The adventurers' faces showed excitement.
[These guys...are truly hopeless.]
Sighing inwardly, Ella coughed twice, diverting the adventurers' attention to herself - although she said so, in fact, the adventurers' attention had already been focused on Ella.
"Ahem, I'm just a level 19 healer."
"Level 19? Your Excellency, you're joking. That must have been a Level 40 'Space Confinement', right? You don't have to lower your price for us."
"That's right, if it weren't for you, all of us would have died just now."
The male adventurer who was lying on the ground gasping for breath answered with tears in his eyes. He was the magic caster who had collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion. If Angelina had not arrived in time, he would have been beheaded by now. The happiness of escaping death made him unable to control the burst of tears.
"You must be a noble from out of town, right? If you weren't a noble, how could you have a retainer of this rank, and bring along such a beautiful maid..."
An adventurer turned his attention to Iris and Camisia leaning against the wall. Since the two did not participate in the battle, they were regarded as maids without fighting ability by the adventurers.
Perhaps because the adventurer's words piqued her interest, Iris, who had been fiddling with her fingers, raised one eyebrow, and there was a hint of cunning in her raised green eyes.
"Yes, Master Aira is the strongest magic caster among the demons."
“As expected!”
Hearing Iris's words, the adventurer's eyes lit up, but then he became confused. Under the illumination of light magic, he could clearly see Ella's purple eyes - symbolizing the demon clan.
"Aren't demons forbidden from using magic other than offensive magic...? And now...? But since he's the strongest magic caster, it's only natural that there would be exceptions. I've heard of mutants before."
"Don't listen to Iris's nonsense. I'm just a level 19 healer. The priestess over there can attest to that."
Ella couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that this adventurer didn't know about the Demon King, otherwise it would definitely be lively again - the demons among the adventurers would probably flock to the scene. Just thinking about that kind of crowd of people made her scalp tingle.
Following Ella's words, the nine adventurers—the seven who remained and the two rescued by Angeline—all looked towards Lucia.
"Oh! Isn't that Miss Lucia? I'm surprised to see you here. Have you joined this demon-sama's team?"
"Eh? Me? Well... that's how it is now..."
The excitement of the adventurers made Lucia look troubled.
"So, is what the noble said true?"
"Yes...it's true. When I met Ms. Ella on Dragon Island Helkar, she was indeed level 19."
"So it really is level 19... I'm so sorry, my noble lord."
The adventurers bent down to Ella together. Although their movements were not coordinated, their attitude was extremely sincere. In addition, because they had wanted to stay and help her stop the undead, Ella couldn't help but feel good about this group of people.
Should we ask Angelini to stop and let these adventurers level up...?
Is that a reward for kindness? With the "Group Wind Binding Technique", it's only a matter of time to destroy the skeletons and zombies. While thinking about this, an unusually strong coughing sound came from an invisible place. If I remember correctly, it should be the voice of the two sisters that Shen Gan had carried over earlier.
"Nayi? Nayi? What's wrong with you?"
The older sister, who was the carrier, was constantly shaking her unconscious sister. In addition, the girl named Nayi had cuts on her legs, and blood was constantly flowing from her calves.
"Well……"
Although she was not used to such a scene, Ella still walked up to the girl in order to save her in time.
Seeing Ella coming over, the older sister suppressed the fear in her eyes and asked Ella for help.
"My noble lord, please save my sister!"
"Yeah, don't worry."
Taking out a bottle of homemade intermediate magic potion from the warehouse, Ella sprinkled it on Nayi's wound. The wriggling appearance of the buds immediately appeared in front of everyone, so her sister turned her head to the side and made a retching sound - the sight of the flesh on the wound wriggling like maggots was indeed nauseating.
However, Ella rarely turned her head away. After all, she was a healer and had seen the granulation tissue wriggling many times. She stared at the wound to confirm the efficacy of the medicine. She had not yet tried to see what level of therapeutic effect her homemade intermediate magic medicine could achieve, but now it seemed that it had exceeded her expectations. At least in the description, the intermediate magic medicine did not take effect as quickly as it did now.
"That was a magic potion, wasn't it? One bottle costs three gold coins, and yet the healer gave it to the carrier without hesitation..."
"Are you stupid? How can a three-gold potion have such a significant effect? It must be at least mid-level or high-level."
"Ahh, I'm so envious. I want to try using an intermediate magic potion, too."
"Don't be silly."
The sound of fists hitting shoulders was heard. It seemed that there were rational people among the adventurers, and Ella couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Thank you... Thank you, noble sir..."
The elder sister, known as the transporter, lowered her head and stammered a thank you to Ella. Both she and Nayi had faces covered in dust and dirt, and they didn't have the courage to look Ella in the face—they looked like the sun.
Thinking that it was a bit too much to let the other party kneel on the ground and talk to her, Ella reached out her hand to pull her sister up, but the other party just took a look and shook her head.
"Maybe you're embarrassed because you think it'll get my hands dirty...?"
If the two sides changed their angles, she would probably do the same. Thinking of this, Ella gave up the idea of pulling the other person up and squatted down to look at the other person straight in the eye.
"No need to thank me, what's your name?"
"My name is Niyi, and my sister's name is Nayi."
"Niyi..."
The names of the two reminded her of Nina who was still on Dragon Island, but now was not the time to reminisce. She observed them briefly and found that they were both wearing inappropriate seasonal clothing - a simple garment with a hole in the middle of the cloth for the head to pass through, and then tied around the waist - it was thin and tattered and could not keep out the cold at all, and even the most basic protection was not provided. The exposed skin was covered with blue and purple bruises, and the straw sandals had been lost while escaping. In addition to dust and scratches, there were also signs of frostbite on the bare feet.
It was hard to imagine what kind of life the two sisters had led before this, and Ella frowned.
"Where's the adventurer leading you?"
Ella had heard of the Porter profession, a non-combat profession that earned iron coins by helping adventurers carry monster materials. There were many Porters in front of the Demon Labyrinth, but they were all older children or adults, and there were no people under the age of twelve like the two girls in front of them. According to Camisia, adventurers who hired porters would deliberately divert some attention to protect the porters in order to train future adventurer companions. But now it seemed that the adventurer who hired the sisters was completely abandoning them as pawns.
"They...ran away when they encountered the skeletons..."
Ni Yi looked up timidly, her voice so soft that it was almost inaudible.
"He ran away? He left you alone?"
"Hmm... you told me not to lose the body and then ran away..."
"Tsk."
He smacked his lips impatiently. If abandoning one's companions and running away when faced with danger could be considered a survival instinct, then reminding the abandoned companions to "take your money with you" while escaping was truly infuriating.
The male adventurer looking at Ella sighed.
"Alas, that's how porters are. I used to be a porter myself, and those guys don't care about porters' feelings at all. No matter how heavy the load is, they'll make you carry it all by yourself. If you run into danger, they'll just throw you away as a scapegoat. If you manage to escape, they'll use the excuse of losing something to beat you up. I'm sure these two will be treated very harshly after this."
Hearing this, the other adventurers shook their heads. Ni Yi, who was awake, did not object, but just held the unconscious Na Yi's hand tightly.
Pulling Ni Yi's hand forcefully and looking at the bruises on it, Ella continued to ask questions.
"Are these left over from the move?"
"Um."
"What did the people who hired you ask you to move?"
"...The corpses of spiders and goblins."
"Ground spiders? Those guys actually let unprotected people carry ground spiders? Assholes."
A well-developed female magic caster among the adventurers spat.
Since this monster doesn't exist in "F.Wing", Ella continued to ask.
"What is a ground spider?"
"It's a spider monster less than level 3. Its body is as big as a shield, and its hairs contain a stinging toxin. If you touch it without protection, you'll feel uncomfortable for days. Most adventurers wouldn't choose to capture a ground spider, but those guys actually hired transporters to do that—"
"Is this enough money to buy the spider corpse?"
Not wanting the adventurer to continue speaking, Ella asked Ni to turn her back to her and took out a gold coin from the storage.
"Gold coins? A spider's corpse is only worth five copper coins at most. Gold coins are definitely enough. What do you mean, noble sir...?"
"After we get out, you will negotiate with the adventurers on behalf of these two girls. I will pay for the lost ground spiders, and the remaining money will be yours."
Ella extended her hand, ready to hand the gold coin to the female magic caster closest to her. Although she wanted to handle the matter herself, she had to investigate the undead for Lucia, so she had to put it off until later.
However, the adventurers did not accept the gold coin, but stood beside Ella with serious expressions.
"Your Excellency, saving our lives is already a great favor. How can I have the nerve to accept your gold coins? Rest assured, our 'Crimson Aka' will resolve this matter thoroughly. Leave the Porters to us!"
"Is this okay? He's also an adventurer, right?"
From what this adventurer said, it seemed that he didn't want to resolve the issue peacefully.
"It's okay. We're a well-known team among the Wood-rank adventurers, after all. We can easily handle these small fry. Leave it to us."
A male adventurer with short shaved hair said with a smile.
"And we don't like the practice of mistreating the transporters. With your support, noble sir, we can do it without worry."
"Okay, I'll leave it to you then."
"It's my great pleasure."
The adventurers who stayed behind should be from the same team. They seemed to be very united. Although their average level of less than 5 made him very worried, since they could say this, perhaps they were actually very strong, relatively speaking.
He roughly tore open the clothes on Ni Yi's back, revealing the skin underneath that was pierced by the spider's thorns. In addition to the original scars, there were also small red spots of various sizes, and some places even had tiny thorns broken off from the skin.
"It might be a little cold, just hang in there."
"……Um."
With the previous treatment, Ni Yi was relieved about Ella. Then, Ella took out a bottle of homemade intermediate magic potion from the warehouse again, opened the cork and poured the light blue liquid on Ni Yi's back. It can be clearly seen that Ni Yi wanted to straighten her back forward, but because her sister Nai was lying on her knees, she could not completely avoid it.
Just like when Nai was treated before, all the scars on Nii's back disappeared after being healed by the intermediate magic medicine. Nodding with satisfaction, Ella squatted and took a small step back, putting two sets of cotton clothes that she had worn in the Kingdom of Baris on the sisters. Given her physique, they should be just right for the two of them.
"For clothes, use this. I have some things to do right now, so I can't go back with you. I'll take care of this matter after I finish exploring the underground tower."
"Yes... Thank you, noble sir."
Tears began to well up in Niyi's eyes, and her voice was choked with sobs, she couldn't speak. She and her sister had been abandoned since childhood, and this was the first time in her mind that she had been treated so gently.
"Well, I say it's a solution, but really, I'm just finding you a place to stay. If you expect too much, you'll be disappointed. So—"
"Solu! Watch out!"
——It seems that we have encountered some new troubles.
Chapter 28 The Immortal Named Death
What made the adventurers scream in surprise was an undead that suddenly appeared behind them. Compared with skeletons and zombies, this undead looked more intelligent - it was covered in a tattered black cloak, its outstretched wrists were thinner than those of women and children, its skin was an ominous black color due to corruption, and its whole body was wrapped in gray smoke that symbolized negative life. And now, this undead was sweeping towards the adventurer named Solu with a slender scythe.
"Danger!"
"This guy is the Grim Reaper!"
Just as the adventurers called it, this undead being that could sneak up on them without them noticing had a special title - Death. Normally, Death only appeared in battlefields with many casualties and in gathering places of graves. Its level was between 15 and 25, and even the Mithril Adventure Group needed to expend considerable energy to deal with it. Although they didn't know why Death appeared on the third floor, now was not the time to look for the reason. In the eyes of these adventurers, the appearance of Death was just as its name suggested, a monster that brought death.
“Aaaaaaaaa!”
Seeing the huge black sickle sweeping towards him, Solu immediately let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and even forgot to dodge in time. He just stood there in fear.
Of course, not all adventurers sit idly by.
“—Wind Blade!”
"--"water polo"!"
As the adventurers shouted, cyan and blue magic mixed with two arrows flew towards the scythe and deflected it. The scythe struck less than half a meter away from Solu, and mud immediately splashed onto Solu's face as he sat on the ground.
"What are you standing there for?! Hurry up and get up!"
“Oh, yes, yes!”
"Leave this to me and Chia. You go with the noble!"
A male adventurer who looked like the leader and a very mature woman walked out of the group. Although both of them had expressions of fear on their faces and even their hands holding weapons were shaking, they still insisted on standing between everyone and death. If they were in a movie, these two people would probably be the kind of tragic supporting characters.
As if mocking them, the Grim Reaper slowly retracted the scythe that had smashed into the ground, his mouth opening and closing constantly, scanning everyone with his empty eye sockets that had lost their eyeballs.
"Captain!"
"Don't worry about me! Leave now before he does anything!"
The captain's words made the other adventurers look like they were about to cry. Even the lowest-level Death God was at least level 15. For them, the difficulty was too high. It was like asking a baby to challenge an adult. There was no chance of winning.
[This is getting a bit risqué. I'll use healing to drain HP, then let these adventurers land the finishing blow. That way, they'll probably get a lot of experience.]
Ella, who was standing behind the Carrier Sisters, stood up and aimed the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment at the Grim Reaper, who was less than ten meters away from her.
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