I'm in a mess, starting with a meteor shower!

As Fujimaru Ritsuka introduced herself, she looked down at the supporter in front of her. She was a very thin little girl with two drooping dog ears on her head. Judging from her race, she should be a dog-person.

But Fujimaru Ritsuka doesn't think she's a dog-person, especially considering the name she just revealed.

Her name was Lily, she looked like a little dog-person, and she was also a supporter. These factors combined reminded Fujimaru Ritsuka of someone.

Lilyluka Erd!

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Volume 1: 25. Liliruka Erd

Lilyluka Erd!

She belongs to the Soma Familia, not the Dog-Man race, but is an adventurer from the Dwarf race. After becoming an adventurer, she awakened to the direction of a supporter, possessing the support-specialized skill of a behind-the-scenes hero, which is very suitable for logistical work.

In addition, she has a very powerful skill: the unique magical Cinderella, whose simple ability is to transform!

In the neighboring Five Villages Mecha World, transformation allows one to infiltrate the streets, but in Orario, and indeed throughout the entire Strange World, transformation is an extremely rare form of magic.

This magic allows Lily to freely change her height, body shape, race, and gender, and she can disguise herself as an orc, a human, or a male adventurer. With this ability, she can copy other people's appearances and clothing, helping her to perfectly infiltrate, spy, and lure enemies.

With this ability, she can easily cheat and swindle without being sought out for revenge.

While others need to wear masks and cloaks to rob or scam, she only needs to transform! In addition, she has never appeared in front of others in her true form, so after she has scammed someone, she only needs to undo the transformation and she's done.

The reason she resorted to deception and fraud was to quickly earn money to redeem herself and leave the Soma clan.

As a dwarf, she did not join the Soma Familia later, but was born into it because her parents were members of the Soma Familia. According to tradition, the descendants of members of a family usually belong to that family.

However, the Soma Familia is not a good family. The chief god Soma is obsessed with brewing and does not care about the affairs of the family at all. He is completely indifferent to the development of the family and only cares about whether the family can provide him with brewing materials in time. The affairs of the family are managed by the family leader alone.

The leader was a greedy fellow who controlled the entire clan to make money for him through Soma's divine wine. This divine wine was brewed by the god Soma and could make people forget their pain. It was extremely addictive and could be considered a drug.

The entire clan relied on the divine wine brewed by Soma to make a living, and he amassed wealth by selling the divine wine. In addition, he forced the lower-ranking members of the clan to go out and cheat and swindle. In short, they did whatever it took to make money!

Lily was one of the oppressed ones.

As a dwarf, Lily is naturally weak in combat. Furthermore, she awakened the ability of a supporter. With this double debuff, Lily's status in the Soma Familia dropped to last place!

So, Lily, deeply oppressed, fell into darkness and began to cheat and swindle like the other members of the Soma Familia. Relying on her transformation magic, she was much more efficient at cheating than the others in the Familia.

She originally thought she could raise enough money through deception to redeem herself, but unfortunately, such a thing never existed from the beginning. The promise that she could leave the clan once she had enough money was a lie from the start.

But Lily didn't know that she could only carry this hope with her as she walked step by step into the abyss.

After recalling Lilyluka Erd's past, Fujimaru Ritsuka turned her gaze to the dog-person girl in front of her.

So, is the Lily in front of me now the Lily I know?

After all, the dog-human race is the form Lily often transforms into.

"Can you still walk?"

"Yes, I can still do it. As a supporter, walking is my best skill."

Lily's answer was absolutely certain.

Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Lily's condition, thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"Your teammates should have already gone up there. Hurry up and join them."

Lily's eyes darkened slightly.

“They are not my teammates, they are just my employers.”

After all, teammates wouldn't use their own people as bait, except for the Soma Familia, of course.

"So you're going back to join them?"

"no need."

Lily shook her head helplessly.

"We haven't fought since we formed the team, so we haven't picked up any magic stones. Plus, we just encountered a group of monsters, so they probably don't want to go into the dungeon again today."

"I see."

Fujimaru Ritsuka touched her chin.

"Why don't you come with me? I happen to need a helper."

Do you need a support person?

Lily looked up at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Yes, I was originally planning to find supporters in the square, but now that you've separated from your previous team, why don't you team up with me?"

"So, are you coming?"

"Of course, no problem!"

With a smile on her face, Lily bowed to Fujimaru Ritsuka while carrying her large bag. The bag almost hit Fujimaru Ritsuka's face because of her bow.

"Alright, since that's the case, let's go quickly. Don't worry, I'll give you a satisfactory reward."

As Fujimaru Ritsuka spoke, she walked directly down to the lower level. Lily stood up, looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka's back, and then followed her down to the lower level.

一路上，藤丸立香帶着莉莉過了9層、10層、11層、12層，直到12層通往13層的通道口，原本還表情平靜的莉莉表情充滿了疑惑。

"Um, Adventurer."

"Just call me Fujimaru Ritsuka."

"Lady Fujimaru Ritsuka, which floor are you going to?"

Although she called him by name, she still added "adult," and Lily's tone was full of tension.

"Let's start with the 13th floor, and the ultimate goal is the 17th floor, since the owner of the 17th floor is refreshing today."

"17 floors!?"

Lily looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with curiosity.

"Lady Fujimaru Ritsuka, are you... a high-ranking adventurer?"

"No, it's LV1."

"Ugh?"

Lily's expression froze.

"Um, Fujimaru Ritsuka-sama, wouldn't it be too risky to rush straight to the 17th floor at LV1?"

"It doesn’t matter!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed to herself with her thumb.

"I'm very strong!"

Who would believe that!

Lily stared blankly at the confident Fujimaru Ritsuka.

If you go to Orario Street and randomly ask someone at level 1 if they dare to go to the 17th floor alone, see how those adventurers answer.

"Don't you know me?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Lily's disbelieving expression with some doubt. Logically speaking, his information should have been widely known by now, since he had caused quite a stir on the first and second days.

"I'm sorry, Fujimaru Ritsuka-sama, I'm just a supporter and don't have time to pay attention to other things."

"My name is Fujimaru Ritsuka, and I belong to the Astrea Familia."

"The Astrea Familia?"

Lily was puzzled for a moment, then looked up at Fujimaru Ritsuka in shock.

"That righteous clan!?"

"That's right, it's the Astrea Familia you know!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood at the entrance to the passageway leading to the 13th floor and turned to look at Lily.

"So, are you coming?"

Volume 1: 26. Rare, not uncommon

As I said before, the reputation of the Asteria Familia is so good that anyone who knows you will automatically assume you are a righteous and friendly person as soon as they hear that you are from the Asteria Familia.

As for whether Fujimaru Ritsuka lied, it still comes down to this: a familia doesn't just impersonate someone else. Even villains don't just impersonate other familias. At most, they just hide their identities. In fact, villains might even be proud of their evil faction.

After hearing Fujimaru Ritsuka say that she was a member of the Astrea Familia, Lily immediately accepted Fujimaru Ritsuka's invitation to go to the 13th floor.

As for Fujimaru Ritsuka, a Level 1, going to challenge the 17th floor boss, Lily didn't believe it. Adventurers are all the same; it's perfectly normal for them to brag about how awesome they are. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in Orario who say they want to take on the floor boss one-on-one. She's seen it all before.

However, floors 13-17 were not within Lily's familiar territory. She knew all the terrain, intersections, and monster spawn points of floors 1-12 like the back of her hand, but she wasn't so clear about floors 13 and beyond, because it wasn't a place she could easily reach at level 1. Even when she was in a party, she rarely joined high-level teams, or rather, high-level teams had designated support members and wouldn't form random parties outside.

Therefore, she had to be even more careful after entering the 13th floor.

As for why Lily is so familiar with floors 1 through 12, it's naturally to make it easier for her to swindle and deceive.

That's right, this dog-man is the same Lilyluka Erd from Fujimaru Ritsuka's memory, a fact that Fujimaru Ritsuka confirmed on her way to the 12th floor.

On his way from the 8th to the 12th floor, he noticed that Lily was secretly observing her surroundings and collecting pebbles from the ground. Although this behavior was discreet, it was child's play for someone with the talent of the Hundred-Faced Hassan.

This behavior of needlessly increasing one's own burden does not seem like something a normal supporter would do. After all, the supporter's backpack space is used to collect materials, and things like gravel cannot be sold for money.

Therefore, Fujimaru Ritsuka could only conclude that Lily had collected these pebbles to lure monsters.

In dungeons where caution is required, monsters may not spot adventurers immediately, and adventurers may actively avoid powerful monsters. However, if an adventurer throws a stone to create noise and attract the powerful monsters while trying to avoid them, then the adventurer who was trying to avoid them will be in trouble.

What happens to the supporter who helped the adventurer gather materials after the adventurer dies? They'll keep all the materials and magic stones for themselves, of course!

Even if the adventurer doesn't die, the supporter can use the excuse of losing materials during the escape to embezzle some materials and magic stones!

Lily could do this even more easily; she could simply undo her transformation. Even if the adventurer was unharmed, he wouldn't recognize her when he saw her again, allowing her to pocket all the materials and magic stones.

Her name was Lily, she had the appearance of a dog-man, she was very knowledgeable about the terrain, and she could even hide pebbles. With these factors combined, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately confirmed that this dog-man was Lily in disguise.

So, what will she do in the adventure to come? He didn't think Lily would hold back from attacking him just because he was polite earlier. When the white-haired rabbit teamed up with her for the first time, she didn't hesitate to steal the Hestia Blade worth two hundred million. Now, Lily is indiscriminately harming everyone. He guessed that she was responsible for the encounter with the giant rabbit herd with the previous team. He just didn't expect the herd to run away so fast that they even left her behind as bait.

With that adventurer team, she chose to lure the giant hare. So, what will she do if she follows me? With anticipation, Fujimaru Ritsuka waits for Lily's next move.

Fujimaru Ritsuka first took Lily to the place where he had hidden the materials before, and asked Lily to find those materials and bring them with her. Then he led Lily directly into the depths.

Lily, carrying her backpack, was surprised and curious about the materials that Fujimaru Ritsuka had asked her to pack.

"Lady Fujimaru Ritsuka, how did you kill the Hellhound?"

She followed Fujimaru Ritsuka up several floors without encountering a single monster, so she didn't see Fujimaru Ritsuka make a move. This made her very curious about what weapon Fujimaru Ritsuka used; she couldn't possibly have killed these monsters with her bare hands, could she?

Especially when Fujimaru Ritsuka saved her, although she didn't see it, she heard Fujimaru Ritsuka shout something like "Stella," and then a violent explosion occurred, killing all the giant rabbits. Now their magic stones are in the backpack behind her.

In response to Lily's question, Fujimaru Ritsuka raised her hand and flicked it, and a red longbow appeared in her hand.

"Hellhound? I killed it with an arrow."

The sudden appearance of the longbow stunned Lily, and it took her several seconds to react.

"Where did this bow come from?"

"It didn't appear from anywhere; I summoned it. When I don't need to fight, this bow won't appear; when I need to fight, this bow will be summoned by me."

"The Demon Sword!?"

Lily was shocked.

"No, this should be called a magic bow?"

In Orario, special weapons, such as those that can unleash magic, are called magic swords. But what Fujimaru Ritsuka is holding now is a bow, which has nothing to do with swords. Let's just call it a magic bow for now.

"A magic bow?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the red longbow in her hand. It was Arash's own equipment. It wasn't exactly a Noble Phantasm, but it wasn't an ordinary bow that could be used to cheat.

"Let's just call it a magic bow for now."

Lily was slightly puzzled after receiving confirmation from Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Adventurer, you are a very rare archer. What made you choose archery as your development path? I remember that among the various clans, archers are usually the equipment chosen by explorers."

However, her doubts were not answered; instead, Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at her with a serious expression.

You should say rare, not unusual.