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

On the sixth floor of the dungeon, Liu stared blankly at the dead alley where the explosion had just occurred.

The entire explosion site was a mess, with the ground and walls shattered and charred. Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had just triggered the explosion, had vanished without a trace; not only was there no corpse, but even ashes remained. Correspondingly, the killing ants surrounding the alley entrance had also turned into a pile of charred fragments in the explosion, and the magic stones inside their bodies had fallen with their deaths, lying on the ground waiting for someone to pick them up.

But Ryu had absolutely no desire to pick it up; her mind was completely blank.

"Fake...this must be fake...."

The new member of the Asteria Familia, who had finally returned to Orario, was killed in a self-destruction right in front of him before he could even say a word to her.

What is this? What kind of situation is this?

"Are you kidding me!"

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Ryu's expression went out of control, and she roared at the charred remains of the explosion.

That's a newcomer to the Asteria Familia! A male member at that! To be accepted into the Familia as a man means he's definitely valued by the goddess Asteria. This important descendant has finally arrived in Orario, ready to make the Asteria Familia's crest shine once more in Orario, carrying the weight of the goddess Asteria's expectations for his return to Orario!

As the only senior member of the clan, his duty was to protect her and ensure her safety while adventuring in the dungeon, thus repaying the goddess's expectations. But now, this newcomer, who was the goddess's hope, was forced to self-destruct by a monster right under his nose!

"What a joke! You bastard!!"

"This is a necessary sacrifice, you can understand, right?"

The sudden sound from behind ignited Liu's anger, and she angrily turned her head around.

"He's the one who shouldn't be sacrificed..."

Halfway through her furious roar, Ryu froze, her face contorted in shock, because behind her stood a young man who looked exactly like the familia newcomer she had just witnessed self-destruct.

"Ugh?"

Ryu stared blankly at Fujimaru Ritsuka, then turned to look at the spot where the explosion had just occurred. After a while, she turned back to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

“Just now...that...you…”

Fujimaru Ritsuka brushed past Ryu, picked up a few magic stones from the ground, and then turned around to ask Ryu a question in a puzzled tone.

"Excuse me, is there a problem?"

Ryu, still reeling from the shock of Fujimaru Ritsuka's self-destruction, stammered out a reply.

"Ah... um... excuse me... I just saw you...."

"Oh, you mean that self-destruction just now."

Yes, yes!

"That was me testing monster-killing efficiency."

"what?"

Liu didn't quite understand.

Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled slightly as she looked at Ryuna's puzzled expression.

"You must be a newbie who just entered the dungeon, like me."

"Um...I..."

Ryu, who originally wanted to explain that she was actually a member of the Astrea Familia, felt inexplicably guilty. She was worried that this junior would hate her if she revealed her identity, because she was not sure what the goddess Astrea and the new members of the Astrea Familia would think of her. So she simply went along with what Fujimaru Ritsuka said.

"Yes...yes...I'm also a newbie who just entered the dungeon."

After saying that, Liu felt her face start to burn.

It's so shameful that I, as a senior, am deceiving the younger generation of my clan.

"Oh, no wonder you didn't know."

Fujimaru Ritsuka had an expression that said, "I know, I know."

"Although this is my first time in the dungeon, I still know the basic principles of adventure. Entering the dungeon is all about killing monsters, right? But since it's about killing monsters, the higher the efficiency, the better, right?"

"Yes."

Ryu, a seasoned adventurer, nodded affirmatively.

"So instead of wasting time by attacking every monster we encounter, why not lure all the mobile monsters together, let them huddle together, and then wipe them out all at once? This way, we can save mana, stamina, and time, right?"

That's true.

Ryū acknowledged this principle.

"But what happened just now?"

After asking the question, Ryu immediately changed his mind.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to pry into your secrets. I was just... startled by what happened just now. Yes, startled."

"Oh, it's nothing. We're all new here, so it's no problem for me to tell you. That's my ability."

As Fujimaru Ritsuka spoke, she clenched her left hand against her chest and began to chant.

"We are both a group and an individual, an individual and a group, a group with a hundred appearances and a thousand transformations!"

After he finished singing, a Fujimaru Ritsuka appeared beside him. This time, the Fujimaru Ritsuka was wearing glasses and looked cold and serious. The moment he appeared, he asked him a question.

"Should we continue the experiment?"

"No need. I've already tested its actual power enough. I'm just showing this newbie friend of mine my abilities."

Fujimaru Ritsuka answered with a smile.

The serious-looking clone glanced at Ryu, then a slight smile appeared on its lips.

"Really? That's wonderful."

"What you just saw was the same being as him, an avatar I created with magic."

"oh oh..."

Liu stared blankly at the clone, shocked that it possessed such an ability. At the same time, looking at the smile on the clone's face, she felt for some reason that the smile was somewhat malicious.

"That's quite an ability; I've never heard of it before."

"It's normal that you're a newbie and haven't heard of it. There are many more powerful abilities than this. You'll find out as you spend more time in Orario."

No, no, no, I've been in Orario for years and I've never heard of such an ability.

Ryu was internally ranting, but at the same time she felt gratified. Her junior's talent was truly amazing; he had such a magical ability even though he had only just become an adventurer.

As they were chatting, the wall next to them suddenly began to wriggle, and a newborn killer ant emerged from the wall, appearing in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Ryu.

"The monsters spawned so quickly, and they even spawned right in front of us."

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked surprised, then turned to look at his clone.

"Since you're already out, there's no need to go back. Let's get right to it!"

As he spoke, he patted the clone beside him, and magic power immediately surged from the clone's body. With a sharp look in its eyes, it rushed towards the newly born Killer Ant right in front of Ryu, grabbed the Killer Ant by the face, and then exploded on the spot!

The newly hatched killing ants didn't even have time to react before they were blown to pieces, leaving behind their magic stones as they made a quiet exit.

Fujimaru Ritsuka walked over and picked up the magic stone from the ground.

"See, that's it."

Having witnessed the entire process, Liu's mouth dropped open.

Now she understood what had happened when she saw her new employee reveal their secret.

But after reading it, she was utterly shocked.

"What a terrifying skill!"

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Book 1: 7. My name is Ang, and I belong to the Artemis family.

Dungeons are great! I want to visit dungeons more often!

After Fujimaru Ritsuka joined the Astrea Familia, she should, according to common sense, stay by the side of the goddess Astrea, enjoying the care of this gentle goddess while using her true self to...

But his cheat program urged him to head to the dungeon!

[Based on your adventurer level, a corresponding number of equipment slots will be permanently unlocked.]

What's the most expensive resource in FGO? It's cost! The game gives you 6 Servant card slots and 6 Craft Essence card slots at the start, but even if you have the slots, you can't use them because you don't have enough cost. Each Servant and Craft Essence consumes a certain amount of cost. Upgrading increases your total cost, allowing you to install more Servant and Craft Essence cards.

On the system side, there are no cost restrictions, but rather a direct restriction on your positioning!

There are a total of 12 card slots for Servants and Craft Essences. You will be given two card slots at the start of the game to ensure that Fujimaru Ritsuka can equip her own card slot and equip herself with a Craft Essence. However, Fujimaru Ritsuka does not have a Craft Essence, so the empty card slot can also be used to equip a Servant card.

After joining the Asteria Familia as a Level 1 adventurer, I immediately developed a third card slot. Without any Craft Essences, including my own Fujimaru Ritsuka, I could still fit two Servant cards. I happened to draw Arash and Hundred Faces from the Saint Quartz given in the beginner's gift pack, so I equipped Fujimaru Ritsuka with Arash and Hundred Faces.

To unlock more slots in the future, Fujimaru Ritsuka will need to be upgraded.

The newly formed Astrea Familia is based deep in the forest east of the sword-making city of Solingen, in the same large forest where Fujimaru Ritsuka landed during her journey. Although there are monsters in that forest, they are few in number, and it's hard to know how long it will take to level up. If you want to level up quickly, you have to come to Orario.

So, besides wanting to make his Asteria Familia great again, another reason he came to Orario was to upgrade his cheat system!

Upon arriving in the dungeon, Fujimaru Ritsuka discovered that it wasn't just a place to farm experience points, but also to farm Saint Quartz!

Just like how you get Saint Quartz from clearing stages in FGO, you also get Saint Quartz from clearing dungeons! You get three Saint Quartz for each floor you clear, which is the amount you get for one single pull.

So, dungeons are great! We should come to dungeons more often!

After easily clearing the first floor, Fujimaru Ritsuka used the Saint Quartz given for clearing the floor to do a single pull!

This system doesn't have the "get one free for every ten draws" or "guaranteed four-star" system found in games, so there's not much difference between single draws and ten-draws.

The result of the single draw was that he obtained a new Servant—the famous Caster Chen Gong!

If Arash's Noble Phantasm is tragic, then Chen Gong's Noble Phantasm is characterized by cruelty and wickedness!

Being a teammate of the Great Hero is a blessing, as the Great Hero sacrifices himself for his teammates. Being a teammate of Chen Gong is terrifying, as Chen Gong will launch you like a cannonball! But it's still more fun than being a teammate of the Great Hero!

Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately replaced the Great Hero with Chen Gong in the team.

In reality, teammates can't sacrifice themselves to launch attacks, but you can create teammates who can.

Thus, Hassan the Hundred Faces' Noble Phantasm once again played an unimaginable role!

Don't be fooled by the fact that Chen Gong's Noble Phantasm looks very powerful, especially since it's an anti-army Noble Phantasm. In reality, it's only a C-rank. The main purpose of his Noble Phantasm is to install a miniature magic circuit accelerator on his allies. All the cost is simply to install the miniature magic circuit accelerator on his allies.

By simply using magic to materialize a magic circuit super accelerator, one can overload the magic circuits within an ally's body, frantically extracting life force and converting it into magic power for a short period of time before unleashing a suicidal attack. It looks extremely sinister.

To conceal this despicable act, Chen Gong would use illusion magic to conjure a bow and arrow when his teammates self-destruct, and then shoot the arrow, pretending that he had shot a very powerful arrow that blew up the enemy.

While Chen Gong still needed to use illusion magic to cover his tracks, Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't even need to act. The real Fujimaru Ritsuka simply needed to create a clone with low magic power, then expend a little magic power to install a super-accelerator on the clone. Then she could leave everything to the clone; the clone would attract all the monsters together and then charge into the monster horde and self-destruct. It was incredibly useful!

However, what Fujimaru Ritsuka considered a simple and easy-to-use combination of Noble Phantasms was seen as somewhat terrifying by the local Ryu.

That's terrifying, junior!

Whether it's creating physical clones or having those clones self-destruct, this skill combination is just too insidious.

Ryu could already imagine what would happen if an enemy were to become his junior, and the junior simply created a clone while the main body hid. The enemy would think he was fighting his junior, but in reality, his opponent was a clone. After going through all the trouble to win, the clone would just explode right in his face. How could anyone compete with that?

Is this combination of skills really okay? Is this really someone our own Asteria Familia would recruit? Or is this even righteous? Is this definitely not a skill that only members of some dark faction would awaken?

However, this outfit looks like it belongs to the Asteria Familia, especially the crest. No adventurer in Orario has ever dared to impersonate the crest of another Familia, not even the Dark Faction.

"Um, may I ask your name?"

"My name is Fujimaru Ritsuka, and I am a member of the newly formed Astrea Familia."

When asked by Ryu, Fujimaru Ritsuka made no attempt to hide anything.

"Oh, you probably haven't heard of the Asteria Familia. Something happened to us in the past that caused us to be inactive in Orario for a long time. But that's alright. As the vanguard of the Asteria Familia's return to Orario, I will make the Asteria Familia's crest shine once more in Orario!"

Although the skill set is rather underhanded, the words of the juniors sounded full of sunshine and hope.

Ryu thought this to herself, while also feeling somewhat dissatisfied with Fujimaru Ritsuka's behavior.

"Are you sure it's okay for you to show me your skills so completely without reservation?"

The younger generation has no guard against outsiders at all. If they encounter members of dark factions, such behavior of directly exposing their abilities is extremely dangerous. This kind of behavior is not good and must be properly addressed.

"I'm not usually like this with strangers, but I felt a connection with you because you're a newcomer like me... so I..."

After Fujimaru Ritsuka finished speaking, she added another sentence.

"Is it easy for me to misunderstand what I'm saying?"