You are all my wings!

Backup plan?

Britta was startled. Lying in Leon's arms, her gaze towards him changed.

[Character Britta's affection level increased by 2%, current affection level 47%]

Leon and Britta did not stop moving while they were talking; in the blink of an eye, they had circled the outer edge of the crimson monster and were heading towards the entrance of the 25th floor passage.

"Iris, activate the Radiant Light upon my command!"

When Iris saw Leon hug Britta immediately, she felt a little uncomfortable, but she knew that now was not the time to dwell on it. She nodded with an indifferent expression and used her magic to maintain the spell she had just finished chanting.

Moreover, she had a nagging worry in her heart: Britta's attack just now was incredibly powerful, almost reaching the level of a high-level spell, and even with a sneak attack, it was still neutralized by her opponent.

While his own Radiant Light combined with Leon's Magic Ice Mirror was indeed powerful, it was certainly not as good as Britta's move. Could he really handle that opponent?

However, she now trusts Leon completely, and despite her doubts, she resolutely carries out his orders.

When Karl saw Leon embracing Britta so intimately, his eyes widened in anger, and he wanted nothing more than to take her place.

But seeing Britta's weak appearance, he quickly calmed down.

The Holy Maiden was unable to defeat her opponent!

In other words, he must stay behind and hold off the enemy to create an opportunity for the Holy Maiden to escape!

He drew his sword from the door panel and strode towards the opposite passage.

"Karl, you're in charge of carrying Mark! Don't even think about covering the rear. A third-tier hero against a fifth-tier hero won't last more than a few seconds! Listen to me, Britta wants living knights, not medals of honor from the enemy's heads!"

In his haste, Lyon simply called her by her name, Britta.

Carl calmed down.

"Wait for my orders. I am the commander."

Lyon continued.

Karl gripped the hilt of his sword and nodded silently.

At this moment, Leon, still holding Britta, stood beside Iris, gathering magic power in his right palm and beginning to prepare the Ice Crystal Convex Lens Combination Magic.

Ta, ta-ta.

A pale figure, with a bare waist and thin skin, slowly stepped out from the opposite passage.

In the dim light of the fluorescent moss, the face covered with hideous red scars appeared and disappeared in the distance.

At this moment, the distance between the two was about sixty meters.

Lyon's side is at the entrance to the passage leading to the 25th floor, while the latter is in the opposite position, which is the entrance and exit passage to this cave from the main road on the 24th floor.

"Iris, aim straight ahead and fire!"

Iris swung her wand sharply at Leon's command.

brush!!!!

The dark cave instantly became as bright as day.

A halo the size of a mill suddenly appeared, perfectly reflecting on the ice crystal convex lens that simultaneously condensed in mid-air. Through the ice crystal mirror, it transformed into a concentrated beam of scorching light that shot outwards.

Chapter Seventy-One: Unfathomable, unfathomable!

"Huh, Lyon can be compressed even more tightly?"

As Iris cast her spell, a look of surprise flashed across her eyes as she gazed at the heat beams shooting out in front of her.

This beam of light is much more focused than the one I faced with the carnivorous plant last time.

It used to be the size of a fist, but now it's only 1 centimeter wide, like a thin laser line.

After all, Leon had already advanced to a second-tier elemental mage compared to last time, and was more adept at controlling this combination magic, able to combine it into a convex lens with extremely high transparency and relatively controllable thickness.

When the beam of light reaches this level, its power is already very close to Britta's Holy Annihilation.

Of course, their kill radius is incomparable.

The former has a kill radius of only 1 centimeter, while the latter is a wide beam of light with a diameter of seven or eight meters.

But at this moment, even 1 centimeter is enough!

Beep!

The hot line appeared with minimal fanfare, striking the fifth-tier alchemist Andrio in the passage ahead unexpectedly. It scorched a charred black mark onto Andrio's yellowed chest, and it looked as if it would pierce through his flesh in an instant.

Andrio's expression changed slightly, and he dodged to the side.

Because the diameter of the heat line was very small, he naturally chose to avoid it subconsciously, compared to the defensive magic he used when facing Saint Annihilation.

But then, Leon manipulated the convex lens to slightly deflect its direction, and the heat ray followed closely behind, catching up and landing directly on Andrio's chest.

Only then did he realize the insidious nature of this move, and he suddenly retreated rapidly in an S-shaped path.

The hotline continued to follow up.

The two chased and fled, quickly moving out of the 100-meter range.

At this point, the hot wire cluster was nearing its limit.

Because the function of a convex lens is to refract and focus light, beyond a certain range, the focal point of the light will disperse, losing the terrifying heat it possesses when focused.

The distance is too great; even if Lyon were to adjust the thickness and distance of the convex lens, there would be no room for further tricks.

But that's exactly what Lyon wanted.

It's unlikely that this one move will defeat Andrio, this humanoid monster, but it's enough to temporarily force him back.

In particular, with the passage restricting the terrain, this move can easily create a roadblock effect, preventing Andrio from directly crossing the passage to reach them.

At the same time, as the hotline reached its range limit, Andrio seemed to have some free time and remotely activated the Crimson Monster.

Accompanied by a sound like birdsong, the features of the crimson demon in front of them suddenly twitched.

It took a step and approached the crowd with a stiff posture.

Lyon had anticipated this scene and said in a low voice:

"Iris, adjust the direction of your Light of Light launcher to forty meters above the Crimson Demon, and fire it vertically down!"

Iris was puzzled, but she immediately adjusted the position of the magic's launch.

The Radiance of Light is an area-of-effect spell that requires mana to maintain after activation, so it's not difficult for her to regain control of it.

If it's a projectile spell, like a fireball or water ball, it becomes difficult to control once it's launched.

Soon, as Iris waved her wand, the Radiant Light suddenly emerged from above the crimson monster and shot downwards.

At the same time, a new ice crystal convex lens formed, refracting the light into a 1-centimeter-thick heat line that fell onto the ground where the blood-red monster stood, immediately piercing through the hard rock and leaving a bottomless 1-centimeter-thick cut mark.

Immediately following, under the rotation of the convex lens, the hot wire drew a circle with a radius of three meters on the ground, centered on the blood-red monster, and quickly circled three times.

"Why are you shooting at the ground instead of at the monsters?"

Looking at the light ahead, not only Iris but the others were also somewhat puzzled.

Karl thought to himself that Leon had been quite reliable before, so why was he making such a big mistake now? It seemed that he, as the hero, would have to be the one to finish the job. He flicked his sword and stepped forward to block the first wave of attacks from the blood-red monster.

Sudden--

Boom!

The ground where the crimson monster stood suddenly collapsed, and it plummeted downwards amidst a cloud of dust. It roared and reached out to grab the stone wall above, but a heat beam swept across and severed the crimson monster's finger.

Awooo!!!

The crimson monster, stepping on the sloping conical stone slabs beneath its feet, plummeted towards the 25th floor with a roar.

Carl stood frozen in place: "What happened?"

Bovary hurried forward, hearing the deafening roar of the rushing water.

He crouched down and leaned against the edge of the fracture, looking down.

Upon looking at him, he felt a slight dizziness.

Isn't the vertical space of 25 floors only a few tens of meters high?

Why does it look so deep down there?

Yes, it's a waterfall in the dark!

It wasn't until the water vapor rushed towards him with the airflow that he realized that he was directly above the 25th floor of the Water Ruins!

Could it be that His Excellency Lyon accurately calculated that the thickness between the dome and the floor near the 25th floor entrance is not deep, at most only four or five meters, and can be directly cut with that hot wire?

What a terrifying scheme!

The crimson monster, resembling a tiny ant, plunged deeper and deeper into the surging waterfall, growing smaller and smaller until it disappeared into the abyss.

As is well known, the Water Relic City spans 25 to 35 floors, plunging directly from above the waterfall, with no obstruction, for a straight drop of seven or eight hundred meters.

Looking at the blood-red monster that had vanished below, Bovary's eyes flashed with shock:

"Unfathomable, unfathomable! Lord Lyon's wisdom is simply unfathomable!"

To their surprise, Leon didn't use the same strategy he employed against the Water-Swallowing Ape to confront it head-on. Instead, he used a combination of two magical attacks to successfully banish this powerful opponent.

Moreover, the alchemist and this monster are so far apart, they shouldn't be able to control it remotely, right?

Although this resulted in the loss of half of the spoils, considering that the important items had already been cut off by Leon beforehand, it doesn't seem like such a bad result.

The others remained silent for a long time.

They were in a very unsettled mood. An opponent who was clearly more threatening than the original Water Swallowing Ape had been successfully dealt with by Leon by taking advantage of the terrain.

"What are you standing there for? Let's jump too."

As he spoke, Leon quickly packed the spoils he had acquired into his bag.

This includes the cut-off fur of the water-swallowing ape, its large tongue, two canine teeth, and its thumb nail.

These took up a large package.

Lyon was able to pack up these spoils in just a few minutes thanks to his empty pockets, which gave him the motivation to work at high speed.

He tied the six-meter-long tail of the water-swallowing ape to the outside of the package.

The muscles on this tail are definitely the strongest part of the Water-Devouring Ape's body, and the magic content is definitely not bad. He plans to use it to make reserve food after he is safe.

Oh, and I also collected those fingers that were transformed into alchemical monsters. I'll check later to see if there's anything special about them.

"Jump down?"

Milo pointed to himself, then to the waterfall abyss hundreds of meters below, with a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

Chapter 72 Does the Holy Maiden like being contradicted?

"That move just now could only temporarily force that fifth-level expert back. We can't outrun him by running on foot. We might as well jump down from here and go straight to the lower level. We can use the complex terrain there to play hide-and-seek with him. As long as we can stall for time long enough, we will be the victors."

Lyon knew perfectly well that before Britta regained all her magic, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream for all of them to take down Andrio, who stood at the pinnacle of the fifth tier and whose physical body was like a monster.

Unless he can find a terrain particularly suitable for suppressing Andrio's abilities, or use other powerful monsters to deplete Andrio's magic power, they will have no chance of winning.

"But wouldn't we have fallen to our deaths long before the enemy killed us?"

Even Karl, that brute, couldn't help but speak up.

"Don't worry, I have a plan. Carl, you guys stick together and just jump down."

As he spoke, Leon put Britta down, put one arm around Iris and the other around Britta, and leaped down into the gap ahead.

As he jumped, another voice came:

"Hurry up and catch up, or I can't guarantee you won't die."

Karl and Miro looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is it right for a knight to just hug someone like that?

A resolute glint flashed in Bovary's eyes, and he embraced the two of them tightly.