Chapter 329

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“Not only is it blocked, but completely sealed off. All roads leading to the Great Void grain storage from the surrounding areas have been entirely obstructed.”

Izay stepped forward a few paces from the middle guard ranks, delivering the news to everyone. At the same time, he flipped his wrist and “summoned” a sleek black dagger.

In the next instant, Izay hurled it forcefully towards the purple corolla blooming on the green wall.

Ever since expanding his personal space, Izay had stuffed quite a number of useful items in there during this period. This custom-made black dagger was just one among them, and using it as a throwing knife was merely its most basic application.

In the blink of an eye, a dull thud sounded, and the previously vibrant purple corolla had already withered.

“!?”

As he made that aggressive move, Ais immediately placed her right hand on the hilt of her beloved sword, ready for battle at any moment.

The others were similarly startled by the sudden attack, reflexively grabbing their weapons.

“…Izay?”

A second slower, Asfi followed the trajectory of the dagger’s flash, confirming the withering of the corolla on the green wall, then shifted her attention to Izay. Her glassy eyes seemed to be asking: What’s going on?

“If I’m not mistaken, that thing should have helped those inside discover our situation here, so I destroyed it.”

Pointing his chin at the purple corolla, Izay explained.

That purple corolla worked similarly to the “Eye Crystal” invented by Fels; both could be installed in a place to serve as surveillance.

“Wait a moment, Izay… Can I ask? How did you determine the function of that thing? And also about what you said earlier, that all the passages are blocked?”

The amount of information and situations that occurred within the last few seconds was a bit overwhelming, prompting Asfi to unconsciously rub her forehead.

“Hmm… I have perception-type magic.” Izay answered truthfully.

Magic again! Why do you have so much magic!?

Miss Omnipotent grumbled inwardly.

The number of magics this person possessed seemed to have exceeded the slot limit already?

They just kept coming one after another without end.

She felt a little envious.

After all, she herself only had one magic, and its effect wasn’t even very high.

“…Those people? Are you talking about that woman who appeared on the eighteenth floor, Izay?”

After Asfi finished asking, Ais quickly followed up.

At the mention of that woman, our swordswoman seemed to get slightly excited.

Perhaps she was hoping to learn something about her mother from the other party, maybe~

“Besides those beast tamers, no one else could have created such a thing, right?”

Casually retrieving the dagger he had thrown earlier with a wave of his hand, Izay took a few steps forward and plunged it into the green wall.

Although the dungeon has a self-repair function, it doesn’t have a self-altering function. The terrain of the dungeon is almost unchanged.

This meant that this green wall must have been artificially created.

“This thing seems to still be alive.”

Upon closer inspection, one could see that this wall faintly pulsed like a beating heart.

When Izay’s words sank in, many members of Hermes’ faction got goosebumps.

Alive!?

Could it be some kind of monster!?

At this moment, the members couldn’t help but think the same thing.

In a certain sense, their subconscious thoughts weren’t wrong.

This wall was indeed something conjured up by a monster.

— “Giant Flower Bed”.

The culprit behind the current scene and the large-scale gathering and rebellion of monsters on the twenty-fourth floor.

As the tamer of man-eating flowers, Reivice and her accomplices, including Orivars Yact, the “White-haired Ghost” who survived the “Nightmare of the 27th Layer,” together cultivated this monstrosity.

They parasitized the “Quartz Grand Pillar” in the granary with giant flower monsters from the fallen fairy series, using its abundant nutrients to birth man-eating flowers.

This place served as a transit station, allowing monsters from the “deep” area to reproduce on shallower floors and then transport them to the surface.

The thirtieth floor was the first generation transit station, but it had already been destroyed by the heretics, hence the twenty-fourth floor became the second generation.

The previous encounter with the monster army exceeding normal gathering conditions was not due to abnormal proliferation.

It was simply because all the monsters in the northern half of the twenty-fourth floor couldn’t find food when they were hungry, so they gathered together out of necessity, forming a migration behavior.

Monsters’ thinking is simple. If they can’t find food in the northern half, they’ll go to the southern half.

Then, during their southward migration, they encountered the elite squad wanting to head north… and the process directly turned into a tragedy.

And the adventurers they bumped into also met the same fate.

Adventurers exploring as usual unluckily encountered the monster army’s migration – thus they too became tragedies.

Not to say they would die from it, because it’s hard for such a large group of monsters to overlook them completely. But at least this exploration trip wouldn’t yield any gains. Blood loss~

Unlike Izay, Ais and Asfi didn’t clearly know who the culprits were, but they guessed the reason for the monster gathering.

Upon learning that the cause of the panic among upper-level adventurers in the middle layer was simply the hunger of the monster groups, everyone’s faces turned somewhat peculiar.

Izay stood closest to the green wall, but he wasn’t continuing to observe it at this moment.

He was thinking…

Orivars Yact, who once existed as a human at Level 3, was a member of the Dark Faction on the bounty list and the mastermind behind the “Nightmare of the 27th Layer” incident.

Unexpectedly, he was still alive, living well and truly.

Izay was considering whether he could take this opportunity to undermine a certain god’s plans.

After all, Philais, the “White Witch,” harbored an irreconcilable blood feud with the other party…

Speaking of the relationship between Philais and Orivars,

It could probably be summed up in one phrase: mortal enemies.

“The Nightmare of the 27th Layer”… In this evil act triggered by the Dark Faction, the elf Philais lost all her teammates, while she herself “miraculously survived.”

According to the firsthand account of a small town leader:

“At the time, I happened to see Philais who had narrowly escaped death, and her face was like that of a dead person, as if searching for her deceased companions, or perhaps she herself was a living corpse.”

“The Nightmare of the 27th Layer” was a decisive turning point in her life.

Originally, the future looked bright for the kind-hearted elf maiden, but it was utterly ruined by that incident.

What’s most infuriating?

Philais’s family deity practically orchestrated the entire event, knowing every detail of the matter, including the fact that Orivars hadn’t died.

But afterward, they deceived Philais by saying that the main culprit of those years had already perished, encouraging her to move on.

Half sincere and half deceitful manipulation.

Dionysus hoped that Philais would emerge from the shadow of those years, allowing her “reborn” self to continue serving him faithfully.

Simultaneously, he maliciously anticipated the day many years later when the truth could no longer be hidden, and Philais would meet Orivars.

Would the girl’s emotions collapse upon discovering that her deity had deceived her for so many years? Would she scream hysterically? Or what else might happen?

Dionysus found pleasure just imagining the scenario.

The deplorable nature of the gods was fully displayed in him.

And next, if Loki’s dispatched support team had already set out, Dionysus would soon be able to witness the spectacle he had been looking forward to for six years.