Chapter 18 - Saving a pitiful girl

The sun is rising in the east, and the red sun is showing a corner from the eastern sky.

After washing off, Miyuki said goodbye to Hestia, ready to go dungeon.

It should be half past five in the morning, but like Miyuki, there are not a few adventurers who get up early and stay late.

A large number of adventurers in armor formed teams in twos and threes, or buy materials for conquering dungeons on the streets, and started a new day gearing up.

The businessman's yelling came to his ears, and the hawker selling breakfast fanned the white steam without authorization, letting the smell of pasta mixed with meaty fragrance overflow into the air.

The first thing to do when conquering a dungeon is to eat enough.

On the way, Miyuki bought meat buns for three people, sat in the shop, and quickly settled them.

When he went out, he ran into an acquaintance head-on.

Eina, a half-elf wearing a guild outfit.

"Miss Eina, are you going to work so early?"

The voice made the girl pause slightly, and Eina who turned her head saw Miyuki who had come to her side.

Wrapped in a black windbreaker, his appearance is slightly immature, but he is very handsome.

Just now, she was thinking about the Miyuki who would conquer the dungeon again, and couldn't help worrying about him. She didn't expect to meet him.

"Miss Eina, I have something to ask you."

"What's up?" Eina came back to her senses and looked at the boy who was walking with her.

"I want to find a quieter and more spacious room to rent. I hope that Miss Aegina can help me a little." Miyuki smiled and stated his intention.

Orario has a large land and a lot of people, so his current activities are limited to hotels and taverns, and he doesn't know anything about other things.

Although he does not reject living in the basement with the goddess, if he has the ability, Miyuki does not intend to continue to let Hestia live a hard life.

"Don't worry about the money, I should still be active in the middle class today, so I'll be back tonight." Miyuki thought for a while and said. He didn't want Eina to think that he didn't have enough money.

The value of the mid-level monster alone is enough to make him live well, What's more, he is considering whether to go to the lower floors to exercise.

Naturally, he will not be worried about money.

"I see." Eina nodded. It was a small matter to her, she didn't mind helping Miyuki.

While talking, two of them arrived at the guild.

"By the way, Miss Eina help me register that I have joined Hestia Familia." Walking into the guild with Eina, Miyuki said. After all, he still needed to register his information.

"Ok, but Hestia familia! Have you carefully considered?" Eina asked in a serious tone. She knew that Hestia familia was a new family, so, she was worried that Miyuki might have been cheated.

"Yes." Miyuki nodded. He felt warm that Eina was worried about him.

"Then I will register it." Eina took out the guild form and began registering.

A few minutes later, Eina finished registering.

"Miss EIna, thanks a lot. I'll treat you to dinner next time." Miyuki shook his hands with Eina and waved goodbye.

"You owe me two meals." Eina joked.

"Then eat in two."

The figure of the boy who had a meal appointment disappeared into the crowd.

Eina looked at Miyuki who walked out of the guild and disappeared, she was a little lost in thought. She didn't react until she heard the voice of her colleague.

"Eina was so fascinated just now, could it be that there is a man?"

"No way!"

The girls joked with each other and began to do their respective work.

...

Miyuki stood in the huge plaza above the entrance to the dungeon for the second time.

Groups of adventurers step into the labyrinth, forming an amazing sight.

This time, Miyuki, who was walking alone, did not hear the ridicule from yesterday.

With the windbreaker and the slightly exposed sword hilt, his taciturn posture is clearly portrayed him as a powerful solo adventurer in the eyes of others.

In the dungeon, there are many adventurers who attack alone.

In this world of different races, we don't judge others simply by their appearance.

"Continue to go deep into the seventeenth floor today. It would be even better if Goliath was born, if not, go to lower floors."

If the strongest mob in the middle layer is the Minotaur, then the watershed to the lower layer is the floor master.

This is a powerful and huge unique monster whose level is the level of the monster on this floor plus two levels.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to a role like a boss.

If you defeat it, you may be able to increase a lot of experience points in one go.

At this time, the combination of several adventurers and supporters attracted Miyuki's attention.

Three big and three thick men, and a petite little human wearing a commoner coat and a cloak.

The short hair slightly exposed from the hood is brown, and the expression of pursed lips and forced smile makes people subconsciously feel pitiful.

The smiles shown by those three menacing men seemed incompatible with the girl's state.

And at the moment when Miyuki felt a little familiar, a system task pop-up window popped up in his mind.

[ Ding! Sign-in mission triggered. ]

[ Mission Name: Save the sad little girl.

Introduction: Liliruca Arde is quite miserable. As someone who has a good impression of her, you can't bear to watch it.

Task: Save Liliruca from unknown malicious adventures and help her leave the Soma familia.

Successful sign-in Reward: 500 points, additional reward depending on the favourability of Liliruca towards Host. ]

The prompt from the system made Miyuki immediately recall a girl named Lili in the original work.

At the same time, the words "sacred wine" and "Soma familia" also emerged from memory one after another.

The mission reward is quite good and Miyuki also has a good impression of Lili. Seeing a pitiful girl like Lili, he naturally wants to help her.

So, there is no reason not to do this sign-in.

The story about Lili is not complicated.

In the city of Orario, there are no strict laws regulating people's behavior like in modern society.

The Adventurer's Guild, as the head, manages the superficial order, while other rules are set by the established Families.

Families can set their own rules as long as they do not violate the rules of the guild.

Among these rules, a little-known unspoken rule is that if members of the family fall in love and give birth to offspring, then the offspring will naturally become corresponding members of the family.

Lili is a descendant of such a small human race.

A member of the Soma familia since birth.

If it's just that, there's nothing worth talking about.

The reason lies in the "Soma Familia" itself.

Different from the gods of other family members who go around enjoying themselves, the main god of the Soma family is Soma, who is known as the "God of Wine" in heaven.

In the heavenly realm, he was an extremely outstanding brewing god. After the lower realm, although he lost his divine power, he used very ordinary materials to create a divine wine that could fascinate people.

Those who drink the divine wine will become captives of the divine wine, and as long as they have tasted it, they will never be able to forget it.

However, since the quantity of divine wine is not large, it can only be purchased with money.

Thus, the seeds of disaster were sown.

From Miyuki's point of view, he, who roughly remembered part of the storyline, knew the power of the "divine wine" that even a god could be intoxicated with after tasting it.

Similar to drugs.

He really couldn't find any other suitable words to describe it.

High-level adventurers can still resist the intoxication of the divine wine, treating it as a delicious drink.

But low-level adventurers can only become slaves to the divine wine after they have tasted it.

In order to taste even one sip, the members of the Soma family tried their best to make money.

Because of this reason, Lili's parents died in a labyrinth beyond their ability.

Since then, the young little human girl has been targeted for exploitation.

Miyuki could see that the girl who passed him just now had resistance and hatred in her eyes.

This means that Lili has suffered a lot of unfair treatment in the past.

And it is true.

Lili, who is helpless, has been bullied within the family because she has no talent as an adventurer, so she can only be a supporter.

The reward agreed upon before forming a team is not given, and even when danger is encountered in the maze, teammates are indifferent and help for nothing, and the experience of being beaten is commonplace.

Even, when she finally couldn't bear the torture, fled from the family, and pretended to be an ordinary person to get a stable life for a period of time, she was found by the companions of the Soma family again.

Not only did they rob her of her money, but they also destroyed the place where she worked.

Then, she was kicked out.

No one wanted to take her in anymore.

The experience of several years in a row made Lili feel hatred in her heart, and she naturally resent all adventurers.

As one of his liked characters, Miyuki can't bear to watch Lili like this. Even without a mission, he will help her. What's more, there is a mission.

"Follow quietly," Miyuki muttered and followed silently.

The black-haired boy in a windbreaker followed the people toward the entrance of the dungeon.

Until leaving the fifth floor, the population began to become sparse.

It was so quiet that only the sound of my own footsteps and the sound of monsters breaking through the ground could be heard.

…

The girl with short brown hair and playful facial features saw the "companion" showing her fangs in the depths of the eighth floor.

The man's eyes were full of malice, and they looked at the girl walking in front of them mockingly.

They certainly weren't out to rape girls.

Things like this can be found in brothels, and there is no need to find excitement in the dangerous maze.

The three adventurers looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward and delicately tripped the girl with his leg.

"Smelly brat, it's already this time, what are you still pretending to be here?!"

Lili, who fell to the ground, took a mouthful of dirt.

When he heard the adventurer's speech, she was shocked and realized that he had been seen through.

"You don't think you can fool us, do you? Smelly brat, hand over all your belongings to me!"

Lili, who was about to get up, was stepped on her back by a foot, and then the man roughly snatched the backpack from her back.

Then they exclaimed.

"Magic stone, gold pocket watch...hey, you even have a rare magic sword!" The men's hideous laughter echoed through the maze.

"You must have stolen it too, right?"

The magic sword is a special weapon that uses special craftsmanship to store magic in the weapon.

Although it can only be used once, it is powerful and can be used against large-scale enemies, or to solve other difficulties.

They were overjoyed to be able to sell a high-priced magic sword.

The beautiful luster of the daggers illuminated their sinister smiles.

"You're so ruthless, Boss Gerd." A third voice cut in.

"You came so fast, there should be no one else behind."

The man named Gerd looked behind him, and what he saw were four other burly men wearing armor.

Lili, who was lying on the ground, looked up slightly and saw members of the Soma familia who often bullied her.

"This guy even has a magic sword. It seems that he has stolen a lot of things."

Anticipating her own fate, the girl was desperate.

...

The new man was one of the Soma family members who had been threatening the girl and stealing her money.

"Boss Gerd, I have a suggestion, I wonder if you would like to listen to it." Ganu narrowed his eyes and said,

"What? Do you want a magic sword? But this weapon is an accident, and I can sell it to you cheaply." Gerd said. He was completely immersed in the joy of the harvest.

"It's not just the magic sword, please keep all the things you snatched." As soon as the words fell, Ganu threw out the monster hidden in the bag.

The open sack was torn apart by the half-dead monster, leaving only half of the war ant waving its tentacles in pain.

"It's a war ant!" Gerd and his companions exclaimed.

This is a monster that appears on the seventh floor.

When war ants are in a dying state, they will emit a special pheromone, which can call their companions to rescue them.

A half-dead monster, the best horn to summon one's kind.

"You, are you crazy!" Gerd's screams echoed on the floor of the dungeon.

When he passed the seventh floor, he was careful, and when he encountered a killer ant, he would kill it with a single blow, never giving it a chance to summon its companions.

"So what? Boss Ged, or do you want to become the bait of those monsters when we get into a ball?" Ganu spoke and the greed for money made Ganu's eyes turn red.

Gerd and the others were not bound by the divine wine, they were sober and knew that life was more important than money.

After throwing down the luggage viciously, as if he wanted to impress this black-and-white adventurer in his eyes, he stared at it for a few seconds and then fled away in a hurry.

But the sounds of fighting and whining of men were soon heard.

After more than ten seconds, it stopped abruptly.

A large number of killer ants poured out of the three holes one after another, but the monster that approached the nearest was killed by Ganu with a single sword.

"Lili, if you hand over the money quickly, I will take you out of here safely." Ganu stared at the girl with red eyes.

"I see." Lili nodded and she took out a key from her pocket and said, "This is the key for the goblin to leave the rent vault, and the gems of the goblin are stored in it."

In order to survive, Lili can only confess her own details.

But after that, Ganu grabbed the girl by the collar.

"Lili, there are too many killer ants. If you lure some of them away, we should have a chance to escape. So, please."

The bearded orc smiled meanly.

The girl who just realized it was shocked.

She thought that as before, she would be fine after paying the money, but once again underestimated the despicableness of human nature.

But in this way, she can also be freed from her miserable life.

The howling of killer ants echoed in his ears, but it was far from the pain of waiting to hit the ground.

"Let's go!" Ganu greeted his companion who carried the luggage on his back.

This time is definitely a bumper harvest. The divine wine must be full.

"Want to go? Where do you want to go, can you tell me?"

The voice came from the cave where the girl was abandoned. From the cave, a young man with black eyes was hugging Lili and walked into the side road where monsters kept gushing out.

"Who are you?! Haven't you seen so many monsters!"

"Hurry up and get out of the way!"

"Go to hell!"

The madness in Ganu's eyes became heavier, he immediately drew his weapon and swung it towards the boy's throat.

The black and white scene already made people feel guilty, coupled with the approach of the monster, his sanity was almost destroyed, and he frantically attacked the strange adventurer.

But there is another reason.

That is, Miyuki is a single adventurer who looks young.

Then there is no problem.

No one cares about useless people.

Indeed.

The world will forget those weak and humble existences.

The vicious scum ran towards Miyuki.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

Since he hadn't killed anyone, Miyuki originally wanted to spare their lives, but when he saw the weapon stabbing him, he withdrew his last bit of kindness.

Silver-blue thunder whizzed around Miyuki.

The thunder didn't hurt Lili and it kept getting stronger.

"Magic..."

"Monster, run away..." The last bit of sanity made the scumbags from Soma familia stop attacking. They turned around and ran away in fear.

Just by looking at the frightening silver-blue thunder, one could tell that they would be smashed into scum if they touched it.

"You can't run away," Miyuki muttered as he glanced at the people running away.

Immediately Silver light flashed by and thunder struck the people from Soma familia.

Under the voltage of hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity, the body of most of the people from Soma familia directly turned into ashes.

The boy in Lili's eyes just stood while hugging her, then, a sliver-blue thunderlight flickered continuously. After that, the despicable adventurers she could never resist, turned into ashes under the thunderlight.

"No...don't leave me, I, I can give you money..."

Ganu clutched his throat, the life force of the orc kept him alive for a while.

But he was still scorched black, lying motionlessly on the ground,.

The scum who had used Lili as the bait just now quickly cooled down like autumn leaves.

As the saying goes, the wicked have their own grind.

But Miyuki thinks he is not a bad person.

The scum who intentionally framed others was likely to frame more people in the future.

Not only for the mission but also for "world peace", Miyuki planned not to let them go.

Boom

Another thunder ray passed by and the orc turned into ashes.

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