Chapter 959: Chapter 736: Reiger Belongs to Ais!
The Amazonian race is known for two universally recognized traits.
One is a warlike nature.
The other is licentiousness.
Though they are all women, they are intensely drawn to strength, not only liking passionate battles but also strong, robust men.
This characteristic is ingrained in their instincts, and barring a few exceptions, the vast majority of Amazons are like this.
Thanks to this, Amazons are basically either warlike female warriors or bold male hunters in pursuit of love. Combined with their custom of capturing strong men to mate with and bear strong children, in many eyes, Amazons are akin to licentious harlots, a complete contrast to the extremely conservative elves who try to avoid showing even an inch of skin.
In this regard, Theone also has such tendencies.
Why is she so infatuated with Finn?
Precisely because, when she left the fighting nation and came to Orario, it was Finn who defeated her.
At that time, Theona and Theone were already Lv.3 adventurers, and without a Familia, they were in a position to join any faction and switch allegiances.
To Orario, having unaffiliated second-tier adventurers come here was a reason not to let them leave.
The various Familias in Orario were the same. Whether strong or weak, facing two Lv.3 capable fighters, surely no one would be unwilling to recruit them, not to mention that these twin sisters were exceptionally beautiful.
So, at that time, Orario was extremely lively, with countless Familias swarming around Theona and Theone, continually offering various benefits and earnestly extending olive branches to them.
Annoyed to no end by this, Theona and Theone set the condition for joining a group as having to defeat both sisters.
Thus, after numerous medium and small Familias retreated in succession, the Loki Familia appeared.
In the end, Theona was defeated by Grace, and Theone was defeated by Finn, and the two fulfilled their promise by joining the Loki Familia.
Since then, Theone became infatuated with Finn.
When a man defeats an Amazon who prides herself on her martial prowess, many Amazons become captivated by the strong male, wanting to bear that man’s children.
Theone awakened to this racial instinct.
In other words, Theone fell in love with Finn at first sight.
Even Theone was like this, so Bajie, as an authentic Amazonian female warrior and silent and cold person, inevitably became interested in a formidable male.
No, it’s not just Bajie, Alcana is the same.
Rather, compared to the silent Bajie, the purely warlike Alcana seemed more interested in Reiger.
"Hey, Theone, what’s the deal with that powerful male? Is he also a warrior in your Familia?"
Only at this moment, Alcana, instead of recklessly attacking as before, asked with keen interest.
"... This has nothing to do with you." Theone naturally wouldn’t answer obediently, glaring at Alcana with a murderous aura, she said, "What are you planning by asking this question?"
"Isn’t it obvious?" Alcana, with an air of certainty, licked her lips, like a snake ready to swallow its prey, and said, "A male so strong, of course, I have to take him back to the motherland."
"If he can defeat me, then all the better, I will mate with him and bear strong children."
Upon hearing this, Theone felt both infuriated and amused.
"Do you think you are a match for Reiger?" Theone mocked, "Someone like you can only bully people like us. If you face Reiger, you’ll find out what despair truly is."
"Didn’t I just say? That’s exactly what I want!" Alcana, not angry, but rather expectantly said, "I just want to bear the children of a strong male who can defeat me, right, it’s Reiger, isn’t it? I’ll remember the name!"
"Stop monologuing over there!"
Theone immediately felt a surge of anger, gripping her scimitar and charged at Alcana.
Alcana immediately responded with excitement and rushed forward, once again engaging in battle with Theone.
Theona seemed to understand Bajie’s intention with her not-so-bright head, looking stunned.
"Does Bajie, like Alcana, want to have Reiger’s children too?"
This seemed quite incredible to Theona.
Unfortunately, Bajie didn’t explain, merely raising her fist silently and casting a spell, enveloping her limbs once again in a purple magical glow.
At this, for the first time, Theona felt the fighting spirit rise within her.
"Alright, let’s fight then."
Theona twirled the large dual blades in her hands, making a declaration to Bajie.
"I won’t let you lay a finger on my companions."
Especially Reiger.
After all —
"Reiger belongs to Ais!"
The innocent little angel believed the rumors within the clan and the city, fully convinced that Reiger and Ais had become a couple.
Therefore, to protect her companion (Reiger)’s chastity and her friend’s (Ais) love story, Theona decided to fight.
"...Come at me."
Bajie squinted her eyes and spoke calmly.
"Here I come! Bajie!"
Theona declared loudly, then charged at Bajie, colliding with the female warrior who wielded purple punches.
...
It’s worth mentioning that Ais and the others had actually been separated from Theona and Theone’s side.
There was no helping it, there were two passages leading to that square spacious area. One was the one Reiger and the others took, while the other appeared when the Istar Clan pushed the cage holding Haruhime. The two passages faced each other, situated in different directions.
When the battlefield became a sea of fire, and Reiger wanted to avoid involving his companions, telling everyone to retreat, due to the distance, the retreat direction for those in different positions naturally split into two.
Theona and Theone were chased into the passage they came through by Alcana and Bajie.
Ais, Rephia, and the others rushed into the passage that the Istar Clan retreated into.
The two sides were forcibly separated, and due to the battlefield becoming a sea of fire separating them, they could not possibly converge.
Thus, Ais, unaware of her reputation being harmed (Theona: Reiger is Ais’s), could only don the mask of forsaking personal affairs and reluctantly gave an order.
"...Let’s chase the Istar Clan."
That clan clearly had collusions with the underground forces formed by the remnants of the dark factions, urban destroyers, and polluted immortal spirits, amongst others.
For that reason alone, the Loki Clan had a reason to pursue them.
Now that the red-haired female monster Reveis had been defeated by Reiger, the spirit’s clone was also blocked by Reiger, and the opponents she wanted to deal with were all handled by him, she, as a member of the Loki Clan, had to execute the clan mobilization mission.
"Are you okay with this, Ais?"
Rephia was quite concerned.
"...Let’s trust him."
The golden-haired girl, who was not good with words, could only clumsily say so, and, leading the members of the Loki Clan, began the pursuit of the Istar Clan.
But the pursuit was not very smooth.
Because, during the pursuit of the enemy, the female warriors of the fighter nation, who also retreated into this passage, caught up as well.
Ais immediately led her people to confront them, taking on an overwhelming advantage.
Without Alcana, Bajie, Fulini, and Haruhime, the strongest in these warriors of the fighter nation were only Lv.4. Given the city’s strongest female swordsman, at Lv.6, it would be strange if they weren’t slaughtered like chaff.
But at this moment, the artificial maze, Knossos, began to reveal its magical side.
This place actually had numerous traps and many monsters.
The traps were set by Toka and other Daedalus descendants.
The monsters were brought by the freaks.
As Ais and the others engaged the female warriors of the fighter nation, Toka, stationed in the Pedestal Hall, finally couldn’t resist taking action. He manipulated the traps in the artificial maze, causing the floors and walls to split open, and numerous multicolored monsters poured out.
There were man-eating flowers, giant insects, and even a water strider-like monster.
This monster had six long legs, only waist-high to humans, with a red crystal in the center of its body differing from a magic stone. Its size was undeniably small compared to other types of multicolored monsters.
The problem was, this type of monster was abundant, appearing densely like ants or locusts, crawling all over the floor, walls, and even the ceiling of the entire passage, joining the man-eating flowers and worm monsters to ambush Ais and the others.
Faced with these small species monsters attacking from all directions, Ais and the others were momentarily overwhelmed, especially by those dropping from the ceiling, which were extremely difficult to target, forcing Ais and the others to remain constantly vigilant, concentrating all attention, and unable to let down guard on any potential avenue of attack.
Yet the multicolored monsters seemed endless, continuously crawling out from the split floors and walls, regardless of how many Ais and the others defeated, their number showed no sign of diminishing, seemingly intent on flooding and devouring everyone.
To trap Ais and the others here, Toka dropped the hardest metal door, blocking the passage like a Dragon-breaking Stone.
There was no doubt this intended to trap Ais and the others to death here.
"Rephia!"
Seeing the hopeless situation, Ais could only call out to Rephia.
Rephia immediately caught on.
"No choice, we’ll have to destroy the passage."
The powerful Elf Mage began chanting magic, and activated the [Sword Spirit Chasing] skill, releasing crystal swords, and without sparing spiritual power, charged the magic about to be unleashed.
"Boom!!!"
It wasn’t long before an astonishing roar resounded in the passage, the explosive flames also erupted, once again engulfing everything.