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"Damn it, the road ahead is blocked too." Layla felt a lightness at her feet and turned around to find that everyone had been forced to the edge of a cliff.

Tiny pebbles fall silently into an unseen abyss.

"There's nowhere to run now."

From within the Dark Faction's ranks, a figure wielding a twisted black sword stepped forward. The sharp sword wind instantly cleaved through Alicia's defenses, catching her off guard and forcing her to retreat repeatedly.

A flock of wandering songbirds, a falling feather, pierced Alexandra's shoulder, and blood stained her battle robe.

"Level One? Who are you?"

The man lifted his mask, revealing Valetta's unrestrained smile: "Hahaha... You adventurers have nowhere to run. Today is your death day!"

"【Kill the Emperor】!"

"Damn it, it really was a trap?"

The adventurers gasped in surprise.

“Mr. Charles, please hide behind me!” Phil Weiss said, drawing her blade in a defensive stance.

The entire Astraea Familia turned their anger towards Valetta.

"Perfect, I'll cut off your head today!" Kaguya grinned as she charged forward, her hand on the hilt of her sword. Her agile figure dodged the arrows and swung a slash at Valetta.

On the other side, Liu chanted softly, transforming into a gust of wind and wielding a wooden sword.

“Protect them…” Lyra huddled behind the dwarf Aste who was holding up a shield, and casually threw out a few bombs.

The center-backs, Iska, Niz, and Noin, formed a defensive line to cover the mage's chanting.

In just two breaths, the Astrea Familia launched a swift counterattack.

Valetta parried Kaguya's slash with her blade, using brute force to force her back. A wooden sword, emerging from a blind spot from below, grazed her nose.

Valetta tilted her head back to avoid the attack, then her eyes flashed with a burst of fire and lightning as two cannonballs, one blue and one red, swept across the battlefield alternately.

boom……

The double bombardment wiped out the flock of singing birds in the sky, and the rustling ashes fell. Then, lightning and fire converged and formed a beam that stretched towards the Dark Faction's position, blasting a trench thirty centimeters deep into the ground.

While suspended in mid-air, Valetta, who had jumped to avoid the shelling, curled her lip and landed back in the crowd with a cold smile.

"Have those damn righteous bitches really grown up to this extent?"

She drew a scarlet whip from behind her waist and lashed it forcefully to the ground:

"But today, no matter how much you struggle, it's useless. You'll all die here! Charge, you valiant soldiers!"

thump, thump, thump—

Inside the unseen cave, several pairs of scarlet eyes suddenly opened, and the heavy footsteps gradually quickened, followed by a chilling roar of beasts.

Ten enormous goat-men, clad in heavy armor, wielding massive blades, and sporting horns, roared as they charged out.

Kaguya leaped up, and the moment the katana and the giant blade collided, a sharp pain shot through her hand. Her arm, which had been severed a few months ago, was slightly numb. Feeling powerless, she was thrown away by the beast, sword and all.

"A...enhanced species?!"

"Armed monsters?"

"It's a collar that allows me to unconditionally control monsters, just like me! Its potential ability is probably... level 5! It's invincible!" Charles shouted.

On the other side, the giant blade whistled past, and Liu jumped up to dodge the slash.

But another black-armored half-goat man, close behind, roared and leaped up, slashing his giant blade at Liu, who was suspended in mid-air and unable to move.

A figure wreathed in flames rushed over, crashing headlong into the black-armored monster and forcing it back.

"Leon! Retreat! Use that! We'll go support the Allied forces first!"

The instant she landed, Liu lightly nodded her head, her toes barely touching the ground, and uttered the final incantation...

"Wandering wind, lost traveler..."

Dozens of large, cyan jade stones hatched behind Liu. She swiftly returned to her position, but did not stop. Under everyone's watchful eyes, she leaped off the cliff.

"Wind of Light!"

Two wind jades hovered beneath her feet, lifting her and suspending her in the air.

"Everyone, follow Leon, we're retreating!"

Alyssa rushed out following Ryu's figure, followed by the entire Astrea Familia.

One after another, cyan wind jades lifted the adventurers as they plummeted towards the bottom of the Giant Waterfall.

The Modi Familia and the Dionysus Familia stared at each other, gritted their teeth, and leaped off the cliff.

Watching helplessly as her cooked duck flew away, Valetta was naturally unwilling to give up. She brandished her whip, manipulating the songbird to raise its head and sing.

Bewitched by the songbirds' calls, a large flock of swift swallows burst out from the crevices in the rocks between the waterfalls and attacked the falling adventurers.

"The Holy Grail of Dionysus!" Philweis unleashed a barrier spell, not to be outdone.

Whoosh...

The swallow flashed by in a flash, unable to brake in time, and crashed headfirst into the barrier of light, exploding into black powder.

"Well done!" Kaguya, who was about to draw her sword and unleash its five-colored light, gave him an approving look.

A dozen seconds later, everyone landed safely on the lakeside of the 27th floor.

"Wow, Leon! When did you learn such a skill? It fills a gap in our aerial combat!" Niz excitedly hooked her arm around Ryu's neck.

“Thanks to the morning exercises with Mr. Charles these past few months… and…” Ryu got goosebumps and shoved Niz away with a thud: “Please let go of me, you’re too close.”

"Sorry, sorry, I forgot that Leon is an elf."

"No, I'm the one who should apologize. We're clearly comrades, yet..." Ryu clutched her arm and lowered her head.

Besides Alexandra, there's also Adidas... and maybe more...

Ryu glanced at Ciel.

She still can't accept being touched by others, but fortunately her resistance to Niz and Kaguya isn't too intense, not to the point of hitting them in a fit of rage.

"Alright. We'll talk about these things later. It's not time to relax yet. The battle has just begun, and there are still many people waiting for us to save! Go go go!"

Alexandra gave the instructions with her hands on her hips.

Although a tactical retreat was carried out on the 25th floor, it was only to avoid the panic of being ambushed. In addition, they were unable to deal with 10 level 5 enhanced monsters for the time being, so they chose to temporarily avoid the enemy's sharp edge and adjust their lineup.

Kaguya emphasized, "Our goal is not to wipe out the Dark Clan, but to buy time for the battle on the ground. Remember that."

"Yes!"

The rustling of monsters surged in, accompanied by adventurers fleeing in panic.

Arisha's sword blazed with scorching flames as she strode toward the swarm of metal crabs crawling across the ground.

“Let’s catch up quickly, Mr. Charles.” Phil Weiss turned her head, but saw Charles’s confused look: “What are you thinking about?”

"Hmm..." Charles's eyes flickered, and he casually said, "I was wondering why metal crabs can walk upright, and also, is the meat in their claws tasty?"

Chapter 328 Fierce Battle on the Chaotic Battlefield

Charles's humorous remarks rekindled the fighting spirit of the Dionysian and Modi clans, who had been looking somber.

Only after experiencing Valetta's sniping did they truly realize what the Astrea Familia meant by 'dying'.

"Don't let the Astrea Familia outdo us, let's go too!"

"They're just monsters. Watch us defeat them all."

Nar, brimming with passion, let out a rousing shout, then, with a lewd grin, grabbed Pochi's bear head and fawned, "Lord Pochi, Papa Pochi, it's all up to you!"

Anila couldn't stand it anymore: "You have no bottom line!"

Nar, hands on hips and chest puffed out, said, "Isn't it only natural to entrust your back to a reliable companion?"

Nar is a very straightforward person, completely without any guile, and he wears all his emotions on his sleeve. He may seem frivolous, but he is one of the easiest adventurers to get along with.

“You used to hate Ciel so much,” Anila retorted.

"That's because they don't know Phil Weiss..."

"Ahem." Anila interrupted Nar's rambling remarks, pinching Nar's ear with her fingers and twisting it.

"What do you want to say?"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch... Let go, Anila. I mean, we'll be family sooner or later. I don't care about what happened when we first met."

As he spoke, he gave Charles a thumbs-up: "Right, Aibo!"

“Who is your aibo… call me daddy!” Ciel looked up.

Nar casually called out, "Father."

“You’re getting better and better at saying it…” Anila kicked Nar, thinking to herself, “What does ‘father’ mean? It’s such a strange pronunciation.”

To be witty, Sharl patted Pochi's head and activated the seven halos, while Alpha also deployed its domain.

For a while...

Gray, white, green, blue, purple, gold, orange, and red! Halos of various colors enveloped the feet of all adventurers, and a familiar sense of power welled up within them.

"Alright, you've been enhanced, hurry up and deliver them!"

“Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh————”

The Modi Familia and Dionysus members, familiar with Ciel's abilities, roared, while the magic guild chanted spells frantically, seemingly without regard for their own lives.

Alexie, who was at the forefront, suddenly felt her body lighten. With a single sword strike, she tore apart the shell of the surging metal crab and shattered the magic stone.

An unusual life force flowed along the sword and into his body, gradually healing the wound on his shoulder from the bird's feather.

"Magic, endless magic is gushing out, ah~~ I feel like I'm about to break!"

Strange noises came from the magic guild behind her. Before Alisha could turn around, a beam of light carrying various kinds of magic cleared the narrow passageway in an instant, accompanied by a shout of "We're coming out."

"Ureahh ...