You are all my wings...

Backup plan?

Brelitta was startled. Lying in Leon's arms, her gaze towards him changed.

[Rita's affection level increased by 2%, current affection level is 47%]

Leon and Berylita did not stop moving while they were talking; in the short time it took to exchange a few words, they had already circled around the outer edge of the crimson monster and headed towards the entrance of the 25th floor passage.

"Elise, activate the Radiant Light upon my command!"

When Iris saw Leon hug Brielita immediately, she felt a little uncomfortable, but she knew that now was not the time to worry about it. She nodded with an indifferent expression and used her magic to maintain the spell she had just finished chanting.

Moreover, she had a nagging worry: Berylita's attack was incredibly powerful, almost reaching the level of a high-level spell, and even a sneak attack like that was neutralized by her opponent.

While his own Radiant Light combined with Leon's Magic Ice Mirror was indeed powerful, it was certainly not as good as Brierita's move. Could he really handle that opponent?

However, she now trusts Leon completely, and despite her doubts, she resolutely carried out his orders.

When Carl saw Leon embracing Britta so intimately, his eyes widened in anger, and he wanted nothing more than to take her place.

But seeing how weak Berylita looked, he quickly calmed down.

The Holy Maiden was unable to defeat her opponent!

In other words, he must now stay behind at all costs to hold off the enemy and create an opportunity for the Holy Maiden to escape!

He drew his sword from the door panel and took a step to rush towards the opposite passage.

“Karl, you’re in charge of carrying Mark! Don’t think about covering the rear. Three steps against five steps, you won’t last more than a few seconds! Listen to me, Brieta wants living knights, not badges of honor for the enemy!”

In his haste, Lyon simply called her by her name, Britta.

Karl calmed down.

"Wait for my instructions. I am the commander."

Lyon continued.

Karl gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and nodded silently.

At this moment, Leon, still holding Britta, stood beside Iris, gathering magic power in his right palm and beginning to brew the Ice Crystal Convex Lens Combination Magic.

Ta, ta-ta.

A pale-skinned figure, with a bare waist revealing thin muscles, slowly walked over from the opposite passageway.

The fluorescent moss and phlegm were faintly visible in the distance.

At this point, the two were about sixty meters apart.

Lyon's side is at the entrance to the passage leading to the 25th floor, while the latter is in the opposite position, which is the main passageway on the 24th floor leading into this cave.

"Elise, aim straight ahead and fire!"

Following Leon's command, Elizabeth swung her wand sharply.

brush!!!!

The dark cave was instantly illuminated as bright as day.

A halo the size of a mill suddenly appeared, which was reflected on the ice crystal convex mirror that was simultaneously condensing in mid-air. Through the ice crystal mirror, it transformed into a concentrated beam of scorching light that shot outward.

Chapter Seventy-One: Unfathomable, unfathomable!

"Huh, Lyon can compress it even further?"

As Iris cast her spell, she looked at the heat beams shooting out in front of her, a look of surprise flashing across her eyes.

This beam of light is more focused than the one we faced with the carnivorous plant last time.

It used to be the size of a fist, but now it's only 1 centimeter wide, like a thin laser beam.

After all, Leon had already advanced to a second-tier elemental mage compared to last time, and was much more adept at controlling this combination magic. He could combine it into a convex lens with extremely high transparency and relatively controllable thickness.

When the Light of All Light is gathered to this extent, its power is already very close to that of Burelita's Holy Annihilation.

Of course, the kill radius is incomparable.

The former has a kill radius of only 1 centimeter, while the latter is a wide beam of light with a diameter of seven or eight meters.

But at this moment, 1 centimeter is enough!

Beep!

The hotline appeared quietly and unexpectedly, striking the fifth-order alchemist Andrio in the passage ahead. It scorched black marks onto Andrio's scorched chest, and it looked as if it would pierce through his flesh in an instant.

Andrio's expression changed slightly, and he dodged to the side.

Because the heat ray has a very small diameter, he naturally chose to avoid it rather than using defensive magic against Saint Annihilation.

But then, Leon manipulated the convex lens to slightly deflect its direction, and the heat ray followed closely behind, catching up and landing directly on Andrio's chest.

Only then did he realize the insidious nature of this move, and he suddenly retreated rapidly in an S-shaped trajectory.

The hotline continues to follow up.

The two chased and fled, quickly moving out of the 100-meter range.

At this point, the hotline cluster was nearing its limit.

Because the function of a convex lens is to refract and focus light, beyond a certain range, the focal point of the light will disperse, losing the terrifying heat it possesses when it is in focus.

The distance was too great; even if Lyon adjusted the thickness and distance of the convex lens, he couldn't pull off any tricks anymore.

But that's exactly what Lyon wanted.

It's unlikely that this one move will defeat the humanoid monster Andrio, but it's enough to temporarily force him back.

In particular, with the passage restricting the terrain, this move can easily create a roadblock effect, preventing Andrio from directly crossing the passage to reach them.

Meanwhile, as the hotline reached its limit, Andrio seemed to have some free time and remotely activated the Crimson Monster.

Accompanied by a sound like a bird's song, the blood-red demon's features suddenly twitched in front of them.

It took a step, approaching the crowd with a stiff posture.

Lyon had anticipated this scene and said in a low voice:

"Elise, adjust the direction of your Radiant Light to forty meters above the Crimson Demon, and fire it vertically down!"

Iris was puzzled, but she immediately adjusted the position of the spell.

The Radiance of Light is an area-of-effect spell that requires mana to maintain after activation, so it's not difficult for her to regain control of it.

If it's a projectile type of magic, like fireballs or water balloons, it's difficult to control once it's launched.

Soon, as Iris waved her wand, the Radiant Light suddenly emerged from above the crimson monster and shot downwards.

At the same time, a new ice crystal convex lens formed, refracting the light into a 1-centimeter-thick heat ray that fell onto the ground where the crimson monster stood, immediately piercing through the hard rock and leaving a bottomless 1-centimeter-thick cut.

Immediately following, as the convex lens rotated, the hot wire instantly drew a circle with a radius of three meters on the ground, centered on the blood-red monster, and quickly circled around three times.

"Why are we shooting at the ground instead of at the monsters?"

Looking at the light ahead, not only Elizabeth, but the others were also somewhat puzzled.

Karl thought to himself that Leon had been quite reliable before, so why was he suddenly making such a big mistake? It seemed that he, the hero, would have to be the one to hold off the final blow. He twitched his sword and stepped forward to block the first wave of attacks from the blood-red monster.

Sudden--

Boom!

The ground where the crimson monster stood suddenly collapsed, and it fell downwards amidst a cloud of dust. It roared and reached out to grab the stone wall above, but then a heat wave swept across and severed the crimson monster's finger.

Awooo!!!

The crimson monster, stepping on the sloping conical stone slab beneath its feet, plummeted towards the 25th floor with a roar.

Karl stood frozen in place: "What happened?"

Bovary hurried forward, hearing the deafening roar of the rushing water.

He crouched down and leaned against the edge of the crack, looking down.

Upon seeing this, he felt slightly dizzy.

Isn't the space between the 25th floor and the floor only a few dozen meters high?

Why does it look so deep down there?

Yes, it's a waterfall in the dark!

It wasn't until the water vapor hit his face with the airflow that he realized he was directly above the 25th floor of the Water City!

Could it be that His Excellency Lyon precisely calculated that the thickness between the dome and the floor of the access passage near the 25th floor is not deep, at most only four or five meters, so that it can be directly cut with that hot wire?

This terrifying wisdom

The crimson monster, resembling a tiny ant, sank deeper and deeper along the surging, enormous waterfall, growing smaller and smaller until it disappeared into the abyss.

As is well known, the Water Relics City runs through 25 to 35 floors, falling directly from above the waterfall, plunging straight down for seven or eight hundred meters without any obstruction.

Looking down at the vanished crimson monster, Bovary's eyes flashed with shock:

"Unfathomable, utterly unfathomable! His Excellency Lyon's wisdom is truly astounding!"

They were all surprised that Leon didn't use the same strategy he used against the Water Swallowing Ape to confront it head-on. Instead, he used a combination of two magical attacks to successfully banish this powerful opponent.

Moreover, the alchemist and the monster are so far apart, they probably can't control it remotely, right?

Although we lost half of the spoils, considering that Leon had already cut off the important items beforehand, it seems like the result isn't so bad.

The others remained silent for a long time.

They were extremely agitated. An opponent who was clearly more threatening than the original Water Swallowing Ape had been successfully dealt with by Leon using the terrain.

“What are you standing there for? Let’s jump too.”

As he spoke, Leon quickly packed the spoils he had acquired into his bag.

This includes the cut-off fur of the water-swallowing ape, its large tongue, two canine teeth, and its thumb nail.

These took up a large package.

Lyon was able to pack up his spoils in just a few minutes thanks to his empty pockets, which gave him the motivation to work at high speed.

He tied the six-meter-long tail of the water-swallowing ape to the outside of the package.

The muscles on this tail are definitely the strongest part of the Water-Devouring Ape's body, and the magic content is definitely not bad. He plans to use it to make reserve food after he is safe.

Oh, and I also collected those fingers that were transformed into alchemical monsters. Let's see if there's anything special about them.

"Jump down?"

Milo pointed to himself, then to the deep abyss of the waterfall hundreds of meters below, with a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

Chapter 72 Does the Holy Maiden Like Being Pushed Back?

"That move we just used can only temporarily force back that fifth-level expert. We can't outrun him by running on foot. We might as well jump down from here and go straight to the lower level. We can use the complex terrain there to play hide-and-seek with him. As long as we can stall for time long enough, we will be the victors."

Lyon knew perfectly well that before Berylita regained all her magic, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream for all of them to take down Andrio, who stood at the top of the fifth level and whose physical body was like a monster.

Unless he can find a terrain particularly suitable for suppressing Andrio's abilities, or use other powerful monsters to deplete Andrio's magic power, they will have no chance of winning.

"But wouldn't we have already fallen to our deaths before the enemy could kill us?"

Even Carl, that brute, couldn't help but say something.

"Don't worry, I have a plan. Carl, you guys stick together and just jump down."

As he spoke, Leon put Britta down, grabbed Iris with one arm and Britta with the other, and leaped into the crevice ahead.

As he jumped down, another voice came:

"Hurry up and follow, or I can't guarantee you won't die."

Karl and Miro looked at each other.

Is it right for a knight to just hug someone like that?

A resolute glint flashed in Bovary's eyes, and he embraced the two of them tightly.