You call this magic?

The magic that Ethan finally cast on her was extremely effective. She was only slightly affected by alcohol, and she calmed down immediately under the effect of the magic.

But the problem was, she was too quiet.

Apart from saying thank you when she received her sword from Ethan, she remained silent from the moment she picked up the wine barrel to the moment she left the Soma clan. Judging from her eyes, she was probably still daydreaming.

"Let her be quiet. After all, this time... it's really a bit..."

Finn was halfway through his sentence when he looked at Loki again.

"Yes, I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry!" Seeing the unfriendly looks from the children, Loki burst into tears. "Aisitan, I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have done this. Please forgive me just once!"

Aisi ignored her.

"Don't disturb her." At this time, it was Bert who spoke instead. He didn't even look at Ai Si. "She is thinking."

At the same time, he also replaced the person who was fighting Ethan with himself in the simulation in his mind.

No, I can't imagine a victory scene. That guy was still at ease until the end. He must be hiding something.

There has never been a moment when Bert wants to set out on an expedition as soon as possible as he does now. Only in this way can he continue to become stronger.

"Bert is right, Lefiya, you should also let Ai Si be quiet for a while." Finn smiled, "She doesn't look like she's going to give up."

Indeed, at this moment, "Sword Lady" kept replaying the previous battle process in her mind.

She noticed that for the first time, her speed had lost its advantage, as if no matter where she planned to attack, the opponent could react and make the best choice.

Although she had not yet had time to use the magic [Wind Spirit Sprint] that could fully enhance her own strength, this speed was not something that anyone could keep up with.

Especially at the end, her [Wind Spirit Sprint] was interrupted by the other party in some way just when it was halfway activated. At that moment, she felt that her mind was extremely clear, and she even recalled the person who had gently stroked her head in her dream.

As long as she was in that state of mind, Ais would be able to calm down quickly and would never feel panicked again.

Although Ethan explained to her that it was just the effect of a certain ability, Aisi couldn't control her sense of déjà vu.

If I could surpass Ethan, would that mean I could take another step towards that person?

she does not know.

Normal strength was not as good as Ethan when they first met, which made her feel frustrated but also ignited her fighting spirit.

Although it was a trap set by Loki, she did attack Ethan on her own initiative, and she felt that she had to make it up to him.

Surpassing the other party is one thing, and compensating the other party is another. Ai Si Tan separates these two things very clearly.

A long time ago, all that remained in her heart was the desire to become stronger, but today, perhaps things were a little different.

She instinctively wondered what it was.

"Anyway, let's just treat today's events as an interlude. From now on, the expedition is the top priority. Everyone must cheer up."

"Also, after we return from the expedition, you must sincerely apologize to Mr. Ethan, understand?"

"I know!"

……

After sending away Loki's followers who kept apologizing, Ethan sighed.

He himself didn't care. His first battle against a human was with someone like Ai Si, which was beneficial to him now.

This gave him a clearer understanding of his own strength.

And some things are called force majeure.

If he had not dealt with the Lone King of the Labyrinth in the first place, or if he had reached the eighteenth floor a day earlier, he would not have been targeted by Loki, and this incident would not have happened today.

All I can say is that the intelligence was obtained too late.

Fortunately, even someone as smart as Loki could not recognize his identity as a time traveler. After the gods came to the world, there have been adventurers who were very strong from the beginning, but most of them came from other subhuman races. It is indeed rare to see such beings among humans.

In the evening, all the stock prepared today was sold out, and we have to wait for Su Mo's notification for the next sale.

It's a rare item that's released irregularly. Do you really think you can buy it whenever you want? That's impossible.

This depends on Su Mo's mood. If he doesn't want to sell, no one can force him.

"Wow, great, so much money!" Lily stood at the door of the finance office with shining eyes. The mountains of gold coins in the room were like a dream scene to her, but she hesitated and didn't dare to come in.

As a victim of Chanis, Lily was in a completely dreamlike state. She couldn't believe that she had returned to the world from hell so quickly.

Every day after getting up, she would pinch her face hard to make sure it was not a dream.

Every time she felt pain, she couldn't help crying.

This is not a dream.

All this was because of the man who was looking at her at that moment.

Although they had only been in contact for a few days, Lily had already placed complete trust in him.

Anyway, it can't be worse than when Chanis ruled. Besides, the treatment of the clan members is better than the previous one now.

Every day, clan members who are more dependent on the divine wine can also drink the non-alcoholic version of the divine wine to slowly get rid of their dependence on the divine wine.

Everything is getting better.

"Come in, Lily. From today on, you will assist me in managing the finances of the clan. You only need to report to the God regularly."

"Hey, me?" Lily pointed at her face and pinched her thigh hard again.

It hurts so much, it’s not a dream.

"B-but why?"

"Because you are the first one who didn't attack me after I came to the clan. Is this an acceptable reason?" Ethan said with a smile.

"...Okay." Lily had a feeling that she would never forget this smile in her life.

Volume 2 Dungeon Encounters (Part 1): Chapter 12: Dungeon, Go Go Go

Although there is suspicion of nepotism, Lily's abilities as a logistics staff member are actually quite comprehensive. She may be at a loss at first, but with Ethan's help, she should be able to get used to financial work quickly.

Having something to do can help them temporarily forget the painful past until they no longer have to recall it.

The previously dusty training ground has been cleaned by the clan members. Many people who had been drunk on the divine wine and had wasted their adventurer abilities are now doing what they consider to be extremely difficult recovery training in the training ground in order to quickly return to their adventurer lives.

If they lose the desire to move forward, they will never be able to stand up again.

The cages that once held members of the Chanis family have been completely dismantled and are now being used as wine cellars after being processed.

The lobby of the largest building of the Soma clan, which was once just a decorative facade, has been transformed into a store selling alcohol-free spirit wine. The store is staffed by female adventurers in the clan who take turns working as clerks and is managed by Hestia.

It is conceivable how inflated Hestia is now. However, in order to prevent her from being too arrogant, Ethan still placed Lily above Hestia. As the logistics director of the clan, the power of life and death of Hestia's job, which allows her to make money even when lying down, is in Lily's hands.

At night, Su Mo's office.

Su Mo rarely prepared the divine wine, but stood quietly by the window, looking at the clan base that had been completely renovated, wondering what he was thinking.

"How do you feel about your family now?" Ethan knocked on the door and said with a smile.

"Is this what you want?" There was no like or dislike in Su Mo's voice, only calmness.

During this period, Su Mo almost fully cooperated with Ethan's actions. He just wanted to see what kind of changes this child Ethan would bring to his clan.

"Of course, it's not the final form yet. While the divine wine can help the clan maintain its reputation in front of the greater clans, if faced with a crisis capable of destroying the city, and those greater clans are forced to fight on their own, can the Soma clan maintain everything they have now with just the divine wine?" Ethan said, "The divine wine is just a supplement. If we want to play on the chessboard of Orario, we must possess sufficient strength."

Su Mo recalled Ethan's [Secondary Favor]. If he really let Ethan do it, would the Somo clan still be the Somo clan?

But soon, Su Mo felt relieved.

He was not a god who cared about these things. Just like when Chanis was in power, the Soma clan was ultimately just a clan completely controlled by Chanis. His existence was no different from that of a mascot.

"Then, just go ahead and do it." Su Mo turned his head and looked at Ethan with a deep gaze. "As long as you don't do anything like a secret faction, I can cover it for you."

Ethan was stunned. Su Mo could actually say such words. This is not consistent with your character. It's ooc!

Su Mo just recalled a major event that happened in Orario seven years ago.

The Dark Faction and the former strong men of Zeus and Hera's clans jointly launched a war against Orario. After that war, the Dark Faction was basically wiped out by the joint efforts of Loki and Freya's clans, which also established the absolute status of the two major clans, Loki and Freya, in Orario.

The Soma clan played no role in that war.

Although he himself did not care about this at the time, after all, his family was just a wine-making family, but at this moment, Su Mo felt that if under Ethan's operation, the Su Mo family could play an important role in such a war... that seemed not bad.

"That being said." Ethan chuckled, "So, regarding the housekeeping..."

"...I will keep an eye on it until you find a suitable helper." Su Mo knew what Ethan was planning at a glance. Brewing wine was just his hobby anyway, and as a god, it was not uncommon for him to manage internal affairs personally.

After all, after clearing a wave of poisonous blood, the Soma clan was still somewhat short of manpower.

There is no rush to recruit people. We must first stabilize the current clan. Recruiting people rashly will only make the clan more chaotic.

……

The next day, Ethan prepared to enter the dungeon.

After receiving the favor, he should have entered the dungeon as soon as possible and started trying to train his ability values ​​and see if he could update his ability values ​​independently. If possible, he could become stronger in the same way when he returned to Fulilian. As long as he killed enough demons, no matter how many Seven Collapse Sages were left, he could kill them with pure strength.

However, the situation of the Soma clan was more complicated than he had imagined, which caused him to spend more time. It was only now that he had time to go to the underground city.

Although Lily volunteered to be his supporter and go into the dungeon with him, she was finally persuaded by Ethan.

If he went alone, he might go down to a deeper level, and once the battle intensified, it would be difficult for him to guarantee Lily's safety.

Hearing that she couldn't help Ethan and might even be a hindrance, Lily looked as if the sky had fallen. Because she looked so young, it looked like Ethan was bullying an elementary school student.

In the end, Ethan could only promise to take her down to the dungeon after the clan stabilized.

This made Lily burst into laughter and she went back to work happily.

Ethan couldn't help but think that the child in the original book should have been a scheming and calculating girl, so how could she become like this now?

Lily did a good job in financial work and lived up to Ethan's expectations. Even Su Mo couldn't find any fault with it.

It was also at this time that Ethan found out that it was Su Mo who raised Lily when she was a child.

It's all fate.

After entering the dungeon, Ethan opened his notebook and turned to the latest page.

There, there was a record of a magic that he had just witnessed not long ago.

【Wind Spirit Sprint】

It is not difficult to master this magic, because it is a very short chanting magic, so he only needs to completely copy it to release it.

"Tempest (Wake up)."

The wind started to blow, and his body was surrounded by a whirlwind, and he quickly became lighter. In terms of effect, it was a complete improvement over the [High-Speed ​​Movement Magic], and only a small amount of magic power was needed to maintain it to be used continuously.

This magic also has an enhancement stage. Ethan evaluated it and felt that it was not necessary just to create a dungeon, so he maintained the primary stage and started to rush down.

With the help of [Wind Spirit Sprint], he reached the eighteenth floor with ease, and without even stopping, he went straight into the nineteenth floor.

After entering here, Ethan understood why the scene on the eighteenth floor was like that, because starting from the nineteenth floor, the dungeon changed from a cave to a forest environment.

This is quite novel. The appearance of a forest underground is something that can only be seen in this kind of worldview.

This made Ethan more interested in the dungeon itself. After all, sunlight is indispensable for the normal growth of plants. However, this is a dungeon. How these plants grow so lushly is a complete mystery.

In this forest, there are quite a few monsters that fit in with the environment, such as mushroom monsters, bears, large insects, poisonous plants, etc., which makes Ethan enjoy the sight.

Why do people want to become stronger? Of course, it is to see these monsters with different appearances. It is much more exciting than watching the animal world on TV.

Of course, it is also polite to send them on their way after reading them, after all, they will reappear.

In this way, Ethan walked and killed all the way, and before he knew it, he reached the end of the 24th floor.

Volume 2 Dungeon Encounters (Part 1): Chapter 13 Here's Ethan

Ethan stood near the entrance to the next floor and looked around. Not only had the environment changed to a cave, but there was even a super-large waterfall. The entire floor was filled with the roar caused by the huge waterfall.

Of course, this is not a place for people to jump down. After all, this waterfall seems to run through three floors from the 25th to the 27th, and the height can reach one kilometer. If you jump down directly, unless you have someone like Ethan who has the magic of flying, the chance of survival is infinitely close to zero.

There was a zigzag passage on the rock wall on the side that went all the way down. After thinking about it, Ethan decided to go down by land instead of going directly to the 27th floor through flying magic.

Because his purpose was to level up, not to travel, and he didn't have any goals that had to be completed today. Seeing and killing more monsters was his purpose in coming here.

According to his understanding, the so-called "experience" in the skill [Mortal Wisdom] should also include the types of abilities and monsters he has seen. As for what the major turning point is, he has no idea yet. However, skills themselves are very mysterious things in this world. Anyway, it is a passive one, and he should know when it is triggered.

However, from here on, he was no longer as casual as he was on the previous floors. After all, his body had not been tempered to be as tough as warriors of the same level. Especially compared with the warriors in this world, his body as a magician was relatively fragile.

Although using magic weapons will greatly enhance his defense, the magic power consumption and self-presence are a bit too strong. By then, he may inexplicably trigger a siege from monsters that he doesn't need to face.