Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 798 I also have nightmares, so why can you rely on a man to solve them?

My name is Jala, a member of the Rudra family.

Five years ago, he plotted to kill those meddlesome troublemakers from the Astrea Familia.

In the end, it succeeded, but it also failed.

Success means the Astrea Familia disappears from Orario; failure means the surviving, wretched elf Gale transforms into a death god, relentlessly hunting down all those who betrayed her companions.

Everyone involved in this matter was assassinated or attacked without any explanation. Although I was lucky enough to survive five years ago, I have lived in fear ever since.

Every day and night, I dream of that damned spirit, who suddenly appears before me, seeking revenge for his fallen companions, and kills me.

Of course, with the deaths of those involved in the persecution of the Astrea Familia two years ago, Gale also disappeared without a trace.

There were rumors that she might be dead, or that she might have escaped Orario. From that day on, I gradually stopped dreaming about being hunted by her.

He thought he could once again embrace his life as a villain who did whatever he wanted, but a chance encounter in the safe town of Vera, where he saw Gale wrapped up tightly, reignited the fear that had been buried deep in his heart.

His legs trembled involuntarily as he questioned why that guy hadn't died or escaped Orario.

But no matter how much you question it, you can't deny the fact that the guy who gave you nightmares is still alive, and if he finds out you're alive, you'll face his relentless pursuit.

Fortunately, I was the one who spotted the other person first.

After locking himself in his hideout for several days, Gale reappeared in his dreams like a nightmare.

I was becoming increasingly exhausted. I knew I couldn't keep hiding like a mouse any longer. If I kept hiding like this, my mind would eventually break down. I wanted revenge. I wanted to shatter the nightmares of the past. But I was struggling with how to do it.

Gale's strength is beyond doubt. In a head-on battle, someone like me would be no match for him, even though I am now a beast tamer and have two Lv.5 deep-level monsters under my command.

I had to find a way to kill him. So I secretly observed Gale. He seemed to be short of money and was frantically killing monsters for money.

I wanted to strike when the other party was exhausted, but although they were short of money, they never let themselves get into a bad situation.

Hayate had some dealings with other members of the Familia. I considered kidnapping someone connected to that guy as a hostage, but, well, the Sword Maiden of the Loki Familia was even more dangerous.

The Hestia Familia, which seemed like an easy target, a nameless newcomer to Orario, suddenly transformed into a being capable of directly beating the Ishtar Familia's chief god to a pulp just before I was about to make my move.

The people around Jifeng are not her weaknesses; on the contrary, they might become her helpers in hunting her down once she is discovered, which is making my mental state worse and worse.

Finally, when Gale came to the dungeon alone to fight monsters again, I made my move. I contacted other members of the dark faction and prepared to trap and kill her. I deliberately let her know that my enemy was still alive, and slowly laid the bait to lure her to the 27th floor of the maze.

I have two plans.

The first plan, naturally, was to orchestrate a scenario where Gale killed his companions who had concealed their dark faction identities and joined Rivera Town, thereby inciting the adventurers of Rivera Town to unite against a common enemy.

If Gale can't hold out, she will be surrounded and killed by the adventurers of Rivera Town. But if she kills the adventurers of Rivera Town and is seriously injured, she can act as the villain behind the scenes and go out to finish off the remaining enemies.

However, the plan was disrupted. Gale did not engage in battle with Modo's group. The sudden intervention of the Tyrant of Extreme Desire caused both sides to stop the conflict.

Meanwhile, Tucker was executing his second plan. On the surface, he was activating the firestones that had been buried in the dungeon beforehand, intending to crush the enemies he wanted to kill by blasting the floors. But in reality, he was luring out the creature that would only appear when there was widespread destruction in the dungeon's environment.

"Gale, you are my nightmare, but it is your nightmare!"

Zagnat, a special monster that appeared when Broly destroyed the entire 58th floor of the dungeon, was now born from the rock walls of the severely damaged 27th floor of the dungeon. It roared with its head raised, its voice sounding like a mournful cry.

Even more incredibly, the violent shaking of the maze's floors caused the two-headed dragon, the master of the Azure Waterfall, to emerge from the enormous lake.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect the floor owner to come too. Gale, you're dead! My nightmare can finally end!"

Jarrow, observing the desperate situation on Gale's side through the magic stone artifacts bound to Lambton, burst into laughter.

When the cat-man Tucker ran over to join them, he saw Jaluo laughing uncontrollably, but the man's laughter quickly stopped...

. . . . .

"Ryu, are you alright?"

After the mournful cry rang out, Broly noticed Ryu's condition.

"That's it!"

The elf's body trembled involuntarily in place.

Who are you talking about?

Broly was somewhat puzzled.

"The monster that killed my companion..."

Liu subconsciously took a step back. A scene somewhat similar to that of five years ago made her mental state somewhat unstable. Her current condition is known in psychology as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD for short.

"Monster? It's alright, I'm here, it can't hurt you."

Broly offered a word of comfort to Ryu, then pointed behind him to the two-headed dragon that was spewing out a magic-suppressing red mist.

"Didn't you want to defeat Amphispina? It's out now, you go and deal with it, leave the rest to me, okay?"

Ryu glanced at the two-headed dragon, then at the Saiyan boy, and, remembering the boy's immense strength, nodded: "Alright, but Broly, be very careful when dealing with that monster. It's incredibly fast and has the special ability to deflect magic."

"Boss Modo, both the way forward and the way back are blocked. Damn it, I don't know who used the firestone to blast the rock wall. It will definitely take us some time to dig a road out."

"There's no other way, prepare for battle!"

The adventurers in Rivera Town split into two groups: one group faced a two-headed dragon emerging from the lake behind them, while the other group faced a Zagnat that had fallen from the rock wall in front of them and was crawling towards them at high speed. Neither of them looked easy to deal with.

"Before the magic-suppressing red mist gets close, let's use magic to take down that strange thing!"

As someone spoke, they took out the Demon Sword.

"no?!"

Liu hurriedly turned around, but some people's magic had already been released, mainly lightning and fire-type attack magic, which gathered into a magical torrent and shot towards Zagnat. The approaching monster did not dodge, but instead stopped, as if deliberately catching these spells.

A magical barrier appeared around him, and the surging attack magic was deflected the next moment.

The magical torrent struck the ground, creating a trench tens of meters long.

"A bunch of idiots, didn't you hear what I just said?"

"Swift, swift wind..."

The person who had been kicked away by the elf looked at the ditch where he had just stood, still shaken, but also casting a complicated look at the elf.

They were chasing someone, and if the tyrant hadn't intervened in time, they might have had to join forces to attack them. But now they've been saved by the other party.

"Mr. Broly, what should we do now..."

Modo was starting to panic. In front of him was a monster that Gale called a monster, and behind him was the two-headed dragon Amphispina, the most powerful floor master of the 27th floor of the labyrinth. Moreover, their path of advance and retreat had been blasted away by fire stones. If it weren't for the boy who seemed to be even stronger by his side, he would probably be in despair by now.

"You guys stay to the side and watch, just shout '666' for us."

Broly answered.

"Huh?!"

Modo and the others looked at each other in bewilderment. What kind of strange magic was this?
"Uh, well, 666..."

The one-eyed strongman was the first to put away his weapon, obediently ran to the side, and shouted.

Ryu: "..."

Broly nodded in satisfaction, and with a leap, a spray of rubble erupted from where he had stood. He arrived before Zagnat in an instant, and before the monster, which looked somewhat like a swamp dog, could stab at him with its sharp tail, he raised his right fist and delivered a downward blow to its forehead. "Boom!"

Even more massive than the previous explosions, Zagnat, whose entire body was made of highly condensed magic stone, had its legs, which were supporting its body, break off at the joints. Without support, the magic stone body was slammed into the ground by the enormous force, creating cracks similar to those of a meteorite crater...

Zagnat struggled to lift its head, the area where it had been struck missing a large part of its body. It tried to get up, but the cracks in the missing part began to widen, and with a series of cracking sounds, its body shattered. Half of its head fell off, and the red light in its eyes quickly disappeared.

Before acquiring the Overload Training skill, Broly could instantly kill its kind born on the 58th floor with gravity magic without even lifting a finger.

After activating the Super-Heavy Training, Broly defeated the creature born on the 27th floor with just one punch.

And the price is...

"Ouch, this guy's head is so hard, it hurts my hand when he hits it."

Broly swung his right hand.

Ryu glanced over instinctively and noticed that Broly's knuckles on the back of his hand were indeed a little red.

But since there wasn't even a scratch or bleeding, does that count as an injury?
However, seeing the monster that had once given her nightmares knocked down by a Saiyan with a single punch made Ryu feel relieved.

Of course, she could only relax her mind, but not her body, because there was still another floor boss she needed to deal with.

The elf charged towards Amphispina. With the speed and power boosted by the Rabbit-Ox Talisman, and having had her stats updated, Ryu's abilities were on par with those of an ordinary Lv.6 adventurer.

The two-headed dragon is only effective against mages. Against Ryu, a swordsman, the outcome was already decided after the elf severed the blue dragon head that spewed blue flames.

"This is a tamed monster?!"

On Broly's side, Mordo had stopped shouting "666". He saw the boy suddenly rush towards a corner hidden by rocks, and pulled out a Lymton from there. He noticed the magic stone collar around the boy's neck and immediately recognized what was going on.

"This was definitely a trap set for Gale. Damn it, we've been used. Tucker and his gang are definitely bastards from the Dark Faction!"

Modo was cursing and swearing.

"No wonder he's so enthusiastic!"

The others were similar.

In that situation just now, the person who was scheming clearly wanted to kill them all as well.

If it weren't for the powerful Tyrant of Extreme Lust and Gale, they would be the ones facing a pincer attack from both sides by two terrifying monsters.

"A communication-type magic stone device..."

Broly found a monitoring magic stone device on the body of the giant green snake-like Lymton.

After glancing at the battle that had fallen into Ryu's hands, he ran towards the tunnel that Lemton had dug out.

"Hey, Mr. Broly, where are you going?"

Modo was curious, so he quickly followed and asked.

"This communication magic stone device has magical directionality. The direction of the magic transmission on it is over there, not too far from here. I'm going to go and find out who's behind it."

Upon hearing this, the group of adventurers from Rivera Town immediately perked up and followed.

"Take one of us with you."

. . . .

"What's wrong, Jaluo? I heard you laughing heartily before I came, but why did you stop laughing after I arrived?"

【I'm laughing at your mother?!】

All that hard work to prepare the trump card to eliminate Gale was defeated by a single punch less than ten seconds after it appeared. Who could stand that?
"Hey, what's that explosion?"

A roar and a tremor came from beneath his feet, and the cat-man Tucker asked in confusion—Broly had just taken down Zagnat.

[Hiss, how could Gale be so strong? In a one-on-one fight, the two-headed dragon floor master, Amphispina, couldn't even beat her!?]

[Oh no, Lambton has been discovered!]

Just as the mastermind, Jaluo, was feeling relieved that only his beast tamer was present, he heard the Saiyan boy say that he could find Jaluo's location through the magic stone device used for monitoring. And coincidentally, the location the boy said was correct.

The underground city's environment made it impossible to use any communication devices over long distances; the straight-line distance between him and Gale was actually less than a hundred meters.

"Clap~"

The whip struck the ground, and a large red snake emerged.

"Wait, what's wrong with you?"

Tucker was puzzled, but then he saw his red-haired cat-man companion jump down into the hole he had dug with his beast without saying a word.

[The storm's gone up. If I don't run, am I supposed to just stand here and wait to die? You idiots, give me some time to retreat...]

"Bang~"

Before he could finish his thought, the rock wall between the underground city floors exploded.

"Hey, so they just ran away like that?"

One hand pressed down on his head, stopping him from falling.

Broly, looking somewhat disheveled, held up the magic stone device he used for communication and compared it to the receiver on the neck of the cat-person he was holding down.

After confirming that it was a magical artifact, Broly grabbed the red hair of the mysterious runaway male cat-man and lifted him up to jump.

When they returned to the 27th floor, Modo and the others used the snake path dug out by Lambton to surround Tucker and the others who had escaped from among them.

"Boss Modo, I can explain."

"Explanation my ass! We're here on behalf of Rivera to settle scores with you traitors!"

More than fifty adventurers from Modo ganged up on Tak and his group, who numbered only about ten. They were extremely ruthless and quickly beat the group of guys, whose true identities were probably those of the Dark Clique, to the point that even their own mothers probably wouldn't recognize them.

Modo didn't kill these people, not because he didn't like killing, but because...

“Tie these guys up and hand them over to Mr. Broly and Gale.”

As the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor; these people were merely being used to deal with Gale.

Now, binding up the real culprits and handing them over is called the cutting of justice.

Just as Ryu defeated the two-headed dragon, Broly returned carrying the old enemy she was looking for.

"Damn it, we all have nightmares, so why can you rely on a man to solve your nightmares?"

Jhāra's words were cryptic, but Ryū still understood what he meant.

"Because I'm a woman."

In response to his enemy's words, Ryu plunged his sword into the man's heart.

"Damn it, if I'm going to be a bad person in my next life, I want to be a woman so I can hook up with a powerful guy and stop having nightmares..."

Jallu's desire to make a living left the surrounding adventurers speechless, but Ryu felt a sense of relief. His revenge had finally brought pain to the enemies who had escaped the net over the years.

(End of this chapter)