Civilization Guardian Front

However, it took Chios more than three hours to reach the sixteenth floor of the dungeon all the way, and he was about to reach the vertical cave leading directly to the next floor.

If you turn back here, you will waste seven hours going back and forth.

"You got separated from your companion?" the young man asked.

The girl nodded.

"Do you still have the strength to fight?"

The girl tried to move her wrist and ankle, but she soon showed pain.

"That's it..."

The left foot that got to the stalagmite was probably severely sprained.

Chios sighed at the conclusion.

"I plan to go to the safety floor on the eighteenth floor, and return to the ground in two or three days."

Euphemistically expressing that it is impossible for him to escort the other party back to the upper level, the young man watched the fire of hope in the dog-eared girl's eyes gradually dim, feeling helpless in his heart.

Just as he was about to continue speaking, a burning sensation suddenly appeared on the back of his left hand.

Consciousness calls out the heraldic light curtain...

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[Completed side mission: The Unlost Right Arm]

[An accidental encounter, you saved the story character Naza Oresis who was about to be seriously injured and lost his right arm in the dungeon, which greatly affected the future of Naza and Mihe's family, and the destiny deflection of the task world increased by 4%. The act of turning fate gains 4 points of origin. 】

[Mission Reward: Merit +60, Civilization Coin +7000, issued]

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Well...

Are you so lucky?

"So, from now on, you just follow me obediently, okay..."

Changing his words in an instant, Chios took the girl's trembling little hand, pressed it lightly on his chest, and said softly:

"Don't worry, I swear on my life that I will protect you for a few days before returning to the surface."

Hearing this, Nazha's pupils suddenly shrank.

plop plop...

The heart was beating uncontrollably, as if it was about to rush out of the body.

Lowering her head, not daring to look at the young man's overly handsome face, she bit her lower lip lightly, and responded:

"Um."

Chapter 460 ? Maze Paradise

Dungeon, No.17 Floor...

In the center of the towering white stone wall, there is a slit cut by a miracle, forming a straight road.

Here is the path to the unique monster room of the Lone King of the Labyrinth, commonly known as the Floor Master.

Action selection is very simple, forward or backward...

Monsters lingering in the passage and born from the walls will block the adventurer's way, because the narrow path lacks room for maneuver, and there is no other way to move forward except to defeat all enemies that appear in sight.

To some extent, this is the way to test whether an adventurer is qualified to challenge the floor master.

Oooo! ! !

The two-meter-long Minotaur roared with its head raised.

The roar that hurt the eardrums and the bad breath made Chios frowned in displeasure.

The dark bronze-colored humanoid body is full of knotted and muscular muscles. The rough stone ax, which is difficult for ordinary people to lift with both hands, was easily picked up by the monster with one hand, and slashed at the young man in front of him with all his strength.

It wasn't until halfway through the trajectory of the tauren's arm that the black long sword, which was much slender compared to the giant axe, went up to meet it.

when!

The ax and the sword met, Chios held the sword and bent his right arm slightly inward, absorbing the impact with his relaxed muscles.With a flick of the wrist, the black sword turned from the front of the ax blade to the side flexibly like a snake, and gently pushed to the right.

The stone ax, which was not sharp, slashed down against the young man's right shoulder under the guidance of the roundabout force.

boom!

The ax blade drove an inch-deep gouging in the ground.

It's a pity, except for the strong wind generated by the slashing that barely shook the long skirt of the Wandering Knight's smock, it failed to cause any damage to the opponent.

"Oh?"

The minotaur, whose simple brain could not understand the delicate sword skills at all, tilted his head, staring at Chios with red eyes full of puzzlement.

Apparently, it thought that the blow just now should be able to crush the young man, especially when it didn't feel a strong resistance...

Unfortunately, Chios didn't give this ugly creature more time to think.

Swish!

Before the tauren could react, the black sword that shone with gold slashed across its throat.

The blade with fiery energy left from the back of the monster's neck, turned twice between the young man's fingers, and then inserted it back into the gorgeous golden scabbard.

puff!

Blood spewed out from the red slit that appeared in the monster's neck half a beat later, the bull's head slid two inches along a neat tangent line, and finally fell to the ground with a grunt.

At this moment, Chios had already paced past the headless corpse and arrived at a position beyond the reach of the blood splash.

"This should be the last end, you can rest assured."

Standing at the end of the slit in the stone wall, with his left hand on the hilt of his waist, he turned his face sideways and gave a reassuring look to the dog-eared girl who was watching the battle behind.

"Hmm..." It was less than half an hour since they knew each other, and Nazha couldn't completely get rid of the tension, and hurriedly avoided the young man's mysteriously attractive eyes.

As soon as the girl stepped over the body of the minotaur and came to the other side, she saw the young man's eyes fell on the huge empty space in front of him, as if he was looking for something.

Soon, Chios shrugged and said regretfully:

"We are not very lucky, the floor master [Goliath] seems to have been knocked down by others."

Bad luck? ? ?

Shouldn't it be the other way around...

Generally speaking, most adventurers would be glad to know that they don't have to encounter the floor master.

With her lips pursed lightly, Nazha swallowed the words she was about to say reflexively.

Along the way, seeing the scene of monsters falling powerlessly, she clearly understood that Chios did have the qualifications to say such words.

Looking back at the corpse still twitching slightly behind him...

The representative monster occupying the No. 17 floor of the dungeon is known for its brute force. Even adventurers who have reached Lv.3 would not dare to take a direct blow from it unless they mainly exercised [Strength] and [Durability].The well-developed muscles are like natural armor, which can not only resist light attack damage, but also tightly clamp the blade that penetrates into the body.

【Minotaur】

According to the threat evaluation made by each floor, the guild identified it as the strongest in the middle layer, a terrifying enemy that could be called a third-level adventurer's nightmare, and was killed in such an understatement.

Not only the monster at their feet, but also slid into the seventeenth floor from the vertical hole leading to the upper floor. On the way to the main room of the floor, the two encountered no less than fifty Minotaurs, and left behind the same number of monsters The dead bodies were exactly the same.

There is no sloppy process, it is always a clean one-sword owl...

The battle has reached such a point where there is no suspense and the outcome is determined, which proves that there is at least a huge gap between the enemy and the enemy that exceeds one or two levels.

It means that this wandering knight who is said to be from outside Orario has at least a level of Lv. 4, and at the same time has a basic ability proficiency that is very close to the threshold of a first-level adventurer.

(It feels so far away...)

It is such an excellent character who saves himself from a desperate situation, so powerful that it makes people feel lost.

What sprouted in my heart was not jealousy of such ugly feelings, but the sense of emptiness that I realized that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch up.

It seems that she is close at hand, but in fact she has been left far behind...

As an adventurer with ordinary talent, Nazha, who spent a lot of time to finally be promoted to a senior adventurer, clearly saw the insurmountable gap between herself and the youth.

Perhaps only in her dream would she have the chance to repay her life-saving grace.

Thinking of this, the dog-eared girl subconsciously clenched her right wrist clasped in front of her chest.

At this time...

"If you're so slow, I'm going to leave you..."

When the gentle and joking voice came, Nazha was startled, and quickly raised her face, focusing her eyes on the source of the sound.

While she was deep in thought, Chios had passed through the main room on the floor without making a sound.

Looking from Nazha, the figure at the other end of the field of vision shrinks into a black spot smaller than the little finger, and it is about to step into the path leading to the next floor and disappear completely in the shadows.

He clearly promised to protect her...

(Then don't walk away from me without saying a word!)

The girl with dog ears said angrily.

Da da da...

In order not to be left behind by that ruthless man, she could only bury her head and run wildly.

Thanks to the physical fitness of a Lv.2 adventurer, Nazha walked through the empty main room on the floor in just over ten seconds, and rushed straight into the unknown road that she had never stepped on before.

But what she didn't expect was that Chios, who thought he would go further, folded his arms on his chest, leisurely hiding in the shadow of the stone walls on both sides of the passage.

Seeing Nazha chasing after him, he walked out of the wall with a smug smile on the corner of his mouth like a child who succeeded in pranking.

Just in front of the girl with dog ears.

When Nazha found out, it was too late to slow down...

bump!

Hitting Chios's chest armor head-on, if the opponent hadn't supported Naza's shoulders with both hands in time, the bridge of her nose would have been injured.

"Ugh..."

The girl raised her head and glared at the young man.

Just as she was about to say some words of complaint, Chios' words came a step ahead, and rang from the soft ear on the top of her head:

"Isn't it possible?"

"Ugh?"

Nazha was taken aback.

In the next second, her thoughts suddenly froze because of Chios' next move.

"Even if I walk away quietly, you can quickly catch up if you step up..."

Gently pinching the dog-eared girl's chin, the young man lifted her dust-stained face, and gently wiped away some stains on the face with his thumb.

Without this layer of camouflage, Naza's beautiful face, which was more reddened than expected, was completely reflected in the purple eyes of the man in front of her.

"The distance you can walk in one step is so much less than me, why haven't you given up yet?"

"Just running..."

The dog-eared girl shyly looked away and murmured softly, of course she could understand what the young man meant by these words.

It turned out that his anxiety and inferiority complex had been seen through by him?

Buried in the young man's chest, Nazha felt ashamed of her inability to hide her thoughts.

She never thought that being saved by accident would lead to such unreachable thoughts in her heart.

Bewitched by the sword light tearing through the darkness, or yearning for the warmth of the palm, or simply admiring the other person's appearance that is more outstanding than a god...

She actually wanted to keep this too dazzling figure of the young man in sight forever, instead of just being a passer-by in life.

"Please..."

Like a mortal who tries to get close to the sun, sooner or later her wings of wax will melt and fall from the sky to shatter.