On the eighth floor of the dungeon, Ais, who came to the dungeon to practice sword skills today, was squatting next to an adventurer whose face was covered in blood. Next to Ais, Liviria and others were treating other adventurers.
"What happened?"
"The Minotaur appears!"
"You said the Minotaur appeared?"
Beside him, Burt, who was originally unhappy, suddenly looked at the adventurer in front of Ais, his eyes full of fierceness.
"Well, you can't be wrong. The Minotaur suddenly appeared on the ninth floor with a big sword..."
"Is it possible that they survived that time? But didn't Qiming say that only five escaped?"
Tiona suddenly thought of the Minotaurs who came up from the seventeenth level after the expedition some time ago, but they had already cleared out all the Minotaurs that came up, so why were there still there?
"It should be impossible. It has been nearly a month since then, and there have been no rumors of sightings of the Minotaur. Even if there were rumors of problems on the 24th and 18th floors of the dungeon some time ago, it was revealed after investigation.
I did it accidentally.”
On the other side, Livilia, who was treating the wounded, turned her head and looked at everyone and said.
"Anyway, it's good that you guys are fine. Are there any adventurers in the Ninth Level now?"
Finn stopped everyone's speculation and looked at the injured adventurer in front of him and asked.
"When we left, I saw the Minotaur walking towards a white-haired kid from a distance... Probably now..."
"Bell!"
Before the injured adventurer could finish speaking, Ais turned around and ran towards the entrance of the ninth level not far away.
"Ais! Boom!"
Bert yelled and looked at Ais running away and immediately chased after her.
"Hey, Ace, Bert, wait for me!"
Tiona looked at the two people running away, murmured and chased after them.
"Bell? Could it be that Qiming joined that family member and spent time training that boy with Ais?"
Finn looked at Ais, who had disappeared from the entrance, and looked at the other people around him.
"Raul, I'll leave the rest of this to you. Let's go to the ninth floor first. Since that Bell is a member of the Qiming Familia, we must not let him die here!"
After saying that, Finn led the others and ran away into the distance.
.....
The ninth floor.
Two figures, one large and one small, kept intertwining and separating. The clash of weapons and the roar of monsters kept echoing.
'It's the same as back then...but! I'm no longer the same person as I was back then!'
Bell jumped hard to avoid the Minotaur's sweeping sword, raised his palm in mid-air and aimed it downwards.
"Fire lightning! Fire lightning! Fire lightning!"
Red light appeared in Bell's hand, condensed, and flew out directly above the Minotaur's head in the next second, exploding continuously.
"Roar!"
In the flames, an angry roar sounded, and a huge bull's head rushed out, its horns piercing Bell's chest fiercely.
"Ah!"
In mid-air, Bell shouted loudly and struck the horn of the bull with the Hestia blade in his hand, and with the help of this power, he flew towards the distance.
"Lord Bell!"
In the distance, Lily, who was watching Bell being knocked away, screamed in worry, took out the magic sword from her arms and rushed towards that direction.
"Lily, don't come over!"
Bell, who was flying upside down, noticed Lily's movements and quickly stopped her.
The next second, a huge figure appeared in front of Bell, a violent smile appeared on the face of the cow that was scorched by the flames, and he swung the long knife in his hand.
boom!
In an instant, Bell flew out like a cannonball and hit Lily hard, causing blood to spit out from the air.
"Lord Bell!"
Lily quickly ran over to help Bell up, and poured the top healing potion in her backpack into Bell's mouth.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Opposite Bell, the sound of huge footsteps was heard, and the Minotaur charged again.
"Lord Bell! Run away!"
Lily took out the magic sword, stood in front of Bell and swung it down. The flame turned into a blade and flew towards the charging Minotaur.
The next second, before Lily could relax, the Minotaur rushed out of the flames and swung the sword in his hand at Lily.
"Lily!"
Clang!
The sound of sword blades clashing was heard, and a strand of golden hair floated past the eyes of Lily and Bell.
"Are you okay?"
Ais knocked back the Minotaur in front of her with a sword, then looked back at the two people behind her and asked.
"Ais!"
"Sword Princess!"
Seeing that the two of them were okay, Ais turned her head and looked at the Minotaur, which looked like an enhanced species. Its strength could completely rival a Level 3 adventurer.
"You have worked very hard, now it is up to me to save you!"
"Alas! Save me...I was saved...and I was saved again...Who to save...save me?"
Bell looked at Aisi in front of him, and the memory of being rescued by Lu Qiming and Aisi for the first time came to mind...Am I going to be rescued again?
'If you don't rise to the challenge now, if you wait to be rescued again, when will you be able to reach that height?'
"Found it, Ace!"
At this time, Finn and others also arrived here, looking at Ais standing in front of Lily and Bell with surprised expressions.
"No... You can never admit defeat here... How can you..."
Suddenly, Bell stood up, walked to Ais, grabbed Ais's arm, and said firmly.
"Bell..."
Ais looked at Bell beside her, seemed to understand something, and took a step back.
"Today...I am going to start my first adventure and become a true unparalleled assassin!"
Bell looked at the Minotaur in front of him and said calmly, and slowly walked forward.
'Bell, you have to remember! Each of our unparalleled assassins has different powers. I have 'unparalleled', and you have the power called 'longing'. When you successfully burn your own longing,
Will become a truly unparalleled assassin!'
Bell walked towards the Minotaur step by step, remembering what Lu Qiming told him during his first training, and smiled softly.
"Burn with longing, Teacher Qiming, I think I already know how to do it!"
White light appeared, covering Bell's body, and the dark underground city was illuminated. Countless rays of light began to converge on the Blade of Hestia in Bell's hand, and a white light blade several meters long appeared.
"Roar!"
"The ultimate killing blow!"
The next second, the white sword blade and the pitch black sword collided together. This time, Bell stood firmly on the spot, pressing the sword blade in his hand towards the Minotaur.
"Roar!"
The Minotaur looked at the approaching sword, roared angrily and kicked Bell.
"Fire Lightning!"
The crimson flame turned into milky white, and the terrifying high temperature directly caused the Minotaur to smell of burning.
....
Freya Familia, in a room.
Freya looked at the picture that appeared in the crystal ball in front of her, her hands tightly holding her flushed and intoxicated face, her body trembling slightly and she fell on the chair.
"Aha...Ahahaha...Beautiful...What a beautiful scene...Aha...Even he is so beautiful...Qiming, what do you look like...Ha...