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Chapter 19 – Retrieving Hestia’s Knife.

  ["I realized that I might be making some mistakes; there's so much copy and paste with over 6k words that I could be duplig some things. If the text is missing anything nifitly out of text, please let me know."]

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  Lucius POVDungeon, Sixth Floor.

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  ...In the dungeon, a man ran from various monsters, trailed by a strange creature carrying a backpack. The man struggled a bit to kill the monsters, indig he was a on level 01, but he was tent with sying everything he entered on the upper floors so far.*Ssh**Ssh*I found myself now, cutting down those ants on the sixth floor, while Riekling picked up stones from the ground. It was much more enjoyable to explore the duhis way. After battling on the sixth floor, I decided to head to the intermediate floors. Bell passed by me on the fifth floor with his support without notig me, so they are probably reag the tenth or eleventh floors in a few hours.

  I ti the same patil the ninth floor, where a monster outbreak suddenly occurred. Sensing everything shake, I asked Riekling to be on guard with his spear."Really? This has never happeo me in the dungeon, but all these signs indicate a rge number of dungeon spawns.""HEEEEEEEEE!" he responded."Let's see what's ing and what will happen," I said as I sheathed my sword and prepared both hands to cast firebolts. We could hear the distant screams of dozens of monsters in the dark corridors ahead.

  When the first ones appeared in ht, we saw the ins of the screams—about 60 goblins and kobolds running towards me and Riekling with fury in their eyes."I don't know what causes this, but the dungeon rarely sends these groups to kill many adventurers. Any other level one would have to run, but I'm gd I test the effectiveness of my unted magic for the first time."Pointing my two hands without saying a word, my hands lit up, and fires shot out like a mae guhe group.*Fme!**Boom*"Huu?"*Boom*"Huu!"*Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom*In the 20 seds, this area became engulfed in fmes with my firebolt mae gun. I didn't even know if they were already dead, but I waited to cast until the 20 seds were up."FUCK 80 FIREBALLS!" I shouted in astonishment as I looked at the sea of fmes in front of me.Besides trolling the spell and casting without intation, I could cast with both hands! With each hand ung 2 firebolts per sed, I was a destruae. Even though the spell is weak in terms of first-css adventurers, I destroy even early level 3 adventurers if they uimate me, I believe!'However, I would be dead if any of them approached with my physical stats.' I couldn't help but think about my disadvantages."Anyway, I'm w on that..." I said to myself."HEEE!" My partner's voiapped me out of my thoughts."Did you see that? That's my secret on!" I said proudly."HEE!"I don't know why, but I uand everything this creature says.Suddenly, I opehe system, remembering there was an excmation point in one of the tabs, so I clicked on [Missions(!)].

  About the new spells I acquired i few hours, new spell missions appeared with no surprise.-----------------------------------[Strength Booster Mission: Cast 100th Boosters! Rank 2 | {Progress: 1/1000} (0%) | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without Intation.}][Speed Booster Mission Rank 2: Cast 1000 Speed Boosters! | {Progress: 1/1000} (0%) | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without Intation.}][Goblin Summoning Mission Rank 2: Keep the Goblin Active for 100 Hours! | {Progress: 1/100} (1%) | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without Intation.}]-------------------------------------

  From all the information, the first thing I thought about was Riekling's mission, where I have to keep him summoned for 100 secutive hours. It seems like these challenges are for people without infinite mana like me. There are no missions for rank 1, but when looking at the other missions, they are much more time-ing, not because of the difficulty, but casting 1000 support spells sting 2 minutes each will take a while...

  Snapping out of my thoughts, I saw the sea of fire extinguish, and I waited for my new panion to start colleg the magic stones scattered on the ground. Once he finished, we tinued walking.

  Shortly after, we were entering the mist of the intermediate floors as we exited the ninth floor. By some luck, I found Bell and his support's location quite quickly.I stayed in a er at a distahout attrag attention, their iions. Bell had bought that Crozzo armor a few days ago, as he was in his cssic look from the beginning of the first season of the anime. I realized that Bell is indeed much faster physically than me.

  "HEE?" I heard my partner beside me, watg my as."Who are you calling a stalker!?" I said with a vein on my forehead."Wait, how do you know that term... Fet it, I don't want to know." I looked strangely at him, but soon didn't want an ao my question."HEEEEEEE!" I ighe protest and tinued paying attention to my family panion.'I envy the protagonist's power.' I thought, sighing, as I watched Bell kill his enemies with his knife and agility.*Boom!**Boom!*I heard his firebolts exploding in the distance. I had moved a bit farther away to avoid being discovered by any of them or the men I am looking for, but I no longer see any of those adventurers who will ambush Lili ter.Suddenly, I noticed Lili running backward away from Bell, tossing small odor balls on the ground—items that attract moo Bell while he is not looking."Lili?! LILI!!!???" Bell shouted, seeing that his support had moved out of his line of sight and couldn't see her anywhere. I sighed; Bell is too kind and naive, even though he was warhat this could happeill acted like an i, trusting Lili. I know she has bee important to the Hestia family, but there are things that are hard to swallow. I held back the st time she leaked information about me to members of her family, Soma, some who still know Lili is alive, but I admit I was tempted to kill her.After that, three orcs surrounded Bell, and while he fought to dodge, Lili, from behind, shot arrows with ropes to retrieve Hestia's Knife. How she do that? I don't uand this logic."Holy, I hope you survive..." The girl said as she went up the stairs after her vilin speech, returning to the upper floors.Sighing and seeing Bell in trouble, I raised my hand.------------------Bell POVIn the same pce."LILI..." I thought mentably."I have to catch up to her!" I said to myself as I dodged the blows from these monsters. I couldn't attad get rid of them without a on, and my magic was low, only dodging.'This is frustrating!' I screamed in my mind.But while I was in my despair, fireballs started to appear from the midst of the mist. The orcs were hit by a sequence of 2 shots each arouhe smoke covered the entire view, but I saw that all the monsters were easily disied after that without me getting hurt in the middle of this attack.*COF**COF*Coughing with all the smoke, I was shocked by the power of whoever did this, which reminded me a lot of my firebolt but helped me effortlessly.I waited for a moment standing in the same pce, with 3 crystals at my feet, but not seeing any respohin the mist. Even though I expected this adventurer who cast magic to want these crystals, I realized that whoever helped me had already left. Despite wanting to thank my savior, I didn't waste any more time; I ran up the stairs to catch up with Lili, unfortunately without thanking my savior.Some time ter.----------------Unknown POV.Another pot far from Bell."HAHAHAHA, look at this knife! We're going to get rich!" said a beastman to his friends as they walked back to the surface."That foolish pallum really believed in us... I didn't even bother remembering her name; now she'll die devoured by ants!" said anhing.However, as they walked leisurely in their group of 8 adventurers, they spotted something very unusual in the dungeon. They stopped in front of a small goblin holding a backpa the eighth floor..."An irregur, perhaps?" everyohought."HEEEEEE!" shouted the goblin in respoo the group.Then after a few seds of silehe group exploded with ughter, thinking that the goblin had stolen a backpack from an adventurer after killing him."HAHAHAHAHAH. What a funny monster!" one of them shouted."It's true HAHAHAHA! This day couldn't get aer!" said the half-beast leader."Riekling! What did I tell you about talking ters?" Suddenly, they heard a new voice behind the goblin."HEEEEEE!" protested the small goblin; no one ughed anymore, finding this iioween this person and the strange monster very strange."e here, stand behind me." He said, and it was amazing that the monster actually did as asked, going behind the shadoroag the group.The man became more visible after taking a few more steps, and his appearance was revealed. He was tall and wore expensive and bizarre clothing, no one we knew, but he had a stratoo on his forehead."Hello, gentlemen. I was starting to worry if I was in the right pce since you wouldn't show up while I waited for you to arrive..." he said with a bored voice.

  "Who are you?!" One of the men in roup asked, a bit cautious."I am Lucius Drakenar, from the Hestia family. Also known as the Mage King," he said proudly, but he seemed more like a man deliriously self-procimed than an adventurer earning a niame ius. And we would know if someone had the title King in the middle of their niame."Mage King?? I've never heard of you..." I said."Anyway, that doesn't matter much," he said with boredom, wanting to end the subject after that proud expression with his niame."What does matter, actually, is that you stole a member of my family..." He said calmly, it didn't take long for us to realize he must be a member of the family of that boy the foolish pallum stole from."We did, so what? What are you going to do, kill us? HAHAHAHAHA" Many of us ughed at that; he was just 1 against 8 of us. He must be out of his mind if he joined as he self-procimed as the Mage King.But then, he gave a strange smile to us, it looked like a wicked and malicious smile, just like the ones we make with our victims."Hmmm.... Sihat's the case, I'll do it, with pleasure!" He said, raising his hands, two fireballs appeared out of nowhere, and without a word, even from his mouth.With that, he initiated a situation we never imagihen our desperation began!--------------Bell PovNearby.I started to carry Lili on my back as we returo the surface. The girl still cursed at me, calling me a fool, but I didn't care; I wao help her.Now my priority is to get the knife back, which was stolen from Lili's hands.Running through the corridors, trying to follow the trail of those thieves, we began to hear explosions in the distance, so I k could be them.As roached, we heard desperate screams of humans, something that made me tremble a bit; there were people dying like animals in those corridors, but still, I gathered all my ce.We entered a more open passage, and then I came across a horrible se that appeared before us. We saw a bunch of burned adventurer corpses scattered everywhere; this made both me and Lili, who was looking over my shoulder, freeze."You finally arrived, Bell." A familiar voice resonated in the midst of that chaos of fire and bodies, there were 8 of them, unreizable at that moment.At the in of the voice, there was Lucius standing calmly o a goblin that reminded me of a support with that giant backpack."Mr. Lucius?! What happened here?" I asked, scared; it was a horrible sight, something I never imagined seeing in my life."They stole from my family when I politely asked them to return your khey attacked me unjustly... Well, I defended myself from there," he said mencholically and with a tone of irony. I shivered as he killed these people without any remorse in his voice."HEEEEEE!" My attention was taken by the voice of the strange monster o him, who didn't seem hostile to Lucius.His scream seemed like a protest that he didn't agree with Lucius's words. I found the monster very peculiar, but I couldn't fet about the corpses."Really? And how did you help?" Lucius crossed his arms as he looked at the shorter panion."HEEEE! HEEE!" The monster protested."I don't think you distracted them, Riekling, but I'll teach you to fight iure, don't worry." Lucius procimed."Well, anyway, I got it; here's your knife." Before I could see even more of the bizarre situation.He walked up to me, talking and handihe knife, Lili trembled on my back as he approached. I may be quite uled by how Lucius eliminated all these people, but I know he wouldn't harm me.But I was surprised when he lifted my lost knife and ha to me."So, I'm going back to the intermediate floors, see you ter, Bell..." He said calmly, walking past both of us, and a goblin in a backpack following him.As he walked away, Lili and I could only stand paralyzed in the pce with the smell of burnt flesh in the air, trying to uand everything that happened i 5 minutes.

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