After the slave owners went bankrupt, they all wanted to keep me as a mistress.

Vera glanced at Mu Qiu with some surprise.

Although those two mithril-grade weapons do indeed have advanced blessings such as instant casting and memory casting... these can't possibly be blessed weapons, right?

Only equipment that is completely free of curse attributes can be considered blessed equipment.

The reason why mid-to-high-level blessed equipment is so expensive is that only blessed weapons can be immune to the effects of curse suppression and abyss suppression.

Simply put, blessed weapons cannot be cursed by enemies, nor will their effects be suppressed when venturing into dungeons or abysses.

The deeper you go into the dungeon, the more your regular equipment will be suppressed.

When entering the abyss, the effects of ordinary equipment will be completely lost, leaving only basic sharpness and spellcasting functionality.

As for the runes, enchantments, and even blessings mentioned above, none of them will take effect in the Abyss.

Only purely blessed equipment will not be cursed or affected by the abyss, and all runes and blessings on it will function at 100% effectiveness.

The reason why low-level blessed equipment is not so popular is that adventurers who can go deep into the dungeons or even into the abyss are at least legendary or higher.

For legendary adventurers, low-level blessed equipment is of little use and is not as good as ordinary legendary weapons. At least the sharpness and defense attributes will not be affected. Only the enchantment attributes and engraved runes on the weapon will be disabled.

If it's dungeon equipment, because it can't be enchanted, it might have an extra "Blessed" attribute, which in a sense is equivalent to being enchanted by the dungeon.

Moreover, ordinary dungeon equipment may have strange curses, but only blessed equipment does not have to worry about curses.

Therefore, the prices of mid-to-high-level blessed equipment on the market are ridiculously high.

Low-tier blessed equipment is actually less valuable than mid-tier ordinary equipment.

In Vera's view, the equipment her master bought for her should be dungeon equipment with negligible effects from cursed attributes and exceptionally powerful effects from blessed attributes, but it's impossible that all of them were blessed equipment.

However, since the master thinks so, let's find an opportunity to go to the Earth Temple.

Vera thought to herself.

The Holy Maiden of the Earth Temple is herself an adventurer. For a fee, she can have dungeon equipment appraised to determine whether it is cursed or blessed.

She was also very curious about this saintess who was an adventurer, since saintesses of temples usually wouldn't become adventurers.

This is a good opportunity to meet the saintess here. If it really is blessed equipment, it might broaden the saintess's horizons.

The earth-dwelling dragon continued its journey, and soon it was noon.

Just as Mu Qiu and his group were passing the edge of a dense forest, a sudden change occurred!

"Ouch——!"

"Gahhhh!"

"Ah...! Why are there dungeon monsters here?! And so many of them..."

Suddenly, a chaotic roar, terrified screams, and the clash of weapons came from afar.

"Monsters in the dungeon?"

Mu Qiu's gaze sharpened as he looked in the direction from which the sound came.

The sound seemed to be coming from a clearing in the woods not far ahead, and it was rapidly spreading toward the trade route!

He looked at Vera and said in a deep voice, "Let's go, let's go take a look."

As he spoke, Mu Qiu patted Fiona, who was dozing off on his shoulder.

"Wake up, Princess Knight! It's your turn to shine!"

"Ouch... Ohhh...!"

When Mu Qiu patted her like that, Fiona, who was leaning on his shoulder, suddenly hugged his waist tightly, her delicate body trembling slightly, and she let out a sound that she could hardly suppress.

Mu Qiu's lips twitched.

"Fiona! I didn't tell you to do that!"

……

Chapter 86 The Knight Princess's battle cry was, of course, a loud, booming sound!

Mu Qiu thought Fiona would at least say something in her defense, but she just snorted from her nose and the long, thin dragon tail behind her slapped his leg with a "smack," the force not too light or too heavy.

"You stingy bastard! I kept watch for you guys all night! Can't I even lean on your shoulder for a moment?"

She seems... unaware of the sound she just made?

Mu Qiu was stunned for a moment, unable to tell whether she had genuinely not noticed or was using this method to cover up her earlier embarrassment.

"Didn't you hear what happened just now?"

"What was that sound? Did you call me just now?"

Fiona frowned slightly, revealing a puzzled expression.

Just then, she heard a strange noise coming from the clearing in the woods ahead, and her expression instantly became alert.

"Is there fighting going on ahead?"

"Ah."

Seeing this, Mu Qiu didn't press the matter further. He turned his gaze toward the direction from which the roar came, and his expression gradually became serious.

"It doesn't sound like a monster from the nearby area, but rather a monster that has emerged from the dungeon."

As he spoke, he unfolded his personal map, pointed to a location marked with a red dot, and said in a deep voice, "There is a dungeon near the trade route. Judging from the notes on the map, it is a medium-sized dungeon."

"Vera, roughly how strong are the monsters in a medium-sized dungeon?"

Mu Qiu looked down at the elven girl in his arms.

If the monsters in the dungeon are high-level, it's still possible to leave before they discover you.

If you rush in rashly and get surrounded by monsters, you'll be in trouble.

He came here to go bankrupt, not to save the world and become a hero. His own safety and the safety of those around him are his top priority.

Vera was nestled in Mu Qiu's arms when she heard this. After a moment's thought, she said, "A medium-sized dungeon can only accommodate monsters at the peak of the Orichalcum level."

"Under normal circumstances, only the lords of the final level can reach this level, while the rank cap of ordinary monsters is often one major rank lower than that of the lords of the final level, which is the peak of the gold level."

Mu Qiu frowned slightly: "Peak of the Orichalcum? We can't possibly deal with a monster of that level, can we?"

Vera shifted her little bottom, adjusting to a more comfortable position in his arms, and whispered, "Lord-level monsters don't leave the dungeon."

"The vast majority of dungeon riots occur because a high-level lord suddenly appears on a lower level and drives the lower-level lords away to other places."

As she spoke, she gave a simple example.

"The maximum number of floors in a medium-sized dungeon is fifty. If the lord of the thirtieth floor suddenly leaves its territory due to mating season, dungeon tectonic shifts, or other reasons, and comes to the tenth floor and occupies the territory of the lord of the tenth floor."

"So, since the 28th and 29th floors are usually where the guardian monsters of the 30th floor lord reside, they will also follow their lord to the lord's first two floors and occupy the territory of the 8th and 9th floors."

"During this process, chaos may occur in the first thirty floors, with a large number of monsters fleeing to the lower floors. However, the lower floors cannot accommodate too many monsters, so some of them will be driven out of the dungeon."

"The ideal scenario is that a hidden passage appears between the tenth and thirtieth floors, and eventually the monsters from the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth floors occupy the ninth floor of the eighth chapter. At this point, it is highly likely that only the monsters from the first few floors and a small number of monsters from the eighth and ninth floors will appear in the outside world."

"The worst-case scenario is that the lord of the 30th floor and its guardian monster rush all the way from the 30th floor to the 10th floor, driving away all the monsters along the way. In the end, almost all the monsters from the first 20th floor will be driven out of the dungeon, and even some of the monsters from the 20th to 30th floors will appear in the outside world."

Mu Qiu understood Vera's meaning: "Estimated in the worst-case scenario, if the lord of the final level occupies the territory of the previous levels, there might even be more than forty levels outside... which means a large group of gold-level monsters?"

While a single gold-level monster is not a threat, even Vera would be unable to contend with hundreds of gold-level monsters.

"Yes."

Vera nodded gently, her breath occasionally brushing against Mu Qiu's neck.

"Although the possibility is extremely small, there have indeed been several instances in history where the final level lord suddenly appeared in the earlier levels..."

Vera was interrupted by Fiona before she could finish speaking.

"Ha! What are you all worried about! With magic fluctuations of this level, aren't they just a bunch of bronze-level weaklings?"

Fiona took out a greatsword from her storage ring, slung it over her shoulder, and said nonchalantly, "If it were a gold-level monster, the commotion wouldn't be so small. Leave it to me!"

Mu Qiu glanced at her and kindly reminded her, "If you keep going into the dungeon with this kind of arrogant attitude, you will be defeated sooner or later."

"In that case, how about we make a bet, Master?"

Fiona has a high degree of confidence in her abilities.

It's impossible for a Gold Peak professional like her to clear a medium-sized dungeon, but she can easily handle a dungeon riot caused by a medium-sized dungeon by herself!

She wore a confident expression, puffed out her chest, and looked at Mu Qiu with her head held high:

"If I can handle this rioting monsters on my own, you're not allowed to do such shameless things to me again!"

Vera, who was standing nearby, suddenly interjected, "What if you can't handle it by yourself?"

"That kind of thing is absolutely impossible! If I lose, you can do whatever you want to me!"

"Trying to negotiate with your master as a slave? That takes courage, but I agree."

Mu Qiu looked at Fiona, who was full of confidence, nodded, and agreed to her bet.

Then he looked at Vera in his arms:

"Vera, I'm leaving the vigilance to you. If we detect a large number of gold-level monsters appearing, we'll retreat immediately."

Vera responded softly, straightened up slightly from Mu Qiu's embrace, and with a flick of her right hand, took out her staff and magic book from her storage ring at the same time, ready for battle.

At this moment, Mu Qiu slapped the earth dragon beneath him hard, signaling it to turn around and accelerate towards the forest clearing from which roars and fighting sounds were coming.

The tall trees rushed past on both sides, and the stench of blood and the unique stench of monsters in the air grew stronger.

Soon, they rushed out of the woods.

In front of them, on a fairly large open space, stood a minotaur with blood-red eyes, exuding an aura of peak silver level!

Not far from this minotaur, about twenty or thirty dark green goblins were attacking three young adventurers.

Most of these goblins were only of the Iron rank, with a few slightly stronger Bronze rank mixed in; they were clearly just low-level monsters from the first few levels of the dungeon.

However, Mu Qiu noticed that these goblins were not carrying any weapons and were fighting the three adventurers with their bare hands.

"Three Iron-rank adventurers have managed to hold out this long? Wait... it seems like the goblins were holding back?"

Before Mu Qiu could figure out what was going on, he heard the minotaur let out an excited roar.

"Hooray! So exciting! So exciting! Forcing childhood sweethearts to show their most lewd expressions in front of a strong male—that's the meaning of our existence as minotaurs!"

"Wha...what!?"

Fiona, sitting behind Mu Qiu, heard the minotaur's voice from afar and instantly gripped her greatsword, revealing an angry expression.

"How evil! How despicable! What shameless monsters! To actually force humans..."

Before Fiona could finish speaking, she suddenly realized something.

Wait, those three young adventurers... they all seem to be male?

She paused for a moment, and before she could act, she saw a male adventurer grit his teeth, as if he had made up his mind, rush onto a green goblin, close his eyes, and begin tearing at the goblin's tattered clothes.

"!!!"

what? !

So it was human adventurers raping goblins?!

Fiona's eyes widened, looking as if her worldview had been completely shaken, and even the greatsword in her hand trembled.

Seeing this, the minotaur shouted even more excitedly.

"Croak! This is exactly what I wanted to see! Did you see that? Your childhood sweetheart is being wantonly played with by lewd humans, and you are powerless to do anything about it! Hahahaha!"

The minotaur shouted excitedly, unleashing his silver-level demonic aura, which immobilized the goblins.

One of the strongest bronze goblins, seeing its childhood sweetheart—a green goblin with his lower body wrapped in rags—being pinned down by a human adventurer, couldn't help but show a humiliated expression and struggled desperately.

"Gaaaaaahh ...

"We're going in! We're going in! We're going in!"