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"This hairstyle is dangerous, especially for women."

"I don't care~~." Alpha pouted and said, "Charles will protect me."

"Okay, okay, sit down and I'll tie you up again."

Feeling Charles's fingers deftly run through her hair, binding the stray strands, Alpha turned her head and gently touched the silver necklace around her neck.

That was Pegasus's final legacy, the source of the power of the celestial energy.

"If you encounter a danger that even Ciel cannot handle, then please make good use of me."

"Ok?"

“Unlike [Sword Princess], I am a fully mature and complete fairy. I will satisfy Sharl.” Alpha puffed out his flat chest.

"Okay." Charles pinched Alpha's cheek.

……

The next day.

"Hey! Let's go!!"

Amidst the calls of their fellow adventurers, the group packed their bags and, after receiving some necessary supplies from Rivera, set off in a grand procession.

Sharl, holding Alpha, sat on Pochi's back and was greatly surprised to see that there were twice as many people as yesterday.

Fels said, "I don't know which idiot leaked the news of the treasure to Rivera yesterday, and today those outlaws have also joined the search for the treasure."

"It's getting more and more chaotic," Charles muttered.

At this moment, Cassandra, sitting behind Ciel, tugged at Ciel's sleeve and said timidly:

"Lord Ciel, I...I was dreaming again."

"Ok?"

"So many people, so many people died at the Giant Waterfall, monsters, dragons, and unknown blue monsters."

"Oh? Where are my men?"

“No, not at all…” Cassandra recalled.

"That's okay."

"Trust me, it's dangerous down there." Cassandra clutched Charles's clothes tightly.

"I don't believe it, but you have to tell me what to do."

Cassandra's face fell slightly, but she quickly brightened up again. She recalled, "Roaring dragons, ethereal spirits, walls of flesh and blood, the songs of cattle and sheep. Thunderous winged horses soared through the sky, treading on the afterglow of stardust, illuminating the earth."

"Okay, I don't understand, but we can win, right?"

"Hi……"

"That's fine, let's go."

"Eh eh eh?"

……

A 20-story tree maze.

As a 'road', the crisscrossing giant tree roots, the purple mushrooms disguised as plants, and the roaming giant insects along the way hindered the army's progress.

The various clans, in groups of two or three, formed their own forces and began to advance along different routes in the maze.

The Modi Familia and the Dionysus Familia, who were on good terms with Ciel, advanced from the roots of a large tree on one side, surrounding Ciel.

Aisha, the battle prostitute, led the vanguard, while level 1 Shar, holding a shield, served as support, staying alongside the elven mage at the rear.

The Dionysian Staff

Philweis chanted a spell, summoning white lightning that vaporized the giant beetle blocking her path.

Ciel also did his 'all out' to block the dragonfly's attack for the mages.

This is a monster with ranged attacks, just like the firebird. The spikes it spits out from its mouthparts contain a troublesome paralyzing toxin, which is quite disgusting.

The forwards, healed from their injuries by Cassandra and Fels, roared as they continued their advance.

With coordinated efforts, the team quickly traversed most of the floor.

The team's strongest member, Captain Nar, smiled and said, "Not bad. At this rate, we should be the first to reach the 25th floor."

Vice-captain Anila cautioned, "Don't be careless! Level 3 is fine in the middle levels, but it's very dangerous in the lower levels. Level 2 in the team is only enough."

"Moreover, most of the monsters here have abnormal attacks, so be careful not to get poisoned."

"I understand," Nar said, calling out to the group, "Hurry up and try to reach the 25th floor before nightfall!"

"Oh!"

……

The team advanced steadily, but as they approached the passage to the 21st floor, a piercing scream brought them to a halt.

From the depths of the dense forest ahead, a female orc stumbled out, her body covered in scratches, her expression terrified as she repeatedly looked behind her.

When she saw the approaching group of adventurers, she was initially overjoyed, then her face turned pale in an instant. She stopped in her tracks in astonishment and shouted at Nar, who was leading the group:

"Run! Run! It's...it's a Blood Troll! Run!!!"

Chapter 321 Bloody Troll

"what?!"

Before Nar could react, he had already walked up to the female orc.

She covered her face in fear, her expression one of utter despair: "Don't come any closer! You'll die! Run!"

As she spoke, she turned to run, but when she saw the swaying jungle behind her, she suddenly froze.

"Hey, explain yourself clearly, what bloody troll?"

Suddenly, Anila's mind went blank as a raiding quest that had been hanging in the guild list for over eight years came to mind.

"The Blood Troll is a special enhanced species that has been ravaging the dungeon for more than 8 years. There are records of more than 30 high-level adventurers being killed by it. It is cunning and hard to find, and it has evaded many first-level adventurers sent out."

"How could something like that be here?"

However, before Nar and the others could react, a hideous monster, four meters tall, covered in skeletal-like barbs, holding a spiked club in one hand and dragging a blonde human woman with the other, pushed aside the bushes and appeared before them.

He first gave a human-like look around the Adventurers' Alliance, then took a step back in fear. But after seeing everyone's expressions, his face contorted as if corroded by sulfuric acid, and he grinned into a disgusting, ferocious smile.

Between his teeth, sticky streaks of blood appeared, and his eyes revealed the expression of someone eyeing their prey.

"Gah... Gah gah gah!" The cold laughter sent chills down the spines of the adventurers present.

Phil Weiss stepped back from center-back and stood in front of Charles:

"It's the Vida Familia. I remember their leader was Wolf. They were level 3! Looks like they've already been taken down!"

Charles shook his head: "[The Ferocious Wolf] is not here; he has left the city."

"That's good... it should be within our control..." Phil Weiss breathed a sigh of relief.

If the [Fierce Wolves] are all eliminated, their team, consisting of at most four or five level 3 members, may not necessarily come out on top.

but……

"What are you thinking? The Blood Troll's record in the guild is wiping out an entire alliance of level 4 guild members!"

"What makes you think that a strengthened species that has been on the guild's leaderboard for eight years without being wiped out is just a weakling's illusion?"

Charles's words caused all the adventurers around him to show expressions of fear.

Just like the Moss Titan in the original story, this is a super-enhanced species that has developed a 'hunting' instinct, and its notoriety is even more disgusting than that of the Moss Titan.

The guild gave him a potential level of 5, and the floors he was wandering around were floors 20-25 of the level 2 activity!

Adventurers who encounter it generally have no chance of survival. The few lucky ones who manage to escape are merely added to the guild's record as laughable victims.

However, once a group of first-level adventurers surrounds him, he will hide in a place where no one can find him, and wait until the storm has passed before he comes out to hunt again.

To encounter this monster at a time like this is truly bad luck.

"Vanguard! Raise shields and defend—, prepare... Goo-ha—!"

Nar shouted, but before he could finish speaking, the spiked club, accompanied by a ripping sound, came crashing down on him. The greatsword, which he hastily parried, spun through the air and embedded itself in the tree roots.

Nar collapsed to the ground, his hands numb, staring in horror at the monster with saliva dripping from its mouth.

"What are you daydreaming about! Get back to the group!" Anila drew her dagger and stabbed at the side of the "Bloody Troll".

The "Bloody Troll" dropped its human prey and casually blocked the attack with the barbed bones on its arm.

"Cough..." The blonde girl, whose body crashed heavily to the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood and her body convulsed.

Is she still alive?

Charles glanced at the "Bloody Troll's" prey with surprise, then called to Alpha, donned the [Reversal Spirit Veil], and dragged the woman out of the melee.

"Mage! Vanguard, quick, stop it!"

"Center back! Link up!"

"Healer, where's the healer? Treatment avant-garde!"

In the chaos of battle, the "Bloody Troll" stared mockingly at its noisy prey, and with a casual strike, it could send the shield guards blocking its way flying.

He grabbed the soldiers who attacked him like chickens and slammed them to the ground.

Just as it was enjoying the pleasure of ravaging its prey, its pupils drooped downwards, and one by one, the prey it had brought down began to mysteriously disappear.

Who's stealing my loot?

"Roar----"