DanMachi: The Epic of the Heroic Spirits of Emiya Shirou

Lefia answered hastily, her voice filled with fear.

Sister Alicia, you must be very disappointed in me today...

"Lefia, not bad offensive magic. Heal yourself and Shirou first, then heal us."

Alicia said softly, "Hurry up, burns will leave scars if they aren't treated quickly."

Lefia: "Huh? Yes!"

Suddenly, Haruhime exclaimed in surprise, "Lord Emiya's heartbeat has become stronger!"

"It really worked, now it's my turn..."

Ryu pushed Alicia away.

Faced with this scene, Haruhime was so blushing that she almost fainted, but Emiya was still lying on her lap, so she managed to hold on.

"I'm making a lap pillow for Lord Emiya, which is practically the same as sexual intercourse, ugh..."

Chunji thought to herself.

As for Lefia, watching two respectable senior adventurers of her own race take turns "healing" a boy even younger than herself, she felt her worldview was about to collapse.

Alicia looked up and wiped her mouth: "Lefia, quickly cast a healing spell. If we still have the strength after healing, come and massage Shirou's body to speed up blood circulation and promote Shirou's recovery."

"Yes, yes!"

……

The campaign to subdue the Black Goliath, the Lone King of the Labyrinth, is complete.

BOSS Potential Ability: Lv.5.

BOSS Challenge Difficulty: Lv.6.

Contribution ranking (only direct combat with the BOSS is considered; combat against monsters is calculated separately)

Ruriang (MVP): 45%, main damage dealer, strongest combat force.

Alicia Forrest: 40%, core pillar, team leader.

Emiya Shirou: 9.9%, Shooting Support, Key Control.

Lefia Veridis: 4.9%, the final blow.

Sanjou Haruhime: 0.1%, without the support of the [Mahō-chō], Emiya cannot last until he throws the stone.

Aisabelleka: 0.1%, tested the strength level of Black Goliath.

48

The 48th Palm Joint Rescue Team.

"Finn, what's wrong? You seem distracted."

The red-haired goddess Loki inquired of her captain.

Finn frowned and explained, "I have a tingling sensation in my thumb."

Finn, the leader of the Loki Familia, possesses a special ability that is not a skill bestowed by God, but rather an innate instinct.

His thumb would hurt if something bad happened.

Using this ability, Finn led the Loki Familia to overcome numerous crises.

"What on earth happened...?"

As Finn was thinking this, a voice suddenly broke in.

"Commander, something terrible has happened!!!"

Someone barged in shouting that.

Finn immediately stood up and asked, "What happened, Raul?"

Raul rushed back to his clan, his face filled with panic: "I just heard some adventurers say they saw Alicia and Lefia on the twelfth floor. There was an earthquake in the dungeon, the twelfth floor collapsed on a large scale, and those adventurers escaped up..."

"Yoarisia and Lefia haven't returned yet!"

Finn's expression immediately turned serious.

Lefia is the rising star of the Loki Familia, and Alicia is an important officer in the magic force. If something were to happen to them together, it would be a major blow to the Loki Familia.

"Raul, go find Ais and Bert. Loki, please inform Riveria and Grace that we need to head to the dungeon immediately for a rescue!"

"As ordered."

"understood."

As soon as Finn gave the order, the entire Loki Familia sprang into action, and soon the group was assembled.

"This underground earthquake was not only intense, but also had a wide impact. According to the guild, a large-scale collapse occurred on the twelfth floor, creating numerous vertical tunnels leading to the fifteenth floor and beyond."

Raul's face turned pale as he recounted the intelligence he had gathered:

"As for Alicia and Lefia, their eyewitness accounts are from the twelfth floor, where multiple adventurers saw Alicia hunting a [Young Dragon]."

Finn continued Raul's words: "And until now, Alicia and Lefia have not returned."

With Alicia's Lv.4 strength, apart from Goliath, the Lone King of the Labyrinth, there was nothing in the upper and middle levels that could threaten her. However, the earthquake in the dungeon must represent an "abnormal situation".

Finn's throbbing thumb was also a sign of this; Alicia and the others must have encountered some trouble.

"Just in case, we'll launch a rescue operation immediately. Ais, Bert, you're the fastest, head to the dungeon first."

"understand!"

"Tsk, got it!"

【Sword Maiden】Ais Wallenstein and 【Ferocious Wolf】Bert Roca are both adventurers of the new generation of Loki Familia, and they have both reached level 5.

"Commander, we have new intelligence!"

A member of the rabbit-man group ran over. He was Lakta from the Loki Familia's second army, and his level was Lv.3. Finn had sent him and other members of the second army to various places to gather intelligence.

Lakta, panting as she sprinted back at full speed, exclaimed, "The passage from the sixteenth to the seventeenth floor collapsed due to the earthquake, and a vertical cave leading to the seventeenth floor has also appeared on the sixteenth floor!"

Riveria's face turned pale: "The seventeenth floor? The 'malice of the dungeon' is so profound, is it aimed at Lefia?"

Of all the people, the one with the most anxious expression was naturally Riveria. Alicia and Lefia were both her people; the former was her trusted adjutant, and the latter was her student.

If Goliath were to be resurrected prematurely, Alicia alone would not be able to defeat him.

"Rivia, Grace, let's hurry up and set off too."

Finn said.

Two Lv.5s went first, followed closely by three Lv.6s, and the Loki Familia's emergency rescue team set off in a grand procession.

"What kind of day is this? First it was the Freya Familia, then the Ishtar Familia, and now the Loki Familia has arrived."

Upon arriving at the entrance to the dungeon beneath the Tower of Babel, the first-level adventurers with keen hearing immediately picked up on the voice of a particular adventurer.

"What do you mean by 'Freya Familia' and 'Ishtar Familia'?"

Finn dragged out the adventurer who had spoken.

The adventurer trembled under the gaze of the three Lv.6s: "Just now, the Freya Familia and the Ishtar Familia clashed at the dungeon entrance. [The Mighty One] and [Goddess's Chariot] gave the Ishtar Familia a good beating and drove them out."

"【Man Killer】was beaten so badly that he was embedded in the ground. Look, right there."

An adventurer nearby added, casually pointing to a bloated, large, and ugly hole in the floor next to them.

[The Mighty One] Ota, a pig-man warrior, leader of the Freya Familia, the strongest and only Lv.7 adventurer in the city.

【Goddess's Chariot】Alan Fromo, a cat-person gunner, vice-captain of the Freya Familia, known as the fastest Lv.6 adventurer in the city.

【Man Killer】Frinjamiller, an Amazon warrior, leader of the Ishtar Familia, and the only Lv.5 adventurer in the Ishtar Familia.

What's going on with Freya's Familia? Both the captain and vice-captain have been mobilized.

What's the situation with the Ishtar Familia?

Riveria and Finn exchanged a glance. Putting themselves in each other's shoes, they realized that these two Familias were probably in a similar situation to the Loki Familia—with important members trapped in the dungeon.

Where did the Freya Familia and the Ishtar Familia go?

Finn asked.

"The Ishtar Familia fled after being attacked, the Freya Familia just entered the dungeon, and [Sword Princess] and [Wolf] also just went down not long ago."

The answer came from a passerby adventurer.

"Okay, thank you for your help. Let's go down now."

Finn nodded and took the lead, stepping into the large hole at the entrance to the dungeon, with Riveria and Grace following closely behind.

Although they weren't speed-type adventurers like Ais, Bert, and Allen, their levels meant they wouldn't be slow. The three Lv.6 members of the Loki Familia swiftly traversed the preceding floors and finally caught up with Ais and Bert on the sixteenth floor.

And there's Ota, the strongest in the city, the "Fierce Warrior," who's clearing away the passageways between floors blocked by falling rocks, one slice at a time.

"Tsk, one troublesome guy after another."

[The Goddess's Chariot] Allen clicked his tongue in amazement.

Ais and Bert of the Loki Familia stood a distance away from Otto and Eren, with Bert glaring at Eren with displeasure.

“Ota, our objective is to rescue the trapped members.”

Finn stepped forward and negotiated: "You're here to rescue people too, right? Let's put aside our feuds for later. How about we work together today?"

"Let me help too."

Gress, a dwarf warrior of Loki's Familia, stepped forward, picked up his heavy axe, and broke through the rocks to clear a path.

Ota did not object: "We were just hired to rescue people, do as you please."

As he spoke, he swung his greatsword and smashed a huge rock to pieces.

On the other side, Allen looked very impatient, but didn't say anything more.

The most powerful among them is actually the Lv.6 mage Riveria. However, her magic is too powerful, so it's better for the warriors to clear the way to prevent the entire passage from collapsing.

A level 7 warrior and a level 6 warrior, the two strongest warriors in the city, worked together and quickly broke through the passage.

Without a word, this strongest rescue team, composed of the two major factions at the top of the city, moved in unison toward the deepest room on the seventeenth floor.

Then, they witnessed a scene that shocked their worldview.

49

Chapter 49 We've never seen anything like this before.

At the entrance to the deepest room on the seventeenth floor is a "mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood" composed of broken magic stones and dropped items left by numerous monsters.

The sheer number of them was enough to secretly alarm even seasoned, experienced adventurers.

Finn and Riveria whispered to each other:

"This is the first time I've ever seen so many monster loot drops outside Goliath's room."

"It's like at least a hundred monsters tried to break into the Lone King's room in the labyrinth, but were annihilated here."

"Someone has cast a powerful wide-area annihilation spell here. It looks like this spell is a 'radiating' type that can be launched in a fixed direction..."

The two members of Freya's Familia, without any hesitation, strode confidently into the room of the Lone King in the Labyrinth.

The Loki Familia adventurers followed closely behind.

It's just some dropped items. Even if there are a lot of them, these first-level adventurers are experienced and have seen it all.

"Alicia, Lefia, you must be alright!"

As she entered the enormous room, Riveria closed her eyes and prayed.

Then she heard Finn's voice.

"What's happening here???"

Finn, the "Hero" who is known for his "wisdom" in Orario, subconsciously asked a question. His tone contained three parts confusion, three parts bewilderment, three parts shock, and one part doubt about life.

After decades of getting along, this was the first time Riveria had ever seen Finn, who always seemed so at ease, express such complex emotions, like a pie chart.

After witnessing the scene before her, Riveria's emotions were even more indescribable than Finn's.