Chapter 1000: Chapter 761: Three Shocking Pieces of News
For these people or gods, Loki just tossed out a line.
"Get lost! Cause trouble again, and I’ll kick your asses!"
One sentence made the troublemaking rogue gods turn pale, cover their lower halves, and flee quickly.
After all, Loki isn’t someone to mess with; if you really anger her, she’s definitely capable of doing such a thing.
Fortunately, the Loki Familia doesn’t have time to deal with these people right now.
After capturing everyone from the Kanisa Familia, Finn immediately made a proposal.
"Lock them up."
Finn had two plans.
One was to interrogate the Kanisa Familia members to gather intel on underground forces from their mouths.
The other was to restrict the Kanisa Familia, preventing them from conspiring with the enemy and creating obstacles for our side.
Judging from the actions of the Kanisa Familia, if they were let go carelessly, they’d definitely stir up more trouble later on.
These female warriors aren’t your average adventurers. Not only are there two powerful Lv.6s, but the rest are also each tough and death-defying. If we let them come back and cause trouble, the impact would be huge.
In light of this, Finn didn’t plan to release the Kanisa Familia, at least not until the crisis in Orario is resolved, as he didn’t want these unstable factors to run wild.
The guild agreed with the Loki Familia’s handling approach, allowing them to take everyone back to their base and lock them in a hastily prepared basement, to deal with them later.
"I’ll watch over them! Captain!"
Theone volunteered.
"Hehe, I want to have a good chat with Kanisa and Bajie too!"
Theona, not one to hold a grudge—or perhaps too dense to remember so much—was no longer in her former disgruntled state. Instead, she was beaming and eagerly volunteered to be a jailer.
"Alright, approved."
Finn considered for a while and finally agreed.
When it comes to dealing with the warrior nation, Theona and Theone are definitely more familiar than anyone else. Sending them to guard the Kanisa Familia is also a good idea.
Reiger didn’t get involved in this matter.
He wasn’t familiar with these female warriors from the warrior nation anyway, and now that he was inexplicably eyed for his genetic inheritance, keeping a low profile seemed wiser.
Although Alcana and Bajie are very pretty, completely exotic beauties, even twins with amazing figures—especially Bajie, who is more mature and taller than Liz and quite intriguing to male hormones—he admitted he couldn’t handle or accept the fierce Amazons, so it’s best to keep a respectful distance.
So, Reiger decided not to concern himself with the Kanisa Familia matter and went with Ais to check on Rephia.
Upon hearing that Rephia had mysteriously woken up early and seemed to have had a nightmare, Reiger was a bit worried and went once more with Ais to the female members’ dormitory to check on the elf girl.
The process doesn’t need much elaboration; anyway, Reiger was quite puzzled.
Despite last time’s incident, why are the female members still the same, daring to run around the corridors dressed so skimpy?
Moreover, this time when Reiger came, these female members didn’t scream but greeted him freely, their eyes shining brightly, making him think for a moment he had walked into a den of lustful sirens.
Even Angel calmly came out in pajamas to entertain Reiger and joined him in visiting Rephia.
Only the female elves led by Alicia, upon hearing that Reiger arrived, quickly ran back to change outfits before daring to meet him.
As for Rephia... her mental state wasn’t too good.
Though she woke up early, it also meant her spiritual power hadn’t fully recovered and she was still somewhat fatigued.
Aside from this, Rephia seemed okay, needing only to wait for her spiritual power to fully recover to return to normal.
Part of this can be supplemented with magical spiritual medicine, so Rephia should be able to move around soon.
However, for some reason, as Reiger was about to leave, Rephia, looking hesitant, said something to him.
"Mister Reiger, it’s best to stay away from snakes and such things recently..."
This cryptic advice left Reiger baffled.
"Stay away from snakes and such? Why?"
Reiger couldn’t figure it out, so he chose not to ponder further.
Girls at this age are often sentimental, perhaps thinking of things he hadn’t considered?
In that case, it’s better to heed her words a bit.
In the future, stay away from snakes and such. (Alcana: Achoo!)
...
In the following period, Orario remained bustling.
The subject of Reiger and the Loki Familia’s return from their expedition stayed hot, continuously being discussed.
The Daedalus Street remained sealed off, with no one allowed to enter except the heavily armed members of the Ganisa Clan, and sometimes some were carried out injured or exhausted, leaving those observing all this itchy with curiosity, eager to uncover the secrets within.
During this time, the Loki Familia didn’t stay idle either.
Finn ordered a large purchase of spiritual medicine, weapons, and items from various shops in the city, preparing for the next artificial dungeon raid.
Revilia led many elf mages from the Familia into Daedalus Street at the Ganisa Clan’s request, providing support to them.
Bert, Angel, and other beastman members with keen senses frequently entered the underground city under Grace’s leadership during this time.
They were searching for the entrances connecting the artificial labyrinth Knossos to the underground city.
"If we’re planning to attack the enemy’s stronghold, we better confirm multiple routes so we can advance or retreat as needed."
That’s how Finn thought, and that’s what he did.
Particularly, the entrance connected to the 10th floor of the artificial labyrinth, if there is one, would be the shortest path directly to the location of the six great celestial spirits’ avatars and must be found.
Reiger and Ais entered the underground city more than once for this reason, searching throughout its different floors.
Unexpectedly, they indeed found multiple entrances leading to the artificial labyrinth Knossos.
These entrances were cleverly concealed behind the walls of the underground city, and even if the walls were damaged, the city’s healing would repair them, keeping these entrances undiscovered.
The hardest metal doors blocked these entrances, and Finn entrusted Reiger to destroy them one by one to ensure the passages could be used.
Reiger complied, and as a result, a large quantity of green meat gushed out of the hardest metal doors, almost causing another commotion.
"Looks like, to ensure the attack route, we’ll have to first figure out how to clear this green meat."
Loki no longer wanted to do these things alone, so she ran to the guild to negotiate, asking them to initiate a forced mission, dispatching various Familias to clean up the green meat.
The mage from the guild who previously commissioned Reiger and Ais to investigate the food reserve incident on the 24th floor even got personally involved, discovering a method to reduce the activity of this green meat and preparing to go back to make relevant magic items to resolve the danger posed by the green meat.
Days passed under such circumstances, whether fulfilling or busy.
The entire Loki Familia was continually busy without pause.
And then, on such a day, a piece of... no, three pieces of astounding news spread throughout the Maze City Orario.
"[Braver] Ota returned from a solo expedition, successfully leveling up to Lv.8."
"[Goddess’s Chariot] Allen Fullo returned from a solo expedition, successfully leveling up to Lv.7."
These two pieces of news directly sparked the whole of Orario.
And then—
"[Little Rookie] Bell Crowney leveled up to Lv.3 in just one month."
Orario was in an uproar.