodded.

"Do you have any information about the other floor owners?"

he asked again.

In dungeons, the most valuable monsters are undoubtedly the floor bosses.

Not only are the magic stones large, but the drops are also rare. Broly originally came here for the floor master.

Unfortunately, after this thing is defeated, it has a fairly long respawn time.

"Information on the two-headed dragon [Amphispina], the overlord of Azure Falls, from floors 25 to 27. If you want it, it'll cost 50,000 Fali."

“Hey, you black-robed mage over there, I only need 40,000 fali.”

"Kurt, are you trying to steal my business?"

"Intelligence information isn't something we agreed on. You can sell it, and I can sell it too. Besides, my information might be more up-to-date than yours."

"How many days?"

"A week ago."

"Two days ago."

"Cut~"

The rough-looking man who quoted 40,000 fares smacked his lips but didn't say anything more.

"So, fifty thousand fali?"

In response, Broly reached into his black robe and pulled out a money pouch.

He counted out half the amount of money and tossed it over.

"Thanks, sir. As for the two-headed dragon that controls the moving floors, an adventurer saw it in the lake in the southeast corner of the 26th floor two days ago. However, this kind of information is time-sensitive. If you go to the 26th floor and don't see it, you can't get a refund from me."

Broly did not refute this, and stepped back onto the still-unmelted ice flakes. Without lingering on this safe floor, he continued to take off for the next floor.

"Is that person going to hunt down the two-headed dragon [Amphispina]?"

After he left, the adventurers in Rivera Town started talking about it.

"It seems so."

"Who is he? Does anyone know him?"

"Wearing a black robe and not showing his face, even if we know someone, there's no way we'd know who he is."

"Then who has that means of flight?"

"Ha, I've only ever seen Fiora glide through the air using [Wind Surge], I've never seen anyone stand on ice and fly around like they're riding a magic stone elevator!"

"Is it definitely ice, and not some newly developed prop?"

"Who knows?"

Broly caused a commotion, but that wasn't what he was concerned about right now. What he was more concerned about was whether the floor masters in the deeper dungeon labyrinth were still around.
Concerned for the safety of the other floor master, Broly decided not to take the normal route down the maze. He stopped above a deserted forest on the 18th floor and erected an energy shield.

The next moment, with a loud bang, he crashed straight into the ground.

The ground floor of the 18th floor was breached.

The environment on the 19th floor flashed by.

Then, 20, 21, 22...

Broly swiftly cleared the latter half of the middle level of the dungeon in an extremely brutal manner.

After skipping unnecessary maze layers and entering the 25th floor, the sound of rushing water finally reached my ears.

A magnificent, azure-blue waterfall, spanning three levels of a labyrinth, appeared below Broly.

Of course, in addition to the main waterfall, there are many water veins and lakes on floors 25 to 27, forming an extremely complex underground lake system where a large number of aquatic monsters live.

Broly was indifferent to the magnificent waterfall below; all he wanted to do was find the real target he intended to hunt in the dungeon today.

Broly followed the massive waterfall into the 26th floor. After arriving at the coordinates he had bought for 50,000 Fali, he began to sense the presence of the surrounding lakes.

Beneath the vast lake surface, there are many complex and varied auras, but the strongest aura is the one hidden deep beneath the lake.

"Ice Gun~"

The water flowed overhead, forming a giant triangular cone shape, which then froze. With a wave of Broly's hand, the ice cone, several meters long, plunged into the lake.

Shortly after the ice picks were thrown in, some bright red color emerged from the bottom of the lake, followed by a huge shadow breaking through the surface of the lake.

The wounded two-headed dragon glared angrily at the black-robed figure in the sky above the lake, with ice spikes thrown down by Broly still stuck in its body.

"roar~"

Just as the two dragon heads raised their heads and roared angrily at Broly, hundreds and thousands of water blades rained down on them.

The Lv.5 Amphispina, a two-headed dragon whose strength in water is comparable to that of a Lv.6 floor master, was actually struck by the high-speed water blades, turning its angry roar into a painful wail.

Amidst the flying scales and gushing blood, the right dragon head finally spewed out a red mist capable of dissolving any magic it touched.

Broly was taken aback when he discovered that the water blades would be dissolved by the strange red mist before they could even reach the opponent.

Clearly, he didn't know that this two-headed dragon was a monster with special attack and defense against mages; the red mist spewed from its right head could silence magic, and its scales had a strong magic resistance effect.

Otherwise, with Broly's first ice spike, this thing might have been destroyed at the bottom of the lake. It's not like it is now, not only struggling but also capable of resisting.

The blue flames spewed from the left head enveloped Broly in mid-air, forcing the Saiyan, who was disguised as a mage, to use gravity magic to move quickly and dodge.

However, the azure flames were hot on his heels, while the red mist's range was expanding, shrinking his space to dodge.

Broly detached himself from the ice shards after checking the area and finding only monsters and no adventurers.

As the ice shards melted from the blue dragon's breath, he arrived at the lower jaw of the left head of the two-headed dragon, where it was spewing flames.

With his fist clenched, Broly delivered a powerful uppercut to the left side of the two-headed dragon's head.

"Bang~"

The dragon head exploded, and Broly punched again, causing the right dragon head, which was spewing red mist, to explode as well.

The force of the punch blew open Broly's hood.

Floating in mid-air, Broly, who was playing the role of a mage but was somewhat forced out of character by the two-headed dragon, had only one rebuttal in mind: Who says that those who use fists are not mages? Fist techniques are also magic!

The two-headed dragon, the floor master [Amphispina], after struggling and resisting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds after meeting the Saiyan, was killed by the fist of the black-robed archmage (Broly).

(End of this chapter)