A Mistaken Encounter: The Hero of the World

"Um, Miss Aisi, you really don't want to eat anything?"

Serven had already finished a bowl of soup. When he heard Lefiya's question, he realized that Ais was just taking small nibbles of the rations she brought with her.

"——Ai——si, come and eat something. If you don't eat well, you won't grow up." Diona came over with the soup.

"Haha, you eat so much but you still don't grow up." Tione laughed.

"What did you say!" Diona rolled her eyes and said to her sister angrily.

"Let me do it." Serven took the bowl from Diona's mouth and sat back next to Ais.

"Eat, Aisi."

The strong aroma that stimulated her appetite attracted Ai Si's attention. Ai Si glanced at Serven and turned her face away with her iron will. "I... I'm not hungry."

Ais firmly believes that eating too much will affect the physical condition during battle.

Serven pursed his lips, scooped up a spoonful of soup, blew a few breaths gently, and handed the spoon to Ai Si's mouth, "Ah——"

Ais' eyes widened.

"Ms. Ais..." Lefiya was so angry when she saw this scene that she opened her eyes wide and burst into tears.

Aisi's ears turned red, and she quickly took the spoon and bowl and started drinking in small sips.

"Serven." Diona blew a bowl of soup and handed it over.

Serven looked at Diona in surprise. She turned her head with a red face and said, "For you."

"Thank you." Serven laughed.

Seeing Serven's smile, Aisi's mouth corners also slightly raised. She noticed that Diona, who was drinking soup tactically but was actually paying close attention to her reaction -

"¨～ Sure. As for Diona, I don't mind." Ai Si said.

Tiona's eyes widened in surprise.

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"Then let's confirm the next plan." After everyone finished eating, Finn stood where the big pot was originally placed and spoke.

"Our goal this time is the 59th floor. But before that we need to complete the adventurer commission of the Dean Kate family." Finn paused, "Collect the specified amount of spring water from the Cadmus Spring on the 51st floor."

"Cadmus Fountain... This is so troublesome. Why did you accept such a commission?" Diona grumbled and was slapped to the ground by her sister.

"Don't question the leader's decision!"

"Because we owe them a lot of favors, we can't just refuse." Livilia explained.

For the exploration clan, the treatment of injuries and replenishment of medicines after returning from battle cannot be done without the help of the Dean Kate clan. The Loki clan also goes on expeditions regularly, so they are even more dependent on them.

"Actually, I wasn't planning on taking it, but...they offered too much."

The clan members were all upset.

The newbie Serven just opened his eyes cutely and acted as if to say, "Although I don't understand, I'm listening carefully."

"The Cadmus Fountain is deep inside the 51st floor, guarded by the 'powerful dragon' Cadmus." Ai Si explained (Wang Qianhao).

"If we only look at combat power, Cadmus may be stronger than Udaeus. I remember being knocked away by it before, my body was in tatters, and I almost died." Diona said with a smile.

As expected of you, little angel Diona. Serven sighed in his heart, not only did she not share her scars with a sad face to gain sympathy after such a cruel experience, but she could actually talk about it with a smile.

"The commission requires a large amount of water, and the water volume of one occupied "Cadmus Fountain" is limited. In order to reach the specified amount, we must go to two fountains. So I decided to split the troops into two groups."

"The first team consists of me, Grace, and Bert..."

"Captain, choose me! I'm willing to go!" Tione shouted loudly.

Finn's eyebrow jumped. "Plus Raul. Raul as a supporter."

"Little one understands."

"The second team will consist of Aisi, Tione, Tiona, and Serven."

"Finn, can you add Lefiya?" Livilia suddenly said.

"Okay. Then Lefiya will join the second team. It's decided then."

"Yes! With Aissan!" The Lily Fairy waved her fist excitedly.

Chapter 57: Mutation [Subscription Request]

"By the way, Tione, you will be in charge of the team's operations this time. Don't let me down."

Tione looked calm and composed on the surface, but in reality she was more violent than Tiona and Ais. In order to prevent Tione from going crazy again, Finn had to add a safety precaution.

"Okay, leave it to me!" Tione agreed happily, her cheeks flushed and she was in high spirits.

"It's so easy to fool." Severn and Diona sighed at the same time.

Floor 51 of the dungeon.

This is a veritable maze, which is quite rare in the deep layers and even in the entire dungeon. The walls, which are neither stone nor mud, are a deep graphite color. The vertical and parallel walls, floors, and ceilings seem to be designed and built by a designer with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The neat underground natural passages form several corners and crossroads. If you are not careful, you will get lost in this maze that is larger than the area of ​​Orario.

"ha--!"

Tiona shouted and ran away, easily using her hands to swing out a whirlwind with her large double blades, and slashed at the monster with wide eyes.

The black monster was cut in half.

"Black Rhino" - This is a large rhino-type monster that is nearly two meters tall, level 5, with armor-like skin that is hard and thick, and its hardness far exceeds that of the 49th-level goat man "Fomer". When it sprinted towards the adventurers, it was like a tank rolling over them.

Ais also rushed over. With her speed, her sharp sword flashed through the monsters from time to time, and she continued to slaughter the black rhinos.

"The plunderers are ahead, pick up your bows. Respond to the voices of your compatriots and put arrows on the strings." Lefiya began to chant.

But the wall beside her suddenly cracked, and a red and purple "deformed spider" appeared. It was a giant spider with eight huge legs and more than a dozen pairs of compound eyes. As soon as it appeared, it opened its ugly jaws and jumped over a distance of several meters, rushing towards Lefiya.

“Hoooooooooooooooo!”

Lephia froze on the spot, her chant choked by fear.

The sword flashed, and Serven stood in front of Lefiya. "Don't worry and continue chanting, Lefiya."

Amid the flying dust, her long hair mixed with white and black fluttered gently.

Lefiya held the wand tightly in her arms and stared at Serven's back, "...Okay, okay!"

"Then I'll go over too." Seeing that nothing was happening here, Tione smiled, threw a scimitar at the black rhino, and also rushed towards the group of monsters.

Serven also swung out a few casual blows, killing the few remaining black rhinos.

"Really, I haven't fought enough!" Diona said to Serven with some dissatisfaction.

"I'll give it to you later." Serven's tone was like comforting a child. Only then did Diona suppress her dissatisfaction and smiled foolishly.

The crowd continued to move forward, fighting as they went.

They stopped at the end of the narrow passage, and further ahead was an open space.

——This is one of the caves with the "Cadmus Fountain" and the powerful dragon.

Tione silently winked at Ais and the others, preparing to change positions.

"Wait, there are no monsters in there." Serven said.

"Are you sure--?!" Tione and Tiona asked in surprise, and Serven nodded.

When they entered the cave, they still did not completely let down their guard. The cave was full of trees that were not as dense as the forest, but every tree was broken or crushed. The surrounding ground and walls also seemed to have been severely damaged, either full of cracks or shattered.

Only the spring water, as an indestructible object in the dungeon, is protected like a sanctuary. Ripples appear on the beautiful blue water surface, but there is no wave.

There was a lot of dust piled up in front of the spring.

Most importantly, some parts of the trees had turned dark purple and were still emitting black smoke and an indescribable stench, with signs of dissolution everywhere.

Everyone couldn't help but frown.

"Is that... the corpse of a powerful dragon?!" Tiona said in surprise, looking at the huge pile of dust.

Serven squatted down beside the dust that had turned into a mini desert, brushed off the dust, and picked up an object buried underneath - a piece of wing membrane that shone with golden light.

"what is this?"

"Cadmus's membrane." Ais replied.

"Cadmus's Membrane" - a rare material with a very low drop rate - is roughly the same as the drop rate of the King's Crystal that you can only draw after 361 shots.

——Extremely rare and of great value.

"He doesn't look like an adventurer..." Tione frowned.

"...I have a bad feeling. Let's go back quickly." Lefiya said as she rubbed her slender upper arms, which were already covered with goose bumps.

Serven took out the prepared bottle, drew spring water from the low-lying area, and filled the bottle in one go.

Normally, as soon as the spring water gushed out, it would be drunk up by the powerful dragon, so usually only a little bit of the spring water could be recovered, but this time they easily filled it up with the amount specified by the adventurer's commission.

Everyone walked back with mixed feelings. As a powerful spring guard, Qianglong was the strongest monster on the 51st floor.

Its power is so powerful that it can even be said that if the floor masters that appear on other floors are not taken into account, it is definitely the monster that sits firmly at the top of the pyramid among the monsters discovered so far.

"Abnormal situation..." Ais frowned and murmured softly.

On the way back, they quickly found the culprit.

A swarm of giant worms -

They were yellow-green all over. The bulging and seemingly tender green skin had colorful patterns everywhere, which was strangely dazzling. Under the round body, countless short legs formed the lower body, and the strange upper body seemed to be placed on a huge lower body.

There is only a flat mouthpart on the face. Arm-like limbs extend from the left and right sides of the head, and there are four cracks in the front part, forming webbed things similar to fingers.

"What is this?!" Tiona said, and rushed to the monster with a large double blade.

The monster made a disgusting sound, opened its mouth from a place that might have been its face, and violently spat out a large amount of purple-black liquid.

Diona dodged without difficulty and slashed at the monster's defenseless and fragile body with her large double blades.

result--

The same purple liquid as before burst out from the enemy's wound.

Tiona twisted her neck to avoid it, and a drop of liquid got on her hair.

With a "sizzle" sound, the hair was dissolved.

"This...ah, my big double blades!!"

Tiona screamed in surprise. One side of the large double-bladed "Olga" blade had disappeared.

Then, the entire large double blade dissolved.

The blade is buried in the enemy's body and corroded by that body fluid, leaving no residue.

A creepy chill ran through her body. Diona pulled out the dissolving hair without hesitation and fled. She did not forget to look back as she ran away - she spent 120 million fares to build that weapon, and now there was nothing left.

The group of worm monsters had already sensed the aura from this side and turned around to crush Serven and the others.

The monster was shaking up and down as it moved forward, and its lateral width was almost equal to both ends of the road. Its huge body collided with the ceiling several times, cutting off several pieces of the ceiling, and rolled over like an armored vehicle.

"Tiona, get ready to get out of the way—" Serven pulled out the Autumn Water.

"Wait, Serven, what are you doing?!" Tiona wanted to stop Serven, but the monster was getting closer and closer. Serven swung his sword and a red slash flew over.

Tiona sped up her escape, "If I get touched by that liquid, I will never forgive you!"

The monster was cut directly in half by the slash, and a large amount of purple liquid gushed out.

Serven swung his sword to build a wind wall - [Wind Barrier], blocking all the splashing corrosive solution.

Then, Serven swung his sword continuously, and the red crescent cut cut the disgusting worms into pieces, turning them into dust in the air and a solution on the ground.

"It seems to be a new species." Tione said, "It seems that they are the ones who killed the powerful dragon..."

“Roar, roar, roar, roar…!”

Say Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive.

From the other side of the passage, the roar of a strong dragon was heard, but the roar became weaker and weaker, as if an unexpected situation had occurred.

"Do you want to go over?" Serven asked, turning around.

Aisi nodded, already starting to walk, and Tione sighed.

Many worms can still be seen in this passage, crawling one after another towards the cave at the end of the passage.