Isagi had originally thought that if Ryuu-senpai alone wasn't enough, he would go back home and call Lefiya, Tiona, and even Ais.
Wasn't it just a matter of numbers? Let's see who has more people!!
As it turned out—
It wasn't necessary at all. Ryuu-senpai was amazing; she was truly worthy of being someone who was just a hair's breadth away from leveling up to Lv.5.
Those elite monsters in the Colosseum were, one by one, merely at the level of Lv.3.
Back when he and Lefiya were Lv.2, along with Tiona who was Lv.3 at the time, they could easily farm levels here. Now, being "level crushed" by the Elf girl, it was simply a massacre.
It was too cruel.
Between adventurers and monsters, there was indeed a strict hierarchy.
Mainly, Ryuu-senpai's new Magic was truly a bit fierce. Enchantment, AOE damage, burst, defense, crowd control—it was so all-around capable that it was almost excessive!
Even in a trance.
Isagi could almost see other girls flickering in and out of existence behind the Elf girl.
It was terrifying; in that trance, he almost thought Ryuu-senpai could summon other seniors to come out and fight!
What kind of Grand Zi-O and Decade Complete Form is this!!
And with Ryuu-senpai helping to provide cover and eliminating the other small mobs, the remaining [Golden Miracle], which was already like a candle in the wind, was naturally no match for him.
Hmph!
You like calling for backup?!
A guy lacking in purity is bound to fail—
"You, have lost your martial virtue."
While shattering the monster's golden breastplate, he extracted its Magic Stone from within.
As the Golden Cock Knight turned into dissipating flying ash.
The monsters it had summoned also turned into flying ash and vanished simultaneously, just like the dust of the world that had never existed in the first place.
The pale color that permeated the entire Colosseum and the town behind it slowly faded, once again swallowed by the pitch-black night like melting snow.
Subsequently.
Specks of fluorescent light floated up from the top of the cavern, barely illuminating the broken walls and ruins filled with monster corpses.
Isagi collected the loot from the [Golden Miracle]. Apart from that, there was also a gold egg the size of a fist, as well as a pale longsword that had fallen to the ground.
[Jack Bird's Golden Egg: Pure gold. It has no special value, existing only as a symbol of luck.
For most adventurers, entering the Dungeon is to acquire more money. And if one can encounter brilliant gold, that is naturally an incomparably lucky thing.
Jack Bird has absolutely no interest in this, because no matter how many times it is killed, as a miracle, it will be reborn from the embrace of the Dark Mother, so it allows itself to be captured by adventurers.
Until one day, the King taught it what dignity and resistance were.]
It really was just a big golden egg.
Isagi was dumbfounded, but weighing it in his hand, it was still quite heavy. Even if he just sold it, it should be worth a few million Valis.
As for the other dropped longsword...
[Pale King's Remnant Sword: A longsword possessing a pale color, a fragment of the weapon once used by the Pale King.
During the expedition to the Lower Floors, the King's weapon was smashed by the giant revered as a "Divine Miracle," and the legion and knights suffered almost total casualties. It is said that the King ultimately returned to the kingdom alone, carrying the broken sword.
Later, the broken sword was reforged, but it was given to the King's close friend.
Regarding this.
The Golden Miracle knew clearly in its heart that the King, who no longer needed a weapon, could no longer protect its kingdom.
Combat Art: Erasure
· Accumulates the special abnormal status of "Curse Death".
(Once, a Goblin said it saw the colors of all things.
In that case, if a touch of pale were added, wouldn't it be able to directly negate their existence?
No Goblin could understand its crazy ramblings. Even after it eventually became the greatest King, no one could understand the meaning of "Pale".)]
Hohoho.
Is it really a Curse Death weapon?
And it's the [Pale King]'s exclusive weapon, just broken.
He studied the loot in his hands the entire way.
It wasn't until he returned to the city surface with Ryuu-senpai that Isagi realized it was already late at night...
Passing through the quiet city where lights were extinguished everywhere.
Isagi and the Elf girl walked out of the city gate, heading towards the farm at the end of the rural path in the distance.
The boy and his Familia senior spoke quietly.
Compared to the chatterbox Lefiya, Ryuu was a quiet type who didn't like to talk much. She always walked silently by his side, lowering her head slightly, and he didn't know what exactly she was thinking in her heart.
So Isagi always liked to ask her questions.
"Senior, you weren't injured just now, right? How do you feel?"
"Senior, will you eat a late-night snack when we get back? What do you want to eat?"
"Senior, you're about to level up to Lv.5 soon, right? That will be the first First-Class Adventurer in the Familia. Do you want to change your Title or something?"
"Why did you come to the city to become an adventurer in the past, Senior?"
"Eh? You hate your hometown?"
"Where is your hometown, Senior? Where is it located?"
Isagi wasn't a chatterbox.
It was just that on a long road, just making sporadic conversation made it easy to suddenly chat about many, many things.
Moreover.
As said before, Ryuu was just used to being quiet, but she didn't hate talking. On the contrary, she actually wanted to chat more with the boy. Chatting about anything was fine, as long as they were talking.
It was just that relying on herself alone, she didn't know how to start.
Whenever this happened, Ryuu would remember the scenes of being scolded by Kaguya and the others in the past. Her old-fashioned and clumsy self was a failure at doing anything, even...
Even "making friends" was the same.
Her friends in the past, whether it was Alise or Adi, were all rowdy types, so her relationship with them was naturally good.
This is called complementing each other, right?
But if she met another guy like herself, she feared the relationship would become very poor, or at least she would have absolutely no idea how to get along with them.
Just like now, ugh... she was completely being taken care of by her junior!!
Looking at the boy's appearance of having ease and surplus energy.
Inexplicably.
Ryuu thought in her heart, he was still cuter when he looked all puffy with anger just now!
As if competing, as a Familia senior, Ryuu inexplicably felt that the boy, who usually always looked calm and breezy, showed an "angry/pouting" look that was simply too much of a contrast, making one unable to help but smile—
"Pfft."
Unknowingly, under the starry sky of late autumn.
Ryuu laughed out loud quietly, and subsequently, facing the boy's somewhat puzzled gaze, she quickly ran a few steps ahead.
"We're almost home!"
She turned back revealing a silly smile, forcibly changing the subject!
Not far away, the farm among the fields still had lights on. Although it was late at night, in all probability, neither Demeter nor Goddess Astrea were asleep, waiting for the children to return home.
Sure enough.
Pushing open the door of the farmhouse, along with the sound of "I'm home," as they walked into the house.
The Goddesses' sweet "Welcome home" rang out simultaneously. They could be seen sitting on the sofa in the living room, knitting sweaters and talking quietly.
Clearly, Goddess Demeter was teaching Astrea how to do this.
Inside the living room.
The scent of sweet, cloying alcohol still permeated the air. The light of the charcoal fire in the fireplace to the side illuminated the charming faces of the two Goddesses, both slightly flushed with intoxication.
The late-night snack had also been prepared long ago and placed on the table.
Isagi and Ryuu-senpai went to the bathroom to take a shower one after another. When he came out,
He heard Goddess Astrea say that Cecil was looking for him.
"It seems there is something important..."
"Got it."
Isagi picked up a plate of roasted meat skewers. While eating, he was already walking towards the second floor.
Subsequently, he arrived directly in front of Cecil's room door and pushed it open to enter.
The silly blue-haired girl, wearing thick greyish-white cotton clothes and trousers along with pink socks, was lying on the bed, looking distressed.
She had absolutely no reaction to the boy's sudden intrusion.
Just as she often ran into his room without knocking, unknowingly, the two had already become so "accustomed" to this.
"What's wrong?"
"Come here, come here, come here!"
She beckoned him with her somewhat fleshy, chubby little hand.
He didn't know if it was because winter had arrived, but the girl, whose small round face always retained a bit of baby fat, looked a lot fleshier at this moment.
Isagi didn't understand either.
She was striking iron every day; shouldn't she have developed quite impressive muscles? How come Cecil was just soft and squishy?
And it wasn't just how she looked; she was genuinely soft when touched—Isagi would massage her waist and hammer her back, as well as pinch her face whenever he had nothing to do, so he knew.
Another world is very magical, right?
Watching the girl unceremoniously take a skewer of roasted meat from his plate.
She then sat up from the bed and scooted her little butt over to the long table at the side. At this moment, there were many, many things placed on it, or rather, tens of millions—no, billions of Valis.
The Great Tree Branch of [Wishe Forest], the [Sacred Spring of Star Cave], the world's hardest metal [Orichalcum], [Mithril], [White Holy Stone]...
Besides these, there were several magic gemstones the size of a fist, sparkling and shining there.
As for the other odds and ends, including what he got from defeating the [Lightless King], [Infant Dragon], and [Iron Queen] previously, as well as the [Vanguard of the Holy Church] hiding in the fog inside the [Central Tower] that Lefiya and the others defeated, and so on.
These materials dropped by BOSSes, containing the special magic power of the Dungeon, were all here.
Cecil was indeed a hidden rich lady, a guy with real assets.
And right now.
She was troubled by one thing.
Next, she wanted to forge First-Class Armaments for both him and Ryuu-senpai. And for that, they had to return to Solingen to use a very special item—the Spirit Furnace.
That was the most sacred area of the City of Swordsmiths. Only blacksmiths acknowledged by the Spirits could use it to forge unique and powerful armaments.
That's right, Cecil was not only going to forge a First-Class Armament for Ryuu, who was about to reach Lv.5, but also for Isagi.
Even though the boy was currently only about to upgrade to Lv.4.
Even so, it didn't matter. The fact that First-Class Armaments were for First-Class Adventurers of Lv.5 and above wasn't due to any hard "equipment condition."
It was simply because they were too expensive, so adventurers below Lv.5 had no need to use them.
If one had money and was powerful in their own right, just like Miss Ais of the Loki Familia.
Then using a First-Class Armament before reaching Lv.5 was also acceptable.
"Then let's just go back."
He didn't understand what this idiot was agonizing over at all.
"Right, we can go back together!"
Isagi suddenly thought of a very important matter. If Cecil hadn't brought it up, he would have almost forgotten it!
"It's decided then!"
And so...
Early the next morning, Ryuu heard from Cecil the news that she, Cecil, and Isagi would travel to Solingen together.
"Going back is to forge a First-Class Armament for you, Senior, so it's best if you are present as well."
The blacksmith girl said so.
A First-Class Armament is an "exclusive weapon" forged by a blacksmith tailored for an adventurer who has upgraded to Lv.5 and above; it is an absolutely unique existence.
So naturally, the person concerned must also be present.
Ryuu didn't have any objections to this.
It was just...
"That's not right."
The Elf girl blinked, because just now, also this morning, Isagi had run over to tell her about this matter.
But the boy didn't mention forging a First-Class Armament at all.
What he clearly said was—
"Let's go, Ryuu-senpai!"
A rare gnashing of teeth!
Ryuu discovered she had unlocked another one of Isagi's new "expressions."
Un.
Also very cute.
It was just that his words were completely baffling.
"We set off for the City of Swordsmiths today, and then, capture a Spirit to bring back and use as a weapon!!"
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