I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

*创世纪6187年8月3日 下午14:00分 天然迷宫

Like the natural labyrinth of the western demons and the underground tower of Semorabi, the natural labyrinth of the eastern demons attracted all kinds of adventurers and merchants. However, perhaps due to the hot weather, the labyrinth square was very deserted. Merchants selling weapons and medicines lay on bamboo chairs to rest, while adventurers sat by the wall to take a nap. It was almost impossible to see anyone walking around.

Looking around at the adventurers, Ella sighed.

"It's surprisingly peaceful."

"And their equipment is much better than the adventurers in the underground tower. Is this the difference between a natural maze and an underground tower?"

The natural maze not only contains monsters with extremely high-quality magic cores, but also various precious materials that are not available in the underground tower. In addition to selling magic cores and monster corpses, adventurers can also make money by collecting plants and minerals. On the premise of having enough materials, adventure-related medicines and equipment will naturally be cheaper, and the general preference for equipment is also natural.

In addition, there are treasure chests in the natural maze, which may bring rich rewards. Although no one knows where the treasure chests come from, all adventurers know that there are treasure chests in the rooms where the class lords are located. Generally speaking, there will be equipment or medicines that can make a small profit. Sometimes even "superior recovery medicine" or even scarlet gold equipment can be obtained.

Seeing something worth noting, Ella couldn't help but stop - in front of the shop in front of her was something like a price list, but the goods for sale were not equipment, but adventurers themselves.

"Even adventurers can buy it... Remember, slave trading is not allowed among the demons."

"Maybe it's just a temporary employment?"

Ruthie's words were enlightening. Ella carefully looked at the price list - the most expensive adventurer only needed eight silver coins, which certainly didn't seem like the cost of buying a slave.

But Ella discovered another thing worth noting.

"Are healers the most expensive? Magic casters are second, followed by shield warriors and regular warriors. But then again, why do we need to differentiate between male and female adventurers? Female adventurers are generally more expensive than male adventurers."

Not only personal information is written on the wooden sign, but even the other party's level, age and even preferences are noted. It feels more like a blind date than a simple employment relationship.

Hearing someone talking in front of the stall, the stall owner, who was half asleep with his eyes half closed, immediately came to his senses, rubbed his hands excitedly and spoke to Ella.

"Oh, what would you like, little girl?"

"Does this mean hiring adventurers?"

Ella pointed to the wooden sign.

The bearded boss was stunned for a moment, then a smile suddenly broke out on his face.

"Of course, I train all kinds of adventurers, from warriors to healers. Do you want to go to the natural labyrinth too, little girl?"

"That's true...but wouldn't hiring adventurers be a hassle?"

The problem lies in the cooperation and trustworthiness between partners. Camisia once said that there are thieves in the underground maze who make a living by robbing other adventurers, and these thieves are often colleagues of adventurers. Therefore, the credibility of a simple employment relationship like this is really worrying.

The shop owner, understanding what Ella meant, patted his chest confidently.

"Of course, the adventurers I train are absolutely trustworthy. To be honest, they are all slaves I selected from neighboring countries. Although I don't have much talent for fighting, I am very confident in my ability to judge people. I have trained them into slaves with combat capabilities. They will never disobey their employers' orders."

Having said that, the shop owner sighed softly.

"Slavery isn't allowed here, so I can only make money this way. At first, I thought the money was too slow, but now it seems much easier than before. At least I don't have to travel around from country to country. By the way, do you want some girls? I can also train handsome men. I guarantee you'll be satisfied, but don't do anything to hurt them. I still rely on them for my livelihood."

Seeing the shop owner's meaningful look, Ella couldn't help but take a step back in disgust. Things had developed to this point, and even without her being told, she knew why female adventurers were generally more expensive than male adventurers - this must include special services.

"No... no thanks, I'm not interested in any of this."

"Really? That's a shame. Looking at you two, you should be magic casters. Lack of vanguards is a real risk. It would be terrible if you got a scratch on your face. Why don't you consider hiring some vanguards?"

"No, thank you."

"In that case, how about a healer? They can save lives in emergencies, right? It'll be more expensive, though."

Speaking of the thing that she was initially curious about, Ella couldn't help but ask.

"Why are healers more expensive than combat classes?"

"Because this is the Demon Tribe. Demons don't have healing magic, so they can only rely on outsiders to make up for their shortcomings."

“Is that so…”

【It seems that I need to find a way to solve this problem later. 】

Quickly rejecting the stall owner's nagging suggestions, Ella turned around and left with Loti. Although the stall owner had no ill intentions, it was better for Loti to have less contact with such people. Besides, there was no need for her to hire adventurers.

After crossing the slope where the porters were, Ella and the others arrived at the hall at the entrance of the underground maze. Apart from the young porters squatting by the wall, there were only a few staff members in charge of handling procedures and soldiers who were preventing monster riots.

Seeing Ella and the other person approaching, the female employee smiled professionally.

"Excuse me, do I need to go through the procedures for labyrinth registration?"

"Um."

Ella's words made the female employee look apologetic.

"Could you please show me your adventurer ID? If you and your companions don't have sufficient strength, we can't just let you pass."

He was surprisingly responsible, but considering the labyrinth industry—only living adventurers could hand in magic cores—protecting novice adventurers could probably be considered an investment.

Without hesitation, Ella handed her orichalcum-level certificate and Lotte's mithril-level certificate to the clerk. The moment the female clerk saw the two metal plates, her eyes widened.

"You're actually an Orichalcum-rank adventurer. Please forgive my earlier rude remarks. I apologize for my rudeness."

"That's fine. Rather than that, I want to ask you something about the labyrinth."

"No problem. Judging from your appearance, this is probably your first time in the Eastern Demon Tribe's underground labyrinth, right? I'll do my best to answer any questions I can."

"Hmm... Has anything strange happened in the labyrinth recently? Like, a sudden sound in your ear?"

Even now, he couldn't find anything worth mentioning in the "Terrain Search". If the other party was not deep underground, he could only consider that his level was far higher than his own and he had reached an area that the "Terrain Search" could not observe.

The clerk gave a troubled, wry smile in response.

"We haven't heard any reports of this. Are you referring to undead beings like ghosts?"

"Is that so... sorry to bother you."

"This is what we should do."

Although it was a reasonable answer, Ella still felt a little disappointed.

"Am I the only one who can hear this? It feels a bit scary... No, is this a supernatural event?"

Only I can hear it, it only appears late at night, and there is a female voice with a hint of expectation in its tone. The combination of these three things can only be associated with horror stories, and it gives me a creepy feeling.

While thinking about this, Ella and Lotte came to the stone gate engraved with a huge Demon King emblem. Perhaps noticing the uneasiness in Ella's eyes, Lotte tilted her head and asked.

"Are you worried about that voice, Ms. Ella?"

"Eh? No... nothing, just thought of something else."

It would be better not to make Lotte worry.

"Really? This morning, Ms. Angeline said she was going to explore the underground labyrinth. Maybe we can meet Ms. Angeline and the others here."

"Angelina and the others? Are they with Fukagan?"

Because Shen Gan and Angelica have known each other for a long time, Shen Gan would not let Angelica run around alone most of the time in order to prevent her from getting lost.

"Well, not only Miss Fukama, but Miss Iris was also there. I remember she said she wanted to challenge the limits of her strength."

"Iris is coming too?"

Ella couldn't help but look at the "Terrain Search". She didn't see any trace of Iris in the first 20 floors.

"You actually made it below the 20th floor... At this rate, we'll definitely spend the night in the labyrinth."

The distance between each floor of the maze is extremely long, and there will be monsters blocking the way along the way, so if you want to go deeper into the maze, you usually have to be prepared to stay away from the ground for a long time. The distance from the 20th floor to the entrance will take at least half a day.

Ella thought that Iris probably wanted to spend a night in the maze.

【I'll go check it out later.】

"Miss Ella, do you want one too?"

"No? After all, we agreed to look for those children at night, so I just wanted to search for the owner of the voice—waaa, these things are also found in the Eastern Demon Tribe."

Ella couldn't help but take out a layer of cloth from the storage and cover herself and Lotte's head.

Like the Western Demon Tribe, the Eastern Demon Tribe's labyrinth is also infested with various insect-type monsters. Due to their extremely rapid reproduction rate and their inability to produce usable magic cores—which are roughly the size of sugar grains—even adventurers are reluctant to deal with them, making them extremely disgusting.

"Miss Ella, are you planning to use Fireball again?"

As if recalling something, Lotte looked at Ella with a smile.

"Of course not. That's why they fell on my head last time."

Ella was talking about what happened during her last trip to the Western Demon Labyrinth. At that time, because she used "Fireball", all the insect corpses fell on her and her companions.

He looked around at the dark stone narrow passage, confirmed that there was no one around, and nodded to Lotte.

"I want to go to the 50th floor first and find the source of the sound before starting the upgrade."

"Okay, Miss Ella."

After getting the answer, Ella chose the role of Loli God in her mind. After the white light flashed, she straightened her clothes and snapped her fingers lightly.

『Group Short-Distance Teleport』

Using the "Terrain Search" to determine their location, the two quickly arrived at the room of the estate lord on the fiftieth floor. However, perhaps because the monster was asleep, the ogre-like monster, at least five stories tall, did not notice Ella.

After confirming this, Ella breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then let's go check on Iris and the others first, eh?"

"Miss Ella, what's wrong?"

"...Something seems off."

Although she didn't know what exactly happened, just from the "terrain search", she could see that Iris and the others were being chased by a group of monsters. There were at least thirty of them, and their levels ranged from fifteen to thirty. Even Iris couldn't handle this number of monsters, not to mention that the three of them had exhausted their magic power. Judging from their magic power, they were slowly recovering with magic potions.

Lotte showed a nervous and worried expression.

"Not good? Miss Iris and the others are in trouble?"

"Well, following them are a group of monsters of different kinds—perhaps they've encountered a monster wormhole. Although they're quite far away from the monsters right now, at this rate, they'll be caught up sooner or later. Iris isn't in great physical shape."

However, having said that, in fact, Iris's physical fitness is already equal to that of an adult soldier who has been trained for a long time. It is not good enough only when compared with monsters who are born with high physical fitness. You know, while they were talking just now, Angelica and the other two had already led the monsters around the maze, running from the 37th floor to the 36th floor.

——In the process, it also affected another group of adventurers they met on the road. The fleeing team went from three to ten. Not only that, the number of monsters was also increasing. The monsters that were originally chasing behind gradually fell behind due to fatigue from the rush, but new monsters encountered on the road kept joining the pursuit army, and the number was increasing. It was almost a matter of time before a large-scale monster riot developed.

"Ms. Ella, should we go over and help?"

Lotte tugged at Ella's sleeve.

"Hmm... If I go over there now, other adventurers will see me. Let's use something else. 'Advanced Strength Enhancement', 'Advanced Speed ​​​​Up', 'Advanced Iron Wall Enhancement', 'Advanced All Attribute Enhancement', 'Holy Barrier', 'Metamorphosis Hymn', 'Rebirth Blessing'. Hmm, that would be perfect."

Although he was initially worried that it wouldn't work due to the distance, it now seemed to be working properly. All of Angeline's stats had been raised to an extremely terrifying level. Judging from the stats alone, they were already equal to his own swordsman state. And this was despite Angeline's own low base stats. If it were Camisia, she would probably be equal to a warrior of several hundred levels.

Although the Loli God status doesn't have the class bonuses of "F.Wing," it seems like it now has an additional buff that increases skill effects. It feels a bit weird.

Of course, considering that the sudden increase in power would make others suspicious, Ella only strengthened Angelini. But even so, she would definitely be able to easily deal with these monsters.

To confirm this, Ella continued to observe the map, but her expression gradually became strange.

"Wait, what is this? This is too much!"

On the "Terrain Search", the light spots representing the group of monsters and Angeline stopped. After a strange delay of one second, the situation completely reversed, and it became a scene of Angeline and her group chasing the monsters in the maze. Ella could even imagine Angeline waving a giant scythe and shouting at the monsters not to escape.

But this was just the beginning. Thanks to the benefit of "High-level Acceleration", Angeline quickly caught up with all the monsters and turned them into experience points. Then, in front of Ella's stunned eyes, she fell vertically from the 39th floor to the 40th floor below - the level of the level guardian.

The ground must have been broken through by violence.

Ella couldn't help but imagine the ground shaking.

Soon after, the Floor Guardian guarding the 40th floor disappeared from the "Terrain Search".

Unable to help swallowing, Ella felt like she had done something wrong. She awkwardly turned off the "Terrain Search" and patted Lotte's shoulder lightly, pretending nothing had happened.

"Hmm... Lotte, let's go find the source of the sound. It's in the deepest part of the maze."

"Eh? What about Miss Angelina and the others?"

"They're fine now."

The problem is the monster in the underground tower.

【You must hide well. 】

Ella prayed briefly in her heart for the souls of the monsters in the maze.

Chapter 25: The Manager of the Maze

With the help of "Terrain Search" and "Short Distance Teleportation", Ella brought Lotte to the bottom level of the natural maze.

The underground space was pitch black. In order to see her surroundings clearly, Ella could only use magic to light up the surroundings. But strangely, there was no trace of monsters here. Apart from the thick tree roots clinging to the walls, there was only dark gray poisonous gas in the air.