Bell, who had just become an adventurer for less than half a month, was walking forward cautiously.
Originally, a novice adventurer like him should venture on the 1st to 3rd floors, but under the guidance of his grandfather since childhood, Bell was full of expectations for meeting beautiful girls in dungeons, going on adventures together, and becoming a hero.
He even forgot the instructions from Hestia and his adventure advisor Aegina.
Adventurers cannot ‘take risks’!
At this time, in a corner behind Bell, a Minotaur held a huge mace in its hand, pressing against Bell's figure.
A few minutes after entering the fifth level, this Minotaur snatched a mace from a goblin and started looking for humans.
A few minutes ago, this Minotaur spotted this little white-haired devil, but out of caution, it chose to follow behind and observe for a while.
Now, it has determined the weak strength of the human kid in front, and the hunting time has arrived!
"Ho ho ho!"
The Minotaur rushed out with a roar and a mace. It must retaliate fiercely and let the kid in front of it taste the ultimate pain!
"Hey, how could such a thing happen!"
Ahead, Bell, who had just been imagining an encounter with a beautiful girl, heard the roar and turned his head to find a Minotaur attacking him, especially the blood-red eyes filled with cruel and angry light.
"Ahhhhh!"
Bell was so frightened that he ran forward quickly. He was so panicked that he didn't pay attention to his feet and fell down.
Bell hurriedly got up, randomly chose a passage and ran in, but...after running into the passage, Bell found that he had come to a dead end!
Looking behind him in despair.
"Ho ho ho!"
The Minotaur, carrying a mace, walked in, roared excitedly, raised his left hand and grabbed Bell. He wanted to stuff the mace into the human body to commemorate the fact that it was still there.
The lower body that keeps bleeding!
"Got you!"
At this time, Lu Qiming also rushed here and noticed the white-haired kid struggling in the hands of the Minotaur. The corners of his mouth raised and he slowly walked over there!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of heavy footsteps was heard in the passage, and the blood-red murderous aura spread towards the passage along with the footsteps.
At this time, the Minotaur was pointing the mace at Bell's opened mouth, approaching Bell little by little. Suddenly, hearing a voice from behind, the Minotaur stopped.
The body began to tremble.
Boom!... Touch!
"Ah...don't...oh, it hurts?"
On the other side, Bell, who had just opened his mouth and closed his eyes in fear as the mace kept approaching, suddenly found that the pain he expected did not appear, and the hand holding him was shaking constantly. What happened next second?
It was covered all over and fell hard to the ground.
'Is it just like what grandpa said, that I met a beautiful girl? But in turn, I was saved by a beautiful girl from an ugly monster.'
On the ground, Bell thought of this, opened his eyes and turned his head expectantly, intending to see what the beautiful girl who saved him looked like.
"...Why is it a man? It's completely different from what grandpa said!"
Opposite Bell, a young man with black hair and a silver-white basin on his head looked at him curiously.
"What, do you have a problem with me being a boy?"
Lu Qiming also didn't expect that Bell's first words when he saw him would be this. Should he really be worthy of being the protagonist of a harem anime?
"No, no, thank you for saving me!"
Bell also realized that he was rude and quickly thanked her. Although she was not a beautiful girl, but... a pretty boy seemed pretty good too!
"Qiming, is that person injured again?"
At this time, Aisi, who was entangled in the wind, flew in from the entrance of the passage. She just heard Bell's scream. She and Lu Qiming rushed over.
However, because Lu Qiming was faster, he arrived half a minute early.
"It's okay, I just happened to save him when I arrived."
Lu Qiming said and looked at Bell, only to see that he who had not responded just now was looking at Ais blankly.
"May I ask what's wrong with you?"
Ais noticed Bell staring at her, walked to him with concern, and asked softly.
"No...no...ahhhh..."
Bell looked at Ace, who was so close, and his heart beat faster. For some reason, he suddenly didn't want the girl in front of him to see him like this, so he stood up and wanted to run away.
"stop!"
Lu Qiming grabbed Bell who was about to run away and pulled him down in front of him.
She wanted to run even though she was here. In the original book, Ais became curious about Bell for the first time because after she rescued him, he ran away.
Later, after Bell awakened his magic, he was exhausted from fighting monsters all night. He met Ais and Livelia who had just finished defeating the lonely king Udaios in the original book. Because of Bell's first escape, Ais thought she was scared.
He, therefore, stayed here to wait for Bell to wake up.
Then he ran away again...
In this way, the relationship between Bell and Ace got better and better, and that was how Ace taught Bell to fight.
Now, since he has decided to make Bell his successor, Bell can't even think about running away!
"Excuse me, what's the matter with you? Can you let me go?"
When Bell found himself caught by Lu Qiming, and Aisi looked at him curiously...
"It's nothing important. I just want to tell you that you don't have to thank us for saving you. The Minotaur went to the upper level because of our carelessness."
With that said, Lu Qiming picked up the Minotaur's magic stone from the ground and placed it in Bell's hand.
"This is your mental damage fee."
"Huh? But you still saved me. I can't have this magic stone!"
Bell returned the magic stone in his hand to Lu Qiming, even though he knew that he almost died because of Lu Qiming's mistake.
But he still doesn't blame Lu Qiming and the others, he is even grateful to them because he met the beautiful girl on this adventure!
"Hey! Just take it if you are told."
Lu Qiming forced the magic stone into Bell's hand. He was really helpless towards Bell's character and was too naive.
In the original work, I got a lot of help because of this character, but I also suffered a lot.
"Well, please accept it. This is our apology. Are you not hurt?"
Beside, Aisi said aloud.
"That... that..."
Snapped!
Lu Qiming saw that Bell was still stammering and even wanted to run, so he put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hurry up and say thank you, I'm fine!"
Lu Qiming looked at the confused Bell and wanted to establish a bond with the beautiful girl. Did he ask me?
As my intended successor, you are still such a weakling, thinking about picking up girls every day, and want to eat soft rice, have you asked me?
Women will only affect the speed at which you draw your sword. Wait until your sword skills are perfect before you go pick up girls!