Chapter 156: A Speedrun Journey with the Sword Princess Ais
Sword Princess Ais couldn't help but sigh in admiration. If they followed this conquest model.
Their Dungeon subjugation efficiency would indeed be more efficient than many expedition teams.
Even their Loki Familia, when conducting a Familia expedition, everyone just walked forward.
This kind of rapid movement would cause a lot of unnecessary stamina consumption.
And it would also have a certain negative impact on the ability to perceive danger.
However, seeing that everyone had no objections to Liam, Sword Princess Ais also remained silent.
She had not forgotten her main goal, which was to secretly learn from the master.
As much as possible, by observing Liam, to analyze how the other party grew at such a high speed.
The current entire Dungeon was basically a conical structure.
Dungeon First Floor:
The monsters Liam and the others had to face were all very weak.
Even a normal slash could easily kill them, let alone a slash with sword aura.
Inside the dim Dungeon, because there were specks of fluorescent stones on the walls, one could still see normally.
A group of Goblins approached, and were then easily slain by Liam.
Lili picked up the loot behind them with the highest efficiency, and the group continued to advance with this efficiency.
Still Goblins, but a mutation appeared among the Goblins.
For example, a Great Goblin?
Attacking before his other teammates, a large number of monsters were once again easily annihilated by Liam.
Liam turned around, "This group conquest is like this: before the eighteenth floor, I alone will be responsible. You all are responsible for being on guard.
After resting on the eighteenth floor, I will be responsible for the very front of the team.
Ais, you are responsible for protecting everyone at the rear. As for the other members, you will be responsible for combat in the front or rear."
"Yes!"
Because the current team had Ais, this powerful temporary member, Liam could concentrate more on being the main attacker.
Liam carefully sized up everyone's condition, "I will be the main attacker in the front, Ais will be the rearguard at the back of the team.
Lili, Cassandra, Mikoto, Ais, the formation and specific arrangements for the four of you will follow Daphne's instructions."
"Yes!"
As the sharpest spear of the entire team, Liam only needed to consider how to efficiently conquer the Dungeon.
And Daphne had to consider a lot more.
Liam himself would not restrict everyone's development, so in the future, after everyone's ability scores had improved, they could choose their professions according to their own abilities and interests.
Of course, it was best not to compete with Liam for the main DPS role.
Liam's arrangement was very much in line with Ais's psychological expectations. As the rearguard, she could better protect everyone except Liam.
And she could also more justifiably observe Liam.
Liam's movements were very concise and effective. Just from the outside, it was completely impossible to see how with the same movements, Liam was able to release a slash.
How on earth was that special slash achieved?
While Ais was guarding the surroundings, she focused most of her energy on observing Liam.
At the same time, she was also observing Liam's breathing.
Is it a matter of breathing? Or some special training method? It could also be caused by the talent he possesses.
Generally speaking, an adventurer's power was activated and updated through a god's Falna.
Come to think of it, Liam's swordsmanship that could release sword aura was also activated by an ability from the Falna as a prerequisite.
So, to have Liam's kind of strength improvement speed, one must obtain the same Falna as the other party?
Impossible, this kind of thing is definitely the other party's trump card. It's an answer that is absolutely impossible to get through normal inquiry.
Ais had also considered fighting desperately to tap into her own potential for a breakthrough.
The final result was naturally unsuccessful; her ability scores decreased instead of increasing.
Dungeon Second Floor:
Gecko-type monsters appeared inside the Dungeon, their body length similar to a human's.
Their skin was a bit like tea leaves. After seeing Liam and the others, they immediately swarmed over like a tide.
The ground, walls, and ceiling were all covered with these monsters, and the original color of the walls was completely changed because of this.
Facing this exaggerated number, Liam continued to use Selfless Sword Aura to slash.
Now, when he fought these monsters again, the experience gained was very little, but something was better than nothing.
As for letting his teammates attack, that was even more unnecessary.
Liam had to use the highest efficiency to carry out the Dungeon expedition!
These Dungeon lizards, let him handle them!
With this thought, Liam's chained left hand pressed on the sword case on his back.
Then, a "Neon" Wakizashi was held in his hand.
Lust, blade length sixty centimeters, hilt length twenty centimeters.
As for Sloth, blade length ninety-nine centimeters, hilt length thirty centimeters.
As Selfless Sword Aura was infused into Lust, Lust's blade directly began to vibrate at a high frequency.
The blade's body emitted a faint pink light, and a subtle sword hum buzzed in the narrow Dungeon tunnel.
As he increased the infusion of Selfless Sword Aura, the brightness of the pink on the blade increased, while the sword hum disappeared.
"This is Lust? This is a high-frequency vibration effect, so the disappearance of the sword hum means the vibration frequency is higher?"
Looking at the monsters surging over like a tide, Liam swung Lust.
Lust's blade shimmered with a pinkish glow, and one after another, cherry-blossom-like blade lights flew by silently.
The bodies of these lizard monsters were neatly cut in two. It wasn't until they had completely turned into chunks of minced meat and fallen to the ground that blood spurted out.
Immediately after, the numerous monster corpses directly turned into a puff of black smoke.
An extra pile of magic stones appeared on the ground.
Lust and Sloth had two completely different special effects.
Sloth could release cold air. Being hit by a slash with sword aura or a blade gleam would directly cause the opponent to have a freezing stun effect.
And Lust, what it added was high-frequency sword aura cutting.
If it was for large-area crowd control, Sloth was clearly better. But for mowing down grass, Lust was clearly better.
Less sword aura consumption, and a sharper sword aura attack.
Setting aside the armor-piercing effect for now, he hadn't yet encountered a monster with excellent defense.
At least the efficiency of mowing down grass was exceptionally outstanding.
Mikoto looked at the wakizashi in Liam's hand and subconsciously wiped the corner of her mouth.
To be able to emit a cherry-blossom-colored sword light, it's so beautiful.
Liam didn't notice Mikoto's gaze. Because these eight weapons of the Seven Sins were all bound to him.
So, in the hands of others, not only could they not release special effects, but they couldn't even cut anything.
Even the Seven Sins sword case, no one else could open it except him.
If one had to point out a shortcoming for Liam, it would probably be that he couldn't pass them on to his descendants.
Dungeon Third Floor:
The Dungeon was generally divided into upper, middle, lower, deep, and unknown levels.
Under normal circumstances, monsters from the first floor would also appear on other floors of the upper levels.
And now on the third floor, besides the normal Goblins, there were also Great Goblins, Frost Goblins, Goblin Priests, and other variant Goblins.
The strength of these Goblins was naturally much stronger than those on the first floor.
It was just that this degree of enhancement wasn't very useful.
Liam's strength could still easily handle them. After that, it was like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, slaying all the Goblins encountered on the road.
The subsequent fourth and fifth floors were also the same.
After a short rest, Liam cleared all the surrounding monsters.
"Rest here for ten minutes."
"Yes!"
The group basically jogged all the way. A short rest at this time was very necessary.
Conquering five floors in one go, Liam basically only used Selfless Sword Aura.
With the enhancement of his two First-Grade armaments, these monsters were all more fragile than paper.
The surprise in Ais's heart was also growing.
From never having seen this kind of Dungeon conquest method.
Compared to this conquest method of Liam's, Sword Princess Ais even felt that their previous conquests were like tourism.
Clearly, their Loki Familia was also very hardworking when on an expedition.
But compared to Liam's conquest frequency, it was still too far off.
Ais looked at Liam, "Is it really okay to conquer with this lineup?"
Liam shook his head, "This pace now doesn't even count as a warm-up."
Lili said smugly, "You don't know, our captain is habitually annihilating Monster Parties as a daily routine."
"Using a Monster Party to level up?"
Even Sword Princess Ais had never considered this problem.
Because according to ordinary people's thinking, a Monster Party meant trouble.
So everyone naturally avoided Monster Parties as much as possible. But Liam actually treated it as a daily routine?
That's right, only by frequently annihilating Monster Parties could Liam have such an astonishing leveling speed, right?
She clearly remembered that not long ago, Liam was only a Lv2 adventurer. This time when they met again, he was Lv3, and could even easily defeat two Lv5s.
This potential...
Not interested in thinking about what Ais and the others were thinking, Liam's main energy was focused on continuing to conquer the Dungeon.
Dungeon Sixth Floor:
War Shadow.
This was a shadow that was completely pitch-black, about one meter sixty tall.
A pure round part like a hand mirror was embedded in its cross-shaped face. They had sharp hooked claws on their wrists.
And, there were more than a dozen of them.
When these War Shadows, from completely different positions, surrounded all of Liam's group, Liam had already released two Drawing Slashes one step ahead.
One Drawing Slash's sword aura, in the process of high-speed movement, emitted a large amount of white ice mist.
The other Drawing Slash, on the other hand, emitted a cherry-blossom-colored light.
Three War Shadows were hit by the first one and were cut in half at the waist, turning into corpses.
The remaining ones, although they dodged the first one, the white ice mist emanating from it still made their bodies sluggish.
Immediately after, the second arriving pink sword aura swiftly slew a full eight War Shadows.
There were still three War Shadows left. Seeing these War Shadows wanting to disperse and flee.
Liam directly used Triple Slash to give chase. In the process of his high-speed movement, the sharp blade in his hand brought up a hard-to-dodge white ice mist blade gleam.
The remaining three War Shadows, when facing Liam's Triple Slash, were quickly caught up and then easily slain.
After slaying these War Shadows, Lili quickly collected the magic stones and materials.
"Captain, this time we got a full three War Shadow Finger Blades."
"Mmm, keep them well. Someone will need this kind of weapon."
"Yes!"
Afterward, they followed the shortest path and approached the next floor with the highest efficiency.
Dungeon Seventh Floor:
Reaching this floor, everyone except Liam clearly became more cautious.
"There are Killer Ants starting from this floor. Be careful."
Because everyone was not new to this, they had long expected this kind of monster.
Liam was the first to see a Killer Ant, so he immediately used Sloth to release sword aura to attack.
Using the characteristics of Killer Ants now was too inefficient, so he didn't deliberately pull monsters.
Next were the Needle-Head Rabbits.
This monster, as its name suggests, was a rabbit monster with a sharp horn on its head.
In the process of advancing, a group of Needle-Head Rabbits appeared from the surroundings.
In the dim environment, the eyes of these Needle-Head Rabbits glowed red, which looked quite intimidating.
Then these Needle-Head Rabbits, one by one, had swift jumping power, like a slingshot or an arrow, they jumped towards Liam and the others.
If it were an ordinary new adventurer, as long as they were hit, they would naturally have a bloody hole on their body.
Therefore, Liam showed no mercy at all, once again launching a sword aura slash at these enemies.
A large amount of Selfless Sword Aura was released. The two blades coordinated to carry out long-range sword aura attacks.
The Needle-Head Rabbits, which were originally very agile, simply could not resist when facing this kind of attack from Liam.
And so, one by one, their bodies were directly cut open by the sword aura, and then they dissipated into a puff of black mist.
The sword aura Liam released was very dense. Those Needle-Head Rabbits that were lucky enough to dodge one or two sword auras would also be shredded by the subsequent net of sword aura.
Ais looked at this scene in shock. If she were to attack alone, these Needle-Head Rabbits would have made her flustered.
But, Liam looked very relaxed.
One could only say, as expected of Liam.
"Um, what can I do?"
Ais was a temporary team member. Now that the Dungeon expedition had been going on for so long, she had done nothing.
Even the thick-skinned, naturally dazed Ais felt a sense of urgency.
She wanted to do something to make her conscience feel a little better.
Liam smiled, "Miss Ais, just by staying by everyone's side, you're enough to make me and my teammates feel at ease.
This is the role of the beautiful Sword Princess Ais."
"Just staying by everyone's side is enough?"
Ais's head tilted, and then she saw Lili and the others nodding seriously.
"Miss Ais, you are Lv5. Just this level is enough to put everyone at ease.
Look at us, we're all still just Lv2."
Lili sighed. She had no doubt about the Hestia Familia's rise.
It was just that the sense of urgency in her heart was also constantly accumulating.
They, the members who had joined earlier, if they couldn't speed up their pace of improvement, they would probably be looked down upon by the powerful new members.
By the way, will Ais join them?
Lili thought secretly in her heart. Anyway, at least the two sides could become good friends.
Liam continued to lead the team to quickly conquer the Dungeon. Before long, the group had directly reached the tenth floor of the Dungeon.
(End of this chapter)
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