For the rest of the journey, Li Ge and his party followed the policy of avoiding war as much as possible.
Their goal is only the spring water of Cadmus, and they also have to fight 6 strong dragons. At this time, they can save some energy so that they can concentrate all their strength on dealing with the strong dragons.
Even Lefia was told by Rige not to use magic until critical moments, so as not to waste her mental energy.
Although Lefia still has a lot of mental recovery medicine on her body, considering that she has to go to the 59th floor later and has to go through many battles on the way, it is best to save the waste of materials as much as possible.
This is also the policy advocated by Finn. After two weeks of expedition, the family's supplies are running low. In order to avoid running out of supplies on the return trip, avoiding the consumption of props and medicines has become a top priority.
Under such circumstances, even Ais was obedient and rushed out without seeing the monster. Tiona also put away her big double blades and followed obediently. Needless to say, Tione, in order to fulfill Finn's instructions
, whoever causes unnecessary waste first will be the first to get angry with him.
Among all the people, only Li Ge was more unscrupulous. Although he didn't act too recklessly and would rush out when he saw a monster, he still maintained the effect of [La Moule] and blessed everyone with protective magic.
"You're wasting your energy like this."
Thionne had actually complained about Lige's extravagant behavior.
However, Li Ge's light words blocked Tione's dissatisfaction.
"It's okay, I have the ability to "jingheal"."
The indifferent words made Tione silent for a moment.
"abnormal."
Tiona cursed Li Ge in a depressed tone.
Ais and Lefiya had mixed feelings.
The highest level of "Spirit Healing" ability, this unprecedented development ability, the amount of mental power restored every second is probably huge, right?
With this level of development ability, even if Li Ge keeps using magic, he probably won't be exhausted.
This makes it difficult for the female swordsman who often uses consuming magic and the rearguard magician who uses magic as his main means of combat without feeling mixed emotions.
The two of them had only one idea.
"I want it so much."
Unfortunately, this is a luxury.
In this way, the group only experienced a few unavoidable battles, but otherwise everything went smoothly.
Because of the map, even though the terrain and road conditions were poor and the roads were complicated and complicated, it was like walking through a maze, but everyone kept moving towards their destination.
As they walked like this, everyone suddenly felt that there seemed to be fewer monsters.
"Why do you feel like there are fewer monsters?"
Tiona was the first to express doubts about this.
"Is it because we deviated from the main route?"
Lefia compared the map and also expressed doubts.
The location of Cadmus Fountain is deep in the 51st floor, just off the regular route to the 52nd floor.
What Lefia means is that there are so few monsters in this area because of the deviation from the regular route.
"But when I went to find Cadmus Fountain last time, there seemed to be quite a few monsters in this area."
Tiona expressed doubts again, which made Tione frown.
Ais also lowered her eyes.
Li Ge looked thoughtful, but his heart couldn't help but feel tight.
"I always feel that this situation seems to have been mentioned in the original work?"
Once he had this idea, Li Ge's superior memory played an important role.
He carefully recalled the plot of the original work, and finally a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind.
"It can't be that one, right?"
Li Ge couldn't help but murmured.
"What?"
Including Aisi, all the girls heard Li Ge's murmuring and were stunned.
At this time, Rige suddenly turned to Lefia.
"Lefia, how far is it from the spring?"
Lefiya was at a loss for words by Li Ge's sudden inquiry.
"Just, the cave at the end of this road should be not far away."
Although she was a little overwhelmed, Lefia still answered Rige's question.
But almost as soon as Lefia finished speaking, Li Ge rushed out.
"Mr. Rieger!?"
Lefia exclaimed.
"Lege!"
The two sisters Tiona and Tione were also stunned for a while.
Only Aisi, when she saw Li Ge rushing out, her eyes narrowed and she turned into a gust of wind without hesitation and rushed out.
"etc!"
"What are you doing!?"
"Miss Ace!"
Tiona, Tione, and Lefiya finally couldn't stand any longer and quickly started running, rushing forward.
At this time, Li Ge had already rushed into the cave at the end of the road.
As soon as he entered the cave, Li Ge immediately stopped.
"Lege."
Ais followed closely behind, stood next to Li Ge, and then opened her eyes wide.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Why are you running?"
"Hoo, ho"
Tiona, Tione, and Lefia all arrived, some complaining, some gasping.
But the next second, the scene that caught everyone's eyes made everyone's eyes widen just like Aisi.
I saw that the cave in front of me had been ravaged inhumanely for some unknown reason.
Be it the walls, the floor, or even the ceiling, everything seemed to have been damaged. It was either full of cracks or simply shattered and in a mess.
Many of the trees growing here were either broken or crushed.
This is nothing.
What really surprised everyone was that there were traces of dissolution everywhere, causing parts of some trees to turn deep purple, emitting black smoke and emitting an indescribable stench.
"How is this going?"
"Why did this place become like this?"
Tiona and Tione looked at each other.
""
Aisi's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
"Ah, spring water."
Although Lefiya took a step back unconsciously, she caught a glimpse of a corner of the cave room from the corner of her eye.
There, a spring sits, emitting a mysterious deep blue light, which is extremely dazzling.
That is the spring of Cadmus, and there seems to be a lot of spring water in it, and it seems that it has not been swallowed by the powerful dragon guarding here.
"No, where's the strong dragon?"
Thionne immediately noticed something unnatural.
That's right, the powerful dragon that was supposed to be guarding here is not here.
In other words, it is no longer there.
Everyone involuntarily shifted their gaze and looked in front of Cadmus Fountain.
There is a lot of dust accumulating in that position.
"Isn't that the corpse of a powerful dragon?"
Tiona's unintentional whisper silenced everyone.
Everyone was speechless for a long time as they stared at the remains of the monster that turned into a large amount of dust, apparently exploding into ashes after losing its magic stone (core).
There is no doubt that the monster guarding here is dead.
The question is, who killed the dragon monster classified as 6?
"It can't be done by adventurers, right?" Tione whispered: "It seems that we are the only family members who are conducting expeditions at this time."
There are not many Familia in Orario who have the ability to expedition to this floor. There are only a few of them.
As for those Familia, as far as Tione knew, none of them had recently entered the underground city for an expedition.
Therefore, it is unlikely that this was done by people from other clans who came for the expedition.
That is to say——
"Monster cannibalism?"
Tiona murmured to herself.
There was a chill in everyone's heart.
Because they knew very well that if the monsters were killing each other, then things might be in trouble.
Monsters generally do not attack other monsters.
Monsters will attack other monsters. Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities.
The first is a sudden accidental event.
If a monster is injured due to some kind of accident and becomes irrational, it is possible for them to fight each other regardless of the enemy or ourselves, until one party falls completely.
The second type is an abnormal situation.
In dungeons, some monsters will increase their strength by ingesting magic stones from other monsters, and then madly devour the cores of their fellow monsters to make themselves stronger.
This type of monster is usually called an enhanced species. Because it has swallowed the magic stones of other monsters, its own power has been greatly improved, far exceeding its original classification level.
This kind of monster is rarer than rare species, and it can continue to become stronger as it eats magic stones, and may eventually become a greater threat than the floor owner.
Therefore, such monsters are extremely harmful and may attack adventurers for magic stones, cross floors, and continuously cause disasters. Once discovered, the guild will immediately place a reward on it, or even assign adventurers to attack it.
So, here comes the problem.
Which one does the current situation belong to?
"Have you seen the magic stone? Ais?"
Tione asked while controlling her emotions.
"No."
Aisi responded concisely and concisely.
"There are items dropped!"
Lefiya was sharp-eyed and saw a pair of wings falling in the dust and picked them up.
"There are no magic stones but there are items dropped?" Tiona pressed her eyebrows and said, "I have an ominous premonition."
"An enhanced species that can swallow powerful dragons?" Tione's face was slightly distorted and she said: "This joke is not funny at all."
Hearing this, Li Ge, who had been staring at the entire cave room, turned around and left before others could react.
"Lege!"
"what happened again!?"
Everyone turned around like frightened birds.
"Go back to camp."
Li Ge had only one sentence.
If his memory is correct, and this expedition is the one in the original book where the Loki Familia encountered those things for the first time, then something is probably going to be bad over there in the camp.
"Really."
Li Ge sighed.
"Is my first expedition actually the one where I encountered those things?"
I really don’t know whether to call this luck good or bad.
"Walk!"
Li Ge stepped forward, his speed suddenly increased, and he rushed towards the 50th floor.
The girls looked at me and I looked at you, and finally they all followed Li Ge.
The group of people rushed out of the path, rushed into the main line on the 51st floor, and entered the spacious terrain.