Wrong, my team members are from daily life

The hero of the past has now sided with the dark side. This is not the first time she has experienced this. As excited as she was before, she is now as desperate as she is now.

"Mad." She snorted.

Shadow didn't deny it.

Following the words of the God of Death, he continued:

"Whether the shadow will devour Finn (the light), or the light will pierce the darkness, the result will soon be known."

……

Alixie just realized it: "Oh, so we are stepping stones, that seems not bad."

The rebirth of the dead is too shocking. With their identities, they may be destined to never become heroes who face the end of the world.

It seems like a good idea to become a stepping stone for the younger generations.

Alisha thought carelessly.

Then, Kaguya slapped him on the head and whispered:

"Idiot, if you let Ryu kill you again, that child will be so pitiful."

"Ahaha, that's right." Alishe laughed awkwardly.

……

The turmoil in the artificial maze finally came to an end with the death of Olivas. This maze will also be completely transformed into an "experience value" copy, waiting for the brave to conquer it.

At the same time, in the deepest part of the dungeon.

In the gap between the 60th and 61st floors.

A giant wolf that was blocked by countless vines and chains slowly opened its eyes. In the center of its head, a huge colorful magic stone emitted an angry light.

"Woooooooo..."

A low, angry whimper spewed out from the giant wolf's throat, and as the magic stone on its forehead flickered, an emerald green gem hatched from its body.

The orb fell to the ground, slid through the gap, and entered the 61st floor.

In a moment, it drilled into the head of a Behemoth and hatched instantly.

"Aa ...

The fairy spirit that lost its tentacles took the initiative to send out new branches and walked towards the ground.

……

A few days later……

During the day, Xia Jia uses Yui to help deduce the most suitable materials for making the "Gluttony Hot Pot", and at night he goes to "Alaya Academy" to sign in.

I took some time to use fantasy composition to deal with the editor of the library. I also have a time limit to chat with Kayaba Akihiko and guide SAO.

Asuna and the others, after seven days of recuperation, returned to school and resumed their school life, except that the physical education class was replaced by a fighting class.

Shaka was bored, so he was dragged to class by Asuna and Yuuki. Of course, he spent most of his time lying on the desk to catch up on his sleep.

Well, the only unpleasant thing that happened during my sleep was that a female teacher with long black hair threw chalk at me during the Chinese class.

I was also asked to receive life guidance after class.

I'm always being told to enjoy my youth and the last thing they want to do is force me into a club with only one person.

Please, I’m not the protagonist of a daily light novel.

All in all...life is pretty comfortable.

Today, Shaga received several messages.

"Have Finn and the others finally saved enough money to start work on the man-made maze?"

Xia Jia flipped through the information sent by Shadow and scratched his hair.

"Recruiting adventurers from all over the city... Hmm... Is it necessary to mobilize so many people just for an artificial maze?"

He threw the intelligence aside.

The man-made maze in this world line doesn't even have a single immortal clone, so is there any value in conquering it?

"Oh, there seems to be Dionysus's "Frenzy Orchia", but the switch of that thing is in our hands, right?"

Xia Jia rubbed his eyebrows.

He rarely paid attention to Shadow's games, only occasionally accompanying him in role-playing games.

In order to satisfy his performance to passers-by, Xia Jia chose to ignore him in most cases.

After all, I am the protagonist. If I become too familiar with a passerby, I might be promoted to a "supporting role".

"Would you like to observe the closing performance?"

As Xia Jia was thinking, a new prompt sound came from the system.

Yui turned into a fairy and floated above Shaka's head:

"Dad, the information from Kotoko-sister...she seems to have found the deepest "Casios"."

Chapter 517: Star Sea Fear!

"Casios's information?"

Shaga became interested.

The concept of the Deepest Abyss was heard from a heretic. It is said to be the place closest to the origin of monsters.

They call it the "shell" of the dungeon.

It is an unknown place that has not been explored by humans, and only heretics and monsters can get close to it. Lid and his friends once wanted Fels to explore there, but they were warned by the dungeon.

"If you dare to bring humans here, I will destroy the underground city."

The mother trembled and warned Reed with similar actions.

While asking Yui to open the video recorded by Iwanaga Kotoko, Xia Jia asked, "Is the dungeon okay?"

"Dad, you should watch it yourself."

Yui did not give a direct answer, but instead pulled open a blue light curtain in front of Shaka.

In the picture, a "big hole" that Xia Jia had never seen before appeared before him.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a vast land that is wider and higher than any other space, and can almost accommodate a small country. Compared with this "big void", adventurers are as small as ants.

There was a plain there. There was a mountain beyond. He could hear the faint sound of water. Glaciers and the sea of ​​sand coexisted side by side, and inside that there was a rather desolate wilderness. From time to time, the ground emitted a glow that was not sure whether it was crystal or quartz.

The surroundings were as dark as night, and overhead, it seemed as if a bridge of aurora was shining and swaying leisurely.

"This scene is like a collection of the deepest layers of the underground city..."

“It’s like a different world.”

Xia Jia looked at the scene in front of him and sighed.

The scenery of each floor of the dungeon is different. This did not exist before the advent of the gods. It was just a big hole, and monsters would crawl out of the hollow rock wall. It was not divided into floors like today.

Perhaps, in the deepest part of the dungeon, there was such an underground world, and there was a world on the other side where only monsters existed?

He couldn't help but think of the everyday world and the endless debate between the geocentric theory and the flat Earth theory.

From Xia Jia's perspective today, it is actually a bit far-fetched to use human eyes to determine whether the world is round.

Human vision follows light. When gravity reaches a certain level, the light will be swallowed and distorted. No one can be sure whether the circle seen by the human eye is real.

"The underground city gets bigger as you go deeper. So after the deepest level, will it cover the entire world?"

"Will there be a similar underground kingdom again?"

Looking at this, the gap between reality and dreams. The realm of fantasy and mystery.

Xia Jia's eyes lost focus and he was immersed in the shock of exploring the unknown.

The person who filmed the video seemed to be as immersed in it as Xia Jia.

After a while, the scene began to change, and a pale hand slowly raised up:

"what is that……"

Kotoko Iwanaga's voice came out from the video.

Xia Jia followed her gaze.

The seemingly endless "big hole" has an end. At the deepest point of the steep wall, the "sphere" exists there.

It looks like black, gray, and dark purple.

Black sun.

Or rather, a "huge magic stone". There is no other way to describe it.

Judging from the area of ​​the large cavity, and the size that can be clearly seen at that distance, the volume of this black sun is probably not smaller than Behemoth.

Even bigger!

"That's the source of our monsters." Reed's voice was heard in the video.

The voice was faint, but it made Xia Jia feel his scalp tingling.

"Magic Stone? If that thing is really the magic stone of the dungeon, then how big is the "monster" called the dungeon?"

"Could it be that this world itself is a giant monster?"

Shaka recalled the many terrifying creatures that roamed the sea of ​​stars carrying the world on their backs.

Something called deep-sea phobia crept into his mind. No! Perhaps it should be called astral phobia.

Xia Jia suddenly turned off the video and covered his eyes:

"This is not something humans should watch. What it represents is too horrifying."

What if the object that humans ultimately want to attack is the earth on which they depend for survival? The gods ultimately want to see such a ridiculous ending, isn't it a bad taste?

"No. The gods never said they would conquer the dungeon! The end they talked about was always the black dragon..."

"The reason why I had the idea to attack the dungeon is because I have the confidence! In fact, the gods never expected the children of the underworld to really get a glimpse of the true appearance of the dungeon."

calm down.

Xia Jia took a deep breath and adjusted his emotions.

"Let me think about it. In the movie I watched before, didn't it show a scene that takes place 10,000 years later? 10,000 years later, Artemis is resurrected. At that time, will Hestia's Familia still exist? Will the world still maintain the family model unique to the Age of Gods?"

"Does this mean that the dungeon is still in operation?"

Yui floated in front of Xia Jia worriedly, and gently rubbed Xia Jia's eyebrows with her small hands.

"Dad? Are you okay?"

Xia Jia took another deep breath and calmed down from the fear of the unknown.

"That's right. The dungeon is the world's cosmology and is itself a part of the world. Everything revolves around the dungeon, even the gods in heaven. Without the dungeon, the world of Chicuo will naturally collapse."

"Because I knew that the dungeon might collapse on a large scale, I subconsciously thought that the end would come from the dungeon, so I ignored the cause of the collapse, which might be caused by the fallen immortal spirits endlessly absorbing nutrients from the dungeon."

The end of this world will come from the black dragon and the fallen fairy, and the final mission of the adventurer will not be the dungeon.

“Hiss…, now I’m even more curious about the dungeon.” Xia Jia’s eyes lit up as he looked at Yui:

"Continue, how far has Kotoko explored that space?"

Yui reopened the video...

The video then starts to speed up, and Kotoko Iwanaga bids farewell to Reed and sets out for the "Shell" alone.

This is probably what it means when you try to run a horse over a mountain.

The video is accelerated and incoherent, and it can be seen that Kotoko Iwanaga took several months to approach the huge magic stone.

Only after standing under the huge magic stone did Xia Jia clearly realize the size of this magic stone.

For example, it's about the size of Aincrad.

That’s right, it’s like a floating city.

The magic stone released a magnificent purple-black light, and the surrounding space and the aurora belt in the sky were all changed by this magic stone.