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The lingering flames wanted to fall on him unwillingly and continue to burn, but they seemed to slide down as if they fell on an invisible membrane.
Lieyan's expression did not change at all, as if it was a matter of course.
As long as the counterattack is successful after fully charging, all the effects of the attack he counterattacked will not be effective on him. Of course, this effect is limited to one-stage attacks. If the attack is multi-stage, then the subsequent attacks will still have an impact on him.
But obviously, the little puppy in front of him did not have such ability.
"bring it on,"
Lieyan hooked his finger at the last hellhound.
In fact, neither the Fiery Blaze nor the Shield Axe is suitable for active attack.
Because the enemy is so powerful, hunters put more of their skill points into defense and counterattack. It is a compulsory course for every hunter to ensure their own survival first and then consider whether to attack.
Death means nothing, only when you are alive can you have output.
The hellhound provoked by the flames also ran straight towards the flames as expected. Born with hatred for humans locked in the dungeon, it was driven by instinct. Even if the other party slaughtered its own kind right in front of it, it still charged forward.
What greeted it was a ruthless sword of blazing fire.
The single-edged sword chopped down, splitting the hellhound in half from the center. The blow seemed to have hit the magic stone in the chest of the hellhound. Before the hellhound, which was split in half, fell to the ground, it had already turned into dust and disappeared without a trace, leaving only a white tooth on the ground.
Along with the falling props, there was also a sharp sound like breaking glass.
Warning of reduced sharpness.
Lieyan thought for a moment, put away his sword and shield, picked up the fallen items on the ground, pulled out a hunting knife with a blade of about 70 cm, cut open the chests of the first two hellhounds he had knocked down, and took out the magic stone.
"Mr. Lieyan, aren't you going to continue exploring?"
Seeing that the battle was over, Raul brought a cloak and a backpack. Lieyan put the two hellhound magic stones and the dropped items in the interlayer of the backpack. When he heard Raul's question, he nodded.
"Yes, let's stop here for today's exploration."
"Why? Isn't Mr. Lieyan's physical strength still well maintained?" Raul was a little confused.
"The sharpness of the weapon has decreased. I didn't expect to go down to the middle level directly today, so I forgot to bring the whetstone. And I have almost achieved my goal." Lieyan pointed to the sword and shield behind him, his expression calm.
"The sharpness has decreased... Oh, yes, Mr. Flame's weapon will also have the same sharpness problem as ours." Raul suddenly realized.
"...What do you imagine my weapon to be? There must be a limit to its sharpness... But in fact, the speed at which the sharpness decreases today is much slower than in the past." After a moment of silence, Lieyan said.
"That's probably because the flesh of the monsters in the upper dungeons is not as strong as the flesh of the monsters you hunt, Mr. Lieyan. But in fact, the difference in the middle dungeons is not much... The sharpness has decreased probably because you, Mr. Lieyan, cut the magic stone.
Crushing magic stones is the fastest way to defeat monsters, but it will also cause the loss of the monster's magic stones, which cannot be recovered, or only a few magic stone fragments can be recovered. "
Raul explained with a smile, handing the cloak in his arms to Lieyan.
"I see."
He took off his helmet and put it back into his backpack, then Lieyan took over the cloak and wrapped his equipment around himself again.
It may be that other returning teams have already cleared all the monsters along the way, and the dungeon has not yet spawned new monsters to replenish it. Compared with the chaos faced when going down to the middle level, the way back is much smoother.
It only took a little more than half the time it took to get down to the ground for Raul and Lieyan to return to the ground.
The next step was to head to the guild headquarters and hand in the magic stones. Amid the envious and jealous whispers of the other adventurers, and the gazes that seemed to pierce him to pieces, Lieyan took out a bag full of coins from the counter.
All the Goblin magic stones and dropped materials, all the Shadow magic stones and dropped materials, as well as the magic stones and dropped materials of some other monsters that have appeared randomly, are all for sale.
First day's harvest: 67000 Faris.
Chapter 21: It turns out we are really bullies!
When I walked out of the Pantheon, the sun in the sky had already gone west. At the doors of the shops on Adventurer Street, magic stone lamps lit up one by one, dimly driving away the night that had not yet risen, forming a sea of twilight.
The streets became less crowded, and adventurers gathered in the tavern, raising their glasses and toasting to celebrate another fruitful day.
However, even so, the repelling buff of [Loki's followers, keep away] on Raul and Lieyan was not weakened at all. Wherever they passed, even if there was a lot of open space on the street, people passing by would retreat and avoid them from afar.
After politely rejecting Lieyan's idea of giving him half of the obtained Fali, Raul looked at Lieyan with some curiosity.
"Mr. Lieyan, you seem to have a very good temper."
"...Why are you suddenly saying that?" Lieyan was slightly stunned, and unexpectedly felt a little confused about Raul's topic.
"Because you see, yesterday, you were forced to drink and questioned by everyone, but you didn't get angry at all. This morning, you even gave away the potions you brought with you to everyone. You didn't care when people talked about you on the road before, or when people looked at you like that in the Pantheon."
Raul counted on his fingers, like a younger brother confiding his confusion to his elder brother.
But it is true that in terms of age, Raul, who was only 21 years old at the time, was indeed like a younger brother in front of the 27-year-old Lieyan. Raul's own personality also destined him to not put on the airs of a clan elder.
After all, this allowed him to solemnly call out the existence of Lady Aisi to the eight-year-old Aisi...
It has to be said that Finn's decision to send Raul to watch over Flame on his rookie adventure was absolutely the right one.
"Haha, I'm not as broad-minded as you think. I don't mind being forced to drink and interrogated because these two things have no impact on my life. I just brought too many potions and so on, so I shared them with everyone. As for other people's eyes and criticisms, let me ask you, will other people's comments change your impression of me?" Lieyan shook his head and smiled, then asked.
"will not."
"Does the gaze of others make you feel ashamed?"
"will not."
"Other people's criticism, saying that I was able to defeat Zhan Ying with your help, does this change the facts?"
"will not."
"That's right, let them be jealous. Why bother with them? Do you have nothing to do? As a member of the Loki clan, if everyone will actively avoid you when you walk on the street, will you explain that the Loki clan is not the kind of clan that will bully other clans?"
"Well, there's no need to explain this, because we did oppress other clans..." Raul scratched his cheek and coughed a little embarrassedly.
"...Wait a minute, are we really bullying?" Lieyan was slightly stunned and noticed that something seemed wrong with Raul's words.
What the hell? Really bullying?
Although I used to feel that Loki's family was the overlord of Orario, that was just talk, and it turns out that we really are the overlord!
"Well...but those so-called oppressions were all done by Loki for Miss Ais," Raul nodded, and then added:
"Ever since Miss Aisi reached LV.1 from LV.2 in just one and a half years, there have been people who have been trying to get Miss Aisi, both overtly and covertly.
Just to avenge this, for a period of time, Loki led his followers to launch a lot of war games. It can be said that more than half of the small and medium-sized followers in Orario have had conflicts with Loki's followers, especially those who courted Miss Ais, including adventurers and some male gods, probably more than a thousand people, and they were basically tormented by Loki.
Later, for some unknown reason, this incident turned into a rumor that the Loki clan relied on their wealth and power to bully smaller clans.
But now, no one cares about this kind of thing. "
"Good for the bullying, they deserve it." Lieyan said decisively.
They actually dared to attack Loki's most precious Ais... I can only say that these gods of fun and adventurers must not want to live anymore.
However, considering the personalities of those gods, I'm afraid that quite a few of them simply wanted to provoke Loki, to see her reveal a distorted expression like a demon, and then have fun with it...
Before dinner started, Raul and Lieyan returned to their clan. Seeing the combination of the two, the clan members all showed friendly eyes, and the braver ones even took the initiative to say hello.
They... forgive me for using "she" because there are many more female members of Loki's family than male members.
Some of them received the benefit of the potion distributed by the Hand of Flame, some exchanged it for recovery potion among their clans, and received the message that the potion came from the Hand of Flame. In short, they all came up and pushed Raul aside, expressing their gratitude in a muted and sweet voice, creating a scene that would have made Loki so envious that he would vomit blood.
...Well, I really vomited blood.
"Hey, Lieyan, you bastard~~~How far are you going to charm our clan before you give up!!!"
In the distance, Loki wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, opened his bloodshot eyes, raised his arms like a devil, and rushed towards the flames. Unfortunately, halfway through, this god who had no dignity in any sense revealed his true intentions.
"Hehehe, let's get close to everyone too--!!"
Loki shouted excitedly. Although she only favored high-level family members such as Ai Si, Dione, Diona, and Lefiya, the core members who were as beautiful as clouds were also selected by her one by one, and they were gathered together as her favorite. She could already imagine the scene of herself hugging these beauties like a tyrant and laughing out loud.
Unfortunately, in the long struggle with Loki, many female clan members had already accumulated enough experience. When Loki accelerated, they took the initiative to dodge and scattered like butterflies.
No matter if they are humans, orcs, dwarves or elves, everyone has achieved perfect unity in this action, which can be described as the great harmony of the world.
Loki, who was unable to stop the car, could only watch himself rush through the empty passage, and then crash into the chest of Lieyan, who stood in the middle like an iron tower. Then, when he was dizzy, Lieyan stretched out his hand and grabbed his collar, and picked him up like a chicken.
Lieyan was still wearing armor, and Loki's head just hit the chest armor of the Earth Sand Dragon, making a "dong" sound.
"Damn it!" Loki waved his limbs like a spoiled child, "We want to stick with you! We want to stick with you! We want to stick with you!"
"Stop it." Lieyan showed his hand knife.
Looking at the knife that had dealt him a heavy blow before and now had a very heavy-looking gauntlet on it, Loki suddenly lost his temper and his eyes became much clearer.
Seriously, with this blow, she might die - or rather, she might be sent back.
"Very good," Lieyan nodded with satisfaction, then he tucked Loki under his armpit and strode towards the interior of the clan. "I also want to find you. Please help me update my attribute values."
Chapter 22: Good news, my abilities have grown!
"Raul, you will go to Mr. Finn to report later, right? Then I'll ask you to convey my matter to Mr. Finn first. I will go to the leader after the attributes are updated. This should be fine."
After walking to the entrance with Loki under his arm, Lieyan seemed to remember something and turned to Raul behind him and said:
"No problem." Raul responded, Lieyan nodded, and entered the Dusk Pavilion.
As mentioned before, the headquarters of the Loki clan, the long residence called "Dusk Mansion" is composed of many towers.
The lower parts of the towers are connected together, and the upper parts extend into a stone corridor connecting the two towers, complementing each other. The ups and downs, lefts and rights are complicated and intertwined, with no order at all.
Loki's personal room was located on the top floor of the central tower surrounded by other towers. After carrying Loki, who had given up struggling, up the entire spiral staircase of the tower and arriving at the front of the room, Lieyan put Loki down and signaled him to open the door.
"Okay, okay, open the door."
Loki sighed and pushed open the wooden door, his face full of reluctance and resistance, but in his heart he felt a little fresh about the feeling of being forcibly brought into the room like luggage.
Lieyan followed Loki and entered the room without looking around.
Although Loki is a goddess, to be honest, her room does not seem to have anything to do with women. If you have to say it, it is a typical alcoholic's room, and a very heavy-tasting one among alcoholics.
The whole room was filled with all sorts of miscellaneous items.
All kinds of wine were piled up together with the storage to form a small wine cellar. Bottles of various colors and shapes were placed in every corner of the room. On the only table in the room were half-drunk bottles of wine and glass glasses with remaining wine, as well as,
Something that looked very familiar to Lieyan.
——Drank half a bottle of recovery potion G.
...It's hard to imagine why this bottle of recovery medicine G appeared here.
It's impossible that some drunkard smelled the scent of honey in it and suddenly wanted to taste what it tasted like, so...
This shouldn’t be the case…right…