Is it wrong to try to meet someone in a dungeon?

Although the battle was temporarily interrupted, the enemy in front of them was still alive.

Annakidi's screams struck Lefia's back.

The masked man leading the carnivorous plants stood like a shadow, confronting Lefia and the others. Ignoring the monsters' incoherent roars, whether from fear or excitement, the monsters showed no intention of retreating. He stared calmly at the adventurers of the Loki and Dionysus Familias, as if everything was exactly as he had predicted.

Annaquite and the others behind her drew their swords in response, and Lefia also quickly assumed a fighting stance.

She didn't have time to grasp the situation and could only deal with the immediate crisis, however...

"Ah...ah ah..."

Beside her, a girl was trembling.

"Miss Philweis...?"

The girl lowered her head, her eyes wide, looking down at her hands.

At first, Rafia didn't understand what this meant.

However, when she noticed the state of the Dionysus Familia members around her, she froze on the spot.

"No, that won't happen..."

"This...this could be...?"

"How could this be...!?"

Every member of Dionysus's retinue turned deathly pale.

Some people, like Phil Weiss, looked down at their hands; some hugged themselves tightly; and some seemed to be so desperate about "something lost" that they couldn't move.

It's as if something precious has been lost from within your body—

"A god has ascended to heaven."

As Lefia stood frozen in place, the masked man shook his blue-purple robe.

"what?"

Is it the goddess Loki, or the god Thanatos... or perhaps the god Dionysus...?

The meaning behind this sentence.

It revealed to Lefia what had happened in the man-made maze, and her time was suspended.

However, the hands of a clock cannot be reversed.

"Ahhh... Ahhhhh... Ahhhhhhh...!!"

Forced to confront the truth, Philweis's despair turned into a broken voice, constantly spilling from her lips.

After her heart-wrenching cries withered and died from her throat, the girl's body fell into a state of "out of control".

Was it anger or hatred?

Sadness or pain?

Beside the frozen Lefia, a white-clad elf, like a ghost—or perhaps more accurately, like the ominous name of "the harbinger of death"—took a step forward.

It was as if he were possessed by some kind of evil spirit.

It was as if he had lost his support and gone insane.

"Everything is as the master intended. You should be happy about this, my fellow countryman—the farce is over."

The next moment.

The girl roared out loud.

"—Ughh ...

Lefia was startled, but it was too late to stop her.

Her outstretched hand missed its target, and Phil Weiss charged toward her mortal enemy.

"Philips Weisi Little————"

Lefia's voice trailed off halfway through her call.

so slow.

too slow.

Philweis's movements are so slow that even Lefia finds them amusing.

The Lord God's repatriation.

The "seal" of [ability values].

Without the followers of the chief god, one will be unable to exert the power of long-term training unless converted to the sect of another god. The inscription "God's Grace" on the back will remain silent according to the covenant.

Driven by intense passion, the elves are now no different from mortals.

Time seemed to slow down.

All sounds faded into the distance.

For some reason, without any explanation or understanding of what it meant, memories of a young girl flashed through Lefia's mind like a revolving lantern.

I recall the girl's rejection when we first met.

The girl said she was dirty, with a self-destructive sense of grief and indignation.

When Rafia shook hands with her, Phil Weiss's smile blossomed like a flower—

Why?! Why would I think of these things at this time?!

Lefia tried her best to ignore the meaning of this "phenomenon," screaming in her heart while kicking the ground with all her might and stretching her arms out to that figure as far as she could.

However, before Lefia's hand could reach her...

The masked man confronting Phil Weiss flashed past first, his metal glove disappearing into the distance.

The girl's slender neck was grabbed.

Metal fingers wrapped around her neck.

The elf's slender legs left the ground and were lifted up by one hand.

"Ugh—"

In the slowed-down world, she could only clearly hear the girl's moans.

Lefia was unaware that her mouth was uttering a series of meaningless words.

He easily grabbed the masked man holding the girl up, as if doing a boring routine, and squeezed his hand tightly.

It's almost like the "enemy" that Dionysus desperately sought.

It's like approaching them from the front, grabbing their necks, and breaking them.

It's as if many lives have already been taken in this way, a clean and decisive severing of the neck—

"live--!!"

at this time.

In front of Lefia's gaze, beneath the swaying black hair, for only a fleeting moment.

His crimson eyes seemed to glance at her.

It's like expressing an apology.

then.

Paji.

With ease and cleanliness, the sound of something breaking rang out.

The girl's head tilted unnaturally to one side.

The limbs drooped and limp like a doll with broken strings.

The murderer's vicious hand gripped that slender neck until not a trace of skin was visible.

The members of the Loki Familia were trembling.

The people of the Dionysian Families were frozen.

Lefia Veridis's mind went completely blank.

Time stops flowing.

The world has lost its color.

All emotions have lost their boundaries.

Soon, the strange man seemed to lose interest and tossed the girl's body into the air.

The elf girl, still waving her arms and legs like a doll, flew backwards and was bitten by a carnivorous plant.

Swallow it whole. Absorb it raw. As if it were a bright red fruit.

Amidst a splatter of blood, an object falls between Lefia and the monster.

That's an arm.

It was the slender arms of a girl wrapped in white clothing.

The torn flesh from the upper arm gushed out a fountain of blood as if suddenly remembering something.

Silence fell instantly.

This is the last buffer period before Lefia's frozen time is shattered.

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The next moment, the girl's mind collapsed.

"Ughh ...

She let out a scream that seemed to rip her throat out.

That was a lament that could never become a requiem.

Hearing her wailing, which was unintentionally filled with magical energy but lacked any real chanting, Annaquite and the others could only cover their ears.

The masked man didn't move an inch.

Instead, an arm that had fallen to the ground caused ripples to spread across the surface of the pool of blood.

And it seemed to echo the girl's cries—no, it seemed to resonate with God's repatriation.

The "altar" has been activated.

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"La ah ah————————…………"

A beautiful yet distorted song began to play.

Despite being filthy and depraved, they seemed to be shaken by the "command of God," and the "celestial spirits" communicated through song in different places. As if in resonance, the voices of the "six formations" overlapped with each other.

The "fairy clones" placed throughout the artificial maze are connected by a giant ring of light laid along the passageways, causing their bodies to swell and become disgustingly large.

They emitted unpleasant popping sounds, as if new life was being born from the womb, with green flesh overflowing from their massive bodies.

The next instant, the green flesh began its terrifyingly rapid "erosion".

"Hey, look! What's that?!"

"What is that? Is it a monster!?"

The adventurers of the Dionysus Familia, who had secured good positions on the stairs leading to the lower level, were the first to witness that thing.

As the maze shook with a rumbling sound, bizarre and hideous chunks of flesh gushed upwards from the steps.

"Eek—Wa ...

Whether they drew their swords or turned to run away, it was all in vain.

In an instant, the murky, green flesh engulfed the floor, walls, and ceiling, swallowing the adventurers whole. They were devoured, becoming "nutrients." It was the most standard form of "absorption," "predation," and "ravage." To the fleeing adventurers, it was nothing short of a man-eating monster cheering as it devoured human flesh.

"Eeea ...

The surviving remnants of the dark faction were also swallowed up without their knowledge.

The same scene was playing out everywhere in the maze.