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章節 322: Plans

The group resumed their activities after their lunch and went on exploring for the rest of the afternoon before coming out.

Since it would be too attention-attracting if they exchange all the Magic Stones they gathered for today, they all traded-in a quarter of their total earnings. However, it still earned them around 160,000 valis due to the sheer amount of monsters they killed.

The figure surprised the Guild staff again but not so much this time as the 10th to 12th floors are a lot more lucrative than the monsters from the 6th floor where the group of girls is exploring yesterday. But it's still an impressive amount since they're all level 1s.

After getting the money, Kisuke immediately passed 100,000 valis to Line, "W-wait! Wait! Why are you giving me this!? I didn't even join the group that hunted monsters! On the contrary, I should be the one paying you for the tuition fee!"

"Take it. You went through all of your potions and magic potions today. Go buy something better with this." Kisuke didn't listen to her and just pushed the pouch of Valis into her hands.

"...But."

"I'll tell you what you can do later as tuition fee. I never thought of this as a free tutorial, so be prepared."

Line looked at him for a moment before sighing in relief, "I understand. Thank you very much."

"Good. Then we'll go ahead. Once you return home, don't ever try to control your Mana directly. You still need supervision as your proficiency in it is almost nonexistent. You are better off memorizing your healing magic first."

"I'll do that."

Kisuke nodded and started walking away and the girls followed him after bidding their farewells to Line. But then, Kisuke suddenly remembered, "Ah, Arshe-san." He called out to her departing back.

She turned around and looked at him curiously, "What is it, Kisuke-san?"

"Don't update your status for now."

"...Okay."

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Once they returned home, Medusa immediately separated from the group as she still has to prepare for dinner. And since Aika, Sona, and Koneko still has some energy with them, they intended to practice their Magic, Flash Step, and overall control on their body strengthening.

After today's hunt, they realized something and that is there's a limit on how long they could use Mana to power up. From today's experience, Aika and Koneko could only do a power-up across the basic ability for about five minutes before they start experiencing debilitating headaches for the overuse of Mana. If they save it and only power up what they needed depending on the situation, they can last a lot longer.

However, switching between the parameters they want to raise has noticeable gaps or 'cooldowns' that anyone a bit proficient can take advantage of. And if it's monsters, a wrong switch would potentially expose them from a fatal attack.

So for the rest of the day, they intended to polish their Mana control and body control.

After reminding them not to overdo it, Kisuke went directly to his laboratory to get some results from the currently running experiments. He first approached a two-meter tall cylindrical tank with a terminal in front of it. Checking the progress through the terminal, Kisuke muttered, "I only need to adjust it for a bit and I'll be able to extract clean Mana from the magic stones." He then went into work mode.

Kisuke only came out when the dinner is ready and coincidentally, Yoruichi and Kuroka returned from their own activities.

Since it'll be a few minutes before the dinner is set, Kisuke invited the two of them back to his laboratory to hear them out.

After giving Yoruichi a small peck on her lips, Kisuke asked, "How is it?"

Yoruichi and Kuroka sat down before the former started speaking, "We've gathered most of common sense here and I'll be able to compile it after a day or two for you to read. The only part of the town that we haven't explored much is the so-called Daedalus Street."

"I already did some preliminary investigation on the said place, nya." Kuroka took over, "But there are so many hidden parts and hidden paths that it'll take a while to investigate and map out even just a small area without me revealing my abilities, nya. And a place like that is, obviously, a gathering spot for unsavory individuals, nya. On top of that, it seems that there is some sort of eyes watching the area. I can't tell where it is but I feel it, nya."

"Hmmm..." Kisuke rubs his chin in contemplation, "So that place also has some sort of surveillance in it..."

"What do you mean?" Yoruichi asked with furrowed brows.

"I didn't notice it immediately but there is also some sort of surveillance in the Dungeon. Although it's only some parts of it like the entrance or some rooms, it's still surveillance."

"But why we didn't feel anything when we entered the Dungeon the first time?"

"It's because there's no one watching us at that time. But earlier today, I felt a gaze on me despite having no one around our group."

"Then what should we do?"

"We don't want to alert them so we do nothing. But that doesn't mean we'll stop our Dungeon exploration. Basic techniques that the girls use will be fine but if we want to do something serious inside the Dungeon, then we would have to avoid it. I'm going to the Dungeon again tomorrow to figure out how to do that and find every point where they can look through."

"Understood. Then Kuroka and I will continue gathering more information for a few more days before we enter the dungeon."

"No... You can take it slow. Go gather information for a whole week."

"Why?"

"I have to supervise the girls for this whole week, but after that, you, me, Kuroka, and Medusa will go to the middle floors or beyond. I assume that we could at least take care of monsters down their despite our limited physical abilities and if we cooperate and use our techniques to the fullest we should be able to kill stronger monsters."

"I see... That way, we'll immediately reach the 'counter stop' of our parameters."

Kisuke grinned and continued, "Right~. And it'll be more exciting fighting those than playing with low-level monsters."

It's only possible because this group has experience fighting terrifying monsters and can control their Mana at will. In addition to the most versatile use of magic and skills that are unknown to this world, no monsters from the middle floors could actually threaten them.

It's also around this time that few individuals would notice their uncommon existence. However, they wouldn't realize how terrifying Hestia Familia really is until much later.


章節 323: Successful

For the next few days, Kisuke, Medusa, Sona, Aika, Koneko, and Line from the Loki Familia continued delving deeper into the Dungeon until they reached the 12th floor where the visibility is too bad due to thick mist.

However, the girls are also getting used to it because they can now use Mana to strengthen their senses. But before they can reach the state where it's actually useful in a real battle, Kisuke and Yoruichi had to teach them how to process the information that is entering their senses. If not, even with stronger senses, it would just be noisy information for them instead of useful information.

During this time, Line was also able to memorize her own magic circle and can now almost complete the spell without the assistance of her incantations.

And with a final push from Kisuke, before lunch of their 5th day in the Dungeon, Line finally cast her healing magic after a few minutes of concentration.

"I did it!" Line cheerily jumped and exclaimed, "I did it, Kisuke-san!" And due to her sheer happiness, she ended up hugging Kisuke in delight.

It's only a few seconds later that she finally realized what she has done and she immediately separated from Kisuke with a blushing face, "I-I'm sorry!"

Kisuke didn't mind it as he chuckled and ruffled her hair, "Congrats~."

Still feeling embarrassed, she moved his hands away, "Geez... Please don't treat me like a child..." Line muttered as she pouted. But after that, she looked straight at him with still slightly flushed face, "And thank you very much~."

"Still, you are only on your first step. Although you succeeded, It took you a few minutes to cast simple magic and in addition to that, your control isn't very precise yet as most of your Mana were wasted. It's as if you cast your magic 7 times."

"I know. But now I actually did it, I'll work even harder!"

"Your enthusiasm is good but you shouldn't cast magic continuously. I allowed you to do it these past few days because I figured that it won't do any warm on you for now. But now, I can see that you're very tired so you should only do that for a few hours a day."

"..." Line went silent as she indeed intends to do it nonstop even after going home. She would only stop when her Magic Potions were gone or she entered a Mind-Down state.

"However, you also shouldn't waste your free time," Kisuke continued and took out a book and passed it to Line, "Take this and study its contents."

Line grabbed the book and scanned a few of its pages, "This is?" The book is all sorts of magic circle diagrams that are making her dizzy just by looking at it.

"Those are the basic magic formulas that would help you create your own magic. Try reading and casting the first example."

Following Kisuke's instructions, Line went to the first page of the book and memorized the simple magic circle. Opening her left hand, she carefully weaved Mana on top of it and drew the magic circle from her memory and a small flame sprouted in it, "...I did it... Magic not provided by my Falna..." Line muttered as she watches the flame dance on her hand.

At this time, the hunting group returned, "Oh, it seems that you succeeded. Congratulations." Sona first said.

Line couldn't reply as she kept staring at the flame on her hand. All this while, even after seeing them do it, she actually still has some doubt. But now that she cast magic not listed from her Falna and she didn't have any skill that allows her to do so, all of that was blown away and were replaced by an unknown feeling that she didn't know how to describe.

And during this time, her consciousness started drifting away as she entered in some sort of trance.

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Underneath the Guild is the Room of Prayer. Sitting on a throne is white hair and blue eyes old man. He wears a white robe with a black hooded cloak and sandals. While sitting quietly, the old man's eyes suddenly widened as if he was startled.

From the darkness of the room, a figure that wears black robes that cover their face, making it impossible to tell their gender or any other features, appears, "What's wrong, Ouranos?" The figure asked with a ghastly voice.

"Fels..." Ouranos muttered his aide's name, "For an instant... I thought I felt the Dungeon... expressing happiness..."

Fels didn't really understand, but before he could ask more Ouranos continued, "It's probably just my misconception... Anyway, what happened with the Xenos?"

"Some new members arrived."

"I see... What about the Ganesha Familia?"

"Their captain, Shakti is taking care so that no information leaks. However, I also discovered that some Adventurers are deliberately searching for them."

"Do you have any plans?"

"For now, I asked Ganesha to be careful of these individuals... However, we really need more people regarding this."

"...It's hard to find someone who would willingly accept a monster as a friend..."

Hearing that, Fels became quiet.

With their conversation regarding the 'Xenos', Ouranos completely forgot his misconception which actually isn't.

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Twilight Manor, the home Loki Familia, which is located in the northern part of the Labyrinth City Orario, is described to be a huge structure built on a small area of land. Multiple tall towers overlap and support each other, with the middle tower being the tallest. The home is also described as being carved out from flames.

In a certain room, all the top executives gathered, along with Loki, are talking about their next upcoming expedition in five days.

"How are the logistics?" Finn asked Riveria.

"Food, supplies, potions, and weapons are all already prepared."

Finn nodded, "Good. Now then, the quest we received the Dian Cecht Familia. The quest is to gather a certain amount of Cadmus Spring from the 51st floor. Other than that, all the other quest is to gather some materials from the Lower Floor and we can leave that to other low-level members.

And finally, our main goal... The exploration of the 59th floor where the only Familias who were able to reach it is the Zeus and Hera Familia."

Everyone nodded with a serious expression. Finally, they were about to reach the deepest floor recorded in the history of the Dungeon.

"With that said... All of you need to rest and condition yourself. So no more entering the Dungeon, especially you Ais."

Ais head dropped down, "...Yes."

"Now, now, Finn." Seeing Ais' reaction, Loki immediately interfered, "Don't go too hard on her."

"Loki... you can't spoil her..." Finn answered.

Ais became even more depressed after hearing that.

This time, Riveria sighed, "Haahh... Finn, please allow her."

As if an angel descended, Ais' eyes lit up as she looked towards Riveria.

"Even you, Riveria?"

"At least postpone the mandatory rest until two days until the expedition." Riveria then looked towards Ais, "And Ais, you can't go alone. Take Tiona and Tione with you. That's the condition."

"We'll accompany you, Ais~!" Tiona energetically answered.

"If the captain allows it, then I don't mind." Tione followed.

Sighing, Finn agreed, "Fine. Let's go with that." At least, it's better than let Ais secretly enter the Dungeon.

"Now that's decided, let's have lunc--- !?" In the middle of speaking, Loki's eyes suddenly widened in shock.

Finn, Riveria, and Gareth furrowed their brows at her, "What's wrong?"

Loki went silent for a moment, making everyone slightly nervous, before smiling wildly and muttering, "It seems that something very interesting is happening out there... I wonder what is it...?"


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