madnovel Chapter 402 Reincarnated Bull Bull Launches Another Challenge
Chapter 402 Reincarnated Bull Bull Launches Another Challenge
Chapter 402 Reincarnated Bull Bull Launches Another Challenge
"Dionysus!"
Outside the cell, Roy leaned against the wall. Upon hearing the name, a cold glint flashed in his eyes. This evil god was truly a persistent ghost, pure chaotic evil.
Dionysus + the true form of the Filthy Fairy!
The priority of handling both has been further increased.
Dionysus's previous failure with the Six Rings was due to the opponent's greed; they wanted to destroy Orario and the adventurers left in the dungeon in one fell swoop.
If the opponent narrows their target to destroying Orario, the success rate will increase significantly.
The difficulty of defeating the Fairies of the Six Rings in the dungeon increases dramatically, as the Heavenly Pillars they summon are enough to destroy Orario on the surface.
Defeating the six filthy fairy clones is not the end; the filthy fairy's main body, hidden in the shadows, can continue to nurture the filthy fairy clones.
If we don't defeat it soon, it's only a matter of time before a second or third Immortal Six Rings are created.
Roy didn't want to be suddenly struck by a six-ringed beam of immortal light while he was sleeping.
Fundraising for Skyship has been completed.
Since it was jointly built by many forces in Orario, that warship was not exclusively owned by the Astrea Familia.
Roy didn't care. Whether the sky warship could survive after defeating the black dragon was another matter. The school district's "Spirit Ship" was almost scrapped back then. It was later repaired using materials dropped by the sea overlord Leviathan, and that's how it looks now.
Moreover, the blueprints aren't just for one-time use. If I ever have too much money in the future, I can build another private warship and take my daughter around the world.
Resorts and hotels.
The entire Astrea Familia was present, regardless of whether they were new or old members. The way everyone looked at Roy was filled with indescribable respect and admiration.
Roy's feat of throwing the divine gun and saving the world completely won over everyone, even Kaguya, Lyra, and others, whose favorability rating was over 80%.
"————That's how it is. The next expedition's objective is to find the floor where that tainted fairy is located!" Roy explained the situation to everyone.
The corrupt spirit that assimilated the entire floor is likely still preparing a new six-ring spirit.
While everyone was shocked, they showed no fear; their eyes were filled with fervor.
Tiony grinned maliciously, "Crush them, Commander!"
The other girls' expressions were pretty much the same.
Following Roy, there's no need to worry about training your stats; just rush to wherever there's danger, and after accomplishing great feats, you can quickly replenish your attributes and level up.
The girls who didn't achieve great things in the Scorpio Andaris incident are full of expectations.
Let alone them, Roy's achievements weren't even enough to upgrade his rank. The scene was quite a big one, but Scorpio Andaris was at most a level 7 monster.
Gungnir, the divine spear, is 100% accurate when thrown, regardless of Roy's skill level. Even if Roy just tossed the spear casually, it would still hit the target.
A noble padlock!
When Roy used that divine gun, he could almost hear a powerful background music playing in his ears, his older brother's little tune.
The next day.
After filling his spatial ring with supplies, Roy led his team into the dungeon in a grand procession.
Since we don't know which floor the filthy fairy is located on, it's likely to be a protracted battle, and the supplies carried by the two spatial rings may not be enough.
This time, conventional tactics were used.
This was also the strategy used by Loki and Freya's Familia during their expedition: the main force charged ahead, while the second squad, carrying supplies, followed behind and camped on a safe floor.
For example, if they want to explore the fifty-eighth floor, the main force goes deep into the ground, while the second squad stays in the safe fiftieth floor. The main force can return to the fiftieth floor to replenish supplies without having to return to the surface. Whether they want to continue exploring or maintain their current state, this is the best option.
On the one hand, it reduces the burden on the main force, and on the other hand, it can cultivate the reserve fighting force of the clan.
This is the best expedition tactic that the Orario clan has explored and tested over thousands of years.
Previously, Roy and Ryu, with their spatial rings, could rampage through the dungeon with impunity.
However, as the floors became deeper and the number of family members increased, the space rings became insufficient.
Adding Roy's Earth Power wouldn't prevent us from continuing this strategy, but it would have a low margin for error. If an unexpected situation arises, we could be completely wiped out. A second squad would improve the margin for error.
Roy quickly came up with an exploration plan.
Tiona and Anya remained on the surface to continue protecting Astrea.
Roy, Ryu, Lily, Tione, Haruhime, Daphne, Cassandra, and Lefia form the first squad.
Alisha, Kaguya, Maru, Liana, Neze, and Noin form the second squad.
The girls from the former Astrea Familia had an exploration record of forty-one floors, so it was impossible for Roy to take them directly to a depth of fifty or sixty floors.
As the second team, they carried supplies and gradually advanced the previous exploration records.
These girls are not what they used to be.
After returning from the north, Alisha, Kaguya, and Murrue leveled up to LV.5, becoming first-level adventurers!
The second squad of the Astrea Familia alone could easily be among the top five in Orario!
With the Earth's power extended to the thirty-sixth floor, Roy was able to lead the girls directly to the portal to the deeper levels, completing in less than half an hour what others took two days to do.
On the thirty-third floor, they also encountered heretics.
Heretics don't easily venture into the deeper levels; there are too many adventurers in the middle levels, so they usually stay in the lower levels.
"Reed, Gross, Rey!"
"Little Roy!"
Upon hearing Roy's voice, the heretics excitedly gathered around. Unlike the other monsters, their eyes showed no trace of violence or cruelty, and their faces displayed human-like expressions, radiating kindness.
Roy brought his girls to the "Secret Village" where the heretics lived, and he had already given them a heads-up to prevent them from having a stress reaction.
Even so, the girls of the Astrea Familia were still shocked when they saw these talking monsters, their little faces filled with disbelief.
The worldview we've built has been overturned!
In their minds, monsters are no different from chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep. Killing them and obtaining magic stones is the way adventurers survive.
If you suddenly tell them that monsters can also gain intelligence like humans, then wouldn't killing monsters before be equivalent to killing people?
This kind of confusion is something that even normal people experience.
However, this excludes the Astrea Familia. After a brief moment of shock, the girls quickly accepted the situation. Don't underestimate the resilience of high-level adventurers.
Not everyone is like Ais, harboring such deep hatred for monsters that it even manifests as a skill.
Even Ryu is no exception.
After defeating Zagnat and reviving Alyssa and the others, Ryu had let go of her resentment. She viewed the monsters in the dungeon as an ordinary adventurer, not out of hatred, but simply because she killed them to make a living.
When it comes to murder, everyone's minds are already mature enough.
Liu assassinated members of the dark faction, causing widespread chaos and destruction. Tione had been engaged in life-or-death struggles since childhood.
Daphne, Cassandra, Chunji, and Lefia hunted down zombies transformed from humans in the dungeon world, resulting in a bloodbath.
So what if a few more intelligent monsters emerge? They only care whether the other is a friend or an enemy; the former they play happily, while the latter they eliminate completely.
They had all taken on Roy's shape.
Hello!
"It really is a monster, or just some guy pretending to be one to fool people? It's amazing!"
"How's your strength? Come fight me!"
The two sides quickly became friends. The girls were very curious about these intelligent monsters, touching their claws and skin and marveling at them.
Demi-humans only have some animal-like features, such as ears and tails, while monsters are different.
"You absolutely mustn't try anything with the captain!" Tione warned Rei in a very "kind" manner.
"???"
Rei is one of the earliest members of the Heretics. She has the strength of LV.5 and is a bird-singer. Her other parts are covered with feathers, except for her abdomen and cheeks, which are no different from those of a human. She is pretty and has delicate features.
The heretics would never have believed it.
The thing that the Astrea Familia girls fear and are most wary of is not their monster identities.
The reason the girls were able to accept these heretics so quickly and even have a natural affinity for them was because they had helped Roy and the others, and their presence was felt in many events.
When Roy and Astrid were in trouble in the Thirtieth Floor of the Forest Canyon, they were able to defeat the mutated floor master, Amphispina, thanks to the help of Heretic.
While the Astrea Familia was besieged by the Ishtar Familia and the Dark Faction in the deeper layers, the Heretics held back the Heavenly Bull on the Thirty-Sixth Layer.
And in this incident, the heretics advanced from the eighteenth floor upwards to investigate the true form of Scorpio Andaris.
In a corner unknown to anyone, these heretics have made remarkable achievements!
Roy, of course, wanted to reciprocate.
Thanks to Roy, the Heretics' quality of life improved dramatically, becoming several levels better than before, and they no longer had to worry about their companions being hunted.
Roy used the power of the earth to create a special "secret place" that even connected different floors, making it comparable to a small man-made maze. The heretic was thrilled and planted flowers and plants inside, treating it like his home.
Reed exclaimed excitedly, "Roy, we recently got a really tough guy!"
"Oh? Even better than you?" Roy continued the conversation, saying that Reed was already LV.5, and it was rare to see a heretic with such strength.
Reed shook his head. "He's not as good as me yet, but I feel he's close, and might even be better than me already!"
Led by the heretics, Roy and his group arrived at the thirty-seventh floor and headed straight for the arena.
arena.
This Roman-style arena features a unique mechanism that allows for the endless spawning of monsters, including a large number of enhanced versions—monsters that gain power by consuming magic stones.
Even LV.5 adventurers are reluctant to enter this arena alone.
You will be worn down by an endless stream of monsters.
At this moment, however, a foreign monster is using this arena as his "gym".
As if connected to a rift in the abyss, the walls were broken, and countless monsters surged out of the various passages and pits like a stenching tide.
Skeletal sheep with skeletal remains and ghostly flames burning in their eye sockets; elite lizardmen clad in rough scales and with sharp claws and teeth; packs of cunning and ferocious wolves moving like shadows—a multitude of monsters that should have been fighting amongst themselves now converged into a destructive torrent, sweeping across the sky towards the single target in the center.
At the heart of this boiling vortex of slaughter.
A bull-headed monster stood tall like an unyielding rock, with a pair of blood-red horns, transparent ruby-colored eyes, and jet-black fur and skin. Its muscles were bulging, and it was as imposing as if it had been carved from mountain rocks.
Its eyes lacked the monstrous ferocity of a monster, but were filled with a warrior's obsession and thirst for power.
His name is Asterios!
"roar!!"
The minotaur wielded two rough, dented stone axes, radiating a suffocatingly powerful aura. Facing the terrifying horde of beasts sweeping in, it let out a deep, thunderous roar, its arm muscles instantly taut like steel nooses.
The stone axe moved in the next instant!
There are no fancy techniques, only the most primal and violent release of power!
Asterios' twin axes drew two terrifying, pale arcs of light, accompanied by a piercing shriek that tore through the air, as they swept across the battlefield with ferocious force.
Bang!Bang!Bang!
Bones shattered, scales exploded, and wolf bodies snapped! Flesh and bone fragments rained down like a storm, clearing a momentary bloody vacuum!
Like a black tornado sweeping across, all the monsters instantly exploded, and fragments of magic stones rained down.
"Gagagagagagagagagagaga!"
Amidst the heavy stench of blood, Asterios treads upon the wreckage and bloodstains scattered on the ground, bending down with his mountain-like body. His rough, giant hands pick up a magic stone that emits a faint magical glow from the ground.
They stuffed the magic stone fragments into their mouths like beans, chewing and swallowing them roughly.
With each magic stone it devoured, the aura emanating from it, like that of an ancient ferocious beast, grew even more ferocious!
Roar! !
Asterios's bulging muscles twitched and swelled slightly beneath his skin, and a faint, blood-red aura emanated from his body, radiating a terrifying pressure.
Roy and his group arrived at the arena just in time to witness Asterios sweeping through the enemy ranks. The girls were surprised, thinking that he must be at least LV.5!
"That's it!"
Roy recognized the bull at a glance. Although its species had changed, its demeanor and movements were still somewhat similar to before.
It was the Minotaur that had been trained and disciplined by Ota to cause trouble for Bell.
Later, due to the collision between the power of the earth and Freya's divine power, he was transformed into a divine assassin, but was still defeated by Roy with a single punch, and is now reborn as a heretic.
The species is uncertain, but it could be a deep-seated black rhinoceros subspecies or an enhanced Minotaur.
"Asterios!"
The heretics greeted Niu Niu warmly. Although this new companion was taciturn and rarely interacted with them, he was not the kind of person who was deep in thought.
He's a pure martial artist of the Ota type!
A partner you can absolutely trust!
Hearing the heretics' call, Asterios turned his head, his pupils suddenly contracting, his tall and burly body stiff as wood, his eyes reflecting the figure of the boy.
Bang!Bang!Bang!
Its eyes could see nothing else. Asterios took steady, powerful steps toward Roy, whispering, "I had a dream, a dream of someone I could never defeat, no matter how hard I tried. His existence is deeply etched into my soul. I don't want to forget him. I want to see him again and challenge him!"
"Let's duel one more time!"
Asterios's voice was deep and thunderous, his enormous, bell-like eyes burning with fierce fighting spirit and unyielding will, fixed intently on Roy ahead.
His massive, mountain-like body exuded an astonishing sense of oppression, and the giant axe in his hand hummed with the urge to fight.