Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

"These are the dishes you ordered. Two more dishes are being cooked. If you need anything else, just tell me directly."

When Liu put the last dish on the table, he didn't notice that there was a bottle of Coke under the plate. When Chloe noticed this, she was about to remind him loudly, but Mu Huai reached out and gently supported the back of Liu's hand.

"Wait a minute, there's a bottle of drink underneath. Let me move it away before you put the plate down."

"Ah... okay, thanks for the reminder."

"fine."

But Loli stared blankly at the two people who acted as if nothing had happened. She rubbed her eyes vigorously to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, and quickly slipped over to the others and whispered, "Meow~ I just saw something really amazing! Mr. Mu Huai touched the back of Liu's hand, and she didn't react at all!"

"real or fake!?"

"No way?"

The reason they were so surprised was that Liu was a very conservative elf who followed the principle of "no one except those she approved was allowed to touch her skin". She didn't say anything when Mu Huai touched the back of her hand just now. It was obvious that the two of them had made unusual progress without their knowledge.

"How about we have a pajama party tonight and ask Liu and Mr. Mu Huai about their progress?"

"I agree!"

Mia silently shook the silver bell, reminding the group of gossiping and idle shop assistants: "Hurry up and serve the food!"

"Oh no, Mia is going to be angry!"

“Work, work!”

After eating and drinking, Ai Si suddenly invited everyone: "Mu Huai, we are going on an underground city expedition, do you want to come with us?"

"Wait, Miss Ais, Lily and Lady Hestia can't pretend not to hear what you said. Why did the Loki family expedition involve Master Mu Huai?"

"Because Livilia said that the expedition might also encounter an event to establish a [Great Deed], plus Mu Huai's strength is around Lv.5, so he can be used as external aid."

"Foreign aid? So..."

Lily rubbed her index finger and thumb together, a hint of a mercenary smile playing on her lips. "The Loki family is willing to pay the corresponding Farsi as a reward?"

Mu Huai had no objection to joining the expedition, but Lily's greedy look made him feel like he was being sold out by the military advisor. He reached out and pinched her cute cheek in annoyance: "When did you become a money-grubber?"

"It's Lord Mu Huai's fault for spending money like water. Every month, the income and expenditure are seriously unbalanced. Lily can only try her best to help the family generate income."

"Uh……"

"Lily-kun, aren't you going with us?"

Lily shook her head regretfully. "The Loki clan's dungeon expedition isn't something a Lv.1 supporter like me can casually join."

Hearing that Lily, who was acting as a monitor, was not with Mu Huai, Hestia was a little reluctant to let him join the expedition. After all, her thieving cat radar was still reacting to Ai Si.

She must still be plotting something bad against my Mu Huai!

"Mu Huai..."

"what happened?"

"Promise me that your Black Flame Dragon will only be used for peeing during the expedition, okay?"

Mu Huai frowned. He looked down at Hestia, who was trying to cover up her lewd words by pretending to be cute. He flicked her forehead with his finger and said, "I'm going to do something serious, not to go to the Ishtar family's fun street."

Ai Si immediately put on a stern face and emphasized: "Mu Huai, Happy Street is not a good place, you can't go there."

"This time, Lily agrees with Miss Aisi. Master Mu Huai, you must not go to Happy Street!"

"Weren't we discussing the expedition? Why did it suddenly become 'I want to go to Pleasure Street'?"

38

Chapter 38: Clan Expedition.

Ai Si returned to the clan and told Livilia the news that Mu Huai had joined the expedition. She smiled and stroked Ai Si's soft golden hair, asked her to take a shower and rest, and then went to the captain's office to report.

"Finn, Mu Huai has agreed to join our expedition."

"After the expedition is over, give him the aid fee according to the level of a Lv. 5 adventurer. After all, his strength is obvious to all of us."

Speaking of the word "obvious to all", Livilia wanted to laugh when she remembered Bert's impetuous personality and took the initiative to provoke him to test his strength, but was beaten by him and wrapped like a mummy, unable to get out of bed for two days.

According to Ai Si, Mu Huai fought with a sword instead of fists in the dungeon. It can be seen that he held back when beating Bert, otherwise the result would not be just a simple skin injury.

"Notify the rest of the clan that the expedition will begin in two days. This time, our goal is to explore below the 37th floor."

"clear."

……

On the day of the Loki clan's expedition, Mu Huai arrived at the gate of the Loki clan's residence early. Because he had come to see Ai Si many times in the past six months, he became acquainted with the members of the Loki clan and entered smoothly.

Dungeon expedition is not an ordinary adventure. It requires a large amount of logistical supplies and requires Lv.2 adventurers to act as logistics and stay on the safe floor to ensure that a certain degree of support can be provided to the elite expedition.

Only a wealthy clan like Loki's could afford both the manpower and financial resources required. However, this expense was nothing compared to the fame and profits that would be gained from a successful expedition.

Deep-level monster materials, special items, medicinal herbs, and other rare items are in short supply in Orario. As long as you can bring them out of the dungeon, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell them at a good price.

Before every expedition, the Loki clan would hold a particularly grand expedition ceremony, and this time was no exception. When Mu Huai appeared in the expedition team, many people who came over to watch the fun and became adventurers at the same time as him but were still struggling at Lv.1 cast envious glances at him.

"I wish you will return triumphantly with honor and wealth. Set off to the dungeon, my children!"

When Loki finished speaking, he deliberately glanced at Mu Huai, obviously wanting to disgust him.

But when she saw that the other party was discussing in a low voice with Ai Si with his head tilted, and the distance between them had exceeded the danger line she set, she immediately put on a Sima face, with dark resentment all over her body, took out a small straw man with the words "Mu Huai" on it, and stabbed it one after another with a knife in her hand.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Finn quickly waved his hands and shouted: "Let's go! To the dungeon!"

"Oh!!!"

With Finn, Riveria, and Grace, three Lv. 6 adventurers, the Loki clan advanced through the floors at a speed that was unimaginable for ordinary adventurers. It only took half a day for the expedition team to reach the safe 18th floor.

That is, starting from this level, the expedition team is divided into two parts: the exploration team is composed entirely of elites, and the Lv.3 adventurers who carry some supplies. The logistics team, which is mostly Lv.2 adventurers and is stationed on the 18th floor ready to provide support for the exploration at any time.

Mu Huai naturally joined the exploration team with Ai Si. Before officially starting to head towards the 19th floor, Finn still introduced Mu Huai to the other members in a businesslike manner.

"I believe you are all familiar with Mu Huai. Although his current level is only Lv.3 on paper, his combat strength is equivalent to Lv.5.

This expedition is a very severe challenge for our clan. Based on the principle that more people mean more strength, I have specially asked him, who has a good relationship with all of you, to become an external aid to help us in this expedition.

The battle formation and responsibilities remain the same as before. Mu Huai, you and Ai Si have been partners for six months, so cooperate with her in battle."

"I understand."

"Then... the expedition officially begins!"

……

Even when Mu Huai teams up with Ai Si, he prefers to fight alone. Now he has a very fresh experience of going into a dungeon as a team.

When encountering a group of monsters that cannot be avoided, Grace, the heavily armored dwarf warrior, will lead the other vanguards to take the initiative to respond to the enemy and contain them. Then, the only two magicians in the team: Livilia and Lefiya will start chanting magic to launch large-scale attacks on the monsters, and Finn will be responsible for controlling the overall situation.

In their previous expedition, the Loki clan had reached the 37th floor, and were very familiar with the conditions of the floors before it. They did not get lost like Mu Huai did.

After that, the expedition team spent a day advancing to the 25th floor, which was called the "Water Mystery City".

The entire floor is covered by a huge underground lake, in which stands an intricate maze made up of countless stone ruins. Only parts of the broken stone pillars and arches are exposed above the water for people to stand.

The crystals on the ceiling emit a faint blue light that is reflected on the water. Looking around, there is very little space for people to walk. At the bottom of the seemingly calm emerald blue water, there are various deadly traps and raider fish hiding in the water that are ready to attack adventurers at any time.

[Water Mystery City] can be said to be the most troublesome part for Finn in his last expedition. They spent most of their time fighting wits and courage with underwater monsters and the difficulty of having no foothold. Fortunately, this time he already has a way to deal with it.

"Livilia, Lefiya, take out the frost potion you prepared!"

"understand!"

The two of them quickly took out several bottles of potions from their backpacks and chanted magic spells to inject magic power into the potions. Not long after, Livilia stopped casting the spell and threw a bottle of frost potion into the lake in front of her.

The moment the glass bottle touched the water, it cracked from the front to the left and right, and the potion inside turned into an arrow and shot towards the other side. The water surface where the arrow passed gradually turned white and was frozen into hard ice, forming an ice bridge three people wide.

"The effect is good. We can continue to use this method in future expeditions."

After solving the problem of having nowhere to stay, the expedition team stepped onto the ice bridge and continued on their journey. There were monster attacks along the way, but they were all easily resolved.

While Mu Huai was recording the locations of the entrances and exits on each floor, he asked Finn how much fari it would take to buy this frost potion.

"What do you want to do with this potion?"

"Of course, it's to challenge Amphis Barna, the lord of the 27th floor, in a one-on-one fight."

His casual attitude, which was as casual as eating, choked Finn.

He really wanted to tell Mu Huaian that Feisbarna's strength was about Lv. 6, but when he thought about how he had been challenging opponents of higher levels since coming to Orario, he took back the words and told him where to buy the potion and how to achieve the same effect as Livilia and the others.

39

Chapter 39 I will lead you to fight.

Finn, who was observing the battlefield from the back, noticed that Mu Huai's fighting style was very clean and neat. He had only known that he could defeat Lv.5 Bert with his bare hands, but this was the first time he saw him fight with his own eyes.

There are no fancy sword moves, nor does it rely on pure strength. The movements are so simple that they can be summarized by the words: cut, stab, pick, and sweep.

It is such a simple and rough sword swing, but each sword can hit the monster's vital point just right. If it does not defend, it will die immediately. Once it defends, the endless sword shadows will make it completely lose the chance to fight back and can only passively take the beating.

After most monsters gave up attacking and chose to defend, they would soon be killed by Ai Si who seized the opportunity to attack from the side.

"They're quite a good match, don't you think, Finn?"

"Livlia, don't let anyone else hear this. If Loki hears it, I'm worried she'll sneak over to Hestia's Familia in the middle of the night and break down the door."

"Hey, I was clearly talking about fighting, why did someone get the wrong idea?"

Finn smiled and shook his head. Seeing that the merman and crystal sea urchin were cleaned up, he directed the logistics personnel to collect magic stones and dropped materials, and used the discussion as an excuse to tell the information about the [Water Mystery City].

He was obviously giving a labyrinth knowledge lecture to Mu Huai, who had little experience. Generally speaking, this information was the secret of each clan and could not be disclosed to outsiders.

But Mu Huai was chosen by Loki, Finn, and Riveria to be the "fuse" when Ai Si goes berserk. Only when he becomes stronger can he better fulfill this responsibility.

Before the expedition, Loki himself agreed to Finn's action of revealing the information about the maze to him. After all, it was related to Ess, and she was still very concerned about her.

The 27th floor of the dungeon is the activity area of ​​the floor master Amphis Barna. It is called an activity area because it is the only known floor master who can move back and forth between two floors.

It often wanders between floors 27 and 28. Fortunately, this guy was defeated by someone unknown. Torches are hung at the entrances of both floors, representing the countdown to the resurrection of the floor owner.

Grace stroked his wild beard as he approached the torch. After carefully examining the clan emblem on it, he said, "The emblem on this torch... probably means Ota of Freya's clan killed the floor master."

Tiona, the lively Amazon sister, covered her mouth and sighed, "Wow... As expected of Orario's only Level 7, she managed to take down the Floor Master without making a sound."

Finn retracted his gaze and clapped his hands to signal the rest of his companions to stop talking. "It's a good thing we have someone helping us clear the obstacles on our expedition, but we can't let our guard down. Let's continue our journey deeper."

"Yes!"

Starting from the 30th floor of the dungeon, monsters called blood dragons began to appear frequently. Their hard scales and sharp claws that could easily tear apart second-level weapons were a nightmare for most adventurers.

Unfortunately, their opponent this time is the Level 6 magician Livilia, known as the "Nine Demon Princesses".

"—O harbinger of the end, O white snow, stir up a mighty wind at dusk.

Closed light, frozen earth.

Snow blows everywhere, three winters pass—my name is Alf!

Three streams of blowing snow gently brushed across the blood dragon's indestructible body. In an instant, its blood-colored scales were covered with a layer of pale white. Under the gaze of everyone, its movements gradually slowed down until they stopped completely.

This group of blood dragons that had just emerged from the dungeon transformed into lifelike ice sculptures and blocked the middle of the road. Later, the others smashed them with weapons and took away the magic stones mixed in the ice.

This is the offensive magic that Livilia is proud of: Ecstasy Fimbulwinter.

This magic can use the power of ice and snow to completely freeze everything in a certain area, and her exquisite manipulation of magic prevented teammates within the range of the magic attack from turning into ice along with the blood dragon.

Mu Huai opened his skill panel. His combat skill had already reached level 9, and was only a little bit away from level 10.

When he upgraded his combat skills to level 5, the upgrade reward was a random ability draw, so when he upgraded to level 10, he would definitely be able to draw abilities again.

Now he is in the dungeon, a natural monster spawning ground. Every monster that appears in front of him is a walking experience point. In order to upgrade as quickly as possible, he no longer just slacks off with a red-blade sword.

The demon sword Xin Du, Ebony and White Ivory, and the Phantom Sword all came out together. The whole person was like a human Tyrannosaurus Rex, rampaging in the maze, tearing apart all the monsters that blocked his way.

His terrifying display shocked Loki's followers so much that their eyes nearly popped out of their heads. Grace accidentally plucked out a strand of his proud beard, looking at it with heartache as he asked, "Isn't his destructive power far more than just Lv. 5?"

Tiona, who was also at Level 5, looked at the intimidating double-edged sword in her hand, which was as tall as a person, and suddenly felt like a rookie who had just entered the duel field in front of Mu Huai.

"Hurry up and catch up, don't let Mu Huai be surrounded by monsters alone!"

Only then did Finn realize that Mu Huai had been hiding his true strength before, but he didn't know why he suddenly stopped hiding it. Perhaps it was related to the fact that he had told him a lot of information about the maze along the way.

……

The last monster in front of the entrance to the 37th floor turned into smoke and dissipated. Mu Huai waved his hand to put away his weapon, and a pleasant reminder sounded in his mind.