However, Takumi didn't care at all. Seeing the extra 37,000 points, he happily handed over the magic stones and materials to the transportation team.
They would be responsible for transporting such loot back to the surface.
At the same time, Riveria followed Ais.
She looked at Takumi with complicated eyes.
When she heard that Udaios had been defeated, she was relieved.
Because she finally no longer had to worry about Ais going on reckless adventures.
But when she found out that it was Takumi who had taken action, she didn't know what to say.
He was the one who stopped Ais's adventures both times. Is this guy perhaps Ais's nemesis?
Of course, she also understood that Finn must be behind this.
Otherwise, Takumi would not do this without Finn's consent.
Udaios is only one step away from the expeditionary force, which is no different from being reserved by the Loki Familia.
Riveria didn't believe that Takumi had crossed the line by interfering in the raid at this time. He was definitely not the kind of reckless person.
Therefore, there must be some kind of deal between Takumi and Finn.
She even guessed the content of the transaction, which was probably related to Ais's adventurous impulse.
At the same time, Riveria was also grateful that Takumi was willing to take on the task of attracting her resentment.
It's just...
Ais is still a little hard to appease.
Looking at Ais whose eyes were fixed on Takumi, she couldn't help but hold her forehead.
However, there is no other way. Riveria can't say anything to Takumi now, so she can only try her best to appease Ais.
"Forget it, Ais. He probably didn't mean to cause trouble for you. He doesn't know about your plans. He just happened to be eyeing Udaios too."
"They are our important partners now. Don't do this; it will make the relationship tense."
"The expedition is not over yet. There are still a lot of battles waiting for you. Go back and rest."
Riveria tried hard to persuade Ais to put the matter aside for the time being and go back to the tent to rest.
There was nothing more to say. The next day, the team set out again and arrived at the 37th level. After that, the intensity of the battle escalated again.
Kanae and the others had to retreat to the second line to deal with some remaining monsters.
Takumi finally took action and joined the regular battle.
However, his situation was the same as that of the first echelon. It can't be considered a battle; it's basically like harvesting wheat effortlessly. It's even more extreme than that, because Takumi wiped out twenty-four monsters in one fell swoop.
This terrifying efficiency makes people even more envious of his flying slashes, and also attracted the admiration of many people.
There is no way; the sense of security is too great!
As long as Takumi stands there, he can kill dozens of monsters with a swing of his knife.
At the same time, it is super efficient; one person can block all monsters.
The visual shock it brings is also very powerful.
Many people were impressed by seeing Takumi's powerful back and became his fans.
In this regard, Takumi just wanted to say: Get out of here and leave the fangirls to me.
At the same time, Finn also noticed Takumi's efficiency and even invited Takumi to join the first echelon, the vanguard team that opened the way. After all, with his efficiency, staying in the second echelon is really too much.
Takumi also readily agreed. After all, there are more monsters he can encounter in the first echelon, which allows him to earn more points.
Everyone in the first echelon was familiar to him: Tiona and her sister Tione, the werewolf Bete, Gareth, Ais, Finn, and Riveria, as well as a few Level 4 members who looked familiar to Takumi.
What surprised Takumi was that Tsubaki was actually here.
But thinking about her strength, he was relieved.
No wonder he hadn't seen her during the day in the past two days; she was here.
"Let me introduce you to everyone, though you should all know Takumi, the leader of the Hestia Familia."
When he first joined the team, Finn introduced Takumi to everyone, and then also introduced the others to Takumi.
"Hello."
Takumi also took the opportunity to greet them, and everyone responded politely.
After getting familiar with each other briefly, everyone returned to the battle.
Next, Takumi's strength conquered everyone again.
Every time they fought, it was Takumi who killed the monsters first, and the others picked up the rest to clean up.
This also made the expedition speed up a lot after reaching the deep levels.
But it still took two days to go deeper. After climbing more than ten floors, they arrived at the 50th floor.
This is the second known safe zone in the dungeon.
Arriving here means that the expedition has completed half of its journey.
Finn is quite satisfied with this speed, because it used to take seven or eight days to make such a trip, but now it only takes four days, which is nearly twice as fast!
Then, he hurriedly arranged for the troops to set up camp.
Because this will be the stronghold of the large army in the future.
Yes, the large troops will no longer follow the road below, but will be stationed here as a temporary rear base camp.
This is the limit of the large-scale troops that can march.
Starting from the 51st floor below, there is the attack range of the Cannon Dragon.
The Cannon Dragon will fire upwards from the 57th floor.
These attacks will penetrate the floor and appear suddenly at the feet of the adventurers.
If you are not careful, you may be engulfed by the pillar of fire spraying up from your feet. It is quite dangerous.
Therefore, without a certain degree of strength, it is impossible to participate in the subsequent expedition.
Large-scale troops that are not flexible cannot continue to penetrate deeper, otherwise they will only become targets, and people and goods will be buried together!
But this is none of Takumi's business. He is now feeling a little regretful that the floor owner on the 49th floor, Balor, has not been refreshed yet.
But!
Takumi's goal has been achieved.
As early as this morning, on the 46th floor, the points redeemed in the mall exceeded the 200,000 mark.
They can be redeemed for the [Falna]!
Because there were many things going on at the time and the troops were on the move, Takumi was not in a hurry to redeem it.
Now he has settled down. Takumi also found a corner to sit down, opened the redemption mall, dragged it to the bottom, and chose to redeem the most expensive product.
The first digit of more than 200,000 points was instantly erased.
At the same time, there was also a huge amount of knowledge in his mind.
Takumi concentrated on checking and realized that this was not the original Falna, but a system-optimized version.
It did not need the medium of the blood of the gods to grant people favors.
It is no longer a ritual like the original version, but more like magic.
At the same time, because this is a complete set of knowledge, Takumi can also set up different versions of Falna according to needs.
For example, it is no longer a version that appears on the back of the recipient, but projects a status bar.
Another example is a version that can record in real time and display the skills you have learned as data, an advanced version that updates automatically.
There are versions without magic slot restrictions and the ultimate version that combines all the advantages, etc.
However, these versions have their own shortcomings.
The disadvantage of the status bar version is that information will leak because the status bar can also be seen by others.
The disadvantage of the full data display version is that the content is too long and it is a bit inconvenient to use.
The disadvantage of the automatically updated version is that Feats might be missed and the conversion efficiency is not as good.
The disadvantage of the version that is not limited to magic slots is that magic will be more difficult to awaken, and it will not be as powerful after awakening.
The ultimate version, which combines the advantages, has almost all the above disadvantages!
"However, it seems that there is room for improvement."
When Takumi saw this, he couldn't help but feel that he could do some research to see if he could optimize these shortcomings.
After all, he has a full set of knowledge and can use magic creation to optimize it.
Just do it if you think of it; Takumi has always been an activist.
He started with the projection status bar and planned to add a private projection mode. It will no longer be projected in front of you, but converted into nerve signals and then projected into the visual nerve.
In this way, outsiders will no longer be able to see the content at all, and the information security is even stronger than when projected onto the retina.
To Takumi's surprise, the transformation was successful!
But there is also bad news...
Takumi looked up with a slightly pale face. He raised his right hand. There were originally three energy-charging magic lines on the back of his hand, but now there is only one left.
Moreover, the color of the remaining line is also very dim.
"Damn, I almost got sucked dry by you."
"This is just such a small function. Wouldn't it be worse if other more powerful functions were to be improved?..."
"Hiss! It seems that I have to prepare well before I can continue to try to improve."
Takumi immediately didn't dare to try again, at least not now.
With this terrifying amount of magic power consumption, other functions cannot be improved before being prepared because the magic power is not enough.
At the same time, Takumi was a little afraid of the feeling of being drained of his magic power.
At that moment, he felt weaker than even Hestia after they fought until dawn.
This feeling was very bad, and he felt weak everywhere.
He was not in sage mode, but that kind of melancholic feeling, which was quite uncomfortable.
Fortunately, he recovered quickly enough. This feeling came and went quickly, just for a moment.
But it was enough to leave a deep impression on Takumi; he didn't want to do it again.
Thinking about it, Takumi stood up and prepared to go to Kanae and the others.
At this time, the large army had already stationed on the 50th floor and began to manage the garrison matters.
In fact, at this time, Takumi no longer had the need to continue participating in the expedition. The purpose of his trip had been achieved.
But since it had been agreed that he would participate in the expedition to the end, Takumi did not intend to break his promise.
Furthermore, Kanae and the others are all still here. This is the first time for them to come to such a deep level, and everything here is very dangerous for them.
So Takumi just stayed to take care of them. Anyway, it would only be a few days at most until the expedition is over.
"What are you doing here alone?"
At this time, a green figure walked towards him; it was Riveria.
"Nothing to do, just taking a rest. What about you? Something's wrong?"
Takumi said casually and looked at her curiously.
This was the first time in the past few days that Riveria had taken the initiative to talk to him.
To be honest, he was a little confused about Riveria's current attitude toward him.
He just felt that after that day, it was quite awkward for both parties to meet each other.
"Can't I chat with you if I have nothing to do?" Riveria pretended to be casual and said.
In fact, she was very nervous now.
There was no way; Riveria was well aware that Takumi was the first man to touch her.
Riveria didn't know it was just because Takumi has a special physique, so she simply thought that she had recognized Takumi unknowingly.
You know, for the elves, recognition of a person of the opposite sex means that they are willing to let the other person touch them.
This is roughly equivalent to... liking him or her. That may not be perfectly accurate, but at least she has accepted him and regarded him as a close person.
In addition, it was also the first time for Riveria to feel this way, and she didn't even know what she felt about him. No matter what kind of mentality she had, it was inevitable to be nervous.
And she finally made up her mind to come to Takumi. Naturally, it was not as simple as just chatting.
She wanted to confirm her feelings.
"Of course, who can refuse an invitation from a beautiful woman, especially a beauty like you?"
Takumi said with a smile when he saw this.
However, although he said it casually, his eyes were actually fixed on Riveria's face, trying to read her thoughts through her reaction.
But soon, Takumi gave up.
He didn't think so when he was writing novels before, but he realized it after actually trying it. Those novels where the protagonist can know what other people are thinking by looking at their expressions is simply nonsense!
It is impossible for people who have not studied psychology and micro-expressions to do this kind of thing!
Even people who have studied professional knowledge cannot be so accurate.
"Is that so?" Riveria smiled after hearing this, flipped her hair, and walked straight up.
"Do you think I'm beautiful?"
Hiss!
In an instant, Takumi's eyes couldn't help but return to her face.
It felt like it wasn't her hair that she was lifting just now, but his heart!
One thing to say, Riveria is really beautiful, not worse than those goddesses.
Even because she is an elf, she has a different sense of beauty from a goddess.
Takumi was suddenly teased; not only was he not happy, but he became wary.
There was no way; under the baptism of the Internet in his previous life, he'd seen so many players and heartbreakers, so he was more wary.
After all, you never know whether the person flirting with you really likes you, or if she's just a scoundrel looking for a sucker, or if she's a player like Kurumi from some anime, or even a liar with other agendas.
Well, based on Takumi's impression of Riveria, the possibility of the first two was almost zero.
But!
There is one last possibility!
As the saying goes, when someone is being overly courteous for no reason, there is either a motive of greed or lust.
Even in a relationship between a man and a woman, caution is still necessary.
This is the true meaning summarized by the seniors who set an example on TV crime-telling programs!
Takumi calmed down and said with a smile: "Of course. Very beautiful, as beautiful as... well, a goddess."
At first, Takumi almost blurted out a line about her being as beautiful as his wife. Fortunately, he stopped it in the end and changed his words in time.
At the same time, he was thinking: It seems that he should talk less to Hestia in the future. That was close.
"Yes, thank you for the compliment," Riveria said with a blushing smile.
In fact, she felt a little regretful after flirting with him just now.
Because this was not her style at all, and she was also afraid that Takumi would misunderstand her.
But fortunately, Takumi didn't seem to have a misunderstanding.
But for some reason, Riveria couldn't help but feel a little disappointed by this result. She even doubted whether her charm had been reduced.
The two initially sparred verbally, but both sides failed to gain a tactical advantage due to their abnormal performance.
Subsequently, Riveria changed the topic.
"By the way, what are you usually busy with? It takes a long time to come out every time."
"Nothing, just doing some research."
"Research? Alchemy? Were you studying those walkie-talkies?"
"Pretty much, but I mainly study other things."
"So what do you mainly study? I'm also doing some research, but it's just about magic."
"Well, mainly agriculture, production technology, economics, sociology and the like. Magic is also involved."
"Are you also studying magic? What is the main direction?"
After changing the topic, the two quickly found a common topic.
Riveria has always studied magic. In the Twilight Manor, there is even a room full of magic-related books, which is also her main hobby.
Takumi, although he has basically never read such books, has the inheritance of two of the world's top magicians and a plug-in for creating magic; his knowledge reserve is completely worthy of Riveria. The more the two talked about this topic, the more involved they became. They didn't notice that the distance between them was gradually getting closer.