CHAPTER 75: 075 THE OUT-OF-CONTROL FEMALE SWORDSMAN

Oulali Center, the Tower of Babel.

At this time, it just so happened to be the peak period when adventurers were entering the underground city to explore.

When Magic Power and Revilia appeared here with a part of the Loki Familia’s members, they were instantly spotted by many.

The group then dispersed in the area, approaching adventurers who’d been lingering around longer or guild staff stationed inside the Tower of Babel to gather information.

Ten minutes later, everyone regathered in front of the Tower of Babel and shared the confirmed information.

"Just as we thought, Ais has indeed entered the underground city," Revilia said. "The guild staff stationed in the Tower of Babel claimed they saw Ais fully armed here. Given that, she must have entered the underground city."

"I’ve confirmed it too; someone saw Ais entering the underground city," Reiger looked at Revilia and said, "Though some time has passed since then, it’s not impossible for us to catch up to her now."

"That’s true for you," Revilia sighed and said, "But that may not be the case for us."

It was clear that with Ais’s speed and several hours behind her, she must have already descended to a significant floor.

That girl was very much like Reiger in all respects. Reiger’s strongest abilities were "agility" and "speed," and judging by Ais’s aptitude, her "agility" and "speed" were her main strengths too, or else she wouldn’t have trained both to A rank.

In that case, with Ais’s speed like the wind, a few hours were enough for her to dive beyond the tenth floor.

Even if she had focused solely on advancing, with Ais’s speed by now, it wasn’t impossible that she had reached the lower areas below the 20th floor.

Reiger might be able to catch up at such speeds, but it would be very difficult for Revilia and the others.

Although Revilia was Lv.6 and a Magic Guide, with unmatched magical power, abilities such as "strength," "endurance," "agility," and "dexterity" were not her strong points.

Currently, Revilia’s "magic power" had reached S-rank, but her "dexterity" was only at C-rank. Previous levels’ final "dexterity" metrics were similar and not high. Even considering potential ability, it was impossible to boost Revilia’s speed to a level comparable to Reiger and Ais.

And as for the others, it goes without saying. The highest level among the members Revilia brought was only Lv.4; they couldn’t possibly catch up with Ais.

"Let’s do this: you go all out to chase after Ais, and we’ll stay behind," placing her hopes on Reiger, Revilia said to him, "No problem, right?"

Reiger shook his head and replied, "Of course not."

He was now also Lv.5, capable enough to tackle the deeper levels on his own.

And from the 37th floor onward, known as the deep floors, as long as Reiger didn’t enter, with his current strength, he could easily handle both floor bosses and monster feasts, with no life-threatening dangers.

Unless he was unlucky enough to encounter an abnormal situation again.

But even if he did encounter one, today, he was definitely going to push through.

"No time to waste, I’ll head out now."

With those words, Reiger’s figure flashed and transformed into a gust of wind, rushing into the Tower of Babel. The strong winds he kicked up in his wake made passersby cry out in alarm and irritated quite a few hot-headed adventurers into curses.

Revilia watched Reiger leave, then turned to the remaining team members and said, "Leave two people here on guard, the rest of you follow me in."

"Yes!"

The team members promptly responded.

Sometime later, Revilia led a few Loki Familia team members into the underground city.

...

The underground city seemed unusually quiet today.

There were plenty of adventurers, and they were making quite the racket, but Reiger, sprinting down the path, didn’t encounter many monsters. The roars that were usually faintly audible upon entering the underground city were also absent, creating an eerie sense of calm in the labyrinth.

Some adventurers found this situation strange, even irritating.

"What’s up with the underground city today?"

"Why haven’t I seen a single monster?"

"Could they have all been vanquished?"

"But there’s no way that could happen so fast."

The adventurers were abuzz with discussion, causing Reiger, who happened to overhear, to furrow his brow.

"Could it be Ais?"

Don’t tell me that girl started a massacre from the 1st floor onward and just kept going down?

Considering Ais’s strength and speed, if she really did that, the upper floors’ monsters could be wiped out in a short time. The underground city wouldn’t even have time to spawn new ones, which wouldn’t be surprising.

If Ais was responsible, then it confirmed that, just like Finn said, she was indeed getting impatient.

After all, even if Ais slaughtered many monsters on the upper floors, as a Lv.5 top-ranking member, she wouldn’t gain a single experience point.

In the past, even when Ais entered the underground city, she wouldn’t slaughter wantonly but would dive down at the fastest speed possible. After reaching a certain floor, she would start exploring.

This was also an unwritten rule, where high-level adventurers should avoid attacking monsters on the lower-ranking floors to ensure lower-level adventurers had enough monsters to vanquish.

Even Reiger had barely attacked the monsters on the upper floors after reaching Lv.2, not to mention Ais. Unless unavoidable, she definitely wouldn’t strike at random on the upper floors.

Now, Ais was disregarding even this unwritten rule, indicating that indeed, her mindset had changed.

Reiger was silent but quickened his pace considerably, streaking through the underground city at lightning speed and startling many adventurers who witnessed the spectacle.

All they could see was a gust of wind, a shadow flashing past at astonishing speed, unable to confirm what the shadow truly was, they all looked as if they had seen a ghost for a moment.

Reiger wouldn’t care about them, just utilizing speed, he rushed downward.

To increase his speed even more, Reiger even chanted Lamu’s protective magic, significantly boosting his "Agility" stat.

If Wind Spirit Swift Walk wouldn’t have put a strain on his body, Reiger would have even considered using it to travel.

This showed that Reiger was somewhat in a hurry.

In this manner, Reiger kept delving deeper, quickly passing through the upper levels from the 1st to the 12th floor, entering the middle levels starting from the 13th floor.

From this floor on, the spawn rate of monsters was much higher than in the upper levels— even if they were cleared out, the underground city would quickly breed new monsters.

Therefore, after entering the 13th floor, Reiger finally began to see some scattered monsters.

"Roar!"

A black beast like a cross between a wolf and a dog, spewing flames from its mouth, even let out a roar at Reiger as he entered this floor.

"Scram!"

Without turning his head, Reiger glared at it, and the creature withered, running away.

Reiger continued downward, his speed unabated.

After ten minutes, Reiger entered the 14th floor.

Seventeen minutes later, Reiger entered the 15th floor.

Thirty minutes later, Reiger entered the 16th floor.

In less than an hour, Reiger had entered the 17th floor and smoothly reached the end of this layer, stepping into a long and vast underground hall.

This was a perfectly smooth rectangular space, with a large circular entrance, and the hall was at least 200 meters in length.

The width of the chamber was also about 100 meters, and although it was less than 20 meters from the ground to the ceiling—which was already higher than other areas— it was all formed from rough rocks, except for the left wall, which was different.

That wall was extremely smooth, just like a mirror, without any seams, extending from the entrance of the chamber to the deepest end, covering an entire side of the chamber.

"Have we reached the Wall of Sighs already?"

It was a wall known as the last barrier of the 17th floor.

As everyone knows, the walls of the underground city are capable of spawning monsters.

But from this peculiar Wall of Sighs, there would only emerge a sole, specific monster.

That was the master of this chamber.

That was, up to this floor, the most powerful and terrifying existence among all the 17 floors.

The floor boss of the 17th level, the super-sized giant species, Goliath.

This Wall of Sighs was the wall that nurtured Goliath.

Unless Goliath had been vanquished and it wasn’t time for it to be reborn yet, as soon as someone entered this chamber, they would inevitably be subject to the frenzied attacks of the first floor boss of the underground city.

The attacks of that giant beast, at least seven meters tall, could give a headache to any adventurer who hadn’t yet become a first-class, not to mention even those at Level 4.

Reiger was not unfamiliar with this place.

Back when he had reached the limit of Level 3 in an effort to achieve a great feat, Reiger came here alone, facing Goliath in a one-on-one battle.

In that battle, even Reiger fought many times on the brink of death, narrowly escaping it.

Goliath is a monster classified as Level 4, and as a super-sized species floor boss, the then-Level 3 Reiger fighting such a monster was never going to have an easy time, even with his abilities all reaching SSS level and possessing an exceptional magic like Wind Spirit Swift Walk, it was still extremely tough.

If Reiger hadn’t been so fiercely excitable to the point of recklessness in that battle, whether he could have defeated Goliath remained an unknown.

It was precisely because that battle was so difficult, Reiger finally accomplished his great feat and advanced to Level 4 in one go.

Of course, for Reiger now, facing Goliath again, he was able to crush it with ease.

However, if Reiger could do it, naturally others could as well.

For instance, a certain female swordsman who had already reached the highest rank of Level 5.

"..."

Reiger stood in front of a pile of ash, staring at the magic stone above that had not been picked up, silent for quite a while.

After a while, Reiger left the enormous magic stone unattended and dashed into the 18th floor.

At the same time, a blonde female swordsman moved from the entrance of the 18th floor into the 19th floor.

"It’s still not enough....."

The blonde female swordsman murmured.

"I must become even stronger..."